The layout of the city is just like the chaos of the overall shape of the city, and the buildings in the city are covered layer by layer, and there is not even a complete road that runs through the east, west, north and south. As far as the capital of a country is concerned, such a city is indeed not majestic enough, just like the current embarrassing situation of the Murong Ministry.

Since Murong Hao succeeded to the unification, he did have the idea of moving the capital, and he was even surveying and selecting a site at the height of his power, but with the gradual deterioration of the situation, these thoughts have also become delusions, and it is difficult to realize it in the short term, at least in the short term.

In the entire city, the only one that is still organized is the Wende Hall located in the northeast of the city. The Wende Hall is a palace built during the reign of Murong Diao, where subordinates are convened to deal with the military and political affairs of the entire tribe.

On the day of the completion of the Wende Palace, in the eyes of the Xianbei tribe at that time, it was naturally majestic and magnificent, highlighting the atmosphere. But now, the whole hall has become a bit cramped, and with the development of the city, the position of this hall in the whole city has also shifted, buried in many later buildings.

At the beginning of Murong Hao's succession, he was also ambitious, and wanted to create a new atmosphere on the basis of his father, so he chose another address in the center of the city to start Wenchang Hall again. However, with the rebellion of the brothers, the division of the entire tribe has been formed and has not been pacified, and the construction of this Wenchang Hall has also stopped. Murong Hao claimed to inherit his father's will and could only continue to stay in the Wende Palace.

Wende Hall is a separate hall, and the rear is connected to a large mansion, that is, the mansion of the Duke of Liaodong, which is called the Yanwang Palace within the tribe today.

At this time, inside and outside the Yanwang Palace, a large number of armor soldiers had gathered, nearly three thousand. With the enemy on all sides and the large army stationed outside for defense, this is already the largest force that Murong Hao can gather in the vicinity of Great Thorn City in a short period of time.

At this time, these soldiers were all arrayed inside and outside the Wende Palace, and there was a solemn atmosphere in the air around them.

On the Wende Palace, Murong Hao was wearing armor, and the whole person was murderous. He is nearly eight feet tall, burly, not angry and arrogant, and even has a prestigious. Now he is full of anger, and he is even more frightened that His Royal Highness's subordinates, including several of his sons, dare not speak out in the slightest.

"The slave is arrogant, he dares to make a soldier's armpit, I really think I don't dare to kill him!"

Although the Murong clan was born in the Hu clan, it has also been immersed in sinicization for a long time, and it has already had the concept of being a descendant. Murong Hao won the position as a grandson, and he looked down on Murong Ping and other concubines from the bottom of his heart, and regarded him as a slave. But these house slaves dared to attack and kill his subordinates near the Great Thorn City in the old nest, and Murong Hao's anger in his heart can be imagined.

However, in addition to being angry, without knowing the specific strength of the rebels, Murong Hao did not dare to rush out of the city at the moment, but just gathered his troops outside the palace and sent his subordinates out of the city to inquire about the news.

At present, there are many internal voids in the Great Thorn City, and even his son, Murong Jun, has led troops to guard against foreign criminals. At present, the ministers of the palace are still mainly Jin Shi ministers, and there are few military generals, including the young son Murong Ba, there are only five or six people.

"The last general is willing to invite five hundred elite armor warriors to go out of the city to defeat the enemy!"

Compared with other subordinates who were either hesitant or calculating, Murong Ba, a young man, was much simpler-minded, and he was always less brave in battle, seeing that his father was so indignant, he even got up to fight.

Although Murong Hao usually likes Murong Ba, a young and strong son, but now he is in an extremely irritable mood, and after hearing this, he snorted coldly: "You know that the soldiers are only a few decades, give me a retreat!" ”

Hearing his father's angry reprimand, Murong Ba was embarrassed and lost, and before he could open his mouth to argue a little, his maternal uncle Lan Bo had already shook his head on the other side to stop it, and he retreated.

Seeing that the father-son communication was so blunt, the others did not dare to speak out in a hurry, and bowed their heads one by one in a respectful gesture. Murong Ping and several others secretly gathered troops to attack and kill the Feng family, although they don't know what the reason is, but in essence, it is also a chaotic internal struggle in the Murong family. Although the Murong clan has been dyeing for a long time, they still have strong tribal habits, and they are called vassals, but outsiders are really not good at beaking.

Seeing everyone's state of affairs, Murong Hao felt even more irritable in his heart.

