This birthday banquet specially held by Zhang Zhao lasted for seven days. During these seven days, people continued to send congratulatory gifts.
Among these gifts, the most eye-catching ones did not come from any temple, nor from the major families in Liangzhou.
Instead, they came from the newly renovated Liangzhou City, Liangzhou Wubao, and Guzang Shenniao County.
They were holding either a chicken, a fox and rabbit they had hunted, or dried meat. The richer ones might have a sheep.
Due to the gap between the rich and the humble in this era, the young men did not dare to come to celebrate Zhang Zhao's birthday. They just silently placed their gifts in the alley outside the Jiedu Yamen's mansion.
Even at the beginning, no one discovered where the gifts piled up here came from? What are they for?
It wasn't until one day that Guo Tiance and others found someone prostrating here that they realized that this was a gift from young men who had received Zhang Zhao's favor.
For these Ding Zhuang and his family, the task of repairing the cities inside and outside Liangzhou left a deep impression on them.
Because no one died due to overwork as usual, and no one received too much unfair treatment, on the whole, Zhang Zhao still maintained relative fairness.
The delicious stewed mutton and the sweet white flour steamed cakes have become many people's best memories and bragging rights to their neighbors. In a short time, the reputation of Dharma King Bodhisattva's kindness spread throughout Hexi.
So much so that when Zhang Zhao held a birthday banquet, these simple-minded people at the bottom still wanted to use their own way to repay this rare Dharma King Bodhisattva.
Part of this is because Zhang Zhao did pay real money to win over them and make them feel fair and just and valued, but part of it is also because of the title of Dharma King Bodhisattva Zhang Zhao.
Contrary to what many people think, Buddhism in China's history was not just a matter of enclosure.
Historically, even at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Buddhism was still an important tool for the Song Dynasty to win over frontier leaders and even open up frontiers. Eminent monks were not uncommon among the Song armies in the northwest and southwest.
At that time, the Northern Song Dynasty was almost in its final years, but it was still able to push Xixia to that stage. Buddhism actually played a big role in this.
Even among the current six tribes of people, Buddhists and monks are second only to the chiefs in their daily lives.
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Xuanwu Gate, the north gate of Liangzhou, and the gate tower of Xuanwu Gate is the highest place in Liangzhou. Standing on the second floor of this gate tower, you can overlook most of Liangzhou City.
Today, the leaders of the six tribes of Shoumo, the chiefs and officials of the Han clan in Liangzhou, and the leaders of the four Sogdian surnames all followed Zhang Zhao to the Xuanwu Gate.
Although the Dharma Conference in Liangzhou City has been held for the seventh day, there are still quite a number of Buddhist believers coming from all over the country.
Among them were many Tibetans wearing leather robes and combing their hair into various braids. They came down from the Dafeichuan River. These people who had nothing to do with Liangzhou originally rushed to Liangzhou City one after another.
The leaders of the six tribes at the end of the war looked at each other, and all of them had to admit that at this moment, Zhang Zhao had basically gained the respect of hundreds of thousands of people inside and outside Liangzhou.
And Zhang Zhao was also observing the leaders of the six tribes. Although they created their own identity as Ammo, they had historically become the dominant force in Liangzhou City and absorbed all the remaining Han people in Liangzhou.
Within the category of endowment.
But it is a pity that even a ruthless person like Zhebu Jiashi was not able to completely create this ethnic group between the Han and Tubo people into a real nation.
In history, after several leaders of the Zhebu family passed by, the person who replaced them in ruling the six tribes of the Mo Mo was the Pan Luo branch from Songpan.
Pan Luozhi was actually a genuine Tubo person compared to the people from Sichuan. However, as a native of northern Sichuan, he was able to go to the distant Liangzhou to replace the Zhebu family precisely because of his status as a nobleman of Tibet.
It can be said that after the Central Plains court had given up on them, these Momo people finally returned to the embrace of Tubo.
Zhang Zhao guessed that in history, the local tycoons in the Momo family must have wanted to make the Momo an independent nation, but in the end they failed in reality.
What's even more unfortunate is that after Pan Luozhi from Songpan came to rule here, the Ammo people still had a chance to rise.
But it is a pity that after Pan Luozhi tricked the god of war Li Jiqian of Jinze to death, he was dramatically tricked to death by Li Jiqian's son Li Deming. This led to the sudden interruption of the process of becoming a nation on its own.
After Pan Luozhi, the most famous leader of Su Mo was Xi Siluo from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Zusiluo is not a name but an honorific. It is a Tibetan transliteration and literally means Buddha.
As for Zusiluo himself, he is also a descendant of Tubo Zampu. The leader of Sumo changed directly from Pan Luozhi, a nobleman with Tubo aristocratic blood, to Zuxiluo with Zampu bloodline. This proves that they have gone through a series of self-development.
