Ling Hao suddenly thought of the one that had left a strong mark in history, but finally died out of a clan, the Dangxiang clan.

The Dangxiang ethnic group is one of the ethnic minorities in the ancient north, which belongs to a branch of the Western Qiang ethnic group, so it has the title of "Dangxiang Qiang". It is reported that the Qiang people originated from the "Cizhi" or "Xizhi", that is, the area of the Yellow River Basin in the southeast of Qinghai Province in later generations.

During the Han Dynasty, a large number of Qiang people moved to Helong and Guanzhong. At this time, the Dangxiang people lived a primitive nomadic tribe life that did not know the crops and the grass and trees. They took the tribe as the division unit and the surname as the tribal name, and gradually formed the famous eight party items, of which the Tuoba clan was the most powerful.

During the Tang Dynasty, after two internal relocations, the party was gradually concentrated in the eastern part of Gansu and the northern part of Shaanxi, and it was still dominated by scattered tribes. The Tang Central Committee mostly set up prefectures in the gathering places of the Dangxiang ethnic groups for administration, and the chiefs of the Dangxiang tribes were appointed as state governors or other official positions. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, when the Huangchao Rebellion occurred, the Tang King passed on the title of King Qin of the whole country. Dangxiang clan Youzhou Thorn Shi Tuoba Sigong sent troops, Tang Xizong gave Tuoba Sigong as "the envoy of the difficult army", and was later named Xia Guogong and given the surname Li.

At this point, the Dangxiang Tuoba clan group had a territory, and its jurisdiction included Xia, Yin (now southeast of Yulin, Shaanxi), Sui (now Suide), You (now Jingbiandong), Jing (now Mizhidong) and other five states, holding military power, becoming a veritable feudal town.

During the Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian began to resist the Song Dynasty independently. After Li Yuanhao ascended the throne of King Xia, he issued a bald order, and worked hard to absorb Han culture, created the Dangxiang script, and promoted the development of the Dangxiang civilization. In the first year of Yanzuo (1038), Li Yuanhao was officially proclaimed emperor and established Western Xia. This is the beginning of the establishment of national power by the party and the pinnacle of the history of the party's development. During the Tangut period, the culture and economy of the Dangxiang people achieved unprecedented development, and gradually developed in exchanges with the Han and other fraternal ethnic groups, and then they were wiped out by Genghis Khan's Mongol army, and the Dangxiang people gradually disappeared.

Another said that the Tuoba clan was a descendant of the Xianbei tribe, and Li Yuanhao, the founding monarch of Western Xia, claimed to be a descendant of Xianbei.

In the earliest Chinese literature, the Dangxiang people are referred to as "Dangxiang Qiang".

The name "Tangghut" (dangxiang) first appeared in the Orkhon Turkic Runi inscription around the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (735).

It is certain that the word must have originally originated from some form of the Altaic language family, and that it was probably later derived from the Tibetan self-pronounce through a Central Asian medium, possibly Khotanese or Sogdian.

Later, Dangxiang (also known as "Tangut" or "Tangwu" in Chinese) became a generic name for certain tribal groups in North and Central Asia that lived in Andu, Qinghai Lake, and even Gansu. The name was used until the 19th century.

The term was widely used in later Chinese, Turkic, and Arabic texts, as well as in biographies of Western explorers who traveled to the Sino-Tibetan border region in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The earliest Chinese documents record that Dang Xiang was a descendant of Xiqiang in the Han Dynasty. Since ancient times, the Qiang people have occupied the grasslands around Qinghai Lake and the mountains south of Qinghai Lake, near the source of the Yellow River, Datong River, and Huangshui. On the edge of this area, in the northeastern part of Tibet, it is customarily called Amdo, and the early Dangxiang and Tibetan ancestors probably lived in this area. A study of the Dangxiang language confirms that, in terms of classification, the people who speak the Dangxiang language can be classified as ancient members of the Tibeto-Burmese nation. In terms of their culture, the Dangxiang people have many characteristics of other Qiang ethnic groups.

