Chapter 719 Hulu Yege, the No. 1 Turkic Horse Merchant!

Chapter 719

A majestic Qixi Capital Protectorate, guarding the throat of the Tang Dynasty, unexpectedly has no soldiers to use. This sounds unimaginable, but it is indeed the real situation of Qixi Duhufu.

No one knows this better than Wang Chong.

The Qixi Protector's Mansion guards the throat and is located in the gap between the Uzbek Empire and the Western Turkic Empire. Every year, no matter what happens in other places, there are various large and small battles in the Qixi Protectorate. The strength of the Qixi Protectorate was consumed in the successive attacks of Uzang and the Western Turkic Khanate.

Although the inland has always sent troops to Qixi, this kind of sending troops is not unlimited.

Before the Battle of Talas, the iron cavalry of the Uzbek Empire and the cavalry of the Western Turkic Khanate attacked extremely fiercely, which was the reason for the vacuum of troops in Qixi Duhufu. But it was really because of the vacuum of troops that finally led to the failure of the Battle of Tan Siluo.

Therefore, in order to change the fiasco of the Battle of Talas, the first thing to do is to change the fate and situation of the Qixi Protectorate. This is also one of the important reasons why Wang Chong placed the fiefdom in Wushang. However, Wang Chong never said this to anyone.

And if you want to change the fate of Qixi, you must completely get rid of the influence of Uzang and the Western Turkic Khanate here!

Establishing a city of steel in Wushang and having a foothold is only the first step. The second step is to start rejecting Uzbek in the west and Turks in the east! Fumeng Lingcha will absolutely not be able to complete this step.

In the evaluation system of Wang Chong, the "Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses", Fumeng Lingcha is just a conservative general, not an aggressive general. On the one hand, it's because he doesn't have this thought, on the other hand, he doesn't have this talent at all.

All of this can only be approached.

But before that, before launching this plan that was destined to shock the entire empire and the western frontier, Wang Chong had to complete another thing.

Without that thing, no matter how powerful Wang Chong is, he can only be "a clever woman can't cook without rice", and he will be disappointed in the end!

"Hoof da da!"

Without alarming anyone, Wang Chong quietly left the City of Steel early in the morning.

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Go west from Qixi, go west along the official road, and after about seven or eight hundred miles, you will reach the scope of the Western Regions. The wind and sand are grinding here, the scenery is rough, and there are mixed people, poisonous people, big cannibals, Tiaozhi people, Turkic people, Uzbek Tibetans, and Han people mixed together.

Moreover, the number of Hu people far exceeds that of Han people.

This kind of scene is hard to see anywhere in Datang.

"Young master, it's here."

In a bustling, colorful flower building with carved railings and painted buildings, a middle-aged Han man in his thirties and forties was wearing a headscarf, and respectfully said to a teenage boy beside him.

"Um."

The boy looked at Hualou in front of him and nodded seriously:

"Tell Yang Hongchang that I am very satisfied with this matter. When this matter succeeds, I will not treat him badly."

"Thank you, Lord Hou!"

The middle-aged man was overjoyed and bowed quickly.

"Huh? Forgot what I told you? Don't call me Lord Hou here."

The boy frowned.

"Yes, it was the villain who was rude, Hou...Your Excellency, forgive me."

The middle-aged man flashed a frightened look, and quickly lowered his head.

The one who can make middle-aged men so fearful, and who is also called Lord Hou, is now only a young Hou Wang Chong in the entire Western Regions. Leaving from the City of Steel, Wang Chong disguised himself, bypassed the Qixi Protectorate, and arrived directly at the Great Tang Western Region.

This place already belongs to the range of Anxi Dadu Protector Gao Xianzhi.

If the barbarian generals of these empires know that he is here, I am afraid that everyone will flock to him in the next moment. However, even so, Wang Chong had reasons to come.

"Let's go."

Wang Chong didn't say much, and took the lead across the threshold and walked into the flower building.

This was Wang Chong's first time stepping into the Hualou of the Western Regions. In the Hualou, countless Hu people crowded shoulder to shoulder, and the sounds of Huqin, Hu Konghou, Pipa, Hulei, Huobusi, and various silk and bamboo sounds came to his ears.

The sound of these Hu people's musical instruments is completely different from that of the Central Plains, and it has a special flavor to the ears.

Wang Chong raised his head and glanced. Amidst the sound of silk and bamboo, a voluptuous barbarian dancer danced continuously to the music in the flower building, seducing people's blood.

"There is still a big food dancer!"

At the place where the barbarians were the most dense and the laughter was the loudest, Wang Chong clearly saw a glamorous dancer wearing a red dress, with a snow-white belly exposed, bracelets and bells on her hands and feet, blue eyes and red lips, and seductive eyes like silk. , biting a red ribbon hanging from the beam, dancing and circling in the air.

The sound of jingle bells and musical instruments rang together, attracting applause from the visitors.

In the capital, wherever there are big food and dancing girls, it can attract a large number of literati, dignitaries, princes and princes, and become a gathering place for literati and refined scholars.

It's just that things are rare and expensive, and there are not many big food dancers who appear in the capital after all. The Western Regions, on the other hand, are close to the water, where there are more enchanting food dancers than in the capital.

Wang Chong's eyes only stayed on this big food dancer for a moment, and soon he went down the wooden escalator and entered the second basement floor of Hualou.

