I thought the headquarters of the Oriental Family would be spectacular, but it wasn't. There is not even a big red gate or a big lion, just a big black iron gate.

The large iron gate slowly opened, and three sedans slowly drove in.

Facing a wall, on which is written "Swear allegiance to the Ming Dynasty", and a line of small words below "Royal Ministry of Education".

Bypassing the wall, it suddenly opened up, and a huge courtyard appeared, about 100 meters long and wide.

The courtyard is actually made up of a main building, seven or eight stories high, and two auxiliary buildings, the main building is seven or eight stories high, and the auxiliary building is four or five stories high—they are all exactly the same as the countless buildings in Chang'an.

There are dozens of cars and cars parked in the courtyard, but it also looks extremely empty.

As soon as the car stopped, several servants ran over quickly, bowed to open the door, bowed and said, "My lords, please come here." ”

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The Oriental family is a Longnan Shi clan in Xiliang Province, known as the Longnan Oriental Family. Later, it occupied Liangzhou City, the capital of Xiliang Province, so it was also called Liangzhou Dongfangjia.

The head of the family, Dongfang Chengping, is a second-rank official, and his title is the general of Zhengbei, and he can rank in the top 20 in the entire imperial court.

The Western Liang cavalry has always been the main force of the royal cavalry. In addition to the Forbidden Army, the Chang'an Army, and the Gyeonggi Army, the emperor also relied heavily on the Xiliang Army, after all, Xiliang was next to Gyeonggi.

Chang'an was the capital of Gyeonggi Province and the capital of the Ming Empire.

Gyeonggi Province, also known as Shaanxi Province, referred to as Qin or Shaanxi, has six major counties, namely Longxi, Tianshui, Anding, Northern Shaanxi, Hongnong, Hanzhong, and more than 400 counties of all sizes, totaling more than 200 million people.

Gyeonggi has been the land of Longxing since ancient times, it is bordered by the Xiliang grassland to the north, the holy snow mountains to the west, and the Sichuan Basin to the south, with only one canyon leading to the Kanto provinces.

Chang'an City and more than a dozen nearby counties are known as the Great Chang'an District, which is the richest in the world. How rich? A few examples, only the Dashi people in Luoyang City can occasionally use electricity, while the 20 million people in the Greater Chang'an District can use electricity at will, and they can use it as they want. Daming power generation is all used to generate electricity from gasoline bought from the royal family, a barrel of gasoline can be exchanged for a horse, and one kilowatt-hour of electricity costs a gold dollar, and anyone in the Great Chang'an District can use it at will.

This can't be helped, the land of the imperial capital, the district of the first good, that's it, I don't believe that you are forced to be reincarnated as a Gyeonggi person in the next life......

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A lot of people came to open the door, men and women, young and old.

I got out of the car and tried to pick up my luggage, but quite a few people had already taken it. Just as I was about to follow Dongfang Liang, a few people were already holding my hand and leading us through the side door to a room on the second floor of the auxiliary building on the left. There, the food was plentiful, and I had been hungry for a day, and I couldn't help but eat so much, not caring at all that the maid who served next to me was snickering.

After eating and drinking, the servant who stood on the side took us to the room on the fifth floor. In the past, I had only been to a restaurant in the county, and there were three floors in it, and I already felt that it was very high, but now when I look outside, the height of the five floors scares me. The room was already very well prepared inside, with four beds and new clothes and utensils on the bed. Each of the three of us was divided into one.

I sat on the bed and couldn't get enough of everything. Soft and warm beds, ceramic floors and basins, and gray-white cashmere curtains hide crystal clear floor-to-ceiling windows, and the glittering palace stands in front of you like a divine revelation.

There are many shadows in the palace, just like the jade rabbit in the Moon Palace. The searchlight on the top of the palace shone straight into the depths of the sky, and there was an airship suspended in the air, and the red signal light on the airship was flashing one after another.

That was the first time I saw an airship. The principle of an airship is that it is filled with a much lighter gas than air, which creates a lifting force, just as a small boat creates a lifting force by discharging water. The principle of the airship is very simple, and the Kong Ming lantern that I often played with when I was a child is also a small airship, but it is not simple for Chang'an's airship to be so big. The airship was so far away that I couldn't see the details clearly. I couldn't help but stare at it and be fascinated.

What is everyone doing at this point? What are my family, my partners doing? What are the people at the palace doing? I really don't want to sleep. Good things always want to be kept.

