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The long river is far above the white clouds, a lone city, Wancheng Mountain.

Why does Qiang flute blame the willow, the spring breeze does not cross the Yumen Pass.

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A song "Liangzhou Ci" vividly explains what kind of place Liangzhou is.

The plateau environment is high in altitude and sparsely populated. The mountains surround the two sides of the isolated city. Travelers do not have to play the Qiang flute to complain that the willow is not green because the place is desolate, lonely and cold, and the spring breeze cannot blow into the Yumen Pass.

Liangzhou, an important frontier state in the Great Zhou Kingdom, is mostly Gobi desert, lacking rainfall, agricultural structure is semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral, economic development is backward, multi-ethnic mixed and mixed, and the western border is facing two nomadic kingdoms: One is the "Turkic State" on the northwest grassland, and the other is the "Tufan State" on the southwestern plateau.

These two countries are currently the two most important side-effects of Da Zhou State. They commit crimes all the year round. Especially 30 years ago, Da Zhou State opened the Ganquan Corridor and controlled the Western Region. After reopening the Silk Road, it surrounded the Western Region. This hegemony of strategic importance, the three countries have waged wars year after year.

However, among the three countries, Turk and Tufan, the most prosperous nations in the Great Zhou Dynasty, suffered many defeats and were suppressed for a long time. They had to unite and form an alliance to attack on both sides in the narrow and long areas such as the Western Region and Ganquan Corridor. Great military pressure has been created for Da Zhou. Around some important military points, the three countries have repeatedly fought and sawed each other, and have been deadlocked.

Therefore, in order to maintain the smoothness of the Silk Road and the hegemony of the Western Regions, the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty deployed a huge army of 300,000 people from the Western Region to Liangzhou. This elite army is mainly composed of the children of the Liang family, a small part It was a criminal who was exiled to the army. The generals and soldiers of this huge legion were stationed at the border for a long time. The short time was three to five years, and the long one was twenty to thirty years.

And because of the endless battles at the border, most of the soldiers have taken root here since they left their hometowns, and never returned to their hometowns.

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After Zhou Ming and his entourage entered the territory of Liangzhou, a deserted area of ​​Liangzhou, they occasionally heard the melodious Qiang flute from the distance, forged the scenery and the desert style, which made Zhou Ming's poetic style and style change all the way. Can write more than a dozen frontier poems, the output of poems is quite amazing.

Yinzhou, an important node on the Silk Road, Zhou Ming and others, in this state, followed by a caravan with thousands of camels and mainly selling silk, along an ancient road, traveling westward all the way, trekking more than 2,000 Here, head to Bianguan for a heavy stop: Yumenguan.

In the process of following the caravan, Zhou Ming, who wants to know some things, and the merchants who sell silk, mixed their faces and after a few conversations, Zhou Ming's mind about the Silk Road has become more Intuitive and clear understanding.

Why don't these businessmen work hard, risking the lack of water in the desert, horses and bandits, looting by enemy countries, and so on? Not far away, with their heads on their waists, go to foreign countries and sell silk?

Profit, a thousand percent profit.

In the extremely western countries more west than the Western Regions, a piece of silk is more expensive than gold of the same quality. As long as the silk merchants successfully sell a trip, they can return with a full load of gold and silver. Worry-free.

Therefore, attracted by the huge profits, even if less than five out of every ten silk vendors can come back, they still cannot stop countless merchants.

Moreover, these silk vendors will be protected by the Zhou Dynasty. Some large caravans, local garrisons, and even escorts will accompany them, and they will occasionally clean up the horsemen around the Shanglu and maintain the smoothness of this silk road ... It shows that the court attaches importance to it.

For the Great Zhou Kingdom, why is the Silk Road so important?

Zhou Ming believes that it is still because of the lack of gold and silver in the Great Zhou Kingdom, and even the lack of copper money ... The shortage of various types of currency in circulation seriously limits the healthy development of the national economy, so it has to open up the Silk Road and use silk to Foreign exchange for large amounts of gold and silver.