The ancient Qiang nationality is a large system, there are many branches, some are divided by geography, such as: Bailanqiang (Bailanqiang is a local ethnic regime, according to the "Northern History Tuyuhun Biography": "Bailan southwest of 2,500 miles across the mountains, and forty miles of the sea has a female king." It can be seen that Bailan was in the northeast of the Suvi Nu Kingdom and the northwest of Tuyuhun; it originally seemed to be in the northern part of Qinghai, and in the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was active in the southern part of Qinghai and had a close relationship with Tubo), and so on, and there are also ethnic groups, such as Dangxiang Qiang and Tuyuhun Qiang, etc.

At the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (late 6th century), it began to operate in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in the southeast of present-day Qinghai Province and in the valley west of Songpan in Sichuan. At that time, the Dangxiang clan was still at the end of the primitive society.

It is recorded in the "Book of Sui: The Biography of the Dang Xiang" that "each surname is a tribe, the big one has more than 5,000 riders, and the small one has more than 1,000 riders", "the vulgar is still armed force, and it cannot be ordered, each is a livelihood, and if there is a battle array, they gather together, without endowment, and do not interact with each other." shepherd yaks, sheep, and pigs for food, and do not know the walls of crops."

That is to say, the early party members were not engaged in agriculture, depended on animal husbandry for clothing, food, and housing, had no written calendar, counted the years with the withering of plants and trees, worshiped the gods, and were cremated after death. The party members are still martial and brave. People of the same clan must help each other, and when they are hurt by foreigners, they must take revenge, and before revenge, they must be unkempt and barefoot, and abstain from eating meat until they kill their enemies, and then they can return to normalcy.

In addition, the party members also particularly advocate white, so they call themselves "big white high country......

In the fourth year of Emperor Wen of Sui (584), more than 1,000 Qiang people belonged to the Sui State. In the following year, the leader of the Dangxiang clan, Tuoba Ningcong, and other tribes led to Xuzhou (now Lintan County, Gansu) to request annexation, and the Sui Dynasty awarded Tuoba Ningcong as a general. [6]

In the sixteenth year of the emperor's reign (596), the party leaders attacked Huizhou (now the northeast of Jingyuan County, Gansu), and the troops were defeated and surrendered, and sent their sons to the court to apologize for their crimes and pay tribute to the Sui Dynasty.

During the Wude period of the early Tang Dynasty (618-626), the party phase rate belonged to the Tang Dynasty. There are eight famous tribes in Dangxiang Qiang, such as the Xifeng clan, the Fei Ting clan, the Xiang Li clan, the Pochao clan, the Ye Li clan, the Mi Bao clan, and the Tuoba clan, in addition to the black party and the snow mountain party and other tribes, among which the Tuoba tribe is the most powerful.

In the third year of Zhenguan of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (629 years), Zheng Yuanhe, the governor of the southern Huizhou Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty, summoned the party to be attached, and one of the leaders of the party was to return to the Tang Dynasty. Other party tribes also responded, and set up four prefectures, Feng, Yan, and Yuan, and used the original chiefs of each department to serve as the assassins of each state. Weichang

In the ninth year of Zhenguan (635), Tang sent an edict to open the river to 16 states, and there were 340,000 people attached to the party. At that time, Tuoba Chici, the chief of the Tuoba Department of the Dangxiang Tuoba Division, who had been married to Murong Fuyun, the king of Tuyuhun, also joined the Tang Dynasty when he was defeated in the battle with the Tang Dynasty and the people rebelled and left. Tang divided its territory into 32 prefectures, including Yi, Sheng, Lin, and Ke, and appointed the tribal leaders who belonged to him as the assassin history, and Tuoba Chi was appointed as the governor of Xirong Prefecture, given the surname Li, and was controlled by the Songzhou Governor's Mansion and was named the Duke of Pingxi.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the state of Tubo, which arose on the Tibetan plateau, expanded outward and more and more, went north and destroyed Tuyuhun, and invaded and coerced the party Xiangqiang. The Dangxiang tribes scattered in present-day southern Gansu and Qinghai moved southward, and the Tang Dynasty moved the Jingbian Prefecture Governor's Mansion to Qingzhou (present-day Qingyang County, Gansu), and the 25 Dangxiang Prefectures under its jurisdiction also migrated with them. The original residence of the Dangxiang clan was occupied by Tubo, and the remaining residents of Dangxiang were the servants of the Tubo aristocracy, and Tubo called these people "medicine".

