The big man has a living father

Chapter 177 (Long Chapter) I will never return until I conquer Loulan

Jin Bei set out from Chang'an and headed north.

The world in the rearview mirror is a world without anyone.

Facing a farewell that is getting further and further away, there is no way to regret it.

Walking in the deserted wilderness, the only companion is desolation.

When I followed it with my eyes, I could hear my own tears.

"I regret so much, I shouldn't have come... But now that I've come to this point, I regret it even more..."

Jin Bei can hardly bear it anymore.

Starting from Chang'an and heading north, it took a long time to get here, but I still don't know how far it is from the legendary Jinshan.

Jin Bei originally had no surname, his name was Bei. After people started learning simplified Chinese characters in Chang'an, many people began to learn it, and he discovered that he was different from others because he had no surname.

So, Jin Bei started thinking about giving himself a surname.

But what should we choose? It must be very meaningful.

If you want to use it to commemorate the rise of yourself and your entire family, you must wait for such an event and then take it as your surname, just like those with the surnames Nangong, Sima, and Zhao.

Finally one day, Jin Bei felt that the opportunity he had been waiting for to change his destiny had come.

That is Jinshan.

Unlike the previous legend of gold in the old Jincheng, Jinshan was confirmed to be the place where the Huns dug for gold. Now this place has been taken down by Huo Piaoqi.

Now Huo's cavalry advanced forward and built a city one hundred miles north of Jinshan to prevent the Xiongnu from the Western Regions from advancing eastward and threatening Jinshan.

And now Jinshan has become the Jinshan of the Han Dynasty.

The newspaper said that the emperor allowed anyone to mine in the gold mountain.

The large pieces of gold mined belong to the court, and the gold sand belongs to individuals.

Many people have discussed that if they find a large gold nugget and use a grindstone to grind it into gold sand.

Jin Bei knew that his chance to change his destiny had come, so he gave himself the surname Jin.

As for his name, someone told him that the word "Bei" is unlucky. Bei means north with a moon underneath, and moon means meat. So Bei means dead in the north, and he was buried under the golden mountain in the north.

So, Jin Bei changed his name to Jin Bei.

The court gave everyone the guidance that they could go to Jinshan via Yumen Pass and Huaishuo.

Logically, Yumen Pass is closer, but to get to Jinshan, you have to cross an uninhabited area and desert.

There are also uninhabited areas outside Huaishuo, but you can walk around the desert.

Moreover, Yumen Pass is still under construction, so it is recommended to take the northern route.

But for Jin Bei, taking the train was too expensive.

It would cost too much money to take the train to the north, then cross the river, then buy supplies and a car to get to Jinshan.

So Jin Bei bought a car, towed the vehicle, and headed west from Chang'an.

At the beginning, there were many companions on the road, some of whom also had no money, and they went out from the west towards Dunhuang.

But as he walked, Jin Bei found that there were fewer and fewer people walking with him.

Many people couldn't hold on any longer and stayed on the road. Some simply started working, some prepared to take a rest before setting off again, and some simply lay down in the new place and didn't want to go anywhere else.

In this way, there were fewer and fewer people around Jin Bei.

After all, this route has not been developed, but Jin Bei insisted on taking it.

Because when Jin Bei was in Chang'an, he went to ask the people from the Western Region actor troupe that came to Chang'an two years ago when he was learning simplified Chinese.

Jin Bei asked several people and confirmed that it was possible to reach the Western Regions by leaving Dunhuang, and Jinshan was located at the northern foot of this route.

As long as you walk to the west turn, then go directly north and you will reach Jinshan.

After walking and walking, we finally arrived at...Old San Francisco.

Old Jincheng is 500 kilometers away from Chang'an, a full 1,000 miles.

When someone heard that Jin Bei was going to Jinshan, they congratulated him and said, "Congratulations, you have already gone 20%."

The easiest, most convenient and most crowded 20%.

Jin Bei almost gave up.

But Jin Bei has a mountain in his heart, a mountain of gold.

Jin Bei thought to himself: Even Tang Sanzang went, so why can’t I go?

Jin Bei continued his journey and heard that there were many people ahead of him who had started earlier than him, so he quickened his pace.

Starting from Jincheng, we often passed through uninhabited areas along the way.

Fortunately, this section of the road is very good, with a hard surface, so it is easier to walk on.

