The winding procession through the equally winding valley of the Kashav River, where there was little water in the hot summer, was about to reach Mashhad, and although the eastward team experienced many ups and downs, it suffered no major setbacks, and the few things that were quickly resolved. Of course, this is the result of everyone's concerted efforts, but it is more due to Lao Luo's contributions, but everyone in this team who understands some things knows this very well.

If it weren't for Lao Luo's provision of such a novel thing as a floating car, I am afraid that many of the older people in the team would not have been able to go on the road at all, or would have been tortured and sick on the way; If there is no partial van, I am afraid that every time you stop and rest, everyone will not be able to recover their strength steadily; Had it not been for the cavalry of more than a thousand men cruising around the ranks, the women and children would have been frightened by the constant encounters of bandits; If it weren't for the fact that I had planned a set of precautions for the journey before departure, I am afraid that just drinking water would have caused many people to fall ill. If......

There are too many such things, all the way east, and the people after the original Tang Dynasty craftsman battalion, which was originally a little scattered, began to know how to abide by order and rules, and more importantly, they regained discipline, even if this discipline was more stringent than the military discipline that was once rumored. In the whole Donggui team, everyone, including the children who have just learned to walk, must understand the importance of the collective, the norms of travel, the requirements for drinking water and food, the precautions during rest, the hygiene regulations, and the safety regulations...... The list goes on and on.

A long-distance group run can be said to mobilize everyone, and this mobilization starts before the road. Almost all the men had their own things to do, almost all the men were either soldiers or craftsmen, the soldiers needless to say, the craftsmen checked and maintained the use of all the vehicles when they were not working, the women sat on the carts while they were on the road, sewed clothes, prepared food when they stopped, and the children who knew how to speak a complete sentence were responsible for staring at the incomprehensible situation on the side of the road around them, although they were often distracted.

In addition to the busy people, of course, there are also people who are idle, and for the total number of people in the tens of thousands, these people are not small. Mainly some old people of the Li family and most of the Zhang family, the old people of the Li family don't need them to do anything because of old age and weakness, and the Zhang family is because they are ostracized as a whole, and Lao Luo did not arrange for them to do anything.

Is the Zhang family so willing to be ordinary? Of course not, in fact, they have tried to regain some of the right to speak since the beginning of the preparations, and they also have this ability, at least in terms of organizing manpower, the Zhang family still has a hand, but because Lao Luo felt that their butts were sitting upright, they were excluded.

Facts have proved that it doesn't matter if human society lacks anyone, whether it is this era of cold weapons or the era of industrialization in later generations. Without the fingers of the Zhang family, Du Ne, who was selected by Lao Luo, an elder who was originally only elected by the common people, also supported the entire joint workshop, with the cooperation of Li Nie of the Li family, there was nothing wrong with the early preparations, even after going on the road, the Zhang family was just self-contained, and the combination and management of people from all walks of life were completely out of their way.

Although the current Zhang family is not afraid of the population in the family being lost, it always seems to be a little out of place with the surrounding team because of its self-containedness. Since Zhang Lu followed Lao Luo back to the Sylfan Plain, due to a series of trivial matters and because of the problem of standing at home, he felt that he had no face to see Luo Kaixian, and his situation in the Zhang family was also quite embarrassing. Zhang Nuo, the fifth elder of the Zhang family, was once driven out of the camp by Lao Luo, and his anger and pretentiousness never found his place in the drastically changed Tang camp. As for Zhang Shen, from the very beginning, he was rejecting Lao Luo, an "outsider", from interfering in the Tang camp, not without vision, to put it bluntly, he was just selfish.

Sitting on the swaying floating car, looking at the barren beach and white clouds floating silently on both sides, Zhang Shen felt that the depression in his heart seemed to be nothing, "I can't help but sigh......

Zhang Kuang, who was also sitting in the floating car with Zhang Shen, naturally knew what his father was sighing, and said casually: "Father doesn't have to worry about anything, Luo Shi Saburo doesn't plan to deal with our Zhang family at all, and when we get to the East, there is no one left here, there is a place to stay, and we will always find a place for the Zhang family to recuperate." ”

Zhang Shen glanced at his son, who was close to the sixtieth birthday, and said a little leisurely: "Boxian, what you said is right. It's just that you have never thought that in Sylvan, the Zhang family is a loud and vocal family among the Tang people, and when they go to the East? It's true as you said, but the big tree has no roots and can't withstand the wind and rain, and will only be eaten by insects and birds and slowly decay. ”

Zhang Kuang is the eldest among his peers, the first word is naturally Bo, who knows how to take care of his younger siblings, is virtuous, so his table word Boxian is not wrong, he understands what his father said, but it is indeed as his father sighed, it is unbearable, and then grasping the past is just a futile smile and generosity, "Father, the migration of the big tree is nothing more than a change of water and soil, and when it should take root and sprout, it will always grow lush again, as for some insects and birds, you don't have to take it to heart at all." ”

Of course, Zhang Shen understands the meaning of the eldest son's words, he feels unwilling, and his son can see more than him, but there is another problem in the middle, he has not returned to his homeland for two hundred years, and when he returns there again, can the Zhang family, a tree that has grown outside for many years, still adapt to the land of the East? The Zhang family is not a farmer, but the truth of one side of the water and soil to support the other side is still understood, as the head of the Zhang family, how can he not worry? But there was nothing to say about this matter, so he could only change the topic, "What has Longping been doing in the last few days?" What happened to Little Five? ”

"Long Ping has been idle recently, and he found Li Jiaerlang to write poems together, and I heard that he wanted to write a miscellaneous book in the Western Regions. As for Xiao Wu, he holds a copy of Sima Fa every day, and he doesn't know what he is thinking. Zhang Kuang is also an idler in the team now, so he naturally pays more attention to his son, but he can't do anything in the face of the same excluded things.

