Han Khan

Chapter 113: Jin Han is a member of Zhu Xia

Zhang Sheng, Zhang Zhongxian and Zhang Xibao listened eagerly to the story told by this Uighur girl from the Karakhanid Khanate on the Qihe Grassland about what happened on the grasslands in the west.

The Jinhan tribe, which now has more than 10,000 households, cannot live in the Jinshan Mountains forever.

The western part of Jinshan has better pastures than the northern part of Mobei, but also has more unknown enemies.

It is extremely important for someone to tell the rulers of the Jinhan tribe about the local customs and culture in advance.

Zhang Zhongxian asked at this time:
"Miss Sarah, what happened next?"

Sarah quickly came back to her senses from her memories and continued:
"It was the arrival of this Persian, Nasser bin Mansur Samman, who changed the Khanate and caused my cousin to rebel."

After hearing this, Zhang Xibao and others became even more curious, so they said:
"Oh, what power does this Persian have that he could bring about such a great change in the powerful Karakhanid Khanate? Please tell us in detail, Miss Sarah."

And Zhang Sheng has already thought of some changes that are about to happen to these Karakhanid people.

He clenched his fists. In his previous life, he was a thorough believer in the Zhuxia civilization. Living in a multi-ethnic region, he had been baptized by different cultures and languages, influenced by different ethnic histories, and educated by the inclusive red star.

Therefore, he would never discriminate against or oppress the tribes and clan groups under his command, who would also become part of the Xia civilization in the future.

It is precisely because of this that he established the concept of Jinhan people as the common identity of all groups under his command, and as a new member of the big family in the future.

Now that he has the opportunity and ability, he will never allow the Arabs and their religion to expand eastward.

“Respected General, this Persian is not very capable.

Let me tell you all in detail.

My father was the second son of Ponteqin, so the heir to the throne of the Khanate was my uncle, Aslan Khan Basil. However, my uncle died young, leaving behind a son named Satuk, who is our cousin.

After the death of the original Khan, my father took command of the various tribes of the Khanate, held the whip and reins of the Khanate's horses, and led the tribes to conquer the east and the west.

According to the tradition of the grassland, my father adopted my uncle's wife and took on the responsibility of raising his only son, Satuk. So my cousin Satuk has been living with my father and being raised by him. He is also a brother from the same mother as my younger brother Ilhan.

His father Khan had also promised him that when he grew up and became strong, he would grant him the title of Bogda Khan and Kashgar as his fiefdom. Everything was going well, but that Persian changed him.

Because that hateful Persian helped his father Khan defeat the Samanid Emir's army, his father Khan built a Arab temple in Atushi to express his gratitude for his help.

My cousin, under the instigation of a Persian named Nasr bin Mansur, converted to the Arab religion and took the Arab name "Abdul Karim".

My father Khan, at that time, only gently advised him not to listen to the instigation of the Samanid, and told him that the Karakhanids were students of Buddha and Mani, and followers of Tengri.

But my cousin, who had lost his mind and turned evil, continued to believe in the Arab religion and follow the Arab laws in secret.

Afterwards, he imitated the Samanid slave guards, the Gulam, secretly formed a Gulam loyal to him, and let these Gulam members convert to the Arab religion. After that, he secretly studied the Arab scriptures without his father's knowledge, and developed Arab believers among the nobles and young people of various tribes, gradually strengthening his own strength.

Under the instigation of that Persian, our brother turned into an evil person.

And four years ago (910), with the help of the Ghulam Guards who believed in the Arab religion, the evil Satuk launched a coup against his father Khan in Kashgar.

He killed our father and brother, the Great Khan and successor of the Karakhanid Khanate, seized the Karakhanid Khanate, and named himself Bughra Khan (meaning "male camel").

After he succeeded to the throne, he immediately declared the Karakhanid Khanate as the Khanate of the Karakhanids, and used the power in his hands to force the leaders and subjects of various tribes to convert to the Arab religion. The Yangmo people of Kashgar were the first to convert to the evil Arab religion because they were the first to support his cousin.

At the same time, a large number of jihad volunteers from Persia and the Caliphate continued to enter the Khanate to support their cousin and eradicate the pagan tribes in his eyes.

As our father's children, my sister and I, under the protection of some Karluk and Uighur warriors loyal to our father, fled northward to Gongyue City (the ancient city of Huocheng County) along the Naryn River and the Ili River after his death.

But as long as my sister and I are alive, we will always pose a threat to the evil Satuk's rule over the Karakhanid Khanate.

So he paid a large price to bribe the Ubili people and some Kimak people in the middle and upper reaches of the Irtysh River and near Lake Zaysan (Xuanchi), and he continued to pursue us.

Thanks to the help of some Karluk and Uighur tribes, and the protection of loyal warriors, we crossed the Jinshan Mountains along the Irtysh River and the Ugur River, and the Ubili people also chased us to the Jinshan Mountains.

Then today, I met your army, Your Highness, and with your help, I defeated the Ubili people.

This is what happened. My brother and I were originally going to join the Tang Dynasty, but we heard from His Highness that the Tang Dynasty had already perished. Now my brother and I and the hundreds of soldiers under us don’t know where to go! ! "

Zhang Sheng thought to himself, "As expected, I remember that it was a Karakhan leader named Satuk who became the first country among all Tiele-speaking countries to convert to Dashi religion, and also the first Tiele descendant country to transform from nomadic to settled."

Although it is possible that Satuk became a believer of the Arabs in order to seize power in the Karakhanid Khanate, and then used the Arabs' religion to re-establish the Karakhanid Khanate and used the sect to consolidate his power.

But the precedent he set was really bad.

The thousands of Buddhist nations in the Western Regions, as well as the culture that the Han people retained in the Western Regions, were wantonly massacred, destroyed and plundered by them in the name of holy war.

From then on, all the people in the Western Regions became believers of the Arab Religion. Even in the future, the descendants of the Arabs in the west would still use the Arab Religion to influence the Western Regions, which was the western border of the Chinese nation.

All other religious sects wrote their classics in Chinese when they entered China. Only the Arab Religion was so arrogant that it dared to despise the Chinese civilization!

Zhang Sheng established the Jinhan tribe in order to give his people a new identity. But no matter what the identity was, he knew deeply that the Jinhan tribe would still be a member of the Zhuxia civilization even in the future, and it would be the western branch of the Zhuxia civilization.

As a thorough advocate of the Chinese civilization, he had absolutely no intention of breaking away from the Chinese.

After hearing Sarah's story, everyone was very sad. Zhang Zhongxian and Zhang Xibao looked at Zhang Sheng.

(End of this chapter)