Song Gexing

Chapter 118
It is normal for the relocated households to be relocated, but the relocated households at the junction of Song and Liao Dynasties will naturally be investigated intensively. As a result, it was finally found that the Gao family's ancestral home was the Bohai Kingdom and that they were descendants of the royal family of the Bohai Kingdom.

This is a big problem. The Bohai Kingdom should have a deep hatred for the Khitan. That country was destroyed by Yelu Abaoji.

At the same time, Bohai State was also incorporated into Daliao for more than 100 years, and the main ethnic group of this Bohai State was the later Jurchens.

The shameless stickmen say that Balhae is their country in ancient times because when Balhae was at its peak, it ruled the Daedong River Basin and its power reached the northern part of South Korea in later generations.

But they forgot that the main ethnic group of Bohai Country is the Jurchens. It is really strange when they became the descendants of the Jurchens.

The Bohai Kingdom was established during the Wu Zetian period. It was originally the Yingzhou Governor's Department under the jurisdiction of the Andong Protectorate, and was a neighbor of the Khitan tribe.

During the period of Queen Wu Zetian, the governor of Yingzhou brutally oppressed the local people, causing the Khitan people to resist.

This was the famous Yingzhou Rebellion. Wu Zetian failed in both conquests. Finally, he had no choice but to unite with the Post-Turks to suppress the Khitans.

But this rebellion frightened the Mohe people who lived together with the Khitan people. They were afraid of being oppressed by the management of the Tang Dynasty, so they began to flee on a large scale.

Even though Wu Zetian consecrated two Mohes as dukes in succession, they did not accept it at all. They crossed the Changbai Mountains and established their own country. This was the predecessor of the Bohai Kingdom.

Afterwards, the Zhen Kingdom gradually stabilized, and after forming an alliance with Silla, it was officially renamed the Bohai Kingdom. After Wu Zetian abdicated, the Bohai Kingdom declared itself a vassal to the Tang Dynasty.

The reason is very simple. They were originally subjects of Li Tang, not Wu Zhou. If the world's surname is Li, they will naturally surrender. If the surname is Wu, then they can continue to fight.

The reason why it was renamed Bohai State also has its origin. Originally, the Yingzhou area was the Bohai State in the Han Dynasty, where Hu and Han people lived together.

As the ancestral land where the Mohe people have lived for generations, the founding of the country was naturally named after it.

After the rise of Yelu Abaoji, he unified all Khitan tribes and received full support from the Xi tribe and Shiwei. How could the Bohai Kingdom be allowed to exist?

This was the military group behind him. After more than 200 years of development, the Bohai Kingdom's territory had reached the Far East of Russia in later generations.

After being destroyed by the Liao Kingdom, the Mohe people were renamed Jurchens. The Jurchens who moved south were merged with Daliao and were called Mature Women Town. Some of the Jurchens who did not want to be merged moved north to Heishui Mohe and were called Jurchens.

During the reign of Yelv Zongzhen, Xingzong of Liao Dynasty, the name was changed to Nvzhen to avoid taboo. The name was not changed back to Jurchen until Wanyan Aguda.

Gao Jin is a mature woman, and she is a Chinese version of mature woman. The surname is Gao because the Bohai Gao family is a famous family, starting from the Han Dynasty.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, they were even more powerful families. The royal family of the Northern Qi Dynasty was the Bohai Gao family. It is true to say that they were Han people, but it could also be said that they were Hu people.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Bohai Gao clan was a supporter of Yuan Shao, a pure Han noble family, but with Yuan Shao's demise, the Bohai Gao clan did not get the attention of Cao Wei, and gradually merged with the Wuhuan people and Xianbei people.

The tribesmen are also divided into those who go south and those who stay in the north. Those who stay behind fully integrate into the local ethnic groups. However, after all, the Gao family is a thousand-year-old family and the cultural heritage is still there, so they are respected by the local nomads.

