Chai Huaixing led his subordinates around the vast and boundless Tulun moraine, since coming south to the foot of the Nanshan Mountain, which was later called Kunlun Mountain, to circumnavigate the Tulun moraine, it was hungry and thirsty to eat and drink, Xiaoxing stayed overnight, and did not dare to delay for a moment. On this day, the officers and men of the Eighth Army continued to march westward after a stream originating from Nanshan, gradually moving away from Nanshan and gradually approaching Tulun Moraine.

In the early autumn, the desert did not have the slightest coolness, but the endless sea of sand became more and more scorching under the sun's rays, and gradually squeezed out of the desert waves, constantly licking the few remaining traces of green around. The steaming heat gradually transformed into a wave-shaped illusory shadow under the sunlight, rising from the yellow sand and finally dissipating into the heavens and the earth.

"Commander, the stream is coming to an end here, according to the book, the water source here should be turned underground, the risk is a little too great if we go deep into the Tulun moraine, once the trace of the water source is lost, the army is in danger." A staff officer stepped forward and said to Chai Huaixing.

"What did Tilqi say? He is the most cunning fox in the desert, and he should be able to find the veins of water hidden beneath the sand. Chai Huaixing looked at the desert not far away and asked the staff officer.

Chai Huaixing's Tilqi is a Khotanese who lived in the county of Jimo, and when he was young, he used to enter and exit the Tulun moraine several times with caravans, relying on crossing the Tulun moraine to avoid taxes. Tirqi was his surname, and because his family had made a living by leading caravans across the desert for generations, he was known to the people who knew him as the fox of the desert.

After all, this kind of tax evasion with a caravan is illegal, so the ancestors of Tilqi did not dare to reveal their own names and surnames, so they chose the word fox in the words of praise in the mouths of others, and set the surname Tilqi in the Turkic language, and only one person in each generation of his family can serve as Tilqi, until this person dies, a family member can take the next Tilqi, a Tilqi must not take the initiative to contact the family for life, and every month someone in the family will come to take the wealth he earns, Only a little money left for her daily life.

Later, Li Wenyuan recovered the eight counties of the Western Regions, and the merchants also accepted more reasonable taxes under the implementation of the new policy, after all, the desert is not so easy to enter and exit, and every time you cross the desert, it may be the last trip, although there will be few injuries to personnel under the rich experience of Tilqi, but it is inevitable that a lot of goods will be damaged, which is a natural disaster, and no one can change it.

So after a large number of merchants weighed the pros and cons and no longer risked their blood to cross the desert, Tilqi lost the source of money, and because what Tilqi did was illegal, the family would not accept him again. After being abandoned by his family, Tirch sold all his property in frustration, got drunk for three days with the money he had received, and on the fourth day turned himself in to the local justice office.

After a detailed understanding of the matter of Tilqi, the judicial department reported the matter to Li Wenyuan, who looked at the information in his hand and could only sigh that he was a champion, so he gave instructions that this person should be dealt with according to the law, but the execution could be suspended, so that he could compile his experience and skills in the desert into a book, and he must not hide anything, and finally measure whether he could offset his guilt according to the value of the book.

The judicial department, which had obtained Li Wenyuan's approval, faithfully carried out Li Wenyuan's order, and imposed a fine of 100 times for tax evasion in the laws of the Western Regions, and accepted the right of inheritance of the debt of the son to repay the debts of the father, so the wealth obtained by Tierqi over the years had to be fined 100 times.

This really killed Tilqi, you must know that he is now penniless, and the judiciary learned that they have found their heirs, and they have put all the information in front of him, Tilqi was in despair at that time, and only felt that the sky was dark.

But then the judiciary told him that if he turned himself in, he could be given a suspended sentence of punishment given that he usually had a good reputation among his neighbors. But in the meantime, he had to tell him all about his skills in surviving in the desert and finding his way, without the slightest concealment, and this book would decide whether to offset the punishment he was given.

Tirch was like a drowning man grasping a life-saving straw, and even nodded his head like a chicken pecking at broken rice. But his skill was passed down from home, and he learned it freely, so he couldn't read and hyphenate at all, so he arranged for a few people to record what he said.

In this way, Tirqi was placed under house arrest, and every day he was brought food and drink, and in this courtyard he told everything he had learned as a child, plus what he had learned in the desert, and in just a few months he had recorded the information of several rooms. Later, under Li Wenyuan's instructions, more relevant scholars were mobilized to sort out these materials together with Tilqi, and finally compiled the first set of books related to desert survival in the Great Sui, which were ordered by Li Wenyuan to be printed and distributed to various military academies, political work schools and recruit camps.

Tirqi relied on this set of books to finally offset his own punishment, and even became an instructor in Li Wenyuan's military academy, specializing in teaching and answering this set of books, constantly improving and enhancing the desert adaptability of Li Wenyuan's Western Regions Army. Experiencing a different way of life, Tirch felt like he had been reborn, and at a subsequent family reunion, he completely rejected everyone's retention, announcing that he had completely severed his family ties and left the family that had abandoned him at his most critical time.

After leaving the family, Tilqi used the surname Tilqi to re-establish a clan, married a wife and had children, and lived a lively and fulfilling life. Later, by chance, he met the judicial officers who wanted to punish him, and in order to express the opportunity for them to be a new person, Tilqi took the initiative to come up and toast them.

As the so-called soldier dies for his confidant, this time he heard that the Chai Huaixing army on the southern road was going to march on the edge of Tulun moraine, and Tilqi volunteered to serve in Chai Huaixing's army, as a guide to take them out of the desert unscathed, so that they could attack Khotan by surprise.

(End of chapter)