When General Guo saw them, he just came out of the Protector's Mansion. He was afraid that his father would do something bad again, so he quickly asked: "Master Zhou is here because..."
Man Bao smiled and said: "We got some clues about the cowpox method, so we wanted to give it a try and asked General Guo for help."
General Guo wanted to know more, but Mr. Zhuang was here and there were many things he couldn't say.
Master Zhuang saw the hesitation on his face, so he and Bai Shanzhou smiled and said, "You have just come back to catch up with the two young generals. I will go back first."
Bai Shan immediately asked Daji to send Mr. Zhuang back.
General Guo exhaled and invited them to a restaurant for a drink and a chat.
He poured tea for them from a pot and asked with a smile: "When did you come back?"
"I've only been back for two days."
That was indeed not long ago.
General Meng asked them curiously, "Where have you been? It's so chaotic outside now that even businessmen rarely run around. Are you not afraid of encountering soldiers and bandits outside?"
"Didn't you almost wipe out all the horse thieves and bandits?"
General Guo couldn't help but said: "That's the trade route going east, but aren't you going west to find the cowpox method?"
Bai Shandao: "We went north first and then west."
And Qiuci is in the southwest of Xizhou, so it is indeed staggered.
General Guo breathed a sigh of relief. He was actually quite worried about something happening to them, especially within the jurisdiction of Anxi.
General Guo asked in a cryptic manner, his father must not have committed any crime, right?
Bai Shan smiled and mentioned their request for coming this time, and said: "General Guo has promised us. I hope he can help us find a place and people soon."
General Guo began to think deeply. This matter was actually not difficult. He felt that he could do it without his father. He decided to ask the people in the Protectorate's Mansion who was in charge of this matter when he went back. He would then tell them and try his best to help them do it.
make this happen.
He also hoped that Zhou Man, Bai Shan and others would finish their work and leave Xizhou as soon as possible, not because they were not welcome, but to prevent them from conflicting with his father again.
To be honest, he still likes them. After all, he has few friends of his own age. Apart from General Meng, there are only two who can be called friends, and they are not close by.
It's rare to meet a peer who doesn't look at him differently because of his father, nor is he afraid of his father. He still wants to make friends.
Especially if the other person has good character and appearance.
It's a pity that they are not afraid of his father, and they don't look at him strangely anymore. They just have a bit of a rivalry with his father.
After dinner, General Guo and General Meng sent people back to the gate of their courtyard before getting on their horses and leaving.
After leaving the alley, General Meng looked back and said to General Guo: "It's a pity that there are few medicinal materials in Xizhou City. They don't make many patent medicines now. Otherwise, I really want to buy some more patent medicines from them."
He said: "You have also used their hemostatic medicine. Is it better than what we bring at home?"
General Guo nodded, "Xizhou is poor in supplies. There is nothing we can do about it. However, the food and grass will arrive in two days. There must be medicinal materials used by the army. I will keep an eye on you and send you some more."
You can ask them to help you make a patent medicine."
General Meng was overjoyed and said, "Good brother, I would like to thank you in advance. We don't have much medicine for injuries. Last time Tubo broke through the pass, we injured a lot of people and most of the medicine was gone."
General Guo Xiao said: "I hear what General Ashina means. This time he will send someone else to the south to guard the border, and then let you follow us to conquer Kucha?"
General Meng smiled and said: "General Ashina, whom my father entrusted to me, is dangerous to be a forward, but it is easy to achieve meritorious service. This time I come here, the Western Region can basically be leveled. Fortunately for you, you can still fight with Tubo from time to time with your father here."
The Western Turks fought hard, but not many people dared to pass the Yumen Pass, so there were few opportunities to make meritorious deeds."
"Are you going to stay at Yumenguan forever?"
"I am the eldest son, and my father still wants to keep me at Yumen Pass. I will succeed him and continue to guard Yumen Pass in the future."
Little General Guo didn't know what he was thinking of, and said slightly disappointedly: "I may have to stay in Anxi with my father."
There are many opportunities to make meritorious deeds in Anxi, but its importance and prosperity are far inferior to that of Yumen Pass.
And General Guo’s character...
General Meng reached out and patted his shoulder and asked: "By the way, how is the morale of your army?"
"good."
Not only is it okay, since General Ashina arrived, the morale of the army has increased a lot.
There may be a general manager here, and General Guo has personally promised to all the soldiers that if Kucha is captured this time, everyone will be rewarded according to their merits after the war.
What this sentence means to General Guo is that all soldiers can share the spoils of war.
The soldiers who had not worn cotton-padded clothes for two years heard that their morale was high, and now they all wanted to rush into Kucha as soon as possible.
It's rare for their general to be so generous.
General Guo thought of something, reined in his horse and said, "I'll go back to the army."
"Are you looking for prisoners for Zhou Man and the others?"
"The government is busy with the expedition, and I'm afraid I'm not able to do it, so I went to take a look."
General Meng knew his concerns, so he did not follow him, but parted ways with him.
After Manbao and the others watched the people leave, they turned around and were about to enter the courtyard when the door to the opposite courtyard opened. The people who had been looking through the crack in the door jumped out immediately, "Are you back?"
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked back at them with puzzled expressions on their faces, "Didn't we meet the day before we came back?"
The night before yesterday, they came over and said they wanted to celebrate, and even had dinner together.
Du Yu laughed awkwardly, and immediately pointed to the people around him and said: "We have met before, but you haven't met Batur yet, right?"
He said: "He came here not long after you left and came to deliver news to us."
Bai Shandao: "Erlang told us that we would like to thank the mayor for his kindness. We will go back later and thank you if we have the chance."
Upon hearing this, Du Yu immediately asked: "When will we return?"
Man Bao said with an embarrassed look: "Maybe next year."
The heavy rain makes me frown, and the outside is not stable now. Although the trade routes are open, there is still a war going on, and it is still very dangerous. Who knows when we will encounter the remnants of the defeated soldiers?
Encountering remnants of soldiers is more dangerous than encountering horse thieves.
And there are always troops coming from Yumen Pass to support them, just in case they are treated as horse thieves and killed along the way...
I heard that when General Ashina came along, all the horse thieves and bandits he encountered were easily harvested without stopping on the way.
Heavy rain and Batur looked at each other, gritted their teeth and said: "Next year, next year."
I hope their skins can be saved when they go back, so I just escort them once. Who knew it would take so long? Would the mayor really not skin them?