Qi Luo was right next to him, and Chu Huan didn't have much argument, so he led the two of them to continue north along the Gobi Desert.

He didn't know whether the mission had left the desert now, and he thought that he would see the crowd when he walked out of the Gobi Desert again. The Qin State mission had a large number of people. If he really walked out of the desert, it would probably spread on the edge of the desert. When the time came, he would ask someone to inquire and meet with the mission as soon as possible.

Although it is not clear whether the mission has already walked out of the desert before him, Chu Huan is sure that if the mission really comes out, even if it doesn't stay all waiting near the Gobi Desert, there will be a few people waiting for him.

It’s strange that it’s hard to bear the heat in the desert, but after entering the Gobi Desert, although there is still a sun in the sky, the temperature drops a lot. It was already June and July in Qin State, and it was the hot weather. However, after entering the Gobi Desert, the border of Xiliang, was like autumn and was not hot.

The Gobi Desert is full of broken stones and cracks, looking endlessly. Looking at the distance, I only feel that the heaven and earth are connected, and everything is silent. It seems that there are only three of us in the universe.

Chu Huan didn't know how big the Gobi Desert was and how long it would take to walk out. When asked Qiluo, he saw Qiluo and said in a daze: "When I entered the desert, I didn't come from here, and I didn't know how long it would take to walk."

Although Qiluo is from Xiliang, she obviously has no understanding of the landforms of the desert Gobi. Chu Huan knew that she was not reliable and could only continue to go north.

From the afternoon to the night, I found that there was a stone forest on the Gobi plain, densely packed, like a maze of huge rocks. On the road ahead, these stone pillars were already dry and cracked, obviously for many years.

Chu Huan and the other two rested outside the stone forest, not daring to go too deep, so as not to go through more trouble after entering, and just thought about bypassing the stone forest tomorrow morning.

Having used food and water, the three of them now have thick Xiliang military uniforms, so they don’t have to hold them together to rest. Chu Huan had used food and water, walked to the side, leaned under a stone pillar, looked up at the night sky, and thought that he could escape from the vast desert, it seemed that God was not too ruthless.

After getting out of danger, Chu Huan was about to start thinking about going to Qingluo City, Xiliang.

The purpose of this trip was to welcome the Princess of Xiliang, but His Majesty the Emperor had a private order and there were quite a lot of things to do. Not only did he need to figure out the structure and scale of Qingluo City, the capital of Xiliang, but he also needed to understand the political situation in Xiliang. The large amount of money brought in this time was not all used as betrothal gifts. Among them, a large number of comparisons were used to make friends with noble ministers of Xiliang. In fact, he wanted to get some useful information from them. If he could buy a few rich nobles of Xiliang for use by Qin, he would be even more unsuccessful.

In addition, the transportation routes in the desert were also something that His Majesty the Emperor wanted very much, but there was no news at the moment. I thought I could only wait to Qingluo City, Xiliang to see if I could get the news from the Xiliang nobles.

Chu Huan didn't think it was difficult to buy the nobles of Xiliang. No matter which ethnic group, there would be people who were greedy for money. The wealth brought by the Qin delegation this time was enough to get a lot of useful information.

Chu Huan was also very interested in the country of Xiliang, just because in his memory, although there was no Qin State, there was no Xiliang State.

The Western Liang Kingdom was a very mysterious country for the Qin people. Chu Huan only knew that the Western Liang Kingdom had been established for hundreds of years. It is said that there were many small countries in this land, and the Western Liang Kingdom was just one of them. At that time, the Western Regions had close contacts with the Central Plains, and the exchanges between the two sides were very frequent. It is said that the Western Liang Kingdom had also paid tribute to the Central Plains dynasty at that time, and even the Western Liang people learned from the Central Plains dynasty, and they admired Han culture very much.

Among the countries in the Western Regions, customs and humanities are different, and even the languages ​​are diverse. Among the countries, the small country in Xiliang, which was the most influenced by the Central Plains, once introduced the political system of the Central Plains dynasty, and even the writing and language of the Central Plains were the objects of imitation of the Western Liang Kingdom. At that time, in addition to their own local language, the people of Xiliang were mostly speaking Chinese, but some merchants in the Central Plains crossed the desert and hired the people of Xiliang as translators to communicate with the people of the Western Regions.

Hundreds of years ago, the Western Liang Kingdom gradually became stronger and they had a powerful army. Because the trade center with the Central Plains was within the Xiliang territory, the Western Liang economy also developed rapidly. Then the era of iron-blooded expansion began. It was from that time that the road for exchanges between the Western Regions and the Central Plains was blocked. The Western Liang Kingdom changed the friendly attitude that had humbly learned from the Central Plains dynasty and began to become tougher towards the Central Plains dynasty. After several incidents of Central Plains merchants being killed, the gates of exchange between the Central Plains and the Western Regions were closed, and the once lively Jingulan Desert began to become deserted.

