Chapter 19: Zheng Wei
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He has been in this world for a while, and Zhang Mai has become more and more clear about the situation of the Qarakhanid, which can be roughly divided into two parts: east, west and south.
The two major river valleys in the east (the Ili River Valley and the Shaye River Valley) were the military and political centers of the Qarakhanid Dynasty, and hundreds of thousands of nomads were active in this elite area all year round.
In the south, the commercial town of Shule (now Kashgar, the westernmost prefecture-level city of the Republic) was the only way from Persia and India to Han China, and the commercial tradition has a long history.
The Talas region where they are now located is the western frontier of the Qarakhanid Dynasty, although the terrain is relatively narrow, but it is the bridgehead of the Qaranian Dynasty into the Hezhong region, although the Samanid Dynasty is always on guard against the attacks of the Uighurs, but the people's trade is not completely cut off, and the border trade is still carried out in a restricted manner.
The city of Kulan that the Tang army has captured at this moment is located to the west of Barasagon, separated by the Kulan Mountains and the Broken Leaf Desert, so the city has always been under the jurisdiction of the ruler of Talas. Of course, the premise is that the counterattack from the Barasagon side must be withheld.
However, with the current strength of the Tang army in Anxi, it is very unrealistic to capture Hezhong and resist the main force of the Hui Dynasty, not to mention the army of Barasagon, even the garrison Tang army of Talas cannot afford to provoke.
Slowly, Zhang Mai walked to the head of Julan City. At this time, Yang Dingbang also came, and the city was already under control, he could have gone to rest, but like Guo Shiyong, thinking that he had become the master of this Julan City, where could he still sleep? I made an appointment with a few veterans like Zhang Mai, walked the main streets of the city, and finally walked to the head of the West Gate City, but met Zhang Mai, three people of different ages and personalities, but they looked at each other and smiled. At this moment, they seemed to be in a similar mood.
"The Battle of Talas took place there." Guo Shiyong pointed out that beyond the heavy mountains, the mountains in the Western Regions are mostly white, and the white snow above the snow line is the lifeline of this 10,000-mile inland: "At that time, General Gao Xianzhi, the supreme commander of my Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, led the Anxi army, as well as the troops of Ningyuan and Ge Lulu, to fight a decisive battle with Da Shi, but Ge Lulu actually betrayed and stabbed us in the back when the fierce battle was fierce, and this battle was lost after all!" Gao Xianzhi withdrew and wanted to make a comeback, but unexpectedly, the Anshi Rebellion occurred in Middle-earth......"
Although the battle of Talas failed, Gao Xianzhi still had the strength to fight, and the main force of the four towns of Anxi was not damaged......
Zhang Mai listened to Guo Shiyong's description of the battle situation that year, and couldn't help but be distracted, thinking: "When Gao Xianzhi heard the news of the Anshi Rebellion, what kind of mood did he feel, was he panicked?" Or is it painful? Or helpless? Alas, that's something that no one knows. ”
However, the Anshi Rebellion, the henchman of the Tang Dynasty, made Gao Xianzhi forever lose the opportunity to take revenge, and after he returned to the Central Plains, he never had the opportunity to return to the Western Regions, and the territory of thousands of miles west of the Green Ridge gradually fell into the hands of the barbarians, until today.
Today, history has provided Zhang Mai with another opportunity, "But will my arrival make this qiē change?" ”
"Report-" Tang Renxiao stepped forward, "Special envoy, sixty-four large and small merchants in Kulan City have all been invited. ”
"Sixty-four?" Zhang Mai was overjoyed: "Arlo's movements are so fast! It seems that the oil and water here are really much richer than the chin Si. ”
asked Tang Renxiao to act according to the method he did when he was thinking about his chin, "Let the black tiger entertain them." ”
"Yes, but ...... There was a family that was closed to the house. didn't even accept the invitation, and led the family to resist. ”
"Who is so bold?"
"It is the largest merchant in the city, the house of Abdul Azim."
Zhang Mai always felt that it was difficult to remember these names of the Western Regions, but this "Aqimu" had some impressions.
"Ah, by the way, Abula said that the richest man in Kulan City seems to be surnamed Aqimu." Guo Shiyong said.
Hearing that the Aqimu family resisted, Zhang Mai couldn't help but sneer, thinking to himself, what if your Aqimu family is the richest man in Julan City? Now it's already a turtle in an urn, and it's still so ignorant of current affairs.
Soon Murong Yang sent someone to report again: "Because of the resistance of the Aqimu family, Captain Yang has already led someone to break the gate of his house and rush in......"
Zhang Mai said with a smile: "Ah Yi is rushing to do things!" But when others saw his smile, they knew that he didn't mean to blame Yang Yi at all. Zhang Mai said to Guo Shiyong and Yang Dingbang: "Uncle Yong, Uncle Dingbang, why don't we go and see what the richest man in Julan City looks like, he is so ignorant." Although the chin is small, the richest man in Kulan City is far worse than the Nair Shahi family. ”
He got off the city wall, turned over his horse, and galloped to the outside of the Aqimu Mansion under the leadership of Murong Yang, and saw that there was a large mansion, with more than ten facades of different sizes, occupying half of the street, and the stairs in front of the door were made of polished and smooth stones, which were completely different from those earthen houses in the chin Ersi.
However, Zhang Mai noticed that the corners of the eaves of this mansion were quite damaged, and there were traces of new additions in some places, and it seemed that the mansion was beautiful when the foundation was laid, but now it is not its heyday. Guo Shiyong's observation was even more nuanced, and he thought: "Look at these stones, these corners have been damaged for some years, but the additions are recent, it seems that this Aqimu family has been in decline, and now there may be a small revival, but it has not reached the glory of its heyday." ”
At this time, the gate had been smashed by Yang Yi, and the soldier guarding the gate said to Zhang Mai: "The gate of this house is really strong, Captain Yang has just entered." ”
Zhang Mai didn't get off the horse, and rode into the house, only to hear a voice roaring angrily: "You guys...... You ungrateful guys! Stop it! Stop it! ”
Ungrateful? What are these words?
