Chapter 193: There Are Too Many People Surnamed Cao
Cao Yuanxin was wearing a white cotton-padded jacket and was sweating profusely under the red sun. Even so, she still wore it for a quarter of an hour before taking it off, then went to wash up and came out to see Zhang Zhao.
"It's a good thing. I heard someone say a few days ago that King Zhang of the Jin Kingdom made a huge wooden bow. He said that he wanted to shoot down the sun. After working on it for a long time, you went to tinker with fabrics.
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Zhang Zhao was speechless for a while. What unreliable guy spread this nonsense? It's just the big wooden bow used to play cotton. It would take a giant of three or four meters to shoot arrows, right?
If you shoot the sun, do you think I am Hou Yi?
"However, this fabric is good. It is indeed very warm in winter, but it is of no use!" Cao Yuanxin said and shook his head.
"With its price, the dignitaries have their own furs to wear, so who would wear such an ugly thing?
The ordinary people in the market are reluctant to buy it. To buy your cotton robe, it is better to buy a few more pieces of cloth to make two more sets of clothes yourself. When the weather is cold, just wear more clothes, and it can still be used in the summer."
"Miniang is really discerning, but the reason why this thing is so expensive is because of the yield per acre and the textile technology.
One can assert that in the future, after improvements in cotton species and textile technology, it will surely replace kudzu and other materials and become the most important cloth.
And I came here today not for the cotton-padded jackets, but for this suit of armor."
Zhang Zhao said and waved, and Cao, who was waiting outside the door, walked in with difficulty carrying a set of cloth armor.
Cao Yuanxin took a quick look, and saw that Mr. Cao's face was glowing with love, and his spirit was much improved.
After hesitating for a moment, Cao looked at Zhang Zhao beside her from the corner of her eyes, and finally let go of her former role as Queen of Karakhan.
She gently bent down and slowly knelt in front of Cao Yuanxin, "Daughter of Cao, please pay homage to Jinniang!"
Cao Yuanxin raised his head and tried hard to control the trembling of the muscles on his face. Queen of Karahan! Once upon a time, this was a woman as noble as her, but now she finally knelt in front of him convinced.
After enjoying the excitement for half a minute, Cao Yuanxin took a breath to calm down the excitement in his heart, looked at Cao on the ground and spoke calmly.
"I heard that you are a descendant of the Tosho royal family?"
"Back to Jinniang, my ancestor was King Dong Cao. It's a pity that after the Persian Samans destroyed our country, the ancestral temple was cut off and the genealogy was lost."
Now that she has knelt down and put aside her pride, Cao has become more honest and does not care about the fact that Cao Yuanxin forcibly sent her to Zhang Zhao's bed in order to celebrate the unconscious Zhang Zhao.
"This is a pity. If there is a genealogy, you and I can discuss the seniority. The ancestral family other than my own is from Xicao, and he is the heir of Prince Huaide!"
This is the title of the emperor's concubines at this time, and this palace is the special name of the queen, because only the courtyard where the queen lives can be called a palace.
Although Cao Yuanxin was the queen of the Jin Dynasty in Khotan, according to the etiquette and laws of Khotan recognizing the Tang Dynasty as its mother country, Cao Yuanxin was only a county queen, and the place she lived in could only be called a pavilion, not a palace, so Cao Yuanxin usually claimed her own title.
"Both of them have the surname Cao, so there must be some connection between them. This time she made a great contribution by gathering people to work with cotton. Why don't you send a letter to King Linggong and let this girl join the Cao family?" Zhang Zhao
He said with a smile, and a bit of a flattering look on his face.
"Tsk, tsk!" Cao Yuanxin made a tsk-tsk sound while gesturing to Mr. Cao on the ground to get up.
"It seems that you quite like her! You men, other people's wives are better than your own, right? You want to get her into the door of Cao's family in Qiao County. Are you really planning to give her a status?
It’s over!”
"Please give me your blessing!" Zhang Zhao raised his hand to Cao Yuanxin.
