These words stunned the father and son of the Liu family, and then looked at the old man, dressed in cloth clothes, and there were patches on his pants, but his whole body was clean and clean, combined with what he said, it suddenly made people feel unfathomable.

Liu Kun stepped forward and arched his hand: "Offended the old gentleman, we are fleeing from Bingzhou, not a wicked person." ”

"You're welcome," the old man laughed, "We're not an old gentleman, it's an old farmer, don't talk about me, you go to the street and find someone else to ask, eighty percent is the general saying, you, please go back!" ”

"Why is that?" Liu Kun was really surprised now, although he is also a celebrity, but he has been in the north for many years, and unlike those scholars in the hinterland of the Central Plains who advocate pure talk, he has long realized that ordinary people do not care about any national affairs, most of them are illiterate, and they don't know a single big character, how can they take a look at it and realize their own purpose?

You know, ordinary people missed the opportunity to learn at an early age, and it is extremely difficult to teach them to form some cognition when they become adults, and one or two may not be a problem, but if what the old man said is true, he can see the intention of himself and others by pulling someone over on the street, which is really not easy.

The old man still smiled, shook his head, stood up, patted the dirt on his body, and walked away without answering.

Liu Qun complained: "This old man is so rude! ”

Liu Kun frowned, took a few steps forward, and continued to observe the situation along the way.

As he walked, he suddenly saw a group of people gathered not far away, as if they were chatting, so he leaned in.

Walking into the crowd, I saw that the scholar who was surrounded by everyone was a scholar in the innermost, seeing that the scholar was not very old, but the skin on his face was dark and rough, obviously not from a family, and he was dressed plainly, but he was very clean.

This person was talking like a river, and the words he said made Liu Kun's eyelids jump.

"At the moment, we are surrounded by strong enemies in Youzhou, in addition to the stone thieves in the south, there are also Qunhu who invaded Pingzhou in the east, and the Xiongnu puppet country in the west! But if you count it, there is no small threat to the north......"

As the man spoke, a voice in the crowd shouted: "I know, there are a few Xianbei people on the northland grassland!" ”

The onlookers, along with Liu Kun and others, all followed the sound to look over, and what caught their eyes was a naked man with his upper body, who knew at a glance that it was a farmer who had just returned from the field, and he was still holding farm tools in his hand, but he listened with relish.

"A farmer can also know the tribal hegemony on the grassland?" Liu Kun and Liu Qun glanced at each other, and they both felt very surprised, you know, it is the sons of the families in the Central Plains, many of them only know about the matter of one acre and three points of land in their own towns, and when they go out of the city and the county, they may not know the general trend.

As a result, when I came here, in a remote village and town, a scholar preached about the surrounding situation, and a farmer blurted out the key points, which was really a bit unbelievable.

Suddenly, Liu Kun thought of the old farmer just now, and faintly guessed.

Over there, the scholar nodded in response to the farmer's words, and continued: "It is a few major tribes, but strictly speaking, the current northern grassland can be divided into four major forces, these four families have almost divided and divided the entire grassland, each accounting for a part, maintaining a fragile balance between each other, and it seems that they are safe, but in fact, the dark tide is surging. ”

The farmer who had just interjected was obviously not satisfied, and shouted again: "Four? Could it be the four Xianbei races? ”

The scholar smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "What you said is only half right. ”

"What's half?" The farmer smiled, not annoyed, "Then you little scholar will say it, and let us have a long experience." ”

Others also cheered.

Liu Kun blended in the crowd, but he became more and more surprised, his eyes fell on the scholar, and his mind was full of thoughts.

The scholar didn't shirk it, and talked eloquently-

"Among these four, the nominally largest is the 'Northern Xiongnu' in the north of the grassland, have you ever heard of it?"

"I know!" This time, it was a thin and thin little guy, wearing green clothes, who should be a servant of which family, "It is the tribe established by Liu Yao of the Huns, this person seems to be at odds with the lord of the Huns, saying that the two families are going to fight." ”

Liu Kun listened to the pantothenic acid in his heart, these two said that they were going to fight, but they beat themselves.

The scholar nodded and continued: "It was built by Liu Yao, a Hun man, who had led the army out of the north and unified one side, calling himself Shan Yu, and was called Khan by the Northern Huns, but the name 'Northern Xiongnu' was Liu Yao's name to the outside world, and in fact, the tribes on the grassland called it 'Rouran'. “

The others were finally puzzled and asked, "Why is this?" ”

"What's so difficult to understand about this," Liu Qun couldn't bear it a little and said in the crowd, "Because what Liu Yao rules is actually not the Xiongnu tribe, but a Rouran tribe in the north!" ”

When this was heard by the people, some people asked the scholar, "Is that so?" ”

The scholar glanced at Liu Qun, noticed Liu Kun beside Liu Qun, and then retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "As this gentleman said, the so-called Northern Xiongnu is part of several big surnames of Rouran, and in the case of a Xiongnu and Han Kingdom in the south, those small tribes who are unwilling to offend Liu Cong have to avoid it, so they call Liu Yao 'Rouran'." ”

Then someone asked puzzledly: "Isn't it said that this Northern Xiongnu is the largest tribe in the north, why do other small tribes dare not offend the Xiongnu, but dare to offend Rouran?" ”

"Good question!" The scholar praised that sentence, which made the man very complacent, and then listened to the scholar's explanation, "The Northern Xiongnu, or the Rouran Tribal Alliance, seems to have a large territory, but it occupies the land in the north, desolate, barren, not only desert, but also cold and abnormal in winter, it is a vast land and sparsely populated, such as the Tuoba Department, which also hunted in the north of the grassland back then, and finally couldn't bear it, so it moved south, such a land, can not support the strong army, and there is no stable land, although it is Rouran, compared to the Tuoba and Murong tribes, It's still a big deal! Not to mention the Xiongnu puppet country! ”

"I see......"

When everyone nodded, the farmer said: "You just said that there are four major forces in the northern grassland, dividing the land, since the Northern Xiongnu Rouran is one of them, but it is not as good as Tuoba and Murong, then these two should be two of the remaining three!" ”

"That's right," the scholar smiled and nodded, "That's why I said that you are half right, two of the four Xianbei departments, Tuoba and Murong, are the two of the remaining three, one is west of the grassland, guarding the pass, often disturbing the Xiongnu, and resisting Rouran in the north, and the other is east of the grassland, Changkou Pingzhou, which is a big trouble!" ”