Heifu is sure that he will be able to become famous in the world from now on, but he is too optimistic, as a criminal who has offended the emperor, he will suffer more along the way, and he will be treated more with white eyes and slow treatment.

Fortunately, with the care of the two people arranged by Ye Zijin, the food and clothing were guaranteed, and the jailer who escorted him knew that this criminal had a good relationship with the Marquis of Changnan, and he did not dare to treat him harshly.

In the middle of August, the group came to a small town called "Golden City" by the clear river.

"Xijun, after this place, it will be Zhangye County." The jailer named "Chi" told Xi that he was the official in charge of the escort, and he had been to Zhangye twice and was familiar with the road.

Xi nodded, he had heard that in the twenty-seventh year, His Majesty toured the west, listened to Wu Zhu's talk about the Queen Mother of the West, and intended to expand westward, so he asked Heifu and Li Xin to sacrifice the source of the river.

After the two black dogs and white horses sacrificed the second prison in Jishi Mountain, they ran to this area, where Heifu saw the wool harvesting technique of the Xiqiang people and grafted it to Beidi County. I never thought that wool had become the pillar industry of the northern frontier counties of the empire, and the woolen coats that were thick and rough and exuded a slight smell not only made the garrison soldiers free from freezing and cold, but also entered thousands of households and became a necessary winter thing for the northerners.

And Li Xin is an enterprising general, he saw that there is the advantage of Xiqiang in the west, controlling the upper reaches of the river, and approaching the Yueshi, it is a place where soldiers must fight, so he ordered the soldiers to dig and build a city here, because they dug up the gold buried by someone at some point, so they named it Jincheng.

Nowadays, after several years of development, Jincheng has been very prosperous, especially at the crossing of the river, there are conscripts and soldiers from Xianyang every day to line up to cross the river, and they are ordered to build a thousand-mile-long galloping road, as well as hundreds of pavilion barriers.

On the other side, ships were constantly mooring, carrying strange products from the Western Regions, caravans with camel bells, and even missions from small Hu states......

Passing by them was a delegation under the leadership of the Qin soldiers, looking around, but they saw that their hair was curly and dark, the bridge of their noses was straight, their beards were thick, and their clothes were actually draped over their bodies with a whole piece of cloth, which hung down from their shoulders below their knees.

The people of the Central Plains and the barbarian Rong Di have different clothing customs: the East is called Yi, and he is tattooed; Fang said that he was barbarian, and the carving title was crossed; In the West, it is called Rong, and it is clothed and skinned; In the north, it is said that Di, clothes and feathers burrow......

However, the stranger in front of him is the first time he has seen it, and he is different from the barbarians in the traditional sense.

"It should be the Hu people of the Western Regions, those Hu Bangs, clothes and words, there are all kinds of strange things."

The jailer Chi said, and when they asked later, it was indeed a visitor from the Western Regions, a state delegation named "Great Xia", who wanted to enter the Xianyang Dynasty to meet the First Emperor of Qin.

"Great Xia? Isn't Taiyuan another name, Your Majesty also called the Great Qin Territory 'North Over Great Xia'. Why is there one in the west? ”

Xi was a little confused, but he didn't delve into it, and it wasn't until this time that the group really went deep into the border.

But the Zhangye in Hexi in front of him is far from the barren desert full of dry rocks and no water and grass in his imagination.

In front of him, there is a land rich in water and grass under the snow-capped mountains, in the forest, red deer and roe deer fly by, and on the grassland, cattle and sheep are in herds, which are the main source of livestock in Guanzhong.

Under the irrigation of the river originating in the snow-capped mountains, there are many tuntian fields on both sides, and now the millet is ripe, and 10,000 immigrants from the Central Plains are completing a bumper harvest.

Women and children still work in the majority of the population, while men on horses and spears patrol around the newly established migrant villages. The shadow of the people and horses that appeared on the hill in the distance would make them nervous, and they immediately sounded the gong to warn, and in an instant, regardless of men, women, old and children, all the people were armed, and the noise was loud, and the riders of the distant mountains disappeared......

When asked the reason afterwards, Xi learned that it was not safe here, and the Qiang people from Huangzhong came and went from time to time to plunder the wealth accumulated by the peasants for a whole year. Those Qiang people have their own kings, there is no unified constraint, riding on horses and whistling, and after they succeed, they swept away, which is difficult to stop, and now it has become a great disaster in the southeast of Zhangye......

"General Li also sent people to protect, and even went deep into the Huangzhong several times to exterminate the Qiang tribe, but this group of heaven-killing Qiang people are like wild wolves that smell blood, and they can't be killed no matter how they kill."

A border immigrant who had been robbed of his wife and children by the Qiang told Xi with some grief and indignation that they could only organize themselves now and fight against them with all the soldiers.

Xi is just a degrading officer, what can he do? I only hope that the beacon towers built along the Chi Road, as well as the garrisons that have been continuously transferred here from the Central Plains, can protect these Qiantou.

The journey continued to move forward, after crossing the Heishui River, the public security improved slightly, due to the barrier of the remaining veins of the Qilian Mountains, the Xiqiang people could not penetrate to this point, but the pig noze in the lower reaches of the Heishui River was still entrenched in the "Xiumi Department", one of the five tribes of the Yue clan.

