"I was going to throw this thing away."

"But, fortunately, I took a look under the moonlight and brought it to you."

Li Guan smiled: "What do I need this stone for?"

The most beautiful woman in the world took out the stone and threw it to Li Guanyi. Li Guanyi grabbed it and was slightly stunned. He felt the touch of the stone falling on his hand. It was completely wrong. He looked carefully again and saw that under the moonlight

Glowing golden.

It's heavy, but it's a piece of naturally formed nugget gold.

Nangong Wumeng smiled slyly and said: "What's the matter? Your Majesty, can it be said that just this stone can make you so happy? Ah... there is really no change at all... ugh!"

Li Guanyi raised his head and grabbed Nangong Wumeng's wrist: "Well done!"

"I knew I was right to bring you here!"

Nangong Wumeng had smiled slyly just now, with charming eyes, but in the next moment he stammered: "You, you, you, you!"

Li Guan gave all his meat to Nangong Wumeng.

Stroking this large piece of natural gold.

As expected of you!

Tiance Mansion's Qilin Army has the best fortune!

Nangong Wumeng retreated. Li Guanyi ate and looked at the surroundings. The number of people was not small. Among them, young and middle-aged men all carried scimitars. There were cattle, sheep, and horses. Li Guanyi thought about it and pretended to get something.

, found the little girl Saatanti and asked about the situation.

Because those old people had avoided being left to die by the lake, Saatanti was very grateful to this traveling businessman from the Central Plains. When Li Guanyi asked, he replied: "We came along the water.

Those here need to go to the nearby city to buy some food, sell their furs and meat, and exchange them for salt and tea bricks.

"If you don't eat salt, you will have no strength. If you don't drink tea, you will..."

Saatanti thought for a moment, then gestured with her fingers and said: "It will cause illness and the blood will get bad."

Li Guanyi understood that it was because it was difficult to replenish fresh vegetables here.

"Then what city are you going to?"

Saatanti replied: "Baluka City, there is a lake called [Great Clear Pond]. This lake is very narrow and long. The water is black and blue, bitter and salty, but salt is sold very cheaply in Baruka City.

, we all go there.”

Li Guanyi was thoughtful.

The title deed prepared by the eldest lady is there. It is a large piece of land in a village. It sounds like it is a salt lake that produces salt in the Western Regions. The eldest lady really chose a good place.

He chatted with the little girl. Saatanti seemed to be very curious about the outside world. She answered Li Guanyi's questions and asked him about the outside world. Li Guanyi also gave some answers.

Li Guanyi figured out the situation. There were more than a thousand people in this tribe, which was extremely small in the Western Region. They did not have the force to occupy even the smallest oasis, and they were unwilling to join a larger tribe as servants.

I just had to wander around.

The Western Region also has great rivers.

In spring, the vast snow-capped mountains from further north melt away the snow and ice, and the water rises. There will be new oases, and animals will chase the water sources. These small tribes have no fixed settlements, so they will chase these small tribes.

of animals.

Go hunt them, go pick medicinal herbs from snowy mountains and dangerous places.

Then follow the water flow to the place where the big tribes live, sell their furs, cattle and sheep calves, and medicinal materials in exchange for salt, tea bricks, and weapons to support the tribe's life, and then continue to chase the water source and leave.

"We can't afford to live in the city-state."

Li Guanyi was surprised: "Tuyuhun unified the Western Regions for three hundred years and built many cities, didn't he?"

Saatanti wondered: "But those cities belong to the Tuyuhun people."

"Now it's the Dangxiang people, and then it's the Central Plains people."

"We have never been accepted."

"And after the great hero died more than 300 years ago, everything became chaotic. Now there are many cities, each of which has its own country."

Thirty-six tribes of people founded the country, and although Tuyuhun unified the Western Regions, they ultimately lacked vision and failed to completely unify their thoughts. This was a typical era of human rule and heroes.

It did not imprint the unified thoughts in everyone's hearts.

