Xin Er said: "Although the pseudo-Wei has been defeated in Gucheng and Luoyang, but the so-called hundred-legged insects, dead but not stiff, after all, among the northern Hu, since the demise of the Xiongnu Zhao clan, has always been the strongest Xianbei Murong clan, and there are many Liuyi Hu tribes enslaved by it, it is reported that this time Murong Yan fled into the north, and in addition to the more than 20,000 forbidden soldiers such as the pseudo-Wei Yulang, Shang Fangbing, and Longteng armor cavalry, there are also nearly 100,000 Hu cavalry requisitioned from the Zhuyi Huluo who live around Yecheng, and they are merged together. Only the troops directly controlled by Murong Yan still have more than 100,000 infantry cavalry and horses that can be combated; In addition, Pingzhou (Liaoyang and other places), Youzhou (Beijing and other places), especially Pingzhou, are the starting places of the Murong clan, and the Murong clan's roots in these two states are still quite deep,...... Therefore, adding the two together, the minister thought that although Murong Yan abandoned Ye today, at least for a short period of time, the Murong clan should still be able to support it. ”

Speaking of this, Tang Ai interjected.

With a sighing tone of reminiscing about the past and the present, pointing out the rise and fall of the country, he shook his fan and said: "Ming Gong analyzed it very much. Although the Murong clan has indeed fled north, its strength still exists. Ming Gong and Queen Mother, if Murong Wei is still in power, I can't say it, I am afraid that Murong Hui will still have a chance to turn over, but Murong Hui's sons are all inferior to him, but now looking at it, the fall of Murong Hui must be a matter of time. ”

When the Zuo clan was in power, it was the end of Murong Hui's reign in the Wei State, and the Zuo clan at that time was still in front of the domestic military and political situation, let alone abroad, so she was not very familiar with Murong Hui, and after listening to Tang Ai's words, she said: "Murong Hui? ”

Of course, Tang Ai knew that the Zuo family had not planned political affairs before, and he didn't know Murong Hui's deeds, so after hearing Zuo's question, he had a thought in his heart and thought: "The Xiongnu, Xianbei, Di, Qiang, etc., although they are all Huyi, in the past hundred years, there is no shortage of outstanding people, and it can even be said that there are many heroes. First of all, the Xiongnu Zhao clan, taking advantage of the turmoil in my Tang Dynasty, the kings were fighting, riding alone to the north of the desert, with its Xiongnu noble species, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rong, Zhuhu were summoned, claiming to be the nephew of the Qin family, and extending to the Tang Shi of the northern states, so in just a few years, he trapped my Shendu, killed my son of heaven, dominated the north, and created a foundation of the Hu people, and had a political vision and strategy.

Then the rise of the Murong clan, starting from the bitter cold land, even out of the strong lord, conquered the north and south, invincible, then swallowed the Xianbei Duan clan and other departments, subdued the Qi people and other Hu, replaced the Zhao clan, and invaded Hebei and the Central Plains; Pu Mao, who is now captive of Qin, in addition to heavy martial arts, is to be a benevolent lord, to follow my ancient Chinese Ming Jun, to carry out the government of the royal road, I Dingxi can be in the remote Longzhou this corner, a few million Tang people, under the situation of resisting the world's Hu, all the way to the present, it is not easy.

"Although the strongest pseudo-Wei in Zhuhu is in danger, Pu Qin and He Hun are evil, a benevolent voice, and a fierce soldier, but just like Murong replaced the Xiongnu Zhao clan back then, it is actually a hidden hegemon, I Dingxi is about to face the situation now, in the future, compared with the past, but there is no improvement, once the pseudo-Wei is defeated, the Central Plains, Hebei is occupied by Pu Mao, He Hun evil, and I Dingxi bordering Pu Qin, but the strength will be stronger than before, that is to say, the situation that I Dingxi will face, maybe even worse than in the past.

