Chapter 22 The Drum
In July of the first year of Yongjia, the Tuoba Xianbei Eastern Emperor Luguan convened a meeting of various tribes at Danhan Mountain. One was held to worship the heavens, and the other was decided to belong to the position of the Great Shanyu of Tuoba Xianbei. The western Emperor Yilu of Tuoba Xianbei, the Wei clan of the central leader, the leader of the eight tribes, the thirty-six countries, and the ninety-nine tribe chiefs of the tribe, all attended the meeting. Wen Qiao, the chief of the Bingzhou of the Great Jin Dynasty, and Duan Piqi, and came to watch the ceremony.
The ceremony of worshiping the heavens has a more religious sacred significance for ordinary tribes in the Tuoba Xianbei. During the ceremony, except for the direct military forces of the East and West tribes, they were all in danger and were not young and acted rashly, most ordinary tribes brought their families and drove cattle and sheep to the foot of Danhan Mountain to see. It was roughly estimated that the number was nearly 200,000.
Such a scale can be regarded as a rare event in northern Xinjiang for many years. The fault is that those who are powerful such as the Tuoba Xianbei can have such a prestige.
However, the 200,000 people were looking forward to it for three days and three nights, but they were looking forward to a tragic news that they could not accept. According to a few chiefs who came down the mountain, at this ceremony, the Western Lord Yilu successfully took over the position of the Great Shanyu. However, because the Eastern Lord Lu Guan died of sudden illness during the ceremony, many noble people belonging to the Eastern Residence became crazy and fought with swords. Lord Yilu and Wei were almost inseparable, and the chiefs of each tribe, Qu Shuai, were killed and injured!
People in the north are simple and simple. Although the lower-level people live in difficult life, they usually respect the tribe chief like gods. When they suddenly heard the news that the chief of the tribe, Qu, was killed, and they were heartbroken. They beat their chests and stamped their feet, and cried in the sky. These people were completely unaware of it. Once the tribe chief died, they were all panicked and didn't know what to do. Looking up at Danhan Mountain, they felt that this sacred mountain contained something extremely terrifying, otherwise why would it bring such a disaster?
When people are in panic, they will only feel a little stable only when they return to the familiar environment. This is human nature. So after a few hours, countless Xianbei herdsmen wiped away their tears and set off to return to their pastures. They will not look back. Ordinary Xianbei people do not have any red tape such as collecting corpses and burying them. When they come to Yilu, they only see hundreds of thousands of Xianbei people scattering, and none of them stay to congratulate the new Grand Chanyu.
Yilu had a firm personality and did not care about it at all. He just rode back to Shengle headquarters. He did not think that the title of the Great Shanyu could make the tribes bow down, but relying on the strength of the Tuoba Xianbei western region and the reputation of the Great Shanyu were enough for him to integrate the tribes with powerful means. Didn’t the Jin people say that, “It must be corrected.”
Wen Qiao suffered a lot on the Danshan Mountain. After all, he was a scholar and could no longer hold on and could not ride the horse. Everyone could only set up cloth bags between the two horses and carry him forward. The seriously injured person who accompanied Wen Qiao was Duan Piyi, the envoy of Wang Jun. This friendly young man was seriously injured in his right leg. Even if he recovered, he would probably not be able to delete the battlefield in the future.
Because of these two people's burden, Yilu and his party returned west a little slower. Fortunately, the location of Danhan Mountain is between the east and west, not far from Shengle City, the base of Yilu, and the journey was halfway through the next morning.
During the afternoon break, Yilu, Wen Qiao and Duan Pihuang chatted. His new Tuoba Xianbei Grand Chanyu was in urgent need of recognition from the Great Jin Dynasty, so he spoke very enthusiastically. He was speaking happily, but by chance he found that the herdsmen of a certain tribe flashed their eyes when they saw everyone, as if they were hiding something.
Yilu immediately summoned the herdsmen to ask. Several herdsmen knelt down tremblingly and reported that there was no time for evil rumors to spread on the grassland, saying that he had conspired with Wei and poisoned Lu Guan to death on Danhan Mountain. In order to cover up the matter, he massacred the chiefs of various tribes. How could these people be the Great Shanyu? They were actually public enemies of the Tuoba Xianbei clan.
