"Xianggong ......" He Meiyu was not very happy, the two couples were newly married Yan'er, and they originally wanted the two of them to go on a tour of the mountains and rivers together, but a Gao Huaide ran out on the way, and he was also the son of King Qi. If he's always around...... How embarrassing.

Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand and said, "Meiyu, this matter is settled." Zong Xin often said that the more faceless people are, the more promising they are, and Brother Gao Xian will be a great figure in the future if he follows up so shamelessly. But...... I have one condition, do you have to stay away from us?"

Gao Huaide immediately nodded and said: "Haven't you always been like this? I'm far enough away from you, every time you let me act alone, although I have been following you, but the distance is already very far, I almost lost it several times, if you don't ride such a big cow, I really can't find you." How far is it going?"

"It's pretty much the same as before. Zhao Kuangyin was ashamed and said: "Brother Gao Xian, you have to understand." We've just gotten married, so it's not appropriate for you to stay with you, right? What if you see something you shouldn't see, even if I'm not angry, what if Miyu gouges out your eyes?

Gao Huaide nodded and said, "This is reasonable...... Thank you sister-in-law for not killing. ”

"You're welcome, just be sensible. Xianggong, we can start now, which direction are we going?"

Zhao Kuangyin looked left and right, and then said: "We should go northeast, but we will meet Khitan soldiers in this way, and the dress of a few of us is not very suitable." Then let's go north first, first find a few small tribes to change a few Khitan clothes, and then go northeast, this is the best. ”

"That's right, although we are not afraid of Khitan dogs, we must also avoid conflicts, after all, it is not convenient for a few Han people to move alone on the border of the Liao State. Gao Huaide said: "Brother Zhao, if you go further north, you will completely belong to the territory of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, and the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are relatively sparsely populated, but after all, we are still Han costumes, so it is better to take the path." The best thing is to meet a few small villages, buy some Khitan clothes from there, and we can go northeast. ”

"Hmm~ yes, just take the path. Pack your stuff and get ready to go. ”

In fact, Gao Huaide doesn't need to explain, because Zhao Kuangyin has always taken the path, just because he is worried about being recognized. When you get to the Khitan, you have to take a small road, after all, the Han territory is just afraid of being recognized as its true identity, but as long as the Khitan territory is recognized as a Han person, there will be trouble.

Zhao Kuangyin and his entourage immediately packed up their things, and the little black cow carried a few boxes of gold, silver and jewelry without saying anything at all, and walked directly to the north.

Zhao Kuangyin and his entourage didn't see a small village at all at the boundary of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, and even if they saw the village, it was a mess, there was almost nothing in the house, and there were still some bones in the village, which looked very miserable.

This also made Zhao Kuangyin and his party hate the Khitan to the core, because these people were originally Chinese people, and it was because Shi Jingjiao betrayed the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun in exchange for the support of Yelu Deguang to seize the country, so the people of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun suffered such an encounter.

This miserable scene made Zhao Kuangyin very sad, and vowed to unify the Central Plains, and then defeat the Khitan, so that the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun could return to the protection of the Central Plains.

The ideal is still the ideal, and the first task of Zhao Kuangyin and his party is to find the Han people and buy some Khitan clothing from them, so as to avoid trouble and enter Shangjing to find Zongxin. But unfortunately, Zhao Kuangyin did not know Yelu Ruan's policy, and this is the westernmost part of the Khitan, bordering Tubo, and has long been uninhabited.

Zhao Kuangyin is also a dead eye, all the way to the north...... Until they felt that the scenery around them was becoming more and more desolate, the woods were becoming less and less, and the grass was becoming less and less, and at first there were some small stones on the ground, and finally there was a large dead land, and the stones still had grains of sand in them.

It's getting hotter during the day and colder at night...... In fact, they have long wanted to go back, but unfortunately all three of them are lost, and they don't know where the north is. Only follow the sun when it comes out every day, because that direction is east, but it won't take long to walk and as the sun moves, it feels like the distance is getting farther and farther away.

I don't know what kind of place this is, fortunately, Xiao Hei has a lot of things on his body, and the three of them don't have to worry about eating and drinking for the time being, but ...... This situation can't last long, but because I get lost, I can't find my way and don't know where to go.

After walking for more than half a month, Zhao Kuangyin and his party finally saw the city, and just when they were about to enter the edge of the desert, they cried and saw a city. The people in this neighborhood are too sparsely populated, and the three of them have not encountered any traces of human habitation at all, and they only know to go forward in secret, thinking that there is no way to get out in this life.

Seeing the city, of course, was a good thing, and the three of them immediately rode towards the city, but it didn't take long for them to stop. The city feels different from ordinary cities, as if it was in a war, with tattered and tattered all around, some traces of siege, and some broken armor and weapons scattered outside the city, and the most important thing is ...... There were already soldiers outside the city with weapons pointed at them, and if they rushed any faster, they would have already started a battle.

