Bai Shengying couldn't go along, but sent his sister-in-law Bai Shengxi to go with Ma Hanshan.

Ma Hanshan just hopes that there will be someone to lead the way in the territory of Xixia Country, it doesn't matter who of them accompanies him, Bai Shengxi's appearance is quite lovely, and it is not bad to be a companion.

In the afternoon, Ma Hanshan finally received the news from Bi Liancheng, it turned out that after Bi Liancheng received the holy decree yesterday, he was arranged by Bi Jiyu to leave the city immediately, leaving the city in a very low-key manner, only with three or four skilled masters and a scribe.

Of course, Bi Jiyu gave him a face-to-face opportunity to meet Ma Hanshan on the road.

The old guy knows very well that if this trip to the West Gorge is not successful, he can't rely on his adopted son, and he has to rely on the demon of Mahan Mountain.

When it comes to negotiations, the Xixia, Xifan, and Dali neighboring countries, the most difficult to negotiate is the Xixia.

First of all, Xixia now has a good national strength, and he is in an extremely favorable geographical position and international power. Song, Hu, and Meng all wanted to win him over, and they all hoped that he would stand on their side, and that anyone in the three countries could fight him, but none of them could defeat him, and they would not dare to fight for a long time, because no matter which side wanted to attack the West Gorge with all its strength, the other two countries would not be idle, and they would definitely do something on the border.

Therefore, Xixia is now eating three tea ceremonies, or even four, Xifan is weak, he can provoke at any time, grab some cattle, horses, grain, grass and women or something, although Xixia has a small population, but a large plateau grassland, there is still a lot of fertile land in the south, so, there are still resources, occasionally bully, extort a little something, quite happy.

Xixia is difficult to talk about, and there is another historical reason, Xixia is different from Beimengdali and other countries, because most of the land in Xixia originally belonged to the central country, and before the founding of the country, the world was divided into a country in chaos. Its nature is completely different from that of countries such as Dali in Western Tibet, although these countries have also been attached to and merged into the central powers, but they are originally a country, just because of the sudden change in the international situation, the strength dictates it, and the time is right.

Because of this reason, before the Great Song moved south, Xixia has always been just the king and did not dare to call the emperor, after the Great Song was invaded by Donghu and moved south, the king of Xixia had a high desire, felt that his opportunity had come, and fought a few fights with Xifan, grabbed some soil, and fought with Donghu a few times to grab some land, and then actually called the emperor. Xixia, who is called the queen, has been preparing all these years, hoping to one day look eastward, enter the Central Plains, and become the real emperor of the Central Plains.

It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to negotiate with such a country.

However, Ma Hanshan was furious when he received the news of Bi Jiyu, and he couldn't wait to go to the door to scold this old guy, damn, he actually let Ma Hanshan meet Bi Liancheng in Xiangyang, however, Ma Hanshan didn't plan to take this route at all, this route was too difficult to walk, what he wanted to go was to go north from Lin'an, enter the hinterland of Nanjing Road in Donghu, and then go west.

A large area of Nanjing Road and Hedongnan Road in Donghu is the land of Pingchuan, and the road is easy to walk, whether it is a horse or a car, you can travel hundreds of miles a day very comfortably. There are two options for turning west from Nanjing Road, the nearest route is, of course, along the state capital along the Dushui line, westward along Yingzhou, Caizhou, Dengzhou, and then from Wuguan into Jingzhaofu Road in Donghu, and then from east to west through Jingzhaofu Road, Fengxiang Road, from Jingsaijun in Xixia to Xishou Baotai Army and enter Xixia.

Another path is to continue to the northwest after entering Yingzhou, through Ruzhou, Songzhou, Shaanzhou west out of Tongguan into Huazhou through Yaozhou, until the northwest, from the Jingsai Army in the West Gorge, Jianing Army into the West Gorge and go straight to Xingqing Mansion.

Because of Bi Jiyu's chaotic arrangement, in order to make it more convenient to meet Bi Liancheng, now Mahan Mountain can only choose the first route to facilitate the convergence with Bi Liancheng in Dengzhou.

In fact, it is better to meet Jingzhao Mansion, however, Ma Hanshan was worried about what would happen to Bi Liancheng's goods when they crossed Donghu, so he decided to meet in Dengzhou, and then enter Jingzhao Road and then go west from Lanquan on Linzhao Road to Zhuo Luocheng in Xixia, and then go north to Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xixia.

The reason why Ma Hanshan walked this way was because Wang Zhitan and the company operated the area of Jingzhaofu Road and Fengxiang Road, and they had a very reliable relationship and could ensure a smooth crossing into the West Gorge.

Although there are not many of them, there are more than ten people in the two pulls together, even if they are disguised as caravans, more than ten people and horses walking together, it is more eye-catching, so, for the sake of insurance, Ma Hanshan still decided to take advantage of Wang Zhitan's relationship.

wrote a letter and handed it to the people of the Social Investigation Bureau to chase it to Bi Liancheng, asking him to speed up and then rendezvous in Dengzhou.

The next day, before dawn, Ma Hanshan sent out the four-wheeled carriage he was sitting in, and asked Su Ying to sit on the carriage, as if he was afraid that others would not see it, and deliberately opened a window.

After the four-wheeled carriage went out, Mahanshan sent another boat north along the Grand Canal.

Then he sent a group of horsemen, two hundred and fifty-eight, dressed in his clothes, and sat on one of the most divine horses, and the sound of hooves went all the way west.

