Chapter 304: Fu Qi City (I)
When the heat of the rising sun woke Li Baosun up, he found that Yun Fang had long since disappeared, but there was still a dark fragrance floating on his body. He smiled, in the early hours of the morning, he and Yun Fang were very comfortable after lingering here, so he fell asleep quickly afterwards, Yun Fang's girl must have been afraid of being seen and shy after dawn, so she left Li Bao and went back to the camp first.
Li Bao patted the sand on his body, and then swaggered towards the camp, along the way, the people in the dart bureau looked at him a little strangely, and he didn't care, last night's incident, they must have already known, after all, his identity is expensive, and the dart bureau knows his whereabouts well.
Now he is used to being protected and followed, after all, as a big man, a high-ranking person who is related to the life and death of thousands of people, he must sacrifice something. As long as these things don't affect his life, he can accept them, so he is very calm in the face of the strangeness in everyone's eyes.
After Li Bao returned to the camp, Ye Qiqi also had a strange smile on his face, Li Bao smiled at him, a tacit understanding between men, this matter is over.
Yun Fang doesn't know what's going on now, because she is a first-time favor, so Li Bao is worried that she will not be able to bear it, but there are big men around her, plus Yun Fang's reserved personality, he can't rush to find her. That would only make her more unbearable, so Li Bao dispelled the idea and thought of letting Yun Fang rest for a few days before sleeping with her.
Now that Li Bao is back, it is time for the dart board to hit the road, so the team begins to continue in the direction of Fu Qi City. As time passed, Li Bao and the others got closer and closer to Fu Qi City.
Li Bao was worried about Yun Fang in his heart, but this girl stayed in the carriage all day and didn't come out, which made Li Bao a little anxious, but he didn't want to visit her, so the guys from the dart bureau sent Yun Fang more water and pastries.
When night came, the dart team finally arrived at Fu Qi City, Ouyang Qingshuang's guards entered the city early to report, and the city lord Yan Lilong Khan, who got the news, launched a grand welcome ceremony at the city gate. The first is to welcome his wife Ouyang Qingshuang, and the second is to welcome the distinguished guests who rescued his wife.
The Khan of Lilong is already very old, with a beard unique to the Hu people, a rough face, it looks like he is at least in his early sixties, his beard and hair are already gray, and then look at Ouyang Qingshuang, who is smiling like a flower, Li Bao's regret in his heart is even worse, this is really a true portrayal of flowers and cow dung.
However, this Lilong Khan seems to be very strong, and the married life of the two of them is still relatively harmonious, otherwise this Ouyang girl will suffer. Li Bao thought so much in his heart, but he still kept a smile on his face, and Li Bao still had the etiquette that the landlord here should have.
Li Bao was also very happy to see that the city lord of Fu Qi was so enthusiastic, and had a warm and friendly conversation with the Khan of Lilong at the gate of the city, and further exchanged what he had seen and heard along the way.
Li Bao agreed to the invitation of the city lord and his wife to their mansion, but declined the invitation to invite them to live in the city lord's mansion, and instead came to the inn in the city with the dart team to rest, after all, they still had something to do here.
Fu Qi City is the royal city of the Tuyuhun people, this city has a long history, in 540 A.D. Tuyuhun Kwaru Khan began to settle here, and in the period of Wuhu Chaohua established a state here. Later, with the rise of the Sui Dynasty, Tuyuhun surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, and this place became the county of Xihai County.
Later, the Sui Dynasty destroyed the Tang Dynasty and regained its independence, and then Tuyuhun was defeated by the prosperous Tubo, so Tuyuhun once again submitted to the powerful Tubo as a vassal, and the warriors of the Tuyuhun tribe also became vassals of the Tubo army.
With the weakening of Tibet in recent years, the Tuyuhun people began to support their leader, and the old Yan Lilong Khan continued to occupy the city of Fuqi, and the Tuyuhun people wanted to restore their former glory, so they were very active.
After Li Bao entered the city, he carefully observed this former royal city, and found that the city was very dilapidated, and the city was not too big.
Compared with the city of the Central Plains, Fu Qi City is much inferior, even the nearest Shanzhou City is not as good as it. In terms of the construction and layout of the city, this city is very old and in disrepair.
From this point, it can also be seen that the Tubo and Tuyuhun people are both ethnic groups that are not good at construction, and the gap between them and the Han people in the Central Plains is by no means a simple ten or twenty years that can be caught up, and this is a gap that several generations of people may not be able to catch up with.
If it is purely based on siege and defense, Li Bao is very sure to rely on the existing weapons and equipment of the Dragon Gate Dart Bureau to break through this city. But after taking the city, it was difficult for his men to defend it, after all, his men were too small.
The reason why Fu Qi City can become the royal city of Tuyuhun also has its geographical advantage of occupying the traffic artery, between the late Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin dynasties, Fu Qi City connects Xiping (now Xining, Qinghai) and Jincheng (now Lanzhou, Gansu) in the east, and can reach Yizhou (now Chengdu, Sichuan) in the south, and Shanshan (now Wuqiang, Xinjiang) in the west, which has played a very important role in the communication line between China and the West.
