Shi Qi had a blade of grass in his mouth and had been sitting at the water source for a long time. Naturally, it was not his turn to sit on such a trivial matter as fetching water, but he was tired of traveling, and he watched a river meander and rested.

Since Liang came back, he rarely stayed in his original fiefdom, but returned to his father's account with his eldest brother and began to learn to deal with trivial matters within the clan. It was summer, the season of abundant water and grass, and there were few conflicts between the tribes, so there were no tricky things. The difficulty lies in the fact that because of the trade between Liang and Qian, the father began to pay special attention to this young son who had been neglected all the year round, and inevitably forced him to learn more things that you come and go, saying that it is good to assist the eldest brother in the future.

I followed the back of a few old people's buttocks all day long, and I rarely had time to run as far as I did today. He actually doesn't like to participate in too many grievances and grievances between the five tribes of the Hu people, not to mention that now he has already traded with Liang. He saw that the rice and grain were flowing from Ancheng all the way to the tent of the king of the Qiang tribe, and the number of Han people walking around the grassland gradually increased.

If it goes on for a long time, the two sides will benefit each other, and the Qiang people will not have to fight.

After staying for a while, Shi Qi plucked the leaves from his mouth and weighed them with his hands, which was the kind of long-leaf grass that horses liked the most. At this time, it can grow as deep as a human leg. After a while, the wind and frost will all turn yellow. He used to know that ordinary people were going to grab and harvest them in advance for the cattle and sheep to spend the winter, but he didn't know that this thing could make all kinds of flowers on the Liang people's side. It's a pity that he bought a grasshopper at that time, and when he came back, he wanted to study how to weave it, but he couldn't knit it back when he took it apart. I want to take a break to go to Liang again, my father and eldest brother are staring at me like a thief, it is better to live alone. He let out a sigh of relief, threw the blades of grass into the water, and waited for the ripples to go up before leading the horse back to the tent.

Although the tent of the king can also move, he is always more particular than ordinary people. And there are many retinues around, and every time they are stationed, there is not much difference between the radius and the town, it is nothing more than the foot step, it is just the turf. When he reached the periphery of his residence, Shi Qi loosened the reins in his hand, threw the horse to the guards outside, and went straight to his tent in the center. When he got closer, he found that a subordinate was waiting at the door, and when he saw him, he immediately greeted him and said, "Emperor Huang is looking for you to go earlier." ”

There are all kinds of trivial things every day, and Shi Qi is impatient and helpless. He didn't enter the door, but turned and walked towards the king's tent. When he said, Emperor Qian, Shi Heng and other important people had already arrived. There are not so many rules of the Hu people, Shi Qi walked through the crowd and drank a bowl of mare's milk and stood in the corner, anyway, he couldn't say anything, just to make up the number, and listen to how the old people in the clan worked.

Everyone didn't take it seriously in their eyes, the eldest prince was born early, and the time to set up affairs was early, and when the little prince was born, it was inevitable that the emperor would be eccentric. Anyway, the big guy doesn't expect anything from him, and the waste point is the waste point. If it weren't for trade, maybe I'd still be rolling around in a grass nest with a woman in my arms.

Shi Heng walked over and pulled Shi Qi down in the middle of the crowd and said, "You started this at the beginning, and now you will listen to it for me." ”

Emperor Qian sat and didn't talk much, but the people below him were gossiping.

"What is there to say, I said earlier that the Han people are treacherous."

"If you don't sell it, you can't sell it, and you can't live without it."

"It's just that the people have lived freely for so many years, and they are standing when they die, and they have to kneel and salute people last time they went."

"If you really can't survive to fight, why should you talk to those dwarves on horseback in a low voice."

Shi Qi listened for a long time before he realized that there was a problem with trade. It can't be said that there is a problem, the two sides are still in normal exchanges, and even the ordinary people on both sides are less scrupulous. The lack of meat in farming and the lack of rice for sheep are exchanged for a happy thing.

