Back at the Fengxiang Inn, Gao Pet informed the prince and his party that they would go to the Tianshui River the next day. In the morning, gather outside the East City Gate and set off together.

When the prince and Ren Cong invited Gao Chong to dinner the previous day, Gao Chong's situation and Gao Chong's plan to buy a horse and help Xixia find coal and copper mines, as well as let the prince and Gao Chong travel together in Western Xia and his plans, Ren Cong wrote a secret letter and reported it to Li Qianshun, the king of Western Xia, and Ren Cong and the prince both proposed to keep Gao Chong as an official in Western Xia and a teacher for the prince. Because the crown prince, the third princess and Ren Cong all agreed with Gao Chong, they said a lot of good things in the secret letter, and also reported the situation of Gao Chong in Heishui City and the information that he had met with King Shu to Li Shunqian, hoping that their father could make a decision in favor of Gao Chong.

King Shu and Li You also reported in detail to the king that Qian Jichen, the son of the Qian family, had come to Xiping Mansion and that he had agreed to open an auction house. In fact, due to several things that Gao Zhong did in Xiping Mansion, especially the contact with the crown prince, all fell into the eyes of the Western Xia Kingdom.

Gao Zhong originally hoped to get the attention of the Western Xia Kingdom, and then gradually establish friendly relations between the two sides, looking for common ground and cooperation opportunities between the two sides. But Gao Bao's own strength is still very weak, and it is impossible to get a lot of attention from the other party. If there is a chance to meet the king of Western Xia, there may be some changes. Therefore, he was very active in looking for coal and copper mines, hoping to have a definite result before returning to Tongling.

After Li Qianshun received the report of the crown prince and young master Ren Cong, he invited his master and master to the Qinzheng Palace, wanting to hear the opinions of the two masters and masters who had been with him for many years. Taifu Tuoba Hong said:

Judging from these materials, conversations, and gifts given by Gao Chong, Gao Chong contacted the prince for a purpose. It is very likely that this high pet knows the identity of the prince. In order to buy a horse, he was prepared to make contact with the high-ranking officials of my Western Xia, but he was lucky enough to meet the crown prince. ”

"But after just a few contacts, the various new items he invented can basically determine that Gao Chong is a talent, Ren Cong said that it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a great talent, although he is the first time to come to my Xixia, he is very familiar with my Xixia, so his master or he must have studied my Xixia."

Taishi Li Jing said:

"Since Gao Pet invited me to study and visit Xixia, it can be seen that Gao Pet is confident in this regard, and most people have new inventions, and they regard him as the foundation of making a fortune, and they will never disclose it to the public. And judging from his actions to promote some technologies to my Western Xia, either he has great wisdom, or he has newer technology in his hands, or he himself has mastered the core part. But no matter what the situation is, this high pet must be a virtuous person, so it is a good decision for the prince to travel with him. ”

"But I am not sure whether his study tour of Western Xia was merely to increase his knowledge and confirm his possible research on Western Xia, and we should investigate his relationship with the Great Song government. But if he had a relationship with the court of the Great Song Dynasty, he would definitely not do anything to help us mine coal and smelt copper, which involved their national interests. ”

"So I think it's necessary for the emperor to see him, if Gao Zhong is indeed virtuous and talented, he can find a way to keep him."

"As for him wanting to buy a horse, we might as well listen to his reasons why we want to sell it to him in violation of the ancestral system."

Hearing the analysis of the two masters, Li Qianshun understood that there was no harm in the current prince traveling with Gao Chong, but it was necessary to strengthen safety in order to prevent accidents, and in the second aspect, it was necessary to meet Gao Chong face to face, and then decide what to do according to the situation of the meeting. After thinking about it, he said to the two masters: "You draft a will for the prince, so that the prince should pay attention to safety during the journey, report the matters in the course of the trip in time, and return to Xingqing first after the end of the trip to the Tianshui River." You can inform Gao Zhong of the identity of the prince and see his reaction. And he proclaimed my will, and said that I would summon him, and that I would come to the imperial city to see him. ”

The two masters drafted the decree according to the holy will.

Tianshui River is a small river in the north of Lingwu City, with a total length of only more than 50 kilometers. It is only more than 80 miles from Xiping Province to the Tianshui River, and the north side of the river is the higher peaks such as the backbone of the king's roof.

