North Yan.
Kumoti didn't know how long he was floating in the water, but he felt that he was hooked to the shore by something, and then stripped off everything on his body and was moved to a fire.
Knowing that he could not die, Kumoti didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Wouldn't even God give him a relief
Kumoti and Tuoba Tao grew up together, and their body shapes were very similar, so they were very sensitive to each other's body shape. Moti had already discovered that the other party was not Tuoba Tao.
But Tuoba Tao has always acted for a reason. In order to prevent him from plotting against him, it is normal for Su Weijun to wear the same armor as him when charging. "The slogan of the word, my heart suddenly felt a surge of pride...
You are like this, why is it that you are invincible in all attacks and invincible in battles? !
Like Kumoti, the Yingyang army, which had been besieged for several months, broke out with great morale and opened the city gate in one go. With the reinforcements arriving from outside and attacking from both inside and outside, the killed Goguryeo people were defeated and fled in a hurry. Changli City.
The sound of the drums started, but once the drums stopped, the army was victorious, and the two sides converged, allowing him to see the true face of "Tuoba Tao".
It was a Suwei who was very similar to him by Tuoba Tao, named Wang Qing.
Most of Yingyang's army did not know Tuoba Tao. Su Wei and Yulin Lang beside Wang Qing should have negotiated with Tuoba Tao beforehand to hide it from the sky, so Wang Qing was wearing full armor and did not greet him much. Send him a letter.
The content of the letter is very simple. It is probably because the Egret official found out that the clan and relatives in Beijing had changed. Xia Hong and Wang Meng of the Montenegro camp also discovered that a large number of the Montenegrin army who had previously returned to their hometown were missing. After investigation, they found that it had been a year. Many of them did not return to their hometowns, nor did they accept the re-conscription of the military government. They were worried that a large number of military households who were good at fighting would leave their homeland and disobey the management of the military government would cause turmoil, so they secretly reported to the imperial court.
The conflicts between clans, relatives, Han officials and the army have a long history. As Tuoba Tao conquered more and more land, the pace of replacing the old tribal system with the feudal Sinicization system became faster and faster. Not to mention, the authority of the clan and the relatives of the country was first divided away, and this kind of contradiction will intensify sooner or later.
The core of the "tribal system" is the "master-servant" system. Even if the ancestors of Tuoba Xianbei dismantled the private soldiers of the Xianbei nobles, they will use the "military household" system to disperse their rights. The population will increase their power, and many of the generals who were sent out in the past still regard these nobles as the main family, and the main family has the right to kill them.
The clan and relatives are the largest slave owners, and there are a large number of generals in the military households who have changed their status from "slaves" to "freemen", but are still vassals of the old masters. There will only be a huge rebellion brewing.
Although Tuoba Xianbei prospered, but in the two dynasties of Tuoba Gui and Tuoba Si, the two emperors were suspicious, and they did not know how many blood relatives they had killed. Even Kumoti's father, the younger brother of the late emperor, They were all given to death by Tuoba Si's secret edict.
Brothers who are in their prime, able to fight well, have kings, slaves, and elite soldiers, are the most terrifying contenders for the throne. Once they reach adulthood, even if they have no objection, they will rarely be able to survive under the suspicion of the emperor.
Looking through the inheritance of Xianbei, except for the one who can inherit the throne, almost all the brothers of each generation of emperors "died prematurely", "died early", "did not have a queen", and "died suddenly". Little, this has also caused every Tuoba Xianbei to leave an heir desperately once they can get personnel, for fear that the bloodline of this branch will be cut off from now on, and even the throne will be inherited by outsiders.
This is a strange circle. It is the biggest blood feud between the clan and the person sitting on the throne. It will not stop until Tuoba Tao takes the throne.
But Tuoba Fan's dismissal made the clan panic again. Tuoba Tao's tougher attitude and ambition than the late emperor and ancestor made the clan even more afraid.
These things, he has known from a very young age.
The aunt Duanping often hugged him and cried, the grief of his father who died young, the remarriage of his mother, the care of his mother's family...
When he was young, he never knew who he should trust, who he should choose, and what to do, until the late emperor brought him and other clans who had lost their fathers to the palace for "training", until he met Tuoba Tao, the free-spirited prince. , he can be regarded as finding someone who can be trusted.