However, Shi Heng felt that the large contacts between the two sides were gradually decreasing, although people said that there was a shortage of Liang Guo, but he sent someone to investigate, and he still found that something was wrong. Many businessmen who wanted to come to the city were detained by Liang Dynasty officials. Send more money, and gradually you will know about the market restriction. This is discussing with everyone how to deal with it.

Shi Qi was a little angry, this trade has not been a few months at all, and it was ordered at the beginning of the year, but for some reason, it took two months to officially start, and it has not been a year, and the Liang people actually made this again. But he didn't speak at this time, and only after everyone had dispersed did he say to Shi Heng: "Big brother, let's go to Liang again, ask the emperor, if he wants to get through, if he doesn't get through, he won't get through, what does it mean to do this?" ”

Shi Heng was far more mature than his younger brother, and said with a smile: "I plan to ask you to clean up, but we won't go to Daliang, go to Xianbei Wangcheng, Tuoba Milling has invited me several times." Daddy told you to come with me to see it. ”

Shi Qi went to Xianbei to do some things, and he was used to seeing Xianbei's face, and when he heard that he was going again, he was not happy to say at the moment: "Why are you going again, what do you want me to do." Isn't the top priority to solve the matter of the Liang people? ”

Emperor Huang sat on the top and watched the two sons noisy, and it was inevitable that he sighed a little, the old man, he was in a lot of pain, and he thought that the eldest son was supporting himself, it was too indulgent for the younger son, and he said: "Don't say more, follow your eldest brother honestly, don't worry about the affairs of the Liang people." ”

"Dad", Shi Qi is still not convinced. Huang Huang was impatient, waved his hand and asked the two of them to leave quickly, he wanted to be clean and clean alone.

There is always a time when you are old. In the eyes of the Han people, forty-five years old may still be in the prime of life. But in this grassland, you have to rely on your fists to speak. His fists are not so hard anymore. Although he is not confined to who will lead the clan, he always wants to leave something more for his son. Otherwise, how can you go against Xianbei and go to Liang to make peace alone. It went surprisingly well, and he thought it was a good start, but it had only been a long time.

Shi Heng pulled Shi Qi, regardless of whether he wanted it or not, he directly dragged out of the tent and said, "Grow your head." ”

Shi Qi couldn't break free, kicked twice and said: "I don't inherit the throne, what's the use of having a long head, if you want to go to Xianbei, you can go, I won't go." ”

Shi Heng let go of his hand, walked in front and said, "Come back to my own account with me to talk, I can't help you, Ming'er is about to get up." ”

Shi Qi didn't move, lowered his head and said, "Big brother! I don't even want to go back to my father, it's better to live happily." He was angry in his heart, and his tone was anxious.

Shi Heng turned around and pushed him again and said, "Can't you see it, Emperor Liangren just wants to hang the appetite of the Liang people." But something is better than nothing. Dad told us to come over to see what Tuoba wanted to do. If you can not conflict with Xianbei, try to maintain it first. You can't fight again. ”

"Then I didn't help in the past, let's eat our own food, no one will be offended, how can there be a fight. He can't be so unreasonable. ”

Shi Heng had already walked a few steps away and said, "Hurry up and follow me, when has this place been reasonable?" ”

He entered the tent, and saw that Shi Qi hadn't caught up yet, and he didn't go out to urge again. Shi Heng is much older than Shi Qi, and it is easier to figure out the reason. The Liang people only recently issued a market restriction order, and it is said that it was formulated because the prime minister of the current dynasty proposed that peace with Xianbei should also be discussed. Behind this incident, Xianbei may be making trouble.

For hundreds of years, there has been a constant struggle between the five departments, and no one is subordinate to the other. However, after Tuoba Mill's father took the throne, he lobbied the five departments to jointly attack the beam, saying that he wanted to share the Central Plains. Shi Heng was too young to participate at that time. I don't know if Tuoba Mill's father is really capable, or in the face of huge interests, everyone is moved. Anyway, the last five divisions were unprecedentedly united, gathering hundreds of thousands of troops to plan south.

