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Zhang Yuan also took the teacup from the maid's hand and asked, "Did you meet Xiao Lu along the way?" ”

"Encountered, Xiao Lu is now Niu Chong!" Thinking of Xiao Lu, Song Yi chuckled a few times, and the tiredness on his face seemed to fade a lot, and said: "I met Xiao Lu on the way back, he is the innermost one of Chong, I told him the intelligence of some tribes I collected, he is afraid that he is driving herds of cattle and sheep with people to scatter everywhere at this time!" ”

"I haven't suffocated him for more than half a month!" Zhang Yuan also smiled and said, in the half month that Zhao Min besieged the city, Xiao Lu couldn't be idle, he had done such strange things as running horses on the city wall, if Zhang Yuan didn't allow people to go out, he couldn't sneak out of Xihe City alone.

"General, Qian Lao and Master Qian Tian are here!"

In Xihe City, everyone respects Qian Lao very much, and only he can be worthy of the title of 'Qian Lao'.

Zhang Yuan put down the teacup and said, "Invite them in!" ”

"Whoa!" The guards went out in response.

Soon, Qian Tian and Qian Lao walked in.

At this time, although Qian Lao has begun to use crutches, the whole person is full of white hair, but he looks very energetic, crane hair and childish face, with the prosperity of Xihe City day by day, it also makes this old man who has broken his heart for Xihe City feel more and more happy, and the whole person's spirit is even better than Zhang Yuan's coming to Xihe City.

Zhang Yuan still vaguely remembers that Qian Lao was dressed in patched linen clothes at that time, and the whole person was thin and yellow, although he stood straight and had no crutches, it was not surprising, compared with him now, it was like a world of difference.

"I've seen the general!" “boss！”

Zhang Yuan nodded and signaled: "Come, sit!" ”

The two sat on Zhang Yuan's left and right sides, and the maid brought pastries and tea, and Zhang Yuan said, "Everyone is here, Song Yi, let's introduce what you have experienced along the way!" ”

Song Yi stood in the middle and said to Zhang Yuan: "General, I have drawn a map, which is marked in detail what I have seen and heard along the way!" ”

"Oh, is it? Do you want me to have someone bring me a table? Zhang Yuan immediately became interested when he heard it, he strayed into it in the previous life, but he didn't investigate it urgently at the time, and then he was busy with affairs and his territory was not there, so he left him behind, until he was reborn, he wanted to realize his ambitions, and he didn't want to be controlled by others, so he thought about it, but he didn't really know much, and it was one-sided.

Seeing Song Yi's acquiescence, Zhang Yuan asked the guards to put a table on the stage, and Song Yi asked the guards to bring the map he put outside.

The map was drawn by Song Yi with charcoals, although he brought paper and ink along the way, but he lost it in an accident, and the paper was also wet, Zuihou Song Yi used a thin rope to connect the animal skin, used it as paper, and drew a huge and comprehensive drawing.

The whole map is spread out, it is more than five meters long, Song Yi once followed the player to learn how to make a map, and the overall map looks very simple and straightforward, a little similar to modern mapping.

"This is Xihe City, and this is the place the general said!" Song Yi's hand moved down, and the eyes of the three of them fell on the obvious protruding piece.

Zhang Yuan frowned slightly and said, "Huh? It seems that something is wrong, I think this place should be surrounded by mountains on both sides and the sea on one side, right? ”

Song Yi nodded and said, "Yes, the entire grassland is surrounded by mountains on both sides and the sea on one side, but the general must not have entered the mountains, right?" ”

Zhang Yuan didn't deny it, and said: "Well, the grassland is similar to a basin, the mountains are shrouded in clouds and mist, giving people a feeling like Mount Everest, and I have also been to see it, but there are mountains behind it, so I thought that the outside of the mountain should be the grassland, but I didn't expect that behind the mountain is actually the sea!" ”

"In order to find out, after our group entered the place, they were divided into two roads, all the way to explore the grassland, all the way along the mountain, to avoid being caught in a net, and then I found one of the trails, around the back of the mountain, is a mountain, and then accidentally met a tribe in the mountains, accompanied by a person from the Nanban, after the communication to have a lot of understanding of that place, in fact, after the mountains is the sea, but because of the cliffs, can not land at all, I think it is precisely because of this, This place has not been discovered! ”

Qian Tian looked at the map intently and asked, "How many shili are there in the grassland, and how big is it?" ”

"That place is quite big when it is big, and there is no shortage of water, two high mountains are there, and the stream is very abundant, according to my estimate, I am afraid that there are forty or fifty thousand square kilometers, if you count those mountains, I am afraid that there are more, it should be able to reach 800,000 square kilometers! There are many tribes in the steppe, but they are not large, and there are only a few places along the coast, and the rest of the place is either too windy or too steep, so there is a great lack of salt, and there are often conflicts! ”

Don't look at seven or eight hundred thousand square kilometers sounds very big, in fact, the calculation and calculation, the length and width are only a few hundred, thousands of square kilometers, or this place is coastal, and there are ships passing by from time to time, even if the terrain is precipitous, it is not Zhang Yuan's turn to pick up the cheap.

Zhang Yuanyi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Oh, the folk customs there are very strong?" ”

Song Yi explained: "Biao is very strong, but salt is a general commodity there, if there is salt, this is a very haode military source, however, the coastal areas occupy the tribes that produce sea salt are very repulsive to outsiders, I have not been able to contact successfully, I am afraid that it will take a lot of blood to conquer!" ”

As soon as Zhang Yuan heard this, he knew that Song Yi was afraid that something had not been said: "Did you shed blood?" ”

"Hmm!" Song Yi nodded and said, "I sent three people to contact them, but they died, the methods were extremely cruel, peeling the skin and cutting the bones, they couldn't bear to kill Zuihou!" ”

"You did a good job, you didn't go up to save it, otherwise you would have hitched yourself up, although you can be resurrected, but things have been delayed! Qian Tian, when they are resurrected, compensate them well! Zhang Yuan listened to the murderous aura in his heart, he was not afraid of the dead, it was not that he had never died, the big battle together, hundreds of deaths, but the torture of him could not be tolerated, and said: "Don't worry, since they are leaving like this, I will let them pay for their blood debts!" ”

Qian Tian asked, "By the way, haven't they thought about leaving?" ”

"Leave, you can't do without it!" Song Yi was stunned for a moment, followed by a wry smile and bitterness.

"You don't know the horror of that forest, the people sent to me by the general are all elites, and they only lost less than three people on the grassland, but when they entered the forest, nearly half of them went in, and they never came out again! The vast majority of people in that place fled into it, and a few of them encountered wind and waves at sea, and when they fell there, no one went out, and the sea was not to mention, how could they leave without being able to build a ship? And the forest, which they call the land of nightmares, has been passed down from generation to generation, and if you want to enter the forest, you have to pass through a canyon densely covered with poisonous insects, so no one dares to try it! ”