"Kecheng is one year older." Shao Shude put down Yeli Kecheng, who was clamoring to come down to play, and said with a smile: "Such a handsome boy, when he grows up, he will serve as a general under my uncle's tent and marry you a Han woman.
Don’t go back to the mountain again.”
Yeli Lingji sat quietly next to him, with a faint smile on his lips.
Shao Shude took her hand. The little girl became much gentler after giving birth, which made Shao Shuade say it was a pity that she lost another charm.
I think back when I was in Suizhou, the little wild raccoon from Nanshan was half forced by me, that was quite satisfying...
“Is the king going on an expedition soon?” Yeli Lingji suddenly asked.
"Why are you sitting so far away?" Shao Shude hugged Yeli Lingji and sat him on his lap. Yeli Kecheng glanced at it blankly, then turned his head without interest and met with Mu Zangjia and Wei Caijia.
, several children of the Zhe family went out to play.
"In the future, the children of the Feng family and the Zhao family will also play with them." Shao Shude said: "They are all the wife of this king, so why are they divided into two factions?"
“Your Majesty wants all the party members to become Han Chinese, right?” Yeli Lingji said suddenly.
Shao Shude looked at her and stopped stroking around.
"I am already the wife of the Shao family. If I don't care for my man, why should I care for my mother's family?" Yeli Lingji was a little angry and said with wide eyes.
Shao Shude’s hand began to slide around again.
The little wild raccoon's temper also rose a little, and he was obviously a little sad about Shao Shude's suspicion at that moment, and twisted his body to prevent him from being touched.
“Okay, something is wrong.” Shao Shude smiled and said: “In the future, we will have a lot of children. Our daughters will be princesses and our sons will be the king of Hengshan.”
Little Ye Li chuckled and turned sideways inadvertently. Shao Shude suddenly realized that his hand had reached the side of the soft and fragrant thing, and he immediately became rude.
"Who wants to be the king of Hengshan?" Yeli Lingji gasped: "Hengshan is so poor, and there are still a few people who have left the mountain who are willing to go back. If you want to be the king of Chang'an, the king of Luoyang, a prosperous place, let your children enjoy it
A lifetime of wealth."
Shao Shude sighed and said: "Sometimes I always feel that all my life's wars have been spent working for women and children like you."
“Who made you work so hard in the bathtub that you took my concubine for the first time...”
“Did you feel comfortable that time?”
As expected, the hand that was moving around was bitten, and the little wild raccoon returned to some of its former wildness.
After the couple flirted for a while, Shao Shude took Yeli Lingji's hand and returned to the main hall.
Xiao Feng is more than five months pregnant and is resting in her room. Da Feng is accompanying his sister. The Zhe family, the Zhao family, the Weicai family, and the Mu Zang family are instructing the servants to prepare things for the Spring Society Festival.
Shao Shude discovered that the maid busy in the room was still a member of the Zhejia family, and none of the twenty prairie girls he had brought back from Fengzhou could be seen. His wife, even if she was stealing food, she only wanted to let him eat the girls of the Zhejia family.
, the habits of this Xiaojiabiyu are actually quite cute.
After the Spring Society Festival, the sergeants also rested for a month or two, and each army was about to be dispatched in sequence. The first ones to set off were the Feng'an Army and the Jinglue Army. The former went north to Zhenwu Army, and the latter went north to Dingyuan County to guard.
north.
The Tiande Army and the Zhenwu Army will go south to Lingzhou, and together with the 4,000 Hexi Dangxiang herdsmen gathered there, they will set off for Huizhou.
About mid-February, the Wuwei Army and the Leopard Cavalry will escort a large amount of grain, grass, and equipment to Lingzhou.
A few days before and after them, the Yi Congjun will also be assembled and go to Xiazhou to collect supplies and escort the grain and grass to set off.
As the commander-in-chief, I can leave later. But at the latest in late February, I will also set off with the Iron Forest Army and the Iron Cavalry Army.
The territory is getting bigger and bigger. Even with more than 40,000 troops, there is still a feeling that it is not enough for use. It is conceivable that in the future, I will rely more and more on Tibetan soldiers.
After Lanzhou opens mines and mints money, you can try to form the Tianzhu Army. This is an army established during the Tianbao period. It is located in Xiazhou and was later abandoned. In the Lingxia area, there are too many places that need to be guarded, and the number of troops is still the same.
There were too few, and the soldiers outside the Yamen system could not be fully trusted, so there was nothing we could do.