And Liang Guo was Xue Yihan as a general at that time, and personally guarded Pingcheng. In the end, the flames of war did not reach the territory of Liang. For Hu, it was undoubtedly a fiasco. The various ministries dispersed one after another, and returned to their own land to recuperate.

In retrospect, this battle was clearly deliberately designed by Xianbei. The other four men and horses were in front, almost half of them were killed and wounded, while the Xianbei army was at the end, and almost did not damage a single soldier. In such a situation, Xianbei suddenly attacked, and the other four naturally had no power to fight back, and surrendered to the ministers, and as soon as it continued, it would be almost ten years. There are also a few in the middle who would rather die than accept it, that is, they were suppressed by the Tuoba clan's bloody wrist.

Therefore, Liang Hu has not fought for more than ten years, although there is a reason for Xue Yihan, it is more that the Tuoba clan wants to completely unify the grassland first, and then go south.

The first to understand may be the Emperor. The Qianren are similar to Xianbei, both have the advantage of bordering the Han people, and are deeply invaded by the Central Plains culture. When several other departments were still lamenting that Liang Xue Yihan was too heroic, the Qiang tribe realized that the situation was wrong, and they had been cautious for so many years, and they didn't dare to be disobedient, and they wanted to wait for the Qiang tribe to recover their vitality. As a result, it was found that Xianbei had no intention of letting other tribes survive at all, but was restricting everywhere, encroaching on whale swallows step by step, and wanted to monopolize the entire grassland. Emperor Qian was worried every day but helpless, until his youngest son proposed to go to Liang to seek business, so he made a desperate bet.

So when there was a problem with Liang Guo, what he and Shi Heng were worried about was not trade, but whether Xianbei already knew that the Qian people had a rebellion. If there is a fight at this time, the Xianbei people basically have no chance of winning.

But where did Shi Qi know about these pasts, he was bent on thinking that Liang Ren would rebel, just like ..... is not like, it is clearly that bastard. After struggling into the tent, he was still struggling for the last time and said, "Big brother, I really don't want to go." Isn't it just commerce, why don't you go to Liang, but go to Xianbei? ”

Shi Heng sighed, patted the mattress next to him and said, "Sit." ”

Shi Qi walked over and sat down according to his words, the eldest brother spoiled himself the most, maybe he didn't have to go after a few more sentences, if he wanted to say who he didn't like the most, except for that mongrel, the first one was Tuoba Milling.

Shi Heng said: "Why can't you take care of things, Liang Tong is not in business, isn't Xianbei watching, if we don't go on a trip, can we still force him on the head of Emperor Liangren." ”

Shi Qi touched his ass again and jumped up and said: "I don't believe that Xianbei still went to the Liang people, and I don't know that they completely fell out after the war three years ago." ”

"What are you jumping up and down?" Shi Heng looked at Shi Qi and said angrily: "Anyway, this matter has nothing to do with Xianbei, our people have already inquired, it is better to ask Tuoba Mill in person, what he wants, and he has a bottom in his heart." ”

"I'm not going."

"I can't help you, if you don't go by yourself, someone will naturally hold you." Shi Heng didn't bother to look at Shi Qi anymore, and turned around to clean up his things. He had already told his father that he would leave tomorrow. It is still almost two days away from the royal capital of Tuoba Milling. People always have to grow up, and when their father is old, they will be Shi Qi to help them do things in the future, so frizzy is really difficult to take on a big responsibility, and it is in the stormy autumn of the Qiang tribe.

Sometimes, he discussed with his father that the people of the Central Plains can be unified by one country, and the five departments may really be able to be combined, but the Emperor Huang asked rhetorically: "The Central Plains are all Han people, but you go out to take a look, Xianbei and the Qiang clan, is there really no difference at all." Without waiting for him to answer, the Emperor continued: "You can see, where can the horses of our Qiang tribe go? Now, where can I only run? ”

Yes, when he was a child, the horse could run for two or three days, but now, if he didn't pay attention to it, he ran to the Xianbei land.