After agreeing with it, he chose to return to the Tubo people.
This is also the fundamental reason why the last people disappeared in history, because they failed to become a truly new nation in the end.
Their final fate was that some of them defected to the Xixia Party, and some of them returned to the various tribes of Tubo.
However, in this era, these hundreds of thousands of war-savvy Momo people, who are actually the descendants of the soldiers from Longyou and Hexi, have another choice.
That is to follow Zhang Zhao back to the Tang Dynasty and become a Han again. This is why Zhang Zhao would rather take some risks and invite the envoy of Guge King Jidenimagun to Liangzhou.
Waves of Buddhist chants were heard, and the sound of chanting Buddhist sutras could be heard clearly even on the second floor of Xuanwu Gate. Zhang Zhao looked at Liangzhou City with a particularly emotional expression.
He pointed at the crowd who did not listen to the cheers and chanted Buddhist scriptures, and said to the leaders of the six tribes of Ammo, the Han people of Liangzhou, and the leaders of the four Sogdian surnames.
"I'm afraid Liangzhou City hasn't seen such a beautiful scene in decades, right?
In fact, I guess that since the Tang Dynasty declined and Tubo captured Longyou in Hexi Province, this city has never shown such prosperity and glory!
Speaking of which, you are the same as me. Whether you admit it or not, we are actually the remnants of the Tang Dynasty, a group of people who have lost their country and their family."
"For example, take Guo Shenjun." Zhang Zhao pointed at Guo Tiance and said, "It is the Jiedushi of the Four Towns of Anxi, the descendant of Guo Xingong, the king of Wuwei County, and the descendant of the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty."
As he spoke, Zhang Zhao pointed to Li Qilang again, "This Li Qilang was once the great nephew of Duke Li Yuanzhong, Prince of Ningsai County, the Protector of Beiting. Let me tell you something."
Zhang Zhao pointed to himself this time, "A certain Zhang family has lived in Dunhuang for a long time. They are the descendants of the officers and generals under the control of the Jiedu Yamen in Hexi."
Finally, Zhang Zhao pointed to the leaders of the six tribes in the Mo Mo, "Among them, the ancestors of the leader Shen are the Yamen of the Lintao Army of the Longyou Jiedushi, and the ancestors of Zhao Zhenjiang are the guards of Wucheng under the Hexi Jiedushi.
Descendants of the general.
You have never been a loser, but like a certain person, you are the remnants of the empire who have left the empire, the orphans of Tang'er who have suffered a lot but are not understood.
I know that many of you don't understand. I, Zhang Zhao, already have such a big foundation in Anxi and Hezhong. Why do I have to return to Liangzhou? Come here and start from scratch!
I can tell you now that I, Zhang Zhao, am not convinced. I just want to ask, ask the Central Plains court, and ask the emperor on the dragon throne why he abandoned us and the children of the generals and soldiers of Anxi, Hexi, and Longyou.
Like worn shoes?
It would be fine to say that Anxi is far away and cannot be rescued, but Liangzhou is not far away. How innocent are the descendants of our Hexi Longyou soldiers?
When my ancestor Zhang Taibao entered Liangzhou City, your ancestors and my ancestors worked together to defeat Lun Xingre and get rid of their status as slaves.
We have been trapped in chaos for decades, but we have never forgotten the country and the court. Such loyalty should be comforted and rewarded.
But why do they treat us as barbarians without any distinction?
A certain Zhang Zhao just wanted to find out. He just wanted to go to Chang'an and Luoyang. There must be an explanation for the hundreds of years of grievances.
I also don’t want my descendants to become Hu’er who don’t know their ancestors. A certain Han family identity was passed down to me by my ancestors through blood and culture. It cannot be cut off from me just because the court ignores it!
Today, the envoy of Jide Nyimagon, the Guge king who is a descendant of Zamp, is here. He came here from thousands of miles away. He is also someone specially invited to remove the shackles that have been on you for hundreds of years.
Hearing what Zhang Zhao said, Jidenimagon's envoy was a little embarrassed, but he still hurried forward.
In his hand he held a roll of parchment dyed yellow, which was the edict issued by Tubo Zanpu.
Although Jidenimagon was not a Tubo Zan, today when the Tubo Empire fell apart and Zanpu's descendants were scattered, the Guge royal line still has certain legal principles.
The envoy faced the leaders of the six tribes of Ammo and recited the content of the edict loudly, "The grandson of Zanpu, the true god king with the power of divine transformation, and the great king of Guge protected by the Buddha, issued an edict:
Dafeichuan, east of the West Sea, there is the Liugu tribe that was once the god king Zanpu Zhimo. Now the god king is virtuous and respects the Buddha and the Buddha as equals. From now on, you have no one to belong to."
