The way of survival on the Hanzhou grassland is far more cruel than the magnificent dynastic change in the history books of the Eastern Continent. Although most of the history is not written, the only way to imagine the old legends is the stories heard in the arms of the mother and the songs played by the singers around the campfire.

Those magnificent psalms filled with blood and fire always begin with a praise of God.

the god of the steppe people, who bears the head of a wolf and the back of a bear; One of his eyes was golden, and the other was a cat's eye. They are the day and the month;

His feet were the hooves of a pair of yaks, and the wings of an eagle on his back - this was the god of the Pantar, who slowly swirled in the sky with an axe that opened up the heavens and the earth in one hand and a sword that destroyed living beings in the other.

Every time he turned, heaven and earth were born and destroyed once, and Gu Xuan was embedded in his knife.

The gods of Pantar gave the steppe people the eyes of an eagle, the strength of a tiger, the acumen of a wolf, and the loyalty of a dog.

And the eagle, tiger, wolf, and dog have also become the totems of the four oldest families of the barbarians, and these four families are called the Golden Clan.

In pre-written history, only members of these four golden clans could become nobles, and they held the power of the tribe, and commoners from other families could never touch the power, let alone slaves.

In the midst of conquest and overthrow, population and livestock replaced the family line as the decisive factor in the duel of power, new tribes arose, old tribes died out, and small families of the non-four golden families gradually flourished, but they also quickly became the new "old-style aristocracy", and they still firmly held the power within the tribe.

The famous hero of the barbarians, "King Sun", Akanti, who unified the large and small on the grassland, was a slave cub, and no one knew who his parents were.

Instead of proclaiming himself emperor, King Xun founded the Council of Kulig, which brought together the lords of all the tribes.

"Kulig" means "all to sit down" in the barbarian language, which means equality.

At the conference, there was an opportunity for all clans, large and small, to sit down and speak on an equal footing. At this time, the Kurig Assembly was still a primitive system of popular discussion, and the candidates for the Maharaja were jointly elected by the various ministries, so King Xun deservedly became the first Maharaja.

However, the internal affairs of the tribes were not managed by the Maharaja, who was only responsible for convening the Kurig Assembly to decide on major matters such as wars, migrations, and the settlement of disputes between the tribes.

However, King Xun served as the monarch for only seven years, and the lord of northern Shuo killed King Xun and appointed himself as the king.

Less than two years later, the first lord of the Shuofeng tribe killed the lord of northern Shuo, avenged King Xun, and became the third king.

But in fact, in the battle of northern Shuo to attack the northern capital, it was the soldiers of the Shuofeng Department who mixed into the chaotic army to help northern Shuo capture the northern capital.

The first lord of the Shuofeng Clan, Tie Erqin, was born into the declining Golden Family, and his veins flowed with the blood of the Heavenly Samurai that only the most powerful samurai could possess.

Bloodstorm made it possible for the samurai who possessed it to wield their weapons tirelessly when they went into battle, and they did not know the pain, not even friend or foe, only that they could kill people incessantly, and one person could even wipe out an army.

In order to pass on this bloodline to his sons, Tierqin killed his sister and his sisters' husbands and made peace with his own sisters.

He had many sons, nine of whom inherited the blood of the Celestial Warriors, and with these sons, he finally destroyed all the enemies and occupied the steppe.

Since then, the Maharaja of Kulig has become the hereditary honorific title inherited from father and son of the Shuofeng family of the Chu family.

The Shuofeng family of the Chu family, which was born in the declining golden family and took the white wolf as its totem, was called the white wolf family from then on, announcing the decline of the old golden family.

At this point, the tribes of the entire steppe formed a nominally unified nation-state under the tribal alliance of the Kurig Assembly, and then subdivided by the tribal alliance into tribes gathered under different totems, each tribe was divided into different clans according to the surname, and the clans with the same surname were divided into different families.

