It wasn't a very long, but arduous journey, and Ah Kin Sulu thought a lot.

They took an ancient trade route, which is also the Silk Road imagined by the merchants of the Western Regions today.

Take the Yumen Pass, pass through Dunhuang, Suzhou, Ganzhou and other places, until the northwest direction goes deep into the border of the Han people, the end of this trade route, there is no need to say more, that is the Chang'an of the Han people, a fantastic city......

But now, this trade route, which has created countless glories and achieved countless legends, has been abandoned for many years, and no businessman dares to take this road again.

From the rise of the Tangut people to the present, their hands are stained with the blood of merchants.

In fact, the ancestors of the Dangxiang Qiang people were the vultures, a group of damned bandits who lived on this trade route, and when they rose from the desert, they completely blocked this golden road to the east.

Of course, after the establishment of the Western Xia state, many merchants were still willing to pass by here and trade with the Han or the party members, but the greedy behavior of the party members and the lack of any credit made the merchants extinct here.

Yes, the merchants were given a little guarantee of safety in the territory of Western Xia, and the greedy and brutal party aristocracy, as well as their heavy and varied merchant taxes, discouraged the merchants.

Although the Tangut people had established a state, they were the same as their ancestors in their bones, and they all regarded merchants as prey to take and want, and when they became hostile to the Han people in the east, they completely blocked this road and prevented the merchants from associating with the Han people......

For whatever reason, of course. This golden road has been abandoned.

Even today. Some merchants began to try to trade with the Tanguts. I didn't want to cross the desert Gobi again, so I walked from this road.

Therefore, Ah Jian Sulu and his party walked very slowly, and they had to put a lot of thought into the water source, food, and the choice of guides.

And this also gave Ah Jian Sulu time to think, he is indeed very knowledgeable, and can see many things clearly. From the Jin Kingdom and the Mongols in the far east, to the various tribes on the steppe, to the Han people and these countries, and the disputes and interactions between the tribes, he can sort out some contexts from them.

When the group came to the front of the Yumen Pass, Ah Jian Sulu was already more and more convinced that this trip would be rewarding, and the only obstacle was whether his group could safely go to the capital of the Qin people, that is, the famous one for a long time. But from the big city of Chang'an, which I had seen.

And even if it's there. Can you meet the emperor of the Han people, and even if you do, what kind of words should you use to impress the other party, etc......

Yumen Pass, as rumored, is indeed majestic, and it can be imagined that the Han empire that built him was powerful and prosperous......

But now, Ah Jian Sulu didn't feel anything, and he didn't have that time.

They came to the Yumen Pass, bribed the party soldiers here all the way, and after paying the price of three bags of golden sand, they got the promise of the party and got the customs clearance documents of the Xixia people.

It's very smooth, a little unexpected by Ah Jian Sulu, perhaps, because they didn't bring any goods, right? Ah Jian Sulu, who left the Yumen Gate Gate behind, thought so.

The Western Xia soldiers stationed in these places are all under the command of the Western Xia generals with spicy thinking, and the military discipline is very good, of course, bags of golden sand are also decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ah Jian Sulu began to worry a little about whether they could rely on these golden sands to get out of the territory of Western Xia, because this could only be regarded as the border pass of the Western Xia people.

Fortunately, there were their Uighur people in Ganzhou, and although he had no dealings with them, he was prepared, because not only did he have letters from Asalan Khan on him, but there was also a fellow in his group who had interacted with these fellows in Ganzhou.

This guy who came from the sweat tent of the Great Khan, although he complained all the way, should be of great use.

However, things changed when they arrived in Suzhou, and the news of the war finally came, which also made Ah Jian Sulu ecstatic.

In contrast to this Uighur merchant, Suzhou was like a frightened rabbit......

Suzhou is under the rule of the Right Wing Military Division, and between the Xiping Military Division and the Ganzhou Military Division, it is conceivable what kind of embarrassing situation Suzhou is in.

But more than ten years ago, the Suzhou Army finally became majestic, because there was a Western Xia hero here, that is, the current famous general of Western Xia, the head of the Left Wing Military Division, Li Yuanhan.

This is a Western Xia hero who forged his prestige with the blood of the Uighurs, and Li Yuanhan, who was in his prime, reorganized his troops in Suzhou and garrisoned here.

It also coincided with the Uighurs rising to attack Western Xia, and more than 100,000 troops broke through the Yumen Pass and entered, Keshazhou and Guazhou, and it was also that battle that the number of the Xiping Military Division disappeared in the northwest land.

In that battle, Li Yuanhan led his troops across the Gobi Desert, crossed Guazhou and the old site of Dunhuang, and took Shazhou City, cutting off the back route of the Uighur army in one fell swoop.

