Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 102 Bulgar Young

"I have also been to many noble palaces and manors. The security on your side is really... peculiar." Watching Guo Kang dismiss the soldiers, Jeanna said with emotion: "What are they doing with ropes instead of weapons? ?”

"Hey, the soldiers are used to paddling, so there's nothing you can do about it." Guo Kang said helplessly, "Usually the foster father would beat up the thieves and assassins by himself, and then the soldiers would come in and tie them up and carry them away. Long, the security capabilities have degraded..."

"Okay..." Jeanna hesitated to speak, and turned her head to ask Meltem: "You too, why did you suddenly call the guards as an assassin? You scared me..."

"I'm not an assassin now." Meltem pointed out, "Why can't I call the guards in my house."

"Who admits that this is your family? Don't be so familiar, okay?" Theodora was immediately unhappy.

"All right, all right." Jean Na couldn't bear the quarrel between the two of them: "If you want to fight for favor, you can fight secretly, don't make trouble here."

"French ladies don't fight directly in front of the king, do they? Or the Romans. I've been to the courts of several countries, and I've never seen anything like this..."

After being reprimanded by her, both Theodora and Meltem fell silent.

"By the way, kid, I saw your guards. What's that step? They delivered the letter over there." She turned around and said to Guo Kang, "What are you and Zhu Wenkui up to lately?"

"Cannons, equipment, etc." After Guo Kang answered, he asked curiously, "What happened to him?"

"Strange, I think little Jeanna and him are arguing too. What's going on with you all?" Jeanna's heroine looked a little confused: "What's so noisy about the cannon..."

Guo Kang didn't know what was going on, so he shook his head and told her that he would ask her later.

"Also, I'll ask Yang Wenxian to call the guards, and you two should say hello to them." He said, "The situation here is already chaotic enough, at least let them know who they are acquaintances...well, even if they don't go through the main entrance .”

"Then why don't you try to rectify the guards?" Jeanna suggested, "I happen to have nothing else to do during this time, so I can help you reorganize the patrol and guard arrangements."

"Rectifying the guards is very simple, the main reason is that we can't rectify the guests." Guo Kang complained: "My adoptive father used to guard Dadu and met a large group of ranger friends. For some reason, these heroes like to be unconventional. If you go through the main entrance, you won’t go through the main entrance.”

"The adoptive mother usually walks through the main entrance, but she seems to often fight with other heroines, and she often doesn't go through the gate at night. Those heroines don't know whether they are enemies or friends. When they are caught, they are worried that the foster father will lose face, so It's all ignored."

"Okay, then I have nothing to do." Jeanna could only shrug her shoulders: "Then I'll go find that Yang later to get acquainted."

"Well, they all know the heroines who come here to fight. Then I won't care about you." Guo Kang told her.

Jeanna had a strange expression on her face, but she still nodded.

"However, I think it's a European. Why did you choose this name?" She asked casually.

"He is a Bulgarian." Guo Kang said, "Bu, Yang, and Lu are all common surnames of the Bulgars here. Many of the soldiers we recruited in Bulgaria took such surnames."

"Oh, it's a popular Chinese surname, right?" Jeanna nodded knowingly.

"It's not considered a Han surname..." Guo Kang thought for a while, and said: "Many ordinary people here don't have serious surnames. Even some wealthy citizens, the so-called surnames are based on occupations, village names and even nicknames. It’s impossible to take anything casually. So when recording household registration, soldiers often take Han surnames directly as their real surnames.”

"Yang Wenxian's Christian name is Constantine, so his full name on household registration is composed of surname Yang, first name Wenxian, and Christian name Constantine." Guo Kang gave an example.

"We don't call 'Konstantin' a 'European name' or a 'Bulgarian name', because there are quite a few people in Greece and Asia Minor called this, which is obviously unscientific. This name was obtained during baptism and is related to faith, so it is It's called 'Christian name'."

"As for the Bulgarian surname... His father is a villager who is about to die of starvation. He only survived when we provided relief. He doesn't have a Bulgarian surname."

"It seems right to say that." Jeanna thought for a while: "The surnames of the nobles are quite messy these days, and most people just follow the fiefs, right? That's why they are called 'de, what, what'. Common people don't have It's really hard to tell the fief."

"But I'm curious, why did Bu and Yang become common surnames?"

"Because some people have researched and said that there is some origin here." Guo Kang explained: "The Bulgars are different from the Greeks. They are really the same as us. It can be clearly verified that they came from the East."

"Ancient historians have recorded that the Bulgars were a branch of the Huns. At the beginning, there was a country in the Western Regions, which the Seres called 'Hujie' and was destroyed by the Huns. So some people think that Hujies are the Bulgars. The main body of the Great Khan was the Ukidur tribe to which the Great Khan belonged. Later, these Zahu tribes who had been attached to the Huns set off from Moxi to Central Asia and migrated westward, and only then did this 'Huns' group come into being."

"And some Hujie people did not move away. Some stayed in place to graze and became the later Pugu tribe. Others joined the Xianbei people and entered the Central Plains, resulting in Bu Liugu, Bu Lugu, and Pu Liuru A series of surnames such as Bulugu and Bulugu. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, most of the descendants of these people were surnamed Bu, Lu and so on."

"At the beginning, these scholars thought that since relatives who had been separated for many years used these surnames in the Central Plains, they could use them themselves."

"Are these inferences true? It can be related at such a distance." Jeanna couldn't hide her curiosity: "I... I don't read much, so don't lie to me."

"I think that apart from being from the Eastern Grassland, the other details are probably not true. There are too many attachments and far-fetched places." Guo Kang said bluntly: "These are all good, but the Yang family is actually more forced. "

"Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty, when he was an official in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, was asked to change to the Xianbei surname, called 'Pu Liuru'. Later, he replaced the Northern Zhou Dynasty and changed it back. These Bulgarians feel that he changed from Pu Liuru Changing Yang, it seems that the two have a relationship. And I and Pu Liuru also seem to have a relationship, so I have a relationship with Yang..."

"That's forced clinging," Theodora said.

"That's right. But if you cling, you can just cling." Guo Kang didn't care too much: "It's half of the Eurasian continent, and it's already fate to be able to get so far..."

(End of this chapter)