Chapter 197: There Are Too Many Secrets (Guaranteed Subscription 2)
"No, our people don't have a chance to get close, didn't you explain to us before? Try not to inquire about their secrets. Zheng Ning said.
"yes, but they have a little too many secrets." Li Yi sighed and spoke.
"I believe that one day in the future, Dalang should be able to see it, but when the time comes, I don't know how the situation will develop." Zheng Ning hesitated.
"By the way, Da Lang, they have already begun to prepare to build a road from Yumen Pass to the direction of Dunhuang County, but this road should only be built to the junction of the two sides." Zheng Ning remembered something and added.
"Well, I know, you go, go home and have a look, and go back tomorrow, it's not safe to travel at night, although there should be no blind people here who dare to come and loot." Li Yi smiled slightly.
Speaking of which, this can be regarded as Huo Gang's credit, after Huo Gang's devilish name spread throughout the grassland, the vicinity of Dunhuang County has become extremely safe, and there are no more Turks and horse thieves who used to come to plunder every once in a while.
Needless to say, the Turks have all become Huo Gang's subordinates, and those horse thieves, after being slaughtered by Huo Gang, the few remaining horse thieves have also fled this place and went further west.
No one dared to plunder in Huo Gang's territory, because that was to find death, and now who in the Western Regions didn't know about it? Therefore, it is understandable that those horse thieves ran directly to the west, they are used to being free, and it is impossible for them to join Huo Gang.
Even if they joined, Huo Gang didn't need them.
Zheng Ning left, but Li Yi fell into deep thought, just like what he had just told Zheng Ning, Huo Gang's secret was a little too much, and they didn't know much about what happened in the south of Yangguan so far.
But suddenly there was an extra river, which could not be hidden from anyone else, it was a wasteland, but now, according to the caravans coming and going, it was now green.
However, there are not many caravans there recently, and all the caravans must make a detour after passing through Loulan, and they cannot go directly to Yangguan from the original route, but can only come out of Loulan, and cross the original Peacock Sea, which is now called Huo Cihai and then go north, and then come back from Yiwu.
Even if these caravans are unwilling, there is no way, because they have returned from the Western Regions, and there are no caravans that take the southern route of the Silk Road, but all of them take the northern route.
All kinds of miracles of the whole Han Dynasty, all kinds of legends of Huo Gang Li Yi know, for example, the Peacock Sea completely dried up overnight, because the Loulan people were unwilling to surrender, and then Huo Gang became angry.
Then the Loulan people were punished, and then Huo just let the Peacock Sea return to normal, and later the Loulan people changed it to Huo Cihai, and they knew what it meant from the name.
Li Yi originally heard these things as myths, but the river on the south side of Yangguan, Li Yi couldn't ignore it no matter what, although Li Yi had never been to that place, but he had heard countless caravans say it, including Zheng Ning, whose caravan had also come back from there before.
Under the Qilian Snow Mountain, there is a wasteland at all, there are only a few plants, and there is no river, and now there is suddenly such a big river, which ...... It can't be a natural formation.
Could it be that Huo Gang is really an immortal? Li Yi actually didn't believe in such a thing, but he couldn't believe it if he didn't believe it.
And there are too many secrets of the Han, these things are all brought by Huo Gang, for example, their fast printing technology, has been fast weaving and weaving technology, although Li Yi has not seen it, but guessed that the cost of cloth and books has been reduced so much, you don't have to think about it to know that there must be the latest technology, which can print faster and spin faster.
And these technologies, Li Yi naturally can't know.
If in the past, after Li Yi negotiated with his father, he thought that Huo Gang might be secretly supported by some nobles of the Tang Dynasty, but now Li Yi doesn't think so.
Quite simply, if any family had such a technology that could improve cloth and printing, it would be impossible to send it to the Western Regions! What this means for a family, Li Yi knows very well.
This can be said to be the foundation of a thousand-year-old family, and no one can take it out!
Although Li Yi didn't show it now, and never said it, even getting along with Huo Gang was like other ordinary people, but in his heart, Li Yi already regarded Huo Gang as an immortal.
It's just that this kind of thing is hidden in his heart, because, in addition to the above-mentioned things, this year's Yumen Guanyang Guan Yiwu is ...... To be precise, there have been too many rains in Huo Gang's territory this year!
So much so that Li Yi and the others were shocked! Li Yi asked people to check the information of previous years, and the number of rains in Yumen Guanyangguan in previous years has not been as much as that of Dunhuang County, let alone Liangzhou.
