Crowned the New Han Dynasty

Chapter 1038 Among the Seventh Rank, surnames change

Liu Sheng followed the voice and looked over, nodded and said with a smile: "This gentleman must be from out of town. He seems to be a knowledgeable person at first glance. You said Goguryeo was just for testing. I don't know what the basis is. Who are they testing?"

With the appearance of Liu Kun and Liu Qun, as well as several personal guards who followed them, when they walked into the crowd, they had already been noticed. Even Liu Sheng had already noticed.

Now that he was asked this question, everyone's eyes immediately focused on the father and son.

Liu Qun immediately felt uncomfortable. He was already shaken by the murderous intent revealed by these civilians, and now that he was being stared at by everyone, it was strange that he could calm down.

But his father Liu Kun had experienced the storm after all, and he still looked as normal and said with a slight smile: "I actually don't know the news about Goguryeo's attack on Pingzhou, but if what the young gentleman said is true, then it is obvious that this matter This shows that the power of the Murong tribe has expanded to a certain extent and they are beginning to think about going south."

"Oh?" Liu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "Sir, what do you think? I can speak freely during today's lecture, so please don't hesitate to give me some advice."

Liu Kun waved his hand and said, "I have nothing to teach you. What the young gentleman said just now can be said to be profound and simple. In just a few words, he outlined the situation on the grassland. I really admire you."

This was not Liu Kun's polite words, but his sincere words.

He listened to the scholar's words in the crowd and nodded from time to time, full of appreciation.

Because after this person’s explanation, a clear picture of the grassland——

The vast grassland is divided into four parts.

Rouran, known as the Northern Huns, is in the north and occupies the entire northern territory; while the Tuoba tribe is in the southwest of the grassland, corresponding to the Murong tribe in the southeast.

On the other hand, Liu Kun was also very surprised by the knowledge level of the onlookers.

In this era, many people have no concept of geography, and it is not surprising that they do not distinguish between east, west, east and west. But in front of Liu Kun, Liu Sheng said something, and everyone agreed, and occasionally farmers showed off their opinions, which shows that these people not only understand , and still formed a concept in his mind, which seemed very difficult to Liu Kun, let alone understood, so he intended to make friends with this Liu Sheng, and took the opportunity to ask to see if he could recruit, so he took the initiative to speak out, and Not in a moment of excitement.

Now that the other party asked, Liu Kun didn't hide it. It was just to get closer to him, so what else could he hide?
What's more, after what happened to the old farmer, Liu Kun was also worried that these people would regard him as an outsider seeking information. When he opened his mouth, he straightened his stance: "Hu people and our Han family are naturally opposed to each other!"

Sure enough, this sentence as an opening statement immediately made the onlookers nod. This group of people looked at Liu Kun with anger, knowing that he was a foreigner, and were a little resistant, because one sentence immediately brought the relationship between the two parties closer.

Then, Liu Kuncai said: "According to Liu Junzi, after the Murong family was severely beaten by General Zhengbei, they did not dare to go south and turned to the east and northeast of the grassland. Now that the sun is booming, even Goguryeo in the northeast has to bow its head. That's not the case." This shows that Murong’s tribe has reached the point of being unable to expand on the grassland, right?"

Liu Sheng pondered for a moment and nodded.

Liu Kun said with a smile: "If what I have predicted is correct, among the four grassland areas, apart from the Rouran tribe in the north, the Murong tribe in the southeast, and the Tuoba tribe in the southwest, the last one is the southern part of the grassland, close to Youzhou. The seventh-rank Xianbei is the seventh-rank Yicong you mentioned a few times just now!" He did not continue the topic and turned to talk about the fourth force. The onlookers were slightly confused, but Liu Sheng was not at all interested. Surprised, he nodded.

"The power of the seventh-grade Xianbei has greatly increased now. There are several major surnames in it. The leader is the Chen family, followed by the Tufa, Qifu, Duan, Yuwen, and the Tuoba clan who are wandering outside!"

After all, Liu Kun was also the leader of a force in the past. Even if this force was a little smaller and the information was less available, he had asked the Tuoba tribe for help several times, and he still had some idea of ​​the growth and decline of strength on the grassland.

The Tuoba tribe had suffered several losses at the hands of the seventh-rank tribe, so of course they were very concerned about it, and Liu Kun also took advantage of the opportunity to know about the movements of the seventh-rank Xianbei.Because of this, he was so taboo about this tribe.

Several important surnames in the Seventh Grade tribe have risen together with the tribe, but they are restricted by the Chen family and cannot do whatever they want. To this day, this tribe still serves as a barrier to Youzhou.

When the Tuoba tribe entered Koudai County, the seventh-rank Xianbei neglected his duties and was reprimanded by Chen Zhi. Several leaders with big surnames were frightened out of their wits and ran to Jixian County one after another. They staged a drama of pleading guilty at the General's Mansion. After struggling for half a month, I finally settled down.

After that, in order not to be held accountable by Chen Zhi, the seventh-grade Xianbei could be said to have spent all his money to protect the northern part of Youzhou, but he also received rich rewards for this——

With the supply of grain, grass and money from Youzhou, the seventh-grade Xianbei was freed from the life of robbery. Coupled with Chen Jing's command, he quickly eliminated the surrounding areas and became the dominant grassland.

However, in order to prevent the Seventh Rank Department from gradually becoming rigid and being controlled by a few big surnames, Chen Zhi always intervened in the internal structure of the Seventh Rank Xianbei. First, after the Qifu and Tufa surnames became bigger, he supported the Duan family to ascend to the throne. The Duan clan members who were scattered in Youzhou after Duan fled east were gathered together and transported there so that the Duan clan could grow stronger and be on an equal footing with the other two surnames to suppress and balance each other.

When the three surnames reached a balance and there was a tendency to unite, Chen Zhi introduced the Yuwen clan members who had fled from the Yuwen Qidegui family and asked them to join the seventh-grade Yi Cong——

The Yuwen tribe has also been split. One part is in Pingzhou and is led by Yuwen Yidougui. However, the original main lineage, Yuwen Qidegui lineage, has gone through life and death hardships and lost the foundation of the ethnic group. In the end, the leader took some people to join Chen He stopped, sought asylum, and was assigned to the seventh-grade Xianbei.

In this way, the composition of Qipin Xianbei became complicated. Although it was powerful, the internal struggle became more intense, and it basically lost the momentum of external expansion and became a barrier.

At this time, Tuoba Yulu, who had failed in the civil war, came with his troops to seek asylum, and without waiting for Chen Zhi's arrangement, he offered to integrate into the seventh-grade Xianbei.

In terms of strength, Tuoba Yulu, who failed in the civil war, is much stronger than Yuwen Qi Degui's men and horses, and has several times the population and soldiers of the latter, but it is not as good as the alliance of several other big surnames in the seventh-grade tribe, so it is vaguely excluded. It has become a trend of dissociation.

"There are many strong surnames joining the Seventh Grade Yi Cong, and their power is huge. The Murong family did not dare to act rashly, and they were worried about Youzhou's reaction, so they first used Goguryeo to invade Pingzhou as a test before formulating future policies."

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