Guo Song saw that the wolves were far away, so he jumped off the boulder and came directly to the side of the wolf king's corpse.

The wolf king shed a pool of blood under his head, and he was indeed killed, but its body was very large and terrifying, just like a tiger, and its tail alone was nearly a meter long.

"Which friend is up there to do it?" Someone in the valley asked loudly.

He speaks Chinese, with the same accent as Guo Chongqing, and is from Chang'an.

"In Guo Song, Xialingzhou, passing by Yinshan, I found that you were trapped, and I helped you slightly."

Guo Song used his strength to carry the wolf king weighing more than 100 catties on his shoulders, climbed the stone wall with one hand, and slowly climbed down.

The two big men in the canyon were stunned, someone could carry such a big wolf corpse down the cliff, and it was one-handed.

"The two brothers are from Chang'an!"

Only then did the two big men react, and hurriedly hugged their fists and said: "In Xia Chang'an Weiping, this is my companion Zhang Quanyong, we are the caravan guards, thank you brother Tai for your help." ”

Guo Song saw that they were burly and very strong, so he smiled and waved his hand, "You're welcome, where are you going?" ”

"We're escorting the caravan to the Sijie Division!"

Guo Song was suddenly overjoyed, he was going to think about the knot! Just drop in.

At this time, a man stepped forward and saluted: "My master invites the strong man to come over and talk about it!" ”

Guo Song nodded, and followed the guy to the cart, the leader of the caravan was a middle-aged man about fifty years old, tall and thin, with a clear appearance, although he was surrounded by wolves just now, he did not panic and behaved calmly.

The man clasped his fists and saluted, "In Xia Chang'an Li An, thank you for the help of the strong man, but the strong man is the Orion of Yinshan Mountain?" “

It's no wonder that others think that Guo Song is an Orion, he came down from the cliff, only with a bow and arrows, no luggage and the like, and the archery is accurate, obviously he is a hunter who begs for a living in the Yin Mountain.

Guo Song smiled slightly, "My horse and luggage are in the cave above, I, like you, also passed by Yinshan, but it was the first time I came to Yinshan, and I was a little lost. ”

"I see, where is Childe going?"

The businessman's tone changed, and he changed his name to Guo Song as his son, he was indeed a little embarrassed, and he actually thought that he was a hunter.

"I'm going to think about it!"

At this time, someone in the carriage next to him whispered: "What a coincidence! ”

There was a young man's voice in the carriage, and Guo Song smiled again: "The first time I went to the grassland, I don't know where the Sijie Department is?" I just heard two guards say, you also go to the Jie Ministry, can you go together? ”

The middle-aged man said, "Let me ask the master!" ”

The man walked to the carriage and whispered a few words, and he came back and asked, "I wonder what happened to the son's departure to Sijiebu?" ”

Guo Song said lightly: "My brother was taken away by the Sijie cavalry, I will go to the Sijie Department to ransom people, if it is inconvenient, forget it, the wolves will come back soon, you should hurry up and get on the road!" ”

I only heard the young man in the carriage say, "Uncle An, let's go together!" ”

The middle-aged businessman nodded, hugged his fist at Guo Song and said: "Childe has misunderstood, we have to go to Yinshan City to stay for two or three days, I am afraid that Childe is in a hurry." ”

Guo Song thought that the Sijie cavalry had already gone far away, and he couldn't catch up, so he was not in a hurry, so he nodded and said, "I'm fine!" ”

"That son is going to fetch the horse, let's wait for a while, besides, this wolf corpse, but the son wants to take it away?"

Guo Song smiled: "I saw that its skin was good, and I wanted to find a place to nitrate." ”

"I understand, there is a special fur shop in Yinshan Surrender City."

Guo Song immediately climbed the cliff and ran towards his cave.

At this time, the carriage window opened, revealing a pale face, a young man in his twenties, he looked at Guo Song in surprise and climbed the cliff like an ape, and said for a while: "Uncle An, I'm afraid we will meet a strange person!" ”

Li An nodded, "Your Highness is right, this giant wolf should be the wolf king, otherwise the wolves will not retreat, and if they can kill the wolf king with one arrow, I am afraid that few people in the world can do it." ”

The interest in the eyes of young people has become stronger, and this trip to the grassland has really not been in vain.

