"Hahaha! Yuan Daochang is really clever, and Sanfeng has the help of Dao Chang, which is simply like a tiger with wings. ”

Mo Shuyu was overjoyed in his heart, although 30,000 is not much, it can play a very important role in his development.

"I'm afraid the prince still doesn't know, the world is not peaceful now, the Turks have not been able to defeat it, and now General Li has only hit Yinshan, and it has been stalemate for more than half a month."

Mo Shuyu has been running away from the northern grasslands recently, and he can't avoid anyone when he sees it, and he doesn't know what is happening in the world. The Turks, who were obviously breaking through all the way, are now deadlocked?

"You mean? The Turks were already able to make gunpowder? ”

Mo Shuyu thought about it seriously, Wang Youxue was really a madman, and he really made the gunpowder formula known to the world. Then it is normal that the Turks are difficult to gnaw, Li Jing only brought 50,000 people to the north, and the Turkic territory is even several times larger than that of the Tang Dynasty, and there are garrisons all the way to fight all the way, I am afraid that it will not be long before Li Jing can only flee back to the Tang Dynasty in defeat.

"What about other countries?"

"Tubo in the south, Baekje Goryeo in the northeast and other countries have begun to deploy troops on the border, and this time I am afraid that the Tang Dynasty will also be in danger."

I have to say that this is bad news, I am afraid that Li Shimin has long since no intention of conquering the Turks in the north and conquering Tibet in the south.

The rich wolves, tigers and leopards around the Tang Dynasty were already eyeing the rich land of the Central Plains, and now they are afraid that they have all sent envoys to Chang'an to negotiate.

With Li Shimin's temperament and the current national strength of the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that Li Shimin will not bow to them, and I am afraid that it will be a vicious battle at that time.

"Lord Wang, Lao Dao will show you the injury?"

"No, there's no rush for now. Walk! I'll go to Qiuzi first. ”

Mo Shuyu thought about it, most of the fifty-five countries in the Western Regions existed in the form of tribes, and a few countries such as Qiuzi were slightly larger.

Of course, the so-called big is only more than 100,000 people, and the Chinese first knew that Guizi was in the Han Dynasty. The middle level of Bangu's "Book of Han" recorded: "Qiuzi country, Wang ruled Yancheng, and went to Chang'an for 7,480 miles. The household was six thousand nine hundred and seventy, the mouth was eighty-one thousand three hundred and seventeen, and the victorious army was twenty-one thousand and seventy-six. …… The south is connected with Jingjue, the southeast and the end, the southwest and Anhydride, the north and Wusun, and the west with Gumo. It can be cast and smelted, and there is lead. It is 350 miles east to the city of Wulei, the capital protection station.

The country of Qiuzi is not big, and it is not even comparable to the population of a lower state in the Tang Dynasty.

But Qiuzi has something that Mo Shuyu urgently needs now, lead! The ammunition of the fire gun is more lethal and cost-effective than the use of steel balls and the like.

If you are hit by a steel ball, maybe the steel ball will pass through your body directly, and you may be able to survive if you are treated in time.

Lead has a heavier specific gravity than iron, but it has a softer texture, and even if it does not die from the impact of the firecracker, it will die from lead poisoning.

Maybe someone will say that this method is inhumane, then Mo Shuyu will definitely slap him in the face.

Now that he has come out of the Tang Dynasty, who else cares about him? Inhumane? Do you wait for the alien race to burn, kill, rob and abuse the land of my Central Plains, and treat the descendants of the Han family as two-legged sheep?

Perhaps later, when the tense has stabilized, he will reconsider using steel balls as ammunition.

But it will never be now, and it will never be the time when several surrounding countries will unite and deploy troops on the border.

"Lord Wang! Qiuzi was originally a Turkic vassal state, but now the Turks are too busy to take care of themselves, and Qiuci has also broken away from the Turks. ”

Mo Shuyu was riding a horse and leading everyone to Yuan Tiangang's disguised carriage, when suddenly a group of elite soldiers came out from behind, numbering nearly a thousand, supporting each other and walking towards Mo Shuyu and the others under the leadership of the general.