Seeing the women busy in the room, Marshal Shao felt that he was a redundant person, so he called Li Renfu and Lu Ming and went to the streets with his soldiers to inspect.
Strictly speaking, Xiazhou is not a standard Han military state. There are many people of all kinds in the city, including Han people, Dangxiang people, Tubo people, Uighurs, Turks, Tiele people, Sogdians, etc. There are all kinds of people.
Yes, Han people are the main body, and various ethnic groups gather and influence each other. Compared with the mainland, the customs are actually more "Hu". At least, dairy products, leather clothing, wine and other things are very popular here, but they are rare in the mainland.
There is a term in sociology called "acculturation", which refers to the fact that when multiple ethnic groups coexist, even if the dominant ethnic group is assimilating the subordinate ethnic group, it will still inevitably be affected, and some of the cultural characteristics of the assimilated ethnic group may be absorbed.
Entering the main ethnic group. In fact, this trend has always been present in the land of Lingxia since the Kuomintang Dynasty.
In fact, if you look at the entire Tang Dynasty, why not? The Hu people who entered the Central Plains were eventually Sinicized, but they left behind various things such as Hu beds, Hu Xuan dances, musical instruments, Hu cakes, soup cakes, and even clothing.
Many elements on it also have the influence of the Hu people.
How can assimilation and being assimilated be so absolute?
The area that you rule is a bit like the smaller Tsarist Russia and Austria-Hungary, with internal indigestion but a huge appetite...
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Go back in time to one month ago.
Just after New Year's Day, Qin Gui put away a set of Tang clothes, began to braid his hair and apply paint on his face.
Braiding your hair, wearing fur, uncovering your face, and speaking Tubo language are the orders of the Tubo Festival. Going further, it is the order of Zanpu and Delun, whether they are Han, Dangxiang, Tuhun, or anyone else.
All ethnic groups have the same demand for forced Tuboization - the Dangxiang people may be more tolerant, they are Kunfa, and the Han people who serve as slaves under them are also Kunfa.
Tubo ruled Helong for two Jiazi. In the first Jiazi, the policy towards the Han people was still a little loose, but after seeing that the Tang Dynasty was getting worse and worse, it became increasingly strict. In the second Jiazi, before Zampu was assassinated, it even reached
Although there were repetitions later, such as on the fear of heat, Tuoba Huaiguang, Shang Yanxin and others rushed to return to the Tang Nahui, they relaxed a little. However, the Tang Dynasty did not really rule the territory of these people. After their death
, aren’t you going back to the old ways?
There are records in the poems of the people at that time: "The young man was captured and his head was combed", "A broken heart is combing Han's hair", "After being in Fan for forty years, he was sent to wear furs and fur belts; only Xu Zheng was wearing Han robes,
I gathered up my clothes and shed tears."
There is also a record in "New Book of Tang Dynasty": "All the people in the state are barbarians. They sacrifice to their fathers and ancestors every year, wear Chinese clothes, and hide them in mourning."
In fact, not only clothing and hair accessories, but language also have strict requirements: "The Longtou road is blocked, so Hu rides into Liangzhou City at night... Last year, China raised its descendants, and now they wear felt fur to learn the Hu language."
There is another saying, "Han people speak nonsense but curse Han people at the top of the city". They are actually talking about the same thing, which is to forcefully promote the Tibetan language.
Two Jiazi have passed, but in the first Jiazi there are still many people in the area who miss Tang Dynasty and hope that Master Wang will come to save them.
During the Dezong Dynasty, Wei Lun entered the Tubo Alliance. When the Han people in Helong heard about the envoys from their homeland, they came to pay homage to him wherever he went.
"When I saw (Wei) Lun returning home, all of them looked at the cracks in the wall with their furry heads and fur, or they beat their hearts and wept, or they worshiped eastward and danced, and they secretly communicated with each other and talked about the true and false status of Tibetan, and looked at the king and his teacher as if they were old."
In the second year of Changqing, Liu Yuanding joined the Tubo Alliance, and the old man who joined the army to guard Helong in his youth asked: "Is the emperor safe?" "Does the imperial court care about him?"
A year ago, the old man had not yet passed away, but he still had influence. He even took the risk to secretly send Zhangshu, telling the imperial envoys about the true situation in Tubo and asking the king's division to come over and regain the lost territory.
