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November 30th, night, Weiyuan City...

Since the beginning of winter, heavy snow has been falling everywhere in the north, and Qianzhou's territory is no exception.

Since last night, snow has fallen inside and outside Weiyuan City. At the beginning of the day, the entire city is covered in silver, white, vast and vast, and the earth seems to have fallen into tranquility...

The snow was still falling, and the snow had already disappeared from the soles of people. It was guarding the city, soldiers wrapped in thick cotton armor, standing solemnly at the battlements of the city walls in the wind and snow, staring at the dark night sky.

Suddenly, a heavy footsteps walked up the city with snow, arousing the alertness of one of the soldiers.

When he looked back with the fat torch, Tuoba Yuhai's resolute face came into his eyes.

Tuoba Yuhai's face turned slightly red tonight. He could smell the smell of alcohol from his body closer. The wine pot he held in his left hand further confirmed the soldiers' judgment.

"You don't have to worry about me, I just want to come here alone to enjoy the snow. Your military supervisor allows me to walk around the city..."

Tuoba Yuhai, who poked out the soldier's thoughts, explained to him in time, then bowed to the side of the cliff not far from the soldier, and after taking a sip of strong wine, he still enjoyed the snow scene flying all over the sky with the dim light emitted by the oil lamp on the wall.

Seeing that Tuoba Yuhai had no malice, the soldier ignored him and continued to stay at his post without moving.

Not long after Tuoba Yuhai came to the city, Liu Ce, who was preparing to inspect the city's military affairs, also followed. Seeing Tuoba Yuhai leaning against the wall and drinking alone, he immediately went up to meet him, took the spear from the soldier and told him to go back to the camp to rest in advance.

After the soldier left, Liu Ce carried a spear on his shoulder and came to Tuoba Yuhai and said, "It's such a cold day, wouldn't General Tuoba have a rest early?"

"I can't sleep..." Tuoba Yuhai said casually, then took a sip of wine and exhaled a sip of white breath and praised, "Mr. Military Governor, your wine is good, especially in such a cold day, I feel comfortable if I drink a few sips..."

Liu Ce reminded: "This wine is very strong, General Tuoba should not make a transition..."

Tuoba Yuhai nodded, turned around and looked at Liu Ce, and then smiled for a while: "Military Governor, to be honest, I really admire you. I have achieved such achievements at a young age. I believe that your future will be much more than that!"

Liu Ce put down his spear, patted the snow on his body, and replied casually: "General Tuoba is too good. He has long heard that General Tuoba began to fight on the battlefield at the age of fifteen. He has experienced thousands of wars and has not been defeated. This military governor should admire him very much."

"I haven't suffered a defeat?" Tuoba Yuhai smiled bitterly when he heard this, "That's just an exaggeration. Sixteen years ago, I was defeated by a young man over 20 and felt ashamed of being defeated.

Since then, my fate has also changed. As for the reasons, I believe your wife knows clearly..."

Liu Ce naturally knew that he was referring to Huangfu Zhai, but he was very wise and did not point it out. He just said lightly: "General Tuoba, I am the military governor. Do you want to go home?"

Tuoba Yuhai shook his head: "I have been following the Holy Emperor to fight south and north on horseback for many years. For me, the horseback is my home..."

Speaking of this, Tuoba Yuhai sipped the strong wine and sat down with his back against the wall. Liu Ce also sat next to him and talked about his family.

"Military Governor, how old is your child?" Tuoba Yuhai handed the wine pot to Liu Ce and asked.

Liu Ce took the wine pot and said, "My child is still young, my daughter is three years old, and my son is only one and a half years old. I haven't seen them for nearly a year..."

Upon hearing this, Tuoba Yuhai took out a string of necklaces made of pebbles from his arms, his eyes full of tenderness:

"This was given to me by my daughter on her seventh birthday. Her name is Tuoba Xue. The year he was born, there was an unprecedented heavy snowfall in Mobei.

So I named her Xue, she is the most beautiful butterfly on the entire Monlo Grassland. Now eight years have passed, and my daughter is about to get married.

To be honest, I really can't bear to let her get married so early. I really hope she can spend more years with me. It's a pity that women are too old to stay.

The butterflies of the past have grown into strong flying swallows. They just want to fly to their lover's arms and live together. They almost forgot my father..."

Liu Ce smiled and said, "Isn't that great? Your daughter finally found her own home, right?"

Tuoba Yuhai tightened his necklace and said, "No, I don't want her to marry her lover, that person is not worthy of my daughter..."

Liu Ce said: "What? Could it be that your daughter's family background is very poor?"

Tuoba Yuhai shook his head: "The family of my daughter is definitely one of the best families on our grasslands. I believe you have heard of it as well..."

"I heard a little..." Liu Ce took a sip of wine.

Tuoba Yuhai said: "I would rather my daughter find an ordinary herdsman's husband than he would be with the Murong family. Especially this Murong Bao, alas, it's hard to describe..."

"Since General Tuoba can't see it, why not stop it?" Liu Ce asked.

Tuoba Yuhai said: "There is no way. Since my daughter likes her, she will go with her. Her mother died early. When she died, I happened to go to the Western Regions with the Holy Emperor.

Before I could meet her for the last time, I always felt that I felt a little guilty towards this child, and the love between these children could only be based on her.

Whether she suffers or enjoys her happiness in the future, she will bear it herself, and I will be happy to be free..."