In fact, the appearance of Zhao Kuangyin and his party was too terrifying, otherwise such a large group of soldiers would never be frightened by three people. If they had just walked in, that wouldn't have happened.

The guard shouted, "Who is coming?"

"Ordinary people, we are lost in the neighborhood, and we finally see the city, can you let us enter the city?"

"Lost?" the guard looked at the three people carefully, two men and one woman, this woman was quite beautiful, and the two men were by no means ordinary. It's not that I don't know them, just look at the black bull to know that ordinary people don't have such mounts.

This black bull is so scary, but since it is someone else's mount, it is not dangerous, mainly depending on whether these people are good or bad. The sudden appearance of such a few people with strong martial arts will inevitably make people suspicious. But looking at their state, they don't look like bad people, not to mention that there are many bad people in the city, so there is no need to be afraid of them.

The guard said, "Report your name." ”

"In Xia Zhao Jiuzhong, this is the younger brother Zhao Huaide, and the cheap He family. Originally, I took a small road to Cangzhou, but I met robbers on the road, and I got lost halfway and was worried that the robbers would catch up, so I went all the way to the north, and I didn't know where I was. The three of us have been lost in the wilderness for nearly half a month, dare you ask if you can let us rest in the field?"

The guard nodded and said, "Are you stupid? Cangzhou is hundreds of miles away from here, why did you come here?"

The three of them are stupid, is there really such a long distance? Hundreds of miles? But recently I have been lost, and I am very persistent in going north, wanting to bypass the Khitan city by small road and go directly to Shangjing. But if you think about it carefully, it's not much worse, as long as you go east from here, you can get to the Khitan.

Zhao Kuangyin arched his hand and said, "Can you ask, what kind of place is this?"

"This is Toyosu, you guys are too far to get lost. ”

"Fengzhou?" The three of them said in unison, almost unable to believe their ears, how could they come so far away? But the direction is correct, Fengzhou is in the north, and it faces the extreme north. During the Tang Dynasty, this place was originally the territory of the Turks, and later Tang Taizong defeated the Turks, and this place became the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Because it is located in the far north, it is rarely mentioned, but the economy here is quite developed, because the entry and exit have to pass through Fengzhou, and the flow of people is very large. However, the inhabitants here are more complicated, in addition to the Han Chinese, Khitan, Turkic, and Tibetan will all come here, and it belongs to a neutral place with a mixture of dragons and snakes.

But today's location of Fengzhou is very awkward, because of the independence of the Northern Han Dynasty, the connection between Fengzhou and the Central Plains has been completely disconnected, and it is already a place that no one cares about, and on the surface it has experienced several wars, but it has not been occupied.

Zhao Kuangyin arched his hand and said: "This military master, the three of us are definitely not bad people, besides, even if we are bad people, what can only three people do?"

"That's right...... Come on in. The guard felt that this made sense, no matter how powerful they were, the three of them were like this, and it was impossible for these three people to kill all the soldiers in the city, so it was nothing to let them in.

And the guards also saw that these three were not like bad people, and even felt a sense of righteousness from them. invisibly adds a bit of goodwill, of course, the most important thing is that this woman is very beautiful, and there is no reason for this kind of beauty to want to enter the city?

A group of three people successfully entered Toyosu City, and immediately after entering the city, they felt that it was not much the same as they imagined, and the life in the city was very prosperous, with people in all kinds of costumes, and even some people who looked very strange, their clothes were like a thick cloth, and they had white hats wrapped around their heads, and they had big beards.

Of course, all three of them have seen the world and know that this is a Hu person. It's just that I didn't expect that there would be so many Hu people here, and there are many people in Tubo costumes and Khitan costumes. Although everyone is at war, the merchants will never stop because of this, and the war is about the economy, and it is when there is a war that foreign trade is particularly important, and Toyoshu Castle is the center of all regions, so the trade here is very developed.

To the west of Fengzhou is Tubo, to the south is the Northern Han and Great Zhou, to the east is the Khitan, and to the north is the Turks. All of these forces traded underground in Toyosu, selling out some of their own interests to each other, and getting benefits from the other side to support their own wars.

This is actually a reincarnation, the Khitan people brought the best medicinal herbs and cattle and sheep to Fengzhou, and exchanged wine and grain from the Turks, and only with grain could they support the Khitan war. The Turks used these medicinal herbs, cattle and sheep to directly exchange horses for the Tibetans, as well as various precious minerals, and the purpose of the Turks was, of course, to fight.

The Tubo people changed the soup instead of the medicine, and directly used these things to find the Han people to exchange weapons and siege equipment, but the Tubo did not want to start a war with other countries, they were still dealing with the problems of their own country. Tibet has been divided into countless small tribes, and there are always some people who want to integrate all the tribes, and then make Tibet unified and strong again.

In fact, many tribal leaders think like this, but they don't admire each other, they all want to be emperors, and the situation of division has not changed in any way.