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"Boss, there is a tribe of barbarians here!"

A player's reconnaissance marked the map and alerted other companions.

Hu tribe!

Pang Yawei immediately said in the group chat channel: "Wait for me, don't alert the snake!"

After saying this, the green dots on the electronic map began to gather towards the area where the player was.

After Pang Yawei found the player under a hill, the player pointed at the hill and said:

"I found a lot of horse dung on the edge of the mountain and traces of horse hooves. Sure enough, I found a tribe behind the mountain."

Pang Yawei climbed up the hill carefully, and sure enough he saw a large number of tents below.

This turned out to be a large tribe, which surprised Pang Yawei.

Along the way, they also encountered many small tribes. When these small tribes saw the uniforms of their Tang soldiers, they fled one after another.

You must know that the Tang Dynasty border troops during the Kaiyuan period were keen on opening up the border, but they beat these grassland tribes hard.

The Modong area was caught between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs.

"It seems that this valley bottom is their settlement. It's better to get in touch first."

After the team was assembled, Pang Yawei raised Longyou's military flag high and slowly walked towards the tribe.

Yelvrong is the leader of this tribe.

The Yelu tribe was originally one of the eight Khitan tribes, an alliance of Khitan tribes canonized by Emperor Taizong. They have lived in the Songmo Dudu Mansion in western Liaoning for generations.

The Eight Khitan tribes have always been respectful to the Tang Dynasty, and every year they bring ginseng and mink skins from the white mountains and black waters to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty.

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However, after the Anlushan Rebellion, in order to replenish troops, they often went north from Pinglu Town to the Songmo Governor's Mansion to plunder the population, capturing Khitan people and using them as cannon fodder.

The Yelv tribe had no choice but to leave their hometown and came to the Modong grassland.

"What, Tang Jun?"

Ye Lurong trembled all over when he heard the troops with the flag of the Tang Army appearing near the tribe.

He already has PTSD from the Tang Army. Every time the Tang Army attacks the Songmo Governor's Mansion, they will plunder them. Can you encounter them even when you go far away to Modong?

However, although the Yelvrong tribe has more than 4,000 people, most of them are women and children.

Seeing that winter was coming, Yelvrong found a sheltered valley and stocked up on the surrounding grass.

If Tang Jun was really angered, where would he go to escape?

"Invite Tang Jun to come in."

Ye Lurong knew there was no way to escape, so he had no choice but to invite Tang Jun in.

Pang Yawei was also observing this tribe. This tribe was different from the small and ragged tribes that came along the way. This tribe seemed to be a large tribe with its own national costumes.

Another reason why clothing, food, housing and transportation comes first is because clothing is the cornerstone of civilization.

The formation of clothes of the same style gradually creates cultural identity, and finally condenses into a nation, and even becomes an independent country.

Sharing the same customs means forming a unified identity starting from clothing.

The clothing of this tribe has distinguished it from other ethnic groups on the grassland, and it is also completely different from the Uighurs. It is definitely not just a ethnic group of this size.

Pang Yawei cheered up. There was no way twenty people like him could conquer this tribe by force. It was best to have friendly contact with this tribe.

Ye Lurong saw the group of Tang knights in armor and knew that they were the elite cavalry of the Tang army.

He was even more uneasy. Could it be that the Tang army from Pinglu Town had chased them to the Modong Grassland?

The Eight Khitan tribes have always been submissive to the Tang Dynasty, but they don't want to follow An Lushan in rebellion!

However, since An Lushan took office as the Jiedushi of the Three Towns, he has been constantly plundering the Hu tribes in the north. The eight Khitan tribes are also afraid of his power, so the Yelu tribe fled to Modong.

Yelvrong once studied abroad in Chang'an, and later returned to western Liaoning to inherit the position of clan leader.

He said to Pang Yawei in fluent Chinese:

"The Yelv clan of the eight Khitan tribes in Songmo has met the general!"

"Pang Yawei, the attack envoy of Longyou Tianshan County, met with the Yelu clan leader."

Longyou?

Now it was Ye Lurong's turn to be surprised. Of course he knew where Longyou was. How could Longyou's general appear on the Modong grassland?

And Pang Yawei was even more surprised.

