After comprehensive consideration, Liu Dong's plan was to find the four most likely locations where the tomb of Genghis Khan was speculated by the entire academic community, namely, south of the Kent Mountains in Mongolia and north of the Kerulun River; Hangai Mountains in Mongolia; and Ningxia, China.
Liupan Mountain; Qianli Mountain in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, search them all
Of course, Liu Dong's time is limited, and these mountain ranges span hundreds or even thousands of miles. If he wants to search them all, it is impossible even if he has the relic Yuan Guang.
You can only look for it in a few special places where people speculate that Genghis Khan's tomb may be there. For example, Qianli Valley in Qianli Mountain, Ordos
Because of the close distance, Liu Dong did not take another plane, but said goodbye to Wang Hua again and drove to Qianli Mountain alone.
But it is a pity that although the scenery of Qianligou is extremely beautiful due to high temperatures and heavy rainfall in summer, it does not have what Liu Dong wants at all.
After failing at Aerzhai Grottoes and Qianli Mountain, Liu Dong really couldn't muster the energy to go to Liupan Mountain again.
Moreover, Liupan Mountain was located in the Xixia territory during the heyday of Mongolia hundreds of years ago. It is unlikely that the Mongolian nobles would bury their leader in the enemy country. Moreover, no remains of Genghis Khan’s mausoleum have been found near Liupan Mountain, unless Liu Dong wanted to
Search the entire Liupan Mountain.
If he had enough time, Liu Dong wouldn't mind doing this, but now that he doesn't know when the crisis Clark Ford once warned will break out, Liu Dong really doesn't have any more time to waste.
In contrast, he was willing to spend some time to try the Hangai Mountains and the Kent Mountains where the possibilities were greater.
Therefore, after leaving Qianli Mountain, Liu Dong crossed the China-Mongolia border from Mandula Town, Inner Mongolia, and drove into the vast Gobi Desert.
It's not that Liu Dong doesn't want to fly, it's really that except for Ulaanbaatar, which is the capital of the country,
.There is no airport at all in the western Mongolian province that Liu Dong wants to go to.
After all, you can't expect that even a so-called city with a population of less than 20,000, even if it is the administrative center of a province, will have the luxury of building an airport.
After all, this is Mongolia, not Western developed countries such as the United States, Britain, and Germany.
Therefore, the only way Liu Dong can choose to travel is by car.
Fortunately, off-road vehicles like the Hummer, which has the pedigree of military vehicles, are strong enough and can withstand bumps, even in rugged deserts, Gobis, grasslands, and even mountainous areas.
For nearly a week, we crossed thousands of kilometers of Gobi desert and crossed the Gobi Altai Mountains. After arriving at Albahere, we drove northwest along the Hangai Mountains, aiming directly at the birthplace of the Zabhan River, Hangai.
Bayan forest in the southwestern center of the mountain range
Bayanhelin means: a wealthy place in Mongolian.
Before Genghis Khan Temujin unified Mongolia, Bayanhe Forest was once the administrative center of the Naiman tribe, the five major tribes in Mongolia. It was a place with abundant water and grass, and flocks of cattle and sheep.
For the Mongolians who live in pursuit of water and grass, this is the basis for their struggle for supremacy in the world. However, no matter how good the place is, whether they can truly achieve hegemony in the end depends on the people. And the Naiman tribe is obviously not Bayan Helin's.
The true owner.
In 206, after the Naiman tribe was conquered by Temujin, he built his second Dahando in the Mongolian grassland, besides the banks of the Kerulen River, in the center of the Naiman tribe with rich water and grass.
Hanyi Palace
It is also the political center of western Mongolia.
If Genghis Khan's tomb is in the Hangai Mountains, Liu Dong thinks Bayanhelin is the most likely place.
"Madeh, I finally saw the yurt"
Looking at the dots of white on the green grass in the distance, Liu Dong let out a sharp breath.
After a trip to Mongolia, Liu Dong finally understood what it means to have a vast land and sparsely populated areas.
Mongolia has a land area of 56.65 million square kilometers. As the largest country in the world, Mongolia has a population of less than 3 million. There are less than two people per square kilometer. Can you imagine how sparsely populated this huge land is?
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Moreover, the western, northern and central parts of Mongolia are mostly mountainous. The eastern part is hilly and plain, and the southern part is the Gobi Desert. Therefore, the main place where the population lives is the mountain valleys in the north. The hilly plains in the eastern part, as for the Gobi Desert in the south, there are no people at all.