But this year, this number has nearly exceeded Dunhuang County several times!
What's even more weird is that it has rained so many times, and many people in Dunhuang County have seen it and said that just right, only Huo Gang's territory is raining, but there is no rain in the area of Dunhuang County! It's that magical!
Therefore, the fact that Huo Gang is an immortal has begun to spread throughout Dunhuang County, Guazhou, and even Liangzhou.
This kind of gossip spreads the fastest, not to mention that there are all kinds of caravans coming and going here constantly, for the people, although they are in awe, they are not hated, because of Huo Gang's appearance, they have never been harassed by the Turks again.
There is no longer any need to fear that when the Turks suddenly come to kill them, they may suffer the pain of family ruin.
I couldn't figure it out, Li Yi shook his head and didn't think about it, at least now they have earned enough money in Dunhuang Fang, and recently there are ten percent more people in the entire Dunhuang County than before, and these are all because of Huo Gang's brought, every day from the opening of the city gate at dawn, their caravan has been moving far and constantly in the direction of Yumen Pass.
Even the materials transported from the mainland, in order to avoid delays, sometimes do not enter the city at all, but go directly around the city, so that there is no need to worry about the opening and closing of the city gate.
However, the information they have here is getting harder and harder to report to Chang'an.
He was indeed ordered to do business with Huo Gang, but if it was just a transaction between war horses, it was impossible to have such a large value. And now the daily transportation of food and raw materials alone is a huge number.
Of course, the largest amount is the grain, now the Dunhuang house for many years of grain storage is not much, now the transport is not only the Dunhuang room of the grain, the entire Longxi Li family has reached an agreement, fully support their Dunhuang house, after all, the entire Longxi Li family is prosperous, a loss, and all other families have to contribute.
Not only the grain, but the other houses are constantly expanding their own paper workshops, and then through these books to conduct internal transactions with other five surnamed Qiwang families, their grain is also constantly being transported, such as Cui's, Wang's and other grains have recently entered Liangzhou.
The follow-up is still being transported, and raw silk and fine linen are constantly being transported here. In the past, it was just them who were transporting things here, but now, their carriages are more efficient, because they are not only transporting goods to Dahan, but they are starting to pull more goods out of Dahan and transport them into the whole of Datang.
These things are mainly wool products, woolen sweaters were transported back by them, and they set off a boom in the entire Dunhuang County, and even Guazhou and Liangzhou for the first time, because for ordinary people, these clothes are too cheap, not only cheap, but more importantly, clothes made of wool are more warm!
Just from the Han Dynasty to their Dunhuang, their profits have almost doubled, although after these things enter Guanzhong, their profits may fall, after all, the freight is not cheap, but they can't help but have a huge number!
After thinking about it carefully, Li Yi finally prepared some things, and then sent them directly to Chang'an with the letter.
The main thing is that this Huo leader sent a letter and returned to send a letter, and he didn't even have a gift, so Li Yi could only send this gift instead of him.
But it's not good to give too much of this gift, so after Li Yi finally thought about it carefully, he chose to give a special feature of Huo Gang, that is, Huo Gang showed him, cashmere clothes, the price of this cashmere is expensive, and Li Yi didn't get much, but he still gave Li Er a whole set of past.
Not only Li Er's, but also the eldest grandson queen, and Li Er's other concubines have a share.
After the things were sent, Li Yi naturally wanted to tell Huo Gang, after all, what he did, he also had to let the other party know, right? Regarding Li Yi's decision to "give" gifts for himself, Huo Gang just smiled and didn't care.
Therefore, when Li Er received these things, it was not just a bamboo tube, but also a bunch of things, but there were not many of these things, and they were not packaged like this on the way over, and after arriving in Chang'an, someone put a box on the outside of it.
The things were secretly sent to Li Er's palace, to be honest, after getting Chang Lin's report, Li Er had some accidents, could it be that Huo Gang wanted to submit to him Datang? Otherwise, what gift would you give him?
But no matter what, after reading it, you will know, so Li Er asked Chang Lin to disassemble the fire paint on the bamboo tube as soon as possible, as for why he didn't open it himself, it was naturally because it was to avoid something like a hidden weapon inside.
Huo Gang naturally couldn't play with these things, if he really played with hidden weapons or something, wouldn't it be easier to play with poison, or wouldn't it be simpler to simply find a radioactive "Night Pearl" and send it to Li Er?