Chapter 22: The Drum

In July of the first year of Yongjia, Tuoba Xianbei Eastern Lord Luguan convened a general meeting of all ministries in Danhan Mountain, one held a ceremony to worship the sky, and the other decided to belong to Tuoba Xianbei Dadan. Tuoba Xianbei Western Lord Yilu, the central leader Wei Shi, the leader of the Eight Tribes, the thirty-six countries, and the ninety-nine subordinate tribal chieftains Qu Shuai all attended the meeting. The governor of the Great Jin Dynasty, Shi Wenqiao, and Youzhou engaged in Duan Pi and came to watch the ceremony.

The ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens has a religious sacred significance for the ordinary people of Tuoba Xianbei. During the ceremony, except for the armed forces directly under the eastern and western ministries who occupied the danger and did not act rashly, most of the ordinary people brought their families and drove cattle and sheep to the foot of Danhan Mountain to watch, and the number was roughly estimated to be nearly 200,000.

Such a scale can be called a rare event in northern Xinjiang for many years. The fault is not that those who are as powerful as Tuoba Xianbei can have such a prestige.

However, the 200,000 people waited for three days and three nights, but they were looking forward to a tragic news that they could not accept. According to a small number of chiefs who came down from the mountain, at this ceremony, Yilu, the original lord of the west, successfully took over the position of Da Shan Yu. However, due to the sudden violent illness and death of the eastern lord Lu official during the ceremony, many nobles belonging to the east became grief-stricken and fought each other with knives.

The northerners are humble and simple, and although the people at the bottom live in poverty, they respect the tribal chiefs as gods on weekdays. Suddenly, when he heard the news that the chiefs of all the tribes had died together, he was heartbroken, beating his chest and feet, and the sound of mourning and crying was all over the field. These tribesmen have no knowledge, and once the patriarch dies, they are all flustered and don't know what to do. Raising his eyes to look at Danhan Mountain, he felt in a trance that this sacred mountain did not know what terrible things it contained, otherwise why would it bring such a disaster?

When people are panicked, only when they return to the familiar environment will they feel a little stable, which is human nature. So a few hours later, countless Xianbei herdsmen wiped away their tears and set off to rush back to their pastures, never to look back. Ordinary Xianbei people also don't have any red tape such as collecting corpses for burial, and when Yilu came down to Bullet Sweat Mountain, he only saw hundreds of thousands of Xianbei people scattering, and none of them stayed to congratulate the new Da Danyu.

Yilu has a resolute personality and doesn't care about it at all, just riding back to Shengle's headquarters. He didn't think that he could make the ministries bow down with just the name of Da Shan Yu, but relying on the strength of Tuoba Xianbei and the prestige of Da Shan Yu, it was enough for him to integrate the various ministries by powerful means. Don't the Jin people have such a saying, "It must also be justified"!

Wen Qiao suffered a lot from flesh and skin on Danhan Mountain, after all, he was a scholar, and he couldn't hold on at this time, and he couldn't ride a horse. They could only set up cloth pockets between the two horses and carry him forward. The seriously injured companion of Wen Qiao was Wang Jun's envoy Duan Piyan, a friendly young man who was seriously injured in his right leg, and even if he recovered, he was afraid that he would not be able to go to the battlefield in the future.

Because of the drag of these two people, the speed of Yilu's return to the west was a little slower. Fortunately, the location of Danhan Mountain is between the east and west parts, not far from Shengle City, the base of Yilu, and the next morning the journey was already halfway through.

During the lunch break, Yilu talked with Wen Qiao and Duan Piyan. His new Tuoba Xianbei Da Dan Yu was in urgent need of recognition from the Great Jin, so he spoke very enthusiastically. As he was talking happily, he stumbled upon the herdsmen of a certain tribe whose eyes flashed when they saw everyone, as if they had something to hide.

Yilu Dang summoned the herdsmen for questioning. Several herdsmen trembled and knelt down to pray, it turned out that the grassland did not know when to spread rumors, all said that he conspired with the Wei family, poisoned the Lu official on Danhan Mountain, and in order to cover up the matter, slaughtered the chiefs of the tribes. How can such a person serve as a big Danyu, he is really the public enemy of the Tuoba Xianbei clan.

This can't help but be too shocked. His conspiracy with the Wei family was carried out in extreme secrecy, and in order to hide from the scheming Lu official, it can be said that he did enough work to cover it up. Even now, the only people who know about this matter are more than a dozen henchmen who escaped by luck on Danhan Mountain, and even Duan Piyan doesn't know anything about it. How could such a secret thing be spread, and how could it spread all over the grassland in such a short period of time?

