Mo Shuyu took nearly 100 internal guards given by Li Ke, as well as Zhang Dabiao to Fuwangcai and others, all the way to the west, on the way he met a caravan doing horse business in the north, exchanged a few gems he carried with him for a batch of horses, and it took nearly a month to reach the vicinity of Yumen Pass.

Looking at the barren Western Regions, Mo Shuyu felt a sigh of emotion in his heart.

It's only been a few months since I came to Datang, but I have experienced several crises, and I secretly don't know how much Li Shimin and Uncle Cheng have blocked.

Mo Shuyu said in his heart, since it is not possible to be gentle with you, then I can only come to be tough.

"The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, a lonely city and ten thousand mountains, why should the Qiang Di complain about the willows, the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass! Let's go! ”

Mo Shuyu groaned, took a hundred or so people to look at Yumen Pass, and strode towards the barren desert hundreds of miles outside the pass.

"Lord Wang, let's not enter the Jade Gate Pass?"

Zhang Dabiao wondered for a moment, could it be that he ran for dozens of days, but he didn't even enter the Jade Gate Pass of the Tang Dynasty when he arrived in the Western Regions?

"Da Biao, why did we come to the Western Regions?"

Mo Shuyu didn't answer, and asked.

"Uhhh

Zhang Dabiao listened to Mo Shuyu's words, and thought carefully in his heart that this was indeed the case.

"Don't worry! Now the Yumen guard is Li Fan, a former colleague of the villain, an old minister of the Qin Palace, and a member of the Xuanjia Army, so he can definitely believe it! ”

"Da Biao, do you know the same experience, why did people become the guards of the Jade Gate, but you have been by His Majesty's side as a guard?"

Mo Shuyu saw that he was almost at his destination at this time, and he was not in a hurry, and slowly taught Zhang Dabiao.

"Because you are only a general, not a handsome talent, you are brave but not strategic. Even if Li Fan, the guard of the Yumen Pass, is trustworthy, what about the officials in the Yumen Pass? Can you guarantee that none of them are noble? ”

"If it's really credible, we just need to find a place to set up camp here, send someone outside the Yumen Pass, and he will naturally contact us."

After Mo Shuyu finished speaking, he left the stunned Zhang Dabiao, his feet tightened, and he rode his horse to the Western Regions.

"Lord Wang! The little one understands, Li Fan is a small old acquaintance, why don't you let the little one enter the customs first? ”

Zhang Dabiao thought about it, except for himself and Laifu Wangcai, the rest of the people in the group were internal guards of the Sui Dynasty, and Laifu Wangcai belonged to the secret guards directly under Li Shimin, and I am afraid that he must go to Yumen Pass.

"It's not the time, and now the Tang Dynasty is not at peace, if it is really according to what Wang Youxue said, he has spread the gunpowder formula all over the world, I am afraid that the current guards of Yumen Pass are no longer the people of the past."

Mo Shuyu stopped his horse and looked back at Zhang Dabiao.

"Da Biao, you have to use your brains more! Although we discussed with His Royal Highness King Wu that I had been killed by someone who blocked the way back to the Tang Dynasty in the south, King Wu would deceive the world, but he would not deceive Your Majesty, I am afraid that Your Majesty has already learned that I am coming to the Western Regions. The person sent to Yumen Pass must be my old acquaintance, and in my opinion, I am afraid that he is one of several old princes. ”

"Let's find a place to camp first, and then let Liu Daxia enter the customs to explore the wind."

Mo Shuyu's words made Zhang Dabiao pause, and he rode a horse to catch up with the team, silent.

"Alert!"

After Mo Shuyu finished talking to Zhang Dabiao, everyone was silent along the way, thinking about the current situation in the Western Regions.

Suddenly, Liu Donglou pulled out the sword at his waist and roared. A group of internal guards quickly surrounded Mo Shuyu in the middle, and Laifu Wangcai protected Mo Shuyu's side for the first time.

"East Building, what's wrong?"

Mo Shuyu didn't know why, now he has already entered the desert, and the radius is barren for a hundred miles, could it be that there is still an ambush army?

"Lord Wang, I feel a breath of breath when I am small, it is very dangerous, but there is a familiar feeling."

Liu Donglou didn't know why, he just felt the danger, but the radius was sparsely populated. How to lay an ambush in the middle of a desert?

"Lao Dao has seen the prince."

The sudden sound of a sentence made nearly 100 people look at the place where the voice came.

"Daoist Yuan?"

Mo Shuyu was also stunned, Yuan Tiangang took a cart of fine wine from his house after he got married and left, but he didn't expect to meet in the desert of the Western Regions more than a month later.

"It's Lao Dao, Lao Dao has been waiting for the prince here for more than half a month."

I don't know if it's true or not, is it possible for Yuan Tiangang to be a god? He had already come to the Western Regions half a month ago, if this was the case, wouldn't Yuan Tiangang have already set off for the Western Regions before he left Chang'an?

"Daoist Yuan already knew that I was coming to the Western Regions?"

Mo Shuyu has always been a complete atheist, but at this time, Yuan Tiangang's performance made him a little suspicious of the theory he had firmly believed in for more than 20 years.

The old man watched the celestial phenomena on the day and night of the prince's marriage to measure the good fortune and evil of the prince, and found that the prince was difficult to be in the West, so he left the night and returned to the temple, and counted the good fortune and evil for the prince together with the apprentice. Unexpectedly, the apprentice of the old Tao said that it was difficult for the prince to go to the Turks, but he was going to be defeated and fled to the Western Regions in a few days. ”

Yuan Tiangang pointed to the carriage under the sand dunes behind him, Mo Shuyu looked at it, if Yuan Tiangang hadn't pointed it out, I'm afraid that even if he passed by, he wouldn't have noticed that there was still a carriage here.

"There are a lot of bandits in the desert, and Lao Dao has to use some tricks."

"What's this car?"

Mo Shuyu didn't know what Yuan Tiangang had gone back to his house to get something, and at this time, I was afraid that the only thing that would be beneficial to him was gunpowder.

Not to mention that he didn't have so much gunpowder in his house, even if he was afraid that Uncle Fu would not dare to hand it over to Yuan Tiangang, Li Shimin would not let him out of Chang'an.

"After Lao Dao knew Hou Ye's idea of coming to the Western Regions, he knew that Hou Ye had nothing at this time, so he brought Hou Ye a cart of silver."

"A cart of silver?"

Mo Shuyu was overjoyed, if what Yuan Tiangang said was true, then I am afraid that I don't even need to go to the Yumen Pass, and with money, I am afraid that I will not be able to mix in the Western Regions?

"Exactly, it's just because Steward Mo doesn't believe in Lao Dao's words, so he only gave 30,000 yuan to Lao Dao."

After listening to Yuan Tiangang's words, Mo Shuyu was embarrassed for a while, 30,000 Guan still didn't believe your words? If I believe you, shouldn't Uncle Fu still move the palace for you?

In fact, it is normal, Mo Shuyu still doesn't know much about Yuan Tiangang.

Yuan Tiangang's fame in Datang is very great, beyond Mo Shuyu's imagination.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he shamelessly found Lao Tzu as his ancestor and promoted Taoism. Nowadays, in the Tang Dynasty, Yuan Tiangang, who values Taoism but not Buddhism, as half of the Taoist sky, may not be less famous among the people than the emperor.

Many times the people of the Tang Dynasty would rather believe in the non-existent gods and Buddhas than in the imperial court.

In addition, Yuan Tiangang is still the fire well order appointed by the imperial court, and Uncle Fu's trust in him is also reasonable.