From Chang'an all the way to Jiuquan, all the caravans would stay here for ten days and half a month to recuperate and replenish supplies.

After leaving the Yumen Gate in the west, there are no old people, only the long yellow sand and the endless Gobi Desert.

In a place like Jiuquan, it is almost impossible to find grain to support 4,000 people and more than 8,000 horses for more than a month.

The grain and grass consumed by the officers and soldiers here in Jiuquan County and the government did not come from Jiuquan itself, but from Ganzhou (Zhangye), which "opened up the tuntian, took advantage of the water and land, harvested rice abundantly, and accumulated military grain for decades".

However, a large amount of grain in Ganzhou was not produced by the people themselves, but came from Tuntian, the Tuntian of the Silla people.

Naturally, the grain from Tuntian can only be used for military purposes, and is not sold to merchants.

Since the Tang Dynasty exterminated the Three Kingdoms of Liaodong, a large number of Silla people have been relocated here, and Yun Chu's familiar black tooth Changzhi stayed in Ganzhou as the deputy general of Ganzhou Zhichong Mansion, but when Yun Chu was about to visit him, he went to the Horseshoe Temple to worship the Buddha, not in Ganzhou.

Fortunately, Ganzhou also has the industry of his good friend Ma Gui, which is why he got grain from Zhangye that can support Jiuquan.

Ma Gui is no longer that little post man now, and now as a don't drive in Ganzhou, although he can't cover the sky in Ganzhou, at least he has the power to say everything in the old line.

The news that there was food in the hands of the burning clouds was provided to Yun Chu by the horse turtle.

Black Tooth Changzhi is trying to distance himself from Yun Chu, and any smart person will choose to stay away after cooperating with Yun Chu.

Only those fools would be willing to continue to deal with Yun Chu because of the enough benefits Yun Chu gave.

Really smart people understand a truth, the benefits and risks are equal, and only those who earn certain controllable benefits can take the road in the long run.

Heizhi Changzhi was undoubtedly a smart man, so when Yun Chu's team arrived in Ganzhou, he went to the Horseshoe Temple to worship the Buddha.

Sha Za Xiangru is also very smart, when Yun Chu arrived in Jiuquan, he went to the Royal Shandan Horse Farm to select war horses for the government soldiers, and he could not miss it.

As for whether to avoid Yun Chu, Yun Chu doesn't care very much, the help between people is mutual, people don't want to, that's other people's choice, and they can't force it.

Avanti is worthy of being Avanti in the red willow forest, and with the help of a group of old bandits, he quickly found the traces of the group of voles.

After listening to the old bandit's report, Yun Chu was very sure that this group of voles must be from the west of Taihang Mountain, even if it wasn't, their leader must be, otherwise they wouldn't have made a pit yard.

The pit yard is very popular in Jinzhong, where the loess layer is very thick, after digging down two or three zhang, the bottom is still a dry loess layer, and then the house is excavated horizontally, and a very good yard appears.

Although there is a possibility that such a yard will be flooded by rainwater, there is not much rain in a year where such a house can be built, and the thick layer of loess is like a sponge, which will absorb the little rainwater cleanly.

Now that the place has been found, Yun Chu plans to take a large group of people to carry the food directly, and he feels that it is not polite to be a good friend of Xu Jingye.

In fact, there is no evidence to prove that this burning cloud has any clues with Xu Jingye, but Yun Chu determined that this group of people should be Xu Jingye's subordinates, and in the past few years, with the support of the British government, the large and small forces in the Hexi Corridor should have been subdued by Xu Jingye.

This bastard is likely to be the chief scoop of the underworld in the Hexi Corridor today.

Speaking of which, the Tuyuhun people are still too poor, and the terrain is high, so they only have the benefit of cattle and sheep, but people can't just eat cattle and sheep without eating a little grain.

If he wants to grow food, he still needs to enter the Hexi Corridor, where water and grass are abundant, to feed a group of his large men.

This shot was led by Liang Ying, and it was also the first time that this young man really took charge.

Although Yun Chu followed, he didn't say a word, Liang Ying was used to this, the prince didn't say it now, and after he went back, he would point out the inappropriate places, and he pointed them out with scolding.

For this reason, Wen Rou once asked Yun Chu why he was so irritable to Liang Ying when he used to teach others, he was not so simple and rude.

Yun Chu didn't answer, Liang Ying knew it herself.

This is how his grandfather dealt with the prince back then, and he also heard that the prince was at the behest of the emperor to teach his grandfather to read.

His grandfather likes to kill, likes to drink, likes to spoil beauties, likes to gamble, likes to beat others, and as for reading...... This has never been in his grandfather's life plan, if the prince goes to teach his grandfather to read, how badly he should be beaten.

Therefore, Liang Ying had no opinion at all about being treated violently by the monarch and marquis, because this was what their Liang family owed to the monarch.

Avanti was given a donkey with a white mouth and a black body, and he happily rode upside down on the donkey's back, calling out to his subjects in the red willow forest as he went.

