Chapter 18: The Donghu Empire
The northern Hu people take the wolf as their totem, so they are also called the wolf tribe. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 There are three branches of the wolf clan, Baishan Donghu, Beihai Linhu, and Northwest Heihu, which are called Xiongnu by the neighboring Qin people.
The Hu people are entrenched in the grassland, nomadic for thousands of years, although there is a feat of breaking through the ancient capital of the Zhou Dynasty, Haojing, but still not able to compete with the Central Plains Zhuxia.
A hundred years ago, the god of luck finally favored the Hu clan, and a ghost wolf from a ghost family in Donghu produced a proud son of the sky. I don't know that when he went south to fight in the grass valley, the father of the ghost wood wolf plundered a Xia woman, and later gave birth to the ghost wood wolf. It is said that the ghost wood wolf who is not a purebred Hu will not get the position of the son, and fortunately his father has no children since then.
It seems to be the number of days, and the ghost wood wolf successfully succeeded to the throne and was called the patriarch of the ghost family, because his mother was a Xia person, so he liked the etiquette culture of the Xia people since he was a child, as well as those that seem to be the wisdom of the gods of governing the country and the art of war.
The ghost wood wolf greedily absorbed these strategies for governing the country and training soldiers, but unfortunately people eventually died, and his mother, the teacher who taught him the knowledge of Zhuxia, died. The wolf culture is great for those who are born, the souls of those who die are still great, and the corpses are returned to the immortal heaven.
But the ghost wood wolf violated the ancestral system and built a luxurious mausoleum for his mother, and the specifications were modeled after the Son of Heaven in Zhuxia.
After dealing with his mother's funeral, the ghost timber wolf didn't have time to be sad, and he went to the Central Plains to travel to Zhuxia for the dream that had just been formed in his heart.
Half of the Xia blood, he was quickly accepted by the Zhuxia, and relying on the knowledge taught to him by his mother, he was given a study tour order by the most orthodox Zhou family.
Relying on a study tour allowed him to enter a holy place of thought, the Haozang Palace in Luoyi, a treasure land with tens of thousands of books.
For three years, he did not take a step out of the Haozang Palace, and he was greedy for reading every day, astronomy and geography, Confucianism, Taoism, and law, and he did not refuse to come.
Finally, one day a man from the family came and told him that the position of the chief of the ghost clan had been occupied by his uncle, and that the throne was not allowed to be vacant among the wolf clan.
There is no doubt that the ghost timber wolf is very unpopular, since he was a child, he lives according to the etiquette of the Xia people, he is more like a Xia person, the sons of the grassland do not read poetry and books, only to see who eats meat and drinks wine and sleeps with them.
The person who came was once his mother's slave told him the news, not to let him go back to fight for the throne, but to prevent him from going back suddenly, how could the new wolf king tolerate the old wolf king living in the world, even if that person was his own nephew.
The ghost wood wolf comforted his loyal servant, pointed to his head and said, "There are a million male divisions here, and the entire wolf clan can't defeat you."
Then, under the opposition of loyal servants, he rode back to his hometown, and the ghost wood wolf naturally did not conceit enough to fight for the throne of the Hui clan alone, but fled to his father's former Atarashina family.
The culture of advocating force makes the ghost wood wolf not get much help, and the only fortunate thing is that Ashina has given him a safe territory, so that he has a foundation for rising.
The strategy of seeking the country learned since childhood, coupled with three years of hard study in the Haozang Palace in Luoyi, has made the ghost wood wolf have the thinking of being easy for grassland people, and knows how to bow his head, be patient, and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.
When he traveled to Zhuxia, he saw the Central Plains' desire for BMWs, so he transported a large number of tall and mighty horses that could not bear to ride to sell to the nobles of Zhuxia, in exchange for a large amount of salt and iron cloth, and finally gave most of them to Ashina.
The servant was puzzled, why did he give away the salt and iron cloth that he had worked so hard to get for nothing, but the ghost wood wolf smiled and asked him to prepare more salt and iron cloth. Because he saw greed in the eyes of Ashina's subordinates, which was the most primitive desire in people's hearts.
Sure enough, two days later, the treasure house recorded by Ashina was stolen, and one of his subordinates couldn't help but tempt the security guard to take a piece of cloth.
If the ghost wood wolf did this for his own subordinates, he would only give his subordinates more cloth, but unfortunately, the greedy Ashina Ji was furious and slapped that subordinate with fifty lashes.
Ashina's other generals watched their comrades be punished for a piece of cloth, and the greed in their eyes turned into fear, but there was also a hint of dissatisfaction, although they all lowered their heads, they were still looked at by the ghost wood wolf.
So a few days later, there were ten more exquisite silk cloths in each general's tent for no reason, which was better than what Ashina had compiled. However, Ashina Ji made a royal dress of Zhuxia out of cloth, because his newly acquired beauty felt that this would show his majesty better.
The royal costume is added, the crown and the honorific title are indispensable, and Ashina arrogantly gave himself the honorific title of "Heavenly Khan", which means "the king of the Quartet".
The ghost timber wolf presided over Ashina's coronation ceremony, and watched the generals in the audience who bowed down their ears to Ashina who was smiling on the stage with a fierce light.
The royal clothes are still Sambu, so those silk cloths must not have been given by Ashina, and Ashina knows that the gorgeous clothes in his hands will only be ruthlessly plundered.
