Han Hai Tang Ergui

The whistling north wind began to blow violently, which was a signal that winter was coming.

To the northeast of Yanran Mountain, a "big city" built with yellow mud as its foundation, a small amount of glutinous soil mixed with stones, and even cow and horse manure, appeared quite abruptly in this vast world. between.

This city can only be said to be barely passable in Han, but it can be regarded as a majestic city in Mobei, where the original Datang Hanhai Dudu Mansion and Anbei Duhu Mansion were located.

After Datang left Mobei, the Uighurs rose up, and this place became the royal court of the Uighurs.

Now it is occupied by the Zoubu people, who call it Woluduo, also called Oruduo.

This is a term that has been fixed since the Turkic period, meaning palace tents and king tents.

Woluduo has a circumference of fifty or sixty miles, has six regular gates, and in some places there are even defensive archery towers on the city walls. These are the remains of the former Anbei Protectorate.

However, when all the craftsmen in the Han area were withdrawn and handed down to the blockers after 300 years, the biggest function of the city has changed from military defense and showing the majesty of the Tang Dynasty to a good place for herdsmen to escape the wind and snow. .

A large number of Zub nobles and even herdsmen set up their own tents in this city, and they moved the stones used to build the city everywhere, because in the grasslands of Mobei, regular stones are also more precious.

It's just that, in the past, the great city built by the Tang Dynasty with a huge investment of tens of thousands was demolished by them. It could only be entered and exited through the six gates, but now it has gaps everywhere.

And this kind of damage has greatly weakened the ability of the city to resist the wind and snow. The Zobu people could not resist the cold wind in the warm house like the Uighur nobles in the past. Therefore, they put the traditional big tent again , moved back to the city.

Looking from the heights of Yanran Mountain in the distance, a large number of tents are connected in a maze-like city.

Located in the middle, the place with the largest and most tents is the king's tent of Duo Sage, the chieftain of the blockbuster.

The rest of the Zoubu nobles each controlled a part of the city, and were distributed around King Tusag's tent like stars and moons. The closer they were to the outer tent, the lower their status.

It's not winter yet, but the cold wind from the Xianbei wasteland in the extreme north has begun to blow to Woluduo City.

Ba Yegus, the eldest son of Chieftain Dusage of Zubhao, wrapped his white linen robe tightly around his body, and walked quickly towards Dusage's big tent.

Along the way, what was blown up by the north wind the most was the sand and dust mixed with urine on the ground. The smell was enough to make him, who hadn't been to Verudo once in a long time, extremely uncomfortable.

These years the climate has become slightly milder, and the Zubers hastened to seize this rare opportunity to grazing livestock. The number of cattle, horses and sheep has increased ten times faster than in the previous five or six years.

It looks a lot richer, but the explosive growth of so many cattle, horses and sheep in a short period of time has brought unbearable ecological pressure to the surroundings of Woluduo City.

The piles of livestock manure in the city are like hills. Although most of them have been air-dried, there is still a strong smell of excrement and urine when the wind blows. On windy days, you can even see dried manure particles hovering all over the sky.

As for the pastures outside the city, the fresh pastures that were originally one person tall have been harvested long ago. The ground is full of thin and short grass stubble, and loess is even exposed in many places.

At the same time, a large number of livestock has also caused great pollution to the water source. In the many small rivers around Verudo, it is now rare to see small fish and crabs.

Although Ba Yegus doesn't understand what ecological deterioration is, he can feel that the unpleasant smell in Voludo City and the increase in human and animal diseases have brought great harm to the seemingly powerful Zoubu Department. threaten.

Outside the king's tent, a huge fat cow had been bled clean, and a few shepherds wearing animal skin shorts and bare upper body were tearing apart the fat cow's bones and flesh.

The fat and tender loins and tendons are used for roasting, similar to the iron plates of later generations, except that they are placed on hot pottery.

After some meat has been removed from the beef leg, it is the most suitable for roasting.Stewed beef head will be the best treat for guests.

On the grassland at this time, life is far from being as refined as later generations. A big iron urn that can stew almost half a cow is extremely precious even to Du Sage, and it is also a symbol of his strength.

As for the little fat sheep that were killed one by one, of course they had to be roasted whole to show off the fortune-tellers.

