The top of Danhan Mountain, where the Tuoba Xianbei tribe festival is held once every few years, is the place where major affairs in the clan are decided. Where the powerful Tuoba Xianbei will go depends on the outcome of this heavenly sacrifice ceremony. Although the face-to-face competition between the adults of the East and West only took place on the altar on the top of the mountain within a radius of dozens of zhang, the mountains, rivers and grasslands of the northern Xinjiang for thousands of miles from west to east were like a summer day before a thunderstorm, and the air was suffocating, which made people feel depressed and panicked.

Since mid-July, the Tuoba Xianbei East and West Divisions, which were originally fighting against each other and frequently causing huge casualties, have invariably stopped fighting and waited with bated breath. Although they still confronted each other, each of them, regardless of the Xianbei warriors, tribesmen, and chiefs, understood that there was no point in fighting again, and the future path would be decided on Danhan Mountain. Either Lu Guan, or Yilu, in any case, Tuoba Xianbei, who has experienced tragic infighting, will usher in a new Da Dan Yu, and the soldiers only need to move in the direction pointed by the Da Dan Yu banner.

In addition to Tuoba Xianbei himself, there are more eyes on the top of Danhan Mountain.

In Jinyang City, the Bingzhou Thorn Mansion, which was still under construction when Lu Yao left, has now been basically completed. A number of majestic and gorgeous buildings rise up on the site of the former Thorn History Mansion, the column is like the Jincheng soup pool, the heavy building is like the cloud platform towering, the flying pavilion is like the Changhong through the sky, it is really a thousand weather. On a platform in the northeast corner of the Assassin's Mansion, Liu Kun sat on the main seat, accompanied by several 'servants' left and right.

Among today's high-ranking officials of the Great Jin Dynasty, Liu Kun is a very small number of people with great talents. As a history of the Bingzhou assassin, he has long been investigating this powerful neighbor in the northern part of the state, and he knows its inside story well. At this critical point where the situation in Tuoba Xianbei will remain unchanged, he is the only one who has taken precautions and done everything possible to seek benefits for China and the DPRK.

Liu Kun leaned over and looked at the map carefully, his two thick black eyebrows were deeply locked, occasionally unfolded, and there was a sense of leaping 'desire' to try. He lightly tapped his fingers at the place representing Xinxing County, then stroked northward, turned west through the Yan's 'Gate', and stopped at Dingxiang, Jiuyuan and other places, and knocked lightly twice.

With the movement of his fingertips, the mountains, fields, rivers, and cities of thousands of miles in northern Xinjiang appeared in his mind, and Liu Kun stared and pondered, and remained silent for a long time.

In the early years of the Later Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu, who had been sitting on thousands of miles of grassland and competing with the Central Plains regime for hundreds of years, finally collapsed under the persistent military and foreign 'diplomacy' offensive of the Han Dynasty. Some of them were attached to the crowd and were called the Southern Xiongnu; The Northern Xiongnu who stayed in Mobei finally embarked on a journey to the west. However, the vast grasslands of northern Xinjiang did not gain long-term tranquility, and just a few decades later, the Xianbei tribe took over the Xiongnu's homeland and became the new opponent of the Central Plains court.

Ridiculously speaking, the rise of the Xianbei people is actually closely related to the strong funding of the Han Dynasty. In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to drive the Xianbei people to fight against the Xiongnu, the imperial court paid a huge amount of money every year, according to historical records, only Qingxu and Xu Prefectures had to pay 270 million coins every year. Under the unremitting support of the Central Plains regime, the Xianbei people did not fail to complete the task of fighting against the Xiongnu. But after the decline of the Xiongnu, who can compete with the Xianbei people?

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the leaders of the Xianbei tribes, such as Tanshi Huai and Kebineng, rose one after another, uniting many scattered Xianbei tribes into a powerful military alliance. From Yunzhong, east of Wuyuan to Liaoshui, all are Xianbei Court. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Central Plains Board, hundreds of thousands of Xianbei iron horsemen continued to invade and plunder on the border of Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou, and even 'intervened' in the battles between warlords, provoking one tragic war after another. Even after Cao Wei unified the north, Xianbei still committed Saikoubian several times. As a result, the soldiers and civilians of the two prefectures in northern Xinjiang suffered huge casualties.