I looked at the palace in the distance and said, "Damn, I thought that 'the palace is thousands of meters high' is 'romantic', but I didn't expect it to be 'realistic'." ”

The short and fat guy, Kong Changyue, said, "I already knew. ”

The tall and thin guy - Zhao Chengqi - said: "The emperor's thing is amazing. ”

I touched the bed under me and said, "It's the first time I've seen this kind of high-end goods." ”

Zhao Chengqi nodded.

Kong Changyue: "General goods, high-end hotels are like this. I've seen a lot. ”

Me: "Brother Kong, are you ...... A family in Qufu? ”

Him: "Of course. I am the 450th grandson of Confucius. In terms of seniority, Kong Youli, the head of the Confucian family in Qufu, has to call me 'grandpa'! ”

I thought to myself: "The status of the Qufu Kong family is not below the Dongfang family, if you are the grandfather of the current royal priest Kong Youli, you still come to the Dongfang family?" ”

Me: "With a friend like Brother Kong, I won't live in the world in vain!" ”

The three of us looked at the palace, thought about our thoughts for a while, and then went to sleep.

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Early the next morning, a maid came in to clean up the house.

That maid is so beautiful - I have to think: "Ten thousand times more beautiful than Zhao Xingyue!" ”

Kong Changyue smiled and touched her face.

She looked at him, pursed her lips and smiled, ducked her head, and continued to make up the bed.

Strange laugh.

I thought, "! I know what she's laughing at! Slut! ”

The maid took us to breakfast, which was in the big cafeteria on the top floor, and there were already many Wensheng martial arts students who would take the exam this year.

When asked their surnames and places of origin, everyone said, "Dongfang so-and-so, originally from so-and-so province." ”

They asked again.

Me: "Zhao Daniu, a native of Luobei in the Central Plains. ”

Zhao Chengqi: "Zhao Chengqi, a native of Handan, Hebei. ”

Kong Changyue: "Kong Changyue, Shandong Qufu Kong's." ”

People are looking at us.

The scene is a little ...... Embarrassed.

At this time, a servant came in a hurry and said to the three of us, "I have been looking for a long time and I can't find it, why are you here?" ”

He took us to the main building.

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The first floor of the main building is a whole big room!

Looking to the left and right from this side is like looking at a deserted street!

We went to a room on the second floor.

At the door, the servant said, "Come one by one." He pointed to me at the front: "You go first." ”

I went in.

Dongfang Yongbai and Dongfang Liang are inside. In front of them was a large table with some paper, stationery and stuff on it.

The two looked at me.

I thought to myself, it's finally here.

Sit up straight.

Dongfang Yongbai looked at me, looked at me for a while, and said, "Have you thought about joining the Dongfang family?" ”

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I said, "I've spent my whole life preparing for this day, working for one person, working for a meaning, but I'm not sure who it is and what it is." But now, I get it. ”

I said, "I don't know what's right and what's wrong, but it's my choice." Choice is meaning. If you choose, you must stick to it. At the end of the day, we will know whether it is right or wrong. ”

I said, "Where there is a cause there must be an effect, and where there is a beginning there must be an end." ”

I said, "What I say, I'm responsible." I'm in charge, I do it. I did, and I don't regret it. ”

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Dongfang Yongbai stared at me, and finally, said, "Very good, remember your words." Now, you are from the Oriental family. ”

Dongfang Liang took out a stack of paper and said, "Sign, press the handprint." ”

I controlled my shaking right hand, picked up the pen, signed "Zhao Da Niu" – the last such name I had ever signed – and pressed ten handprints on it, followed by two palm prints.

Dongfang Yongbai smiled: "What are you going to call it?" Oriental Big? Oriental cattle? Haha, you pick one. ”

The rules of the Ming Empire are: everyone's surname is only allowed to be within the scope of the "King James Hundred Family Names", and the name of a single surname can only be two characters, and the name of a compound surname can be one word or two words. However, for the Oriental family, the people in their "own family" are all two words, and the people who enter the Shi are all one word. I am a jinshi, so naturally I can't be called "Dongfang Da Niu", I can only be called "Dongfang Da" and "Dongfang Niu".

