"Tuoba Liwei has many sons."
"But only four of them actually have the right to inherit."
Throughout their journey, Duan Qizhen had been describing the Tuoba Tribe's circumstances. He said earnestly, "Liwei changed the previous method of succession."
"In the past, the chieftain personally designated his successor. Whoever he favored had a better chance of succeeding him, but Liwei stipulated that the eldest son must inherit... most Xianbei tribes follow the practice of a younger brother succeeding his elder brother."
"But if a particular chieftain has too many sons, that creates some confusion."
"So Liwei established many rules governing succession..."
Wen Yang listened with keen interest as Duan Qizhen described the various tribes. Just then, Zu Wu suddenly asked, "Duke Duan, I've always wanted to know, just what is the situation with this Yuwen Tribe?"
The Xianbei had many tribes. Those three were not the only ones in the north; there were actually many others, and the Yuwen Tribe was one of them.
The Yuwen Tribe was not within Great Wei's borders. They were wedged between the Duan Tribe and the Tuoba Tribe.
Traveling from the Duan Tribe to the Tuoba Tribe meant passing through Yuwen territory, and over these past years, the Yuwen Tribe had seemed very... low-profile?
They had almost no dealings with any other tribe and kept an extremely low profile. They had never plundered anyone, either. Word had it that they barely interacted with the other Xianbei tribes. They were practically invisible.
This meant that Great Wei knew very little about them.
Just how little?
Great Wei did not even know the name of the Yuwen Xianbei chieftain!
Hearing Zu Wu's question, Duan Qizhen could not help laughing. "You've asked the right person. There really aren't many people in all of Great Wei who know about