Tuman City, formerly known as Tuman City.

The history of the Yan Kingdom, if you remove the last hundred years, is simply a history of war with the barbarians, and in the war years, Tumancheng was the forefront of the war between the Yan Kingdom and the barbarians.

I don't know how many times, Yan Guonan set off from here to go on an expedition to the desert.

Either the horse leather shroud, or the triumphant return with the head of the barbarians.

A large part of the reason why the kingdoms of the Central Plains are so abandoned is that the Yan Kingdom has single-handedly blocked the northern threat from the desert, giving the three major countries in the Central Plains the opportunity to "sing and dance".

Of course, it does not mean that the monarchs of the Yan Kingdom were so selfless and willing to defend the border for the Central Plains civilization.

Who called their geographical location so bad?

Unless the monarch of the Yan Kingdom is tired of sitting on the dragon chair and wants to go to the desert to change to a different king to live the life of a rancher who eats cheese and wears sheepskin, it is absolutely impossible to bow to the desert barbarians.

However, it has been nearly a hundred years since the smoke of gunpowder has been far away from Tuman City, which was once the first military town in Biansai, and now it has developed into the military, economic, political and cultural center of the entire Beifeng County.

Compared with Tumancheng, Hutou City is really a younger brother.

The commercial economy that Hutou City has always been proud of is actually just a little bit of soup that has fallen all over the city.

Here, there are many exotic merchants, who use this place as their own transit point, and the caravans of the desert barbarian tribes, the caravans of the Western Regions, and even the more distant western caravans all converge here.

At the same time, the caravans of Yan, Jin, Qian, Chu and a large number of small eastern countries also wander here all year round, and it is really not an exaggeration to say that this is the "Shenzhen" of this world.

now

In the Tumancheng Market,

A middle-aged man with a small beard and a white Western-style robe is walking around with a dog.

The dog leash is very thin,

so fine that you can take it back and weave it directly for the skillful woman,

But the dog that the leash is holding is very large.

The white and black hair, the long tail, and the full flutter are much taller than a normal adult man.

The residents of Rao is Tuman City have all seen the world, and they are also respectful of this big dog, but there are some children who are not afraid, and have been chasing and playing behind the big dog, but if you let them touch the dog's head up close, these little dolls will not dare.

If you look at it from a modern perspective, this giant dog looks like a husky.

It's just that this volume is comparable to an adult Alaska with a large skull.

One person and one dog, just wandered around the street for a long time, and then returned to the mansion.

The city is big, but the style is extremely rough, not like the capital of the Qianguo, there are many square markets inside and out, but the masses naturally have their own settlement, rich areas, civilian areas, according to different housing prices have a very conscious division.

There are also mansions built by merchants from all over the world, and these mansions are tourist and photo spots in later generations.

The courtyard in the mansion is very large, and although there is no embassy military attache similar to the later generations on the surface, the private guards in the caravan are indispensable, and the defense is quite tight.

In this regard, the official of Tumancheng also allowed it, because there is a Zhenbei Army camp outside Tumancheng, and the Zhenbei Army has a town of 50,000 soldiers and horses, which is stationed there, and no one dares to be presumptuous at will.

As for this large Erha, when entering the city gate for inspection, the city guards did not allow it to enter.

In this world, there are monsters.

Daze of the Chu State, the Tianduan Mountain of the Jin State, and the depths of the desert north of the Yan State itself are actually places where demon beasts haunt.

In some armies, there will also be tamed demon beasts to help in the war, and the beast aliens equipped by Yan Guo's own officials and generals also belong to this category, but this is artificially bred and cultivated.

If the monster goes crazy, especially in the city, the damage and impact will be too great.

However, when he entered the city that day, this Erha performed a juggling and proved that he was a big dog who could only do acrobatics, so he was allowed to bring it into the city.

There was a charcoal basin in the house, and Winter took off his coat.

Two blonde maids came over with hot towels and squatted on both sides of Erha to help Erha wipe his feet.

When they were done, the two maids withdrew.

Winter poured the tea, two cups.

Erha strode to the table, straightened up, sat down on the chair, one paw stuck to the teacup, brought it to his mouth, and his long tongue poked out, tasting tea.

"The tea of Qianguo is indeed good." Winter exclaimed.

"Indeed, in the past, tea was trafficked to us, and the road was far away, not to mention the fresh air, after a long desert, it seems that this tea water is also contaminated with the astringency of sand."