Taking Chu Ge as an example, he has five identities, namely the head of his lineage, the patriarch of the Shuofeng family of the Chu clan, the lord of the Shuofeng tribe, the future lord of the Kulig Lord, and the most powerful envoy of the Pantar Heavenly God in the Hanzhou grassland.

In barbarian mythology, including the lineage of the only main god Pantar and his messengers.

The whole sky is the symbol of the Pantar gods, who convey their will by choosing messengers among the human beings, who are the lords of the tribes.

At the same time as sending a messenger, the god will also send a wise man to deliver the news of the god's choice of messenger to mortals, and this wise man is the tribe's witch.

The leader of the sorcerers in the tribe is called the Witch, and the greatest sorcerer in the whole steppe is called the Great Witch, and the lord who the Great Witch follows is of course the master of the Kurig Assembly, the Lord of the Kurig, because that is the most powerful oracle that the Pantar god told him to follow and serve.

The myth is true, but in most cases, the actual process of the creation of the Great Witch is completely reversed, and in any given era, every tribe that wants to get their hands on the throne of the Maharaja of Kulig will have a Witch who stands up and declares that the lord he follows is the most powerful messenger of the Temptar gods.

But there is undoubtedly only one of the gods of Pantar, so in the end, "the facts often prove" that the Hesa next to the Maha of Kulig, who has gained dominance by virtue of his strength, is the closest to the will of the gods, so he is undoubtedly the wisest and greatest, that is, the best choice for the Great Hopsa.

Because of this relationship, in the barbarian political system, royal power and divine power have always been one. The aristocracy had a monopoly on both political and religious power, and not only was the head of the religion held by the sovereign, but the shamans who assisted the sovereign in the management of religious affairs could only be selected from among the noble children of the clans with the big surnames in the tribe. Talented nobles followed the wizard through years of scripture and occult training until the death of his teacher, who could not inherit the title of wizard.

The most of these noble sons are those with the greatest clan background who are qualified to learn from the Wusa and inherit the position of the Wusa, because the Wusa is generally not produced by the clan of the tribal lord, so the second most noble position in the tribe is often closely linked to political transactions within the tribe.

From the eyes of the Donglu people, the grassland people do not have a complete official system.

The Kulig assembly confirmed the territory of each tribe, and the tribal lord distributed the population of the tribe to each clan in thousands, while the smaller clans often chose to live together, and the patriarch of the larger clan continued to divide further according to the lineage.

Those who are in charge of a thousand households are named the heads of a thousand households, which are further subdivided into ten hundred households, and in addition to the head of a thousand households directly ruling over one hundred households, there are also nine hundred household chiefs.

In the same way, each hundred households will be divided into ten ten households, and there will be nine ten household heads.

In this way, the system of dividing the household into one with production, administration, and combat has been realized.

In peacetime, they herd, hunted, and multiplied in their respective territories, and in wartime they could quickly coalesce into a large army.

The tribal lord will set up another one or several Wanhu to preside over military affairs, so Wanhu is only a military commander. In large tribes, there are often large clans that rule over thousands of households, and their patriarch is generally named Khan King instead of ten thousand households.

The Khan was not hereditary, and if the Khan died, his son would only inherit his land and population, but lose his title. There is only one kind of Khan who can pass on the title to his descendants, and that is the Great Khan, and the one who can obtain the title of the Great Khan is either a unique warrior or someone who once saved the Shuofeng tribe at a critical moment of survival. They were given a token as a symbol of the status of the Great Khan.

The token of the Great Khan of the Shuofeng Department is a white mink tail.

At the same time, the monarch will also have a dedicated personal guard unit stationed around the lord's tent to protect the lord's safety. The guards were selected entirely from among the sons and daughters of the nobles, and their commanders were also generals who were absolutely trusted by the sovereign, and they were often the companions who grew up with the sovereign.

There are generally only two types of people in the tribe who can be called civil officials, namely "Quuraya" and "Mirchi".