But now, their descendants have had their hair braided and their faces have been disguised for hundreds of years. They have been learning the Hu language from generation to generation, but they don’t know where they want to go. As the saying goes, “The old are more suave than the younger, and the younger are stronger. Growing up in a foreign country is like a foreign country. I don’t know that my grandfathers are all Han people.
I'm afraid that I will be jealous."
Nowadays, the only people in Tibet who miss the Tang Dynasty are probably the Han people who were taken captive by Tubo in recent decades. But these people are either dead or old. Qin Gui is almost sixty this year.
He didn't know how many years he could live, or whether he could wait for that extravagant hope.
"It's Beggar's Eve and the city walls are about to be built. Five hundred tribesmen will go out and arrive at the southern part of the city wall tomorrow." After entering the Yamen, a Tibetan official with brass ornaments on his arms said.
In the Tubo official system, those with jade on the front of their arms were the highest-level suojin, and generally commanded several Dao. For example, the Lun fearing heat in those days commanded the five military governors of Helong Province - the Qinghai military governor established by Tubo, and the Shanzhou military governor.
The next level is gold for the body, which can be obtained by a moral theory (Jiedu envoy). The third level is the gold ornaments for the body, silver for the body, brass for the body, and red copper for the body.
The red copper is almost the lowest level, equivalent to a hundred households, while the brass is a thousand households. Qin Gui is now a brass official. The Tubo officials who spoke to him are also brass, but one is a Tibetan and the other is a Han.
, how can the status be really the same?
“The area in the south city wall is full of wasteland and rubble, why do we need to repair it?” Qin Gui asked.
"A merchant from Hor (the Tubo people called Sogdiana Hor) reported that the Tang Dynasty's Dingnan Army Jiedushi had gathered soldiers and horses in Yinshan Mountain, and was likely to go south. The tribe of Fu Fuling in Minzhou Jie'er was still fighting against the Tang army.
If there is a confrontation, a war is likely to break out."
Qin Gui's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He shouldn't have asked more questions, but he couldn't help but said: "What does the Tang Dynasty's attack on Wei and Minzhou have to do with us? The city walls are almost gone, and it will be very laborious to build the walls again. And even if
Even if you repair it, it may not be effective, so it would be better not to repair it.”
"Begging for the festival!" The Tubo official glanced at him and said in a serious tone: "The five hundred people from your tribe must arrive tomorrow. The Jiedu envoy of the Tang Dynasty seems to be very ambitious, and he has gathered the herdsmen of the Yinshan Mountains.
It is difficult for one state to resist, and now we must unite, otherwise no one will survive."
“As ordered.” Qin Guinuonuo retreated.
Outside the door, he subconsciously touched the tattoo on his face.
Tubo said: "Whenever a Chinese was obtained, those who were incapable of doing anything would serve as servants and tattoo their faces. Those who were proficient in literature and art would leave their arms in wait for Zanpu's order. Those who recruited Chinese to serve as officials would be called saren.
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Qin Gui was born in the Jingyuan Army and was illiterate, so he had his face tattooed after being plundered by Tibet. However, he was skilled in martial arts and had management skills. In more than thirty years, he rose step by step and became a thousand-year-old member of the Lanzhou Pingren tribe.
The head of the household leads the entire tribe.
There are also three Han tribes in Lanzhou, one is Silk Mian, the other is Shangnong, and the other is Ma Chai. These three tribes mainly cultivate sericulture, herd livestock, and provide supplies to the Tubo people. When there is a war, they have to go out to fight. Especially
It is the pedestrian tribe with the largest number of people, more than 4,000. Theoretically, it can send out 1,000 men into battle.
“I have met the chief of Qianhu.” When he arrived outside the city, Qin Gui met Dong Zhong, the secretary of Qianhu of the Shangnong tribe, who immediately came forward to salute.
"Dong Zhong..." Qin Gui shouted in a low voice.
Dong Zhong was stunned. The other party did not call him by his Tibetan name, but by his Han name. What did this mean?
“What are you going to do?” Qin Gui continued to ask in Mandarin.
Dong Zhong is the secretary of Qianhu, responsible for collecting taxes, and he also understands Chinese. Seeing that something was wrong with Qin Gui's state, he turned around and looked around, then breathed a sigh of relief and replied: "Go to the tribe to collect beans.
If an official from Jie'er Mansion comes to complain, he must prepare enough horse supplies to prepare for unexpected needs."
“Just take enough, don’t give more.” Qin Gui patted him on the shoulder and left.