Even if you're hungry and have a dry mouth. Even if they were scarred, and even some of them were missing limbs and arms, they still held their heads high and tried to keep up with the team. Not for anything else, just because they are the Tang Xuanjia Army, the Han Army.

In this many alien lands in the Western Regions, no matter how hard and tired you are, you can't be ashamed!

"General Luo?"

When Mo Shuyu saw it, he hurriedly greeted him, looking at the soldiers who were covered in blood and couldn't even stand steadily, and he wanted to cry.

"The last general has seen the prince, and on the orders of His Royal Highness King Wu, the last general led the troops all the way west to chase the prince!"

Luo Tong waited for Mo Shuyu to walk in front of him, and gave a military salute tremblingly.

"Three thousand soldiers, that's all there is left?"

"Back to the prince! After covering the retreat of the prince, our army had more than 1,125 people, and 351 wounded were sent back to Datang. ”

Even iron-clad men like Luo Tong and Su Dingfang couldn't help crying at this time, three thousand soldiers went out, but only nearly a thousand people came back at this time.

"There are only soldiers who are sorry for the country, and there are no soldiers who are sorry for the country, and it is our dear country that we swear allegiance to, not damned politicians, and we pay the most respectful to all our compatriots, brothers and warriors who have sacrificed."

Mo Shuyu raised his hand and saluted the Xuanjia army.

If it weren't for the internal reasons of the Tang Dynasty, the Shi clan would unite with foreign enemies, as an elite Xuanjia army, even if they encountered tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry, they would not necessarily be defeated.

"It is the duty of our soldiers to protect the family and defend the country, and the prince does not have to be polite!" Luo Tong also knew what Mo Shuyu said, and the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army were also the elite of the elite, so they were naturally not stupid.

But the Xuanjia army didn't seem to blame Mo Shuyu, after all, Mo Shuyu himself was not lightly injured.

"The army is pulling out and pressing Qiuzi!"

Mo Shuyu walked in front and led a group of tired elite soldiers towards Qiuzi.

Because the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army chased Mo Shuyu all the way, they have long run out of ammunition and food. Therefore, on the way to Qiuzi, Mo Shuyu bought it as long as he met a merchant selling grain along the way, regardless of the price.

Mo Shuyu's actions directly caused the price of grain in the entire Western Regions to rise by nearly thirty percent.

While buying grain, Mo Shuyu also told the merchants that he hoped to buy from them any various materials that were difficult to obtain in the vicinity of Qiuzi, such as lime necessary for making cement, such as saltpeter charcoal for gunpowder.

Because now that all the countries around the Tang Dynasty know the gunpowder formula, and all the materials for making gunpowder have been strictly banned, Mo Shuyu had no choice but to turn to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty.

Although at this time, Datang has also banned saltpeter and other things, as long as Mo Shuyu hands over his waist card, I am afraid that it will not take many days, and Chang'an will send an order.

At that time, a steady stream of materials will be sent to Qiuzi, and what Mo Shuyu needs to worry about now is not the problem of materials, but the problem of money.

Originally, I thought that 30,000 guan was enough, but I didn't think that the situation was so tense now, and with the addition of hundreds of Xuanjia troops, 30,000 guan was just a few dozen carts of grain to spend.

What Mo Shuyu was thinking about at this time was how to make money, what was it to make money in this place in the Western Regions? Nothing more than a scarce thing.

Mo Shuyu himself is short of all kinds of materials, so it is naturally impossible to exchange them for money.

The method of making saltpeter ice has already spread all over the world, and at this time, it seems that he can't satisfy his current situation if he wants to make money in this scorching Western Regions.

"It looks like we'll only be able to sell a few recipes."

Mo Shuyu thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of any way to make a profit like a high wine.

The agent of high wine in the Western Regions has not been released, and he can also receive a lot of money. But even with the huge profits of high alcohol, Mo Shuyu had to bleed a lot of money and give up a lot of benefits in exchange for the support of the businessmen.

If you want to get rich, you must first let the merchants come to your place, and only when the merchants come and take a fancy to your things can they bring about the economy.

Mo Shuyu does not lack the things that businessmen need, he only lacks a place where businessmen can make a fortune in peace.