Taiping Order

Chapter 309 The suffering of the Western Regions, the wealth of the Western Regions, the grand ambition, and the compassionate heart (please give me a monthly vote)

At that moment, Li Guanyi felt that the atmosphere was frozen. The people wearing Western-style clothes around him put their hands on the hilt of their waists, and their faces were full of vigilance. Li Guanyi looked at the ancient artifacts that were crushed into powder under his feet. .

How much does it cost to lose money...

Li Guanyi looked at the knife in the hands of the Western Regions warriors over there, smiled, stood firm, held Yaoguang with one hand, and held the tiger roar in the sky with his right hand. This exaggerated and heavy weapon was in the moonlight. A cold light flashed below, Li Guan said:

"We are travelers from Central China. We were swept into a tornado. The desert sandstorm stopped and the goods were all separated. We were thrown here."

This is a Western Region Tuyuhun dialect. Li Guanyi's Yuanshen is powerful and was taught by evil spirits.

The people from the Western tribes over there looked at each other and said for a while, but Li Guanyi didn't understand a lot. Li Guanyi twitched his forehead. There were many dialect variants in the south of the Yangtze River, but people from the Central Plains At least you can understand the official language.

In the Western Regions, even language is a problem.

Li Guanyi realized that he underestimated the complex situation in the Western Regions.

Many of the great heroes of the Western Regions were sung in ancient epics. They had no words and records of their own for a long time. Three hundred years ago, Tuyuhun unified the Western Regions, but they were unable to imprint the inevitable unification like the Central Plains. marks.

No words or language can be completely unified.

Li Guan felt his palm being patted, lowered his head, and the silver-haired girl gently patted his palm. When Li Guan let go of his hand, Yaoguang jumped gently and landed steadily on the ground.

Then he turned to behind Li Guanyi.

Stepping on a big rock, standing on tiptoe, pressing her white and slightly cool fingers on both sides of Li Guanyi's temples, the girl whispered softly, and a cool feeling flowed through Li Guanyi's eyebrows.

The voices of conversations in the Western Regions that I just felt were suddenly clear.

Li Guan understood these words.

"What did this Central Plains man say?!"

"He seems to say, he is a **** who came down from heaven?"

"Nonsense, can you say that the Central Plains people can fly? Did he fly from the Central Plains?!"

Li Guanyi said, "Everyone."

When he spoke, the sound of the magical nature of his voice could make everyone understand the meaning. The people in this tribe were shocked. The scimitar in his hand sounded like a scimitar. Li Guanyi faced the hostility of the people and the tiger in his hand. Xiaotian Battle Halberd swept directly on the ground and pulled out a trace.

Then he pointed to the broken ancestral weapon over there.

The young man was so majestic that he said those two words with great pride.

"I'll pay!!"

So hostility was resolved.

...

"Give it, please drink..."

Li Guan thanked him for some not-so-standard Tuyuhun Mandarin and took a rough pottery with cattle and sheep milk. After drinking it, it tasted a little salty. On the other side was aged Li Guanyi and Yaoguang. A smaller girl.

Wearing Western-style clothing, a scimitar around her waist, her skin was bronzed, and her black hair on one side was tied with blue and red silk threads. This girl is not many people in the tribe who can use Tuyuhun Mandarin, saying: "Where are you from?"

Li Guanyi replied: "Central Plains, we are businessmen."

"It's just a storm."

The little girl named Saatanti said, and the expression on her face was obviously not convinced. Li Guanyi used the Mohist agency to put a flame to tell the rest of the Tiance Mansion where he was.

When the ancient red dragon is abandoned by people, it is sent with the flowing wind.

It just ensures that the whole is within a general range, but is not accurate enough.

Yaoguang took out his small wooden cup from the package, poured a little bit of goat milk from the Western Regions to taste. The man with a beard and two scimitars on his waist strode over, looking fierce, and said, "You said that." , I need to compensate, how to compensate? ”

Saatanti wanted to say something, but the big man pressed his shoulders down.

