Yumenguan, west of the city.
In front of a huge mansion, there are two majestic large stone lions at the door. The vermilion door gives people a sense of weight.
The four gilded characters on the plaque: Yumen Escort Agency!
The Yumen Escort Agency has existed in Yumen Pass for a very long time. It was established here when an old general who was one of the first batch of garrison troops discharged his armor and returned to his fields when Yumen Pass was established.
Relying on the prestige of the old general and the help of the old general's cronies among the troops stationed at Yumen Pass, the Yumen Escort Bureau has always been a dominant force in Yumen Pass.
Although the environment of Yumen Pass is harsh, it is not suitable for growing any medicinal herbs, and there are no special products. Perhaps except for those who are used to staying in comfortable places, they can read nonsense based on the nonsense written by the idle literati. The text of Yumenguan, and then came here to find the scene mentioned in the book.
However, most of these people come here to take advantage of the excitement and return in despair. After all, there is nothing good to see in this place where nothing matters.
The reason why Yumen Pass is able to bring many merchants from thousands of miles away, and to allow the people living in Yumen Pass to have food to eat without growing rice, relies on the West Desert Kingdom that Yumen Pass has been guarding against.
Although the West Desert Kingdom is located deep in the desert, it has several oases with fertile and moist soil. Relying on these oases, the West Desert Kingdom grazes large areas of cattle and sheep in the depths of the desert, and also grows a kind of The unique rice can withstand the dry and harsh environment of the desert.
But despite this, the West Desert Kingdom is still inseparable from trade with Kyushu.
As the saying goes. The soil and water support the people.
In a place like the West Desert Kingdom, the people are so fierce that a six or seven-year-old child can tear a wild wolf alive alone in the desert.
This is also a matter of helplessness. The Western Desert Kingdom is already in a situation of sparse population and shortage of resources.
In addition, the desert is full of various crises, whether it is various poisonous insects and beasts hiding in the yellow sand, or the unpredictable sandstorms, they have brought extremely severe tests to the survival of the people of the West Desert Kingdom, so the West Desert Kingdom Children in the Mo Kingdom have to learn how to survive on their own as soon as they can remember.
This is also a feature of the Western Desert Kingdom.
There are also the nobles of the West Desert Kingdom who, after tasting the fruits and vegetables of Kyushu, as well as all kinds of wonderful elixirs, began to covet such things and did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy them from those bold businessmen.
As a result, countless businessmen dared to risk their lives to cross the Yumen Pass and cross the dangerous desert to reach the Western Desert Kingdom.
Some clever businessmen will also find ways to bring out various desert specialties from the West Desert Kingdom, such as desert wolf teeth and wolf bones, precious intact wolf skins, poisonous insects in the desert, and strange flowers and plants.
These things may not be considered much in the Western Desert Kingdom, but in the eyes of Kyushu people, they have become items of great collection value.
With a large number of merchants taking great risks to go deep into the desert, these caravans carrying important goods had to hire a large number of people to protect themselves and the safety of their goods.
You know, what is terrifying in the depths of the desert is not only the harsh environment, but also the unfathomable human heart.
There are so many shady people hiding in such an inaccessible place.
Some of them hid here because they caused a lot of trouble outside, while others came here specifically to work as bandits, intercepting and killing passing merchants and making huge profits from them.
They rely on some extremely dangerous places and set up dragnets to intercept and kill caravans.
Faced with those who are weak, they directly eradicate them and wipe out all the value of these weak people.
Facing those strong men who are not easy to mess with, they will not harass them more after testing them.
If a strong person comes to them and wants to retaliate against them, they will just find a corner and hide.
Relying on their familiarity with this dangerous area, they fully implemented the policy of bullying the weak and avoiding the strong, allowing their cancer to take root in this area and cannot be removed at all.
Faced with such lawless people, both the nobles of the West Desert Kingdom and Wu Modi of Yumen Pass have tried countless ways to eradicate them completely.
However, no matter whether they are joint operations, large-scale raids, or secretly sending strong men and violent actions, they can't exterminate the bandits entrenched deep in the desert.
They are like poisonous snakes hiding in the desert, placing their nests in unknown places. Even if they die, they will be able to resurrect a new version of themselves in their nests soon.
Behind the light, there will always be darkness.
However, it was precisely because of several tough actions taken by Yumen Pass and the West Desert Kingdom that these bandits restrained themselves a lot and had a certain bottom line.
After the caravans passing by offered enough silver, the bandits would not embarrass them too much.
At least he wouldn't directly take the caravan's life.
After all, if you try your best to catch the fish and do things too well, the caravans may think that the business here is too risky and no longer want to come.
Then they will also lose value and usher in destruction.
