"This matter is well known, Wei Qing can rest assured."

"I understand. Please take care of the king, the minister is gone! ”

Finally, with a bow, Bailiyan (Wei Xian) took the customs clearance talisman from the hands of King Xian, turned over on the war horse, and waved goodbye. Jiang Rong, Xiao Chunyu and other women sat in the car, looking at the backs that were gradually moving away, tears coming out of their eyes.

"Your Excellency is gone......"

Xiao Chunyu couldn't cry, and Jiang Rong wiped her tears:

"I'll be back."

At this time, the head of the South Gate City was crowded with people, and as the horse team went away, Guan Longxiang was not without worry:

"My lord is going to be more auspicious, and I don't know when I will be able to return......

"Since my brother is worried about Lord Wei, why doesn't he follow and give advice?"

"The adults don't let them go with you, and the foolish brother has no other way."

"Hehe......"

Zhao Anling laughed for no reason, and Guan Longxiang was puzzled:

"Why is Brother Xian laughing?"

"I'm laughing brother, worrying about the sky."

"Worrying about the sky? Brother Xian's words are too mean. ”

"Mean? I'm telling the truth. Brother doesn't look at what Lord Wei brought with him, if he didn't encounter a strong enemy, most of them would be fine. ”

"How does Brother Xian know?"

"Before Lord Wei left, he ordered the Du family to raise the two flavors of Rhodiola and Ziluotang, and also asked people to go to Miaotian Mountain to collect Rhodiola, there is no doubt that the Rhodiola and Ziluo Tang used in the Ouchi Medicine Depot must have also been transferred away by Lord Wei, which shows that the adults are more fully prepared for the southern border, and they will not die before leaving the school."

Rhodiola rosea is still a precious medicinal material, growing in the high-altitude pure area between 1,800 meters and 2,500 meters above sea level, and has the effects of replenishing qi and clearing the lungs, collecting astringency and stopping bleeding, dissipating stasis and reducing swelling, lung heat, coughing and asthma, qi deficiency and fatigue.

It has the functions of strengthening the foundation, enhancing immunity, anti-fatigue, and regulating the mental system. At the same time, it can also enhance the oxygen carrying capacity of red blood cells, enhance the oxygen content in the body, and prevent qi deficiency and fatigue caused by hypoxia on the plateau.

Purple carrot is a unique medicine in the world, the price is slightly higher, the flower blooms five petals to take its stems and leaves into medicine, in the high mountains and mountain people of the Jin Kingdom often take this medicine, enhance the body and relieve fatigue, and at the same time also have a strong hemostatic effect, so it also has the effect of rhodiola rosea to enhance the oxygen carrying capacity of red blood cells.

Before Bailiyan set off, the father and son of the Du family collected these two medicinal materials, and finally emptied the medicine warehouse of the palace medical officer's office, and only raised more than 60 catties of rhodiola and more than 280 catties of purple carrot.

Bailiyan led the army to divide the troops into two routes, the infantry army followed the heavy grain and grass, took the boat and took the waterway into the Wangqin River to go to Zhiguo, and the cavalry took the land route to take the shortcut to go to the mouth of the Wangqin River to clear the customs.

In order to facilitate the vassal states to fight in the south, the royal guests and the various sects signed an agreement with the Liang State on the alliance of Qianyue Mountain, during the northern invasion of Jin Xuedi, the vassal states suspended the civil war and united with the outside world, and the armies of the vassal states could hold the Feiyun Fu Festival and pass through the territory of the vassal states harmlessly, and the vassal states were unconditionally allowed to pass through the territory of the vassal states, and the vassal states were unconditionally allowed to make trouble.

From the date of the alliance until the cessation of the war in the south and the return of the armies of the vassal states to their own countries, the princes shall not attack and kill each other, and the armies of the vassal states shall not occupy the land of other countries or capture the cities of other countries under the pretext of passing through territory, but those who disobey the order shall rise up and attack them en masse.

Bailiyan led the army out of less than twenty miles, and Lu Cheng, who was exploring the way ahead, rode a horse to report:

"General, there is a Confucian priest in front of him who blocked the way, saying that he wanted to meet the general."

"See Ben General? What about people. ”

"Three miles ahead of the official road grove."

"Let's go, lead the way."

"No!"

