Yang Meng was very curious and followed Assad to his office, wanting to see what Assad showed him.

As a result, Assad pulled out a photograph of a group of people.

Assad explained: "This is a family portrait of our family ten years ago. My grandfather organized all the family to take this picture. ”

"Huh?" Yang Meng was dumbfounded after hearing this, there were at least more than 100 people in this photo.

Assad laughed: "I guessed your reaction, in fact, there are many people missing from this photo, for example, I was in Han at the time." So I still know the Han people very well, don't you think our family is very big?"

Yang Meng suddenly realized, no wonder Assad is so fluent in Chinese. He nodded, "Indeed, your family is a bit big. ”

"My grandfather had three wives, and then he had six sons, and my father was the fourth, and the least of them all married two wives, and there were so many of them in my generation. Assad explained.

Yang Meng whistled: "Your family is very rich!"

A person here can marry a maximum of four wives, but it is not just a matter of marrying, and everyone must be treated fairly! If you can't be treated fairly, then you can only marry one wife. For example, if you marry two wives, you need to build two houses.

But if you can't do it fairly, you can be satisfied with your own 'female slave'. Ahem, that's why there are so many traffickers on the black market now.

Those who can marry a few wives here are definitely rich people.

Assad said: "Our family is a scholarly family, and we have always been engaged in education and education. I've always been involved in archaeology, and I've been exposed to a wide variety of artifacts since I was born。。。。。。 I just said that I went to the Han Kingdom, and I was only twenty-three years old when I went, but I did not go there as a student, but as a serious exchange scholar. It was to discuss cooperation with the Han Kingdom about the cultural relics of Afu Khan back then, but unfortunately it was not negotiated at that time, but it was at that time that I became interested in Chinese, and I have been learning Chinese for more than ten years, what do you think of my Chinese?"

Yang Meng stretched out his thumb, he did the math, fifteen years ago, twenty-three years old? Assad is actually thirty-eight?

However, Yang Meng also knew about the cultural relics of Afu Khan that he said.

As an ancient civilization, Afu Khan has many cultural relics, and there are more than 100,000 precious cultural relics in the serious Afu Khan National Museum. Later, due to the severe damage suffered by the war museum, in order to protect these national treasures of the country, these artifacts were relocated many times, and even disappeared for a time, until 2003, thanks to the efforts of local antiquities workers.

Since 2006, these cultural relics have been exhibited in Afghanistan and have been touring to various countries around the world, in fact, in order not to let people snatch away these cultural relics that can be preserved. About ten years later, the exhibition went to Han and then stayed there.

This was really not forcibly left by the Han people, but strongly requested by the Afu Khan Museum! They believed that the Han Kingdom was peaceful and stable, and only here could their cultural relics be permanently protected. So they begged the Han Kingdom to help them preserve these cultural relics from loss.

They can't even get the power supply for the museums there, let alone protect the artifacts!

Finally, the Han Kingdom considered setting up an 'International Cultural Relics Refuge' for these cultural relics and establishing an international cultural relics refuge mechanism. I don't want yours, but I'll keep it for you, and we'll give it to you when you're at peace.

"Because our family is a well-known archaeological family in the Middle East, we approached my grandfather when the Afu Khan Museum was on a global tour and asked him to help," Asad said. My grandfather asked me to see the world, and Shulia, who I left at that time, traveled the world with those artifacts. And the final stay of these cultural relics in the Han Kingdom was promoted by me. To tell you the truth, I looked down on Afu Khan at that time, what kind of country is a country that can't even protect its own cultural relics? As a result, I didn't expect that within a few years, it would be our country's turn。。。。。。 ”

Seeing that Assad was depressed, Yang Meng gave him a cigarette.

"Thank you. After lighting a cigarette, Assad said: "I have been exposed to all kinds of cultural relics since I became sensible. It's the same with my family. My grandfather had his head cut off to protect them, and when he died, his father took over, but he died of a stray bullet, and now it's my turn. Look at our big family, guess how many people are still alive?"

Yang Meng shook her head and said she didn't know.

"There are seven besides me. Assad said: "My grandfather was a stubborn man, and all of us in our family except me were born and died here-----! ”

'Hiss'

Yang Meng took a breath of cool air, so many people said that it was gone?

