The wind howled over the land, the sheepskin tents were wide open, unkempt snowflakes fell from the curtains and overhead, and the flames in the firepit were dying. Ke Lun, the patriarch of the Siwandan tribe, one of the eight major tribes of Khitan, grabbed a few pieces of dry cow and sheep dung and threw them into the fire, watching the flames devour them, his expression was in a trance, motionless, and the snowflakes fell all over his body.

"Patriarch, the chiefs of the other seven tribes are here......" Curran's servant stood respectfully outside the tent.

"Oh......" Curran didn't even want to lift his eyelids, and whispered, "Please let them in." ”

Then there was a sound of footsteps stepping on ice and snow, and then several figures of different heights appeared outside the tent, "Curran, you brought us here before dawn, what is the matter?" "It was a tall and thin Khitan, dressed in blue-gray fur, with a narrow face like a knife, a hooked nose, and a brownish complexion, even in the face of the highest ranking chief of the eight tribes, Curren, he still looked very impatient, and his tone was not kind.

This is Tormu, the leader of the Yuling Tribe.

The crowd was silent.

Curran looked at everyone with a smile, as if he hadn't heard the disrespect in the man's tone, and beckoned everyone in:

"Come on, it's cold outside the tent, drink a glass of hot milk wine to warm up......"

The tribal chieftains of the eight tribes of Khitan sat together, the slaves hurriedly brought hot milk wine and cheese, and Curran greeted the guests with enthusiasm to eat and drink, but there was a faint gloomy color between his eyebrows. Everyone was secretly speculating in their hearts, and after only taking a rough sip of wine, the chief of the Nichiren tribe asked, "Brother Curran, what are you going to discuss with us when you summoned us early in the morning?" ”

When Curran heard this, it was not good to hide it anymore, put down the wine glass in his hand, and sighed deeply: "Don't hide it from everyone, I haven't closed my eyes for a whole night, and today's matter is ......, and the stakes are very important, and I don't dare to be arbitrary, so I called everyone to discuss it together." ”

"Yesterday night, there was an envoy from the Qi State to hold our ministry accountable."

Everyone was in an uproar instantly, and a chief asked urgently, "Qi people came to hold them accountable late at night?" What is it? ”

"Three days ago, more than 20,000 Tatars passed through our territory and attacked Yingzhou, Gao Baoning sent people to ask us, why didn't we inform them, why did the Tatars pass over from our territory......" Curran lowered his eyes, "And, let us send troops to cooperate with them to counterattack the Tatars." ”

I struck a thousand waves, and everyone opened their mouths wide, not knowing what to say, and the chief of the Yuling Tribe, Tormu, snorted coldly:

"The Qi people are so unreasonable, it was the Yan people who attacked Yingzhou, not our Khitans! Why do you want to put the blame on us Khitans? Let's send troops to coordinate ......, hum, Curran, you can tell them, this is their Gao Qi and the Yan people themselves, don't involve the responsibility on our Khitan! ”

The Khitan Eight Ministries elected the supreme leader once every three years, and this year Tolmu should have been allowed to take over, but Ke Lun finalized the matter of exchanging markets with the Northern Qi Dynasty, and was deeply loved by the herdsmen of the Eight Ministries, so he had to be re-elected, which made the Tolmu boss dissatisfied, and he had to use Ke Ren as a raft in and out of his words.

After hearing this, Curran's face was really not good-looking, and he glanced at Tormu with deep meaning, and said: "Yes...... I'm also very strange, this Jin Ya people have nothing to do with my Khitan, why did the Qi people find us here...... I wanted to defend with them, but later I had to agree to them, do you know why?" ”

He said: "The people of the Tatars have passed over from our territory, and that is enough. ”

"If we breach the contract, we will be jointly and severally liable."

As soon as Tolmu wanted to speak, Curran said, "I'm still very curious, why did the Tatars pass over our territory, but I don't know, do you brothers know?" He looked around at everyone, everyone's faces were very confused, 20,000 people from the Spirit, the movement will definitely not be small, once the news is obtained, the Khitan up and down will immediately start a war with the Spirit, where will the Audience people run to Yingzhou? Could it be that these people flew with wings?

Most of the habitat of the people coincides with the territory of the Khitan, the Khitan is a nomadic people, and the residence of the Khitan people in the Babu period is from Chaoyang in the south, to the West Lamulun River in the north, to Chifeng in the west, and to the Liao River in the east. Relying on the water of Chenshui, it is distributed in the west from the Laoha River basin to the Nuruer Hushan area in the east. Northern Yan, Northern Wei, Northern Qi have successively used force against the Khitan, forcibly interrupted the rhythm of Khitan unification, and now some Khitan tribes live in Yingzhou and Pingzhou, while the Yan Ya is mainly fishing and hunting, and some live by grazing, and the division of territory is intricate, not a moment and a half can be explained. But north of Yingzhou, it is certain that there are no large Ya tribes, most of them are Khitan and Xi people, so it is difficult to say clearly the more than 20,000 Ya people!

