Chapter 942 0937 [I am a descendant of the Tang Dynasty royal family]
Loei Province.
Li Qi called his son and asked, "Hasn't our family's genealogy been compiled yet?"
Li Song replied: "It is being renovated and it will take some time."
"Let them hurry up!" Li Qi was a little anxious.
Li Qu's great-grandfather was Li Huan, the founder of the Li Dynasty.
After the Li family usurped the throne, some of the Li family also died, but they still flourished in the new dynasty. Li Qi even became the Li Dynasty's consort.
Regardless of the Li Dynasty or the Li Dynasty, they all followed the pattern of wearing yellow robes.
Li Huan took advantage of the fact that the little emperor was only six years old, hooked up with the Queen Mother, and proclaimed himself the deputy king. Because Zhao Guangyi sent troops, he shouted and led his troops to resist, and put on a yellow robe as soon as he left the capital.
In fact, if the Northern Song Dynasty had been better prepared, Zhao Guangyi would have recovered Annan long ago.
The Northern Song Dynasty prepared for the war in July of the previous year, but waited until March of the following year to set out with their troops, completely unaware of Annan's climate.
Such a time to send troops coincides with the hot and humid Annan rainy season!
During the war, the Northern Song generals were also very confused in their operations.
The general won a big victory first, and asked the other generals to quickly lead their troops to follow. As a result, the generals did not take advantage of the tail end of the dry season to march, but insisted on staying where they were and waiting for the navy to come and join forces. The delay lasted for more than seventy days.
It dragged on to the hottest and humid season, and countless soldiers died of illness due to the hot and humid environment.
The naval force was even more outrageous. Annan planted hidden stakes in the river, and it actually took two months to remove them.
Then Li Huan sent people to pretend to surrender. The Northern Song general was already very anxious and ran to accept the surrender with a small number of troops. Then, the Northern Song general was surrounded and killed!
Zhao Guangyi was furious and killed all the generals leading the army, and was forced to recognize Annan's independence.
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A few days passed, and the "genealogy" of the Li family was completed.
Li Qi held a thick genealogy in his hands and ran to see Zhu Kang: "I went to see His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and I found a genealogy in the Li family's old house."
Zhu Kang smiled and said: "Didn't the Li family have already claimed several generations of ancestors when they were in charge of Annan? At that time, they didn't say they came from China."
Li Qi explained: "At that time, only four generations of ancestors were named. Now that I have found the genealogy of Laozhai, I know that my Li family moved to Annan in the early Tang Dynasty. My Li family is also from China!"
Zhu Kang nodded and said: "I see, this genealogy must be kept properly."
"I must take good care of it," Li Qi said. "My eldest daughter has been remarried to His Highness as his concubine. My second daughter, Ji Daughter, please His Highness to take care of her as well. It's a pity that they are lonely in the palace. All the other daughters are married.
But there is a twelfth girl waiting in the boudoir. If His Highness is interested..."
Zhu Kang interrupted in surprise: "You have so many daughters?"
Li Qi said: "I have eight sons and twelve daughters, none of whom died in infancy. If I can give birth to an heir for Your Highness, they will definitely not die in infancy."
Zhu Kang was noncommittal and only commented: "Awesome!"
How ridiculous was the dead King Li Yanghuan of Annan? He did not allow ministers to marry their daughters. He had to personally select the remaining adult women before they could marry. And the underage women at that time could not get married until the next time he
Until you choose a concubine.
Minister Annan actually abides by such nonsense regulations, which shows that there are very few people with backbone.
The three Li sisters entered the palace together at that time.
Zhu Kang only married the eldest son, and now the second and third sons are still widows in the palace.
Li Qi's idea was very simple. He remarried all three daughters to Zhu Kang, and also wanted to marry his underage twelfth daughter to Zhu Kang.
He is afraid!
The Li family belongs to the royal family of the previous dynasty, and intermarriage with the royal family of the Li dynasty constitutes political cooperation.
