The rain is still falling.

The stuffiness was gone, but Yang Shuang was a little irritable.

Braving the heavy rain, he galloped to Dunhuang on horseback, but he saw a deserted city like a ghost domain, and found nothing.

Changsun Sheng, he walked quickly, and he took away the donkey Ritian!

"Boom ·······"

"Niu Er, call laborers, dig canals, and prepare for flood control!"

It stands to reason that the average annual precipitation in the desert Gobi cannot exceed 100 millimeters, but this thunderstorm, which lasts from noon to evening, is very likely to exceed half a meter, let alone 100 millimeters!

Fortunately, when Yumen Pass was rebuilt, the foundation was raised, and there was no water in the city.

The sky is getting dark, and the unknown dinosaur fossils are washed by the rain, and in the lightning and thunder, they become more and more hideous.

Yang Shuang was very melancholy.

A top strategist slipped out of his hands like this!

Looking at the barren land in the pass, reviewing the Tang and Song poems, I wanted to improvise a hand, but I saw a figure walking in the mist!

No hats, no clothes, a little downcast!

"Ah San?!"

Reflecting the bonfire that had just been lit next to the city gate cave, Yang Shuang saw the face of the comer, and it turned out to be a bearded guest!

"Big brother!"

"Puff ·····"

The bearded man spoke in a heavy tone, walked to the city gate, and fell to the ground.

Yang Shuang followed the rope, jumped off the city wall, picked it up, and his brother returned, which made him feel much more comfortable, and scolded with a smile: "Rub! I haven't seen you for more than a month, why do you still have such a big gift?! ”

"Big brother, the war horse is gone!"

"Hey! It's just 500 beasts, if it's gone, it's gone, let's go to the Turks to grab it! ”

"That's five hundred war horses, worth five thousand copper coins!"

Yang Shuang has no concept of ancient coins, whether it is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Sui and Tang Dynasty film and television, there is no price involved, only knowing that Wu Song will throw two pieces of broken silver when he eats beef in the Water Margin.

But in the Sui Dynasty, gold and silver were not yet monetary units, and they could not be converted at all.

Five thousand, in his eyes, is equivalent to five thousand RMB.

How?

Not much, in the future, it is equivalent to buying a three-fold car.

It's not a big deal to lose three crashes.

"Five thousand is a yarn, how can it be important for our brothers, just come back alive!" After Yang Shuang finished speaking, he thought about it carefully, and felt that something seemed to be wrong, five hundred war horses were equal to a three-fold horse?!

"Big... Eldest brother! The bearded man was surprised and inexplicable, and said movingly: "That's five thousand copper coins!" ”

Pass through!?

Yang Shuang had a slight understanding in his heart.

It is always equal to 1,000 coins, 5,000 times 1,000, equal to 5 million copper coins!

If a copper coin is equal to one dollar, then it is five million?!

Enough to buy a small villa in the capital of Qilu Province!

"What's going on, tell me about it!"

"The war in Xiliang, my second brother and I went out day and night along the Hexi Corridor, and it took half a month to rush to Longxi Jincheng, oh, no, now the Holy Lord has changed it to Lanzhou!"

Yang Shuang was still a little confused when he heard Longxi Jincheng, and when he heard the word Lanzhou, he immediately understood that it was the capital of Gansu Province.

An important transportation hub at the eastern end of the Silk Road!

"The second brother is in a hurry to go home, so I recruited a few rangers to help sell horses."

"The Turks are moving south, and there is an urgent shortage of war horses in the Central Plains, and the price has been raised to twenty times. But our war horses are old and weak, and the origin is unknown, I am afraid that the officers and soldiers will track down, so I sold them to the wealthy family of Longxi - the Li family at a price of ten times. ”

"The copper money is heavy, whether it is transportation or care, it is not very easy, I discussed with the Li family to exchange grain for horses, and the housekeeper of the Li Mansion agreed to come down. The next evening, I went to the restaurant for a banquet as promised, and the two sides negotiated the exchange price, who would have thought that when I returned to the outside of the city, the rangers were killed and wounded, and the war horses were nowhere to be found. ”

"I traced along the horseshoe prints for a long time, only to find that the horses disappeared near Dingxi in Longzhong, and then found nothing, and when it rained heavily on the third day, all traces were gone, so I had to return helplessly, and I hope that the eldest brother will be punished!"