Erha, spit out people's words.

"The best tea, the best porcelain, the best silk, and even the most beautiful women are all in Qianguo, and this Qianguo is really enviable."

Winter sighed as he sipped his tea.

"There are desert barbarians in the Yan country, there are Daze and the Shanyue people in Daze in Chu country, and in the Tianduan Mountain Range in Jin, there are not only demon tribes, but also savage settlements.

Only this Qianguo has jurisdiction over a land that is suitable for human habitation, with rich land and abundant products. ”

Wen Wei nodded and said, "Xu is because the geographical conditions are too good, Qianguo, on the contrary, is the weakest one among the four major powers in the East." ”

The most classic battle of Qianguo is the famous battle of the first Zhenbeihou.

But in addition to this, when the Qianguo faced the Jin State and the Chu State successively, they were all abused masters, and they won less and lost more.

Erha put the teacup on the table with his paw and said:

"I like the words of the Oriental Wise Man very much: Born in sorrow and die in peace."

"It's a pity, this east is indeed full of gold, but it's too far away from us."

"It's not just a long way, do you remember the catastrophe back then?"

Barbarian calamity refers to a hundred years ago, after the barbarian tribe and the Yan State under the leadership of the royal court experienced many years of fighting, the Great Khan of the barbarian royal court had to admit that the Yan country and the Yan country iron horse were indeed a stone that was not easy to gnaw, and they were beaten by the Yan people many times.

There was no way, since the way south was almost hopeless because of the existence of the Yan State, the Great Khan of that generation turned to command the barbarian tribesmen's cavalry to plunder westward.

First swept through the countries of the Western Regions, forcing them to submit, and then the barbarian cavalry drove further and directly broke into the western border.

The barbarians, who were originally beaten to the brim by the Yan people on the border of the Yan Kingdom, instantly regained their self-confidence in front of the Western countries, and broke many Western countries in a row, which greatly shocked the Western world.

Xu is because the Great Khan, who has been suppressed by the Yan people since he succeeded to the throne, has been aggrieved for too long, so after invading the West, seeing that the form is good, he began to wave.

He personally led the elite of the royal court and the army of the virtuous kings on the left and right in a vain attempt to smash the Yellow Dragon, and the blade of the sword pointed directly at the capital of the largest empire in the West at that time, wanting to directly defeat the spirit of the Western world, so as to make the Western land a new pasture for the barbarians.

As a result, the Holy See was dispatched, and in that battle, the Knights Templar came out, all the elites of the Western countries were assembled, and there were countless great magicians and great fighters, and even the Western dark camp sequence seemed to have sent forces to help.

In that battle, the lone barbarian Great Khan and the most loyal and elite royal court elites around him were all buried!

Although the barbarians still have extremely strong combat power, they were driven back by the Western countries again because the dragons were leaderless.

Since then, the Barbarian Royal Court has gradually become a kind of mascot similar to the emperor of later generations because of its own heavy losses, and there is no way to integrate and order the desert barbarians to obey their command.

A hundred years ago, after receiving this news, the monarchs and ministers of Yan State were extremely surprised that the barbarians who had been fighting against their side for so many years were actually defeated by Westerners.

How terrifying should these Western countries be?

And in the eyes of the Western world, oh my God, this group of terrifying barbarians was defeated by the Yan Kingdom in the East before they hit themselves, but they were already so terrible that they almost annihilated the entire Western civilization by their iron hooves.

God, how terrible is that empire called "Yan"?

Therefore, in the past hundred years, because the desert barbarians have been honest, the Belt and Road has been established.

The East and the West both think that each other is terrible and not easy to mess with.

With such an attitude,

For more than 100 years, exchanges between the East and the West have maintained an extremely good honeymoon period.

Yan attaches great importance to commerce and trade, and the territory of Yan is really barren compared to the other three eastern kingdoms, and the royal family of Yan has to face the situation of local gate lords sucking blood from their own empire, so it is more urgent to protect their own business interests.

"A hundred years have passed, but the Zhenbei Army here is still strong."

Winter sighed.

In recent decades, the Roman Empire has re-emerged as the undisputed number one power in the Western world.

He originally thought that after such a long period of peace, the terrifying war machine of Yan Kingdom should have rusted, but the facts told him that this army, known as the Zhenbei Army, was still extremely terrifying.

