The Southern Eagle strode out of the tent, but saw that the surroundings were deserted, and couldn't help but be stunned, could it be that Aquix still hadn't arrived? Isn't it said that it is only a few tens of miles away?

He looked around and said, "Someone! Go and find Ma Jun for Ben General? ”

"General!" An officer who hurriedly passed by was stunned and replied: "The last general has just returned from outside the camp, and I happened to see General Ma leading a group of guests out of the camp!" ”

"This kid! How can there be any reason to take guests out? Nan Ying's eyes rolled when he heard this, and he waved his hand to Sima Zhi, Zao Yi and Sun Ce who were standing solemnly behind him: "Let's go find him!" What tricks are you playing? ”

Looking at his back as he left first, Sima Zhi grabbed the officer and said in a low voice: "Go find Mr. Jia immediately, just say that the lord will have a major military operation, please make a plan early!" ”

"Yes!" The officer was overjoyed when he heard this, but he immediately came to his senses, and said with a straight chest: "Please rest assured, my lordship, the last general will be tight-lipped!" ”

Sima paused and said, "What are you keeping, can you hide it?" He chased after Nanying.

Leaving the stunned officer stunned in place, he said to himself: "So, you can spread this news?" Haha, after playing the drill for so long, it's finally time to get real! ”

Nanying had not gone far from the camp when he saw Ma Jun and a group of Guishan people in strange costumes standing on the muddy dirt road, pointing fingers and talking endlessly, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Ahh Honorable General! Aquix also spotted Nanying, greeted him with a smile, and respectfully gave a chest salute.

"Mr. Aquix! What is the wind that is blowing you? Nanying also returned the salute. The person in front of him is now a key figure related to the future success or failure of the army, and he can't be easily neglected...... Thinking about it, he couldn't help glaring at Ma Jun and reprimanded: "How can you be so rude to entertain Guishan's friends?" Bringing guests to this dirt road? ”

"General, you don't know anything!" Ma Jun said with a little surprise: "There are several friends from Great Qin in Mr. Akix's business group, who have suffered from bumpy roads since they entered the territory of our Great Han Dynasty, and are teaching the last general the method of road construction in their country!" ”

"Great Qin? It's the Roman Empire! Nanying couldn't help but feel a burst of ecstasy when he heard this, he had heard that the ancient Romans' road building skills were superb, far superior to today's great Hans, and if they obtained their secret skills, they would play an immeasurable role in the future development of the territory.

"Great!" Nan Ying clapped his hands and said happily: "The work of building the road is in the present generation, and the benefits are in the future, and the general is worried about this...... I don't know which Daqin friend is here? ”

A high-nosed, deep-eyed foreigner stepped out of the crowd and bowed to Nanying with a standard Han salute, one mouth actually in pure Chinese: "In Lower Pulcher. Emily. Levi, I've seen Your Excellency! ”

Seeing that he was not only unexpectedly fluent in Chinese, but also handsome and well-behaved, Nan Ying couldn't help but feel a good impression in his heart, and smiled: "It seems that Pulcher. Emily. Mr. Levi is not only a beautiful man, but also a profound scholar! ”

Pulcher. Emily. Levi was overjoyed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "If General Lao praises you, please call the general Lower Pulcher...... In fact, in my Chinese language, Pulcher means handsome! ”

"Very well, so is there any improvement Mr. Pulcher can do for my construction of the Bohai Sea?" Nanying glanced at Aquix with a smile on his face: "Aquix is an old friend of Ben General, he knows that Ben General has always attached the most importance to commercial trade and regional exchanges, so since Ben Jiang served as Taishou, he has always regarded road construction as a major matter, please Mr. Don't hesitate to give advice!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Pulcher nodded again and again: "Just now, this General Ma Jun has already relayed the opinion of His Excellency the General: If you want to get rich, you must first build roads!" This is the most reasonable quote I have heard in Xia Shang for many years! ”

He pointed to the dirt road in front of him, and said with regret: "I beg your pardon for the offensive remarks below, the roads in your country are still in a very primitive state...... This kind of road is not only not suitable for the use of the people, but also not suitable for business transactions! ”

