Tibet

Chapter 265 The Final Breakthrough

In a blink of an eye, it was already midsummer in the Hezhong area, and the hottest July was approaching, and it had been four months since Li Ye had served as the envoy of Suiye Soldier.

This morning, Li Ye was on his way back to Suiye with more than a hundred cavalry. They came back from Bahana and traveled along the Zhenzhu River. It's not the grassland, but the vast Tianshan Mountains, that is to say, Li Ye and his party are going to pass through the Tianshan Mountains.

In fact, Rehai is a lake formed by an alpine basin, surrounded by mountains, with the Tianshan Mountains to the south and east, the Kunge Mountains to the north, where it meets the Tianshan Mountains, and the Qianquan Mountain to the west, which is today’s Kyrgyz Mountains. .

Surrounded by mountains on all sides, a huge basin is formed. In the middle is the hot sea, surrounded by alpine pastures and some small cities. The huge outlet of the basin is in the northwest, which is the valley of the Chu River. The Chu River is very long and extends all the way. to Lake Akzai in the north.

Although there are big mountains all around, due to the impact of glacier movement, the mountains are relatively broken. There are many huge canyons, and there are large and small rivers in the canyons. At this time, Li Ye and his party passed through the Tianshan Mountains along the Naryn Canyon, Atami It is located at the foot of the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain.

Looking around, there is an endless forest at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, with tall and straight pine trees and fir trees growing. Through the dense forest, there is a grassland area with a width of more than ten miles. There are hundreds of miles around the lake. The terrain transitions step by step from grasslands, forests to alpine pastures and snow-capped mountains.

Rehai covers an area of ​​[-] square kilometers and is a freshwater lake. The largest freshwater Poyang Lake in China is only two-thirds of its size.

Although Li Ye arrived at Rehai, he still couldn't reach Suiye City and had to spend the night in Yezhi City.

There is still a long distance between Suiye City and Atami. Suiye City is about [-] miles away from Atami. Walking northwest along the Chu River, it happens to pass through a grand canyon in the Qianquan Mountains. The long Grand Canyon arrived at Suiye City, which is located on the south bank of the Chu River.

Therefore, it is not easy to go to Suiye City to pull sweat. It takes more than half a month to go back and forth, and it takes several days to walk through the Tianshan Mountains.

Rested overnight in Yezhi City. Early the next morning, Li Ye led his army to continue along the Grand Canyon of the Chu River in the northwest of Rehai. The Grand Canyon of the Chu River is located between the Qianquan Mountains and the Kunge Mountains. For more than [-] miles, the narrowest point is more than [-] miles. In fact, it can no longer be seen that it is a canyon.

There are large expanses of grassland on both sides of the river, and flocks of sheep can be seen from time to time. The Chu River Valley is a rare oasis. It was originally the core site of Tuqishi. The royal court of Tuqishi has been captured by the Tang army. The river basin, the southern part of the Yibo Sea, and the Yili River Valley to the east are currently under the actual control of the Tang Dynasty.

But there are still many small tribes of Tuqishi living here. Here we need to clarify a concept. What Tang Jun destroyed was the royal court of Tuqishi, not all the people of Tuqishi. Without the royal court, these The small tribe of Tuqishi can only rely on the Tang army, pay taxes, provide soldiers, etc., and in fact become the subjects of Datang.

There are also two Tuqishi tribes that are not attached to the Tang army and live in the Talas River basin in the west. They claim to be the heirs of the Tuqishi royal court, but just this spring, these two Tuqishi tribes were captured by Ge Luolu. People annexed it, and treated Tang Jun as if nothing happened.

Two days later, Li Ye finally arrived in Suiye City.

The soldiers were all exhausted, and they all went back to the barracks to rest. Li Ye also returned to his residence. He is still living in the VIP Inn, not in the attached house of the government office. It is more convenient for him to live alone in the VIP Inn. a little.

Walking into the gate, Yicheng Zhou Xiangdong stepped forward to salute and said with a smile: "The soldiers and horse envoys are finally back!"

It took half a month to go back and forth, and it was really not easy. Li Ye smiled a little and said, "I'm really exhausted. It's too hot this day, and I'm going to melt people. Prepare a few buckets of water for me. I'm going to wash it up." cool."

"It's coming soon!"

Zhou Yicheng quickly arranged for his men to bring five or six barrels of water to Li Ye's yard. Li Ye closed the yard door, took off his clothes, took a shower with cold water, and dissipated all the heat from his body.

Li Ye changed into a cloth shirt again, took a fan, and went to the Longxi Restaurant opposite the post station to have dinner.

The cloth shirt Li Ye wears is made of cotton cloth. In the Tang Dynasty, it was not called cotton cloth, but white folded cloth. In fact, it was cotton cloth. come over.

