But you can't blame the two of them all, Hong Tao understands the master so well, if he only reads the official documents in Huangzhou City, he can't see it. Even if you ask from door to door, will people tell the truth?

In front of the Great Song Dynasty officials, exposing the mistakes of other Great Song officials, even the Song people may not dare to do this, let alone the Fan people, who are full of food and support?

Should Hong Tao take care of this? It really shouldn't be, don't look at it as a small horse herding supervisor, but what is involved behind it is the general interests of the Northern Song Dynasty scholar class, which has a greater influence than the Chang'an clan.

As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing your parents. In other words, cutting off someone's career should be similar to digging someone's ancestral grave. Must, specially, 100% hateful. Don't look at Hong Tao as a relative, and he is deeply trusted by the emperor, but if he really offends the public, I'm afraid the emperor won't be able to protect him.

Then Hong Tao is not going to care? As with Chongkai, if it weren't for the ore, he really didn't plan to stretch his hand too far. But he needs the ore, and the horses want it, so he has to take care of it.

Tube is tube, with the lesson of the last time, Hong Tao plans to change his strategy, don't stick his hand in, but only sweep the snow in front of his own door, regardless of the frost on the tiles of others.

I will write to my eldest brother, telling him that the efficiency of Huangzhou horse administration is too low, if you can let yourself be in charge of horse administration, don't say more every year, quadruple the base of 80 horses, I will pay 200 horses!

I think that my uncle will not be stingy with this right, I didn't give myself Ma Zheng before, I guess I didn't expect it, or I was afraid that I wouldn't be busy. If he can prove that he can do his job well and can take on a little more burden, why wouldn't he do it?

"The officials don't want to impeach the Horse Husbandry, right? This matter is absolutely impossible, and I hope that 203 will take back his life. The wasp didn't even put pen to paper, and he knew the seriousness of the matter, and he didn't want the pony to get involved, and his eagerness was revealed.

"Let's note first, this matter really needs to be discussed in the long run, and we will talk about it after returning to Huangzhou...... Still not at ease? Well, I promise you, how about you write and play this piece of music? ”

Hong Tao was still very moved by Wasp's statement this time, he was really for his own good, so he couldn't fool people like before, and he had to give an accurate answer.

"The villain doesn't dare to make a mistake, since the official said it, he will not coax." The wasp didn't dare to take it seriously, what his identity was must always be clear, and he dared to review the secret letter from the important ministers of the court to the emperor, which was too much.

"Then hurry up and don't stop any more along the way. There's enough to listen to and watch, and I can't fit it in my head no matter how much I have. ”

It is not easy to solve this matter, and the solution is not in Huangzhou, it is in the mountains across the border. Whether it can be done or not, you have to go over and see to know.

Nanzong Fort is a small military fort with only more than 200 people, but unlike the previous walled forts, it has few tasks in Tuntian, and there is no need for mutual markets, so it is a purely militarized fortress.

The composition of these more than 200 people is also very special, with 50 forbidden soldiers, 50 Tibetan soldiers, and the rest are all box soldiers, led by two forbidden army heads.

There is only one reason for this configuration, this is the closest walled fort on the border of two hostile countries, and it is always necessary to face the war, and there is no energy to do anything else.

A few dozen miles further north of Nanzongbao is the border between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, and there are no inhabitants along the way except for a few beacon towers, and there are very few scattered Tibetan tribes.

The Tibetan people are also afraid of war, and the most courageous is the Haomen Department of Bian Ma's wife's family. It's not that they don't want to go further south, it's that they came too late and really don't have a suitable place.

It just so happens that there are several small valleys near Nanzongbao, and there are small streams and rivers suitable for living, so the danger point is the danger point, anyway, there are mountains in the north to block it, and the Xia people are not able to come.

In fact, their tribe also just moved south two years ago, and the Haomen tribe is not a tribe, but a branch of the Rokuya tribe. Rokugubu is not a tribe either, it is a collection of six large tribes, and they are only branches within one of them.

After the Liugu tribe was attacked by the Uighurs, these tribes dispersed, some fled westward and some returned to the Xia people, who chose to seek refuge in the Great Song Dynasty by the south.