Gao Zhong and the prince and his entourage of six or seven hundred people are a large team, and it only took more than an hour to ride a horse to reach the Tianshui River.

The prince is only less than ten years old, but he is very strong, riding on a horse, and refuses to admit it, whether it is Gao Zhong or Mr. Ren's persuasion, he refuses to take the carriage, and the third princess is the same, maybe the party is a nation on horseback, strong, brave and wild.

We walked through the valley formed by the mountains on both sides of the river, walked another twenty or thirty kilometers, and turned south along the small river, there were no mountains in the south, and it was a plateau basin. This is the largest coal energy base in the future. In addition to oil, coal, and gas, there are also nitrate, clay, gypsum, etc. Since the end of the Western Xia Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, it was still a ceramic factory. In the Ming Dynasty, a fort was built here called Ciyao Fort, which is also the current Ningdong Town. These high-ranking favorites know, and he knows because of two pieces of news. One is that Ningdong is the first town in Ningxia and has a No. 1 project. The other is the relocation and withdrawal of the Majiatan base of the Changqing Petroleum Exploration Bureau, and the closure and handover of the Majiatan refinery, which has had a great impact on the lives of the residents of Majiatan on the edge of Ningdong Town, and in their words, the standard of living has plummeted. The prosperity of Majiatan is oil, and the decline of Majiatan is also because of oil. Did the rise and fall of the Magnetic Window Fort at that time also experience such pain?

Gao Zhong came here from Xiping Mansion and came here for no more than seventy or eighty miles. All the way over, there are no villages where the herds gather, only a few flocks of sheep, cattle and horses, the men are bald, the women are combed in high buns, and there is a small basin grassland to the south, there are a few small pony herds on the grassland, and there are a few dilapidated felt bags by the river, which are the herdsmen's houses.

It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and in a mountain on the east side of the river, Gao Pet asked everyone to camp here and let Dazhu arrange the camping. And the prince's personnel have their own people to arrange all this.

The third princess left the royal courtyard and went into the embrace of nature, like a happy bird out of the cage, perhaps this is her last happy time as a girl, and in a year or two her father will help her appoint a husband and become a tool for the Western Xia Kingdom to consolidate its power. As a royal princess, this may be her fate.

Gao Zhong and Qian Jichen took the prince, the third princess and Ren Cong to the river.

The Sweet Water River was originally not big, but by the upper reaches of the river, the river was already very shallow.

When they came to this sweet water river, the prince and Ren Cong didn't know the purpose of Gao Chong, Gao Chong just talked to them on the way about what he saw and thought. Why he came here and how he knew about it, no one knows. The prince didn't ask. When they arrived in this place that even they didn't know they had never visited, maybe it was because of the early years of his teacher, thinking to the prince.

"This river is called the Sweet Water River, and I want to know why the water of this river is sweet and what makes the water of this river different from others. It's a curiosity. This curiosity and habit of searching for problems is one of the starting points that has led to many major discoveries and inventions. Gao Zhong said to the prince as he walked.

"Wang Gongzi, let's go and taste whether this water is sweet." Wang Gongzi was also very excited, if he hadn't come with Gao Pet, he wouldn't have had this experience. The third princess heard that she wanted to taste whether the water was sweet or not, and she ran faster than anyone else. The first one ran to the water's edge, picked up water, and drank it.

"It's really sweet!" There are water droplets on the face, the hair is a little wet, maybe it is the running just now, maybe it is the sunset reflected on the face, the princess's face is ruddy and cheerful, the light red dress wraps the round buttocks, the small waistline, the slender fingers, the full chest, Gao Pet has never watched the beauty of the princess as carefully as today, which reminds Gao Pet of an oil painting called "Youth" that he has seen. I think of the beauty of Qingwen by the river that made Mrs. Wang jealous in "Dream of Red Mansions". It's so consistent with the current freeze frame.

Youth, vitality, grasslands, streams, and sunsets make all this more beautiful. That's a fatal temptation!

The third princess looked back and saw Gao Chong's stunned appearance, I don't know what touched the girl's heart, and the delicate and white face was more red than this sunset.

"That girl doesn't have a spring, that teenager doesn't love it?" This is the famous quote of the great German poet Goethe in "The Sorrows of Young Werther".

Seeing the two demented young men and women, Ren Cong stopped, and the innocent prince shouted very sadly:

"Third sister!"

After calling, he quickly covered his mouth.