Chapter 488 Qinghe Cui Clan
What Yao Xing was worried about was that if Wei Feng and Liu Bobo reached a tacit understanding and marched from Wuguan and Xiaoguan into Guanzhong, the Qin State would undoubtedly be destroyed under the attack of the two groups. Yao Xing's current primary task was to retake Xiaoguan. Wei Feng used all the power of the 120,000 elite Wei State forces, and he did not dare to provoke him for the time being, but Liu Bobo was like a bandit and horse thief. He suffered a great loss in Liu Bobo's hands and couldn't swallow this. He really couldn't care about Nan Yan's life or death!
Murong Chao waited for the left and right but could not see the Qin army coming to aid. The panic atmosphere in the city became increasingly strong. So he asked Liu Yu for peace and wanted to seize the land south of Daxian Mountain and call him a vassal in Jin, but was rejected by Liu Yu.
The city was trapped inside and there were no reinforcements outside. Gradually, powerful and powerful people in Nanyan secretly left the city to surrender Liu Yu. Liu Yu intercepted the envoy who asked Qin for help and forced him to go around the city to declare, indicating that the Qin army had no hope of rescuing troops, which made the morale of the Nanyan defenders increasingly sluggish. A month later, the Northern Palace Army attacked urgently from all sides. The Secretary of the Southern Yan Yueshou opened the city to surrender, and Murong Chao was captured alive and sent to Jiankang to behead!
At this point, due to the decisive battle between Wei Feng and Tuoba Yi, Wei Feng seized Hebei. The strength of the Northern Prefecture Army expanded to the south bank of the Yellow River and confronted Wei Feng's subordinates across the river. Qin took Luoyang as he wished, but unexpectedly lost Xiaoguan. Yan State recovered Ji, and Wei State suffered great losses. He not only lost 170,000 elite troops in the battle with Wei Feng, but also lost Hebei and Guandong. Now the territory of Wei State is only a large area of grassland north of Yanmen Pass to south of Yinshan and a corner of Hedong. This makes Tuoba Gui even more moody and indulge in the Five Stones. The most innocent of them is Murong Chao, the latter leader of Southern Yan, who ends up dead!
Wei Feng learned about these situations. He did not take them too seriously. In addition to asking for merit from the court, he still kept inspecting Hebei. On November 6, he came to Xiangguo, the old capital of Jie Zhao. There was a large clan in Qinghe near Xiangguo, a Qinghe Cui family. Cui Cheng, who was killed by Tuoba Gui just because of the word "noble lord" from this clan!
After Cui Cheng was killed, all his sons fled south. Now the head of the Cui family in Qinghe is Cui Hong, the Secretary of the Wei State. Cui Hao is his eldest son and is temporarily appointed as the writer. Currently, the second son Cui Jian and the third son Cui Tian remain in the clan.
With the arrival of Wei Feng, a panic atmosphere was also shrouded in the Cui mansion. Although the night was already deep, the main hall of Cui was still brightly lit. The two brothers of Cui and their respective wives gathered together.
In fact, Cui's family had not thought of running west to Hedong, but Xiang Mi was too fast and had not packed her luggage. Xiang Mi had already opened the city and surrendered to Xiang Mi, and Qinghe also fell into the hands of the Jin army. However, except for ordering him to live in the old place and not leave Qinghe, Xiang Mi did not do anything to Cui's family. He waited for Wei Feng to come over and talked about it.
After months of suffering, Wei Feng finally came!
Cui Jian looked worried and said in panic: "My father and elder brother are both officials of the Wei Dynasty. If General Wei is guilty of this and us, what should we do?"
