Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 158 Anxi's White-haired Soldier
"Therefore, General Wuwei, Ambassador of the Khotan Army, Khotan Guardian Envoy, Zheng Gong's seventh grandson, Zheng Tong, pays homage to Mr. Zhang Erlang of Shazhou!"

"Therefore, the envoy of Yanqi Township, the magistrate of Shule Pianzhou City, and the governor of Yanqi, Yang Gong, the seventh Sun Yanghe, paid homage to Mr. Zhang Erlang of Shazhou!"

"Guo Yi, the captain of Han Haijun in Tingzhou, knows the town of Shenxian, and the deputy envoy of economics and strategy, Cao Gong, the eighth grandson of Li Wang, met with Mr. Zhang Erlang of Shazhou."

The three self-reported visits to Zhang Zhao are all old acquaintances.

Zheng Tong is the monk Huitong with a big bald head.

Yang He is the monk Huixing, the great disciple of Daozhen, who has practiced closed-mouth meditation and hasn't spoken much.

Li Wang is Li Qilang.

Behind them, Master Daozhen, who had already declared himself as family, was sitting on the futon.

While talking, the three of them held up a dilapidated fish bag and handed it to Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Zhao took a look and found that inside were the official seals and fish charms of Zheng Ju, the last governor of Khotan, Yang Riyou, the governor of Yanqi, Cao Lingjie, captain of Guoyi of the Han Navy.

"A lonely city for thousands of miles, full of white-haired soldiers!" Zhang Zhao took the three fish bags with his eyes warm, and lifted them above his head.

"I finally found you, and finally found the descendants of Anxi's loyal ministers! Heaven has eyes!"

After speaking, Zhang Zhao solemnly put the three fish bags into the prepared wooden box.

"If the three of you are willing, a certain Zhang Erlang wants to keep these three fish bags by his side. When the matter here is over, I hope that I can take the fish bags with me and go to Kucha to worship the heroic spirit of the Great Tang Dynasty!"

After Zhang Zhao finished speaking, Master Daozhen on the futon smiled and nodded, "Mr. Erlang has a heart. Since the day my ancestors left Kucha, I have been looking forward to returning to Kucha in a dignified manner. The three fish bags are entrusted to Mr. Erlang."

Monk Hui Tong, also known as Zheng Tong, touched the horrible scar on his head, "Zheng really didn't expect that the emperor of Tang Dynasty had long forgotten us homeless people, but Mr. Erlang still missed us.

It would be great if Mr. Erlang could come decades earlier. At that time, my patriarch Zheng Gong’s taboo was still there. If he could see this day, how happy he would be! "

"Ten decades earlier?" Zhang Zhao asked suspiciously.

If he remembered correctly, Zheng Ju, the guardian of Khotan, should have been around 790, because the reason why his name can be passed down to later generations is all because of the records of Monk Wukong. When Monk Wukong passed through Anxi, it was 790. about.

According to records, the time when the Tubo army captured Kucha, the last stronghold of the Tang Dynasty, should have been around 808, which is 808 years from 932. It should be a little over 100 years. How could it be decades earlier?
Moreover, his current status is Duke Fengtian of Khotan Jin Kingdom, Governor of Polu Prefecture, so to call a person should be the highest official rank, why would he directly call him Mr. Zhang Erlang of Shazhou?These people don't seem to trust Tianjin Kingdom very much!
However, judging from Zhang Zhao's observations over the past six months, Li Shengtian's Kingdom of Khotan is quite Sinicized, and Li Shengtian himself has a lot of trust in Anxi Tanger. In Khotan Kingdom alone, there are at least four to five thousand Tanger .

So, why did these lonely and loyal descendants of the Western Regions hide in Shule instead of going to Khotan?
"Just a few decades! Duke Zheng Ling lived until the year of Gengshen, and died at the age of eighty-seven. At that time, it seemed that the merchants from the east said that the Tang Dynasty was the first year of Huichang.

Our ancestors only lost the control of Kucha in the year before the first year of Huichang, and it is only more than 100 years ago and less than [-] years ago.

It was less than 60 years when I couldn't stay in Qiuci and moved to Shule. "Zheng Tong thought that Zhang Zhao didn't calculate clearly, so he calculated it for him specially.

wrong!The time is wrong!Zhang Zhao tapped his head lightly, motioning Zhang Zhong to bring him the Huang Li.

Huichang, Gengshennian, and Zhang Zhao searched one by one. It is true that Gengshennian is the first year of Tang Wuzong's Huichang, but this is wrong!Zhang Zhao broke his fingers and began to calculate carefully.

He doesn't know the specific AD now, but he remembers that Li Siyuan, Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, ascended the throne around 930.

Assuming that the second year of Changxing was 931, then 90 years ago it was around 840, and didn't Qiuci fall around 808?

