Xiliuzhou, if this name is mentioned alone, many people will subconsciously think that it is in Guangxi, or that it is Liuzhou.
But in fact it was not. This was a military state established by the Tang Dynasty in what is now Afghanistan.
When Zhang Zhao thought of the name Kabul, he sighed for a long time. When he arrived at Huwen City, he didn't know what it was like.
Because Huwen City is obviously built in the style of a river city built in the Tang Dynasty, with rammed earth walls and Chinese-style towers. There are dozens of residential houses in the city that have not been completely destroyed, and they also have a Chinese-style courtyard structure.
The large river that runs through the north of the city, later known as the Kabul River, is still called Xiliu Water by the local people with a strange accent.
When the army entered the city, the residents here still knew their peach blossom stone people.
The trembling city lord brought Zhang Zhao to a tall, half-collapsed rammed earth building and told him that this was the city of the Tang Dynasty, where a peach blossom stone man once served as king.
Huwen City was originally part of the Silk Road, controlling the trade route from the river into Tianzhu.
However, after the Anshi Rebellion, merchants going to Tianzhu gradually stopped, and Huwen City changed from a prosperous trading town to a small border city enclosed in a plateau valley.
They do not receive as much information from the outside world as Bukhara and Samarkand, which are still at trade nodes.
People here don't even know that the Tang Dynasty no longer exists. Their impression of the outside world is still preserved in the period of their ancestors.
So Zhang Zhao didn't know whether he should be happy or sad. He came here all the way and encountered little resistance, because many people here were still inexplicably familiar with the peach blossom stone passed down by their ancestors, but everything
Things have changed again.
But just as Zhang Zhao looked around with a sense of nostalgia and sadness, Guo Tiance slowly came over.
"Your Majesty, there shouldn't be any Tang royal city here, because it was only Jisi Prefecture back then, and it was only after the cannibals marched eastward that they converted and joined the imperial court.
It took a lot of effort for us to control the nine countries of Zhaowu back then, so it was impossible to send people to rule here."
"But these buildings look like the Central Plains style!"
Zhang Zhao also felt that no matter how powerful the Tang Dynasty was, Afghanistan was too far away from the Central Plains and it would be impossible to actually control it.
However, some buildings in Huwen City truly prove the existence of the Tang Dynasty.
"These should have been built by the descendants of Belus, the king of Sassanid Persia, who recruited Han craftsmen from the river.
The remnants of Sasanian Persia had received canonization and funding from the imperial court, and here they fought under the banner of the Tang Dynasty against the cannibals in white."
Well! More than two hundred years have passed since this one, and there are already different opinions.
More than a thousand years later, it will definitely be even more impossible to find out whether the Tiaozhi Governor's Palace and the Persian Governor's Palace established by the Tang Dynasty in Afghanistan were actually controlled.
But fortunately, he, Zhang Zhao, has arrived here soon, so there is still a chance for everything.
"Set up camp and invite Prince Sadid to me!"
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhao became very ambitious. Regardless of whether the Tang Dynasty had actual control or not, I would handle it, wouldn't it be enough?
....
How many days have passed! Prince Sadid finally felt that his life was saved.
It has been almost two months since ***, and these two months have been like a nightmare to him.
He returned to Bukhara happily, thinking that he would soon become the crown prince, and then was forced by his father Nasr II to kill his brother Hamid.
Then he also wanted to kill his father and become the emir. In the end, he was thrown into a mass grave by his brother Prince Hamid's entourage.
What a despair! Prince Sadid still remembers the hellish cries and screams around him.
In the huge mass grave, the Herat Ghulam and the guards of the Forbidden City of Alka, both officers and soldiers, he brought with him, were all pushed into the mass grave.
The sky was covered with mud, as if it had been poured down from the sky. An officer beside him cried and opened his mouth wide, and kept eating the mud that fell from the sky into his mouth.
As if that would prevent the soil from filling up the mass grave, several guards who tried to climb out were stabbed to death in the pit.
Sadid himself seemed to have lost his mind and gone crazy. He followed the example of others, opened his mouth wide and ate the dirt falling from the sky into his stomach. After he was pulled up, he was still swallowing in his mouth.
"Sadid, come out! The king wants to see you!"
Bang, the door was pushed open, and an extremely majestic, almost bald man stood at the door, waving to him and shouting.
Sadid did not feel the slightest displeasure because the other party called her by his first name. Instead, his face burst out with infinite flattery, and there was still a little bit of gratitude in it.
