The caravan coming from the direction of Datang is a caravan freely assembled by hundreds of caravans, this is to avoid the infestation of some small groups of horse thieves, after all, the caravan is larger, and there are many guards, and it is not a big problem to unite to deal with some small groups of horse thieves.

But when Shang encountered the biggest horse thieves in the Western Regions, all other preparations were in vain except for asking for more blessings.

"Honorable Chief, may I ask you what is the matter?" After the caravan was stopped by Xue Rengui and others, a person in charge elected by everyone walked out of the team tremblingly and came to Xue Rengui's horse tremblingly.

"Old fellow, you're making fun of Lao Tzu, aren't you?" Gao Zhan lifted the reins of his horse, stepped out of the crowd, and asked in a sneering voice after circling around the caravan leader twice.

"Don't dare, don't dare!" The person in charge waved his hand in fright, as if he knew that he had asked the wrong question. This is a horse thief, and a horse thief with a crossbow, and it is not because he gets lost and can't find a home when he stops the caravan.

"Lock them all up and make them write down what they're carrying." Xue Rengui gave Gao Zhan a look and signaled him to stop.

"Boss, these guys are slipping, let them write their own must have something to hide." Gao Zhan put the horizontal knife in his hand on the neck of the caravan leader, and said with a little dissatisfaction: "In my opinion, it is better to kill them all, and let the cubs take them away, so as to save worry and trouble." ”

"It's better to do less business to kill chickens and eggs, and if you kill all of them, no one will take this road next time, so let your brothers go to drink the wind when the time comes?"

"Yes, yes, this good man, the little one must be written truthfully, and must be written truthfully!" When the caravan leader heard Xue Rengui's words, he immediately seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and gave his hand again and again, signaling that he would not cheat.

"Old boy, it's your fate, but you'd better let the others be honest too, otherwise, as long as you catch one who dares to hide it, Lao Tzu doesn't mind slaughtering all of you, get out!" Gao Zhanhu snorted, pretended to be very angry, and threatened sharply, while slashing the back of the caravan leader on the neck with the back of his knife.

"Yes, yes, the villain is going, this is going." The head of the caravan shrunk his neck fiercely, and ran towards the caravan with a rolling belt, while agreeing indiscriminately.

After a while, the person in charge had already run back to the caravan, and as soon as he said Xue Rengui's request, there was an uproar in the crowd, but soon the voice fell down again, and only the voice of the caravan leader was still ringing: "Everyone bear with me, the old man often walks this road, knowing this group of horse thieves, as long as they do what they say, everyone will not have much loss." ”

"You said it easily, what if they saw that our goods were red and they wanted to kill people and sell goods?" A voice retorted in the crowd.

"The old man doesn't dare to guarantee that they won't kill people, but we still have a chance to do what they say, otherwise, you can take a look around for yourself, and then look at the mountains over there, do you still need to talk about the consequences?" The leader of the caravan pointed with his hand and motioned to the vendors gathered around to look around.

"Even if there are many of them, there are a lot of us!" Another voice muttered.

"Quite a few? How many guards do we have? Is 3,000 enough? If you look around, there are at least 5,000 people and horses, and I don't know how many people are hiding on the mountains over there. I'm afraid that if everyone adds up, it's not enough for people to kill in a quarter of an hour. A middle-aged man took the initiative to stand on the side of the caravan leader.

"Yes, these horse thieves are so well equipped, it is likely to be the army of a country in the Western Regions, and the guards can't beat the army no matter how powerful they are, right?" Another person stood by the side of the person in charge.

"Just write, at least you can gamble, right?"

"yes, it's better than dying right away, and besides, the guards don't necessarily really fight the horse thieves."

After a quarter of an hour, everyone in the caravan finally came to an agreement, and they obeyed under the strong force of the horse thieves.

Then, escorted by a group of horse thieves, the merchant and the escort turned to a hill on the side of the road, and on the other side of the hill they saw more horse thieves camping.

The group of horse thieves in the dark made everyone in the caravan tremble, and they were secretly glad that they didn't resist desperately just now, otherwise they were afraid that they would have been trampled into meat by thousands of horses.

As they went, the horse thieves who were busy camping did not make a sound, and apart from the occasional unruly glance projected over, none of them paid any attention to them, which made the caravan even more sure that these men were an army.

The caravan was finally taken to a clearing and settled, leaving a hundred and ten men to watch them from afar, while the others went their own way and went their own way, paying no more attention to them.

But the merchants were taken away and went to a tent not far away, where they had to write down what they were carrying.

The head of the caravan was brought into one of the largest tents in the camp.

"Gao Zhan, you donkey day, you smashed Lao Tzu's neck swollen!" As soon as he entered the tent, the voice of the leader of the caravan changed to that of a young man, who threw off the hat on his head and threw it on the ground, and threw himself towards Gao Zhan.

"Isn't Lao Tzu also trying to act like a little bit, have you ever seen a horse thief speak calmly?" Gao Zhan rushed behind Xue Rengui, exposed half of his head, and said in a voice.

"Then why don't you use the blade to cut it, you cut Lao Tzu to death just to be powerful." After going around Xue Rengui a few times, the person in charge of the caravan saw that he couldn't catch Gao Zhan, so he gave up, pulled the water bag handed over by Lao Xue, raised his head and poured a few sips.

"How's it going, is it going well?" Xue Rengui took the water bag handed back, pointed to the small stool not far away, and motioned for the caravan leader to sit down and said.

"Except for the encounter with you horse thieves, everything is going well." The head of the caravan sat down with a grin, and washed the disguise off his face with a basin of water brought by a horse thief beside him.

When he raised his head and wiped his face clean, what was revealed was Wu Chen's stinky face.

Xue Rengui took out half of the brand from his close-fitting clothes, handed it to Wu Chen, and asked at the same time, "Why did you come in person this time?" ”

Wu Chen also took out half of the brand, and compared it with the sign in Xue Rengui's hand, and then said with a disdainful face: "Of course, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has something to explain, otherwise you are willing to come to your broken place where the bird doesn't?" ”

"Oh? Your Highness has a task to explain? Let's talk about it, are you going to attack Tibet? Gao Zhan on the side heard that Li Chengqian had a task to explain, and he immediately became interested.

The disdain on Wu Chen's face turned into a wicked smile, and he said with schadenfreude: "His Royal Highness didn't mention the matter of Tubo, but just asked me to bring you fifty people, and they were fifty sour dings. ”

(End of chapter)