Chapter 12 Persia in turmoil, Anthy in decline
"What?!" Pan Xiaogu was shocked by Song Jiang's words and hurriedly asked
"What do you mean by that, brother?"
"Boy of the Pan family, aren't you from Persia? Why don't you know what is going on in Persia today? Without waiting for Song Jiang to answer, Cheng Huanzhang suddenly interjected on the side, his tone was very unpolite, and the question was very sharp.
, it's you again! Where have I offended you, why are you targeting me everywhere!?
Pan Xiaogu was furious, he just felt that this Cheng Duyu Hou seemed to be targeting him, and now it was finally confirmed, but thinking of the other party's identity and force, he didn't show it, he just glanced at the other party covertly.
In the original history, the Persian Empire was annexed by the Arab Empire in the early Tang Dynasty, and later the Islamized Persia was renamed the Great Food to show distinction, and the Tang Dynasty also established the Persian Governorate in Anxi, specializing in the management of the Persians in exile in the Tang Dynasty, and even a Prince of Persia named Balus entered the court as an official, and was awarded the right Weiwei general by Tang Gaozong Li Zhi.
At the same time, Persia is a geographical term, often used to refer to the territory of the original Persian Empire on the Persian Plateau, when fabricating the family history before, Pan Xiaogu deliberately used such a vague statement in Persia, that is, because it is not clear whether the Persian Empire of the earth after the change exists, and now it seems that his guess is correct, the Persian Empire has indeed not perished, which should also be the change caused by the size of the earth, but some things will not change because the earth becomes bigger.
"Lord Hui, the grass people have been living in seclusion in Persia, and they really don't know much about their domestic affairs, but in recent years, the grass people have frequently invaded the places where the grass people originally lived in seclusion, which forced the grass people to move back, and I think it should be the Turks who are making trouble." Pan Xiaogu was neither humble nor arrogant, and his face did not change, and he threw the black cauldron to the Turks. That's right, Pan Xiaogu threw the pot to the Turks.
However, Pan Xiaogu is not wronged by the Turks, the Turks have always played the role of thugs and stirring sticks during this period of history, and they are always indispensable behind every turmoil, and it will never go wrong to throw the pot to these stirring sticks! (In fact, for a long time later, the Turks were all-stirring sticks, and this is not the Syrian civil war, and the Turks jumped out again, okay, don't say much, otherwise you may attract 404)
When Pan Xiaogu answered, he had been careful to hide the annoyance in his heart, but he thought he was hiding it well, but unfortunately he underestimated Cheng Huanzhang's ability.
Cheng Huanzhang is not only superb in martial arts, but even his senses are sharper than ordinary people, Pan Xiaogu's dissatisfaction and small actions actually fall in his eyes.
But this not only did not make Cheng Huanzhang angry, but enhanced his favorability.
"Hehe, this Pan family kid is a little angry, and he has a temper with Lao Tzu. And as the public said, the city government is not deep. Cheng Duyu smiled in his heart and looked at the other two
"The boy of the Pan family mentioned the invasion of the Turks, which happened to corroborate each other with the news from the Persian state, it seems that this Pan family may really be a family living in seclusion in Persia, or maybe they moved into Persia to escape the war during the An Lushan rebellion." The Tocharian army also had sources in Persia, and the three of them corroborated Pan Xiaogu's words with the news they knew, and basically matched them, and even made up the origin of the Pan family and the reason for living in seclusion in Persia
Pan Xiaogu definitely didn't know that his indiscriminate behavior was actually crooked, which matched the turbulent situation in Persia at this time, and changed direction to improve his credibility in the hearts of the other three.
Pan Xiaogu didn't know that there was also an Lushan rebellion in this world, but this time the rebellion occurred in Anxi, and there was no other place for the Tang army to help suppress the rebellion, which led to a longer duration of the rebellion, so that many families in Anxi moved out to escape the war, some people moved back to the Central Plains, and some people moved into the countries around Anxi, including Persia.
Pan Xiaogu didn't know that the performance of Song Jiang and the three of them was actually discussed early in the morning, they just wanted to put on a good show in front of Pan Xiaogu, Cheng Huanzhang was responsible for singing blackface in the play, Song Jiang was responsible for singing redface, and Zhao Xuan, who was suspected of being Song Shenzong, was responsible for pretending to force the town, so that he could stand up as an arbiter and mediate after the negotiation collapsed.
After abolishing such a big effort, their purpose is to absorb the power of Panjiabao! By the way, check the details of Pan Xiaogu.
Since An Lushan rebelled in Anxi, a large number of Han families who had immigrated to Anxi had moved back to the Central Plains, which made the Tang Dynasty's control in the Anxi region plummet.
This time, the Tibetan Khitan jointly attacked the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang court transferred most of the military strength of the Anxi Protectorate, which made the Anxi Protectorate fall to the bottom again, but at this time, the Persian territory was in turmoil, the Seljuk Turkey invaded Persia again, and instigated the Turkic rebellion, which led to the situation in the entire Central Asia began to be turbulent, and all careerists were ready to move, but the Anxi Protectorate was trapped by the lack of troops and did nothing, which further fueled the ambitions of the careerists.
The envoys of various towns in Anxi, as well as the leaders of large and small armies, were all worried about this, and they were all racking their brains to try their best to expand their strength, including the Tocharian army in Huozhou Town.
For the Tocharian army, the Panjiabao that suddenly appeared was like a piece of meat falling from the sky, and the hungry Tocharian army couldn't wait to swallow it in one bite, but the top management of the Tocharian army was still very particular about eating appearance, after all, we had to count on the sudden emergence of the Pan family, and it would not be too persecutive, and it was best to find a way to make the Pan family voluntarily take refuge...
Therefore, as soon as Pan Xiaogu's words fell, Song Jiang immediately jumped out to play the role of 'a good brother who defends his younger brother' and continued this big drama.
"Master Cheng, don't be impatient, Brother Pan has been living in seclusion in the mountains for a long time, and it is not surprising that he doesn't know the general trend outside, so he doesn't need to be too demanding." Song Jiang pretended to appease Cheng Duyu Marquis, and then answered Pan Xiaogu's initial question
"The Pan brothers didn't know that a remnant of the Western Turks moved west to establish a country, called the Seljuk State, and now the Seljuk State is growing in strength, and is invading Persia in the east, and also inciting rebellions among the Turkic tribes in Persia. The capital of my Yue clan is close to Persia, and it is also harassed by many Turkic tribes. However, my Tocharian army is insufficient, so I had to give up some remote places, originally I thought that there was no Han living here, and I abandoned it, but I didn't expect to accompany Zhao Junhou to inspect today, only to find that the Pan brothers had built a city and settled here. "Song Jiang's words are not false, this basin was originally the westernmost part of the Yue's Governor's Prefecture, and it was one of the passages connecting the Persian Kingdom, and the small tribes that originally lived in this basin were withdrawn to the vicinity of the city by the Tocharian army in the name of the fortified wall and clear the wilderness as early as last year, if it weren't for the new governor Zhao Ji who wanted to rearrange the map of the mountains and rivers in preparation for the big war, they would not have found the sudden appearance of Panjiabao.