The trade route connecting the Eastern and Western worlds is full of risks, not only the need to face the raids of horse bandits and bandits, but also the journey of thousands of miles is extremely dangerous, but the profits brought by a trade route are also extremely rich. As long as www.biquge.info bring enough goods, whether from east to west or from west to east, as long as you go once, it is enough for those businessmen to live a rich life for a lifetime.

Therefore, although these two trade routes are nine deaths and one life, the merchants have never been cut off.

In the Wangshan Plain, it is precisely because of the existence of this trade route that countless horse bandits existed, and the reason why the Dakang Imperial Court wanted to restore control over the Wangshan Plain was largely because of the trade and taxation in the Wangshan Plain.

Insert one more sentence, there are two main reasons why Fushan City can dominate one side in Wangshan Plain, but these two reasons are not because of the strength of Leng Cong's force in Fushan City. The first reason is that because of its remote location, it is difficult for the official army to clear it, and then because Fushan City holds the mountain pass between Yunling and Tianshan, firmly controls the trade route from Wangshan Yuan to the southern foot of Tianshan Mountain, and accumulates a lot of wealth, so it can have such a strong strength, with the power of a city, not only to confront the army of the Dakang Imperial Court, but even to overwhelm the many Liyi tribes south of Yunling.

The power of the black fox is naturally not comparable to Fushan City, but in the area around Sand City, the strength is also very strong.

The power of the Black Fox, before the collapse of Shen Lun's gang more than ten years ago, had two or three hundred people, and now after more than ten years of development, it has grown to thousands of people.

These thousands of horse thieves were active around the city of Nasha, plundering the caravans that passed by.

When you are in the vicinity of a military city, the danger is naturally extremely great, and it is possible to be attacked by the border army at any time, but when the danger exists, it is generally also the moment when the opportunity arises. For horse thieves, being too close to the military city is dangerous, but the oil and water are also very large.

After all, although the military towns of the imperial court also collect taxes, they can also provide corresponding protection for passing merchants, so it is natural to attract more merchants to pass by. For horse thieves, while bringing danger, they naturally also bring a lot of oil and water, which strongly attracts them.

In fact, the horse thieves in the Wangshan Plains have formed a set of rules for their activities, for the past merchants, although these horse thieves are vampire-like existence, but generally will not completely eat the merchants, after all, these horse thieves also understand a simple truth, that is, if their plundering is too much, so that the merchants have no profit at all, then this trade route may not be able to escape the result of gradual abandonment. And once this trade route is completely abandoned, it will naturally be difficult for them horse thieves to survive.

Therefore, in this Wangshan Plain, most horse thieves will abide by certain rules, such as as the cooperation of merchants, they generally do not kill easily, and for the plundered merchants, most of them will not completely plunder, but will leave some, and so on.

Of course, there are no absolutes in the world, and the horse thieves who do everything absolutely also exist, but these horse thieves are generally the kind of horse thieves who are not ready to do this business for a long time, and are full of plans to do one vote and leave, so they are particularly extravagant.

And such horse thieves often end up not very well, either being targeted by the border army, or being swallowed up by their peers.

Shen Lun's horse thief back then was like this, it was precisely because it was too public, so it was the first to be targeted by the Shacheng army and sent troops to exterminate it.

Compared to Shen Lun and them, the black fox is much smarter, although it is also active near Shacheng, but every time it encounters a businessman, as long as the other party cooperates, the black fox will only rob half of the goods at most, and many times, even half of it. In doing so, it not only left a lot of leeway for the merchants, but also left room for the defenders of Shacheng.

In fact, in essence, the imperial army in Wangshan Plains was no different from horse thieves, and at the same time wanted to exploit and plunder those merchants who passed by. It's just that the army and the court rely on collecting taxes, while the horse thieves directly plunder.

The main reason why the armies in the military city will focus on cracking down on those horse thieves who break the rules is not because they kill people and steal goods, but because they loot too much and snatch away the taxes that originally belonged to the military town, so they are naturally not tolerated by the border army of the military town.

And the Black Fox's approach, although the income from each robbery is much less, but it ensures the tax revenue in the sand city.

In addition, although the number of black fox horse thieves has been able to more than 1,000 people, they are flexible, elusive, and difficult to find, so the army in Sand City simply turned a blind eye to the black fox horse thieves and chose to ignore them.

Xiao Suifeng inquired about the location of the black fox in the sand city, and on the second day, he went directly to the direction where the black fox was.

Although the border army in the sand city did not fully grasp the specific location of the horse thief led by the black fox, they also figured out a general location.

Two hundred miles west of Shacheng, there is a broken forest mountain.

To the north of this broken forest mountain is the grassland, and to the west, there are mountains and forests with complex terrain, including high mountains, dense forests, and even canyons. According to the tracking of the scouts of the border army of Shacheng, the base camp of the black fox is in the broken forest mountain, but no one knows the specifics.

The scouts in Shacheng didn't know, and Xiao Suifeng naturally couldn't figure it out.

However, Liu Guangyuan thought of a way for Xiao Suifeng, that is, to let Xiao Suifeng go with the caravan.

If Xiao Suifeng went to Naduan Forest Mountain alone, the biggest possibility was that no one could be found, not even a single figure, but if he followed the caravan, the caravan was likely to attract the attention of the black fox horse thief, and when the time came, it would naturally be able to lure those horse thieves out.

In this regard, Xiao follows the wind and is like a stream. In today's Sand City, although it is much more sluggish than in the past, it has not completely cut off the trade routes, and Xiao Suifeng is very coincidental that he followed a caravan heading west and went west in the morning.

The scale of the caravan is not particularly large, but at present, in the Wangshan Plain, it is not small, there are more than a dozen large carts, most of which are silk and tea from Middle-earth. Such a caravan is naturally escorted by escorts, the entire caravan, the coachman and miscellaneous servants add up to nearly twenty people, and there are more than ten other guards, half of which Xiao Suifeng can see at a glance that he is a warrior of the rivers and lakes, and the other half is a person of a different race that Xiao Suifeng has never seen.

With the help of Guo Qian'an, Xiao Suifeng was easily inserted into this caravan and headed all the way west. (To be continued.) )