The Uighurs withdrew their troops to besiege the sandbank, but they were bleeding when they met under the sandbank.

When the army of the Right Wing Army Division gathered, the Suzhou soldiers and horses who were already remnants of the army were killed from the city, and Li Yuanhan beheaded the commander of the Uighur army, and in that battle, the Uighurs were defeated and lost, and those who could return to the Uighur Khanate were not one out of ten, so that Li Yuanhan of Suzhou became famous and was widely heard of by the tribes in the northwest.

However, having said that, after all, it was more than ten years ago, and Li Yuanhan is now in the Western Xia army, but he has nothing to do with the Suzhou army.

More than ten years have passed, the Suzhou Army, which had turned the tide in the past, is no longer the same as it was back then, although the Xiping Military Division is gone, Li Yuanhan remembered the old feelings, and let the Suzhou Army almost replace the position of the Xiping Military Division, but without Li Yuanhan's Suzhou Army, where can it be compared with that year?

Now in the Suzhou army, there is not even one of the old troops who followed Li Yuanhan to fight back then, what else can be discussed?

More than ten years have passed, and Suzhou, which is far away from the center of the Western Xia government, is not a strategic place, and is close to the desert, is actually no different from the soldiers and horses stationed in various places in the northwest......

The army was in rags, and the generals of various departments colluded with the Uighurs of Ganzhou and the bandits in the desert Gobi to run amok against the law, and corruption and bribery had become a common thing here.

Therefore, even though the Suzhou soldiers and horses stationed here began to be on guard, Ah Jian Sulu and the others still only used a bag of golden sand, not only swaggered out of Suzhou City, but also heard the detailed news from the party nobles.

The Tubo people sent troops, and the one who led the troops to the Tubo people was His Royal Highness the King of Guiyi that he heard from the Han people on the grassland, another legend among the Han people, and the sibling brother of the noble Han general.

This article alone is already very clear, the Han people really mobilized troops against Western Xia......

When the group arrived in Ganzhou, the news became clearer, and the Tubo army estimated that it had surrounded Xiliang, yes, it could only be estimated that no one had fled to Ganzhou.

Moreover, although Ganzhou is close to Xiliang, it has to pass through a section of the Gobi Desert, and it will take a long time for the spies to return.

Ah Kin Sulu did not delay anything, and he immediately asked to see the leader of the Uighurs in Ganzhou, Asha Holi.

To tell the truth, the Ganzhou Uighurs and the Xizhou Uighurs now seem to be completely different from each other, except for some similarities in appearance, and they are more like two ethnic groups.

It is also easy to understand that the Ganzhou Uighurs, who were under the rule of the Dangxiang people, and the more independent Xizhou Uighurs, after hundreds of years, could be the same......

The more obvious difference is that because of their proximity to the Western Regions, their religion could not be further away from that of the Ganzhou Uighurs.

Due to the influence of the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions, the Western Uighurs were divided into several parts, the largest of which was Islam, which came from Arabia, and this sect had gradually become dominant in the Western Uighur Khanate.

However, because of the Uighurs' business experience, one sect does not have the absolute upper hand here, and there are still some people who believe in Christianity and Buddhism.

The Ganzhou Uighurs, on the other hand, still believed in the primitive earth gods, with the eagle as the embodiment of the gods of each tribe.

In fact, in Ajian Sulu's view, if it weren't for the fact that many people in the Khanate felt that they were related to the Uighurs here in Ganzhou by blood and felt extremely close, so they didn't cut off contact with this side, otherwise, as long as they had seen people from two tribes, who would know that they actually came from the same ancestor?

However, the current Ganzhou Uighurs are indeed very willing to hear from their distant people, especially in this stormy season.

When Ajian Sulu and his entourage were warmly and somewhat overdone here, when Ajian Sulu said in front of the leader of the Uighurs in Ganzhou, Asha Holi, that Asaran Khan wanted to ask the Ganzhou Uighurs to help the Han and drive the Dangxiang people out......

The Uighur leader of Ganzhou, who was in the prime of life but was broad and fat, nodded his head in agreement without much hesitation, and did not even ask how many soldiers and horses the Uighur Khanate, that is, his people in the west, would have to send troops, or what kind of position the Ganzhou Uighurs would be in after the war.

This was undoubtedly unexpected by Ah Jian Sulu, who wanted to stay here for a while to convince the Uighur leader of Ganzhou or even his cronies.

Merchants have to bargain for transactions, not to mention such a big event, which does not meet his expectations at all, and undoubtedly makes him suspicious.

But such doubts did not last long, and he soon heard the other party's explanation...... (To be continued......)