Chapter 528: Stone Forest

Qiluo was next to him, and Chu Huan didn't have much to argue, so he took the two of them along the Gobi and continued northward.

He didn't know if the mission had gone out of the desert now, and he thought that if he walked out of the Gobi again, he would definitely be able to see the people, and the Qin State mission had a large number of people, and if it really went out of the desert, it would definitely spread in the edge of the desert, and when the time came, he would find someone to inquire and meet with the mission as soon as possible.

Although it was not clear whether the mission had already walked out of the desert before himself, Chu Huan was sure that if the mission did come out, even if not all of them would stay and wait near the Gobi, there would be a few people waiting for him.

It is strange to say, it is hot in the desert, but after entering the Gobi, although there is still the sun in the sky, the temperature has dropped a lot, in the Qin State at this time it is already June and July, it is the hot weather, but after entering the Gobi, the border of Xiliang is like autumn, it is not hot.

The Gobi is full of remnants of rocks and cracked soil, as far as the eye can see, only to feel that the heaven and the earth are connected, and there is no sound, and there seem to be only three people in the universe.

Chu Huan didn't know how big this Gobi was, and how long it would take to get out, so he asked Qiluo, but saw that Qiluo was also blank and said: "When I entered the desert, I didn't come from here, and I don't know how long it will take." ”

Although Qiluo is a native of Xiliang, she obviously doesn't know much about the topography of the desert Gobi, and Chu Huan knows that she can't be relied on, so she can only continue all the way north.

From the afternoon to the night, I found that a stone forest appeared on the Gobi Plain, dense, like a maze of huge stones, across the road ahead, these stone pillars have been cracked, obviously many years.

Chu Huan and the three of them rested on the periphery of the stone forest, not daring to go too deep, so as not to make more trouble after entering, and only thought about bypassing this stone forest early tomorrow morning.

After using food and water, now the three of them already have thick Xiliang military uniforms on their bodies, but they don't need to hug each other to rest, Chu Huan used food and water, walked aside, leaned under a stone pillar, looked up at the night sky, and thought that he could escape from the death of the vast desert, it seems that this god is not too ruthless.

Out of danger, Chu Huan was already about to start thinking about going to Qingluo City in Xiliang.

The purpose of this trip is to welcome back the princess of Xiliang, but His Majesty the Emperor has a private will, and there are a lot of things to do, not only to find out the structure and scale of Qingluo City, the capital of Xiliang State, but also to understand the political situation in Xiliang.

In addition, the transportation route of the Great Desert is also very much desired by His Majesty the Emperor, but there is no news at present, and he can only wait for Xiliang Qingluo City to see if he can get the news from the mouth of the Xiliang nobles.

Chu Huan didn't think it was difficult to buy the nobles of Xiliang, no matter what nationality it was, there would be people who were greedy for money, and the property brought by the Qin State delegation this time was enough to exchange for a lot of useful information.

Chu Huan is also very interested in the country of Western Liang, just because in his memory, there is no Qin State, let alone any Western Liang Kingdom.

The Western Liang Kingdom is a very mysterious country for the Qin people, Chu Huan only knows that the Western Liang Kingdom has been founded for hundreds of years, it is said that there were many small countries in this land, and the Western Liang Kingdom is only one of them, at that time, the Western Regions countries and the original were closely connected, and the exchanges between the two sides were very frequent, it is said that the Western Liang Kingdom at that time also used to be a vassal to the original dynasty, and even the Western Liang people studied in the original dynasty, and they were very advocating for sinicization.

In the countries of the Western Regions, the customs and customs are different, that is, even the language is varied, among the countries, the most deeply affected by the original, the original small country, they once introduced the political system of the original dynasty, and even the original characters and language are also the object of imitation of the Western Liang country, at that time, the Western Liang people in addition to their own native language, most of them will speak Chinese, but there are original merchants across the desert, will hire the Western Liang people as translators, and communicate with the people of the Western Regions.

Hundreds of years ago, the Western Liang Kingdom gradually became stronger, they had a strong army, because the trade heart with the original was in the territory of the Western Liang, and also let the economy of the Western Liang develop rapidly, and then began the era of iron-blooded expansion, and it was from that time that the Western Regions countries and the original communication road was blocked, and the Western Liang Kingdom changed the friendly attitude that had humbly learned from the original dynasty, and began to harden the original dynasty, when there were several incidents of the original merchants being killed, the door of communication between the original and the Western Regions was closed, The once bustling Chingulan Desert has also begun to become deserted.