I said: "When I was a child, I also felt that my name was a little unpopular, and the countryside paid attention to 'cheap names are easy to feed'. I once gave myself a name in private, similar to Zhao Da Niu, called 'Zhao Baiju', the cows and horses are almost the same, but the horses are much better than the cows. ”

Dongfang Yongbai smiled and said, "How is Dongfang Ju?" It's a very good name, but if you don't know, you think you're a general. ”

I said, "Oriental Horse, Oriental Horse!" I will never discredit this name in the future! ”

Dongfang Yongbai continued: "There is one more thing. I changed your identity, you should never talk about your previous identity to others, if someone asks, you say that you used to be a small scholar in the Central Plains. You see, I don't care about that, but that doesn't mean others don't care. ”

I nodded solemnly.

I walked out of the room.

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I looked at Zhao Chengqi and Kong Changyue.

Two people looked at me.

Zhao Chengqi: "Big Niu, what are you doing?" ”

Me: "I'm not called a big cow anymore. ”

The servant said, "Who's next?" ”

Zhao Chengqi walked in.

A few minutes later, Zhao Chengqi - well, he is not Zhao Chengqi anymore, but I don't know who he is - walked out, and Kong Changyue walked in.

A few minutes later, Kong Changyue—well, he's not Kong Changyue anymore, but I don't know who he is—walked out.

followed Dongfang Liang out.

"The last step," he said. ”

Dongfang Liang took us to the household registration office near the palace.

The Registrar Office is a branch of the Royal Household Office.

In that huge yamen, we took pictures, signed, pressed our fingerprints, drew blood, and handed in our household registration certificates.

After a while, I got the "Scholar Family Registration Certificate" with "Dongfang Ju" printed on it—it was even hot because it had just been printed.

The "Household Registration Certificate of the Shi Clan" reads-

"Original name: Zhao Baiju.

Origin: Ming Empire, Central Plains Province, Luoyang City, Luobei County, County Government District, Thirteenth Street, Shi nationality, graduated from high school.

Name: Oriental Horse.

Current nationality: Ming Empire, Xiliang Province, Liangzhou City, Provincial Capital Street, Shi clan, Jinshi. ”

Ha ha! They actually changed my identity for me! It's all changed! It's all changed! Ha ha! They can even change the information of the Ming Royal Household Department! Ha ha! That's amazing! The imperial court is indeed the imperial court!

Haha, I'm a warrior! I am, I was, and I will be, and I am free to do everything!

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I looked at the other two.

Zhao Chengqi, oh no, I don't know what his name is, who he is, in short, he is waving his household registration certificate.

I glanced at it, and it read-

"Original name: Zhao Chengqi.

Origin: Ming Empire, Hebei Province, Handan County, Handan County, Junhu District, First Street, Shi Nationality, High School Graduate.

Name: Dongfang Qi.

Current nationality: Ming Empire, Xiliang Province, Liangzhou City, Provincial Capital Street, Shi clan, Jinshi. ”

Zhao Chengqi kept looking at his household registration certificate.

I turned to Kong Changyue - but he is not called Kong Changyue now, nor is he Kong Changyue - and said, "Kong ...... Belch...... I'll take a look at yours. ”

He said, "Look at what you see! ”

I laughed and "grabbed" his household registration certificate, and was beaten by him all at once.

He seemed angry.

He—well, I don't want to use "he" to refer to "him" all the time, and it wasn't until the evening that I learned that he had changed his name to "Dongfang Yue", so I will call him "Dongfang Yue" "now"—and said with a sad face: "I am so unfilial! I've changed my last name! Shame on your fathers and fathers! It's a brute! ”

Dongfang Qi glanced at him and sighed.

I said, "You know what?!" The 'surname' is useless! Do you think you have the blood of Confucius? Wrong! You only have one of his two to the hundredth power of blood! That's zero! Zero! Zero! 'Bloodline' and 'surname' are both pseudo-concepts! They are just an artificial system; Since it is an artificial system, it is people who control them, not them who control us! ”

Dongfang Qi opened his mouth wide and looked at me.

Dongfang Yue also looked at me, still saying, "I'm really unfilial!" I've changed my last name! Shame on your fathers and fathers! Brutes! ”

I continued: "Giving up the interests of the family and devoting oneself to the country is the real filial piety!" Give up yourself and serve the whole people, this is the real greatness! And we, such people! ”

Dongfang Yue was still saying: "I'm really unfilial! I've changed my last name! I am ashamed of my fathers and fathers! I'm a brute! ”

I opened my mouth and didn't speak.

I had to think, "Actually, we're all self-convincing. He was comforted by self-blame, and I was comforted by justification. We are the same. ”

We are all the same.

A person with no surname.

People without roots.