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Qi Luo was right next to him, and Chu Huan didn't want to argue too much, so he led the two of them to continue northward along the Gobi.

He doesn't know if the mission has left the desert, and he thinks that if he walks out of the Gobi, he will definitely see people. The Qin Kingdom has a large number of missions. If they really walk out of the desert, it will spread in the fringes of the desert. At that time, find someone to inquire about it and meet up with the mission as soon as possible.

Although it is not clear whether the mission has left the desert before him, Chu Huan is sure that if the mission does come out, even if not all of them will stay near the Gobi, there will be a few people waiting for him.

Strange to say, the heat in the desert is unbearable, but after entering the Gobi, although there is still the sun in the sky, the temperature has dropped a lot. After that, the border of Xiliang was not hot like autumn.

The Gobi is full of remnants of rocks and cracked soil, stretching as far as the eye can see, staring into the distance, I feel that the sky and the earth are connected, and there is no sound, and it seems that there are only three people in the universe.

Chu Huan didn't know how big the Gobi was, and how long it would take to get out. He asked Qi Luo, but Qi Luo also said in a daze, "When I entered the desert, I didn't come from here, and I don't know how long it will take."

Although Qiluo was from Xiliang, she obviously didn't know the topography of the Gobi desert. Chu Huan knew she couldn't be relied on, so he could only continue heading north.

From the afternoon to the night, I found a stone forest on the Gobi Plain, densely packed, like a labyrinth of huge stones, lying on the road ahead. These stone pillars have been dry and cracked, obviously for many years.

Chu Huan and the others rested at the outskirts of the stone forest, not daring to go too deep, lest they would have to go through a lot of trouble after entering. They only wanted to bypass the stone forest tomorrow morning.

After using food and water, the three of them now have thick Xiliang military uniforms on their bodies, so they don't need to hug each other to rest. After using food and water, Chu Huan walked aside, leaned against a stone pillar, and looked up. In the night sky, thinking of being able to escape from death in the vast desert, it seems that God is not too ruthless.

Out of danger, Chu Huan was already thinking about going to Qingluo City in Xiliang.

The ostensible purpose of this trip is to welcome back Princess Xiliang, but His Majesty the Emperor has a private order, and there are quite a lot of things to do. I have some understanding of the current political situation. The large amount of property brought this time is really not all used as dowry gifts. A large proportion of it is used to make friends with the noble ministers of Xiliang. In fact, I just want to get it from them. Some useful information, if you can buy a few greedy Xiliang nobles for Qin's use, that's even more desirable.

In addition, the transportation route in the great desert is also what His Majesty wants very much, but there is no news at present. If you think about it, you can only wait until Qingluo City in Xiliang to see if you can get news from the nobles of Xiliang.

Chu Huan didn't think it would be difficult to buy the nobles of Xiliang. No matter what nationality, there would be people who were greedy for money, and the property brought by the Qin Mission this time was enough to exchange for a lot of useful information.

Chu Huan is also very interested in the country of Xiliang, just because in his memory, although there is no Qin country, let alone Xiliang country.

Xiliang Kingdom is a very mysterious country to the Qin people. Chu Huan only knows that Xiliang Kingdom has been established for hundreds of years. It is said that there used to be many small countries in this land, and Xiliang Kingdom was just one of them. The Central Plains has close contacts, and the exchanges between the two sides are very frequent. It is said that the Xiliang Kingdom at that time also professed a vassal to the Central Plains Dynasty, and there were even people from Xiliang who studied in the Central Plains Dynasty, and they admired Han culture very much.

Among the countries in the Western Regions, the customs and human feelings are different, even the language is varied. Among the countries, the most influenced by the Central Plains is the small country of Xiliang. They once introduced the political system of the Central Plains Dynasty, and even The writing and language of the Central Plains were also imitated by the Xiliang Kingdom. At that time, most of the Xiliang people spoke Chinese except their own dialect. However, when businessmen from the Central Plains crossed the desert, they would hire Xiliang people as translators to communicate with people from the Western Regions. communicate.

Hundreds of years ago, the Xiliang Kingdom gradually became stronger. They had a powerful army. Because the trade center with the Central Plains was in Xiliang, the economy of Xiliang also developed rapidly, and then the era of iron and blood expansion began. , It was also from that time that the roads for exchanges between the countries of the Western Regions and the Central Plains were blocked, and the Xiliang Kingdom changed its friendly attitude of humbly learning from the Central Plains Dynasty, and began to become tough on the Central Plains Dynasty. After the merchant was massacred, the door of communication between the Central Plains and the Western Regions was closed, and the once bustling Jingulan Desert also began to become deserted.

It is precisely because the Jingulan Desert lay across it that the Central Plains Dynasty did not launch a military attack on the Western Regions, but only blocked the checkpoints, cutting off trade with the Western Regions for a time.