"Long Ping has been much more silent since he was expelled from the United Workshop, but it's a pity that he still returned to Sylvan with Luo Shi Saburo, and this Luo Shi Saburo is too unkind. It's not bad for Xiao Wu to suffer some setbacks, at least it's better than the original nostrils facing the sky all day. Zhang Shen can only enlighten his son like this, and give himself an explanation by the way, no way, in his heart, Luo Kaixian is the unreasonable one, fierce, violent, bloodthirsty, arrogant and all other negative words can be added to the body of that tall man, in the face of such a strong man, he can't afford to provoke.

Zhang Kuang was a little noncommittal about his father's words, but based on filial piety, he was destined not to refute his father, so he asked tentatively: "Father, after arriving in the East, where will my Zhang family go?" ”

"Huh? What do you mean? Zhang Shen was a little surprised, and his eldest son suddenly asked this question.

"Long Ping once told me that he hoped to use the power of Luo Shi San Lang to assist Li Jia Erlang to settle down in Longyou and reopen the glory of the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately that Luo Shi San Lang is by no means a restrained character, and then these things, father, you are also clear, I am looking forward to going to the place of the Zhao family in the Southern Dynasty to see. If possible, after more than ten years, the Zhang family may be able to re-establish the temple. "Zhang Kuang's ambition is not small, and it is not impossible to go to the Li family to choose the Zhao family again, speaking of the origin of the family, the descendants of the former Tang Prime Minister Zhang are not inferior to anyone.

"Hmm......" Zhang Shen pondered for a long time, and couldn't find an excuse to refute, the Li family is destined to be impossible to reach that peak again, at least not now, Luo Shi Saburo will not accept the Zhang family, is it to bet on a new dynasty? Maybe it's okay, in short, the Zhang family must not indulge in everyone, "Okay, you and Longping and Xiao Wu and a few people discuss making a plan, be careful not to let the soldiers on the periphery find out, Luo Shi Saburo may not allow us to do anything." When I watched the funeral that day, the fourth child of the Pei family who was killed knew about it. ”

The fourth child of the Pei family? That's right, among the sacrifices for the funeral of the sacrificed soldiers at the time of Dhamgan, the goatee was the fourth child of the Pei family, Pei Donghai's uncle, Lao Luo did not let any old people in the Tang camp participate in the decision-making to avoid such a thing, until the goatee Pei Lao Si was sacrificed and killed, and no one was able to intercede for it.

Zhang Kuang listened to his father's words and fought a cold war, even though it was the sunny time in Central Asia close to noon, "Father, do you say that Luo Shisanlang knows that it is the fourth child of the Pei family who is being used as a sacrifice?" ”

"I don't know," Zhang Shen shook his head, "Even if he knew, that Luo Shi Saburo wouldn't care, didn't you see that even Pasar was beheaded with a knife?" He was a confidant merchant of the Turkmen chieftain Mahmoud. ”

"Luo Shi Saburo is really a peerless murderer," Zhang Kuang gasped, but under the blazing sun, he felt as if the wind was blowing, "It is said that on the night when Damgan stayed in the south, tens of thousands of Turks were burned to death on the mountain, and thousands of Turks were ambushed and intercepted by a few white-skinned barbarians outside the valley, which is really fierce." ”

"There are not tens of thousands, and the total number is only 10,000." Zhang Shen's source of information is always more accurate than his son's, but even then he feels chills on his body. Without him, there were only 2,000 soldiers dispatched, but the number of dead enemies was five times, and the sacrifices of his own side were only a few dozen. This is also the main reason why he doesn't want to provoke Luo Kaixian again.

Lao Luo has no time or mood to pay attention to the thoughts of these Zhang families, even if he knows some of their movements, he will not care, for Lao Luo, the Zhang family may be useful, at least make overall arrangements for some civil affairs, and the Zhang family should still be able to do a good job.

It's just a pity that from Zhang Lu to Sylfan who left Lao Luo aside and ignored it, and then to Zhang Shen's "righteous words" in the Tang Dynasty Camp Hall angered Lao Luo, are the characters of Confucianism such characters? If you like empty words, then go to the side and talk about it, and if you like to be a decent gentleman, then don't get involved in anything! Of course, if he knew that the Zhang family was planning to go to the Song Kingdom to settle down, he would probably applaud, these Zhang family members were out of place in the Donggui team, not to mention some resources, and they were always picky in the team that their position was not safe enough, if they could get rid of them in the wasteland, Lao Luo would probably be even happier.