Along the way, although Guo Ponu came to harass him from time to time, Guo Kang has always been very focused on his work, and he still successfully completed the scheduled work within the planned time.

This result made him a little proud.

However, Guo Ponu was very dissatisfied with this. When Guo Kang arrived at the destination, when Guo Kang sorted out the documents and made a summary, she looked quite angry.

"Don't be upset. You see, although it is a long journey, our work efficiency is actually no lower than in the office. Guo Kang comforted: "I'll tell you when I go back, they will definitely admire us." ”

"Work work work knows work." Guo Ponu said unhappily: "Is this the only thing you have in your head? When you sleep and dream at night, do you have to count your watch? ”

"Huh?"

Guo Kang was confused and was robbed by her, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

During this time, the people around him were not very good-tempered. Guo Ponu, who has always been irritable, doesn't say anything, even Theodora, who has been insisting on etiquette and etiquette on weekdays, at least looks more gentle on the outside, doesn't pretend now, and looks angry all day long, and he doesn't know what's going on. Guo Kang had a headache about this, but he couldn't care about it, so he could only ignore it.

After getting out of the car, the group prepared to stay in the town for a while. Guo Kang packed up his things, and Guo Ponu seemed to be angry and ran away, not knowing where to go. Guo Kang wanted to comfort her at first, but his father-in-law and uncles soon came to the door and coerced him to visit relatives and friends, so he didn't have time to care.

This can be said to be literal.

The fifth uncle Guo Ru is the son of his uncle Guo Di. However, apart from his face, he didn't look like his father at all. He has a big beard and a tiger's waist, and even the loose dress can't hide his sturdy figure. Guo Kang is already relatively tall, but he is half a head shorter than him.

His two sons came with him. Because he failed to live up to his father's expectations, Guo Ru was very attentive to them. The eldest is called Guo Xianwen, and the second is called Guo Xianliang, who found Mr. Huang back then, and took the meaning of "gentle, courteous, and humble", and gave the name, hoping that they could study hard and become cultured and knowledgeable people. It's a pity, maybe it's because the words and deeds are not good enough, and the literary level of these two people is also not very good.

Guo Xianwen is taller than his father, and Guo Xianliang is already a head taller than Guo Kang, looking like a giant. The two of them stood there and sandwiched Guo Kang in the middle, making him look a lot thinner.

After everyone was together, Guo Ru seized the opportunity to introduce the two of them to Guo Kang, hoping that he could take care of the two younger brothers.

"I don't need to take care of it......," Guo Kang said helplessly.

"Hey, my two cubs, one has fewer brains than the other, and they are not the material for studying, and the weather is killing me." Guo Ru replied: "I heard your father say that you have already begun to plan for this war." When the time comes, arrange more opportunities for your two younger brothers - they still have some ability to fight. ”

"Come, Xianwen, Xianliang, give your eldest brother some work." He turned his head and commanded.

"Okay!"

"Here it is, Daddy." Guo Xianwen and Guo Xianliang immediately responded.

I saw Guo Xianwen immediately do a handstand, and then began to somersault on the spot. Guo Xianliang ran to the side, hugged the stone lion in front of the archway, raised it with a loud shout, and walked around there.

"Alright, alright. Hey, it's like a street performer......" Guo Ru was slightly dissatisfied, stopped them, and said to Guo Kang: "You two stupid brothers, one body of martial arts is enough, don't worry about using them!" ”

Guo Kang nodded hurriedly and politely thanked others for trusting him.

Although I don't know why, Uncle Guo Ru is so relieved of himself, but his statement is really important. Guo Lu has made outstanding contributions, Guo Ru himself has participated in the war many times, he expressed his support, and let his son listen to Guo Kang's command, after that, the affairs in the family will be much easier to handle.

"I feel like I need to adopt an adopted son as well. My wife has always disagreed, and she will make trouble when she says it, but I can't get used to her anymore. Seventh uncle Guo Zhaowen looked at him with a little envy, and also patted Guo Kang: "It's still the eldest brother who has eyesight, pick out such a good boy......"

Guo Zhaowen has no sons, only two daughters. Whether it was Guo Ru's sons or Guo Kang himself, they couldn't help but let him get up.

"I've told you several times, how can you listen to such a big thing." Guo Ru muttered beside him: "But this kind of thing, my brother can't help you, you can figure it out yourself." ”

Guo Zhaowen scratched his head stupidly, and he didn't know how to answer.