There are also various pheasants and wild birds in a clay pot with various eggs and some wild vegetables and mushrooms randomly added, and they are also stewed together.

When Ba Yegus saw some warriors of the Mierqi tribe standing around the king's tent, he knew that it must be the envoy of the Mierqi tribe, or even the chief of the Mierqi tribe, Hulu Bashi, who had arrived in person.

In the king's tent, the atmosphere of eating meat and drinking wine was at its peak. Du Sage was holding a huge bowl of fine wine, and was frequently asking another person in a blue robe for wine.

Du Sage was very tall, with a pair of beautiful beards, and his huge belly made one doubt that it could hold a whole roast lamb.

The slightly turbid liquor in the huge bowl was drank down by Dusage in a sudden, accompanied by a pretentious loud voice.

After drinking, he wiped off the wine sticking to his beard smartly, perfectly fitting the image of a Mobei hero in people's minds.

On the contrary, Hulu Bashi, the chief of Mierqi who was invited to drink by him, sounds like a tough man in the prairie like Tusage, but in fact Hulu Bashi looks very thin.

With a few mustaches, a black-soil-like shoehorn face, and a blue Tang robe, he doesn't look like a grassland chief, but a Chinese teacher.

Ba Yegus opened the curtain of the big tent and walked in. When Dusage saw his eldest son, he showed a half-smile expression on his face, and then pointed to the seats near the curtain, feeling a little dispirited. Said.

"My son is here, let's choose a seat to sit down!"

Ba Yegus had an extremely dissatisfied expression on his face. He was the eldest son of Dusage. His father invited the leaders of the various ministries, but he could only sit at the bottom.

Seeing Ba Yegus's expression, Dusage's face also burst into anger, but it quickly disappeared, because Mi Erqi's Hulu Basuo was by his side, he suppressed his anger and glanced at the bottom The leader's confidant.

The confidant quickly ran over with a smile, half persuading and half pushing Ba Yegus to his seat.

Although Ba Yegus was angry, he knew that he had no choice.

The problem with all these lies in his origin. His mother is not a blocker, but a member of the eight tribes of Dilie in the east.

Back then when Du Sage was young, he couldn't control the various tribes, and it was with the help of the chief of Dilie's eight tribes, that is, Grandpa Ba Yegus, that he finally managed to secure his position.

In the first ten years, Dusage was extremely submissive, but in the next ten years, especially after Ba Yegus' grandfather and mother died one after another, Dusage turned against Dilie Babu.

Even with his eldest son, he was not liked by Du Sage, and was half-banished to nomadic areas close to Dilie Babu.

In addition to this reason, it is also due to the long-standing conflicts between the eight divisions of Dilie and the divisions of Zub, Mierqi, and Dalimi. On the grasslands originally controlled by the Khitans, they had a deep hatred.

The eight tribes of Zub, Mierqi, Dalimi, and Dilie were originally a nation, or a tribe.

They all came from Uyghurs with foreign surnames, that is, small tribes attached to Uyghurs, and most of the time they were collectively called Nine Surnames Tatars by Uyghurs.

After the decline of the Uyghur Khanate and the rise of Khitan, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom divided the nine surnamed Tatars who had surrendered to Khitan into eight groups, collectively known as the eight groups of enemies.

Those who were less willing to submit to the Khitan people were called Zubu, Dalimi, etc.

In the following decades of the rise of the Khitan people, it was natural that the eight divisions of Di Lie, who were knowledgeable and interesting, were popular and hot, while the divisions of Zubu and others fought a small fight every three days, and a big fight every five days.

This made Dilie Babu and their original relatives more and more estranged.

This kind of policy of the Khitan people gradually endowed Di Lie Babu with a strange attribute. They became spies on the grassland under active or passive circumstances.

Later, the Dilie Babu gradually became familiar to many people. They liked to collude with the emperor of the Central Plains, plundered other tribes, and captured the leaders of other tribes and gave them to the Tatar tribe who rode a wooden donkey on the emperor of the Central Plains.

The most famous victim in history was Temujin’s grandfather Ambaha, and Temujin’s father Yasugai was also poisoned to death by the Tatars.

Seeing Ba Yegus sit down obediently, Du Sage also heaved a sigh of relief. This time he asked Mierqi chief Hulu Bashi to come, and even he was willing to take the lead this time to fight against the eastward advance of the Six Dharma School. There is a reason.