But every uninhabited area made Jin Bei tremble with fear.

There was even one time when Jincheng saw a bear.

Fortunately, the bear seemed a little blind and did not see him.

Jin Bei felt that the wind blowing towards him was full of fishy smell, but in the end the bear went in the opposite direction.

Jincheng, who had saved his life, did not feel scared, but became more determined to head north.

It seems that the name was changed correctly.

As we walked and walked, there were fewer and fewer ordinary people on the road, and every time we met someone was a soldier.

Jin Bei asked these soldiers: "Do you know Jinshan?"

Soldier: "Yeah, I just came back from there."

Jin Bei: "Have you ever been to Jinshan?"

Soldier: "Of course we have been there. We all came back from there."

"Hey, don't mention it. I haven't been there. You and the General of the Cavalry have been there, but our General Li hasn't been there yet."

Every time Jin Bei began to doubt his life, he would ask his soldiers, "Is there really a Hunnu Jinshan?"

The soldiers always answered: "It is now the Jinshan Mountain of the Han Dynasty. Of course there is a Jinshan Mountain. I have been there."

Finally, Jin Bei arrived in Dunhuang.

When Jin Bei arrived in Dunhuang, he was out of money.

But here in Dunhuang, people are being recruited. Many people want to open rocks here and transport building materials.

They saw that Jin Bei had his own car, and it was the best new model, so they wanted to rent Jin Bei's car for three thousand yuan a month.

Jin Bei said he could do it for half a month for only one thousand yuan.

Jin Bei still has to go north.

In Dunhuang, if you ask ten people, two have been to Jinshan and ten know about Jinshan.

Jin Bei was sure that there really was a gold mountain.

Looking back at the road we have come, we are already 1,500 kilometers, or 3,000 miles, away from Chang'an.

The winding road we have walked has already exceeded five thousand miles.

While making money in Dunhuang, Jin Bei saw many people leaving Dunhuang.

Jin Bei was in a hurry. He ate good meals for more than ten days and used the money he earned to buy food and drinks for the journey. Then Jin Bei set off again.

After leaving Yumen Pass, I could no longer understand the sky.

If there weren't signs put up by Huo Qubing's soldiers at regular intervals on the road, Jin Bei would have given up long ago.

These people put up a sign every kilometer.

When Jin Bei saw the sign, he knew someone had passed by.

So I kept walking and walking along the sign.

This time, Jin Bei got delirious due to fever on a windy night.

In a daze, Jin Bei saw the moonlight in the sky, which was brighter than the lights in Chang'an City.

A giant python inlaid with five-colored gems was spitting out its tongue on the cliff.

Jin Bei swung the axe, chopped the giant python to death, and took a lot of gems.

In the morning, the sun made the car, which was half covered with a tarpaulin, start to get hot, and Jin Bei finally had the strength to open his eyes.

He saw a snake twice his length lying next to him, with an axe stuck in its head, and it was lifeless.

In line with the principle of not wasting anything, Jin Bei roasted the snake and ate it.

Walking north again, the road sign was still there, but there was no one around.

The sky was filled with yellow sand, and sometimes you couldn’t see a single plant from a distance, not even a withered one.

Fortunately, the wheels of the new carriage were very wide, otherwise it would have been stuck in the desert long ago.

But in order to avoid the car getting stuck, Jin Bei still threw away some things to reduce the weight.

But more things lost means less supplies.

Although there is still water to drink, there is no food.

In the vast desert, Jin Bei was hungry and tired.

The moment he saw the oasis, Jin Bei cried.

howling.

This is where the northern line of Jinshan from Huaishuo and the southern line of Jinshan from Yumen Pass join. This is at the foot of the Qilian Mountains.

After picking a delicious and sweet melon in the wild and eating it with a crackling sound, Jin Bei sat on the ground in a daze.

It is two thousand kilometers to Chang'an, and the distance we have walked here is more than three thousand kilometers.

If I had not chosen to come to Jinshan to mine, but instead chose to go to Lu to do business.

Then he walked on foot and pulled the cart. He had already reached the State of Lu, picked up a cart of goods, returned to Chang'an, picked up another cart of goods and went back to the State of Lu. This was his second round trip.

Why do I need to go to that gold mountain to make a fortune?

However, the distance to Jinshan is as far as Chang'an is to Luoyang.

There are millions of people living on the road between Chang'an and Luoyang, but here, there is not a single person.

