Northern Swallow.

Kumoti didn't know how long he had been floating in the water, but he felt like he had been caught ashore by something, and then stripped of everything he had and moved to a fire.

Knowing that he couldn't die, Kumoti didn't know whether to rejoice or be sad.

Won't even God give him a relief?

Kumoti and Tuoba Tao grew up together, and the figures of the two sides are extremely similar, so the two sides are extremely sensitive to each other's body shapes.

But Tuoba Tao has always acted for a reason, in order to prevent him from plotting, it is normal for the Su guards to wear the same clothes and armor as him when charging, Kumoti stood on the high city tower, and when he saw the fluttering "Wei" banner, a wave of pride suddenly surged up in his heart......

If you are like this, why worry about breaking everything and being invincible?!

Like Kumoti, the Yingyang army, which had been besieged for months, burst out with great morale, opened the city gates in one go, and with the reinforcements arriving from outside, the Goguryeo people were crushed and fled from Changli City in a hurry.

The drum beats, but as soon as the drum is passed, the army has been victoriously withdrawn, and the two sides converge, which also let him see the true face of "Tuoba Tao".

It was a guard beside Tuoba Tao who was very similar to him, named Wang Qing.

Most of the Ying Yang Army didn't know Tuoba Tao, and the guards and Yu Linlang around Wang Qing should have discussed with Tuoba Tao in advance to hide from the world, so Wang Qing was wearing full armor, and he didn't say much to him, but just handed him a letter.

The content of the letter is very simple, about the Egret official found that there was a change in the clan and relatives in Beijing, and Xia Hong and Wang Meng of the Montenegrin camp found that a large number of Montenegrin troops who had returned to their hometowns before were missing, and after some investigation, they found that they had not returned to the township for more than a year, nor had they accepted the re-recruitment of the military government, and they were worried that a large number of warlike military households would cause turmoil if they left their homeland and did not obey the military government's management and adjustment, so they secretly reported to the imperial court.

The contradiction between the clan, the relatives, the Hanchen and the army has been going on for a long time, and with the conquest of more and more lands by Tuoba Tao, the pace of replacing the old tribal system with the feudal Sinicization system is getting faster and faster, not to mention it in the army, the authority of the clan and the relatives of the country has been divided into a large part of it first, and this contradiction will intensify sooner or later.

The core of the "tribal system" is the "master and servant" system, even if Tuoba Xianbei's ancestors how to break up the private soldiers of the Xianbei nobles will disperse their rights with the "military household" system, as the war continues to occur, the re-plundered population will increase their power, and many generals who were divided 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 who have changed from the status of "slaves" to the status of "free people", but they are still vassals of the old masters.

Although Tuoba Xianbei had prosperous children, in the Tuoba and Tuoba dynasties, both emperors were suspicious, and they didn't know how many direct blood relatives they had killed, and even Kumoti's father and the younger brother of the former emperor were secretly edicted to death by Tuoba Hei.

Brothers who are in the prime of life, can fight well, and have royal tents, slaves, and elite soldiers, are the most terrible contenders for the throne, and once they reach adulthood, even if they have no objections, they can rarely survive the emperor's suspicion.

Turning over the inheritance of Baba Xianbei, except for the one who can inherit the throne, almost all the brothers of each generation of emperors are "premature", "early", "no queen", and "violent death", and very few have survived to the age of twenty.

This is a strange circle, the biggest blood feud between the clan and the person sitting on the throne, and it will not be stopped until Tuoba Tao succeeds to the throne.

But Tuoba Fan's deposition made the clan panic again, and Tuoba Tao's tougher attitude and ambition than the previous emperor and ancestors made the already lingering clan even more afraid.

He had known these things since he was very young.

The Duanping aunt always hugged him and cried, the grief for his father who died young, the mother's remarriage, and the mother's family......

When he was a child, he never knew who he should trust, who to choose, and what to do, until the first emperor brought him and other clans who had lost their father into the palace to "cultivate", and until he met the bold and free prince Tuobatao, he could be regarded as finding someone who could be trusted.

For this cousin, he sighed to himself, this is a kind of "measure" and "mind" on the willing to bow to the wind, he can't put his selfishness to the lowest, no matter how young and old he is, he still cares about his mother, Tuoba Tao, aunt, father's old ministers, and then it's the country's turn.

