One person above Qing Huang Ting

Chapter 117 Wizard
"When I thank Brother Ziwen for his kindness, please tell him that my sister and I will go to the Western Regions soon, and hope that we can meet in the Western Regions."

Hu Xiuwu put away the map and said to Tong Yifu.

"Here."

Tang Yi's father performed a very standard vertebral Han salute and turned around to return to his life.

After Father Tong Yi left, Hu Xiuwu unscrewed the leather tube with the map, took out the rolled up map and spread it out, just glanced at it, and Hu Xiuwu frowned.

What is this, this game should be called a map? !
With only a few strokes on the sheepskin map, the whole picture of the Western Regions was drawn, and everything was drawn. Not to mention the contour lines and scales, even the mountains were replaced by the same shape of hills.

This is not a freehand landscape painting, what is the use of such a simple painting!

You have drawn two lines and marked the name of the city on the line, so you can call it a map?

Hu Xiuwu felt that even the labels on the map had more strokes than the map itself.

Fighting with such a map really can't blame Li Guang for getting lost. At the same time, it also shows that Huo Qubing, who can rely on such a map to fight guerrilla warfare on the grasslands, has a really powerful sense of direction and can be called a human-shaped compass.

The map Hu Xiuwu got from the horse bandits was simple enough. He originally thought it was just a special case, but he didn't expect that the map of the Western Regions from Zhang Qian would be the same. It was the official map of the Han Dynasty.

Even the official map is so crude, one can imagine how little the big Han now knows about the Western Regions. I am afraid that the current big Han only knows about the Western Regions. The Western Regions are rich in beautiful jade.

Looking at the two nearly parallel lines on the map, Hu Xiuwu sighed in distress,
Gu Mo and Jing are never on the same path!Gumo and Yumenguan are on the same line, while Jingjue and Yangguan are on the same line, one south and one north, almost parallel.

Moreover, from the map, Gumo is farther from Yumen Pass than Jingjue, and closer to the place where Da Yuezhi now lives.

what's the situation?
Hu Xiuwu deeply complained about the unreliability of Hu Bayi:

It's not that big brother, you first arrived at the ancient city of Xiye, and then you arrived at the ancient city of Jingjue. How did you get there, playing in circles in the Western Regions?

free?

Mainly because of the face of being a big brother, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan focused on themselves, how to find the tomb of Prince Gumo by means of profound geomantic techniques, and how to fight the black snake bravely.

As for the trivial matter of accidentally getting lost, I didn't tell Hu Xiuwu, which caused Hu Xiuwu's confusing understanding of the positions of Gumo and Jingjue.

Just bragging with his younger brother, who would have thought that he would still use this knowledge point.

Rolling up the sheepskin map in his hand and putting it back into the cylinder, Hu Xiuwu clapped his palm with the cylinder, and thought in his heart:
"I thought it was too simple before. Even with this map and the astrological guidance, it is not so easy to go to Gumo. No wonder the big brother had to find a local guide before he was willing to set off."

"It seems that I have to find an An Liman too."

(An Liman: a person's name, meaning a living map in the desert.)
Putting the cylinder with the map into the ghost grave, Hu Xiuwu shouted to Chen Duo:
"Duo'er, I'm going out, you don't have to wait for me at noon, you can eat first."

Chen Duo stopped and said to Hu Xiuwu, "I want to go with you."

"I'm just going to help us find a guide, you don't have to..."

Hu Xiuwu originally wanted to refuse, but then he thought that if Chen Duo was here alone, she would probably sit alone against the wall for another afternoon, so why not go out with him.

"...Forget it, you'd better come with me."

Before the opening of the mutual market, Dahan knew very little about the Western Regions, and it was too difficult to go to the Western Regions, so there were very few caravans going to the Western Regions.

But less does not mean no, because businessmen near Jiuquan County know at least one thing.

The Western Regions outside the Han Dynasty produced jade, and it was still beautiful jade with mutton fat. Even later, Xiaoshipancheng was renamed Yumenguan, which was also named after the transportation of jade for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Huaxia's love and pursuit of jade has never declined since ancient times.As long as you can bring back one dendrobium jade from the Western Regions, you can exchange for ten carts of gold.

