Firmament

The treasure of a hero is ambition.

- Evenki proverb

The Great River flows through the southeastern part of the West Sea, forming a long and narrow rocky basin in the La Ridge Mountains. The mountains around the basin are not very high, but they are very distinctive. The rocks on the surface have been sharpened by the winds for tens of thousands of years and turned into fine gravel. Gravel has a high iron content, which renders the soil red.

The red gravel soil looks red and vigorous, but in fact, the soil erosion is serious, the lack of water is prone to drought, and the grass and trees are difficult to survive. As a result, the red hillside has no flamboyant color and momentum, lacks fresh life, and is full of dry and bare eyes. Fortunately, the land of the Jishi Basin is fertile and the water is rippling, which has nurtured generations of Salur people.

In the street workers where the Salur people first settled, a Salul boy sat alone on a crimson hillside. Sometimes he stared at the white clouds floating in the blue sky, and sometimes his eyes followed the mighty Yellow River. He was trying to imagine what the world would be like outside of street workers.

The boy was Hansayid, a descendant of Hassan, a native of Salur.

He looked to be about 13 or 4 years old, with a sturdy, tiger-headed, long-eyed pair of large eyes, a swarthy complexion, two thick, dark eyebrows almost in a line, and a pale yellow beanie on his dark, dense hair.

Han Said heard his grandfather and grandmother say that more than 500 years ago, the Salur people moved eastward from the western kingdom of Galemang, guarded the frontier of the northern country, settled in the street, and became the reclaimers of this land.

However, Hansayid never understood why the Salurians had left their homeland and fled to such a distant place, why they had to defend their territory for the steppe people, and who would defend the frontier of the Garmang Kingdom

Hansayed looked at the smoke wafting from the Salur houses, the golden dome of the yellow mosque, the magical white camel spring, the green fields and free-blooming wildflowers, and tried his best to find answers to many questions.

Finally, he couldn't help but ask himself, "Isn't it possible that the street workers are more beautiful and rich than the kingdom of Gareman?"

The construction site of Jiezi is located at the intersection of the two major plateaus in the eastern part of the West Sea, surrounded by mountains and valleys. The Salur people stayed on this fiery land, recuperated and worked hard, and gradually became the main inhabitants of the land.

There is such a proverb among the Tibetan people of Yuanzhugou: "Dongna Yuanzhugou Suowa Jigeni, Manla Salar Gong Jigeni." It means that there are 12 Zhuangzi in Yuanzhugou and 12 workers in Salur. Yuanzhugou is inhabited by a small number of descendants of the Salur people.

The

Salur people of Yuanzhugou had an ancient scripture in existence, but no one knows the text anymore. They only touched the scriptures with their hands during weddings, funerals, and gatherings, and they were supposed to have recited the scriptures.

These descendants of the Tibetan Salur have always maintained a very close relationship with the Salur people of the street workers, calling the Sarul people in the street as Shani (Tubo, Benjia) and the other ethnic groups as Xuhu (Tubo language, villagers).

The Salur people maintained a relatively close relationship with the Eastern Kingdoms, and received official positions from the king for generations, and were in a semi-autonomous state.

After more than 200 years of evolution and integration, the colors of each ethnic group have gradually faded and gradually formed common characteristics. They merged with the surrounding ethnic groups to form a Hui ethnic community. At the same time, the Salur people lived in a relatively concentrated manner and had limited foreign exchanges. The population has not changed significantly. They lived side by side with the Huihui, the Baoan, and the Saltas, and they were in harmony with each other.

After hundreds of years of development, the Salur people have formed a relatively stable social grassroots organization, namely Agnai, Kongmusan and Agle.

The

inheritance habits of the Salur people are the same as those of the steppe people, unlike the Orientals, where the eldest son inherits the ancestral inheritance, but the younger son lives with his parents and is in charge of the family property. The rest of the sons got married and started a family and had to set up a separate door and live alone. This kinship formed the Agnai, a consanguineous organization based on patrilineal kinship.

Agnai is a compound of the Turkic words Agai (elder brother) and Naini (younger brother), which is equivalent to the circle of brothers in the East.

A few close Agnai then formed a Kongmusan.

Kongmusa is a compound word composed of Kongmu and Sanni, and the Turkic word means whole, all. In Salur society, Kongmusa means distant brother, a person with a surname, or a root, and is a family organization that is separated from the blood ties of Agnai and is linked by patrilineal blood.

Aglo is a settlement formed by the union of several Kongmu scatters, with communal mountain forests and pastures. The earliest meaning of Agre in Turkic was home or yurt, but after the ancestors of the Salur people moved to the East, it developed into a regional concept and became a village or village.

The

Salur people formed many Aglo tribes of different sizes under special circumstances, and their purpose was to strengthen the alliance of relatives and jointly resist natural and man-made disasters.

At that time, there were 18 aglers in the streets. Shimizu workers have 9 Agles.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the outside world to which Hansayd aspired changed dramatically. Capitalism in Europe is developing rapidly, and science and technology are constantly advancing. The extensive use of industrial machinery has led to a significant increase in production efficiency and further social, economic and cultural modernization. The country's overall strength and military strength have been greatly enhanced.

Correspondingly, after three generations of prosperity, the Northeast country was arrogant and complacent, implementing a conservative policy of closing the country to the outside world, widening the distance from the rapidly developing Western world, showing signs of gradual decline.

In order to strengthen the management of the Salur people, the Northeast Kingdom built a new city on the Caotan Dam on the bank of the Yellow River

The royal government divided the area inhabited by the Salurians into 12 provinces, centered on the city of Jishi. The west of the city is 6 workers, namely Jiezi, Caotanba, Chaga, Belie, Chahan Temple, and Su. The east of the city is the next 6 workers, namely Qingshui, Dasugu, Mengda, Zhangga, Xichang, and Naiman. Salur Tusi Han Bing was stationed in the street and managed the 6 Gong Gong for the king, known as the Shang 6 Gong Tusi. Another Salur Tusi Han Dayong was stationed in Naiman, and managed the lower 6 works for the king, which was called the lower 6 works of the toast.

工 is a dry diacritic. Gan means town in Turkic language. The term was brought by the Salurians when they migrated eastward. Later, Tianshan Province in the Western Regions also appeared many place names with the word "gong", such as head worker, three workers, wool workers, etc. At this time, the meaning of "work" has changed from a simple town to a military and civilian garrison in the border area.