It took more than two months to cross the Dai Viet Kingdom and reach Congling, the largest Hengduan Mountain Range in the world. It stretches for nearly ten thousand miles and cuts across one or two thousand miles. It isolates the Liang Kingdom from most other countries.
Across Congling is Liang State, which is also his destination. The goal is close at hand.
In a small town under Congling, Lou Xiaoyi visually inspected the mountains in the distance. The average height of several thousand feet made him sigh when looking at the mountains!
He can't fly over!
His soul has been floating in the universe for many years, but as a soul body, he cannot feel the changes in the surrounding environment; and in a world livable by humans, the environment changes greatly with altitude, and the temperature above a thousand feet
It started to drop sharply, not to mention the wind shear between the mountains.
To fly in a straight line, he would have to fly at least three thousand feet above the obstacle of the mountain, which he couldn't do; if he only circled the mountain at a height of a thousand feet, he didn't think he could finally get out!
This is why he found this small town, because it is a famous starting point in Congling, and many caravans set out from here to go to Liang Kingdom.
After spending some money, Lou Xiaoyi successfully found a caravan that had recently set out. Most of them were merchants from the Dai Viet Kingdom, and there were also a few people from the Liang Kingdom. The goods they brought were mainly satin, tea, and porcelain, which were very popular goods in the Liang Kingdom.
, don’t worry about sales.
Lou Xiaoyi is one of the few pure guests among them, and he is also the only one who lives in Zhaoye. This makes everyone guess that he is a certain young master in trouble. The situation in Zhaoye's court has been changing, and some are proud and others are disappointed.
, displacement is inevitable.
A young man dressed as a scholar doesn't even have a servant, so he has to cross the green mountains alone, and he can't find any other reason!
After several days of preparation, a huge donkey team set off, and hundreds of mountain donkeys were the only core of this team!
There are sand camels in the Gobi Desert, and horses in the plain grasslands. In Congling, the most important animal that people rely on is the mountain donkey. This animal is hard-working, has a strong load-bearing capacity, is perseverant, can withstand severe cold, is very stable in walking in the mountains, and is good at going up and down.
Po is an animal born specifically for mountains. Its only problem is that it is a bit stubborn, but with experienced mountain people taking care of it, it is not a problem.
The whole trade route is rugged, with roads in some places and no roads at all in other places, so there are no luxury things like donkey carts. Everyone, guides, mountain people, guards, merchants, travelers, everyone is like a mountain.
Donkeys have no distinction between high and low. Those who go on this trade route earn hard money. There are almost no old people, mainly young and middle-aged people. There are only a family of four among the travelers, two old people and one woman.
Holding the infant child.
Lou Xiaoyi was assigned a grass donkey, which is a female donkey. In fact, most of the donkey team are grass donkeys, except for the leading ones who call donkeys. This is the nature of mountain donkeys. If they all call donkeys, they will not need to go all the way.
Everything else would be wasted on preventing them from biting the frame.
Grass donkeys are much more docile and have good endurance, so the donkey team is mainly composed of grass donkeys, which is also a characteristic of the area near Congling.
This is a young donkey. Compared with other donkeys, there is nothing special about it. There is only a white spot on the forehead, like a small white flower in bloom. Lou Xiaoyi named it Xiaobai...
Xiaobai has a pair of big, gentle eyes, and at first glance he looks like a donkey with a gentle temper. Lou Xiaoyi likes him very much.
Everyone is preparing, preparing food and clothing. Unlike the Gobi Desert, there is no need to prepare too much water, because there are constant mountain springs along the way. Once you enter the deep mountains, which are covered with snow all year round, there is no need.
Merchants each have dozens of donkeys, as few as seven or eight, to carry goods and daily necessities. Travelers are different. The donkeys they ride have people sitting on them.
On the donkey, you can't carry much stuff, so you need to follow a few more donkeys, like the family of four, three adults and one child, who ride on three donkeys, and hire three more donkeys to load the supplies.
The leader of the caravan also asked Lou Xiaoyi to hire an extra one, but he refused. He had Najie and was more prepared than anyone else. He just rolled up a bag and put it on Xiaobai in a symbolic way; the leader didn't persuade him much, such a big one
You are a man, the stakes are clearly stated, and you are asking for it if you are so willful. If you are really short of money, you can only buy it at a high price. Here, no one in Zhaoye will take it seriously.
The straight-line distance is only a thousand miles across the green mountains, but it is impossible to walk in a straight line like the Gobi. Precipitous places need to be avoided, so walking from one hundred miles to three hundred miles is not new. It is a process that is repeated up and down.
Under normal circumstances, this journey lasts for half a month, more or less, it all depends on whether God opens his eyes. Danger also exists, there are landslides, avalanches, wild beast attacks, and of course there must be human disasters; this is why it must be done in
The reason why trade routes can be opened up under the guidance of indigenous mountain people guides is that they have inextricable and inseparable connections with the bandits. In a word, trade routes are bought along the way, not fought!
The first ten days went smoothly. The terrain was neither high nor steep, and there were still roads to find. The donkeys walked happily, maintaining a speed of more than a hundred miles a day.
Lou Xiaoyi was very pleased with the donkey, and ten days later, the donkey was also very pleased with him, because it felt that its owner was very light, so light that it could not feel much burden, and the owner was always there.
After foraging for food at night, I will give it extra food, a carrot, a piece of bean cake, which are all its favorite things...
Mountain donkeys do not need to be fed. They will look for food by themselves after camping every day, including grass, roots, fruits, and everything else. This is why you must rely on them when crossing Congling.
After more than ten days, the mountain road became rugged and steep, and there were no existing roads at all. Many places had to be visited by guides before they could walk on it. This was due to the harsh climate in the mountains, the erosion of flash floods, and the collapse of mud and rocks.
There are four or five guides, all of whom are very experienced indigenous mountain people. There are also about ten guards, all of whom are brave warriors and hunters among the mountain people. Warriors are not welcome here because martial arts are not popular here.
What matters, what matters, is the survivability of the mountains.
The guide was in front, and the guards were interspersed throughout the team. The last two guards were in charge. Several travelers were placed in the second half of the team, including the family of four, including Lou Xiaoyi, and a middle-aged man who looked like an official.
and his long companion.
He actually doesn't know much about the public security situation in this world. Even though he has been in Pucheng for many years, he has never really integrated into the lives of the lower class people. Although the Lou Mansion is not in power, it can eliminate most of the problems for him.
Malice; not to mention that this is not Zhaoye, but Dai Viet, a country in this world known for wars and frequent dynasty changes.
