"When I was in Liangzhou, I heard rumors about the Tuoba family of Xianbei: Tuoba Jiefen has no wife's family, and Tuoba Li is weak and has no uncle's family."
Feng took the chopsticks, picked up a piece of food on the plate, put it into his mouth and chewed it twice symbolically.
Then he put down his chopsticks and looked at Tuoba Desert Khan opposite:
"Tuoba Xianbei is the current leader, but Tuoba is still weak?"
Hearing the nobleman mentioning his lord, Tuoba Desert Khan, who had just sat down, quickly stood up again and replied respectfully:
"Aye is naturally still the leader of the tribe."
Seeing Tuoba Desert Khan's words and deeds, Feng narrowed his eyes slightly.
In the consciousness of most people, the Tuoba Desert Khan comes from the Suo head, which is not much different from the tribes on the grassland.
Because there are too many tribes on the grassland now.
Not to mention the origin of the Xianbei people is really too complicated.
After the Xiongnu completely declined, Xianbei took the opportunity to annex more than 100,000 of them and occupied the Monan area.
In recent years, the Dingling people and Gaoche people from Mobei have also been moving southward, so they inevitably have disputes with the Xianbei people.
So the Xianbei people merged with some Dingling and Gaoche people from Mobei.
Wuhuan was defeated by Cao Cao, and many Wuhuan people changed their identities and merged with Xianbei.
This situation allowed Xianbei to grow the tribe as quickly as possible when it was strong, such as in the early stages of Tanshihuai and Kebineng.
But the hidden danger is that it expands too fast and the outside tribes are not fully absorbed and assimilated internally. Once there is a trend of decline, it will easily split.
Still taking Tanshihuai and Kebineng as examples.
Once these two people die or become weak, the race will immediately fall apart.
It is precisely because of these years that the tribes on the grassland have become more and more complex and numerous.
So although Suotou is a large tribe with 100,000 string control people.
But their reputation within the fortress is not even as good as that of the tribes who are close to the border fortress all year round and trade with the Han people.
It just so happens that they are such a grassland tribe that lives in the northern part of Monan, far away from the frontiers and has few interactions with the Han Dynasty.
As a young patriarch, Tuoba Desert Khan seemed to be just subconscious in his words and deeds, but he revealed a very important message:
Only those who are deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains can achieve such performance.
It is not unusual for the Hu people to admire Han culture.
Especially in the western Xianbei area, the Liangzhou army drove an unknown number of Dingkou captives into labor within a few years.
In the central Xianbei area, Kebi Neng died and his family was wiped out, and tens of thousands of fine cavalry were buried in Qiaoshan and Jiuyuan.
Xianbei's last ridge bone was finally broken by someone Feng.
The psychological advantage that Xianbei had over the Han people created during the Tanshihuai era was completely shattered.
In addition, Jihan has an industrial chain that is unparalleled in the world, and the products it produces are like magnets, attracting the barbarians on the grassland.
From Juyan to Jiuyuan, and from Jiuyuan to Pingchang, everywhere is filled with barbarians who speak mixed Chinese and learn nondescript Han etiquette.
But without professional guidance and systematic study, they would never be able to be as smooth and natural as Tuoba Desert Khan.
Feng's mind was spinning and he asked:
"Tuoba Liwei is your master?"
"Adult" in Chinese and "adult" in Xianbei dialect have different meanings.
But Tuoba Desert Khan was familiar with Han family etiquette, so he naturally understood the meaning of the noble man's words.
"Back to my lord, that's right."
"Is he feeling well?"
"Thanks to your concern, Aye can still ride a horse and hunt, and he is still strong."
Hearing this, Feng couldn't help but sigh:
"I remember that he is just a few years younger than the bald boy, so he is almost 70 years old, right? I didn't expect that he is still so healthy."
Tuoba Desert Khan was sent here by Tuoba Liwei, so he was certainly not an ordinary person.
Seeing Mr. Feng's aura, and then hearing him mention Liangzhou, his tone seemed to be very familiar to the Tuoba clan.
When he heard the other person mention the bald orphan again, his heart moved.
Others don't know about the bald man, but how could Tuoba Desert Khan not know about it?
I heard that the Bald Tribe, which was separated from the Tuoba Tribe, had attached itself to Feng Duhu in Liangzhou in the early years.
At this time, he was so blessed that he suddenly remembered a very memorable encounter on the Baishan Mountain Trail a few days ago:
Feng Duhu, who came to Pingcheng a few days ago, isn't his surname Feng?
As soon as he thought of this, Tuoba Desert Khan's heart suddenly began to beat loudly.
He swallowed a mouthful of water with some difficulty, his heartbeat quickened, and his energy and blood surged.
I saw him asking tentatively:
"Listen to the noble man's tone and get acquainted with Aye?"
Feng shook his head:
"I don't know him, but he has been famous for a long time."
Now the Liangzhou Bald Tribe is split from the Tuoba Tribe.
