There are not many boats on the river. Although the war has left Luoshui, the shadow of the war is still there. Most of the fishermen on both sides of the strait have moved away, and those who can't go far will try to move to places controlled by the Black Banner Army on the West Bank. Perhaps people are the most difficult to recover after the war. Compared with the current green trees and flowers blooming on both sides of the strait, most of the people's hearts are still gray and gloomy.
There are four Huanglong Clippers in front, and the same is true in the back. In the middle is a huge warship, which has not been modified, and the ship building is still there.
After leaving Xinyang City, the fleet went upstream along the Luoshui River. After passing Luoshui River, the Yangtze River, and the intersection of Huangniu River, go eastward to Yong'an Canal, and there are two wide waterways to go to. If you go west along the Yangtze River for a while, you can turn into Yishui. Yishui and Luoshui, the line that turned a corner is the boundary that separates the Central Plains. To the west of Luoshui is the southwestern roads controlled by Fang Jie's Black Banner Army.
After passing the Yangtze River and passing through the Mangdang Mountains along the Yishui River, you will find the barren land in the Northwest. 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 you go, the more barren you become. On the side of Shandong Road, it is basically not warm for a few days throughout the year.
After passing through Shandong Road, further north is the mountain range turned by Langru Mountain. On the north side of Shandong Road, Langru Mountain turned from north to south about 90 degrees and turned into an east-west direction. However, after crossing Langru Mountain to the north, it is still a grassland, but even the Quoke Taimeng family doesn't bother to take care of this grassland.
Passing through this area that is already the border of the grassland is the Hundred Thousand Mountains where the Beiliao people once lived. If the cold in Fangu City can be tolerated, then the cold in Shiwan Dashan can only be tolerated by the people of Beiliao who have lived there for generations.
If you change to another nationality, I am afraid that you will not be able to hold on for a long time.
Why the Shiwan Dashan is so cold is impossible to explain. Just as no one understands why the northwest of the Sui Dynasty is so barren, no one can understand why there are such cold places as the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the world. It is said that the people of the Northern Liao nationality had always wanted to claim their vassalship to the Sui Dynasty, but the emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty did not give a clear answer. The Great Khan of the Northern Liao Dynasty sent people to explore to the north, trying to find another place suitable for human habitation.
But to their disappointment, the further north they went, the colder it became. The farthest team went out for a full three thousand miles, but they couldn't see the rocky mountains, but the daunting icebergs.
In this way, the Beiliao people completely gave up their hearts.
When Fang Jie had nothing to do on the big ship, he spread out the map of Tai Sui to have a look. There is no news from Gyeonggi Province yet, even if he is a little uneasy, there is nothing he can do. However, he left Xiang Qingniu and Wu together, and after calculating the distance, Xiao Yijiu had already received the message to go this way, so there shouldn't be any big troubles.
The map of the Sui Dynasty is fairly detailed. Drawing a detailed map in such an era is actually an extremely difficult task, which is much more difficult than the road that Emperor Taizu of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian traveled to build an empire. It takes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to complete it after several years or even decades.
The map in Fang Jie's hand was re-added during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Great Sui Dynasty, and it was much more detailed than the map that Taizong sent people to investigate and draw in his later years. This map also added the surrounding areas of the Sui Dynasty, while the map drawn during the reign of Emperor Taizong only marked who controlled those places.
Fang Jie's fingers moved on the map, from the south end of Luoshui, that is, the place where Yunnan Road is still further east, went straight north, turned a bend to Yishui after reaching the Yangtze River, and then went north.
The birthplace of Yishui is said to be on Langru Mountain, which runs from east to west. It is said that there is a Tianchi Lake on Langru Mountain, which is very vast.
However, because the terrain is too dangerous, it is not very clear. It is difficult to verify the source of such a large river that almost runs through the north and the south. The people sent by the Ministry of Industry in the Sui Dynasty could not go up to Langru Mountain at all.
"looking at what?"
Sang Sa Sa hugged Ning'er and sat down beside Fang Jie and asked.
Fang Jie stretched out his hand to take Ning'er over and hugged her in his arms. The little guy has gotten used to being in his father's embrace these days, so she just looked at Fang Xie and grinned without teasing her. Fang Jie kissed her on the forehead, and this feeling was extremely satisfying.
"I've always had a question that I can't figure out."
Fang Jie stretched out his finger and pointed at Fan Gu: "To the west of Fan Gu, the grassland is after crossing the Langru Mountain. The pasture is abundant on the grassland. Why is there almost no grass growing on the east side of the mountain? If you go further north, you can't go far and cross the mountain, it's still a grassland. , although I haven’t been there, but Yun Shu said that the pastures there are not bad.”
He stretched out his hand and drew a circle on the position of Shandong Road: "It's only separated by a mountain... Further east, Shandong Road is the most barren, and the further east the environment is better, and when you reach Hexi Road, it is basically the same as Hedong Road. There is not much difference. The most difficult place is Shandong Road."
Sang Sa Sa looked at Fang Jie's fingers for a while, then nodded: "If you didn't mention it, you didn't pay attention. It's really strange, why is the grassland on the west side of Langru Mountain so empty, and the east side is so barren? Well, it’s also cold on the grassland west of Langru Mountain, but it doesn’t affect the growth of grass.”
