The business road is flat, wide, and convenient. Only this flat, wide and convenient road is the best choice for transporting all kinds of goods.

It's steep, and I'm afraid of breaking fragile things like jade porcelain. It's narrow, the carriages and horses can't cross, and if you meet a forked caravan head-on, you can't advance or retreat, which is too embarrassing. If this road is full of twists and turns, it will naturally cost a lot, and it will naturally not be good.

This trade route has been used for a hundred years, and it has been widened and repaired many times before it is as perfect as it is today.

Walking on this road, surrounded by lofty mountains, birds and insects, and the sound of horses' hooves stepping on the ground in your ears, it is very quiet and reassuring. In addition, it is cool in summer and warm in winter, which is really comfortable.

It's no wonder that both domestic and foreign business travelers like to take this path.

Originally, there were some tea stalls and noodle shops on both sides of this trade road for travelers to quench their thirst and fill their stomachs, but now they are desolate and desolate, and they are not popular.

"Let the teams be vigilant, don't take it lightly!" Xue Nan ordered.

Qu Mingli also ordered his subordinates to be ready to fight at any time, and people would come out when they couldn't keep it.

They are now pretending to be business travelers from the country, and each of them is wearing fragrant wood sachets, and they can't tell the difference for a while.

"Slow down," Xue Nan said again, "Don't show a fierce face, look around, just act like you're in a hurry on weekdays, just be an ordinary person who is worried about robbers." ”

Qu Mingli nodded in agreement, if he was too vigilant and showed the killing intent of the regular army, he would definitely show his face. If you are not worried at all, and if it does not fit the current situation, you will also be suspicious.

So it is just right.

The group was richly dressed, riding horses, and carrying heavy goods on their mules, and they were attracted to the few small vendors left on the roadside.

At night, everyone stayed on the spot, pretending to be asleep, but in fact they paid attention to the surrounding movements, leaving only a few people to guard.

If you want to get started, now is the time to do it.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, there was a rustling sound in the forest, mixed with the reflection of the silver light of the sword, coming this way.

Just as these people were about to do something about the goods, Xue Nan and Qu Mingli got up and wanted to fight with them.

These robbers were just ordinary businessmen who saw that the goods were robbed, and subconsciously resisted one or two, and started to move, but they felt a little overwhelmed.

"Let's do it, I'm afraid it's going to kill you!" The leader shouted.

Qu Mingli confronted him and sneered: "I think, you don't want to die, dare to rob goods here!" ”

The leader sneered: "If you run for your life obediently, I will let you live." If you dare to argue with us, it's no wonder that we are ruthless. Brothers, destroy these people, the general, I will bear it! ”

When Xue Nan heard this, a layer of coldness rose in his heart: "General? Whose subordinates are you?! ”

"Go underground and ask this!"

With that, the two sides started to move.

On the one hand, I thought it was just an ordinary robber, but I didn't expect it to be a person in the army, and on the other hand, I thought it was an ordinary business traveler, but I didn't expect it to be a person in the army.

The soldiers of the two sides scuffled like this, and it was no less bloody than on the battlefield.

But Xue Nan and Qu Mingli are not ordinary generals, their martial arts are much higher than ordinary soldiers, and they are properly deployed, so they still took down these "robbers" in the end.

"Tie it back, I have something to ask!" Xue Nan was very annoyed.

What he just said was clearly which general's subordinates. How can this general dare to do such a violation of the laws of the country, provoke a war, and harm him to this point!

This thief was originally very arrogant, but he was just a merchant in the country, even if he was defeated by his subordinates, he returned to the country, and he was not allowed to bow down to the officials.

But as soon as he was pressed into the Ayu Palace, he was completely panicked: "Are you the one who Ayu?" ”

Xue Nan sneered, she has changed her outfit now, sitting in the highest position in the hall, and her identity is obviously easy to see.

"You say, over there, general, you go and take it. Dare to ask, which general dares to punish you? ”

The leader snorted coldly and turned his head away, full of disdain.

"If you don't say it, then go underground and tell someone."

Xue Nan pulled out the sword of the guard on the side and pierced him with an arrow, bleeding profusely and reaching the place where the subordinates behind him were kneeling.

"Do you want to tell the people on the ground, or do you want to tell the people underground?" Xue Nan asked the rest coldly.

The people in the army, even if they are crisscrossing the battlefield and are accustomed to seeing blood, there are always one or two who can't withstand such a vivid threat.

Immediately someone begged for mercy: "I say, I'll come!" Our general is General Hu, who commands the general army, and he asked us to rob the merchants on the trade road! For the rest, I don't know anything! Spare me, I don't want to go underground! ”

This person begged for mercy, but Xue Nan realized the seriousness of it.

"You are from the country?!"

Business has a long history and is very important. The dependent country relied on this trade route to develop foreign trade and economic cooperation, and it should have been grateful for the tolerance of the country.

But when it came to this generation of kings, they gradually became dissatisfied.

Because the business travelers of the dependent countries need to report for inspection and collect customs duties, they do not want to give up more of these goods, and give birth to some thoughts of taking them for themselves.

These things are taken by others, just like they have lost a lot of money in vain, who can be satisfied?

The king moved his mind here, but it was not good to tear his face directly, so he planned to push this fault and answer the education.

The king sent people to ambush on the trade routes, some pretending to be roadside vendors, and some hiding in the dense forests, just to find the merchants of the dependent country to loot.

Because the people of his country are better recognized, and there is reason to blame the head of Answeryu for something, he chose his own people to do it.

After grabbing it a few times, it really made a big fuss, and there was reason to ask for rectification and take the opportunity to make some compensation.

I didn't want to, but Ayu directly closed this road, which seriously affected the trade of the dependent country, so the king did not do anything and invited someone to help him.

There are more troops here, and they are gradually inflated, trying in vain to defeat Ayu, and take this business and even the whole country of Ayu into their arms.

The so-called people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and after the soldiers under their command robbed a few times, they obtained a lot of ill-gotten gains, and when the trade road opened, they went to do the plundering again.

This time, not only did he not succeed, but he also landed on the road and was confessed.

These people were lucky enough to return to the army and report the mistake, and when General Hu was angry, he killed them immediately.

After that, this black-hearted abacus of the dependent country was announced everywhere by the princess, which caused the countries to despise the dependent country to the extreme, and those allied countries also cared about their own reputation, and scattered to some extent, unwilling to entangle with him.

The rest of them were really brothers with their families, but their troops were greatly reduced, and the army's morale was unstable, and they were killed back to their nests in a few days and completely defeated.

The brotherhood between Ayu and the dependent country ended here, and Xue Nan also ordered that the trade routes of the dependent country should be completely cut off, and all the dependents of the country should be carried, horses, and pedestrians, and they should not pass through the national border of Ayu.

In this way, the dependent country can only go to the far mountain road to go out of the country, the road is steep and narrow, which greatly affects the efficiency of commerce and trade, and within a few years, the economy of the country has retreated, which is very bleak.

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