Chapter 1161 The Third Rise of the Xianbei People
"When I was in Liangzhou, I heard rumors about the Tuoba family in Xianbei: Tuoba Jiefen has no wife and family, and Tuoba Liwei has no uncle's family."
Mr. Feng took the chopsticks, picked up a piece of food on the plate, put it into his mouth and chewed it twice symbolically.
Then he put down his chopsticks and looked at Tuoba Desert Khan opposite:
“Tuoba Xianbei is the current leader, but is Tuoba still weak?”
Hearing the nobleman mention his lord, Tuoba Desert Khan, who had just sat down, quickly stood up again and replied respectfully:
“Aye is naturally still the leader of the tribe.”
Seeing Tuoba Desert Khan's words and deeds, Feng narrowed his eyes slightly.
In the consciousness of most people, the Suotou where Tuoba Desert Khan comes from is not much different from the tribes on the grassland.
Because there are too many tribes on the grassland now.
Not to mention the origin of the Xianbei people, it is really too complicated.
After the complete decline of the Huns, Xianbei took the opportunity to annex more than 100,000 of them and occupied the Monan area.
Over the years, the Dingling people and Gaoche people from Mobei have also been moving southward, so they inevitably have disputes with the Xianbei people.
So the Xianbei people merged with some Dingling and Gaoche people from Mobei.
After Wuhuan was defeated by Cao Cao, many people changed their ways and merged with Xianbei.
This situation allowed Xianbei to grow the tribe as quickly as possible when it was strong, such as in the early stages of Tanshihuai and Kebineng.
But the hidden danger is that it expands too fast and the foreign tribes are not fully absorbed and assimilated internally. Once there is a trend of decline, it is easy to split.
Let's still take Tanshihuai and Kebineng as examples.
Once these two people die or become weak, the race will immediately fall apart.
It is precisely because over the years, the tribes on the grassland have become more and more complex and numerous.
So although Suotou is a large tribe with 100,000 string controllers.
But their reputation within the fortress is not even as good as that of the tribes who are close to the border fortress all year round and trade with the Han people.
It happened to be such a grassland tribe that lived in the northern part of Monan, far away from the frontiers, and had few interactions with the Han Dynasty.
As a young patriarch, Tuoba Desert Khan seemed to be just subconscious in his words and deeds, but he revealed a very important message:
Only if one is deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains can one achieve the kind of performance he did just now.
It is not unusual for Hu people to admire Han culture.
Especially in the western Xianbei area, the Liangzhou army drove an unknown number of Dingkou captives into labor within a few years.
In the central Xianbei region, Kebi Neng died and his entire family was destroyed, and tens of thousands of fine cavalry were buried in Qiaoshan and Jiuyuan.
Xianbei’s last spine was finally broken by someone Feng.
The psychological advantage that Xianbei had over the Han people created during the Tanshihuai era was completely shattered.
In addition, Jihan has an industrial chain that is unrivaled in the world, and the products it produces are like magnets, tightly attracting the barbarian people on the grassland.
From Juyan to Jiuyuan, and then from Jiuyuan to Pingchang, everywhere is filled with barbarians who speak mixed Chinese and learn nondescript Han etiquette.
But without the guidance of a dedicated person and systematic study, they would never be able to become as smooth and natural as Tuoba Desert Khan.
Feng’s mind was spinning and he asked:
“Tuoba Liwei is your master?”
The meaning of "adult" in Chinese and "adult" in Xianbei dialect are different.
But Tuoba Desert Khan was familiar with Han family etiquette, so he naturally understood the meaning of the noble man's words.
“Back to the noble man, that’s right.”
“Is he feeling well?”
"Thanks to the care of noble people, Aye can still ride a horse and hunt, and he is still strong."
Hearing this, Feng couldn’t help but sigh:
“I remember that he is just a few years younger than the bald Pigu, so he is almost seventy years old, right? I didn’t expect that he is still so healthy.”
Tuoba Desert Khan was naturally not an ordinary person since he was sent here by Tuoba Liwei.
Seeing Feng's aura, he heard the other person mention Liangzhou, and his tone seemed to be very familiar with the Tuoba clan.
When he heard the other party mention the bald man again, his heart was moved.
Others don’t know about Bald Pigu, but how can Tuoba Desert Khan not know about it?
I heard that the Tuofa tribe, which was separated from the Tuoba tribe, had attached itself to Feng Duhu in Liangzhou in the early years.
At this time, he was so blessed that he suddenly remembered a very memorable encounter on the Baishan Mountain Trail a few days ago:
The Feng Duhu who came to Pingcheng a few days ago, isn't his surname Feng?
At the thought of this, Tuoba Desert Khan's heart suddenly began to beat loudly.
Swallowed a mouthful of saliva with some difficulty, her heartbeat quickened, and her blood and energy surged upwards.
I saw him asking tentatively:
"Listen to the noble man's tone and get acquainted with Aye?"
Feng shook his head:
“I don’t know him, but he has been famous for a long time.”