As he spoke, Pulcher patted his chest and said proudly: "Our Romans have built a different road, we have built a stone pavement more than 100,000 miles long, which can be used for hundreds of years without worrying about sun and rain erosion!" ”

"Oh?" Nan Ying and the people beside him were moved: "I don't know how your country was built?" ”

"Let's take the famous Appia Way in our country, first dig out the roadbed, pave a layer of flat gravel and plaster the joints to form a solid foundation, then cover the plaster with a thick layer of gravel, and finally pave the road with stone slabs of uniform size and thickness!" Pulcher replied like a stream: "Don't hide it from the generals, my ancestors have participated in the construction of the Apia Road, so I know a lot about it!" ”

"I see...... Nanying didn't finish speaking, but Ma Jun heard the doorway, and couldn't help but say: "Since the joints are plastered with plaster, how to solve the problem of adhesion?" If it's ordinary plaster, I'm afraid it can't resist the rain, right? ”

"General Ma is indeed an expert!" Pulcher sighed: "Just about to talk about the mystery in this, the plaster mentioned below is actually a kind of special clay made in our country, not only the adhesion is super strong, but also not afraid of rain soaking....... to be precise, this is the key to the success of China's road construction!" ”

"Special clay?" Everyone looked at each other, it seems that things are not as simple as imagined!

"Exactly!" Pulcher nodded, "Actually, the process is very simple, just mix volcanic ash, lime, fine sand and seawater....... of course, and add some other subtle ingredients. As long as the ingredients are ready, this clay can be made in no time! ”

"Volcanic ash? What is this? Everyone was stunned together, and only Nanying almost heard it: "Volcanic ash?" Where is Ben going? ”

"General, do you know about volcanic ash?" Ma Jun was curious: "What is it?" Is it precious? ”

"Precious fart!" Nan Ying said angrily: "To put it bluntly, it is not worth a penny, this is a kind of fine detrisis formed after volcanic eruptions, because it has an active substance, it will be ground and made into a super strong adhesive ......."

He was foaming at the mouth when he suddenly saw everyone, including Pulcher, looking at him with strange eyes, and he couldn't help but suddenly wake up, and said, "Ben will say it casually, haha!" Just say it casually! But this volcanic ash may be very common in your country, but where is it found in our country? ”

"Your Excellency the General is a profound person!" Pulcher was stunned for a long time before he exclaimed: "Admire below!" ”

"But as the general said!" He then frowned and said, "If there is no volcanic ash in your country, then it will be troublesome!" This kind of cheap thing can't be transported from thousands of miles away from the country, right? ”

"Find! Be sure to find out! Nanying suddenly made up his mind, this super strong adhesive raw material is not only as simple as paving the road, but also to build a city, and the effect of knotweed adhesive must be found! China has a vast land and abundant resources, it is impossible not to find a volcano that has erupted, but I hate that I still have too little geographical knowledge to learn that day, otherwise I can delineate the scope according to the general area, which is really in response to the sentence: the book is used to hate less!

At this time, more and more generals and subordinates rushed over, and they all listened intently, and someone suddenly shouted: "I don't know what this volcanic ash looks like?" We are all from all over the world, maybe someone has accidentally seen it, maybe it can't be said? ”

After listening to Pulcher's detailed explanation, everyone fell into deep thought, and suddenly Li Jin's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands and said, "The last general has thought of a place......

