Therefore, Yi Yi patted Feng Si, who was twice as old as her, on the shoulder: "In the future, you will be covered by me, and if Brother Zhengwen wants to bully you in the future, I will deal with it!" ”

This is naturally a joke, but it also confirms the recognition of the two of them on the side.

The third on the left put on a bitter expression: "My brothers have been recognized, is there still a lack of horses around your three wives?" ”

The third daughter laughed, and Qing Qi said: "Third brother Zuo, you are in your forties, I am the oldest among the sisters and just over twenty, where do you dare to call you!" ”

Li Zhi said angrily: "Zuo San, you are my person, it is not good to take the lady route here with me!" ”

Seeing Qingqi glaring at him, he hurriedly changed his words: "Of course, sometimes it can still come in handy, and this cannot be denied!" ”

Pang clucked happily, "Brother Zhengwen, when did you also have some eunuch qualities?" This ability to climb along the pole is paying off! ”

Most of the people at the scene laughed, only Qiguan Guangtai tried his best to hold back his laughter, because he was Li Zhi's junior, and the Qiguan family was very strict in terms of etiquette.

Not long after, Bei Zheng came, and with him was a figure that Li Zhi did not expect.

That person is Li He Li Fanshu, the second son of the Four Kings of Nanjiang, the younger brother of Li Qi and Li Fanghua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and the current assassin of Qianzhou Mansion.

Li Zhizheng wondered why Li He didn't stay in Qianzhou, or went back to Chang'an City for the New Year, and he appeared here.

Before he could speak, Li He was already explaining with a smile:

"My ancestors are in Meiling, on the border of Jiangxi and Guangdong, and they used to return to their hometowns every three or five years to worship their ancestors through the Chinese New Year, but this time I returned to my hometown ahead of schedule, because my father came to practice for the guests of the Western Regions on behalf of the imperial court!"

Li Zhi immediately realized that the ancestor surnamed Li of the Tang Dynasty was actually a northern nomadic Xianbei tribe, and during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Xianbei tribe regime was the largest and lasted the longest.

This period was a period of great transformation of Chinese civilization, a history of the Chinese nation, which was pluralistic and integrated, and the history of Chinese culture, which had moved south several times.

The great migration of ethnic groups was the main theme of the integrated society at that time, and the purpose was to promote the increasing commonality and decreasing differences of the Hu and Han ethnic groups. Blended together.

Driven by the social reality at that time, the various ethnic groups in the north successively stepped into the feudal road of the Han nation.

In this regard, the most typical significance of the Xianbei people, especially the Xianbei Tuoba clan, is the immortal achievement of incorporating the "sinicization" process of the Hu people into the national political system.

Thus, the great integration of the Hu and Han nationalities has been pushed to a new historical stage, which has directly laid the cornerstone for the rise of the Sui and Tang dynasties and the reconstruction of the great unification of China.

The Han nationality in the Sui and Tang dynasties was the new Han nationality that changed its appearance on the basis of the great integration of the Hu and Han nationalities, especially the new Han nationality that was reconstructed and changed on the basis of the mixing of ethnic origins caused by the intermarriage between the Hu and Han dynasties.

The Han people in these two periods were mainly Han people with Han as the patrilineal and Xianbei as the matrilineal New Han people, such as Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and Li Yuan, the mother of Li Yuan, the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, all of whom came from the Dugu clan of Tuoba Xianbei.

Empress Taizong of the Tang Dynasty is of mixed Hu and Han descent, with half Han blood and half Xianbei blood.

Tang Gaozong Li Zhi has a quarter of Xianbei blood, three-quarters of Han blood, and most of his blood is Han blood.

At that time, because the Hu and Han bloodlines were mixed with more of the lower-class people, at the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, they began to absorb the descendants of the Tuoba Dugu clan scattered throughout the south on a large scale.

Several of the ten kings belong to this kind of situation, these descendants either enter the court as officials, or enter the palace as concubines, the reason why the royal family surnamed Li is huge has a great relationship with this kind of thing, but it is deliberately covered up by the royal family.

In other words, there are many such situations in the so-called bloodline surnamed Li, so similar to the return of King Nanjiang to worship his ancestors are not public.

Since Tang Gaozong, the Tang royal family married a large number of Han concubines at the same time, and the main body of the Xianbei tribe gradually merged into the Han nationality, and the Xianbei tribe ceased to exist after the middle of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Zhi, who knew the hidden secret, of course would not dwell on this point, but quickly changed the topic: "Brother Fanshu, I don't know where the king of Nanjiang is?" I'll see you in time! ”

Li He said with a smile: "My father met Mahdi and his party at the Fanfang Mosque, so I temporarily joined their team, and I came to invite you to go!" ”

In ancient times, the ocean mainly relied on the monsoon, because of the timeliness, so foreign envoys and merchants often waited for several months in Guangzhou.

During this period, they needed food, lodging, and storage of goods, and the Guangzhou government opened up special residential areas for them outside the city.

From then on, some foreign businessmen simply settled down and became early expatriates in Guangzhou, called "Fanke".

Later, in the 20th year of Tang Kaiyuan, the population of Fanke in Guangzhou became more and more, and the Guangzhou authorities demarcated a foreign expatriate residential area in the west of the city, in the area of Guangta Street, named "Fanfang".

