"Is this going to be tortured to extract confessions?"

Fu Zhibai immediately reacted, this army that had captured the party item naturally needed a secluded trial, but he turned his eyes to look at the expressions of these party members behind Lin Yi, but he was full of suspicion.

These party members seem to be quite happy, and they don't look like they are going to face torture to extract confessions.

However, since it must be Lin Yi, he didn't ask any more, but said respectfully: "Please General Lin come with me." ”

In the Red Salt Cave, the most high-grade thing is indeed the stilted buildings.

From a distance, the doors and windows of these stilted capitals seemed to be covered by black cloth, but when I got closer, I found that only the second floor was covered by a few bedrooms, and the third floor was ventilated on all sides, and there were a lot of hay and millet and other grains piled up on the edges.

"It's not an inn, it's just that we are all familiar with the owner, they are all old salt households, after we came, these buildings have been covered by me, general, although you are here to discuss matters, no one will come to disturb. ”

Fu Zhibai led Lin Yi to the third floor of one of the stilted buildings, and on the third floor of this stilted building, there was a table made of dead wood roots, and on the table were some black-looking dried fruits, which looked like wild fruits were sun-dried, and Lin Yi had never seen them.

The party members really didn't see each other at this time, and they didn't need Lin Yi's orders, but only the two of them followed up to the third floor, but Lin Yi didn't follow except for the two mother wax warriors, and the rest of Fei Xuan and the others all went upstairs to listen according to Lin Yi's intentions.

Fei Xu, Zhu Yu, and Yan Jinghai all understood in their hearts that Lin Yi was not suspicious of employing people, and he was not suspicious of people, the more this was the case, the more Lin Yi's actions would make them admire in their hearts.

The three of them naturally didn't know that Lin Yi's becoming the master of the Sword Pavilion was actually mostly due to accident, or it was actually due to Shen Yue's deliberate arrangement, because if it wasn't for Shen Yue's arrangement, He Xiu would not have been able to teach Lin Yi the secret of the golden body, and Lin Yi would not have become his last closed disciple.

They naturally thought in their hearts that people like He Xiu would definitely choose thousands of disciples when they chose disciples, and from this point of view, they followed Lin Yi, but it was not a humiliation for themselves.

"You said earlier that your party situation is not as simple as I thought?"

Lin Yi didn't talk nonsense, and after beckoning everyone to sit down, he looked at the two party royals and said, "Please talk about it in detail." ”

"I don't know how much you know about my party, general, but I just don't know anything about it as a general, and I will talk about it in detail later, and if you have any offense, I hope the general will forgive me. He looked at Lin Yi and nodded, and then stopped talking nonsense, and said: "In the early years, our party was sparsely populated, and like the Mobei of the Northern Wei Dynasty, each tribe managed itself, and even often fought against each other. The eight tribes of the Tuoba clan took the lead, and most of the tribes in the party were kneaded together at that time, and we established a city-state, and all ethnic groups traded, and it really became strong. Later, we annexed some small hostile countries around us, and it became today's party, and the eight tribes of that year all became royal families, and the emperors of all dynasties were elected from among the eight royal families. A major event, it is not the emperor alone who has the final say, but the Eight Kings Palace, our party has also learned the rewards of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Dynasty in the past few decades, and decides whether to enter the Eight Kings Hall according to merit, so the seats for each tribe to enter the Eight Kings Hall are different, we have seven seats in the Xifeng Clan, and the rest of the clans are also between five seats and ten seats, but the Tuoba Clan is the strongest, and there are seventeen seats in the Eight Kings Palace. ”

"Oh?"

Lin Yi suddenly became curious, he had never seen this party's policy of governing the country in the history books before, it was a special case, so he couldn't help but ask, "Then how is your emperor promoted?"

"If the old emperor is no longer physically fit to undertake state affairs, or is considered by the Eight Kings Palace to have made a major mistake and is no longer worthy of serving as the emperor, the Eight Kings Palace will re-elect, and when the election is made, each royal family selects a suitable candidate within its own clan, and then promises the interests of the rest of the clans. Whoever gets the more seats will be elected. Feng Yingshan said.

Lin Yi said: "Isn't that equivalent to each family bribing others, to see which one can successfully buy the rest in the end?"

