Gao Wu Da Qin: You don’t want the secret to be known, right?

The Northern Dynasties, whose full name is the Northern Wei Dynasty, was interpreted by the rulers of the time as the successor dynasty that overthrew the Two Jin Dynasties and restored the orthodox Wei Dynasty of Cao Cao's lineage.

When talking about the Northern Wei Dynasty, we have to mention the founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who was also the founder of the unified Northern Wei Dynasty, the pinnacle that Erzhu Rong admired all his life, and the top boss who pioneered the sinicization of the Xianbei - Tuoba Tao.

Tuoba Tao has a long history. To sum it up in one sentence, he is the founder of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Because of him and his family, the Northern Wei Dynasty is also called Tuoba Wei.

The rise of Erzhu Rong, whom Qin Feng has to face today, is closely related to Tuoba Tao, the founder of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Erzhu Rong's ancestor, named Erzhu Yujian, was a follower of Tuoba Tao.

It is said that Tuoba Tao first established the Northern Wei Dynasty.

In fact, this is not accurate.

In the words of Tuoba Tao, the founder of the Northern Wei Dynasty, what he did was not called establishing the Northern Wei Dynasty, but recovering the homeland.

Tuoba Tao said that long before the Han Dynasty, during the period of Chu-Han contention at the end of the Qin Dynasty, our ancestors the Xianbei people had established a country, but they were treated as wild monsters and destroyed by the Qin generals, the Meng brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi.

Therefore, what our Tuoba family is doing now in the Northern Wei Dynasty is not called establishment, but restoration.

Erzhu Yujian, as the ancestor of Erzhu Rong, was very similar to Erzhu Rong. He had a very forward-looking vision and decisively invested in the company when Tuoba Tao took the lead in causing trouble.

Although Erzhu Yujian did not get a core position in Tuoba Tao's group in the later period, nor did he get much power, he did get a fiefdom from the Tuoba royal family.

This gave the Erzhu family the opportunity to get started. After all, the fiefdom given to the Erzhu family by the Tuoba family was the place with the most prosperous spiritual beast mounts. Almost half of the cavalry mounts of the Northern Wei Dynasty were imported from the Erzhu family's fiefdom.

To put it simply, this is the same treatment that Ying Zheng's ancestors gave to the Zhou emperor.

But this also made Qin Feng realize that history is really a trick, always mixing up people who achieve great things with jobs like raising horses.

Ying Zheng's ancestors were horse herders for the Zhou emperor.

Erzhu Rong's ancestors were horse herders for Tuoba Tao.

Even Sun Wukong was a horse herder before he became a Buddha...

It seems that for all those who achieve great things, releasing horses is a compulsory course before they achieve great things.

Let’s get back to the point.

Going further back, after Erzhu Yujian, the Erzhu family made a fortune in silence for nine hundred years.

It was not until the thousandth year of the establishment of the Northern Wei Dynasty that the Erzhu family finally produced another noble person.

An eldest daughter of the Erzhu family, and the aunt of the current Erzhu Rong, was chosen as the imperial concubine by the Tuoba royal family.

To be honest, this matter was really no big deal for many aristocratic families in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

It is normal for the emperor to choose a concubine. If a family does not have a daughter who enters the palace, they will be embarrassed to speak when going out.

But opportunity means different things to different people.

For a daughter of an ordinary family to become a royal concubine simply meant that she had made friends with a wealthy relative.

The daughter of the Erzhu family became a royal concubine, which gave the Erzhu family a ladder to climb up.

The Erzhu family, this cunning, low-key and ambitious family quickly grabbed this ladder and climbed up madly.

As time went on, the Erzhu family integrated into the mainstream of the Northern Wei royal family and began to become the right-hand man of the royal Tuoba family, frequently entering and leaving the Northern Dynasty's imperial capital, Luoyang.

During the golden development period of this family, Erzhu Rong's father Erzhu Xinxing made an indelible contribution to the establishment of the relationship between the entire family and the royal family.

Erzhu Xinxing was not good at fighting and his martial arts skills were mediocre, but he was very good at dealing with people and especially good at building relationships. He could be called the Heshen of this era!

