"Brother! Brother! I finally see you!" Li Qilang howled sadly in Zhang Zhao's tent, threw himself in front of the old monk Huixing and howled loudly.
It must not be an ordinary encounter to make a man in his twenties, eighties, or thirties cry so miserably.
Seeing Li Qilang, the old monk Huixing, who had always had a calm expression on his face, also shook his head twice, and burst into tears. He stretched out his hand to help Li Qilang, who was still on the ground, and muttered "ahhhhhhhhh" shouted.
Speak! But didn't quite speak.
Zhang Zhao frowned in confusion. From the babbling of the old monk Huixing, he could actually hear the syllables. He wouldn't have refused to speak when he saw Li Qilang. Could it be that he really had a mouth problem?
"Senior brother Huixing, this is Mr. Zhang Erlang. He was born in the famous Longtoni Zhang family in Shazhou. He was the Taibao of the Tang Dynasty and a descendant of Duke Zhang Yichao who returned to the Yijun Jiedao! The great sage emperor of the Jin Kingdom in Khotan is Mr. Erlang. Uncle.
Zhang Erlangjun has hundreds of soldiers in the battle. He defeated the thief Ittihad in Shule a few days ago. He made a special trip to find us.
Senior brother Huitong has made a plan with Erlangjun to work together inside and outside, rescue the master, regain Shule, and take revenge, which is just around the corner! "
Li Qilang pointed at Zhang Zhao and said, in fact, before this, Zhang Zhao had announced his family status, but the old monk Huixing did not respond at all. It was not until Li Qilang said the same thing that the old monk Huixing looked at him seriously. Zhang Zhao got up.
The Dragon Tongue Zhang family is a branch of the Nanyang Zhang family in Shazhou. It is said that Zhang Song, the ancestor of the Zhang family in Shazhou, once killed an evil dragon that was causing harm to the village by the Black River in Shazhou.
Then he sent the dragon's body to Chang'an and presented it to the emperor, who ordered the dragon's tongue to be cut off and put in a box as a reward to Zhang Song.
So the descendants he left in Shazhou were also called the Longtongue Zhang family, so the Longtongue Zhang family was a branch of the Nanyang Zhang family.
It sounds quite fantasy. I wonder if my ancestor killed a pig dragon or something, but are there crocodiles on the sandbank? Maybe a big lizard or something?
"Erlang Bureau, Senior Brother Huixing is not speechless, but he, Master Daozhen and several senior brothers are harboring a big secret.
So when Dayun Temple was destroyed by those thieves, they collectively practiced the silent meditation and kept silent from then on to avoid leaking secrets.
However, senior brother has already broken the precept just now. It only takes a few to ten days to be able to speak. "
Seeing Zhang Zhao's confused look, Li Qilang hurriedly explained to Zhang Zhao, and then he pronounced a Buddhist name to Huixing, who was sitting cross-legged on the blanket.
"Senior brother, Qi Lang wants to tell Mr. Zhang Erlang what he knows!"
Huixing smiled faintly and nodded to Li Qilang.
Li Qilang solemnly tidied Zhang Zhao's wrinkled clothes, lifted the hair scarf on his head, and then handed Zhang Zhao the Tang Jianzhong Tongbao in a very formal manner.
"Erlangjun! A certain Li Qilang is exactly the descendant of the military horse you are looking for who served under the Anxi Protector. His sixth generation ancestor was the Beiting Protector, the Yixi Jiedushi of Beiting, and the Prince of Ningsai County. He was given the surname Li , Taboo Yuan Zhong’s younger brother!”
Li Yuanzhong! A stream of hot blood rushed directly to Zhang Zhong's forehead, and then to his eyes.
Resisting the heat and redness in his eyes, Zhang Zhao tried his best to calm down his emotions. He finally found out that there are still descendants of the former Anxi Protector? Sure enough, there is still inheritance, they still remember their motherland!
But why didn't they go to Khotan? Why don't you want to recognize yourself?
Speaking of this, Li Qilang's eyes were red, and then he laughed sarcastically. He took off the scarf that had been wrapped around his head, and a head of purple-brown hair appeared in Zhang Zhao's eyes.
"Li! Our family name has been Li for hundreds of years, but in fact we are not qualified to have the surname Li. We should be surnamed Cao. We have been around for hundreds of years, but why do we still have brown hair?"
After a wry smile, Li Qilang put the turban in his pocket with some bitterness, and then tied the bun for himself skillfully.
Zhang Zhao remembered that Li Yuanzhong was not actually a Han. He was from the Sogdian Cao Kingdom. His original name was Cao Lingzhong. He and Guo Xin guarded Beiting alone. After his loyalty and bravery moved the world, Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty ordered the surname to be given to Li and changed his name to Li Yuanzhong. of.