Because he was rescued from a mass grave by this strong man called Barbarian Bear. The feeling of saving him from hell is something that Sadid will never forget for the rest of his life.
After passing through one street after another, Sadid saw Zhang Zhao who was busy.
He didn't know what the young and majestic Juer Khan wanted him to do? But Sadid knew that he had no choice.
Even if Juerhan asks him to eat Xiang now, he has to eat it, not only eat it, but also taste it.
"Prince Sadid, please come here!" Zhang Zhao finished arranging the schedule for the past few days and waved to Sadid, motioning for him to come over.
"Great Khan of Khans, there is no Prince Sadid here, only your loyal servant Sadid!" Prince Sadid knelt down on his knees, and then walked directly over.
Damn you! Zhang Zhao was stunned for a moment. People nowadays are so sophisticated that he didn’t even have the chance to show off to this guy.
‘Ahem!’ Zhang Zhao could only cough twice, and then waved to Guo Tiance.
"Let Ma Xi bring the people in! Now it's time for them to meet."
Prince Sadid turned his head and looked at the door in surprise. A few minutes later, a beautiful woman with tears in her eyes appeared at the door holding three dolls with pink makeup.
Prince Sadid burst into tears. This was his wife and children.
"Your Majesty the Great Khan! Sadid thanks you for your great kindness! Woohoo!"
After Zhang Zhao took a few glances at Sadid, who was banging his head on the ground, he asked Fanshun beside him to help him up.
Whether this was a true show of affection or a pretense, Zhang Zhao didn't care. Anyway, he just wanted to find a rival for Hamid, continue to weaken Samampos, and make it easier for him to plunder Tianzhu.
"I heard that this is the princess's hometown? Is there anyone familiar with going to Tianzhu?"
The place Zhang Zhao wanted to ask about was the Khyber Pass, but he didn't know if it was also called by this name now.
In fact, Zhang Zhao knew the general situation of the Khyber Pass. After all, he was a P club player who liked to play full-armor combat and open up new territories in the game.
He knew that the Khyber Pass was actually a section of the valley road along the Xiliu River (Kabul River) from Kabul to Fort Kabul, which later became Pakistan, but he was not very clear about the specific situation.
Because Kabul was still part of the Shahi dynasty that now rules the Indus Valley thirty years ago, Zhang Zhao was not sure whether the Khyber Pass was still defended and what was the condition of the roads?
"This is the hometown of Nu, and there is also a caravan in the family that has some connections with Tianzhu!"
After hearing Zhang Zhao's question, Queen Sadid quickly knelt on the ground and answered.
Zhang Zhao nodded, pointed at Rashid Saliman, deputy commander of the Shunyi Left Army, who was standing next to him, and said to Prince Sadid.
"Let me introduce to the prince. This is the former garrison of Juzhanti. Now he is General Rashid Saliman, Ben Khan's deputy military envoy. He will guard this place under the orders of Ben Khan.
However, General Saliman is a military commander after all, and local government affairs still need a capable person to preside over them.
Even if this capable man can gain the trust of Ben Khanxin, General Saliman will assist him and establish a kingdom here to rule Huwen City as a vassal of the Great Dynasty and the Great Jin Kingdom."
Prince Sadid understood immediately that Juer Khan wanted to build a country here!
And it seems that he still wants to regard him as the ruler of this subordinate kingdom, so that he can transform from a corpse in a mass grave into the head of a country. Of course Prince Sadid is willing!
Queen Sadid's eyes behind him also lit up. This is her hometown. If Prince Sadid can become the king here, is there anything better than this?
"Your Majesty the Great Khan! Sadid will always be your slave and will always be loyal to you!"
The overjoyed Prince Sadid kowtowed to the ground again, and it looked like he came over to kiss Zhang Zhao's shoes.
Zhang Zhao quickly stood up. He really couldn't accept this disgusting etiquette.
"Then my first request is for someone to find out for me the road from here to the Xiaxi Dynasty of Tianzhu, and find out the specific situation of the Xiaxi Dynasty!"
"I obey the order of the Great Khan, Sadid will do it now!" Prince Sadid did not hesitate for a moment. As for whether he should be a vassal or a dog, he did not consider it at all.
As long as he can continue to be wealthy, he will be satisfied. Besides, it is impossible for Juer Khan to stay in Huwen City for a long time. Even if Rashid Saliman is here, it is just a matter of one being the leader and the other being the deputy.
This chapter has been completed!