From the titles of the two, it can be seen that Hulu Bashi is the chieftain of Mierqi, while Du Sage is just the chieftain of the fortune-telling people.

Because among the five tribes of Zhabu, Du Sage only mastered the three tribes of Beizhibu, and the remaining two nomads in the west of Yanran Mountain. head.

Therefore, Du Sage took advantage of these years when his three tribes of Beizhanbu had a prosperous population and livestock, and directly raised the banner of opposing the Six Dharma Sects.

Sure enough, after Dusage came forward, not only the two tribes of Zhabu to the west of Yanran Mountain obeyed the call and sent envoys and knights, but even the two tribes of Dalimi and Yejuza who were nearby also expressed their willingness to , obeying Tuo Sage's assignment.

What is the most important thing on the grassland?Fame of course!

With fame, small nomadic tribes will continue to come to seek refuge. In history, Turkic people, Xueyantuo people, Uighur people, etc., all grew up step by step in the beginning.

In particular, Du Sage occupied Verudo, which made him feel deep in his heart that his family had a destiny.

This time he invited the chieftain of Mierqi, Hulu Bashi, to go south in person, just to show it to the other envoys from the two tribes of Zhabu, as well as the two tribes of Dalimi and Yejuza.

You must know that Mier Qiren is very powerful at this time.

They were originally part of the Mohe people in the east of the Great Xianbei Mountains. After the Rouran Khanate was wiped out by the Turks, a large number of Rouran people fled to the north to merge with the Mierqi people, bringing them relatively advanced Military and animal husbandry.

Up to now, Mierqi people are good at using big bows and long arrows, grazing cattle and sheep, and domesticating reindeer, and even have a little bit of farming, fishing and hunting attributes. They are brave and fearless in battle. They are very sturdy light cavalry and mountain infantry .

This makes them much stronger than the Dalimi and Yejusha tribes south of Yanran Mountain and closer to Han.

Therefore, Dusage invited Hulu Bashi to come here to let Hulu Basu and the entire Mierqi tribe stand for him, and to enhance the illusion that he is famous far and wide.

In the seemingly warm atmosphere, Hulu Bashi secretly cast his eyes on the yellow-haired Shi Mili in the distance.

The banner against the Six Dharma Schools was originally carried by the Mierqi Department first, but the main reason why it was quickly transferred to Tusage was the loss of secret benefits.

Shi Mili took a sip of the sour wine. He actually had another name, a Han-style name, medicine Luoge Jingyi.

He was the fish that slipped through the net of the Uighurs in Ganzhou. Compared with the nine foreign surnames of the Uighurs in Karahan and the Pugus in the Uighurs of Gaochang, Yaoluoge was the authentic Uighur surname.

In today's grasslands, apart from the Dadan and Zub tribes that have changed from the peripheral Uyghurs, there are still many small tribes that adhere to the Uyghur tradition.

The title of Uighur Great Khan has not completely disappeared from the grassland ministries, and the surname Yaoluoge still has a certain appeal.

Yaoluo Ge Jingyi ran to the grassland before Zhang Ting broke through Ganzhou, so he was quickly favored by Du Sage who wanted to raise his reputation.

The two hit it off immediately, and Dusage married Yaoluoge Jingyi's aunt, and Yaoluoge Jingyi married Dusage's daughter.

One of the two is famous and the other is powerful. Compared with them, Mierqiren is fierce, but on the grassland where blood is valued, he is completely powerless to fight against the strong combination of the two.

When Luoge Jingyi, who was known as the loser of Mili, returned to Yanran Mountain, Mierqi's sudden failures immediately became only a foil.

Ba Yegus also quietly looked at Yao Luoge Jingyi, his cheeks twitched slightly.

Although Yaoluo Ge Jingyi's wife was his younger sister, they were not actually born of the same mother. On the contrary, because of the hatred between their mothers, the relationship between the two siblings was very bad, so bad that they wished each other to die.

Now that Yao Luoge Jingyi is back, Ba Ye Guston suddenly feels that his situation is even more dangerous.

Just at this time, in the blink of an eye, the eyes of the two frustrated people collided suddenly because they were peeping at Luoge Jingyi!
It's such a big show, I don't know who will detonate it!