Chen Zhengtai shook his head: "Don't drive him away, let him go."

As he said that, he ordered the coachman to leave.

People like Di Renjie are stubborn.

At this time, Li Shimin was clearly preparing to deal with this person, but he was still thinking about coming to the Chen family to make trouble.

But this doesn't matter.

Because just today, Wei Zheng has set out for Taiyuan.

Wei Zheng had no complaints about this trip to Taiyuan. Before leaving, he only brought a few child servants. Of course... Chen Zhengtai had nothing to say. He was a man, and he was a job for Erwuzi when he was away, so of course he could not be short of money.

Therefore... Chen Zhengtai directly stuffed him a suitcase, and the money in the case was only a million yuan IOU.

Spend whatever you want and use money to kill the civil and military officials in Taiyuan.

Wei Zheng is not a person who has never seen money. In the exchange, he has countless money transactions every day. In order to make Wei Zheng open a few words, many people want to give big money to Wei Zheng, but Wei Zheng refused.

He only received the money from his mentor, but he took it openly. The Chen family had money, and helping his mentor spend a little can be regarded as fulfilling the friendship between teachers and students.

As for whether Li You will rebel, it is unknown at the moment, and it is just a precaution before it happens.

And Di Renjie... is still too young. Chen Zhengtai's impression of him is not good or bad. But for the time being, he thinks this person... is a bit stubborn.

Of course, most of the teenagers are like this, isn’t Chen Zhengtai the same?

At present, what is crucial for Chen Zhengtai is moving to Hexi. The Cui family and a large number of people need to go to Hexi. If they cannot be properly resettled in the early stage, there will be a big problem.

Therefore, he asked Hexi to buy a large amount of grain from the Hu people early on. After all, the railway has not been built yet, so it will take a lot of effort to adjust the grain from wherever it is. The Hexi area has not yet been opened, which means that all the grain in the early stage needs to be obtained through trade.

Fortunately, the transaction of Jingci is still surprisingly good. I don’t know if Zhu Wenye’s articles played a role. In the Hexi area, there were not only Tubo people, but also Persians, but also merchants from the Western Regions. It is said that many Indians and Romans have begun to appear.

This surprised Chen Zhengtai. After going through hardships and dangers, the merchants from India brought a large amount of treasures to Hexi. On the one hand, under the promotion of Tubo and Nibau, people seemed to be particularly fond of such porcelains that can preserve value and be exquisitely crafted. On the other hand, the price of Tubo fine porcelain was particularly high. In order to avoid the price difference being made by Tubo's middlemen, they simply switched to Hexi directly. After all,... Hexi was already adjacent to Tubo.

The Roman merchants were generally the same. Of course, this Rome... should be Eastern Rome. They occupy the intersection of the Eurasian continent and guard the key points. They are middlemen themselves, and seem to be seeking rare fine porcelain, hoping to redeem the geography to redeem goods to the West.

When the merchants gathered here, they soon discovered that the fine porcelain was not the only feature of Hexi, because the Hexi land gathered with merchants from all over the world. In exchange for fine porcelain, these merchants also absorbed the specialties from all over the world. No matter where the goods were, they would just come to Hexi to buy them.

This is a great benefit for many merchants, because a Roman merchant, in addition to purchasing fine porcelain, can also bring back some specialties from India and Tang dynasties, and will inevitably go back and sell for a good price.

In addition to fine porcelain, merchants in the Tianzhu Kingdom also like treasures from the Tang Dynasty and specialties from Rome and Persia. Since they have all come, they can also bring some back and make profits.

There were even many merchants stationed in Hexi, looking for opportunities.

The Cui family has begun to have part of the divisions arrived fifty miles outside Xining City. The Chen family has confirmed four pieces of land for them. However, for the Cui family, the most worthy of development is this place. They are on the edge of the land, which is the closest to Xining City, and here is close to a planned station. They have only been together for more than ten miles. Thousands of divisions arrived here first, and the Chen family also allocated a group of slaves to them.

After inspecting the land they had divided, they began to build a large number of houses nearest to Xining City.

In this regard, the Cui family obviously has a lot of experience. After all, they started with land management. They have dozens of generations of experience in land management, and there are also a large number of talents in the family who manage land.

Moreover...their houses are by no means ordinary villages, but a dock is built first.

The so-called fort is actually a civil defensive building unique to the aristocratic races. This fort originally began to appear in the late Western Han Dynasty, and it formed around the time of the Tianfeng period of Wang Mang. At that time, the north was famine and the society was in turmoil. In order to protect itself, rich families built fort camp walls.

The aristocratic races have rich experience in dealing with troubled times.

