Seeing Mrs. Liu, Mo Ling was surprised and happy, and quickly brought her back to the palace to settle her down. From then on, she learned the whole truth about the "Mo Clan Rebellion" from Mrs. Liu.
That day, several tribes in the grassland formed an alliance and suddenly launched an attack on the Black Ink Clan.
The Black Ink Clan was very puzzled after being attacked by the alliance. The several tribes in the grassland have always been peaceful except for fighting for pasture for their livelihood. The Black Ink Clan has long retreated, so why do those tribes attack them?
Under the coercion and inducement of the alliance, the Black Ink Clan learned the purpose of the alliance's attack on the Black Ink Clan. First, they wanted to punish the Mo people for abandoning the grassland tribes and establishing diplomatic relations with Beiming without permission; second, they used the attack on the Mo people as a cover to cross over and plunder the Beiming border town.
As long as the Black Ink Clan is willing to open the city and let them pass through the border and cut off diplomatic relations with Beiming, they will forget about it, otherwise they will regard the Black Ink Clan as an enemy.
But the Black Ink Clan also knew very well that if they betrayed Beiming, their end would definitely not be better than now. Moreover, Princess Mo Ling has been married to Emperor Xuanwu, and Beiming's material culture is needed for the development of the Mo clan, which makes it even more impossible for them to turn against Beiming.
Mo Ling's father immediately led his clansmen back to the city to guard the city gate, not giving the alliance the slightest chance. He also sent people to inform the troops stationed at the Beiming border of the tribal alliance's plan, and asked them to send the news to them. Return to Shangyuan City and ask Beiming to send troops for reinforcements to fight against the tribal alliance together.
The Mo clan's desperate resistance attitude also completely angered the tribal alliance.
Not long after, the Black Ink Clan received news from Beiming's garrison, saying that Beiming's army had set a trap in the rear, asking them to pretend to obey and surrender, and then they would use a trick to open the city gate and let the alliance army pass through, and then they could catch the turtle in the jar.
The news returned from Beiming made the king and several elders very hesitant. They don't understand what kind of medicine is sold in Beiming Gourd, why don't they directly send troops to reinforce and work together to completely intercept the tribal alliance outside the borders of the Black Ink Clan, but let them enter the Black Ink Clan's territory? You must know that once the Black Ink Clan opens the city gate, they will definitely have a fierce battle with the Tribal Alliance. How can the Tribal Alliance let them go easily?
But the war was intense at that time, and the Black Ink Clan was weak and isolated, and could not resist for a long time. Even though the king and the elders had doubts about this strategy, as the tribal alliance's offensive became increasingly fierce, the Black Ink Clan had no choice but to follow Beiming's plan when they had no choice but to do so.
The king ordered all the old, weak, women and children to evacuate to the border of Beiming, and led those who stayed behind to open the city gate and let the tribal alliance pass through. Unexpectedly, this release not only caused heavy casualties to the Mo clan, but also became the "evidence" of their rebellion.
At that time, Mrs. Liu took her three-year-old son and the old and weak women and children of the Mo clan to the border of Beiming. As a country with diplomatic relations with the Mo clan, Beiming should accept these people of the Mo clan. But when they arrived at the border, the Beiming garrison actually refused the Black Ink Clan's request to enter on the grounds that the Black Ink Clan was at war and feared being mixed into the spies.
Soon the tribal alliance reached the northern border, but the Beiming garrison did not take any action. Only then did they know that Beiming's so-called trap was not set for others from beginning to end, but for the Black Ink Clan!
They, a group of old and weak women and children, were locked up outside the city with no one to rely on. They could only grit their teeth and fight to the death with the tribal alliance. Fortunately, the king and his people arrived in time and saved some of them. They fled all the way back to the Black Ink Clan city. Fortunately, the tribal alliance's goal was the Beiming border city and they did not drive them all away, which allowed them to escape.
When they set foot on that familiar land, they discovered that this was still the home they usually lived in? Looking around, there are corpses everywhere and devastation everywhere. Every inch of the land is stained with the blood of the tribe. Those dark red blood stains seem to tell that a catastrophe has occurred here.
