In March of Ganlu Year One of Wei, something momentous happened among the Tuoba Xianbei.
When that friend of Kuxian returned to his tribe, the first thing he did was gather everyone and hurriedly flee.
He cared nothing for whether Kuxian lived or died, so long as he himself survived.
Nor did he inform anyone else. He merely ordered his followers to pack their belongings and set off immediately.
He had thought he could disappear swiftly. Unfortunately, the other chieftains had been watching his every move, and as he fled with his tribe, the many other tribes learned the news one after another.
Because an official had been killed, their lord intended to investigate the tribal lords' acceptance of bribes from the Wei people, and was preparing a banquet at which to kill them!
Then they discovered that Kuxian had fled with his tribe as well.
His reason for fleeing was even simpler: his friend had coaxed important information out of him while he was drunk. If that friend ran away, Kuxian would certainly be implicated, so he needed to escape as quickly as possible.
After the two fled in succession, an enormous uproar swept through the Tuoba.
Soon, the other tribes began fleeing rapidly as well.
In truth, they could not be certain that what they had heard was true, but they dared not gamble with their lives.
Besides, Liwei's actions over the years had been steadily stripping these tribal lords of the power in their hands.
They all felt somewhat resentful about this, and this incident happened to give them a reason to leave.
The Tuoba had always been a great alliance. Back then, everyone had willingly gathered around Tuoba Liwei; now they could leave and form separate tribes of their own.
Such were the customs of the