Three days later, Zhao Yuan had already arrived at Jiepai County.

Zhao Yuan once stayed in the East Courtyard of Wanjia, and was extremely familiar with the lives of the people at the bottom of the society, and when he arrived in Jiepai County, he followed a group of merchants to follow the Jiepai Xiongguan, crossed the Tianzun Grand Canyon, and arrived at the desert area along the coast.

As long as you leave the Tianzun Grand Canyon, you will enter the vast desert and the Gobi, and you will also be regarded as the territory of the nomadic Russian Empire.

Unlike the multi-race Great Qin Empire, the Russian Empire has an extremely single race, with only one ethnic group, known as the Or.

The territory of the Russian people is not inferior to the Great Qin Empire, but compared with the wealth of the Great Qin Empire, the vast land of the Russian Empire is extremely desolate, it can be described as poor mountains and bad waters, except for the hot desert, there are a small number of oases, and then, there are some steep and barren mountains, the temperature difference between day and night is extremely large, and life is very difficult.

However, the Russian Empire also has a unique natural condition.

The Russian Empire has a long coastline and extremely rich fishery resources, and 60% of the dried fish of the Great Qin Empire comes from the Russian Empire.

Commercial relations between the Great Qin Empire and the Russian Empire were extremely prosperous.

Because the Russian Empire basically has no industrial base, some commodities of the Great Qin Empire are very popular in the Russian Empire, except for some ordinary daily necessities, the metal armor, grains and fabrics of the Great Qin are all sought-after commodities in the Russian Empire.

The business model of the Great Qin Empire was very simple, most of them brought some high value-added cloth, handicrafts and some daily necessities to the Russian Empire, and when they returned, they would bring seafood, salt, or horses from the Russian Empire.

It is worth mentioning that unlike the Thorn Slave, although the Russian Empire produces good horses, however, because the Russian Empire does not have the vast grasslands like the Thorn Slaves, and the number of horses is not large, the Russian Empire is strictly forbidden to buy and sell horses, of course, this is not difficult for the merchants of the Great Qin Empire, they will always have various ways to bring the horses back.

In fact, in order to weaken the fighting power of the Russian Empire, the Great Qin Empire greatly encouraged merchants to smuggle horses. Among the various taxes, horses are the only goods that are exempted from tax.

Zhao Yuan's current identity is a temporary porter.

The so-called temporary porter is a temporary call to work, and after a business is over, a group of porters take their salaries and disperse.

When I was in Wanjia East Hospital, because Wanjia's business was very stable, Wanjia's porters were all long-term, even when they were free, they were paid.

Zhao Yuan's boss is a small boss with little capital, mainly operating some low value-added goods, some iron farm tools and porcelain with rough craftsmanship, which are all bulky commodities that require a lot of labor.

After Zhao Yuan's horse team crossed the Tianzun Grand Canyon, they stayed at the mouth of the canyon for a day, gathered more than a dozen horse teams, and formed a giant horse gang, with a total number of more than 200 people and more than 1,000 horses.

The caravan is not a gang organization, but some businessmen spontaneously form a temporary small group for their own safety to help and protect each other.

From the Tianzun Grand Canyon to the nearest market of the Russian Empire, it is also more than 2,000 miles, and on this long route, horse thieves and bandits are extremely frequent, and there are many murders and goods.

Of course, it is not easy to rob and rob the horse gang, those horse thieves and thieves are generally just businessmen who rob and rob a single person, and they can only look at this kind of horse gang with a number of 200 people from a distance at most.

The geographical environment of the Russian Empire is harsh, and the people have developed a fierce and vicious people, and they will draw their swords for some trivial things, and some bandits and horse thieves are also extremely vicious, not only robbing and robbing goods, but also killing people and destroying people, because of this, the merchants of the Great Qin Empire who have suffered losses will generally fight to the death and never give in.

Generally, the merchants of the Great Qin Empire would carry some sophisticated weapons, such as sharp scimitars, small shields, and powerful bows and crossbows.

The productivity of the Russian Empire is extremely backward, and the weapons and equipment of the horse thieves and bandits are also very poor, although they are not afraid of death, but in the face of the Great Qin merchants who fought against the water, they are often in a weak position......

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More than 200 people, more than 1,000 bantams, winding for miles in the desert, it is extremely spectacular.

What Zhao Yuan does every day is to take care of the bantam horse, feed the feed, unload the goods for the horse to rest when he rests at night, and load the goods on the horse's back in the morning.

Bantam horses are not suitable for long journeys in the desert because of their short bodies, usually, after leaving the Tianzun Grand Canyon, they go west for more than 100 miles, and they arrive at a small town in the desert to change to the desert boat camel.

In fact, there was originally no small town there, but later, because this trade route became more and more prosperous, the people of the Orr tribe established a post station near a small sand lake, mainly to help the people of the Great Qin Empire provide camels, and slowly, this place became prosperous and gradually developed into a small town of thousands of people.

The name of the town is Sunset Town, this name has an allusion, it is said that there are writers who traveled with merchants to return to the Great Qin Empire in the evening, look back at the town, and find that the town is exactly where the sun sets, the whole town is bathed in the sunset, picturesque, extremely beautiful, and said "Sunset Town" by the way, and then, the name has been handed down.

Many literati and writers will also come here to watch the majestic sunset of Sunset Town, and in the Great Qin Empire, there are many poems about Sunset Town.

After a day and a night's drive, at sunset, we finally arrived in the town.

Among the merchants of the Great Qin Empire, there was a tacit agreement to rush to Sunset Town at sunset, rest for a night, and then set off after changing into camels the next day.

Sunset Town looks a little messy, with stone houses, wooden houses, and more tents, dotted around, covering an extremely large area, and the smell of horse manure fills the air.

However, this messiness is also a kind of beauty, especially in the sunset, the jagged buildings, there is a simple and primitive charm.

Looking at the large red glow that enveloped Sunset Town, and following the light, it suddenly appeared in the sky not far in front of the sight! and a large piece of crimson was dazzling, as if the big red curtain on the stage was hanging in the sky, as if there was a mysterious force controlling this magnificence and magnificence.

For a moment, Zhao Yuan mistakenly thought it was sunrise, but it was obviously dusk. Obviously, the desert sunset, it was obscured by a large patch of fiery red. In the clean, open and boundless desert sky, the red light of the setting sun shrouded the quaint and primitive Sunset Town, like a perfect picture.

It is no wonder that this little-known town will have countless popular poems, such a magnificent desert sunset, which is indeed not easy to see in the Great Qin Empire.

"Xiao Zhao, thank you for your hard work. A slightly chubby man motioned for Zhao Yuan to move the goods down.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's right. Zhao Yuan hurriedly nodded.

During this time, Zhao Yuan was deeply loved by the horse gang, because he was silent, honest and honest, willing to help, willing to spend effort, everyone praised him, and several big bosses privately mentioned this business to Zhao Yuan several times and let him join their horse team.

The inhabitants of this town are basically engaged in the service of horse teams.

Taverns, inns, brothels, stables......

Here, the caravan disbanded itself, because the owner of every horse team will have a familiar inn here.