The tribal alliance has not let go of the Black Ink Clan after all, and the person standing here now is the only remaining living person of the Black Ink Clan.
They buried the corpses of their clan members with tears in their eyes, including Liu's father and husband. But before she could get over her grief, the king fell.
It turned out that the king had also been seriously injured in this battle. After he learned that his tribe had not been protected by Beiming, he rushed to the north with his last breath, holding on to his seriously injured body to pick up the tribe. Unfortunately, it was too late. In the end, more than half of their group of old, weak, women and children were killed or injured.
When the king was dying, he quietly handed a piece of silk into Liu's hands and told her that the Mo clan's disaster today may have been caused by this piece of silk. Emperor Xuanwu had secretly sent people to the Mo clan to look for this piece of silk. A piece of silk, but he didn't know the origin and function of this piece of silk, so he could only hide it secretly. He knew that the purpose of Emperor Xuanwu's establishment of diplomatic relations with the Mo people was not as simple as it seemed. It was just that the Mo people were helpless. If they wanted to have long-term development, they must learn the farming technology and other advanced cultures of the Central Plains from Beiming. If Beiming wants to be unfavorable to the Black Ink Clan in the future, this volume of piano music will be a bargaining chip.
But what he didn't expect was that the tribal alliance would raid the Black Ink Clan, but Beiming completely ignored Mo Ling and directly attacked the Black Ink Clan, not even giving them a chance to negotiate. It turns out that Beiming had been planning to annex the Mo clan from the very beginning, to establish diplomatic relations, and to form marriages, all for the purpose of killing people with a borrowed knife today.
The king asked Mrs. Liu to hand over the piece of silk to Mo Ling no matter what, and told Mo Ling to beware of Emperor Xuanwu.
Soon after, the king died of his injuries. At the same time, Xiao Yuchuan also led his army to the northern border to fight with the tribal alliance.
With war smoke filling the air everywhere, the people of the Black Ink Clan could only hide in the city and dare not go out. They didn't know how long these dark days had passed. It wasn't until the hoofbeats of the tribal alliance passed through the city that they knew Beiming had won.
But they never expected that after the defeat of the tribal alliance, what awaited the Black Ink Clan would be another catastrophe.
When Xiao Yuchuan led his army to kill him, Liu and his son hid in a cellar and narrowly escaped death. When she was hiding in the cellar, she accidentally heard the soldiers who were searching outside secretly mentioning some secret edict. From the content of their conversation, she discovered that these soldiers turned out to be two groups of people. One group was Xiao Yuchuan's people, while the other group came to look for things secretly under Emperor Xuanwu's secret order.
When she came out of the cellar, it was already a few days later. She and her son went to look for the person with great luck. However, except for the strong and disgusting smell of blood and the vultures eating the corpses, the whole city was full of people. Dead silence, no more life.
Liu was almost desperate, but she couldn't let herself fall. She had to live. She also had to fulfill the king's last wish, go to Beiming to find the princess, and tell her all the truth. She couldn't let her be affected by Beiming and Xuan again. Emperor Wu was deceived and wanted to avenge the tragic death of his clan members!
She suppressed the grief in her heart and disguised herself, and fostered her son in a farmhouse in the north. She sneaked into Shangyuan City secretly, preparing to find an opportunity to sneak into the palace. Unexpectedly, she saw the undressed traveler outside the palace that day. Mo Ling.
After listening to Liu's words, Mo Ling felt a storm in his heart. Shock, anger, grief and anger were mixed for a moment, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.
At first she couldn't figure out what Queen Renzhao meant by what she said to her before she passed away. The northern tribes and the Black Ink Clan have always been at odds with each other, so why did they suddenly form an alliance to attack the Black Ink Clan? Why did the northern garrison frame the Black Ink Clan for rebellion? Why would Xiao Yuchuan rather resist the decree than annihilate the Mo clan?
It turns out that these seemingly unrelated things can be connected in series. All of this is the layout of Emperor Xuanwu.
