LSBM - Chapter 195: Attack of Titans

The nervous Samarkand governor clumsily ushered Shu Yichao and his ghost horsemen into his manor, paying no heed to the Abbasid soldiers, who had become fodder for the vultures and the crows.

I would have never thought.

He and his aides felt dazed.

They are heavenly soldiers, in the truest sense.

“Persian Military Commander Li Siguo pays respect to the Anxi Protectorate-General. Please ask anything of us. It’d be our honor to serve you,” the Samarkand governor respectfully greeted Shu Yichao.

“Li Siguo?” Shu Yichao stared at the Samarkand governor with raised eyebrows.

He’s a Persian, right? Why does he have a Han name?

The Samarkand governor noticed Shu Yichao’s confusion and answered without missing a beat, “Yes, milord. We have taken on Han names after being enlightened by past sages. We had to hide our real names in the past because of the Abbasid Caliphate’s tyranny…”

He was bullshitting.

The Persians had been oppressed by the Muslims since the downfall of the Sasanian Empire. Their cities were destroyed. Their artwork was melted. They were forbidden from speaking their native tongue or practicing their religion. (T/N: The Sasanian Empire was the last Persian Empire before Persia was dominated by the Muslim Caliphates.)

They were even divided by castes.

The Muslim Arabs towered at the top of the hierarchy, followed by the Mawalis. The subjugated Persians were third-tier citizens, placed in the same rank as slaves.

Those who dared to speak Persian were either exiled or beheaded.

A group of people claiming to be the Sasanian Empire’s royal family fled to Great Tang following the demise of their state, and the Emperor Gaozu of Tang did confer them with the ‘Li’ surname. (T/N: The descendants of Yazdegerd III, the last ruler of the Sasanian Empire, sought refuge in Great Tang.)

Li Siguo was unrelated to those people, but he didn’t think that was an issue.

The important thing is that we have indeed been conferred by Great Tang’s emperor, and that there is a ‘Persian Military Commandery’ on the Tang map.

We have a

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