But the caravans that go to the Western Regions and come back with jade are often out of ten. This is a life-threatening sum of money, but there are always people who would rather die in the Gobi than die in poverty.

Either take the risk of earning a sum of money that will last the rest of your life, or you won't have the rest of your life.

Therefore, there are still a few caravans in Xiaoshipancheng that have not left. As long as you find a reliable caravan Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo, you can join the caravan and go to the Western Regions.

When choosing a caravan, Hu Xiuwu was second to the strength of the caravan. The main reason was to choose a caravan that was more familiar with the Western Regions. Don't get lost in the desert and it would be troublesome.

But Hu Xiuwu didn't know the situation in Xiaoshipancheng, so he still had to rely on local snakes to find a more reliable caravan.

Coincidentally, Hu Xiuwu met a local snake who was very familiar with the situation in Xiaoshipancheng yesterday and had some reputation there.

County Weisha Zhu of Xiaoshipancheng.

Hu Xiuwu led Chen Duo around the county office without seeing Sha Zhu. He asked a few people in the county office to find out that Sha Zhu was in the county office's warehouse at this time, and he led people to watch the mission's supplies. Happening.

This is the top priority of Xiaoshipancheng now. The county magistrate, Xu Yuanjin, attaches great importance to it.

"Hey, that's for horses, not people. What are you doing with your two eyes, just to fit in with the group?"

When Hu Xiuwu found Sha Zhu, he saw him yelling at the person carrying the supplies at the door of the warehouse:

"Captain Shaxian!"

"Who is it! Who called me! Oh, it turned out to be Zhang Xianchang."

Originally, Sha Zhu's busy forehead sweat was a little annoyed and his tone was not good, but when he turned around and saw that the person who stopped him was Hu Xiuwu, he suddenly became enthusiastic.

Hu Xiuwu shook his head: "I'm not yet immortal, just call me Xiuwu."

"I can't, I can't, you are different from a rough guy like me. What are you doing here this time? Are you here to get the supplies that Zhang Shijun specially stored for you?"

In the Han Dynasty, people in the streets and alleys of the market were very mysterious, thinking that they were all immortals, and they were omnipotent.

Although Sha Zhu is not as ignorant as the common people, he is still in awe of strangers, so Sha Zhu's tone is still very humble.

Hu Xiuwu said, "No, I came here to find you, Captain Shaxian. I hope you can do me a favor."

After speaking, Hu Xiuwu bowed to Sha Zhu in front of everyone in the warehouse to express his gratitude.

"Whoops, whoops, I can't, I can't!"

Sha Zhu's face turned red. For a person with a good face like him, he could get the thanks of an immortal, and he really felt a lot of face in his heart.

He said that he couldn't help it, but in fact, after taking a look at the faces of the people around him, Sha Zhu's heart was bubbling with beauty, and he shouted loudly with a loud slap on his chest:
"If you have anything, please tell me. As long as it is in Xiaoshipancheng, I will help you with Laosha."

Hu Xiuwu told Sha Zhu that he wanted to find a caravan to go to the Western Regions, and also told him his requirements.

After hearing this, Sha Zhu pondered for a while: "Don't tell me, during this time in Xiaoshipan City, there are really four or five caravans that want to go to the Western Regions."

Hu Xiuwu asked suspiciously: "Isn't that saying that not many caravans dare to go to the Western Regions? Why are there so many caravans in Xiaofangpan City now?"

Sha Zhu explained: "You also know that going to the Western Regions is a life-and-death business. If you don't prepare well, you will die."

"But during this period of time, in order to help the embassy to raise supplies, Xiaoshipan City has no more food and grass to sell to these caravans, and there are many caravans waiting to set off in the city."

Hu Xiuwu asked, "Which caravan has the most experience."

Sha Zhu was a little embarrassed: "Going to the Western Regions in exchange for jade is a terrible business. Few people are willing to go twice, and they have the most experience..."

I don't know what I remembered, Sha Zhu's eyes suddenly lit up:
"By the way, I remembered that there is really a caravan in the city that can be regarded as experienced."

(End of this chapter)