On the official road, Sun Xiangfu beat the war horse fast, however, the more he ran, the more panicked he became, because, the day of the beginning of Dabi is getting closer and closer, most people are from Wang Dingxiangcheng, like Wang Hao, there are very few people who go to the west, and you can know if you ask the inn where you change horses along the way, and the news that Sun Xiangfu asked is that four hours ago, a group of people and horses went west.

With the current speed of constantly changing horses and galloping, four hours without interruption is enough to run out for two or three hundred miles, I am afraid that it will not be long before Wang Hao can reach Ningyuan County, if it is ······

Sun Xiangfu didn't dare to think about it.

Ningyuan County, outside the guest inn, can hold the whole fat sheep of the big iron pot, enough to set up hundreds, in the open space outside the inn, more than 10,000 tents have been set up, in the inn hall, Tang Jian raised the wine bottle in his hand, to the old man surnamed Wang saluted, "This time, thank you Wang shopkeeper for your hospitality, when you go to Dingxiang City, see Your Majesty, the old man will definitely play to ask Your Majesty, please reward you." ”

More than 100,000 people eat and drink, although it is only two meals, but the cost is at least tens of thousands, this Wang Xu took the initiative to bear this expense for Ningyuan County, but it greatly relieved the pressure on local finances.

"The grass people can have such a family business, which is also due to His Majesty's emphasis on agriculture, commerce and trade, and light taxation. Now, it is the due duty of the grass people to contribute to the court, and please don't mention the reward. ”

Hearing this, Tang Jian praised with great satisfaction, "My Tang Dynasty has such a simple folk style, why worry about the world not being prosperous." ”

Wang Xu smiled and said, "Hehe, what the grass people have done, it's just a little thing, compared with the heavy responsibility of the adults, it's not enough to mention, the adults also ask the official affairs to be the priority, and the grass people will let the wine and meat be delivered to the tables of the foreign guests later." ”

"In this way, there will be work."

After thanking Wang Xu for his generous contributions, Tang Jian walked lightly to the tent outside the inn, many lords and important people from various countries have been invited to the main tent by the people of the mission, they will set off early tomorrow morning, go directly to the cement official road, and then rest after arriving in Dingxiang City, when the time comes, there will inevitably be some reception and resettlement matters, Tang Jian needs to communicate with them in advance.

And when Tang Jian hadn't returned to the main tent hall, the leaders and magnates of the countries who came here first had already chatted first.

"I can't imagine that a businessman from a small county in Datang District can supply so many of us with food, and the country's financial resources are really extraordinary."

"Yes! A small country like us, even the largest businessman, would probably go bankrupt if it served so many people's meals with meat and wine. ”

"Hehe, that's just that your country is small and weak, and my big merchant of the Byzantine Empire can support an army of hundreds of thousands of people, and it can support it for a long time······"

"So what, money doesn't mean everything, you Byzantine Empire haven't suffered defeat at the hands of the Great Cannibals······"

In the camp, all kinds of different languages, not unified names with each other, wah, wow, along the way, Tang Jian, who has been accustomed to this kind of scene, has long been surprised, in his opinion, if Li Shimin can take the opportunity to give them a unified name of the world, it is also a good thing to enhance international prestige.

"Everyone, today, is the last dinner before our destination, by this called the welcome guest inn shopkeeper, free for us, tomorrow morning, there will be a hearty breakfast, and then, he will prepare a lot of cooked food for us, tomorrow day, we have to walk three hundred miles, directly to the destination Dingxiang City and then rest, over there, there will be our Tang Dynasty prince and young master, Nong Guogong, to welcome you······"

Every sentence Tang Jian said, there would be many translations in different languages, retelling to everyone present, and then, he would hear a noisy response, and then those translators would reply to him one by one the questions of people in the same language, just to talk about a simple thing, it would take a lot of time, however, Tang Jian has been accustomed to this slow mode of communication, if it is replaced by an impatient young man, it is estimated that he will go crazy.

"Oh, three hundred miles a day, I heard you right! Is it possible that this is double the distance we have traveled each day before, with no breaks in betwe······en?"

"Why rush to the road, if there is a free supply of food along the way, we can go slower······"

Almost a quarter of an hour later, the questions raised by the people were summarized and reported to Tang Jian one by one.

Tang Jian explained again, "Maybe you still don't understand that after passing through the Ningyuan County in front of us, the road to Dingxiang will be a straight cement road, on that kind of road, your horses can run almost eighty miles every hour, even a carriage carrying goods, can also reach such a speed, so, in fact, the whole process of rushing only needs the horses to run for about four hours, and there are one or two hours in the middle, which is used to eat, drink, and let the horses rest, if someone's horses can't bear it, It doesn't matter, there are inns or inns along the way that offer horse changes, or post houses······"

Because it is an ultra-long-distance rush, with the arrival of the members of the mission, each person is equipped with at least two horses, and the speed of galloping horses on a straight and flat road is generally more than 20 kilometers per hour, and the limit speed can even reach 60 kilometers per hour, then, if calculated by hour, it is between 40 kilometers and 120 kilometers, or between 80 miles and 240 miles.

