Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 217 Xia Gao

"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 be a general under my uncle's account. I will marry you a Han woman, don't Back to the mountain again."

Yeli Lingji sat beside him quietly, with a vague smile on the corner of his mouth.

Shao Shude took her hand.This little girl became much gentler after giving birth, and it was a pity for Shao Dashuai to call it a pity, and she lost another sense of fun.

I think that when I was in Suizhou, the little wild raccoon in Nanshan was half-forced by myself, that was enough...

"Your Majesty is about to set off?" Wild Fox Lingji asked suddenly.

"What are you doing sitting so far away?" Shao Shude hugged Yeli Lingji on his lap, Yeli Kecheng glanced blankly, then turned his head without interest, and met with Wu Zangjia and Wei Caijia , A few children from the Zhe family went out to play.

"In the future, we will let the children of the Feng family and the Zhao family play with them." Shao Shude said, "They are all the wives of this king, why are they divided into two factions?"

"Your Majesty, you want all the party members to become Han Chinese?" Yeli Lingji said suddenly.

Shao Shude looked at her, his fumbling hands stopped.

"The concubine is already Shao's wife, so if she doesn't want to be with her own man, is she still with her natal family?" Yeli Lingji said with his eyes wide open, a little annoyed.

Shao Shude's hand started to slide around again.

Xiao Yeli's temper also turned up a little bit, obviously a little sad for Shao Shude's suspicion at that moment, twisting his body so as not to let him touch it.

"Okay, something is wrong." Shao Shude said with a smile: "In the future, we will have a lot of children, the daughter will be the princess, and the son will be the king of Hengshan."

The little wild fox chuckled and turned sideways inadvertently.Shao Shude suddenly found that his hand had reached the side of the fragrant and soft object, and immediately became rude.

"Who wants to be the king of Hengshan?" Yeli Lingji panted, "Hengshan is so poor, there are still a few who are willing to go back after going down the mountain. If you want to be the king of Chang'an and Luoyang, let the children enjoy the prosperity of the place." Wealthy forever."

Shao Shude let out a long sigh, and said, "Sometimes I always feel that I have been working hard for you women and children all my life."

"Who told you to work hard in the tub back then, the first time you put my concubine..."

"Was it comfortable that time?"

Not surprisingly, the fidgeting hand was bitten, and the little wild fox regained some of its wildness.

After the couple flirted for a while, Shao Shude took Yeli Lingji's hand and returned to the main hall.

Xiao Feng has been pregnant for more than five months, now she will rest in her room, and Da Feng will accompany her sister.The Zhe family, the Zhao family, the Weicai family, and the Wuzang family are instructing the servants to prepare the sacrifices for the Spring Festival.

Shao Shude found that the maid who was busy in the house was still from the Zhe family, and he couldn't see any of the twenty prairie girls he brought back from Fengzhou.My regular wife, even if she steals food, she only wants her to eat Zhe family's daughter secretly. This Xiaojia Biyu's habits are actually quite cute.

After the Spring Festival, the sergeants also rested for a month or two, and the armies were about to be dispatched one by one.The Feng'an Army and the Jinglue Army were the first to set off. The former went north to the Zhenwu Army, and the latter went north to Dingyuan County to guard the north.

The Tiande army and Zhenwu army will go south to Lingzhou, and set off together with the [-] Hexi Dangxiang herdsmen assembled there, to Huizhou.

Around mid-February, the Wuwei Army and Leopard Riders will escort a large amount of grain, grass, and equipment to Lingzhou.

A few days before and after them, the rebel army will also be assembled, 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, they will also set off with the Iron Forest Army and Iron Cavalry Army.

The land is getting bigger and bigger. Even if more than 4 troops are raised, it still feels insufficient.It is conceivable that in the future, I will rely more and more on Fanbing.

After Lanzhou mines and makes money, you can try to form the Tianzhu Army.This is an army established during the Tianbao period, located in Xiazhou, and later abolished.In the Lingxia area, there are too many places to guard, and the number of troops is still too small, and the non-Ya army system's foreign soldiers cannot be completely trusted, so there is nothing to do.

Seeing the women busy in the house, Shao Dashuai felt that he was a superfluous person, so he greeted Li Renfu and Lu Ming, and went to the street with his own soldiers to inspect.