The current Tuofa tribe in Liangzhou is split from the Tuoba tribe.
The lord of the Bald Hair Tribe, Bald Hair Pigu, was originally the successor of the previous Xianbei lord of the Tuoba Tribe, Tuoba Jiefen.
Who would have expected that Tuoba Liwei, the son of a goddess, would appear halfway.
In order to achieve what the goddess said, "descendants will inherit one another and be emperors from generation to generation", Tuoba Jiefen finally changed his mind and made Tuoba Liwei the heir of the tribe.
Tuoba Pigu was not angry, so he and the tribesmen who supported him fled westward.
Then he met Feng, and the fate of the tribe changed.
As for the Tuoba Xianbei who stayed on the grassland, their core tribe was Suotou.
Tuoba Xianbei was originally just a small species of Xianbei.
But as the son of the goddess of heaven, Tuoba Liwei is naturally not comparable to those ordinary leaders in the grassland. He can also be regarded as a heroic figure.
After the death of Tanshihuai, Xianbei was divided and various tribes attacked each other.
The Tuoba tribe was also inevitably involved in this chaos.
Knowing that he was unable to withstand this chaos, Tuoba Liwei took the initiative to rely on Dou Bin, the leader of the Moluhui tribe, to resist the invasion of Xianbei in the west in order to avoid being exterminated.
In a certain battle, Dou Bin was defeated and even lost his horse, so he could only escape on foot.
At this critical moment, Tuoba Liwei gave him his handsome horse.
Because of this incident, Dou Bin was deeply moved and planned to give half of his land to Tuoba Liwei.
Of course, Tuoba Liwei must have strongly refused.
So Dou Bin married his favorite daughter to Tuoba Liwei.
At the same time, he funded Tuoba Liwei to go to Changchuan in northern Monan to establish a foothold.
Others were desperately trying to go south, but Tuoba Liwei's seemingly retrograde move actually gave Suo Tou a chance to breathe and grow stronger.
Not only did he avoid the annexation wars involving Kebineng's annexation of the grassland tribes in the next ten years, but he also avoided being involved in disputes between Kebineng and the Han people in the south.
At the same time, when Kebi was defeated by Wei and Xianbei in the west was expelled by the Liangzhou Han people, Suotou took the opportunity to absorb many fleeing Hu people.
Over the years, Xianbei in the west, which was the first to split off, was almost destroyed, and Kebi, the most powerful after Tanshihuai, was exterminated.
Tuoba Xianbei, who lives in the northern part of Monan and is led by Tuoba Liwei, is growing stronger day by day. Unknowingly, he quietly controls a small half of Monan.
From a small tribe, Xianbei, it became the largest tribe on the grassland.
˜Feng is naturally well aware of this information.
But at this time, he deliberately looked at Tuoba Desert Khan with an appraising look:
“However, I heard that there are now 100,000 people who control the strings at the head of the rope, making it the largest tribe in the grassland.”
"If you really came from Suo Tou, why were you being harassed on the mountain road?"
Tuoba Desert Khan was slightly shocked. He didn't expect that the other party even knew about this.
But when he thought of the possible identity of the other party, he quickly felt relieved.
"Since the noble man knows what happened that day, he must also know that the people who made things difficult for me on the mountain road that day were people from the Wuluhui tribe."
"Then this matter becomes even more unreasonable. If I remember correctly, Suotou and Wuluhuibu are related by marriage, right?"
"The nobles only know one, but not the other." Tuoba Desert Khan smiled bitterly, "It's true that the two tribes are related by marriage, but the Lord Wuluhui regards us as relatives, but his two sons may not."
At that time, Dou Bin, the leader of the Luhui tribe, wanted to give half of the clan's land to Tuoba Liwei, which already created a gap in the hearts of his two sons, Dou Suhou and Dou Huiti.
Not to mention that as the former sect master of Suotou, now he has to look up to Tuoba Liwei, which is even more unpleasant.
strangers who have never met each other have worked hard and turned around. Some people will feel envious, some will find it inspiring, and some will be jealous, but few will be so jealous.
But when the relatives and friends who have always been below you surpass yourself and even become existences that you have to look up to, the feeling in your heart is different from that of strangers.
Not to mention that this relative and friend didn’t even have a place to live at that time and had stayed in his own home.
The start-up capital for his business was funded by his own family, and he was even willing to donate half of his family property to the other party.
Now that the other party is rich and has a net worth of billions, he is not willing to give even 1.8 million. Is this reasonable?
Dou Suhou and Dou Huiti believed that Tuoba Liwei first attached himself to his own tribe and was regarded as a servant of his own tribe.
Not many masters would be happy when a servant becomes a master.
Moreover, Tuoba Liwei received a gift from his own tribe to get a foothold.
Besides, your lord planned to give half of the tribe’s land to Tuoba Liwei, which shows how generous the gift was to him.
What now?
