"There were righteous men in Guandong who raised troops to fight against all the evil forces. In the early days, they met with the League, but their hearts were in Xianyang. The army was not in unity, and hesitated and the geese were walking. The snobbery made people fight, and the heirs killed each other. The title of Huainan brother was engraved with seals in the north. The armor brought lice to the enemy, and thousands of people died. The bones were exposed in the wild, and there was no rooster crowing thousands of miles away. One hundred people was left to the public, and the thoughts were broken."

A poem by Cao Mengde, a master of the Three Kingdoms, tells the tragic scene of the conquests of the emperors in that era and the vast world.

On the border of Qiao County, Yanzhou, crossing Niujiaozi Mountain from Dongling County is a barren land.

This desert area is about 300 miles wide, not only does it grow in grass, but also does not have a single source of water, so no one lives there and no living creatures exist. Here is Jiwutan, and the name of Jimingtan is taken from Cao Mengde's poem "Artemisia".

One end of Jimingtan is connected to Niujiaozi Mountain in Qiao County, and the other side is connected to Dongping Prefecture in Yanmen County.

Dongping Prefecture is the real border. Dongping Prefecture is one hundred and twenty miles ahead, and Yanmen Pass. After Yanmen, it leaves the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

"I don't like this place, why come here!"

Standing on a rock on the edge of Niujiaozi Mountain and looking at the pale desert, Tie Jun asked in confusion.

"Isn't it good to come out to relax?" He was still wearing a gray suit, no different from when he first came to Dongling two years ago. However, Tie Jun could still feel that his mental state was much better than that two years ago. It was no longer like the feeling of decadence and death. It was just that he was still silent and didn't know what he was doing. Only in front of him can he let go. However, this kind of relaxation always gave Tie Jun a headache, because he always did some weird behaviors in front of him, and he was a typical example of a 12-B youth.

"Relax, with this time, I can practice marksmanship again!" Tie Jun's persistence in martial arts is difficult for Xie Bai to understand, just like Tie Jun's hatred, isn't it just a woman? As for what she is like now?

"I have heard that the way of martial arts is always relaxed. Has the boss encountered a bottleneck in his practice recently? He was a little nervous. This is not good, and it is not conducive to the breakthrough of martial arts!"

"I did encounter some trouble!" Tie Jun smiled bitterly and rubbed his forehead. It had been two years since he broke through to a third-rate expert.

He completely stabilized his cultivation and even increased well. The galloping power of fifteen fierce horses allowed him to firmly sit in the position of the top ten masters of Dengzhou Prefecture.

There are disputes in places where people are. These days, warriors are emerging one after another, and martial arts are changing with each passing day. With more people, there are more people who are good at making fun of it. In the past, the ranking of martial arts masters in this place was only in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty and the Central Plains. Now it has gradually spread to this remote mansion. Almost every prefecture has good people fiddling with this ranking. However, there are many warriors, but there are very few masters. So generally speaking, only the scope of a mansion can gather enough masters. Therefore, the ranking of such masters is generally based on county governments, and there are only ten.

What are the top ten masters of a certain county and the top ten masters of a certain palace!

Tie Jun defeated Changkong Gaojing, the eighth-ranked Changkong Prefecture a year ago, and successfully squeezed into the top ten masters, with a strong reputation.

Changkong Gaojing is a guy who had a conflict with Tie Jun in Niujiaozi Mountain two years ago. He has the power of 18 horses galloping. He is known as the two generals of the Dengzhou Tuan Training Envoy Jiang Kun, who is known as the two generals of the Dengzhou Tuan Training Envoy. His archery skills are superb and he is well-known in Dengzhou Prefecture.

However, because of the matter of the secret scroll of magic powers, I have never dealt with Tie Jun, and I secretly stumbling to Tie Jun from time to time. Tie Jun is not a person who is easy to give in. The anger between the two made Jiang Kun very troubled. After comforting him a few times, he really couldn't comfort him. He had to agree to the two of them to solve the problem in the form of a warrior, and whoever defeated him would retreat.

The result was unexpected. Gao Jing was defeated, and Tie Jun took this opportunity to squeeze into the so-called top ten masters.

Then, he felt the great inconvenience and benefits that reputation brought to him.

In the next year, he encountered six challenges, but these challenges also honed his martial arts. Especially his swordsmanship, his diligence and speed, he had already integrated that style of night battle between the eight directions, Chen Jiu's battlefield swordsmanship with his own Five Tiger Breaking Door Sword.

He showed great talent and interest in martial arts. What he likes to do now is to go to Wohu Village in Niujiaozi Mountain. Of course, he is now called Wohu Village to practice. He went there for ten days and half a month, and even the Wei Mansion was not even there. He threw all the affairs to the master Xie Bai. Anyway, Xie Bai is very capable, so he can feel at ease to throw things to him. Xie Bai is indeed very outstanding. He has no complaints about all this, but just buried his head to do his best, as if he wanted to use heavy work to resolve the grief in his heart. Of course, perhaps for him, the work in the small county of Dongling cannot be called heavy in any case.