When Lu Cheng came to the grove, he saw a handsome young man who was more than seven feet tall, in his early twenties, in his early twenties, wearing an indigo dark coat, wearing a rosewood crown, leading a rare tall white horse to stop on the official road, looking at the direction of the army with a bright look.

Seeing Baili Yan coming, the young man stepped forward and gave a slight salute:

"I've seen Dr. Wei."

Bai Liyan turned over and dismounted to look at the young man, only to feel that this person's face was full of confidence and an indescribable mystery.

"Your Excellency?"

"Doctor Wei doesn't need to know who a certain person is, a certain person came here to offer a plan, I don't know if Doctor Wei is interested."

"Wei doesn't know your identity, how can you believe your words."

"Believe it or not, Dr. Wei makes his own judgment, and he has no intention of forcing it." Zong Botai smiled faintly, very confident and leisurely.

Bai Liyan looked at the person again, still confused in his heart, and said after thinking for a while:

"Then it depends on what your Excellency says."

"Doctor Wei is going to Qianyue Mountain, you must be cautious."

"Sengakuyama? So, your Excellency is familiar with the South? ”

"Doctor Wei has lifted up the grass people."

"And what do you want to say?"

"The southern barbarian Jin Xuedi's northern attack must be the strength of the whole country, and its potential will be the most in the Liang Dynasty for more than 600 years, so this war, the head-on battle is more auspicious and less, and the vassal states will inevitably fight each other to protect their own strength, if the general wants to keep safe and turn the danger into a disaster, the south of Qianyue Mountain will be safer than the north of Qianyue Mountain, please learn from it."

"South of Qianyue Mountain, that is the endless prairie, the territory of the Southern Barbarian Jin Xuedi, don't you know?"

"Because of this, if the general wants to live, it is best not to be an enemy, and the royal guest is ruthless and is categorically not allowed to retreat, so the way to survive is only in the south, and the north will surely die."

"Your Excellency, this is alarmist, if I pull the horse to the south, I will not be able to attack the city, nor will I have food and grass to carry it, how can 30,000 soldiers live."

"Hehe......" Zong Botai smiled lightly, and then said: "Zhenbei will definitely die, and there is still life on the south road, a certain word is all here, General Wei is so self-cherished, if you can return to the Central Plains, you and I will have a goodbye day in the future." Someone has taken his leave! ”

After speaking, Zong Botai turned over his horse, saluted again, and rode away.

At this time, one side of Sikong South Road:

"General, this person is crazy, the south of Qianyue Mountain is an endless prairie, the territory of the Southern Barbarians, I can't attack the city when I go south, and I don't have logistics to carry the baggage, wouldn't I be sent to death."

"Yes, only a madman in this world can do such an incomprehensible act, and if this person is true, he must have something outstanding. Command the army and continue to march. ”

"No!"

The appearance of the unknown man made Bai Liyan, who had always been more optimistic about this trip, cast a shadow on his heart, and an ominous premonition lingered in his heart for a long time. If you are backed by the hinterland of the Central Plains and life and death are still unpredictable, and you go south into the endless grassland, how can you survive.

……

It took 12 days to ride a horse from the Lingling to reach the mouth of the forked river where the three kingdoms of Jin, Xian and Zhi intersected, with an average of 130 miles a day, and the navy paddled against the current, but the daily journey was less than 100 miles, and it took five or six days to wait until the navy arrived at the mouth of the fork river.

The Zhijun of the border pass had already been informed by the Xianguo that Baili Yan had successfully cleared the customs with the Feiyun Fu Festival and the Yuke Order, but the Zhiguo did not stop it. However, after all, it was a foreign army transiting, and the Zhiguo side still mobilized 10,000 cavalry to accompany it, and the sailors followed to prevent unforeseen situations.

The landform and scenery of Zhiguo are roughly equivalent to those of the inner land of Jin, and they are all geomorphological features of the northern plain and the southern hills. The difference is that there are only two counties bordering Xianguo in the northern counties of Zhiguo, which can grow two crops of rice a year, while the rest of the counties only grow one season of rice and one season of winter wheat a year because of the difference in annual temperature.

