At this moment, thousands of miles away, Chigu City of Wusun Kingdom in the Western Regions.

The night of Zhao Kingdom had fallen, and the sun was still hanging in the western sky above Chigu Castle, trying to spit out divine light.

"When I was in Gumo Kingdom, I heard that the Wusun people were greedy for money and did not pay attention to faith, and the king of Wusun even secretly sheltered the bandits and let them plunder wantonly. At first, I didn't believe it, but now I'm in trouble. Mao Sui said in a deep voice.

Two years ago, he learned that Zhao Guo wanted to send people to the extreme west to open up trade routes, and immediately realized that this was an opportunity for his 'awl' to show his edge from the 'cloth bag'.

So he took the initiative to ask for orders and led the caravan to set off.

The Zhao caravan and the Qin caravan took two completely different routes.

The Qin caravan started from Xianyang, traveled west along the Hexi Corridor, and after arriving near Loulan, it walked on the south side of the Tarim Basin, passing through Jimo, Jingjue, Khotan and other countries, and then went north to Shule, crossed the Green Ridge, and arrived at Dawan.

The Zhao caravan set out from Hetao, traveled west along the Juyan Ancient Road to the Juyanze Oasis, continued west to the northwest of Loulan, and then traveled west along the north side of the Tarim Basin, the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, passing through Cheshi, Yanzhi, Qiuzi, Gumo and other places, and finally arrived at Wusun in the north.

If the Qin caravan did not choose to go north according to the normal route, it should have reached Great Xia after crossing the Green Ridge, but the mountains there were too high and the terrain was too complicated, and the whole army would be wiped out.

After thinking about it again, the Qin caravan felt that it was still important to fight so hard, so they went north along the mountain range, went west at a gap, and ran to Dawan.

And if the Zhao caravan went west according to the normal route, it should also arrive at Dawan, but Mao Sui learned on the way that the population of Wusun was two or three times that of Dawan.

Population means market, they came to open up trade routes, and naturally selected countries with large populations, so they crossed the Southern Tianshan Mountains and ran to the country of Wusun......

Now Mao Sui wanted to give himself two big mouths, if it wasn't for his stupid choice and not following the advice, the Zhao caravan would not have been trapped in Wusun for so long.

Even, if you had turned around and walked away after encountering the first robbers, instead of thinking it was just an accident and moving on, things would not have turned out the way they are.

In just over a month, the caravan of Zhao State has experienced more than ten lootings of all sizes, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger.

In the Central Plains, since ancient times, the state and bandits have not been separated. Wherever bandits occur, all countries will mobilize large armies and cut down on food and clothing. No matter how greedy and mediocre the king is, it is impossible for him to secretly shelter the bandits to plunder the people and caravans.

Fools know that this method can certainly get a lot of money in a short time, but what is lost is the hearts of the people, and after a long time, everyone knows, which caravan will come to your country?

The people in the vicinity have been robbed by you, and there is no caravan to come to your country, who are you robbing?

Therefore, when he first heard the news, Mao Sui was very unimpressed, and decided to go north to Wusun, and things turned out to be like this......

In fact, Mao Sui wronged King Wusun a little, King Wusun didn't know this, but Wusun and the Central Plains are different.

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The Central Plains was an agrarian civilization with centralized power, and the state's control over the rule was not at all comparable to that of a nomadic people like Wusun.

The tribes of Wusun lived by water, and the king of Wusun could not exercise strong jurisdiction over his rule. Moreover, the terrain in Wusun is complex, with many mountains and rivers, which has created favorable conditions for the birth of bandits, and many tribes have secretly done this kind of thing.

In order to solve this problem, King Wusun can only secretly support a group of bandits, suppress another group of bandits, and at the same time earn some extra money through robbery.

As for robbing caravans or something, King Wusun really didn't have this idea before, because before the caravan of Zhao Kingdom came, there was not a single caravan in Wusun, and their main robbery targets were other countries and tribes nearby.

Not all places are as prosperous as the Central Plains, and most of the areas are just beginning to develop.

Now, of course, Usun has an idea for the caravan.

They are not picky eaters, they just take advantage of them.

"What do we do now?" Huai asked.

After nearly two years of ups and downs, Huai has completely changed, not only in appearance, but also in mentality.

Along the way, he deeply felt the meaning of a strong country behind him, and he was proud to be a Zhao person.

At least when those small countries saw the five hundred elite armorers behind him, even the king would go out of the city to greet them, treat them as equals, dare not slack off in the slightest, and would entertain them with good food and drink, and finally send them out of the city.

This is something he has never experienced before, and every time he sees such a scene, he always has a feeling of tears in his heart.

Ordinary soldiers are even more proud, they have lived in the Central Plains all their lives, thinking that all the countries in the world are big countries with millions of people like Qin Zhao, and the weaknesses should be comparable to Yan Han, and the worst should be like Lu State, which has more than ten cities.

It can't be weaker, and any weaker it is to defend the country.

After leaving the Zhao State, they learned that there were still many countries in the world that were not as good as defending the country, sitting on hundreds of households, thousands of people, and ruling only a small city as simple as a fence, so they dared to establish a country and claim to be a country.

In the Central Plains, it's just a big point.

A kind of national self-confidence from the inside out condensed from them, and they were the first batch of people in Zhao State to go abroad and feel the feelings of family and country.

"The longer it goes, the more dangerous it becomes, and I plan to lead the caravan out of Wusun in three days." Mao Sui pressed his hands on the armrests of the chair, and his face was very ugly.

The value of the silk and porcelain they had brought with them was far greater than they had imagined, and they had been targeted since the first shipment had been sold, and if it had not been for the five hundred elite armor guards who had not been escorted, the goods would have been looted long ago.

More than a month has passed, and the robbers are getting stronger and stronger.

It can be seen that the greed of Wusun and the domestic aristocracy is about to be irrepressible.

"Is the general sure to escort us out?" Huai looked at the general next to him, who was three points similar to Lian Po between his eyebrows.

In the past, he was extremely confident in Zhao Jun, even if there were only five hundred people, he had never lost along the way.

But this time it is different, Wusun is a large country with a population of hundreds of thousands, and it is not at all the same order of magnitude as those small countries with a population of tens of thousands.

No matter how strong Zhao Jun is, I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist.

"If you lose your goods, you will have the confidence to escort everyone away." Lian An said.

He is Lian Po's youngest son, and he has been studying with Lian Po before.