If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 19 Leaving the Dunes
After fishing Song Changqing out of the pit, the Shu cavalry and Qingsong Taoist boy planned to leave.

But before the movement started, Qingsong Dao Tong suddenly stopped, looked at Guan Huchen and said, "I thought the general would kill all the men in Shaqiu before leaving."

Guan Huchen was stunned for a moment, then shouted: "The Taoist priest has given the order, and I will definitely complete the task."

As he said this, he was about to turn his horse around without even looking at his goddaughter sitting behind him.

"No, this is not my order!" Qingsong Daotong waved his hands repeatedly, "My order is that according to General Guan's habits, he will definitely not let the remaining Shaman go easily.

Because of this inference, there are some things that do not require extra reminders from Xiaodao.

Now that General Guan has exceeded my expectations, I need to explain those things clearly."

"I am not a murderer," Guan Huchen tried to defend himself, but felt it was unnecessary.

I heard that when the Qin Emperor was still the "King of Qin", there were many vassal states in China, and many of them emphasized "benevolence" and "propriety".

If you get a reputation of being "brutal and murderous", your reputation and future in the Chinese nation will be almost ruined.

Even the "tyrant" himself does not want to be called a "dictator who harms the people."

But in today's prosperous Qin Dynasty, the rules and customs have changed, and brutal killing is no longer considered a stain at all.

Even if he is considered "cruel and bloodthirsty", his planned "great future of the Qin Dynasty" will not be affected.

Who knows, as his reputation spreads, he will win the admiration of those ruthless Qin generals who "kill 300,000 today and bury 400,000 tomorrow", and thus rise to prominence, and eventually enter the "circle of famous generals" who "kill 300,000 today and bury 400,000 tomorrow".

Hu Chen did not continue to cleanse Shaman. One reason was that the backlash of dragon energy made him absent-minded, and the other was that he felt it was unnecessary.

During the raid on Shaqiu yesterday, he had allowed the Iron Cavalry Battalion to "massacre the city", and all the able-bodied men had been hacked to death.

"Master, what do you want me to do?"

Qingsong Dao Tong said: "Smash all the earthen kilns used for smelting iron."

Hu Chen immediately arranged two teams of ten people to complete the task.

"In addition to the iron smelting caves, there are also shrines, salt wells, and ditches and fields. Should we destroy them all?" he asked again.

Qingsong Dao Tong shook his head and said, "Your daughter is a natural talent. She has never learned any Taoist skills, but the iron smelting furnace she designed has some of the Xunli transformation method of the Taoist Palace Bagua Furnace.

Even if all the previous blacksmiths died outside Tianmen Town, the barbarians might be able to restart the furnace with a little exploration.

It's easy to pick up iron sand from the beach, but to burn the iron sand into molten iron and refine it into refined iron, hehehe, in China, it's not something an ordinary blacksmith can do.

Therefore, if the Dune Tribe is not to be completely wiped out, the iron furnace must be demolished.

Just doing this is enough.

The shrine enshrines the Three Pure Ones, so I dare not touch them."

After a pause, he continued, "The dragon vein is the earth vein. When I cut the dragon vein just now, you all felt it. The ground shook for a while.

The ground veins have undergone a complete and drastic change. The brine wells are directly buried by earth and rocks, and the underground water veins will slowly dry up.

The ditches dug by the Shaman could no longer hold clean water, and only weak water remained. Without the ability to irrigate, the fields soon became barren.

Hehe, this is the effect of cutting off the dragon vein."

After saying that, he turned around and smiled at Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu followed suit and laughed, but her smile was a little stiff.

"Master, envoy, help me, save me~~~"

Silently, a cloud of gray-black smoke emerged from the ground.

It felt like there were a thousand poisonous snakes hissing inside, and the eerie sound made one's scalp tingle.

Even more miserable wails were heard from the smoke.

"Master Taoist, please, please, save me. Save me! I have made contributions to the Qin Dynasty and have protected the Xisha Barbarian Land for hundreds of years. I have also provided you with all the information about Sha Manyu and pointed out her location. You can't just stand by and watch her die - ah, no, I am a ghost god appointed by the Qin Dynasty Emperor, get out of here, get out - save me, it's so hard, it's so hard~~"

Xiaoyu was stunned. What the hell was this?

And the words he said contained too much information.

Has she always been followed by such a ghost thing in the past?

"General Guan, the matter of Shaqiu has been settled. I will leave first. We will talk again when we reach Hengsha Pass."