Strictly speaking, Xiazhou is not a standard Han military state.There are many kinds of people in the city, including Han people, Dangxiang people, Tubo people, Uighurs, Turks, Tiele people, Sogdians, etc. There are all kinds of people, with Han people as the main body, and various ethnic groups gather and influence each other. Compared with the mainland, it is actually more "hu".At least, things like dairy, furs, and wine are all the rage here, but not so much in the interior.

There is a term in sociology called "accultation", which means that when multiple ethnic groups coexist, even if the main ethnic group is assimilating subordinate ethnic groups, it will still be affected inevitably, and some cultural characteristics of the assimilated ethnic group may be absorbed into the main nation.Since the Kingdom Dynasty, the land of Lingxia has actually always had this trend.

In fact, put it in the entire Tang Dynasty, why not?The Hu people who entered the Central Plains were eventually Sinicized, but they left behind Hu beds, Hu Xuanwu, musical instruments, Hu cakes, soup cakes and other things, and even many elements of clothing were also influenced by Hu people.

How can assimilation and being assimilated be so absolute?
Is the area I rule a bit like the small Tsarist Russia and Austria-Hungary, with internal indigestion, but a huge appetite...

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Time goes back to a month ago.

As soon as New Year's Day passed, Qin Gui put away a set of Tang clothes, began to comb his braided hair, and paint his face.

Braiding hair, fur, face (chēng) and speaking Tubo, these are Tubo Jieer's orders.Going forward, it is the order of Zanpu and Delun. Whether it is Han people, Dangxiang people, Tuhun people or other ethnic groups, they all have the same requirement, and they are forced to become Tubo-Dangxiang people may be more lenient, they are Kunfa , the Han people attached to them as slaves 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 stricter day by day.In the second Jiazi, before Zanpu was assassinated, it even reached its peak. Although there were repetitions later, such as Lun Horror, Tuoba Huaiguang, Shang Yanxin and others competing to return to Tang Nahui, they relaxed a little.But Datang didn't really rule these people's territory. After they died, wouldn't they return to the old way?
There are records in the poems of the people at that time: "The young and strong were captives and their heads were shaved", "The heartbroken Zhengchao combed the hair of the Han Dynasty", "Forty years after falling into the Tibetan army, he sent furs and fur belts; only Xu Zhengchao served Hanyi, Tighten your clothes and hide your tears."

There is also a record in "New Book of Tang": "People in the state are all obedient to their subjects. They worship their fathers and ancestors every year, wear Chinese clothes, and hide them in mourning."

In fact, not only the clothing and hair accessories, but also the language has strict requirements: "Longtou Road can't cut people off, and Hu Qi entered Liangzhou City at night...Last year, China adopted children and grandchildren, and today they learn Hu language with Zhanqiu."

There is also "Han'er speaks Hu'er language, but scolds Han people at the top of the city", which is actually saying the same thing, which is to force the promotion of Tubo language.

The two Jiazi have passed, and in the first Jiazi, there are still many people in the local area who miss Datang and hope that Master Wang will come to save them.

During the reign of Emperor Dezong, Wei Lun entered the Tubo League, and the Han people in Helong heard that their motherland was coming, and they came to visit each place they went.

"And when (Wei) Lun returns to the country, they all have hairy heads, peeping at the gap in the wall, or beating their hearts and weeping, or worshiping and dancing eastward, and secretizing the chapters, saying that the truth is true, and the king's teacher is as old as he is."

In the second year of Changqing, Liu Yuanding entered the Tubo League, and the old man who had joined the army to guard Helong when he was young asked: "Is the Son of Heaven safe?" "Is the imperial court still concerned?"

One year ago, the old man had not died yet, so he was still influential. He even took the risk to send Zhang Shu secretly, telling the court envoys about the real situation in Tubo, so that Master Wang could come and recover the lost ground.

But now, their descendants have braided hair and easy clothes to face for a hundred years, learning Hu language from generation to generation, but they don't know where to return their hearts.As the saying goes, "The old man is very young and the young is strong, and he grows up in a foreign country like a foreigner; if he doesn't know that his grandfather is a Han citizen, he is afraid that he will be heartbroken."