This is a given surname, which means that Li Yuanzhong's own descendants can of course be surnamed Li, but the descendants of Li Yuanzhong's younger brother do not have this honor. They can only be surnamed Cao, or Sogdian Cao.
But..., look at Li Qilang in front of you! This short man, with a dusty face and hands calloused by hard work, is still able to tie his futou skillfully after being away from the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years. Can you say that he is not a Han?
Li Yuanzhong guarded Beiting loyally, and Tubo used his Sogdian identity several times to recruit him, but he remained unmoved. Can you say that he is not Tang'er?
At that time, Beiting and Anxi held out for decades alone, including countless Sogdians, Uighurs, Kucha, Shule, Khotan, and Yanqi.
Especially among the kings of Qiuci Bai and Shule Pei, Shule King Pei Lengleng and Qiuci King Bai Huan followed the iron-blooded prince Guo Xin to guard Anxi until the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. Can you say that they are not Han people?
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In Zhang Zhao's view, this is not just the Anxi of the Han people themselves, but the Anxi of all ethnic groups in Anxi who follow the laws of the Tang Dynasty, listen to the dispatches of the Tang Dynasty, and are willing to become part of the Han culture!
"If Qi Lang is not qualified to be named Li, I don't see who else can be named Li! Based on your family's hundreds of years of loyalty, this surname is Li.
The fourteenth great aunt of a certain family is married to a descendant of the Li family in Longxi. If Qi Lang doesn't mind it, when he arrives in Shazhou, a certain relative will ask his great aunt and Li family's cousin to write your whole family into the Li family's genealogy in Longxi. ! "
"Is it really possible?" Li Qilang's eyes shone like diamonds.
"Here I am, thank you Erlangjun for your great kindness! Woohoo!" Li Qilang sobbed twice as he spoke, "If I can be included in the Li family tree in Longxi, I will be able to comfort the heroic spirits of our ancestors!"
"Of course!" Zhang Zhao nodded affirmatively, and then a more kind smile appeared on his face.
"And Brother Qi may not know that there should be some in-laws between you and me!"
Li Qilang had a shocked expression on his face. "Brother, this word was not an ordinary word in the Tang Dynasty. This word was an honorific. It could really refer to brother or father."
Especially when referring to older brothers, using the word brother means that the relationship between the two parties is very close. If the relationship is not good between brothers or siblings, the younger one will never call the older one brother.
"I can't do it! I can't do it! I can't do it!" After the shock, Li Qilang waved his hands one after another, very frightened!
"You deserve it! I don't respect Brother Qi alone, but I respect Brother Qi's loyalty to the country for six generations!" Zhang Zhao stepped forward and grabbed Li Qilang's arm, just like his uncle Li Shengtian held his arm more than ten days ago. The same thing happened with holding his arm.
"Besides, I didn't lie! His wife is from Shazhou Qiaojun Cao, and among the Shazhou Qiaojun Cao Cao, there are quite a few Sogdian Cao Cao who returned to the clan. Shouldn't you and I be relatives?"
"That's it!" Li Qilang's face burst out with light of extreme joy.
"Shazhou Cao and my family are both from Xicao, King Huaide of Serdihen City. Erlangjun and I are really relatives!"
The Sogdian Cao Kingdom was divided into Dongcao, Xicao and Zhongcao. The city of Serdihen was the capital of Xicao. In today's Ishte Khan northwest of Samarkand, King Huaide was the king of Xicao who was canonized by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty in the third year of Tianbao. .
From this point of view, Li Qilang's ancestors and the Sogdian Cao of Cao Yijin's family were both from Xicao, so they might really be related.
Seeing that he had gained such a powerful relative and hugged such a thick thigh, Li Qilang was so excited that he held Zhang Zhao's arm with his backhand.
"Erlangjun, when Qiuci fell, the descendants of various officials in the Anxi Protectorate, and even the descendants of Prince Guo, took refuge in Dayun Temple in Shule incognito, and even became monks.
Later, in order to allow future generations to have the strength to wait for the heavenly soldiers to come from the east, the monk commander of Dayun Temple took the lead and built a loyalty storehouse.
The Zhongzhen Treasury is co-managed by the descendants of the five families of Guo, Li, Yang, Lu and Bai and Dayun Temple. The library contains treasures and armors accumulated by Dayun Temple over the past hundred years and the Great Protector of Anxi and the Bai family of Qiuci King.
In fact, we have been waiting for these years, waiting for someone qualified to use these treasures! "