Shen Zhihai, Zhebu Jiashi and others looked at each other, and then they realized why Zhang Zhao had summoned the envoy of Guge King Jidenimagun.
It turned out to be to help them relieve themselves of the status of slaves and servants imposed on them by the Tubo people.
It can be said that from this moment on, from the moment this edict came into effect, the descendants of Tubo Zampu gave up their legal control over the six tribes of Ammo.
It can even be said that from this moment on, there will be no more Momo in the world, and they will no longer be able to become Momo.
This seemed like a good thing, but Shen Zhihai, who was smart, knew that Zhang Jun made a very clever move.
This is because they have always used their identity as tycoons and their grievances of being bullied and oppressed without justice to gather surrounding tribes and improve their self-identity.
But at this moment, the identity of Aomo suddenly ceased to exist. They had lost the link that brought together the Liugu Tribe and even all the tribes in the Hehuang Valley.
Zhang Zhao only turned around at this time. In the land of Liangzhou, there were only 20,000 to 30,000 Han people, and only more than 30,000 Sogdians. His own descendants of Tang'er brought from Anxi did not even have 10,000 people.
It's too little compared to the amount of rice.
If the identity of Shi Mo is not eliminated, even if he obtains the allegiance of the Six Ministries of Shi Mo, it will still be a very dangerous thing for Zhang Zhao.
Because the main body under his rule will become more than 200,000, and the number will even be even larger after the Hehuang Valley is included, reaching 600,000 to 700,000 Momo people.
This is a typical example of taking the spotlight!
Therefore, even if Zhang Zhao takes the risk of letting Jidenimagon's descendants return to Luxian, he still has to exchange for Jidenimagon's identity as a descendant of Tubo Zanpu to relieve the status of the Ammo people in the Sixth Department of the Tomo.
, causing them to lose their identity of constantly being together.
Of course, it was impossible for Zhang Zhao to express his thoughts openly, so Zhang Zhao suddenly turned around, and with an excited look he grabbed Shen Zhihai's hands and held the hands of the two main leaders of the Jia Shi family.
After several years of training, Zhang Zhao's acting skills have become more and more proficient. He looked at the somewhat bewildered leaders of Ammo with red eyes and said in a trembling voice.
"From this moment on, the chains imposed on us by the Tubo people since the decline of the Tang Dynasty are gone! You can finally get rid of this humiliating identity and return to your identity as survivors of the Tang Dynasty!
During the Xiantong period of Emperor Yizong of the Tang Dynasty, my ancestor Zhang Taibao repeatedly wrote to the court for this very purpose. Today, a certain Zhang Erlang finally fulfilled his ancestor’s last wish!
I wonder if you are willing to join me and work together to recreate the glory of Tang'er in Longyou, Hexi?
Come with me to the Central Plains court that once abandoned us, and ask where we come from?
Are you willing to return to your motherland again and take back your identity as Tang'er?"
With his impassioned words and excited expression, Zhang Zhao understood the importance of this window period better than anyone else.
If it had been more than ten years later that after his death, Bu Jiashi had completed the first gathering of the various ministries at the end of his life, they would never have been able to go back.
Shen Zhihai was very excited, but Zhebu Jiashi couldn't get excited, nor could he or the leaders of the various ethnic groups behind him who didn't seem to be Han Chinese.
Liangzhou has been in turmoil for hundreds of years. Are their ancestors soldiers from Longyou, Hexi Province? In fact, they themselves are not very sure.
But at this moment, Zhang Zhao used his power to suppress others, one after another, leaving them with no choice but to regard themselves as descendants of the Longyou soldiers in Hexi.
"I would like to return to my motherland with the military envoy and be a Tang son again!" Shen Zhihai was the first to kneel down.
Immediately afterwards, Zhebu Jiashi, who had no choice but to kneel down, pressed his forehead on the floor tiles of Xuanwu Gate.
"The Zhebu family is also willing to work with the military envoy to recover the lost glory."
Seeing Zhebu Jiashi kneeling on the ground, Zhang Zhao's heart finally fell. This is why he mentioned Tang'er, but not Han people.
Tang'er can include people from all ethnic groups, and Han'er, then we can only kick out people like the Zhebu family who are likely to be the descendants of Dangxiang, Yangtong, or Tuyuhun people. This is definitely the case.
No way.
As the Shen family, the leader of the Han people, and the Zhebu family, the leaders of other clans, expressed their allegiance to the six tribes at the end of the period, the leaders of Zhao Zhenjiang, Zong Ge's family, and other families also knelt on the ground.
From now on, they are no longer Mo Mo, but Tang Er under Zhang Zhao!
This chapter has been completed!