He's going to see!

He hadn't seen Salt Mountain yet!

They also inquired about other characteristics of Yanshan, and they didn't know anything.

This is one of the secret treasures of the Akshuo tribe to get rich, and the Akshuo tribe even hides from its own people, and they can only speculate from the fact that "the salt was sold from the Akshuo tribe".

If they knew, it would not have been Lu Xu's turn to inquire.

They also wanted to meet the salt mountains.

But the barbarian boys were entangled again.

Salt Mountain is a treasure of their barbarians, how can they let the Daqi people find out?

Lu Xu dragged Yan Junqi to find Wei Dingshan, and they wanted to change the route and go to the original camp of the Akshuo Department again.

Wei Dingshan frowned when he heard this, the original territory of the Akshuo Department was at the junction of the Gobi, the mountains and the grassland, and because of the desolation, the territory was quite large.

If there is no guide, they will wander around, and they may not be able to find a clue for ten days and a half months.

But the salt mine is another big deal......

"Now change the route to find Yanshan, or go to the north to find a few guides in Akshuobu, how to choose?"

Wei Dingshan and Lu Xu looked at Yan Junqi one after another.

Yan Junqi stared at Yutu and thought for a long time, and gave a reply that was not in the option at all: "Let's go south." ”

"Huh?!"

"Nan?"

Even if you go back to the county seat, you shouldn't go south.

The two of them also subconsciously looked at the map.

Wei Dingshan frowned even more, and moved his gaze to the southwest and west-

There were a few small countries that were not Daqi, and if they continued south, it would not take them a few days further west to reach the border.

Lu Xu stared at several small tribes in the south, looked at the mountains stretching on the map, and suddenly said, "Chili? ”

Yan Junqi suddenly laughed: "Hmm." ”

Lu Xu looked at Yan Junqi's smile, and couldn't help laughing, he deserved to be him, and Junqi had the most tacit understanding!

Because they guessed what the other party was thinking, they couldn't help but smile while looking at each other, laughing so much that Wei Dingshan was confused.

What's wrong?

What to say?

Wei Dingshan: "What chili?" ”

Lu Xu danced with his hands: "It's the spicy mushroom sauce I gave you, and the base for hot vegetables and shabu-shabu, and the chili pepper in it!" ”

Wei Dingshan: "......"

He ate the sauce, and it was delicious.

But he hadn't eaten that red and bright base yet.

Lu Xu said that the shabu is the most delicious, they don't have enough food, and there is not enough meat for everyone to eat, as a general, he should be frugal and set an example for the whole army, how can he have the opportunity to eat shabu shabu......

But looking at Lu Xu's appearance, and surmising from the taste of those mushroom sauces, it should be quite delicious.

Wei Dingshan asked, "There are chili peppers in the south?" ”

Lu Xu: "I don't know! ”

Wei Dingshan: "......"

Then you're excited!

Yan Junqi smiled: "It's likely." The peppers were sold to us by the Butu Ministry, and their original tribe was near here, but we came all the way, and none of the tribes cultivated crops, nor did they have the habit of planting, that is to say, ......"

Lu Xu: "They probably bought it from somewhere else. ”

He pointed to the newly drawn simple map on Yan Junqi's notebook and showed it to Wei Dingshan, "On the southern slope of Dengyun Mountain, near the military horse camp, there is a valley where wheat can be planted. ”

Yan Junqi nodded with a smile: "Not bad." ”

In order to verify, they planned to travel south over the mountain.

If there is really a tribe that has planted chili peppers on the southern slope of Dengyun Mountain, it may mean that the entire southern slope of Dengyun Mountain has the possibility of growing crops.

This year, they can try to plant all kinds of seeds all over the south slope, experimenting with what will and won't live.

Thinking that it can grow into crops and fill its stomach, salt mountains are not so important.

Anyway, I won't run away, I'll talk about it later!

Early the next morning, Lu Xu announced that everyone was ready to climb the mountain.

This place is already the tail of the western vein of Dengyun Mountain, but there is Dengyun Mountain to block it, if they want to bypass it, they have to run out of the territory of Daqi to detour from the west, this kind of route to find excitement, Wei Dingshan does not agree, Yan Junqi does not agree.

The only option left is to climb the mountain.

The mountains here are no longer as tall as in the east and center, but there is still a lot of risk in winter.

Dragon and Tiger Battalion Lu Xu is not worried, they gallop on the battlefield, they have stepped on any terrain, he is more worried about the group of young officials from the nobility.

They are good at horses and horsemanship, and they are all windy wild children on the flat grasslands, but when they reach the mountains, it is not their main battlefield.

Lu Xu guessed that none of them had ever climbed the mountain.

