Anu also returned, and with him came a caravan of more than 100 people.

Since the Zhou people severely cracked down on and restricted merchants and commerce, trying to permanently erase the status and traces of merchants, let them continue to attack and restrict, Guo Yang has already decided not to play with them.

He played with his brains, scheming, means, and knives with those bastards, but in the end he still couldn't see any hope.

Guo Yang completely figured it out, since he couldn't play those scheming hypocrites, why couldn't he let it go, just like letting go of a fart that had been holding him for twenty years? Let yourself travel lightly, gain a firm foothold in this prairie, and slowly look for his mother Guo Ye, this is what Guo Yang wants to do.

It was a beautiful day, the thin ice of spring had not yet melted, some of the snow in the shade was knee-deep, and the wind was still cold. But this can't hide the excitement and excitement of the Tengger people.

They ran to tell each other, like a group of children, walked quickly to the hill and looked into the distance.

Anu rode a red horse with an unusual steed, like a gust of wind, and the mud and snow kicked up by the horse's hooves flew high, and some even fell on his own head and shoulders.

Guo Yang opened his arms from afar and greeted Anu's return in his own way.

"Young Master!" There were still seven or eight zhang away from Guo Yang, Anu turned over and dismounted, and let the horse continue to rush forward for twenty or thirty steps.

Anu was dusty, his face was even darker, and like Guo Yang, he looked very haggard. It seems that for most of the past six months, he has not stopped for a moment, running around.

However, on the whole, he seems to be more energetic, full of passion and vitality, like a different person.

"Anu, hard work!" Guo Yang kept his arms open and said gently.

Anu walked over quickly, let Guo Yang hug him, and then turned to salute the old patriarch Jida.

The old patriarch Jida was a little restrained and confused, he couldn't figure out what these two people were doing. All the Tengger people were still waiting to fight the Bagan people, and they slipped out for more than half a year, bringing back only a loose-looking caravan, and they were too happy.

But out of politeness, the old patriarch Jida still returned the salute very solemnly, after all, these two people can also be regarded as the lifesavers of their Tengger people.

"Anu, everything has been arranged over there?" Guo Yang asked with a smile.

"Alright, in the future, Wang Huzi and they will be responsible for the operation of the caravan in the Central Plains, and transport the goods needed by our caravan outside the mouth. The affairs of Nanyan Kingdom have also come to an end, and Miss Yanzi is reluctant and has no choice, she promises to be a temporary regent, and strive to cultivate a suitable monarch in the next few years. However, with her temper...... It is estimated that it will not be long in time. Anu said.

Guo Yang listened, nodded slightly, and looked a little lonely.

However, in the blink of an eye, he was happy again, and asked with a smile, "How is the matter here?" ”

"It's coming. Let our caravan be repaired for a few days, and when there is a message from there, we will start immediately. Anu said.

As the two spoke, the caravan drove slowly and mightily.

More than a hundred mules, bulging with large bags and small boxes, looked very thin, and looked like they had come from a long journey.

A hundred men were riding on horses, responsible for the safety of the caravan, they were all young people, and Guo Yang didn't know any of them. But they all knew Guo Yang, and when the caravan was still twenty or thirty zhang away from Guo Yang, the hundred young men turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee on the spot, and shouted in unison: "I've seen Master!" ”

Guo Yang was stunned for a while, looked at Anu, and asked, "Are you or me?" ”

"Of course it's to meet you, with you, how dare I be a master." Anu laughed.

Guo Yang was a little depressed, waved his hand, and said warmly: "You have all worked hard. ”

The hundred young people said in unison: "The business is the world, and you will never give up!" ”

Guo Yang was stunned again, looking at Anu's serious appearance, Guo Yang had no choice but to continue the performance: "Everyone has worked hard, the mules and horses have also gone through a long journey, you go back to the tent first to warm up, and the livestock are worried." ”

The hundred young men roared in agreement, and got up together, but it was they who led the horses themselves and led the mule team into the temporary camp of the Tengger people.

The depression suddenly became lively, and the caravan that had been trekking for months in the ice and snow had actually reached its limit, especially the livestock, which would not have been able to survive at all if they had not been fed with enough food and hay every day.

The Tengger warmly invited a hundred young men into the tent, slaughtered seven or eight lambs, and prepared them to treat the distant guests.

In addition, the scrawny mules and horses were herded into special pens and taken care of. As soon as those mules entered the circle door, nearly half of them fell directly to their knees and struggled for a long time before slowly standing up.

Looking at the animals, and then looking back at the dark-faced and extremely tired young people, the Tengger people suddenly remembered their young people, and some of them cried in a low voice.

The caravan brought a large amount of salt, cloth and other daily necessities, and more tools, all kinds of tools dazzled the Tengger people.

The young men of the caravan were full of mutton, drank wine, and slept for three days and three nights. They were so tired that along the way, they had to not only crawl in the wind and snow, but also beware of the wolves and jackals on the grassland.

Of course, the most terrifying thing is the people, those steppe knights are like a gust of wind, they sweep in, whether they can get the benefit or not, they will not stay in place, and they will sweep away into the distance with a bang.

