Zhang Zhao was so drunk that he hosted a banquet for all the descendants of the Anxi Army who could be found in Shule City, a total of only 137 people.
These 137 people included men, women, old and young. There were not many young adults. Most of them were almost natives. Many of them only remembered their ancestors and could not even speak Chinese.
But Zhang Zhao didn't mean to look down upon him at all. Surrounded by millions of barbarians, there was no atmosphere to speak Chinese at all on weekdays. After more than a hundred years, there are still more than a hundred people here, which is considered good.
Of course, this does not mean that there are only more than a hundred descendants of the Anxi Army. Zheng Tong and Li Qilang gave Zhang Zhao a very important news.
That is, as Shule gradually greened up, the descendants of the Anxi Army who moved here were afraid of becoming the next target again. For the safety of the ethnic group, they moved out of Shule continuously within a few years.
The descendants of the Anxi army who moved out of Shule were divided into two parts. One part was headed by the Yang family and the Zheng family. They moved to the Bakhna country, that is, the Fergana Basin.
Because after King Bakhna was wiped out by the Great Eclipse, he took his people to Shule to seek refuge from the Anxi Army. However, at that time the Anxi Army was facing a huge threat from the Tibetan Army and was unable to march westward to the Fergana Basin. King Bukhanna was restored to his kingdom.
So after decades, King Bukhanna, who had no hope of recovering his country, finally integrated into the Anxi army.
Therefore, when they moved out of Shule, the Zheng family and the Yang family moved back to Bahanna together with the descendants of King Bahanna.
Not only because the descendants of the Bakhna royal family are familiar with the local area, but also because Fergana is a basin surrounded by high mountains. In addition, there are few people at this time. As long as you hide in the mountains, you can avoid most of the enemies. It is a bit difficult, but it can Survive.
The second group was led to the Geluoling area south of Shule. Because at that time, the descendants of the Luo family who guarded Congling were still holding on here. It also had high mountains and ridges, which were conducive to hiding. This group of people took the name of Shule. The descendants of the guarding envoy Lu Yang are mainly descendants, and there are also Su, Bai and other families.
Among these two groups, the group that moved to the country of Bukhan had the largest number of people. Zheng Tong and Li Qilang stayed in Shule City and relied on Dayun Temple. They were actually the spies of this group who stayed in Shule.
However, due to various reasons, there has been no news from them for seven or eight years. However, eight years ago, this group of people sent people to Shule. It is said that they have thousands of people, and they also built cities and schools.
But the situation for the group heading to Geluoling was a little bad. They had been attacked several times by people sent by the Kara Khanate, and there were also traitors like Lu Sanlang who leaked the secrets of the Loyalty Treasury. Maybe the clan had already It is unknown whether it will be destroyed.
In addition to these two groups, there was another group, the Guo family, who was suspected of being a traitor, fell out with everyone, and chose to move eastward.
Now it is only known that they moved to the vicinity of Qiuci about forty years ago, and some say that they went in the direction of Suiye City.
But this is just a general statement. Even Master Daozhen doesn't know where they are.
The Guo family is the largest family in the Anxi army. If they are still there, there will be many members. After forty years of reproduction, there will be at least tens of thousands of them. They must be found.
The reason why these people did not go to Khotan is very simple, because Li Shengtian of Khotan was also a Hu. Although Zhang Zhao knew from what happened in later history that Li Shengtian adhered to Han culture and was a master of the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Army did not know!
What's more, when the Tubo people captured Khotan, Li Shengtian's ancestors had been traitors.
Otherwise, why were the two royal families of Shulepei and Qiucibai completely killed by the Tubo people, but the Yuchi family in Khotan could survive alone, and was able to make a comeback in the end, because they were in the war when the Tubo people captured Khotan, Chosen to surrender.
The ancestor of Monk Huixing, Yang Riyou, the governor of Khotan, was forced to retreat north because the Yuchi family defected to Tibet. Therefore, from the bottom of their hearts, the descendants of the Anxi Army did not trust the Yuchi family in Khotan at all.
