When General Guo saw that they had just come out of the Protectorate's Mansion, he was afraid that his father would do something bad again, so he hurriedly asked: "Master Zhou came here because..."
Man Bao smiled and said: "We got some clues about the vaccinia method, so we want to try it out and ask General Guo for help."
General Guo Xiao wanted to know more about it, but Mr. Zhuang was here, and he had a lot to say, and it was hard for him to say it.
Master Zhuang saw his hesitation, so he smiled with Bai Shanzhou and said: "You just came back, catch up with the two little generals, I will go back first."
Bai Shan immediately asked Daji to send Mr. Zhuang back.
General Guo Xiao let out a sigh of relief, and then invited them to a restaurant for a drink and a meal, and talk by the way.
Holding the pot to pour tea for them, he asked with a smile, "When did you come back?"
"It's only been two days."
It was not long.
General Meng asked them curiously, "Where did you go? It's very chaotic outside now, and even businessmen rarely run around. Are you afraid of encountering soldiers and bandits outside?"
"Didn't you almost wipe out all the horse thieves and bandits?"
General Guo Xiao couldn't help but said: "That's the trade route going east, but aren't you going west to find the cowpox method?"
Bai Shandao: "We went north first and then west."
And Qiuci is in the southwest of Xizhou, so it is indeed staggered.
General Guo Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he was quite worried that something would happen to them, especially within Anxi's jurisdiction.
General Guo asked cryptically, his father shouldn't have committed any crimes, right
Bai Shan smiled and mentioned their request for coming this time, and said: "General Guo has already promised us, and he will help us find places and people in the near future."
General Guo began to think about it, this matter is actually not difficult, he thinks it can be done without his father, decided to ask the people in the Duhu Mansion who is in charge of this matter after returning home, and tell them later to help them as much as possible do it.
He also hoped that Zhou Man, Bai Shan and others would finish their work and leave Xizhou as soon as possible, not because they were not welcome, but to prevent them from conflicting with his father again.
To be honest, he still likes them quite a bit. After all, he has few friends at the same age. Apart from General Meng, there are only two friends who can be called friends, and they are not nearby.
It's rare to meet people of the same age who don't look at him differently because of his father, and are not afraid of his father. He still wants to make friends.
Especially when the other party has a good character and appearance.
It's a pity that they are not afraid of his father, and they don't look at him any differently, but they have a bit of a sharp eye for his father.
After dinner, General Guo and Meng sent people back to the gate of their courtyard, and then got on their horses and left.
After leaving the alley, Little General Meng looked back, and said to General Guo: "It's a pity that there are few medicinal materials in Xizhou City, and they don't make medicines anymore, otherwise I really want to buy some medicines with them."
He said: "You have also used their hemostatic medicine, is it better than the one we brought at home?"
General Guo Xiao nodded, "There is a lack of supplies in Xizhou, there is no way to do it, but the grain and grass will arrive in two days, there must be medicinal materials used in the army, I will look at it later and allocate more for you. You can ask them to help make medicines."
Little General Meng was overjoyed, "Brother, I would like to thank you in advance. We don't bring much wound medicine. Last time we broke through the border in Tubo, we injured many people, and most of the medicine was gone."
General Guo Xiao said: "I heard what General Ashina said, this time he will send another person to the south to guard the border, and then let you follow us to conquer Kucha?"
Little General Meng smiled and said: "General Ashina, whom my father entrusted, is dangerous to be a striker, but it is easy to make meritorious service. This time, the Western Regions can basically be leveled. The Western Turks fought a dozen, but not many people in our Yumen Pass dared to detain them, so there are few opportunities to make meritorious deeds."
"Are you going to stay at Yumen Pass?"
"I am the eldest son, my father still wants to keep me at Yumen Pass, and will succeed him in the future to continue guarding Yumen Pass."
General Guo Xiao didn't know what he thought of, and said a little disappointed: "I may also stay in Anxi with my father."
Anxi has many opportunities to make meritorious service, but its importance and prosperity are far less than those of Yumen Pass.
And General Guo's behavior...
Little General Meng reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and asked, "By the way, how is the morale in your army?"
"good."
Not only is it okay, since General Ashina came, the morale of the army has increased a lot.
There may be a general in charge. General Guo personally promised to the soldiers that if Kucha is captured this time, everyone will be rewarded for their merits after the war.
This sentence means that General Guo here means that the soldiers can share the spoils.
The soldiers who haven't added cotton clothes for two years have heard that their morale is soaring, and now they all want to go to Kucha as soon as possible.
It's rare for their generals to be so generous.
General Guo thought of something, stopped his horse and said, "I'll go back to the army."
"Do you want to find prisoners for Zhou Man and the others?"
"The mansion is busy with the expedition, I'm afraid I can't do enough, so I'll go and have a look."
Little General Meng knew his concerns, so he didn't follow him, but parted ways with him.
But Man Bao and the others turned around and were about to enter the courtyard after watching the people leave, when the opposite courtyard door opened, and the person who had been watching through the crack of the door immediately jumped out, "Are you back?"
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked back at them with puzzled faces, "Didn't we meet the day before we came back?"
The evening before yesterday, they ran over in a daze to say that they wanted to celebrate and had dinner together.
Da Yu laughed awkwardly, and immediately pointed to the people around him and said, "We've seen it before, but you haven't seen Batur, have you?"
He said: "Not long after you left, he came here to send us news."
Bai Shandao: "Erlang told us, thank the mayor for his kindness, and when we go back, if we have a chance, we must thank you."
Upon hearing this, Da Yu immediately asked, "When are we going back?"
Man Bao said with a look of embarrassment: "It may be next year."
The heavy rain frowned, and the outside is not stable now. Although the commercial roads are open, it is still very dangerous to fight. Who knows when they will encounter broken soldiers
Meeting disabled soldiers is more dangerous than meeting horse thieves.
And there are always troops coming from Yumen Pass to support them, in case they are killed as horse thieves along the way...
I heard that when General Ashina came all the way, all the horse thieves and bandits he encountered were harvested without stopping.
Heavy Rain and Batur looked at each other, gritted their teeth and said, "Next year will be next year."
I hope that their skins can be kept when they go back, so I just escort them once, who knows that it will take so long, will the mayor really not peel them