"Junhou, you have no jokes!"

Liu Xia Yue bowed to Zhao Wuxian again: "On that day, the king had already promised the minister, and asked the minister to lead a team of people to open up to the west and hollow out the foreign land." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Although he has the same thick eyebrows and big eyes as the thief, compared to his father, Liu Xia is a little weaker and has smaller bones, but after joining the army in the past two years, he has exercised a bit of sword energy, but it is a pity that he ...... His career is really not smooth.

Liu Xia Yue was not outstanding in the Zhao-Wu War, and in the Battle of Tang, although he fought bravely, he missed the subsequent battle due to the injury caused by falling from his horse, so he didn't get much credit, and he could only watch his friend Zhao Yi receive the reward with envy. When the Five Kingdoms War, he also fought a tailwind battle behind the butt of the army, and made some small contributions. But on the whole, it is far less than his father Liu Xia's meteor was born and has repeatedly performed miraculous feats.

There is no harm if there is no comparison, this time, Yanagi Shitayue, who is considered to be "not enterprising", is a little bit solid Tian Ben's metaphor of "the father is an eagle falcon, and the son is a chicken".

Who would have thought that this young man, who was not outstanding in appearance and was not amazing, would give Zhao Wuxian such a play during the meeting of Huangchi!

Looking at the previous speechless and aggressive Yanagi Yue, Zhao Wuxian had a headache, and even remembered the time when he fought wits and courage with the thief in Onozawa.

Although he promised Liu Shitayue at the banquet that day, it was when he was drunk, and men knew that his words when he was drunk were not true, no matter how sworn they were, they were all unscrupulous words under the stimulation of alcohol. Besides, although he himself has plans to communicate things, but now the Qin State is still there, the West is unknown, and the conditions for exploration and discovery are not yet ripe......

It's just that the gentleman can't chase after him, not to mention that he promised loudly in front of everyone in the palace that day.

He had to change a tactful way to reduce Yanagishita's enthusiasm.

"Although the widow has seen the inscription about Mu Tianzi's westward journey in the treasury, and has also heard that in addition to Kyushu, there are Kyushu, and Kunlun in the Western Regions is one of them, but no one knows the specific route so far......"

"The minister knows!"

Liu Xia Yue replied loudly, he took out a piece of paper from his arms, and asked Ning Jian to give it to Zhao Wuxian. Wuxian spread out on the desk and took a look, but saw that it was full of dense lines, this was actually a map, a map of King Zhou Mu's westward journey!

It turned out that in the past two years of recuperation in Yecheng, Liu Xia Yue was not idle, he compared several versions of the legend of Mu Tianzi's westward journey collected by the Linzhang School Palace from the Chengzhou Guardhouse, and actually sorted out the general route, and drew them on paper one by one!

"After King Mu of Zhou conquered the dog Rong, he led the seven elite people, drove the eight horses of Chiji, Thief Li, Baiyi, Yulun, Shanzi, Quhuang, Hualiu, and Green Ear, and drove Luoyi from the father, crossed Zhangshui, went north along Taihang Mountain, went out of Yanmen, gave up in Qize, and hunted the white fox Xuanjiao. On the auspicious day of March of the same year, Mu Tianzi arrived at Yangxu Mountain, accompanied by the Hezong clan, and held a ceremony to worship the river at the foot of Yanran Mountain. After that, Bo Yao, the leader of the Hezong clan, volunteered to walk in front on a camel, acting as Mu Tianzi's guide, and continued the westward journey, so he passed through Qilian Mountain, Chung Mountain, Kunlun Hill, Chiwu Clan, and as for the Jade Mountain......"

He paused for a moment and continued: "The route after this, because the inscriptions and slips are vague and vague, the language is unknown, and the ministers have no way to verify it, but in the end, Mu Tianzi arrived in the state of the Western Queen Mother and feasted and entertained in the Tianshan Yao Pond. Then I first toured the wilderness under the Tianshan Mountains and the great wilderness in the northwest, and then returned with gems and jade! ”

After Liu Xia Yue finished speaking in one breath, Zhao Wuxian also put down the map, and his gaze changed from doubt to appreciation.

He could see that it condensed Liu Xiayue's hard work, and this route that Zhao Wuxian had no time to summarize because he was busy with government affairs, but was carefully crafted by Liu Xiayue, was roughly from Hetao (Hezong clan) to the west, through northern Shaanxi and Longxi, and along the Hexi Corridor to the northwest, entering the eastern foothills of Tianshan Mountain.

This route basically coincides with the later traffic lines known to Zhao Wuxian, and this road is the predecessor of the Silk Road, which is called the "Jade Road"!

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As early as more than 1,000 years ago, there was the dawn of civilization in the Western Regions, but most of the inhabitants were high-nosed and deep-eyed Cypriots, they established many small city-states in the mountains and oases, many of which made a living by mining jade and jade, and it was from that time that Hetian jade began to be transported to the east, passing through the Chiwu clan, the Yu clan, and the Hezong clan, and gradually flowed into the hinterland of the Central Plains.

These jades were transported through Mu Tianzi's westward route, that is, the "Jade Road". King Mu of Zhou once took three times of jade and ten thousand pieces of jade in the mountain of jade, and appointed a special person to manage the jade mining work. The Western Tour met with the Queen Mother of the West Yu Kunlun, and praised Kunlun as "the only good mountain in the world, where the jade is located......"