After greeting each other, the father-in-law also came over and told them that it was ready. And they followed him into the town.

This place was originally an ordinary farmstead. Before Guo Gai died, he toured various places for the last time, came here, climbed a mound by the river, looked at the newly trimmed fields and newly planted vineyards around him, and told his sons that this place was good, and he did not expect to return to his hometown in the Central Plains in the future, and regarded this place as a new home, and he was buried on this hill.

It is said that Guo Gai and several founders of the Purple Horde have already discussed. Although they swore an oath back then, they would share weal and woe with the rich and noble, but after they died, they still had to be buried and sacrificed separately, and they didn't have to get together.

Because the country has arisen up, it is conceivable that the family temple of each pillar country will become a center and bring more resources to the neighborhood. This kind of opportunity should be given more places. Moreover, it can create multiple "roots" and enhance the stability of the country. When the old brothers were alive, they had already fought side by side too many times, and it was better to contribute more after death, and there was no need to force them to get together.

Therefore, after the death of the first Great Khan, Boyan Timur, the mausoleum was set up in the north of the Danube, where they organized the first farm; After the death of Prime Minister Guo Gai, he was buried in the south of the Danube, on a mound of his own choosing; After Marshal Li Tianying was killed in battle, he was buried near a tributary of the Oort River, next to the dam they had built; After the death of the Taishi in battle, he was buried outside the city of Yexian Sarai in the Crimea...... In this way, they belong to each other, and each family has a new "hometown" in different places.

Since then, most of the members of the Guo clan have been buried here after their deaths. They built a cemetery and a family church here, and indeed as Guo Gai had predicted, they led to the development of a surrounding village, and also formed a market town nearby.

And over time, some families have also chosen to migrate. Maybe because they were originally extraterritorial wanderers who opened up a new home in Taixi, they didn't have much resistance to changing the location of the ancestral tomb.

For example, after the territory of the Purple Horde gradually expanded, the Li family moved from Hebei and brought the people of their hometown to the newly conquered western foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. It was also there that they quickly recovered from the slump that had been struck by the Queen Mother Helena. Although the Cao family has not migrated yet, General Cao has left a will, and he and his wife will be buried in the Rus region in the future, where they once lived in exile.

Even Guo himself. Guo Di's burial place is not actually here, but in the new city he built north of Novgorod. It's just that it's too far away, so he still has a tablet, and in the family church here, it's convenient for people who serve in the capital to come and worship.

As for the Great Khans, the mausoleums are even more scattered.

The first Khan Boyan Timur was buried in the center of the khanate, and according to his own request, he did not arrange too many facilities and mausoleum guards, and only used local ale and wine to worship every year, and let the people of the nearby villages maintain it on his behalf. From the second generation of John VII, the Purple Horde determined the location of the cemetery according to the need, and relocated the people to protect it.

After John VII died of excessive drinking, he was buried in Eastern Thrace. Under the auspices of Patriarch Zhang, according to local customs, the church of God worship was built, the first Khan was buried in the church, and from the Romanian region, 600 wealthy, brave, and prosperous families were relocated to settle next to the church, while protecting the tomb of the Great Khan, and at the same time intimidating the nearby Greeks who had just been brought under control.

This habit has continued since then. At the time of the death of Basil III, the most powerful of all generations, according to his will, the Khan's court sent the coffin to the Hungarian region he had conquered, and demolished the local Catholic church more than a hundred miles east of the city of Buda and built a huge church of worship.

Patriarch Yin presided over the consecration ceremony of the church, which was named "Brother Tian's Cathedral of Salvation" as a cemetery. The construction of the church began a few years before the death of Basil III, during which the Khan's court successively migrated more than 5,000 families from Serbia, southern Greece, Trabzon and other places, including the big clans, the powerful and the wealthy, and lived in many nearby villages and towns, completing the construction of churches and guarding the mausoleum. Counting the time it took to organize manpower, reclaim wasteland, and build the villages and towns of the tomb guards, it took ten years to complete. By the time the project was completed, the Grand Lama Wang was already the Grand Patriarch.

People from different places, speaking different languages, just like that, mix. And the tombs and tablets of the ancestors, like the living in later generations, were scattered to various places with the rise of Rome. Until now, Guo Kang is a little emotional when he thinks of this.