It is precisely because the Jin Gulan Desert lies in it that the Central Plains dynasty did not launch a military strike on the Western Regions, but only blocked the checkpoints and once cut off trade with the Western Regions.

The trade between the Central Plains and foreign countries was once divided into three parts, one was trade with the Goryeo Kingdom in the northeast, one was trade with the Yiman tribes in the northern grasslands, and the other was trade with the countries in the Western Regions. Among the three trade lines, before the Western Liang Kingdom dominated the Western Regions, trade in the Western Regions was naturally the most prosperous and the focus of the Central Plains and foreign trade. However, after the Western Liang began to expand in the Western Regions, this trade line quickly deteriorated, and instead trade with the Yiman tribes in the northern grasslands became the center of the empire.

I don’t know whether it was Xiliang who was concerned about the Central Plains dynasty’s involvement in the Western Regions or for other reasons, when the Western Liang Kingdom was engaged in an expansion war, it cut off the connection between the Western Regions and the Central Plains and once forbidden the Central Plains people from entering the Western Regions. In the following decades, the exchanges between the two sides were almost blank.

The Central Plains Dynasty only knew that there was a Western Liang Kingdom expanding in the Western Regions. The Western Regions were involved in an era of iron-blooded chaos. The Central Plains Dynasty naturally had no intention of inquiries about what happened in the Western Regions, and also closed its borders and ignored the matters in the Western Regions.

It was not until many years later that a group of Western Liang soldiers riding war horses and sabers came to the border of Qin and unexpectedly broke into the pass, burning, killing and looting the people in the pass. At this time, the Central Plains finally remembered that the troubled times in the Western Regions had ended. They soon knew that the small Western Liang country, which was once inconspicuous in the Western Regions, had become the most powerful country in the Western Regions, annexed many small countries, and established the powerful Western Liang country.

The hatred between the two sides began to arise from that time. There were always a small group of cavalry in Xiliang who passed through the Jingulan Desert and advanced into the pass and robbed it in a large amount, but they did not dare to go too far. The Central Plains Dynasty also consumed huge manpower and material resources since then, strengthening the passes in various gaps in Panlongling, setting up posts, and sending more garrisons, forming a northern defense line. Since then, the people of Xiliang want to enter the pass unscrupulously, which has become a luxury.

The two countries did not know when they started, but they continued to resume civil trade exchanges intermittently. However, the officials of the two countries have not conducted normal official exchanges and have little knowledge of each other's situation. However, perhaps the trade between the two sides has indeed brought great benefits to their own countries. The two countries turned a blind eye to civil trade and even secretly protected them, which has formed a very strange exchange between the two countries, and the people come but the officials do not come.

The private trade was intermittent, and traders showed a cooperative attitude at that time, but they never communicated politically and competed against each other in military terms. Xiliang almost never gave up on military attacks on the Central Plains, but before Xiao Tianwen broke through Yanmen Pass, he never posed a real military threat to the Central Plains.

The land area and population of the Xiliang people were naturally far apart from the Qin State, but in the Western Regions, it was definitely a first-class power. Moreover, the Xiliang Kingdom, both men and women, could ride horses and shoot arrows. In times of crisis, even women and children could become combat power. Moreover, they had the most powerful Xiliang horse in the world. Compared with military strength and combat literacy, the Xiliang people were definitely not inferior to the Qin army, and were even much higher.

Although the people of Xiliang had their own local language, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the People of Xiliang ordered that the people in China must learn Chinese and learn Chinese characters while maintaining their own language. Therefore, although the people of Xiliang and the Central Plains have great differences in customs and customs, it is very easy to communicate culturally because of the similarity between the characters and languages.

At least if the people from the Central Plains enter the Western Liang, or if the people from the Western Liang enter the Central Plains, there will be no trouble of language and writing.

Chu Huan was thinking about something, and thought about how to deal with Mei Niang. After passing through the desert, it was a deception to say that he had no feelings for Mei Niang, but his camp was different, which made Chu Huan feel very upset. He looked at the ground with his eyes, and suddenly his eyebrows were tightened, and his eyes were alert. He had already grasped the blood-drinking knife by his waist with one hand.

At this time, he had seen a light appear on the ground beside him. The light was not conspicuous, but Chu Huan was very alert because he had already judged that the light was not the starlight in the sky, but the cold light reflected from the blade. If there was no error in judgment, someone would have touched it with a knife behind the stone pillar he was relying on.

Chu Huan remained silent and narrowed his eyes slightly. He had not noticed before that there were people hiding in the stone forest. He had already judged that there were more than one person behind the stone pillar. The sword light flashed on the ground, with at least two or three people.

At this moment, he had heard Mei Niang's delicate shouts coming from over there, and then he heard Mei Niang shouting, "Brother Huan, go quickly, there is an ambush here..." At the same time, a strong wind was already blowing behind the stone pillar, and the sword light was lit up. Chu Huan was ready, and one leg had swept across. With a "peng", he swept to the man's leg. The man "Ouch" and fell to the ground, while another knife had been cut off from Chu Huan's back.

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