"Wow, it's so cold here.@,"

"Hey, the little guy in Zhongyuan has no idea. Our northwest is like this. When there is sun during the day, everything is fine. But as long as the sun above our heads hides, it will freeze a few people to death."

"Hey, don't think I don't know. It was taught in school that the higher the mountain, the colder the weather. Compared with the sea here in Qingzhou, it is a thousand feet higher. The weather is naturally better than those at the foot of the mountain.

It’s much colder somewhere.”

"Oh, you even talk about this kind of thing in your official education."

"That's right, the principal said that whether you are an official or a general, you need to know astronomy and geography, and be familiar with the local customs and customs of the place you are in. In this way, whether you are governing or fighting, you can adapt to local conditions and get twice the result with half the effort."

"He is indeed the most educated person in Bingzhou Official School. This is really extraordinary to say. It's a pity that I was born at the wrong time, otherwise I would have been admitted to the official school no matter what. Even if I just sat in for a year and a half, I would still be able to do it."

It will be very rewarding.”

"That's natural, but everyone knows the benefits of the official school. There are countless students who fail to pass the exam every year. Who doesn't want to sit in on the lectures of those doctors in the official school? Not only can they learn knowledge, but it is also beneficial to them.

Second year exam."

"Then I really don't have much hope."

"That's not necessarily true. I heard from students who haven't graduated yet. Recently, the security guards of the official school have become in demand. It is said that it is because a student failed to enter the official school due to various reasons and could not get the opportunity to audit.

So I decided to work as a security guard in a government school. Although I need to complete various tasks on weekdays, as long as I work hard, I still have some free time.

Listening on the sidelines, and even managing the entry and exit of official schools. You can also meet the PhDs in those schools. Maybe you can ask some questions when the other party is happy, and you can also leave a reputation in the minds of those PhDs for being studious. No, no

Three years later, this soldier who became a security guard passed the internal assessment of the official school and became a new student of the official school. He is really enviable to others."

"As expected, there is a saying that 'where there is a will, there is a way.' I am not as good as him."

"It is said that since then, even those responsible for cleaning in official schools, which were originally considered very dirty and low-level things, have begun to become more popular. It is said that a scholar responsible for cleaning was stumped by a question.

Where are the students who are about to graduate?"

"Wow, are all the handymen in government schools now monsters?"

"Hey, hey, hey, there's no need for this. It's just an occasional problem. It doesn't represent a common phenomenon."

"Ah, by the way, I forgot that you are also a student who graduated from a government school. It is a little difficult for you to accept such a thing."

"You are simply questioning my level. I want to duel with you..."

"Very well, Lao Zhang, give our Qin University student a long sword. He wants to compete with me."

"Who wants to compete with you? I want to compete with you!"

"Hey, you know clearly that I have never been to a government school, but you still want to fight with me."

"You are not the same. You have bullied me on fewer battlefields than you, and you have been exposed to wind and rain on weekdays. You must be better at killing and fighting than me, and your body is much stronger than mine. Otherwise, it is obvious.

You mean to bully me."

"Hehe. Because you proposed the competition first, I won't suffer any loss no matter what."

"Very well, well, then you must not have a son, otherwise you will see how I will take care of him after he goes to school."

"How do you, my little one, figure out what to do with my son!!!"

"This is not easy," he said, ignoring the other person's cannibalistic look. "Leave him enough exercises every day to complete the rest of the night, and then tell him that as long as he completes those exercises every day, he will definitely be able to get close to Bingzhou Official School and achieve success in life.

peak!"

"Really or not?!"

"Well, if he can really do this, there is no problem, but the premise is that his body can persist until then."

"Sure enough, I'd better hang you up and give you a beating to relieve the hatred in my heart."

"Before that, you should give me a leather coat first. It's too cold."

In Jincheng County, the terrain continues to rise from east to west. By the time we reach Linqiang, an important town in the west, this situation has become more and more obvious. Even though it is already the end of April, I still can't feel it during the day.

At night, when the thick chill dissipates the heat that the sun had so easily left behind during the day, humans once again need to face the test of temperature.

For those who have just arrived, this huge temperature difference far exceeds their imagination. Even though Guanzhong and Jinzhong also have a typical inland climate, in front of this plateau, it is so pale that anyone who wants to

Human beings living here have to endure far more severe tests than they imagine.

This is not to mention another environmental factor that makes it more difficult for them to adapt, which is the somewhat thin air here.

As the terrain rises, in addition to the drop in temperature, the concentration of oxygen is also constantly dropping simultaneously. Many levels that are easy to achieve on flat ground become more difficult here, not to mention the physical impact is even greater.

huge.

This is an extremely unfamiliar environment for most people. For example, the top student who just graduated from the official school in Jinyang, even though his whole body is wrapped up tightly, he still asks for another one from the people around him.

A thick leather jacket.