Although Emperor Wei Wen deliberately tolerated the Xianbei leader Kebineng as the king of righteousness, the invasion of Xianbei was not slightly restrained because of this. At that time, Liang Xi, the commander of the Bingzhou Assassin Shi Liang Xi, the captain of Karasuma, and the Youzhou Assassin Bi Rail, who was responsible for the defense of Cao Wei's northern Xinjiang, were all famous generals and important ministers, but Tian Yu had the siege of Macheng, and Bi Rail had the defeat of Shanbei, and it was inevitable that he would be frustrated under the power of the Xianbei cavalry.

Until the third year of Qinglong, Wang Xiong, the assassin of Youzhou, sent warriors to stab Kebineng to death, and supported his brother as king. In order to compete for the position of the leader of the tribal alliance, the Xianbei people engaged in large-scale infighting. In the past few years, the species have been scattered, encroaching on each other, the strong have fled, and the weak have been subdued. Only then did the northern frontier barely settle down.

But after all, the Xianbei tribe has become a climate, and it has not weakened because of this. After the split of the Xianbei tribal alliance, the various tribes experienced decades of dumping and annexation, each developing in different directions, and gradually formed several huge branches. The eastern Xianbei is respected by the three families of Murong, Duan and Yuwen, the central Xianbei is headed by Tuoba, and the western Xianbei is 'mixed' with Qianghu. Among them, Tuoba Xianbei has a population of nearly 2 million and hundreds of thousands of knights who can control the strings on horseback, making it the most powerful of the Xianbei tribes.

For this powerful tribe, no one dares to ignore it in the slightest. Since the Han and Wei dynasties, the Wei and Jin dynasties have spared no effort to win over Tuoba Xianbei, and the gold coins given to the Tuoba clan are tens of thousands of years, and the two families have been engaged in 'handing' the city is endless. In return, the leader of Tuoba Xianbei at that time sent his son Desert Khan into Luoyang, and was deeply sinicized. When the Great Jin Dynasty was attacked by the Xiongnu Han State formed by the last descendants of the Southern Xiongnu, Tuoba Xianbei's former generation Shan Yu Yihui even raised tens of thousands of people to the south to support the Bingzhou Assassin History Department, and defeated the Xiongnu soldiers and horses several times. This is the reason why the predecessor of the state assassin Sima Teng was so incompetent, but he could maintain it for seven years.

After Liu Kun entered the annexation of the state, he also continued the national policy that had been implemented for many years, appeased Tuoba Xianbei, and received a warm response from Tuoba Xianbei's western lord Yilu. Although at the critical moment of the contention between the east and the west, the western lord Yilu still lightly went south to form an alliance with the state. When the Jinyang army and Liu Yuan fought, Yilu adhered to the alliance between the two sides, sent troops to aid Jinyang, and annihilated the tens of thousands of Xiongnu 'elite' under Liu He, the king of Zuoxian, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Xiongnu Han State.

Liu Kun's 'sexuality' is arrogant and resolute, and he thinks very highly of himself, but he also has to face up to the current grim situation. It must be admitted that Tuoba Xianbei has now become one of the important supports of the Great Jin Dynasty in northern Xinjiang, and it is an indispensable basis for fighting against the Xiongnu.

But will this continue?

The competition between the eastern lord and the western lord will finally decide the winner. After getting rid of internal friction, will Tuoba Xianbei, under the leadership of the new Da Dan Yu, still be deferential to the imperial court? When there is no way to hide the decline of the Great Jin Dynasty, when thousands of miles of fertile soil, hundreds of millions of people, and endless wealth are like unguarded 'fat' cattle and sheep 'exposed' in front of the wolves;

For this ceremony, Liu Kun has weighed and calculated countless times, and has also made many deployments for 'sex'. Ordered Wen Qiao to go to Danhan Mountain to watch the ceremony, and ordered Lu Yao and Ding Miao to go to Dai County through Jizhou to use troops, all of which were one of the deployments, and there were many other preparations ready to be put into use at any time. But after all, he is facing such a huge Tuoba Xianbei tribe, and he wants to use the power of a mere Jinyang to stir up the situation of the strong clans in Northern Xinjiang, for example, if the little beast tries to gnaw on the 'meat' when the two tigers are fighting, it will inevitably make people have some doubts.

