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If Zhu Xie Chixin is just to get the two things of amaranth and heavenly fire grass, it is not very difficult, there is really no need to personally suffer and travel to the Miao Frontier far away from thousands of mountains and rivers with the respect of His Royal Highness the Prince, after all, even if the heavenly fire grass and amaranth are rare, it does not mean that they can't be bought with money, and the things in the mountains and wilderness are just a matter of how much they are harvested.

At present, Zhu Xie said in his heart that the most important reason for him to go to Miao Jiang in person was to know Feng, and there was more to say here.

The Turkic Dynasty is forming the 'Ten Turkic Surnames' has been in a uproar in the Western Regions, and Shatuo, as an extremely important branch of the Turkic tribal alliance, whether Shatuo can finally enter the ranking of the 'Ten Surnames' has a far-reaching impact on the development of the Shatuo Tribe.

If you enter, even if you are ranked last, it is the orthodox people of the Turkic Khanate, and no matter where you go, as long as you are in the territory of the Great Khan, you will be looked down upon. And if you fail to be selected, you will become raised by a little wife to say that it is ugly - a concubine, at most it is a side branch, and people who meet the 'ten surnames' will feel that they are dwarfs.

The most important thing is that if your own tribe enters the list of 'Ten Turkic Surnames' and is recognized as orthodox by the Great Khan, it will enjoy countless privileges and preferential treatment. From the tribute tax, the distribution of water, grass and land, the number of slaves and prisoners of war under the name of the nobles, and even weddings and funerals, they have inherent advantages over the large and small tribes that were not selected.

Therefore, many people of the Turkic royal court engaged in this 'Turkic ten surnames', and many people saw that it was a high-sounding means for large tribes to annex small clans and to reshuffle power between large tribes.

But even if you see it, even if you are angry, you still don't have to obey it honestly! Therefore, out of consideration for their own development, many small tribes began to take the initiative to make friends with the big tribes, engage in nepotism, and play dependence, in order to make their own clansmen less bullied and barely survive in the future.

If you can take this opportunity to consolidate and expand your own power, and at the same time strike and weaken your opponent, it will be beautiful!

Therefore, at present, the most important thing for Shatuo and the tribal khanates under the Turkic royal court is how to rank among the 'ten surnames'.

The contemporary master of Shatuo is Zhu Xie's father Zhu Xie Zhiyi, this person can be said to be eloquent and strategic, and his heart is higher than the sky, and he always wants Shatuo to break out of the world under his leadership and make a career.

At present, among the Turkic tribes, Shatuo's strength is not weak, but it is not particularly strong, and he is in the embarrassing position of the ten Turkic surnames 'it will be difficult to enter'. For example, if a student's test score hovers around the passing mark, the teacher raises his hand and passes it, and if he is stricter, he has to refill the test.

Among the many urine spots, the two major problems that bothered Zhu Xie the most were the two major problems that Shatuobu could not avoid at all at such a critical time of competition.

First, the elder of Shatuo, that is, the father of Zhu Xie Chixin, the deaf and stubborn disease of the Khan Zhu Xie Zhiyi in the mouth of the clansmen.

Although there are still several emperors and generals who are physically and mentally handicapped in history, it is not uncommon to be deprived of the status of prince or heir because of their disabilities. Therefore, although Zhu Xie Zhiyi himself is the head of the Shatuo tribe and it is okay to be the leader of his own territory, if he is selected into the ranking of the 'Ten Turkic Surnames' and becomes a powerful minister of the Great Khan, this image should be paid more attention to.

If the Shatuo Department itself is strong, and can be ranked among the top in the 'Ten Surnames' ranking, and can be selected nine times out of ten, then the hidden disease of Zhu Xie's back is not a great deal, and no one dares to say irresponsible things, after all, strength speaks for itself.

But in such a position, all kinds of defects that are not considered to be considered by the Shatuo Department and several 'ten surnames' competing tribes with similar rankings have been infinitely magnified by those who have a heart, and finally the Turkic Great Khan finally gathered a bunch of opinions from all parties and came up with a so-called scoring standard of the 'Ten Surnames Balance Book'.

In fact, it is not an exaggeration to do this to the Turkic Great Khan, the so-called no rules are not a circle, since it is selected according to the results of the evaluation, of course, there need to be relevant regulations and grade lines.

But the strange thing is coming, for those marginal tribes who are qualified to be selected but are not certain, the Turkic Great Khan actually still has some personal wills in his heart, and naturally he will do his best to speak for the tribes that are closest to him and want to win over the most. For example, if a teacher likes Zhang San, then Zhang San can often be rated as a good student, if he is really poor at studying, he will eventually install an excellent class cadre or not yet, okay, come to be my class representative.

But the finalization of the 'Turkic Ten Surnames', how big it is, the Great Khan alone does not count, all the power levels, but anyone who can exert some influence will jump out of the corner, compete for power and profit with each other, and fight to the point of bloodshed, and come and go, so such a 'Ten Surnames Balance Book' evaluation standard document has been issued.

To say that the Turkic Great Khan of this generation is Ashina Pingliang, whose life is bold and mellow, but not as brave and cunning as his ancestors Ashina Simo and Ashina Jieli, and he is not far from the Shatuo family. It's just that the Great Khan of Pingliang hopes that the tribe he likes, but the conditions are almost fine, can be successfully selected as the 'Turkic Ten Surnames', and what if there are opposition forces that do not agree, the two sides will talk.

As a result, the various forces fought openly and secretly, and finally compromised and gave way to each other, some tribes were already determined before the official assessment, while others were sadly sacrificed to balance and were on the verge of being kicked out, such as Shatuo.