They are born with dog noses and can smell their prey. However, this time the route was carefully designed by Guo Yang and Anu, and most of the grassland people did not discover this caravan that went deep into the hinterland, and on the way, they only encountered two or three small groups of grassland people, all of whom were killed by Anu and them, and none of them escaped.

The young people slept beautifully and set off with their tools.

The Tengger people were a little dazed, looking at those energetic young people talking and laughing, all the way to the east, and felt that they should do something. They found the old patriarch Jida, who was drinking in Guo Yang's tent, and the old man was already a little drunk and staggered a little when he walked.

"Old Patriarch, those caravan boys are busy, should we do something too?" An old man asked.

"Yes, there are only a few cattle and sheep in total, just send two women to graze, and find us something to do." A middle-aged woman said.

After a winter's nest, the Tengger people's bones began to ache, and they were anxious for revenge and to live like a human being.

The old patriarch Jida half-squinted his eyes, spewed wine, and said loudly: "Okay, this is what my Tengger people should look like!" Let's go back immediately, take care of the livestock, and strive to double the number of our livestock in the spring season! ”

"Also," said the old patriarch Jida, after a pause, "go back to the tents, young women, and take care of your bodies, and when we have your men back, give us Tengger children well!" ”

The old patriarch Jida drank too much wine, and he got a little carried away, and he didn't speak high or low.

However, the Tengger people thought about it and felt that although what the old patriarch Jida said was rough, it was really the truth. The rules of survival on the grassland are not so many tricks, so that the number of cattle and sheep has increased exponentially, and women have a large number of children, which is everyone's wish and goal.

The Tengger people returned, and indeed began to care for the animals, and the women were ready to have children and multiply, waiting for the unreliable southerner to rescue their man.

Sent his own people, the old patriarch Jida back to Guo Yang's tent.

"Look, I've sent them all back, and we'll continue to discuss the matter." Old Patriarch Gilda said loudly.

Guo Yang took the wine, looked at the old patriarch with an excited face, and said with a smile: "We all heard it, respected old patriarch Jida." ”

……

The young men of the caravan made their way east, into a large forest. The steppe people are reluctant to go into this kind of place, because there are so many wild beasts hidden in it, and the horses will be so frightened that they will not listen to the breath of the tiger and the leopard.

Unless some tribes are in decline and cannot compete with other steppe people for pasture, they will be forced to burrow into the woods and rely on hunting for a living.

The young men were clearly prepared, and before the tigers, leopards, and black blind men could pounce on them, one of them dodged over and slit their throats with a knife, and became the belly of everyone.

They soon built a circle of wooden houses in a forest, and the tools they brought with them were unseen by the Tengger people, and they looked rudimentary, but extremely practical.

A large number of trees were cut down and, after some grooming, turned into new tools. These seemingly clumsy tools, the steppe people have never seen them, maybe they don't know, these new gadgets, but those farming tribesmen racked their brains to invent them, specifically to deal with the steppe people.

Guo Yang and Anu have repeatedly considered that if they want to settle on the grassland, they must have the ability to control these grassland jackals, otherwise, everything is empty talk.

There are not many kinds of tools made by young people, just a few, but they are very practical. Two or three of them were improved over the years that followed, and became the key to changing the way warfare was conducted.

According to Guo Yang's vision, an improved chariot was designed, which might be more suitable for the grassland terrain. This kind of chariot was born from the regular chariots of merchants and Zhou people, but it was even larger, and from a distance, it was directly a hexagonal mobile castle.

The Tengger people didn't have many horses, but they had a lot of cattle, and Guo Yang thought about it again and again and decided to try to get eight cows to pull these clumsy guys. Although the ox is said to have the agility and speed of a horse, Guo Yang increased its defenses with sturdy wood and wool felt to make up for its lack of speed.

In addition, because Guo Yang had a large amount of iron hidden, he asked these young men to make crossbows that made the cavalry fearful.

This kind of crossbow machine was also invented by those farming tribesmen, but limited to the material, only the core parts of the crossbow machine can be made of bronze, which is easy to damage and fall second, and the key is that it cannot carry a more powerful bowstring tension. But quietly adding iron parts to those core components has increased its lethality by more than two or three times, because it can withstand much stronger tension, and this new crossbow machine can even fire javelins directly.

In addition, Guo Yang asked the young men to consider whether they could invent a tool that would allow the knight to sit more firmly on the back of a horse. Because, he found that the biggest problem of all cavalry was that they could not stick firmly to their horses.

Those steppe people, since they learned to walk, have been on horseback, and the strength of the two looped legs is amazing, and with a slight clamp, they can sit firmly on the horse's back and sprint and kill. But his people, those who Anu brought from the south, had never ridden horses much, and no matter how sharp the knife in his hand was, he still couldn't take advantage of the steppe people.

In addition, Guo Yang also asked the young people to find a way to free up a batch of sharp wooden shelves. He had seen the horror of a large-scale cavalry charge, the kind of unstoppable and sweeping power, which often terrified the weaker side, and was often dashed before it could react, becoming the best target for those cavalry.

The weak have the logic of the weak, this is one of the problems that Guo Yang thinks about most thoroughly when he locks himself in a tent.