Hong Tao's caravan did not enter Nanzong Fort, and he was not allowed to enter others. The guards here seem to be much stronger than Liao Chun, and all kinds of security precautions are very comprehensive, and idle people are not allowed to approach.

"Hey, little Gondo, come down, Auntie has caramel here!" There was also a small stream to the east from Nan Zongbao, and after walking a few miles along it, Fu Ji suddenly waved to the high slope on the bank.

"That's a shepherd's child?" There were indeed people on the high slope, but Hong Tao slipped away without seeing his appearance clearly, and his movements were very fast.

"The youngest son of their patriarch, named Gondo. Since he is here, the shepherd's camp is not far away. It may be that there are too many officials dressed like this, and the children are scared so that they dare not approach. "Fu Ji is no stranger to this place, and she has already met children after only one visit.

"If only I could scare the adults away...... Get the guys all ready...... Let's go! "Whether it is Bian Ma's relatives or Fu Ji's relationship, or there is a military fort a few miles away, Hong Tao does not dare to be careless. Pull out the scorpion crossbow from under the cloak and wind it, and after the left side is finished, he uses two of them alone, and does not forget to remind the others.

However, no one else seems to need to be reminded, the winding of the wound, the drawing of the knife, the team is no longer just the front, middle and back three sections, there are already people urging the horses to run on the high slopes on both sides.

These people are indeed different from ordinary caravans, the battle seems to have been integrated into the blood, and the people in the same team just look scary, and they don't feel stupid at this time.

The camp of the Haomen Department turned around the small slope, and more than 20 felt tents of all sizes were scattered on the north bank of the stream, with a trickle of snow in front of them, green meadows behind them, and sparse woods higher up, which was really a good place.

It seems that they have not been here for long, and many of the wooden stakes that hold the felt tents in place are new, and the bark has not yet dried. Nomads don't necessarily change places every season, but they do have to have at least two pastures, winter and summer, and this should be their summer pasture.

Most Tibetans do not have a surname, only a first name, three or four characters. However, the Tibetan people with status and official positions will use official positions or territories in front of their names as surnames, such as this one is called Haomen. The man who folded the Gordan.

Ori Ge Dan is his name, and Haomen is the former domain of his tribe. However, that place is now in the territory of Liangzhou in Western Xia, called Haomen Valley.

Maybe it's for this reason that they are unwilling to move west, even if they can't return to their ancestors' territory, they try to pay attention to and protect it silently in places closer to it.

Ge Dan is still very hospitable, especially after seeing the gift that Fu Ji took out, he immediately had to ask someone to slaughter cattle and sheep to entertain the guests.

This kind of steel knife is very sharp and tough, and it will definitely break when it collides with ordinary swords with all its strength, and there is a small gap in this knife at most. The shepherds' favorite thing is the horse and the knife, the former being their legs, and the latter being both a status symbol and a life-saving tool.

"Ask them if they know about the Xia people building the city in the north, or if they know a Qiang tribe called Qiang Lili on the other side of the Ancient Bone Dragon City."

Hong Tao was not very interested in the herdsmen's beef and mutton at this time, and the ingredients were too little and uncooked, so he was eager to know the movements of the Xia people, and then he could deploy his work in a targeted manner.

According to the records on the official documents, the first to discover and report this situation was a Qiang tribe called Qiang Liming near the Ancient Bone Dragon City, but Huangzhou City, including Xi Luosa, had never heard of this name.

"He said it wasn't the tribe, but the criminals of the Xia Kingdom. They could not survive in the Xia Kingdom, and they would be chased and killed by the Xia army, so they had to run into the Great Song Dynasty. He didn't dare to get close to the walled fort, so he could only haunt the mountains. Some cattle and sheep will be domesticated, but most of them rely on robbery, and they specialize in raiding small tribes and caravans near the border between the two countries, so it is better not to go. ”

Through the translation of the Tibetan people, and then through the paraphrase of Fu Ji, Hong Tao got the answer. Because he is nominally the bookkeeper in the caravan, Ori Gedan is the leader, and Fuji is the leader of the caravan. Don't look at them all down here, it's quite a lot.