"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 cried 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 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 said um, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
cried.
Speak! But not completely.
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 a Taibao of the Tang Dynasty and a descendant of Duke Zhang Yichao who returned to the Yijun Jiedu! The great sage emperor of Khotan's Jin Kingdom is Mr. Erlang.
Uncle.
Zhang Erlangjun has hundreds of soldiers in the battle, and he defeated the thief Ittihad in Shule a few days ago. He made a special trip to look for 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 is here.
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 corpse to Chang'an and presented it to the emperor, who ordered someone to cut off the dragon's tongue and put it in a box as a reward to Zhang Song.
So the descendants he left behind 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 chant and kept silent from then on to avoid leaking secrets.
However, senior brother has already broken the precept just now, and it will only take a few to ten days before he will be able to speak."
Seeing Zhang Zhao's puzzled 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 what you are looking for. He is a descendant of the army and horses under the command of the Anxi Protector. His sixth generation ancestor is the Beiting Protector, the Yixi Jiedushi of Beiting, and the Ningsai County Prince. His surname is Li.
, Taboo Yuan Zhong’s younger brother!”
Li Yuanzhong! A burst 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 Anxi Protector at that time? Sure enough, there is still inheritance, and they still remember their motherland! <
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But why don't they go to Khotan? Why don't they want to recognize themselves?
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 his 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 smiling bitterly, Li Qilang put the headscarf 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 of course Li Yuanzhong's own descendants can 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 man is short in stature, with a dusty face, and his hands are calloused by hard work. After being away from the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years, he can still tie the futou skillfully.
, can you say that he is not Han Chinese?
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 a lone army for decades, including countless Sogdians, Uighurs, Qiucians, Shule people, Khotanese, and Yanqi people.
Especially among the two kings named Qiucibai and Shule Pei, Shule King Pei Lengleng and Qiuci King Baihuan 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? p>
In Zhang Zhao's view, this is not just the Anxi of the Han people, but the Anxi of all ethnic groups in Anxi who follow the laws and 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 Li name is worthy.
If Qi Lang doesn't mind that my fourteenth aunt is married to a descendant of the Li family in Longxi, I will go to Shazhou and ask my aunt and Li'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.
"I am here to thank Erlangjun for your great kindness! Woohoo!" Li Qilang sobbed twice as he said, "If you can be included in the family tree of the Li family in Longxi, you will be able to comfort the heroic spirits of your 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 showed a shocked expression on his face. "Brother, this word was not an ordinary word in the Tang Dynasty. This word is an honorific. It can really refer to brother or father.
Especially when referring to an elder brother, using the word brother means that the relationship between the two parties is very close. If the relationship between brothers or siblings is not good, the younger one will never call the elder brother. p>
"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 situation is the same as 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 a 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. Serdihen City was the capital of Xicao. In today's Isht 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.
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From this point of view, the ancestors of Li Qilang and the Sogdian Cao fused with the Cao Yijin family were both from Xicao, so it is really possible that they are related.
Seeing that he had such a powerful relative and hugging 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 King Guo, took refuge in Shule Dayun Temple 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 library.
The Zhongzhen Treasury is co-managed by the descendants of the five families of Guo, Li, Yang, Lu, and Bai and Dayun Temple. In the library, there are treasures and armor accumulated by Dayun Temple over the past hundred years and the great protector of Anxi, the Bai family of Qiuci King.
In fact, we have been waiting for these years for someone qualified to use these treasures!"