The team moved forward slowly, and Li Keshou accompanied Liu Ruozai to talk, and soon he was already ten miles out of the city.

Liu Ruozai waved his hand, and the team stopped, and he said to Li Keshou: "Lord Li, let's get here, the affairs in the city are busy, the chaos is predetermined, and you need to go back to preside over the overall situation, this is a big deal, I don't dare to delay you." ”

In the end, he chuckled, and Li Keshou also laughed. With this friendship in the city, the relationship between the two is also quite good, otherwise Liu Ruozai would not have been able to make such a joke with him, he has always been a very serious and even a little old-fashioned person.

Li Keshou smiled and said: "Then the lower official will go back, I wish you a success!" ”

Although Liu Ruozai did not disclose what he was going to do in Gansu Town, Li Keshou also knew that he must be going to do a big thing, and he would definitely not offend people by saying such auspicious words anyway.

Then the two said a few more words, and Li Keshou went to say goodbye to those generals one by one.

Dong Ce is the last, of course, everyone knows that the relationship between the two is not ordinary, and people must have a lot to say in the end, and it's just a few polite words to you.

The two rode to the side, and after seeing that they were already some distance away from everyone and making sure that others could not hear the conversation between the two, Dong Ce said in a low voice: "Brother Li, you must help me take care of my things, don't dare to make mistakes!" Otherwise, if those two people find out, we will both be unlucky! ”

"Of course, don't worry, brother, when the time comes, there will be nothing in it." Li Keshou smiled lowly: "I understand the stakes. ”

Of course, he understands that now he and Dong Ce are grasshoppers on the same rope, and he also participated in the slaughter of the Yang Mansion, and Dong Ce also gave him 10,000 taels of silver from the benefits he received! Once this thing is poked out, both of them will be finished!

Dong Ce mentioned it for a while, and then he didn't say much, just went to talk about some gossip and talk about some light topics. For Li Keshou, he is very relieved, knowing that one sentence is enough.

The silk and satin, gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, jade jewelry and other things he got from Yang's mansion were as many as a dozen carts, and Dong Ce naturally couldn't take them away, after all, if he wanted to take these carts out and put them in the team, then anyone could see at a glance that he had obtained great benefits in the city. Liu Ruozai is not blind, so he can naturally see that when the time comes, after a careful investigation, Dong Ce killed the Yang Mansion up and down, and then burned down the Yang Mansion, but he couldn't hide it.

So these things were quietly transported into his own station, because he was afraid that Dou Qishui's people would find out that these big cars were leaking, and even on that day, he arranged Dou Qishui and his family members to live in another place under other pretexts.

Then it was quietly transported out and placed in a very safe place arranged by Li Keshou.

Neither of them is a mother-in-law, and after talking for a while, Dong Ce returned to the team. Then, Li Keshou solemnly bid farewell to Liu Ruozai again and took his people back to the city.

When he left, Liu Ruozai dismounted, returned to the carriage, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go!" ”

The procession headed west, moving forward. In the evening of the same day, they arrived at Whitewater and stayed in Whitewater City.

Early in the morning of the second day, we continued to move forward, and two days later, we crossed Malan Mountain and arrived at Tongguan.

Three days later, they arrived in Pizhou, and then went from Pizhou to Jingzhou, and when they arrived in Jingzhou, they had already left the ground of Xi'an Mansion and arrived at Pingliang Mansion.

From Jingzhou, all the way to the northwest, through Pingliang Mansion, into Gongchang Mansion, and then into Lintao Mansion, to this place can be said to have reached the northwest border. Further west from here is the Duogansi Xuanwei Division, which is the area of Qinghai Tibet in later generations. From here to the north, it is the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, that is, the Gansu of later generations, of course, not all of Gansu.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there was also Gansu Province, but when the Ming Dynasty was founded, Gansu Province was revoked, and Shaanxi, Gansu and Gansu were all merged into the Shaanxi Political Envoy. On the ground in Gansu, the Shaanxi Xingdu Division was set up for management.

Xingdu Division, that is, Xingdu Command Envoy Division, and as soon as you see the words Metropolitan Command Envoy Division, you know that what is practiced here is not ordinary civil jurisdiction, but military jurisdiction.