The empire wants to extend its tentacles to the east, and the barbarian tribes are easy to deal with, but the road is too far, and a labor expedition is already extremely stressful, and when the empire's army is extremely tired of crossing the desert and coming to the east, can they stop the rush of the 300,000 northern army cavalry of the six towns in Beifeng County?

"Rome wasn't built in a day, we just need to do what we have at hand.

Besides, isn't the Zhenbei Army under the command of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion already separated from the Yan Imperial Court, if you can get the promise of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion and reach a cooperation with them, it will no longer be a dream for the empire to extend to the east. ”

"Those old antiques in the Senate, will they agree?"

"Do things well first, and then consider the Senate, if you can reach cooperation with the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, the Senate has to agree to it, and if you don't agree............ Hehe, aren't they afraid of being bloodbathed in the Senate by the generals below? ”

"This matter, I can't be in a hurry, the county lord has been refusing to see me, he should have noticed my identity, wait a few days, I'll try again."

"These Orientals are like this, it doesn't matter how strong their internal fighting and internal friction are, but they are extremely wary of aliens like us, in their eyes, we are no different from barbarians."

"Don't talk about that."

Winter interrupted Erha's words,

Reached

took out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket, pulled out the cork, took a deep breath of the aroma inside, showed a look of great enjoyment on his face, and said slowly:

"How's the investigation going?"

"They only came to us, not to any other firms."

"Didn't look for any other Western businessmen?"

"No, they just looked for us."

"How do I feel that they have seen through our identity?"

"You mean, they are secret agents of the Yan Imperial Court?"

"No, no, no, where is there a spy who would make such a miraculous thing without doing his job, and as for the thing called soap, don't you use it every day these days?"

When Erha heard this, he said:

"I guess I've washed that thing too many times, and I'm losing a little bit of hair."

"Hehe, when you go back in the future, take a bath with soap, and then spray this on your body, up and down the empire, won't any female 、、、 dog who has grown into sperm have to be fascinated by you?"

Erha grinned and smiled, obviously, this scene, it has been fantasizing and looking forward to for a long time.

"Have you determined the location of those people?"

"Not yet, they've been deliberately hiding themselves since they sent us this gift."

"Not stupid."

"They should have something to ask of us and want to negotiate with us." Erha said.

"If you want to negotiate, you have to be qualified to sit at the same table with me, otherwise you ............"

Then

A dark shadow seeped in from the doorway, revealing a kneeling figure.

"What?"

"Back to Your Highness, we have finally found the location of those people."

When Winter heard this, he stretched,

Road:

"Go ahead, be quieter, catch it alive."

"Understood."

The black shadow then dissipated.

Erha raised his paw and pressed a bell on the table.

"Jingle Bell ............"

Immediately, Erha lay on the ground again, pretending that he was really just a dog.

Soon, footsteps were heard outside, and a man who looked like a native of the Western Regions walked in respectfully.

"Noble master, your faithful servant Maimuti, at your command."

Winter glanced at Erha, who was lying on the ground wagging his tail, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth,

Road:

"Go and choose a female from the mastiff you bought from the barbarian merchant a while ago and give it to her."

Winter stretched out his hand and pointed to Erha under the table.

Maimuti nodded and said, "Yes, master." ”

"Oh, by the way, I asked you to find someone who can play the piano in Tuman, is there any news?"

In fact, Winter did not expect much from this task, even in the West today, there are very few people who know such an elegant instrument as the piano, let alone in the far East.

He likes to play the piano, but it is like a mountain and a river meeting a bosom friend, and without anyone who knows the piano by his side, he feels that the sound of the piano has lost its original taste.

"Back to the master, I found one, he said that he knows the piano, and he took the initiative to describe the appearance of the piano to me, although there is a little difference, but the general appearance is the same as the master of your piano, just ............"

"Oh? Did you really find it? Winter immediately became happy and said, "Just what? ”

"It's just that he's blind."

"My piano teacher is also a blind person, a blind person, and his perception of music is more acute than that of normal people."

"Yes, master, you're right."

"Where are the others now?"

"I'm already waiting in the living room for my master to summon me."

"Okay, please let him in."

"Wang!"

Winter stretched out his hand and pointed at Erha lying on the ground with some disgust,

"Take it out first, breed."

"Wang~~"