"Could it be that there is a big monster living underground on the side of Shandong Road?"
Fang Jie said with a smile.
Sang Sasha also smiled: "If there is such a big beast, there is no way for people to survive. I came from there, and the natural environment there is very bad. My strength is also in the area of Shandong Road. The weakest one can hardly borrow much natural force."
Fang Jie was slightly stunned, and thought of something vaguely, but the thought was fleeting, and if he thought about it again, he couldn't think of anything.
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Wanyan Yunshu held a delicate pastry in his hand, and fed it to Ning'er bit by bit. While feeding, he recalled: "It's really strange to say that the cold of the 100,000 mountains can't be tolerated by people from other places except us from the Beiliao people. I heard from my father that in the earliest days when we were in the Beiliao clan lives here."
She pointed to the long and narrow grassland to the north of Langru Mountain and south of Shiwanda Mountain: "Although this place is also very cold, there is no problem with herding horses and sheep. Later, after the establishment of the Mongolian Yuan Empire, wolves continued to expand their territory. , hit here, although our tribal warriors are very strong, they are no match for the huge number of Mongolian wolf cavalry, and have to retreat into the 100,000 mountains. After many years, our people have adapted to the cold, so Even the war horses are gradually getting used to it.”
"So you have the Cold Cavalry."
Fang Jie said with a smile.
Wanyan Yunshu nodded: "Father Khan said that the horses that were brought into the Shiwan Dashan in the earliest days were almost extinct, and in the end there were only a few dozen horses left, and the people guarded them as if they were treasures. Few of the ponies born later survived. In the fourth year after the tribe moved into Shiwanda Mountain, there were only two horses left in the tribe. It seems that the pony is not afraid of the cold by nature, and can gallop on the snow-capped mountains. During this period, the tribe has been sending people to the small tribes on the grassland to plunder, and use the stolen war horses to mate and breed with the war horses in the tribe. Own a herd of horses."
She wiped the corners of Xiao Ning'er's mouth with a handkerchief: "The tribe has lived so hard for a thousand years, and they dare not let the Mongolian people know about our breeding of horses. Until more than two hundred years ago, the size of the horses It was too big to hide. But at that time, we were no longer particularly afraid of the Mengyuan people. When they came, we ran into the mountains, and when they left, we went to the grassland to plunder."
"In order to suppress our tribe, the wolf cavalry will launch a siege and massacre of our tribe almost every few years."
She sighed, thinking of her parents.
"I don't know if Father Khan and the others are living well in their new home. I haven't heard from them for a while."
"correct."
She seemed to suddenly think of something: "Do you still remember that there used to be a Mr. Han in the tribe."
Fang Jie naturally remembered and nodded.
"It's so cold on the mountain, but I don't know why, there will always be Han people coming. One will leave, and another will come after a while. Father Khan once speculated whether there is some secret in this mountain, and those Han people pretended to stay in the tribe. Teaching ethnic culture is actually a secret investigation."
"What can there be?"
Seeing that Ning'er was sleepy, Sang Sasa hugged her and patted her lightly: "What can be hidden in a hundred thousand mountains?"
"have no idea."
Wanyan Yunshu shook his head: "Father Khan is only speculating that our tribe is not as capable as the Han people, so there is no way to explore the secrets of the mountain. But the Han man in our tribe, every once in a while Just leave, and come back every other month or two. That's why Father Khan speculates that he just regards our tribe as a temporary home, and he will stay because he needs supplies."
Fang Jie pondered for a while, but he couldn't think of what could be hidden in a place as cold as Shiwan Dashan.
"What if it's not a treasure?"
Sang Sasha suddenly said: "What we have been thinking about is that the Han people in the Yunshu tribe came from the Central Plains. But why can't they come from the depths of the Shiwan Mountain? Maybe a long, long time ago, There are some practitioners who have been there and feel that there is no conflict with the world, so they stay and practice hard. But they don’t want to live in isolation, so they send people out from time to time to inquire about the news. The Han in the Yunshu tribe may be ten The practitioners in the Wanda Mountain are the sentinels sent out to observe the outside world."
"sentinel?"
Fang Jie repeated it, then smiled.
Sang Sasha's statement is a bit unbelievable, but the possibility is actually not great.
"That person's cultivation base is not high."
Fang Jie said.
Sang Sasha said: "Naturally, the cultivation base is not high. How could a person with a high cultivation base be a sentinel? If it is what I speculate, he is also a disciple who was sent out, and he is not the best disciple. This kind of drudgery, naturally It is the disciples who are not very promising to do it, or they are not pleasing."
"anyway."
Fang Jie said: "If you can endure the hardship, the Hundred Thousand Mountains is really a good place to practice. It's the most pure place, and no one disturbs you. If it's what Sa Sa thinks, maybe there is something extraordinary living in the Hundred Thousand Mountains." Practitioner."
After Fang explained this sentence, something flashed in his mind suddenly, but he still didn't catch it.
He always felt that he had overlooked something.