But Sogdian merchants would not traffic this kind of white folded cloth to the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the space it occupies, and it can’t be sold. If it is transported so far away, the tofu will have to be sold for the price of meat. A piece of cloth is worth at least a hundred guan. This long journey, except for dignitaries and dignitaries, who would spend hundreds of dollars to buy it?
You can't see this kind of white folded cloth for sale on the streets of Chang'an, but there are many broken leaves in Chang'an, and it is also very cheap. Everyone wears clothes made of this kind of cloth.

Longxi Restaurant is the restaurant opened by Li Bai and his family. It is a two-story restaurant with a typical Central Plains style. Li Ye went up to the second floor and sat down by the window.

"Just arrived today!"

Li Ye smiled and asked: "In the past half a month, what important news does Suiye have?"

The shopkeeper thought for a while and said: "There is no news from Suiye City, but I heard that there was a conflict at Aitao Lake, and many people died!"

Aitao Lake is located in the Yili River Valley at the northern foot of the Kunge Mountains, about 150 miles away from Suiye City, which is under the jurisdiction of the Suiye Tang Army. There is a small Tuqishi tribe living there, and there are also Geluolu people nearby. tribe! "

Li Ye frowned and said, "Is it because the Ge Luolu people and the Tuqishi people robbed the pastures, and there was another conflict?"

"Seems to be!"

Conflicts between the Tuqi people and the Ge Luolu people are commonplace, and Li Ye has had no fewer than five incidents in the four months since he took office.

Li Ye didn't bother to ask any more questions, so he said, "I'm hungry, serve the food according to the old rules!"

"Okay! Wait a moment, General, I'll be here right away."

Most of the taverns in Broken Leaf serve barbarian meals, mainly roast lamb, lamb soup and scones, served with sheep's milk wine.

But this Longxi restaurant has the taste of the Central Plains. It has barbecue, chicken, duck, fish, vegetables, and wine. The signature dishes are Longxi steamed white fish, Liangzhou acacia chicken, Longxi stewed duck, seasonal vegetables and fruits, and Zhangye wine.

After a while, the food and wine were served, and Li Ye began to drink and eat by himself.

The biggest problem for a person who is an official in Suiye is loneliness. He has no friends, relatives, or lovers. He is alone, and he can't even find someone to drink and eat.

Once he calmed down, the loneliness of a foreign country would bite his heart.

Pei Ruo and An Taixuan were considered his friends, but they were not in Suiye City either. One was a town general in He Lie City, and the other was a town general in Yezhi City. Li Ye gave them a chance to be independent.

As for colleagues, they were even more unreliable. For example, Zhang Xian, the master bookkeeper, Li Ye found out that he was Gao Xianzhi's man and sent him to monitor Chen Fengzhong. Therefore, Chen Fengzhong had a miserable life for the past four years, and he simply ignored government affairs.

At night, Suiye City becomes more bustling and bustling. There is no square wall in Suiye City. Once the city gate is closed, all kinds of taverns, brothels, and business hotels in the city can stay up all night. There are all kinds of colorful lanterns hanging there. The women who arrived all came out at night, and they were basically orchids from all nationalities. Although this is the territory of the Tang Dynasty, if you want to find a Han escort, you will definitely not be able to find it.

Young Han women are very precious, and they are cut off in Beiting and Anxi, and they can't come to Suiye from far away.

At night, Atami Street, the main road, is much more lively than during the day, with people coming and going, laughing and laughing.

Everyone is lonely and needs to spend money to buy laughter and forget the troubles of a foreign land.

By the Suiye River, Li Ye silently looked at the dark river. Today was his last day to practice martial arts in the water. He persisted for four full months.

He completed the final breakthrough three months ago. The sign of the breakthrough is not that he has opened up any meridians, but that his speed at the bottom of the water is the same as that of Pei Xingyan.

Instead of what Pei Min told him back then, within a certain period of time, the number of knives he can chop on water and on land is the same. That must not be possible. On land, he can chop more than 1 knives in one minute, but in water, he can chop more than 70 knives in one minute. You can only chop fifteen knives, no matter how powerful a person is, he cannot ignore the existence of resistance in the water.

He breathed three times in a stick of incense, and he could chop 98 knives, and Lie Feng told him that with the same stick of incense for practicing kung fu, and the same sixty-pound big knife, Pei Xingyan could chop 99 knives in one stick of incense. If you can reach this number of knives and stabilize for another three months, you will be able to practice Suzaku's mind.

Li Ye consolidated for three months, always hovering between 98 and 99 knives, and failed to reach [-] knives. When the water is full, it overflows, and when the moon is full, it loses.

Li Ye lit the fine incense with a torch, took a deep breath, and jumped into the river with a piercing spear.

　This chapter is a transitional content. It mainly introduces the situation of Suiye and the surrounding terrain, so that everyone can have a general impression of Suiye and Suiye City.

　　The plot will unfold slowly next.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)