When Jiang Ming was fighting a bloody battle at the foot of the Great Xianbei Mountain, it wasn't that the Xianbei Khan Murong Hong was unrighteous or unwilling to come down the mountain to join the battle...

In truth, his injuries were too severe, and seeing the Xiongnu camp engulfed in flames in the mountains made him too emotional. He died before he could even give any orders!

After weeping, his sons started arguing fiercely again!

The core of the dispute, of course, is who will inherit the Khanate?

These princes, each born to a concubine, were of equal noble birth, and so they began to fight each other!

As for the matter of going down the mountain to participate in the war and provide assistance, it had long since become a "secondary contradiction."

Neither of them would yield to the other, so in the end, the decision was left to the father's principal wife, Changsun Yuehua, to decide who could inherit the Khan's throne.

Changsun Yuehua was already in tears, unable to make a decision on who should succeed Murong Hong.

The six brothers were all roughly equal in strength...

If the wrong choice is made, it will inevitably cause a bloody upheaval within the Xianbei people.

This awkward situation is a direct reflection of the underdeveloped political system in the steppe tribal regimes...

If a successor is not determined after the death of a monarch, a fierce internal struggle is inevitable before everything can be settled.

This has almost become a routine and a habit...

In Jiang Ming's previous life, the Yuan Dynasty was like this: every time the Khan of the empire died, it was accompanied by a brutal internal war.

That's why Europe and South Asia... escaped a disaster.

The Yuan Dynasty only lasted for a little over ninety years before it collapsed...

This is closely related to their system of succession to the throne!

But these things were not a problem at all for the Central Plains dynasties!

Planning ahead is crucial. Establishing a successor is a matter of paramount importance for a country, and it cannot be left ambiguous and unresolved.

Even if the monarch is cunning and ruthless and fails to designate an heir for a long time, the ministers will still handle the matter properly according to the principle of establishing the eldest son of the legitimate wife if there is one, and establishing the eldest son of the firstborn if there is no legitimate wife!

There will absolutely not be a situation where several brothers turn against each other like hungry wolves and fight amongst themselves!

The fighting up there had turned into a complete mess, and Murong Hong's body was thrown aside. Who cared about what was happening down the mountain?

In short... these princes all knew that Jiang Ming had really come to their rescue. With his abilities, dealing with Yixie'er of the Northern Xiongnu would be no problem at all!

The six brothers argued from late at night until dawn, and none of them went down the mountain to help...

Even after Jiang Ming's messenger arrived at the mountain, they were still fighting amongst themselves!

The second prince's arm was even slashed by his eldest brother!

Of the six major tribes, only the largest, the Murong tribe, was embroiled in internal strife... The other five tribes also took sides, and even within the five tribes themselves, divisions arose... Everyone wanted to support the prince they had always supported to ascend to the throne!

The third prince, Murong Lie, had it easy. He followed Jiang Ming and directly became the Prince of Zhongshan Yan, without participating in his brothers' competition...

When the messenger told Jiang Ming about the situation on the mountain, Jiang Ming was so angry that his fists clenched so tightly they cracked!

If it weren't for those bastards talking nonsense on the mountain, how could I have lost 60,000 men?

Jiang Ming led his troops directly up the Great Xianbei Mountain... and stormed straight into his father-in-law's royal tent!

Upon seeing their brother-in-law arrive, the princes all sheathed their fangs, returned their swords to their sheaths, and stood on either side.

Jiang Ming ignored them and went straight to examine Murong Hong's body... He discovered something was amiss.

That means Murong Hong is already dead...

Then he shouldn't continue bleeding.

But he had stopped breathing; blood was still seeping faintly from his wound...

Moreover, the blood was bright red.

As a special forces soldier, Jiang Ming had some knowledge of first aid, but he had no ability to bring the dead back to life.

I don't have a particularly deep understanding of medicine.

But he remembered reading a story about Sun Simiao before, which said that... there was a family holding a funeral, and the deceased was a woman who died in childbirth. She died before giving birth to her child.

When Sun Simiao passed by, he saw blood seeping from the coffin, and the blood was bright red. So he stopped the funeral procession and opened the coffin to examine the body.

Finally, he saved the woman's life through acupuncture, directly averting the tragedy of both mother and child dying!

Murong Hong's wounds have already turned black, and there is no way to save him. Even if he were sent to a modern hospital, his chances of survival would be slim!

But it seems he's not quite dead yet!

Without saying a word, Jiang Ming immediately performed CPR on Murong Hong!

He was a special forces soldier, so he was very experienced in this kind of thing. He even performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on Murong Hong... which left the princes speechless!

"Brother-in-law... what's wrong?"

"Could it be that my brother-in-law possesses the power to bring the dead back to life? Father Khan is already dead..."

"My God! Everyone says my brother-in-law is a god; he probably really can bring the dead back to life!"

"Brother-in-law, this should be transferring yang energy to Father's body!"

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In ancient times, there was no such thing as artificial respiration!

While men and women are not supposed to touch each other, men, let alone kiss each other... even if you beat a man to death, he wouldn't agree to that.

But it was to save lives.

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