In the first year of Yonglong (680), the Tubo people replaced the earlier Tuyuhun hegemony in the Qinghai Lake area, forcing many party members to flee their homeland and join the Tang Dynasty......

As for the latter things, Ling Hao naturally knows it clearly, the party thrives under the blessing of the Tang Dynasty, in 881 AD, Tuoba Sigong, the leader of the Tuoba Department, was named "Xiazhou Festival Envoy" for his meritorious service in quelling the Huangchao Uprising, and has since officially stepped onto the stage of history.

According to the living habits of the Dangxiang people, they are very similar to the "Xirong people" in the literature, so Ling Hao has reason to believe that the Dangxiang people in this world are still a primitive tribe with beautiful people and good hearts, and they are not the Xixia Dynasty that later shined and became a smash hit......

If that's the case, maybe you can use it as a helper in the future, and if you can find evidence that the two forces have crossed paths so long ago, then you can have an extra army that you can use as allies in the future.

The people of the plateau are brave in battle, and their physique is also very strong, although there are also great masters in this high-martial world who can slap the vision of heaven and earth, but this kind of person has always rarely taken action in person, and only those who are worthy of their action may be opponents of the same level.

In Ling Hao's view, it is far easier to pamper a clan than to train an army, not to mention a glorious tribe like the Dang Xiang clan that has always carried out the belief of indomitable and able to bend and stretch to the end.

Now that I have said that, as long as I don't take the initiative to stir up trouble and make a small fuss at the border, basically no one will care.

What's more, Ling Hao also got a very crucial piece of information from the genealogy of the Shan Ying family- Although the West Rouran tribe is located in a corner of the western grassland, and the East Rouran tribe has been fighting to the death, but has been friendly with the Xirong tribe, the cooperation between the two sides seems to be very pleasant, it can be said that it is an old friend, and even, in the process of the gradual migration of the Shan Ying family, there are marriages with various Xirong tribes, from the genealogical situation, the relationship between the West Rouran tribe and the Dangxiang tribe has always been the best, and the Xirong tribe that was entrusted with the responsibility of receiving them is likely to be these two tribes.

Because, it is recorded in the literature: "Everyone then ran to the western land, when the sky was bright, the mountains and rivers were white, everyone thought it was different, and replied: The god of the Queen Mother of the West gave it, and everyone saw that his people worshiped between the mountains and rivers, and imitated ......it."

Although this paragraph is written more mysteriously, but at the same time it also reveals a part of the true information, when the response was completed, it happened that the sky was bright, and the mountains and rivers became a very spectacular pure white, and the group of people who were responsible for receiving them dismounted and knelt down, and the students felt strange, so they asked them, and they replied: This is the gift of the Queen Mother of the West!

In the materials that Ling Hao consulted, the western tribes who revered the white were only the Western Rouran tribe and the plateau tribe.

Thinking of this, Ling Hao was almost certain that the Western Rouran tribe from which Shan Ying was born was very likely to be a branch of the Dangxiang clan, and in addition to the Wuye tribe, the predecessor of the Western Rouran tribe that had broken away from the primitive tribal form at that time, the other branch was likely to be the ancestors of the primitive Dangxiang tribe living in the plateau area.

At that time, the translators for the students should have been the ancestors of the Wuye tribe, which is the predecessor of the current Xirouran tribe, and they were from the same branch as the Dangxiang tribe, so they knew the language of the ancestors of the Dangxiang......

In addition, Ling Hao also consulted Shan Ying about various languages of the Western Rouran tribe and other tribes in the western region, and learned some simple daily conversations.

At the same time, he also discovered that the language pronunciation of the Western Rouran tribe was closer to the pronunciation of the primitive tribes in the plateau area, but they also mixed some of the language pronunciation characteristics of other tribes.

From this, Ling Hao was almost certain that the pronunciation of the Western Rouran tribe was the original language from the plateau region......

"I didn't expect that girl to have such a background...... Looks like I'll have to ask her more in the future. Ling Hao touched his chin and boldly speculated that it was right, but he still needed more evidence to prove it.

But now he is sitting in the school palace, and the real information he can access is too little, and he only hopes that the school palace will give him a few days off as soon as possible, so that he can ask Shan Ying for advice when he goes back.

After all, the little lady is still very beautiful and cute, as long as she "comforts" her more, she will definitely say anything.