Jin Bei calmed himself down and set off again.

In this deserted wilderness.

Jin Bei was already in a state of blurred consciousness.

Jin Bei believes that several years have passed.

Of course, only three months had actually passed.

That day, Jin Bei saw a small purple flower.

Looking up, you can see purple flowers all over the mountains.

When Jin Bei was a child, someone gave him nightshade to eat, and he knew it was nightshade.

When Jin Bei was in school and learning simplified Chinese characters, someone told him that this nightshade is also called alfalfa.

Alfalfa flowers all over the mountains.

The clover flowers are all purple, and the green mountains are dotted with countless purple and yellow flowers.

These alfalfa flowers have only three leaves, and some of the leaves are like small serrated disks.

Some look like a heart.

Jin Bei knelt on the ground, holding a pot of alfalfa flowers, tears streaming down his face.

Before leaving for Chang'an, Jin Bei met a man who slaughtered sheep and worked at the Xiongnu Farmhouse.

He said that he was born in a small tribe near Jinshan when he was a child. Later, the small tribe moved south in the snowy winter and was defeated by King Xiutu, and he became King Xiutu's subordinate.

He never had the chance to go back to the place where the mountains were covered with alfalfa flowers.

The mountains full of alfalfa flowers are at the foot of Jinshan Mountain.

From that day on, these three-leaf weeds were no longer nightshades or clover to him, but lucky clover.

Jinbei was the first citizen in the history of the Han Dynasty to walk to Jinshan.

An adventurer who crossed the no-man's land on the southern line and reached Gold Mountain earlier than all the carriages on the entire northern line.

……

A team of carriages came out of the small desert.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This is a little oasis.

Someone joked: "Let's just say, let's not go digging for gold, let's..."

The composition of this team is a little different.

They are a joint-stock team of adventurers.

The initiator, team leader and largest investor is called Wang Liu.

Wang Liu invited some people he thought were capable to join the team and team up with him to dig for gold in Jinshan.

Logically, he paid for it, he bought the carriage, and he paid for the food and drinks on the way. He could just pay them wages and invite a group of people.

Many people did the same and recruited teammates in Changan.

However, Wang Liu keenly discovered that the risk-return ratio of working in a mining team was not proportional to that of working on the railway.

Because it's too dangerous, but for the same salary, no one would do it.

Therefore, Wang Liu took the lead in proposing a shareholding system. He would pay for all expenses himself. He just wanted to go to Jinshan and realize his dream of getting rich by digging for gold. Whoever followed him would get money and shares!
Wang Liu needs five people to follow him, and he is willing to give 25% of the shares to these five people.

Wang Liu also contributed another 15% and 200,000 yuan as funds and invited a person who could read astrologers to join.

So, the seven-member team quickly formed a team and set off.

In Huaishuo, Jinshan maps are sold.

There are calfskin leather goods specially made for the northern grasslands for sale. In Chang'an, these are things that only the emperor can use.

There were even large quantities of canned goods, covered buckets of water, barrels of kerosene, cooking oil, the finest tarpaulins, and the best raincoats.

Have everything.

Here you can buy everything you need on your way to Jinshan.

Wang Liu and his group thanked God.

His great Emperor was afraid that everyone would die on the road, so he took out all the contraband and sold it.

You can even buy the most exquisite crossbows and steel knives!

In the past, even ordinary soldiers could not use these sophisticated weapons. Only soldiers guarding the imperial city could possess them.

As the team headed west, everyone became more and more familiar with each other.

By this time, the seven people had become very familiar with each other.

Joking with each other.

"If you ask me, what is the way to make money? Of course, it's by opening a brothel. These people dig up gold, so don't they spend money? They have suffered for months and years, so why don't they reward themselves? They must visit prostitutes."

"Haha, why don't you stick your butt up? I think anyone who is perverted enough to come here and dig for gold for several years must be an extraordinary pervert. Maybe he doesn't like women, but prefers delicate and tender girls like you."

The other one laughed and said, "Fuck you, where do the women in the brothel come from?"

"Have you heard of Loulan? It's close to us. We don't steal or rob. I'll pay them a higher price than the people of Loulan and ask them to sell it somewhere else. Will they still not be willing?"

Captain Wang Liu: "You illiterate, Loulan is south of Yanzhi Mountain. We are north of Yanzhi Mountain and south of Qilian Mountain. This is Cheshi Kingdom."