The man's eyebrows stood up and he shouted: "This is our ancestral weapon, something our ancestors used when they were walking on this land. When Tuyuhun was a Buddha slave, these objects were born in water and fire. .”

“It has great significance and value for us.”

"You broke them, it's important for us, just like our loved ones and our ancestors..."

Li Guan thought about it, took it out of her arms, and took out a small pocket.

The little pocket of the young lady in Changfeng Tower opened the things stored by Li Guanyi, and there was a handful of golden beans inside, emitting a golden light under the moonlight.

Li Guanyi said, "Is it enough?"

This man is named Batuer, which means a warrior and a hero.

Li Guanyi's behavior directly sank him.

The man with a beard and two scimitars held it in for a long time, and his rough face turned red. Then he gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand, reached into the pocket in Li Guan's hand, and took it out.

He reached out and grabbed one-third of the golden beans that Li Guanyi expected.

I counted it, and then put it back part, leaving only a little bit behind.

He said in a muffled voice: "Enough, enough!"

Li Guan grinned and felt very distressed when he arrived in the Western Regions. Before he could do anything, he had already suffered such losses. He put away the remaining golden beans, and thus obtained this tribe. a big favor.

"The people of Central Plains, traveling merchants, golden beads!"

Batuer counted the golden beads and asked the old people who were supposed to be left in this lake to come back. He lowered his voice and said, "The people of the Central Plains who fell from the sky are blessed by the gods, and he brought them. Jinzhu, you can walk on this earth for another time.”

"These gold can be exchanged for dry food in the city, cattle and sheep, and can also get some water blessed by gods and Buddhas. If the disease is cured, you can still survive."

Batuer had a cold face and asked the old people to wear their clothes. He had cold face and asked them to get food. Only when everyone went back, he reached out and grabbed the gold and raised his hand. He wiped his eyes with his back to everyone.

"Tiangele, the hero granted by the gods to the earth."

He thought of the legend of his childhood.

I thought of my grandfather who touched his head when I was a child and never came back when I walked to the front of the holy lake. He held the scimitar and made a clanging sound.

Soon, everyone in the Tiance Mansion came back according to the level of light skills. As for Qilin, they had long been lying beside him and began to lick Li Guanyi's cattle and goat milk. They smashed it and their mouths. The comments were just as good as they were.

Then swallow it in big mouthfuls.

Although average.

However, a gentleman and a unicorn do not waste all food!

When Shi Dalin and Changsun Wuqi came back, this small tribe prepared grain for them, which was served in rough pottery, and a grain similar to wheat with a coarse texture, was cooked with milk, and sheep. Stir the milk together, dried figs and raisins, and Li Guanyi and the people in the Tiance Mansion also divided the roasted jerky meat.

When paired together, it is the best hospitality of this small tribe for this caravan that falls from the sky.

Li Guan took a bite of the dried meat and glanced at the Qilin there, nowhere to know where to take out a small porcelain bottle, pour out delicate chili powder and five-spice powder, and then eat the barbecue gracefully.

Li Guan twitched his forehead.

Old Qilin, what did he teach him?

Batuer also used cattle and goat milk to make tea for them to drink, but this kind of milk tea is a bit salty, and people who are used to the tea in Jiangnan are not very used to it. The farmer's master Xu Tiange crunched and ate the food, and ran over to talk to everyone about the food. seed.

The Mohist Master Pan Wanxiu was very interested in the mobility of the tribe and the wooden structures born among the people here to hold things and luggage, so he ran over to communicate.

Fan Qing took the initiative to go and talk to the tribal martial artist holding the scimitar.

Lei Laomeng touched his chin and looked at the horses and cattle and sheep of this tribe.

For a moment, only Li Guanyi had nothing to do. He sighed and took a sip of salted milk tea to calm down. The sky in the Western Regions seemed particularly empty and far away, and the stars were quiet. Suddenly someone pulled Li Guanyi.

Turning his head and seeing Nangong Wumeng, who was the last to return.

