After staying in Raole City for a few days, when Luo Cheng left, Kedu personally led 5,000 Xi warriors to accompany him, followed by 5,000 children and children to drive Nian Yang to follow.

His baby daughter Mingzhu also had to follow Luo Cheng to go with her, these days in Rao Le City, this bold girl had already taken the initiative to enter Luo Cheng's room at night.

For these enthusiastic Xi girls, if they fancy their crushes, they have to be bold to chase them, and once they are in love, they can be together openly.

As for etiquette and the like, they don't care too much.

However, Luo Cheng is not disgusted with such an enthusiastic and unrestrained girl, originally, if you like it, you can love, and no one can care.

Leaving Raole City, he walked south along the water for a few days, and then did not cross the Great Wall into Beiping County, but began to turn north.

After walking for a few days, there is the Tofuchen River in front of you, and you can enter the territory of the Khitan by going north along this river. The river is a north-flowing river that flows from south to north and eventually joins the weak Luoshui. The Tosuchen River is actually the Laoha River in later generations, and this weak Luoshui is the Xiliao River.

The West Liao River is a little west of Buyeo City, and the East Liao River joins, and after the two rivers meet, one east and one west, it turns and flows into the sea to the south.

The Khitan people are nomadic herders in the lower reaches of the West Liao River valley and the Laoha River.

And to the north of the weak Luoshui, there is another tribe, the Xia.

The people of the Central Plains take the Xia as another species of the Xiongnu, living in the north of the weak Luoshui, and also the birthplace of Xianbei. It is connected to the east of the Yan Dynasty, the north is connected to the Murwei, the ravine and the ditch are to the Turks, the south is to the Khitan, the land is thousands of miles away, there are mountains on all sides, surrounding its territory, there are many people who are good at shooting and hunting, so that the red skin is the clothing, the women like the copper Chuan, the placket is with a small copper bell up and down, and the rest of the customs are similar to the Khitan people. There are about 40,000 households and 10,000 soldiers.

It can be said that Xi, Khitan, and Xia are sandwiched between Liaodong and Guannei outside the Great Sui, making Liaodong and Guannei only a very narrow passage in the Liaoxi Corridor.

But on the other hand, the presence of these three parts made the Turks isolated from the Guanwai.

The scenery of the Northland is indeed majestic.

Especially all the way from Xijing, it is not all grassland, but the mountains are undulating, the big rivers are surging, and there are green grasslands in between, which is very vast.

Along the way, it can be seen that all the tribes are still very backward nomadic hunting lifestyles, and most of them wear leather robes and straw clothes. When they saw Luo Cheng's huge team passing by, they were very hospitable.

They drove cattle and sheep, took the accumulated furs, and rushed to trade. For these remote and remote tribes, sometimes there may not be a single caravan for a month or two.

They want to change the salt.

I heard that it was the Han family marshal from the Central Plains, and the team also brought a lot of good things from the Central Plains, including salt, tea, wine, silk cloth, etc., so they excitedly drove the cattle, sheep and horses in the tribe to come, except for the female animals with their young, the male animals with breeding, and some of the ones who kept to milk and eat meat, they all wanted to exchange things.

For these small tribes, Luo Cheng generously accepted their trading requests, and even gave an extremely good transaction price.

So they went all the way north, and there were tribes running to trade, they drove cattle and sheep, pulled furs, and even some strange medicinal herbs and the like.

Luo Cheng didn't refuse, and he couldn't change much anyway. This time, he went out of Liaodong and went to Yehuling to operate secretly, but in Xidi, it was semi-public, and even he deliberately organized a caravan to accompany him, which was regarded as a cover.

The businessmen are willing to follow Luo Cheng out, because with Luo Cheng here, then the loyal army and the tooth soldiers will protect it, and there will be no danger in going deeper into Saibei, and they can also take the opportunity to explore the route and find better business opportunities.

But going deep into the grassland, it's a little harder, but the harvest is also good, and trading here is very profitable.

In the horse market in eastern Liaodong, Luo Cheng opened a horse for 80 catties of tea. But the merchants traded with these tribes on the banks of the Laoha River, but they exchanged twenty catties of tea for a good horse.

When the Laoha River was about to merge into the Xiliao River, the Khitan Khan, the Governor of Songmo, the Taishou, and the Marquis of Songmo, Yang Guozhong, rushed over with a large group of men.

He had already heard about the agreement that Luo Cheng had reached with Kedu in Rao Le City, and he had long been jealous.

So without waiting for Luo Cheng to arrive at his Song Desert City, he took the initiative to gather eight thousand tribal warriors, and also brought his very beautiful sister. In addition, he organized a large number of cattle, horses, camels, etc.

In the distance, Dahe Duluo rode his horse and shouted, "Guozhong is late to greet the marshal, please punish the marshal." ”

He jumped off the horse when he rode dozens of steps away from Luo Cheng, and then ran to Luo Cheng, knelt on the ground and hugged Luo Cheng's thigh directly.

"Daddy has worked hard from afar."

Luo Cheng couldn't cry or laugh, "Your son was accepted by me as a righteous son, you and I should be the same generation." ”

But Luo Luo said, "I'll call Daddy with my son, and it's the same." ”

It's not for nothing that Du Luo works so hard, the horse purchase agreement reached between Ku Moxi's Kedu and Luo Cheng is too tempting, and he wants it too.