Once the Ming Dynasty annexed Annan, they would become the former royal family and would completely lose their last political role.
Moreover, the Li family has always been suppressed by the Li Dynasty, and the descendants of the main clan can only serve as idle officials and cannot develop their own power at all.
They must cling to a big tree, otherwise the family will not survive.
And Daming and Zhu Kang are the big trees.
For this reason, the Li family even forged genealogy and turned their ancestors into Han Chinese who migrated south.
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Since Mr. Li was so considerate, Zhu Kang naturally expressed his feelings.
He married all the Li sisters who were widowed in the palace. However, Zhu Kang did not accept Li Qi's twelfth daughter and instead married Han Jing as his concubine.
As soon as the Li family tree was published, the government and the public were shocked!
It turns out that the ancestors of the two consecutive generations of the Li family and the Annan Dynasty were actually Chinese.
Xie Hong took the opportunity to publicize it and even invited an edict to be posted across the country. He took the opportunity to implement the reform of the imperial examination and listed "Jiaozhi Zhilue" as a required subject.
For a time, the Annan government and the public were all proud of their Chinese bloodline, setting off a wave of compilation of genealogies.
In fact, they have been doing this kind of thing for a long time.
Especially for those aristocratic families, many genealogies have Chinese ancestors, and they like to move closer to the five surnames and seven looks.
The same is true in Dali Kingdom. Those families also have Chinese ancestors. They are either the descendants of a certain general in the Han and Tang Dynasties, or the descendants of a certain civil servant in the Han Dynasty. There are even some who claim to be the clan of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Only in this way can they show their noble bloodline and long history.
When Li Yangzhen and Li Qi took out their family trees one after another, they made it up temporarily while those who had family trees started looking for relatives.
Regardless of whether their family tree is authentic, they all requested to visit relatives in their ancestral home, and even asked the Ming and Annan courts to reimburse their travel expenses...
Zhu Kang asked: "This is a great thing, but it costs too much."
Xie Hong suggested: "Regardless of the other places of origin, those whose ancestral homes are in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian can make an appointment to go by boat together. The court is only responsible for free transportation to a few ports, and the rest of the journey to find relatives is up to them."
"Good." Zhu Kang agreed immediately.
King Zhiming Li Yangzhen was the most active and personally took a boat to Fujian.
Moreover, the process of finding relatives went extremely smoothly. In Zhongcai Township, Anhai Town, Jinjiang County, Quanzhou Prefecture, the Li Family Ancestral Hall is still very popular today.
Li Gongyun, the founding monarch of the Annan Li Dynasty, was the second son of Li Chun'an, the Li family of Anhai, Jinjiang. They were not in Anhai town originally, but moved there to do business. Li Gongyun's elder brother, Li Gongzao, did not go to sea with his father and stayed there to become the ancestor of the Li family in Anhai.
The genealogy is clearly written!
Li Yangzhen came here to act, but when she arrived at Li's ancestral hall and saw the ancestral tablets and even the grandpa's tablet, she immediately knelt there and cried and worshiped.
The patriarch took out the genealogy and said: "We are a branch of the Li family in Quanzhou, and there is a larger ancestral hall over there."
So, Li Yangzhen ran to Quanzhou Li's Ancestral Hall again.
Local officials, gentry and merchants all warmly entertained Li Yangzhen. Some merchants of the Li family took the opportunity to discuss business, and Li Yangzhen immediately agreed and welcomed the people from his hometown to do business in Annan.
Everything I saw and encountered along the way was recorded in detail.
Li Yangzhen also discovered a very exciting news in the genealogy of the Li family in Quanzhou.
His ancestor was the fourteenth son of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, King Cao Li Ming!
I don’t know if this race is reliable, but Li Yangzhen takes it seriously.
He asked someone to copy a genealogy, and wrote down a record of his experiences in Quanzhou, and returned to Annan in a hurry.
After that, banquets were held every now and then.
