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Chapter 116 Those Strange Places

There are not many boats on the river. Although the war has left Luoshuike, the shadow of the war is still there.Most of the fishermen on both sides of the strait have been able to move away. If they ca n’t go far, they should move to places controlled by the Black Banner Army in the West Bank.Perhaps people are the most difficult to recover after the flames of war. Compared with the green trees and flowers on both sides of the strait, most people's hearts are still gray and hazy.

There are four Huanglong Clippers in front, and the same is true behind.In the middle is a giant ship, a large ship that has not been rebuilt, and the shipyard is still there.

After leaving Xinyang City, the fleet headed upstream and moved northward along Luoshui.After the Luoshui, Yangtze River, and Huangniu River confluences, walk eastwards to the Yongan Canal, and there are two wide waterways to be walked.If you go west along the Yangtze River for a while, you can turn into Yishui.In Yishui and Luoshui, this curved line separates the boundary of the Central Plains, and to the west of Luoshui is the southwestern avenues controlled by the Xieqi Banner Army.

After the Yangtze River, along the Yishui River and through the Mangdang Mountain, it is the barren northwestern land.I don't know why the composition of the earth is so magical. The southwest is the land of fish and rice, and the northwest is the land of bitter cold.The further north, the worse the barrenness.When we reached Shandong Road, it was basically warm for a few days throughout the year.

After passing through Shandong Road, further north is the mountain range around Lang Ru Shan.Lang Ru Mountain turned north-south from the north-south direction on the north side of Shandong Road, and turned into the east-west direction.However, after crossing the Wolf Mountain to the north, it was still a grassland, but even this grassland was too lazy to take care of it.

Crossing this place that is already the border of the grassland is the 100,000 mountains where the people of North Liao once lived.If the coldness of Fan Gucheng can be tolerated, then the coldness of 100,000 mountains can only be tolerated by the people of North Liao who lived there for generations.

If you change to other ethnic groups, I'm afraid I won't be able to persevere if I can't get through it for long.

Why the 100,000 mountains are so cold, it is impossible to tell.It's as if no one understands why the Northwest of the Great Sui is so barren, and no one can understand why there are so cold places like 100,000 mountains in the world.It is said that the people of the Northern Liao nationality always wanted to be a vassal to the Great Sui, but the emperor of the Great Sui did not give a clear answer. The Northern Liao Dahan sent people to search north to try to find another suitable place to live.

But to their disappointment, the further north, the colder it is.The farthest team went out for three thousand miles, but they couldn't see the stone mountain anymore, and they saw awe-inspiring icebergs.

In this way, the people of Beiliao will completely die.

Fang Jie spread out the map of Da Sui when he was idle on the big ship.There is no news from Gyeonggi Province yet, even if he is a little restless.However, he left Xiang Qingniu and Wu Yi together, calculating that Xiao Xiaojiu had already received the message to rush here, and there should be no trouble.

The map of Da Sui is still exhaustive. Drawing an exhaustive map in such an era is actually a very difficult task. It is much more than the road taken by Yang Jian, the great emperor of the Sui Dynasty, to build an empire.It takes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to complete in a few years or even decades.

The map in Fang Jie's hands was renewed during the years of Emperor Zong of the Great Sui Dynasty, and was much more detailed than the maps sent by Taizong in his later years.The map also added the area around Da Sui, and the map drawn during the Taizong period only marked out who controlled those places.

Fang Jie's finger moved on the map, from the southern end of Luoshui, that is, Yunnan Road had to go eastward, and went north. After turning to the Yangtze River, he turned a corner to Yishui and then went north.

The birthplace of Yishui is said to be on Lang Ru Shan, the east-western Lang Ru Shan.It is said that there is a Tianchi on Lang Ru Mountain, which is very vast.

However, because the terrain is too dangerous, it is not very clear.Such a big river that almost runs through the north and south, where the source is, it is actually difficult to verify, and the people sent by the Ministry of Engineering of the Sui Dynasty can't go to Lang Rushan at all.

"looking at what?"

Sang Sata asked Ning Er, sitting next to Fang Jie.

Fang Xie reached out to take Ning Er and hugged him in his arms.The little guy has adapted to his father's arms these days, and without teasing her, she looked at Fang Jie and grinned.Fang Jie took a kiss on her forehead, which made her feel very satisfied.

"I always have a question I don't understand.

Fang Xie pointed his finger to Fan Gu's side: "To the west of Fan Gu, turning over Langrui Mountain is the grassland. The grass on the grassland is rich, why is there almost no grass on the edge of Shandong? If you go further north, you can't go far beyond the mountain or the grassland. , Although I have n’t been there, Yunshu said the pastures are OK. "

He stretched his hand and drew a circle on the location of Shandong Road: "It's just across a mountain range ... Further east, Shandong Road is the most barren, and the better the environment is, the more it goes to Hexi Road, which is basically the same as Hedong Road. There is not much difference between the two sides. The most troubled place is this place on Shandong Road. "

Sang Sai looked at Fang Jie ’s fingers for a while and nodded: “If you do n’t say it, you have n’t noticed it. It ’s a little strange, why is the grassland on the west side of Langrui Mountain nothing, and the barren side on the east side? , The grassland west of Langrui Mountain is also cold, but it does not affect the growth of pasture. "

"Is there a big monster living under the Shandong Road?"