The ancient Lanya is translated into the Eastern Continent language as the judge of the matter, and the barbarian tribes have no fixed laws, except for the "rules" that have been circulated for thousands of years in classics such as the "Tieqin Tushuo" and the "Stone Drum Scroll", the edict of the lord is the law.

The Qulanya was responsible for handling the affairs of the tribe according to these rules and edicts, and because of the power of life and death in their hands, the status of the Qulanya was very high, and the head of each clan generally recommended a nobleman of high moral and wise rank.

Originally, the word "herald" meant "messenger", that is, the person who was responsible for conveying the edict of the lord in the personal guard.

Later, he gradually began to assist the monarch in handling some basic government affairs, and evolved into a affairs officer, which is also called "account follow" in the Eastern Continent language.

There is also a division of labor responsible for crown clothes, bows and arrows, food and drink, literature and history, chariots and horses, tents, treasury, medicine, divination, sheep herding and so on.

Despite being the heads of related affairs, the Murchi did not enjoy the same high status as their Eastern Continent counterparts, they could only be regarded as executors of the lord's orders at best, and they did not even have any salary except for food and lodging, but this was also a high honor for the children of the barbarians, and if they performed extremely well in government affairs, it was also possible to obtain land and population rewards.

According to the records of the ancient ballad "The Legend of King Xun", when the Chaqin tribe led by King Xun unified the grassland, in addition to the seven largest tribes of Chaqin, Lanma, Yanghe, Shuobei, Jiuxu, Shachi and Yingjian, there were more than 100 small tribes on the land of Hanzhou.

King Xun announced the convening of the first Kurig Congress, with more than two hundred of the fastest riders, each with three horses, two for the transfer, and one for the carrying of dry rations, jerky, and fresh water. They gathered outside the tent of King Sun, memorized King Sun's commands, and then set out to leave the tribe and traveled day and night. Only half of these messengers had a definite destination before they set out, and the rest went deep into the vast steppes in search of unknown tribes, many of whom did not return.

The tribes who received the letter all respected King Sun, and their lords and their attendants came from far and wide to participate in this great gathering of barbarians unprecedented.

"We are here to attend the assembly of the King of Sun", as long as we say so, we will not be attacked by any tribe along the way. It is said that the nearest tribe can be reached in just one day, and the farthest tribe can travel for two months.

And the kings of the tribes came with their attendants, and the king of Sunh had them pitch their tents around their tents, and they held feasts every day, and entertained them with wine and fat sheep.

After the tribes arrived, the Golden Tent of King Xun could not fit so many people, so he gathered outside the city, set up a high grill, which could roast hundreds of fat sheep at a time, and the spirits of Gurqin were stacked as high as a small hill.

The lord of more than a hundred tribes stood in front of the throne of Sun, waiting for him to speak, and the first thing King Xun said was, "Bring cushions to the distinguished guests, and everyone sit down and speak." ”

Later, the assembly became known as the "Kurig Assembly", which translates to "all sit down" in the Eastern Continent language, meaning that all tribes, regardless of size, have the right to speak.

However, after the death of King Xun, the "Kulig Assembly" slowly changed its taste, and although the lords in attendance still sat together, the Shuofeng Department took the place of Chaqin, and the original hundred or so small tribes became fewer and fewer, and their words were no longer valued.

After the Shuofeng tribe wiped out the Yingthorn Tribe, there were actually only six major tribes and more than 30 small tribes left on the grassland, including Shuofeng, Lanma, Yanghe, Shuobei, Jiuyu, and Shachi, and the Zhenyan tribe only became one of the seven major tribes after Fengyan's second Northern Expedition.

Heroes are trying to make history, and this time the hero who appeared on the stage of history is named Akanti, and later generations will call him - "King Xun".

"Eagle King" Akanti is not the current Shuofeng Lord Jun Chuge.

Rather, it is the "right hand of God" Akanti.

"Barbarian Emperor" Akanti.

"The Lion-headed Eagle of Gurqin" Akanti.

There are no few honorific titles for him, but all of them add up to nothing that describes his significance to the barbarians. He was the first to merge the barbarians from hundreds of war-torn tribes into a single nation, and from him, the barbarians had a titular supreme leader, the "Great King".