Therefore, Zhou Ming respected these brave and fearless silk merchants who benefited the country and the people. He also wrote several poems to praise these merchants. Through these poems, several silk merchants suddenly learned that he was actually a famous When moving Mr. Zihua in the world, he was so excited that the whole camp was shaken! That night, they took off the best dozen of silks from the camel's back, set up a silk tent, and arranged two of the most beautiful Hu Ji to serve in the account and treat them with high courtesy ... Zhou Ming could not quit.

Enjoying all kinds of preferential treatment, Zhou Ming, who quickly became the most high-profile person in the caravan, regretted it in my heart. I knew that, I should n’t have revealed my real name before. Celebrities also have celebrity troubles. Fans are so enthusiastic about chasing the stars to such a degree, that he can almost choose to be incognito, otherwise his normal life will be seriously affected.

In the journey of more than two thousand miles, Zhou Ming and this caravan spent more than a month. In the second half of the journey, they also met a group of fierce horse bandits with thousands of people. The attack was launched in the early morning, and I wanted to swallow the caravan as a whole. However, when I heard the sound of a horseshoe, Zhou Ming, who was awakened earlier, immediately awakened everyone, because he reminded him in time and formed a thick caravan. With a very slight loss, he successfully repelled the horse bandits.

In the process of hitting the thief, Zhou Ming borrowed a three-stone hard bow, Zhang bowed his arrow, and the arrow was not missed. He shot and killed 15 horse bandit leaders in succession, making his morale shocked and cheered again and again. The horse bandits also chased for miles and seized hundreds of horses.

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"Here, is Yumen closed?"

The whole body is made of loess, and the city with a height of about ten meters and a circumference of nearly ten miles is presented in front of Zhou Ming.

The surroundings of the city are very desolate, and there are only sporadic drought-tolerant plants such as camel thorns, sand holly, and Shaguai in the surrounding soil, and yellow sand and gravel are everywhere else.

Yumenguan.

The three plain old characters on the city gate clearly told Zhou Ming that the destination he had arrived at had finally arrived.

Yumenguan, this border fortress has a long history. As early as a thousand years ago, there was a strong dynasty named "Wei". After the Western Regions were opened, 200,000 troops were transferred. It took ten years to build this. Block pass.

And because of this, it is close to the Dayin Mountains and Tianzhu Mountains. At the top of the snowy mountains, a lot of snow water melts every year and flows into the underground dark river. After the dark river was discovered by Kang Yushi, Yumenguan, which is located above this dark river The large amount of fresh water provided is sufficient to meet the drinking water needs of hundreds of thousands of animals.

Therefore, Yumen Pass is an important stop on the Silk Road where all caravans will replenish fresh water.

In Yumen Pass, there is not only a 50,000-strong garrison, but also hundreds of inns, warehouses, restaurants, and restaurants. The matching Qianzhuang Casino and bathhouse brothel are also readily available.

Even here, Zhou Ming accidentally saw a "Zihua Bookstore" which has been in business for half a year, and the business is quite prosperous ... He couldn't help but look at the manager of this Zihua Bookstore, because this is the place It is not within the scope of the ten states in the world. The manager of this Zihua Bookstore can find business opportunities here and successfully open a store. It is enough to prove that he is a talented person who dare to think and work hard, so after some encouragement, Zhou Ming appointed him as "General Agent of the Western Regions", and later he will take care of the Zihua Bookstore opened in the Western Regions.

The store manager, moved to zero, almost wanted to kneel.

With those silk merchants gaining momentum and this "Zihua Bookstore" bottoming out, a group of well-equipped soldiers arrived in an inn where Zhou Ming and others stayed, within half a day, and said: Ganzhou marching In charge of General Su Lie, Mr. Zihua was invited to the governor's office as a guest. The banquet was ordered. He also hoped that Mr. Zihua would meet each other, explore the texts together, and make the wine happy ...

The headed soldiers are very respectful.

Zhou Ming nodded and cleared up a little bit, then followed this team of soldiers, crossed the triple gate, walked past the team of armor-piercing soldiers, walked for more than ten minutes, and finally in the governor's house In the drawing room of the compartment, I saw the master who had been waiting for tea time here-an old man in a white robe, with white hair and white eyes, who was full of eyes.

"You are Tian Zihua?" After seeing Zhou Ming, the old man froze and asked.

"Exactly!" Zhou Ming slightly arched his hands, raised his head and raised his chest, not humble and overbearing.