It is precisely because of the fact that the Chingoolan Desert is stretched across it, the original dynasty did not launch a military attack on the Western Regions, but only blocked the checkpoints and cut off trade with the Western Regions for a time.

The original trade with foreign countries was once divided into three areas, one was the trade with the Goryeo Kingdom in the northeast, one was the trade with the barbarian tribes of the northern steppe, and the other was the trade with the countries of the Western Regions, three trade routes, before the Western Liang State dominated the Western Regions, the trade in the Western Regions was naturally the most prosperous, and it was also the center of gravity of the original foreign trade, but after the Western Liang began to expand in the Western Regions, this trade route quickly declined, but the trade with the barbarian tribes of the northern steppe became the center of gravity of the empire.

I don't know if the Western Liang was afraid that the original dynasty would meddle in the affairs of the Western Regions or because of other reasons, when the Western Liang Kingdom was engaged in an expansion war, it cut off the connection between the Western Regions and the Yuan, and once forbade the original people to enter the territory of the Western Regions.

The original dynasty only knew that there was a Western Liang kingdom in the Western Regions that was expanding, and the Western Regions were involved in the era of chaotic wars, and the original dynasty naturally had no intention of caring about what happened in the Western Regions, and it was also closed to the country, ignoring the affairs of the Western Regions.

It wasn't until many years later that a group of Western Liang soldiers riding war horses and wielding sabers came to the border pass of the Qin State, broke into the pass by surprise, burned and looted the people in the pass, and then finally remembered that the troubled times in the Western Regions had ended, and they soon knew that the small country of Xiliang, which was once inconspicuous in the Western Regions, had become the first power in the Western Regions after decades of fighting, annexed many small countries, and established a powerful Western Liang State.

The hatred between the two sides began to knot at that time, Xiliang always had a small force of cavalry through the Jingulan Desert, advanced into the pass and plundered, but did not dare to go too deep, and the original dynasty from that time also spent huge manpower and material resources, to strengthen the pass in various gaps in Panlongling, set up sentry posts, increase the garrison, and formed a northern defensive line, and the Xiliang people wanted to enter the pass unscrupulously, which has become a luxury.

The two countries do not know when they have resumed non-governmental trade intermittently, but the officials of the two countries have not carried out normal official exchanges, and they know very little about each other's situation, but perhaps the trade between the two sides has indeed brought huge benefits to their own countries.

The non-governmental trade was intermittent, and the traders showed a cooperative attitude, but politically, they never communicated, and militarily they were competing against each other, and Xiliang almost never gave up the military attack on Yuan, but before Xiao Tianwen broke through the Yanmen Pass, he never formed a real military threat to Yuan.

The land area and ruling population of the Xiliang people are naturally far from each other compared to the Qin State, but in the Western Regions, it is definitely a first-class power, and the Western Liang State, regardless of men and women, can ride horses and shoot arrows, and in times of crisis, even women and children can become combat effectiveness, and they have the strongest Xiliang horses in the world, compared to military strength and combat quality, the Western Liang people are by no means under the Qin army, and even much higher.

Although the Xiliang people have their own native language, but since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Xiliang State has ordered that the people in the country must learn Chinese and learn Chinese characters under the premise of retaining their own national language.

At least when the original people entered the Western Liang, or the Western Liang people entered the original people, there would be no trouble with language and words at all.

Chu Huan thought about it, and thought about how to deal with Mei Niang, after the common hardships of the desert, if he said that he had no feelings for Mei Niang, it would be a self-deceptive nonsense, but the different camps he was in made Chu Huan very bored, he looked at the ground with his eyes, thoughtfully, and suddenly his eyebrows tightened, his eyes showed a look of alertness, and one hand had already held the blood drinking knife on his waist.

At this time, he had already seen that on the ground beside him, there was a light appearing, and that light was actually not conspicuous, but Chu Huan was very vigilant, because he had already judged that the light was not the starlight in the sky, but the cold light reflected by the blade.

Chu Huan remained silent, squinting his eyes slightly, he hadn't discovered that there were still people hiding in this stone forest, and he had already judged at this time that behind the stone pillar, there was not only one person, the sword light flashed on the ground, and there were at least two or three people.

At this moment, I had already heard Mei Niang's coquettish shouting, and then I heard Mei Niang shouting: "Brother Huan, go quickly, there is an ambush ...... here!" At the same time, there was already a strong wind behind the stone pillar, the knife was light, Chu Huan had already prepared, one leg had already swept out, and with a sound of "Peng", it swept to the man's leg, and the man said "ouch" and fell to the ground, while the other knife had been cut off from Chu Huan's back.