However, what made Zhang Mai feel strange was that the person who said this was not in Huifu, not Tiele, not in the language of the Zhaowu people, not in Arabic, but in Chinese! And it is not too Hu Yin's Chinese, of course, it is not Mandarin based on Beijing dialect that Zhang Mai knows, but Chinese that is a bit like Cantonese in some places and a bit like Shaanxi dialect in some places - that is, the language spoken by Guo Shidao, Yang Dingguo, etc., according to Guo Shidao and others, they speak the official dialect of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Mai jumped off his horse in front of a screen, walked down the corridor to the hall, and saw Yang Yi confronting and scolding each other with a handsome young man dressed in Arabia, Yang Yi sneered and said: "What a big shelf!" also closed the door and told the master to go out! You hulus, the city has been breached by us, and what are you! But it's rare that you can actually speak Tang Yan. ”
When Zhang Mai entered the hall, he remembered the princes of the Arab countries in the One Thousand and One Nights comic strips, and he had never seen a character of such temperament since he came to this era, and he couldn't help but cheer in his heart.
At this time, the young man was opening his hands, protecting the family behind him, he had no weapons in his hands, but he refused to show weakness in the face of the menacing Yang Yi, when he was pointed at with a knife, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, Zhang Mai noticed that there was a masked girl behind him, and he was holding his left arm with a pair of soft pancreas, the young man patted the masked girl's hand with his hand, and his person seemed to have gained courage, his chest straightened, and he pointed at Yang Yi and scolded: "Don't use a knife with me to be scary, I know your bottom line!" But I will not speak to you, but come to your leaders. ”
Yang Yi sneered, Zhang Mai stepped forward and said with a smile: "Looking for me?" What's the matter? "When I looked closer, the more I felt that this handsome young man's facial features and appearance were actually a standard Han Chinese, and it was only a pair of blue eyes that revealed that he had mixed blood.
He was stunned, and the young man looked him up and down, and exclaimed, "You are the chief?" Guo Shidao, Yang Dingguo! ”
Zhang Mai and Yang Yi were all stunned, thinking that he actually knew Guo Shidao and Yang Dingguo?
At this time, Guo Shiyong and Yang Dingbang also walked in, Yang Dingbang saw the young man, sighed, and immediately ordered everyone except Zhang Mai and Yang Yi to withdraw, Yang Yi shouted: "Second uncle, why did you call everyone out?" This is his lair, beware of any ambushes. Yang Dingbang shouted to the others: "Quit!" ”
The soldiers looked at Zhang Mai, Zhang Mai had guessed that something must be wrong, nodded, and the soldiers retreated outside the hall.
After everyone withdrew, the young man saw Yang Dingbang, his expression was a little calm, and he said to his family behind him: "You all go to the back." Don't be afraid. A teenager shouted, "Brother! ”
The young man said, "Take your sister-in-law to the back!" Don't be afraid! ”
The young man agreed, but the slender masked woman who had been hiding behind the young man reluctantly shook his hand.
"Don't be afraid, don't worry, I'll be fine, I know these people." The young man's words were in Persian: "You go to the back with Uncle Hao and Han, and I will come." ”
He tried his best to resist Yang Yishi's hissing, but when he spoke to his wife, he was extremely gentle.
Zhang Mai listened to his accent, saw his appearance, and then listened to him speak, he had guessed a few points, and only when there were only a few leaders left in the hall, he asked Yang Dingbang: "Uncle Dingbang, who is this person?" ”
"This ......" Yang Dingbang seemed to be at a loss for a moment.
The young man saluted Yang Dingbang, but he already looked at Zhang Mai and said, "Are you Guo Luo?" I'm Kairim bin Abdul Azim. Although I didn't tell you my name back then, you must still remember my appearance, you haven't seen me all these years, you have changed so much, you can't recognize it. ”
When Zhang Mai heard that he knew Guo Luo, he had two more confirmations in his heart, and said with a smile: "I'm not Guo Luo, and I don't know what Kailimu is." The Arabic names were repeated so often that he couldn't remember them.
The young man was stunned and looked at Yang Dingbang, and Yang Dingbang pointed at Zhang Mai and said to him: "This is the Qin messenger from Chang'an, Zhang Mai, and Zhang Envoy." ”
The young man exclaimed, "Chang'an...... What the...... Changan! Chang'an envoy! Governors! The guttural voice trembled extremely violently, but it was not scared, but surprised, surprised and disbelieving, and then said: "Uncle Yang, don't be joking!" ”
Yang Yi couldn't help but sigh when he heard him call him "Uncle Yang".
Yang Dingbang said: "It's not a joke. This is a recent matter, the envoy came this time, and also brought the holy decree of the imperial court and the fish talisman. ”
The young man's eyes stared straight at Zhang Mai, still unable to believe it, looking at Yang Dingbang, and feeling that he didn't seem to be telling a lie, he said, "Chang'an...... Changan...... The Imperial Court's Sacred Decree Fish Talisman...... Is Datang still there? ”
Yang Yi said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about!" Of course Datang is still there! I couldn't help it anymore, pointed to the young man and asked, "Second uncle, what is the origin of this person!" In fact, he also guessed a few points at this time.
Yang Dingbang sighed, uncovered the mystery, and said, "He is the descendant of the Zheng family." The four towns of Anxi, Guo Yang, Lu Zheng - he is the descendant of Zheng Gong, the envoy of Khotan Town, Zheng Wei - Zheng Wei. ”
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