"Mr. Sun, this is the Shidaoliangzi. After passing this place, it is the boundary of Lanzhou. We can only escort Lord Sun here. Going forward, if our Ganzhou army enters Lanzhou without authorization, it will violate military discipline. I hope you understand it!"

"Thank you for your hard work along the way, Captain Guo and all the soldiers..."

"It is also an honor for our brothers to protect you!"

Three hours after leaving Shizhai County, Yan Liqiang and his group finally arrived at the border between Ganzhou and Lanzhou. They escorted Yan Liqiang and his other cavalry along the way, and when they arrived here, they completed the mission.

The Qujun captain who led the 600 cavalry, a serious officer named Guo, who had thick hair and beards, said goodbye to Sun Bingchen at the border between the two states.

Yan Liqiang was next to Sun Bingchen, watching Sun Bingchen talking to the officer, and his eyes were also looking at the surrounding environment.

Looking around, everything in front of you can only be described as desolation.

The stone road beam is a hillside with only gray-brown stones. There is a dry riverbed under the hillside. Several old poplar trees are standing stubbornly on the riverside. On the side of the road beside Yan Liqiang and the others speak, a weather-beaten boundary monument is exposed. The three words "Ganzhoujie" can still be seen on the boundary monument...

There were still eagles circling in the sky. Yan Liqiang was carefully observing the birds in the sky along the way, and at the same time compared them with his own feelings. He wanted to see if his feeling of being spied has any internal connection with the appearance or not of those birds. But what puzzled Yan Liqiang was that after the feeling of being spied away, the birds in the sky came and went, and there seemed to be no rules to follow.

This situation made Yan Liqiang extremely depressed and almost doubted whether he was nervous.

After a few words, the Qu Jiang named Guo immediately hugged Sun Bingchen and turned the head of the Xilongma and whistled, "Brothers, let's go!"

Like a storm, the 600 cavalrymen almost turned their horses' heads and ran towards the road when Yan Liqiang and the others came. In just a moment, they disappeared behind a hillside.

...

"Sir, I'll go ahead to explore the way..." Liang Yijie immediately said to Sun Bingchen as soon as the group of cavalry left.

"Okay, go!" Sun Bingchen nodded.

Liang Yijie raised his hand, rode the Rhino Dragon Horse with four guards, and ran towards the front first. Then the remaining people and vehicles of Sun Bingchen and Yan Liqiang slowly followed. He was protected by 600 cavalry before, and was in Ganzhou. He was unobstructed and would not encounter any trouble at all. But now entering Lanzhou, he had to be careful on the way.

Although the people had entered the Lanzhou territory, there were many mountains in front of us, and there was no official road at all. There was only a dirt road with some ruts continued to extend under his feet. Yan Liqiang clearly felt that after entering the Lanzhou territory, Sun Bingchen and his group were obviously alert. Many of the guards accompanying him had already held the bow that was originally hung on the saddle in his hands, and Yan Liqiang also secretly raised his vigilance.

"Liqiang, do you know why although Ganzhou is a border state, its population is more than Lanzhou, and its city is more prosperous than Lanzhou?" Sun Bingchen, who was riding on the Xilong horse, looked at Yan Liqiang who was following him on a horse and asked.

Hearing Sun Bingchen's question, Yan Liqiang shook the reins and let his dark clouds cover the snow, and trotted a few steps forward, but was only one distance behind Sun Bingchen's head, so as to answer Sun Bingchen's question.

Yan Liqiang just organized the language a little and replied, "When I was in the National Museum, I heard from the teacher that the teacher said that the reason why Ganzhou is more prosperous than Lanzhou is because in the past hundreds of years, in order to strengthen the border, the imperial court has spent a lot of effort to migrate a large number of people from surrounding states to Ganzhou. Ganzhou has the nourishment of snow water melted from the Qiyun Mountains, rich products and abundant water resources. In addition, normal trade with the Shartu Qibu and the Heike people, this creates a situation where Ganzhou is a border state, but it is even richer than Lanzhou!"

"Yes, Li Qiang, you are right!" Sun Bingchen smiled and looked at Yan Liqiang with admiration. "Then do you think the Seven Shatu tribes are pros and cons to our Han Empire?"

"This is a national event. I have concerns with the officials and the officials in the court. My knowledge is extremely shallow, how can I compare to the officials?" Yan Liqiang smiled, grabbed his head, and said in a daze.

"Liqiang, don't be so cautious. I know you must have your own opinion on this matter!" Sun Bingchen saw through what Yan Liqiang was thinking at first sight. "Today we will just talk casually. Just tell me boldly how you view this issue. If you say it wrong, I don't blame you!"

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Yan Liqiang had to smile bitterly and express his opinion, "The Seven Shatu Tribes are good or bad for us. The key depends on our situation. If the Han Empire is strong and prosperous, the Seven Shatu Tribes will be honestly a barrier between us and the Black Capricorn people in the west. If there is a problem within us, for example, if there is a civil strife in the empire in the future, or if other unpredictable things happen, as long as the Han Empire appears to be weak, the Seven Shatu Tribes will definitely become a major concern for the northwest states of the empire, and rush towards us with a knife! By that time, the northwest states will definitely suffer from the suffering of the people!"

As soon as Yan Liqiang finished speaking, he found that Sun Bingchen's gaze became stranger when he looked at him, as if he was admiring, and as if something else was hidden in his gaze.

"Since the Seventh Tribe of Shatu has taken root in the northwest, the fait accompli can no longer be changed. Li Qiang, how do you think you should deal with these Shatu people now?"

"Does sir really want me to say it?"

"Tell me?"

Yan Liqiang gritted his teeth, "Then let's take advantage of the empire's weakness before it showed its weakness, and take advantage of the conflict between the Seventh Tribes of Shatu and the Black Capricorns, join forces with the Seventh Tribes of Shatu to attack from the front and back, completely uproot the Seventh Tribes of Shatu. At least it will be severely damaged, so that it will not be able to turn over within a hundred years, and force the Seventh Tribes of Shatu to retreat to the desert!"

"The conflict between the Han Empire and the Black Capricorns is not smaller than that between the Shartu Seventh tribe and the Black Capricorns. How will the Black Capricorns join hands with us?"

"Promise the grassland pastures occupied by the Seventh tribes of Shatu to the Capricorns. The Capricorns and rats are short-sighted, will they agree?"

"What's the point of driving away the seventh department of the sand area?"
Chapter completed!