Jiang Ming's concerns were not unfounded.
Although he helped the Xiongnu eliminate the Rouran, the Xiongnu's archenemy who had been "reducing the population".
Furthermore, they provided the Xiongnu with a large amount of food, warm clothing, and enough fodder for their livestock to get through the winter.
But as the old saying goes, a pig is a pig, and a sheep is a sheep; pork doesn't grow on a sheep...
Although Jiang Ming possessed the Howling Golden Wolf, he was not of Xiongnu blood.
Even after marrying Eriya, the queen of the second largest tribe of the Southern Xiongnu, he still found it difficult to win over the people.
On the day Jiang Ming was enthroned as Khan, it was mostly the Xiongnu generals who were making the fuss, but the Xiongnu herders at the grassroots level had no right to express their opinions. They were dissatisfied from the bottom of their hearts!
Moreover, within Jiang Ming's base of operations—Dukang County, Gu County, and the Yanbei Grassland—a hierarchy of contempt has formed.
Jiang Ming's core followers, namely the county soldiers originally under Ji Bochang's command, looked down on the Xianbei people.
"Speaking up, our lord is your Khan, so we ordinary soldiers are of a higher status than you Xianbei people!"
The Xianbei people looked down on the Xiongnu people because the Xiongnu were the ones who submitted later. If it weren't for our Khan Jiang, you would have been wiped out by the Rouran people by now.
The Xiongnu people suddenly became the third class.
Of course, there is also a fourth group, namely the Bai Di people, who were originally the people of the Zhongshan Kingdom.
Fortunately, the Zhongshan people had their own territory and homeland, and had already established an agricultural culture. They no longer fought over pastures, so... their conflicts with other ethnic groups were not sharp.
The people of Yan would not go to Zhongshan.
In this way, the ordinary people of the Xiongnu became the lowest of the low in the true sense...
Their hierarchical system and biased views are extremely detrimental to internal unity and the stability of Jiang Ming's regime!
However, you cannot expect ordinary people, especially those barbarians who have not received the education of the king, to have good manners and a sense of the big picture.
The main reason is that Jiang Ming succeeded too quickly!
As a result, there wasn't much time to 'educate' his people and 'digest' the fruits of victory that had been gained.
To truly achieve a unified and monolithic rule, at the very least, a certain degree of ethnic integration must be achieved.
However, the people of Yan, who considered themselves a land of propriety and a direct descendant of the emperor, looked down upon the Xianbei and Xiongnu.
They were unwilling to marry them.
Even if the other person is very handsome and the woman is very beautiful, of course, it's okay to have some fun.
And what about the Xianbei people?
They considered themselves descendants of the Yellow Emperor, sharing the same ancestor as the Daqian people, and looked down on the Xiongnu.
Lifestyles differ in many places.
For example, diet.
Although the Xianbei people's diet was somewhat rough, it had not yet reached the point of eating raw meat and drinking blood.
The Xiongnu nobles considered the best food to be raw hot dog blood poured over noodles. Who could stand that?
Therefore, ethnic integration is very difficult and requires a long time to digest; the key is to change customs and traditions.
But Jiang Ming did none of these tasks. Instead, he led a group of soldiers and his two wives, Chen Damei and Chen Ermei, to fight in the north and south and conquer the world!
As a result, seventy to eighty thousand ordinary Xiongnu people followed some minor nobles from the Southern Xiongnu who were dissatisfied with Jiang Ming becoming the Chanyu and went north to join the Northern Xiongnu.
Of course, this also includes Young Master Luo, and his two sons with Empress Yan.
Poor Queen Yan, she schemed her whole life, only to be murdered by Young Master Luo in the luxurious mansion Jiang Ming had prepared for her, while heavily pregnant...
The key issue is that the Queen of Yan was not ruthless enough and still had some trust and affection for Young Master Luo.
He believed he only brought the woman along to see his sons, but... Young Master Luo strangled Empress Yan to death with a wooden stick...
When Yixieer Chanyu of the Northern Xiongnu saw that seventy or eighty thousand of his people had come to submit to him, he was naturally overjoyed.
Hearing that the God of Wealth, Young Master Luo, from the Zhongshan Kingdom had arrived, he was treated as an honored guest.
Young Master Luo is a very intelligent person...
Although he had been deceived by the Queen of Yan, even losing his underwear, which led to his sister, the Queen of Zhongshan, being executed by the King of Zhongshan in a fit of anger.
But he has now come to his senses and is no longer as bewildered as before.
He told Yixieer Chanyu that the two children were the biological offspring of Yan King Ji Xi.
However, Jiang Ming usurped power in the Yan state and then installed a good-for-nothing named Ji Bochang as king.
It is hoped that the Great Chanyu can lead his elite troops south, destroy the Yan state, and support the son of King Ji Xi of Yan to ascend the throne.
And when this child becomes the new King of Yan, he will definitely acknowledge the Great Chanyu as his father, and he is willing to be the son king!
The two children of Young Master Luo were very sensible; they immediately knelt before Chanyu Yixie'er and kowtowed repeatedly, expressing their willingness to acknowledge Yixie'er as their godfather and hoping that their godfather could help them restore their kingdom...
Unlike Aixin Chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu, and also unlike the Khan of the Rouran!
This Yixieer Chanyu of the Northern Xiongnu was the most intelligent hero of the grasslands, whose talent and strategy even surpassed those of Murong Xue's father, the Xianbei Khan!
He knew perfectly well that these two bastards were born from Luo Gongzi's affair with the former Queen of Yan, and they had come here to fool him!
However, these two children could indeed be used as leverage, or rather, tools, to influence the world and seize control of the Yan state.
Despite the fact that Yixie Er Chanyu lived in the northern desert for many years.
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