"I really had a crazy madness that I felt that entering the foreign country was a shortcut to seeking great achievements!"

Guo Yuanzhen stood in a simple grass market, looking at the goods piled up on the earthen platform in front of him, and the foreigners and Qiang people coming and going on the street, and exclaimed this feeling.

The location he is now in is the Tibetan area in the eastern Tubo region, which is the original country in western Sichuan.

This supporting country does not mean dependent. It is the name of this Hu country. It is a Qiang regime located in the north of Yajiang. Therefore, it once paid tribute to the court during the Sui Dynasty, but it did not have much contact with the Central Plains dynasty. Tubo developed outwards. After annexing the Sun Bo Nudi Kingdom, it conquered the supporting country during the reign of Emperor Gaozong, and was named Dazang.

Fortunately, it was also for the time that tribute was paid. Otherwise, many years later, the existence of the attached country would have completely disappeared.

More than three months ago, Guo Yuanzhen was ordered by His Highness Yong in Longzhou to rectify the army and set out from Yazhou, Shuzhong, and entered the Tubo territory to contact some internal forces. But now that such a long time has passed, he is still trapped in the Tibetan area and is not allowed to travel with him.

After deducting the time when returning to Shu from Longzhou and then leaving from Shuzhong to rush along the way, Guo Yuanzhen and his party have been trapped in the Tibetan area for more than a month.

When I first entered the snowy area, I was wearing a thick cotton coat and leather robe. Until now, when the sun was the most intense during the day, I could even feel cold even if I was wearing a single coat or even bare. Guo Yuanzhen was naturally depressed.

Hearing Guo Yuanzhen's complaint, the entourage next to him said: "Now that the foreign country, the Gar family is in power, and it is constantly plundering our Tang Dynasty. When the Tang people enter the foreign country, they are naturally regarded as an enemy country, which is vigilant and difficult to go deeper. Even the merchants who travel here only dare to stay in the territory of Dazang and go inward, which will cause a lot of danger."

The person who spoke out was named Guo Wanjun. Although he had the same surname as Guo Yuanzhen, he was born and raised in Shu. His family operated trade with foreign countries in the era, and he was also a wealthy merchant in Sichuan and Shu with a wealthy family of thousands of dollars.

Guo Yuanzhen had been in a small place in Tongquan County and did not have much contact with these Sichuan and Shu heroes. However, after being appreciated by King Yong, the Han King especially entered Sichuan as the chief of the Yizhou Governor's Office. Guo Yuanzhen was also promoted to the Governor's Office to join the army and was also considered the number one figure in Shu.

He was a pragmatic and well-versed person. He cooperated with the King of Han to govern Shu and operate Feiqian, so he simply became a kid with Guo Wanjun. This time he was able to penetrate the Tibetan area of ​​Tubo, thanks to the support provided by Guo Wanjun. After all, he was not a formal envoy of the court and had limited use of the power of the government.

Hearing Guo Wanjun say this, Guo Yuanzhen couldn't help but sigh again: "Young Jinshi became famous, and she wasted her 20 years of Sichuan and Shu, and she had no progress. Fortunately, she was grateful to Your Highness, so she had the expectation to make another effort. Now she donated her body and mind to your Highness, hoping to create extraordinary achievements. Alas, how many twenty years will there be in life? If you don't achieve success in this journey, even if Your Highness is not guilty, what kind of face will I have to meet Your Highness..."

Speaking of this, Guo Yuanzhen was very upset. He wasted years of waste and especially realized the importance of opportunity. Although he often had a good attitude in front of King Yong's Palace, he also knew in his heart that at his age, his talent and talent have not yet been revealed. Only by following His Highness can life be expected to be brilliant.

He was nearly forty years old. If he returned to the capital step by step, if he was not lucky and had been silent for a few years, he had reached the age of preparing large materials and making coffins.

Therefore, Guo Yuanzhen also attached great importance to His Highness Yong's use this time, and even gave up the opportunity to follow His Highness to fight in Long.

After all, he has not had any experience in commanding troops in the past few years. Although he had honed his extraordinary archery and horse skills when he was rampant in Tongquan County, even if he went to Long to fight against Tubo, it would be difficult to get the opportunity to lead the army alone and seek success on the battlefield. It is better to find another way and go straight to the foundation.

"My brother and I have a life-reliance relationship. This trip to the world is not my own private matter. If you succeed, you will also benefit a lot. Your Highness Yong has always been willing to reward you. Your Yang family in Shu is an excellent example."

Guo Yuanzhen patted his shoulder and said seriously.

Those who can chat with Guo Yuanzhen and be friends naturally have some characteristics.

After hearing Guo Yuanzhen say this, Guo Wanjun continued to say: "During the Chuigong period, Dazang still raised troops to fight against the French. The King of the Ban ordered this territory to be very common and was not supported by the various national tribes. If it was indeed difficult to enter Sun Bo, it would be better to retreat and do things in Dazang. I also sacrificed my family and fought with the Ming Mansion last time. I recruited some Qiang Band tribes from this trip. We directly attacked Dazou City and killed the small king of the country, and selected his royal children with considerable appearance to give to His Highness Yong..."

