A crisp eagle whistle sounded above Zhang Zhao's head, and the huge falcon began to circle and swoop down.
Pei Shengyuan, who was wearing an iron armguard, stretched out his hand, and the falcon accurately landed on his arm.
A large piece of fresh mutton was served. The falcon opened its mouth and hooted in satisfaction, and then began to feast.
"My lord, this is my brother Pei Tongyuan's hunting falcon. They must have come from Balashagon!" Pei Shengyuan walked over and said softly.
Zhang Zhao nodded. He had finally completed the 2,500-mile-long Tang Monk Ancient Road.
Pei Shengyuan's younger brother Pei Tongyuan was one of the people who went to Balashagon to fight against the enemy with Yin Yaozi.
For Zhang Zhao, everything about Balasagon is unknown to him. Although he sent people to express his surrender, who knows if there is any fraud? It is always right to be careful.
Traveler Zhang Da still cherishes his life. Even though he always looks like an invincible hero on the battlefield, he is actually very cautious.
Because historically, many heroes and heroes did not die in hardships, but instead capsized in the gutter due to various carelessness, which is enough to serve as a warning to future generations.
Several war horses galloped past from a distance. It was Pei Tongyuan and Fanshun who went to Balashagon with Yin Yaozi and returned. However, Fanshun quickly dismounted when he was still forty steps away from Zhang Zhao.
come over.
Because although he notified the Bashmi scouts who were on guard in advance, and Pei Tongyuan also released the falcon, in front of Zhang Zhao, the soldiers of Shandu were still well prepared for defense, and the divine arm bows were already strung.
"Er Lang Jun, Yao Geluo, Pugu, Hu Susu and other tribesmen of Balashagon, as well as the Buddhist master Tite Xigu, the majestic Nestorian Master Xuan Qing of the Great Qin Dynasty, etc., are welcoming Lang Jun ten miles outside the city.
Great ride."
"Yao Ge Luo? Pugu?" Zhang Zhao asked doubtfully. It is not unusual for Uighur leftovers such as Dendrobium to appear in Balashagon, but Yao Ge Luo and Pugu are the orthodox royal family of the Uighurs!
Among these two families, the Pugu family is the royal family of the Gaochang Uighur Khanate.
The Yaogeluo family is the royal family of the Uighurs in Ganzhou.
How come they are in Balasagon? Saktu's grandfather Pang Teqin was not from these two ethnic groups.
"Mr. Erlang, in addition to these two Uighur royal families, I also saw the fang flag and leopard tail of the Guiyi army envoy!" Fanshun's face became very strange, and he looked like I was shocked.
Uh! Don't talk about him. Zhang Zhao himself was confused. How could the fang flag and leopard tail of the Guiyi Army appear here? These two things can only be given by the emperor. Could it be that his ancestors still left one in this distant river?
people?
....
Many people in later generations were confused about the relationship between Balasagon and Suiye. Some people thought they were one place, and some thought they were two cities. In fact, they should be the relationship between the new city and the old city.
When Suiye was destroyed in the war, Balashagon came into being, and the two cities were only about five kilometers apart.
Zhang Zhao carefully looked at this relatively majestic Balashagon City. It was built with strips of stone as the foundation and three-piece earth as the walls.
No wonder Saktu led an army of 30,000 men and fought with a large number of divine warriors for four months, but could not defeat it.
In addition to the low attack ability of the Karakhanites, the fortified city of Balashagon also played a great role.
"The visitor is the governor of Polu Prefecture of the Great Jin Kingdom, His Excellency Zhang Zhao, the Duke of Fengtian, and the poor monk Tite Xigu. We have been waiting for the Duke for a long time!"
His name is Titsigu. If you don’t know, you might think he is a Scythian or a white man from the East Iranian nation. But in fact, except for his big face, this master Titsigu’s skin color and hair color are similar to Zhang Zhao’s.
, typical Mobei grassland people.
Zhang Zhao quickly got off his horse and clasped his hands in front of the Buddhist leader of Balasagun. If the person he came to greet was the Uighur Yehu of Balasagun, he would still show off his skills, but it would not be easy to face religious people.
It's appropriate.
Behind Titsigu stood a Nestorian monk wearing a scarlet robe. He glanced at Zhang Zhao and the Hanshandu warrior behind Zhang Zhao, and then quickly looked away.
"The poor monk Xuan Qing, the majestic and dignified Nestorian of the Qin Dynasty, has met Duke Zhang."
Dade is a religious position in Nestorianism, which is roughly equivalent to the eminent monks and masters in Buddhism. In fact, Buddhism also has the term Dade and eminent monks.
The Great Virtue is an extremely important religious leader in Nestorianism. Among the Nestorians in Balasagon, he is the leader.