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After the Tang Dynasty defeated the Turks, it built three surrendered cities on the northern border, the eastern surrendered city, the middle surrendered city and the western surrendered city, of which the western surrendered city was in the south of Yinshan in the north of Fengzhou, and originally stationed 5,000 Tang troops, called the Hengsai army.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang army of the surrendered city retreated south, and there was no army stationed in the surrendered city, but the Tang Dynasty was still there, and the surrendered city was not occupied by foreign races, but became a lively and prosperous commercial city.

The Tiele merchants in the north, the Sogdians in the west, the Tang merchants in the south, and the Khitan merchants from Liaodong converged here and became a famous border commodity distribution center.

Guo Song and his entourage walked out of the canyon that morning, in front of which was the endless grassland, Guo Song knew that although the mountains where he got lost also belonged to the Yinshan mountain system, they were not the main veins of Yinshan, but the wolf mountain, which was a famous wolf haunt, and they had to walk a hundred miles to reach Yinshan.

The caravan he inadvertently saved was actually the Imperial Merchant, who was not an official caravan, but also a private caravan, but its investors were more special.

The Imperial Merchant was a caravan formed by the private capital investment of the royal family of the Li Tang clan, and the profits obtained were distributed to each family according to the proportion of investment, which was regarded as a source of wealth for them, and Li An did not hide it from him, he told Guo Song that even the Son of Heaven and the lonely concubine invested their private money in the caravan.

However, the caravan did not come from Lingzhou, but from Yan'an Mansion along the Yellow River River to the north, the imperial caravan also had a task this time, that is, entrusted by the Son of Heaven, to investigate the current situation of the eastern, central, and western three surrendered cities, so they traveled thousands of miles and turned to the west to surrender to the city.

"Uncle An, since the imperial merchant does not belong to the official and is no different from a private caravan, then why do you want to investigate the current situation of the surrendered city, this should be a matter of the local government!"

Li An thought for a while and said: "If the Son of Heaven also wants to understand the real situation in the local area, he needs a lot of his own channels, and the Imperial Merchant can be regarded as one of the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven!" ”

Guo Song was even more puzzled, "It is still necessary for the Son of Heaven to understand the truth himself, is the report of the magistrate false?" ”

Li An sighed and said: "Gongzi doesn't know, many things reported to the court by the local government are not necessarily true, but it can't be said to be false.

For example, the Shengzhou government once reported to the imperial court that the city of Zhongshou had collapsed, and the people in the city were not one out of ten, and most of the city had been flooded by wind and sand, right? That's exactly right, that's what we saw, so the imperial court felt that since the city was abandoned, there was no need to garrison it anymore.

But in fact, if you ask the locals carefully, you will know that this has always been the case in the surrender of the city, as long as it is spring, half of the city will be flooded by the wind and sand, as for the collapse of the city wall, the garrison often collapses, as long as it is repaired a little, and the people in the city do not survive, most of the people in the city are with the army and military dependents, the army retreats south, of course the military family is gone, if the court garrisons again, the military family will follow. ”

Guo Song smiled: "It seems that the magistrate is making a mess." ”

Li An said with a smile: "The word pounding paste is used very vividly, that's what it is, on the one hand, the local officials are afraid of trouble, and after they have military families, all kinds of materials have to be solved by the local government, increasing their burden, and on the other hand, the officials are afraid of death." ”

"Afraid of death?" Guo Song smiled puzzledly and asked, "Isn't it more necessary to be garrisoned if you are afraid of death?" ”

"Then you don't understand, if there is no army, the nomads are killed, and the magistrate can abandon the city and flee, anyway, there is no garrison! No one can blame them, the responsibility is borne by the imperial court, but if the garrison is restored in the surrendered city of Zhongshou, and your magistrate escapes, the responsibility will be heavy, you understand! ”

Guo Song nodded, "I'm afraid of death, and I don't want to take responsibility, so I fooled the imperial court, saying that the surrendered city can't garrison Yunyun." ”

"That's right, in your words, it's called mashing."

Guo Song laughed, he quickly glanced at the carriage behind him with the corner of his eye, the young man in the carriage was very mysterious, he had been pulling the curtain from dawn to now, only when the fierce son fell on his shoulder, he pulled the curtain with interest and looked at it, revealing a slightly sickly face, who is he?

Since he followed the imperial merchant north, Guo Song guessed that he might be a child of a royal family.

At this time, a large city appeared in front of him, and Li An smiled and said, "The city of the West Surrender has arrived!" ”

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