Although the rebellion in the Guanzhong region of Northern Wei was put down by landing and others, the internal troubles within Northern Wei continued.
In the first month of the eighth year of the Taiping Zhenjun (447 AD, the twenty-fourth year of Yuan Jia), the northern Wei tujinghu and shanhu chieftains Cao Shuhun also began to rebel. The Northern Wei side also reacted quickly, and in February of that year, the Northern Wei general Zhengdong and Tuoba Ti, the king of Wuchang, and others were ordered to go on a crusade and quell the rebellion.
If the rebellion of Cao Shuhun and others can only be regarded as a small incident, then the next thing that happens is more interesting, the person involved is no one else, it is the last monarch of Northern Liang, Frustrated Qu Muqian. Some people will ask, he was not raised by the Tuoba Tao high-ranking official Houlu, what kind of moth can he make?
It turned out that after the Northern Wei army conquered Dunhuang earlier, Mu Qian sent people to cut open the treasury and take away the gold, silver, jewelry and jade inside. When Mu Qian and the others left, they did not close the gate of the treasury again, causing the local people to scramble to go inside and steal the gold and silver treasure. Although the relevant departments of the Northern Wei Dynasty sent people to search and investigate, not a single thief was caught, and Tuoba Tao thought that this was just an ordinary public security problem, so he did not pay too much attention to it.
Who thought that after many years, the cronies of the Depressed Canal Mu qian and the people who guarded the treasury suddenly reported the depressed qu mu qian to the Northern Wei court. Not only that, they also exposed that the father and son of the depressed canal had hidden a lot of poisons, and they had secretly killed more than a hundred people before and after. Not only that, but he also informed him of the so-called evil door and crooked way spells that Tan Wuchen had taught to his sisters who were depressed.
This made Tuoba Tao furious, and he ordered the relevant departments to search the home of Mu Qian, and sure enough, he found the evidence that the whistleblower said. This evidence alone was enough for Mu Jian to drink a pot, but it wasn't over. It was also reported that Depressed Mu qian was still secretly making friends with his former subjects, preparing to plot rebellion. Things have developed to this point, and The depressed Qu Mujian is doomed.
In March of that year, Tuoba Tao sent Cui Hao to the house of Mu Qian of Fengqu, and ordered him to commit suicide at home, and then gave him the title of King of Sorrow. The case of Frustrated Canal Mu qian was not small, and the sister of Depressed Canal Mu Qian, Princess Xingping, who was already honored as Tuoba Tao Zhaoyi, was also ordered to commit suicide, and the Frustrated Canal clan was basically destroyed, only The Frustrated Canal Wannian and The Frustrated Canal Ancestors were spared because they had surrendered to Northern Wei before the fall of Northern Liang.
Although he was forced to commit suicide, he and Tuoba Tao's sister Princess Wuwei's daughter were affectionately favored by Tuoba Tao, and after Princess Wuwei's death, they were allowed to inherit her mother's title of Princess Wuwei.
After the Northern Liang Sect Room was eradicated, Tuoba Tao was not idle. In August of that year, a country in the western region called Ban Yue sent envoys to Northern Wei, and their purpose was quite surprising, and they requested that they join forces with Northern Wei to jointly attack the State of Ruoran from east to west. Tuoba Tao's favorite thing to do in his life was to fight Rouran, and the previous few conquests did not gain much. Therefore, when Ban Yueguo made a request to attack Rouran, Tuoba Tao resolutely agreed and ordered Northern Wei to start preparing for war.
In fact, it was true that the Northern Wei Dynasty fought rouran, but pacifying the Western Regions was an important goal. As early as after the fall of Northern Liang, Yan Shanguo considered his land to be adjacent to Northern Wei, and for fear of being annexed by Northern Wei, he blocked all roads connecting northern Wei. When Northern Wei envoys passed by here, they committed robberies, resulting in northern Wei being isolated from the western region for several years. Therefore, as early as the sixth year of the Taiping Zhenjun (445 AD, the twenty-second year of Yuan Jia), Tuoba Tao sent a scattered horseman Wandu to lead the soldiers west of Liangzhou to attack Shanshan.
In August of that year, Wan Dugui led his army to Dunhuang, leaving Behind Heavy, leading 5,000 light cavalry to cross the quicksand to the west and attack Shanshan. This Shan Shan was naturally not a rival to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Zhen Da, the King of Shan Shan, tied his arms and came out to surrender. Wan Dugui left part of the army stationed, and returned to Pingcheng with Zhenda himself, and the Western Regions Road was opened again.
In the years that followed, Northern Wei was busy quelling the rebellion of Gai Wu and others, and did not have much energy to run the Western Regions. It was not until September of the eighth year of the Taiping Zhenjun (447 AD, the twenty-fourth year of Yuan Jia) that Wan Dugui led an army to attack the Yanqi state and defeated Yanqi. The Yanqi king, Dove, fled to Guizi. Tuoba Tao issued an edict and ordered Tang He and the former king Che Yiluo to lead their troops to join the Wandao division, and then attack the Western Regions. Tang He persuaded and surrendered six cities, including Liu Donkey, and then took the opportunity to capture the city of Poguro.
In December of that year, Wan Du marched west from Yanqi to conquest Guizi, leaving Tang and Zhen to guard Yanqi. Guizi sent the bird Karma Muti and other leading troops to resist, and Wan Du gui defeated them, capturing a large number of camels and horses and returning them. During this period, the official Yi Zhijia stationed at Liudong plotted a rebellion, and Tang He led a hundred light cavalry into Liudon city, captured and beheaded Yi Zhenjia. From then on, the People of Zhuhu were afraid of Tang He, and the Western Regions were once again pacified.
As for Rouran's side, Tuoba Tao did indeed act, but he did not find the main force of Rouran again, and in the end he could only return in vain.