Fang Jie said with a smile.

Sang Saisa also smiled: "If there is such a big beast, there is still a way for people to live. I came from there, and the natural environment there is terrible. My strength is also in that part of Shandong Road The weakest one can hardly borrow much natural force. "

Fang Jie stunned slightly, and thought of something faintly, but the thought was fleeting and he couldn't think of anything else.

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Wan Yanshu held a delicate pastry in his hand and fed it to Ning Er little by little.While feeding, he recalled: "It's really strange to say that the coldness of the 100,000 mountains can't stand people from other places except our Bei Liao ethnic group. Listening to Father Khan said, at the earliest time, we in Bei Liao The tribe lives here. "

She pointed to the narrow grassland in the north of the Wolf Mountain and the south of the 100,000 Mountain: "Although this place is also very cold, there is no problem with grazing horses and grazing sheep. After the establishment of the Mengyuan Empire, the wolf rides on the open land. , Hit here, although our tribal warriors are very strong, but they are no match for the huge number of Mongolian wolf riders, they have to retreat into the 100,000 mountains. After many years and many years, our people have adapted to the cold, just Lien Warhorse gradually adapted. "

"So you have cold cavalry."

Fang Xie said with a smile.

Wan Yanshu nodded: "Father Khan said that the horses brought into the 100,000 mountains at the earliest time were almost dead, and finally there were only dozens of horses. The ethnic people guarded them as if they were guarding the treasures. There were few ponies born afterwards. In the fourth year after the tribe moved to the 100,000 mountains, there were only two horses left in the tribe. Fortunately, one male and one female ... Strangely, reborn The pony that came down seems to be naturally not afraid of the cold, and can run on the snowy mountains. During this period, the tribe has always sent people to the small tribes on the grassland to pillage, mating and breeding with the snatched horses and the horses in the tribe. Re-own the horses. "

She wiped Xiao Ning'er's mouth with a handkerchief: "The tribes have lived so hard for a thousand years, and they did not dare to let the Mongolian people know about our breeding of horses, until the size of the horses more than two hundred years ago. It ’s too big to hide. But at that time we were not particularly afraid of the Mongolian people. When they came, we ran to the mountains. When they left, we went to plunder on the grassland. "

"In order to suppress our tribes, the wolf riders will start a siege of our tribes within a few years."

She sighed and thought of her parents.

"I don't know if Father Khan lived in their new home or not. There has been no news from them for a while."

"correct"

She suddenly remembered something: "Do you remember, there was a Mr. Han among the tribes."

Fang Jie naturally remembered and nodded.

"It ’s so cold on the mountain, but I do n’t know why, there will always be Han Chinese. One will be gone, and another one will come soon. Father Khan once guessed whether there are any secrets in this mountain. Those Han people pretended to stay in the tribe. Professor Citizenship is actually secretly exploring something. "

"What can there be?"

Sang Sai saw that Ning'er was sleepy, hugged him in Huailai and patted gently: "What can be hidden in the 100,000 mountains?"

"do not know"

Wan Yanshu shook his head: "Father Khan just speculates that our tribe is not like a Han practitioner who has great skills, so there is no way to investigate the secret of Dashan. But the Han in our tribe, but every other day Just leave, and come back one or two months later. So Father Khan would speculate that he only regarded our tribe as a temporary home because he needed supplies to stay.

Fang Xie pondered for a while, but could not think of what could be hidden in such a cold place as the 100,000 mountains.

"What if it's not a treasure?"

Sang Sa Sa suddenly said: "We have been thinking that the Han people in the Yunshu tribe passed from the Central Plains. But why can't they come out of the depths of the 100,000 mountains? Maybe a long time ago Some practitioners have been there, and feel that there is no dispute with the world, so they stay and practice hard. But they do n’t want to live in occlusion, so they send people out to check the news from time to time. The practitioners in the Great Mountain sent sentinels to observe the outside world. "

"sentinel?"

Fang Xie repeated it and smiled.

Sang Saisa's statement is somewhat unbelievable, but the possibility is not very big.

"That man's cultivation is not high."

Fang Jiedao.

Sang Saida said: "Natural cultivation is not high, can someone who is cultivation advanced become a sentry? If it is my guess, they are also sent out disciples, and they are not the best disciples. This kind of drudgery, naturally It ’s the disciples who are not very promising under the door to do it, or it ’s just not flattering. "

"anyway."

Fang Xie said: "If you can suffer that, the 100,000 mountains are really a good place to practice. There is the purest place, and no one disturbs you. If it is really like what whispers think, maybe there is nothing in the 100,000 mountains Practitioners. "

After Fang Jie explained this sentence, something suddenly flashed in his mind, but he still didn't catch it.

He always felt that he had ignored something.