Another person reminded: "This place is far from Cheshi. Although they are the closest place to us in the Western Regions, they are closer to Chang'an than we are. We have already walked to the top of the Western Regions."

"Do you think this Cheshi Kingdom is the Chechi Kingdom in Journey to the West?"

Wang Liu: "You mean the Tang Dynasty is the Han Dynasty?"

The team member hurriedly said: "I didn't, I didn't, it wasn't me who said that, it was you who said that, Captain!"

Wang Liu: "Don't worry, who can hear us talking here? Could it be that a Tiger Power Immortal really appeared?"

"It would be great if a great immortal named Huli showed up to pray for rain, so you wouldn't die of thirst."

None of the seven people around Wang Liu spoke.

Familiar local accents were heard all around.

The seven people were so frightened that their spines felt cold, and a chill exploded from their coccyx all the way to the top of their heads, just as terrifying as the explosion scenes they had seen on the road.

"who!"

Only then did Wang Liu see that there were tents set up with tarpaulin in this small oasis. Moreover, they were not simple tents, but were quite large.

In front of the tent, there was a small stall with some bottles and cans.

In the tent, Jin Bei pulled open the tarpaulin and walked out, clapping his hands: "61 pounds of air-dried mutton, 85 pounds of air-dried beef, 50 pounds for a dried chicken, 500 pounds for a fried fresh chicken, and 30 pounds for a can of water."

Wang Liu and his friends hadn't seen a living person for many days and they were stunned for a moment.

Jin Bei looked up: "You think it's too expensive? I bought these in New Jincheng. Even though this is at the foot of Jinshan Mountain, it's still a hundred miles away from Jincheng."

Wang Liu finally came to his senses: "Have we reached Jinshan?" Jin Bei: "To be precise, we are still one step away from Jinshan."

"If you leave here and walk towards the driest area of ​​the desert ahead, you will see the Golden Mountain in less than an hour."

"If you go out later and follow the bushes over there, then... you will find yourself in the Gobi Desert."

Wang Liu didn't believe it.

If you walk in the desert, you can reach a golden mountain. If you walk to a place with plants, you will end up in the Gobi Desert?
Jin Bei: "You can buy some water. There is no shortage of water. Go to the desert. If you don't see the golden mountain after an hour, you can come back and beat me up."

Wang Liu believed it now.

Wang Liu approached and said, "Brother, is there any sign of Jinshan?"

Jin Bei: "The mountain full of lucky clover is the symbol of Jinshan."

"Oh, Clover is my own name, you can call him Clover."

Wang Liu looked back and saw that one of his teammates knew about plants. He nodded to indicate that he knew him.

In fact, the word "alfalfa" is pronounced the same as the word "animal husbandry" reversed. This thing is the best forage grass, and the most fertile pasture will of course grow the best forage grass.

Wang Liu and the others looked at Jin Bei, and one of them said, "So, the best business you can think of is to sell water here?"

Jin Bei: "I don't just sell water, I also sell food here."

Wang Liu smiled: "We have already arrived at the oasis, are you sure we need to buy water?"

Jin Bei also laughed: "Guess why I chose this place to sell water?"

Among the seven people, a fierce and sturdy man said: "Are you sure we need to buy water? Not..."

Jin Bei: "Are you sure you want to waste space in the car to carry water bottles on your way back instead of transporting more gold? Even if it's not gold, wouldn't it be better to transport more copper?"

The strong man: "Are you sure we are short of water for this meal? You are the only one selling water on the road, and we still need to make room to store water when the time comes."

Jin Bei smiled: "There is a lack of everything in this world, except people."

As he spoke, Jin Bei took out a file and began to file the wood, as if he was carving a small wooden horse.

"When you go back, there will be people selling water all along the way."

Wang Liu's pupils shrank as he stared at the file: "Is this made of iron?"

Jin Bei: "A file, one thousand yuan a piece."

Wang Liu: "Yes, do you want to receive Huo's IOU?"

Jin Bei smiled: "Here, the Huo family's IOU of 100 guan can be used as 120 guan. After all, there are copper, iron and gold all over the ground, but they are the most difficult to transport back."

Wang Liu nodded: "You are a very disciplined person. We obviously don't understand, but you didn't fool us. In this case, I will buy another five kilograms of dried beef."