In fact, Murong Ping and the others seem to be in turmoil, but it is not without a trace, as Murong Ren split and became independent, after the brothers Murong You, Murong Zhi and several others he sent to conquer the enemy came to the battle, Murong Hao's trust in these brothers has disappeared, and he has been stepping up his vigilance. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to gather thousands of armor soldiers in such a short period of time under such an internal situation.

His father Murong Diao has more than ten sons, in addition to the early death and the war dead, the only ones who can really threaten Murong Hao's position are only his brother Murong Han, and Murong Ren and Murong Zhao, who are the same mother as Murong Hao, of which Murong Zhao was forced to kill at the beginning of Murong Hao's succession, and Murong Han's Xitou Duan Department has now returned, and his arrogance has disappeared and there is no threat.

Needless to say, Murong Ren had a gritted hatred every time he thought about it. As for the other brothers, some followed Murong Ren, and some still stayed in Great Thorn City. In addition to being vigilant, Murong Hao has also been weakening the forces of these brothers and disintegrating their forces.

Therefore, Murong Hao has been guarding against the dying counterattack of these brothers, and although the incident happened suddenly this time, it did not catch Murong Hao off guard.

What he really didn't expect was that Murong Ping and the others were able to gather so much strength under their own perennial suppression, and second, this time they suddenly attacked, their target was not to choose the Bohai Feng clan in the Great Thorn City.

The brothers have their own ghosts, Murong Hao believes that Murong Ping and the others will not understand, they can't have the opportunity to make trouble again and again, but they use such a precious opportunity on the Bohai Feng clan, it is conceivable that there must be secrets that Murong Hao does not know.

What really made Murong Hao feel ashamed was not the fact that Murong Ping and others were in trouble, but this feeling of being kept in the dark and puzzled.

After Murong Ping and the others attacked and killed the Feng clan, they did not continue to attack the Great Thorn City, but led the crowd to the east. This made Murong Hao both shocked and suspicious, suspecting that they had colluded with Murong Ren in Liaodong, so he didn't dare to let go of the pursuit, on the one hand, he urgently sent envoys to urgently recall the army that was stationed outside, and on the other hand, he was to find out the secret of this matter.

As soon as the turmoil occurred, Murong Hao immediately ordered someone to arrest Murong Han, who was recuperating at home. His jealousy of Murong Han can be said to have penetrated into his bones, and it can be said that half of the current split situation in the Murong Department is caused by Murong Han's existence.

Even Murong Hao himself had to admit that Murong Han's cousin, Wen Taowu, was not inferior to him, and even surpassed him. It is precisely because of this that his father Murong Diao loved and valued this son from the bottom of his heart when he was alive, if it weren't for the lowliness of Murong Han's mother's family, coupled with the difference between his descendants and his descendants, and the support of those Jin vassals, it is not known who the heir will be.

Because of Murong Han's outstanding talent, when his father Murong Diao was alive, he distributed a considerable part of the clan power to his sons and trained them individually. It is precisely because of this that when Murong Hao succeeded to the heir, these brothers had the strength to make trouble.

Therefore, once there was civil strife, Murong Hao first became suspicious of Murong Han, and he had to control it as soon as possible, so that he could feel at peace in his heart.

In addition, Murong Hao sent someone to invite his uncle Murong Yun. Murong Yun is usually very low-key, especially when Murong Diao is alive, he can be said to be humble and forbearing, and because of this, he has a lot of prestige in the clan.

Murong Hao knew very well what the details of the others were, they were able to gather so many clansmen to make trouble without alarming themselves, so Murong Hao suspected that there was a lot of help from Murong Yun.

Soon, the people who went to arrest Murong Han returned and successfully brought Murong Han back. However, Murong Yun is not in Great Thorn City at the moment, but in his own territory, so he has not yet arrived.

"How many slaves are in rebellion, do you know if you break the captive?"

When Murong Han walked to the hall, Murong Hao asked directly, not hiding his suspicion of Murong Han at all.

When Murong Han heard this, he nodded and said, "Before Anu acted, he came to visit Yu Chen, and the minister ......."

"Dog thief, if you turn your back on your family, I can still tolerate you! Today, in the temple built by your father, you have sinned against it, and what face do you have to stand in this temple? ”

When Murong Hao heard this, he was even more furious, and jumped up directly from the banquet, drew the saber in his hand and walked down violently, as if he was about to draw his sword and kill Murong Han immediately.