Xi Feng Yingshan nodded, "That's pretty much what it means, it's just that whichever family has more seats, it will take advantage of it after all, and there will naturally be fewer people to buy and win over." ”

Lin Yi glanced at him, signaled that he understood, and did not speak, and asked him to continue.

"Now our Emperor Xiang is a member of the Mi Bao clan, although he is only fifty-three years old, but in recent years, the Tuoba clan has been planning to prepare for him to come down, so that the people of the Tuoba clan can be the emperor. ”

Xifeng Yingshan smiled bitterly and said, "Originally, among the eight royal clans, the Tuoba clan's superior strength would be a bit chaotic, but now there is another Xiaba clan. ”

"What is this Xiaba Clan?" Luo Jilian couldn't help but interject, even she had never heard the name of this clan.

"Of course, the Shaba clan is not our party's royal family, they were originally just a group of natives and small clans on Sherpa Mountain, but they suddenly appeared in the past ten years. Their strength is firearms. ”

When Xi Feng Yingshan talked about Xia Ba, he naturally frowned, looking like he had a headache, " It can be said that most of the powerful firearms in our party are now from the hands of the Xia Ba clan, and some of the best purple nitrate mines in our party are in their Sherpa Mountain, in addition, they are also good at making some special glass beads, some beads mixed with gem powder or coral powder made of jewelry, more beautiful than natural gemstones, these beads are not only very popular in our party, the most important thing is that Rouran and Tuyuhun are particularly fond, and even caravans are exported to the Western Regions outside Tuyuhun, and some beads have even become the common currency of those places。 ”

"These beads are produced quite a bit?"

Lin Yi glanced at the fine seal Yingshan, and immediately understood the power of this Xia Ba clan.

These beads can be recognized as having amazing value by those foreign dynasties in the Western Regions, and even become the common currency used in bartering in those places, which is equivalent to a steady stream of gold mines mined by the Shaba clan.

In the Southern Dynasties, this is equivalent to mastering the coinage and the treasury.

"The production is quite a lot. ”

Xi Feng Yingshan smiled bitterly: "When our royal family reacts to the strength of the Xiaba clan, their wings are already full, they not only built a chain of cities in Sherpa Mountain, but they also forced the royal family in turn to become a new royal family. Our royal family is also helpless to the Shaba clan, if you want to destroy the Shaba clan and conquer Sherpa Mountain, I am afraid that the losses will be amazing, and it will cause a backlash from other clans, but if you don't agree, they will make trouble again, and now the commerce and trade in those places in the Western Regions are almost all done by their people, and those people in the Western Regions have been slowly washed into their friends in the past ten years, even if they want our party to do other things, they will trade with them first and get it from their hands. More than half of the party's money is circulating through their hands. ”

"There is infighting among the royal family, and now there is a Shaba clan that has suddenly appeared, and the party is in such a mess, and it is not easy to entangle hundreds of thousands of troops to enter the Southern Dynasty. Lin Yi couldn't help but laugh.

The more straightforward he was, the more he felt close to Yingshan and Yingqi.

Xifeng Yingshan couldn't help but laugh, and said: "It's not easy, but I haven't finished talking about the general, in fact, what's more troublesome is that the Tuoba clan is now almost controlling political affairs, they are friendly with the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the army is pressed into the Southern Dynasty, and the Southern Dynasty is the enemy, in fact, they are dominant." But the Sherpas are friendly with the countries of the Western Regions outside Tuyuhun and Tuyuhun, they can't control the army at present, but they just want to squeeze in, so after our army entered the Southern Dynasty and quickly retreated, it was not all because the King of Zhongshan in the Northern Wei Dynasty suddenly withdrew back to Luoyang, but because we also have various voices in the court. ”

"Then I understand it now. ”

Lin Yi couldn't help but say: "The rest of your royal family is obviously not the same as the Tuoba clan, but you royal clans obviously don't want the Xiaba clan to suddenly become a royal family, and you are more worried that the Xiaba clan is directly above you, so although your entire party has millions of soldiers, I am afraid that the royal family is constantly fighting openly and secretly, if my guess is right, all these armies are not all under the control of the Tuoba clan, but belong to your various royal families." ”