"Master Ma Zhai, what are you doing here?" Bai Shengxi was very puzzled, what was he doing.

"Oh, I don't want others to know, I'm on the road with Sister Xi, release a few guises, and now we can go." Ma Hanshan said casually.

Hehe, he doesn't care what others say he is with, he does this because he doesn't want those who are staring at him to know that he has left Lin'an so quickly. Who's staring at you? Ma Hanshan really didn't know, but he guessed that someone must be staring at him.

When it was dark, Ma Hanshan set off with Xiaoyue and two security guards, 147 and 369, as well as Bai Shengxi, Si Xingfang and Wang Zhitan. They will cross the water in Shouchun, and then enter Shouzhou Yingzhou in Donghu, and go west along the largest official road to Dengzhou.

A few days later, when he arrived in Shouchun, Meng Zhong, who had already received the news, set up a banquet to entertain him, and Ma Hanshan was not polite, leading everyone to have a big meal, and after resting for a long time, he crossed the river and met with the people who came to greet him by car in Shouzhou.

This was arranged by Shen Lang, which means that there are his own people along the line, so it is more convenient to act, and with people from the Social Investigation Bureau accompanying him, Ma Hanshan can go to the latest information in the two countries in the shortest possible time.

Information acquisition is the most original idea of the Mahanshan Social Investigation Bureau, and it is very important to grasp the information.

From Shouzhou to Dengzhou, although it is more than 1,000 miles away, and it is all in Donghu, there are social investigation bureaus along the way to make arrangements for dotting, and there is less trouble in finding a place to stay. Of course, the physical fitness of such a crowd is related to the good horses prepared along the way.

Everyone changes horses every day, and although Ma Hanshan does not feel tired of running two or three hundred miles a day, he feels sorry for this BMW, so he leads one more horse along the way, rides a sweaty horse for half a day, and rides another replacement horse for half a day.

At noon on the fifth day of leaving Shouzhou, they finally arrived in Dengzhou.

However, Bi Liancheng and his party, who set off two days earlier than them, had to arrive in Dengzhou in two days.

After all, their physical fitness is different, and the road is not so easy to walk, although Bi Liancheng and they take a slightly closer route, and there are horses to replace at the post station, but their speed is still much slower than that of Mahan Mountain.

Two days later, Bi Liancheng arrived, and Ma Hanshan saw that they were really tired, and decided to rest for another night and rush into Jingzhao Mansion the next day.

Dengzhou to Jingzhao Mansion, there are still hundreds of miles away, however, Jingzhao Mansion is the old capital of several dynasties, the surrounding roads are very spacious, whether it is running horses or driving, the speed is not slow, Ma Hanshan plans to take two days to rush to Jingzhao Mansion, and then find out where Hu Yu is, how to go to Li Zhixiao, who sent to Donghu.

Hu Yu's itinerary must be combined with Donghu's negotiations, because this is the pressure on Donghu, and it is not easy to make it early or late, so you can get the greatest benefits.

Two days later, according to Ma Hanshan's estimated time, Wang Zhitan arranged for them to stay near Baqiao, which was exactly what Ma Hanshan wanted, because it was not far from the site of Jingzhao Mansion of the Social Investigation Bureau.

In fact, although Lin'an had openly sent envoys to Xixia, Xifan, and Dali, no one saw the envoys leave Lin'an, because Yu Fei and Biliancheng had left quietly. And the people who made Xifan even more mysterious, in fact, were arbitrary, they were not sent from the capital, but the emperor handed over the holy decree to Biliancheng to Xiangfan and Gai Rencong, and Xiangfan sent people to Xifan... So, in fact, Ma Hanshan can't blame Bi Jiyu for meeting the old man, because Bi Liancheng has another task.

Therefore, many people have always thought that the envoys of Xixia and Dali have not yet left Beijing, even if they know that Bi Liancheng has left Beijing, they will soon find that they have lost the trace of Bi Liancheng, and the envoy of light chariot and simple obedience has disappeared like this.

Compared with other envoys, Hu Yu is still slowly playing all the way to the west in the hinterland, walking dozens of miles every day, and the scenery is very beautiful. Therefore, everyone in the world knows that they are envoys to Northern Mongolia, and everyone in the world knows where they have gone.

Alas, with a few thousand centaurs, can you not know?

Of course, this is something that must be known to others, especially Donghu, and it must be made known to them.

When Hu Yu was traveling to the west, when Ma Hanshan was studying a bunch of news from all over the world in Baqiao, Lin Xian'er and Buddha were scolding their subordinates for being pigs. In Nanjing, Donghu, that is, Hu Tingli in Kaifeng, Bianjing, the Donghu Emperor Wanyan Xuan was discussing with several confidants how to send the envoys of Da Song.

Wan Yanxuan's name is very good, but this eighth emperor of Donghu is actually a straw bag, not to mention that he can't govern the country, even if he can't give birth to children. He was able to become this emperor only because his emperor's uncle's sons were all dead, and then he picked up this throne.

I don't know if it's the Bianjing feng shui problem left by Da Song or God's punishment, the Donghu royal family, since the southern invasion, is also like the emperor of Da Song, either the heirs are not prosperous, or the son always dies inexplicably.

This Wan Yan Xuan is the nephew of the seventh emperor of Donghu, who originally had several children, but after picking up this throne, he actually had a son left, and he was worried that there would be no successor like his uncle, so he succeeded two sons and one daughter of several younger brothers one after another, and he should be the emperor with the most stepchildren in history.