The north wind is blowing fiercely, which is a sign that winter is coming.
To the northeast of Yanran Mountain, a 'big city' was built with a foundation made of yellow mud, stones mixed with a small amount of waxy soil, and even cow and horse dung. It appeared quite abruptly in this vast world. between.
This city can only be said to be barely passable in Han Dynasty, but it can be regarded as a majestic city in Mobei. It was the original location of Hanhai Dudufu and Anbei Dudufu of the Tang Dynasty.
After the Tang Dynasty left Mobei, the Uighurs rose up, and this became the royal court of the Uighurs.
Nowadays, it is occupied by the divination people, and they call it Worudo, also called Oruduo.
This is a word that has been fixed since the Turkic period, meaning palace tent and royal tent.
Worudo has a circumference of fifty or sixty miles, with six formal gates. In some places, there are even defensive archery towers built on the city walls. These are the remnants of the Anbei Protectorate in the past.
However, by the time all the Han craftsmen withdrew, and after three hundred years of divination had passed into the hands of the Zuzu people, the city's greatest role had changed from military defense and demonstrating the majesty of the Tang Dynasty to becoming a good place for herdsmen to escape the wind and snow. place.
A large number of divination nobles and even herdsmen set up their own tents in the city, and they moved the stones used to build the city everywhere, because on the grasslands of Mobei, regular stones are also relatively precious.
But as a result, the great city that the Tang Dynasty had spent huge amounts of money to build in the past was demolished to pieces. It could only be entered and exited through six gates, but now it has gaps everywhere.
This kind of damage has greatly weakened the ability of Voludo City to withstand wind and snow. The fortune tellers were unable to withstand the cold wind in warm houses like the Uighur nobles in the past, so they used the traditional tents again. , moved back to the city.
Looking from the heights of Yanran Mountain in the distance, we can see a large number of tents connected together in the maze-like city.
Located in the middle, the place with the largest and most tents is the royal tent of Dusage, the powerful chieftain of the Zuzugu people.
The rest of the divination nobles each controlled a piece of the city, and were distributed around King Dusage's tent like stars over the moon. The closer they were to the tent outside, the lower their status.
It's not winter yet, but the cold wind from the Xianbei Wasteland in the far north has begun to blow into Woludo City.
Ba Yegusi, the eldest son of Du Sage, the powerful chieftain who blocked the divination, tightly wrapped himself in a white linen robe and walked quickly towards Du Sage's tent.
Along the way, the thing that was blown up most by the north wind was the sand and dust mixed with urine on the ground. The smell was enough to make him extremely uncomfortable for someone who had not been to Voludo for a long time.
The climate has become slightly milder in recent years, and the Zubu people have quickly seized this rare opportunity to engage in livestock raising. The number of cattle, horses, and sheep has increased ten times compared to 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 Woludo City.
The livestock manure in the city is piled up like a hill. Although most of it has dried, there is still a strong smell of feces and urine when the wind blows. On windy days, you can even see dried feces particles swirling all over the sky.
As for the pastures outside the city, the fresh and tender pastures that were originally as tall as a person have long been harvested. The ground is covered with thin and short grass stubbles, and even loess is exposed in many places.
At the same time, a large number of livestock have also caused great pollution to water sources. In many small rivers around Woludo, there are now very few small fish and crabs.
Although Ba Yegusi doesn't understand what ecological deterioration is, he can feel that the unpleasant smell and the increase in human and animal diseases in Voludo City have brought great harm to the seemingly strong Yubu Department. threaten.
Outside the king's tent, a huge fat cow had been bled cleanly. Several bare-chested herdsmen wearing animal skin shorts were removing the bones and removing the flesh from the fat cow.
The tender loin and tendon meat will be grilled, similar to the iron plate in later generations, except that it is placed on hot pottery pieces.
Beef shanks are best suited for roasting after some meat has been removed. Stewed beef head will be the best treat for guests.
The grasslands at this time were far less sophisticated than those of later generations. A large iron urn that could stew almost half a cow in one mouthful was extremely precious even to Du Sage and a symbol of his strength.
As for the little fat sheep that were killed one by one, of course they were roasted whole to show off the wealth of the fortune teller.
There are also various pheasants and wild birds stewed together with various eggs and wild vegetables and mushrooms in a clay pot.