Therefore, many of the fishing and hunting peoples in the Northeast were willing to change their surnames to Han. The royal family of Goguryeo, who were from Buyeo, also changed their surnames to Gao.

This is why there are obviously 56 ethnic groups in China, but later generations of genetic tracing will find that there are only three sources, namely Emperor Yan, Emperor Huang and Chi You.

To put it bluntly, the 56 ethnic groups have merged so frequently over thousands of years of history that you and I cannot be distinguished at all.The so-called ethnic minorities are actually the same as the Han people. The only difference is that their traditional customs are different.

Only the idiot in the Manchu Qing Dynasty thought that the Manchus and Han were different. Although the Yuan Dynasty also divided people into three, six or nine grades, it did not explicitly stipulate it in the law.

The so-called fourth class of people in later generations was actually proposed by historians during the Republic of China. However, I could not find this provision at all in the laws of the Yuan Dynasty.

In other words, the Yuan Dynasty did have measures to prevent Han Chinese and Southerners, which can be seen in the imperial examinations, official appointments and management.

However, there is no clear definition of who is the superior person and who is the inferior person. It is just conjecture of later generations and there is no evidence at all.

It can be said that Kublai Khan's policy was not for national division, but because when the Mongols went south, the resistance in the south was the fiercest. For this reason, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty even killed a great Khan.

Moreover, when the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed, he was also frightened by the heroism of one hundred thousand Han people who threw themselves into the sea, and these one hundred thousand Han people were all from the south, so he was particularly vigilant against rebellion by the southerners.

As for the so-called Han people, they are not just Han people. The Mongols collectively refer to most of the Khitans, Jurchens, Koreans, and northern Han people as Han people.

There was a case in which the Korean people were dissatisfied with the Yuan Dynasty's classification of them as Han people, thinking that they should be Semu people and lodged a complaint. However, the Central Committee of the Yuan Dynasty still considered them to be Han people after deliberation.

It’s not without reason that Goryeo is called Bangzi. She has become a vassal of the Mongols, and she still wants to compete among the vassals for superiority and inferiority.

"Jurchen, interesting."

Knowing the origin of Gao Jin, Zhao Fang smiled playfully. He was not surprised that the Gao family, as Jurchens, would serve the Khitan people.

After all, many people in Mature Women have integrated into the Liao Kingdom and recognized the Liao Kingdom as their motherland. Later, when Wanyan Agu rebelled against the Liao, Mature Women Really did not realize that he was a member of the same race and supported him, but instead participated in the battle to suppress him.

This was the same as when the Song Dynasty attacked the Liao Kingdom. The Han people ruled by the Liao Kingdom in the north also took up arms to resist the Song army and had no concept of the same ethnic group.

"Xiao Zhengzi, has Gao Jin been captured? I want to see him."

Wang Zhongzheng secretly rolled his eyes sadly and called himself Xiao Zhengzi in front of the emperor and important ministers. This master really made people speechless.

But he could only answer obediently: "Your Highness, I have ordered the arrest, but I haven't received the news yet. The villain will report immediately after receiving this."

"That's it. Then tell them to be careful and don't let him escape."

Zhao Fang nodded and ordered. Zhao Zhen had finished listening at this time and said with satisfaction: "The Imperial City Division did a good job this time. Let's discuss the merits and rewards together after the arrest comes back."

Wang Zhongzheng immediately thanked him and expressed his loyalty: "This is what I should do. If you dare to assassinate His Royal Highness, no one in heaven or on earth will let you go."

Zhao Zhen was happy to see his back teeth, but Zhao Fang rolled his eyes at Wang Zhongzheng in disgust. This guy looked more and more like a traitor. How could a loyal minister be so eloquent?

Two days later, news came again that nearly a hundred people from the Gao family in Shuzhou were arrested and brought to justice, including servants. However, Gao Jin who was in the academy disappeared, and only Ming An was killed on the spot when he resisted.

(End of this chapter)