Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 84 On Han Dynasty
Ah Zhu was fighting with Wang Yuyan. Where they were fighting, swords flashed and palms blew continuously.

Her swordsmanship can simplify the complex and eventually turn it into a "divine sword slash"!
But this move can kill anyone except Wang Yuyan.

Because the more serious the injuries Wang Yuyan suffered, the greater the power she unleashed!
When Wang Yuyan is in desperate situation, she is likely to be able to withstand the knife.

At that time, it would be her death!

The biggest flaw of the Divine Sword Slash lies here. If you cannot kill someone with one strike, then the sword has already been unsheathed and you are the one in danger.

So Ah Zhu kept practicing swordsmanship, looking for Wang Yuyan's flaws, or in other words, looking for an opportunity to kill Wang Yuyan.

Once there is a chance, the divine sword will strike and there will be no Wang Yuyan in the world anymore!
Today she was so engrossed in the fight with Wang Yuyan that she completely ignored what Qiao Feng said.

fast!
If the knife was a little sharper, I could kill this little bitch!
Wang Yuyan thought so too.

strength!

If you have a little more strength, you can beat this little bitch to death!

Suddenly, they both heard a familiar voice.

"Hey! You've been practicing martial arts for so many years, but you still can't kill the other person. Do you know martial arts?"

"!!!"

The two men stopped at the same time and followed the sound to see Shi Fei.

"cousin!"

"Son!"

After Ah Zhu put away her knife, she saw Shi Fei smiling, and came to Shi Fei and said, "Sir, did you come to see us specially?"

"How did my cousin know we were here!" Wang Yuyan said after calming down.

"I'm just passing by! I'm just passing by!" Shi Fei looked at the two people wearing strange clothes, like two country girls, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Who would have thought to meet you here."

Ah Zhu asked, "Where are you from, sir?"

"From overseas." Shi Fei told the three of them what he had seen and heard during this period of time, and the three of them nodded frequently.

"My cousin still ran far!" Wang Yuyan said, "We thought this place was far enough, but we didn't expect my cousin to run thousands of miles away."

"I'm about to return to Central Plains. Do you want to go back?" Shi Fei said to the three of them.

"go back!"

"not going back!"

Ah Zhu and Wang Yuyan said "go back" in unison, but they didn't expect the other to do the same.

The two looked at each other and snorted coldly.

The one who said “I won’t go back” was Qiao Feng.

Shi Fei asked Qiao Feng: "Why didn't Boss Qiao go back?"

Qiao Feng's face was full of confusion. He sighed and said, "After the battle that day, Qiao thought a lot."

"Those who used to be my brothers in the gang and my friends in the underworld surrounded and killed me because of my Khitan identity."

"They would rather die than not capture Qiao. Just like Qiao in the past."

"If Qiao returns to the Central Plains, there might be more trouble."

"If Qiao returns to Liao, he will have to clash with Song again."

"No matter which one it is, it's what I don't want to see. I am powerless to stop it, so why not just stay here!"

Qiao Feng's words revealed endless entanglement.

He grew up in the Song Dynasty and thought he was a Han Chinese. After joining the Beggars' Gang, he captured Liao spies and killed Khitans in his fight against the Liao Kingdom.

It turned out that he himself was a Khitan!

Reality is so darkly humorous.

His parents died when he was young, and he was raised by his adoptive parents. But his biological father was not dead, and instead of looking for him, he worked hard in the Liao Kingdom and became the emperor of the Liao Kingdom. His father had the ability to take him back to the Liao Kingdom, but he let him grow up in the Song Kingdom.

This is too... cruel.

The malice from the world and his father made this strong man confused and he didn't know how to face the reality.

So he decided to out of sight, out of mind, and decided to become a weird priest in this barbarian land thousands of miles away from the Central Plains and Liao Kingdom, rather than go back.

Because after he went back, he didn't know what to do or what to choose, how to face the cognition in his heart and the reality in front of him!
"Hmm!" Shi Fei nodded and said, "I think I understand."

"Are you struggling over whether you are a Khitan or a Han Chinese?"

Qiao Feng nodded and said nothing.

"In a narrow sense, you are a Khitan. In a broad sense, you are Han." Shi Fei said to him.

"Ah?" Qiao Feng was even more confused.

Shi Fei looked around the courtyard, found a comfortable place to sit down, and said to Qiao Feng, Ah Zhu, and Wang Yuyan, "The Han Dynasty has long since perished."

"After the Han Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty and the Five Barbarians invaded China, and then the Tang Dynasty unified the country. Today, it is just a few factions that rule one side, and the great unified dynasties of the Han and Tang Dynasties have not reappeared."

"Therefore, both Liao and Song can be seen as the legitimate successors of the great unified dynasties of Han and Tang."

"How is that possible?" Qiao Feng widened his eyes.

Shi Fei said: "The Song Dynasty mainly extended its influence through maritime trade, while the Liao Dynasty's territory extended westward to the Altai Mountains."

"After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the people of the Central Plains could no longer extend their influence west of the Altai Mountains. People there believed that the Khitan of the Liao Dynasty was the successor of the Tang Dynasty."

"Especially according to the Liao Dynasty's own Records of the Imperial Dynasty, they considered themselves to be descendants of the Yellow Emperor. How can you say he was not a 'Han'?"

"The Khitans are descendants of the Yellow Emperor?" Not to mention Qiao Feng, even the well-read Wang Yuyan was shocked.

The Han people call themselves the descendants of Yan and Huang, and the Khitans also call themselves the descendants of Huangdi.

Doesn't that mean... an ancestor?
"In fact, the foreign races around the Central Plains are more or less related to Yanhuang in terms of bloodline." Shi Fei said: "After all, only the victors can survive in the Central Plains, and the losers will naturally be driven to the surrounding mountains."

"But this is not important. What is important is that Han people are not judged by their bloodline, but by their recognition of Chinese civilization."

"The previous dynasty, Li Tang, still had Xianbei blood, but they implemented a policy of Han culture as the main focus and inherited Chinese culture, so they are still Han people."

"Although the Liao Dynasty was composed of Khitan people, they identified with Chinese culture and civilization and did not consider themselves barbarians!"

That's right. We claim to be descendants of Emperor Huang, so how could we consider ourselves barbarians?

After Shi Fei said this, Qiao Feng and the other two fell into deep thought.

It seems, as if, or roughly speaking there is some truth in what he said.

"So whether it's Han or Khitan, in a broad sense, there is no difference. The difference is..." Shi Fei asked back: "What do you think? And what do you want to do?"

Speaking of this, Shi Fei sighed in his heart. If this was true history, Qiao Feng should not be so entangled.

Because in the real ancient times, most people had no concept of the country or the nation.

True nationalism would not emerge until several hundred years later in Germany. The concept of the country in the Song Dynasty was more like the "Zhao Dynasty".

The concept of "a certain dynasty" is greater than "a certain country".

People here should call themselves Song people, not Han people.

Because they are not "Han" people.

Unfortunately, this is just a martial arts world written by someone who is illiterate about history, so it is so confusing.

Qiao Feng is more like someone who grew up abroad in real life and has doubts about his own country and the country where he grew up.

"I think..." Qiao Feng said, "I want Song and Liao to renew their alliance and not start a war."

"That's impossible!" Shi Fei shook his head.

(End of this chapter)