After sending Li Guangbi and Tu Lishi away, Zhou Jun patted the black horse as a gift.
Kong You came over and said, "This is the Wusun horse, also known as Tianma. It comes from the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions and is worth thousands of gold."
Zhou Jun glanced at Kong You and said, "Get on the horse."
After saying that, Zhou Jun got on his horse and left Baqiao Village.
Kong You rode behind Zhou Jun. The horse beneath him was afraid of the Wusun horse and would not keep pace with it no matter how hard he drove it.
Along the way, Zhou Jun said nothing.
When Kong You saw this, his mind changed and he asked, "Erlang, do you have something to inquire about?"
Zhou Jun said nothing, but said to Kong You: "Follow me back to Chang'an."
The latter didn't ask any more questions and answered.
The two horses entered Chunming Gate, one behind the other, and then returned to Zhou Jun's home along the streets.
Zhou Jun asked Kong You to wait in the side hall. He went to Zhou Dinghai's study, asked for genealogy, books and other items, and brought them over.
Putting the Zhou family tree in front of Kong You, Zhou Jun said, "Open it and take a look."
Kong You opened the family tree and booklet as he was told. He was stunned for a moment, and then looked at it carefully.
Zhou Jun was not in a hurry, he just sat aside and waited quietly.
After more than a quarter of an hour, Kong You raised his head and said as if he had realized something, "I see."
Zhou Jun stared at Kong You and said, "Tell me, what is going on?"
Kong You said: "Volume 12 of "Book of Wei" and "Biographies of the Western Regions, 90" say that Yanqi is a "god in common affairs".
"What is a god? In the ancient language of Yanqi, the two words "god" and "dragon" have the same meaning. Therefore, the surname of the Yanqi royal family is only the word "dragon", and the idol they worship is also a dragon."
"It is also said in "Historical Records: Biography of the Xiongnu" that all the Western Hus are dragon gods, so the meeting place is called Dragon City. The Western Hus here refer to the Gaochang and Yanqi areas."
Zhou Jun was confused and asked, "What does this have to do with the Zhou family?"
Kong You continued: "When King Yanqi Longhui was still alive, he took the Dragon God as the state religion and introduced it to Qiuci, Khotan, Shule, Gongyue, Julan and other countries, and suppressed Zoroastrianism and other Western religions."
"After that, King Yanqi was assassinated, his subordinates rebelled, and the royal family was purged. All of these were related to the religious struggle in Yanqi."
"According to legend, when the rebellion broke out in the Yanqi Kingdom, most of King Yanqi's children were killed. Only his little boy, who was less than a year old, was rescued alive by his guards at the risk of his life."
Zhou Jun was stunned and asked: "A prince was rescued by the guards?"
Kong You: "I checked the citations of the Guan ultimatum during the Zhenguan period. When the ancestors of the Zhou family moved eastward to the Tang Dynasty, when Guan Suo Kan recorded the feudal households, he found that among the accompanying rituals, there was a clan imprint with a five-clawed flying dragon pattern. Guan Suo called it
This pattern violates the imperial rule and must be discarded and not used again."
Zhou Jun took a breath and vaguely understood.
Kong You said: "The five-clawed flying dragon is the exclusive clan emblem of King Yanqi's royal family, which means..."
Zhou Jun helped him finish his words: "This means that the ancestors of the Zhou family rescued the prince during the rebellion and hid him within the family."
Kong You nodded and said: "Yes, that's roughly it."
Zhou Jun thought for a while and then asked: "But, I looked at the Zhou family tree, and after so many years, there is no one with the surname not Zhou but Long."
Kong You: "Perhaps when the guards rescued the prince, the latter did not live long and died; or maybe the prince was tired of fighting and killing, so he changed his surname to Zhou; or maybe the rebels were at that time
After searching for the prince, the Zhou family changed the latter's surname for safety reasons."
"Erlang, it doesn't matter whether King Yanqi's prince survived five hundred years ago; it doesn't matter whether his surname was Zhou or Long; what matters is that the Zhou family rescued him at that time and hid him in the family
Among them, he brought it to the Tang Dynasty."