Liu Ce's impression of Tuoba Yuhai's attitude towards his daughter's lifelong affairs has greatly changed Liu Ce's impression of him. Looking back on the deep-rooted family opinions in various parts of the Central Plains, Tuoba Yuhai is definitely more than a hundred times more enlightened than them.

The two talked a lot of homely, and they did not talk to each other until a pot of wine was gone and the soldiers watching were replaced. They went downstairs and walked downstairs to the Governor's Office, which had been changed to the town military office.

Halfway through two streets, Liu Ce and Tuoba Yuhai agreed on the address to build a trade office outside the Great Wall, and somehow talked about the existing relationship between Monroe and the Central Plains.

Tuoba Yuhai said: "Military Commander, I know that there is an irreconcilable contradiction between the Great Zhou and Monroe. I admit that the Monroe tribes are brutal, which has caused considerable disasters to the people of Great Zhou.

But you should know that the Great Zhou court helped me, the mortal enemy of the Monroe people, wanted to kill me, and die. At that time, I was a small tribe with only 30,000 people.

He was bullied by various grassland tribes all year round. In the 270th year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, less than 20,000 people were slaughtered by the Jie people, so he was forced to migrate southward to seek protection from the Great Zhou Dynasty.

However, not only did the Great Zhou Dynasty not accept the Monroe people, but even sent more than 10,000 people from Xuanwu Pass to attack the various tribes of the Monroe people from front and back.

Finally, I was seriously injured in the vitality of the Mengluo people, and the casualties were severe. The leader Tuoba Xi was also killed in battle. After paying half of the cattle and sheep in the clan to the Murong tribe, I exchanged them for their shelter and survived.

Since then, a feud between Monroe and Dazhou has formed... "

After listening to Tuoba Yuhai's statement, Liu Ce nodded: "I don't want to see that there is such a past between you, the Mengluo people and the Great Zhou, but then again, it has been more than a hundred years. Do you still remember this hatred so clearly..."

Tuoba Yuhai sighed: "Yes, it's been a hundred years. It's logical that it should have been forgotten as the years pass, but

When human desires begin to expand, any minor flaws from the past will become a reason to gain one's own benefit.

The weakness and incompetence of the Great Zhou court made the Monroe infinitely amplify the grudges a hundred years ago, and became the most suitable excuse.

The emperor said that if the Monroe people want to be strong, they must have a common enemy. Even if they do not have one, they must create a strong enemy.

Only in this way can the Monroe tribe unit be united. The Great Zhou is the common enemy of the Monroe people at present. Do you understand what I mean, the military governor?"

"This military governor understands..."

Liu Ce responded. In fact, what Tuoba Yuhai said was originally intended to explain a truth: weak is the original sin, and the so-called reason for worldly feud is just an excuse for the strong to achieve their goals.

The truth about whether the Great Zhou and the Monroe people made enemies a hundred years ago is actually not important. As long as the herdsmen in Monroe believe that the fact that the Great Zhou not only did not help the Monroe people at the end of the road, but also caused the fact that the Monroe people almost exterminated the clan. That would be enough.

The Monroe people were instilled with the impression that the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty were weak and bullied since childhood. They should have thought that enslavement, massacre, and robbery were natural. With new hatreds and old hatreds, the Monroe people felt that they should have entered the prosperous and prosperous vast land of the Central Plains and become their new masters.

However, Liu Ce will definitely prevent this tragedy from happening. Since the agreement on trade with Tuoba Yuhai, the layout of the grassland has quietly begun.

The two of them chatted and walked. After they arrived at the Zhenjun Mansion, they said goodbye to each other and went back to their rooms...

"Husband, you are back..."

As soon as he returned to the room, Ye Yin came up to meet him, took off Liu Ce's cloak and hung it on the clothes hanger, and then poured a cup of hot tea.

Liu Ce took the teacup and took a sip, then sat in front of the brazier and roasted his frozen hands. After his body felt a little warm, he said to Ye Yin: "Are you still worried about me writing that letter to Tuoba Hongye?"

Ye Yin refused to comment: "Husband, I know what you are thinking about doing this, but this is really too risky..."

"It's not okay if you don't take risks..." Liu Ce sighed, "We don't have the strength to fight the Monroe people yet. For our husbands, we can only take this worst strategy to explore the bottom line of Tuoba Hongye.

If he agrees to the suggestion he made for his husband and will not send troops because of the content of the letter, it means that Monroe really has his own difficulties or plans as you expected.

Of course, if Tuoba Hongye tore up the letter and sends troops to attack Xuanwu Pass, there is no need to think about anything else, just fight to the death of the gate until the last soldier,

I am betting that the Monroe Empire is unstable and has no time to look south. Tuoba Hongye does not know that we are not afraid of the facts of the situation. As long as we win the bet, we can win enough time to develop.

After stabilizing the Central Plains, it is time to accumulate all strength and launch a full-scale war outside the Great Wall, and completely eliminate the harm of the Monroe people to the Central Plains..."

Ye Yin heard this, put his neck on Liu Ce, pressed it on him, and said softly: "Husband, I believe that you will definitely save the people of the Central Plains.

I will be by your side and help you until I see the world stopping and the day when peace comes..."

"Um……"

Liu Ce responded lightly, his face feeling extremely firm.
Chapter completed!