When Banyegus saw that there were still some warriors from the Merqi tribe standing around the king's tent, he knew that it must be the messenger from the Merqi tribe, or even the chief of Merqi, Hulu Badu, who had arrived in person.
In the king's tent, the atmosphere of eating meat and drinking wine was at its most lively. Dusage was holding a huge bowl of wine and was frequently inviting drinks to another man in a blue robe.
Dusage is very tall, with a beautiful beard, and a huge belly that makes people doubt that he can hold a whole roasted lamb.
The slightly turbid wine in the giant bowl, accompanied by a loud voice that pretended to be bold, was drunk into the stomach by Du Sage.
After drinking, he wiped away the wine stuck to his beard in a graceful manner, which perfectly fit the image of a powerful Mobei chief in people's minds.
On the contrary, the Merqi chief Hulu Balshu who was invited to drink by him sounded like a tough man on the grassland like Dusage, but in fact Hulu Balshu looked very thin.
With a mustache, a face as black as a shoehorn, and a green Tang Dynasty robe, he looks more like a teacher from Han than a prairie chief.
Ba Yegusi opened the curtain of the big tent and walked in. Dusage saw his eldest son, with a half-smile expression on his face, and then pointed to a few seats near the curtain, feeling a little uninterested. said.
"My son is here, please choose a seat and sit down!"
There was an expression of extreme dissatisfaction on Banyegusi's face. He was the eldest son of Tusage. His father invited the leaders of various ministries, but he could only sit at the bottom.
Seeing Banye Gusi's expression, Dusage's face was also filled with anger, but it quickly passed away because Mierqi's Hulu Badu was beside him. He suppressed his anger and glanced at the bottom The leader's confidant.
The confidant quickly ran over with a smile, and half persuaded and half pushed Gusi to his seat.
Although Gusi was angry, he knew that he had no choice.
All the problems lie in his origin. His mother is not a fortune teller, but a member of the Eight Enemies in the East.
When Du Sage was young and unable to control the divination tribes, he finally secured his position with the help of Grandpa Ba Yegusi, the leader of the eight enemy tribes.
In the first ten years, Dusage was extremely submissive. In the next ten years, especially after Grandpa Baye Gusi and his mother passed away one after another, Dusage fell out with the Eight Divisions of Dilie.
Even his eldest son was not liked by Du Sage and was semi-expelled to nomadic areas near the Eight Tribes of Dilie.
In addition to this reason, there is also the long-standing conflict between the Eight Tribes of Enemy Lie and the Zubu, Merqi, Dalimi and other tribes. On the grasslands originally controlled by the Khitans, they had deep hatred.
The eight tribes of Zubu, Merqi, Dalimi, and Dilie were actually originally a nation, or a tribe.
They all come from Uighurs, that is, small tribes that are dependent on the Uighurs. Most of the time, they are collectively referred to as the Nine-surnamed Tatars by the Uighurs.
After the decline of the Uighur Khanate and the rise of the Khitan, the Emperor of Liao divided the nine-surname Tatars who had surrendered to the Khitan into eight tribes, collectively known as the Eight Tribes of Enemies.
Those who were unwilling to submit to the Khitans were called Zubu, Dalimi, etc.
In the following decades after the rise of the Khitan people, it was natural that the Eight Tribes of Dilie, who were knowledgeable, enjoyed the spicy food, while the Zubu and other tribes drank a small dozen every three days, and one dozen every five days.
This made the gap between the eight enemy tribes and their original relatives deeper and deeper.
This policy of the Khitans gradually gave the Eight Divisions of Enemy Lie a strange attribute. Actively or passively, they became spies on the grassland.
Later, the Eight Enemy Tribes gradually became very familiar to many people. They liked to collude with the Emperor of the Central Plains, plunder other tribes, and capture the leaders of other tribes and send them to the Emperor of the Central Plains to ride on wooden donkeys.
The most famous victim in history was Temujin's grandfather, Abahai. At the same time, Temujin's father, Sugei, was also poisoned to death by the Tatars.
Seeing Banye Gusi sitting down obediently, Dusage was also relieved. This time he invited the chief of Mierqi, Hu Luba, and he was even willing to take the lead in fighting the Liufa Sect's eastward advance. This was all because of this. There is a reason.
From the names of the two people, it can be seen that Hulu Badu is the chief of Milqi, while Dusage is just the powerful chief of the people who prevent the divination.