Longxi Li family?

Calculating the time, Li Er's father should be about the same age as himself!

can be calculated carefully, Da Sui Xinli, Li Yuan's mother is the sister of Queen Dugu, as a relative of the emperor, he should still be a good young man with the goal of making meritorious contributions and expanding the territory, rather than a rebel who thinks about rebellion every day.

Who will snatch the war horse?

If you snatch it back, will it be dedicated to the government, or will it be sold privately?

"Are there any suspicious objects?"

"It's possible for the Longxi family! They are in the same breath and have a complicated relationship, even if it is not the Li family's doing, it must be the news that they released it! ”

Yang Shuang really didn't care much about the five hundred war horses, if he couldn't sell them, he even wanted to throw them to the people of the Central Plains as horses.

Who made him unable to feed so much!

But now being robbed is another story.

"This matter needs to be considered! Longxi is too far away from us, wait for the sons and daughters to have more, and bring someone to grab it back! ”

"But, big brother, I don't know who did it!"

"It doesn't matter who he is, the Duohao clan in Longxi, you can get back by grabbing it casually!"

Anyway, the return of the bearded guest made Yang Shuang feel good.

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The next day, the rain stopped.

Early morning.

The scorching sun was rising in the east, baking the earth after the rain, making the air a little more humid.

Yang Shuang glanced at the map left by Wu Kun and lightly tapped his finger on the three small characters of Yiwu Kingdom.

"Since the strong wind changed the terrain of the horse lost that day, and it is already safe to travel west, then let's use this small force to brush!"

"So, how many soldiers and horses should we bring?"

"One hundred archers, one hundred pikemen, two hundred sword and shield soldiers, two horsemen each! The crossbow archers stayed at the pass and arranged coolies to assist in defending the city, no matter who attacked, they were all closed, and bed crossbows and trebuchets were on standby! ”

Yang Shuang didn't want to start a war easily, but the food in Yumen Pass was about to run out!

If it weren't for the supplies sent to the door by the old ghost and Wolverine, it is estimated that everyone would have drunk the northwest wind half a month ago.

It will take two months for the crops in the corn field to mature, and even if the yield is doubled by the system, it will be impossible to feed more than 2,500 people in 200 mu.

If you don't have food or drink, you can only grab it.

Shabelio Khan went south, but Datou Khan attacked Dunhuang in vain, and now to engage in Turkicism, it is tantamount to asking for a dead end, if you provoke the loss of the baggage of Datou, maybe the next time the target of 200,000 cavalry is no longer Dunhuang, but Yumen Pass!

To enter Gaochang Kingdom, it is necessary to go south to Yangguan, where the current situation is unclear, and it is a bit risky to rush to occupy it.

As for Tuyuhun, it's a bit far.

After thinking about it, Yang Shuang had no choice but to aim at Yiwu country.

There are 36 countries in the Western Regions, and seriously speaking, these so-called countries are just many counties under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Protectorate in the Han Dynasty.

And Iwu is the Hami region.

Because of the war in the Central Plains, the control over the border region was reduced, and these counties turned to the Turks one after another, and paid tribute.

Yang Shuang thinks that whether it is fighting, grabbing, or capturing, the system will give some rewards!

Of course, he wouldn't be stupid enough to use 400 men to attack an enemy with unknown intelligence.

A large number of armor and flags stolen from the Turks were loaded onto the wagons.

Even the soldiers also used the methods taught by Yang Shuang to carry out simple and easy appearance.