He was not a righteous and awe-inspiring person, and he did not want to remember the blood debt of the previous generation like other clans, and sometimes he thought that as long as everyone knew Tuoba Tao like him and knew what kind of character he was, those misunderstandings might never exist.

Because of this kind of thinking, since he was a teenager, he tried his best to create opportunities to go out of the palace more often, and to have more contact with those "relatives", he matched, and he actively made friends with the clans of the same generation, just to make himself a bond, so that the clan and the prince could dispel doubts, and no longer repeat the tragedy of the previous generation, the previous generation, and the previous generation.

Until a descendant of King Wei, who had a grudge against the first emperor, almost poisoned Tuoba Tao and him, who came to the door.

This incident made him understand that hatred is not so easy to dissolve, and it also made the first emperor, who was already suspicious of him, send him to Montenegro as a young man, starting from the border where the war was fierce, just like every Tuoba Xianbei child.

Perhaps the first emperor was also disgusted with the kind of days when he was suspicious of every blood relative, so he brought these "orphans" into the palace, and endured his careful thoughts that he thought were unknown, and introduced Tuoba Tao into the circle of the clan little by little.

The first emperor wanted to see the results, and wanted to see the possibility of Tuoba Tao subduing them, but he handed in a bad answer sheet, messed up all of them, and completely lost his qualifications to be by Tuoba Tao's side.

Before the poisoning incident, he was a kind, very considerate elder brother with a funny personality, good hunters, and many things, which made the young Tuoba Tao and Kumoti admire him very much.

Who can understand that behind these "care and love", what is hidden is the darkness of "hatred to death"?

Although Tuoba Tao quickly cheered up later, Kumoti soon knew that this incident had caused a lot of damage to Tuoba Tao, and even had a trace of defensiveness against the clan like his father's ancestor.

It's his fault, and it's up to him to make amends.

Later, he led his father's old ministers to kill his own name in Montenegro, he was the first of his generation to rely on his own king "Zhiqin", but also the most disinterested lonely minister, he did not marry a wife, did not take concubines, did not have children, he was an outlier in the Tuoba Xianbei early marriage clan, and he was also a "traitor" who completely let the first emperor relax and let go of power.

He tried his best to mediate between the clan and Tuoba Tao, the clan was his kinship, Tuoba Tao was his brother, he was very selfish, and neither side wanted to lose.

Therefore, he detected the secret chess of the clan in the Black Mountain, but he only quietly used various means to eliminate them, leaving them with nothing to do.

He eliminated all the unsettling factors that would cause the Egret and Tuoba Tao to be suspicious, just like a walker in the night, a tightrope walker, once he was careless, he was not a person inside and out, and ended up with victory or defeat.

But what he can do alone is too limited, so he has to strengthen the power of loyalty to His Majesty and finally 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 showing favors to people, he created countless coincidences, just to hide those uneasiness that could erupt at any time to a deeper and darker place.

He knew that this was only a palliative solution, but he could not 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 seemed to be ready to move, and Montenegro almost caused a mutiny because of this, and it was all because he used the Eagle Yang Army to suppress it.

From that moment on, he gradually understood why the clan was so afraid.

If the power of the clan depends entirely on the person sitting on the throne, then they can do less and less, the words they say are more and more useless, and in the end, they are not even as good as those generals from ordinary military families.

Nobles who can't fight, can't get booty and population, can't enclose land as pastures, what else is there but a good name?

He always thought that if he persisted for a few more years, worked hard for a few more years, and waited until Tuoba Tao unified the Central Plains and became stronger and stronger, the clans would naturally give up the idea of using those mantis arms as a car, and naturally realize that the tribal system is an obsolete thing that has been abandoned in history after all, and that something must be given up for the sake of a larger territory and a broader future.

Kumoti is not a patriotic person, but he looks forward to the future in Tuoba Tao's heart, and people have a beautiful side.

He is his own brother who is like a brother, if he doesn't help him, who can he help?

He naively thought that his efforts would be useful, and he thought that his efforts would allow Tuoba Tao to retain the warmth of his heart for the clan, and not become the kind of person like his father and his ancestors who achieved the stability of the throne by playing tricks and betraying the trust of others.

