"Is this torture to confess?"

Fu Zhibai immediately realized that the army that captured Dangxiang naturally needed a secluded trial, but he looked at the expressions of the Dangxiang people behind Lin Yi, but he was full of suspicion.

It seems that these Dangxiang people are quite happy, and they don’t look like they are facing severe torture and forced confession at all.

But since it must be Lin Yi, he didn't ask any more questions, but just said respectfully: "Please follow me, General Lin."

The most advanced place in the Red Salt Cave is indeed the several stilt houses.

From a distance, I looked at the doors and windows of these stilt feet and seemed to be covered by black cloth, but when I got close, I found that only the second floor was covered by a few rooms where I slept on the second floor, while the third floor was airtight, with a lot of hay, millet and other food piled up on the edge.

"This is not considered an inn, but we are all familiar with the owners, and they are all old salt households. After we came, I have booked these buildings. General, even if you are discussing matters here, no one will disturb you."

Fuzhi white-collar worker Lin Yi went up to the third floor of one of the stilt buildings. There was a table made of dead wood roots on the third floor of this stilt building. There were some dried fruits that looked dark, which looked like wild fruits were dried. Lin Yi had never seen them before.

Except for the fact that Dang Xiang and others were really missing, there was no need for Lin Yi's instructions. Only Xifeng Yingshan and Xifeng Yingqi followed to the third floor. However, Lin Yi's side did not follow the two mothers, the Land Wax Warriors. The rest of Fei Xu and others went upstairs to listen according to Lin Yi's wishes.

Fei Xu, Zhu Yu and Yan Jinghai all understood in their hearts that Lin Yi was employed without doubt, and he didn't doubt others. The more he did this, the more Lin Yi's actions made them admire him.

The three of them naturally didn't know that Lin Yi became the lord of the Sword Pavilion, mostly by chance, or actually by Shen Yue's deliberate arrangement, because if Shen Yue's arrangement was not available, He Xiuxing would not be able to teach Lin Yi's unleashed golden body skills, and Lin Yi would not be able to become his final disciple.

They naturally thought that people like He Xiuxing would definitely choose from thousands of choices. From this point of view, following Lin Yi would not be considered as insulting themselves.

"You said before that the situation in your party is not as simple as I thought?"

Lin Yi didn't say anything nonsense. After he asked everyone to sit down, he looked at the two Dangxiang royal clans and said, "Please talk in detail."

"I don't know how much you know about our party Xiang, but I just don't know about the general. I will talk in detail later. If there is any offense, I hope the general will forgive me." Xifeng Yingshan looked serious and said tactfully and politely. He looked at Lin Yi and nodded, and stopped talking nonsense, saying: "In the early years, our party Xiang was vast and sparsely populated. Like the Mobei of the Northern Wei Dynasty, each tribe was in charge of itself, and even often fought with each other. Later, some of our tribes felt that it was weak if they were divided, and that they were strong if they gathered. Later, the Xifeng clan, Fei Ting clan, went to the Li clan, Pochao clan, Yeli clan, Miqin clan, and Tuoba clan. At that time, most of the tribes in the Dangxiang clan were combined together.

We established a city-state, and all ethnic groups traded, and it became strong. Later, we annexed some small and hostile countries around us, and became today's Dangxiang. The eight tribes of that year all became royal families. The emperors of all generations were elected among the eight royal families. For all major events, it was not the emperor who had the final say, but the Eight Kings Hall. Our Dangxiang has learned the rewards of the Northern Wei and Southern Dynasties over the past decades, and decided whether they could enter the Eight Kings Hall according to their merits. Therefore, the seats that each tribe can enter the Eight Kings Hall for discussion are different. Our Xifeng clan has seven seats, and the other clans also vary between five and ten seats. However, the Tuoba clan is the strongest, with 17 seats in the Eight Kings Hall."

"oh?"

Lin Yi suddenly became curious. He had never seen this strategy of governing the country in history books before, and it was an exception. He couldn't help but ask, "Then how do you emperor recommend it?"