When there is an extraordinary hero, these city-states can be integrated together and become a great and prosperous country over time. However, when such a hero dies, the country he established also falls apart.

Li Guanyi glanced at the tribe and asked curiously: "I see you have so many cattle, sheep and prey. How much salt and iron can you exchange for in the city-state?"

Saatanti was silent for a moment, clasped her fingers and said:

"Three sheep can be exchanged for one pot."

"A cow is exchanged for a tea brick, like this."

Li Guan paused and looked at the furs, dried meats, and medicinal herbs that this tribe had spent a year accumulating. In the end, they might only be able to exchange for a little tea bricks and salt. In this situation, even the oppression of the Central Plains Dynasty was far away.

Far from comparable.

Li Guanyi didn't know what to say for a moment. Saatanti thought for a moment and put a small dagger ground from an ox horn into Li Guanyi's hand and said, "This is a gift from my grandma.

I'll give it to you now."

"We originally wanted to leave the old people in the tribe here, leave a little food, and then leave, because there are more children in the tribe this year, and the annual harvest cannot feed a little more.

We have no choice but to leave the old man here."

It is the control strategy of the nobles in the Western Regions.

Li Guanyi realized it immediately, but Saatanti didn't know this. He just said: "Maybe we don't work hard enough. We can't feed so many people. If you hadn't come down from the sky, they would have stayed here.

."

"I heard that there are sky burials near the Holy Mountain. When people die, they will have their internal organs eaten by flying eagles on the mountain and return to heaven and earth."

Li Guanyi held the delicate horns and said, "Is this so?"

Saatanti said: "There is nothing we can do."

"The Western Regions use money, silver, and small coins. Only the clan leaders can go to the big cities because they are warriors with swords. Wandering tribes like us are inferior people, and their lives are only worth a straw rope."

As soon as Saatanti and Li Guan were talking about this, they ran to help the old people. Li Guan put down the pottery. Some of the people here did not dare to say anything to him. They just put their hands together and said: "Golden beads."

"Golden beads."

Li Guanyi grinned.

He is not a golden bead.

Besides, that one is called Golden Beans.

Everyone in Tiance Mansion investigated the situation individually, returned to one place, and compared the information they knew. It was all a bit complicated. Although they knew that the situation in the Western Region was bad, they never thought it would be like this.

Only Changsun Wuchuan was accustomed to this place and said: "Because King Tuyuhun was born a serf, but he overthrew the people who had been oppressing him before. After he became the overlord who unified the Western Regions, his descendants oppressed the homeless people and serfs far more than before.

Even more powerful."

"Maybe you're worried about another Tuyuhun appearing, right?"

Fan Qing whispered: "The general sneaked into the holy lake and found many corpses, among which there were traces of bites on the bones. The people left here should be cannibalistic.

, and then die.”

"The winner should eat the others and then starve to death."

"And both sides suffer losses, bleeding and being eaten by vultures."

"Under this lake, there are almost a lot of bones."

Li Guanyi rubbed his brows, remained silent for a moment, and said, "After I wait, I will go to the place I agreed to settle down without a couple."

The eldest grandson Wuqian saluted and said: "Your Majesty."

Li Guanyi:

"Early tomorrow morning, go find Erlang and give him my handwritten letter."

Changsun Wuchuan looked strange when he heard Li Guanyi's name and said:

"yes."

Li Guan said: "Nangong."

Nangong Wumeng was in a daze. Li Guanyi called out several times before he hurriedly reacted and said, "What?"

Li Guan said: "You are the best in Qinggong and have magic weapons. Let's go find Qibi Li."

"Tell him where I am and ask him if he still remembers the appointment that day?"

Nangong Wumeng looked solemn on his face and said, "Yes."

"Nangong takes the order."

She hesitated and said, "What about you, General?"

Li Guanyi looked at this tribe and replied: "Since I am a traveling merchant in the Central Plains, I will temporarily work with these people to figure out the situation in the Western Regions. Such a complicated situation cannot be solved without going to see it on the spot.
To be continued...