For this cousin, he sighed that he was inferior. This was a kind of inferiority in terms of "measure" and "mind". He couldn't keep his selfishness to a minimum. No matter how young and old he was, he still cared about his mother and Tuoba. Tao, aunt, and father's old ministers and generals, and then it was the country's turn.
He is not a righteous person, and he does not want to remember the blood debts of the previous generation like other clans. Sometimes he thinks, as long as everyone knows Tuoba Tao like him and knows what kind of person he is, those misunderstandings Maybe it will never exist.
Because of this kind of thinking, since he was young, he tried to create opportunities for Tuoba Tao to go out of the palace more and to have more contact with those "relatives". He Chujun can dispel doubts and no longer repeat the tragedy of the previous generation, the previous generation, the previous generation.
Until a descendant of King Wei, who had hatred for the late emperor, almost poisoned Tuoba Tao and him, who came as a guest.
This incident made him understand that hatred is not so easy to be resolved, and also made the late emperor who had doubts about him to send him to Montenegro when he was young. From the frontier where the battle was most intense, he was like every Tuoba. Xianbei child.
Perhaps the late emperor also hated the days of doubting every blood relative, so he put these "orphans" into the palace, and endured his little thoughts that he thought he didn't know, little by little Introduce Tuoba Tao into the circle of the clan.
The late emperor wanted to see results, and wanted to see the possibility of Tuoba Tao subduing them, but he handed in a bad answer sheet, screwed everything up, and completely disqualified himself from being by Tuoba Tao's side. .
Tuoba Tao was suffering for a long time by his peer clan who was given death. Before the poisoning incident, he was a kind, very considerate elder brother, with a funny personality, good at hunting, and knew many things, which made Tuoba Tao who was still young Ba Tao and Kumoti admired him very much.
Who can understand that behind these "caring and caring", hidden is the darkness of "death of hatred"
Although Tuoba Tao soon cheered up, but Kumoti quickly knew that this incident had caused great harm to Tuoba Tao, and even had a little bit of defense like his father's ancestors to the clan.
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It was his fault and he had to fix it.
Later, he led his father's old official Ai Jiang to kill himself in Montenegro. He was the first "direct worker" among his peers to be crowned king by himself, and he was also the least interested orphan. He did not marry Wife, no concubines, no children, he is an outlier in the early marriage clan of Tuoba Xianbei, and also a "traitor" who completely let the late emperor feel relieved and let go of power.
He tried his best to mediate between the clan and Tuoba Tao. The clan was his kin, and Tuoba Tao was his brother. He was very selfish and neither wanted to lose.
So he noticed the secret chess of the clan in Montenegro, but just quietly used various means to weed them out, leaving them helpless.
He eliminated and made invisible all the uneasy factors that would cause Egret officials and Tuoba Tao to be suspicious. He was like a walker in the dark night, a tightrope walker. A disastrous end.
But what he can do alone is too limited, so he must strengthen his power to be loyal to His Majesty and finally to the country. He began to promote talents in Montenegro, balance the relationship between the left and right and the Chinese army. He kept offending people and benevolent. For people, he created countless coincidences in order to hide those unease that might erupt at any time into deeper and darker places.
He knew that he was just a solution to the symptoms but not the root cause, but he could never find any other way to fight alone.
Montenegro's reshuffle made him kick out many uneasy factors, but these "clan soldiers" who were used to running rampant in the army in the past still seem to be ready to move, and Montenegro almost caused a mutiny because of it. .
From that time on, he gradually understood why the clan was so afraid.
If the power of the clan relies entirely on the person sitting on the throne, then there will be less and less things they can do, and the words they say will become more and more useless. In the end, they are not even as good as those from ordinary military families. 's general.
Can't fight, can't get trophies and population, can't enclose land as a nobleman on a ranch, what else is there other than a good name
He always thought that he would hold on for a few more years and work hard for a few more years. When Tuoba Tao unified the Central Plains and became stronger and stronger, the clans would naturally give up the idea of using a man’s arm as a car, and naturally realized that the tribal system was after all a historical Abandoned old things always have to give up something for a bigger territory and a broader future.
Kumoti is not a patriotic person, but he looks forward to the future in Tuoba Tao's heart, and everyone has a bright side.
