Whetting his appetite, this long-distance feast was prepared for three months, and in the blazing grassland in July, he stepped on the fiery earth that was dried by the sun of the boss on the grassland from Guihua City, and headed westward together.

This time Wang Hou is a bit of an adventure, now the north has not yet developed the habit of drinking tea, he has regarded tea as one of the sought-after goods, this time the caravan carried more than 600 boxes of southern green tea, and then more than 400 boxes of sugar produced in Rizhao, bone china that was in short supply, in order to open the market, also added 50 boxes.

Milk powder, woolen yarn, cotton cloth imported from the island city, woven cotton clothes, and even weapons and armor were all brought in more than 2,300 boxes.

With the addition of a ration for people to ride, the whole caravan had more than 3,000 heads of cattle, sheep and livestock.

It is worth noting that none of the more than 3,000 sturdy cattle is Wang Hou's, all of them are requisitioned from the eight West Xianbei tribes grazing at the foot of Yin Mountain.

This is actually a benefit for the eight Xianbei, because the livestock and apprentices are all counted as dry shares, and the same outstanding Liaodong business scholars are not counted as additional shares.

However, there is no trick in this way, the nomadic creativity is too poor, in addition to producing muscle sticks and horses and cattle, the Xianbei people can not produce any actual goods, and Wang Hou wants to win over the Xianbei people and take them to "get rich together", so they can only be regarded as cheap.

The people from Xianbei, coupled with Wang Hou's specially equipped caravan with 500 capable guards led by Wang Shuang, and the rich grandsons of the wealthy families who invested in Guihua City, ...... ahem, more than 300 shopkeepers and apprentices from the rich uncle, a large caravan reached more than 1,400 people.

This scale is larger than when Zhang Qian went out of the Western Regions!

Silk Road, this time in the caravan Wang Hou is not a piece of silk did not bring, on the one hand, Wang Hou is now selling silk, the cost is too expensive, after all, to import from Jiangnan or Bashu, he spent such a big price, so don't help others to promote products!

On the other hand, now there are rich grandsons in Liaodong ......, cough cough, there are a lot of rich uncles, Jiangnan imported more than 10,000 forging silk a year, and the internal points are not enough, so he doesn't take silk to join the excitement!

This time, Wang Hou's ambition was not great, and the caravan went west along the Yangshan grassland trade route, striving to bypass Liangzhou, enter the Junggar Basin directly from Xianbei Desert, and arrive at the Ili River in Wusun!

But this is far enough, back and forth tens of thousands of miles, plus the time to sell commercial goods in Wusun Chigu City, it is estimated that most of the time will not be able to come back, standing at the head of the naturalization city, watching this caravan gradually drift away, walking behind, Wang Shuang also helplessly and hopefully raised the glaive knife specially made for him by Wang Hou, waved his hand from afar, looking at this scene, Wang Hou really had a feeling that his heart was like a cat scratching.

It is really the gap of the times, from Hucheng, Inner Mongolia to Karamay, Xinjiang, even if you drive for half a day and rest for half a day, and drive for three days, it is enough to travel around and then go back and forth in ten days, but this era takes more than half a year.

What's more, this can be regarded as a crazy gamble by Wang Hou, because anything can happen in the middle of the road, and he doesn't know whether this trade route can be made or lost, maybe this scene of more than 1,000 people and 3,000 animals is the trick to farewell, buried in the yellow sand, and they can no longer be seen.

"If only there was a telegram, at least somewhere else would be safe! Or build a train and run on the endless prairie! It's a lot quicker! ”

"But the train! Telegram, which is harder? ”

With a tangled face, Wang Hou slowly descended from the slope of the city gate where the stairs had been repaired, and as he walked, he was still muttering and calculating in his mouth like a nervous disorder.

However, he was so engrossed in his influence on this era that Wang Hou didn't notice it, just by the city gate, a pair of eyes were always staring at his back with a sense of annoyance and anxiety! 61

Kebi can!

From forming a caravan to winning over the Xianbei tribe, Wang Hou didn't discuss it with him.

I don't know why I hurried out of the city and stopped at the gate of the city, Kebineng watched his back with a gloomy old face and bypassed the newly built milk powder factory, and then he shook the horsewhip and rushed out.

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The exploration of distant journeys can always bring extraordinary development and impact to the existing social structure, just like the Age of Discovery in Europe changed the entire structure of Western Europe, developing it from a closed small feudal kingdom to a modern industrial empire.

This time, the caravan set off, and the caravan hadn't even arrived yet! It has already brought changes to the social structure of the Naturalization City!

What is the most influential traverse that Wang Hou has brought to this era? It is said that in the island city, there have been wealthy people who have begun to rebuild the flat Bauhaus roofs into traditional Han-style blue brick roofs, and it is not cotton, sugar or anything, the biggest impact is the big black pot.

In just a few years, even Bashu and Jiaozhou have become popular with all kinds of fried spoon iron pots, in addition to the previous urn cooking, now the big guys have also begun to eat stir-fried vegetables, in the north where Wang Hou promotes more pigs, Wang's braised pork has become a popular famous dish, this era Bashu also raises the most suitable for making back to the pot meat Chenghua pig, I just don't know if the Bashu chefs have enough to compete with the braised pork back to the pot meat to bring out.

Now Wang Hou, the fourth largest industry in the Naturalization City, is gradually rising, restaurants!

This textile factory has not yet been built, and the second floor of the Lu restaurant is the first to stand up, because Wang Hou, who roasts whole sheep every day, roasts whole sheep every day, and eats fire in his mouth!

Here, the Xianbei herdsmen who have eaten sheep for half their lives have tasted what is called red stewed mutton for the first time, and there is also a copper pot shabu-shabu! Even the stir-fried fried baba with tofu skin enoki mushrooms or something is more enjoyable than eating dry baba roast lamb all day long.

What's more, it's a place where alcohol is sold! Jimo old wine, strong island city honey wine burning!

Before, the Naturalization City recruited a Xianbei prime-aged laborer, which was really difficult to die, but as soon as this restaurant was built, the number of young people who came to work suddenly increased, because only when they worked in the Naturalization City did they pay money, and only after they paid did they have money to go to the restaurant.

Even the famous Sanhe god group in Shenzhen in later generations also appeared here, many Xianbei people worked at the construction site in the city for three days, and then went directly to the restaurant to drink for a whole day, and they were alive and good for three days.

But this time, even the voices of the Xianbei people who drank were quiet, because in the corner of the restaurant, there were two groups of bigwigs talking about it, and at a glance, they couldn't tell that they were Han people, because they were dressed wilder than Xianbei people! Wearing this short hanging shirt, the strong tendons and scars of the chest were exposed, and there were actually a lot of braids on the heads, and several people almost all wore a black blindfold covering one eye.

On the other hand, it is the orthodox Xianbei people, different from the eastern Xianbei, the basic hairstyle of the western Xianbei is back hair, thick black hair draped over the shoulders, and they are also tall and wearing leather jackets, and their faces are also scarred.

The two groups don't look like good people, and the boss of the Xianbei Beatles frequently toasts the boss of the Han pigtails.

"Big brother! Drink! ”