"Yu'er, have you even forgotten this?"

"You remember, we are Lai!"

Qi Min looked at Lu Yunzhou with a confused expression, and turned his face blank, looking very unhappy. His right hand clenched into a fist, and his knuckles tapped heavily on the wooden bookcase, making a tuk-tuk sound.

"Rai?"

Lu Yunzhou's eyes widened!

Who are the Leans? Are they an ethnic minority?

"Yu'er, you forgot everything else, why didn't you even forget your ancestors? Our Lai Kingdom has been multiplying on this land since ancient times, and our Lai Kingdom already existed long before the Shang Dynasty. Most of the land of Qi was once the land of our Lai Kingdom...... Until more than 300 years ago, our Lai country was destroyed by the Qi country, and the Lai people lost their country, and they have been living under the rule of the Qi people, and they have been oppressed!"

Qi Min's face sank like water, his eyes revealed deep hatred, and his lowered voice was slightly hoarse.

"Since the destruction of the kingdom of Lai, the people of Lairen have lived as poor as pigs and dogs. We are good at singing, and the nobles of Qi use us as tools for pleasure. When the nobles are guests at the banquet, we Lai people will be on the side to drum and cheer up, if it is favored by any dignitary, it will be given away as a gift, and when the Great Council is in the alliance, the Lai people are the best trophies for Qi people to show their strength to other countries again and again!" Qi Min said through gritted teeth.

"Lai Ren is a good song?"

Lu Yunzhou's melodious singing voice sounded in his mind again, and that voice was so familiar--

He remembered that this was his grandmother in this life, and the singing voice of Old Lady Qi was something Qi Yu had heard since he was a child!

Memories poured into his mind bit by bit, and Lu Yunzhou gradually remembered the history of the Lai people.

Laiguo was the ancient kingdom of Dongyi during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The Shang Dynasty was first feudal, and it became a princely power during the Western Zhou Dynasty. The title is Marquis. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, the territory of Laiguo encompassed the entire Jiaodong Peninsula, starting from Linqu in the west, reaching the Jiaodong Peninsula in the east, reaching the Bohai Sea in the north, and reaching Zhucheng and Jiaozhou in the south. Since Jiang Taigong was sealed to the Qi State, for hundreds of years, the Lai State and the Qi State fought for territory and hated each other, and then when the Duke of Qi Ling, the Lai State was destroyed by the Qi State.

Well, it's what Chen Kexing mentioned in the morning, the Qi Linggong who loves to see women wearing men's clothes!

Lu Yunzhou couldn't help crying and laughing, he didn't have the deep hatred of the Qi family, because he was a Han in his previous life, strictly speaking, the Qi people who hated the Lai people were all the way.

Lu Yunzhou really didn't expect that after crossing and being reborn, he would be able to change the nationality.

However, in the eyes of Lu Yunzhou in later generations, the distinction between these ethnic groups is really not a big deal, anyway, more than 2,000 years later, the Lai people of the Shandong Peninsula have long been integrated with the Han people!

Oh, yes, there is no concept of Han people yet, and during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ancestors of the Han people in China did not yet have a widely recognized unified national title.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, because of the long-term division of the country, the people of Chu would only think that they were Chu people, and the people of Qi would only think that they were Qi people...... Even after Qin Shi Huang unified China, the people of China still did not have a unified sense of national belonging, and this situation did not change until the establishment of the Han Dynasty.

It was the Qin Dynasty that unified China's territory; it was the Han Dynasty that truly integrated the Chinese nation, so later generations of Chinese were called Han people, not Qin people.

As if seeing Lu Yunzhou in a trance, Qi Min let out a sigh of relief, his face returned to coldness, and said in a deep voice: "Isn't it strange that I never told you this?"

Lu Yunzhou was stunned, he didn't know what to answer, he couldn't remember anything, and Qi Yu didn't seem to have left anything in this regard in his memory.

Fortunately, Qi Min didn't necessarily let him answer, but said to himself--

"Actually, you juniors don't know much about the affairs of the Qi family, because you were still young, I planned to tell you later, but since you asked, then I will tell you in advance...... In fact, our Qi family was not originally surnamed Qi, we were surnamed Jiang Lai......"

Lu Yunzhou looked confused--so Qi Yu is actually not called Qi Yu, should he be called Jiang Yu, or Lai Yu?

This sounds like a foreigner's name, and the surname of the great Chinese nation is indeed not unusual, but ...... Is this still the world he understands about Qin Ji? Can you talk a little more!

Qi Min was not surprised at all by Lu Yunzhou's surprised expression, and continued: "Our Jiang surname is Lai, a descendant of Laihou from the Shang Dynasty, and we have been the royal family of Laiguo for generations. The current land of Qi was originally the ...... of our Lai country It was originally our family!

"You also know what happened later, the Lai Kingdom was destroyed by the Qi State, the last Laihou was killed, and our Jiang surnamed Lai clan was slaughtered by the Qi people...... At that time, there was only Laihou's youngest son, Lai Furou, who served as a co-worker of Laiguo, and escaped by luck and fled to Tangguo...... At that time, the capital of Tang was now Tangyi in the southwest of Jimo City. ”

Co-work?