He is his brother who is close to him. If he doesn't help him, who can he help
He naively thought that his efforts were useful. He thought that his efforts would allow Tuoba Tao to retain the warmth in his heart for the clan, and would not become the way his father and ancestor did by playing tricks and betraying the trust of others. The kind of person who has secured the throne.
But this letter completely destroyed his persistence.
Luo Jie finally discovered his methods.
Perhaps Hua Mulan's judgment on Wang Jin's affairs, and the clan's demonstration of hiding gold and silver in his villa to warn him, made Tuoba Tao misjudgment the current situation, and his efforts to maintain the apparent peace His behavior made Tuoba Tao think that his situation became very dangerous, and the clan was likely to launch a mutiny at any time, even threatening his life.
So Tuoba Tao listened to Luo Jie's advice, started first, and used his disappearance as a bait to set up a game in the country to wipe out all the uneasy forces.
From the beginning of "Proposing the Crown Prince", the 120-year-old old man Rui was planning the layout. He cleverly took advantage of the embarrassment of Tuoba Liang and Tuo Ba Fan, and asked Tuo Ba Liang to pass information for the egret official, and arranged for the palace The guards in the middle deliberately neglected the defense, but secretly arranged the retreat of the two princes and everyone.
Once the palace is really unable to take precautions, there is also Hua Mulan who was specially transferred from Beiliang to rescue. Although there will definitely be some losses, if these malignant tumors and chronic diseases are not pulled out, I am afraid that it will cause even greater turmoil.
At that time, Kumoti felt as if he had been hit so hard that he could hardly stand up. At this moment, there was a shocking shaking sound from the earth, and the raging flood was mixed with broken branches and stones from the moat. It poured down, completely submerging the suspension bridge that entered the city, and swept him, who was already crumbling, into the river.
He would not have been swept away originally. There were countless Yingyang elites beside him. Some people held him, and some people hugged the horse desperately trying to push him to the horse...
—It was he himself who let go of his hand in a mysterious way.
He is really tired.
He does not take wives, take concubines, form parties, or seek selfishness. He strives to strengthen the power of the king. He covers up the rebellious behavior of the clan, just to think that Wei Guo and His Majesty will one day find a better way to stabilize to get through this painful period.
However, no matter how hard he tried to turn the tide, his intentions still couldn't match the heavy calculations of the old "adult".
When did Xia Hong and Wang Meng begin to secretly spread letters and trace the matter in Montenegro
Is it because His Majesty has also begun to doubt him, so he is unwilling to entrust these things to him
Tuoba Liangzhi didn't know that doing so would completely destroy his family
Does he really know what "father and son cannibalism" means
If there is chaos everywhere, will there be forces to take the opportunity to turn fake dramas into real ones
Can His Majesty really accept the loss caused by doing so
as well as…
Does Your Majesty know that if you do this, you will never be able to look back
The days when His Majesty and him were burying their heads in the quilt and plotting all kinds of "tricks" are gone forever. Will those bright and upright expressions eventually turn into the suspicious look of the late emperor
The pure land that he maintained in his heart collapsed, and Kumoti felt a great sense of depression. These made him, a soldier who took honor and responsibility as his responsibility, let go of his hand as if he had given up, and left "freely" with the roar of the torrent. .
However, for a person like him, fragility cannot last for too long. Even fragility and escape are shameful, and cannot solve any problems.
Incited to survive, he took off all the heavy objects on his body in the turbulent torrent, leaving only the underwear to keep out the cold. In the ups and downs of the turbulent waves, he tried his best to stick his head out of the water. Knowing that he can't resist the rush of the current, he can only be swept downstream.
It was when he was fighting against the sky and the torrent that he suddenly realized the truth of "go with the flow".
If history is also a surging torrent, those who go upstream will eventually be submerged, and those who can survive will always be those who have learned to "go with the flow". The deeper the contradiction is hidden, the more vicious it is.
He made the right choice at first, but at the wrong time.
The choice he made later was wrong, but he was complacent that he protected Tuoba Tao's "heart".
The liberated Kumoti completely let go of his heart, stretched his arms, and let himself float on the water.
Then, he almost froze to death.
***
"He grew up so handsome..."
