wicked immortal

Three days later, Zhao Yuan arrived at Jiepai County.

Zhao Yuan once stayed in the East Courtyard of Wanjia, and was very familiar with the lives of people at the bottom of the society. When he arrived in Jiepai County, he followed a group of businessmen to follow the Jiepai Xiongguan Pass, cross the Tianzun Grand Canyon, and arrived at the deserted area along the coast .

As long as you leave the Tianzun Grand Canyon, you will enter the vast desert and Gobi, which can be regarded as the territory of the nomadic Er Empire.

Unlike the multiple races of the Great Qin Empire, the ethnicity of the Er Empire is extremely single, with only one ethnic group called the Er nationality.

The territory of the Er people is not inferior to that of the Great Qin Empire. However, compared with the wealth of the Great Qin Empire, the vast land of the Er Empire is extremely desolate. Then, there are some steep and barren mountains, where the temperature difference between day and night is huge, and life is very difficult.

However, the Er Empire also has a unique natural condition.

The Russian Empire has a long coastline and has extremely rich fishery resources. 60.00% of the dried sea fish of the Great Qin Empire comes from the Russian Empire.

The commercial exchanges between the Great Qin Empire and the Russian Empire were extremely prosperous.

Because the Russian Empire basically has no industrial base, some products of the Great Qin Empire are very popular in the Russian Empire. Except for some common daily necessities, the metal armor, grains and fabrics of the Great Qin Empire are all commodities that are in short supply in the Russian Empire.

The business model of the Great Qin Empire is very simple. Most of them bring some high-value-added cloth, handicrafts and some daily necessities to the Er Empire. When they come back, they will bring seafood, salt, or horses.

It is worth mentioning that, unlike the assassins, although the Er Empire produced good horses, the number of horses was not large because the Er Empire did not have as vast a grassland as the slaves, so the Er Empire was a Buying and selling horses is strictly prohibited. Of course, this will not trouble the merchants of the Great Qin Empire. They will always have various methods to bring the horses back.

In fact, in order to weaken the fighting power of the Er Empire, the Great Qin Empire encouraged merchants to smuggle horses.Among the various taxes, horses are the only commodity that is released tax-free.

Zhao Yuan's current identity is a temporary porter.

The so-called temporary porters are temporarily called to work. After a business trip is over, a group of porters get paid and then separate.

When I was in Wanjia East Hospital, because Wanjia's business was very stable, Wanjia's porters were all long-term, even when they were free, they were paid.

Zhao Yuan's boss is a small boss with little capital. He mainly deals in some low-value-added products. Some iron farm tools and poorly crafted porcelain are bulky products that require a lot of labor.

Zhao Yuan's cavalry team crossed the Tianzun Grand Canyon and stayed at the mouth of the canyon for a day. They gathered more than a dozen cavalry teams and formed a giant caravan with a total number of more than 200 people and over a thousand horses.

The caravan is not a gang organization, but a temporary small group spontaneously formed by some businessmen for their own safety to help and support each other.

From the Tianzun Grand Canyon to the nearest market in the Er Empire, it is also more than [-] miles away. On this long route, horse thieves and bandits are very active, and there are many activities of killing people and stealing goods.

Of course, it is not easy for Yijian to rob caravans. Those horse thieves are usually just businessmen who have robbed and robbed alone, and they can only look at such caravans with a number of [-] at most from a distance.

The geographical environment of the Russian Empire is harsh, and the people have developed a tough, vicious and vicious habit. They draw their knives at each other for trivial matters. Some bandits and horse thieves are also extremely vicious. Because of this, the merchants of the Great Qin Empire who suffered a loss would generally fight to the death and never back down.

Generally, the merchants of the Great Qin Empire would carry some sophisticated weapons, such as sharp scimitars, small shields, and astonishingly powerful crossbows.

The productivity of the Er Empire is extremely backward, and the weapons and equipment of the horse bandits are also very poor. Although they are not afraid of death, they are often at a disadvantage in the face of the Daqin merchants who are fighting to the death. Under this general situation, the horse bandits are withering day by day ...

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More than 200 people and more than a thousand pony horses meander in the desert for several miles, which is extremely spectacular.

What Zhao Yuan does every day is to take care of the pony, feed it, unload the goods for the horse to rest at night, and load the goods on the horse's back in the morning.

Due to their short stature, pony horses are not suitable for long-distance treks in the desert. Usually, after leaving the Tianzun Grand Canyon, they travel westward for more than a hundred miles, and then they arrive at a small town in the desert and change to a desert boat camel.

In fact, there was no small town there at first, but later, because the trade route became more and more prosperous, people of the Er nationality built a post station near a small sand lake, mainly to help the people of the Great Qin Empire Camels were provided, and slowly, the place became prosperous and gradually developed into a small town with thousands of people.

The name of the town is Sunset Town. This name has an allusion. It is said that a writer who traveled with a businessman returned to the Great Qin Empire in the evening. When he looked back at the town, he found that the town happened to be where the sun was setting. Bathed in the setting sun, the town is picturesque and extremely beautiful. It is said "Sunset Town" by the way, and then the name has been handed down.

Many literati and poets would also come here to watch the majestic sunset in Sunset Town. In the Great Qin Empire, there are many poems about Sunset Town.

After a day and a night of non-stop driving, at sunset, I finally arrived at the small town.

Among the merchants of the Great Qin Empire, there is a tacit agreement, that is, to rush to Sunset Town at sunset, rest for the night, and set off after changing to a camel the next day.

Sunset Town looks a little messy, with stone houses and wooden houses, and more tents, dotted all over the place, covering a huge area, and the air smells like horse manure.

However, this kind of mess is also a kind of beauty, especially in the setting sun, the uneven buildings have a simple and primitive charm.

Looking at the large piece of red clouds covering Sunset Town, following the light, it suddenly appeared in the sky not far in front of the line of sight!Another large piece of crimson died, dazzling and dazzling, like a red curtain hanging in the sky on the stage, as if there was a mysterious force controlling this magnificence and magnificence.

For a moment, Zhao Yuan mistakenly thought it was sunrise, but it was clearly dusk.Obviously, the desert was setting sun, and it was covered by a large piece of fiery red.In the clean, open, boundless, unobstructed desert sky, the red light of the setting sun enveloped the ancient and primitive Sunset Town, like a perfect picture scroll.

No wonder, there are countless well-known poems in this little-known town. It is indeed not easy to see such a magnificent desert sunset in the Great Qin Empire.

"Xiao Zhao, thank you for your hard work." A fat and dusty man motioned Zhao Yuan to move the goods down.

"It's okay, it should be." Zhao Yuan quickly nodded and bowed.

During this period of time, Zhao Yuan was deeply loved by the caravan, because he was taciturn, simple and honest, willing to help, willing to put in effort, and everyone praised him well. After several big bosses mentioned this business to Zhao Yuan in private several times Let him join their cavalry.

The residents of this small town basically work for the horse team.

Taverns, inns, brothels, horse galleries...

Here, the caravan disbanded on its own, because every owner of the caravan would have a familiar inn here.