The Jincheng King family is a relatively special existence in Lanzhou or the entire Ammo tribe.
After Tubo captured Longyou in Hexi Province in the past, the focus of its operations was placed in Liangzhou where the Jiedushi of Hexi was located and Shanzhou where the Jiedushi of Longyou was located.
Of these two places, one is the most important place in the world and where the essence of Wuliang is located. The other place is close to Dafeichuan and the West Sea, which is Qinghai, and is greatly influenced by Tubo.
Therefore, the nobles of the Tubo Empire invested a lot of energy in these two places.
Compared with them, although Lanzhou was the capital of Gansu Province in later generations and one of the largest cities in the northwest, Weiwu, where Liangzhou is located, and Ledu County, Qinghai, where Shanzhou is located, were already in such distress that almost no one knew about them.
But in this era, Liangzhou and Shanzhou far surpassed Lanzhou in terms of population, economy and geographical location.
Therefore, Lanzhou is a small state county that did not put much effort into management after the Tubo people captured Longyou in Hexi Province.
The tribes here were also called Tumo after the Tubo forces retreated, but the degree of Tubo transformation was not very deep, let alone the Tang Dynasty who briefly conquered the area.
Therefore, Lanzhou has formed a unique political landscape. Among these tribes, there are not many descendants of soldiers from Longyou, Hexi Province, and the majority are various Qiang people.
Those who did not move to Xiazhou with the Tuoba family, the remnants of the Tuoba party in Qingzhou, the Murong Qiang who were transformed by Tubo, and even the Baiyang Qiang during the Han and Jin Dynasties remained.
These Qiang people, whose origins and composition are very complex, plus some descendants of Han and Tubo people, formed a Smooth-style ethnic mixture after breaking away from the control of the Central Plains imperial court.
The Jincheng Wang family is one such family. They are not a single Han family, or it can be said that Han people do not constitute the majority here.
Most of them are a remnant of the Shatuo people from the past and a mixture of other Qiang tribes.
The Wang family is named after them because when the Wang family, descendants of the Han people, was powerful, they did lead various tribes.
At the same time, it is also a signal that if the court can give them benefits or conquer this place, they can all be named Wang immediately.
But it is a pity that the imperial court did not come!
Contrary to what Zhang Zhao imagined, the Lanzhou clan headed by the King of Jincheng family wanted to fight against him.
In fact, they are so slow to respond now because they are completely hindered by their own power decision-making model.
Because they themselves are nothing more than a suture of tribes, and they often fight among themselves for their own interests, making it difficult to unite.
So when Zhang Zhao issued an order to them in Liangzhou, the first reaction of these people was not that Zhang Zhao was going to take advantage of the angel's attack to get angry, but that someone among them had colluded with Zhang Zhao.
So who colluded with Zhang Zhao? This question is obvious. They believe that the Han people in the tribe, headed by the Jincheng Wang family, colluded with Zhang Zhao.
The Han tribe headed by the Wang family naturally wanted to go to the other side, because someone wanted to continue this matter and harm them.
The two sides almost came to blows because of mutual suspicion and failure to deal with each other. At the tribal meeting, in order to prove their innocence, the Wang family and other Han families naturally did not mention sending people to Liangzhou to explain the matter.
The tribes that suspected the Wang family did not take this seriously, and the tribes that robbed the court angels were not under their jurisdiction at all.
Besides, why should Liangzhou's Hexi Jiedu envoy control the territory of their Longyou Jiedushi envoy?
Moreover, although the Momo tribe that controls Lanzhou claims to be the Wang family, in fact the people in power are not Han people, let alone the Wang family of Jincheng.
The reason why they still put the name Jincheng Wang family on their heads and call them the Wang family is because the Wang family also has two official positions, the Guanglu doctor and the governor of Lanzhou, who were conferred by the later Tang Dynasty.
For Lanzhou, these two official positions are the credentials for their dealings with the Central Plains.
Without the official positions of Doctor Yinqing Guanglu and Lanzhou Governor, they would not be allowed to go to the Central Plains to sell horses or buy other goods.
In short, the Wang family of Jincheng, which originally controlled Lanzhou, has become so weak after more than a hundred years that it can only rely on the two official positions conferred by the Central Plains court to make a living.
Currently, the largest force in Lanzhou is the Li family. However, this Li family is not Han Chinese. They are actually Shatuo people.
Moreover, this Li Ma also claimed that when later generations look at the ethnic situation of this era, they often think that the Later Tang Dynasty established by the Shatuo people will definitely take more care of the Shatuo people.
But in fact they were not, because in the eyes of the Later Tang court at this time, they were not naturalized nobles from Shatuo, but from the genuine Li Tang clan and the lineage of King Zheng.
And whether they are Shatuo people, Sogdians, or Uighurs, they only think that they are Tang people, and they don't have much sense of belonging to their original ethnic group. They even taboo others mentioning their original origin.
It can be said to be a kind of convert fanaticism.
So the descendants of Li Keyong don’t like to mention the word Shatuo people so much. What’s the matter? Do you think that your identity as a Hu is not obvious enough?
You must know that both during the Li Cunxu period and Li Siyuan period, there were many nationalists who were supremacist in the Tang Dynasty. Li Siyuan wanted to marry Yelu Deguang, but they were the ones who disturbed him.
Therefore, even if the Shatuo people in the far west claimed to be surnamed Li, they did not get any benefits from the Later Tang Dynasty. Instead, they continued to rely on the old sign of the Jincheng Wang family to interact with the Central Plains court.
Compared with them, although the Su Lun family, which is also a large clan in Lanzhou, has a smaller number, it is obviously much more united than the Wang family, a large suture tribe, and its response is much faster.
