Ashina Sili, who was a little dizzy in the bumps, was thrown to the side of the car by the sudden pause, and then he got up again. He saw the driver quickly step forward and pull him up and mutter loudly:

"The road ahead is blocked?...Search the guy, turn around quickly!"

"What's going on?"

Ashinasi asked, he raised the hunting bow in his hand, quickly hanged the strings and arrows, and leaned against the body to raise it upwards to make a stance to shoot.

But I saw a little bit of smoke rising from the intersection ahead. As the driver drove the mule to turn around and shout, the yellow and white grass on the road ahead suddenly turned over and turned down. Several figures of ragged clothes but stalked swords and guns rushed out.

Asina Sili couldn't help but instinctively reacted, and a figure rushed out fell, and then rolled into the dust and tripped and rolled into another person. The driver who was whipping the whip couldn't help but turn his face and exclaimed:

"You are a good man!"

“Ha...it’s OK.”

Ashina Sili couldn't help but slashed his face honestly, but his hands and eyes kept hitting the strings and shooting arrows again, and immediately hit another thief's arm, causing him to rush to the ground. So the remaining three thieves couldn't help but slow down one after another and turned to support the injured; and let the driver complete the last turn of a little and a half.

At least he led a small leader with five horses, one cow, three hundred thin sheep, men, women, young and fifteen. But at least he had seen blood in disputes with other people's water (source) grass (field) and other people, and had wild horses and hunted yellow sheep. Before winter and in the beginning of spring, he led his tribe to repel the hungry wolf pack and covet livestock.

Although he could only rely on eating rye paste and sour smell, and half-baked, tasteless black and dried meat to fill his stomach, a few rolls of coarse felt and a big sheepskin cloak were the most valuable items for all people. So he was so poor that he could not get his wife at such an age, but could only expect the tribe to steal one during the war; but his basic skills of being born on horseback hunting were still not lost.

It’s a pity that his archery and horse shooting skills are quite exquisite. In front of the array of Taiping swords, guns and firearms, they are just straw-woven paper-patterned things or like mantis armed on a chariot. They were killed before they could approach, and were depressed. Now, they can only deal with these bandits and bandits.

As Ashinasili thought about this, he jumped onto the mule cart that started to speed up and trot again. At this time, the driver also freed up a hand, picked up the small crossbow and pressed it on his leg, and pulled it up and turned it in a targeted manner, and shot the nearest thief who had caught up again.

So, the remaining two thieves couldn't help but completely lose their courage and fighting spirit when they saw this. They whined like wild dogs and turned their heads and fled back into the grass, and moved further away from the overturning movement. So, the two mule carts waiting to retreat were also sweating and the big mules were reluctant to turn their heads back.

Under the cover of Ashinasili's bow, the driver quickly checked the corpses that were pounced on the road, then dragged them away from the road to the side. He packed all the swords, guns and weapons he held, and piled them in the empty space of the cart as an after-provement. Then he drove back to the road ahead.

Only then did Ashina Sili have the intention and spare time, and he opened his voice in an infamiliar tone:

"Helping, the list is on the list... no... didn't it mean that the country has been cleared?"

"It's really cleared up on the land!"

This young driver, who has a skillful demeanor, shook his avatar and said:

"But the local water camp in Luzhou collapsed before the battle, and now they are escaping everywhere in Chaohu Lake. Now they rely on the hiding of the water and reeds in the border areas. These people will run out to rob their families or do some risky interception activities. It will take some time to clean up?"

"But be content with your concern, it is rare for us to happen on weekdays; it's really a coincidence that if I don't hurry to travel and bring two more people from the town, maybe they may not dare to do it!"

"Get... that's fine..."

Ashinasili couldn't help but nod and praised that this kind of scene was not a rare thing on the grassland outside the border. After every dispute between the ministry and annexation, or the chaos caused by famine, or during the seasonal migration, many such scattered bandits, Ma Kou and others will always be created.

At least before being starved to death or being killed in a fight, they would like to wandering on the grassland to survive, follow and attack each without hesitation, and appear in their sight alone, passers-by and migrant tribes with more elderly and weak people.

It was not until the large tribes in a certain area suddenly rose, and in the rapid and rapid battle, all the tribes and tents were unified under the banner of a certain alliance; these horse thieves and bandits wandering on the grasslands would calm down and disappear for a while.

However, once the co-lord of this tribal alliance dies unexpectedly, or suffers major or painful defeats in the plundering south; it will set off a new round of bloody storm of invasion and fighting between large and small tribes. In the process of final victory, more sources of various horse thieves will be created again.

This is the fragile ecology and extensive economic system on the grassland outside the border, which is an inevitable and extremely short and fast cycle of governance and chaos. In contrast, under the rule of these peaceful thieves in the Tang Dynasty, there were only two or three of these kittens who had the path-sliding men, which was enough to be called the blessing of immortality.

Just as the driver and the stuttering Asina Sili were talking in a mess, the bumpy car suddenly became cheerful, and the edge of the village with a wooden fence was exposed. However, on the trees on both sides of the relatively spacious road outside the village, there were corpses of different new and old hanging.

There are still vaguely visible on each corpse that is written with cloth strips, but it is somewhat blurred because of the wind, sun and rain. The most common one is the crime of killing and robbing people. It is often rows and swaying gently in the wind; it is like welcoming (warning and deterring) every way to pedestrians and passengers.

Seeing this scene, Ashinasi became more and more relieved. After all, on the edge of the vast desert where he lived, the barren and barren grasslands everywhere, weren’t those tents that could be decorated with more enemies’ heads, which were stronger and more able to protect their own troops?

"I want to thank the Taiping Thief here?"

