Imar, the venerable man of Blackwater, and the fire demon harboring in his mosque were puzzled and cursed, while a donkey cart was slowly passing through the gates of Blackwater City and onto the street.

The counties of Liangzhou, said that poverty is also really poor, this place since ancient times the climate is cold, not conducive to crops, in addition to sorghum, corn and other crops that do not pick up water and soil, even wheat has to be harvested once a year. However, the counties of Liangzhou said that the rich is also really rich, since Bowang Hou Zhang Qian hollowed out the Western Regions, to Chang'an, across the river, over Jiuquan, out of Dunhuang, Duyang Pass, is the Western Regions long history of the Western Regions ruled by the Western Regions, Dawan horses, Khotanese Meiyu, Shule Pu peach wine, with the Han family horse gang, Hu'er caravan through the white dragon pile, through Mohe Yanmoraine, a steady stream of input into Liangzhou.

The Liangzhou counties are not conducive to farming, but they are conducive to animal husbandry, Liangzhou cattle and vests are in the world, and the Wuji school captain of the Western Regions is reclaimed in Luntai, pacifying the countries of the Western Regions, and the Liangzhou cavalry is also the key to deterring the north and south of the Green Mountains.

It is no wonder that when Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, Kui Huan seized Liangzhou, rebelled against Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and swayed several times, which was the inevitable result of the special situation in Liangzhou.

And Zhangye County, is the heart of Liangzhou, abundant water, warm temperature, many years ago here is the place where the Dayue clan was founded, Heishui City, is the hometown of the Dayue clan's royal city. Later, the Dayue clan was defeated by the hands of the Xiongnu Mao Dun Shan Yu, the king was killed in battle, and the head was taken by Mao Dun Shan Yu as a wine vessel, and the five parts of the Da Yue clan went to the Western Regions, which was the predecessor of the Kushan Empire that possessed the land of Central Asia and flourished for a while.

Since the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the great Sima Weiqing conquered the Huns, and the hussar general Huo Qu was sick and broke the Huns in Longxi, killing the nomadic tribes and capturing the son of the evil king. And the evil king of Hun happened to have a knot with the Xiongnu at this moment, and had to lead the troops to the Han Dynasty, and the hometown of the Dayue clan was owned by the Han family, and the filial piety emperor Liu Che changed the name of the place to Zhangye, taking the meaning of "Zhang Guo's arm to pass through the Western Regions".

On the wheel of the donkey cart, the fairy warlock sat on a loose plate, with his left leg on the wheel and his right leg hanging down, looking extremely casual. Holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, he said to the little mute holding a horsewhip beside him:

"Since Huo Hu's cavalry broke the Huns, this place is the thoroughfare of Liangzhou and the important town of east-west transportation. It is precisely because of the wealth of this place, and it has always been coveted by Qiang and Hu, when the Fubo general Ma Wenyuan was too punctual in Longxi, the Qiang people plundered several times, and the soldiers pointed directly at Zhangye. Fortunately, Ma Fubo is also a rare famous general, and he was pacified by him before the Qiang chaos reached Zhangye. ”

Listening to Wei Ye make up history lessons for his own students, Xiao Huo, who volunteered to be a guide for this official from Luoyang, interjected with a smile while following the donkey cart: "Mr. Wei, you are really knowledgeable, there is a temple of General Fubo in the east of the city, and the general blesses our family house safely, wishful and auspicious, but it can be effective!"

The immortal warlock listened to the explanation of the young man Xiao Huo, nodded and said: "Ma Fubo is such a Confucian general who has fought and won successive battles, how many people are there in the world? Since Ma Fubo passed away, this Liangzhou guard is like a weasel cub, a litter is not as good as a litter. Since the early years of its establishment, Liangzhou Qiang has rebelled again and again, but the governor of Liangzhou has not had any good ways so far. I checked the household registration book in Luoyang, and there are fifty percent Qiang people, forty percent Han people, and one percent Hu people in Liangzhou, so it is really difficult to say that it is the land of the Han family. ”

Speaking of this, Wei Ye's eyes fell on both sides of the road.

As the county governor of Zhangye County, Heishui City is also lush with vegetation in the city, and it is now the time of the summer heat, but there is still a little moisturizing. It's just a roadside shop and pedestrians on the road, but they all show a trace of wrong painting style.

The houses along the road are still paved with green tiles and eaves with eaves up, but the signs that sway gently in the wind are all tadpole-like Persian characters in front and Chinese characters in the back. On more signs, there is a fire coat of arms composed of Persian phonetic alphabet letters, which is prominently entrenched at the top.

In front of a warehouse, two young men were sitting bored under the shed resting, the young man's face was Han, his clothes were Han, but he was wearing a white linen hat. The pottery water bottle in front of them, with a big belly and a thin neck, and a mouth like a pomegranate flower, is not the shape of Han pottery, but has a Persian smell of cottages.

The shops are like this, and the pedestrians on the streets are similar, and parishioners wearing small white cloth hats and bell-like tunics can be seen everywhere. Occasionally, women swayed past the donkey carts, their heads and faces covered with black cloths, revealing only a pair of eyes, long black burqas dragging to their heels, looking like large-headed black jellyfish scurrying between the reefs.

It's not like the Han county of Zhangye, but it's reminiscent of Sharia cities that have been abandoned in history, such as Riyadh and Tehran, and even more so with the religious police running all over the ground.

It's really wrong.

It is very clear in the history of religion that at this time, even the Buddhism that was keen on purifying all sentient beings was far from opening up much of the situation in China. However, in Liangzhou, the atmosphere here is already very much like a big food, very much like Khorezm.

And these religious people do not have the characteristics of many Central Asians with high noses and deep eyes, but most of them are Qiang people and Han people. But I don't know what kind of madness these people have caused, and they have converted to Zoroastrianism.

Wei Ye held the bamboo slip in one hand and looked thoughtfully at the scene in Blackwater City. Just like the self who single-handedly provoked the change of light and palace, with the collapse of the Ten Standing Servants Group, the Spirit Emperor Liu Hong was placed under house arrest, although the future is unknown, but the direction of historical development has begun to become different.

Similarly, the changes that occurred in Zhangye, and even in the entire Liangzhou, are definitely not a normal historical process. Zoroastrian monks, preaching with the method of fire, can be seen in the annals of history, it was all after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, but there is no reason to advance it more than a hundred years in advance, and this sect under the guise of Zoroastrianism, the unique smell of desert cults on its body is so strong that it can't be concealed. In the end, what kind of person is this person who is doing wind and rain in Liangzhou?

Just as the immortal warlock was pondering, the donkey cart suddenly stopped, and a man who looked like a small official, holding a famous thorn in both hands, stood cautiously on the side of the road, and saluted Wei Ye and said: "But the soldier Cao of the Lieutenant Mansion of Si Li is engaged in the face of Wei Gong? The villain was ordered by Liu Mingting of Heishui City to meet Wei Zhi, Liu Mingting knew that Wei Zhi was passing through Heishui City, and the special villain invited Wei to engage in the mansion to fulfill the friendship of the landlord. ”

Listening to the word "Ming Court", Wei Ye knew that it was the county order attached to this Blackwater City. He nodded slightly and said, "Liu Mingting also has a heart." Since Liu Mingting has been invited, please lead the way for this official. ”