Chapter 119: The Forgotten Prince of Baghdad

The old blacksmith was gone, and as soon as the gates were opened, he was gone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even though my tongue was hit hard and drinking water was a problem, I persevered.

The itinerary is in a hurry, like leaving a ghost gate.

No one knew where he was going, and a wagon loaded with all his eating fellows went out of Loulan City and headed east.

The hundred gold coins rewarded by Tie Xinyuan were neatly placed in the house where he lived, and what it looked like when it was delivered was still the same now.

The stubborn old blacksmith didn't know that just outside of his sight, Huo Xian and Meng Yuanzhi personally watched him leave......

If he knew, he would definitely run faster, the official mansion, the emperor was even more terrible to him than the Hades who urged him.

Meng Yuanzhi was very happy about this result, but Huo Xian was a little ignorant, in his opinion, for the benefit of the majority, the minority should be sacrificed.

Wei Chiwen had been guarding Tie Xinyuan's side, and he was waiting for the king's order to send cavalry to kill the old blacksmith who was driving the carriage.

He even prepared a horse for the old blacksmith, so that he could not run fast and the cavalry could easily catch up.

Tie Xinyuan had a good appetite this morning, drank three bowls of rice porridge, and ate a basket of small buns, seeing that the sun was three poles, he made an appointment with Zhao Wan to go for a walk on the calamus beach.

Seeing that Yu Chiwen was staring at him blankly, he patted Yu Chiwen on the shoulder with a smile and said, "Forget about this." ”

"But?"

"There's nothing to do, blocking is not the way to go, unless we are always ahead of others."

Wei Chiwen didn't understand why the king, who had always been stingy, suddenly became magnanimous, which subverted his cognition.

So he was a little at a loss, and watched the king and queen leave the city lord's mansion hand in hand.

Calamus Sea is a growing lake that has been revitalized since the Iron Heart Source Fire cut off the Tarim River four years ago, forcing it to divert the Tarim River to the Peacock River and head south.

After four years of precipitation, this former salt marsh has changed dramatically in the blink of an eye.

Perhaps it was the river that awakened the surrounding life, and Tie Xinyuan was fortunate enough to witness the wild growth of the young poplar forest.

They sprouted and sprouted branches in the vast forests of dead poplars, and now, the strange and miserable poplar cemetery has been reduced to a state of semi-withered glory.

This is a masterpiece of nature, and perhaps, these poplar trees have never died, waiting for a great flood to bring them back to life.

As for the reeds, this thing has covered the shores of the Calamus Sea, and the reeds that used to need to be planted artificially to survive are now growing lushly, and they are already half a man's height in June, which is very rare in the Western Regions, and the reeds in the rest of the places have just pulled out a foot-high shoot.

Calamus is famous for its records, and many of the means of subsistence here come from reeds, and legend has it that people here can even build ships from reeds.

Tie Xinyuan squatted at the water's edge, took a sip of water into his mouth, and found that the water was very sweet, without the expected salt-alkali taste.

More than a dozen windmills, powered by windmills, stand in the water and slowly turn, creaking the clear water of the lake up the high tank, which then flows down the wooden tank into the distance.

As you look at the canal, you will naturally see orchards and large fields of farmland, which stretch like a green blanket to the edge of the yellow desert, forming a clear and distinct landscape.

"Is there also a wheat field on the edge of the desert?" Tie Xinyuan wiped his hands and asked Huang Yuanshou, who was following him.

Speaking of this topic, Huang Yuanshou seemed to be very proud, pointing to the yellow sand in the distance and said: "There are forests by the lake, fruit trees behind the trees, wheat fields behind fruit trees, and melon fields at the end of wheat fields.

Some of the watermelons and melons produced last year were even transported into Guanzhong by the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, and even the Western Xia Kingdom bought a lot of melons. ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled, pointed at Huang Yuanshou and said, "I heard that you have planted melons and fruits, and your official positions have been promoted, but you have not taken up your new post for a long time?" ”

Huang Yuanshou said with a smile: "The king forgives his sins, Weichen used to be too retreating, and now he wants to do something practical, even if it is to grow melons and fruits." ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "Obviously it is a dry city of a country, but I have to say that I am an old farmer who grows melons and fruits, and I am obviously a person who is not even as good as an old farmer, but I have to say that I am Wang Zuozhicai."

Although Hami is not big, it is not small, and it can't accommodate so many Wang Zuozhicai who can be used as woodcutters, and it doesn't allow people who can govern the world to plant melons and beans.

Prepare, I sent you the people who replaced you, it is said that they are all children of famous families, find one or two that can be used to replace you, and you will send an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty in October. ”

Huang Yuanshou bowed and said, "Weichen obeys." ”

got up and saw Zhao Wan coming over on a jujube red horse, so he said goodbye and left the lake, although he had been with Tie Xinyuan for a long time, he was still not used to meeting Zhao Wan and Wei Chi Zhuozhuo from time to time.

Everyone has their own insistence, and Tie Xinyuan has no intention of forcing others to change.