Li Guanyi handed over the food prepared by the tribe and said, "Why did it come so slowly?"

"Your light skills are only worse than mine here."

Nangong Wumeng rolled her eyes and muttered, "The Lord of the Ancient Dragon is too careless. I was thrown far away by Him. When I fell, it was the branch of this lake and it was also branded by stones. Once, my back became blue."

"I was going to throw this thing away."

"But fortunately, I took a look under the moonlight and brought it to you."

Li Guan smiled and said, "What do I want this stone to do?"

The most beautiful man in the world took out the stone and threw it to Li Guanyi. Li Guanyi grabbed it casually, stunned slightly, feeling the touch of the stone falling in his hand, which was completely wrong. He looked closely and under the moonlight. Glowing golden.

What is heavy is a piece of natural-formed dog-head gold.

Nangong Wumeng smiled sly and said, "What's wrong? Junhou Mian, is it that this stone makes you so happy? Ah... there is no change at all... Wooah!"

Li Guan raised his head and grabbed Nangong Wumeng's wrist: "Well done!"

"I knew it was right to bring you!"

Nangong Wumeng just now smiled sly, her eyes were as charming as silk, and she stuttered in a blink of an eye: "You, you you!"

Li Guan gave all his flesh to Nangong Wumeng.

Rubbing this large piece of natural gold.

It's worthy of being you!

The Qilin Army in Tiance Mansion has the best fortune!

Nangong Wumeng retreated. Li Guanyi was eating and looking at the surrounding situation. The number of people was not small. Among them, the young and middle-aged men were carrying scimitars, including cattle, sheep, and horses. Li Guanyi thought about it and pretended to go get things. , found the little girl Saatanti and asked about the situation.

Saatanti was very grateful to the Central Plains merchants because the elderly avoided being thrown by the lake and waiting for death. Hearing Li Guanyi's inquiry, he replied: "We are following the water." Here, you have to go to the nearby city to buy some food, sell the fur and meat, and replace it with salt and tea bricks.

"If you don't eat salt, you won't have the strength. If you don't eat tea, you will..."

Saatanti thought for a moment, gestured with his fingers and said, "It will cause illness, and the blood will break."

Li Guanyi understood that it was because it was difficult to replenish fresh vegetables here.

"Then what is the city you are going to?"

Saatanti replied, "There is a lake called [Daqing Pond] in Baluga City. This lake is very narrow and long. The water is black and blue, bitter and salty, but it is very cheap to sell salt in Baluga City. , we all go there."

Li Guanyi was thinking.

The land deed prepared by the young lady is there, a large area of ​​land in a village and town. It sounds like a salt lake that produces salt in the Western Regions. The young lady really chose a good place.

He chatted with the little girl, and Saatanti seemed to be curious about what was outside. He answered Li Guanyi's questions and would also ask him about what was outside, and Li Guanyi also gave a brief answer.

Li Guan understood the situation. There were more than a thousand people in this tribe, and they were extremely small in the Western Regions. They did not have the force to occupy even the smallest oasis, nor were they willing to devote themselves to the large tribes and become servants. I had to wander around. There are also great rivers in the Western Regions.

In spring, there are large snow-capped mountains from the north, the snow and frost melt, the water flows up, there will be new oasis, and animals will chase the water source. These small tribes have no place to live, so they will chase these small animals.

Go hunt them and pick medicinal materials from snow-capped mountains and steep places.

Then follow the water flow to the places of the large tribes, sell the fur, cattle, sheep, and medicinal materials to exchange for salt, tea bricks, and weapons to support tribe life, and then continue to chase the water source and leave.

"We can't afford to live in the city."

Li Guanyi was surprised: "During Tuyuhun unified the Western Regions for three hundred years, hasn't it built many cities?"

Saatanti wondered, "But those cities belong to Tuyuhun."

"Now they are Dangxiang people, and then they are Central Plains people."

“We have never been accepted.”

"And after the great hero died more than 300 years ago, it became a mess. Now there are many cities in them, and they all have their own country."