Cui Tian said uneasy: "During the time General Wei was in charge of Guangzhou, he destroyed dozens of common people's forts, and later moved to Jingzhou, and all the local scholars were raided and destroyed the family and the clan. His subordinate Tao Qian suppressed the rebellion of Qiao Zong in Chengdu. Since he was appointed as the governor of Yizhou, he has also eliminated the forts with powerful men. Alas~~ My name of Cui clan in Qinghe started from the ancestor of Ji Gui (Cui Yan) in the predecessor. It has been storms for two hundred years. However, a few years ago, a clan uncle (Cui Cheng) was wrongly killed by Your Majesty for a mistake. This time, the general of Wei swept across Hebei. It seems that the Cui clan is really in trouble!"
As soon as these words came out, the sad atmosphere in the hall became stronger, especially some women could not help but sobbed. They heard that after Wei Feng confiscated his family and exterminated his clan, he gave all the women he obtained to his soldiers. You must know that at that time, marriage was important to be of equal status. They were all from Hebei or Youyan clans, and they regarded themselves as noble and chaste. How could they be willing to commit themselves to military families? Moreover, they also understood that the lower the status of a person, the more he had a nearly pathological hobby towards the high-ranking men and women.
For example, Wei Feng, most of his wife comes from the Gaomen tribe. The so-called upper beam is not straight, the lower beam is crooked, and his subordinates can imagine it!
Some women with outstanding self-conceited appearances have faint desires in their beautiful eyes. The Hebei clan passed on the family through Confucianism, did not practice metaphysics, and attached great importance to chastity. Even if they die, they cannot let their bodies fall into the hands of a second man. In this regard, it is obviously different from the openness of Jiangdong women.
Cui Jian’s wife was born in the Lu family of Fanyang. She is the first-class clan in Youyan area and is the same clan as Lu Xun. At this time, Lu frowned and thought: “Cui Lang, I don’t think so, as you think. General Wei has already attacked me, Cui, so why should I continue to this day? He only guards others without harassing him. Perhaps he has thought about me, Cui. In short, it will be clear tomorrow.”
Everyone thought about it, and their faces were right, and they couldn't help relaxing. Cui Jian took it and sighed, "Even if I can tolerate me, Cui, I'm afraid the conditions are extremely harsh. Alas~~ The key is that my father and brother are in Pingyang and cannot escape!"
As soon as Cui Jian finished speaking, a manager rushed over quickly and said, "Report to Erlangjun, Sanlangjun, Shuli's husband has important things to visit."
"Oh?" Everyone was stunned. The so-called Shuli Langjun was Cui Yoon. Cui Yoon was Cui Xian's fourth son. Cui Tian hurriedly called out: "Please come in with Brother Shuli!"
"As for order!" The manager left in a hurry.
Not long after, Cui Qian stepped in. There was a young man next to him, who looked about twenty years old and was dressed in ordinary clothes. The Cui family members didn't care too much. Cui Jian asked, "Brother Shuli, I heard that the uncle of the clan was wronged. You went south to join Murong De, and Liu Jinu attacked Guanggu and surrounded the city. How did you get out of the city? So how did you come here?"
Cui Fengqiu bowed: "Ji Shu (Cui Jianbiao's name) is not known yet. A month ago, Liu Jinu defeated Guanggu and captured Yan's master Murong Chao and returned to Jiankang. Nanyan had already been destroyed. Originally, Liu Jinu wanted to take me back to Jiankang to give him an official position, but Brother Yu heard that Tuoba Yi's 120,000 troops were wiped out, and the entire territory of Hebei returned to the Jin room, so he rejected Liu Jinu's kindness and crossed the Yellow River to find General Wei, and wanted to surrender to him to avenge his father's death!"
Everyone was stunned. It was obvious that the change in the world was beyond their expectations. Cui Feng said again: "Ji Shu, Zhong Jing (Cui Tian's name is a name), come, Brother Yu will introduce you to you. This is the current governor of Jingzhou and the general of the North General of the Conquest of the North!"
"What?" The Cui brothers were shocked, and the news broke out one after another. The women in the hall seemed to see a demon, and their pretty faces were covered with fear. Someone even kept covering their mouths in time and did not exclaim!
Wei Feng frowned and said unhappily: "Why are the two men of the Cui family? Could it be that they will be able to eat people? Or are they not welcome me?"