Nowadays, the only people in Tibet who still miss the Tang Dynasty are the Han people who were taken captive by Tubo in recent decades.But these people are either dead or old, and Qin Gui is almost sixty this year.He didn't know how many years he could live, and he didn't know if he could wait for that extravagant wish.

"Begging at the end of the day, the city is going to be built. Pedestrian tribes will send out five hundred people, and we will go to the southern city wall tomorrow." After entering the Yamen, a Tibetan official with a brass ornament on his arm said.

In the official system of Tubo, those decorated with jade on the front of their arms are the highest level of suing. They usually command several departments. For example, during the fear of fear in those days, they commanded the five Jiedu envoys in Helong—the Qinghai Jiedu envoys and Shanzhou envoys established by Tubo. Jiedushi, Hezhou Jiedushi, Liangzhou Jiedushi, Guazhou Jiedushi.

The next level is the gold report, and a moral theory (Jiedushi) can lead it.Once again, gold ornaments and silver sued, silver sued, brass sued, and red copper sued.

Red copper is almost the lowest level, which is equivalent to a hundred households, and brass is a thousand households. Qin Gui is now a brass sue.The Tubo officials who talked to him were also brass, but one was a Tubo and the other was a Han. How could it be possible that the status was really the same?

"The south city wall is full of barren soil and rubble, why should it be repaired?" Qin Gui asked.

"There is a report from a merchant from Huoer (the Tubo people call Sogdian as Huoer) that the Jiedu Envoy of the Tang Dynasty's Dingnan Army gathered troops in Yinshan Mountain, and it is likely to go south. The tribe of Fu Fuling in Minzhou Jieer is still fighting with the Tang army. A confrontation is likely to break out into a war."

Qin Gui's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He shouldn't have asked, but he still couldn't help but said, "What does it have to do with us when the Tang people attacked Wei and Min prefectures? The walls of the city are almost gone, and it will take a lot of effort to rebuild the walls. And even if It may not be very useful if you cultivate it, it is better not to cultivate it."

"Begging for the night!" The Tubo official glanced at him and said with emphasis: "The 500 people from your tribe must arrive tomorrow. The Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty seems to be very ambitious, and he gathered herdsmen from the Yinshan Mountains. The states are formidable, and now must band together, or none will survive."

"Obey." Qin Guinuo stepped back.

After going out the door, he subconsciously touched the tattoo on his face.

Tubo "every time they get Chinese, those who are incompetent will serve as envoys and have their faces tattooed. Those who are rough in literature and art will nip their arms and wait for Zanpu's order. Those who get Chinese as officials are called Sheren .”

Qin Gui was born as a ranger in the Jingyuan Army and was illiterate, so after he was looted by Tubo, he had his face tattooed.However, he is proficient in martial arts and has management skills. Over the past 30 years, he has risen step by step. He is already the head of a thousand households in the Lanzhou Xingren tribe, leading the entire tribe.

There are also three Han tribes in Lanzhou, one is called Simian, one is called Shangnong, and the other is called Macha.These three tribes mainly planted sericulture, grazed livestock and provided supplies for the Tubo people.When there is a war, it is necessary to go out to join the war.Especially the Pedestrian tribe, which has the largest number of people, more than [-], and theoretically, [-] strong men can go into battle.

"I've met the head of a thousand households." When he arrived outside the city, Qin Gui ran into Dong Zhong, the secretary of a thousand households of the Shangnong tribe, who immediately stepped forward to salute.

"Dong Zhong..." Qin Gui whispered.

Dong Zhong was taken aback, the other party didn't call him his Tubo name, but his Chinese name, what's the meaning?

"What are you going to do?" Qin Gui continued to ask in official words.

Dong Zhong is the secretary of Qianhu, responsible for collecting taxes, and also understands Chinese.At this time, seeing that Qin Gui's state was not right, after turning his head and looking around, he breathed a sigh of relief, and replied: "Go to the tribe to collect beans. An official from Jie'er's mansion will come to sue, and you must prepare enough horse fodder. Prepare for emergencies."

"Just take enough, don't give away more." Qin Gui patted him on the shoulder and left.

(End of this chapter)