Looking at Lady Cao Sanni who was lost in nostalgia in front of him, Zhang Zhao didn't know what to say. This is the past story of a nine-year-old girl who had a crush on her fifteen-year-old cousin!
The ancients matured precociously. Women got married at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and many even became child brides from an early age. It is not surprising that a nine-year-old girl has her first love.
Especially for a little girl like Cao Sanniang who rarely felt the love of her father and grandfather when she was a child. Thinking about Suo Sanlang, who is capable of literature, martial arts and playing high-end musical instruments, she must have been a bouquet of warmth in Cao Sanniang's life when she was young. Sunshine.
"Erlangjun! If you promise me something, I will tell you a big secret about the Dunhuang Kingdom!"
After a long while, Mrs. Cao Sanni took out her handkerchief and gently wiped the corners of her eyes, not minding that Zhang Zhao saw her crying.
"The dead cannot be resurrected. The dead are gone. The living still need to strengthen themselves, and the revenge of ten lives can still be avenged!" Zhang Zhao did not answer directly, but said something ambiguous.
However, this ambiguous statement made Cao Sanniang very satisfied, and she nodded solemnly.
"Erlangjun, if our Dunhuang country can capture Ganzhou again one day, I will kill more than a hundred people from Ganzhou Uighur Daqian, and then take their heads back to the bridge to build a temple in Beijing to commemorate Suo Sanlang and other deceased people!"
The bridge is a bridge to the east of Dunhuang. It is the main road to the two states of Gansu in the east. When the Ganzhou Uighur troops came to Dunhuang City, Zhang Chengfeng personally went into battle and fought with the Uighurs. It was here that Suo Sanlang died in the battle. of this place.
"Yes!" Zhang Zhao nodded heavily, "Not only does a certain person want to kill more than a hundred Uighurs in Ganzhou, but he also wants to kill all the Uighur royal family in Ganzhou! Even a mere tycoon dares to call himself the Li family of Longxi, the commander-in-chief!"
Given the nearly century-old hatred between the Guiyi Army and the Ganzhou Uighurs, when either side has the ability to completely swallow up the other, a massacre will inevitably occur.
Regardless of the fact that the Uighurs in Ganzhou had forced Zhang Chengfeng to honor the Uighur Khan as his father, and Cao Yijin had also conquered Ganzhou, there was no massacre after these two incidents.
But that's because the two sides are about the same strength. Although one side has the upper hand, it can't swallow up the other side. If it really could, the middle and upper classes of one side would definitely be wiped out.
Moreover, in addition to competing for the trade benefits of the Silk Road, the two sides also have an unsolvable knot.
The Guiyi Army has always claimed to be the sole loyalist in the late Tang Dynasty to unite people's hearts, but the Ganzhou Uighurs are even more exaggerated. Since the Ganzhou Uighur royal family often married Li Tang, the Li Tang Dynasty mostly married off their clan daughters, so they were from the Tang Dynasty. At the end of the twelfth century, the Uighur royal family in Ganzhou actually started to have the surname Li, and even called themselves the Li family in Longxi, Junwang.
This makes Gui Yijun so disgusted. The Li family of Longxi, this is the origin of the royal family of the Tang Dynasty! I consider myself a loyal and loyal person of the Tang Dynasty, but you simply claim to be a descendant of the royal family of the Tang Dynasty. Isn’t this causing trouble?
Your Yaogeluo family is in ruins, do you deserve the surname Li?
"Slave, thank you Erlangjun!" After receiving Zhang Zhao's reply, Cao Sanniang stood up on the stone tower and gave Zhang Zhao a big salute.
At this time, Zhang Zhao's soldiers only had seventy or eighty men, and Cao Sanniang, a widow, were here. The two of them regarded the Ganzhou Uighurs, who had a crowd of more than 400,000, nearly 10,000 soldiers, and command of 30,000 to 40,000 strings, as an enemy in front of Shan Niang. Sorry, everything is so absurd, but it seems so natural.
"Just now Cainu said to Mr. Erlang that the core tribe of Dunhuang Kingdom only has more than 100,000 Tangers in Hexi and 60,000 in Chinese Sogdians. It is definitely not a lie.
Twenty years ago, after the battle with the Ganzhou Uighurs, the Tang'er clan in Guasha was severely damaged. To this day, there are still more girls than boys.
Our Sogdian tribe is good at handicrafts and business. They live in the city all year round and have few heirs. This gives other ethnic groups opportunities.