However, the Shatuo Department is also an important part of the Turkic Khanate, and the clansmen's power is not small, so it can't be said that they will start if they are hacked, so the so-called 'Ten Surnames Balance Book' was formulated to restrict those tribes like Shatuo who are not hard in the background and have a general relationship with the top leadership but are still quite competitive.

As a result, the 'Ten Surnames Balance Book' has added some strange evaluation criteria that are obviously targeted, such as 'The tribal leader is not allowed to do it', what does it mean, do you have a disability, if you have, I'm sorry that you are the leader of your tribe, don't be it, if you are still in power, sorry, your tribe is not eligible to be selected.

Then what about Shatuo or other tribes who are subject to this clause, or choose to pass on their descendants, or go to great lengths to heal their own disabled bodies.

Zhu Xie Zhiyi chose the second way, we are deaf, okay, let's heal!

Since he wants to cure his ear disease, Miao Jiang's trip is imperative, which is the first reason why Zhu Xie's heart appears here.

The two are some of the secrets of Shatuo's own family, but Zhu Xie is eager to ask for the help of Young Master Zhifeng, but this is mainly in this one.

The Shatuo tribes, like other Turkic tribes, use the lone wolf as their totem, and in addition to believing in Buddhism, which is widely believed in by all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, they also worship fire, that is, 'worship the heavenly fire'.

At present, Buddhism is prevalent in the Western Regions, and the influence of 'worshipping heaven and fire' in the three parts of Shatuo is getting smaller and smaller, but there is one ancestral precept that must not be violated, that is, the rule of 'head human sacrifice'.

The so-called 'head human sacrifice' is the triennial election of the Shatuo head, and to put it bluntly, the tribal chief cannot be hereditary in a sense.

Originally, this was just a ceremony, that is, to go through the motions, who should be the leader or who, should be passed on to his son, no one will be blind, and the result will not change easily.

How could Zhu Xie be ambitious, and it took more than ten years to integrate dozens of clans of Shatuo and form three tribes. In this way, the power of the family has become greater, and the cohesion of the Shatuo family has been strengthened, but on the contrary, the power of each of the three Shatuo tribes is not small.

In the past ten years, the Shatuo tribe has recuperated, and the clansmen have lived a prosperous life, but the three tribes of Shatuo have gradually begun to send out signals that they are not satisfied with the chieftain Zhu Xi's discipline.

In fact, there is nothing surprising about this, the people of the Western Regions are so brave and ruthless, from old to young, everyone is not a fuel-efficient lamp. As soon as this life becomes better, full of lustful desires, prostitution and fun, and then, nothing happens, and they begin to imagine grabbing greater rights and interests!

So over time, Zhu Xie Zhiyi, Zhu Xie Chixin's Shatuo clan and the other two composed of Zhaowu Jiu surnamed Zahu began to have contradictions, and in recent years, there have been constant frictions, and there has even been an escalation to the posture of armed fighting. A few elder-level old guys in charge discussed, where is this, we have to find a way to prevent the situation from escalating, don't come back to your own nest, other tribes took advantage of the situation, caught cheap, and finally exterminated again, who to cry for.

After thinking about it and looking for ancient examples, the elders finally found a compromise solution - to make a fuss about the upcoming triennial 'Heavenly Fire' election of chiefs, no, for the sake of fairness, the latest election rules turned out to be 'Heavenly Fire Choice'!

What is called 'Tianhuo self-selection', that is, the head candidate launched by all parties, on the day of the election of the tribal leader, each with the same length, the thickness of the ox leg index to ignite the heavenly fire, whose fire burns for the longest time, the last extinguished fire rope, who is the three co-masters of the Tianhuo self-choice, this person is the new Shatuo chief.

The other two hostile parties, in addition to the common and effective methods of extinguishing fires such as not directly dousing water and filling with sand, use various other means at will, the purpose is to extinguish the competitor's natural fire. The implication is that even if you pounce on it, bite off the rope, and swallow the heavenly fire into your stomach, as long as you have the teeth and iron stomach to digest, it will be done!

In addition to the fact that everyone can think of it, using the Western Regions fire oil soaking rope to help combustion, the material of the rope that ignites the heavenly fire has become very important.

The three forces of Shatuo then showed their magical powers and asked for help, and Zhu Xie Zhiyi decided to send his most capable son, Zhu Xie Chixin, to Miaojiang to ask for this 'Heavenly Fire Grass'. It's just that when the three parts of Shatuo were just about to start preparing and were gearing up, Wu Jiang, the oldest in the clan and the most mysterious in speaking, had another moth, that is, the person who was selected by all parties to light the fire, in addition to the candidate himself, there must also be an assistant to accompany him, and this so-called assistant must be the 'body of the fire source'.

What is called 'the body of the fire source', simply put, the five elements are all fire.

The so-called five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, a person can deduce which of the five elements is more and which one is missing. There are often people around us who are told that the five elements are short of water after measuring the eight characters, and it is recommended that you take a name to bring water, such as the river, the sea, or something, which is to make up for the missing vein.

And the 'body of the fire source' is that the five elements lack anything, that is, there is no lack of fire!

This time, the three parts of Shatuo are very busy, where to find this 'fire source body', and there are three people who are still looking for it.

So they first touched it from their own tribes, and as a result, the blind fortune tellers specially invited from the Han people tested enough, and each of them made a lot of money in labor fees, but the three didn't even find a clansman who was a 'fire source body'. Under the way, several families got together to discuss and made a 100-day appointment, and when the time came, each family found the 'fire source body' that was qualified to assist their candidates in igniting the fire, and what should they do if they couldn't find it, sorry, it will be counted as automatically giving up the candidacy of the chief head!

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