After all, in the chaotic times, people live in miserable life, thieves are everywhere, and Hu people enter the Central Plains, and the world is full of wars and man-made disasters everywhere. At this time, in order to protect their own property, the buildings of the wealthy families will choose a form similar to fortresses!

They built high walls in their own manors and set up a large number of military defense measures. On weekdays, they let the troops cultivate the land in the manors and store all the food they obtained in the granary of the fort. Once an accident occurs, they immediately gather their tribesmen and troops to gather in the fort to preserve their property and ensure that they can withstand the attacks of the riots.

Inside the fort, not only are there high walls, but a moat will be dug on the periphery, and an arrow tower will be set up, bows and arrows, rocks, tinctures, and all defense measures will be stored, just like a wall of iron.

Just like the Qinghe Cui family’s dock in Qinghe, it is very famous because after the Hu people entered the pass, they had made the idea of ​​the Cui family countless times, but in the end they found that such a clan was harder to chew than a stone!

Although these people have money and food, they are all stocked up in the fortress. The fortress can supply the Cui family and their tribes to eat and drink for more than three or five years. Moreover, the city wall is unattainable. Once they attack here, because most of the fortresses are blood relatives of the Cui family and dependents for generations, they encounter the most tenacious resistance.

Originally, when the Tang Dynasty was in peace, the defense function of the forts in this pass had begun to weaken. But now in Hexi, considering that Hu people are eyeing each other, the Cui family has to move here, and the first thing to build is such a fortress.

In addition, the construction of manors, the dredging of rivers and canals, and the land to be reclaimed in the future... These are all things that the Cui family can do. They regard land as assets and are particularly good at operating.

These Cui family members also had their own troops, and were very dissatisfied with the migration to Hexi. In fact, this is understandable. After all, no one is willing to leave the originally comfortable environment and go thousands of miles away.

However, after really coming here, many people were at peace.

The biggest changes are those parts that are originally somewhat disinterested in their hearts and virtues.

The essence of the corpse is actually the slaves who depend on the Cui family. They are the targets of exploitation by the Cui family within the pass.

But now they found that when they arrived here, their status had been greatly improved because... the Turks and Hu Nu came to do the work of the crude benzene. After the relatives of the Cui family arrived here, they naturally trusted the most. Therefore, the targets that were previously exploited have now become the targets that need unity.

The treatment of the troops was obviously better than that in the pass. In order to prevent the troops from escaping, they went to Xining to make a living, the Cui family also began to plan to create some houses for them and give them some good treatment.

On the contrary, the slaves sent by the Chen family obviously replaced the status of the previous divisions.

For the relatives of the Cui family, the operation within the pass can no longer be sustainable. Most of the land has been pledged. If the Cui family wants to survive forever, they have to re-operate in Hexi.

And they found that... the land in Hexi is indeed fertile, especially in this rainy era, the land they obtained in Hexi was not less than the land they owned in the pass. Although Xining City, fifty miles away, was still under construction, they also had all the daily necessities they needed.

They could imagine that after Xining City was completely built in the future, it would definitely be a big city, and the children of the Cui family would... still enjoy the prosperity and excitement of Xining.

Not only that, the Cui family also keenly realized that the Hu people here were very interested in the treasures of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the Cui family planned to run several workshops here, so that they could trade directly with the Hu people in Xining. This would definitely be a source of wealth that could be developed in the future.

This is how people are. Once they accept reality, with their previous operations in the pass, many things begin to have new plans. Some letters are sent back to the pass. The Cui family of Qinghe, which originally expressed their willingness to leave their hometown, seemed to have begun to change.

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After passing through the territory of the Great Cannibal, the Great Cannibal Empire was expanding rapidly. Therefore, it was particularly difficult for a group of people to travel here. There were wars everywhere, and countless villages and towns had become broken walls and silences.

However, it seems that Xuanzang and his group... After going through hardships and obstacles, they finally survived.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Cannibals heard that they came from Dongtu and originated from a huge dynasty that only appeared in rumors.

People are always curious about unknown things, so after they come into contact with each other, Xuanzang's image is quite good, giving people a gentle impression, greatly reducing the vigilance of the cannibals.

Even this group of strange-looking orientals received many local lords. There were already a few Persians in Xuanzang's team. Persia and Dashi are now in the same situation as the same as the fire of water and fire. Therefore, the translations of these Persians are very proficient in the language and customs of Dashi.

Of course, there is no danger. Several times... they were attacked by horse thieves, but the Chen family led by Chen Aixiang counterattacked without hesitation. They were equipped with firearms, had rich combat experience and excellent weapons.

The most important reason is that most of them are miners, who suffer hardships and have strong willpower. Most of the thieves are bullying the weak and afraid of the strong. Once they realize that the other party is a tough guy, they will soon lose their combat power.

And this Master Xuanzang was confused most of the time.