On the other side, Murong Ba saw this scene, his still childish face was already frightened, and he subconsciously wanted to speak out, but he soon realized that it was inappropriate, and he obediently closed his mouth without being reminded by others.

Murong Han faced Murong Hao, who was approaching step by step, and his face also showed a little crampedness, and he bowed down and kowtowed: "Fortunately, thanks to the protection of the king, the ministers have the honor of returning to the sect alive, how dare they have the idea of complicit in evil again." Anu came to see me, saying that his anger was hard to dispel, and that he had lost his teacher and humiliated the country, but fortunately the king remembered the old feelings and did not punish him severely for this crime, but the thief still did not know the pain, and committed murder with this grace, and embezzled many industries in the suburbs, so that I was hungry and cold, because it was intolerable. The ministers tried their best to persuade each other to endure, and they didn't dare to get involved in this......"

When the rest of the people in the hall heard this, their faces became wonderful for a while. The meaning revealed in Murong Han's words is nothing more than saying that Murong Ping and the others saw that the Feng family was solid, and they committed murder out of jealousy and hatred, and the main intention was to seize the Feng family's rich inheritance.

After Murong Hao heard this, his face also showed a little entanglement, and his heart also became embarrassed. As soon as Murong Han said this, he turned this chaos into a struggle for financial interests, although the sin became smaller in name, but in fact it pointed to a deep contradiction in the Murong tribe today, that is, the contradiction between his own people and the Jin people.

Jin Min is good at farming and weaving by nature, which is the shortcoming of Xianbei people. Therefore, in the absence of looting as a supplement, ordinary Xianbei people live a little poorer than the Jin people, and it is inevitable to accumulate grievances because of this.

Murong Hao adheres to his father's teachings, and even if the tribe wants to gain more living space, the power of the Jin people must be cited, and the demands of the people of this tribe cannot be ignored. Therefore, father and son have succeeded each other, and they have all worked hard to bridge and dilute this contradiction.

When the tribe is strong, a large amount of external compensation can be obtained through foreign warfare and plunder, and the conflict in this area is not large, and the Jin people are safe and weaving, and they do not have the strength to resist the Hu people.

However, with the gradual compression of the space for activity in recent years, it has rarely been replenished by plundering, and the contradiction in this regard has deepened, and most of the Xianbei people are angry that the Jin people have encroached on their survival resources.

At present, there are many Jin vassals in His Royal Highness, and this kind of topic is really not easy to discuss in depth, so Murong Hao said hatefully: "Even if the Feng clan is guilty and has its own rules and regulations, how can it allow Er and others to be punished indiscriminately!" Although you are not involved in this, it is inevitable that you will cover up, and someone will escort this criminal to prison, and wait until you take down a few people who have escaped, and they will be convicted together! ”

After Murong Han was escorted down, Murong Hao sent people out of the city to clean up the mess, and stated to the ministers that he would investigate and severely punish the criminals, and would never allow this trend to grow, and ordered these people to summon their families into the city and send troops to protect them closely.

After the arrangements were completed, Murong Hao led the crowd to the prison where Murong Han was held with a pale face, and retreated from the rest of the guards, and then said in a deep voice: "Let's tell the truth." ”

What are the details of his brothers, and how could Murong Hao not know, there is greed for money, but it is not just for the sake of the Feng family's assets that he suddenly became so bold. And if it was just such a simple reason, Murong Han would not just risk angering himself to shield them.

Murong Han was not surprised that Murong Hao came to ask the truth, his previous remarks were actually to pave a step for Murong Hao to solve this matter. Although their brother does not have a good relationship, it is enough to get to know each other.

"Anu and the others are attacking this time, in fact, there is another reason......"

There were no outsiders present at the moment, so Murong Han simply told the truth directly, and told in detail about Huainan's discovery of the traitor's illegal sale of weapons and his anger to the Feng clan and his vow to eradicate it.

When Murong Hao heard this, his face couldn't help but change sharply again, he originally thought that even if there was any hidden secret, it was nothing more than Murong Ping and the others being bewitched by Murong Ren, but he didn't expect that it would actually involve the Huainan Governor's Mansion in the Central Plains!

And more importantly, he should have known about this matter in advance, because his son was currently hostage in Huainan, and he was the only official protest option from the Huainan Governor's Mansion, but he only learned about it from Murong Han after the incident!