A middle-aged aunt touched Kumoti's clean chest and couldn't help pinching it.
"The flood washed so many people down, and he was the most tidy."
"So many people died..."
The man in the white deerskin trousers was full of braids, "These people are really evil!"
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"
The middle-aged aunt cried.
"He's awake!"
When Cuomo reminded him, he only felt that the whole body was hot, and his limbs and bones were warm as if they had been re-thawed from the freeze.
The blanket under him also exudes heat, because the ground has been roasted by the fire, and the fur on his body has a strange smell, I am afraid it has been used for many years.
About the herdsmen of the Northland.
Like other northern countries, Beiyan has many Hu people living in the northeast. The Hu people living in the northeastern land are called "Dongyi", and the Beiyan regime is almost like a well and no river water. You build your country, and I will be mine. The herdsmen, I am not a subject, nor a vassal, nor pay tribute, but I will not cause trouble for you.
It's just that these Dongyi are too small after all. They are oppressed by Beiyan and Goguryeo from time to time. They are driven around like beasts. Fortunately, they all live in the woods. It didn't cause too many casualties.
"you're awake?"
The leader Mu Kun, who was full of pigtails, hurriedly came over to look at him, and when he saw Kumoti opened his eyes and looked at him, he suddenly danced.
"Live! Live!"
"Oh hoo! Oh hoo!"
All Mukun's clansmen came over happily and surrounded Kumoti at once.
All of these people were wearing white deerskin trousers, men with long hair, women with hair tied, rough skin and thick bones, which were the characteristics of Dongyi at first sight.
"Where am I? Who are you?"
Kumoti moved his hands and feet and found that there was no injury, and shouted "good risk" in his heart.
"You were rescued by our tribe, we are from Kumo Xi, you can also call us Xi people." The leader Mu Kun was even more happy, and said in Shiwei's dialect: "Most of the people washed away are from Xianbei, and you are also from Xianbei. Human?"
Kumoxi and Shiwei both belong to the eastern Xianbei, and they are the other divisions of the Xianbei Yuwen Department. Yuwen Xianbei was originally a Xiongnu, and later joined the Xianbei, so the language and customs are different from the ordinary Xianbei. The Murong clan was defeated and torn apart, and a large branch arrived in the Northern Wei Dynasty, so Kumoti, who was a royal family, could speak their language.
But after all, it hasn't been used for a long time, Kumoti said in the uncommon Shiwei dialect: "Yes, I am, Xianbei, you, Xiren?"
"To speak our word! Great!"
Mu Kun clapped his hands and raised Kumoti's middle coat.
"You are wearing silk clothes, are you a nobleman of Wei State? According to our Kumoxi rules, I saved you, you have to give us a ransom before we can let you go back!"
Encountered a robbery!
Kumoti smiled.
But what they said was right. If they hadn't fished him up, he would have been frozen in the water, and he might have sunk for a long time.
"Although I am not rich to rival the country, I still have a lot of wealth. You can say what you want. You saved me, and I should give you a gift of thanks."
Kumoti never mentioned "ransom". In his arrogant view, "ransom" was only involved when he was captured.
"We want to see your Great Khan!"
A young man interrupted suddenly and brought his head closer.
"Yes!"
"We want to see your Great Khan of the Xianbei people!"
Kumoti is really ridiculous now.
"Do you think it's so easy to see the Great Khan of Xianbei, like, you meet your leader? It's difficult to see the Great Khan!"
"Then we don't care, we will see the Great Khan!"
The Dongyi people are very simple-minded. In their minds, the Xianbei people are still nomads who hunt on horseback and chase water plants, and cities are nothing more than houses made of stones.
"You guys, tell me why, Great Khan, are you going to see me?"
When Kumoti heard about Tuoba Tao, he was very cautious and couldn't help asking them seriously.
He was originally handsome and masculine, with a dignified appearance, but now he frowned, and there were actually a few pregnant girls clutching their chests and blushing.
"We're going to him to pay for our losses!"
"We're going to find him and borrow someone to seek revenge on Goguryeo!"
"Yes! They fought and destroyed our tribe!"
"The Khitan is even worse. Their tribe is in the upper reaches, and they are all flooded!"
"Strange, you guys, why don't you go to Beiyan? It's flooded again, what's going on?"
