"A general, a real husband. He is a thirty-year-old man. He is seven feet tall and has a beard. Yumen Pass is lonely, and the yellow sand is thousands of miles away. The white grass is withered... Five thousand armored soldiers are brave and powerful. There is nothing to do in the army but amusement... Purple gold seals are just asking about it, and they are just a slave in the crow. Qing songs are all in the world. Today I like to hear about the phoenix generals. The cavalry general hunts to the south corner of the city, shooting and killing a thousand-year-old fox on the sun... I am drunk and clamoring for wine and drinking, and suddenly remembering the old drunkards in Xianyang."

After stopping the cup and holding it in his hand for a moment, Cen Shen started chanting himself, then he took the paper and pen from the hand of Hu Ji, who was serving the wine beside him, and wrote a long poem.

Chen Guang and Du Fu and others have been studying poetry for a long time, but although they still cannot make this good poem, they still have the ability to appreciate it. How to say Cen Shen's song of General Gai has praise and criticism. Not only praises Gai Tinglun's courage, but also makes a lot of jokes about his luxury and pleasure.

Gaitinglun didn't care about the tactful sarcasm in Cen Shen's poem, but instead thought Cen Shen was worthy of being acquainted. When Cen Shen put down his pen, he laughed and picked up the song "Song of General Gait" and said, "Judge Cen is indeed a talented person, and Gait admires it."

Seeing that Gaitinglun was still graceful, even though Cen Shen still didn't like his extravagance, he couldn't help but admire him.

Knowing that Chen Guang and Cen Shen were about to rush to Anxi the next day, Gaitinglun did not have a banquet all night in the end. In the end, he just pulled Chen Guang to sleep with him, but talked about a lot of things.

When Chen Guang left Yumen Pass the next day, there were more than 20 camels and two Kunlun slaves in the team, which were all given by Gaitinglun, which also gave him a clearer understanding of the financial resources of these aristocratic families who came from the border generals.

Gaitinglun made friends with him naturally, so he had some desires, in order to make Anxi Shaochun's quota in the Yumen Pass army. Last night, Chen Guang only knew that Gaitinglun and Li Shouzhong had a friendship. After drinking Anxi Shaochun, he listed this wine as a military supply.

"This General Gai is both generous and smart."

Looking at the more than 20 camels in the team, Cen Shen couldn't help but say that more than 20 camels are worth more than hundreds of thousands of yuan, but compared with the sales quota of Anxi Shaochun, these camels are nothing.

“Multiple friends and multiple roads.”

Chen Guang smiled. Yumen Pass is an important pass of the Silk Road. Although Li Longji allowed him to establish an escort agency, he was able to recruit horse thieves and bandits on the Silk Road? He could not get the secret of robbery and permission to privately do so. He could only rely on the cooperation of the troops stationed in various places under the rule of Hexi.

With Gaitinglun's cooperation? Chen Guang was more confident in wanting to control the Silk Road? The Sogdians who made a fortune on the Silk Road now have no strong backing in Chang'an City. To put it bluntly, it is mainly because the big merchants in the Tang Dynasty who were able to get involved in the Silk Road trade were mostly powerful families.

These people rely solely on annexation of land? They can make money by lying down by monopolizing the land. Why do they have to let the children of the clan work hard to do business thousands of miles away? What's more, the Silk Road has never been considered peaceful.

The Tang Dynasty merchants who did business on the Silk Road were all unparalleled figures in the pass, or they were children of aristocratic families. Because they could not get a beautiful position in the pass, they could only be placed in remote places like Anxi to become officials and accumulate qualifications. So they did some business by the way.

In other words? Although the Tang Dynasty was the overlord of the Silk Road on the surface, the benefits obtained from trade were limited, which made the Sogdians earn enough, and then the cannibals wielded the sword and snatched away the wealth earned by the Sogdians from the Silk Road.

This is also the reason why the power of black-clothed food and food rose sharply after the Anshi Rebellion? Because the Tang Dynasty, as the suzerain of the Sogdian city-states such as the Jiu surname of Zhaowu, lost control of Hezhong, and since then, the entire Central Asia and the Western Regions began to undergo a long Arabization.

Seeing Chen Guang's expression? Cen Shen understood that General Gai was probably also an important figure in Chen Guang's plan.

The desert on March? The temperature difference between day and night is huge, but fortunately, Shen Guang's team is not short of camels and horses? They carry extremely abundant supplies? Even Zhang Xiaojing and Longwu soldiers who came back to the sea of ​​sand did not have any disagreement.

"I didn't expect that all these caravans had our raft flags!"

When you were about to walk out of the desert? When you saw the red flags in the fifth caravan you encountered along the way, Cen Shen couldn't help but murmur.

"Nanba, send someone to ask the name of the caravan to write down."

Chen Guang frowned. It was too easy to imitate the dart flag. These Hu merchants who were strolling on the Silk Road were all savvy. Although he sold a lot of dart flags in Anxi and Chang'an City that day, to be honest, most of the Hu merchants came to burn spring for Anxi and wanted to make a good relationship with him.

He didn't remember having sold such a bad raft flag. In response, Nan Jiyun ordered two clever tooth soldiers to go to the caravan in front of him to ask questions. Soon the two tooth soldiers came back and reported the name of the caravan.

"When I arrived at Huo Shaocheng, I knew if this business had built a errant flag privately."

Chen Guang thought about it. If there was a plague flag he didn't know was distributed, then there would be only ones issued from Huoshaocheng.

After arriving in Yanqi Town, Chen Guang and his team had just done a little renovation and headed straight for Huoshao City. In less than two days, the team arrived on the official road outside Huoshao City. Looking at the road that had been widened to more than three meters, and looking at Huoshao City, which had turned into a blue-gray brick wall in the distance, Chen Guang almost didn't recognize it.

In the field beside the official road, there were cavalry roaring and practicing rushing forward. When they saw the team led by Chen Guang, a flying cavalry immediately rushed over. Then, when the man who led the team saw Chen Guang, he immediately became overjoyed and led his companions to dismount and "Go to see the husband."

Looking at these sturdy Han'er and the four towns of good families, Zhang Xiaojing and Cui Qi both showed surprise behind Chen Guang. They knew that their husband had his own foundation in the Huochang City and recruited hundreds of Han'er and the four towns of good families, but in their minds, what kind of achievements could they have in more than half a year.

But when the cavalry drove over just now, the queue was neat, and the distance between the front and back seemed to be measured with a ruler, which was a bit scary.

"My husband is waiting for a moment."

The man who led the team quickly sent his subordinates to report. Soon after, hundreds of cavalrymen stopped training and lined up in a row to gallop in an orderly manner.

The shouts of "Welcome to you!" shocked the four fields, which made Cen Shen beside Chen Guang's side envious. He could hear the shouts of the cavalry from the heart and full of emotions.

"Brother Bai."

Seeing Bai Xiaode in the cavalry covered in the clothes and holding a double-headed spear, Chen Guang knew that these men and the good sons of the four towns could be so fierce in the past six months. Bai Xiaode, the prince of Kucha, probably spent a lot of effort.

"Chen Lang, you are back, you really want to ruin me."

Bai Xiaode said loudly, the joy on his face was beyond words. After dismounting, he hugged Chen Guang fiercely. After Gao Dadu returned to Kucha half a month ago, the elites of the four towns had already set off to gather one after another, but Chen Guang had not returned here, so he could only wait for him, which made him so desperate that he was looking forward to fighting on the battlefield.

"Brother Bai, I'm back."

"All food, fodder and supplies in the city, I have already ordered people to prepare it. Let's set off for Yancheng now."
Chapter completed!