Tuoba Liwei controlled such a large area of land and would rather give the pastures to the tribes who came to rely on him than give even a little bit of land to the Wuluhui tribe.
So the two of them were naturally indignant.
Now that I have met Tuoba Desert Khan outside, it is only natural to deliberately make things difficult for him.
Having drunk some wine and being in an agitated mood at this time, Tuoba Desert Khan also started chatting.
But I saw that his face was a little angry:
“Your Excellency led the tribe to Changchuan more than ten years ago. Over the past ten years, he has been vigorously promoting moralization. The old Xianbei tribe admired your virtue and came to join us.”
"If you, Sir, do what Dou Suhou and Dou Huiti want, and take other people's land for in-laws, wouldn't it ruin your reputation? Who would dare to invest in it in the future?"
Feng nodded:
“It turns out that there is still such a twist in this. In this way, Tuoba Liwei is really a rare visionary on the grassland.”
He looked at Tuoba Desert Khan again:
“No wonder when I saw Tuoba Langjun, I felt that he was very different from the ordinary Hu people. It turns out that there is such an adult. It is true that the father of a tiger has no son!”
Those words not only praised Tuoba Liwei, but also praised Tuoba Desert Khan.
Have Tuoba Desert Khan ever seen such stunts as "eloquent words and seduction"?
I felt a little embarrassed on the spot, and at the same time I felt very happy, and inexplicably moved.
Because these days, I have been repeatedly rejected, and my heart feels gloomy.
At this time, he suddenly heard such praise from such noble people. If it weren't for the asymmetry in status, he would have wanted to make him a confidant.
Of course it’s not enough to just praise yourself, but there’s no harm in talking about your Aye:
“Your Excellency often says that the Xiongnu and Kebineng in front of me are greedy for money and gain, and they plunder the border people of Han Dynasty. Although they gain something, their casualties are not enough to make up for it.”
"This move will make the Han family more hostile and bring trouble to the people. This is not a long-term plan. That's why your Excellency sent me here. I want to make good friends with the Han family and don't want to make the same mistake as Ke Bineng."
After saying these words in one breath, Tuoba Desert Khan breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down a little.
Then a wry smile appeared on his face again:
“Who would have expected… Alas!”
In fact, it doesn’t mean anything to say this kind of thing.
After all, it is not a shame to make friends with Han people.
Any tribe that has grown to a certain extent on the grasslands will send envoys to the Central Plains every time they feel that they are qualified.
With the exception of Tanshihuai.
So Tuoba Xianbei, who had benefited from the corpse dividends of Western Xianbei and Kebineng and whose strength had expanded earlier than in the original history, was just acting as usual this time.
Of course, it would have been more sincere if Tuoba Desert Khan hadn't secretly glanced at the noble man opposite him when he sighed.
It’s just that when Feng was sixteen years old and was having an extreme relationship with the old demon Zhuge, Tuoba Desert Khan was still riding a lamb to practice his riding skills.
At this age, how could it be possible for him to show his flaws in front of Tuoba Desert Khan?
But I saw Feng smiled and said casually:
"No wonder I heard that in the past few days, someone wanted to see the Xianbei captain several times. It turned out to be Mr. Tuoba Lang."
Then he raised his glass and took a sip of wine, pointed at Tuoba Desert Khan, and said with a smile:
"It's just that Tuoba Langjun has found the wrong person for this matter. The captain who protects Xianbei is rarely in the city, but mostly leading troops outside the city."
“The person in charge in the city is Shi, the head of the Hu Xianbei school. Mr. Tuoba Lang came to do something. Why didn’t he even inquire about such important matters in advance?”
Tuoba Desert Khan was startled when he heard this:
“Is this so? It turns out that I have repeatedly asked for help but never received it, and this is what happened?”
Tuoba Desert Khan quickly saluted someone Feng:
“I have been asking for it so hard, but I didn’t expect to find a way. Now I have a noble person to give me some advice. I am really grateful!”
“It’s just a casual remark, what kind of suggestion is it?” Feng waved his hand carelessly, “But I’m fairly familiar with the principal’s mansion, so I just know the ropes.”
These words seemed to be an understatement, but when Tuoba Desert Khan heard them, he almost couldn't hide the ecstasy in his heart.
As expected, this nobleman’s status is definitely extraordinary, and he is definitely a person worth making friends with.
Even if he has little relationship with Feng Duhu, he is probably still a very powerful person.
Otherwise, how could he know about the affairs of the Xianbei Colonel's Mansion?
After confirming this, Tuoba Desert Khan subconsciously wanted to find a topic and get closer to the other party.
But before he could speak, Feng asked again:
“There’s just one thing, I’m a little curious and want to ask Tuoba Langjun.”
“Sir, please speak.”
“Now the world is divided into three parts, Han, Wei and Wu are the three main states, not to mention the state of Wu. Do you want to make good friends with the Han people, or do you want to send others to the state of Wei?”
When Tuoba Desert Khan heard this, he was dumbfounded and dared not speak.
(End of this chapter)