"Is this going to be tortured to extract a confession?"
Fu Zhibai immediately realized that this captured Dangxiang's army, and naturally needed a secluded place to conduct a thorough interrogation. However, when he looked at the expressions of the Dangxiang people behind Lin Yi, he was filled with suspicion.
It seemed that these party members were quite happy and did not look like they were facing torture to extract confessions.
But since it was definitely Lin Yi, he didn't ask any more questions and just said respectfully: "Please come with me, General Lin."
The most classy thing about Hongyan Cave is indeed the several stilted buildings.
From a distance, the doors and windows of these stilted buildings seemed to be covered with black cloth, but when they got closer, they found that only the sleeping rooms on the second floor were covered, while the third floor was ventilated from all sides, with piles of piles piled at the edges.
A lot of hay, millet and other grains.
"This is not really an inn, but the owner is familiar to us. We are all old salt merchants. After we came, I took over all these buildings. General, although you are discussing things here, no one will come.
disturb."
Fuzhibai led Lin Yi to the third floor of one of the stilted buildings. On the third floor of this stilted building was a table made of dead wood roots. On the table were placed some dark-looking dried fruits, which looked like
Lin Yi had never seen wild fruits dried before.
Dang Xiang and others were really invisible at this time and did not need Lin Yi's orders. However, only Xifeng Yingshan and Xifeng Yingqi followed them to the third floor. However, except for those two mothers, there was no one on Lin Yi's side.
The zocerite warrior did not follow, and the rest of Fei Xu and others all followed Lin Yi's wishes and went upstairs to listen.
Fei Xu, Zhu Yu, and Yan Jinghai all understood in their hearts that Lin Yi used people without suspicion and did not use people with suspicion. The more this was the case, the more they admired Lin Yi's actions.
Naturally, the three of them didn't know that Lin Yi became the master of the sword pavilion mostly by accident, or because of Shen Yue's deliberate arrangement, because without Shen Yue's arrangement, He Xiuxian would not have been able to teach Lin Yi the Wuluo Golden Body Technique.
It is impossible for Yi to become his last disciple.
They naturally believed that a person like He Xiuxian must be very selective when choosing his disciples. From this point of view, it would not be considered a disgrace for them to follow Lin Yi.
"You said before that the situation in your party is not as simple as I thought?"
Lin Yi didn't talk nonsense. After inviting everyone to sit down, he looked at the two party members and said, "Please discuss in detail."
"I don't know, General, how much you know about our party, but I just assume that the General has no idea at all. I will explain it in detail later. If I offend you, I hope you will forgive me." Xi Feng Yingshan became serious and spoke.
He was tactful and polite. He looked at Lin Yi and nodded, and stopped talking nonsense and said: "In the early years, our party was vast and sparsely populated. Just like Mobei in the Northern Wei Dynasty, each tribe took care of itself and even often fought against each other. Later,
Some of our tribes also deeply understood the principle that division makes us weak and unity makes us strong. Later, eight tribes took the lead: Xifeng, Feiting, Quli, Pochao, Yeli, Miqin, and Tuoba.
, forcibly most of the tribes in Dangxiang merged together at that time, we established city-states, and all ethnic groups traded, and it became really strong. Later, we annexed some small hostile countries around us, and we became today's Dangxiang.
The eight tribes have all become royal families, and the emperors of all dynasties have been elected from among the eight royal families. For major issues, it is not the emperor alone who has the final say, but the Eight Kings Hall’s discussion. Our party has been in trouble for decades.
I also learned from the awards of the Northern Wei and Southern Dynasties, and whether you can enter the Eight Kings Palace is determined by merit, so each tribe has different seats for entering the Eight Kings Palace. Our Xifeng clan has seven seats, and the other clans also have five seats.
It varies from ten seats to another, but the Tuoba clan is the most powerful, with seventeen seats in the Eight Kings Palace."
"oh?"
Lin Yi suddenly became curious. He had never seen this party's policy of governing the country in history books before. It was considered a special case. He couldn't help but ask, "Then how do you recommend the emperor?"
"If the old emperor is no longer physically strong enough to undertake state affairs, or is considered by the Eight Kings Palace to have made a major mistake and is no longer worthy of being the emperor, the Eight Kings Palace will re-elect him. During the election, each royal family will select a suitable candidate from their own clan.
, and then promise the interests of other ethnic groups. Whichever family gets more supporting seats, the person from that family will be elected in the end." Xi Fengyingshan said.