However... Zhang Zhao was a little strange when he greeted him. Even if the leader of the Buddhist sect looked like a Han, why did the majestic Nestorian master far away in the river also look like a Han?
But soon, he became numb. Sure enough, among the group of Uighur leaf guards, a tooth flag of the Guiyi Army envoy made him dizzy. Is there really someone from the Zhang family of Shazhou here?
Ignoring other false etiquette, Zhang Zhao, accompanied by two religious figures, walked directly under the tooth flag.
However, Zhang Zhao was soon disappointed, but also more puzzled, because under the flag of the rebel envoy, stood a group of people who obviously looked like Uighurs of yellow and white mixed race. The leader had curly hair, a small nose, and green eyes, which almost looked like
Not many Han people appear.
Zhang Zhao touched his chin and took the opportunity of the other party to come up to greet him and asked directly.
"I don't know which tribe I am from? Who are my ancestors? Why is there this fang flag of the rebel army?"
The curly-haired Uighur quickly stepped forward and answered that their family was just a small player attached to the Yaogeluo family in Balasagon. Today they only raised this big flag to show the glory of their ancestors. Unexpectedly, it turned out that
It attracted the attention of the special envoy of the Great Sage and Emperor of the Kingdom of Jin.
"Reporting to the Duke, this flag was given to my ancestors by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!"
Hearing such a statement, Duke Zhang's nose was almost crooked with anger. Looking at you like this, it doesn't look like your surname is Zhang?
Besides, Guiyijun is not a particularly impressive brand, so how about getting Balasagon to show off?
Just as he was about to ask the soldiers to take down the "chicken" that was not too big or too small and just the right size, and kill the chicken to show the monkeys, and shock the Ye Hu and religious people around him, the curly-haired Uighur spoke again,
And it was also changed to Chinese.
"My ancestor was General Zuo Jinwuwei of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Gong, the king of Huaining County, was loyal. My grandfather followed Kadir Khan (Pang Teqin) and moved west here.
Speaking of which, he is somewhat related to the Duke. The Jin Kingdom in Khotan has quite a Tang style, and our rebel envoy Li family is also a son of the Tang Dynasty."
'Poof!' Zhang Zhao almost spit out a mouthful of old blood. He didn't expect to see the Uighur Guiyi Army envoy here, a descendant of Li Sizhong, the king of Huaining County. This is also the authentic Guiyi Army, with a brand name bigger than Zhang's Guiyi Army.
Still early.
Li Sizhong's original name was Fumesi, and he was a nobleman of the Uighur Khanate. After the collapse of the Uighur Khanate, he attached himself to the Tiande Army of the Tang Dynasty. He once followed Liu Mian, the military commander of Hedong Province, to defeat the remnants of the Uighur Khanate.
Later, because of the suspicion of the border generals, he chose to take thousands of Uighur nobles to settle in Chang'an during the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Wuzong named him the Prince of Huaining County and gave him the national surname Sizhong.
"It turns out that he is the grandson of the prince of Huaining County, but as far as I know, aren't the descendants of the prince of the county all settled in Chang'an with him?" Zhang Zhao bowed his hand politely.
Li Sizhong was okay and manageable, but after he became a traitor, he really thought of himself as a son of the Tang Dynasty. He fought against fellow Uighurs even more ruthlessly than the real Tang army. Later, some generals suspected him, so he simply disbanded the army and retired to Chang'an.
He can be considered a meritorious minister.
A somewhat embarrassed expression appeared on the curly-haired Uighur's face, "My grandfather was the eldest son of the county king. He left for Beijing in a hurry. My grandfather went to war outside the Great Wall and did not return. In the end, he did not go to Chang'an, but followed
Qadeer Khan has come to the river."
Understand, why did he not return from the expedition outside the Great Wall? It is most likely that Li Sizhong was afraid of going to Chang'an. If the emperor really listened to the slander, he would be killed, so he asked his eldest son to follow Pang Teqin to move westward, which would also leave some blood and avoid the death of the whole family.
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There was an indescribable expression on Zhang Zhao's face. This curly hair obviously wanted to cling to him, because he must know the news about Li Shengtian's preferential treatment to the Tang people in Khotan, but he didn't know Zhang Zhao's origins just thousands of miles away.
"So that this gentleman of the Li family will know that a certain Zhang Erlang is from the Zhang family of Nanyang, and his sixth generation ancestor is the Duke of Nanyang County, and the governor of the Guiyi Army, Zhang Baoyi Chaogong!"
"Ah! This...!" Curly-haired Uighur was stunned. He looked up at the tooth flag of the Guiyi Army envoy on his head, and a burning sensation made his back feel slightly hot.
At the same time, a blazing gaze was shot at Zhang Zhao from the side. Xuan Qing, a great Nestorian figure, had his Adam's apple twitching as if he wanted to say something, but he held it back in the end.