"I have also been to many palaces and manors of nobles. The security here is really... strange." Looking at Guo Kang dismissing the soldiers, the heroine Jeanne said with emotion: "They don't have weapons, so what are they doing with ropes?" ?”
"Hey, the soldiers are used to paddling, so there's nothing we can do about it." Guo Kang said helplessly: "Usually, the foster father beats thieves and assassins down by himself, and then the soldiers come in to tie them up and carry them away. This time Commander, the security capabilities have deteriorated..."
"Okay..." Jeanne hesitated and turned to ask Meltem: "You too, why did you, an assassin, suddenly call out for guards? You scared me..."
"I'm not an assassin now." Meltem pointed out: "Why can't I call the guards at my house?"
"Who admits that this is your family? Please stop being so familiar." Theodora was immediately unhappy.
"Okay, okay." Jeanne couldn't stand the argument between the two of them: "If you are competing for favor, just fight in secret and don't make trouble here."
"French ladies wouldn't fight directly in front of the king, right? What about the Romans? I've been to the courts of several countries, but I've never seen anything like this..."
After being scolded by her, Theodora and Meltem fell silent.
"By the way, kid, I saw your guard, what's that step, delivering a message over there." She turned around and said to Guo Kang, "What are you and Zhu Wenkui doing recently?"
"Cannons, equipment and the like." After Guo Kang answered, he asked curiously: "What happened to him?"
"It's strange. I see little Jeanne and him are also quarreling. What's going on with you guys?" Heroine Jeanne looked a little confused: "What's the big deal about Cannon..."
Guo Kang didn't know what was going on, so he had to shake his head and told her that he would ask later.
"In addition, I will ask Yang Wenxian to summon the guards, and you two say hello to them." He said, "The situation here is already chaotic enough. At least let them know who are acquaintances...well, even if they don't go through the main entrance. .”
"Then why don't you try to reorganize the guards?" Jeanne suggested: "I happen to have nothing else to do during this time, so I can help you reorganize the patrol and guard arrangements."
"It's easy to rectify the guards. The main reason is that there is no way to rectify the guests." Guo Kang complained: "My adoptive father used to guard Dadu and met a large group of ranger friends. These heroes all like to be unconventional and unconventional for some reason, and all of them are capable. If you don’t go through the main entrance, don’t go through the main entrance.”
"My foster mother usually goes through the front door, but she seems to often fight with other heroines, and often doesn't go through the front door at night. Those heroines don't know if they are friends or foes, so if they catch her, they are worried that her foster father's face will be lost, so They were all pulled down by ignorance.”
"Okay, then there's nothing I can do." Jeanne could only shrug: "Then I'll go find that Yang later and become familiar with him."
"Well, they all know the heroines who come here to fight. Then they won't care about you." Guo Kang told her.
Jeanne had a strange expression on her face, but she still nodded.
"But I think he is a European. Why did he come up with such a name?" she asked casually.
"He is a Bulgar." Guo Kang said: "Bu, Yang, and Lu are all common surnames of the Bulgars here. Many of the soldiers we recruited in Bulgaria have these surnames."
"Oh, it's a popular Chinese surname, right?" Jeanne nodded understandingly.
"It doesn't count as Han surnames..." Guo Kang thought for a moment and said, "Many ordinary people here don't have serious surnames. Even some wealthy citizens use their surnames by their occupation, village name or even nickname. If you take it casually, you won't be able to show your dignity. So when recording household registration, soldiers often use Han surnames as their real surnames."
"Yang Wenxian's Christian name is Constantine, so his full name in the household registration is composed of three parts: Yang, Wenxian, and Constantine." Guo Kang gave an example.
"We don't call 'Constantine' a 'European name' or a 'Bulgarian name' because there are many people with this name in Greece and Asia Minor, which is obviously unscientific. This name was acquired during baptism and is related to faith, so it is It’s called ‘Christian name’.”
"As for the Bulgarian surname... his father was a villager who was about to starve to death. He only survived when we provided disaster relief. He doesn't have a Bulgarian surname."
"That seems right." Jeanne thought for a while: "The surnames of nobles are quite confusing these days. Most people just follow the fiefdom, right? That's why they call them 'De...'. Common people don't have them. It’s really hard to distinguish between fiefdoms.”
"But I'm curious, why did Bu and Yang become common surnames?"
"Because some people have done research and said that there is some origin here." Guo Kang explained: "The Bulgars are different from the Greeks. They are really just like us. It can be clearly verified that they came from the East."
"Historians in ancient times recorded that the Bulgars were a branch of the Huns. There was a country in the Western Regions that the Seris people called 'Hujie', which was destroyed by the Huns. So some people think that Hujie is the Bulgars. The main body of the tribe was the Ukidur tribe to which the Great Khan belonged. Later, these Zahu tribes, who once relied on the Huns, set out from the desert west to Central Asia and migrated westward, and this 'Hun' group came into being."
"But other Hujie people did not move away. Some stayed in the same place to graze and became the Pugu tribe. Others joined the Xianbei people and entered the Central Plains, giving birth to Buliugu, Bulugu and Puliuru. , Bu Lugu and so on. Most of the descendants of these people after the Sui and Tang Dynasties had the surnames of Bu, Lu, etc."
"At the beginning, these scholars thought that since relatives who had been separated for many years had these surnames in the Central Plains, they could use them too."
"Are these inferences true? They can be related to something so far away." Jeanne couldn't hide her curiosity: "I...I don't read much, don't coax me."
"I feel that except for the certainty that he is from the Eastern Grassland, the other details are most likely not true. There are too many attachments and far-fetched points." Guo Kang said bluntly: "These are all okay, and the Yang family is actually even more forced. "
"When Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty was an official in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he was asked to change his Xianbei surname to 'Pu Liuru'. Later he replaced the Northern Zhou Dynasty and changed it back. These Bulgarians felt that he changed from Pu Liuru to Changing Yang, it seems that the two are somewhat related. And I and Pu Liuru also seem to be related, so I am also related to the Yang family..."
"That's clinging by force," Theodora said.
"That's right. But just stick with me." Guo Kang didn't care too much: "We are halfway across the Eurasian continent. To be able to stick to this point is considered fate..."
(End of chapter)
