The expedition team wandering in the Western Regions recorded the scale of the Aral Sea, and after circling the Aral Sea, when they were about to continue westward, it happened that thunder and lightning combined with the flight of birds, so the official name of the Aral Sea was named "Lei Zhuhai" by the expedition. In the correspondence with Changsun Chong, this name was decided, and then through Dunhuang, Longyou, and Chang'an, it was known that there was a sea in the west, which was similar to Lei Ze and produced a lot of salt.

The expedition continued westward to two hundred men, and after passing through a small desert, it encountered another sea. Some of the people in the team were proficient in Persian and Roman, and they captured a few slaves from the Kingdom of Flynn, and they knew that this sea was called the "Sea of Hospitality" by the Great Qin State in the old days.

When the team arrived, they happened to hunt a tiger, and the tiger skin was quite intact, so the members of the expedition felt that this place was really hospitable, so they decided on the name of this "hospitable sea".

And the surface of this water, called the "Hospitable Sea", is the Caspian Sea.

The drawn maps were sent to the end of the year, and after Cheng Chubi received them, he handed them over to the document for copying. He is also not afraid that people will accuse him of rebellion, because most of these maps use contour lines, not officially controlled maps.

The products of the Hezhong region to the west are constantly conveyed to the east, and the people of Dunhuang are gearing up, but they are looking at the ocean and sighing. Without manpower, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Some people in the expedition team found that the two seas were very suitable for planting cotton, but not to mention the Tang Dynasty, even the Turks did not take care of it, and it was a land of chicken ribs.

It's just that the peasant students like to be whimsical, and plan to dig a two-thousand-mile Grand Canal, so that they can irrigate a piece of land of tens of millions of acres.

Even when he returned to the Western Regions, the peasant students in the expedition team were still full of emotion: "It's a pity, this land is not planted, it's a waste." ”

Although they did not appear in the Caspian Sea for a long time, the Persians and the Flynns became aware of their presence. A Tang expedition of 200 men could easily defeat a frontier stronghold, which shocked both the Persians and the Flynns.

But the Tang people did not linger, and chose to leave immediately, leaving the elites of the two countries with infinite reverie.

It was actually the Persians who really suffered losses, and the Kingdom of Flynn only lost a few homeless men. The two fought a feud for an unknown number of years, and the country of Flynn also regarded the small military action of the Tang people in the "Hospitable Sea" as a small punishment for the Persian wild dogs by "Celis".

"Celis" is the name of the Tang Dynasty in the Kingdom of Flynn, which already existed in the Han Dynasty.

In any case, what really attracted merchants was the huge scale of the "Hospitable Sea", and the production of alkali artemisia in the Hetao area was not enough to fill the belly of the people who liked to eat white flour steamed buns in the Guannai Province.

In addition to the alkali artemisia, the expedition team did not return to the bag, there was a two-tael "dog's head gold" that was not told to Dunhuang, as well as high-quality jade. The few tiger skins surprised the Western Turkic nobles, and for a time the tiger skins of the "Hospitable Sea" became a kind of grotesque legend, which attracted the attention of many Western Turkic nobles.

"The Caspian region still produces gold?"

Zhang De was also surprised to learn that among the achievements of the expedition, there were actually two or two "dog's head gold". In his impression, the real awesomeness of the "Caspian Sea region" lies in the unfathomable depth of its oil and gas reserves. Before the exploration of oil and gas fields in the Persian Basin, the "Caspian Sea region" was the black gold mine that supported half of the world's oil exports in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

And even with the rise of energy power in the Persian Gulf, the reserves of the "Caspian Sea region" are still bottomless, and the reason for the diversion is due to politics, not the depletion of oil and gas fields in the "Caspian region".

Although it was not because of the "energy" problem that excited the expedition, their behavior of brushing up on their presence, the result was quite good. For the merchants stationed in Dunhuang and traveling between Hezhong, the Western Regions, Longyou and Guannei, the "Hospitality Sea" has profits worth establishing a base, which is enough.

There is "dog's head gold", which means that somewhere in that area, there must be a shallow gold mine, so the difficulty of mining should not be high. According to experience, most of the associated mines of gold mines are silver and copper mines, and these are precisely the hard currencies that were extremely short in the Tang Dynasty.

"Whew...... If Li Ji has a chance to take the position, plus Su Lie, Cheng Chubi, and Changsun Chong, it should make many people willing to win Shule and Kangju. ......"The Tang people are quite paranoid about gold, not only gold, but even silver, but also extremely persistent.

After the Fengzhou silver mine that Li Simo got his hands on back then, it was transferred to the hands of Princess Changle, which triggered a battle between the inner court and the outer court, which can be called a big show.

If it weren't for the eldest grandson's old way, Datang Empire Co., Ltd. would still be arrogant and cool, and Chairman Li Shimin gave his daughter's admiration for silver, which made Li Lizhen the richest princess to marry in history.

The few mines in Fusang have already come out of the dog's brain, and this time, a "dog's head gold" of two taels is afraid that there will be tens of thousands of mad dogs.

The news can be concealed for a while, but not for long. The eldest grandson chong is a sieve there, and besides, the eldest grandson has always refused this kind of gold and silver goods that can be passed down from generation to generation.

As a family pillar with brains, the eldest grandson Chong repaired a letter to return to Beijing, but not for his Lao Tzu, but for his aunt.

On the seventh day of the seventh month of July, I don't know if there is a magpie bridge in the sky, but there are many cowherds in Chang'an City. In the secluded city in the west of the city, the hall known as the "Longyang Pavilion" is full of scenes full of big men, but this time it is not limited to whether it is hard and black or a little white face, all talking about whether the Western Expedition army is going to make a windfall, and the original two taels of "dog's head gold" have been blown into twenty catties......

"Auntie, what did my cousin say?"

"What's wrong?"

With one hand on his cheeks, the eldest grandson Wujian, who was lying on his side and was lying soft, looked at Li Lizhi and said softly, "Yu Fangcai is in a trance?" ”

Li Lizhi nodded, silently peeled the grapes for the eldest grandson queen on the side, and after peeling them, she put the grapes in the crystal plate, and the juice was plump, which looked extremely attractive.

"Boshu said in the letter that someone has found gold mines in the West Sea, and the scale is not small."

"West Sea? Isn't my cousin in the Western Regions? ”

"It's not Qinghai, it's the west of the Western Regions."

After explaining, Empress Changsun still smiled and looked at her daughter, "The person who found the gold mine is the children of the Jia family and the Zhang family of China Resources. ”

Speaking of the three clans, Li Lizhen's face changed, and her eyes seemed to be anxious. Seeing this, Empress Eldest Sun sighed in her heart, and then said: "But it doesn't hurt if it's not to regulate the map." ”

Li Lizhi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, then continued to lower her head, and said softly: "A-Niang is scared of me?" ”

The voice is shy, as a princess, no matter how you care for your growth, she is not stupid. Empress Eldest Sun's words are just a temptation.

After a while, Empress Eldest Sun said a little calmly: "Wait for my mother to think of a way." ”