Zhou Jun: "You mean, you can make a fuss out of this matter?"
Kong You: "That's right, King Yanqi died, and the only remaining bloodline was lost in the Tang Dynasty. He stayed anonymous for several generations, just to return to Dragon City and avenge his previous shame."
Zhou Jun smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Will anyone believe this?"
Kong You: "Those who do not want to believe will not believe it even if they know it is true; people who are willing to believe will still believe it even if they know it is false."
Zhou Jun understood what Kong You meant.
Kong You thought for a moment and said to Zhou Jun: "What we need to do now is to see if the ancestors of the Zhou family brought any tokens or documents from the Yanqi royal family when they entered the Tang Dynasty. If not, find someone to forge them.
Some can also..."
Zhou Jun interrupted Kong You: "Speaking of tokens, it seems that there are indeed some."
Kong You was stunned: "What?"
Zhou Jun stretched out his hand to ask Kong You to wait for a moment, then entered the study and asked Zhou Dinghai for the wooden box hidden in the secret passage.
It was a genealogy and a wooden box. Zhou Dinghai couldn't figure out what Zhou Jun wanted to do today, but he still took out the wooden box as he was told.
Zhou Jun opened the wooden box and took out such strange-looking jewelry.
I saw that the jewelry was shaped like a cone and was badly damaged. The material was neither gold nor silver. It had a broken dragon tattooed on it. Its appearance was different from that of the Dragon God of the Central Plains.
Zhou Jun took the piece of jewelry and returned to Kong You, letting the latter see it.
When Kong You saw the dragon shape on the jewelry, he stood up from the crescent stool in shock.
"Yes, yes!" Kong You said excitedly: "This is what King Yanqi's Dragon God pattern looks like!"
Taking the jewelry carefully, Kong You looked at it carefully again, his doubts growing.
Seeing this, Zhou Jun asked: "What? Is there a problem?"
Kong You pointed to the dragon shape above and asked: "It has five claws, flat horns, long wings, and a thunderstorm. Can Erlang know what kind of dragon this dragon is?"
Zhou Jun: "Didn't I just say that King Yanqi believed in the Dragon God of the Western Hu?"
Kong You shook his head and said: "This is not some Western dragon god, this is Yinglong."
"Yinglong?" Zhou Jun is familiar with this name, but he just can't remember it for a while.
Kong You added: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness North Classic says that Chi You launched an army to attack the Yellow Emperor, and the Yellow Emperor ordered Yinglong to attack the wilderness of Jizhou. The so-called Yinglong should be the hero of the Yellow Emperor. He is also the hero of Yu.
."
Zhou Jun was startled. Just as he was talking about Yan Qi, why did he suddenly mention the Classic of Mountains and Seas again?
Kong You continued: "Yinglong is also called Gengchen. It is the Chinese ancestral dragon. Phoenix, Jianma, and Qilin are all descendants of it. It is said that it has yellow dragon scales, colorful wings, five claws holding wind and thunder, and the dragon's mouth holds the sun and moon.
He is also the ancestor of the Dragon Clan."
Zhou Jun was a little confused: "Then why does King Yanqi regard Yinglong as the dragon god of his faith?"
Kong You's mind is also a little confused: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is an ancient book from the Pre-Qin Dynasty, and it is said that it was passed down from generation to generation by the ancient shamans of the tribe. Perhaps this book also traveled to Yanqi, which gave birth to the ancient Dragon God religion."
The two of them thought hard about the Yinglong jewelry for a long time, but they couldn't figure it out.
Finally, Kong You simply said to Zhou Jun: "Erlang, let me put aside the things that I can't figure out for now. When I go to Yanqi in the future, if there is anyone there who knows the ancient history, he should answer it himself."
Zhou Jun nodded, put away the family tree and jewelry, and gave them back to Zhou Dinghai.
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Don't worry, everyone, this is a historical text, it is not about immortality or fantasy, at most there is some mysticism.