Di Ziyu was the son of the patriarch of the Qiang clan. The Qiang clan was the second largest clan in the Xia Kingdom after the Xiongnu. Even a faint-hearted prince like Emperor Helianchang of Xia knew how to win over the support of the Qiang clan.
Although there are not many Qiang people, they are all capable of riding horses and controlling strings. Tuoba Taoyuan thought that he would also use the Qiang people to defend the Huns left behind by the Xia Kingdom, so he treated Di Ziyu very favorably.
He gave the fourth princess Helian Pearl to Di Ziyu, not only because Helian Pearl did not suit his taste, but also because he wanted to show favor to Helianding and Di Ziyu at the same time.
Since Helian Mingzhu and Di Ziyu are in love with each other, then his adult beauty, even Helianding, can't be said to be a person who is greedy for beauty and treats heroes poorly.
Later, he took another princess Helian, who had no fancy name but good looks, as his wife, also to appease the hearts of Xia Guo. He personally prefers gentle and generous women, and it is best to have some degree of advance and retreat, smart and soft on the outside and firm on the inside.
But he believed that Di Ziyu felt that there was no possibility of rebellion, because even if Helianding persuaded him, there were still tens of thousands of Qiang people behind him in Xia, so he was not afraid that he would get angry all of a sudden and take the Qiang people. Outrage
If Di Ziyu was really sure that he was a good-tempered person, then he guessed wrong.
Tuoba Tao pondered, did he cultivate himself for Tuoba Huang to be able to give birth safely, and not commit murder. After a long time, these people have forgotten their fierce names
He actually forgot the means by which he suppressed Bai Longhu!
With such a military report in the tent, Xi Jin, who was chasing Helianchang, was trapped in Anding again, the road was cut off, and there was no news at all, which made Tuoba Tao even more irritable. He repelled everyone and asked Cui Hao to investigate the whole thing, leaving only He Mulan to ask some questions.
"I heard Cui Tai often say that the news that Helianding went west from Rouran was sent back by your former colleague, Ye Fei?"
It was because of this news that they estimated when Helian would arrive, and sent troops to "wait for the rabbit".
"Yes. Di Yefei also led Gao Che's soldiers to steal their horses. I think when Helianding arrived in the Xia Kingdom, he was already exhausted by people and horses, and he had no strength to fight."
He Mulan nodded.
"Killing ghosts is your same fire, some people who are valued by the ancient servants are your same fire, and this Di Yefei is your same fire. Hua Mulan, how many strange people and different people do you have the same fire, let me Do I continue to be impressed?"
Tuoba Tao said something like a joke.
He Mulan's "conspiracy" was only about 10 degrees, and he couldn't understand what Tuoba Tao meant, so he could only say with a sullen head: "I am the same fire in the army, although their backgrounds are different, and their martial arts are different, but All of them are loyal and patriotic people. Even if they kill ghosts, they are all military exploits, and they live a magnanimous life…”
Thinking of Di Yefei, He Mulan sighed even more.
"Di Yefei was born to a Hu girl and a Gao Che from the Shanshan country in the Western Regions. Since he was a child, his eyebrows were as beautiful as a woman, and he was discriminated against. When he entered the army, he was often treated as a woman, but he was never discouraged, and he was determined to make A little merit proves that he is a strong man. This time he went to Rouran to serve as an envoy. It was a matter of life and death. He also went without hesitation, hoping to not humiliate himself and come to this world as a man... "
She and Di Yefei have known each other for two lifetimes, and her feelings for him are naturally different from others. Especially in this life, Di Yefei's feelings were more forbearing and his mind was more mature, and He Mulan respected him more. When talking about Di Yefei in front of Tuoba Tao, he couldn't help but bring some praise.
"You really don't take credit. Several people were also recommended by you in front of me. It's good that your fellow fire has the same firepower as you."
Tuoba Tao returned to her with a smile, "It's just a pity that Di Yefei's life and death still led to Helian Ding's escape. But it's better to escape, at most it takes some effort to chase him back, always. It's better than actually committing suicide at the border of the Xia Kingdom..."
"Your Majesty cherishes talents, it is admirable."
What He Mulan said was sincere. The Mulan she passed through is a living example.
"It's not that I cherish talents, it's that the Xia Kingdom was the first country I destroyed, and it always has to act like a corporal. I have few talents in Wei, and I'm mostly controlled by the clansmen. Grid. I am very optimistic about you. Although you are of ordinary background, you are amazingly talented and intelligent. You are a horse of thousands of miles.
Tuoba Tao spoke highly of He Mulan.