"Brother Zheng means that the time when Kucha, which your ancestors defended firmly, was captured by Tubo was in the year of Gengshen, that is, around the first year of Huichang. Is it the Year of the Wuzi?"

This is too strange, could it be that the records of later generations are wrong, Zhang Zhao walked up to the four of them with the almanac and said softly.

Now it was the turn of the four of them to be confused, and Li Qilang looked at Zhang Zhao suspiciously, "Where did Mr. Erlang get the news that Tubo captured Qiucha? The Tubo army has never captured Qiucha!"

"Qilang is right. If the records of the ancestors are correct, the Tubo people were indeed besieging Kucha in the third year of Yuanhe. But at the end of the year, the Uighur Baoyi Khan sent [-] troops to join us inside and outside to defeat Tubo. Since then, Tubo has never Incapable of attacking Qiucha, they have never captured Qiucha from the beginning to the end."

Tubo never captured Kucha?Zhang Zhao was completely startled, he grabbed Zheng Tong's hand in surprise.

"Then, King Guo led everyone to hold on? Then how long did they hold on? When and why did you come to Shule? Tell me quickly."

Zheng Tong nodded, recalled for a while and began to say: "After the Tubo army was repulsed in the third year of Yuanhe, the danger of Kucha City was relieved. I originally wanted to rely on the Uighurs to resume production, but at that time Anxi fought every year, and the Uighurs fought every year. People themselves are very poor and can't afford to support us.

But we were even worse. At that time, the four towns of Khotan, Shule, Yanqi, and Qiuci had a total of 110,000 households and a population of more than [-]. However, after three years in Yuanhe, only [-] people remained in Kucha.

Moreover, most of the farmland and water wells outside the city were destroyed. In addition, the weather became colder and the harvest was poor every year. The output near Kucha could not even supply 20,000 people. Migrate to Quli and Yanqi.

After seven or eight years, farming in Qiuci and other places resumed, and some of the people who moved out returned to Qiuci, but Dingkou is still a big problem.

When Khotan, Shule, Yizhou, and Xizhou fell, almost all women and children were lost. As a result, we have always had more men than women. There were originally more than 20,000 people, but after seven or eight years, there were only more than [-] people. To [-] people. "

"How could this be?" Ma Yaozi blinked his eyes and was quite puzzled, "There are no more Han women, so the orchid lady is also available, you are too ignorant of flexibility!"

Zheng Tong smiled wryly, "The cavalry team doesn't know something, and we thought the same way back then, if there are no Han women, then it's okay to marry some orchids.

But at that time, the Great Tang Dynasty was in decline, Uighurs and Tubo ruled Anxi one after another, we Tang children were no longer popular, and it was no longer the era when we just wanted orchids to beckon.

Not to mention the orchids of Uighur and other tribes, because of language barriers and incompatible habits, few are willing to marry to Kucha, and it is more common for the Tang family who married orchids to end up with the whole family. "

"What's the reason for this? How can they do this and don't want their ancestors?" Ma Yaozi's eyes widened suddenly, he couldn't understand that there are people who are not Tang'er but Hulu.

"This is cultural disqualification! Losing the majesty of the Tang Dynasty, Tang'er has changed from a citizen of the Celestial Dynasty to a homeless abandoned citizen in Anxi where there are beards all over the place!"

Zhang Zhao nodded his head to show his understanding. After Tang's prestige ceased, the twenty thousand Tang'er surrounded by millions of barbarians became a bullied alien instead.

"Mr. Erlang is right!" Although Zheng Tong didn't know what cultural disqualification was, the situation at that time was just like what Zhang Zhao said.

"According to my grandfather, there was nothing good about being Tang'er at that time. He was often bullied by the big barbarians nearby. It was difficult to marry a wife and have children. Even going far away was dangerous. Everyone had to shrink to the vicinity of Kucha to survive. .

Because there are barbarians everywhere outside of Kucha, and they are often robbed, so many people can't stand it, so they simply find ways to become barbarians. "

Zhang Zhao and the rest of the Shandu soldiers behind him were silent. Although Zhang Zhao felt bad, he knew that he had no reason to blame them.

After 808, most of the descendants of the Anxi Army in Kucha were born after Datang completely lost contact.

They can only know the glory of the past from the mouth of their parents, but after all they have never seen it themselves, and because they were born in an environment surrounded by gangsters, apart from the blood flowing in their bodies, the Tang court did not give them any favors.

Not to mention that there are a large number of naturalized Sogdians, Kucha people and Yanqi people among them. It is understandable that they can't survive and give up their identity as Tang'er.

"At that time, we were headed by the Guojun Wang family. Seeing this situation, Guo Gong, the grandson of Guojun Wang, who was in charge of the family, forbade everyone to marry orchids. Even if we married, the family would be placed in the city of Kucha." Huixing monk Yang Kazuya squinted his eyes and said as if recalling.

