The ancient road is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the sky.

This is the most vivid description of the terrain of Sichuan by the poets of the ages.

However, Sichuan further southwest, through the ancient road into the land of Yunnan, its terrain is more dangerous than Shu Road, this place does not have any poets, the word immortals are willing to condescend to travel to travel.

Therefore, the description of the terrain here is only two sentences from the ancient local legend, the ground is not three feet flat, and the sky is not sunny for three days.

In later generations, it was naturally a tourist attraction, with beautiful scenery and the most primitive natural landscape, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was a real wild place.

Yunnan, Dali, the south of Caiyun, the hometown of camellias, what a beautiful name, however, people who have not been here can never imagine the horror of this place.

The horse team has been walking in the mountains for more than half a month, that is, with peerless internal strength, Ziqin feels a feeling of depression to breathlessness, except for the men in the horse team in this half month, there has not been any human appearance on the way.

This is a real wilderness place.

Poisonous insects roam everywhere here, and from time to time you deliberately hear the howls of hideous and terrifying beasts.

Originally, there were wild beasts in the Central Plains at this time, and there were tigers and wolves in the mountains and forests in the wilderness, however, compared to here, Ziqin found that the Central Plains at this time was simply a paradise.

There are wild beasts on the outskirts of the wilderness, but they will never appear next to the official road, unless you have to go deep into the mountains to find your own death, otherwise there is almost no possibility of encountering wild beasts.

But here it is different, the horse team took the official road, although it was rugged. Although it is narrow, it is definitely an official road, which belongs to the official road of Yunnan's generation, but it is above this official road, Ziqin and his gang have encountered no less than five fierce tigers, which is still because of the tiger's strong territorial concept, and there is only one tiger in an area.

"The scenery of Dali is concentrated near Dali City, in fact, the whole Yunnan is a wild place except for a few big cities."

On the road. Looking at Ziqin's tired appearance. The old man smiled and spoke.

They are horse gangs, and this treacherous road was originally walked by their ancestors step by step, and the official road dug by the government was also dug along the road that their ancestors once walked.

Of course, there were roads here before their ancestors. But at that time, the roads were all off the beaten path. It's almost like drilling through the mountains and forests. Therefore, at that time, unless the country went to war and the army crossed the border, only some savages who went out of the mountains to buy Han equipment came out of the deep mountains. Otherwise, no one would have come to such a place.

"It's a good time, although the road is treacherous and there are many wild beasts, but after all, it can still be walked, and if it is in the rainy season, this road is a real hellish road."

There was a hint of bitterness in the old man's smile.

Yunnan in the rainy season is indeed the road to hell in this era, when it rains, not only the road here can not be walked at all, if you are not careful, you may fall into the mud at any time, and the poisonous miasma that washes out because of the rain is even more fatal.

In addition, the climate in Yunnan is capricious, especially during the rainy season, when it rains, the temperature is enough to freeze people to death, and once the rain is clear, the temperature is enough to roast people.

No one can stand the repetition of such weather.

It's just that every year in the rainy season, there will be two or three waves of people who need to run this hellish road.

More than ten days have passed like this, and finally, those mountain roads have begun to be leveled, and from time to time you can still see some brick and stone roads that are obviously considered to be repaired, looking at these traces of civilization Ziqin's mood can't help but be much better, however, at this time, Ziqin has not found that the face of the horse gang has shown a faint pain.

On this day, the horse team had just walked through a mountain pass, and suddenly, a checkpoint appeared in everyone's sight.

This is a checkpoint set up by the Dali Kingdom, although it is not as tall as the checkpoint of the Central Plains Dynasty, but there are two huge wooden gates, as well as lookouts and beacons erected on both sides.

When he saw this level, Ziqin obviously heard the old man sigh in a low and helpless voice.

This makes Ziqin not understand, seeing the checkpoint means that they have entered the realm of Dali in Yunnan, it stands to reason that the horse gang has successfully reached the destination this time, and they should breathe a sigh of relief, but why are they so sighing.

The caravan's team stopped in front of the checkpoint, and soon, Ziqin understood the reason for the old man's sigh.

An armored Dali general arrogantly came to the caravan and began to look through the goods carried by the caravan this time.

In fact, since the road run by the caravan is called the Ancient Tea Horse Road, it is naturally mainly to sell tea and horses, this time they came from the Central Plains, and the sale is naturally tea, as well as a large number of cloths, and utensils.

The general proudly walked past the goods loaded with tea, Yunnan is also a large tea province, Pu'er tea is famous all over the world, but the general is not much interested in tea, but when he came to the cloth and utensils, the general began to pick up with a smug smile on his face.

"This horse, this horse, this horse, and four horses over there are left, and then pay the tax and pass the customs."

The general pointed with his finger, but Ziqin looked carefully at the horses that the old man paid the most attention to along the way, and the goods loaded on them were the most precious goods in this businessman's run, and the value was probably two-thirds of all the goods in the entire caravan.