But this letter completely crushed his persistence.

Luo Jie finally discovered his methods.

Perhaps Mulan's judgment of Wang Jin's affairs, and the clan's demonstration of hiding the gold and silver in his other village to warn him, caused Tuoba Tao to misjudge the current situation, and his efforts to maintain a semblance of peace made Tuoba Tao think that his situation had become very dangerous, and that the clan was likely to rebel at any time, and even threaten his life.

Therefore, Tuoba Tao listened to Luo Jie's Jianyi, struck first, and used his disappearance as bait to set up a game in the country, wanting to wipe out all the uneasy forces.

From the beginning of the "Discussion of the Prince", the one hundred and twenty-year-old man Rui was in the layout, he skillfully used the embarrassment of Tuoba Liang and Tuoba Fan, let Tuoba Liang pass information for the Egret Official, and arranged the palace guards to deliberately neglect the defense, but secretly arranged the retreat of the two princes and everyone.

Once the palace is really unprepared, and there is a rescue of Hua Mulan specially transferred back from Beiliang, although there will definitely be some losses, but if these malignant tumors and chronic diseases are not pulled out, I am afraid that it will cause greater turmoil.

Kumoti was almost unable to stand on his feet when the earth suddenly shook with a shocking sound, and a raging flood of broken branches and stones poured down from the moat, completely submerging the drawbridge into the city, and swept him into the river.

He would not have been swept away, there were countless eagles around him, some people grabbed him, some people held the horse and tried desperately to push him to the horse......

- It was his own ghost who made God let go of his hand.

He was really tired.

He did not marry a wife, did not take concubines, did not form a party, did not engage in personal gain, he worked hard to strengthen the strength of the royal power, and he covered up the rebellious behavior of the clan, just to hope that Wei and His Majesty could one day find a better way to survive this painful period smoothly.

However, no matter how he tried to turn the tide, his intentions still couldn't withstand the old "adult's" calculations.

When did Xia Hong and Wang Meng start secretly spreading messages and tracking down Montenegro?

Is it because His Majesty is also beginning to doubt him, so he is unwilling to leave these things to him to do?

Tuoba didn't know that doing so would completely destroy his family?

Does he really know what "father and son" means?

If there is chaos everywhere, will there be forces that will take advantage of the opportunity to make the fake show become real?

Can you really accept the loss caused by this?

And......

Do you know that if you really do this, you will never be able to go back?

The days when His Majesty and he buried their heads in the quilt and plotted all kinds of "tricks" are finally gone, will those bright and upright expressions finally become the suspicious appearance of the first emperor?

The Pure Land he had maintained in his heart shattered, and Kumoti felt a great sense of depression, which made him, a soldier who had taken honor and responsibility as his own responsibility, let go of his hand as if he had given up on himself, and left "freely" with the roar of the torrent.

However, for a person like him, vulnerability simply cannot affect for long, and even vulnerability and avoidance are shameful, and they will not solve any problems.

Aroused by the desire to survive, he took off all his heavy belongings in the turbulence of the torrent, leaving only the underwear to keep out the cold, in the ups and downs of the waves, he tried his best to stick his head out of the water, he knew that he could not resist the rush of the current, he could only be washed downstream with the current.

It was when he was fighting with the sky and the torrent that he suddenly understood the truth of "going with the flow".

If history is also a torrent that does not stop rushing, those who go against the current will eventually be drowned, and those who can survive will always be those who have learned to "go with the flow".

He made the right choice at the beginning, but the timing was wrong.

The choice he made later was wrong, but he was complacent that he had protected Tuobatao's "heart".

The liberated Kumoti completely let go of his mind, stretched out his arms, and let himself float on the water, his heart was open-minded, and all those clans, futures, and struggles were all forgotten......

Then, he almost froze to death.

***

"After that, he grew so handsome......"

A middle-aged aunt touched Kumoti's smooth chest and couldn't help but pinch it.

"The flood washed so many people down, and he was the most neat."

"So many people died......

The man in the white deerskin trouser gown had braided his head, "These people are really evil! ”

"Wake up, wake up, wake up!"

The middle-aged aunt screamed.

"He's awake!"