Assad smiled bitterly: "I love these relics, even our whole family died for them! But how do you ask me to protect them now? No money, no people, no guns。。。。。。 If we continue like this, we won't even be able to eat! Do you know? I am very envious of the people of Afu Khan, whose cultural relics can be preserved in the Han Kingdom, but what about our things? Just put them there in the wind and the sun!"

Yang Meng was puzzled and asked, "Then why don't you talk to the Han side about this matter?"

Assad sighed and said: "What are you talking about? There is no way to talk about this on both sides! You don't know us Shulya, now that the war has eased a little, people have begun to whitewash the peace, if I tell the above that I will send these cultural relics to the Han Kingdom? Then I will definitely be labeled a 'traitor' on my head; the same Han people pay attention to 'Dali' and 'great righteousness'! Unless our Shulia government asks for help, the Han Kingdom will not accept these cultural relics. And again, this is almost impossible. ”

Yang Meng thought for a moment and said, "Assad, you really know the Han Kingdom, it's true。。。。。。 ”

Assad took a puff of his cigarette: "Yes, I found out that your Han Kingdom is not a country. ”

"Huh?" Yang Meng's eyes widened, what do you mean by this?

Assad said: "Mr. Yang, don't get me wrong, I'm praising you." You are not a nation, but a civilization disguised as a nation. ”

"I want to hear about it. Yang Meng said: "I also want to hear your opinions." ”

Assad thought for a moment and said: "You are a multi-ethnic country dominated by the Han nationality, although it is multi-ethnic, but after thousands of years of ethnic integration, it is difficult to find pure Han blood. For example, if you say that you are closer to the peninsula and even the same ethnic group in the northeast, they will call the Cantonese people who are different in appearance from them and speak Cantonese as brothers, and they will not think that the Koreans of the same nationality on the peninsula are their own family. ”

Yang Meng blinked, that's really the case.

"What keeps you together is civilization. Assad said: "Although you have a vast territory and thousands of kilometers between the two places, everyone has received the same civilization, Confucianism is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, in fact, you are very similar to us, as long as you believe in Allah, you are brothers." It's just that you're more unified in your thinking!"

Yang Meng nodded: "You are indeed a Han Guotong, it really makes sense." ”

"In fact, the concept of the Han nation was not proposed until 1902 by a man named Liang Qichao, and it seemed that it was necessary to face the war at that time. The previous dynasties were actually similar, although the nationalities of each dynasty were different, but they were all maintained together by the word 'civilization'. To give a simple example, dynasties such as the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were all established by ethnic minorities, but in the end they were all sinicized without exception, and the influence of your 'civilization' there is too great. The sense of community that you have forged over thousands of years has been ingrained in the marrow of every human being. All that is to understand your country is not from the point of view of the nation-state, but from the point of view of civilization. ”

Yang Meng was dumbfounded: "Damn, I really didn't expect these words to come out of a foreigner's mouth." ”

Assad said with a wry smile: "Maybe I'm studying history, maybe I'm a bystander, don't you Han people say that 'the authorities are obsessed with the bystanders'? In fact, from ancient times to the present, the division between the Han and the barbarians is not based on blood nations, but from 'civilization'. For example, your Qin Dynasty, from the geographical point of view, they are 'barbarians', but he unified the country; the Sui and Tang nobles behind are all of Hu blood, and Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, is praised by you, in fact, he is also a minority, but he won the world and first recognized Li Er as the ancestor of his family, which is obviously not beatable, right?"

"I have also traveled to many countries, and I have found a problem: that is, many people in Western countries do not understand your Han Kingdom, for example, they cannot understand why the government has so great authority. But don't blame them for that. Assad said.

"Why?" Yang Meng asked puzzled.

"The point is that civilizations are different. Assad explains: "In the eyes of Westerners, they prefer freedom, they think that the government interferes with their free existence, so they want to restrict their existence, but what about you? Lead all the family members to do the same thing. Of course, there will be paternalism as a parent, but it should also be respected, and there will be 'bear children' in the family, who will either run away from home or do a little bit of work at home. But it will not affect the overall situation, and your big family is still moving forward step by step. ”

Yang Meng nodded when he heard this: "Okay, Assad, I have to say, you understand it better than many Han people." So what do you think?"

"I, I envy you Han people. ”