So I went to keep an eye on the people of the Western Regions of Mongolia.

As far as I can see, there were 100,000 of them, 20,000 children, 40,000 young men and 40,000 men. Most of them are Mongols, and a few are from the Western Regions.

Mongols are tall and white, with tall noses and a lot of body hair.

The people of the Western Regions are similar to those from the mainland, but they are a little thin.

They were divided into dozens of barracks in the Chang'an Military District.

In the beginning, they did not live in the building, so they built tents with looted silk, cotton cloth, and bamboo poles. Their tents blocked other people's roads, and a conflict broke out. Anyway, they are all soldiers, fight.

So, these mercenaries fought all over the Royal Army and the four government armies, and beat them to hide in the building.

The summer in Chang'an is cloudy and sunny, maybe the scorching sun is scorching at this time, and the tent is dried into a steamer, and in an instant, the rainstorm suddenly comes, and the tent can catch fish.

So the clan army had to live in the building, and then they fell in love with the building.

There is air conditioning in the building, and the temperature is constant 24 hours a day.

The military department is also responsible for their three meals a day and even entertainment.

Now this group of people is happy.

I think Liu Xingchao is right, if you put the tiger in the pigsty, the tiger will become a pig.

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I entered their barracks in the name of the Emperor's reward.

There was chaos in the barracks, and there were even people who set up tents in their houses and corridors.

I gave them a large number of beef and mutton, all of which were of the best tender beef and sheep, cooked to a pulp.

They looked at it, looked at it with contempt, and said, "How can the meat be cooked, it has to be roasted!" It's too much of a waste of water to boil! ”

They took a bite and were all raving about it, asking me what was in it.

I said, "I didn't put anything, just sea salt, aged vinegar, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, star anise, bay leaves, cinnamon, black and white pepper, cumin, fennel, curry, bean curd, chopped pepper, Sichuan pepper, monosodium glutamate, dark soy sauce, ginger, ingredients, green onions, longan, sesame, shrimp skin, seaweed, wolfberry, jujube, sand kernels, starch, olive oil, sesame oil, white cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, wood, tangerine peel, chili pepper, angelica and so on, that's all." ”

Their eyes widened and they said, "We only have salt, and the salt is still snatched from Xiliang and Liaoxi." ”

As they ate, they asked me, "Do you have cabbage?" Is it expensive? ”

Alas, a pound of tender beef and mutton can be exchanged for a hundred pounds of cabbage, I specially bought the best and most expensive meat, and they only want to eat cabbage.

It seems that people only think that what they can't get is the most beautiful.

So I bought a large number of vegetables, fruits, and dried fruits and sent them over, from Chinese cabbage to truffles, from apples to durians, from peanuts to cashew nuts.

Well, now they treat me like their own.

However, they didn't know that I was giving them this to corrupt them and make them ineffective.

But who says they don't like to be corroded? Who always wants to be forced to train themselves in an extremely brutal environment? Maybe even if they knew the truth, they would.

Temptation really wears the will.

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I slowly got to know them.

There were 80,000 Mongols in this group, divided into more than a dozen tribes, each with a few thousand and a large number of 10,000, and they were not affiliated with each other.

They all speak with a Liaoxi accent, I don't know if I think they are from Liaoxi.

There were 20,000 people from the Western Regions, from five tribes. They had a good life in the five oases, but the Xiliang people had to build a dam in the upper reaches of the Kunlun River, so the oasis dried up, and they had to take refuge in the emperor.

These people speak with a Xiliang accent, the same as Dongfang Mingyue's accent, with a soft tongue curl.

There is a leader of the Western Regions named Ma Tianyuan, who has a good relationship with me.

I asked him, "Do you know Li Hongguang?" He was arrested from the Western Regions four years ago. Oh, and you certainly don't know that he's a small character one. ”

He cried out: "How don't you know! He is the son of a clan leader to the east of us! I used him all the time, and we fought! Later, he was captured by the Xiliang people, and then became the emperor's general to fight the rebels! Later, I don't know how to become a rebel general and beat the emperor again! Hey, it's messy! ”

I was amazed and said, "What a coincidence! What a coincidence! Who else do we know? I thought he was dead, but he became a general of the rebels! ”

He said, "Yes! What a coincidence. He sent someone to give us a message, let us join the rebels to fight the emperor, and say that he supports the Son of God and the new emperor. We didn't bother to pay attention to him. Later, after our water source was cut off, we were looking for someone to contact him, but it happened that the emperor sent someone. I thought, who to hit is not to fight. So we came to Chang'an to help the emperor fight the rebels. Haha, what a coincidence that we actually have people we know! ”

Is this really a coincidence?

The relationship between people is exponential logarithmic. For example, if you know a hundred people, and those hundred people know a hundred people, if you want to find any one of the 4 billion people, you can find him less than 5 times. For example, if you know 19 people, and those 19 people know 19 people, if you want to find any one of the 4 billion people, you can find him 7.5 times. For example, if you are less confident and only know six people, those six people also know six people, and if you want to find any one of the 4 billion people, you can find him only 12 times. It's too simple, take the number of people you know as the base, just ask for the logarithm of the people you want to know, I understood it when I was ten years old.