Before the construction of cement roads and the construction of dense post stations, the maximum transmission speed of Datang was 800 miles per day. And now, between the cities that have built cement roads, the limit of the transmission speed has almost reached more than 1,200 miles per day, except for the one or two hours spent on changing horses, changing messengers, and handovers along the way, an average of one hour, almost more than 60 miles, among them, the speed of running during the day, is slightly faster than at night, like from Dingxiang City, more than 2,000 miles away, sending the highest level of transmission orders to Chang'an, now it only takes two days, nearly twice as fast as before.

This is also the reason why the political efficiency of Datang is so high now, a horse can run almost 200 miles in a row, and Datang has built cement roads between cities, within every 100 miles, there must be a post station, and the messenger can almost always keep the stagecoach running at a relatively high speed.

It's a pity that people from Western countries have not seen this kind of speed, even Tang Jian, when he received Sun Xiangfu's arrangement, he was actually a little skeptical, however, after he entered the territory of the Northland and maintained communication with Shanyang and Dingxiang, he actually experienced this feeling of rapid transmission, since this group of people entered Dingxiang within a thousand miles, the messenger is basically a day back and forth.

Tang Jian just explained to everyone that he was in a hurry, and more than half an hour passed, at this time, in the cauldron of cooking meat outside the camp tent, and in the kitchen in the inn, in the dozens of stacks of large steamers with more than ten layers, all kinds of dishes came out with fragrant smells.

Wang Xu had many bonfires lit, and some cattle and sheep to barbecue, and after inspecting the cooking positions in various places, he recruited the people in charge.

"Did all the medicine that Childe got go down to the food?"

"Don't worry, whether it's food or wine, we've all gone in, this poison from Yizhou Road doesn't have the unpleasant smell of arsenic in our Datang at all, they won't be able to eat it, as long as they eat a little bit, it will only take two hours at most, and they will die of poison."

Wang Xu nodded when he heard this, and said, "Very good, Gongzi has a word, after this is done, our tasks will be completed, in the future, each of you will take a large amount of money and live a free life, now, bring all the cooked meals to them to eat!" First of all, it was given to those important people in the main tent of the big battalion. ”

"Hehehe, we know."

After a greedy look flashed in the eyes of the people, they began to work separately, not to mention the reward given by Wang Hao after the completion of the work, that is, the property brought by more than 100 countries and more than 100,000 people, I am afraid that they are at least worth millions of yuan, these people are all princes and nobles of the Western Regions! If these people are poisoned, then the boxes and boxes of gold coins, jade, jewelry, etc., etc., they brought with them, all will be theirs.

In a place not far from the main tent, Sun Erli opened several large boxes and carefully counted the various seeds he had collected from the Western Regions in the past three years, there were hundreds of species, he was afraid that something would go wrong with the preservation, resulting in the fact that after returning to the mainland, he could not plant them, so he had to check them almost every day, and there were many of them, he was greeting the local people, and he took the new seeds when he returned.

Tomorrow, he will finally be able to return to Dingxiang and deliver these things to Sun Xiangfu, to say that he is not apprehensive or excited, it is false, this is his hard work for three years.

has the same mood as him, as well as Li Xiangdie, Yao Hongsleeve and others, the so-called hometown cowardice, they have such a mentality, and it is very normal.

After arriving in Ningyuan County, they rushed to the rouge gouache cosmetics store in the county for the first time to purchase, three years, the cosmetics they brought when they set off have long been used up, and the things produced by the Hu people are not as good as the output of Datang, and they have become veritable old girls, at the moment of the return of glory, they want to show their most beautiful makeup to the person who will set up a celebration wine for them in Dingxiang City according to the agreement to welcome them.

In the camp, the crisp sound of the gong sounded, because the language was complicated, the communication was inconvenient, this was a relatively simple way for Tang Jian to inform everyone to eat, the drum sounded, the gong was eating, and when the gong was heard, everyone gathered towards the place where they were eating.

"It's still delicious in our Datang food, the spices are ground enough, and the taste of salt and sauce is enough." Sun Erli took a big bite of mutton and said.

"If you want me to say, our Datang wine is the best, strong enough, drink a small bowl, the whole body can warm up for a night, but it is not like the wine made by those people in the west, sour, light without a little wine taste······

The people of the mission will always spontaneously get together to eat, communicate in the Chinese dialect that everyone is more familiar with, and they will arrive at their destination tomorrow, today, they will inevitably be more excited, even women like Li Xiangdie and Yao Hongsleeve, eating and drinking, they don't have much scruples about the image, three years of uninterrupted travel life, has made them no longer pay attention to these things, eat enough, drink enough, only then do they have the strength to perform on stage, get on the horse and hurry.