His successor did not appear until more than 500 years later, and the master of the Shuofeng Tribe, Chu Chennian Asule Shuofeng, adhered to the will of King Xun and further advanced the political system of the barbarians to the monarchy, establishing the first state in the history of the steppe, the "State of Chu".

This is the goal that the "King of Sun" Akanti has worked hard to achieve all his life, but before Kankan touched this end, he fell, and history was delayed by his fall for more than 500 years, and the barbarians generally believed that if King Xun could live for another thirty years, he could lead the barbarians to dominate Kyushu and establish a country belonging to the barbarians. But he died.

Historians say that even though Akanthi died in the prime of his life, he was still the greatest leader in the history of the barbarians, and there was no "one".

It can be said that his power forcibly advanced the history of the barbarians by hundreds of years, turning the barbarians into an opponent of the Eastern Continent Chinese people. But this miracle worker did not have a surname, because of his humble origin.

He was a slave, and the barbarians called this untouchable, who had lost their cattle and sheep and their freedom, and whose lives belonged to their masters, "Palazir". Eastern Continent historians sometimes refer to King Xun as "Akanti Gurqin", but this is wrong, Gurqin is not a surname of Akanti, but refers to the "tribe of god kings" established by Akanti, and "Gurqin" means "god king" in barbarian, referring to people who are authorized by the gods to govern a world.

The imperial family only controlled the land of the "royal domain" with Tianyuan City as the core, so the emperor's order did not reach the Eastern Continent.

On the contrary, the emperor was unable to control the princes' armies, taxes, household registration, and other important substantive work, and was only nominally dominant.

Every year, the emperor needs to issue four important instructions according to the astrological observations of the imperial capital Qin Tianjian: "Spring Apocalypse", "Summer Feast", "Autumn Hunting", and "Winter Storage".

These four commands indicated that according to the celestial conditions and climate, the emperor decided that the princes could begin sowing seeds in the spring (春启), picking in the summer (夏飨, which is a season when the fruit is ripe), hunting in the autumn (autumn hunting), and grain reserves in the winter (冬書). However, these directives are decided according to the climate of the place where Tianyuan City is located, and there is no absolute reference significance for the vassal states, such as the cold Qingzhou, when the imperial capital began the grand spring ceremony, the mountain city was still covered with snow, Mo said that farming began, and people were still breaking the ice to get fish and drinking small wine waiting for the harsh cold wind to pass.

However, these four orders are unusually grand, and they also hint at many things, such as when the order of the spring apocalypse comes, the princes must send envoys to the imperial capital to report the major events to be done this year, including the conquest of the army, the construction of the new city, the establishment of the princes' sons, and so on.

At the time of the autumn hunt, it is also the season of grain harvest, and the princes have to report the amount of grain harvested that year and the amount to be offered to the royal family.

Of course, the princes could refuse to do so, but that would also mean disrespect to the royal family, and the royal family had the right to call on other princes to fight against it on this ground. Once the royal family called, then the war against one prince was just, and the other princes often did not oppose it.

Therefore, the princes, for this reason, still maintained a superficial respect for the royal family, although they would deceive a huge amount of money in taxes and the amount of grain harvested.

In addition to these four commands, the emperor was also responsible for resisting aggression externally, educating the people internally, and mediating the struggle between the princes. The first two were illusory powers, the royal family with limited troops could not defend the territory independently, and indoctrination was an empty word, but mediating the struggle between the princes was a very important power.

In the event of a war between princes, the emperor would inevitably send an envoy to intercede, and the envoy would listen to the opinions of both sides and report back to the emperor, so that the emperor would determine which side was just and which side was unjust.

The emperor would send a small army to symbolically help the righteous side, which was seen as a great grace, and those judged to be unjust would be besieged. Sometimes, the emperor will also cunningly determine that both sides have a reason to fight, and everything depends on the interests of the imperial family.