The crowd passed through the torii with the inscription "Pillar Stone of the Nation", and the local provincial officials, officers of the war regiment, and various local leaders had already come to greet them. The stepfather continued to greet them one by one on behalf of the family, and expressed his greetings.

As is customary, the local delegates have already arranged a luncheon and are ready to wash their dust. Naturally, this side will not fail to give people face. After the invitation, the crowd went all the way to the church. And Guo Kang knows that the next few days are estimated to be spent in such entertainment.

The scale of Guo's church is not large, although it has been expanded once, but it is still much smaller than the building of Niangniang Temple.

Of course, it is actually good to have a family temple.

The temple system was established and gradually perfected in the Western Zhou Dynasty: in the previous Shang Dynasty, the custom of ancestor sacrifice was too far from that of later generations, so let's leave it alone; After the week, it was basically on top of the weekly ceremony, and the changes were made.

According to the Zhou rites, from the Son of Heaven to the scholars, the nobles of all levels have their own temples. The Shu people did not have fiefs and titles, so they did not have a temple set up in the fiefdom, and could only carry out sacrificial activities in the main house of the house.

After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, all the concepts of "aristocratic feudalism" were abolished altogether, and even the temples that made the nobles disappeared. In the whole country, only the emperor has a temple. The Han Dynasty followed the system of the Qin Dynasty, and relaxed slightly, the kings and princes could set up temples in the fiefdoms, but others still couldn't, even if the high-ranking officials and nobles, if there were no feudal marquis, they could only set up a sacrificial ancestral hall next to the tomb, or worship at home like the common people.

The loosening of this restriction roughly began during the Three Kingdoms period. After Zhuge Liang died, according to the law of the Han Dynasty, he should only be able to sacrifice in his own marquis, otherwise he would have exceeded the etiquette system and enjoyed the status of the king.

But Zhuge Liang's prestige was too high, and the people asked for a temple one after another. The government does not allow it, so it is not allowed to sacrifice on the road privately according to the season, and it is impossible to control it at all. The imperial court can only relax the restrictions and allow the establishment of Zhuge Temple, so that everyone has a place to worship, so as not to make random sacrifices in various places, but it will be more difficult to manage.

Since then, restrictions on high-ranking officials have been gradually relaxed. By the time of the Song Dynasty, many officials also had temples, but they were restricted to civilians. In the history known to Guo Kang, it was not until the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty that the restrictions were completely abolished, and civilians were allowed to set up family temples to worship their ancestors. At this time, the Central Plains has not yet let go.

On the side of the Purple Horde, in fact, it is also an exception. According to the Tang Dynasty classics they copied, only high-ranking officials should have the privilege of setting up family temples. However, this place is a special situation after all.

The Khan's court wanted to encourage filial piety and call on the people to follow etiquette and worship their ancestors, so as to promote indoctrination and change the cultural barbarism of the region. Because filial piety is the most basic morality, and worshipping ancestors is the easiest etiquette to understand. From here, it should be the easiest to implement.

On the other hand, the nobles of Tessie had their own surnames and well-documented family traditions; The people did not have a surname, and they often did not know who their ancestors were. If this continues, it is naturally conducive to maintaining the rule of the old aristocracy, but it is not conducive to the Purple Horde to fight the powerful and manage the household registration. Therefore, when the Khan's court was first established, it was promoted at the same time as ordering the people to choose surnames, that is, directly opening the family temple to the Shu people and encouraging them to worship their ancestors, so as to eliminate the advantages and privileges of the old aristocracy.

And all this, too, received good results. Under the rule of the Purple Horde, many educated people with some spare money began to worship their ancestors, and tried to trace their ancestors back to the nobles who migrated from the east.

Now, there are a large number of people here who recognize themselves as Hujiebu surname, Xianbei Yang surname, Xiongnu Li surname, etc., from civilians to officials, which are quite popular. The story they identified was similar, they all said that their ancestors were of the Yanhuang lineage, fought with Xia Wei, or guarded a bonfire for Zhou Tianzi. Later, bad luck, he ran to the grassland, and finally migrated here. It's a pity that the age is too old, and I can't see what it looked like when I mixed with the people along the way.

Considering that since ancient times, there have indeed been people from the Central Plains who have fled to the grassland; It is true that the tribes of the steppe often migrate westward in waves. Therefore, I really can't say that these people are all made up, and they can't be verified one by one anyway...... After a long time, such ancestral halls and genealogies attached by the locals themselves are also everywhere, and they can't be managed either.

(End of chapter)