Bald Pigu, the lord of the Bald Tribe, was originally the successor of the previous Xianbei lord of the Tuoba Tribe, Tuoba Jiefen.
Who would have expected that Tuoba Liwei, the son of a goddess, would appear halfway.
For the sake of what the goddess said, "descendants will inherit the throne and be the emperor from generation to generation", Tuoba Jiefen finally changed his mind and made Tuoba Liwei the heir of the tribe.
Tuoba Pigu was not angry, so he and his tribesmen who supported him fled westward.
Then he met Feng, and the fate of the tribe changed.
As for the Tuoba Xianbei who stayed on the grassland, their core tribe was Suotou.
Tuoba Xianbei was originally just a small species of Xianbei.
But as Tuoba Liwei is the son of the goddess of heaven, he is naturally not comparable to those ordinary leaders in the grassland, and he can be regarded as a heroic figure.
After the death of Tanshihuai, Xianbei was divided and various tribes attacked each other.
The Tuoba tribe was also inevitably involved in this chaos.
Knowing that he was unable to withstand this chaos, Tuoba Liwei took the initiative to rely on Dou Bin, the leader of the Moluhui tribe, to resist the Xianbei invasion in the west in order to avoid being exterminated.
In a certain battle, Dou Bin was defeated and even lost his horse, so he could only escape on foot.
At this critical moment, Tuoba Liwei gave him his handsome horse.
It was precisely because of this incident that Dou Bin was deeply moved and planned to give half of his land to Tuoba Liwei.
Of course, Tuoba Liwei must have strongly refused.
So Dou Bin married his favorite daughter to Tuoba Liwei.
At the same time, he helped Tuoba Liwei to go to Changchuan in northern Monan to establish a foothold.
Others were desperately trying to go south, but Tuoba Liwei's seemingly retrograde move actually gave Suo Toutou a chance to breathe and grow stronger.
Not only did it avoid Kebineng's annexation of the grassland tribes in the next ten years, but it also avoided being involved in disputes between Kebineng and the Han people in the south.
He was surrounded by endless wars, but Suo Touhou stayed peacefully in Changchuan, allowing many Xianbei people to seek refuge.
At the same time, when Kebi was defeated by the Wei State and Xianbei in the west was expelled by the Liangzhou Han people, Suotou took the opportunity to absorb many fleeing Hu people.
Over the years, Xianbei in the west, which was the first to split off, was almost destroyed, and Kebi Neng, the most powerful after Tanshihuaai, was exterminated.
Tuoba Xianbei, who lives in the northern part of Monan and is led by Tuoba Liwei, is growing stronger day by day, and unknowingly, it quietly controls half of Monan.
From a small tribe, Xianbei, it became the largest tribe on the grassland.
Feng was naturally well aware of this information.
But at this time, he deliberately looked at Tuoba Desert Khan with an appraising look:
"However, I heard that there are now 100,000 string-controllers in Suo's head, making it the largest tribe in the grassland."
"If you really wanted to kill someone on the head, why were you being harassed on the mountain road?"
Tuoba Desert Khan was slightly shocked. He didn't expect that the other party even knew about this.
But when he thought of the other party's possible identity, he quickly felt relieved.
"Since your noble lord knows what happened that day, you must also know that the people who made things difficult for me on the mountain road that day were people from the Wuluhui tribe."
"Then this matter becomes even more unreasonable. If I remember correctly, Suotou and Muluhuibu are related by marriage, right?"
"The nobles only know one, but don't know the other." Tuoba Desert Khan smiled bitterly, "It's true that the two tribes are related by marriage, but the Lord Wuluhui regards us as relatives, but his two sons may not."
At that time, Dou Bin, the leader of the Luhui tribe, wanted to give half of the clan's land to Tuoba Liwei, which already caused a rift between his two sons, Dou Suhou and Dou Huiti.
Not to mention that as the former sect master of Suotou, now he has to rely on Tuoba Li's weak breathing, which makes people feel even more unhappy.
Strangers who have never met each other have worked hard and turned around. Some will feel envious, some will find it inspiring, and some will be jealous, but few will be so jealous as to be crazy.
But the relatives and friends who have always been below you have surpassed yourself, and even become existences that you have to look up to, and the feeling in your heart is different from that of strangers.
Not to mention that this relative and friend didn't even have a place to live at that time and once stayed in his own home.
The start-up capital for his business was funded by his own family, and he was even willing to donate half of his family property to the other party.
Now that the other party is rich and has a net worth of billions, he is not willing to give even 1.8 million. Is this reasonable?
Dou Suhou, Dou Huiqi believed that Tuoba Liwei first attached himself to his own tribe and was regarded as a servant of his own tribe.
When a servant becomes a master, not many masters will be happy.
Moreover, Tuoba Liwei received a gift from his own tribe to gain a foothold.
Besides, back then, my lord planned to give half of the tribe’s land to Tuoba Liwei, which shows how generous the gift was to him.
What now?