"Although the Ming Gong is already in charge of state affairs, there are still many people who criticize the Ming Gong in the embers of the clan and the Qing people inside and outside the government, not to mention anything else, only Zhang Hun, Chen Sun, and Lu Shuang, they must be unconvinced. I should tell the story of Murong Wei to the Queen Mother, so that the Queen Mother can understand that I will not be easy in the past and difficult in the future, so that the Queen Mother can not listen to those words that slander Ming Gong, ignore those traitors who are jealous of Ming Gong, and wholeheartedly treat the country's military and political commissar and Ming Gong. ”

After thinking about it, Tang Ai asked Zuo first and said, "Queen Mother, the deceased Wei lord Murong Hui, he was under the false name of Wei during the Wei Rebellion. The Queen Mother knows this, right? ”

Zuo said: "I heard that many years ago, the Wei State was in turmoil, and the Lord of Wei died at the hands of the ministers, because there was a succession of Murong Wei, but is this so? ”

Tang Ai said: "Exactly. At that time, the Wei State was in turmoil because the Wei lord at that time reused the Tang Shi and forcibly changed to the national system of the Tang people to solve the problem of loose and difficult governance of the Hu people, so it caused the rebellion of the Hu people under his rule. It was in this context that Murong Wei was elected by those rebellious tribes and inherited the position of the lord of the puppet Wei.

"Queen Mother, Murong Wei is really a person who can both forbear and be ruthless. When he first succeeded to the throne, he was only in his twenties, young and low prestige, and he was very respectful to all those who elected him, even if he was despised by them in person, he was also patient, smiling at each other, and he was full of power to the most powerful minister in the Wei dynasty, that is, his wife and father, especially obedient. But not long after, Murong Wei took the opportunity of his wife Ke Zuhun being pregnant to invite Ke Zuhun into the palace, saying that it was to set up a family banquet to celebrate, but Zu Hun was unguarded, so he was called into the palace. The Queen Mother, what she didn't expect was that at the banquet, Murong Wei actually went around to the back of Ke Zu Hun Sha's seat, picked up the candlestick, and smashed his head, but he actually beat Ke Zu Hun to death on the banquet with his own hands! But he killed the previous Lord of Wei, and he can be regarded as a generation of puppet Wei courtiers, so he died so easily. ”

Zuo's eyes widened, and he said, "Right on the table, holding the candlestick, and killing Ke Zu Hun Ji?" ”

"yes."

"Is that enough Hun to be on the table?"

Zuo's concern was something Tang Ai didn't expect, he was stunned, and replied: "It is said that it is a banquet set up to celebrate the pregnancy of the Kezuhun clan, and I think that the Kezuhun clan should be at the banquet." ”

Zuo Shi seemed to be pitiful and said: "Watching his husband kill his old father, the Zuhun family is really pitiful. ”

Tang Ai said: "The Queen Mother, Hu Yi, I don't know the king, the beasts and the like, they are like this." Don't say that you beat your wife and father to death, it is not uncommon for a father to kill a son, and a son to kill a father. Didn't the Queen Mother hear it? As far as the Hu people in the western kingdom are concerned, I have seen those who killed their fathers from time to time. ”

Hearing the words "birds and beasts", Xin Er glanced at Tang Ai, he didn't agree with Tang Ai's words.

The fundamental reason why there are many fathers and sons in the Hu people, in the words of later generations, is because most of the Xianbei and other Northern Hu are now in a period when they have just shifted from a matrilineal society to a patrilineal society, in a matrilineal society, the male children belong to the maternal clan, the new patrilineal line has been formed, and the old matrilineal tradition still has a stubborn foundation and has not completely disintegrated, so this has caused the ethical relations of the entire society to be in a turbulent period in the current stage of transformation of the Beihu ethnic groups.