He often thought silently.

I traveled through the desert, through the next door, through the Persian plateau, but... why did I come here?

Looking at these companions who were even more powerful than horse thieves, and watching them cut off the horse thieves' heads to warn them, and then inserted them with wooden sticks and put them beside the road. Xuanzang felt that it was not coming to seek scriptures, but to kill.

Of course... he chose to endure.

Because countless experiences told him that there is no point in arguing with Chen Aixiang, Chen Aixiang is a person who only believes in the truth.

And now... when they passed through the great cannibal area, they finally... arrived at a strait.

A giant city across the strait.

When they arrived, somehow the sound of bells echoed in the huge city.

"Listen, is this the bell in the temple?" Chen Aixiang looked excited and looked at the tall city wall in the distance with the guidance of the guide.

Through the communication of the guide, they knew very well that they were about to enter a new territory, a capital of the Roman Empire in the East.

Xuanzang was lowering his eyes at this time, keeping the Buddha's rituals with his hands, his face calmly, but he just slowly said, "This temple is not that temple."

Chen Aixiang said, "It's all temples, it's no different. I just don't know what kind of scriptures there are in this temple."

Xuanzang then took a deep breath very hard and endured it desperately.

He felt that since his journey westward, his temper had improved and became closer to the state of what the Buddha said that the heart is like a Bodhi tree, the heart is like a mirror platform, and there is no self or formlessness.

"Different means different. This sutra was wrong." In fact, I don't know how many times he said this. He let out a sigh of relief, and then explained it as if it was breeze: "The temple here is not the temple of Tianzhu."

Chen Aixiang then grinned and laughed: "What's the difference? Don't they all look the same as that woman, when they blow the lights? I said Xuanzang, can you not always be serious like this? In fact, for me, this is the same."

Xuanzang continued to inhale deeply, still calm and clear, and said slowly: "We have been traveling west for thousands of miles. After passing this place, should we go back to our hometown?"

"Don't you go to the scriptures?" Chen Aixiang widened her eyes and said in disagreement: "You were the ones who came to the scriptures at the beginning, but now you are the ones who want to go back. You haven't even received this sutra yet. What do you think? You are a monk after all, how can you give up halfway?"

"If we continue like this, we will never be able to obtain the true scriptures." Xuanzang said with a wry smile: "I want to go back to Dongtu. As for the matter of obtaining the true scriptures, let's make other plans."

Chen Aixiang shook her head seriously and said, "This is not good. People can't do things like this! Let's go for a while, Zhengtai said, "You have to go to the ends of the world before you can go back. How can you give up halfway? Look, we have not experienced many charms along the way?"

Xuanzang held his face and said nothing.

Chen Aixiang looked at him. In fact, after being together for so long, he could understand the temperament of the master and said, "Okay, okay, don't talk too much! I will submit the national certificate first, and then go to the city. At that time... I'm afraid I will bother the monk again. I'm so cruel that I'll have to find some Hu Ji to have fun when I enter the city. But you know that I'm not relieved to leave you alone in the inn. My uncle told me that I can't let you leave our sight no matter what. At that time, you can keep us outside the brothel."

Xuanzang breathed heavily and wanted to say something, but finally found that it seemed meaningless to say it, so he lowered his eyes again and murmured with Buddhist scriptures.

Finally, we arrived at a big city, and the people accompanying us had already cheered and cheered. These dirty people soon communicated with the city gate guards through the guide for a long time. Finally, a group of cavalrymen came out in the city and came forward to negotiate with them.

Immediately, everyone entered the city to settle down. After all, they were envoys. Everyone had no complaints in their daily lives and had no grudges recently. Even if they were not treated with diligently, they often did not make things difficult for them.

After a lot of fun and wine, Chen Aixiang, who was satisfied, lived with Xuanzang. He was very worried that Xuanzang would run away halfway, so he had to eat and sleep with him.

But this time... Chen Aixiang brought good news to Xuanzang.

"After we stayed here for one month, it's time to return."

This news was actually a bit sudden for Xuanzang.

So Xuanzang asked, "Is that so? Why is this?"

Chen Aixiang said, "From the eastern capital of Rome, we can find out the reality and reality of the West, so... as long as we spy on information here, no, we can find out the information here, and the information from the ends of the world. I communicated with the Romans, and they seemed to be quite interested in my Tang Dynasty and were willing to send envoys to the Tang Dynasty with us. In addition, at that time, there will be great cannibals, Persian envoys, and the countries along the way... This time... we are afraid that the envoys we brought with us will be dozens or hundreds of huge. It is strange that Rome and Dashi are not bad. They are called great powers, and the other countries can dominate within a radius of a hundred miles. Just this... they are just a county marquis, and they can even call themselves kings."
To be continued...