By the time I was awakened, it was already dawn.

Ye Feng found out that Xiao Sanji was sleeping next to the fire with his stomach on his pillow last night.

As soon as I looked up, I saw the big round face of the fat man, with a teasing smile: "It's really good that you are on duty this night, roasting the fire, chatting about the sky, and sleeping until dawn." ”

Zhang Fatzi originally wanted to sarcastically say a few words to Ye Feng, but Xie Zhenliang behind him secretly pulled the corner of his clothes, so he closed his mouth.

Ye Feng ignored him and stood up, but saw that the coachmen were busy in an orderly manner, preparing breakfast for the big guys.

After breakfast, everyone was ready to go again.

Xiao Sanji was arranged to be in the same car with Ye Feng and them.

After getting into the car, Zhang Fat wanted to tease him, made a grimace and said: "Little ghost, you are really a follower, you follow closely wherever you go." Did you know that there are man-eating monsters hidden in the Gobi Desert, specializing in eating children!"

Little Sanji glared at him angrily and said, "I said it, I'm not a little ghost!"

Since Ye Feng talked with Xiao Sanji last night, he felt that this little living Buddha was really a bit unfathomable, and he saw that Zhang Fat Man scared him like an ordinary child, so he also glared at him.

Zhang Fatzi touched his nose, stuck out his tongue, leaned on the carriage silently and was a little bored, and after a while, he snored like thunder and dozed off.

The convoy walked slowly and walked on the road for seven or eight days before entering the boundary of Suzhou.

It is said that once upon a time it was once a beautiful grassland, full of cattle and sheep, and many nomads once lived here.

In the Han Dynasty, it was the territory of the Xiongnu, and later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu Youxian King and the Hun Evil King here with the famous general Huo Quai, recovered the Hexi region, and set up Jiuquan County here, which was the beginning of the central court here.

Later, in all dynasties, it changed hands several times, and even at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Chengfeng established the Jinshan State, which was later renamed the Dunhuang State, and controlled the area from Dunhuang to Jiuquan.

Later, it was controlled by the Western Xia, and it was only during the Yuan Dynasty that it was brought under the rule of the central court and set up as Suzhou.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, in addition to garrisoning troops on the Ganliang front, in view of the situation of multi-ethnic settlement in Hexi, he successively set up seven guard posts in Anding, Aduan, Quxian, Handong, Shazhou, Hami and Chijin Mongolia, collectively known as the Seven Guards of Guanxi, which were led by the leaders of various ethnic minority tribes and obeyed the orders of the central court.

At this point, the area of Jiuquan in Suzhou gradually settled down.

The origin of the name of Jiuquan is a legend, according to the "Historical Records" records, the general Huo Qubing once broke the Hun army here, drove the Huns outside the Yumen Pass, and never dared to enter the pass again.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed and sent people to give several jars of imperial wine and send them to the army for reward. Huo Qubing insisted that this battle was the credit of the soldiers of the whole army, and he wanted to drink the celebration wine with everyone, but there were few people with the wine, so he poured the imperial wine into a spring and shared it with everyone.

Since then, this place has been called Jiuquan.

Thousands of years have passed, and the vast grassland with fertile land and beautiful water is now in Ye Feng's eyes

In the past, only loess and wind and sand remained, and there was no longer the style of the year.

Ye Feng and the others had a rough look on the bank of Jiuquan, which was regarded as a commemoration of Huo Quai, a famous general who died young, and then continued on the road and went straight to the ancient town of Dunhuang.

The ancient town of Dunhuang is not large, located on the boundary of Shazhou, and there are Shazhou guards, most of which are filled by local aliens.

The town is not big, but Dunhuang is the only place for the Hexi Corridor to enter and exit the northwest since ancient times, and there are many business travelers, all kinds of people, very lively.

The Helian Tie has lived in the Central Plains for a long time, although his hometown is in the Western Regions, but in Dunhuang, he can also see many people with similar looks and skin colors to him, and he is also very cordial, and his heart is quite a little excited.