Seeing that the general was about to lead the horse away after pointing out, Ziqin was angry in his heart but immediately wanted to speak, next to him, the old man's hand suddenly stretched out and grabbed Ziqin.

Ziqin turned his head and saw the old man shaking his head at him with a pained look on his face.

"Let's go."

The old man pulled Ziqin to the checkpoint first, and when he passed through the checkpoint, Ziqin saw the young man who was helping the old man along the way, and handed a few ingots of silver to the soldiers on the edge of the checkpoint.

The soldiers took the money, but they took some cloth from the horses that passed by.

This behavior is almost no different from that of a robber, Ziqin only felt full of anger, and almost couldn't help but use the huge shield in his hand to smash all those soldiers and generals of Dali to death.

"A bunch of robbers, robbers."

After barely holding back his anger and walking out of the range of the level, Ziqin finally couldn't help but curse fiercely.

"Don't be angry, this is still a subject country of the Great Song Dynasty, if you go further southwest and get out of the scope of influence of the Great Song Dynasty, what you encounter at that time is the thing that really makes people angry."

At this time, the expression on the old man's face had calmed down.

"You're not angry."

Ziqin frowned and looked at the old man, according to what he knew about the old man, it seemed that the old man should not have such a good temper.

"What's the use of being angry, if it's still a strong Tang Shenghan, or we can still fight, destroy this group of rabbit cubs, and then contact the border officers and soldiers to seek protection, but now it's the Great Song Dynasty, the turtle's son, the Great Song Dynasty doesn't give people a grandson, it's not bad, you still want to count on the border army of the Great Song Dynasty to fight for us and the border army of these feudal states."

A mocking smile appeared on the old man's face, but Ziqin had nothing to say after this.

Indeed, this is the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty that has developed economically and culturally to the extreme, but it is also the weakest dynasty in Chinese history.

Dali is a small country, but the border army will never conflict with the border army of Dali, the reason is very simple, the border army of the Song Dynasty can not beat the border army of Dali.

In fact, if it weren't for the force, wouldn't the Great Song Dynasty want Dali to establish an independent state, just kidding, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is also the emperor, don't you want to become the Heavenly Khan of the Tang Dynasty with a vast territory, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty also wants to, but can't do it, don't have that strength.

Ziqin sighed slightly and didn't continue the topic.

This is just a famous world, and it stands to reason that he shouldn't have so many thoughts, but whether it is the men of the horse gang or Su Shi, they are all his friends, and he himself is also Han, so he is completely indifferent to this kind of thing.

Strong Tang Shenghan.

These four words are such a dreamy four words for the Chinese Han people, but unfortunately, it is a pity that these four words have been history forever.

In later generations, even when China was at its most glorious, there was no reproduction of the scene of the strong Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula was never ruled by the Han people since the Tang Dynasty, and Sakhalin Island was not known how far away from the Han family.

Ziqin had countless thoughts tumbling in his mind, but he didn't know what to say, so he began to be dull along the way.

After leaving the Song Kingdom, the words of the Mabang men became less and less, and in the past few days, it has reached the point where they must break up, and Ziqin and the Mabang will no longer be the same road.

"One day, my Han people will stand proudly in the world again, and we may not be able to see that day."

When parting, he should have said some kind words, but Ziqin blurted out these words for some reason, and when the words fell, he and the old man were both stunned, and then they looked at each other and laughed.

Although they have known each other for a short time, they know each other very well, but they all know the arrogance in their hearts, they may not have much affection for the Great Song Dynasty, but they are never willing to be despised by foreigners.

"Green mountains and green waters, we will meet again, little brother, cherish."

The old man immediately clasped his fists and spoke loudly, and this time, Ziqin also hugged his fists in return and said goodbye to each other.

Riding the horses given by the horse gang, Ziqin walked in the direction of Wuliang Mountain, but he couldn't help but think of his previous words, so that the Han people stood proudly in the world again.

This may be a little impulsive, but it is not a casual statement.

In fact, no matter how heinous people in this world are, they will never want their nation to lag behind, not to mention, even if Ziqin is not a good person, he has absolutely nothing to do with heinousness.

The Song Dynasty is actually the weakest Han dynasty in history, which is actually a bit strange, the Song Dynasty's military committee is not weak, even if the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin State, the Song Dynasty's soldiers were definitely not weak.

There was no shortage of famous generals in the Song Dynasty, in fact, the only thing missing in the entire Great Song Dynasty was just a Ming monarch.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin State had already hit under the capital, and the Wenchen Li Gang was able to repel the Jin State by fighting the war, which only shows that the Song Dynasty was not weak, and the weak were all in the upper echelons.

Along the way, Ziqin continued to analyze the strength and weakness of the Song Dynasty, but came to this conclusion, however, although this conclusion was reached, he wanted to change but had no clue, and the immeasurable mountain was in sight, and the free task was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and Ziqin had no time to think about the rest of the things for the time being, so he had to put aside this problem for the time being, and turned to work hard to solve the easy mission. (To be continued......)