Liu Kun groaned, his slender and powerful fingers slowly retreated from Jiuyuan and Dingxiang, and paused when he landed again in the position of Yan'men County. He asked in a deep voice: "Xizhi, do you think that in this heavenly sacrifice ceremony, who will win Lu Guan or Yi Lu?" ”

It is called "Xizhi", which is engaged in the state and the wild goose 'gate' is prosperous. Although Mo Han was a literati, he was in good shape, and because he had been attacked by the wind and frost swords of the northern land for a long time, his face looked older than his actual age. He is a local tycoon who lives in the 'gate' of the wild goose, and he is well aware of the disadvantages of the Hu people, and he is also a powerful clan. Therefore, regarding the affairs of the Hu people in northern Xinjiang, Liu Kun often consulted him.

Hearing Liu Kun's question, Mo Han replied respectfully:

"Lu Guan was originally an ordinary person among the sons of Liwei, and for decades he had concentrated his 'fine' efforts on integrating Tuoba Xianbei's interior, and rarely participated in affairs outside the clan. However, in recent years he has continued to expand his power, and his methods are sophisticated and vicious. There are even rumors that I am afraid that Tuoba Yi's violent death is inseparable from him. On the other hand, this man was fair, generous and measured in his dealings with his subordinates, and was very good at winning the hearts and minds of the people, and was supported by many tribes who were attached to Tuoba Xianbei. Tuoba Xianbei's eastern and western divisions were originally similar in power, but the Lu officials suppressed Yilu to the death, attracting a large number of their tribes to defect. In terms of the current power, Lu Guan is only a fraction of a centimeter away from the position of Da Danyu. In my opinion, Luguan and his people are like sandalwood and Kebineng, if he succeeds in obtaining the throne at the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the northern Xinjiang to have a peaceful day in the future. ”

"Lunai is the son of the Khan of the Desert. His father lived in Luoyang for a long time and admired Sinicization, so he was framed and killed by the chiefs of the Hu tribes. Subsequently, the two sons of the desert Khan, Tuoba Fu and Yi Hui, rose up one after another, defeated the rival tribes by force, and successively ascended to the position of Da Dan Yu. Yilu's stepfather and brother Yu Wei controlled the western part of Tuoba Xianbei, and his tribal warriors were brave and good at fighting, which we had witnessed with our own eyes under Jinyang City last year. What is even more frightening is that the people of the Jin Dynasty were used to govern the government, formulate laws and regulations, and gradually turn the annexed tribes into household Qi people. These measures aroused the dissatisfaction of many Tuoba Xianbei chiefs, and they turned to the side of Luguan. However, if Yilu succeeds in ascending to the position of Da Shan Yu and extending these systems to the entire Tuoba Xianbei tribe, then we can assert that Tuoba Xianbei will thus become an unprecedented and powerful Hu regime in northern Xinjiang. ”

"Luguan and Yilu are both British lords among Hu'er. And the competition for this sacrifice ceremony is bound to be a dragon and tiger fight, whoever wins, who will get the opportunity to show his strength, who is likely to become the enemy of my Great Jin. Therefore, what we should pay attention to is not who wins and who loses between Luguan and Yilu, but how to maintain the split situation of Tuoba Xianbei and how to use this situation to make profits for our Jinyang. If Tuoba Xianbei will eventually be set at a statue, how to resolve the adverse effects on Jinyang. Mo Han was deeply surprised: "Actually, the current situation is as the lord judged before. What we have to do is just as planned. ”

In fact, Liu Kun has discussed this topic with his subordinates many times, and his judgment has long been clear. The reason why I asked Mo Han was actually just to strengthen my confidence. Therefore, when Mo Han talked eloquently, Liu Kun bowed slightly, but he was speechless.

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I've been busy with a big event this week, and I haven't touched the ground for a few days, and for my sick person, it's like half a life. But it's over. Readers, please bear with me, the villain is fighting for the second watch today, and I have the right to apologize.