The shopkeeper of the horse shop in Dunhuang Ancient Town is surnamed Jia, a thin old man with a goatee, who was waiting at the entrance of the town early in the morning.

Seeing Ye Feng and their convoy coming, Shopkeeper Jia led the way in front and led everyone to the largest inn in the town.

Not only did the inn already know the number of people and men and women in their group, but they had reserved the rooms in advance, and even the room money had already been paid.

Ye Feng shook his head secretly, it seems that the inns and horse shops here in Dunhuang must be the property of the unequaled son of Providence Lou Ji again.

Along the way, Ji Gongzi took care of him in many ways, and arranged it so thoughtfully, he must thank him in person when he has the opportunity.

This debt to Ji Gongzi is a favor, I don't know when I will have the opportunity to repay it in the future, as the saying goes, the debt of favor is the most difficult to repay, not to mention a person who is rich in the world and lacks nothing?

After settling down, Zhang Fatzi had already felt hungry, and was about to urge the innkeeper to hurry up and prepare the meal, when he looked up and saw two soldiers walking in at the door of the inn.

These two soldiers were draped all over their bodies, but they looked polite, and when they came to the door, they gave a salute first, and asked which one was Ye Feng's son.

Everyone looked at Ye Feng curiously, could it be that Ye Feng would have any old friends in this remote place in Hexi?

Ye Feng was also confused, and walked out inexplicably, indicating his identity.

The two soldiers saluted Ye Feng respectfully, claiming to be a subordinate of Shazhou Wei, and handed Ye Feng an invitation, saying that the commander of Shazhou Wei had prepared a banquet and specially invited Ye Feng and his party.

Ye Feng looked at the backs of the two Shazhou guards who had left and left, and was stunned for a while, he had never known any Shazhou guard commanders!

Looking back, everyone turned their attention to Zhang Fatzi, Zhang Fatzi claimed that his big belly was full of poetry and historical books, presumably what kind of Shazhou Wei commander made him know something.

Zhang Fatzi sighed, as if he was helpless about everyone's ignorance, and began to tell the origin of Shazhou Wei.

As early as the reign of Taizu Hongwu, the Mongolian prince Alu Ge Li once sent people to pay tribute to the Ming Emperor, expressing his desire to reconcile with the Ming Dynasty.

In the second year of Yongle after Emperor Zhu Di ascended the throne, he left the rule of the Mongol prince and migrated for a long distance, and the Mongolian leaders who were exiled to the Dunhuang area of Shazhou came and bought and lived, and led his subordinates to express their willingness to surrender

Bright.

So the imperial court set up the Shazhou Guard in Shazhou, awarded the two of them as commanders, and also gave them crowns and belts and clothes.

These two people led the Shazhou guard to be stationed in the Dunhuang area, and they also led the army of Xining Hou Song Sheng to garrison Ganliang, so they were always cautious and did not dare to make a slight move.

Within a few years, he died of illness, and he came to lead the Shazhou Guard alone, becoming more and more respectful to the court, paying tribute, and the court was quite relieved of it.

After telling this history about Shazhou Wei, Ye Feng still couldn't understand, what kind of Shazhou Wei commander came when he was sleepy, he hadn't even heard of it before, how could he come to the invitation for no reason and want to feast himself?

He hadn't figured it out yet, but Xie Zhenliang reached out and patted the fat man's bulging belly, and said jokingly: "I didn't expect that there are really a lot of things in your stomach, and even the names of these Mongolians are clearly remembered, which is really admirable." ”

Zhang Fatzi's face turned red, and he smiled a little embarrassedly and said: "Actually, I can't remember the names of those tongue twisters, but the names of these two people are very interesting, so I remember them." You see, when you are sleepy, you come and buy and live, doesn't it mean that you come when you are sleepy, and you can live in it if you spend money to buy a room? ”

Everyone was stunned at first when they heard his words, and then burst into laughter, and only Ye Feng was still thinking about his thoughts in a daze.