After returning from Liangzhou, Su Lunluxin directly entered the house where the tribal chiefs and elders were meeting in Lanzhou.
His brother Su Lunyan was directly detained in Liangzhou by Li Cunhui. Of course, this is not called a detention. In fact, Su Lunyan took the initiative to stay in Liangzhou in order to reassure Li Cunhui and Zhang Zhao, who was behind Li Cunhui.
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The significance of his move means that at least at the level of Su Lunyan, the young patriarch of the Su Lun family, he is willing to act as an internal agent for Zhang Zhao to enter the palace in Liangzhou.
"Heads and elders, Zhang Sikong in Liangzhou has at least four thousand soldiers under his command, and tens of thousands of horsemen and archers, more than the entire Lanzhou combined. There are also some magical horses from a kind of Buddhist country in Tianzhu."
As he said this, Su Lunlu asked someone to bring in the tall folded horse that Zhang Zhao had given him.
The Su Lun family is a remnant of the Baiyang Qiang from the Wei and Jin Dynasties of the Three Kingdoms. As a semi-nomadic people, identifying the quality of horses is of course a basic skill.
The clan leader Su Lunxing and other clan elders marveled at the war horse. Lanzhou and Liangzhou have always been the places where horses are raised, and Liangzhou horses are even more famous in the Central Plains.
It's not that they don't have horses with similar appearance to the broken-eared horse brought by Su Lunluxin, but the number is slightly smaller.
"How many war horses are there in Liangzhou? Does this Sikong really have four thousand armored men? Are all his four thousand armored men in iron armor?"
Our Su Lun family moved to Lanzhou from the Liugu tribe. We all know how difficult the leaders of the six tribes are. Are you sure Zhang Sikong has conquered them all?"
The clan leader Su Lunxing asked with a solemn expression. In his opinion, the Amo of the Liugu tribe is the strongest among all the Amo tribe.
The six tribes can draw a total of 350,000 to 50,000 warriors, and can also make their own swords and even armor. Liangzhou horses are famous all over the world, making them very mobile.
More than ten years ago, they gathered 7,000 elite cavalry to fight against the Lingwu Jiedushi of the Central Plains court. How could such a tribe be so easy to conquer?
Not to mention four thousand armored soldiers. Su Lunxing only heard from his father and ancestors that Tubo Zanpu had more than four thousand armored soldiers in the past.
You must know that when the various ministries in Lanzhou responded to the attack on Luomen River, and the monks and maidservants fought in the east of Dafeichuan, they only had a total of 700 soldiers, most of them leather armor.
Now the ministries in Lanzhou are not as good as they were back then. Four thousand armored soldiers is unthinkable.
As if Su Lunluxin didn't see the doubt on the face of the patriarch Su Lunxing, he nodded heavily.
"Before leaving, Zhang Sikong specifically let me see his horse farm in Liangzhou. There are only six or seven hundred horses of this grade, and there are probably thousands of horses of lesser quality.
Of course, the four thousand armored soldiers are all in iron armor, because there are no warriors wearing iron armor in Liangzhou, so they cannot be called armored soldiers at all.
It is said that these are the elites left behind after Zhang Sikong traveled across the Western Regions and killed several big countries in the Western Regions, including the Persian Empire.
Without four thousand armored men, it would be impossible for the eldest brother to stay in Lanzhou on his own initiative. He only asked me to come back and report the news.
We can't defeat Zhang Sikong, and of course we can't defeat the scattered Wang family either.
Moreover, Zhang Sikong has agreed that if he captures Lanzhou, the official position of Lanzhou Governor will belong to our Su Lunjia."
Su Lunxing touched his chin and started thinking. He might not trust Su Lunxin, but he still trusted his son Su Lunyan.
His son was not a simple warrior like Su Lunluxin. He was a smart man who had gone to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to pay tribute, could speak Chinese, and understood Han Chinese etiquette and poetry.
Now that he has not come back in person, there are only two situations.
First, he was detained by Zhang Sikong of Liangzhou.
The second is that just as Su Luxin said, Zhang Sikong of Liangzhou has conquered the Liugu tribe and is so powerful that his son wants to join him.
No matter what the situation is, a decision must be made quickly. If it is the former, surrender to your son in exchange for his freedom; if it is the latter, then hurry up and hug him.
However, there are still some clan elders who still don't believe it. They really can't understand that Liangzhou will become so powerful in just a few months?
Before seeing the absolute crushing strength, it is always difficult for people to lower their heads and hug their thighs.
"The post of Lanzhou governor has always been conferred by the imperial court. Even if Zhang Sikong could get the post of Hexi Jieduli, he would not be able to control Lanzhou!
The most he can do is appoint a governor of Liangzhou and a governor of Ganzhou, so how can he control the candidates for the governor of Lanzhou?"
Su Luxin looked up and saw that he was the elder in the clan who liked to argue the most. He curled his lips and the person he was trying to persuade was still the clan leader.
Because if he, Su Lunlu, could persuade his family to join him, he could enter Zhang Sikong's Hanshan capital. Sikong also promised that he would give him at least one county's territory if he controlled Longyou in Hexi Province in the future.
"Before leaving, my brother told me that Zhang Sikong could not control Lanzhou in name, but it would not be difficult for him to swallow up Lanzhou.
The official positions granted by the imperial court can only be used to gain some benefits. To protect the Su Lun family and to obtain a lot of territory and wealth for the sons of the Su Lun family, they rely on a long sword in the waist and a strong bow in the hand.
I was beaten to death for offending Zhang Sikong. How can the court thousands of miles away stand up for our family?"