"Okay! I'll write a letter later!" Cao Yuanxin looked at Zhang Zhao's expression carefully and agreed after knowing that Zhang Zhao was not lying.
"But if you ask her to follow me these days, if she wants to be named Cao, she must memorize the genealogy of my Qiaojun Cao."
As he spoke, Cao Yuanxin looked at Mrs. Cao and snorted arrogantly.
"I, the Cao family in Shazhou, are from the Cao family in Qiao County. Our ancestors are the descendants of Emperor Wu, the great ancestor of the Wei Dynasty. They are a famous family. You, a Sogdian, are able to join the Chinese ethnic group because of your generations of ancestors."
Blessing.”
"Since Niang agreed, why not give her another name?"
Zhang Zhao hurriedly struck while the iron was hot. His cousin and concubine was like this. She liked to say some slightly bitter words, but usually when she said these words, she was the happiest.
"Why are you in such a hurry? I only said that I would write a letter, and it is not certain whether the Duke will agree to it or not!" Cao Yuanxin snorted again.
"How can your Majesty, your Majesty, disagree with your mother-in-law?" Zhang Zhao presented him with another high hat.
"Okay then! Since you have entered my Cao family's gate with the power of cotton, let me get you a cotton.
Well! Cao Yanmian, descendants of Mianyan, this name is not bad!" Cao Yuanxin naturally made the Cao family one generation younger, which is quite appropriate.
"Thank you so much for giving me the name, my slave will be called Cao Yanmian from now on!" Ms. Cao quickly fell to the ground to thank her again.
This time I thanked him sincerely. As a Sogdian who has long been obsessed with the culture of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it was definitely one of his dreams to enter the door of a wealthy family in the Central Plains.
"Zhang Erlang, together with this daughter Yanmian, my Cao family has three daughters, Yanxi, Yannai, and Yanmian, to marry you. You will be the only one in the future, don't forget it!"
"Don't worry, Miss Jin! I will never forget this!" Zhang Zhao knew what Cao Yuanxin meant.
Because judging from Zhang Zhao's current ability, the second and third generations of the Cao family's Guiyi Army, whether Cao Yuande or Cao Yanlu, cannot resist Zhang Zhao. The power of the Guiyi Army will soon return from the Cao family to the Zhang family.
Inside.
"Let Yanmian go back first. You can take this armor and follow me. Recently, your uncle was so angry that he couldn't sleep at night. Not only did that thief Yusupu refuse our solicitation, he also cut off the messenger's nose and ears to drive him away.
Going back to Shule is really arrogant!"
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After crossing the Geluo Mountains with high mountains and sparse forests, Zheng Tong let out a long breath. After a month of arduous trek, he finally entered the country of Bakhna from Shule. Behind him, there were more than twenty companions.
There is the wild boar who often has to cover his face with a black scarf because his face is too fierce, there is also Ma Yaozi who looks like an old man at first glance, and the brothers Pei Shengyuan and Pei Tongyuan who wear iron arm guards and are always paying attention to the movements of the falcons above their heads.
Using their identity as merchants as a cover, they took Zhang Zhao's orders and headed to the former Bakhna country.
One is to explore a passable road for the army, and the other is to find the descendants of the Anxi army of Yang, Zheng and Xue who moved to the country of Bakhna sixty years ago.
Geluoling is the Fergana Mountains that lie between Andiyan and Shule (Kashgar) in later generations. This mountain is a branch of the Tianshan Mountains, with high mountains and dangerous roads.
If you want the army to cross over, you must find an ancient road built thousands of years ago. The reason why Saktu was able to capture this place was because of this ancient road.
Without this ancient road, hundreds of thousands of people could cross, but it would be difficult for tens of thousands of troops.
But Yusupu, the governor of Bukhanna under Saktu, built the city of Andukang to be easy to defend and difficult to attack. There were hundreds of thousands of men to capture such a big city, and there were not even as many soldiers to defend it. So if you want to take it
When we get down here, we can only find the ancient road as soon as possible and gather troops.