Moreover, when there were some caravans with high positions passing by, the bandits also skipped the probing process and let them pass directly.
For example, the Western Desert United Caravan represents the nobles of the Western Desert Kingdom, or what is now known as the Western Desert Ancient Court, and the caravan escorted by the Yumen Escort represents the Yumen Pass.
These are things that bandits will not touch easily.
The name of Yumen Escort Bureau has always been well-known in this part of the West Desert.
The most famous event of the Yumen Escort Agency was the one a year ago when it escorted the ascetics from the Dunhuang Grottoes to a large Buddha statue custom-made in Chang'an.
The whole body of the Buddha statue is made of gold, and its value is unknown.
It is said that during the construction process, Chang'an's largest smelting workshop stopped several ongoing construction tasks and even opened its doors to other smelting workshops, just to mobilize skilled craftsmen and gather materials.
On the day when the construction was completed, the city of Chang'an was even more glittering with golden light. Countless people claimed to have heard the sound of Buddha and saw the Buddha's statue appearing.
It was such a Buddha statue that was sent all the way to Yumen Pass.
The monks at Dunhuang Grottoes originally wanted to escort him out of the customs and send him to the Western Desert.
However, as soon as they sent the Buddha statue out of Chang'an City, countless gangsters coveted it and tried to snatch it away.
Even if the monks sent from the Dunhuang Grottoes were all very skilled, they could not withstand the endless insidious methods of those bad guys.
When the monks finally managed to deliver the Buddha statue to Yumen Pass, there was only one dying person left among the monks.
He struggled to climb to the Yumen Escort Bureau with the Buddha statue, insisting on being escorted by the escort agency.
Yulong, who was the chief escort of the escort agency at the time, was moved by the monk's sincerity and agreed resolutely, regardless of the obstruction of his subordinates.
You know, right behind the monk, countless gangsters are staring at the Buddha statue.
If the Yumen Escort Agency gets involved, it will probably attract the hostility of countless powerful people.
If this escort is not completed, not only will the Yumen Escort Bureau's own prestige be greatly affected, but it may also offend the people in Dunhuang Grottoes.
And even if this escort is completed, the Yumen Escort Agency will probably suffer a lot of losses in the process. Loss of money is a trivial matter, but the key is the fear of loss of manpower.
The result of this escort was as expected. It was a bumpy journey, with open and covert attacks. All members of the Yumen Escort Bureau, a total of 141, killed a hundred people, seriously injured 11, and slightly injured 20. .
Fortunately, the Buddha statue was finally sent to the Dunhuang Grottoes.
They had to endure all the difficulties and obstacles along the way with their flesh and blood.
This battle also completely sealed the name of Yumen Escort Agency in Yumen Pass and even the Western Desert.
The Dunhuang Grottoes also gave a large amount of money to the Yumen Escort Bureau, which instantly restored its vitality and gained a lot of talents.
After that, the Yumen Escort Agency grew bigger and bigger, and almost every larger caravan entering the Western Desert would hire the personnel of the Yumen Escort Agency.
After Wu Modi took office, due to lack of money, he also sent people to start trade with the Western Desert Kingdom.
However, he was only responsible for signing the paperwork and contracts, and his subordinate Su Xuan was actually responsible for the operation.
At this time, in front of the Yumen Escort Agency, Yulong was leading the men of the Yumen Escort Agency, confronting a group of people with evil faces on the other side. Both sides had serious faces and were full of gunpowder.
The people surrounding him were all talking about it.
"If you ask me, this newly opened Longmen Escort Agency is really brave. They actually dare to block the entrance of Yumen Escort Agency in broad daylight, shouting that they want to duel with Yulong, the chief escort of Yumen Escort Agency."
"Yes, yes, I don't know who the people from the Longmen Escort Bureau are, and they dare to be so rampant. You must know that the Yumen Escort Bureau is a golden sign of our Yumen Pass! No one knows about it from here to the West Desert Kingdom. "
"I don't know what they want to do here today to block the door. Could it be that they want to come and destroy the Yumen Escort Agency? Isn't this just a fantasy?"
"Huh? Isn't that Mr. Zhou Mu and the deputy general? Why are they here too?"
"Perhaps they are here to help the Yumen Escort Bureau calm down the situation. After all, the Yumen Escort Bureau is related to the safety of business and trade between Yumen Pass and the West Desert Kingdom!"
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Yan Wu Mo Di and Su Xuan walked slowly between the two groups of people.
"What? Uncle Yulong, who made you angry again?" Wu Modi greeted Yulong with a smile.
His friendship with Yulong is not very deep. Their relationship has always been in a state of neither salty nor cold, but there is still respect on the surface.
After Yulong bowed his head and saluted, he pointed an unkind look at a man with scars on his face in the middle of the crowd opposite.