Because among the five tribes of Zubu, Du Sage only controls three of them, the North Zubu tribe, and the remaining two tribes are nomadic to the west of Yanran Mountain. They don't really listen to the greetings of his big leader, and they don't even recognize him as the Zubu chief. head.
Therefore, Du Sage took advantage of the fact that the three tribes of Bei Zu Bu Bu under him had prospered in population and livestock in recent years, and directly raised the banner against the Six Methods Sect.
Sure enough, after Dusage came forward, not only did the two tribes of Zubu to the west of Yanran Mountain heed the call and sent envoys and knights, but even the two nearby tribes of Dalimi and Yefugu also expressed their willingness to provide services to a certain extent. , obey Du Sage's instructions.
What is the most important thing on the grassland? Of course it’s fame!
With reputation, small nomadic tribes will continue to come to seek refuge. In history, the Turks, Xueyantuo people, Uighurs, etc. all started out step by step like this.
In particular, Dusage occupied Voludo, which made him feel deep down in his heart that their family had a destiny.
This time he invited the chief of Meerqi, Hulu Balshu, to go south in person in order to show it to the other two envoys of the Zubu tribe and the two tribes of Dalimi and Yefugua who had just reluctantly obeyed the call.
You must know that Mierqiren is very powerful at this time.
They were originally part of the Mohe people east of the Xianbei Mountains. After the Rouran Khanate was wiped out by the Turks, a large number of Rouran people fled to the north and merged with the Merqi people, bringing them relatively advanced Military and animal husbandry skills.
Nowadays, the Meer beggars are good at using bows and arrows, herding cattle and sheep, and domesticating reindeer. They even have a little bit of farming, fishing and hunting attributes. They are not afraid of death when fighting. They are very tough light cavalry and mountain infantry. .
This makes them much stronger than the Dalimi and Yefu tribes south of Yanran Mountain and closer to the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Du Sage invited Hulu Balshu here just to make Hulu Balshu and the entire Milqi tribe stand for him and enhance the illusion that Du Sage was famous.
In the seemingly heated atmosphere, Hulu Balshu secretly cast his gaze at the yellow-haired Shamili in the distance.
The Merqi tribe was the first to take up the banner of fighting against the Six Dharma Sect, but the main reason why it was soon transferred to Dusage was the loss of Mi Li.
Shimili took a sip of the sour wine. He actually had another name, which was more Chinese-style, Yaoluo Ge Jingyi.
He is a fish that slipped through the net of the Ganzhou Uighurs. Compared with the nine foreign surnames such as the Atiao family of the Karakhan Uighurs and the Pugu family of the Gaochang Uighurs, Yaoluoge is the authentic Uighur Khan surname.
In today's grasslands, in addition to Dadan, Zubu and other tribes that evolved from the peripheral Uighurs, there are still many small tribes that adhere to the Uighur tradition.
The name of the Great Uighur Khan has not completely disappeared from the grassland tribes, but the surname Yaoluo Ge still has a certain appeal.
Yaoluo Ge Jingyi ran to the grassland before Zhang Gao conquered Ganzhou, and was quickly spotted by Du Sage who wanted to increase his reputation.
The two hit it off, Dusage married Yaoluo Ge Jingyi's aunt, and Yaoluo Ge Jingyi married Dusage's daughter.
One of them was famous and the other was powerful. Compared to them, although Mierqiren was fierce, he was unable to compete with the powerful combination of the two on the grassland where blood was valued.
When Yao Luo Ge Jingyi, known as Sha Mi Li, returned to Yanran Mountain, Mi Erqi's Hu Lu Badu could only become a foil.
Banye Gusi also quietly looked at Yaoluo Ge Jingyi, and his cheek twitched slightly.
Although Yao Luo Ge Jingyi's wife is his sister, they are not actually born from the same mother. Instead, because of the hatred between their mothers, the relationship between the two brothers and sister is very bad, so bad that they want each other to die.
Now that Yaoluo Ge Jingyi is back, Ba Yegu suddenly feels that his situation is even more dangerous.
At this moment, in the lightning flash, the eyes of the two frustrated people suddenly collided because they were peeping at Yao Luo Ge Jingyi!
What a big drama, I don’t know who will explode it!
(End of chapter)