Lin Yidao: "Isn't that equivalent to each family bribing other families to see which family can successfully buy out the others?"
Xi Feng Yingshan nodded, "That's pretty much what it means. It's just that whichever company has more seats will ultimately have an advantage, and there will naturally be fewer people to bribe and win over."
Lin Yi glanced at him, indicating that he understood, without saying anything, and asked him to continue.
"Our current Emperor Xiang is a member of the Mi Qin family. Although he is only fifty-three years old, in recent years the Tuoba family has been planning to have him come down so that a member of the Tuoba family can become the emperor."
Xi Feng Yingshan smiled bitterly and said: "Originally, among the eight royal families, if the Tuoba clan was superior in strength, it would be a bit confusing, but now there is another Xiaba clan."
"What is this Xiaba clan?" Luo Jilian couldn't help but interjected. Even she had never heard of the name of this clan.
"Of course the Sherpa clan is not our party's royal family. They were originally a group of natives on the Sherpa Mountains, just a small clan, but they suddenly appeared in the past ten years. What's great about them is their firearms."
Xi Feng Yingshan naturally frowned when he talked about Xia Ba, looking like he had a headache, "It can be said that most of the powerful firearms in our party are made by Xia Ba, and the best weapons in our party are
Several purple salt mines are located in their Sherpa Mountains. In addition, they are also good at making some special colored glass beads, some of which are mixed with gemstone powder or coral powder to make beads that are more precious than natural gemstones.
They should be good-looking. These beads are not only very popular among our party, but most importantly, Rouran and Tuguhun are particularly fond of them. There are even caravans selling them as far away as the Western Regions outside Tyuhun, and some beads have even become the common currency in those places.
"
"A lot of these beads are produced?"
Lin Yi glanced at Xi Feng Yingshan and immediately understood how powerful this Xia Ba family was.
These beads can be recognized as having astonishing value by foreign dynasties in the Western Region, and even become the common currency used in barter in those places. This is equivalent to the Shaba clan having a continuous gold mine.
In the Southern Dynasties, this was equivalent to having control of money and the treasury.
"There's a lot of production."
Xi Feng Yingshan smiled bitterly and said: "By the time our royal family realized how powerful the Sherpa clan was, their wings were already full. Not only did they build chain cities in the Sherpa Mountains, but they also forced the royal family to become a new
The royal family. Our royal family is also helpless towards the Sherpa clan. If we want to destroy the Sherpa clan and conquer the Sherpa Mountains, we will probably suffer staggering losses and trigger a backlash from other clans. But if they don’t agree, they will cause trouble again, and now
Almost all the trade in those places in the Western Regions is done by their people. In the past ten years, those people in the Western Regions have gradually become their friends. Even if we want other things from our party, we must trade with them first.
, obtained from their hands. More than half of the party's money is circulated through their hands."
"There is internal fighting among the royal family, and now a Xiaba clan has suddenly appeared. Dangxiang and you are in such chaos, and you can still entangle hundreds of thousands of troops to enter the Southern Dynasties. This is not easy." Lin Yi couldn't help but laughed.
A smile.
The more straightforward he was, the less restrained Xifeng Yingshan and Xifeng Yingqi became, and the closer they felt.
Xi Feng Yingshan couldn't help but laugh and said: "It is indeed not easy, but I haven't finished talking about it yet, General. In fact, what is even more troublesome is that the Tuoba clan almost controls political affairs now. They have good relations with the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the army is pressing in.
The Southern Dynasties are enemies of the Southern Dynasties. They are actually the ones leading the charge. However, the Sherpas are on good terms with Tuyuhun and other countries in the Western Regions outside of Tuyuhun. They currently cannot control the army, but they just want to squeeze in, so we entered with a large army before.
After the Southern Dynasty, the army quickly retreated, not entirely because King Zhongshan of the Northern Wei Dynasty suddenly withdrew and returned to Luoyang, but because there were various voices in our court itself."
"Then I understand it completely now."
Lin Yi couldn't help but said: "Obviously the rest of you royal families are not of the same mind as the Tuoba family, but you royal family obviously don't want the Xiaba family to suddenly become a royal family, and you are even more worried that the Xiaba family will directly override you, so although you all
The party has millions of troops, but I am afraid that there are constant overt and covert fights among the royal families. If my guess is correct, all these armies are not all under the control of the Tuoba clan, but belong to each of your royal families."