Han Khan

Chapter 2: The Exiled Prince
"Sheng'er... my child, your father is dying. You must live well. After your father passes away, the Jinshan Han Kingdom will also be gone.

Maybe it was my father's fault. I shouldn't have started a war with the Ganzhou Uighurs. I should have surrendered and paid tribute to Zhu Liang earlier. Sheng'er might have been able to live a peaceful life as the emperor of the Jinshan Han Kingdom, and the situation would not have turned out like this.

But... Jinshan Kingdom and Guiyi Army are in such a war-torn place. If they don't prepare for war and expand their territory, the Guiyi Army will be destroyed sooner or later, and the Han people will be assimilated by the Hu people sooner or later. It's all just a mirage.

All of this should be borne by my father. It was my father's arrogance that ended the Zhang family's foundation for several generations. I hope my father's death will end all this.

Cao Rengui had already formed alliances with various families in Dunhuang through marriage, so it was inevitable that he would replace our Zhang family. As your father, I also agreed to his proposal to take the throne and abolish the Jinshan Han Kingdom and rebuild the Guiyi Army. However, now the entire Yacheng, inside and outside, is full of Cao Rengui's minions.

Don't blame Cao Rengui and don't resist him.

He is your cousin's uncle and the grandson-in-law of your great-grandfather Taibao. Since you are both descendants of Taibao, he will not harm you.

Sheng'er, my child, you are the only descendant of Longshe Zhang and Taibao Gong, and the only hope of our Zhang family...

You have learned both literature and martial arts since childhood, and you are proficient in both, which makes your father love you deeply. If you don't want to live under someone else's command and depend on him for a long time, then you should leave Dunhuang.

Follow the tribe your mother gave you, go north through the Mohe Desert, go to the northern desert, go to the Golden Mountain, go to the Dolos River (Eotis River), and go to the Jian River (Yenisei River), and go to join your uncle.

Your mother is from the clan of the Khitan Khan of the grasslands. You have the blood of the Khitan Khan clan. Go there. Your uncle, Aje Gutuluyar Khan, will protect you. "

"No! Aye, I don't want to leave you, I don't want to leave here!"

"Silly child, your father's time is running out. Hurry up and leave Yacheng (the building where the governor of Guiyi Army holds his office and government affairs) and go to the Zhang family's farm outside the city, to your people, and don't stay in the city."

"What about you? Come with me!"

"I am the Son of Heaven. I will be with my country until the moment of my death. Your brother passed away a long time ago. You are my only child.

Zhang Sheng, you must remember to live well. If you have the ability, rebuild the ancestral temple for our Zhang family and build another country.

If you can make me the emperor and wash away the shame of my 100-day reign, I will die without regrets and will be happy for your great achievements... Go away, child!"

Zhang Chengfeng shouted loudly to the outside of the palace, "Cao Rengui, let my child go......"

At this time, Cao Rengui brought in many civil and military officials of Jinshan Kingdom, as well as heads of aristocratic families, into the palace. They knelt on the left and right sides of the throne of Zhang Chengfeng, the current emperor of Jinshan Han Kingdom.

"I will never harm the Zhang family..." Cao Rengui said to Zhang Chengfeng who was sitting in the upper seat.

He failed to stop Zhang Sheng from leaving Yacheng, who was being dragged by the guards.

"I have failed. Now I am about to die. Here, as the Son of Heaven, I will issue an edict for the last time. After my death, the Kingdom of Jinshan will be dissolved and the old system of the Guiyi Army will be restored. The eldest son of the Cao family and Cao Rengui will serve as the governors of the Guiyi Army. They will protect Dunhuang Tang'er and stop him from committing murder again..."

Before he finished speaking, this heroic and arrogant emperor fell on the throne. Cao Rengui, who was kneeling at the front on the left, took the lead and led all the officials to kowtow respectfully to Zhang Chengfeng on the throne. "Farewell to the emperor..."

With this, the Zhang family, which had ruled Dunhuang and the Guiyi Army for three generations and four leaders, ended its rule.

"Go! Go quickly! Brother Shanxiong, take His Highness away and make sure to send him back to the Zhang family manor outside the city!"

"..."

boom!
"The Emperor is dead!"

……

"No!"

Somewhere outside the city of Dunhuang, on a gold-rimmed tent, a blue flag embroidered with a golden eagle was fluttering in the wind. Outside the tent stood fully armed, demoralized elite soldiers holding torches.

At this moment, a fierce and dazzling golden light came from the tent, followed by the sound of a wooden board falling to the ground. The soldiers outside immediately looked at each other in surprise and doubt.