When you think about it this way, it's only natural that we know the same person.

It's not a coincidence at all, it's inevitable.

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After the relationship, I continued to ask him: "Tell me what kind of situation is your situation in the Western Regions?" I, someone who has never been to the Western Regions, is curious. I've heard that some of you have knocked over a brick wall, and some have jumped on the roof of a house three or four meters at once. Our martial artists are not as powerful as yours. You people from the Western Regions are so powerful. ”

He said, "What's the use of being powerful! We are the least united people. The Western Regions are large, but mostly deserts, and only large and small, disconnected oases are populated. Those oases are either dead and dead, or one destroys the other entirely. The people of the Western Regions are all descendants of the Xiliang people, we can't survive in Xiliang, and we have been going west for thousands of years. ”

I asked him, "What are the west and north sides of the Western Regions?" ”

He pouted, "Who knows." The further north it goes, the colder it gets, and it is said that even the sand in the northernmost part freezes together, and it does not melt in summer; The further west it gets, the drier and hotter it gets, and it is said that it was the place where the world was destroyed last time, and where the gods dropped fireballs, which we call the 'Flaming Mountain'. ”

We talked a little longer and took our leave.

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I went to the barracks next door, where the Mongols were stationed.

Mongolians look very different from the mainlanders, they have tall noses, very white complexion, everyone is more than 1.8 meters, there is a lot of body hair, and the body odor is very heavy.

There was a leader of a Mongolian tribe named Zhao Zhuojun, and he liked everything in the mainland, and I gave him a lot of things, so we had a good relationship.

I asked him, "Is your Mongolia the hardest place?" I've heard that some of you have knocked over a brick wall, and some have jumped on the roof of a house three or four meters at once. Our martial artists are not as powerful as yours. You Mongolians are amazing! ”

He looked at me and said:

"Mainlanders can't tolerate the southern part of Xiliang, but the southern part of Xiliang is the best place in Xiliang, and the northern part of Xiliang is even harder.

The people of Xiliang could not tolerate the southern part of Mongolia, but the southern part of Mongolia was the best place in Mongolia, and the northern part of Mongolia was even harder.

But let me tell you, there is another place in the north of Mongolia, which you call the Far North Province. The Far North province does not fall a drop of rain a year, and there are almost no people, but there is a fortress in its hinterland, and you call it the North Fortress. I don't know when the fortress was built, but it contained houses that could accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.

Do you think the Far North is the toughest? You're wrong.

There is another place in the north of the Far North Province that we don't know what to call it. There are also people in it, a kind of savage, who can talk, and there are leaders, similar to us. I haven't seen them, but someone has seen them. Those wild men are three meters tall, with blond hair and blue eyes, and can catch bears and pinch them to death with one hand.

We have been enemies of them since ancient times, but we have lost more than we won. Perhaps the current Ming Emperor has long forgotten about the Far North Province and the Zhenbei Fortress, but we have been sending the best soldiers to the Zhenbei Fortress and fighting them from time to time.

The funny thing is that we guarded the border for the Ming Dynasty, and we didn't even have military salaries, but the Ming Emperor still sent Xiliang, Liaoxi, and Liaodong cavalry to beat us all day long, kill our men, and kidnap our women and children. ”

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I said: "You think too highly of the emperor, his orders can't get out of Chang'an City, it was done by the feudal officials themselves." ”

Then I thought, what do you mean by Far North?

Impossible!

I frowned and continued, "No one has ever said anything about you! However, I have heard it in the holy books. It is said that there are white ghosts in the north of the Ming Dynasty, red ghosts in the south, and sea ghosts in the East China Sea, and the witch department is responsible for eliminating these ghosts. However, the Ministry of Witchcraft was disbanded thousands of years ago. Fortunately, you Mongols have us guarding the border. ”

He said, "Haha, you think we can't do anything about it." Our ancestors were all from Liaoxi, and thousands of years ago they were forced to live by the taxes and forced labor of Liaoxi, so they fled to the Great Gobi of Mongolia. If you go far, you will find ghosts sooner or later. Later, we found out about the 'white ghosts', and we fought them to the death, and the result became more and more vigorous. You see, our whole people don't look like you anymore. ”

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When the Inner Court was assembled, I told Liu Xingchao, the governor of the Inner Court, about the situation in Mongolia and the Western Regions.

He looked at me in surprise: "Dongfang Horse! You're really fed, I'll let you scout the prime minister's troops! I'll let you go and sow discord between them! What are you talking to me about the monsters of the far north, and what are you talking about the red ghosts and sea ghosts! It's all fake, and only fools believe it! Even if it's true, what does it matter to us that there are monsters in the north? What's the point? Hurry up and keep an eye on the Prime Minister! ”