"Young, really young! At the age of yours, the old man was only a helper to command a thousand people, but you have already moved the world, and the reputation is far above the old man. The afterlife is awesome, the afterlife is awesome!" The old man praised, He also said with emotion: "This is a martial art, it is really not as good as Xiwen ..."

Hearing the old man's words, Zhou Ming, who was quite serious, suddenly laughed:

"Where did the old general say this? The kid grew up listening to your story. You even pacified the East and West Turks, conquered the Four Kingdoms, defeated the Three Kingdoms and captured the Three Kings, and repeatedly defeated. For decades of fighting, the thing that was done was not to shake the world, to protect the country and the people? If no general is here to guard, this world has already been in chaos, how can there be a stable life for the people of Li Min? How can a kid show Opportunity for thin names? Rather than being a scholar, as a centurion, compared to the old general, the kid is useless and only laughs! "

"Hahaha!"

The old man was said to be full of red light, pointing at Zhou Ming and laughing: "Well, you are Mr. Hua! The old man thought you were a talented, arrogant and unruly man, but you never thought that you would also shoot other people's farts ... hahaha, laugh Dead man! "

The old man laughed loudly and shivered the roof tiles. It was not like an old man in his seventies.

And this old man is really known as the "God of War". Since he was fifteen years old, he followed his father to join the army to break the thief. He has participated in dozens of battles, won countless battles, and defeated the country. General Sulie Suding.

However, although the old general has great military achievements, he also has some great achievements, so he has never been used by the court. He is like a brick, and he needs to move there. So, where is the police on the border of the Great Zhou State? In the situation where the situation has developed towards erosion, sending the **** of war Su Lie into the horse has become a subconscious choice of the court.

For these arrangements of the court, General Su Lie has no regrets. In the past 50 years, from north to west, from west to south, and many states in the world, there have been traces of the warlord ’s battle, and the warlord is not good for money. The strict management of the army and the love of soldiers are not only deeply loved by the soldiers, but also in the hearts of millions of people in the Great Zhou Kingdom, they also have a very positive and good impression.

The neighboring enemy countries were respectful and afraid of him. On several occasions, when they heard General Sulie came, they ordered the withdrawal of troops.

Therefore, in front of this respectable old general, Zhou Ming did not dare to put on his "Mr. Zihua" spectrum, but instead served him as an elder and treated him respectfully.

Su Lie was very satisfied with his attitude. He was photographed by him from time to time. He smiled and closed his mouth, thinking that it was the end of the year. After that, the two often discussed the elements of marching and war victory The key points are sometimes indisputable. For example, when he heard that Zhou Ming described a weapon, as long as he was equipped with 10,000 people, he would be able to defeat 100,000 people directly. Still staying here in the bitter cold? Long ago, he led troops to sweep the grassland and level the plateau, and quickly wiped out the Turks and Tufans ...

On the topic of poetry, literary and fu, the two rarely discuss dabbling.

Two days later.

The young and old, who had a great conversation with each other, called some people, rode the horses together, walked out of the Yumen Pass, and enjoyed the scenery outside the city. UU reading books www.uukanshu.com

Standing on a tall sand dune, the breeze blowing, looking at the desert scenery in front of the yellow sand, under the sunset, the wild geese flying north, not far from the hill, a near-vertical thick smoke rose, and suddenly came to inspiration Zhou Ming, who wrote a poem, wrote on the spot the famous phrase "Zhengpeng leaves Weisai and returns to Yantian into Hutian.

However, after the poem was written, there was no applause. Zhou Ming turned his head to look, but found that the old general and several deputy generals were all serious, looking at the dark smoke of the column, waiting for it to continue. After rising three times, a lieutenant general said to the old general: "The general manager, the three pillars of smoke, the enemy should be more than 100,000!"

"Return to the customs, gather the drums, prepare the grain and grass weapons, and prepare to go out!" The old general, who had completely changed his momentum, issued multiple military orders in a flash.

"promise!"

The generals will all promise!

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Half a day later, a quick visit to the horse into the city: "Report! Tufanlun Zanqin led 100,000 troops and stormed the Stone City. The Stone City defender Zhang Yuan asked the chief to send troops to rescue. Within five days, the reinforcements must arrive!"