As the only Yueshi people to surrender to the Qin Dynasty, the Xiumi tribe was allowed to retain their territory, but now, their existence, like Huangshui Xiqiang, posed a threat to Chidao, and it is said that General Li Xin had the intention of relocating them again.

Eventually, by mid-September, Xi had finally arrived at Zhaowu City, the capital of Zhangye County.

The jailer who escorted him had come here for the third time, and he told Xi that according to legend, there was a story about the construction of this city: the Yueshi tribe, who lived in the water and grass, came to this place of lush water and grass for a hunt, and the king of the Yue clan rode on a tall horse to look south, the towering Qilian was covered with snow, and at a glance to the north, the green and verdant Li was dripping, and the birds were singing in the mist, and the waves and weak water at the foot of the mountain poured for thousands of miles, which made his heart sway.

So the king of the Yue clan led his tribe to gallop in the dense reed grass, and suddenly, a pair of mating red deer jumped into his eyes. When the king of the Yue clan saw this pair of tall red deer, he was very ecstatic, and it was inconvenient to take his subordinates, so he stretched out his bow like the moon and led the arrow like flying, and shot towards the double deer.

But then, the two red deer actually stepped on auspicious clouds and floated into the air, and disappeared between the white clouds and blue sky in an instant......

Although the deer were not hunted, the place where the red deer disappeared became the place where the Yue people settled, and the king of the Yue clan captured the slaves of the Western Regions city-states, and under their labor, a city rose from the ground and was named "Zhaowu".

Now, in the past, tens of thousands of bows were drawn, and the Yue clan, which dominated Hexi, has perished, and the king of the Yue clan was beheaded by Li Xin, and the tribe either fled or died. Li Xin occupied the magpie's nest, and the Qin immigrants also slowly migrated here with the gallop, completely changing the population structure of Zhaowu City, and now half of the city is already Qin.

Outside Zhaowu City, Xi Ye finally met the general of Zhengxi, Li Xin, the Marquis of Dingyuan, who decided his future fate.

The first meeting with Li Xin was in the camp of the game near the weak water, Li Xin sat on a tiger skin, beside him two beautiful bearded women who served wine, with high noses and deep eyes, and when they entered, they were offering Li Xin a delicate white Khotanese jade cup, and then opened the cold lid of the coffin, and used a golden spoon to key out the dark red liquid with a sweet fragrance, slowly poured it into the cup, and then offered it with both hands with affection.

This is a wine sent from the Western Regions, which is a very valuable drink in Xianyang, but in Li Xin, it is almost like drinking water......

But this leisurely and hedonistic style makes the minimalist Xida frown.

In Xi's eyes, Li Xin is the complete opposite of Heifu, Heifu is thick, Li Xin is sharp; Heifu is cautious in everything, and Li Xin is informal; Heifu restrained his desires, and Li Xin was happy in time; Heifu is the first to fight and likes to fight stupidly, Li Xin is good at using strange soldiers, and he himself is used to pierce the tip of the enemy's sword.

Also, the black man has a black face, and Li Xin is white; Heifu was called the Black Dog, and Li Xin was known as the White Horse......

But Li Xin also has a kind of pride that the black man does not have, drunk and lying on the battlefield!

"Hi? I've heard about it. ”

Li Xin gently shook the white jade cup, and the Hu Nu on the side also reached out to wipe the wine stains from the corners of his mouth for him, the wine juice was bright red, like human blood: "Your reputation will come faster than yourself." ”

"Some people say that you slander and slander Your Majesty? Some people say that you are outspoken and dedicated to the public, so you are belittled, and you say, "Whose words should I believe?" ”

"None of them can be trusted."

Joy is neither humble nor arrogant: "If you are a lawyer, you should check yourself and believe the evidence, do not believe the words of sinners, and the general please take care of yourself." ”

"Sure enough, it's indeed a straight official."

Li Xin laughed: "Since you are proficient in the law, then be in the army and be a military lawyer!" ”

Hi is a little stunned, military judge? That's a petty official of Baishi, although it's nothing compared to Xi's former position, but he is now a guilty body, and he is directly appointed as an official, doesn't it matter?

Li Xin's reason made him cry and laugh, and he was even more convinced that this Marquis of Dingyuan was really drunk.

"I like your name, hey, hey!"

Li Xin pointed at the joy, got up and poured a glass of wine and handed it to him: "It just so happens that recently, there is also a great joy in Zhangye County!" On the way here, did you meet the Great Xia Envoy? ”

"Great Xia envoy?"

Xi refused the drink, but remembered a month ago, at the Jincheng ferry, a group of Hu people wearing a knee-down cloth as clothes.

"After years of hard work, thousands of people have died in the desert!"

Li Xin was in a very good mood today, he raised the wine in his hand high, and sighed: "We have searched all over Kunlun and Beishan, but we have not found any trace of the Western Queen Mother State, until we visited Great Xia in the west of the Green Ridge, and they actually knew the whereabouts of the Western Queen Mother State!" ”

Accompanied by fine wine and beautiful people, making contributions in foreign lands, the knot that has been stuck for many years has finally been loosened a little crack!

"Li Xin this time, he finally did not live up to His Majesty's high expectations!"