Chapter 98 Tang Dynasty Jianzhong

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"Wujiro, what do you think this is?"

In the post house, it was already late at night. Ma Yaozi, who had been snoring just now, heard a few awkward meows and climbed out of bed. He also handed something in his hand to Wu Yuan'er, who was in the same room.

Wu Yuan'er took it and groped for a few times, and felt that it was a copper coin. He walked lightly to the window and took a look under the gray moonlight. It turned out to be a copper coin.

"Jianzhong of the Tang Dynasty?" Wu Yuan'er couldn't help but read out softly. The copper coin was already very worn, but he still saw that the characters engraved on the copper coin were Chinese characters. It vaguely looked like the four characters of Jianzhong of the Tang Dynasty.

"It looks similar to me!" Ma Yaozi put his head over and pretended to be a cultural person, but he was not completely pretending. Although he didn't know the word Jian, he knew it in Yamato, let alone Tang. .

"This was cast by Guo Linggong, the king of Wuwei County!" Wu Yuan'er's hand trembling when taking the money.

"Back then, Anxi was heavily besieged by the Tubo people, and the Imperial Guard was short of copper and iron. A total of more than 3,000 pieces were minted. Over the past hundred years, they have long been lost.

I followed my brother on several missions to the Uighur Kingdom in Gaochang, but could not find even one. The cavalry was asking, where did you come from? "

Ma Yaozi had no idea that there was so much value in this copper coin. He seemed to have heard of the King of Wuwei somewhere, but he couldn't remember who it was. He scratched the bun on his head sheepishly. Ma Yaozi looked carefully. Reminisced about it.

"At that time, I threw a large amount of Xizhou coins on the table of the restaurant, pretended to make a mistake, took back the coins and left. When I came back, I found this!"

Ma Yaozi looked at the Jianzhong copper coin in Wu Yuan'er's hand. If it weren't for the huge difference between this coin and the Xizhou coin he carried with him, that is, the Gaochang Uighur coin, he might not have noticed it.

"The cavalry is right! This matter is very important. You have to think about it carefully and see if you can remember how this copper coin appeared on your table?

I think! Perhaps we have discovered the remnants of the former Anxi Protectorate! "

Wu Yuan'er carefully put away the copper coins, and his round face reflected the light of excitement in the moonlight.

"The Anxi Protectorate remains? Are you telling the truth?" Ma Yaozi couldn't help but raise his voice slightly.

He didn't know much about the truth, but he knew Zhang Zhao's long-cherished wish, which was to find the survivors of the Tang Dynasty who fell in Anxi.

Ma Yaozi closed his eyes and thought carefully for a while, then suddenly made a fist in excitement.

"There's something wrong with that guy at the food shop! Yes! It must be him. The leg of lamb I was holding was thrown out, and he picked it up for someone. Yes! It must be him, because he was the only one who had ever been close to me! "

Food store boy? Wu Yuan'er thought for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more profound he felt.

There are many Tang Dynasty coins in Anxi, but most of them are the current Tang Dynasty (Later Tang Dynasty) and Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coins. There are not many Tang Jianzhong coins cast by the Anxi Governor more than a hundred years ago.

The meaning of the other party mixing this copper coin into Ma Yaozi's copper coin is very obvious, because not to mention Shule in Anxi, even in Shazhou Dunhuang, and even in the Central Plains, there are very few people who can read, let alone those in Anxi who can read Chinese characters. Very few.

As for those who know Chinese characters and the Jianzhong of the Tang Dynasty, they are simply rare, and most likely they are not Han Chinese from Gaochang Uighurs, nor Han people from Khotan, at least not Han Chinese who are willing to take root in these two countries and forget about the Tang Dynasty.

"Let Li Sanlang go out of the city. We are being watched very closely now. We cannot approach that restaurant casually. We can only ask Mr. Erlang to send people over again. We will still implement the original plan."

After thinking for a few minutes, Wu Yuan'er quickly made a decision.

"Okay! The little general in the post house is a believer in Tianfang Cult. He made things difficult for me when we came in. I'm going to have a fight with him tomorrow. You can take advantage of the confusion and tell Li Sanlang to get out of the city!"

Ma Yaozi nodded in agreement, but there was no hint of drunkenness in his eyes! Eight bowls of fruit wine are far worse than the black millet wine (sorghum wine) brewed by Erlangjun! Eight bowls are not as good as two bowls of Erlangjun's brew, it's just a little bit suffocating.

At the Governor's Mansion, Ittihad had not yet slept, because he instinctively felt that Wu Yuan'er's arrival was a bit strange.

No wonder he was suspicious, because this team of envoys from Gaochang Uighur servants serving Ndagan came at a perfect coincidence.

And the reason is a little exaggerated. Three thousand guan of property is not a small amount of money. It is enough to equip nearly fifty soldiers. Just for dozens of monks, this servant can get so much money for his kindness?

However, Ittihad did not think about exploring the situation because it was meaningless.

Shule City is built on a high hill, with high mountains to the south, a deep and fast-flowing moat to the east, and a rocky beach to the west. The troops cannot deploy at all. To attack, the only way to attack is the wide plain to the north. Army.

Therefore, the Khotanese people did not need to find out the situation at all, they could just start fighting. Moreover, the Khotanese people had besieged Shule six times and were already familiar with this place. There was no need to send people to investigate.

It's a pity, it's a pity that Ittihad didn't know that there was already such a thing as black gunpowder in the world. If he knew that there was black gunpowder that could explode the walls of Shule City, then he would definitely know why Zhang Zhao wanted to know the situation in the city.

Because this greatly facilitates Zhang Zhao's choice of blasting locations for digging tunnels, and allows Zhang Zhao to directly select the blasting points in the most important areas. As long as a gap is opened, he can rush in and control the Governor's Mansion.

"Are you sure that the deputy envoy was indeed drunk and made a blunder, rather than deliberately using his words to lure you into the trap?"

Ittihad had no doubt that 'Pugu Fengen' or the important people under him had the ability to bring property to the vicinity of Jiashi City, because this was Anxi, not the Central Plains with clear national borders and clear spheres of influence.

In Anxi, both the Gaochang Uighur Khanate and the Kara Khanate were both khanates with a very nomadic atmosphere.

Although Jia Shi was under the rule of the Kara Khanate, the leaders of Jia Shi City were just following the orders of Bugla Khan.

None of these lower-level leaders could figure out the specific border with the Gaochang Uighurs, let alone the upper echelons of the Shule Khanate.

Moreover, it is not uncommon for people from Gaochang to go nomadic or settle in the territory of Karakhan. There are also examples of Karakhan people going to Gaochang. For nomadic people, the concept of land is still relatively vague.

"Dear Governor, I am sure that the deputy envoy drank too much, because we saw him drink at least two jars of purple wine in two hours. No one can drink so much wine without getting drunk."

The strong man blocking the door of the restaurant shook his head firmly. Ordinary people would get drunk after two or three bowls of purple wine. The deputy drank two jars. You must know that one jar can hold at least four large bowls, eight bowls in total. It’s impossible not to get drunk.

However, his judgment touched on Ittihad's blind spot. The Governor was a fanatical believer who strictly followed the teachings of Tianfang Sect. He did not drink alcohol, so he could not judge the concept of two jars of purple wine at all.

After thinking for a moment, Ittihad waved to the civil servant next to him.

"Go find the ten best drinkers among the guards of the Governor's Palace, and reward each of them with two jars of purple wine and delicious food!"