In the last issue, we talked about the tragic life of Li Ling, a famous general of the Han Dynasty, so the director of this issue will tell you what Li Ling did after he surrendered to the Xiongnu, after all, he stayed in the Xiongnu for 25 years and must have his own descendants.
I believe that people who know history know that after Li Ling surrendered to the Xiongnu, he married the daughter of Shan Yu, the Marquis of Yan, as his wife, so Li Ling must have had his own descendants in the Xiongnu.
At that time, the Xiongnu conquered many surrounding tribes, and the Jiankun tribe was also occupied by the Xiongnu, and after Li Ling surrendered to the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu made him the Right Sage King and governed Jiankun and other regions. Therefore, Li Ling lived in Jiankun for a long time, and his wife also came to the Jiankun tribe, where the two lived a good life, and Li Ling also had children here.
Therefore, Li Ling's descendants were all integrated into the Jiankun people, and later, Wang Zhaojun's descendants also came to Jiankun, and the Han captured by the Xiongnu were sent to Jiankun. After Li Ling's death, his descendants continued to rule Jiankun, and it was passed down from generation to generation. Later, when the Xiongnu had declined, Jiankun broke away and established the State of Jiankun.
Later, Jiankun was successively ruled by Xianbei, Rouran, and Gaoche, and during the Sui and Tang dynasties, Jiankun was ruled by the Turks. However, the Jiankun people believed that the Han people should not be ruled by the Turks, and kept resisting until the Tang Emperors Li Yuan and Li Shimin posthumously recognized Li Guang and Li Dare as ancestors, and the leaders of Jiankun quietly came to the Tang Dynasty to recognize their ancestors and return to the Emperor, and Li Shimin was very happy to learn that the leader of Jiankun was a descendant of Li Ling, so he set up the Governor's Mansion of Jiankun in Jiankun and named its leader zuotun the grand general and the governor of Jiankun.
After that, Jiankun gained a firm foothold, relying on the Tang Dynasty, which was also the Li family, and took the opportunity to expand its territory, and in 840 AD, Jiankun destroyed the Uighurs and established the Khanate of Qiangjiasi.
The Tang Dynasty had always maintained close contact with the Tang Dynasty, and repeatedly assisted Tang in the rebellion of the Turks and Li Keyong. The Khaganate of Reggas was located on the Mongolian plateau and in Central Asia, present-day Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Later, Genghis Khan established the Great Mongol State, causing most of the Tangese to move south. In the 15th century, the Dzungars were expelled from the Seven Rivers Valley by the Dzungars and moved to Fergana in Central Asia, soviet Union.
Until the Qing Dynasty pacified Dzungar, some of the Jurchens returned to their former residences in the Seven Rivers Valley, and the Jurchens were the ancestors of the present-day Kirgiz (Kyrgyz), so the ancestors of the Kyrgyz people were still the famous general Li Ling of the Han Dynasty.
The Kyrgyz people are mainly distributed in Kyrgyzstan and China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, also known as the Kyrgyz in China, so it can be said that Li Ling is still very successful, although he is in the Xiongnu, he still has a heart for the Han. Now the dynasties established by his descendants have become China's neighbors, and diplomatic relations with China are good.