"Not bad! Someone came into your camp during the night, broke the necks of the two emissaries of Kuss and Duller, and doused them with oil, then poured a large amount of oil on the camp, set it on fire, and fled. This is not something that can be done by one person, at least ten or more people, three or four barrels of fire oil are used, and you don't hear any movement? ”

"Two of the guards who were on night duty outside the camp were knocked unconscious, but they really didn't hear anything......" Dierido was an honest man, and replied truthfully, but he was not stupid, and he guessed something. But no matter who did it, the murderer is someone related to Xi Ren.

"That's good...... Let's guess which side did it. I first defended myself, because there was not even a drop of oil in my camp, and even the lamps were candles, and I excluded myself. Then there is the envoy of the Bohai Sea, I heard that you are carrying a large amount of fire oil, but is this the case? ”

"This ...... We did bring some, but they were delivered to King Xi and not stored in the camp. Wu Liguo was asleep, and was taken aback when he heard this, and immediately replied.

"Very good...... The whereabouts of the oil have been found! Ask the king to send someone to check who has recently taken more than three barrels of fire oil. ”

Turus smiled and nodded, and waved the guard away. After a while, the guard reported that two men had recently taken away a large amount of oil from them. One is the prince of Shuli, and the other is Elder Yuda.

Elder Yuda immediately smiled and said that his fire oil had not yet been used, and it was still there. In the operation, it is squeaky and squeaky, and there is no way to explain it.

Turus understood something, and immediately waved everyone away, and sent someone to check on it, and there was no more fire oil left in the operation. Turus was furious, leaving only Zhuang Yi, Xie Ra and others, and under some severe questioning, he had to confess, saying that he had borrowed it from the patriarch of the black car room Wei.

At this point, the situation has become clear. Tules raised his head and stroked his forehead, he was also dumb and ate yellow lotus, and he couldn't tell if he was bitter. Can this still hand over Pala and Bao En to the Khitan envoys? This will not help, there will only be a weak arm missing, and the war will still come, and the time may even be brought forward.

"You rebel ......" Turus roared like thunder, slapping Shuri to a stumbling stumbling block, completely transferring his resentment towards Pyra to Shuli. But he didn't say a word, silently knelt on the ground, and pressed his face against the felt on the floor.

"Tell me, why do you do that?"

"I'm twenty-four years old this year, why didn't my father let me lead the troops into battle? I am the son of the world, but I can't do anything......" Shuli bowed to the ground, holding his head in his hands, and cried out loud with remorse and resentment.

Zhuang Yi and Zhang Yitai glanced at each other and said goodbye silently, this is a matter of privacy related to the father and son, and it is not easy for them to listen.

Early the next morning, after the patriarch of Murwei had secretly reached an alliance with Turda, he had a hand in the night of Turus, and he was full of ambition, and he quietly said goodbye to Turus and returned at dawn, and the Khitan envoy and the Bohai envoy also left one after another. Turus didn't hold back, but he had a worried look on his face that anyone could see.

immediately convened a group of tribal leaders to discuss the matter, and sent people to invite Zhuang Yi and Zhang Yitai to observe. Turus first listened to the situation of the various ministries on the reserve of materials for war preparation and the quality of the soldiers, and then discussed the issue of each ministry selecting brave and young men to the tooth tent and Zhuang Yi to train them in a unified manner.

After all, the five tribes of the Xi people are in the nature of a tribal alliance, and Turus does not have absolute power. The overall strength of his Ahui Department is not the strongest among the five departments, so in many aspects such as war preparation materials, Turus also has to make compromises.

The political structure of this social form of semi-tribal alliance and semi-feudal pattern is too loose, and it is difficult for military and political orders to be smoothly issued to various ministries and implemented. Turus didn't have much to do about it, although in the name of a "king", it involved the issue of wealth, and the tribal chiefs dared not to do anything to him. What is good for the king's power is not necessarily good for the tribes, wealth and manpower, if you take a little more, I will lose a point, no one is a fool, how can I suffer in vain.

And the salivation and majesty of power are nothing more than two words, wealth and soldiers. No one will bird you if you don't have the financial resources; No one is afraid of you.

In this way, it is difficult to integrate and concentrate the use of economic wealth, human resources, and human resources, and the salivation and development of civilization are also extremely slow; once a war occurs, its mobilization ability is too low, and the overall quality level of the army's soldiers is too poor.

Zhuang Yi shook his head at this, and secretly sympathized with Turus, it was too tiring to rule such a tribe. For example, the later Abaoji, under Han Yanwei's advice, finally saw through all this, imitated the Central Plains civilization, abolished the old system of royal power elected and rotated by the chiefs of various tribes, unified and integrated all the tribes, and the strength was instantly improved, and later even founded the country and became the emperor.

Of course, Turus may not understand this, but when others are middle-aged, they don't have the courage to do such a big thing as a quick knife to cut through the mess. Zhuang Yi didn't want to say anything, it didn't do him any good.

And what is not beneficial, Zhuang Yi has always refused. There is a good saying: If people do not do it for themselves, the heavens and the earth will perish. In some respects, this statement is undoubtedly very reasonable.

How many Ding Zhuang and how many cattle and sheep are produced by various tribes, these things finally quarreled and came to a general result. In Zhuang Yi's opinion, this is just some bad things, Ding Zhuang is the troops they sent, and the cattle and sheep are the grain and grass collected, this kind of thing actually needs to quarrel for an hour before it can be largely decided, it is in general, not the final decision, and it can be regarded as wonderful.

However, this is also the helplessness of the steppe nomads, young and strong is the foundation of the tribe's survival, cattle and sheep are their lifeblood, and what else can they have. The war of the steppe people is very simple, and it is nothing more than for these two items. Cattle and sheep! As long as it is human, it can be slaughtered and eaten; Prairie people! Whoever is captured can be used as a slave.

This is such a simple world, therefore, natural selection, the strong can survive. In the final analysis, force is the foundation on which the grassland people really rely for survival, and force has always been advocated by the grassland people.

Just right! Zhuang Yi has no shortage of force, whether it is individual force or collective force. Collective force is also the army, and the army is by no means a simple matter, there are things that you can see and touch, but more things that you can't see and touch.