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

The thirty-six ministries founded the country. Although Tuyuhun unified the Western Regions, he ultimately lacked vision and failed to completely complete ideological unity. This is a typical era of rule of man and heroes.

The thought of unity has not been imprinted in everyone's hearts.

When there are heroes who are rare, these city-states can be integrated together and become a great and prosperous country over time. However, when such a hero dies, the country he established falls apart.

Li Guan glanced at this tribe and asked curiously: "I see that you have so many cattle, sheep and prey. How much salt and iron can you get in the city-state?"

Saatanti was silent for a moment and said with his finger:

"The three-headed sheep can be replaced with a pot."

"A cow, change to a tea brick, that's it."

Li Guan stopped with an action, looking at the fur, jerky, and herbs accumulated by the tribe for a year, and maybe he could only change to a little tea brick and salt. In this case, even the oppression of the Central Plains dynasty was far away. Far from comparison.

Li Guanyi didn't know what to say at the moment. Saatanti thought for a while, put a small dagger made of horns in Li Guanyi's hand and said, "This is a gift from my grandmother, I'll give it to you now."

"We originally wanted to leave the old people in the tribe here, leave a little food, and then leave, because this year there were more children in the tribe, and the annual harvest could not support a little more. People had to leave the old man here.”

It is the control strategy of the nobles of the Western Regions.

Li Guan realized it immediately, but Saatanti didn't know this, just said, "Maybe we didn't work hard enough to support so many people. If you didn't come down from heaven, they would have stayed here. .”

"I heard that there is a sky burial near the holy mountain. When people die, they will be on the mountain, allowing the flying eagles to eat their internal organs and return to the world."

Li Guanyi held the exquisite horn and said, "Is this how?"

Saatanti said, “There is nothing to do.”

"The Western Regions use money, silver, and small money. Only the patriarchs and others can go to the big city because they are warriors wearing swords. A wandering tribe like us is a inferior man, and his life is only worth a rope."

As soon as Saatanti and Li Guan talked about this, they ran to help the old people. Li Guan put down a handful of pottery. The people here didn't dare to say anything to him, but just put their hands together and said, "Golden Beads."

"Golden beads."

Li Guan grinned.

He is not a golden bead.

Besides, that one is called Jindouzi.

Everyone in Tiance Mansion discovered the situation and went back to the same place and corrected the information they knew. It was a bit complicated. Although they knew that the situation in the Western Regions was bad early, they never thought it would be like this.

Only Changsun Wuqiu was used to it and said, "Because King Tuyuhun was a serf, he overthrew the people who had been pressing on his head before. After he became the overlord of the Western Regions, his descendants oppressed the wandering people and the serfs more than before. More powerful.”

"I should be worried about another Tuyuhun, right?"

Fan Qing whispered: "I will sneak into the holy lake and find many corpses, including traces of being bitten on the bones of the corpses. Those who stay here should have eaten each other. , and then die.”

"It should be the winner who ate the others and starved to death."

"And both sides were injured and were eaten by the vulture."

"There are almost bones under this lake."

Li Guan rubbed his eyebrows, remained silent, and said, "After waiting, we will go to the place we agreed on before, and there is no connection."

Changsun Wujun bowed and said, "Mr.

Li Guanyidao:

"Tomorrow morning, you go and find Erlang and give him my handwritten letter."

When Changsun Wuqi heard Li Guanyi's name, he looked strange and said:

"yes."

Li Guanyi said: "Nangong."

Nangong Wumeng was in a daze and distracted. Li Guan called out a few times before he reacted in a hurry and said, "What?"

Li Guanyi said, "You have the best light skills and have magic weapons. Go and find the power of Qi Zhu."

"Tell him where I am and ask him, do you still remember the appointment that day?"

Nangong Wumeng looked solemn on his face and said, "Yes."

"Nangong takes the order."

She hesitated and said, "What about you, General?"

