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Chapter 1016: Those Strange Places

There are not many boats on the river, and although the war has left Luoshui, the shadow of the war is still there. Most of the fishermen on both sides of the strait have already moved away, and those who can't go far away try to move to places controlled by the Black Flag Army on the west coast. Perhaps people are the most difficult to recover from the flames of war, compared with the current green trees and flowers on both sides of the strait, most of the people's hearts are still gloomy gray.

There are four Yellow Dragon clippers in front, and the same is true in the back. In the middle is a huge ship, a large ship that has not been modified, and the building is still there.

After leaving Xinyang City, the fleet went upriver and headed north along Luoshui. After Luoshui, the Yangtze River, the Huangniu River confluence to the east to the Yong'an Canal, there are a total of two wide waterways to go. If you go west along the Yangtze River for a while, you can turn into Yishui. Yishui Luoshui, this turning line is the boundary separating the Central Plains, and the west of Luoshui is the southwest roads controlled by the Fangjie Black Flag Army.

After crossing the Yangtze River, along the Yishui River through Mangdang Mountain, it is the barren northwest land. I don't know what the composition of the land is so magical, the southwest is the land of fish and rice, and the northwest is the land of bitter cold. The further north you go, the more barren it becomes. When I got to Shandong Road, it was basically not warm for a few days throughout the year.

After crossing Shandong Road, further north is the mountain range where Wolf Milk Mountain turns. In the north of Shandong Province, Wolf Milk Mountain turned about 90 degrees from north to south, and became an east-west direction. However, after crossing the Wolf Milk Mountain to the north, it is still a grassland, but even the Koktaimeng family is too lazy to take care of this grassland.

Passing through this place, which is already the border area of the grassland, is the 100,000 mountains where the Northern Liao people once lived. If the cold of Fangu City is bearable, then the cold of the 100,000 Mountains can only be borne by the people of Northern Liao who have lived there for generations.

If you change to another ethnic group, I'm afraid that you won't be able to hold on for a long time.

100,000 mountains are so cold that it is impossible to say. It's as if no one understands that the northwest of the Great Sui is so barren, and no one can understand that there will be such a cold place as 100,000 mountains in the world. It is said that the people of the Northern Liao tribe had always wanted to pay tribute to the Great Sui, but the emperor of the Great Sui did not give a clear answer, and the Great Khan of the Northern Liao sent people to explore the north all the time, trying to find another suitable place for people to live.

But to their disappointment, the farther north they went, the colder it became. The farthest team walked out of the mountain for 3,000 miles, but there were no stone mountains to be seen, but icebergs were terrifying.

In this way, the Northern Liao people were completely dead-hearted.

When Fang Xie was idle on the big ship, he spread out the map of Da Sui and took a look. There was no news from Gyeonggi Province yet, and there was nothing he could do about it, even if he was a little uneasy. However, he left Xiang Qingniu and Wu together, calculating the distance, Xiao Yijiu had also received the message to rush here, and there should be no big mess.

The map of the Great Sui is quite detailed, and it is actually extremely difficult to draw a detailed map in such an era, much more than the road that Yang Jian, the Emperor of the Great Sui Taizu, traveled to build an empire. It takes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to complete, and it takes years or even decades to complete.

The map in Fang Jie's hand was added and supplemented during the reign of Zhenzong of the Great Sui, and it was much more detailed than the map that Taizong sent people to investigate and draw in his later years. The map also added the area around the Great Sui, while the map drawn during the reign of Taizong only indicated who controlled those places.

Fang Jie's finger moved across the map, from the southern terminus of Luoshui, which is a little further east of Yunnan Road, to the north of the Yangtze River, to Yishui, and then to the north.

The birthplace of Yishui is said to be on the Wolf Milk Mountain, the Wolf Milk Mountain that runs east-west. It is said that there is a heavenly pond on the Wolf Milk Mountain, which is extremely vast.

However, because the terrain is too dangerous, it is not very clear. Such a big river that almost runs through the north and south, it is actually difficult to verify where the source is, and the people sent by the Ministry of Industry of the Great Sui Dynasty can't go up to the Wolf Milk Mountain at all.

"What are you looking at?"

Sang Sassa hugged Ning'er and sat down beside Fang Xie and asked.

Fang Xie stretched out his hand to take Ning Er over and hugged him in his arms. The little guy has adapted to her father's embrace in the past few days, and she didn't tease her, she just looked at Fang Xie and grinned. Fang Xie kissed her on the forehead, and this feeling was extremely satisfying.

"I've always had a question I couldn't figure out.

Fang Xie stretched out his hand and pointed to Fan Gu's side: "To the west of Fan Gu, over the Wolf Milk Mountain is the grassland." The grassland is rich and beautiful, why is there almost no grass on the eastern side of the mountain? Further north, I can't go far over the mountains, or grasslands, although I haven't been, but Yunshu said that the grasslands there are okay. ”

He stretched out his hand and drew a circle on the location of the Shandong Road: "It's just a mountain range...... Further east, Shandong Road is the most barren, the further east the better, to Hexi Road, basically not much different from Hedong Road. The most bitter place is the place of Shandong Road. ”

Sang Sasa looked at Fang Jie's fingers for a while, and nodded: "If you don't talk about it, you haven't paid attention." It's really a little strange, why is the grassland in the west of the wolf milk mountain nothing, and the east is so barren? If you want to say that it is cold, it is also cold on the grassland west of the Wolf Milk Mountain, but it does not affect the growth of pasture. ”

"Could it be that there is a big monster living underground on the other side of Shandong Road?"

