Although Lu Yao's identity is different from before, the court meetings he presided over were still noisy. Everyone could express his opinions as much as possible, while Lu Yao just listened carefully for a considerable period of time. To outsiders, Lu Yao was both civil and military, and even defeated the famous generals of the North who were captured. However, Lu Yao himself did not look down on himself at all. He was sure that he did not have the special talents of both military and political avenues, nor was he a genius who seemed to be born with wisdom. All he could do was to fully see all aspects of the problem through such discussions through such discussions, and finally make the most accurate judgment. This process is the so-called "branching and arbitrary".
From another perspective, Lu Yao is now in charge of a county, with seven thousand cavalry. Many times, no longer need to do things personally as before, but entrust more affairs to his subordinates. Such discussions have made Lu Yao understand his companions and subordinates more and more, which will be beneficial to future personnel arrangements.
Judging from the speeches of Ding Miao, Chen Jin and Chen Pei:
Although Ding Miao always looked rash and caressed his head and not his butt, he was able to judge the situation at a critical moment and make a steady judgment. After only one night of getting the news of Tuoba Xianbei's unstable news, he was ready to block Bai Daochuan. This was not a simple general. I think it was true that how could the nephew of the Ding clan of Qiao County and the nephew of the governor Ding of Jizhou be really a reckless man who knows the importance of it?
Chen Jin is as brave and powerful as ever. His proposal is full of adventure, which is simply terrifying, but once he succeeds, the benefits he obtains will be unimaginable. If such a general is on his own, he will either face great victory or great defeat; and if he uses people properly, he may not be a surprise weapon to turn the world around.
As for Chen Pei, he was as bold as Shen Jin, but it was reflected in completely different aspects. Whether it was his identity as a former general of the King of Chengdu or his identity as Ji Sang Yu, he rarely had the intention of obedience and awe of the Great Jin court. Among the three, he did not take the instructions of Yue Shigong of Bingzhou seriously, and what he considered was Lu Yao's development prospects in Dai County. In this way...
Thinking of this, Lu Yao constrained his mind, continued to listen to the discussions of the generals, and nodded from time to time to show encouragement. As many meaningful words were recorded by him, his strategy of how to deal with the tension in the Tuoba Xianbei gradually took shape in his mind.
Lu Yao said to himself: The key is how far can Wen Qiao take on Danshan Mountain!
At the same time, Wen Qiao, who was two hundred miles apart from Lu Yao, sighed and said to himself: "The key is how much Lu Guan wants to do!"
Even on the Danshan Mountain at the turn of summer and autumn, the dry air blowing from the vast northern desert made Wen Qiao feel that his skin was tight. Compared with previous dynasties, scholars in this dynasty have paid more attention to the beauty of their appearance, and Wen Qiao is no exception. He repeatedly sprinkled the hot water in the copper basin in front of him on his face, and then took a clean cloth to wipe it slowly. It was not until he was convinced that the handsome appearance reflected in the mirror was as handsome as before that he opened the tent. After coming to the grassland in person, Wen Qiao realized that Hu'er's living habits were much more rough than he thought. According to the customs of the Tuoba tribe, he just needed to take some dry cow dung and rub it on his face in the morning. Finally, because Wen Qiao was the envoy representing the governor of Bingzhou of the Great Jin Dynasty, he only provided a basin of hot water every day.
Wen Qiao carefully walked around the Xianbei tent that emitted a strong smell of cow dung and came to the edge of the mountainside platform. This is halfway up the mountain of Danhan Mountain. On the left is the abyss and valleys that cannot be seen, and on the right are the mountains. Looking up, you can see the huge altar on the top of the mountain, which seems to be connected to the sky. The rumbling drums on the altar have sounded, like bursts of thunder rolling in the sky, which is a sign that the ritual is about to begin.
Wen Qiao subconsciously sorted out his clothes again and prepared to set off.
From where Wen Qiao stood to the top of the mountain, it was about ten miles of undulating mountain road. This mountain road passed through the peaks like a flying snake, just in front of Wen Qiao's camp. A long team that stretched for several miles was slowly moving forward on the mountain road.