Jin Bei: "Well, you guys can set up the tent here to eat and rest, and I'll move to the small tent."

While eating, the strong man was still muttering: "Is this file so powerful? I can hear the humming sound through the tent."

Wang Liu smiled slightly: "I don't know who made this file, it must be the hard currency here."

At this time, in the small tent next to it, under the lifted carpet, there was a pit, and in the pit there was a golden stone.

Jin Bei was whistling comfortably while filing the golden stone with a file.

Although it is different from the highest purity nugget gold, this ore mixed with stones is also the best kind.

After seeing off this wave of customers, Jin Bei looked around and found that he had already ground twenty bags.

If you stay here any longer, you'll be discovered one day.

Jin Bei put away the bag and came out to sit down.

After a while, a soldier came over with a horse-drawn carriage carrying supplies.

In fact, all the supply stations in the entire Jinshan area are provided by Jincheng, and all the goods for sale are delivered by military households, but provided by merchants doing business in Jincheng.

In exchange, the construction of the entire Golden City was funded by the businessmen.

It's like a small IPO to start a company, or like a public construction project to raise capital.

When the bearded soldier arrived, he laughed and said, "Brother Jin, how much did you earn today?"

Jin Bei: "Three files, ten pounds of beef, and seven cans of water."

The bearded man said: "You are rich again. Those gold diggers may not make as much as you."

At this time, Jin Bei walked to the side and packed his bags.

The bearded man got off his horse in confusion: "What do you mean?"

Jin Bei: "It's time for me to go back."

The bearded man said: "You came to Jinshan to dig for gold. It's only been two months. Are you going back again?"

Jin Bei pointed to the small tent.

The bearded man was puzzled.

Jin Bei pointed at the small tent again.

The bearded soldier walked over, lifted the tent cloth and looked inside, then looked back at Jin Bei with wide eyes.

Jin Bei: "Is my luck okay? Unfortunately, this is not gold sand, but a lot of gold. I can only offer it to the General of the Cavalry."

The bearded man swallowed.

What a huge pile of gold! Even the most powerful nobles in Chang'an City don't have such a huge pile of gold, right?

"You... don't want to knock?"

Jin Bei: "No, there is no shortage of greedy people on Jinshan Mountain, and there are even more greedy dead people."

The bearded man took a deep breath, and at that moment he even thought of taking it for himself.

However, it is impossible to transport such a large piece of stuff back by myself without going through all the inspections.

There is only one kind of person who can take it back, and that is the court's car.

If you can't take it away by yourself, even if you take it secretly, you can't take much. The most you can do is file off some and make a small fortune.

However, if you report directly, you will receive many rewards and have a worry-free career.

After thinking about it, the bearded man decided to go back and report.

Seeing that the bearded man had no intention of getting the gun from the carriage, Jin Bei put the packed things on the horse's back with confidence: "See you in Chang'an, bearded man."

The bearded man laughed: "I will buy you a drink then to thank you."

Half a day later, Gao Buzhi came here and saw the huge piece of gold. He thought for a while and said, "Everyone, follow me back and invite the general of the cavalry!"

"Cicada, you found it, so you just stay here and keep it."

The bearded man named Chan nodded. It seemed that the general wanted to take away all the people who knew about the situation, so that no one would get lost and secretly bring people back to attack. After all, money can tempt people.

Gao Buzhi added: "In two days at most, we will bring people, vehicles and mining tools here."

The bearded man: "Ah? General, I will report to you when I get back."

Gao Buzhi waved his hand: "No need, just do your job well, and as for the reward, of course it's still yours."

Gao Buzhi was saying, "Just work hard these two days, whatever you can get will be yours." The bearded man wanted to give him the money, but Gao Buzhi was not interested in the money, so he told him to keep it for himself.

Two days? If gold is a person, two days can only scrape off a little skin on the feet. But it can win over an ambitious young man, so why not do it?

After Gao Buzhi took his men away, the bearded man opened the compartment of his carriage and took out a box of files to be shipped to second-tier dealers. He held one in his left hand and one in his right hand, then came to the pit and laid a lambskin pad at the bottom of the pit.

"I rub it left and right."

The bearded man used a knife to cut a hole in the purest area of ​​the gold and then filed it.

I was thinking, how much did this guy Jin Bei take away from here?

"No wonder this guy has to be named Jin."