All kinds of nonsense here are mixed together, yelling, laughter, and cursing, and a lot of nonsense people gather together, throwing dice, guessing points, fighting cocks, dogs, crickets, and a miasma of smoke.

Obviously this is a casino.

Wang Chong never liked to gamble, but Wang Chong had a reason why he had to come.

"Are you sure he's here?"

Wang Chong turned his head and asked.

"Master Hou, there is nothing wrong. He likes to come here to play the most, and the owner doesn't know why. I just heard that he has something to do with the mistress of this flower building."

Next to him, the middle-aged man sent by Yang Hongchang bowed and said:

"In addition, we have already inquired before we came here. He happened to be in this flower building, on the third basement floor. Only a small number of people can enter there. The threshold for entering is very high, and everyone is either rich or noble. Patriarch After spending a lot of money, I have already prepared an identity for the young master, and I can enter at any time, and no one will stop me."

"Young master will see him after you go in."

Wang Chong nodded upon hearing this. The Yang family has been operating in the Western Regions for many years and knows it well. If you want to find a barbarian among so many people, you can definitely go to Yang Hongchang.

Wang Chong didn't alarm anyone, and quickly went down the escalator to the third basement of Hualou.

Along the way, Yang Hongchang had already made arrangements. Once someone came forward to reprimand or check, the housekeeper of the Yang family would immediately step forward and negotiate one by one, avoiding a lot of trouble.

On the third basement floor, the floor is pasted with red blankets, with jade railings on both sides, and inlaid with pearls, agate, emeralds, and corals. The decoration is magnificent, yet elegant.

"Master Hou, it's inside."

The housekeeper of the Yang family led the way, and stopped in front of the innermost and largest room. Through a door, Wang Chong could hear a burst of rough laughter with a Turkic accent, accompanied by bursts of women's laughter.

"Wait for me outside."

A gleam of light flashed in Wang Chong's eyes, he pushed open the door, and walked in with his head held high. In an instant, the laughter in the room stopped abruptly.

Wang Chong's expression was calm, his eyes swept around, and soon fell on a Turkic man in the room with his clothes unbuttoned, breasts exposed, mustache, eagle eyes and deep nose.

"Finally found him!"

Seeing the two fist-sized skulls on the left and right shoulders of the Turkic man, Wang Chong nodded, and a look of joy flashed in his eyes. That is not a real skeleton, but a skeleton toy made of bronze.

In Wang Chong's memory, there were two bronze skulls hanging on his shoulders, and there was only one person who was playing with them at any time, the Turkic businessman "Kuru Yege".

He has another identity, he is the most famous Turkic horse merchant in the entire Western Regions, and even on the grasslands!

If Wang Chong wanted to realize his grand plan of rejecting Uzbek in the west, rejecting the Turks in the east, completely changing the situation in Qixi, and expelling all foreign forces, the first thing he had to do was to have enough war horses.

Wang Chong's first batch of Wushang men were almost finished training, but without horses, it would be impossible to talk about the "Wushang cavalry" who ruled the world!

So even at the risk of being discovered by Gao Xianzhi and Fumeng Lingcha, Wang Chong had to go to the Western Regions in order to be the number one Turkic horse dealer "Kuru Yege".

As we all know, the best war horses in the whole world are not the highland barley horses of the Uzbek Tibetans, nor the war horses of the Tang Dynasty. In fact, the terrain of Middle Earth is not suitable for raising war horses at all.

All the excellent war horses of the Tang Dynasty came from the Turkic grasslands.

The war horses of the Turks are precisely the source of the best war horses in the world.

The only one that can surpass Turkic horses is Dashi's war horse, but Dashi is thousands of miles away from Middle Earth, and Dashi's war horse is extremely troublesome to raise, and it will not acclimatize to Middle Earth. In contrast, Turkic horses are easier to obtain and easier to form in scale, suitable for the army to cultivate into an organized cavalry regiment.

In addition, the best Turkic war horses are not inferior to the Dashi war horses.

And if you want to buy the best Turkic war horse, you can't get around the "Kuru Yege" in front of you. From the Jue Khanate to the West Turk Khanate, and even the war horses of the Dashitiao branch, no matter whether you have it or not, this "Kuruyege" has a way to get it.

In the entire Western Regions, there is absolutely no better horse dealer than him.

Wang Chong's Wushang Legion is about to finish its training, but it still needs a lot of horses if it wants to become the "Wushang Iron Cavalry" that will gallop horizontally and horizontally in the future, invincible and shock the world.

However, this was not the main reason why Wang Chong arrived here quietly in disguise alone.

More importantly, Wang Chong knew deeply that the Tang Dynasty would be full of disasters and disasters in the future. It had already entered an eventful season, and one war after another would continue to happen.

In every war, a large number of war horses will die.

In the future, the biggest problem in Middle-earth will not be the problem of the source of soldiers, but the lack of enough horses to form a cavalry army. Without the cavalry corps, there would be no mobility, and they would only be broken down one by one.

And Middle-earth cannot breed war horses, and if one dies, one will be lost, and there is no way to replenish it by itself.

When Wang Chong was in danger, he became the Grand Marshal of the world's soldiers and horses. The biggest problem was the horses, and they couldn't be solved at all.