In addition, the descendants of the Anxi army were raided by the Hu people in Xizhou, and when they arrived in Shule, they were treated as aliens by Kara Khan and attacked repeatedly. They no longer trust any Hu people in Anxi.
They only think about how to hide themselves and hide themselves deeper, because they feel that only by hiding in this way can they wait until the Central Plains is revived and troops are sent eastward.
After understanding this, Zhang Zhao also knew what he should do. The number of descendants of the Anxi Army should not be too many, and they could only find 10,000 or 20,000 people at most. At the same time, the thousands of Tang'er in Khotan were destined not to follow him. Then the number of people he can bring back shouldn't be too many, and he should still take the route of elite soldiers.
But the productivity of Anxi at this time was very low, and iron armor and even iron weapons were very precious.
But if you want to take the route of elite soldiers, you need a lot of armor and weapons. He now has more than a hundred sets of armor in Shanshan, which has almost emptied Zhang Zhao's family fortune.
Since then, although a lot has been collected from Saktu's treasure house, there are only more than a hundred sets. The armors obtained from Li Shengtian are only dozens of sets. It is no problem to be satisfied at this stage, but it has to go back to Gua It is still not enough to seize power.
Therefore, Zhang Zhao's biggest need now is iron armor. However, with Anxi's primitive iron smelting industry, it is very unrealistic to produce hundreds of sets of iron armor in a short time. If you have to find it, there is only one place that may be able to meet it.
That is the treasure Zhongzhen Treasury buried by the descendants of the Anxi Army. According to Master Daozhen, there is not much gold and silver in the Zhongzhen Treasury. This is similar to what Zhang Zhao guessed. Back then, the Anxi Army was defeated and only the city of Qiuci was left. There is no food and clothing for ten thousand people, so how much gold and silver can be buried underground?
However, there are two treasures in the Zhongzhen Treasury that Zhang Zhao is greedy for. First, according to the statistics handed down from the account books, the Zhongzhen Treasury contains at least five hundred sets of armor and other armors, tens of thousands of kilograms of pig iron, and other kinds of swords, guns, and swords. There are countless halberds.
Zhang Zhao believed this, because the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty was one of the best-equipped armies in the Tang Army. At its peak, the Anxi Army had 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers and had hundreds of sets of armor and a large number of weapons. possible.
Although Zhongzhenku has been buried underground for almost fifty years now, as long as it is well preserved and not soaked by water, the weapons may have been damaged, but the armor is still valuable.
Even if there was some damage, it would just be rust removal, re-polishing, and stringing. This was what he did before time travel, so it shouldn't be difficult to repair the armor.
The second treasure is that the Zhongzhen Treasury contains a large number of precious Buddhist scriptures buried in Dayun Temple. The most precious among them are the relics of Sakyamuni Buddha that were once stored in Dayun Temple and the Buddha Buddha that is said to have been used by Sakyamuni when he was born. Birthday bed.
Nowadays, the whole Hexi area is the most Buddhist, especially the people of Ammo who live around Liangzhou are very devout.
The Momo people are the ancestors of the Liugu tribe of Tubo, and many of them are actually descendants of the Tang people in Longxi. They are Tantric Buddhists. After the Republic of China in later generations, Tibetans still believed in it very devoutly.
If you have the blessings of Buddhist Dharma protectors Jialan and Sakyamuni treasures, and the abbot of Dayun Temple in Liangzhou, you will be a disciple of Tripitaka Master Sangharama.
If Zhang Zhao could bring back thousands of soldiers from Anxi, he might be able to take advantage of the opportunity and become the second person after Gao Pian to recruit the Mobu tribe.
With their support, Zhang Zhao could occupy Liangzhou, fight against the Han family of Lingwu Jiedushi and the Li family of the Dingnan army, and then extend his tentacles to the Central Plains.