Inside the tent, a sturdy young man with black beard on his temples and chin suddenly woke up from his sleep and sat up from the coffin. Sweat covered his whole body, wetting the robe under his armor. He tightly grasped the sword in his hand.

"Where am I? What were those images just now......?"

The young man grabbed his thick long hair in annoyance. The scene in his mind was still vivid in his mind, like a brand on his soul that he could never forget. There were also the burning farmland, the collapsed buildings, the golden eagle flag flying in the air, the cavalry charging, the broken limbs, and the billowing smoke.

As well as the horizontal knife piercing his abdomen, the boy's ears could even vaguely echo the screams and wails of the person before death, as well as the intense pain before death.

He looked down at his abdomen which was pierced by a long knife in his dream. The wound was healing rapidly and he was shocked and said: Fuck.

Slowly, his weak body gradually regained strength, which frightened him greatly. He had been killed in his dream. But how could he be in this state now? Was he resurrected? Did God appear?
At this time, two soldiers wearing armor and holding swords opened the tent. Zhang Sheng saw many people dressed in the same way behind them. He looked at their surprised, frightened and confused eyes and heard them say "Oh my God! Buddha! Tengri and so on."

Looking at this group of people, including Han people, grassland people, and even many people who looked like a mix of Eastern and Western people, he decided not to speak for the time being.

However, he noticed that he seemed to be sitting in a log coffin, which made him feel strange.

When he heard a series of "bang bang bang" sounds, he looked up at the soldiers kneeling on the ground outside the tent. At this time, two tall warriors finally crawled forward little by little and looked up at him.

"host?"

A voice of surprise came out of the mouth of the warrior with light red hair, thin green eyes, and high cheekbones on both sides of his cheeks like a Mongolian. His thin eyes widened a lot because of the fear that could not be concealed.

"Your Highness?"

Zhang Sheng looked at the two of them and the dozen warriors at the door and felt familiar with them. But he had never seen them before!

At this time, a man who looked to be around 30 or 40 years old, with a long beard, wearing a close-fitting cassock and a full set of armor underneath, who looked like a monk, opened the tent and walked in. Everyone nodded when they saw him.

He also exclaimed in surprise: Buddha is above!!!
Zhang Sheng nodded at him without knowing why.

Seeing Zhang Sheng's behavior in the coffin, everyone was worried and suspicious. The middle-aged man with a long beard raised his hand to signal everyone, and then said softly in a slow tone: "Your Highness, don't be afraid. Your Highness, Zhongxian is here, and the warriors are here. They will definitely protect your Highness!"

"You, you are Uncle Zhongxian, the great doctor of Confucian classics? Shanxiong, Uncle Baozi, Koza..."

Several unfamiliar names came out of his mouth. The boy was stunned at first. After a moment, a surge of memories and emotions that did not belong to him surged from his mind, giving him a splitting headache. He bent over and retched repeatedly.

Everyone was extremely panicked upon seeing this, and they breathed a sigh of relief. However, before they could go forward to ask questions, the boy's vomiting sounds gradually stopped, and his movements were no longer erratic, but he raised his head and looked towards the dark top of the tent.

Pictures emerge in my mind one after another.

He died, and "he" was resurrected, but now he is not the same person, or the same soul.

Yes, he is not a native of this world. To be precise, his body is the heir of the Jinshan Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty, but his soul is just an ordinary soldier who lived on the grasslands of the northwest of the motherland in his previous life.

He didn't know how he traveled through time. The only thing he remembered was that he was playing Age of Empires in his spare time the previous second, then he fell asleep in a daze, and when he woke up, his consciousness occupied this body.

Now, a large amount of the original body's memories kept emerging in his mind, and he completely accepted the memories of this young man also called Zhang Sheng.

This is beside the Longle River outside Dunhuang City in Shazhou, and this body of mine is also called Zhang Sheng.

After traveling through time and becoming a prince, Zhang Sheng discovered something was wrong.

Jinshan Kingdom? Prince? Where is this? Was there a Jinshan Kingdom in history? Was there a royal family with the surname Zhang? Why did "I" die?
Has this been a journey to another world?

But when the broken memories gradually became complete, he finally understood.

It turns out that this so-called Jinshan Kingdom was established after the Tang Dynasty was usurped by Zhu Wen, by the grandson of Zhang Yichao, the great hero who led the Hexi military, civilians, monks, laymen, and righteous men to recapture the Hexi Corridor from the Tibetans during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. He was also the father of this body, the White-Robed Emperor Zhang Chengfeng.

Zhang Sheng, the second son of Zhang Chengfeng, was indeed the prince of Jinshan Kingdom or Dunhuang Kingdom, but that was a few days ago.

But the development of things did not start a few days ago. How it developed to this point is a long story.

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