Three days later, a caravan walked alone on the vast Wusun grassland.

Qi Lin rode on horseback and looked back at the city wall that was about to disappear from the horizon in the distance, and sighed:

"Another one...... I'm going to build a city now, right? ”

Coming from Rome along the way, although Qi Lin only built a total of three cities, there were no less than a dozen small walled cities on the scale of villages and towns.

But this is also something that can't be helped, after all, along the way, although the soldiers under his command don't need to rest, Qi Lin himself still needs to take a break occasionally, and he will have a few days every month...... Go back to the real world and take a break.

And during the period of returning to reality, Qi Lin did not slow down the flow of time in the movie world, which is why he still took more than half a year to get here even though he had an army that could maintain the speed of rapid marching all the time.

In addition, these transit stations and cities are not useless, take the city on the Wusun grassland that has only been built today.

If Manid's trade plan succeeds this time, he can directly establish a piece of farmland here.

The wagons no longer needed to carry grain, so they could carry more other goods, such as salt, and iron smelted in the blacksmiths...... Of course, since Qi Lin doesn't even have a mining area so far, almost all metal ores are now exchanged for other resources or RMB, and it is not enough to use it yourself, let alone sell it.

And if the trade fails, then this city can also become its own back road, and the outpost of the official invasion of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the future, which can provide Qi Lin with a large number of soldiers in time, without the need to transport it from thousands of miles away.

"Everyone speed up and try to get to Yumen Pass before dark!"

A shout brought Qi Lin's thoughts back.

Turning his gaze, he looked at the man riding a snow-white steed beside him, walking side by side with him.

Alleyne. It is known as the first god of war among the 16NPCs in the cavalry and slashing warband.

To be honest, Qi Lin really didn't expect that he would be able to pull this guy out with his second summon.

And for what happened after him, Alleyne didn't have much use, in comparison, Qi Lin preferred that the NPCs that came out at this time be on the merchant side, rather than the warrior side.

But since this is already the case, Qi Lin doesn't think about it anymore, anyway, these NPCs will be ready sooner or later. And Ellen himself will use it sooner or later.

"What's more, with such a powerful soldier as a bodyguard, it's not bad to command and train my subordinates for me by the way."

Looking at Aren, who was urging the team from time to time and commanding the soldiers, Qi Lin smiled in his heart.

At the end of this trip, Qi Lin only brought his elite cavalry and 50 brocade guards to escort 500 trade carriages loaded with various goods.

The first time he entered the customs, Qi Lin thought about Manid's instructions. He did not enter the city with all the caravans, but first explored the road with a small number of troops.

……

Before dark, Qi Lin's caravan finally arrived at the foot of Yumen Pass.

The officers and soldiers defending the city did not make it too difficult for him, after learning that Qi Lin's caravan had come from all the way from the Western Regions. On the contrary, it is very welcome.

From 16 A.D. to 124 A.D., this line of thought has undergone a total of three breaks and three openings, and later generations called it the three links and three uniques of the Silk Road.

Although 124 years later, due to the Eastern Han Dynasty government, Ban Yong was appointed as the chief of the Western Regions. Stationed in the willows. Specifically, the business of connecting the Western Regions and opening the Silk Road has rapidly improved in the Western Regions and Hexi, making the Silk Road, which has been interrupted for many years, unimpeded again.

But now the Eastern Han Dynasty is weak. This line of thought has gone through several ups and downs, among which bandits are rampant, and it has long been almost desolate.

Now a caravan suddenly came from thousands of miles away, from the Western Regions, which made these people extremely excited.

After paying the import duties, Qi Lin walked slowly on the snow, the dry loess rose a cloud of smoke and dust with the trampling of the horses' hooves, drove through the towering city gate hole, looking at the dilapidated road that extended deep into the city, Qi Lin couldn't help but resound after several years.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion, Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the princes competed for hegemony, the Han Dynasty was divided, and the people were displaced.

It seems that since ancient times, the sons and daughters of China have suffered many disasters, even in this movie world.

"Hey, what are you doing with all this nonsense, I'm just here to make money!" Shaking his head, Qi Lin snorted lightly and laughed at himself, "I haven't finished my own affairs yet, where do you have so much mind to think about these messy things." ”

Led by a team of officers and soldiers, Qi Lin's caravan stayed overnight at a post station in Guannai.

Early the next morning, the caravan was on its way again.

……

All the way around, there was no shortage of goods on the car, but there were dozens of fewer personnel.

These dozens of people were naturally those brocade guards in the team, and under Qi Lin's orders, these brocade guards left the caravan one after another on the way.

However, these Jinyi guards are not to inquire about any news, but to develop offline.

After all, the matter of intelligence is not something that can be done by just 50 people.

In fact, at the beginning, Qi Lin also wanted to bring all the brocade guards, but at first he was not sure about the attitude of the Eastern Han Dynasty towards foreign businessmen.

Qi Lin's understanding of the Eastern Han Dynasty basically comes from online novels and film and television works.

In these works, there is no detailed record of the Eastern Han Dynasty's attitude towards merchants, but in many online novels and materials, it is very clear that the status of merchants in the Han Dynasty has always been relatively low.

The Han Dynasty had little affection for merchants from the beginning of Liu Bang, and repeatedly issued decrees restricting the crackdown on merchants.

These policies were correct at the time, in the early years of the Han Dynasty, when society had just experienced war, there was a shortage of materials, and the accumulation of merchants was not conducive to the government's rule. In fact, countries around the world will adopt similar policies in this situation, unless they do not rule for long.

However, by the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, there had been a great recovery and development of the social economy, and the government's restrictions on merchants had been greatly relaxed, but there was no change at the legal level.

The atmosphere of suppression of merchants, especially unscrupulous merchants, was still strong in society, when most of the merchants were from the lower strata of society, and the rich did not do business, but let their servants or slaves do business.

After several generations of revisions, the status of the merchant has improved slightly, but it has not changed much.

There are still many people in the clan of the Han Dynasty who look down on businessmen, even the current reigning emperor can be called the first emperor in history, Liu Hong, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.

However, speaking of Emperor Han Ling, Qi Lin suddenly remembered, isn't this time the peak period for selling officials?

Before coming back a few days ago, Qi Lin also checked the information in this area, and remembered that there was a message on the Internet that in March of the second year of Zhongping (185), there was a famous man named Cui Lie in Youzhou who wanted to be Situ, so he passed the guò relationship and spent five million dollars to serve as Situ, and later served as a lieutenant.

Although Qi Lin didn't have five million dollars, he had gold, war horses, and millions of stone grains.

Since the status of the merchants here is low, let's buy an official!

Anyway...... It doesn't seem to be a difficult task?

"Let's go, let's go to Luoyang to find out the bottom first." He was waving his hand, intending to let the convoy cross the rugged mountain road early, but a team of people suddenly flashed between the mountains and forests in front of him. (To be continued......)