"High Priest, did you give you the silk cloth in Tielenu's tent?" Tielenu, the general who had been whipped last time, asked in a whisper, inadvertently revealing his silk shoes as the Oni Timber Wolf officiated at the ceremony.
The ghost wood wolf smiled without talking, patted Tielenu on the shoulder and said, "As a warrior, you should have the most beautiful silk cloth to decorate your strong chest, all this should mean immortality." ”
Tie Lienu's heart was hot for a moment, and he looked at Ashina in the distance in a royal robe, and his heart was full of murderous intent, I don't know how much blood and sweat there is in everything in the Ashina family today, but I can't get the reward of a mere Sambu. On the contrary, it is the ghost wood wolf who has no friendship with him to share his wealth righteously.
He vaguely felt in his heart that a hero like the ghost wood wolf should be his own khan and enjoy the blessing of the Immortal Heaven, and Ashina had been abandoned by the Immortal Heaven from the moment he monopolized the wealth.
The idea lingered as soon as it was born, and at the next Akinaba, Tereno sacrificed his prey to the oni timberwolf. This is a signal that the most ferocious wolf of the Ashina family has begun to take refuge in another master.
The ghost wood wolf smiled and accepted Tielenu's loyalty, but told him that he had to be patient, and that now was not the time to turn his face with Ashina. Tielenu seemed to understand whether he understood it or not, but knowing that lone wolves were not a pack, he co-opted another heroic general.
In less than a year's work, Ashina, the eagle who dominated the North Court, collected twelve generals under him, and ten of them were secretly loyal to the ghost wood wolf.
Another time the Akina bowl came, and this time the ten generals generously offered their prey to the ghost wood wolf, and Ashina received defeat and death.
The ghost wood wolf, who stepped on the blood of Ashina and ascended the throne as Khan, did not kill the Ashina family, but divided a large fief in the north court and gave it to them, and killed the wolf and swore that the ghost family would exist for one day, and the Ashina family would exist for one day.
The new wolf king ascended the throne and treated the orphans of the old wolf king well, so that the simple children on the grassland felt different and warm, they compared the ghost wood wolf to the sun, and they were the messengers sent by the immortal heaven, leading the grassland children to move towards a life of food and clothing.
The ghost wood wolf, who has become the eagle of the North Garden, has not stopped his steps, and Zhuxia has conquered one hundred and ten small countries in the past thousand years, and has become one of the seven powerful countries, and can dominate the world. The territory is not small than Zhuxia, and the wolf clan is more ferocious, why can't the wolf clan dominate the world and conquer the countries of Zhuxia.
After three years of training, the ghost wood wolf marched eastward, first defeated his uncle and regained the position of the wolf king of the White Mountain. This time, without mercy, he brutally killed his loyal uncle or betrayed his own people, dyeing the white mountain into a red mountain and the black water into blood.
After many years of silence, the ghost wood wolf finally showed its fangs, and swept away one tribe after another with the wolf soldiers who had been integrated by the Zhuxia art of war, and established a city there to establish an official position.
But change can't be achieved overnight, a hundred years of nomadism can't train officials on the herding side, the ghost wolf is not in a hurry, but his body makes him can't wait, after the unification of the wolf clan, he has changed from a vigorous young man to a dull old man, even so he is still the heavenly khan of the mighty grassland.
In order not to let his hard work go to waste, the ghost wood wolf ventured to worship Zhou Tianzi, thanked him for his kindness in the past, and offered three sacrifices to Ji Zhou, the leader of the Xia clan, on behalf of his mother.
Zhou Tianzi was overjoyed and asked the ghost wood wolf what he needed to do, so a hundred young wolf boys stayed in Luoyi Huahuyi. Although the ghost timber wolf didn't like the name "Huahu", he smiled and put it behind him when he thought that his dream was about to come true.
That Son of Heaven was nicknamed "King Wei of Zhou", which means that the four Yi people from afar also came to worship, but in the era of King Wei, the Qi State was called the king, the Qin State was called the king, and the Chu State in the south was even called the "Southern Emperor", which was finally canceled because of the persuasion of the hermit Yongjin.
It was a joke to subdue Siyi, but it was true that the ghost wood wolf later used a hundred young men to deter Zhuxia.
Liaodong County, Dai County, and Yunzhong County were occupied by the wolf clan or the whole territory or most of it, and the Dongping Kingdom established by the remnants of the Shang Dynasty in the previous generation was also destroyed by Donghu.
At the same time, the conquests in the summer became more intense, and the princes forgot about the wolf fangs outside, and only cared about the wealth in the hands of their kindred.
At this time, a scholar fled to Donghu to avoid the war, and later became a county guard. Seeing this, other scholars followed suit, and at a time when the Confucian concept of "self-cultivation and governing the country and leveling the world" was popular, many scholars who were not allowed to display their talents in Zhuxia went north to be called Donghu officials, and they gave full play to their own ideas of governing the country, even if they were somewhat misguided, the heavenly khan ghost and wood wolf did not reprimand.
Manpower will eventually come to an end, and the ghost wood wolf finally returned to his mother's arms and died with the dream of the Hu clan dominating the world.
But the Donghu Empire he established did not die, and his crown prince died early after 50 years of reign, but his grandson, who had been trained by him since childhood, succeeded to the throne and continued his unfinished dream.