Tie Xinyuan stayed on the shore of the Calamus Sea for a whole day, did nothing, just sat by the lake, and got close to the lake that he had recreated for a day.

A person who looks at the lake for a day is naturally problematic, at least that's what Zhao Wan thinks.

In addition to the many reeds on the shore of the calamus sea, there is only an endless surface of water left, and such a view can be seen well, but her husband looks at it for a day, and from time to time he smirks and takes a sip of the lake that he does not know whether it is clean or not.

When I asked him, he was dismissed by a sentence - the joy here is not enough to communicate with outsiders.

Xu Dongsheng, who had gone to Yanqi to explore the terrain in advance, came back and told Tie Xinyuan a not-so-good news.

The Qarakhanids have now arrived in Qiuzi, and are unreasonably using the undefended city as their temporary home.

This is obviously a response to Tie Xinyuan's settlement in Loulan City.

"So, King Adan is going to compete with me in everything, right?"

Xu Dongsheng ran very hard, and Tie Xinyuan handed him the roasted leg of mutton.

Xu Dongsheng took a bite of the leg of mutton and said vaguely: "That's what it means, and he also proposed to clear the people around Yanqi, whether they are herdsmen or aborigines, on the grounds that these people are bound by my Hami country." ”

"What do you say about the three hundred of Tie who went to Yanqi in advance?"

"General Tie means that the Qarakhanid people are rude, and now he is confronting the Qarakhanid General Urir in Yanqi."

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said: "I will march towards Yanqi tomorrow, you go first, go directly to Queen Aisha, and ask her what kind of concessions the Hami Kingdom will make, so that they can recognize me as the leader of the alliance when they meet the alliance." ”

Xu Dongsheng put down the leg of mutton and said seriously: "I think it's difficult, they stubbornly think that the newly opened business road is their credit, and they should be the main one." ”

Tie Xinyuan laughed silently, motioned for Xu Dongsheng to continue eating, and then said with a smile: "I don't know if King Adan believed it when he said this, but I didn't expect that there were so many wonderful characters in the primitive Western Regions."

Tell King Adan that it's okay for them to be the main business, and that we don't even have to meddle in anything on the business, we just need to be a provider of goods.

Before that, the caravans of the Hami Kingdom could freely travel between Hami and the Qarakhanid, that is to say, the trade route of tens of thousands of miles, we only need the Karakhanid and the Hami Kingdom for more than 2,000 miles. ”

Xu Dongsheng said with a smile: "King Adan is not stupid, Queen Aisha is even more of a dragon and phoenix among people, how can she agree to such a condition."

Everyone knows that the most valuable part of this trade route is the section from Hami to Talas, and no matter how far it goes, there is no possibility that our caravan will receive money. ”

"Yes!"

Tie Xinyuan said categorically, as for the reason, he did not tell Xu Dongsheng.

In the final analysis, it is a matter of vision, Xu Dongsheng was born as a thief, and he has a natural sensitivity to interests.

Therefore, he believes that as long as it is a benefit, no one wants to let go.

Of course, this is true from the position of a robber, but not from another point of view.

Profit is nothing more than a tool for a king, which can be used for an infinite number of purposes, and when necessary, it is entirely possible to sacrifice immediate interests for a lofty goal.

Of course, Tie Xinyuan will not sacrifice his own interests, he wants lofty goals, and he is not ready to let go of the immediate interests, he feels that he can find the right balance between the two.

Adan is different, as soon as he hears the three words Eagle King, he knows that he is a person with great ambitions.

And this guy's hometown is in Baghdad, although that beautiful city no longer belongs to his family, and his parents are now just poor puppets at the mercy of the Seljuks.

This is an unwashable humiliation for the arrogant Adan, and this humiliation definitely exceeds the humiliation that Tie Xinyuan has inflicted on him.

Even if it falls into the hands of the enemy, there is nothing to resent, as long as you don't die, the next time you cut off Tie Xinyuan's head, you will have any grudges.

In the eyes of all the people in the Western Regions, the current Adan is the great Eagle King, but he easily forgets that Adan's previous name - the Prince of Baghdad!

The reason why Tie Xinyuan was sure that Adan would agree to surrender in the alliance was that Adan's grudge-holding heart was the key.

That guy has a big mind, the Seljuks have already robbed him of the city of Baghdad, and now they covet his Qarakhanate, Tie Xinyuan doesn't believe that Adan has no heart to fight back.

Before he counterattacked, it was necessary to accumulate strength, and if he wanted to truly accumulate strength, he could not do without the support of the Hami Kingdom, and in the Western Regions of Nuoda, only the rich output of the Hami Kingdom could support his huge revenge plan.

He didn't care about the position of leader of the League, his ambitions were in Baghdad, on the two rivers, on the distant Euphrates......

Xu Dongsheng couldn't understand what Tie Xinyuan thought, as a subordinate, he was still qualified, since he couldn't dissuade the king's determination, then he did his best to fulfill the king's determination.

At dawn, without waiting for Tie Xinyuan's car to leave Loulan City, he took a hundred and ten guards to step on the morning glow and gallop all the way to Yanqi.