【Text/Observer Network Guo Xiao】
What kind of cultural genes have been passed down all the way to The 5,000-year-old Tradition of China, constituting today's Chinese? A short video tells you that it is a belief in mission.
Recently, this short video has caught fire on social media, making countless netizens cry.
There are two characters in the short film, the soldier Guo Yuanzheng and the "called Hanako" Lu XIV.
At the beginning of the story, the battlefield is full of corpses, and "Call Hanako" Lu XIV searches for food in the pile of dead people, and finds several bags of coins.
As a result, he was subdued by the surviving soldier Guo Yuanzheng and forced to transport coins with him.
The two trekked all the way through the desert, hungry for Venus, and finally arrived at an inn, but Guo Yuanzheng only asked for a bowl of water from the other party, "cutting and searching" unwilling to come up with money.
There is obviously so much money in the bag, but it can only nibble on the dry food of the hard state, Lu Xisi is puzzled, and he has also persuaded many times "well-intentioned" that so much money can buy it dozens of acres of land around, please a few beautiful wives, drink wine every day, eat meat every day...
Finally, Guo Yuanzheng told the truth, and it turned out that the money was military expenses.
The soldiers in Xizhou City had been besieged for 25 years, and there was no news, and the garrison general General Guo sent people back to Chang'an several times, but all died on the road, and once they finally contacted, the year number changed.
At this time, Lu XIV, a man named Hanako, was also found to have the identity of a soldier, and his colleagues desperately sent him out of the city in order to send him a letter to the family, and the whole army was destroyed.
Lu XIV, who personally experienced the war and witnessed the cruelty of the war, had actually lost the fighting spirit of the early years, and in the face of Guo Yuanzheng's enthusiasm, he was helpless, the enemy army had hundreds of thousands of horses, what was the use of this money?
Guo Yuanzheng's eyes were firm, "Even if I can change one more truckload of grain and grass, a knife, and an arrow, I can let one more enemy know that this is my Datang." "As long as Datang's coins are still circulating here, Datang is here."
Therefore, climb also to climb to Xizhou City.
Guo Yuanzheng did not insist on going to Xizhou City.
Lu XIV, who had all the money, was free, holding all the money, and his heart was full of the good life that was about to usher in--drinking and eating meat every day. Xizhou City? It doesn't matter anymore.
Of course, Qian still arrived at Xizhou City, nothing bad, just like Guo Yuanzheng said at the beginning, climbing also had to climb to Xizhou City, this time, it was Lu XIV who climbed.
The temptation to drink wine and eat meat every day did not resist his heart after all, and he completed the "last transfer of data in the Great Tang Desert North".
When he delivered the coin to the lone soldier and walked out of the city gate, the sound of the soldiers' loud songs came from the city:
Qin Shi Mingyue Han Shi Guan, the Long March people have not returned; but make the Dragon City fly will be, do not teach Humadu Yin Mountain.
Qinghai Changyun dark snow mountain, isolated city looking at the Yumen Pass; Huangsha hundred battles wear golden armor, do not break the Loulan and eventually do not return.
In fact, this short film is an advertisement of China UnionPay, but it still makes many netizens cry, some netizens think that an advertisement is more careful than the movie, and some people even call it "the best advertisement of the year".
Some netizens also noticed that the content in this short film actually happened in history, just in the Tang Dynasty.
In 755 AD, the Anshi Rebellion occurred, Chang'an was in danger, in addition to the Tang Dynasty garrisons, the Western Regions (at that time, the Western Regions and even the Aral Sea region were included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty) many kingdoms also sent troops to the east to suppress the rebellion.
The internal mobilization of the garrison greatly weakened the Tang army's defensive forces in the west, and the Tubo army took advantage of the situation to invade the territory and occupy the Hexi Corridor.
Guizi, the seat of the capital of the Western Regions, was cut off from the central plains, and the officers and soldiers here became a veritable lone army.
Messengers were sent again and again, and again and again there was no news.
In the later archaeological process, in the local excavated documents, there was such a record as the fifteenth year of the Gregorian calendar, but the Tang Dynasty's era name of the Calendar was actually only stopped until the fourteenth year, and the information of such a major change in the era name was difficult to convey, which showed the depth of the isolation.
At that time, the town guarding the Guizi area was Guo Xin, the nephew of the famous Tang Dynasty general Guo Ziyi.
In the CCTV "Discovery" program "Guizi Guizi" once introduced, in the face of the siege of Tibet for many years, Guo Xin and his defenders did not give up, they united with the local people of Guizi, while preparing for the battle, while cultivating and self-support, they not only achieved self-sufficiency in grain, but also in the warhorses, weapons, coins and other materials can also try to solve their own problems.
Finally, one day in the park in 781, the figure of an Emissary from Anxi appeared in Chang'an City, and the emissary detoured to the capital, and since Guo Xin went to Anxi in 765 to serve as an envoy to the Four Towns Festival, he had led his soldiers to guard Anxi for 16 years.
The scene of the soldiers being loyal and hard to defend the enclave caused a huge sensation in the imperial court at that time, and Tang Dezong sent emissaries to award commendations to the soldiers, and Guo Xin was promoted to the position of observer of the four towns of Anxi.
Later, Guo Xin never left here. The last time an anxi was recorded in the historical records was in 790 AD (the sixth year of the Tang Dynasty), Tubo launched a large-scale attack on the Beiting area, the Uighurs led troops to help, the Beiting fell, and the only passage between Anxi and the central government was cut off.
No one could know what the fate of Guo Xin, who was already dying of old age, would end up at the moment when the Tubo army suppressed the situation.
What is certain is that they wrote legends with their blood and injected their lives into this land.
As the UnionPay advertisement ended up saying, what is it that makes the Zhengzheng teenager a white-haired veteran? Why, a few bags of copper coins need to be guarded with life? All the answers are in the military song, floating in the desert and the starry sky.
Chinese, never changed his belief in the mission.
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