After Luo Luo euphemistically explained his request, Luo Cheng happily agreed.

After all, if he didn't mention it, he would also take the initiative to mention this trade, but now he took the initiative to mention it, and even said early that he would lead the sons and warriors of the eight thousand Khitan white horses and green cattle to follow Daddy to fight Yuan Taizuo, who couldn't open his eyes.

How could Luo Cheng refuse.

Luo Cheng came to Xiqi and Xiqi so hard this time, not only to talk about trade cooperation, trade is just a reason, and Dayuan Taizuo is just a pretense.

Luo Cheng's real purpose is to let each of the two tribes send an elite to him under his command on the grounds of fighting Yuan Taizuo, but after Luo Cheng takes these two clans to Liaodong, he will definitely find a way to pull them into the customs.

This can not only avoid them being dragged over by the Jiangdu court to threaten their backyard at a critical time, but also greatly enhance the strength of the loyal army.

Luo said that although he has several daughters, he is either too young or too ugly, and he really can't deserve to be worthy of you, Daddy, fortunately, I also have a sister, who is very young and beautiful, and she also admires Daddy's heroic name, so now I dare to ask Daddy, if you don't dislike it, please accept my sister.

As he spoke, he pulled the girl over.

It was a very well-toned girl, she had Khitan-style hair, and like a man, most of her hair was shaved off. She kept a long bun of hair in the middle of the top of her head, combed it into a bun, and stood upright on the top of her head, then shaved the hair around the bun to form a hair ring on both sides of the top of her head, leaving two long locks of hair in front of her forehead, hanging down on her ears.

This hairstyle is a common hairstyle for Khitan women, both men and women have hair, but men have more types of hairstyles and generally have less hair, while women have fewer hairstyles and more hair.

Common include shawl hair, short ear-length hair, short bangs, board inches, etc.

Originally, it was ugly for a woman to keep her hairstyle, but this girl named Qingfeng kept this hairstyle, but it made people feel very individual, especially highlighting the cold handsomeness of her face.

It's really good-looking, and it doesn't matter if you don't have a hairstyle.

Compared with the initiative and enthusiasm of the pearl girl, this Qingfeng girl is extremely cold and arrogant, like a thorny rose, arrogant and cold.

"Are you hard to fight?"

"It's okay."

"Are you a good horseman?"

"It's okay."

"There is no basis for your words, if you can be more accurate than me in archery and better than me in riding, then I will marry you, otherwise I don't care what kind of marshal you are in the Central Plains or the prince of the country, I will not marry a man who is not even as good as me."

Luo Cheng looked at such a girl with a personality, and couldn't help laughing, he waved his hand and motioned to Lu Luo not to speak, "Okay, then let's talk." ”

This cold and arrogant Qingfeng girl did ride and shoot, but Luo Cheng was still a step ahead.

After the competition, Luo Cheng's riding and archery skills won the applause of the soldiers of the Xi and Qi clans, and Dahe Qingfeng jumped off the horse and came over, "You won, from now on, you will be my man." ”

Ohga Duluo breathed a sigh of relief, I'm really afraid of this girl's bad things.

"Dashuai, I, the Khitan 8,000 warriors, am willing to fight with Dashuai!"

Luo Cheng jumped off the horse with a smile, and then stretched out his hand and patted Dahe Duluo, who came over, "Please rest assured, my Andong Dao will also buy horses with you, buy as many as you want, and the conditions are the same as those given to King Xi." ”

Dahe Duluo trembled excitedly, the Khitan was sandwiched between the Turkic, the Great Sui and the Goguryeo, and he had not been less splinted in these years, and he had a short period of strength in the early years, but it was still in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, when the Turks and Goguryeo were greatly reduced by the blows of the Central Plains and the turmoil of civil strife.

At that time, the Khitan Eight Divisions were also strong and strong, and they seemed to be the rising stars in the Northeast.

But later the Sui Dynasty only sent an envoy, borrowed a soldier and horse from the Turks, and rushed thousands of miles away, killing them Khitan eight dead and wounded, and finally under the follow-up blows of the Sui one after another, the ancient eight were scattered, and many years later, the current new eight were reorganized, and the Dahe clan was the leader of the new eight alliance.

Over the years, Dahe Duluo has always adhered to one thing, that is, he no longer pays attention to the Turks, but clings to the thighs of the Sui Dynasty in the Central Plains.

The last time Sui Luo attacked the Turks, it made Dahe Luo completely see the strength of the Central Plains Dynasty, even if he had an expedition to Goguryeo and suffered heavy losses, but only one border general could wipe out the 300,000 army of the beginning.

This kind of strength makes Dou Luo always remind himself that he must not be an enemy of Sui, and he must not become an enemy of Luo.

Compared to the Great Sui Emperor who gave him his name, Luo Luo felt that the commander of the loyal army who was next to him was a greater threat to them, and now, Luo Cheng's border market trade and market horses made him have to hug Luo Cheng's thigh.

There is a saying among the people of the Central Plains that the current official is not as good as the current management.

Luo Cheng can not only destroy their Khitan at any time, but also let their Khitan become strong again through the border market, perhaps after Goguryeo and Turkic are destroyed by the Sui, it is unknown whether their Khitan can replace them and become the new northern overlord.

And the key to all this lies in Luo Cheng.