Although King Mu of Zhou and Zhao Zaofu have really been to Tianshan, whether this anonymous slip made by an unknown named "The Biography of Mu Tianzi" is a forgery is unknown to future generations. However, as early as the middle of the Zhou Dynasty, or even earlier, there was an ancient communication route between the Central Plains and the Western Regions, and there is no doubt about this, and this document may be the historical memory of that road.

With the footprints of predecessors, even if there is the possibility of hollowing out again. Since the possibility is not zero, and someone volunteered, Zhao Wuxian was also a little moved.

But there was one thing he had to ask.

"Yanagishita, why do you want to go to the Western Frontier?"

"Minister......" Liu Xia Yue has thought about this question for a long time, but today, when the words come to his mouth, he can't say it.

Yes, he has his father's legacy, he is a lord and an official doctor, he can sit and eat empty, rely on the mixture of food and food and wait for death, sit on a beautiful wife and concubine, and blow the warm warm breeze on the bank of Yecheng Zhangshui leisurely, why go to a foreign land to suffer?

Yanagi clenched his fists all of a sudden.

But! He is not willing to be an eagle who always looks into the distance on the eagle's nest, but does not dare to take half a step!

He did not go well on the battlefield, and he was unable to establish meritorious deeds for a long time, so that he could get rid of the criticism of the "tiger father and dog", and when he was cornered, he could only set his sights on distant foreign lands......

Achieving fame in an exotic land, this is the only way out before him, and it is not so much a well-thought-out expedition as a desperate gamble!

Zhao Wuxian once said that people are inherently dead, or lighter than a feather, or heavier than Mount Tai, in this world of great contention, Liu Xia Yue would rather die as Mount Tai than be an insignificant feather to live!

With his mind decided, he said loudly: "Minister, I want to go and walk the peerless realm mentioned in the book; Ministers, who want to see the foreign races of the state that are very different from the Central Plains; Minister, I want to bring back the heavenly horses and alfalfa and other things that the king wants, and spread them in the Central Plains, just like Guan Yiwu introduced Rong Shu, for the benefit of the world! ”

Zhao Wuxian nodded quietly, this answer passed.

He was not like King Zhou Mu, who was moved by the beauty of the Queen Mother of the West and the warmth and clarity of jade, but was interested in the flora and fauna of the Western Regions.

As the saying goes, "it is not Zhang Qian who leads to the Western Regions, but there are good varieties from the West", the exchange between civilizations lies not only in science and technology, but also in variety. Although there are hundreds of millions of creatures in the world, the species that can be domesticated by humans are only a drop in the bucket, and many civilizations, such as the Indians, have stagnated because of the lack of key crops or livestock, and the population has not been able to improve. As soon as a new crop with high yields is introduced, there will be a sharp increase in the population limit, followed by a great leap forward in civilization.

The Pegasus of the Western Regions can be used as a good horse breed to create a group of excellent war horses; Alfalfa, carrots, peppers, grapes, walnuts, cantaloupe, watermelon, guava from the Western Regions...... Although it can't be compared with the later corn and potatoes, it has also greatly improved the dietary structure of the Central Plains people, and perhaps the people of Zhao State can drink wine and eat watermelon in their lifetimes......

What's more, in history, the Western Regions and even the more distant West Asian and Mediterranean civilizations were extremely eager for China's exquisite luxury goods such as silk and porcelain.

But to put it lightly, it is difficult to do, Zhao Wuxian naturally knew that it was difficult, and immediately became serious and said: "Since King Ping moved eastward, the countries west of the Qin State have been cut off from the Central Plains. The difficulty of hollowing out is really not something you can imagine by drawing a map in the house! Ready, Thou! ”

Liu Xia Yue said: "The ministers will first go to find the Hezong clan to see if anyone there has ever been to the place in the west, and hire him as a guide." In this way, I will find the past piece by piece, find the Xixia Clan, find the Chiwu Clan, find the Jade Mountain, and find the Western Queen Mother Country, and sooner or later I will be able to restore the old path and complete the mission of hollowing out! ”

Zhao Wuxian didn't let him go, and continued to ask: "According to the map you draw, it is inferred that Mu Tianzi will travel 35,000 miles back and forth, and it will take more than three years to walk 1,000 miles in a month. During this period, the terrain is complex, there are boundless grasslands that do not know the edge, snow-capped mountains with snow in August, quicksand deserts where people and animals are difficult to travel, and there are more countries and robbers along the way with bad intentions. ”

"The minister knows that it is said that in the past, when Mu Tianzi returned to the east, when crossing the desert, the team lost the water source, so they had to pierce the neck of the war horse and take blood to drink ......"

Liu Xia Yue raised his head and said: "Chen Xiu said that he drank horse blood, even if he was thirsty for the blood of the Hu people and hungry for the meat of Rong Di, he could survive!" If the horse is gone, he will walk with his feet, and if his feet are wasted, he will move with his hands, even if he climbs, the minister must follow the road that the father has walked, climb to the Tianshan Mountains, and find the West Queen Mother Country! Finally, holding the scepter granted by the king, stand on the Yao Pond! ”

Zhao Wuxian's hairs stood on end when he heard this, and he got up to shoot the case, for a while, he was also moved by this young man's fearless spirit, what he wanted was this kind of pioneering spirit!

"Great goodness! Since Ziqian has ambitions in a foreign land and is not afraid of life and death, the widow will allow you! ”

I didn't expect that the "Kyushu Theory" and the rumors of the Western Regions that I didn't expect to see the results when I was alive would blossom so early, and it was the son of the thief who became interested in it.

Is this providential? Could it be that the era of geographical discoveries that belongs only to China will start from here?

(To be continued.) )