If these people are asked to help kill the enemy, it is not possible at all, and if these people are summoned to clean up the battlefield, they will run as fast as they can.

Yun Chu used to think that the pit courtyard should be in a secret place, and when he saw the pit courtyard, even if he was well-informed, he was amazed by the large-scale pit courtyard group in front of him.

I also understood why the old thieves who were in charge of looking at the smoke and checking people sent out couldn't find this place.

It's really because these people in the pit courtyard use the red willow forest as a cover, and the wind here is blowing towards the red willow forest because of the horn mouth, and the smoke that appears in the pit courtyard naturally enters the red willow forest, and finally makes the old thieves who look at the smoke have the illusion that the smoke here is caused by these beggars in the red willow forest.

Sometimes, planning and planning don't need to be too advanced, as long as it works, it is the best arrangement.

When Liang Ying took five hundred old thieves, bandits, and thieves out of the Red Willow Forest and began to march towards the pit courtyard, a very old-looking Mr. Dong Yan climbed up from the first pit courtyard with great difficulty, and said to Yun Chu, "The old slave has seen the prince"

Yun Chu saw the corners of this fat old guy's mouth twitch twice and said, "Steward Li, why are you here?" Didn't you say that you have already returned to your hometown in Shandong to retire?"

Steward Li said with a smile, "Labor Yunhou is worried, it is all the sins of the old slaves, and when he is old, he wants to go home, but he didn't expect the concubine to give birth to three babies to the old man in one go, no, I have to return to my old business and earn some food money for the milk babies."

Yun Chu said to Liang Ying, "Let go of the first pit courtyard and start searching the rest of the pit courtyards, leaving no one behind."

Steward Li's smiling face immediately changed, and he hurriedly said to Yun Chu, "This is all Yinggong's property, Yunhou won't even give Yinggong face, right?"

Yun Chu smiled faintly and said, "The team is about to leave Yumen Pass, and the grain and grass at hand are not enough, so I have to do this, and when I return to Chang'an, I will ask Ying Gong for guilt."

Steward Li's face became gloomy, and he saw that under the leadership of Liang Ying, some people began to enter the pit courtyard and confront the people in the courtyard, so he once again hugged his fist at Yun Chu and said, "The dedicated son is near the left"

Yun Chu said lazily, "Then let him come out, I want to ask him what it means to burn the clouds, is it to burn Yun to death?"

Yun Chu didn't stop drinking, and the sound of swords colliding sounded in the courtyard of the pit.

Yun Chu raised his hand and popped out a finger and said, "Don't fight hand-to-hand, throw the thunder bombs, we brought out so many thunder bombs this time, we didn't keep the cubs."

Li Ji's old housekeeper is also a person who has seen big scenes, and he thinks that Yun Chu will not dare!

With a fierce roar, smoke rose from a pit courtyard.

Yun Chu then popped out his second finger, and this time it was a fire oil bomb thrown in, which rose from the pit courtyard with the blazing flames.

Just as Yun Chu was about to pop out the third finger, Steward Li stepped forward and hugged Yun Chu's hand and said, "The grain that the prince wants, the old slave will go and prepare."

Yun Chu looked at Steward Li and said, "I've always heard that you are a person with eight faces, why don't you seem to be clever this time?"

It's because you know that the things hidden here are the things that those nobles in Chang'an plan to use when they plan to stake their land in the Western Regions, right?"

Do you think that I may dare to offend the British Princess, and not all the nobles in any case? That's where your guts come from to say no to me, right? You also have the courage to test my bottom line for others, right?"

Steward Li listened to Yun Chu's words, his face turned pale, and his fat body slowly knelt on the ground and said, "Please spare my life for the sake of Duke Ying."

Yun Chu sneered, "It's late, you forgot one thing, this is not Chang'an, it's a place close to the Western Regions."

Everyone here lives a life of licking blood with knives, and people here are not so keen on power, because they are confident that they are the source of power."

Therefore, in this desert, if you are strong, you are truly strong."

As soon as the words fell, Liang Ying swung his knife and cut off the head of Steward Li, and then said to Yun Chu, "None of the princes are left?"

Yun Chu sneered and said, "Naturally, there is no one left, they always want to win from the starting line, there is so easy."

After speaking, he looked at Liang Ying and said, "You have done this, if you want to be one with them in the future, I'm afraid there will be no chance."

Liang Ying smiled, "Just like the prince said, if you are strong, you are really strong."

Yun Chu watched countless people rush from the red willow forest into the huge pit courtyards, and listened attentively to the sound of the fighting that was taking place inside.

said to Liang Ying, "You don't have those shortcomings in your Azu."

Liang Yingdao "One generation is always stronger than the next"

Yun Chu stretched his waist and said, "Then let's start here."

After Liang Ying gave the salute, he took his own soldiers and went to a brand-new pit courtyard along the narrow road on the left.

After a few moments, there was a sound of fighting inside.

Yun Chu sighed and said, "It's really selfish, at this time, they are still fighting on their own."

See you tomorrow, the temperature drops to minus 20 degrees, the shoulders start to ache, and next year we will have to spend the winter in a warm place