Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Road Is Uneven
After arriving at the west of the city, Hu Li really saw a considerable open space, and after ordering everyone to set up camp, Hu Li called ten people, including Zhu Zi and Huo An, and taught them the language used by the people of Loulan City who he had just learned, and these ten people will be the main person in charge of tomorrow's transaction.
Early the next morning, Hu Li and the others got up early, and cleaned up an open space next to the camp as a trading venue, on which a small platform was built with wooden planks, and the small platform was filled with a dazzling array of small porcelain.
After a while, people began to walk in the trading venue one after another, and the people who came in looked curiously at the various porcelains on the small platform, and then asked the ten people who were standing around the small platform to learn the language of Loulan City. Since Hu Li erected a wooden board next to the small platform, on which it was written in the Loulancheng language that porcelain was fragile and could only be seen and not touched until the transaction was completed, no one touched the porcelain.
Even if someone stretched out their hands impatiently, they were loudly dissuaded by the pillars and other ten people, and there were dozens of elite soldiers in armor around them to maintain order, but there was no commotion.
Hu Li's trading method was to exchange porcelain for gold or precious stones, and since Hu Li's price was fair, Hu Li's porcelain was almost traded in one morning. In the afternoon, Hu Li did not take out any more porcelain, only took out some silk, Hu Li still understands the principle that scarcity is expensive, and Hu Li has many countries that he has not been to, and he must leave sufficient inventory to trade in other countries.
In the afternoon, Hu Li announced that he would only trade silk for gold or precious stones, and that the few remaining porcelain would be used to exchange maps of the Western Regions and information on various countries. Since Hu Li only asked for the specific locations of the countries in the Western Regions and the basic situation of the current countries, these were not some unspeakable secrets in the hearts of the merchants who traveled around the Western Regions.
Some merchants who had just arrived in Loulan City from afar and had missed the porcelain trade in the morning did not hesitate to take out the map of the Western Regions and the information of the countries in the Western Regions to exchange porcelain for porcelain when they heard Hu Li's request to exchange porcelain for information. Hu Li brought each of these people into the camp for questioning, and after asking three people who knew each of the information to confirm the accuracy of the information, Hu Li gave the porcelain to the merchant who provided the accurate information.
In the next few days, a small part of the porcelain and silk carried by Hu Li and others had been traded, and Hu Li had also gained most of the information and language of the countries in the Western Regions. Feeling that the heat was almost over, Hu Li announced that the trade fair was over, and they would go to other countries to trade.
The next day, after packing up their things, Hu Li and the others continued on their way, and they hurried southwest along the Cherchen River. Two days later, through the vision of the golden eagle, Hu Li spotted a gang of horse thieves of hundreds of men raiding a caravan more than forty miles to the east.
It stands to reason that Hu Li should not be in charge of these idle affairs in the Western Regions and waste precious time, but in order to be able to smoothly open the Silk Road and continue the stable operation of the Silk Road, Hu Li has to take on the role of peace ambassador in the Western Regions.
After entering the Western Regions, along the way, Hu Li had already solved the horse thieves who plundered large and small. For those horse thieves who did not harm their lives as long as their property did not hurt their lives, Hu Li and the others were only responsible for helping the caravan recover their property, and then punished those horse thieves a little, confiscated the weapons of those horse thieves and released them. As for those murderous horse thieves, Hu Li adopted the method of countering violence with violence and destroyed them once and for all.
The group of hundreds of horse thieves that Hu Li found now did not mean to hurt anyone, but it may be that the value of the goods of this caravan was relatively high, and the owner of the caravan led the guards to engage in a fierce confrontation with the horse thieves. Of course, there will be casualties in the battle, when Hu Li led more than 100 horsemen to the place where the caravan was located and surrounded the horse thieves, the caravan escort was only more than 20 people, and the horse thieves also suffered nearly half of the casualties, and there were more than 60 people.
The appearance of Hu Li and the others immediately attracted the attention of the horse thief, whose leader was a masked woman with long golden wavy hair. She looked at Hu Li and the others with vigilant eyes, and said to Hu Li, who was obviously the leader, "Who is Your Excellency?" For any purpose, as long as you are not involved in the matter, we can give you half of what we have obtained. ”
Hu Li frowned and replied: "We are Han people, we have no interest in these possessions, we Han people have a saying, called when the road is uneven, draw a sword to help." Since your caravan has been touched by us, of course we will not let you succeed, and if you do not intend to harm human life, you can leave with your weapons. ”
Just now, Hu Li saw clearly through the vision of the golden eagle that this group of horse thieves had no intention of killing at first, but because the resistance of the caravan was too fierce and they couldn't control the scene, they would choose to kill. Therefore, Hu Li did not mean to exterminate the horse thieves, but only told them to leave their weapons behind, so as not to continue to target the caravan after they were gone.
The fat in the mouth of this group of horse thieves was forced to spit out by Hu Li, and Hu Li also asked them to leave their weapons, and of course the horse thieves, who had suffered heavy casualties themselves, would not agree. The leader of the horse thieves looked at Hu Li deeply, as if she wanted to remember his appearance in her heart, and then look for an opportunity to take revenge.
Then the leader of the horse thieves waved his hand and ordered the remaining sixty or so horse thieves to break through, and the horse thieves' non-cooperation Hu Li had already expected it, and Hu Li and others, who had been waiting for a long time, shot down the horse thieves with their spears and confiscated their weapons. And the leader of the horse thief girl is very good, and under the desperate protection of several subordinates, she actually broke out of the encirclement and fled to the north.
Hu Li saw that he and the others had not been able to keep the leader of the horse thief girl, and Hu Li, who felt a little unbearable on his face, explained a little and chased after the leader of the horse thief girl. Hu Li's horse was the BMW chosen by Zhao Yunjun, and Hu Li, who thought that he could easily catch up with the leader of the horse thief girl, soon realized that he was wrong.
The horse riding by the leader of the horse thieves is not inferior to the BMW ridden by Hu Li, and her riding skills are quite good. Moreover, because Hu Li's war horse was a little unsuitable for running in the sand, Hu Li actually found that the distance between the two was getting farther and farther away after chasing the leader of the horse thief for nearly twenty miles.
Giving up halfway has never been Hu Li's style, and seeing the leader of the horse thief running farther and farther, Hu Li manipulated two strengthened golden eagles flying high in the air to pounce on her. The speed of the golden eagle's descent was very fast, and the leader of the horse thieves who heard the wind had to slow down and avoid the golden eagle's attack.