Chan thought, why not just give himself the surname Jin, and then he would be called Jin Chan...Jin Chanzi?

Tang Sanzang? Then I might as well just call myself Tang. Chanzi Chanzi, Zhiliao, so I’ll just call myself Tang Zhi.

Tang Zhi filed for a while, his hands got tired, so he went down to the pit to collect the powder.

Then continue filing.

……

May.

Huaishuo already has a very large population.

Huaishuo Lake has been dug and can now supply water to residents.

In order to avoid wasting water resources, water is not supplied directly from the river to the urban area, but instead is supplied through pipelines.

After all, Huaishuo is Baotou in later generations. After coal mines and iron mines were built here, steel production began quickly.

Apart from making small items that can be used on the grassland, the steel produced here seems to be of little use.

Therefore, Huo Hai asked the students engaged in water conservancy to design the water pipe system under the leadership of Tian Qianqiu.

Although it is not possible to make it like in later generations where every household can have water just by turning on the tap.

However, it is still possible to have a faucet in every residential building or street in Huaishuo, after all, it is a new city with a new plan.

Since Huo Hai returned from Jincheng at the end of February, Huaishuo has been working at full capacity to build steamboats.

At the same time, many people came to place orders.

Some people saw the transport capacity of the ships, and the first group of people who got rich by using the new horse-drawn carriages for transportation immediately wanted this.

After someone built the first batch of steamships, they immediately headed for the water system east of the river.

Although it’s a long way to get to Chang’an from there, but... further down Hedong, there are places like Pingyang and Zhao State, where water transportation is well developed!

There are too many people here. Since the development of Pingyang Transportation Company, countless people have been working on the canal.

Now, waterways with a capacity of 100 tons are open to navigation.

Fortunately, this happened during the Han Dynasty. If it had happened later, the navigation of the Yellow River would have been more restricted and this would not have happened.

The shipyards were now making money from the constant manufacture of steamships, but the investment in new ships was still huge.

In addition to steel-framed ships, iron-sheet ship technology is also being developed.

Do the small ones first, then the big ones.

Erkuan has talked with Tang Sier and the others. If the research is successful, they will have to build a factory by the sea, and Erkuan will have to lead the team. So, it is decided that Tang Sier and the other elders will assist Erkuan in leading the research project.

Although Erkuan is leading the team, his efficiency is far less than that of the veteran Tang Sier, but he is still doing a good job.

In May, the first steel-framed ship was launched.

When it was launched, there were four steel-framed and wooden steamships.

After the ship was launched, Erkuan immediately began to study the propeller system and large steel armored ship technology.

Huo Hai was the one keeping watch here. Seeing that there were no problems with the route designed by Er Kuan and the others, he never made a sound and instead kept his eyes on the north.

As the saying goes, money makes the world go round.

After the money was in place, the road from Jincheng to Yumen Pass was initially opened to traffic at the end of March.

Resources are continuously sent from this area to Yumen Pass.

The only pity is that there was not enough time to plant cotton near Dunhuang.

After the supplies were delivered on a large scale, they continued to move northward and the construction of Jincheng was very fast.

Although the countries in the Western Regions were terrified and the right wing of the Xiongnu behind them was furious, they did not dare to move.

Until, their heads were clouded.

Bagebu, the prince of Youguli King of the right wing of the Xiongnu, was so angry that he got a brain congestion when he learned that a gold nugget bigger than a man and weighing more than 4,000 kilograms was dug out in Jincheng.

Even after learning that it was not entirely gold, but a mixture of gold and other stones, with gold accounting for no more than 10%, he was still very angry.

You have to know that this is basically the output of the Xiongnu Gold Mountain for several years.

The right wing of the Xiongnu dug and mined day and night, but only managed to find a small amount of gold.

You have to know that even a big man can only mine about 400 kilograms a year.

This is equivalent to digging up a lot of the main mine in Jinshan.

If the human-shaped gold had been discovered earlier, the right wing of the Xiongnu would not have suffered such a heavy loss.

When Bagbu, the prince of the right wing of the Xiongnu, learned about this, he was extremely angry. In the end, he was blinded by greed and made a move that the Han army had been waiting for for several months.

He ordered the King of Loulan to send troops to attack the small force of Huo Qubing's subordinates that was delivering food.

After waiting for a long time, I finally waited until today.

Loulan is doomed.

Huo Hai was also very happy when he heard the news in Huaishuo.