In fact, except when Liu Dong crossed the Gobi Altai Mountains to Burgan and Albahere and saw some people, he usually had nothing but deserts. The journey of several hundred kilometers was full of yellow sand.
Or the raised khaki barren hills, with no trace of green at all.
If Liu Dong hadn't been determined and used the relic Yuanguang to find various underground mineral deposits to pass the time when he was bored, he would have been driven crazy by the lifeless color.
"boom"
Just when Liu Dong was about to step on the accelerator and drive towards the yurt in the distance, a sound like a firecracker suddenly sounded in his ears, and then he felt that the Humvee he was sitting on had lost its balance.
Fortunately, the bumpy road along the way honed Liu Dong's driving skills, and there was no one around. Therefore, Liu Dong quickly stopped the Hummer that almost overturned.
I opened the door and got out to take a look. As expected, the left front tire had blown out.
This is already the first tire he has blown out along the way.
"It's over"
After checking the Mustard Seed space, Liu Dong had a wry smile on his face.
Now, both the spare tires in the car and the mustard space have been used up. He never expected that he had prepared 0 tires. This Hummer has only used two after driving it for more than two years. This time it was just a trip.
Mongolia will use up all the remaining ones.
"It is estimated that if this car is not overhauled after this trip, it will be scrapped directly."
Liu Dong shook his head. Halfway there, even though he frequently replaced parts, the car's brakes occasionally failed and the engine stalled intermittently, and it became more serious as he went to the back.
However, it is a miracle that this car has persisted until now. Liu Dong does not expect too much.
"It was a mistake not to reserve a few more cars in the mustard space. We must remember this lesson." After warning himself, Liu Dong opened the car door.
"Come down, everyone, we will go to the ground later."
The moment Liu Dong opened the door, the lion's head and the tiger's head suddenly jumped out, and then they started running like joy on the green grass.
Apparently, like Liu Dong, they were fed up with the earthy color without any vitality.
However, although Wukong's temperament is out of control, it is not as crazy as the two Tibetan mastiffs. The Chinese were so embarrassed when they got out of the car.
In his impression, the powerful Chinese in the south, who once ruled Mongolia and still rule some of their compatriots on the southern grasslands, are wealthy and have a superior life that is the envy of all Mongolians.
But the Chinese man in front of him seemed to be even poorer than him. However, the two dogs beside him were so powerful that they looked like the guardian beasts where the Buddha sat.
"Amitabha"
The religious Bayazaya muttered a few words silently in his mind, and then said to the embarrassed Chinese young man in Mongolian: "Go away, you are not welcome here."
Liu Dong was not surprised by the hostility of the Mongolian standing a few meters away from him.
Before coming to Mongolia, he had already collected a lot of information about this country.
In addition to the most important geographical knowledge and content related to treasures, the most repeatedly mentioned in that information is the Mongols' hostility towards China in the south.
Yes, it's hostility
Perhaps in the eyes of many Chinese people, there seems to be no reason for the Mongols to be hostile to the Chinese. Moreover, it should be the Mongols who are at fault because they betrayed the country 70 years ago.
It's a pity that the Mongolians don't see it that way. They regard China's occupation of Inner Mongolia as colonization and aggression by China and Mongolia.
They attribute Mongolia's poverty to shrewd, cunning and cunning Chinese businessmen who buy the wool, beef, mutton and milk they have harvested so hard at low prices, but then transport them to China to make money at high prices.
They believe that they are the descendants of eagles and wolves, the descendants of Genghis Khan, the greatest Khan in history, and the best warriors and hunters in the world. The Chinese are afraid of them and built the Great Wall, but they are farmers and cowards.
Warriors and hunters were born to rule over farmers and cowards, but the reality is that China, which should have submitted to Mongolia in the south, was countless times more powerful and wealthy than Mongolia.
For reasons such as these, the Mongolians have never looked down upon the Chinese. Even without the Chinese, they would not be able to eat delicious vegetables and would even live in even greater poverty.
But they never think about this.
Just like those who are often hurt in love or marriage, love has no reason.
Similarly, hostility often does not require a reason.
Look at North Korea, look at Vietnam, and then look at China's surrounding areas, especially in Southeast Asia. Wherever China helps more, when they become stronger, the backlash against China will be heavier.
Searching around China, everyone is full of rebels and Zhongshan wolves.
Even Taiwan and Singapore, which are of the same clan, often oppose China internationally. On the contrary, Pakistan, a large country in South Asia, and a country with a completely different culture from China, is close to China. This is really ironic.