At this time, the ban was not really built, but the foreign merchants who lived in that area had elected a fan chief, who was officially appointed after reporting to the imperial court, and the daily affairs of the fan were in charge of the fan chief.

The chief has the power to administer foreign nationals, who have the freedom to believe in religion and maintain their own customs and habits, and can purchase land and houses in Guangzhou.

The Arabs and Persians lived in Fanfang the most, so Islam was also introduced to Guangzhou.

In the process of the spread of Islam to the outside world, the mosque is the center, and the Muslim settlement is characterized by living around the temple.

Today is the chief of Fan, came to the inn to invite unsuccessfully, and found Mahdi and his party on the street, so he invited them to Fanfang for lunch.

King Nanjiang and the others were on the way to the inn when they happened to meet a group of people.

Li Zhi smiled: "Okay, are we going to rush there?" ”

Li He waved his hand, "I'm not busy, take this opportunity, I still have something to say to you!" ”

When others heard this, they all understood, and Qingqi pointed to the location under the grape trellis and pointed to the two of them.

The two came to sit down there, and after waiting for someone to serve tea, Li He said:

"It was my father who asked me to explain to you the current situation in the court in advance! Since the incident of the Great Locust Tree Guanghui Temple, after the strong response of the Empress Wu at the beginning, as the private power of the Wu family gradually became exposed, the reaction from the Empress Wu gradually calmed down. And it should be the establishment of a tacit understanding between the emperor and her, which makes the governance of the martial arts more in-depth. ”

"Some kind of situation? I guess it's a kind of mutual compromise, right? Li Zhi smiled faintly.

It can also be said, but no one can know the specific situation, it is just speculation! It's just surprising that the Empress Wu side fell silent, but it happened after the Mingzhou Port incident, and with the appearance of Wu Sibao in Luoyang, the Wu family rarely appeared in public, and the thorough governance of Mingzhou Port was also carried out smoothly! ”

"Since it involves Mingzhou, I seem to understand a little, the martial arts are scheming and ruthless, which is the appearance, but in fact, she is good at governing the country, attaches importance to recruiting talents, and has some long-term peace and stability! Perhaps through the emperor's enlightenment, she also realized the harmfulness of the wanton actions of some people in the martial arts! Mingzhou Port is an example, if you don't take a ruthless action early, just its port trade, compared to the development of other ports will lag behind for many years! ”

"Mr. Li really has a unique vision, and he can judge the internal causes in just a few words, similar views, but the conclusion reached by several forces in Chang'an City after talks overnight!"

Li Zhi smiled and shook his head, "But if my estimate is right, these are just appearances!" Incidents such as Mingzhou Port and private forces will not hurt the Wu family, this is the result of mutual compromise! ”

"What you expected is not bad, the current preliminary governance results, the private forces were recognized by Qu Liang, the old minister of the Wu family, and the Mingzhou Port incident was put on the two deputy commanders Lang Getai and Zuo Danzhong, and these two people are said to have fled to the sea at the time of the incident, and in the process of the military ship chasing after them, the ships collided, and the entourage all drowned because the boat they were riding capsized."

Li Zhi still smiled indifferently, he knew that Li He's words meant to inquire, although the two deputy commanders were the work of Wu Sibao, but he was in Mingzhou at the time, and he and Wu Sibao discussed it, maybe only Empress Wu knew some inside information.

When Wu Sibao returned to Luoyang City, he would naturally not be stupid enough to publicize it everywhere, so more people in Chang'an City and Luoyang City did not know what the details were.

"I was in Mingzhou when the next incident happened, and it was because of this that I let Wu Sibao go! But I'm not acting arbitrarily, Li Ting, you know, right? He once asked me to arrange two people to lurk in Mingzhou Port two months in advance, and the escape of Lang and Zuo has also been verified! ”

Even if he knew that Li He belonged to his own line, Li Zhi did not intend to tell the internal cause directly.

Because Gaozong died next, although Empress Wu only usurped the throne a few years later, she has always been listening to the government, so it will cause the idea of resistance of the surname Li to become more and more intense.

Li Zhi couldn't use this matter to add fuel to the fire of those people, because he knew that under the premise that Li Xian and Li Dan did not have the ability to govern the Tang Dynasty, they really couldn't lack a powerful figure like Empress Wu.

Although this person is more famous for his recklessness and uncertain likes and dislikes, it is undeniable that aside from the prejudice of public opinion against women and the issue of this woman's life style, she is still relatively positive in pure government governance.

In Li Zhi's view, it was because of the period of time when Empress Wu was in power that happened to replace the most green stage of imperial power surnamed Li.

Li Zhi knew that perhaps because of his deliberate cover-up, it would cause some people to be secretly suspicious, but as long as it was okay with the general situation, he didn't care about how others judged him.

Since he replied so, of course, Li He could only express his approval:

"In the Mingzhou Port incident, for Wu Sibao, there is still a hidden danger, that is, the Lang family in Luoyang City, it is said that the Lang family thought that he single-handedly promoted the accidental death of Lang Getai, and there was a suspicion of murder, and he also made trouble to the emperor because of this incident!"