In fact, Loulan should be the first transit station for the three lines of the Western Regions in the north, central and south, not Yumen Pass. To go to the north through Yumen Pass, one has to cross the desert, while Loulan can go directly to the Cheshi Kingdom and the countries in the south without crossing the desert, or go directly west.

The enemy has thirty seconds to reach the battlefield, crush them!

There are three lanes in the Han-Xiongnu Western Region Canyon, with a tower called Loulan in the middle. It flashes at level 5 and starts a team fight!

What! Level 5 is not big?!

In fact, in history, the Kingdom of Loulan was a tragedy.

The people of Loulan Kingdom had no names, and there is no record of the King of Loulan having a name in history.

Historically, Emperor Liu Che wanted to contact the Xiongnu's enemy, the Dayuezhi, to attack the Xiongnu from both sides, and he kept sending envoys to the Dayuezhi.

And Loulan continued to attack Han envoys.

So the big man went over and beat them up.

The King of Loulan had two sons, one was sent to the Xiongnu as a hostage, and the other was sent to the Han Dynasty.

During this period, Loulan also sided with the Han Dynasty.

However, Loulan was indecisive and liked to be a fence-sitter. After the king of Loulan died, the Xiongnu hostage went to Loulan first, inherited the throne, and sided with the Xiongnu again.

Look at the name given to him by the historian of the Han Dynasty, it is Angui.

How dare I return home?

The other hostage, his younger brother, was named Weituqi. After Huo Guang sent Fu Jiezi to kill An Gui, Weituqi became the new King of Loulan.

But look at his name, a lieutenant is enough to kill an old man like you.

Even the new Loulan Kingdom was renamed Shanshan.

Why? Some rumors say that Wei Tuqi was castrated in Chang'an, which means he was castrated.

Once you are incited, you will become kind.

That’s why it is called Shanshan.

Although this may not be his original intention, but if you look at him, Huo Guang definitely meant this.

But Loulan is still the fence-sitter who is indecisive.

They really had no choice, as they were in a special geographical location, sandwiched between two major empires.

But their position is their problem. If they dare to touch the Han people, and the Han people don't kill them, it will be the Han people's problem.

Therefore, Loulan played two roles in history. It helped Huo Guang to hone his naming skills.

The second function is to serve as a target for poets.

Huo Hai has read the marketing accounts. They said that the reason why the Central Empire hated Loulan so much was because Loulan attacked the Han Dynasty and then it was destroyed and had no chance to take revenge.

In fact, this is not a matter of one era, it is just blind grafting.

It is true that Loulan, also known as Shanshan, disappeared on its own, but it was not after offending the Han Dynasty that they disappeared. This happened after the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The reason why Loulan was targeted was because it was close to Yumen Pass.

Many poets write frontier poems about Yumen Pass and Yangguan. Beyond these two places is Loulan, and they have no choice but to write about Loulan.

The geographical location of Loulan is that of an epic being forced to be the first to stand out, an epic fixed target, and one that cannot escape the automatic lock BUFF.

Whether it was the Central Plains Empire in the south or the grassland dynasty in the north, they would lock their heads against it as soon as they faced it.

Therefore, Loulan had only one way, which was to surrender to the Han Dynasty, fully side with the Han Dynasty, overthrow its own ruling class, and replace it with Han rule.

As long as you are not in power, you will not have the opportunity to be a fence-sitter and will naturally not be caught and used as an example.

However, all these historical things have not yet begun in this era.

Loulan didn't even know there was a ten-ring target painted on his forehead.

With a sign saying "Hit me if you dare", they robbed Huo Qubing's food and grass team.

You were the one who started it!

Huo Qubing led 30,000 people south!

The prince of the Right Guli King of the Xiongnu was dumbfounded. Loulan has a total population of 40,000 people. You sent 30,000 troops here? Whose food will they eat? Transporting food is free? !

Huo Qubing didn't care about this. Now that the roads had been repaired, there was plenty of food available.

It's May now. In two months, there will be more food here!

Huo Qubing led 30,000 troops to Loulan, and Loulan had nowhere to run. However, Prince Bagebu of the Right Guli King of the Xiongnu simply ran away and headed west to Yanqi.

Huo Qubing said, you have cooperated very well, I will let you run for a few days, I will come to Yanqi to find you in two days.

(End of this chapter)