Songmo, Khitan, Yelvshi!

If these three points are connected, could this be Daliao in the future?

Didn’t the Yelv family of the Liao royal family originate from the Songmo Protectorate?

Pang Yawei once again felt the surprise of this game. A small tribe he met casually on the road actually had a big reason.

Historical records state that the Liao Kingdom emerged in the north during the chaos of the late Tang Dynasty, but there is no record of its early development.

It turns out that as early as this time, he came to Modong from Songmo.

The Yelv family also grew up in Modong and Western Liaoning during the middle and late Tang Dynasty, right?

Should we call players to come over and destroy the Yelu tribe?

Pang Yawei had this idea, but when he saw the enthusiastic and respectful Yelvong, he suppressed the idea.

The current eight Khitan tribes are relatively loyal vassal states to the Tang Dynasty.

Can players now kill all the tribes on the grassland?

In the situation of the late Tang Dynasty, even if there were no Khitans, other nomadic groups would rise.

This approach won't work.

However, the Yelu clan can grow into a powerful country in the north in later generations, and this tribe has great potential.

In this case, it should be possible to use them to contribute to the grand detour strategy.

Pang Yawei learned that the Yelu clan was oppressed by Pinglu Town and fled from western Liaoning to Modong, so he even started to recruit them.

Here Pang Yawei took out the Longyou liquor he had brought with him and drank with Yelv Rong.

On the grassland in the north of Hexi Province, a group of engineering team players are busy.

The leader of this group of players is named Zhan Yaguang, who graduated from the Orbital Design Institute.

During the massive railway construction in China a few years ago, Zhan Yaguang traveled across the country with the engineering team and visited various remote areas to connect them with railways.

In recent years, the popularity of major infrastructure projects has gradually subsided, and Zhan Yaguang is not young anymore. He was assigned to return to his hometown railway station to take a job in railway maintenance.

The work intensity was not very intense, Zhan Yaguang was addicted to railway building games such as Railway Tycoon, and accidentally saw an advertisement for Datang Fengyun.

An open and free world?

Zhan Yaguang came up with the idea of ​​building a railway in Datang and was lucky enough to get the test qualification.

It's just that after Zhan Yaguang entered the game, even when the Salt and Iron Tax Bureau was first established, Jiang Lun proposed to build a railway between Shazhou and Guazhou.

However, at that time, steel production was in short supply and Longyou lacked funds. This plan was aborted due to the opposition of the players.

Later, the Shagua Railway plan failed, and Qinchuan settled for the next best thing and proposed a plan to build a railway at Danjin Pass.

However, wars broke out in Longyou, and all the steel produced was used to cast cannons, and the plan to serve as the Jinshankou Railway came to an end.

Zhan Yaguang traveled to the Hexi area as an engineering team and participated in several subsequent battles.

Now his [Hundred Craftsmen] level has also been raised to level fifteen.

He controls a construction team with a dozen players as the backbone and hundreds of indigenous people.

But Zhan Yaguang never gave up his dream of building a railway!

This time he found Cui Tao, the governor of Zhangye, and came up with his own plan.

Cui Tao looked at the plan and asked: "Building a railway between Zhangye and Wuwei?"

Zhan Yaguang nodded and said: "It's not the railway of later generations, it's the horse-drawn train on the wooden track."

"Wood track, can that work?"

Zhan Yaguang said firmly: "Of course, the earliest tracks were made of wood. In European mining areas, livestock pulled mine carts and transported ore on wooden tracks."

"Wuwei and Zhangye are only 150 kilometers apart. Now the materials for the Great Roundabout Strategy have to be transported to Wuwei City. The terrain of Zhangye and Jiuquan is flat, which is most suitable for building wooden rail railways."

Cui Tao still hesitated and said: "Now the governor's office can't afford so much money."

Zhan Yaguang immediately said: "There is no need for the governor's office to pay!"

"No need to pay for it?" Cui Tao felt a lot more relaxed now. Since he didn't need to pay for it, it didn't matter if he tried it.

Zhan Yaguang said: "I have already discussed with the village chiefs along the way to raise manpower and funds from the villages. From now on, the income from the entire railway will be equally divided among the villages along the way."
To be continued...