In the middle of each banquet, he would ask his servant to take out the family tree, point to it and say: "I am the descendant of the Tang Dynasty royal family, and my ancestor is the fourteenth son of Emperor Taizong. Who dares to say that my great-grandfather was a merchant who usurped the throne? The Tang royal family
Descendants, does being the king of Jiaozhi count as usurping the throne? Jiaozhi was originally the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but it was divided by those vassals. My great-grandfather just took back his power!"
This guy shows off his identity as a descendant of the Tang royal family everywhere. Zhu Kang laughed when he heard the news and was happy to see him continue to publicize the matter.
Don't tell me, this kind of thing spreads very quickly in Annan.
Especially those disillusioned scholars prefer to believe that they are descendants of the Han people, and hope that Annan can return to China. Because after returning, they will have greater room for development, and they may be able to take exams and become officials!
The Annan imperial examination was controlled by wealthy families, and was only better than that of Goryeo and Xixia. It was difficult for a poor scholar to climb up.
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When Zhu Kang was promoting "Jiaozhi Zhilue", the palace of Xixia was heavily guarded.
Li Qianshun was bedridden for more than half a year. His condition improved for a while and he was even able to go to court in person. But now he finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Li Renxiao, who was fifteen years old, succeeded to the throne, and his biological mother Cao became the Queen Mother.
The power of the court has basically not changed, Li Renzhong is still the head of the civil servants, and Brother Richard is still the head of the military generals.
But a rebellion is brewing somewhere!
Not only Xiao Heda, a survivor of the Liao Kingdom, was plotting a rebellion, but also the Mu brothers from Tuyuhun.
Their ancestors had intersections with Fan Zhongyan.
Fan Zhongyan won over Mu En and the chiefs of other tribes, and rewarded them with clothes, money and silk, in an attempt to get Mu to help fight the Northern Song Dynasty.
The Mu family is a simplification of the Murong family and comes from the Tuyuhun royal family.
They have their own territory in Xixia and have always provided war horses for Xixia.
The two brothers Mu Wei and Mu Rong were promoted by Li Qianshun because they did not seek refuge with Brother Richard. Now that Li Qianshun is dead, Brother Richard will naturally take action.
Historically, Mu Wei and Mu Rong were forced to defect to the Kingdom of Jin, but they were caught and executed by Brother Richard.
"Brother, the king is dead!" Mu Rong flew over on horseback.
Mu Wei was surprised: "Is the news true?"
Mu Rong said: "The spies I have deployed in the capital are racing fast horses day and night to deliver the news."
Mu Wei frowned and said: "Brother Richard, I'm afraid he won't be able to tolerate us, but your and my sons are all working as bodyguards (disguised hostages) in the capital!"
Mu Rong said: "The clan members should be informed to be alert to the incoming army at any time."
Mu Wei turned around and looked at Dongfang: "If Brother Richard really can't tolerate us, we will have no choice but to defect to the Ming Dynasty. Send someone immediately to contact Xiao Heda. He also has a grudge against Brother Richard. We can make an appointment to join him.
bright!"
Mu Rong hesitated and said: "But the Ming Dynasty lured my slaves. We crossed the border to capture slaves and even fought with the Ming army. If we surrender, won't the Ming Dynasty hold grudges?"
"Confused," Mu Wei said, "If we can help the Ming Dynasty destroy Xixia, what happened before? What's more, it's not like you haven't seen the Ming Dynasty border troops. Dozens of cavalry killed hundreds of us.
Escape. With such a strong army, can Xixia stop it? Our tribe is on the border again. Once the two countries start a war, our tribe will be the first to be beaten!"
The brothers sent someone to contact Xiao Heda, but Xiao Heda's messenger arrived first.
Historically, the three people died only one year apart.
Xiao Heda rebelled first and was executed, but the Mu brothers were hunted down before they could rebel.
Immediately afterwards, uprising armies broke out across the Xixia border, and many tribes in Weizhou, Jingzhou, and Dingzhou rebelled.
The reason for the rebellion is very simple. With no relief from natural disasters for consecutive years, the border tribes can no longer live happily!