The fiefdom of the Erzhu family has been mentioned before. It is a sacred place and almost all the exotic beasts and spiritual beasts mounts belong to the Erzhu family.

In this future era, these spiritual horse mounts are veritable sports cars and spaceships, and they are luxury goods.

After Erzhu Xinxing's sister married the emperor, he immediately used his spiritual horse to open up connections in the imperial capital. His main strategy was to use money to gain connections. If money doesn't work, it means you haven't spent enough.

Erzhu Xinxing was a man with a great vision. He knew very well that bribing these scholars and officials was not enough. If he wanted the Tuoba family to develop, he had to bribe the emperor!

How does the emperor bribe?

Erzhu’s new pattern was grand. He directly announced that all the assets of the Erzhu family were the assets of the royal family!

I loudly declared verbally that whatever the emperor needs, my Erzhu family can take it at any time!

In fact, everything was done in a low-key manner, and all the credit was attributed to the emperor. The Erzhu family was just the grooms who raised horses for the emperor.

In this way, Erzhu Xinxing soon became the emperor's spokesperson near the northern border.

After all, the Erzhu family was in the north, so he became the King of the North.

As the son of Erzhu Xinxing, Erzhu Rong learned his father's ways at a very young age, and even developed new routines and new methods in his father's gift-giving.

Erzhu Xinxing sent Erzhu Rong to his aunt's house in the imperial capital early, and he became the leader of the imperial guards in the palace!

During this period, Erzhu Rong became very familiar with all the powerful classes, and he successfully transformed from a countryman in the northern border into a big figure in the imperial capital.

During the time that Erzhu Rong was in the imperial capital, everyone in the imperial capital felt that Erzhu Rong was one of their own, which also paved the way for the Xihe Diving Competition that took place later.

Just when the Erzhu family was clinging to the big tree of royal relatives and growing rapidly.

A "little thing" happened in the West.

Chaos in the Six Towns!

The internal strife of the Six Garrisons Rebellion lasted too long. To sum up, the power struggle within the emperor's upper echelons spread to the lower echelons, and the local border guards were discriminated against and fought back in anger. The people above were not treated like human beings, and the people below wanted to be treated like human beings, so a civil war broke out.

The Six Garrisons were a special group in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

At that time, Tuoba Tao, the founder of the Xianbei, was a man of great righteousness who swept across the world and was an unparalleled hero.

But Tuoba Tao died early!

Tuoba Tao's descendants did not have his bravery and strength, and they were simply unable to kill all the captives and surrendered soldiers that Tuoba Tao had failed to deal with.

Emperor Tuoba slapped his head and thought, since I can't deal with these captive surrendered soldiers, I will just exile them to a place where I can't see them, and take the principle of out of sight, out of mind.

Then these surrendered captives were divided into six towns, namely Wuchuan, Woye, Huaishuo, Fuming, Rouxuan and Huaihuang.

At the beginning, Emperor Tuoba was wary of the Six Garrisons and often assigned various ministers and generals to guard the Six Garrisons. At the same time, he used conciliatory tactics to increase the welfare of everyone and assimilate them.

After a while, everyone was happy to be a Northern Wei person.

But soon, the Northern Wei emperor was sidelined and the Northern Wei empress dowager took over the throne.

The Empress Dowager and the Emperor had completely opposite opinions. She thought it was wrong to give so many benefits to outsiders every year!

The ideas of the Queen Mother's faction were in line with the ideas of the big city, the imperial capital, and the high-ranking officials and nobles in Jinyang.

Many nobles were short-sighted and thought that the Six Garrisons had already been pacified and there was no need to intervene or pay them money.

Then, the emperor was sidelined, the empress dowager came to power, and decisively demoted the Six Garrisons to a state of indifference.

This led to resentment between the Six Garrisons and the imperial court, and eventually the fuse was ignited, leading to chaos in the Six Garrisons.

Among the six towns, except Huaishuo and Wuchuan, the other four towns joined the rebel army actively or passively and opened fire on the imperial court.

I must clarify here that the fact that Wuchuan and Huaishuo did not rebel does not mean that they were loyal ministers. On the contrary, they were more ambitious and smarter.