In other words, the problem began with his son Murong Ke! The development of the matter must have been a protest from the Huainan Governor's Mansion to Murong Ke, but Murong Ke did not report the matter to himself at the first time, but revealed it to Murong Ping and others in the clan, and these people took action to eradicate the Feng clan!

In other words, this time it was not only his brothers who betrayed him, but even the mastermind was his own son!

As soon as he thought of this, Murong Hao was already so embarrassed that he took out his saber and slashed at the strong fence, roaring and roaring: "How can you endure such a great humiliation!" The Daoyi thieves spread a pseudonym, and they were able to encourage the athletes of our clan to be used by foreign thieves to kill my minister! If this matter is revealed, my whole clan will be laughed at by the heroes of the world, and what kind of hegemony will we talk about! ”

Murong Han also looked gloomy when he heard this, he didn't agree with Murong Ping's suggestion before, because he was so worried. No matter what the deeds of the Feng clan are, after all, they are a vassal of the Murong Ministry.

Although the momentum of the southerners has increased, they are still blocked by Zhao in the south of the Yellow River, and as a result, a single order forced the Murong Department to kill their ministers, which is simply spineless.

However, Murong Ping was determined, and at the same time, he said that his uncle Murong Yun joined in, and it was no longer something that Murong Han could stop.

Of course, he can also choose to report to Murong Hao to protect himself, but in this way, it is bound to set off another wave of liquidation within his clan. Now that the Murong Ministry is already struggling, if such a bad turmoil breaks out again, it is very likely that it will collapse without a fight.

Although Murong Han was much feared, his desire for the prosperity of his clan had not changed, otherwise he would not have taken advantage of the defeat of the Duan tribe to counterattack and seize the opportunity to strengthen the clan after fleeing.

"Stupid thing, do you think that by covering up the sins of those traitors, you can be protected by forbearance, and you can also get the help of the original plain?"

They have also loved and killed each other for many years, what is Murong Han's calculation, how can Murong Hao not understand, it is because of this that he is even more distressed: "Now that the Jiangdong Jin Court is in chaos, it is still two matters whether Daoyi Shen Weizhou can maintain his position, and how accurate is his promise?" What's more, he has always been hostile to me, and he has secretly helped the thieves, that is, he hopes that I will lose myself in internal fighting, and he will contain the stone thieves for his eagle dog in Liaobian, how can he be sincere in the slightest! Even if he can be fully positioned this time, he will have to return to Jiangdong in the coming day, and he will have no time to look north, and how much more power will he have to help me? To give this authority to others is to force our people to be driven by them! ”

Hearing Murong Hao's heartbroken voice, Murong Han was also surprised for a while, although he was slightly inferior to Murong Hao, but the difference was that his understanding of the news in the south was insufficient, so he couldn't think more comprehensively than Murong Hao.

If it was said that he was angry before, then now Murong Hao really wanted to catch Murong Ping, including his son Murong Ke, who he personally sent to the south as a hostage, and cut off his hatred with his own hands. It seems that there is only one Feng family who suffered this disaster, but if you look deeply, it will undoubtedly make a big reversal of the overall strategy of their father and son who have been fettling them for many years to win over the Jin people!

Nowadays, China's situation, although Wang Ye is biased and incompetent, but the township is still strong, arrogant and arrogant, Zhao Shihu, and has to rely on the Jin people to succeed.

The reason why they can gradually grow stronger, in addition to the courage and ability of their own people, is also to take advantage of the current situation over the years to quote various fetters to the Jin people, which can be said to be the foundation of their strength.

Just because of an order from the Central Plains, the Feng clan, the gateway that helped the rise of the Murong Department very much, was killed, in other words, the most urgent security for the Jin people, they can no longer provide it, and it also exposes the treacherous and ruthless nature, the kind of hypocrisy created over the past years is gone, what is the difference between the Jin people and the rest of the Zahu tribe in the eyes of the Jin people?

Thinking of this, Murong Hao's face was even more depressed. Although he frequently sent envoys to the south to liaise with him, he still had contempt and even contempt for the Jiangdong Imperial Court, including the so-called powerful ministers, and did not feel that the south could exert any substantial influence on Liaodi except for some fame and reputation.

But now, Nan Mian first made the internal strife of the tribe slow down through the funding of Murong Ren, and then directly intervened in the core struggle affecting their tribe through the lure of a few armor weapons.