Taoist Qingsong glanced at the black smoke, then turned his head expressionlessly and greeted Guan Huchen. Without waiting for Guan Huchen to return the greeting, he shrank into the ground, and in a flash of yellow light, he disappeared.

"Master, this——"

Hu Chen stretched out his hand to keep him, and wanted to say: The evildoer from East Shu has found his way here. If you don't send him away, do you want me to deal with him?
The thought disappeared in an instant.

Seeing Qingsong Taoist Boy burrow into the ground and leave, the gray-black smoke that was wailing for help did not stop at all and immediately followed the yellow light underground and disappeared.

Ordinary people cannot see the earth escape technique, but Zou Qing is in charge of a piece of land after all. In the "Xinmohao" Xisha Barbarian Land under his jurisdiction, his speed is faster than Qingsong Taoist Boy.

Before Xiao Yu could open his mouth to ask, the same miserable wailing could be heard again from the sand several hundred meters away, "Master Taoist, you cannot abandon me. My soul has been corroded by the earth's energy and I am about to die. Help, help, help~~"

"Get away from me, you brought this upon yourself, it has nothing to do with Xiao Dao."

There was obvious anger and impatience in Qingsong Taoist's voice.

"No, it's you who caused me to be like this. You must be responsible to me. Don't run away. Come back. You can't run away."

"Boom!" A purple-red thunder flashed across the sky.

“Ah~~” The wailing sound became more shrill and full of resentment, “Qingsong, I curse you. When the punishment from heaven comes, you will be dead or alive. You will have to endure a hundred thousand times more than the suffering I am suffering today!
I also want to curse the Great Qin. You are so vicious and cruel. You cut off the dragon veins of the eight foreign races and suppressed all the foreign princes in the world. One day, retribution will fall on every one of you in the Great Qin. Emperor Zheng, I am willing to perish with you——"

"boom!"

A blue-white thunderbolt as thick as a bucket almost tore the sky in two, and the vicious curse came to an abrupt end.

"Hurry up, leave here immediately!" Guan Huchen's face changed slightly, and he lowered his voice to order the knights to ride their horses and run away first.

The Red Smoke Horse was extremely fast, like a fireball rolling on the sand.

It did not take Guan Huchen to the place where he was struck by lightning.

It should have returned south, but it ran west, getting farther and farther away from where the lightning struck.

The other knights did not shout "The general has taken the wrong road". They also remained silent, exerted their might and galloped behind.

After running for about half an hour, Xiaoyu, who was sitting behind Hu Chen, turned around and could not see any trace of the black-armored cavalry.

"Godfather, the Iron Cavalry Battalion has gotten lost." She reminded him in a low voice.

"It won't be lost." Hu Chen's calm tone was full of confidence.

However, he also pulled the reins slightly to slow down the Red Smoke Horse.

"What was that just now?" Xiaoyu asked curiously.

"Don't ask too many questions. Forget everything you just heard and saw." Guan Huchen said sternly.

"Godfather, Xiaoyu doesn't know martial arts and is a little hard of hearing. I didn't hear anything. I only saw a cloud of gray smoke. What was that?" Xiaoyu said.

Hu Chen tilted his head and looked back, but didn't see Xiao Yu.

Xiaoyu rode with him, but hid her body in his fire-proof cloth cloak.

"Xin Mo Hao Land God, Zou Qing."

"Land God" Xiao Yu's face changed slightly, "Could it be the land god of the dunes? Are there any gods willing to come to such a wild place as the dunes?"

Even the sand dunes have land gods, how prosperous and strict must the Shintoism in this world be? !

She began to regret that she had been too extravagant.

Building steel furnaces, searching for salt wells, and all kinds of "brain-stirring" things were actually recorded by the land god.

A cold sweat broke out on her back.

After feeling regretful, Xiao Yu felt extremely fortunate: although he was a bit wasteful, he was always on guard against the gaze of gods and Buddhas.

Thanks to the "Liusha River", a popular tourist attraction in Journey to the West, which reminded her that this was a primitive world with Tathagata, the Three Pure Ones, and the gods in heaven.

Although she had a "brain syndrome", she was just unconventional in her thinking and precocious, and had never said sensitive words like "television" or "Journey to the West".

Even steelmaking and salt boiling were discovered slowly and not achieved overnight. His experience is as mature as that of a time traveler with an encyclopedia in his head.

The shrines of the Three Pure Ones, Buddha, and the Jade Emperor were also built after she heard the "stories of the outside world" told by the barbarians.

