Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1105 Thor
On the clear mirror-like river, a fleet is going up the river.

Liu Rengui from the Central Plains looked at the river and couldn't help sighing that the river is so beautiful.He was born in the Central Plains, and what he saw most were rushing and turbid rivers like the Yellow River.

"It's really beautiful."

A thin black man with broken hair and tattoos stood beside him with bare feet and said, "What beautiful mountains and rivers, it's just poor water and bad water."

"Ah Fa, I think this place is pretty good." Liu Rengui said to the guide.

"When you get to Luodou Cave, you'll know it's not so good. The people there are notoriously savage."

Liu Rengui was thoughtful, because he beheaded Feng Xuan, Li Jing personally asked for credit, and was promoted by the emperor to Huairen School.From the eighth to the ninth of the martial ranks, there are Wuqi, Tunqi, Xiaoqi, Ranger, Flying, Luqi, Yunqi, and Yuqi.

And above the eight captains are the eight schools, and from the sixth to the seventh are the eight schools of Jianjie, Fenwu, Xuanhui, Suide, Huairen, Shouyi, Fengcheng, and Lixin.

After getting the Huairen School in the seventh rank, he was also awarded by Li Jing as the commander of the newly established Huaide Battalion in Huaide County, Yongxi County, Guangdong Province, commanding [-] battalions.

Huaide County is in the south of Yongxi County, on the border with Gaoliang County in the south, with Yunwu Mountain in the west, and Beiliu of Hepu County is just across the mountain.

Huaide, which is at the junction of the three counties, has a complicated situation, especially in the uncivilized mountainous area. Huaide County has also been opened up recently, and here are mainly the local officials of Luodoudong.

Ah Fa was a guide given to him by Li Jingba. He was from Yongxi Huaide and later went to work in Nanhai County. He was a very clever person.

Although he has broken hair, tattoos and bare feet, he is no different from the slang people here, but Ah Fa still firmly declares that he is a Han Chinese.

The boat was rowing on the clear river, and Ah Fa introduced the situation here to his new boss. He has now been transferred to Huaide Camp as a guide, and he is a non-staff member.

"I am actually a Han Chinese. After the first emperor pacified the six kingdoms, he sent 50 troops south to conquer Baiyue. Baiyue lost to the Qin army and was finally defeated. Some people surrendered, and some people moved to the southwest. It was not long before the Central Plains After the chaos, the Han Dynasty was established, and the Qin army in the south of the Lingnan, under the leadership of Zhao Tuo, established the Nanyue Kingdom, with Panyu (Guangzhou) as its capital, and it lasted for more than a hundred years before being destroyed by the Han Dynasty."

Ah Fa’s ancestors were members of the 50 Qin army who went south that year. They went south to Lingnan, defeated Baiyue, took root in Lingnan, and Qin was destroyed. They followed Zhao Tuo to establish Nanyue Kingdom, and later Nanyue Kingdom also The country was destroyed by the Han Dynasty, so they became subjects of the Han Dynasty again.

However, because the mountains are high and the roads are far away, the Han Dynasty actually implemented a system for the Lingnan area, which did not levy taxes on the people of Lingnan, appointed local handsome chiefs as prefects and county chiefs, and paid tribute to local products every year to maintain control over the central court. Allegiance is good.

It is precisely because of this that Lingnan has basically been autonomous since then.

Of course, because there were Qin troops who went southward in Lingnan back then, and Ma Yuan went south several times to quell the chaos in the Han Dynasty, many Han people were left behind. In addition, there were Han people who went southward continuously in the later dynasties, so they gradually became here. In the Lingnan area, there are three ethnic groups.

One ethnic group is just like Ah Fa and the others. Their ancestors were Han people who went south, and later they took root in Lingnan and began to live with the local Baiyue people, and even married, and gradually formed a group that was very different from the Central Plains, but they still I consider myself a native of the Central Plains.

Another large ethnic group is the Yi'an area in eastern Guangdong, that is, the Chaoshan area of ​​later generations. The people here are mainly Heluo people who migrated south. Their ancestors lived in the Luoshui area of ​​the Yellow River. The Chaoshan area in southern Fujian retains its own customs and traditions, which are different from the descendants of the Qin army who went south like Ah Fa.

It can be said that the Heluo people are also a branch of the Han people, but they are still different from the mixed Han-Vietnamese people like Afa.

"If you say that the largest ethnic group in Lingnan is of course the Liao."

"The Liao should actually be regarded as two ethnic groups." Ah Fa and Liu Ren are on the same track. The Li people generally refer to those Yue people who live on the flat land between the mountains. Their ancestors are mainly Ou people, while the Liao people are Luo people. The Yue people are the main ones, in short, they are all one of the previous Baiyue. "

Up to now, slang officials are all similar in the eyes of Han people, but in fact there are still big differences.For example, the slang people mainly live in the flat land and live together in units of dong, which originally means the flat land between mountains.

The Liao sound is LAO, and they mainly live in the mountains.

The Li people are good at fishing and farming, while the Liao people are good at hunting. In comparison, the Li people get along better with us Han people, and they are considered familiar with the Tibetans, while the Liao people are more brutal.

In the thousands of years of Han-Vietnamese integration, Ah Fa and his descendants of the Qin army have long been local aborigines. Together with the Han officials and soldiers who went south in successive dynasties, they gradually expanded their sphere of influence in Lingnan. Up to now, They are mainly gathered in important Guancheng and plain areas such as Nanhai County, Guilin County, and Jiaozhi County. Later, Han people such as the Ning family, the Chen family, and the Feng family gradually emerged. After several generations of hard work, they became handsome.

In the thousands of years of Chinese-Vietnamese integration, they also formed a fusion language, ancient vernacular. This ancient vernacular is actually a language invented by the Qin people who communicated with Baiyue after they went south. It is Baiyue and ancient A new language that contrasts the pronunciation of Chinese.

Later, it gradually became the lingua franca in south of the Five Ridges.

This kind of ancient vernacular has both ancient Chinese and Baiyue language, which is very similar to the official language of the Central Plains today, but it can still be understood.

For example, when Ah Fa called his father Laodou, Liu Rengui always found it strange, but some words were similar to the Han family's official dialect.Fortunately, after all, Ah Fa had worked in Nanhai County for several years, so now he can speak the official Mandarin of the Central Plains, even with a vernacular accent, Liu Rengui can understand it after all.

"Unexpectedly, it turns out that the Liao are actually two ethnic groups."

"Yes, the Li people are accustomed to using snails as horns, while the Liao people are accustomed to using bronze drums. The Li people are good at fishing and firing pottery and porcelain, while the Liao people are good at hunting and smelting bronze and iron wares. Almost all tribes of the Liao people have bronze drums. , They formed some alliances among each other, and the leader of the alliance is the chief, and some chiefs also have a huge bronze drum weighing a thousand catties, carved with many patterns, which are very beautiful, and they also worship the god of thunder."

"What about the slang?" Liu Rengui asked.

"Slang, they worship frogs."

"Frog?" Liu Rengui didn't understand what there is to worship about frogs. It's normal for you to worship the god of thunder. After all, thunder and lightning are powerful, but how powerful are frogs?
(End of this chapter)