"No! No! No!" Cui Jian came to his senses and hurriedly pulled Cui Tian to salute, "General Wei is here, and the walls of Cui's clan in Qinghe are shining brightly. Come on, General Wei is here to sit down!"
Wei Feng was not polite, and sat down on the upper head with a loud voice, then signaled: "Please sit down with everyone."
After the Cui family thanked him, they sat down with their heads, but they were somewhat restless. Even if some people looked up boldly, their eyes would be gone at once.
Wei Feng couldn't help but shook his head secretly. Cui Haonuo was famous, but his two younger brothers obviously couldn't get on the table. Even Cui Yuejin, who took the initiative to vote, was not very famous in history and was much better than these two.
To be honest, it was beyond Wei Feng's expectation that Cui Feng was able to take the initiative to vote, and it also made him very happy. He could no longer confiscate and exterminate the family as he did with the scholars in Jingzhou.
In the two hundred years since Yongjia, the Jin people either moved south to avoid disaster, or were killed and enslaved. The Jin people who remained in the north were compared by the Hu tribe in terms of population base. After an incomplete survey, the population of Hebei was filled with Qiang, clan, Xianbei and Dingling tribes, and the Jin people were extremely weak.
Therefore, what Wei Feng needs to do is to forcibly disperse the tribal organizational forms of the Hu, so that their migrations will be scattered, and gradually become good people. Second, they are united with the local Jin people, especially the Hebei tribes who have built up their own strength and serve the Hu regime, which needs to be cautious. These people generally have strong appeal in the local area and cannot be too forced. However, most of the tribes have officials in the Wei State, which has brought the opportunity to subdue Wei Feng, and this opportunity began with Cui Yue's surrender!
Wei Feng looked down and said lightly: "Do you know my purpose this time?"
"This..." Cui Jian couldn't help but look at his wife Lu, and had some speculation in his heart. Just as he was thinking about how to write the lyrics, Cui Qian was already snorting coldly: "Ji Shu, General Wei has only one purpose, which is to invite me, Qinghe Cui, to serve his subordinates!
You and I are from the Chinese bloodline, and I have been forced to make Hu Shi helpless move to protect the clan. This time, the revival of Hebei is a blessing that has never happened since Yongjia. We, the scholars and people in Hebei, should burn incense and tell their ancestors and drink to treat them. What's more, the Hu chief Tuoba Gui is cruel and fierce, narrow-minded, and is a tiger and wolf nature. My father was just concerned about the old love letter and the noble master, but he was cruel and cruel because of his murder. How can such a evil thief cannot tolerate it?
There is no need for the situation of the Wei Kingdom to be said more. Destruction is only about the matter sooner or later. It is just right for our Qinghe Cui family to turn back as soon as possible. This time, General Wei came secretly, which gave us Cui family a chance. Ji Shu and Zhongjing, don’t mislead others and yourself!”
Cui Jin was a descendant of Cui Yan during the Three Kingdoms period, while Cui Hao, Cui Jian and Cui Tian were descendants of Cui Yan's younger brother Cui Lin. Although they were both Cui He and Cui's bloodline were far away, Cui Jin's persuasion was indeed reasonable. If it were ordinary people, they would probably show their loyalty. However, after Cui Jian and Cui Tian looked at each other, Cui Jian said carefully: "The general was righteous and drove the barbarians, and we, the Chinese people, should follow the Jiwei, but...... The father and brother of the third brother are both in Pingcheng. The Wei Lord was in a perverted nature, and he was afraid that there would be a little news, which would harm his father and brother's lives. It was not that we were unwilling to serve the general, but that we had no choice but to have the difficulties. Please give us a clear understanding!"
The hall was dull for a moment. The Cui family members didn't even dare to be so arrogant, for fear of angering Wei Feng and causing a family to destroy the family. Cui Feng also looked at Wei Feng. On the way he came, he had asked this question, but Wei Feng vaguely passed by with his own solution. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!