It's not that he is really cold. After all, he is an elite who has participated in winter hunting and survived successfully. The coldness can't really help him, but he still would rather let himself be wrapped up than be wrapped up.

The cold wind eroded his body, because before setting off, someone told him that he must not catch a cold in this strange place, because here, it would be a more terrible disaster than injury.

There is no way to wake up.

The caravan guards who were traveling with him did not comment on his statement. Some people agreed, and some people dismissed it. The guy who was arguing with him, after thinking for a long time, revealed his somewhat ferocious expression.

smile.

"Hey, life and death matter. Since you have come here, you must be prepared to die at any time. No matter what you think, I, and the subordinates who follow me, have already written to my mother-in-law and me at home.

After writing the suicide note, if any one of us can come back alive, then the other people’s family members will be his family members. If we all die, the clan will also look at our contribution to the clan and treat the orphans and widows kindly, at least

It will also allow them to live peacefully until adulthood.”

Although the top student envied the freedom and ease of these northwest men, his ambitions were not small, and he never wanted to die in such a useless manner - after all, for this adventure, he gave up a peaceful life where he could be steadily and slowly promoted!

However, if you persuade him to give up this adventure at this time, he will definitely not be willing.

Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.

Only when you really come to this land that you can only see in books can you feel the wonders of this world - different races, different customs, and how to deal with and deal with different tribes.

Young people learned a lot.

Not to mention that young people can never imagine how those merchants used some common things in the Central Plains area, or more accurately in Jinyang, to exchange for a lot of things that can be sold at high prices in Jinyang shops.

Good stuff.

There are precious herbs, precious ores, and even the furs of various exotic animals.

Some tribes had more interactions with the Han people. Although they were not easy to deceive, they could not resist the merchants' cleverness. As for those tribes that were relatively closed, the space for merchants to operate was even greater.

But what surprised the young student was that even though the behavior of the businessmen was absolutely "hateful" in his eyes, every time they ended a business conversation, both parties showed a satisfied smile and looked like brothers.

The small talk between them is normal.

"Don't calculate how much the other party got in this transaction. As long as you figure out whether you made a profit in this transaction, it's enough. As for those superfluous delusions, you won't consider them until you have the ability to realize them.

Late."

The young man suddenly felt that perhaps it was this unique game thinking of businessmen that made rulers in the past dynasties particularly wary of them. If the rulers had not continuously weakened and restricted them, it might not have taken a hundred years for them to be like this.

The supreme ruler of the land.

In this case, is it really okay for the Master Zhou Mu to use various means to completely release the energy of these people?

Well, no matter how you look at this kind of big thing, it should be something that the big shots should think about. He is a fledgling. Although he can be regarded as an elite, there are dozens of people who graduated with him. If you include the supply from other channels, there are also more people every year.

If he is not an inconspicuous member of nearly a hundred people in the reserve bureaucracy, what qualifications does he have to talk about such a thing.

He is not the kind of person with a complicated identity and background who has been exaggerated by his teachers and classmates for a long time. Even if he is hiding in a poor ravine and singing without seeing anyone, a group of people will still pop up to praise him. Even if he is evaded in every possible way, there will be people who can help and appetize him. He can save the world and bring peace to the people.

"hermit".

"So you won't catch a cold even if you don't wear so many clothes!"

"No, I just feel so cold."

Finally, a feeling of sleepiness swept through his body, feeling the small environment that could even be called hot, and the young man fell into a deep sleep.

Hope tomorrow will be a good day.

Okay, should the weather like rain falling from the sky be called good weather?

Looking at the dark clouds above his head and the thin raindrops around him, the young man couldn't help but frown.

In fact, for the local herdsmen, there is absolutely no obsessive-compulsive disorder in this kind of thing. For them, having such weather at this time is definitely quite good luck.

Even though the terrain here can be regarded as a windward slope, the difference between the average annual precipitation and evaporation is still scary. After all, this place can be said to be deep inland, and it is difficult for water vapor from the ocean to reach here. There are no large areas like in the Western Regions.

The vast desert is also blessed with the holy white snow on the nearby mountains, which continues to nurture the fragile ecological environment here.

Therefore, every rain, even if it is just a drizzle, is extremely valuable to the herders living here.

"What is the goal of today's operation? Is it to continue exploring, or is it to visit the Qiang tribe as a priority."

"The goods we brought this time have been almost sold out, so we should prioritize exploration and mapping."

Entering here is equivalent to entering an area where the Qiang people are relatively powerful. Although you can go northwest along the Huangshui River and cross Shui Valley and Mucheng Valley to reach Longqi, where the Jincheng Western Captain appointed by the imperial court to prevent the Qiang people was stationed.

city, but considering that since the Qiang rebellion that spread widely during the Zhongping period,

Later, as the core area where the Qiang people raised their troops, it was hard to believe that the administrative agencies of the Han Dynasty government still existed here. Especially since Li Shushi had nominally obtained Jincheng County, but in fact he also lacked effective control over it.
To be continued...