Soon after the army entered Zhiguo, the infantry army continued to sail upstream, and most of the accompanying warships were paddle sailing warships to facilitate going against the current. The warships were loaded with heavy supplies, mules and horses, and more than 100 four-wheeled wagons with a load of 15 stones for easy transportation, and the grain and grass were enough for 30,000 horses to reach the source of the Gongjiang River, and there was still surplus grain all the way to the city of Zhichi.

At the same time, Bailiyan led the cavalry, carrying 5,000 horses carrying heavy loads along the river all the way to the south, because the cavalry speed was faster, but where the Zhiguo towns passed, Bailiyan did not miss it, purchased cotton clothes and leather goods on the spot, and at the same time used the Xianguo salt owl on both sides of the river to sell the goods brought out from the country.

This time, the king of Xian in the south collected 100,000 inches of silver, the Wei Mansion took out 20,000, Zhao Xun gave 5,000, and the others donated more than 10,000, but the total was less than 150,000.

If the copper coin of Xianguo is a hard currency, it is said that it will take more than 100,000 yuan to cover the expenses, but it is a pity that the price of copper coin in Xianguo is cheap, and it is difficult for people to use it, and it is even more difficult to circulate abroad. As a result, 150,000 inches of silver were extremely nervous.

Fortunately, in recent years, the small commodities of Xianguo's specialties have been sold to all parts of the Central Plains, especially ironware, and the expenses have been removed from the places where they have passed, and there is still a large surplus in income.

The governor of Zhiguo, who was in charge of surveillance, probably didn't expect that the Xianjun army was still doing business all the way, but there seemed to be no regulations that the guest army was not allowed to do business during the crossing, so the governor of Zhiguo, who was in charge of monitoring, hurriedly sent a four-hundred-mile urgent mail to report to the Zhiwang Wang.

Crossing Zhiguo from the mouth of the Chajiang River to the border of the Song State, the cavalry walked slowly for more than 20 days, a month, and the population of the towns along the way became increasingly sparse from north to south, but they didn't feel anything abnormal, and they didn't know what the land was vast and sparsely populated until they entered the Song Kingdom.

The princes of a country with an area of five or six million square kilometers, the native population is only the same as that of the Xian country, the climate has become dry and windy, and there are endless grasslands as far as the eye can see, and it is normal for no people to be seen for two or three hundred miles.

Bai Liyan wanted to purchase some high-quality horses for emergencies, and asked the governor of the Song State to know that anyone who bought more than ten war horses should be reported to the county government, and more than 100 horses should be reported to the Great Sima Mansion, and they must be counted cumulatively.

The transactions of large quantities of war horses are all transactions at the national level, and even if you have money, you still have to go through formal channels to do things according to the rules.

The Song State is a prince with relatively scarce resources, at least with the current technical means, it is difficult to explore what resources are underground, the land can only be planted with wheat and barley, the yield is very low, except for livestock, most of the materials can only be imported through the outside, the Jin State is to take the short handle of the Song State, so that it submits to the Jin State.

However, it is precisely because of the lack of resources in the Song State that the local trade environment is more relaxed than that of the Zhiguo, and it is no wonder that Ding Su called it a world of trade, almost except for salt and horses, all imported materials from outside the Song State can be freely traded in the Song State, including iron, copper, coal and other mineral resources.

Bailiyan brought a lot of spare steel blades, iron scissors, hammers, needles and threads, copper pots and spoons, cooking utensils, etc., and even small steel daggers and scissors made of scraps, which are all local sought-after goods, and the price is also fifty percent to twice as high as that of Zhiguo.

In addition, the most popular are sugar, preserved fruits, preserves, wines, spices, and the immature tea industry, while the least popular are silk and high-end fabrics.

The Song Kingdom was a large country in cotton production and animal husbandry, and there were large trade materials such as sheepskins, cowhides, and cotton. Located in the cold south, there is little demand for silk, and more is keen on leather goods and cotton jacket fabrics.

In addition, there are fewer gold and silver precious metals in the Song Kingdom, which are far less rich than those in Zhiguo, and cannot all be settled by gold, silver and precious metal transactions, but the Song copper coins can be traded in the territory of the Song Kingdom in Qianyue Mountain, and the value retention power is stronger than the Xianguo copper coins, and the coins of the city Xu State and the Weiguo can be exchanged in Qianyue Mountain, so they still exchange a lot of Weiguo and Xu copper coins.