In the matter of purchasing equipment, if Feng Yi had not hidden his personal interests, Murong Hao's income would have been less than a thousand people, and half of them were shoddy, but the price paid for this and what he would continue to pay in the future made Murong Hao dare not think deeply!

"Spare your life for the time being, and write a quick letter to inform a few thieves who have fled, so that they can immediately lead everyone back to their territories, and I can not pursue this matter and cover up the past. But if they still want to be evil, then I don't care about anything else, and immediately join Goguryeo to wipe out the Eastern Thieves and share Liaodong equally! ”

Although he was so angry in his heart that he was about to vomit blood, Murong Hao also knew that now was not the time to be rash, and it had reached a critical moment when he had to endure it.

Murong Ren's secession of Liaodong does not mean that there are no worries, but Goguryeo in the east has always been eyeing Liaodong, and the reason why Murong Hao can still tolerate it is that in addition to the pressure from Liaoxi, he is also worried that the brothers will kill each other too much and be taken advantage of by Goguryeo.

But now he can't take care of too much, Shi Hu's energy is temporarily attracted by the changes in Jiangdong, and he has not launched a strong offensive this year, so that he has a temporary respite, if Murong Ping and the others continue to create divisions, it will directly threaten the survival of the entire Murong Ministry, and he can only drink to quench his thirst, and collude with the foreign invaders to wipe out the thieves first.

Hearing that there was no lack of determination in Murong Hao's words, Murong Han also knew that he had thought about the situation too simply, so he nodded in response.

In the next few days, Murong Hao's whole body was filled with a palpitating depression, and he first strengthened the protection of the Jin people's vassals, of course, it was actually more closely monitored to prevent these people from inciting the Jin people to rebel.

Then he accelerated the reorganization of the Jin people's army, in order to control the main body of the Jin people more closely in a short period of time, and also strengthen the force under his own control.

This was what should have been done, and in fact, he was also ready to suppress the Feng clan to a certain extent, and the old guilty Feng was originally a predetermined choice, but now he was taken care of by Murong Ping and others.

So he relied more on the Beiping Yang clan and other alternatives, even if the Yang clan knew the inside story of the Feng clan's extermination, but his family had been operating in Liaodi for a long time, and the Murong clan was almost inseparable from each other, and he would not break up because of this, and paying military power could also take a little comfort.

On the other hand, it is to intensify the investigation of news from the south. Now that the price has been paid, even if it is just an empty promise, he will more or less take some advantage from the south.

The news from the south did not make him wait too long, and in August, the conclusive news came: Shen Weizhou of Daoyi won a great victory in this round of power struggle, and the south family succeeded in taking advantage of the internal and external authority of the Jiangdong court, and Shen Weizhou led the Yuzhou herd and went on a northern expedition, obviously the center of gravity is still in the north.

After learning this news, Murong Hao was also stunned for a long time, and his mood was quite complicated, on the one hand, he hated Shen Weizhou from the bottom of his heart, and he did not want to continue to deal with him, on the other hand, he was envious, although he was in a different situation from Nan Mian, he was full of jealousy for Shen Weizhou to hold such power and have no constraints at all.

But no matter what his mood is, now is the time for him to take a stand, with his uncle Murong Yun as the leader, he went south to congratulate, and asked to remove the gifts given to him by the Jiangdong Imperial Court earlier that exceeded Huainan's promise, and stated that he would personally lead the army to attack Liaoxi to form an effective containment of Shi Zhao.

But this does not mean that he has completely turned over the previous evil, Shen Weizhou is in power, and now he has no means to directly harm the other party, but everyone in the clan is not spared.

First of all, Murong Yun, the patriarch of the clan who secretly damaged him, was expelled and sent to the south to teach his self-assertive son Murong Ke, since they were so greedy for trade and material resources with the Central Plains, they would compete with each other. Without Murong Yun as a backer, Murong Ping and a few people were naturally at his mercy, if it weren't for the fear that Murong Ren would accuse him of insulting his siblings again, he would have grabbed and cut him directly.

At the same time, he also ordered to hunt down and kill the Feng clan such as Feng Yu and other clansmen, since the matter has been done, it is necessary to kill it cleanly and put an end to this hidden danger forever. As for the crime, it was arranged according to what Murong Han had given before.

After all, the Feng family's style in Liao is not lacking in high-profile, which has also made many Jin people jealous, and Feng Yi has instigated him several times to arrogate and claim the king, and killing the Feng family is also a show of favor to the south, to show that he has no such thoughts.