"Haha, I always feel that it is easier to get along with my subjects and subordinates than women. I treat my subjects, and I treat my wives... No, it is more intimate than my wives. It's just that I can't imagine that I treat Di Ziyu well, he actually Capricious like a woman…”
Your grandmother's is like sending it up with her heart in her hands, but it's like being thrown on the ground and trampled on.
He Mulan probably understood Tuoba Tao's mood. It's not that he lost his troops, but that he was deceived, that he lost his wife and lost his army.
Well, if the "beautiful" fourth princess is really the Queen Helian who has never been childless, Tuoba Tao would have really lost his wife.
It was noon now, and the eunuch serving in the tent asked Tuoba Tao when to eat. Tuoba Tao's morning was full of ups and downs, and he completely forgot that it was noon.
He is tall and athletic, and unlike everyone else, he eats four meals a day. Fortunately, the food was never adjusted, so even though I was in the Montenegro camp, I also ate with other generals, and four meals were nothing.
He Mulan asked to retire again, but Tuoba Tao held her shoulders.
"It's nothing, I like to leave people to accompany me to eat when I eat. It tastes more delicious. Don't go, and eat with me."
Will it be indigestion, Your Majesty
In this era of meal-sharing, it’s not just one plate, what’s more delicious!
Tuoba Tao agreed to eat, and immediately a waiter ordered the meal, and another palace servant came in to serve. When I was in Heishan City, because I was traveling in small clothes, there were only two attendants, Zhao Ming and Zhao Ni, who served food, clothing, housing, and transportation. When they arrived at the Black Mountain Camp, the imperial car and the royal tent were stationed, all the attendants arrived and had a meal. Also a big move.
Even if He Mulan had seen a similar scene in Kumo's tent, he still had a faint stomachache at this time.
The food of this era is really not delicious. Sometimes the carefully cooked "food", He Mulan tastes not as good as Hu cakes. , has begun to look forward to the meal he eats.
As soon as the food came, He Mulan was dumbfounded.
What's on this big board...
meat
You are the emperor after all, don't you want to be so rough!
I have no appetite at all!
Tuoba Tao didn't think there was anything wrong with this, so he took the knife and started cutting the meat.
"Eat this roast lamb, offered by the Gaoche man..."
Tall… Roast lamb offered by Takache…
Isn't that what happened yesterday
Feelings, you also eat overnight dishes!
Tuoba Tao's close officials knew that Tuoba Tao was not particular about food, and never felt that staying in the palace to eat was a gift, but He Mulan had no way to know about it. How much hope she had in her heart before, how much disappointment she has now.
It's just like the king of Joseon in the Korean drama "I want to eat", but the maids put on a pile of kimchi in a big show.
It's just too contrasting, isn't it
Seeing that Tuoba Tao was eating happily, He Mulan cut a piece with a knife and put it in his mouth.
The taste is still there. At this time, there is no chili and cumin, just some garlic sauce. It can be roasted like this, or reheated and roasted, which is already good.
She ate a few other dishes casually, all of which were big meat, and her stomach was suddenly tired, and she just wanted to eat some staple food.
"You came just in time. When I came from Pingcheng, I got some good rice from the south. You also have a big bowl to see the flavor of the south."
Tuoba Tao suddenly said something that made He Mulan burst into tears.
Good rice from the south
Could it be rice
Is it rice
Omg! She has been eating cornmeal here for so many years, and finally she has rice to eat!
She's from the South, and she's eaten so long with hu cakes and choked cornstarch rice!
The reality was really not so cruel that it knocked He Mulan down. After a while, someone brought up a small case. On it was a bowl of yellowish rice with exquisite lacquerware, and there was a pair of chopsticks next to it.
He Mulan washed her hands with the help of the palace servant next to her, picked up chopsticks, and picked up a chopstick of rice. The familiar taste filled her tongue, and she burst into tears.
It's the taste!
"You, why are you so exaggerated..." Tuoba Tao had just eaten two bites of rice and had roasted lamb, and he didn't think there was anything against the peace. When he looked up, he saw He Mulan was crying while eating, and burst out laughing: "It's just some rice, how can you cry like this!"
How do you know my hardships!
In this day and age, my stomach has changed!
I used to be a hotheaded person! Not even peppers here!
He Mulan wiped away her tears.
"It made Your Majesty laugh. I just felt that His Majesty gave me such delicacies, and I couldn't help being moved all of a sudden."
"I thought you were someone who didn't get humiliated, and I couldn't think of a bowl of rice to gather you. Zhao Ni... "
Tuoba Tao began to arouse his own servant.
"exist."
"Put that rice in a bag for Mulan to go back. Anyway, I'm eating fresh, so let him go back and change the taste."