Hearing Guo Wanjun's plan, Guo Yuanzhen rolled his eyes. Does this guy really think that His Highness Yong was greedy for the Tubo woman and sent him to the Fan Kingdom for a walk?

Guo Wanjun was still calculating there: "Although the king of the country also enjoyed a king's title, he was just a slave to the destruction of the country. Previously, the Dazang was in chaos and his king could not be pacified. He took the initiative to attract the army of the foreign countries to suppress it, which was also a loss of people's hearts. During the Tianshu period, the great minister of the foreign countries directly recruited the guards of the kingdom into the Lusa City of the Fan Kingdom to serve as guards, making Daowu City even more empty..."

These small border countries have been overturned and are not attracted by the attention of great empires like the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, when it comes to the inside story, the Tang Dynasty’s official official is really not as familiar as these merchants who have been traveling here for a long time.

The rebellion occurred in the Tibetan area of ​​Tubo, which indirectly led to Wei Yizhi's Western Expedition during the Yongchang period. However, the scale of the turmoil in the Tibetan area was far from affecting much of Tubo's national strength. In addition, the climate was strange at that time, Wei Yizhi was not suitable for the dispatch of the battle, so this Western Expedition ended in failure.

When Guo Yuanzhen heard these inside stories, he couldn't help but get upset and said to Guo Wanjun: "Brother, do you want to be the king of the foreign country? If you want, we will recruit Qiang soldiers to kill the king of the subordinate country as you plan..."

After hearing this, Guo Wanjun shook his head repeatedly and said dryly: "I am just a low-key businessman, so how can I have such a metering spirit? What's more, how can my great man in Tang Dynasty abandon his ancestors and join this country as the leader!"

Seeing that Guo Wanjun refused, Guo Yuanzhen stopped inciting him. He also understood that this idea was delusional. Although the royal family of the king was weak, Tubo was standing behind him. Moreover, the entire Tibetan area was of great significance to Tubo, and it was an important barrier. There were more than one national leader established here.

It is still a bit difficult for me and my group to completely disrupt the situation in the Tibetan area by bribing a group of Qiang soldiers.

However, it is not a solution to always wait passively. Because the Tibetan region has been rebelling since the Yongchang period, Tubo has launched some military blockades against this region, and it is very difficult to reach Sunbo or the Lusa area through this region.

But what Guo Wanjun said was to build a royal family with a king living in nearby Daowu City. After all, in order to ensure control of the Tibetan region, a relatively smooth communication channel must be maintained between the upper Tubo class and the royal family.

Guo Yuanzhen is still unable to enter the middle school of his country, let alone any contact with the upper class of his country. If he could borrow the channels for the royal family to connect with Tubo, it would undoubtedly be of great help to his trip.

With such a clear idea and goal, Guo Yuanzhen no longer complained blindly, but began to approach Daowu City.

The country of support originally had no cities. In order to avoid the fight between each other, the tribes often built stones beside mountains and for prevention and control. It was not until Tubo annexed this country that a city was built in the heart of this area, namely Daowu City.

It is said to be a city, but in Guo Yuanzhen's view, this Daowu City is just a piece of earth enclosure. The walls of the city are not tall, and the rammed earth is not nearly a foot away from the ground. Tall people can see the situation inside the city by tiptoing in some areas outside the city.

Even so, Daowu City is still one of the prosperous areas that Guo Yuanzhen saw after entering the Fan Kingdom. There are banhu tents around the city, and there are constant pedestrians inside and outside. Unlike other places, there are ditches and ridges, where desolate birds are often not laid eggs for hundreds of miles.

As Guo Wanjun said, the protective power of Daowu City was almost gone. The group looked around the mountains near the mountains for several days, and saw only more than a thousand local soldiers, and even a few decent pairs of iron armor were missing, patent leather made of armor, and the equipment was simple.

But this does not mean that Daowu City is completely dangerous. On the mountain several miles away from its city, there is a Tubo military camp. The number of troops stationed in the city is unknown, but soldiers often go out to the camp and go down the mountain and enter Daowu City, perhaps for the sake of entertainment.

"The reason why I didn't get close to Daowu City before was that the foreign soldiers here were arrogant and fierce, and treated me very unfriendly. If I sell goods in the city, once I encounter foreign soldiers patrolling the city, I will most likely have to lose both people and goods."

Guo Wanjun explained the reason why he had not approached Daowu City before. The French and Qiang people in the Tibetan area were quite welcome to the Tang people. After all, the goods brought by the Tang people were all materials that they were in urgent need and could not produce by themselves. Even if they didn't use them, they could reap a lot of rewards by pouring them into other areas of the domestic territory of the Wan.

However, the Rudai Guards who entered the Tibetan country from Tubo were arrogant and domineering, killing and looting were just ordinary. Therefore, the Tang people who entered the foreign country from Sichuan and Shu only traded with local tribes in some remote areas, and did not dare to move under the eyes of the Tubo Guards.

Although Guo Wanjun often travels to the border, the information he can provide is very simple and may help to judge the national conditions and trends of Tubo. However, if it is specifically about the defense power of a city, it is difficult to explain clearly.

Guo Yuanzhen was in a ridge between the mountains and rivers, looking at the Daowu City set up by the mountains and rivers in the distance, looking thoughtful.
Chapter completed!