The country of Ba Khan has been a prosperous land since ancient times. It was called Dawan in the Han Dynasty. It was a large country with more than 70 large and small cities and could mobilize more than 60,000 soldiers.
The Bakhna country was destroyed by the cannibals more than a hundred years ago, and was later occupied by the Samanid Dynasty of Persia. The country was renamed Maryi Nang. In the future, it would also have names such as Haokand and Fergana.
"Five days ago we passed through this small town called Kaman. Now we are heading east to Andukang City in Yusupu. Going north is where the three families of Yang, Zheng and Xue live."
Zheng Tong wiped the sweat from his head and said to the wild boar and the horse kite.
"Tie Bald, are you sure that the Yang family's castle is heading north from here? But there are mountains all the way to the north, so which north is the correct direction?"
Ma Yaozi scratched his head and seemed a little irritated. He originally heard from the king that this Bukhan is the land of Anxi Tianfu. He thought there should be a lot of people there. It shouldn't be difficult to ask for directions and find out something. But after they passed Kaman
, almost never saw anyone.
"X..., X actually doesn't know either." There were more beads of sweat on Zheng Tong's forehead.
"The last time I saw someone from the Yang family was eight or nine years ago, and that's what he said to me at that time.
It is said that after passing through Carmen City, walk east along the highway for about five days, and you will see a big city. You can find them by going north along the river that flows through the big city."
"Eighty-nine years! It's enough to change a lot of things!" The mountain pig with his face covered said in a pretentious manner.
Recently Shanzhuer entered the martial arts training for military officers taught by King Zhang himself. He can already recognize more than 200 characters and is even more polite.
"Yes!" Zheng Tong nodded in agreement, "In the past few years, the Kara Khanate and the Persian Saman Kingdom have fought several battles here. Maybe the big city mentioned by the Yang family has been destroyed by the war."
"Something's happening!" Pei Shengyuan, who had been listening to them, suddenly shouted, and then an eagle whistle came from the sky, and the giant eagle raised by Pei Shengyuan kept circling in circles from a distance.
"There are quite a few people coming!" Pei Tongyuan's face became solemn. It was very simple to judge whether there were many people or not. He could tell by just looking at the size of the circle where the giant eagle flew around in the sky.
"Put on armor, look who is coming, look at my eyes and act!" Ma Yaozi quickly ran to the side of the cart, put on his cloth armor, and began to give instructions to others.
The armor invented by your king is so good. You can't tell it's iron armor from the outside. You'll just think it's cotton clothing. So even if the enemy's situation is unclear, they don't fear being exposed and can just put on the armor.
Sure enough, when Ma Yaozi and others put on their armor, the thunderous sound of horse hooves sounded in the distance.
A group of thirty or forty cavalrymen came from a distance and came towards them in an outflanking formation.
"Who are you? How dare you come here?" After the cavalry surrounded Ma Yaozi and others, an officer with a long horse face like Ma Yaozi asked.
"I think they must be disguised as bandits from the mountains. Look at that guy, he looks just like those bandits!"
Someone pointed at Zheng Tong, who looked like a Tangerine, and shouted, but his eyes always glanced at Ma Yaozi and his group's carts filled with goods, intentionally or unintentionally.
"This Burke, we are merchants from the east, we are definitely not bandits!"
Ma Yaozi hurriedly ran over with a flattering look on his face, he really looked like a long-faced old man doing business.
"Hongshang? What are you selling? Who can prove that we are Hongshang?"
Hearing that these people were merchants, the cavalry leader hesitated for a moment, with a hesitant look on his face.
Traders are so important to the various tribes in Anxi and the river, so there are generally few people who plunder merchants.
"Here is a piece of white cloth from Gaochang. It is our respect for Burke and the warriors. Are there bandits in the north? Is the road to Andukang City still open?"
The cavalry leader did not reach out to receive the piece of white cloth handed over by Ma Yaozi. He should not have given anything to this stupid merchant, the leader mocked in his heart.
When the merchant went to get the cloth, everyone had already seen that there was a large amount of fine cloth in the carriage, at least dozens of pieces, which was enough for them to take some risks.
