Shazhou is the last populated place to the west of Chen.

Out of Shazhou, less than ten miles to the north, is Yangguan, more than 100 miles to the northwest, is Yumen Pass, Yangguan Yumen Pass, is already the boundary of the Western Regions.

Shazhou is located on the edge of the desert, surrounded by the desert Gobi, perennial lack of water, Baixin bitter sand has been harmed for a long time, Shazhou city, everywhere can be seen with gray cloth to cover the face, to prevent the people from inhaling sand and dust.

Women rarely go out, and even when they do, they must cover their faces with light veils, where the weather is dry and the wind and sand are strong, which will cause great damage to their delicate skin.

Although Shazhou is remote, it is not poor.

This is because this is the only place for merchants from the Western Regions and Chen to enter and exit the customs, and a large number of caravans will stay here every month, some of them are merchants from Chen to the Western Regions, and some are merchants from the Western Regions who enter the customs from the Western Regions.

Whether it was the merchants of the Western Regions who sold the specialties of the Western Regions to the Chen State, or the merchants of the Chen State who brought silk and tea to the Western Regions, they could not bypass Shazhou, and the taxes and silver paid by these merchants alone accounted for a very considerable part of the revenue of the Chen State's treasury.

And the Shazhou government, in this process, naturally also benefited a lot.

A large number of caravans stayed in Shazhou, which also greatly promoted the commercial development of Shazhou, within the state city, there are many inns, restaurants and green buildings are everything, which can be regarded as the most prosperous city on the northwest border of Chen State.

Prosperity is prosperous, and the crisis shrouded in Shazhou is also getting heavier and heavier with the changes in the situation in the Western Regions.

To the east of Shazhou is the Chen State, to the west is the Western Regions, once there is a change in the Western Regions, Shazhou will definitely bear the brunt.

In the past few years, Xiao Wan's rise has been unstoppable, and at present, their energy is still focused on conquering the small countries of the Western Regions, and when they completely conquer the Western Regions, it will be the time when the disaster of the Chen Kingdom comes.

In order to cope with the changes in the Western Regions, after the imperial court pacified the grassland, 400,000 troops were stationed in Shazhou and Suzhou, and the city wall of Shazhou was strengthened to more than two zhang wide and five zhang high.

With heavy guards, from a distance, the towering city wall towers, which makes the people of Shazhou finally settle down, hoping that Xiao Wan will be defeated in the power struggle in the Western Regions, or the imperial court will simply send troops to pacify the Western Regions, so as to maintain the long-term stability of Shazhou.

At this moment, at the city gate in the east of Shazhou, a group of people led their horses into the city slowly, causing frequent sideways glances from pedestrians.

Shazhou has to welcome many outsiders every day, some of them are from Beijing, some are from the Western Regions, and the people in the city have long been surprised, but the composition of this group of people is too strange, so people have to take a few more looks.

At the front were three young men and women, the man was handsome, the woman was beautiful, one man and woman looked to be in their early twenties, and the other girl was only twenty-eight years old, and her face was still a little immature.

There was nothing strange about these three people except that they looked pleasing to the eye, and the strange thing was the people behind them.

A sturdy middle-aged man followed behind them, with a pig-killing knife pinned to his waist, destroying the dusty temperament of the three people in front of him, and beside the middle-aged man, was an old man in dirty clothes, dressed like a beggar, scratching his butt for a while, digging his nostrils for a while, looking extremely sloppy.

Behind the two of them, there were also a few figures, three old men, three old women, all of whom were of a handful of age, and followed behind a few people step by step, as if they were subordinates.

Everyone who saw such a combination was puzzled, if you want to say which noble son of this family is traveling with the United States, he should always bring some guards, but among these people, there is also the middle-aged man with a pig-killing knife pinned to his waist, and there is a little bit of guards, and the rest are all old people who are old and look like half a foot has entered the ground, I am afraid that if the road is a little rushed, they can take their lives.

Tang Ning naturally noticed the strange eyes of those passers-by around him, but the truth was often not as seen by outsiders.

These old people, who seemed to have one foot in the ground, moved their hands, and none of them were fuel-efficient lamps.

Any one of them could easily slaughter a small country in the Western Regions, and it was not difficult for the six Ten Thousand Gu Sect elders to join forces to slaughter a medium-sized country with a population of thousands.

Coupled with the Four Elders and the Eighth Elder who had been by Tang Ning's side before, when Tang Ning entered Shazhou, there were already six Ten Thousand Gu Sect elders gathered around him.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ten Veins had just been integrated, leaving a few elders to deal with the affairs of the sect, Tang Ning felt that Su Mei would send all the new Ten Elders out.

The elders of the Ten Thousand Gu Sect may not be Lao Zheng's opponents when they fight alone, but they can play a role like nuclear weapons against ordinary people, even some small masters, which is beyond the reach of Lao Zheng and the old beggars.

As for Tang Xiaoxiao and Xiaoxiao, they are purely here to join in the fun.

The reason why Tang Ning didn't stop them was that Tang Xiaoyao said that he was coming to see if he would mess with flowers and grass in the Western Regions, and Tang Ning didn't let her follow, wouldn't it seem that he was weak-hearted.

Xiaoxiao, who has always listened to Tang Ning's words, did not listen to his arrangement this time, and wanted to follow them to the Western Regions, Tang Ning could see that she seemed to have a faint resistance to Qiandi, so she didn't insist anymore.

The two of them are different from Xiaoru Xiaoyi, they both have a certain amount of self-preservation, especially Xiaoxiao, now even Tang Ning can't see her depth clearly, and Tang Xiaoxiao has not been her opponent for a long time.

With the two of them, not only is it not a trouble, but it is still a help.

What's more, when he came to the Western Regions this time, he didn't have a hard time with Xiao Wan, and if he could negotiate peacefully, Tang Ning would not use other means.

Shazhou is much more prosperous and wealthy than Tang Ning imagined, he originally thought that this was a dilapidated border town at the junction of Chen State and the Western Regions, but he didn't expect that although the city of Shazhou was small, there should be nothing lacking.

Walking to the main street of Shazhou City, looking at the shops lined with customers on both sides of the street, Tang Ning even thought that he had come to Jingshi.

Of course, there is still a big difference between this and Jingshi.

The most significant difference is that only half of the faces of the Han people on the street are occupied, the people from the Western Regions with high cheekbones and high noses occupy the other half, and some of them are even more different from the Han people, and they are not the same as the people of the Western Regions, so they are from countries further west.

Of course, there were more women from the Western Regions along the way, most of them were wearing clothes that were very different from the styles of Han women, and some of them also showed their navels, and Tang Ning even saw a few foreign girls wearing ornaments on their navels......

The exotic atmosphere in Shazhou City is much stronger than that of Jingshi, but today's weather is not very good, the sky in the distance is filled with sand and dust, and many people wear scarves when they go out.

Tang Ning was about to remind her to buy a scarf for a while, when a sudden pain came from the waist on the other side.

Tang Yaoyao took his arm and asked with a smile, "Is it good-looking?" ”

Although she was laughing, her teeth were clenched, and a slender jade hand pinched the soft flesh of his waist.

Tang Ning retracted his gaze, immediately did not squint, and said: "In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, what kind of body does not cover the body, what kind of system does it become, what kind of system does it become......"