He smiled at Nanying and said, "Actually, you, General, have also been there!" ”

Nanying said in surprise: "Let's talk about it, why is Ben Jiang clueless?" ”

"Do you remember that day when we pursued the murderer of Zhang Niujiao's department all the way in the Taihang Mountains?" Li Jin said calmly: "In the vicinity of the Baishi Canyon, which is more than ten miles long, we used to pass through a large area of gray-white gravel, which was originally just ordinary gravel...... Now that I think about it, it's very similar to the volcanic ash that Mr. Pulcher said! ”

"Not bad, not bad!" Nan Ying also had some impressions, and couldn't help but say in ecstasy: "Li Jin, immediately pick up the Taihang Mountain brothers in the army, and go to Taihang Mountain overnight to take samples!" This must be done! ”

"As for Mr. Aquix and Mr. Pulcher......," he said with a hearty smile, "all the guests who have come from afar must stay here for a few more days, first, to verify whether the gravel is volcanic ash, and second, we have a lot of mutually beneficial deals to discuss!" Come, please come into the camp! ”

“…… Speaking of business, General, please forgive me for taking the liberty of being in fact the inferior people who have come to ask the General for help this time! Aquix and Pulcher exchanged an awkward look: "I hope the general doesn't refuse!" ”

"Help?" Nanying was stunned, no wonder these foreign devils were so concerned about their road construction, and they had already saved their hearts to repay the peach. However, as the so-called exchange of courtesies, it would be a good thing if you could help them to enhance their relationship with each other.

He smiled and said, "You two are so polite! We have a good saying, so that friends come from afar, and they are happy, this is not a false word, to be able to help friends, is the foundation of happiness! Where you need Ben will help, gladly! ”

"Thank you, General!" The two obviously didn't expect Nanying to agree so happily, they were both overjoyed, and Aquix said with a straight face: "Don't hide it from the general, this time I cooperated with Mr. Pulcher, spent a lot of money, opened up many joints, and sold 1,500 warlike horses from thousands of miles all the way to the border of your country......"

"Fifteen hundred?" Nanying was taken aback and exclaimed, "Are they all the improved tall horse breeds?" "If it is all those precious war horses, at a unit price of millions of dollars, it will be a huge amount of money that is so large that it is frightening to death, and these two people are so generous.

"Five hundred! The other thousand, although slightly inferior, are also rare good horses! Pulcher said dejectedly: "How do you know that almost all of your country's Liangzhou has fallen into the hands of the rebels, which has caused us to be in a dilemma, if these horses can't shoot in time, I'm afraid we will lose all our money!" ”

"Then you want to ask the general to help......" Nanying frowned when he heard this, did they want to ask themselves to send troops to escort him through customs? Hugh said that the Bohai Sea is 108,000 miles away from Liangzhou, and it is close at hand, and with his thousands of soldiers and horses, he is not the opponent of the 100,000 rebels in Liangzhou!

"General, please don't get me wrong, we don't have the luxury of inviting the general to use swords!" Aquix saw Nanying's thoughts, and hurriedly explained: "We are thinking, since Liangzhou can't get through, we can only divert to Minshan and enter from Yizhou!" ”

"But it's the territory of the White Horse Qiang and the Three Wolf Qiang!" He rubbed his hands a little uneasily: "I heard that the general is well-known in Hanzhong and Chang'an, and there are many Qiang warriors among his subordinates, so we are wondering, if the general is familiar with them, can he help us dredge up one or two?" ”

"What's the big deal with Ben returning the Tao?" Nanying's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help laughing: "You have found the right person!" ”

"Someone's coming!" He turned his head and said, "Immediately release the Eye of Heaven, and order General Jiang Huan to rush back to the camp within half a day!" ”

"Oh? Who is this General Jiang Huan? Pulcher was a little surprised: "This seems to be the name of the Qiang people?" ”

"He is the general's right-hand man, and at the same time, he is also the eldest son of the head of the White Horse Qiang!" Nan Ying smiled: "With him coming forward in person, are there anything you two don't worry about?" ”

"What!" Aquix and Pulcher exclaimed in unison, "He is the young patriarch of the White Horse Qiang?" ”

"Don't doubt it!" Nan Ying said proudly: "The Great Patriarch of the White Horse Qiang, Jiang Mu, and Ben General are friends for a long time, and there is also a whole tribe of the Three Wolf Qiang who are now serving under Ben General......

He directly ignored the eyes of the two of them full of awe and shock, and suddenly smiled a little ill-willedly: "I have helped you so much, now let's talk about the business of these 1,500 war horses!" ”