Li Guan looked at the tribe and replied, "Since I am a businessman from the Central Plains, let's work with these people to figure out the situation in the Western Regions. Such a complicated situation, if you can't go and see it on the spot, you can't do it. I understand."

"Okay, let's rest."

Everyone took the order to retreat. Li Guanyi sat on one side of the rock, Yaoguang was reading quietly beside him. Li Guanyi looked at the sky and pondered in his heart. The situation in the Western Regions was even worse than he expected.

The wolf king regent has already swept all directions, and it is difficult for the Dangxiang country to resist.

But the thirty-six nobles only maintain their own rule and exploit ordinary tribal herders. Li Guan pressed his fingers between his eyebrows, and looked at the quiet tribe under the night, sleeping on each other, with a scimitar in his arms, and the moon The color is quiet, but it feels like walking only by the cliff, as if you will die completely in the next moment.

This is a chaotic era. The people in the Central Plains act as cattle and horses, but they also have to sell their daughters and sons; the herdsmen and tribes in the Western Regions wander everywhere, but they have to abandon the elderly and maintain their tribe's survival.

"A person's life price is a straw rope."

"Ah...chaotic times."

Li Guanyi looked at the stars in the sky.

He suddenly understood why Qi Lili, who had been riding a donkey, crossing the vast land alone, arrived in Jiangzhou City in Jiangnan, and begged Chen Dingye for help.

Why did Qi Li react so much after Li Guanyi promised land and protection?

A life is just a rope.

How desperate and persistent was Qi Li at that time, so he embarked on the road to the Central Plains alone? And what kind of enlightenment did the people in other clans make Qi Li, who was a master at that time, go on the road instead of protecting himself.

It's to survive.

It's all about living.

Li Guanyi was thinking randomly.

A gentle touch came from his shoulders, and the silver hair fell on him, and the silver-haired girl leaned against his shoulder. Li Guan was slightly stunned, feeling the slight but stable breathing sound, and suddenly said to himself: "After all, what happened this day There are too many things."

"Yaoguang should be so sleepy..."

The silver-haired girl's voice was quiet and said:

"I'm awake."

Li Guan paused.

The Western Regions are vast and vast, under the bright moonlight, the tribe, which was about to die, fell asleep. Li Guanyi sat here, with the silver-haired girl opening her eyes, sober and rational, and restrained, leaning against the young king's shoulder.

Then, gently hook Li Guanyi's sleeve robe with the little finger of his right hand.

Under the moonlight, breathing sounds.

The silver-haired girl's voice was quiet: "I'm here whatever you want to do."

“I’m here in any future you want to go.”

"The Nine-Colored Divine Deer doesn't believe you, I believe it."

Li Guan lowered his eyes and replied, "Okay..."

He looked at these Western Regions people, drank the milk wine alone, and looked at the vast sky, what about the Western Regions...

Sleeping Saatanti murmured:

"Tiangeer..."

"Golden beads."

Li Guanyi made a decision.

Li Guanyi thought: "The village and town we are going to have is actually quite large in area. There are water sources and oasis around it. If Saatanthi and the others don't dislike it, it's better to stay there."

“Carry their goods at reasonable prices.”

"If they want, please spread the news that there is a Central Plains people here, who are called Jinzhu and Tiangeer, who are willing to gather these tribes wandering in the Western Regions."

"Willing to protect them."

Li Guanyi didn't know what kind of future this promise that only made to Yaoguang, and what kind of decision that he couldn't bear to make, would lead to. He just wanted to make it, his past, his gentleman, He cannot be like the hero of this era.

Go to massacre the city and use human heads to forge Jingguan to promote your reputation.

At this moment, when Li Guanyi's thoughts fell, the Jiuzhou tripod roared slightly in his body—

Li Guan was slightly stunned, and his soul restrained himself and looked at it.

The Jiuzhou Ding roared violently!

The nine-colored charm obtained from the nine-colored divine deer inside slowly dispersed.

Shen Yun, which was originally only one-nineth awakening, began to change vaguely!

(End of this chapter)