But early yesterday morning, this master, who had always been respectful to his duties, threw down what he had done, took a day to enter Niujiaozi Mountain, ran to Wohu Villa, pulled himself out, and walked along a small path in Niujiaozi Mountain through this small mountain range. When he arrived here, he lay on a big rock like a dead dog, sticking out his tongue and panting for the middle of the night before recovering.

"Does the boss know where is the other side of this Jiming Beach?"

"Dongping Mansion!" Tie Jun said, asking clearly. This is not a secret. Anyone with some common sense knows it.

"Yes, Dongping Prefecture, but do you know who is in charge of this Jimingtan? Is it Dongping Prefecture or Dengzhou Prefecture?"

"Here?!" Tie Jun was stunned, looking at the desolate Jiming Beach, and turned around and asked, "Are you interested in this place?" Two years of contact gave him a deep understanding of this young man in the 2B. This is a bad guy with a stomach full of bad water. He has never left the thief. He brought himself here to see the scenery of Jiming Beach. Such a person doesn't know why he was so humbled by others back then. He can only say that there is a mountain with a high mountain.

"The south of Jimingtan is Dengzhou Prefecture and the north of Dongping Prefecture, and the east is Moyun Ridge. There is no problem with these three sides. The key is the west. Its west is actually bordered by the Tara Desert, and the boundary of the Tara Desert is Qiemo!"

"Qi Mo?" Tie Jun looked puzzled. He had never heard of Qi Mo before, "It's not the prefecture of the Tang Dynasty, right?"

"Qianmo is one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, not the territory of the Tang Dynasty."

"Thirty-six Kingdoms in the Western Regions?" Tie Jun was a little surprised. He didn't expect this.

In Chen Jiu's memory, although the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions were called countries, they were all barbarians. At most, a country was just like a mansion in the Tang Dynasty. It had a small population and no strong figure. Chen Jiu naturally would not pay attention to such a place.

"Even if it is the 36 countries in the Western Regions, so what?" Tie Jun was still puzzled. There were more than a thousand miles to the west, which was too far. Did he have a crush on this road?

Sure enough, I heard Xie Bai say, "Although Jimingtan is desolate, there are no barriers along the way. The sixteen countries in the Western Regions produce spices and jewelry. They can be transported to the Tang Dynasty through Jimingtan, but they can make a big deal."

smuggling!!

"So, Brother Xie is interested in this trade route!" Tie Jun smiled bitterly, "However, this trade route is nearly a thousand miles away and is in a desert area. It is not easy to swallow it!"

Xie Bai glanced at Tie Jun strangely and said, "The boss has a big appetite. He actually wants to swallow this business road!"

"Well!!"

Tie Jun blinked, as if he realized that he had said something very stupid. The road to Jimingtan seemed difficult, but as long as he was well prepared, he could come from west to east in just one or two months at most. There was no checkpoint tax collection in the middle. It could be said that it was a golden passage, and it was impossible for such an passage to be left without anyone to intervene.

"This road is controlled by the northern border troops, and no one else can intervene, except for the bandits in Jimingtan!"

"So that's it, then what do you want?" Tie Jun was puzzled. Border Army, that is countless times stronger than the Six Gates.

If the Six Gates are policemen, then the border army is an army, and it is also a field army. The two are not on the same order of magnitude at all. Tie Jun’s knowledge has been broad in the past two years, and he knows how high the sky is and how thick the earth is.

In the Six Gate, innate Qi Refiners like Mr. Zhu are already considered to be worshipped by elders and are worshipped as living ancestors. However, in the army, any general is taken out, and they are all innate Qi Refiners. If you don’t have innate strength, don’t be a general. Otherwise, you will be chopped alive as soon as you go to the battlefield. This is a system that emphasizes more strength than the Six Gate, and it is also a more unreasonable one than the Six Gate.

System, so Tie Jun doesn't want to provoke him, at least not now.

"After a period of time, a batch of goods will be shipped over. I want to tell the owner to cut off this batch of goods!"

"No way?!"

Tie Jun was thinking about the strength of the border army just now, but suddenly he was urged to beat him up after being told by this person.

"Brother Xie is joking with me. I'm just looking for death when I touch the border army's goods in this crop style!!"

"It's not the goods in the army, it's the goods of merchants!" Xie Bai corrected, "The border army just controls the entire business road in its hands. All goods passing through this business road have to pay fees to the border army. In fact, it's equivalent to paying taxes to the border army in a concentrated manner. Although it's much heavier than the normal tax rate, because it's just one payment, in general, the oil and water are still very rich. Therefore, many merchants will choose this business road, traveling between the Tang Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions. It is precisely because of this business road that bandits often appear."
Chapter completed!