Wen Qiao could see clearly that the person who was walking forward along the road was Lu Guan, an adult from the eastern Tuoba Xianbei. Lu Guan was about fifty years old, with wide shoulders, a large belly and thick belly, and an extremely majestic figure. Looking closely at his face, he could see that his face was red, his hair was long, and his eyes were shining brightly. As expected, he was a hero in the northern border. There were hundreds of entourage guards behind Lu Guan, all of whom were Hu warriors holding swords and looking fierce.
Moving his gaze back, about half a mile away from the Lu Guan team, the one who slowly moved forward at the same speed was Wen Qiao's old acquaintance Yilu. Yilu was also sturdy, but now it seems that he is much thinner than the Jinyang meeting, and his cheekbones are also towering. Obviously, the pressure he has been under in the past few months is very huge. Behind Yilu, there are also hundreds of entourage guards.
The heads of the eastern tribes, and the second in the western tribes were the leaders of the Tuoba Xianbei, including the Hegu family, Pu family, Tuoba family, Daxi family, Yilu family, Qiu Dun family, Hou Yizhan family, and Che Kun family. These leaders of the country moved forward in sequence, each with more than ten entourages, which shows that their status was lower than that of the East and West tribes.
Wen Qiao was ordered to serve as an envoy to Tuoba Xianbei, so he naturally had a lot of inquiries about this powerful tribe outside the frontier. As far as he knew, the beliefs of Tuoba Xianbei were initially very primitive, worshiping heaven, earth, mountains, rivers, sun, moon and stars themselves, rather than personified gods. For hundreds of years, they set out from the Daxianbei Mountain thousands of miles north of Youdu, and continued to migrate southward, annexing many tribes along the way, and at the same time accepted more and more primitive Hu gods. Therefore, since the ancestor Li Wei led his tribes to migrate to Shengle, he often held grand sacrifices, called the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, and actually worshipped all the gods and idols of the annexing tribes. Because Li Wei once used the reasons why the Bai tribe refused to participate in the sacrifices and could not wait and see, and conquered the various tribes of Tuoba Xianbei, all the ceremony of sacrifices to heaven became an occasion to decide on major matters within the Tuoba Xianbei.
After the death of Tuoba Yiyi, the Grand Chan of Tuoba Xianbei, the ceremony of worshiping the sky was not held for two consecutive years. Lu Guan prepared the ceremony this time, and with his huge strength, all the powerful leaders of Tuoba Xianbei were forced to participate. The purpose was really obvious.
While thinking, someone suddenly pushed Wen Qiao hard behind him. Wen Qiao was not careful for a moment and almost fell to the ground. Looking back, he was pushing him with a Xianbei warrior with golden hair and a slanted fur. His thick fingers poked in front of Wen Qiao and said in a strange tone: "Messenger, follow! Messenger, follow!"
Wen Qiao understood that although the warrior was rude, he had no malice. He said that as the representative of the governor of Bingzhou of the Great Jin Dynasty, his status was under the head of the Chinese people and he should follow the leaders of the Chinese people.
Wen Qiao nodded to him, quickly left the camp, and penetrated into the middle of the team from the slant.
Behind Wen Qiao, there were three or four hundred people. Those were the so-called thirty-six countries, ninety-nine surnames of Hu chiefs and their guards who were successively included in the sphere of influence by the Tuoba Xianbei in recent years.
A total of nearly 500 people walked along the mountain road, getting closer and closer to the altar on the top of the mountain with drums and thunder. Everyone remained silent, and along the way, they could only hear footsteps passing by gravels and the sound of mountain wind blowing by.
The mountain road is getting more and more steep and bumpy. Many places close to the peak even need to climb by hand and foot and land. The Hus and the children are strong and naturally don’t care. After all, Wen Qiao is a weak scholar. He can persist at first, but later he has sore knees and weak legs, and he feels like a cow.
Just as he was doing nothing, someone held Wen Qiao's arm and whispered: "Brother Taizhen, just hold on for a while."
Chapter completed!