"Yes."
As soon as Tuoba Tao said these words, He Mulan was about to cry.
A pocket!
Maybe He Mulan's expression was too scary, Tuoba Tao smiled even more cheerfully, and even ate an extra bowl of rice.
'Is this meal so delicious? I used to think rice was unpalatable...'
Before Tuoba Tao ascended the throne, the late emperor had just defeated Liu Song of the Northern Expedition. At that time, the emperor of the Song Dynasty had just died of illness, and the crown prince succeeded him. Tuoba Si took advantage of the fact that the old emperor had just died, but the new emperor was a fool who only liked to kill pigs in the palace, so he led his army south and captured tigers. Prison and other large plots of land.
And not long after, the late emperor Tuoba Si also died of illness. Tuoba Tao almost encountered the same thing as the Song Kingdom - the Rouran Khan saw the old emperor's death and the new emperor ascended the throne at a young age, so he also sent troops south to the clouds.
It's just that the ending was different. Tuoba Si successfully won a large territory for Wei, while Tuoba Tao defended the north and beat Rouran back.
The pig-killing emperor of the Song Dynasty was too stupid, and was abolished and killed by the minister Gu Ming, and he established the well-known uncle Liu Yilong as the emperor.
The new emperors of Liu Yilong and Liu Song took the throne almost at the same time, and they were only one year apart in age. This big country from the south to the north was also succeeded by the young emperor. It suddenly became the object of the world's attention, and there was a tendency to compare the two in private.
Tuoba Tao excelled in martial arts, sieging cities and pulling villages, crusades against enemy troops, and never failed. Liu Yilong, the new emperor of Liu Song, was good at governing the country. He was intelligent and shrewd. He was good at balancing domestic forces. The two countries are considered to have a honeymoon period, and both Song and Wei have achieved great development at this time.
At this time, although there was no trade between the north and the south, the Song state in the south often donated some things to the Wei state in the north. Out of courtesy, Tuoba Tao also often sent envoys to send some war horses and furs as gifts.
Although this rice is indeed from the south, it is not the season for new rice to be released. Tuoba Tao also brought old rice, but He Mulan still eats deliciously.
She knew that in a few years, the Song Kingdom would become so rich that it would be too rich to have any money to use, so she would go to the northern expedition again.
Until He Mulan just wore to Hua Mulan, the north and south were not smooth, otherwise there would be no matter that the Yuan family's patriarch would control the smuggling channel, and all the forces wanted to occupy it.
He Mulan ate happily, and Tuoba Tao ate freely and boldly. After a while, Tuoba Tao was full first, and called "Zhao Ming" to come in and wait for his face to wash his hands and rinse his mouth.
He was very satisfied with this eunuch.
If nothing else, he prefers to use eunuchs rather than palace maids. Because he often fights, most of the eunuchs around him are proficient in martial arts, with rough skin and thick flesh. At first, there is such a thin-skinned and tender eunuch, even serving "changing clothes" is better than serving him. Others should be more comfortable.
Moreover, he didn't understand Xianbei dialect, and sometimes he was a little dissatisfied with those ministers in his heart. He scolded a few words like "ancient pen" in front of him, and he was not afraid to spread it.
After Helian Mingzhu entered the tent, seeing that He Mulan was also eating, and there were tears on her face, she couldn't help but stare at him a few more times.
In her mind, such a hero should be the one who bleeds without tears.
What could make him cry
Even though she was a little displeased with He Mulan's Meng Lang, she still liked He Mulan after all, so she couldn't help but look at her more.
After Tuoba Tao was served by Helian Mingzhu, he remembered what he had told He Mulan before the meal, feeling a little gloomy in his heart, he continued to talk.
"I used to think that Princess Helian was nothing more than that, so if she was rewarded, she would be rewarded. I thought that Di Ziyu really liked that woman, so she praised her like a goddess and a goddess..."
He thought that this little eunuch couldn't understand Xianbei's words, so there was no psychological pressure to say such a thing.
"It seems that Di Ziyu doesn't know how to flatter at all."
He Mulan looked at Tuoba Tao in astonishment, wondering why he talked about Princess Helian again.
"I can give him a beautiful family, and I can also take back his beautiful family. He even repeated this, I will give a hand order when I turn around, and bring the four princesses back..."
After Tuoba Tao wiped his hands, he handed the towel to "Zhao Ming".
"At most, I'll be a little wronged and accept another princess. Let's see if Helianding wants that brother-in-law or this sister!"
He Mulan opened his mouth wide.
Could it be that Queen Helian is married for a second time
Zhao Ming? Zhao Ming? Don't take the towel, what are you doing in a daze!