Yilu couldn't help but be shocked. His conspiracy with Wei was carried out under extremely secret circumstances. In order to hide the scheming Lu Guan, he could be said to have done enough concealment. Even now, those who know about this are only more than ten confidants who escaped by chance on Danhan Mountain, and even Duan Piyin knew nothing about it. How could such a secret matter be spread and how could it be spread throughout the grassland in such a short time?
What made Yilu even more angry was the last paragraph of this rumor. It would be fine if he conspired with Wei to poison Luguan. In fact, it was like this. A real man dared to act and would not dare to have any objections. However, after Luguan died, the swords and weapons on the Danhan Mountain were revived because of accidental mistakes. The chiefs of Yilu and others were killed and injured. Even he himself almost died under the knife. How could he slaughter the chiefs of various tribes to cover up this matter? This rumor clearly wanted to oppose himself and the Tuoba Xianbei tribes, and to dig out the foundation of the Tuoba Xianbei Grand Chanyu being ordered by the gods of heaven and earth!
A day ago, Yilu stood on the altar on the top of the Danhan Mountain with corpses, serving as the Tuoba Xianbei Grand Chanyu, waiting to build an official office, establish order, and quote the Jin system. From then on, he integrated the scattered Tuoba Xianbei into a unified whole. At that time, Yilu was full of confidence and full of energy... But now he suddenly felt like a beast falling into a trap. Although he had never found where the hunter was hiding, he already understood the extremely bad situation he was in!
"Hateful! Hateful!" Thinking of this, Yilu could not curb the violent intention in his heart. He roared like thunder, waved his horse whip and danced around, and immediately screamed the herdsmen, screaming and waving their skin. Judging from this situation, he almost had to whip these people to death to feel relieved.
The chiefs on the grassland were ordinary for killing the people's livelihood, driving them like dogs, and killing a few. However, Wen Qiao couldn't bear it and persuaded Yilu to calm down: Such a big thing happened on Danhan Mountain, and it was impossible for Lord Yilu to succeed the Great Shanyu smoothly. Now, besides such vicious rumors, everyone must have hated each other, but on the huge grassland, the herdsmen ran to horses without any obstacles and could not control their mouths at all. Even if they killed these shepherds, what's the benefit? The most urgent thing is to rush back to Shengle as soon as possible and gain a foothold in case of unexpected events!
Yilu walked back and forth anxiously on the spot, bowing to Wen Qiao and Duan Piqian, saying, "Since that's the case, leave a few fine men and accompany the two of them slowly. I set off immediately and go to Shengle quickly!"
After saying that, Yilu immediately got on his horse and left in a flash.
Yilu's actions were extremely fast, but after the ceremony of worshiping the sky, the situation of Tuoba Xianbei was like a rock falling from a mountain, and it took a sharp turn, and suddenly it deteriorated to a level that he had never expected before.
First, the most powerful tribes in the east, Wei Nai Lou announced an alliance with the Yuwen tribe, separated from the Tuoba Xianbei, and tens of thousands of tribes set out to move to Liaodong.
Then, the Bai tribe Xianbei and Hexi Tiefhuns, which were originally directly under Yilu, headed eastward to plunder hundreds of miles of fertile land west of Shengle.
A few days later, Wu Hui tribe raised an army on the grounds that Tuoba Liwei occupied his hometown and planned to murder the ancestor Dou of the tribe, and gathered 20,000 people to sweep north of Shanggu.
In addition, the six tribes north of Dai County were betrayed Chen Yilu killed his uncle and killed the leaders of various tribes indiscriminately. Then they joined forces to revolt, but the troops did not look to Shengle, but were approaching the central Tuoba Xianbei where the power was declining.
Similar news quickly made Yilu feel numb. In more than a month, the chaotic scene on the altar on the top of the Danhan Mountain seemed to repeat itself on the entire vast grassland. Many tribes raised their troops, and the warriors were stirring up, and the soldiers were moving as ants when they heard the wind. The tragedy on Danhan Mountain was too shocking for the Xianbei people who respected the gods. They either out of self-protection or out of ambition, one person drew their swords and eventually led to a great rebellion that had never happened in Tuoba Xianbei.
Chapter completed!