This time, he didn't care whether they were hostile to the Dragon and Tiger Battalion or not, and let the soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion take care of one of them, and when they reached a steep place, they must not fall people into the ravine.

As for how angry they were, Lu Xu treated them like children...... It's a child, and I'm not convinced!

Even so, when it came to the steep section, Lu Xu still ordered all to dismount and walk.

It's okay to be slow, safety comes first.

When thousands of them crossed Dengyun Mountain to reach the southern slope, they clearly felt the difference in snow from the north and south.

Lu Xu is more confident.

Before they could go to find the two tribes whose territory was in the south, Lu Xu had already led people to start looking for suitable areas for farming.

At this time, the soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion suddenly resumed their status as farmers, and began to comment on the terrain, soil, temperature, and so on.

By the time the two local tribes found that thousands of Dragon and Tiger Battalion soldiers had appeared around them and were terrified to find them, Lu Xu and the others had already found traces of chili peppers.

The leader of the family came to visit Wei Dingshan, and before Wei Dingshan and Yan Junqi could speak, Lu Xu asked first: "How did you grow this pepper, how is it messy?" ”

Chiefs of both clans: ???

They explained: "The little general wants chili peppers? ”

Lu Xu pricked up his ears and listened carefully, only then did he understand this barbarian language with a very strong accent, and nodded, "Yes, what else have you planted?" We want to see. ”

What he said, the other party could understand, and after asking Wei Dingshan in Daqi, he took Lu Xu and them to their camp.

But when they talked to their own people, Lu Xu found that what they said was not barbarian at all.

Lu Xu: ???

Lu Xu listened in confusion, and when he arrived at the other party's camp, he saw a Daqi-style house.

Lu Xu: ????

To be exact, only a small part of the Daqi style adobe thatched houses, and the rest were more wooden houses that he had never seen before, but it was clear that they were sedentary, and did not live in tents even in winter like other barbarians.

It's more of a village than a camp.

Yan Junqi asked directly in Daqi language: "There are Daqi people here?" ”

The other party also replied in a jerky Daqi dialect: "No, before there was Daqi, they came......"

After a long and unsmooth conversation, they finally figured out what was going on.

This is a very wonderful location, there is Dengyun Mountain in the north, Liegong Mountain in the south, two towering mountain ranges, converging in the east, sandwiching this place like a "in" character with an opening facing west.

Whether it is Daqi in the southeast or the barbarian tribes in the north, it is very rare to come here, and it is actually some small countries in the west that communicate with them more.

When the barbarian royal family unified the various ministries, the small countries in the west and all of them were included in the country, and later the royal family died out, and the barbarian tribes were constantly in dispute, but they have been in conflict with the world because of the convenience of the terrain.

Daqi won the battle against the barbarian tribes, and all the territories of the former barbarians were assigned to their own territory, and when they designated the western border, they did everything along the western boundary of Dengyun Mountain, and they also drew this place in passing, but in fact, because it was more difficult to get here from Liegong Mountain than from Dengyun Mountain, no one from Daqi had ever been here at all.

Of course, the barbarians haven't been here.

So, in terms of actual governance, this can be counted as a small independent country.

If it weren't for the great prestige of the Daqi Dragon and Tiger Battalion, and after winning, they forcibly relocated the various departments, which made the huge people panic and frightened them, and people would not admit that they belonged to Daqi at all.

They squatted and squatted tremblingly, seeing that Daqi seemed to have forgotten about them, and didn't think about what to do with them, and lived their comfortable life with peace of mind.

As for why they speak Daqi, and there are Daiki-style houses, the reason is also very simple.

During the war in the last years of the previous dynasty, a group of people took refuge in the west, ran to the west, and later migrated and migrated, and came to them.

This is a gourd-like place, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the people are relatively simple and friendly, so they settled here.

When Daqi was founded, the two ethnic groups had already intermarried and lived their own small lives.

Pepper seeds, as well as seeds of wheat, millet and other crops, were also brought by them.

Although it is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the climate is relatively arid, it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and in winter there is Mt. Dengun to block the cold wind from the north, and in summer there is a stream flowing down from the snowmelt of the mountains.

Moreover, because it is not as flat and small as the large grasslands to the north, the herders are not as nomadic as other barbarian tribes, they only drive cattle and sheep up the mountains in summer and autumn, and settle in the village in winter.

In short, this is a mix of nomadism and farming, like a paradise, and a dream source that Lu Xu very much hopes to achieve in the future.

Lu Xu's starry eyes, hope! He saw hope for living in harmony!

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Lu Xu: I just climbed a few mountains~ and found the Peach Blossom Spring~

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