Especially in the fourth and sixth centuries A.D., when the Hexi Corridor was once blocked, the east-west trade and travel mostly took through the south of the Qilian Mountains and reached the southern Xinjiang through Qinghai. In this way, the city has become an important hub on this traffic channel. The Tuyuhun people were also a trade-savvy people, and their caravans often roamed Yizhou and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.
Nowadays, the Hexi trade route is smooth, and the business travelers in the past Fuqi City are gradually scarce, but it is also a traffic artery connecting the mainland of the Tang Dynasty and the interior of Tubo, but with the civil strife and serf uprising in Tubo in recent years, this trade route has gradually shrunk.
Li Bao led the Longmen Dart Bureau to re-embark on this trade route as a journey of discovery, and of course they also brought with them the most popular luxury goods of the Tibetan aristocracy and wealth, such as high-end materials such as silk and porcelain, as well as daily necessities such as soap.
Li Baoding's strategy of using the situation of economic warfare in Tibet was to take advantage of the strategy of dumping from developed areas to underdeveloped areas, and the goods produced by their Weizhou workshops became strange goods in backward areas such as Tibet, and often brought huge profits. These profits can support the better development of Weizhou Workshop, and also help Li Bao's economic strategy to play an earlier role.
When he arrived at the inn, Li Bao ran upstairs with a good room, and suddenly pushed open Yunfang's door, and saw Yiren sitting on the side of the bed with a beautiful face, as if he was waiting for someone. With a smile on his face, he walked over quickly and hugged Yun Fang, and said to her, "How is Yun Niangzi today, does your body still hurt?" ”
Yun Fang glanced at Li Bao, then gently fell into Li Bao's arms, and said softly to him: "After the slave family woke up this morning, I thought it was okay at first, but on the way back to the camp, the slave family was almost crying, Lang Jun is so powerful, he is about to kill the slave family." ”
Li Bao listened, just smirked, looking at Yun Fang in his arms as if he had changed a person, he felt a little happy too suddenly, he remembered the famous words of a famous writer in later generations, male and female happiness is the best way to open up a woman's heart.
He laughed for a while, feeling that he was still quite happy, now not only can he be free, but he can also scold Fang Xuan to dominate the world, and there are several beauties around him, this kind of day feels like a true portrayal of the peak of life.
But the girl is picturesque, and she has to be carefully protected, otherwise it won't be beautiful if she doesn't get along well in the future. So Li Bao gently chatted and farted with Yun Fang, tried his best to say some witty things to make Yun Fang happy, and arranged for the inn to boil hot water for her and planned to personally serve Yun Fang to bathe and change clothes.
As soon as Yun Fang heard Li Bao say this, she was so ashamed that her face was feixia, and after the hot water was boiled, Yun Fang immediately pushed Li Bao out of the door, although she and Li Bao were already skin-to-skin, but she still couldn't accept this kind of sincere meeting.
Li Bao, who was locked out of the door in desperation, was itching, and in the end, he was still a man, helped Yun Fang guard the door, and let her rest early, and went to the Fu Qi City Lord's Mansion with him tomorrow for a banquet.
The next day, Li Bao got up early in the morning, and after a routine exercise, after having breakfast with Yun Fang, who was resting and radiant, he said goodbye to the busy Mu Da and the others, and took Ye Qiqi and a few guards to ride in a carriage to the Fu Qi City Lord's Mansion.
After arriving at the Fu Qi City Lord's Mansion, the City Lord and his wife were very hospitable, and sent a large array to welcome Li Bao and his party, Ouyang Qingshuang was very happy after seeing Yun Fang who went with Li Bao, and treated Yun Fang more enthusiastically, which made Yun Fang feel nauseous, but he had to force a smile with her.
Following the city lord and his wife first visited the city lord's mansion, Li Bao looked at the dilapidated city lord's mansion and was really lacking in interest, after all, he grew up in the royal family, what kind of scenery in the Daming Palace had not been seen, but the diligent and enthusiastic Yan Lilong Khan, Li Bao had to pretend to be interested, and now he regretted coming here.
After a long and dull tour, everyone finally came to the lobby of the city lord's mansion, and after the guests and hosts were seated, the song and dance began.
Li Bao also has a small study of dance, so in addition to persuading the bearded khan to raise a glass from time to time in the hall, his attention is on the dance of these Tuyuhun women.
After his research, the dances danced by these women were still in a relatively primitive state, so he was thinking about how to improve them while thinking about how to transplant these dances of different races to the dancers of Weizhou Gefang.
Li Bao's actions were all seen by Ouyang Qingshuang, she saw that Li Bao was so absent-minded, she knew that Li Bao's heart was definitely not here, but she attached great importance to the weapons of the Longmen Dart Bureau this time, which was also a very important task for her trip. She must obtain this mysterious weapon for her stepfather and find out the mystery of this mysterious weapon.
But she can't directly snatch those weapons, first, she doesn't know how to operate, and she is afraid that the weapons in the hands of the dart bureau are too powerful and cause unnecessary casualties, so this time she actively invited Li Bao to come to the City Lord's Mansion as a guest is the focus of her implementation of this plan. So she got up and walked towards Yun Fang, who was also watching the song and dance carefully.