Chapter 2: New Horizons

From the bustling city to the barren mountains and forests, everyone's heart is not very comfortable, if it were not for the strict order of Tie Xinyuan, they would not give up the comfortable life in Tokyo to come to this wild man haunted place to rely on themselves.

As long as it is a place where people live, it is inseparable from the interaction with the outside world, and a world like the Peach Blossom Garden cannot exist at all.

From the primitive world, it has been discovered that there must be intermingling and intermarriage between tribes, otherwise the tribes will perish due to all sorts of unexpected problems.

Therefore, Tie Dan became the person in the valley who specially contacted the outside, and all the things needed in the valley were brought in from the outside little by little by Tie Dan with a team of horses.

This is not an easy job, but fortunately, Baozi is a good helper, not only to help him lead the horse team from the outside, but also to help him clean up his hands and tails.

Especially the traces of the horse team entering the mountain.

When there was a team with food in this mountain, all the people in Yokoyama wanted to know where this group of people was, and they thought that since they were in Yokoyama, they should have food together.

Iron Egg avoided the group of people, avoiding them from the secret path discovered by Ah Da Ah Er, aiming directly at the axe to split the stream.

The mountain is too big, stretching for more than 400 miles, but this mountain seems to have been punished by the gods, and a canyon suddenly appears at the highest point of the ridge, this canyon seems to have been split by a giant axe, straight and deep.

This is the most famous axe split stream on the Hengshan Road, and there are countless legends about this canyon, some of which are very beautiful.

It's a pity that for the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, this is a sad place, since the founding of the Western Xia twenty years ago, there have been countless corpses in this canyon, even if the rest of the place has calmed down, the battle here is still continuing.

Fortunately, the Tangut and the Great Song people found that this place was a huge scar for both countries, and no matter how strong the two countries were, no one could stand the bleeding from this scar. Therefore. It was unanimously decided to retreat the armies of the two countries back a hundred miles each.

The Song people also creatively put the silver star and the city in the contract concluded between the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty here, and replaced the bloody battle with the prosperity of commerce, which was a very good idea in the eyes of everyone.

At the beginning of the establishment of Yinxing and the city, Tie Xinyuan once said that the merchants in the silver star and the city were more aggressive than the army of the Great Song Dynasty.

After trading with the merchants here a few times, Tie Dan admired Brother Yuan'er's arguments.

Iron ore, copper ore, fur in Western Xia. Medicinal herbs, linen, cotton cloth, and even grain were all transported to the Great Song Dynasty from here.

The most popular goods in the Great Song Dynasty were silk, gold and silver jewelry, exquisite statues, and iron pots, and even spices, which were rare in the Great Song Dynasty. There is also a market here.

According to Tie Dan's calculations, if such a deal comes for another half a year, the Tangut people who are short of materials should start selling their war horses.

And this thing should be the biggest purpose of Da Song to open Silver Star and City here.

The road in the axe split stream is very difficult to walk. The bun, who had just lifted the mule cart out of the pit, sat down on a dried skeleton panting, ripped open his shirt to reveal his chest full of black hair, and yelled at Tie Dan: "Rest and go again, three wheels will have been damaged in a while." ”

Tie Dan turned his gaze to Ah Da.

Ah Da, who was carrying a blanket on his shoulder, nodded.

Iron Egg roared. Tell the whole caravan to stop and rest for half an hour before setting out on the road.

"Mr. Big, out of the axe splitting stream. Even if we enter the Great Song Dynasty, we really don't go to Silver Star and City? There is also food there. ”

The chubby little water beads, now only exist in people's memories, since the brigade began to march to Hengshan, his fat body was quickly sharpened by the wind and sand in the northwest, even if Tie Xinyuan appeared here at this time, he couldn't recognize this dark heroic young man as a little water bead, just over half a year, a little water bead who likes to cry his nose was boiled into an iron egg.

Ah Da laughed and said: "Madame explained, the most important task for us to go out of the mountain this time is not to buy food, but to obtain a stable food supply channel."

More than that, we need a reliable ally, and we must first be strong before we can help us.

Iron eggs, you must remember that tigers and foxes have never had a common language, let alone equal distribution of food. ”

Tie Dan smiled: "Do you think it is impossible for Silver Star and City to exist forever?" ”

Ah Da laughed and said, "If you are on the chessboard, Silver Star and City are just a chess piece in front of the opponent.

This chess piece is extremely deceptive, however, such deception will not last long, and the Tangut people will soon discover that the silver star and the city are a wound that the Song people make them bleed constantly. “

When Tie Dan saw that the fire had been raised by the people, he and Ah Da moved to the edge of the fire, roasted the dry food he had brought, and continued the conversation between them.