When Cuomo reminded him, he only felt that his whole body was hot, and his limbs and bones seemed to be thawing from the freeze.

The blanket under him also emitted heat, because the earth had been roasted by fire, and the fur on his body had a strange smell, and he was afraid that it had been used for many years.

Probably the herders of the Northlands.

Northern Yan, like other northern countries, has many Hu people living in it, these Hu people living in the northeast land are called "Dongyi", and the Northern Yan regime is almost the well water does not interfere with the river water, you build your country, I am my herdsman, I am not a minister, nor a vassal, let alone pay tribute, but I will not cause trouble for you.

It's just that these Dongyi are too small after all, and they are oppressed by the Northern Yan and Goguryeo from time to time, and they are driven around like animals, but fortunately, they all live in the woods, and there are many forests in the northeast, and the Northern Yan has not caused too many casualties except for the occasional drive.

"Are you awake?"

Mu Kun, the leader of the pigtails, hurriedly came over to look at him, and when he saw Kumoti open his eyes and look at him, he immediately danced with his hands.

"Alive! Lived! ”

"Oh roar! Oh roar! ”

All the clansmen of Mu Kun happily came over and surrounded Kumoti at once.

These people are all wearing white deerskin trousers, men with hair tied and women with thick skin and thick bones, which is characteristic of Dongyi at first sight.

"Where am I? Who are you? ”

Kumoti moved his hands and feet, found that there were no injuries, and shouted "so dangerous" in his heart.

"You were saved by our tribe, we are Kumo Xi people, you can also call us Xi people." The leader, Mu Kun, was even happier, and said in the language of Murwei: "Most of the people who were washed away are Xianbei people, and you are also Xianbei people, aren't you?" ”

Kumoxi and Murowei both belong to the eastern Xianbei, is another part of the Xianbei Yuwen Department, Yuwen Xianbei was originally a Huns, and later joined the Xianbei tribe, so the language and customs are different from the ordinary Xianbei, the Yuwen Department was later defeated by the Murong clan who was also the eastern Xianbei, and it was divided, and there was a large branch to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Kumoti, who was a royal family, also spoke their language.

But after all, it has not been used for a long time, Kumoti said in the obscure Murwei dialect: "Yes, I am, Xianbei, you, Xi people?" ”

"Speak our word! That's great! ”

Mu Kun clapped his hands and lifted Kumoti's middle coat.

"You are wearing silk clothes, you are a noble person of the Wei Kingdom, aren't you? According to our Kumoxi's rules, I saved you, and you have to give us a ransom before we can let you go back! ”

I actually met someone who took advantage of the fire to rob!

Kumoti smiled.

But they were right, if they hadn't fished him up, he would still be frozen in the water, and maybe he wouldn't have lasted long before he sank.

"Although I am not rich and rival the country, I still have a lot of wealth, so you might as well say what you want. You saved me, and I should give you a gift of thanks. ”

Kumoti never mentions the "ransom", which, in his arrogant opinion, is only involved if he is captured.

"We want to see your Great Khan!"

A young man suddenly interjected and leaned his head over.

"Yes!"

"We want to see you Great Khan of the Xianbei people!"

Kumoti is ridiculous.

"Do you think it is so easy to meet the Great Khan of Xianbei as it is to meet your chief? See the Great Khan, hard! ”

"Then we don't care, we're going to see the Great Khan!"

The Dongyi people are very simple-minded, in their minds, the Xianbei people are still the nomads who ride horses to hunt and chase water and grass, and the city is just a house made of stones.

"You want to sue me, why, Great Khan, go to see me?"

Kumoti was very cautious when he heard about Tuobatao, and couldn't help but ask them about it.

He was originally handsome and masculine, and he looked dignified, but now his thick eyebrows were frowning, and there were a few young girls with spring covering their chests and their faces were flushed.

"We're going to go and pay for our losses!"

"We're going to go to him and borrow someone to go to Goguryeo for revenge!"

"That's it! They fought and ruined our tribe! ”

"The Khitan is even worse, their tribe is upstream, and they are all drowned!"

"Strange, you guys, why don't you go to Beiyan? It's flooded again, what's going on? ”

"Beiyan also has an enmity with us."