Whether it is the existing marriage of the same surname in Xianbei and other clans, the intermarriage of uncles and siblings, or the inheritance law, the difference between the eldest and the youngest is not clear, and the mother of the sons relies on the power of the mother's family behind her, and often participates in the selection of heirs, and has a great right to speak, such as the Murong clan and the Tuoba clan, or as Tang Ai said, the cannibalism of father and son, etc., is actually due to the fact that the social system is being transformed. - Dingxi's Hu is deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty, and it is not very obvious that the father and son cannibalize each other, and the Karasuma people, who are of the same origin as Xianbei, have a heavier legacy of matriarchal society, and after the son kills his father, no one even pays attention to it, as if he is accustomed to it, but he does not kill his mother, because there is his clan behind his mother, and if he kills it, there will be people from the mother clan to avenge it.

However, Xin Er also knows that Tang people who look down on Hu people like Tang Ai are the mainstream of the moment, which is the limitation of the times, and it is unrealistic to want to reverse it and let them look at this reality objectively, so there is no intention of correcting it.

In the absence of a weapon generation gap, when an advanced civilization declines, it will always be defeated by a backward civilization, and when an advanced civilization flourishes again, the backward civilization will eventually fail, either disappear in the long river of history, or be assimilated by the advanced civilization.

Murong Wei's move to kill his father-in-law, whether it is barbaric or fierce, is not something that ordinary people can do, on the contrary, Yu Zhihe is evil, arrogant, and he is also not recognized by his six relatives, and he kills and loots everywhere, and the flames are monstrous, but this kind of Hu master, what they represent is still a backward civilization in the end, even if they can dominate for a while, due to the lack of culture and system, it is only a matter of time before they perish, although Xin Er will not despise their backwardness, after all, the Tang people are also from backward to advanced, But to be honest, they are not in Xin Er's eyes, and they are not considered by Xin Er to be strong enemies, only Pu Mao, with the assistance of Meng Lang, has learned the teachings of the Chinese sages in a good way, and practiced the government of the royal road, which is actually regarded by Xin Er as the only strong opponent in the future.

Since the beginning of the Xiongnu Zhao clan, the Zhuhu who dominated the northern land, in order to be able to rule the Tang people, all accepted and used the Tang people's mandate of heaven and the end of the five virtues, the Xiongnu Zhao clan, the Xianbei Murong clan, the Di people Pu clan, and the Qianren He Hun evil people, one by one, all looked for ambiguous basis from more than 100 popular proverbs, with fabricated auspicious rui, claiming to have obtained the mandate of heaven, which was the virtue of the world in the five virtues,—— Linghu Feng before Dingxi, and the Qiang Yao family who descended to Pumao today, are also the same, but this pile of the mandate of heaven, in the eyes of people of insight, But it's inevitably like a joke, and Xin Er thinks so too.

Is Destiny so worthless? Or what is Destiny? Can you get it by just claiming it? Apparently not. Xin Er believes that although the mandate of heaven cannot be seen, touched, and ethereal, it is also seen and touched. He believes that the Mandate of Heaven is the will of the people and an advanced culture.

Murong clan and He Hun evil, their claim to get the mandate of heaven is absurd and nonsense, but it can still be put on Pu Mao's body, and the self-proclaimed mandate of heaven, combined with the policies it imposed in Qin, is really a bit of a posture to snatch the mandate of heaven away from Jiangzuo.

Because of Tang Ai's words, Xin Er's thoughts unconsciously shifted back to the information on the battle of Luoyang that he was looking at, but before Tang Ai's words were finished, Xin Er pressed his mind and listened to him introduce Murong Wei to the Zuo family.

Tang Ai went down and said, "After Murong Wei killed Ke Zu Hun Ji, several Hu tribes of the pseudo-Wei rebelled again, Murong Wei was quite strategic, with the assistance of his younger brother Murong Zhan, all these rebellions were quelled, so he took power, and after that, he coerced Tuoba in the north, attacked Rouran in the south, disturbed Jiangzuo in the south, and repeatedly defeated Wang Shi, He Hun in the east and Puqin in the west, for a time, there was quite a state of reviving Murong Xiongfeng.

