Asi Lanhan continued:

"I will continue to talk, the next thing is important. We need to build a city and pass the city. I have sent someone to check the terrain, so the relevant city can keep the road in Hexi smooth."

Liu An said: "Place it in Suzhou and repair it for Yumen."

Asi Lanhan did not refute, but said, "I will send someone, and you will also send someone to the ground to see. We need a pass city. Those guys on the grassland are not very stable. They need a place to garrison and a place to supply the caravans."

"I choose Suzhou." Liu An emphasized again.

Liu Anxuan's position was the most powerful pass in the world in the future, and the location of Jiayuguan.

However, there is no such level in this era. This is a pass on the west side of the Ming Great Wall.

Asi Lanhan nodded: "Okay, then leaving here means you are really out of seclusion."

Pan Luozhi asked with a smile: "To the west, it is your Xizhou area, and you can't protect the caravan."

Asi Lanhan nodded seriously: "I can protect you only go to Gaochang City. I dare not protect you any further west. They listened to my order, but they may not be jealous of the caravan. It is too broad."

Gaochang is already far away, and this place is called Turpan in later generations.

"Let's talk about Shazhou, why is Shazhou? In my research, there were three roads when the commercial roads were prosperous in the Tang Dynasty. The southernmost road was south of the Great Desert, following the mountain, and then all the way to Shache City. The people there were already different from us. Then you can turn south from here to Tianzhu."

"There is also the middle road, from the north of the Great Desert to the extreme west. This road is the most commonly taken before. This one can go all the way to the beach after hearing the legend."

Liu An asked: "Is it the Black Sea or the Mediterranean?"

Asi Lanhan shook his head: "I don't know, but I can go to Rome, that's what they call."

Pan Luozhi asked: "Then, the caravan is traveling far away for the first time, and it is the farthest there. If you keep walking, let alone not mention the lack of supply, what if you encounter a strong enemy?"

Liu An also said: "My opinion is to be more conservative."

"Just Atami, I came to Atami for the first time."

Liu An asked again: "So, what if Atami will be a long-term trading place in the future?"

Asi Lanhan replied: "I heard that Rehai was an extremely important trading place in the trade route at that time. So, do you want this city to become your city?"

After Asi Lanhan asked this, Pan Luozhi's eyes, who was holding a wine glass and listening to the two of them, changed.

The two of them looked at Liu An.

Liu An picked up the wine glass calmly and said slowly: "Then, of course."

Asi Lanhan touched it in his arms, grabbed a handful of things and threw them on the table. Seeing these things, Pan Luozhi also took out a bag and poured the things inside on the table.

Liu An reached out and picked it up one by one.

"This is Aure, this is Dinar. This is interesting. It turns out to be a Sassanian silver coin. As far as I know, a piece of silk in the Roman Senate is worth our twelve taels of gold, and it is not a good silk."

Asi Lanhan sneered a few times: "Who is it that you Han people are uneasy all day long. The Tang Dynasty is gone. You can't buy much silk items in the northwest. This trade route has been abandoned for a long time."

Liu An gave Alilan a look in anger and said, "You are just like not fighting, and each tribe is not the same as killing you."

Pan Luozhi interrupted the two of them: "It's too far. I'll just say one thing, I want to restore the business road to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The tribes in the northern grasslands will not be controlled, and the Liao people will not be destroyed. The more prosperous the business road, the heavier the future losses will be. I believe that no one can raise this loss. One loss will be tens of millions of cargo, as well as soldiers and caravans."

"Prairie." Liu An touched his chin: "Pull one batch, hit another batch."

"Where are the Liao people?"

"Wait a little longer, the Liao people have heavy troops stationed in Datong Prefecture and the Liao people will not come west for the time being, but after the business road becomes prosperous, I don't guarantee what the Liao people will think, but the tribes on the grassland are wolves, and we are the only ones who don't convince them that they are uncomfortable. The business road can allow them to participate, but not all."

Liu An's words are the only way.

The grassland is so big that only by pulling over one part can one fight against another.

Liu An said again: "I forgot to tell you that sheep are actually quite valuable. There are places where sheep are beaten to death and live for the sheep. The most valuable thing about sheep is not meat, but wool. Three major fabrics: cotton, silk, and wool."

Asi Lanhan asked: "Is cotton a white flower?"

"Yes, wool means wool. But there are many species of sheep, and there are many species of wool. In some places, sheep are dozens of kilograms of wool. The wool is heavier than the sheep itself. After processing, these wool can be turned into high-quality fabrics. White flowers, now called cotton, are the first permanent fabrics. To be honest, the poor still cannot afford it, and they are not as practical as cotton."

Asi Lanhan asked again: "Where is this?"

"Marinade, making clothes in the future is far less practical than these three types. Cotton cloth is definitely indispensable from high-ranking officials to peddlers and peddlers. And wool fabrics will only know the value of this thing when people feel cold. Silk is always precious. No matter how high the output is, it can only be used by the upper class. Ordinary people will have them, but not many."

"Marijuana has its shortcomings, it is too hard, and it is OK in extremely hot places. In the rest of the places, marijuana will be slowly replaced by cotton. This is also one of the reasons why I asked the King of Han to vigorously plant cotton."

Asi Lanhan sighed slightly: "My cotton fields have been harvested, and the tribes on the grassland give me some headaches."

"Are there serious casualties?"

"There are not serious casualties, but there are also losses. Now I give some pensions to some elite tribes, and all this requires money."

Xizhou was originally divided into two parts, part of which was in the ancient city of Gaochang, and then there was a small country in Ganzhou. Dangxiang's situation could not stand the situation, but it was preparing to move westward, and the two were merged into one.

Xizhou was a mixed Uighurs and Han people. Sixteen years ago, in the early Tang Dynasty, some Uighurs began to be gradually sinicized. More than a hundred years ago, Xizhou had become most of the agricultural civilizations of slavery, and only a few were still grazing.

Han culture influenced various tribes in Xizhou.

Settlement, building cities, and clearing up land and farming became the whole of life, which is also the reason why Liu An was willing to cooperate with Xizhou.

According to historical records, they were one of the earliest ethnic minorities to be sinicized.

The official records are in Uighur language, but most of them are also in Chinese. Among the officials in Xizhou, the proportion of Han officials is more than 60%.

Because the Han people like to read and have education to become officials.

When I heard that the cotton fields were attacked by tribes on the grassland, although it was not Liu An's field, Liu An was still very distressed. The wealth was in the world, but part of it was destroyed for no reason. What a pity.
Chapter completed!