The idea of ​​the two towns is that we hate the Northern Wei, but we shouldn't attack first, you guys should attack first, it would be best if the four towns and the Northern Wei royal family die together! The two of us will pick fruits to eat later.

The Four Towns and the Northern Wei Dynasty started a large-scale war. Although the Four Towns were ferocious, they could not withstand the drag of the two con men, Wuchuan and Huaishuo. In addition, the Northern Wei Dynasty was orthodox after all, and was also the lucky family of the Eighth Universe. The Tuoba family had countless strong men, and with the blessing of the origin of the universe, the royal holy body had outstanding combat power, and there were often geniuses of the God of War who could fight one against a hundred or one against ten thousand.

After paying a huge price, the Northern Wei royal family finally conquered the four towns!

Among them, Huaishuo and Wuchuan were treated differently.

Logically speaking, although these two towns did not rebel, you two did not contribute and just sat on the sidelines watching the fight. You are not good people either and must be killed!

But the problem is that the strongest military groups that the court can fight now are only Wuchuan and Huaishuo. If they are defeated, what should we do if there are more rebels?

At the critical moment, a conflict broke out because a big shot sent by the Queen Mother of the court accidentally slept with the local wife of a big shot in Huaishuo.

Huaishuo turned against the imperial court in an instant and directly confronted it.

Wuchuan saw an opportunity and decisively stabbed Huaishuo in the back, and joined forces with the court to attack Huaishuo.

Huaishuo was defeated!

However, almost all the Huaishuo masters surrendered to Wuchuan! No one surrendered to the court!

As for the leader of Wuchuan, he is naturally the chosen one, the king of kings, the Night King of the North, KINGOFKINGS—Erzhu Rong!

Erzhu Rong took this opportunity to unify Huaishuo and issued a call to the remnants of the four towns who had once rebelled against the royal family. We are all six towns, we are all on the same front. It was my mistake that I did not fight the court with you back then. I was deceived by the court. Now I have come to my senses. Only by overthrowing the court can we have hope. Come on, join me and kill the Tuoba royal family!

With Erzhu Rong's banner raised, the Six Towns Brotherhood completed its super integration!

For a time, Erzhu Rong became a thorn in the side of the entire court.

However, as a civilization after the Gaowu era, the Northern Wei royal family was blessed with something like mythical destiny. It would be no problem for them to defeat Erzhu Rong on their own.

However, there must be a reason why Erzhu Rong could become the son of destiny.

Just when Erzhu Rong became a major concern for the imperial court, the remnants of the former Four Garrisons got into trouble again!

Here we have to talk about the shitty behavior of the Northern Wei royal family.

After the Tuoba royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty defeated the rebels in the four towns, they did not kill them all. Instead, they followed the example of their ancestor Tuoba Tao and planned to continue to arrange the remaining troops in the four towns.

But the remnants of the four towns are rebels after all. If you send them back to the west, they might cause trouble again.

Therefore, the geniuses of the Queen Mother's faction came up with an idea to arrange them to the subordinate Seventeen Counties of Beihe.

The Seventeen Counties of Beihe were the foundation of the Northern Dynasties. They were also a super region with the most wealth, population, agriculture, and commerce, comparable to the important areas of Longxi and Xianyang in the Qin Empire.

The Queen Mother's faction had a good idea. By arranging these refugees in the Thirteen Counties of Beihe, they could use the large population base and stable social atmosphere there to divide these rebels and make them become good people.

Then there is no more then.

Among these defeated troops from the four towns, nine-tenths were arranged to enter Beihe, and one-tenth were disbanded on the spot.

Those who were disbanded on the spot were later incorporated into the army by Erzhu Rong, as mentioned before, so we will not mention it here.

Let’s talk about the nine out of ten defeated troops who went to Beihe.

After these people went to Beihe, they were all confused.

Oh shit, it turns out there is such a paradise on earth in the imperial court!

We live a hard life every day in the Far West, but people in the big cities here live such a wonderful life!

No!

I also want money, power, and women!

But this place is the core area of ​​the Northern Dynasty and has long been divided up among the powerful and wealthy. There is no way it would be the turn of a bunch of outsiders like you.