"Transporting grain from Yan'an Prefecture back to Hengshan is full of dangers, there are disaster victims everywhere, not to mention the price of grain in Yan'an Prefecture, it is these victims who will make it difficult for us to move an inch."

Ah Da stuffed the freshly baked hot cooking cake into the blanket, let Ah Er eat it first, and continued to bake the other one, and when Ah Er finished eating the cooking cake, he said: "Our biggest advantage is that we have a lot of money, and in my opinion, this kind of thing has no use, but it makes these flies and dogs in the world chase endlessly, and this situation will not last long."

Nowadays, we are not the only people who can make glass, but also the Song Dynasty can make it, and sooner or later the price of glass will drop to its own true value.

We now need to take advantage of the price of glass to spend as much as possible, exchange it for all kinds of materials we need, and then store it.

As for the displaced people you mentioned, it is not a problem for us, as long as we are given a stutter, they will follow us into the mountains, which is a good thing, not a bad thing as you say. ”

Tie Dan frowned and said, "You mean to recruit homeless people, but there are too few good people among the homeless, and you can't meet one in a hundred." ”

Ah Da shook his head and said: "Iron egg, it is a long-term process to see whether a person is good or bad, and it is definitely not something that you can tell with your nose and sniff."

The good people you smell are actually a group of people who are not aggressive towards us, and I found out when I was in the valley that these people are very obedient, and you should say that they are a group of talking tools rather than a group of people.

This time, when recruiting homeless people, iron eggs, don't smell them with your nose, but see them with your eyes.

The group of people who were recruited before was subservient to us, then they will also be subservient to others, and loyalty will not grow in the chest of this group of people. ”

Tie Dan frowned and looked at the group of subordinates who were chattering in the distance, shook his head and said, "Isn't it good to be obedient?" ”

Ah Da laughed and said: "If we only want a group of slaves, it is naturally better to be obedient, if we want our village to prosper, we must want everyone, good, bad, insidious, mean, noble, benevolent, so that it is a complete stockade."

With all kinds of people, the village will not be a pool of stagnant water. ”

Tie Dan was a little angry, but he still admitted that what Mr. Big said was very reasonable, so he looked at Mr. Big with a smile and said: "You and Mr. Two use the same body, that is to say, what he eats can fill this body, and similarly, what you eat can also feed the body, why do you and Mr. Second have to eat separately?" ”

Mr. Er's head came out of the jacket and said viciously: "Boy, eating is Lao Tzu's right!" ”

"Every head has the right to eat, iron eggs, God is unfair, give our brother a body less, since the mistake has been cast, we must try to live a wonderful life, and live up to this good head given by God."

Tie Dan nodded heavily and said, "I know, you want me not to complain about the current situation, I will try my best to do this." ”

Mr. Big reached out and touched Tie Dan's round head and smiled: "Brother Yuan'er has a group of smart and capable brothers like you, it's really his blessing." ”

Tie Dan proudly puffed up his chest and smiled: "That's natural, Brother Yuan has never let us down, and we won't let him down."

When he returns, I'd love to see how surprised he looks.

Did you know Mr. Big? I hate Brother Yuan'er's stinky face that seems to be under control of everything.

If he is willing to tell us everything, we will definitely be able to come up with a proper way to prevent him from leaving the Western Regions. ”

Mr. Big praised the courage of the iron egg on his forehead, but Mr. Second reached out and grabbed the iron sword beside him, and said with a long roar: "All pull aside, there are cavalry coming." ”

The blanket was fastened to Mr. Big's head, and Mr. Two stood on the side of the road with his iron sword in hand, his eyes squinting at the front of the canyon.

Baozi pulled out a two-foot-long chopping knife from under the floor of the mule cart, and instead of fearing it, his face was extremely eager for the battle that was coming.

More than a hundred war horses slowly galloped from the opposite side of the canyon, and the footsteps of the war horses were very light, and the rocks did not affect their pace at all.

Mr. Two turned to Tie Dan and said, "They have no will to fight. ”

So, Tie Dan came out from behind, clasped his fists with both hands and smiled at the cavalry who had arrived in front of him: "I don't know if it's the military master there, it's hard to patrol the border, there are baked cooking cakes here, why don't you come down and bake the fire and rest?" ”

The cavalry led by him glanced at Tie Dan coldly and said, "You came out of Hengshan?" ”

Tie Dan smiled: "Look at what the military master said, we are a caravan with a case record in Silver Star and City, and we are from Tokyo City. ”

The cavalry led by him was stunned when he heard this, took out a piece of paper from his bosom and hung it in front of Tie Dan and said, "Have you ever seen this woman!" ”

Tie Dan looked at the portrait that painted Wang Rouhua with the charm to the bones, frowned and said, "This is a nobleman, where will we see it?" (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter 1