In the early morning of the next day, the dart car of the Wanli Dart Bureau bustled out of Zhenwumen, and from this westward thousands of miles, it was an important military town in Western Xia - Liangzhou.

With the head of the dart Pang Long personally sitting in the town, the road can be described as unimpeded, regardless of the post station, township and county, they have not been subjected to too much investigation, and even the Western Regions merchant group that traveled along the way has also benefited a lot.

In the evening, a foreigner dressed in white alien clothes walked to the dining table of Pang Long, Lao Zhou and others and gave a deep salute and said: "Chief Darthead, by your prestige, our business journey is really extraordinarily smooth, Sai Liangmu. ”

This person's Chinese language is already weird, and the last three words are even more incomprehensible, which makes Lao Zhou confused.

Seeing Lao Zhou's appearance, Yelu Tiege, who was seated on his left, whispered: "This is a merchant from the Great Food Country, and Sai Limu is the language of their country, which means blessings. ”

"I see." Lao Zhou suddenly realized: "I can't imagine that Western Xia is located in a remote area, and there are many foreign merchants coming and going, so there must be a lot of taxes and silver for foreign trade." ”

Yelu Yanshan on the right hand side couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Old Zhou, I'm afraid that you have been nesting in Linhuang Mansion for too long, the so-called remoteness, it can be said that it is not far away, and it can be said that it is far away, for the Great Liao Imperial Capital, the boundary of the world is only in the Kedun City on the edge of the desert, but I don't know that outside the vast desert, there is a bigger and broader world, and there are countless rich countries like the Great Food Country, and the merchants of these countries come on camels, full of silk, tea, and porcelain, leaving behind the money... It shouldn't be a problem to build another Xingqing Mansion. ”

Lao Zhou was shocked, but after careful consideration, since Li Qianshun, the lord of the Western Xia, was in power, he changed the national policy of conquest and plunder, but instead repaired the canals and tuntian, worshiped Confucianism and worshiped the Buddha, and the people's customs have been much smoother, and it is logical to attract more merchants from all over the world to stop in the Western Xia. In addition, the Western Xia is located in the west of the Song and Liao Dynasty, connecting the vast Western Regions, and the rich merchants from the West do not have to go far to Linhuang and Lin'an in the south, so they can collect all kinds of Central Plains products in Xingqing Mansion, and it is not an accident to create a prosperous era of Western Xia.

If you think about your own country again, you will see yourself as a big country, but you don't want to forge ahead, how can you be safe in the long run?

Pang Dart picked up the wine glass and got up, drank the wine in the cup and said: "Distinguished guests don't have to be like this, you and I take what we need, and buy and sell fairly, this is the way to make money, but I heard that the big food country has not been peaceful in recent years, and I don't know if the business under my feet has been implicated." ”

"Hey!" The Great Food Merchant took the tea bowl handed by Pang Long with his right hand and lamented: "They are demons, demons named Seljuk and Khorezm, Allah will not spare them, and sooner or later, a hero will descend at the behest of Allah to drive the devil out of the rich Great Food." ”

Seeing that the big food merchant was choked, Pang Darttou didn't say anything more, and rested after dinner.

After more than 20 days of running around, the boundary monument of Liangzhou Mansion has appeared in front of the old Zhou pedestrians, and in the wind and sand not far ahead, the outline of the mansion city is also looming.

Pang Long said to Lao Zhou: "The front is Liangzhou, after entering the city, I immediately invite Lord Sihu Wu and Master Si Bing Sun to meet, at that time, Old Zhou, you don't need to say much, just give the letter of the Zheng Qian brothers and the thousand taels of gold, and the two of them will know how to plan." ”

Lao Zhou promised, and then followed the dart team into the city, with the signboard of the Wanli Dart Bureau and the face of Mr. Pang's dart, the gatekeeper Yong did not add an investigation, and the dart car went all the way unhindered to the post station.

After some planning by Pang Long, Wu and Sun soon came to the post station, met Lao Zhou, and showed embarrassment after reading Zheng Qian's letters.

Sihu Wu said: "Although this girl named Xiao Zhi'er is a slave, her nationality belongs to the East Palace of the current dynasty, and she cannot be revoked when she is idle, unless..."

Si Bing Sun was born in the army, his voice was like thunder, and he said loudly to Master Wu: "You are a procrastinator, Zheng Daguan is kind to you and me, and there is this thousand taels of gold as a reward, how can we have two more words?" That Xiao Zhi'er is just a criminal slave in the East Palace, you just need to report your illness and death. ”

Hearing this, Lord Wu didn't want to shirk it any more, so he had to accept the matter, and made an appointment with Pang Long to hand over people in the Huai Forest in the north of the city three days later.

The three-day scene is not long, but it is not short.

Yelu Tiege and Yelu Yanshan were extremely bored, so they took leave from Lao Zhou and went to play in Huguo Temple, the largest Buddhist treasure temple in Liangzhou City.

The two of them live in Xixia all the year round, have heard of the prestige of the Huguo Temple, but have not had the opportunity to see its true face, at this time really saw the treasure temple, and suddenly was in front of the Biwa Zhu eaves, carved beams and paintings of the jaw dropped.

I saw that the outer wall of the temple is gilded throughout, every few steps along the wall, you will see a square hole, which enshrines a lifelike bronze Buddha statue, in front of the Buddha statue is the incense offered by believers from all over the world, the green smoke is slowly swaying upward, accompanied by the yellow sand from the desert east, the whole four courtyards linger, like a fairyland on earth. Stepping into the red courtyard gate, a statue of incense is in full bloom, followed by the nine-storey main hall and dozens of side halls of all sizes, each of which is crowded with people who enter the incense and worship.

The two of them found a gap and squeezed into the main hall, wanting to see what kind of sacred the main hall was enshrined in such a magnificent temple, but they were blocked by a huge stone tablet.

This stele is ten feet high, three feet wide, on it in the Xixia script describes the merits of the former Liang Zhang Tianxi to build the temple, and the surrounding and the stele base are the relief statues of the god of hundreds of incense sounds, Hu is flexible, like music and dance flying to the sky.

Yelu Tiege and Yelu Yanshan were not interested in this stone stele, and wanted to explore the true face of the Buddha statue, at this moment, there was a sudden sound of gongs and horses outside the main hall door, and then dozens of Xixia heavy armor soldiers rushed into the palace gate, and the people at the head shouted loudly to the pilgrims in the hall: "The prince and Taibao Li have arrived, and passers-by have avoided it!" ”

Tie Ge, Yan Shan and the others were driven to both sides of the incense tripod outside the hall to watch, and after a while, a middle-aged man wearing a white official robe and carrying a sword at his waist led more than a dozen military attaches to stride through the front of the people, causing a burst of jubilation among the people on both sides.

"Lord Lee, Antai... General Qin is mighty..."

Hearing the shouts of the people, the two recognized the man in white, who was the second rank of the imperial court, the prince and the prince Li Zhizhong.

"This old brother, what is Master Li's business to Huguo Temple?" Yelu Tiege asked the old man beside him.

The old man said: "We, the people in cloth, how can we guess the thoughts of the court officials? However, Liangzhou is the place where I raise horses in Daxiatun, where the soldiers are used, the imperial court will lead the military attache of Liangzhou to come to the Huguo Temple to pray for blessings, hoping for a triumphant victory and a great victory, look at today's battle, Liangzhou up and down, large and small military attaches are all here, I am afraid that soon after, there will be an earth-shattering war. ”