"Don't say that it's this thousand-pound iron gate, give someone Song a fulcrum, I can pry the entire Kunlun Mountain!"

"Huh...... I didn't expect that there would be such a madman in the Great Liang Dynasty, you are afraid that even if the gods descend to earth, you can't pry the mountain! ”

"Eight feet tall and a person, trying to shake Kunlun, Mr. Song, what you say is simply ridiculous!"

Prying Kunlun Mountain is already very low-key, and Archimedes is still prying the earth. How can the ignorant ancients understand science?

"If there is no reward for the challenge, it always feels like a bit of a loss...... Otherwise, Mr. Arhan, if I can lift this iron gate alone, you can give me ten more camels?" ”

As a businessman, how can you not have some chips?

"No problem!" Arhan readily agreed.

"Good!" Song Che shouted loudly: "Take a thick hemp rope and unload four more wheels with axles!" I can pull this iron door up with just one hand! ”

The wheel of the car is made into a fixed pulley and three movable pulleys. The iron door itself has a traction iron cable, and the groove of the hanging iron cable is also ready-made, only need to hang a fixed pulley, and connect the three movable pulleys in series.

In addition, there is a rudder compass under the door, which is equivalent to five pulleys to pull the iron door, the fixed pulley is not labor-saving, but the direction of the force can be changed, and the more moving pulleys, the more labor-saving.

The thousand-pound iron gate is only 500 kilograms, and it is unloaded by five pulleys, so why is it difficult to pull it up?

After making the pulley device, Song Che tied the hemp rope to the compass. All the soldiers, merchants, and entourage gathered around, looking forward to Song Che's performance.

Song Che rolled up his sleeves, tightened his belt, steadied his horse, grabbed the turntable with one hand, and turned clockwise.

The hemp rope became straighter and straighter, the pulley began to operate, and the heavy iron door was slowly lifted.

"Really...... It's really pulling up! ”

"Hey! Hey Kagura! ”

"Of course, who is my brother-in-law? The gods are not as powerful as him! Hum! ”

Even Hu Ren couldn't help but admire.

Song Che pulled up the iron gate, instructed someone to jam it with a log, loosened the roulette, clapped his hands, and smiled at Alhan:

"Mr. Arhan, my labor-saving technology is hundreds of years ahead of the times, don't say ten camels, for you a hundred, a thousand are worth it."

Arhan gritted his teeth, finally relaxed, he sighed lightly, and had to be convinced:

"Mr. Song is worthy of being a peerless national warrior...... Come on, lead the camels, and prepare good wine! ”

For example, about thirty-two camels and twenty-three servants were incorporated into the caravan, which can be described as a great harvest.

Outside the pass, Alhan held his wine glass and pointed to the yellow sand with a long future: "Mr. Song, when you leave the Yumen Pass, you will be counted as going to the Western Regions, and the forces of various countries will be divided, please cherish it all the way!" ”

Song Che drank with him, thanked him, and beckoned the caravan to set off.

Until the caravan disappeared, Arhan refused to retract his gaze, and even looked on tiptoe, revealing more worry.

"My lord, he has always been a Liang person."

"Yes, if such a person cannot be used for his own purposes, he must not be able to stay in the world, otherwise my Hu country will suffer greatly...... From now on, you must guard the pass tightly, and if he returns from the Western Regions, take it directly and send it to Dadu, but never remember that you must not hurt your life. ”

"Yes!"

……

"Hmm...... The melons here are so sweet! ”

Liu Xiang'er rode a camel, holding a watermelon bigger than its head, she ate melon pulp, and the camel ate melon skin, one up and down, one man and one beast, not to mention how cheerful it was.

On the second day after leaving the Yumen Pass, the caravan came to Guazhou.

Guazhou, as the name suggests, is rich in all kinds of melons, especially watermelons, which are really necessary to quench your thirst in the hot summer.

Guazhou is the westernmost Liang city, although it has been ruled by the Hu people, but it still retains the customs of the Liang people, but the Liang people living here are classified as second-class citizens, and their spiritual outlook is very bleak.

At least the melons planted are not bad.

The southwest side of Guazhou is the sandbar, where there is the most brilliant historical and cultural treasure, the Dunhuang murals, in the time and space of the official history.

Although the time and space of the Great Liang Dynasty are different, the customs and geographical location are similar, even if there are no Dunhuang murals, there should be similar things.

The first kingdom of the Western Regions connected to the sandbank is called 'Dadan', which is located in the southeast of Tarim, and in the north of Dadan is "Hui Hui", and further north of Hui is "Gaochang......

Most of these countries in the Western Regions are located in the Tarim Basin, the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, the Tarim River Basin, and the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains, north of the Kunlun Mountains, and south of the Tianshan Mountains.

Further west, after the Pami Plateau, you will reach Persia and Dashi in Central Asia, and then go west, through the Mediterranean, you can reach ancient Egypt, as well as ancient Rome and other European countries;

Don't think it's far away, the silk and footprints of Chinese merchants have been visited thousands of years ago.

After the precipitation and baptism of historical years, the Silk Road has long matured in today's era, even if there is a break in the middle, the merchants who go south and north will try their best to open it up.

Whether it is Europe, Africa, or Central Asia, the Western Regions will be used as a transit point for the Silk Road. The Liang merchants did not move forward when they delivered the goods here, and waited for the merchants from other countries to come to purchase, so that both buyers and sellers could save a lot of distance.

Song Che's trip to the Western Regions would not be too far, and those small countries in the Western Regions with a population of only a few thousand or ten thousand were not his targets.

If you want to unite the Western Regions to flank the Hu people, you must gather at least 80,000 cavalry, armaments, personnel, grain, grass, and horses in the Western Regions, which only a big country can support.

According to contemporary geographical maps, the two largest countries in the Western Regions are the Hui and Dadan, both located in the north and south of the Tarim Basin, with a population of more than 200,000.

When the Great Liang controlled the Western Regions, it has always maintained close political, economic and cultural exchanges with the Huihe, and the Huihe tribe adopted the Liang official system, with the positions of prime minister and privy envoy;

The Huihe Khan also always respected the Central Plains Dynasty as his uncle, and would send envoys to pay tribute two or three times a year to obtain canonization and silk silk.

Later, the Hu people rose rapidly on the Mongolian Plateau and went south to capture most of the Hexi Corridor, and the Great Liang Dynasty lost control of the Western Regions and cut off its connection with the Huihe.

When the territory of the Huihe tribe was the broadest, Guazhou and Shazhou were also under its jurisdiction, and later the Hu people seized Beiliang, controlled the Yumen Pass, and urged the Huihe to expel them;

The Hui were far weaker than the Hu people, and they were forced to move westward due to the threat of war, and in the process of migration, due to internal contradictions, they were divided into two countries, one was the Hui in the north around Lop Nur, and the southern Taklamakan Desert in Dadan.

Whether it is Hui or Dadan, in terms of relationship, they were friendly with Daliang in their early years; In terms of contradictions, they were all persecuted by the Hu people and had a common enemy with the Great Liang;

If these two Western Regions powers can be reunited and the Great Liang Dynasty can be sandwiched between the east and west of the Hu State, it will definitely be called-

"The Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses, and the soldiers did not dare to bend their bows and complain"!