In the next few days, Liu Tao and his group walked through the mountains. Generally speaking, Yinpan County faced westward. Although it was surrounded by mountains, there was still a certain plain area.

Several villages and towns were located in this area in later generations, and now there are naturally some villages here. However, many times, when they approach, there was no one in the village, even though the smoke from cooking had just risen not long ago.

"Send a dozen people out and say everywhere, we are not here to catch the hidden people." Liu Tao probably knew why this happened, so he gave an order.

There was no real road here from the Yin Pan, but there were still traces of human activities here. How to explain it? Of course, some people who escaped here lived a secluded life here.

Self-sufficient, you don’t have to pay land rent and tax to the court or gentry, and you don’t have to do labor service. What a comfortable life!

But they were also in panic all day long, always worried that the court would send people to take them away, and even hold them accountable and sell them into slavery.

Knowing the reason, it is naturally possible to solve the problem. Zhang Fei and Lu Bu each sent people to shout for a long time, and finally some people came down from the mountain one after another. Judging from their skillful appearance, it is probably not the first time they have done that.

"Official, really won't arrest us?" Soon, an old man came out of the villagers and plucked up his courage to come to Liu Tao.

"We just passed by here and went to Linjing County to fight a war, and we didn't plan to arrest you. But we might need one or two people as guides. Don't worry, we'll get a reward!" Liu Tao waved and someone immediately took out a bag of food.

This kind of hidden man needs money to be useless, so food is valuable. Sure enough, after seeing this bag of food, the old villager immediately smiled and said, "Everything is easy to say"!

After asking carefully, I realized that there are at least four or five such villages in the mountains, and there are no such village heads, or pavilions, or the like. I just chose a village head and three elders, which can be maintained almost. There is no need to travel, after all, everyone is more or less close to it.

It was said that it was the ancestor, but I don’t know if it was the generation of grandpa or grandpa Zeng, and then settled here. Several villages originally came to the family and then intermarried with each other, so the village gradually became bigger.

"Since you villages know each other, that's even better... You can send someone to tell me, we will go there one after another, don't make them fuss. Otherwise, it would be too troublesome to go to a village for a long time." Liu Tao replied.

"This is OK, yes." The old village chief quickly said, and then called a young man to inform the other villages. It was at this time that Liu Tao discovered that there were actually horses in the village.

"You guys raise horses too?" Liu Tao asked curiously.

"Our ancestors originally raised horses in Zhangye, and this horse raising is already a ancestral craft. Even if we move here, we will raise some, not many, and there are about 300 horses in several villages, and we will bring them to trade from time to time, so we can only make some money to support our family." The old village chief said.

Liu Tao was naturally curious, so he went over and found that this was a very authentic Xiliang horse, and the quality was quite good. I don’t know if it was a high-quality horse breed brought from the horse farm in Zhangye. The 300 horses were probably cultivated slowly over the past few decades.

"Your horses are all pretty good. I bought them as much as you can sell!" Liu Tao was not short of money at all, so he announced directly.

That's right, there are only more than ten horses in the village that can be sold, and the rest need to be bred, and some of them are too old to sell. Liu Tao was not polite and bought them all.

It is only now that we know that these villagers would organize people to go to Yinpan County, or even Linjing County to sell horses, and then purchase supplies. Since the village uses money, he naturally doesn't mind spending money.

"Since you will go to Linjing County, you should know, is the way there?" Liu Tao was actually more concerned about this. He thought he might have to open a road, but he didn't expect that there would be a road passing by.

"There is a road, we drove a road in the mountains and forests. It was built by several of our villages and generations of people working hard during the slack season." The old village chief replied quickly.

We cannot go to Yinpan County, so we will not be able to find ourselves, so we can only walk the mountain road to Linjing County.

Many merchants came from the west of Linjing County, and they also stumped in, pretending to be from the west. They had the accent from Zhangye, and they could fool them.

"How is it..." Liu Tao looked at Sun Jian.

"The general is indeed wise!" Sun Jian had to accept that there was really a way to pass Linjing County. There was no need to take the risk of passing from the east, which was not only safer, but also more unexpected.

In the next three days, under the leadership of the local people, Liu Tao came to the vicinity of Linjing County via the mountain road. Three thousand civilians helped build camps here so that the troops could temporarily station here. Then he sent people back, on the one hand, allocating food and grass, and on the other hand, talking to Dong Zhuo that they would launch an attack and let him prepare early.

"Hansheng, take people over and supervise the civilians and do not allow them to contact anyone. At the same time, anyone who dares to follow them secretly will be killed on the spot!" Liu Tao then called Huang Zhong over and ordered.

"Here!" Huang Zhong didn't ask. He would do whatever Liu Tao said, and there would be no mistake.

Sun Jian had no objection to this. Liu Tao suspected Dong Zhuo. If Dong Zhuo really had a problem, he might really send someone to follow him. Now, Dong Zhuo probably didn't expect that they would not kill him from the east of Linjing.

Liu Tao was not idle either. In the past few days, he looked at all the thieves in Linjing County and then drew out the map. When he was idle, he would draw some sketches, and even ask Zhang Fei for advice.

"Brother is good at craftsmanship, but I didn't expect that he could draw such vivid works with charcoal pen!" Zhang Fei also likes sketching very much. He uses brushes. No matter how realistic the characters are, the characters have a bit of softness. Different sketches, the masculine feeling is vividly displayed on the paper.

"You want to learn, I will teach you!" Liu Tao smiled. Anyway, he is still idle now.

Six days ago and May, the thief had not responded for the time being, and Huang Zhong had already returned with supplies.

"Did you follow me?" Liu Tao asked.

"I ambushed by the roadside for a long time. When I saw three people sneaking up with us, I shot them to death." Huang Zhong nodded, "It's a pity that there is nothing to prove their identity on the three people."

"It doesn't matter if there is no. They have shown up and have proved a lot of things." Liu Tao looked at Sun Jian.
Chapter completed!