"If the old emperor is no longer in good health to bear state affairs, or is considered to have made a major mistake by the Eight Kings Palace and is no longer worthy of being the emperor, the Eight Kings Palace will re-elect. When electing, each royal family will select the right candidates in their own tribe and then promise the interests of the other tribes. The more support seats the family will receive, the people from which family will be elected in the end." Xifeng Yingshan said.

Lin Yi said: "That's not the equivalent of bribing other companies. It depends on which company can successfully buy the rest of the companies in the end?"

Xifeng Yingshan nodded, "That's about it, but the more seats a company, the more advantage it will be, and there will naturally be fewer people to buy and win over."

Lin Yi glanced at him, signaled to understand, and didn't say anything, so he asked him to continue talking.

"Now our Dangxiang Emperor is from the Mi Qin clan. Although he is only fifty-three years old, the Tuoba clan has been planning to let him come down so that the Tuoba clan members can become emperors."

Xifeng Yingshan smiled bitterly and said, "Originally, among the eight royal families, the Tuoba clan was a little confused, but now another Xia Ba clan appeared."

"What is Xia Ba's?" Luo Jilian couldn't help but interrupt. Even she had never heard of the name of this clan.

"Of course, Xia Ba is not our Dangxiang royal family. They were originally just a group of natives and small clans on the Sherpa Mountain, but they suddenly appeared in the past ten years. Their power is firearms."

Xifeng Yingshan talked about Xia Bashi, and naturally locked his eyebrows, looking very troubled. "It can be said that most of the powerful firearms in our Dangxiang are from Xia Bashi, and the best purple-nitrate mines in our Dangxiang are all in their Sherpa Mountain. In addition, they are also good at making some special glass beads, some beads made of gem powder or coral powder are more beautiful than natural gems. These beads are not only very popular in our Dangxiang, but most importantly, Rouran and Tuyuhun are particularly fond of them. Some caravans even sold to the Western Regions outside Tuyuhun, and some beads have even become common currencies in those places."

“These beads produce a lot?”

Lin Yi glanced at Xifeng Yingshan and immediately understood the power of Xia Ba.

These beads can be recognized as amazing value by those foreign dynasties in the Western Regions and have even become common currency used in exchange for goods in those places. This is equivalent to the fact that Xia Pas has a continuous mining of gold mines.

In the Southern Dynasty, this was equivalent to mastering the minting of coins and the national treasury.

“The output is quite large.”

Xifeng Yingshan smiled bitterly and said, "When our royal family realized the power of Xia Ba clan, their wings were full. Not only did they build a chain of cities in the Sherpa Mountains, but they also in turn forced the royal family to become a new royal family. Our royal family was helpless against Xia Ba clan. If they wanted to destroy Xia Ba clan and conquer Sherpa Mountain, they would probably suffer astonishing losses and cause rebounds from other clans. However, if they did not agree, they would cause trouble again. Now, the trade in the Western Regions is almost all their people. The people in the Western Regions have been slowly washed into their friends in the past decade. Even if we ask for other things in our Dangxiang, they will trade with them first and get them from their hands. Most of the Dangxiang's money is circulated through their hands."

"There is internal struggle among the royal family, and now a Xia Ba tribe suddenly appeared. Dangxiang, you are in such a mess, and you can still struggle to enter the Southern Dynasty with hundreds of thousands of troops. This is not easy." Lin Yi couldn't help but laugh.

The more straightforward he was, the more he felt that Xifeng Yingshan and Xifeng Yingqi were not restricted, and instead felt closer.

Xifeng Yingshan couldn't help laughing and said, "It's not easy, but I haven't finished talking about the general yet. In fact, what's more troublesome is that the Tuoba family has almost influenced political affairs now. They have good friends with the Northern Wei Dynasty. The army has pushed into the Southern Dynasty and become enemies with the Southern Dynasty. In fact, they are the leaders. However, the Sherpas have good friends with the Western Regions outside Tuyuhun and Tuyuhun. They can't control the army at present, but they just want to squeeze in. Therefore, after our army entered the Southern Dynasty, we retreated quickly. It's not entirely because the King of Zhongshan of the Northern Wei suddenly evacuated back to Luoyang, but because our court itself has various voices."

"Then I understand it completely now."
Chapter completed!