And in the farm where they were passing by, a man dressed in a Confucian scholar sighed:

"Although this generation has captured my hometown and caused countless elders to be displaced and moved to foreign lands, it has finally ended the situation where local clans and neighbors have become trenches and fight against each other and invade the road since the chaos of the thief army and the changes in Guangling? How many harmonious and friendly people have become blood feuds for generations!"

——I am the ending dividing line—

And above the large lake called Baishuitang (the predecessor of Hongze Lake) at the intersection of the Huai River and the Si Shui River.

The black and thin bow of the other "Old Crab" has just checked the newly harvested alkaline earth in the warehouse, which is to use alkaline oars to dry and burn them into wood ash. This thing is also one of the largest productions in the three towns of Huai Shang. Not only are the vassal states running around to prepare, but even the private transactions are constantly being made.

Because there are too many alkaline piers as raw materials everywhere, and they grow quickly, collecting and processing are particularly simple. However, if they are loaded and sent to the wild market set up by the mouth of the river, they can be directly exchanged for the corresponding grain cloth and cloth according to different barter ratios.

On the other hand, this thing is also an important raw material widely used under the Taiping Army. It is not only very useful in folk pastry fermentation and processing, but also can be used as one of the catalysts for primary industrial production with three acids and two alkalis as the core. Therefore, no matter how much it produces, it is quickly digested like a sponge absorbs water.

Therefore, the "old crab" only used more than 100 coarse cloth and ten iron pots with lids to exchange for the alkaline earth blocks of most of the ship. As long as he could leave the Huai River and return to Hu Douzhou in the south, the more than 20,000 kilograms of alkaline earth blocks on the ship could be re-turned to the corresponding Taiping New Money, or equivalent sea salt, ironware, or other Southeast specialties at the landing purchase price of ten cents per kilogram.

This is also due to the welfare and priority opportunities provided by the Grand Governor's Office for the first group of sea families who participated in military transportation and persistently served. At that time, the old crab was able to start his own business from his former boss, Annan ship merchant Hu Liena and the Hu Jingshui brothers, and became one of the many emerging small boat owners outside the ridge.

Then, he relied on a sea boat of 200 materials taken from Guangzhou, following the master Solomeng, a great man in central Fujian, and had been in the trafficking business from Guangzhou to Jiangdong for several years, turning the small boat into a large ship, and an old boat into three boats, one big and two small. Now he is walking on the short-term route from Guangzhou to Fuzhou, Fuzhou to Yuezhou respectively.

Then he saw that after the Taiping Army took all Jiangdong, the off-site trafficking business that had certain risks had also become a relatively stable and long-lasting human-cargo shipping business; but he did not want others to be born as a safe person, and became one of the many wealthy families who were profitable.

Instead, he took advantage of the origins he had made in the past and found Solomon, the owner of Solomon, who had a wide range of business and a wide range of business; he won a new way to trade alkaline earth among the people in the northern Huai River. Although it was not as good as the official exchanges of the bulk, even if he picked up some leftovers from the corner, it would be enough to benefit him.

Therefore, in addition to the initial lack of experience and storage methods, the alkaline soil sold back was wet and soaked in the tide, resulting in a loss of a ship of cargo; the other times not only quickly made the lost capital back, but also made a lot of extra profits. Therefore, he had already begun to plan to buy the fourth ship.

Therefore, after visiting local shipyards in Fu, Quan, Wen, Ming, Yue, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Changzhou on the southeast coast, he finally fell in love with a new five-hundred-material cutter boat that was being built. In order to pay the deposit, he had already spent all his savings and wealth, so he made a special wish in the Sea God Temple, and he would not eat wine, drink banquets or go to the courtyard...

According to his estimate, the ship was trafficked back, and the labor costs of all kinds of people were paid for at least one-quarter of the price of getting off the new ship. After the new ship was bought and he had to bring all the people, he could try to follow the troop led by Master Suo and run a further route.

For example, if you travel across the sea to foreign vassals such as Silla and Bohai, you will not be able to do business to Hebei, rather than just running back and forth between the rivers and seas near the shore. However, he was thinking about whether he would continue the tide and drive upstream for a while to fill the remaining space of the ship dealer.

But when the ship sailed out of the waters of Baishuitang and re-entered Huai River, the old crab suddenly heard the water husband who was responsible for watching in the hanging bucket on the mast, and began to ring the bell and shout four times:

"Boat, many ships are coming from above..."

The old crab was suddenly shocked and quickly took out a large amount of money to get it from the official website. The seriously worn white copper single-eye mirror was hard to look into the upstream direction in the distance. Then he saw many small and small ships slowly flowing downstream on the river surface where the vague fog was not dissipated, as well as the reflections of swords, weapons and armor and weapons vaguely printed on the ship.

Seeing this, the old crab immediately said:

"No, Yanhuai is afraid that the war will start...

"Bow of the boat, let's release it out of the sea as soon as possible."

One of the subordinates who had been with him for many years said quickly:

"No, let's take a boat to Shanyang here..."

The old crab seemed to have made up some decision and said: After all, he knew a little that as the three towns on Huai Shang were defeated, only the Caizhou army located upstream of the Huai River had the corresponding needs and ability to rush the Huai River. When these people were rampant on land, they needed to ship to transport them to transport them, so they became very clear.

However, not long after, someone shouted again on the mast:

"Ship owner, those ships are closer... These people are starting to paddle and accelerate."

"Ship owner, let's turn around and let the water flow out of the sea!"

Another subordinate quickly persuaded:

"We have a small boat, but we are afraid we can't escape those boats against the trend."

The others echoed:

"No, let's go to Shanyang!"

The old crab did shout more and more firmly:

"At worst, I can pour all the alkaline earth in the warehouse to lose weight..."

"Ship owner, you must not..."

"Is that a business worth a hundred yuan?"

"That's your hard work and capital..."
Chapter completed!