"Queen Mother, Murong Hui is a person, and it is true that Hu Yi is a hero."

Zuo still hadn't recovered from the terrifying news that "Murong Wei killed him with his own hands", he pressed his chest with his green and jade hands, exhaled, and said, "Fortunately, Murong Wei is dead!" ”

Tang Ai said: "Queen Mother, although Murong Wei is dead, his sons, Murong Yan blindly exercises power and deceit, and there is no benevolence and righteousness, Murong Wutai is brave, less strategic, brave and brave, Murong Quan has a good reputation, but he is young, as the minister just said, there is no need to worry, but just as General Zhengyu just said, the foundation of the Murong clan is peaceful and secluded, although he is now fleeing north, he is not stiff when he dies, and it is still not to be underestimated. And once the northern land is stolen by Pu Mao and He Hun, and Pu Qin borders me, the situation I face in Dingxi will probably be even more dangerous than before! He looked at Zuo meaningfully and said, "Queen Mother, although I am sitting on the mountain and watching the fight, I must not slack off." ”

Zuo's chin bowed, agreeing with Tang Ai's words, put down his hand, looked at Xin Er, and said with a slight smile: "The situation that I am going to face in Dingxi may indeed be more dangerous, but fortunately, I have such a cadre in my court, and I and the king can rest assured." ”

Tang Ai got what he wanted to hear, shook the feather fan, and said no more with satisfaction.

Xin Er said: "The minister will do his best to repay the queen mother and the king." ”

Zuo asked: "General, you said that the Murong clan can still support it, so who will be the winner of this chaotic battle in the northern land?" Pu Mao has occupied Luoyang, He Hun has captured Qingzhou, and most of Yanzhou, what will happen next? ”

Xin Er said: "Murong Yan abandoned Yebei and left Murong Quan to guard Yecheng. Next, the minister thought that Pu Mao and He Hun were bound to fight for Yecheng. Whoever on either side of him can take Yecheng first will be the biggest winner in this scuffle[51 fo]. ”

"Then the general thinks, who on both sides of him can take Yecheng first?"

"It's hard to say right now."

"Why?"

Xin Er said patiently in a gentle tone: "Queen Mother, judging from the road alone, He Hun has the upper hand, from Gucheng to Yecheng is only more than 200 miles, the distance is not far, but there is a big river in front of it, and the rest of Murong Zhan is in the south, if you want to attack Yecheng immediately, I am afraid that it will be difficult; On the other hand, Pu Mao, although there is no threat of Wei's heavy troops later, but Luoyang is more than 400 miles away from Yecheng, the road is far, and the counties along the way are guarded by guards and soldiers and horses left by Murong Wutai. ”

"I understand, what the general means is that although He Hun and Pu Mao have each won a big victory, but now he has enemies on both sides, one is in front of him, and the other is blocked in the front, so he wants to capture Yecheng immediately, and it is still not easy for him to do it on both sides."

Xin Er smiled and said: "The Queen Mother Bingxue is smart, and that's exactly what the minister means." ”

Zuo's cheeks were slightly red, and his eyes were like water, but he didn't avoid Xin Er's gaze, and said: "In this way, the outcome of the tripartite battle between the Murong clan, Pu Mao, and He Hun is now only waiting to be seen. ”

"Queen Mother, it's not a three-way war, there are still two variables in the melee in the north this time."

"Two variables?"

"One is the Jiangzuo Imperial Court, and the other is the Tuoba clan of the land."

Zuo's willow eyebrows moved slightly, and said: "General, I came today just to ask, you passed a letter to Jiang Zuo before, suggesting that I join forces with Jiang Zuo in Dingxi to fight against the pseudo-Qin and pseudo-Wei, what is the next in this matter?" ”

Xin Er and Tang Ai glanced at each other.

Xin Er laughed and said, "Queen Mother, the minister's text to Jiang Zuo is just a formality. ”