Of the 500 people Zhao Xin took out, only thirteen returned, and many more were lost on the way, and I don't know if they can be recovered.

Zhao Xindao: "We just passed Jiuquan and met a team of horse bandits, they have nearly a thousand people, encircled a piece of land to build a city, the city wall is made of yellow mud, not very high, but it can be seen that it is the appearance of the city, the guide said that the Central Plains War in the past few years The Western Regions are not peaceful, large and small tribes do not know how many have died, so they think this is a new small country. ”

"As a result, we were arrested as soon as we entered, and finally we waited to kill the horse bandits, occupied the city and gave them a change of leader before leaving, before leaving, we also sent someone to send a letter to Xiliang, hoping that Xiliang could send troops to collect the land and collect the people, because the time was urgent, I did not wait there."

"The Western Regions are indeed chaotic, the ministries and countries are not convinced by each other, and they often fight, but the ministers have the letters of state and customs clearance documents given by His Majesty, and most of the ministries and countries let us go, and those who are unwilling to let us go are Zhang Yu."

Zhao Xindao: "Zhang Yu is proficient in Buddhism, and most of the countries along the Western Regions believe in Buddhism, so relying on his knowledge, even if he encounters difficulties along the way, he can resolve them, and I still have 489 people when I wait for Lop Nur." ”

How did that person not have it?

Because they were so unlucky when they entered Lop Nur, it was a desert, and it was difficult to find the direction, even if the guide they brought with them had walked through, they still got lost when they went in again.

Before they could find the right direction, they encountered a group of caravans being chased by horse bandits, Zhao Xin turned around and ran away with the people, but Zhang Yu drew his sword and rushed forward.

He had no choice but to turn around and snatch Zhang Yu back, in the chaos, the crowd shouted, and then a sandstorm burst out in the sky, quickly sweeping them.

Zhao Xin only had time to reach out and grab Zhang Yu......

When he woke up again, there were only more than 50 people left around him, and the rest of them didn't know where they were swept away, and except for Zhang Yu, who was dragged by him, there were three caravan people and two horse bandits among the rest of the people.

Zhao Xin directly killed the horse bandits, then accepted the three trembling merchants, and continued to go west, looking for people at the same time.

Then they were sold by three merchants.

Zhao Xin prides himself on being smart, and Zhang Wei is not stupid, but they didn't even see that the three businessmen were so cunning and treacherous, and after pretending to surrender, they said that they knew the way to the west and would recognize the direction, anyway, they went back and forth to this business road for many years, and the guide would, they would!

Zhao Xin and Zhang Yu both felt that they were honest, and they were indeed merchants in the Western Regions.

Oh, those three people are all white-faced, deep-eyed, Western Regions faces, Zhang Yu has been in contact with many Western Regions merchants, patted his chest and promised Zhao Xin, "The Western Regions merchants keep their promises and will not lie to us." ”

Then the group was sold to a man to be dragged to mine the gem.

Of course, Zhao Xin would not be arrested, and ran out with people to resist, and then he was arrested by the local yamen and scattered to various parts of the ministry to be slaves.

She had to do things like herding sheep, feeding horses, mowing grass, planting pasture, and even pouring night incense.

Because of the dispersion of personnel, Zhao Xin did not find a chance to escape for half a year, and in the end, he persuaded the king of the ministry to establish diplomatic relations with Hua Guo with his incorruptible tongue, and then he was released.

But before they could be pleased, they went out of that tribe, and the small tribe and the neighboring countries fought over the water, and the fight was quite large, and the great king, who had just sent them off for less than two days, was killed, and then they were caught in the war, and were taken prisoner, and were taken to the northwest, and by the time they had tried every means to persuade the new king to let them go too, a year had passed.

In addition, because of getting lost and various accidents on the way, they don't know where they are at all, and Xiaoguo even has an impression of the Central Plains by hearsay, let alone a detailed route to Shule, and many people have been asked, and only a few people can give them a rough direction.

Zhao Xin held Zhao Hanzhang's hand and cried profusely, "But the direction they pointed to is also wrong, the direction, the difference is thousands of miles, we walked more and more cold, and finally arrived at a place called Kobdo, and when we got there, we knew that we had gone wrong." ”

But Zhao Xin felt that they had made a mistake like this, so he simply made a mistake, crossed Kobdo, passed through the territory of the Northern Xiongnu to Wusun, and then from Wusun to Dawan, and finally turned back to Shule.

They traveled along the way, collecting seeds of local crops, in addition to some medicinal herbs and local products, and they saw cotton in some places of Wusun, Dawan and Shule.

Without exception, they were particularly strict in their control over cotton seeds, and they lost a lot of money, both for travel and to buy seeds.

Zhao Xin's body is the awakening of the bloodline that the Zhao family is good at management, and he has an accurate vision to find the goods that will be needed at the next stop, buy low and sell high, and raise the mission all the way.

When he arrived at the place where there were cotton seeds, he racked his brains even more, knowing that the city gate was very strict with these foreign merchants.

Zhao Xin, who originally wanted to establish diplomatic relations with them, also learned to be obedient after going through it a few times, and no longer took out the national letter as soon as he came up, but would first knock on the side and inquire about it.

In the end, Zhao Xin and they operated in the city, and each place spent nearly two months to build contacts, buy a large number of cotton seeds outside the city, and then set up a caravan and secretly ran back.

The journey back was also hard, but it was much smoother, and with experience from one experience, they avoided a lot of dangers on the way back.

But there are dangers that cannot be avoided, such as horse bandits roaming around the grasslands, Gobi and deserts.

They were very unlucky, they met a big horse bandit who went out to fight the grass valley, even though they had good martial arts, but they were still chased away;

But they were also very lucky, and they met Zhao Erlang, who was bored and went farther away to inspect.

Zhao Hanzhang: "So the cotton seeds were brought back?" ”

Zhao Xin: "Brought back, not only did the minister bring a batch, the minister bought a surplus, at that time I met a merchant who went to Huaguo, and the minister also gave them the seeds, and asked them to bring them back, as long as they could bring back to Huaguo, the seeds would be completely given to them." ”

When the time comes, whether they grow it themselves or sell it, the seeds will be able to spread, and that's a good thing for them.

The two cartloads of seeds are now staying outside the palace gate.

Zhao Hanzhang immediately asked people to send things in, and everyone joined in the fun.

The sack was untied, revealing the seeds wrapped in oilcloth inside, and the civil and military officials couldn't help but be excited.

Civil Officials: From now on, the people will no longer have to suffer from the cold.

Attachés: From now on, the soldiers will no longer have to suffer from the cold.

The quilts and cotton clothes made of cotton wool were used by hundreds of civil and military officials, some of which were the benefits of the imperial court for the New Year, and most of them were bought with money.

Because cotton is scarce, the price is quite high, not to mention ordinary people, even officials with small assets, to buy the whole family's quilts and cotton clothes, it is also painful and heart-wrenching.

Now that there are more seeds, the price should come down, right?

Good night