Guess which ethnic group is second only to Hexi Tang'er in population in Dunhuang today? "
"Could it be the Uighurs?" Zhang Zhao touched his chin and asked. In later generations, he knew that the biggest reason for the demise of the Guiyi Army was that the Ganzhou Uighurs supported the Shazhou Uighur doves to occupy the magpie's nest. Are there already a lot of Uighurs in Guasha now?
"No!" Ms. Cao Sanniang shook her head, "The second most numerous ethnic group today are the descendants of the Tuyuhun Murong tribe led by me, Murong Guiying.
They occupied Guazhou with more than 70,000 people, and even moved their troops to Shazhou. When they paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains at the beginning of this year, Aweng had already paid tribute alone in the name of the governor of Guazhou! "
Zhang Zhao's pupils shrank. He didn't expect that the Guiyi Army had already retreated to the two states of Guasha, and that it was still so complicated inside. It was really a temple demon with strong winds and shallow waters with many bastards!
Although the Tuyuhun Murong tribe is almost completely Chinese like the Sogdians, it would be really troublesome if they came out to compete with the Sogdians for leadership!
Because when Zhang Yichao drove away the Tibetans in the two prefectures of Guasha, the Sogdians who had already taken root in Guasha were his staunch allies.
In order to integrate into the Tang Dynasty, these Sogdians even changed their traditional pointed hats and surnames. Even the Cao family, which now controls the Guiyi Army, claims to be the Cao family of Qiaojun, but they are actually descendants of the Sogdian Cao people and the Han Cao family. Obtained from the unity of the clan.
By learning how to write Chinese characters in Chinese, these Sogdians entered the genealogy of the real Cao family in Qiaojun and turned themselves into Han people.
"Erlangjun understands the danger, right? King Linggong's mother and grandmother are actually the daughters of the Chinese Sogdian Cao family. King Linggong's cousins Renqi, Rende and even their father's line are Sogdian Cao people, slaves. , also has Sogdian blood in him.”
Zhang Zhao took a closer look, and sure enough, Cao Sanniang's peach blossom eyes were a little gray, and the tips of her hair were a little purple, which were some of the characteristics of the Sogdians, and he also guessed the crisis of the Guiyi Army. .
"What you mean is that you, Aweng, are jealous that the Cao family can now control the Guiyi Army, and you are also prepared to learn from the Cao family's proactive sinicization in order to enter the power center of the Guiyi Army. At least you must occupy the branches of Guazhou and Shazhou Jiedu Yamen. ?”
"That's right!" Mrs. Cao Sanniang glanced at Zhang Zhao approvingly.
"Actually, they have already started doing this. Twenty years ago, after the Battle of Binqiao, the number of men in the Tang Dynasty in Hexi was withered, and most of the extra women were married off by the Murong family.
At the same time, the Murong family did not hesitate to let the women of the family marry off poor Han family members or even make children for themselves, thus marrying a large number of women to Tang children in Hexi.
Today, the layout of Murong's tribe in Tuyuhun has basically been completed. The people of Guazhou support Murong Guiying as the governor. Even King Linggong is helpless. It is because Tang'er of Guazhou has regarded Murong's tribe as one of their own, and they no longer regard Murong as one of their own. They were originally Tuyuhun people, but regarded them as Han people. "
Zhang Zhao suddenly realized!
"I understand, Hexi Tang'er can treat the Murong family as one of his own, but your Cao family, who has Sogdian blood, cannot.
Because Tang'er in Hexi has no leader since my father's defeat. The leader of Dunhuang is your family, which is the combined clan of the Sogdian Cao family and the Qiaojun Cao family.
The Murong family became stronger because they came to replace the Cao family. Their current occupation of Guazhou is akin to separation. If things continue like this, there will be only the rebel army in Guazhou and Shazhou. The best outcome is probably that they will be divided into Guazhou and Shazhou. ! "
"Yes! With just over 200,000 people, we are still fighting so fiercely among ourselves. The more dangerous thing is actually on the other side. In the past, in order to get rid of the humiliation of calling Ganzhou Uighur Khan his father, King Linggong married Princess Li, the daughter of Tianmu Khan, the Uighur in Ganzhou.
After Mrs. Li married into the family, she replaced Lang Jun's cousin, Mrs. Suo Shi, and became the official wife of King Ling Gong.
Now she has given birth to three sons and four daughters for King Ling Gong. Two of the daughters are married to the Ganzhou Uighur Khan and the royal family respectively, and the son is also married to the daughter of the Ganzhou Uighur royal family.
You said Princess Tian Li, doesn’t she want her son to become the leader of the Guiyi Army? "