What made Yilu even more angry was the last paragraph of this rumor. It's okay to say that he conspired with the Wei family to poison Luguan, but this is the case, the eldest husband dares to act boldly, and he doesn't dare to have any objections to those rats. But after the death of Lu Guan, the resurgence of the sword soldiers on Danhan Mountain was really out of a mistake, and those chiefs went crazy for nothing, causing heavy casualties to Yilu and others, and even he himself almost died under the knife. How could he have slaughtered the chieftains in order to cover it up? This rumor is clearly to oppose himself to the Tuoba Xianbei tribes, and to dig out the foundation of Tuoba Xianbei's Dashan who is ordered by the gods of heaven and earth!

A day ago, Yilu stood on the altar on the top of Danhan Mountain, which was full of corpses, and took up the position of Tuoba Xianbei Dadanyu, just waiting for the establishment of the official office, the establishment of order, and the introduction of the Jin system, so as to integrate the scattered Tuoba Xianbei into a unified whole. When it was, Yilu was full of ambition and high spirits...... But now he suddenly felt like a beast in a trap, and although he had not seen where the hunter was hiding, he had already understood the terrible situation in which he was found!

"Hateful! Hateful! Thinking of this, Yilu couldn't contain the violence in his heart. He roared like thunder, waved his horsewhip and danced wildly, and immediately whipped the herdsmen into screams, and their skin was open. Looking at this situation, it is almost necessary to whip these people to death before they will feel a little relieved.

The chiefs of the steppe killed and plundered the livelihood of their subordinates, drove them like dogs, and killed a few of them as a common thing. However, Wen Qiao couldn't bear it, and came forward to persuade Yilu to calm down: There was such a big event on Danhan Mountain, and it was impossible for Lord Yilu to succeed Da Shan Yu smoothly. Now, in addition to such vicious rumors, everyone must have gritted their teeth and hated it, but on the huge grassland, the shepherds rushed to and fro without hindrance, and they could not clamp down on the mouth of Youyou. What good is it to kill these shepherds? The top priority is to rush back to Shengle as soon as possible and stand firm in case of unforeseen circumstances!

Yilu walked back and forth a few times anxiously, and saluted Wen Qiao and Duan Piyan: "In this case, leave a few delicate men and accompany the two of them to walk slowly." I set off immediately and hurried to Shengle! ”

With that, Yilu immediately got on his horse and walked away.

Yilu's movements were not unpleasant, but after the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony, Tuoba Xianbei's situation took a sharp turn for the worse like a mountain falling on a rock, and suddenly deteriorated to a degree that he had not expected beforehand.

First of all, the Weinai Lou Ministry, one of the strongest clans in the east, announced an alliance with the Yuwen Ministry, broke away from Tuoba Xianbei, and tens of thousands of people set off to move to Liaodong.

Subsequently, Baibu Xianbei, who was originally directly under Yilu, joined forces with Hexi Tiefu Xiongnu to the east and plundered hundreds of miles of land west of Shengle.

A few days later, the Wulu Hui tribe raised troops on the grounds that Tuoba Li had stolen his homeland and murdered the ancestor of the tribe, Dou, and gathered 20,000 people to sweep north of Shanggu.

Then there were six tribes north of Daijun who bitterly killed Chen Yi and Lu to seize the throne and kill the leaders of various tribes indiscriminately, and then joined forces, but the soldiers did not go to Shengle, but approached the central part of Tuoba Xianbei, which was weakened.

News like this quickly numbled Yilu to hear. In the rest of the month, the frenzied scene on the altar on the top of Danhan Mountain seemed to be repeated in the entire vast grassland. I don't know how many tribes raised troops, the smoke was everywhere, and the soldiers were moved by the wind, and they were busy like ants. The tragedy on Danhan Mountain was too shocking for the Xianbei people who respected the gods, either out of self-preservation or out of ambition, one after another drew their swords and went to war, and finally caused a great rebellion that Tuoba Xianbei had never seen in history.

Tuoba Xianbei has been operating for hundreds of years, from the secluded capital to Daze, from Daze to the hometown of the Xiongnu, after a thousand difficulties and dangers to establish a strong regime, at the peak of the 400,000 people, thousands of miles of strongholds, hundreds of subordinate tribes, as if the Xianbei tribe in the bull's ear. But Lu Wanwan didn't expect that in less than a month after he succeeded Dadan, half of Tuoba Xianbei's country had collapsed!

And in Daijun, which is directly south of Tuoba Xianbei's sphere of influence, in the Taishou Mansion in Daiwang City. On this day, Yingyang General Lu Yao stood with his sword and thoughtful.