(The history of Shazhou Wei and the leader of the sleepy and buying, as well as the eldest son Brother Lan who appeared later, are all real historical figures, and their names should be transliterated and can be checked.) ）

Zhang Fatzi stepped forward, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Why do you want to do so much? Anyway, they are also official and military establishments, and they are not bandits and robbers, can they still eat us? Since people have a treat, let's go and have a good meal, anyway, since we left Lanzhou City, we haven't had a good meal." ”

After a while, he licked his lips again and said, "I heard that the Mongolian roasted whole sheep is the best in the world, but unfortunately I have never had the opportunity to see it, I don't know if there is such a blessing tonight?"

Ye Feng glanced at his salivating face, and couldn't help but shake his head, his righteous brother had food in his head at any time, maybe the pleasure of the stomach was the most important thing in the world for him.

He really shouldn't be called Zhang Idiot, he should be renamed Zhang Yu!

But what he said was right, since people were warmly invited, no matter what the purpose, there was only one way to go to the banquet gladly.

After all, when you come to someone else's territory, no matter what the other party's idea is, you can only figure it out if you go.

What's more, when he heard the fat man talking about roasting the whole sheep with a mouth full of colors, even Ye Feng felt a little hungry.

Miss Cheng wanted to stay to take care of the old man Fu Shuangling, who was immobile, and Xiao Sanji was not interested in eating and drinking, so everyone agreed that the three of them would stay, and the remaining five people walked out of the inn in a majestic manner and went to the Shazhou Health Department for a banquet.

Dunhuang is not too big, and it is in the town at a glance

On the northwest corner of the child, the tall white house built like a yurt must be the government office of Shazhou Wei.

When they came to the door, the Shazhou guards who were guarding had been waiting for them for a long time, and when they saw them coming, they hurriedly led them into the government office.

Shazhouwei was set up by the original Mongolian tribes, so the government office was also built very different from the general yamen official office of the Han people in the Central Plains.

There is no distinction between the front and back halls, and the main hall is not used for office and official affairs, but a place for receiving guests, drinking and narrating.

At this moment, the hall has already set up the fat sheep wine, and an old man with half-white hair wearing the clothes of a Ming military general stands in the hall, opening his arms, smiling and greeting their arrival.

Needless to say, this old man must be the commander of the Shazhou Guard, and he will come when he is sleepy.

Looking at his warm and friendly attitude, Ye Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, as the saying goes, there is no good banquet, but as far as the current situation is concerned, at least the other party should not have any ill will towards his party.

Ye Feng was surprised that he was very clear about the identity of this group of people, and he even opened his mouth to ask why the Cheng girl, who was with excellent medical skills, did not come to the banquet.

This made Ye Feng muttered in his heart.

At this time, he turned around and asked a tall and handsome young general behind him to come forward and greet everyone one by one, and introduced that this was his eldest son, Brother Lan.

I don't know why, when he came face to face with this Brother Nan, Ye Feng clearly felt a deep wariness and hostility in his eyes.

After everyone finished the ceremony, they were all seated.

Sleepy Jilai raised the wine glass on the table and said in a heroic voice: "The ancients, the glow-in-the-dark glass of grape wine, the grape wine from the Western Regions and the glow-in-the-dark jade cup produced here are a perfect match, just used to welcome distinguished guests from afar." ”

Everyone raised their glasses and drank the amber-colored grape wine in the glass.

Putting down the wine glass, Ye Feng finally couldn't help but ask: "Dare to ask the leader, there is only a grass people in Xia, a nobody, who came to your land for the first time, and has never known the leader and your tribe, and has never interacted, but unexpectedly he was loved by the leader and treated him with a banquet, which is really a little flattering." I wonder where the leader found out about the next group?"

Hearing Ye Feng's words, he seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, and he looked up and laughed, and for a while, Ye Feng was inexplicably stunned.

After laughing for a while, he said after sleepiness: "People say that the Han people in the Central Plains are humble, but when you look at it today, it is true. If Ye Gongzi also calls himself a nobody, wouldn't the old man and the dog be killed in shame in front of the court?"

(End of chapter)