Mu Kun sneered and said: "They cut down our forests, robbed our brothers, and built dikes for them, and stored water to rush the city, and our tribe finally escaped from their hands, and before we could escape far, we met your great khan here, we don't know whether we are friends or foes, we can only run around in the mountains, until this piece is flooded like this, and we can no longer return to the original tribe." ”

He looked at Kumoti: "I know that your Great Khan has come to the Northeast, and I see your banners, your men and horses, and your strong ......."

He had a yearning expression.

"We have a grudge against the Yan people, and when Goguryeo went to Yandi, they burned and looted all the way, and we, the tribes of Didouyu, Murowei and Khitan suffered great losses. Our tribes in the east have always had revenge and debts, and we will help your Great Khan fight the Yan and Goguryeo people, but you must return to us the place that originally belonged to us, and no one can rob it anymore! ”

"You want to include it?"

Kumoti was overjoyed.

"What's included? Do you know? ”

"Why is he so weird? It's also a word and a jump just now! ”

"Stupid, he is a Xianbei person, it is not easy to speak our words!"

"Attached, you, and us, a nation. We give you the land, you, and call us the Great Khan, the Great Khan! ”

"What's so hard about this!"

Mu Kun grinned.

"I thought you wanted our stuff too!"

"Wei State, the land is vast, I don't want your things!"

"Hahahaha, I knew that I was a nobleman who I rescued! I saw your clothes reflected in the water from afar, and the material was thinner than the skin of the most beautiful girl in our clan, and it was really a big man! Can I meet your Great Khan? ”

Mu Kunxiao's eyes were gone.

Kumoti thought about it, Tuoba Tao is not here, this is just a stand-in, and they will definitely not be able to borrow it.

But these people are familiar with the Northland, and they can unite the Dongyi of this place, which is a great help, so he must rely on their strength, and he can't just perfunctory them.

"Great Khan, not there." Kumoti looked at a group of Kumoti people with disappointed, angry, and fooled expressions, and pointed at himself.

"Me. Great Khan, Buddha, brother! ”

There had never been a time when he had been able to point to himself like this, and shout this sentence openly and without feeling offended.

Even if he is their Great Khan, the future Son of Heaven, can he shake his identity in his heart?

I, the brother of the Buddha, the king of Yingchuan of Wei, the generalissimo of Montenegro, the son of Tuoba Yao, the king of Henan, the commander of the Yingyang army, and the lord of the royal tent.

With so many expectations behind him, how could he be like a woman looking for life and death?

"Brother! Brothers! This man is the brother of the Great Khan! ”

"My lord! My lord! We saved an adult! ”

"Revenge! Avenge! Avenge! ”

When the Kumoti people heard this, they were overjoyed, and suddenly sang and danced around Kumoti. This drastic change in painting style made Kumoti a little uncomfortable for a while, and after sitting up, the heat loss in his fur made his bare upper body gradually chill, and he couldn't help but shrink down.

After the Kumo Xi people who were singing and dancing laughed heartily, they performed a ceremony to greet the distinguished guests in Kumoti, and the leader Mu Kun immediately smiled and said, "We will definitely send you to the Xianbei people!" You want to borrow our men and horses to help us avenge us, and I will recognize your Great Khan as the Great Khan, okay? ”

"It's a deal!"

Kumoti nodded.

"I can make a blood alliance with you."

"Good!"

"Good!"

Kumoti saw that these people were so persistent in revenge, and couldn't help but be happy to find a help for the Wei State, the Goguryeo people came to help Longcheng defend the city, the country must be empty, Murowei, Kumoxi and Khitan nomads are between 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 China for rescue.

When the time comes, Beiyan will be self-defeating.

However, before this qiē, there is a problem that must be solved.

"Excuse me, you, all the young people who can fight, how many people are there in this area?"

You have to figure out how much help there is.

Hearing his question, Mu Kun proudly stretched out a hand and opened his palm to show him.

Kumoti gasped.

"Fifty thousand?"

There are so many Dongyi in this bitter cold land?

Then you have to borrow a Mao soldier!

Mu Kun blinked inexplicably.

"Fifty thousand? No, no, no, it's five thousand! ”

……

Kumoti covered his eyes weakly.

Sure enough, he was thinking too much.

"First, send me back, and then ......"