On May 14 of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the team finally arrived at Xiningwei, the capital of Shaanxi, which was later known as Xining, Qinghai.

After repairing in Xiningwei for a day, continue to move forward, pass Yongchangwei, cross Shandanwei, and arrive at Ganzhou Wuwei. Ganzhou Wuwei is the core area of the entire Shaanxi Xingdu Division. At the beginning, it was set up here as the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, and later, it was set up in Gansu Town, which was one of the important border towns.

However, the Shaanxi Xingdu Division was not abolished, and the envoys were all commanded to manage the guards, while the Gansu Town was to manage the actual soldiers in the formation, and was responsible for how to fight the war.

The seat of Gansu Town and Shaanxi Xingdu Division is in Ganzhou, which is Zhangye in later generations. When he arrived in Ganzhou, Liu Ruozai didn't dare to swagger over directly, there were several big people in Ganzhou City, and he needed to visit.

For example, Wang Du, the commander of the Shaanxi Xingdu Command Envoy, such as Bai Yiqing, the governor of Gansu, and the chief soldier of Gansu Town, Liu Daqi.

It's just that when they arrived in Ganzhou City, they didn't see these three adults, and after asking, they learned that these three had rushed to Suzhou Wei a month ago.

So Liu Ruozai led people to Suzhou Wei in a hurry, passed the high platform, and finally arrived at the ground of Suzhou Wei. And the ultimate destination of this trip, the big grass beach outside Jiayuguan, is just outside the northwest edge of Suzhou Wei.

Suzhou Wei is actually the Jiuquan City of later generations. During the Chongzhen period, it was the northwestern corner of the Ming Dynasty. Originally, this was not the case, when the Ming Dynasty had just been founded, in the west of Suzhou Wei, there were Chijin Mongolian Wei, there were Shazhou Wei, there were Anding Wei, and Hami Wei, etc., from Hami Wei to the west is Yili Li.

It's just that after a hundred years of vicissitudes, the territory of the Ming Dynasty has been constantly encroached upon. Now, the Ming Dynasty has long lost control of the territory west of Suzhou Wei.

This place is the hometown of the Otsuki clan, Jiuquan County of the Han Dynasty.

It is close to the desert, the climate is already arid, and in the last Ming Dynasty, due to the advent of the Xiaoice River era, there was a drought year after year, and the rain was scarce. In this climate, agriculture could not be so prosperous and developed, Dong Ce originally thought that it would be quite poor and poor, but the truth was beyond his expectations.

Along the way, Dong Ce carefully observed and found that although the farmland here is withered and the agriculture is dilapidated, it has reached the point of near collapse, but in fact, the local area is not poor.

Because the business here is so developed.

It doesn't take long to come across a town, which is not small in size, and there are hundreds or thousands of households living in it. The market in the town is very prosperous, with many shops, merchants coming and going, and commerce is very developed. The townspeople, dressed in their clothes, spoken and behaved, all show that the place is quite wealthy.

In addition to these large number of commercial towns, along the way, Dong Ce has another particularly deep impression that business travel is particularly special.

They traveled along the official road all the way to the northwest, and it didn't take long for them to come across a caravan of large or small caravans. The smaller ones were just three or two people, plus a few horses to carry the goods. The size of the large caravans was quite terrifying, often exceeding a hundred, driving dozens of carts, and the goods on the carts were piled up like hills. When you pass on the official road, you will leave a deep rut mark on the ground. And a caravan of this size can always meet one or two groups a day. This brought quite a shock to everyone. Many of them had never seen so many caravans in their lives. Even Liu Ruozai is amazed, he is a native of Anqing, Anqing is close to the Yangtze River, the merchant ships come and go like carp crossing the river, never stop, business is very developed, and he has seen the prosperous scene since he was a child. And after Liu Ruozai became an official, he went to many places, and it can be said that he is used to seeing big scenes. But he still felt that it seemed that from Ganzhou to the west, the degree of commercial development in this area was not inferior to that of the Jiangnan region, and this discovery surprised him very much.

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