"Hey! This is a silly trick! Isn't this forcing people who can't marry a wife to leave!"

Zhang Zhao shook his head. From his point of view, if this happens, quickly unite a few small tribal alliances and marry to save the basic situation.
"As Erlang Jun expected, once this order came out, more people ran away. In the end, only [-] people stayed in Kucha!" Zheng Tong smiled wryly.

"Originally, even with these [-] people, we can still live on, because those who are willing to leave have left, and those who stay are the real Tang'er.

We built water conservancy, set up schools, organized all households to equalize the people, and turned all the people into soldiers. Life is better, but God just won’t let us comfort us! "

"Is it because the Uyghurs are in chaos?" Zhang Zhao sighed deeply. This should be the beginning of the collapse of the Uyghur Khanate.

The Kirgiz, Ge Luolu, and Basmi people united and began to challenge the Uyghurs continuously, and the Uyghur Khanate finally collapsed under the double blows of the Kirgiz and Datang.

At this time, the rest of Anxi should be attached to the Uyghurs, and the Uyghur Khanate collapsed, and they would naturally have a hard time.

"That's right! After more than ten years of peaceful life, Anxi began to become chaotic again. The Kirgasi, Geluolu, Basmi, and Uyghurs attacked and killed each other.

We only have a few thousand people. Although there are thousands of strong men who can fight, they are not like the beards who can nomad around and have a place to run when they are defeated.

After the complete collapse of the Uighurs in the year of Gengshen (840), we could only cancel the title of the Anxi Army.

It has been able to last for so many years, in fact, because the Uighurs have been supporting it. The Uighur Khanate is gone. If we still carry the name of the Anxi Army, we will definitely be attacked.

However, after the name of the Anxi Army was canceled, people's hearts were even more scattered. We bit the bullet and persisted for another seven or eight years. Then Guo Dalang, the head of the Guo family, betrayed us, and Kucha Kucha was gone! "

Zhang Zhao felt uncomfortable for a while, he really didn't want to hear Zheng Tong's words.

What a hero Guo Xingong, the king of Jagged County!He led a lone army to protect the Western Regions for the Tang Dynasty all his life, but in the end the Anxi Army ended up being betrayed by his descendants!In order to play with these loyal ministers and righteous men like this?
"This is impossible!" Yan Jin stared, and he stood up with a blushing face, "What kind of man is King Guo? He is an indomitable hero. How could his descendants betray Anxi Army?"

"We don't want to believe it either! But it's the truth!" Li Qilang sighed, and then Zheng Tong continued.

"At that time, Kucha City was about to lose its hold, and when everyone was planning to hoard supplies for emergencies, Guo Dalang, who came back from Xizhou, suddenly brought back a piece of news.

He said that the Tang Dynasty had been revived, and the imperial court still remembered us, so they sent some kind of angel and envoy of Yixi Jiedu. Guo Dalang asked everyone to rectify the army and horses, and go to Xizhou, that is, Gaochang, to meet the angel.

At that time, everyone was very excited, gathered two thousand soldiers and horses and headed to Xizhou, thinking that life would be better in the future, the court finally came, but before we reached Xizhou, we were intercepted and attacked by Hu Qi.

2000 people went there, less than half of them escaped back, and Guo Dalang disappeared, and then even Kucha was surrounded. We fought a bloody battle and temporarily repelled tens of thousands of Hu'er, but Kucha couldn't hold on anymore.

At that time, the Karahan people had not yet converted to Tianfang religion, Shule was close to Khotan, and Dayun Temple was still there, so we gradually moved to live in Shule.

Later when we arrived in Shule, everyone felt strange, how could those Hu Qi so accurately block us on the road?Someone must have leaked the news.

So some people began to say that Guo Dalang betrayed us, and the family quarreled a few times over it, and almost resorted to violence, so the Guo family gradually alienated us, and later I heard that they moved back to the Kucha area. "

Zhang Zhao turned his head and looked at Zhang Zhong, Yin Yaozi and others. The eyes of several people were full of hatred. It was really strange that the descendants of Anxi Army were ambushed this time.

"Li Qilang, can you tell me exactly when Guo Dalang said that the new Yixi Jiedu envoy from the imperial court came? Some doubts, maybe it wasn't Guo Dalang who betrayed the Anxi army!" Zhang Zhao took a deep breath and said darkly.

Li Qilang looked at Zhang Zhao in surprise, thought for a while and said, "According to my grandfather, it should be 27 years after we went to Anxi Army title!"

"Ah! Pu Gujun! You bastard!" Zhang Zhao felt as if his head had been bombarded by a thunderbolt. The extreme anger made his whole body feel hot, and he suddenly overturned the case in front of him. land.

"Damn Pu Gujun! I want to kill all your descendants!"

(End of this chapter)