Isn't that the name of a god in ancient legends?

Lu Yunzhou's eyes widened in surprise, it turned out that Gonggong was an official title in Lai Guo!

All right...... Crossing can also increase knowledge......

Qi Min showed a painful look on his face, closed his eyes and sighed, and then continued: "Lai Furou is our ancestor. After the ancestors escaped by chance, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Qi people, they went incognito, changed their surname, changed their surnames to Fu, and settled in the Tang Kingdom...... Later, the Tang State was annexed by the Qi State and became the Tangyi of the Qi State...... Our descendants of Jiang surnamed Lai, after several generations, scattered, some follow the surname Fu, some miss their homeland, the word Lai to Caotou, changed to the surname, and some people have been displaced to other countries...... These people are hard to find anymore.

"But only our branch, which has always harbored national hatred and family hatred, stayed in Tangyi...... The ancestors of our branch changed their surname to the surname Qi, in order to warn their children and grandchildren not to forget the hatred of the Qi people, and one day, to take revenge! At the same time, it is also to confuse the sight of the Qi people, so that they think that we are just ordinary Lai people, so that we can lie down and taste courage, look for opportunities, and revive the prestige of our Lai people in the past!"

A happy smile suddenly appeared on Qi Min's face--

Twenty-five years ago, when King Min of Qi was in power, Yan State took Le Yi as the main commander, contacted Qin, Chu, Zhao, and Wei to attack Qi, and captured more than 70 cities in Qi in one fell swoop.

At that time, Tian Xiang rose heroically, took over the command of Jimo City Defense, led the people of Jimo City, and held on for a year before he used a discord to make King Yan change in front of the formation, and replaced Le Yi's position as the commander with a cavalry. Tian Xiang defeated the cavalry army with the Fire Ox Array, and then pursued with victory, recovering all the lost territory of the Qi Kingdom in one fell swoop!"

Qi Min narrowed his eyes and said with a faint smile: "Yu'er, these things are familiar to you, but what you don't know is that if it wasn't for your grandfather's strong support at that time, Tian Lianlian's chance to become the head of Jimo City Defense would not have been possible!"

Lu Yunzhou blinked, cheered up and listened intently--

It turns out that the famous Tiandan Fuqi in later generations has an insider!

Qi Min smiled mockingly, "The Qi people have always only regarded the Lai people as their vassals, as pigs and dogs, and as their private property, but the way of heaven is good! When the Qi country was almost destroyed, when there were only two cities left in the Qi country, Jimo and Ju, the Qi people would never have guessed that the only little hope left in the Qi country was finally held in the hands of our Lai people!"

"Yu'er, you should know that in addition to the large surrounding areas under the capital Linzi, the country of Qi has five capitals on the border, namely Jimo Capital, Chengyang Capital, Pinglu Capital, Adu and Gaotang Capital...... And Jimo City and Jucheng belong to Jimo Capital and Chengyang Capital respectively......"

Lu Yunzhou nodded, Qi Yu had this knowledge in his memory, that is, the scope of Modu encompassed the entire Jiaodong Peninsula, and Chengyang was a large vast area south of the Great Wall of Qi, bordering the Lu and Chu states in the south.

Qi Min said proudly: "The Jimo capital of Qi has been the territory of our Lai people since ancient times, and from ancient times to the present, there are countless Lai people living in that land, even after the destruction of the Lai country, it is still the case! And among the people of Jimo City, more than seventy percent are Lai people!"

Lu Yunzhou suddenly realized! Therefore, Tiandan Fuqi is practically an army composed of most of the Lai people?

Qi Min sneered: "With the hatred of the Eli people against the Qi people, I wish the Yan people would quickly destroy the Qi State, and it would be good if the Lai people of Jimo City did not send a message to the enemy army at that time, how could they help Tian Xiang restore the country to fight against the army of the Yan State?

"In the end, it was the patriarch of the Lai clan at that time - it was your grandfather, my father! He had a discerning eye, discovered Tian Xiang's ability, and recommended Tian Xiang as the commander of Jimo City, not only that, but your grandfather also fully supported Tian Xiang, and handed over the five thousand best young men among our Lai people to Tian Xiang to train into an elite army, this elite composed of five thousand Lai soldiers is the army that Tian Xiang used when he launched the Fire Ox Array!

"The establishment of this army is still there today, and with your uncle Qi Fang guarding southern Xinjiang, this army is called the Fire Ox Army! When Tian Xiang used the Fire Ox Formation, your uncle Qi Fang was the chief general of the Fire Ox Army, and your uncle was only eighteen years old at that time, only three years older than you now!"

Qi Min smiled faintly, looked at the stunned Lu Yunzhou, and said: "Aren't you surprised, what does our Qi family rely on to have a decisive force in the two terms of military and political affairs of the Qi State? Just because our Qi family single-handedly contributed to the feat of restoring the Qi Dynasty, just because of the Lai people behind our Qi family, who account for more than 30% of the population of the Qi country!"