Everyone was full of surprise on their faces, and Toll Mu was also puzzled on his face, but his eyes were scattered and slightly panicked, and he pretended to be at first glance. Curran knew it in his heart, and said thoughtfully: "That is, there are internal ghosts among us, and we will let those people go." ”

He gave his reasons: "First, those people are not one hundred or two hundred, but one or two thousand, and it is impossible for us not to know if they swagger past our territory. Second, those Tatar people did not attack our tribe, as soon as they came up, they went straight to Yingzhou to ......, it can be seen that it was premeditated, between the Tatar people and Yingzhou is our Khitan in the way, although there will also be Koubian Yingzhou in the past, but it is only one or two hundred, it is more than one or two hundred, and it is more than a thousand, and they are not familiar with the route, but this time they are familiar with the road, and what is it if there is not an inner ghost to guide the way? ”

"Curran! What do you mean? You mean I'm the one who let the people come in? ”

Tormu couldn't sit still at first, and stood up with his bowl dropped, as if furious.

"Yes." Curran didn't even bother to pave the way, "Your territory is narrow and long, running from north to south, only you are the most likely to let the people in without being discovered by others!" ”

He sneered, "Besides, you are the most hostile to the Qi State, since my Khitan and the Qi State made an alliance to carry out border trade, you have been complaining, it's not you, is it my Curan who did it?" ”

Now that he had pierced this layer of window paper, Tormu didn't bother to hide it anymore, he stood up angrily, and then sneered: "What if I did it?" I, the Khitan and the Qi country, have an enmity against each other! In the past, the Qi lord Gaoyang Northern Expedition, hundreds of thousands of people were captured as slaves, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep were robbed! Have you all forgotten?! Now you tell me that you don't want to take revenge, and you will be bought with a little goods and money, and you will obediently be a dog lying at the feet of the emperor of Qi! His eyes were red, and he shouted angrily: "You are not worthy to be the descendants of the Khitans!" ”

“…… We Khitans also have a lot of times when they are on the side! Curran hammered the ground with his fist and said: "In the past, the Khitans had no choice, there was nothing on the grassland, so they could only go to the place of the Qi people to rob it!" Now we can trade goods for goods in a dignified manner, and we can get more! There is no need to fight with the Qi people anymore, there is no need to shed blood, there will not be so many warriors dying in vain, what's so bad about that? ”

"The Turks have been expanding to the east, and the Tatar people have also gone south to compete with us for pasture, Goguryeo is not a good bird...... and the wild wolves that have not yet grown up can only pick up meat and bones to eat after following the tigers!" Curran's majestic anger erupted in an instant shocked the leaders at once, and the increasingly old Curran is now like a crazy wolf, forcing Tormu to keep retreating, his eyes are staring at Tormu, word by word, "Khitan...... Don't live the kind of life that regards a broken iron pot as a family heirloom, we have to be like Qi people, with dry food to eat and a house to live in! ”

"And you...... But if I want to turn the wonderful prospects of the Khitan into nothing, I will never allow it! ”

He gritted his teeth and puffed out his cheeks, "For the sake of the eight ......, please die!" ”

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The wind was howling in the ears, the blood condensed into ice, and the elite of the border army guarding Sanzhou entered the vast grassland in the north, and after chasing for two days, the people who fled north were intercepted, followed by a bloody massacre, and the Qi people chased after them, pulling out dozens of the tribes, when Curran arrived with the tribesmen, he saw that it was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and he was all over the wilderness, and he was along the traces of flesh and blood along the way.

Under the banner of the red chapter on a black background, there was an array of cavalry, iron armor and blades flashing in the snow with a dazzling cold light, a blue-robed and black-armored general slowly came out of the array, pressed his whip against the chin of a chieftain of the elbow, and asked, "Why did you invade my frontier?" ”

He didn't shout, but the breath of death in his tone weighed heavily on everyone's heart.

Most of the face of the leader of the Devil was covered with blood, and he lamented:

"The snow is too big to survive......"

"So you entered my borders and acted recklessly?"

"Immortality is unfair, you were born in a warm house, and we ......" he laughed miserably, "we ...... I can only curl up in tents and caves when winter comes, and if I can't survive, I will freeze to death...... You have good iron tools, and we can't beat you, but ...... We are not convinced ......"

"How can there be so much fairness in this world? If it is not a Qi person, there is no fairness at all. ”

Gao Baoning's eyebrows were raised, and he left the leader of the Immortal Sect who only had one breath left, and ordered:

"Then chase and kill to the north, and the army will not seal the sword for ten days!"

Curran held Tormu's head and bowed his head to Gao Baoning humbly, Gao Baoning glanced at them and said, "As long as you are safe and secure, the disaster of the sword will not befall you......"

The good news soon spread to Jinyang, Gao Wei was silent for a long time, and he enshrined the Khitan eight chieftains as officials, each of them was a five-rank general, and demarcated their respective territories, on the surface this is grace, but in fact it is differentiated, and the hundred officials are very puzzled, Zheng Yu came to ask about the holy will, and the emperor only replied with one sentence: "I want a few hunting dogs, not a wolf." ”

The divided Khitan was far more favorable to his rule than the unified Khitan.

Nomads and the Central Plains have been fighting for thousands of years, and the rise of each Central Plains dynasty will make the grassland a river of blood, and the reason why they can survive is because they can endure, in the final analysis, these people are the real descendants of Goujian, because they only believe in strength.

Obey you today, and you may turn against you tomorrow.

But it doesn't matter, there's nothing that time can't solve......

Cushman & Wakefield stamped the edict with a large seal.