"Beiyan also has a grudge against us."
Mu Kun sneered and said: "They cut down our forests and robbed our brothers, so they built dams for them and filled the city with water. Our tribe finally escaped from their hands, and we haven't escaped very far. , I met your Great Khan who came here, we don’t know whether we are enemies or friends, we can only scramble in the mountains until this area is flooded like this, and we can no longer return to the original tribe.”
He looked at Kumoti: "I know your Great Khan is coming to the northeast, I see your flag, your troops, your toughness..."
He showed a longing expression.
"We have a grudge against the Yan people. When Goguryeo went to Yandi, they burned, killed and looted all the way. We, Didouyu, Shiwei and Khitan tribes all suffered great losses. Our tribes in the east always have revenge. We will help your Great Khan beat the Yan and Goguryeo people, but you must return the place that originally belonged to us, and no one can rob it!"
"Do you want to attach?"
Kumoti was overjoyed.
"What's inside? You know what?"
"Why is what he said so strange? He just jumped word by word!"
"Stupid, he's from Xianbei, it's not easy to speak our words!"
"Inifu, you, and us, one country. We give you land, you, call our Great Khan, Great Khan!"
"What's so hard about this!"
Mu Kun grinned.
"I thought you guys wanted our stuff too!"
"Wei country, the land is vast and rich, I don't want your things!"
"Hahahaha, I knew that the person I rescued was a noble man! I saw your clothes reflect light in the water from far away. The material is thinner than the skin of the most beautiful girl in our clan. It really is a big man! I can Have you seen your Great Khan?"
Mu Kun's smiling eyes narrowed.
Kumoti thought for a while, Tuoba Tao was not here, it was just a stand-in, they would definitely not be able to borrow it.
But these people are familiar with the Northland and can unite Dongyi in this place, which is a great help, so he must use their strength, and can't just perfunctory them.
"Great Khan, not here." Kumoti pointed to himself as he looked at a group of Kumoxi people who were disappointed, angry, and fooled.
"Me. Great Khan, Foli, brother!"
There has never been a time when he could point at himself like this, and shout out these words without any offense.
Even if he is their great khan, the future emperor, can he shake his identity in his heart
I, the brother of Foli, the king of Yingchuan of Wei, the grand marshal of Montenegro, the son of Tuoba Yao, the king of Henan, the commander of the Yingyang army, and the head of the king's tent.
With so many expectations behind him, how can he be like a woman looking for life
"Brother! Brother! This man is the brother of the Great Khan!"
"Sir of Xianbei! Lord! We saved an adult!"
"Vengeance! Revenge! Revenge!"
The people of Kumoxi were overjoyed when they heard the words, and suddenly they sang and danced around Kumoti. This change in the style of painting made Kumoti a little uncomfortable for a while. The loss of heat from the fur after sitting up made his naked upper body gradually chill, and he couldn't help shrinking down.
The Kumo Xi people who were singing and dancing laughed happily, and then greeted the honorable guests with a courtesy to Kumo. The leader Mu Kun immediately smiled and said: "We will definitely send you to the Xianbei people! You have to borrow us. , avenge us, I recognize your Great Khan as the Great Khan, okay?"
"It's a word!"
Cuomoti nodded.
"I can make blood alliances with you."
"it is good!"
"it is good!"
Kumo mentioned that these people were so obsessed with revenge, and he couldn't help but be happy to find a help for Wei. Between the state of Yan and Goguryeo, if they take the opportunity to attack Goguryeo at this time, then these Goguryeo people will definitely loot in Longcheng and return to the country for rescue.
At that time, Beiyan will be self-defeating.
However, before all this, there is one problem that needs to be solved.
"Excuse me, you, all the young people who can fight, how many people are there in this piece?"
First you have to figure out how much help you have.
Hearing his question, Mu Kun proudly stretched out a hand and opened it to show him.
Cuomo took a deep breath.
"Fifty thousand people?"
There are so many Dongyi in this bitter cold land
Then you have to borrow a hairy soldier!
Mu Kun blinked inexplicably.
"Fifty thousand? No, no, five thousand!"
…
Kumoti covered his eyes weakly.
Sure enough, he thought too much.
"First, take me back, and then..."