If she really wanted to be extravagant, she could have invented papermaking and the Shaman language, which would have been even easier. But she couldn't even write, and was illiterate. This was easier to disguise, because there were no books or writing in the dunes.

If Liushahe hadn't reminded her, Xiaoyu would have thought that she had got the script of "traveling through primitive society to become a chief". She would have been even more reckless and wanton until she died of recklessness.

Judging from Qingsong Daotong and Guan Huchen's current attitude towards her, she may be "born with strange phenomena", but she has not revealed her identity as a time traveler.

Actually, we can’t blame her for having a “brain-wrapped headache”.

If she was born in the Qin Dynasty, she would definitely be a typical Qin female hero and would not do anything reckless at all.

Everything she did in the dunes was for survival.

If she doesn't find a salt well and boil salt, she will turn into the White-Haired Girl.

Before she ran across a hundred miles and finally dug a salt well from the cracks in the stone cave, more than half of the Shaman were "White Haired Girls" and were short of salt, seriously short of salt.

She smelted iron because the dunes were too wild and jackals, tigers and leopards were just small karami.

Those "half-step monsters" who absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon were difficult to break through even with fine iron.

How can we protect ourselves if we don’t smelt iron and make weapons?

It was impossible for her to stay in the sand dunes all her life, yet she was afraid to travel alone.

The safest choice is to build weapons to increase the tribal force, boil salt and grow crops to increase the population (mainly by recruiting nearby barbarians), and let the power and influence of the "Dune Kingdom" spread rapidly outward until it comes into contact with the "Chinese Civilization Circle".

Xiaoyu basically succeeded.

When Shaqiu developed from a "village" with a population of more than 300 to a "large tribe" with tens of thousands of people and half a million armored soldiers, and had the hard power to recruit the nearby Shaman to form a "barbarian country", the envoys of the State of Lu took the initiative to come.

If only the Chinese nation in this world were a little more normal, not too martial, nor too domineering, just like the Tang Dynasty in Journey to the West, guarding its own little piece of land (ps), she would have gone to the State of Lu in the identity of "Princess Shaman" to seek immortals and learn Taoism.

(ps: In fact, the China in Journey to the West is not "content" at all, and is also full of martial virtues.

The original text clearly describes that in the "Black Chicken Kingdom", the prince said: "You think that Li Shimin claimed the throne and unified the country, but he was not satisfied and went across the sea to attack. If he knew that my king had killed his brother, the holy monk, he would definitely raise an army to fight against my king. But the army is small and the generals are weak. It will be too late to regret then."

What does it mean that the prince of Wuji Kingdom could say this?
There must have been similar incidents and there are precedents - a Western country offended the great Chinese nation, and the result was that it was punished even though it was far away, and was brutally conquered by a large army.

Otherwise, this is a blatant lie and has no meaning at all, and the Black Chicken Country has nothing to be afraid of.

In fact, after the prince of Wuji Kingdom said this in the court, no one, including the fake king and all the officials in the court, laughed at the prince for being stupid.

The fake king disguised as a fairy was immediately frightened.

Where is the Black Chicken Kingdom?

The route map of Tang Monk's journey to the west is as follows: Liusha River, Wanshou Mountain Wuzhuang Temple, Baihu Ridge, Wanzi Mountain Boyue Cave (300 miles west, Baoxiang Kingdom), Pingding Mountain Lotus Cave (more than ten miles away, Yalong Mountain Yalong Cave), Wuji Kingdom (Baolin Temple).
The Tang Dynasty's army may not have entered the Western countries yet (based on the cowardly appearance of Emperor Taizong of Tang in the book "Journey to the West", he will probably never be able to go there in his lifetime. Alas, it cannot be compared with real history and can only be regarded as an imaginary reality. If Emperor Taizong of Tang had the character and courage in the real world of Journey to the West, he would definitely not be manipulated by Buddhism at will), but before Emperor Taizong of Tang, the great country of China must have dominated the east and west banks of the Liusha River.

It is not just political influence, there must also be military conquest and punishment.

In this book, the ones who did this were the Qin Dynasty and the future Han Dynasty.

In the real world, with the productivity level of more than 2,000 years ago, the Qin Dynasty was able to develop military production and army construction to the limit.

In the ancient world of Journey to the West, the Qin Dynasty was able to develop its military power to the limit allowed by the current world productivity - the first productivity in the ancient world is of course not technology, but Taoism!)
(End of this chapter)