Chapter 258 Silk Road Node
"Sir Bai, did you hear what I said? The Huo family is trying to win people's hearts! If you don't stop it, will there be a place for you in Liangzhou?" Li Maoshan looked at the indifferent Bai Yi anxiously.
"What's my position?"
"You are the governor of Liangzhou!"
"Am I? A city abandoned by the country, a city that is almost empty. What does it matter whether I become the county governor or not?"
Hearing the deep tone in Bai Yi's voice, Li Maoshan became even more anxious.
"No, the imperial court has not issued any clear order. As long as the Western Liao Dynasty does not invade, Liangzhou will still belong to Dongyang. You can't give up too early now. This will make way for the Huo family."
Bai Yi suddenly threw the stone in his hand and yelled, "What's wrong with giving way? Do you know how many people have died now?"
"Yangguan has 100,000 soldiers! Liangzhou has 30,000! Longcheng has 50,000! 180,000 Dongyang men all died on the battlefield!
Now it is the Huo family army that is holding on. Does your young general dare to mobilize 100,000 troops to support them? Dare he? He dare not! As long as he is a general of Dongyang, he dare not! "
Bai Yi suddenly felt very desperate.
He sees no hope.
"The Huo family is trying to buy people's hearts? They are protecting the country with their lives!"
“Let’s not talk about whether Western Liao can be repelled. Even if the Huo family really repelled Western Liao with that little force, how can the court still have the nerve to take it back?
dream!
Whoever defends the ten cities in the northwest will own them!"
He had completely lost hope in the imperial court.
Apart from ceding land again and again, they have done nothing.
Li Maoshan was shocked and speechless.
He took two steps back and lowered his head. "Alright, County Magistrate Bai, I'll convey your message to the Major General. We have different paths. Once we block the tunnel, we'll go back."
From then on, the Cao and Han worlds each served their own master.
Bai Yi just sneered.
"The Beigong Army is no match for the Huo Family Army."
…
Sang Ning sent people to bring back some people who were wandering outside.
Whether it is from Yangguan or Longcheng.
Anyway, there are a lot of empty houses in Liangzhou now.
Because of drinking Lingquan porridge every day, there are no more deaths and people are in much better spirits.
But they are still troubled by illness. Some have headaches, some cough up blood, and some have pain in their bones all over.
It sounds like this poison will first attack the weak points of the human body.
Lu Shishen and his team prepared several medicines and tested them on the most seriously ill patients, but the effects were not yet apparent.
Although there is food in Sang Ning's space, it cannot be grown by just thinking about it. She has to sow it herself.
That is to say, you don’t need to put in any effort when harvesting. Just think about it and the crops will be harvested by themselves, and the original crops will disappear.
Continue planting.
So far, she has only planted three crops of corn, three crops of peanuts, two crops of millet, and one crop of rice. The rest are scattered mung beans, red beans, soybeans, and various miscellaneous vegetables and fruits.
It looks like a lot, but if thousands or tens of thousands of people eat it together, it won’t be enough.
Her hands are now useless, she can no longer work, and she can no longer grow crops. She simply cannot hold on for much longer.
What's more, the soldiers fighting at Yangguan also need food.
So she had to get food from somewhere else.
The Huo family members came back and everyone hugged each other and cried for a while.
Sang Ning called Jintang into the room to write a letter for her.
She read what Jintang was writing, a letter for Xinyuerong.
"Aunt Four, you've worked hard."
Jintang looked at Sang Ning's two thickly bandaged hands, lowered his head and said in a muffled voice.
Sonning smiled, put his hand on his head and patted it gently.
"As long as we're alive, everything else is secondary, right? We're all incredibly lucky to be alive."
Jintang grabbed Sang Ning's sleeve and started crying.
"Fourth Aunt, Jintang really wants to kill all the people of Xiliao. They don't deserve to live in this world."
Anyone who has seen the Western Liao people killing people will probably think so.
"I want to kill them all, too," said Sanning. "So we have to become stronger and fight them back until they're scared."
"Aunt Four, I read a travelogue at my teacher's house. I don't know who wrote it, but it said there are many countries west of Dongyang.
There are Simon, Qiang, Sek people, and the vast Taraz country.
When I was in the capital, my teacher at the official school often talked about how rich and powerful Dongyang was, and how all the surrounding countries looked up to it and submitted to it.
But why did Western Liao dare to bully us, a powerful nation, instead of bullying those weaker nations?
Jintang was very confused, which made him doubt what he had learned before.
Dongyang may be rich, attracting others to fight for it, but it is not powerful and is still very weak.
"Well said. Why do they dare to bully us? It's not because we are weak, but because our court is corrupt."
Sang Ning said bitterly, "Our prosperity has made them spineless, greedy for pleasure, numb and indifferent, and they choose to retreat and protect themselves when the beasts bite them.
Therefore, we must get rid of the old and innovate, replace the old with the new, rebuild with new blood and bones, and protect this land."
After Sang Ning finished speaking, he suddenly realized.
"What country do you think is in the west?"
Jintang repeated it again.
"Taraz..."
Is this the Talas city that fought against the Tang Dynasty in history? It seems their original name was Taraz.
Although she did not learn history well, the history of the Tang Dynasty was so brilliant that she still remembered many historical events.
Talas is located in present-day Kazakhstan. The famous Battle of Talas was an encounter between the Tang Empire and the European Empire, which ended with the defeat of the Tang Anxi Protectorate.
Sanning was not sure whether Taraz was Talas.
But she has been here for so long that she also knows the territory of Dongyang.
Many place names overlap with those in ancient China, but the division of areas is slightly different, and the land area is almost half smaller.
She realized that Dongyang Kingdom might be part of the long history of China and was not a fiction.
At that time, it was obviously not as vast and powerful as in later generations.
"Does Dongyang have business dealings with Taraz?" Sang Ning asked Jintang excitedly.
She remembered that Talas was an important node on the Western Silk Road during the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, although it may still be far away from the Tang Dynasty, the Silk Road started from the Han Dynasty!
Is it possible that transactions have already taken place?
Jintang was very confused.
"Jintang doesn't know."
Sang Ning was confused. She should ask Xu Wude about this!
Xu Wude returned home yesterday. Mrs. Xu was safe and sound. He even came to her to express his gratitude and cry.
Sang Ning immediately asked someone to call Xu Wude over.
"What is Taraz? I don't know!"
"Old Lu, Old Shi and I went to the west a few years ago and bypassed Western Liao. There were nomadic people there, called the Saik people.
We sold some mirrors and tea leaves and got some sheepskins in return."
Xu Wude shook his head and tutted his words. "It's so poor over there, there's no money to be made, and it's very cold. The most important thing is that the Western Liao often attacks them, and we almost can't come back."
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