Tuoba Liwei controlled such a large area of land and would rather give the pastures to the tribes who came to rely on him than give even a little bit of land to the Wuluhui tribe.
So the two of them were naturally angry.
Now that I met Tuoba Desert Khan outside, it was only natural to deliberately make things difficult for him.
Having drunk some wine and being in an agitated mood at this time, Tuoba Desert Khan also started chatting.
But his face looked a little angry:
"Your Excellency led the tribe to Changchuan more than ten years ago. Over the past ten years, he has been vigorously promoting moralization. The old Xianbei tribe admires your virtue and has come to join us."
"If your Excellency is really like Dou Suhou, Dou Huiti and the two of you want to take other people's land for marriage, wouldn't it ruin your reputation? Who will dare to come here in the future?"
Feng nodded:
"It turns out that there is such a twist in this. In this way, Tuoba Liwei is really a rare visionary on the grassland."
He looked at Tuoba Desert Khan again:
"No wonder when I saw Tuoba Langjun, I felt that he was very different from the ordinary Hu people. It turns out that there is such an adult. He really has a tiger father and no dog son!"
These words not only praised Tuoba Liwei, but also praised Tuoba Desert Khan.
Where has Tuoba Desert Khan ever seen such stunts as "eloquent words and seduction"?
I was a little embarrassed on the spot, and at the same time I felt very happy, and inexplicably moved.
Because these days, I have been rejected many times, and my heart feels gloomy.
At this time, he suddenly heard such praise from such noble people. If it weren't for the asymmetry in status, he would have wanted to make him a confidant.
Of course it’s not enough to just praise yourself, but it doesn’t hurt to talk about your Aye:
"Your Majesty often says that when I look at the Huns in front of me, they are Kebineng's followers. They are greedy for money and gain, and they plunder the border people of Han Dynasty. Although they gain something, their casualties are not enough to make up for it."
"What he did was to attract the enemies of the Han family and bring disaster to the people. This is not a long-term plan. That's why your Excellency sent me here. I want to make good friends with the Han family and don't want to make the same mistake as Ke Bineng."
After saying these words in one breath, Tuoba Desert Khan breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down a little.
Then there was a wry smile on his face again:
"Who would have expected...ah!"
In fact, it doesn't mean anything to say such things.
After all, it is not a shame to make good friends with Han people.
Any tribe that has grown to a certain extent on the grasslands will send envoys to the Central Plains whenever they feel they are qualified.
With the exception of Tanshihuai.
Therefore, Tuoba Xianbei, who had benefited from the corpse dividends of Western Xianbei and Kebineng, and whose strength had expanded earlier than in the original history, was just acting as usual this time.
Of course, it would have been more sincere if Tuoba Desert Khan had not secretly glanced at the noble man opposite him when he sighed.
It's just that when Feng was sixteen years old and was having an extreme relationship with the old demon Zhuge, Tuoba Desert Khan was still riding a lamb to practice his riding skills.
Now at this age, how could it be possible for him to show his flaws in front of Tuoba Desert Khan?
But I saw Feng smiled and said casually:
"No wonder I heard that in the past few days, someone wanted to see the Xianbei captain several times. It turned out to be Mr. Tuoba Lang."
Then he raised his glass and took a sip of wine, pointed at Tuoba Desert Khan, and said jokingly:
"Only for this matter, Tuoba Langjun has found the wrong person. The captain who protects Xianbei is rarely in the city, but mostly leading troops outside the city."
"The person in charge in the city is Shi, the head of the Hu Xianbei school, and Tuoba Langjun came to do something. Why didn't he even inquire about such important matters in advance?"
Tuoba Desert Khan was startled when he heard this:
"Is this so? It turns out that I have repeatedly asked to see you, but I haven't received it, and this is what happened?"
Tuoba Desert Khan quickly saluted someone Feng:
"I have been asking for it so hard, but I didn't expect that I didn't find a way. Now I have someone to give me some advice. I'm really grateful!"
"It's just a casual remark, what's the point?" Feng waved his hand carelessly, "But I'm quite familiar with the Principal's Mansion, so I know the secrets."
These words may seem careless, but when Tuoba Desert Khan heard them, he almost couldn't hide the ecstasy in his heart.
Sure enough, this noble man's status is definitely extraordinary, and he is definitely a person worth making friends with.
Even if he has little relationship with Feng Duhu, he is probably still a very powerful person.
Otherwise, how would he know about protecting Xianbei's mansion?
After confirming this, Tuoba Desert Khan subconsciously wanted to find a topic and get closer to the other party.
But before he could speak, Feng asked again:
"There's just one thing, I'm a little curious and want to ask Mr. Tuoba."
"Your Excellency, please speak."
"Now that the world is divided into three parts, Han, Wei and Wu are all standing together, let alone the Kingdom of Wu. Do you want to make good friends with the Han people, or do you want to send others to the Kingdom of Wei?"
When Tuoba Desert Khan heard this, he was stunned and dared not speak.