Fang Xie said with a smile.

Sang Sasa also smiled: "If there is really such a big beast, where is there a way for people to live." I'm from over there, and the nature is terrible. My strength is also the weakest in that part of Shandong Dao, and I can hardly borrow much of the power of nature. ”

Fang Xie was slightly stunned, and faintly thought of something, but the thought was fleeting, and he couldn't think of anything if he thought about it again.

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Wanyan Yunshu held a delicate pastry in his hand and fed it to Ning Er little by little. While feeding, he recalled: "It's really strange to say, the cold of the 100,000 mountains can't stand it except for our people from the Northern Liao tribe. I heard my father Khan say that our Northern Liao people lived here in the earliest days. ”

She pointed to the long and narrow grassland north of the Wolf Milk Mountain, south of the 100,000 Great Mountain: "Although this place is also very cold, there is no problem with grazing horses and sheep. Later, after the establishment of the Mengyuan Empire, the wolf riders kept expanding their territory, and although our tribal warriors were very strong, they could not resist the huge number of Mengyuan wolf riders, and had to retreat into the 100,000 mountains. Many, many years later, our people have adapted to the cold, and even the horses have gradually adapted to it. ”

"That's why you have the Cold Cavalry."

Fang Xie said with a smile.

Wanyan Yunshu nodded: "Father Khan said that the horses brought into the 100,000 mountains at the earliest time were almost dead, and there were only a few dozen horses left at the end, and the people guarded them as if they were guarding treasures, and very few of the ponies born later survived, and in the fourth year after the tribe moved into the 100,000 mountains, there were only two horses left in the tribe, fortunately, there were only one male and one female...... Strangely, the reborn ponies seem to be born not afraid of the cold and can gallop on snowy mountains. During this period, the tribe has been sending people to the small tribes on the grassland to plunder, using the stolen war horses to mate with the war horses in the tribe to breed, and after many years, they regained the herd. ”

She wiped the corners of Xiao Ning'er's mouth with a handkerchief: "For a thousand years, the tribe has lived so hard, and I don't dare to let the people of Mengyuan know about our breeding of horses, until more than two hundred years ago, the scale of the horse herd has been so large that it can't be hidden." But at that time, we were not particularly afraid of the Mengyuan people, when they came, we ran into the mountains, and when they left, we went to the grassland to plunder. ”

"In order to suppress our tribe, the wolf rider will almost launch a siege against our tribe every few years."

She sighed, thinking of this she thought of her parents.

"I don't know if Father Khan is doing well in their new home, and there has been no news of them for a while."

"That's right"

She seemed to suddenly remember something: "Do you remember, there was once a Han gentleman in the tribe." ”

Fang Xie naturally remembered and nodded.

"It's so cold on the mountain, but I don't know what the road is for, there will always be Han people. One is gone, and another one will come soon. Father Khan once speculated whether there was some secret in this mountain, and those Han people pretended to stay in the tribe to teach the knowledge of the people, but in fact, they were secretly exploring something. ”

"What can it be?"

Sang Sasa saw that Ning'er was sleepy, hugged her and patted her gently in her arms: "What can be hidden in the 100,000 mountains?" ”

"I don't know what to do"

Wanyan Yunshu shook his head: "Father Khan is only speculating that our tribe is not like the Han people who have great skills, so there is no way to explore the secrets of the mountain. But the Han people in our tribe leave every once in a while and come back every month or two. That's why Father Khan speculated that he only regarded our tribe as a temporary home, because he needed supplies to stay. ”

Fang Xie pondered for a while, but he couldn't think of what could be hidden in a cold place as a hundred thousand mountains.

"What if it's some treasure?"

Sang Sasa suddenly said: "What we have been thinking about is that those Han people in the Yunshu tribe came from the Central Plains. But why can't they come out of the depths of the 100,000 mountains? Perhaps a long, long time ago, there were practitioners who went there and felt that it was quiet and uncontentious, so they stayed and practiced penance. But they don't want to live in isolation, so they send people out from time to time to find out the news. The Han man in the Yunshu tribe may be the sentinel sent by the cultivators in the 100,000 mountains to observe the outer world. ”

"Sentinel?"

Fang Xie repeated, then smiled.

Sang Sasa's statement is a bit unbelievable, but the possibility is actually not great.

"That person's cultivation is not high."

Fang explained.

Sang Sasa said: "The natural cultivation is not high, can a person with a high cultivation go to be a sentry?" If it is a disciple who has been sent out, as I speculated, and he is not the best disciple, this kind of drudgery is naturally done by disciples who are not very promising, or it is not pleasant. ”

"Anyway."

Fang explained: "If you can endure that suffering, the 100,000 mountains are really a good place to practice. It's the purest place and no one botheres you. If it's really as Sasa thinks, maybe there are some amazing cultivators living in the 100,000 mountains. ”

After Fang explained this, something suddenly flashed in his mind, but he still didn't catch it.

He always felt that he had overlooked something.