The trade between the Central Plains and foreign countries used to be divided into three parts, one was the trade with Goryeo in the northeast, the other was the trade with the barbarian tribes in the northern prairie, and the other was the trade with the countries of the Western Regions. Among the three trade lines Before the Xiliang Kingdom dominated the Western Regions, the trade in the Western Regions was naturally the most prosperous, and it was also the center of trade between the Central Plains and foreign countries. However, after Xiliang began to expand in the Western Regions, this trade line quickly declined. trade became the center of gravity of the empire.

I don’t know whether Xiliang feared that the Central Plains dynasty would intervene in the affairs of the Western Regions or because of other reasons. During the expansion war, the Xiliang Kingdom cut off the connection between the Western Regions and the Central Plains, and once prohibited the people of the Central Plains from entering the territory of the Western Regions. For a long time, the communication between the two sides was almost blank.

The Central Plains Dynasty only knew that there was a Xiliang Kingdom in the Western Regions that was expanding, and the Western Regions were involved in an era of bloody wars. The Central Plains Dynasty naturally had no intention of interfering with what happened in the Western Regions, and it also closed the country, and ignored the affairs of the Western Regions. .

It wasn't until many years later that a group of Xiliang soldiers riding war horses and wielding sabers came to the border pass of Qin State, broke into the pass by surprise, and burned, killed and looted the people inside the pass. I also know that the small country of Xiliang, which was once inconspicuous in the Western Regions, has become the most powerful country in the Western Regions after decades of fighting, annexing many small countries, and establishing a powerful Xiliang Kingdom.

The hatred between the two sides has been forged since then. Xiliang always has a small group of cavalry passing through the Jingulan Desert, marching into the pass and looting, but they dare not go too deep. It also took a lot of manpower and material resources to reinforce the gaps in Panlongling, set up sentry posts, and send additional troops to form a defense line in the north. Since then, it has become a luxury for Xiliang people to want to enter the pass unscrupulously.

The two countries don't know when it started, but they resumed non-governmental trade exchanges intermittently, but the officials of the two countries have not conducted normal official exchanges, and they know little about each other's situation, but perhaps the trade between the two parties is indeed true. It has brought huge benefits to the country. The two countries turned a blind eye to private trade, and even protected it secretly. This also formed a very strange exchange between the two countries. .

The non-governmental trade was intermittent, and the traders showed a cooperative attitude at that time, but in politics, they never communicated, and in the military, they competed against each other. Xiliang almost never gave up the military attack on the Central Plains, but in Xiaotian Before Wen broke Yanmen Pass, he had never posed a real military threat to the Central Plains.

The land area and ruling population of the Xiliang people are naturally far from those of the Qin State, but in the Western Regions, they are definitely a first-rate power. Moreover, both men and women in the Xiliang Kingdom can ride horses and shoot arrows. At that time, even women and children could become combat powers, and they had the most powerful Xiliang horses in the world. Compared with military strength and combat literacy, Xiliang people were by no means inferior to the Qin army, and they were even much higher. .

Although Xiliang people have their own native language, since the founding of the country, Xiliang has ordered that the people in the country must learn Chinese and Chinese characters on the premise of retaining their own national language. There are still great differences in human relations and other aspects, but because of the similarity of characters and languages, cultural communication is very easy.

At least people from the Central Plains entered Xiliang, or people from Xiliang entered the Central Plains, and there would be no trouble of language and writing barriers at all.

Chu Huan was thinking about how to deal with Meiniang. After going through adversity in the desert, if he said he had no feelings for Meiniang, that would be self-deception. Feeling bored, he looked at the ground with both eyes, thoughtful, his brows suddenly tightened, his eyes showed the color of alertness, and one hand was already holding the blood drinking knife at his waist.

At this time, he had already seen that there was a ray of light appearing on the ground beside him. The ray of light was actually not conspicuous, but Chu Huan was very alert, because he had already judged that the ray of light was not the starlight in the sky, but The cold light reflected by the blade, if there is no mistake in judgment, someone touched it with a knife behind the stone pillar he was relying on.

Chu Huan remained silent and squinted his eyes slightly. He hadn't noticed before that there were people hiding in the stone forest, and he had already judged that there was more than one person behind the stone pillar. Flashing on the ground, there are at least two or three people.

At this moment, I heard Meiniang's coquettish shout from over there, and then I heard Meiniang shout: "Brother Huan, go, there is an ambush here...!" At the same time, there was already a strong wind blowing behind the stone pillar. Come on, the sword is flashing, Chu Huan has been prepared for a long time, one leg has already swept out, and with a "peng", it swept onto the man's leg, and the man fell to the ground with an "ouch", and the other knife was already on the ground. It was chopped off from Chu Huan's back.