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Under such circumstances, Cao Ang is also more inclined to promote economical crops among the countries in the Western Regions.
For example, the Western Regions are very suitable for the production of melons and fruits, as well as a series of economic crops such as peppers and cotton.
And after these have produced benefits, they will be able to buy food from the Wei Empire. This situation can be said to kill three birds with one stone.
The first point of this is to stabilize the people in the Western Regions so that they can obtain more benefits.
The second point is to reduce the land desertification in the Western Regions, so that the Western Regions can reduce the degree of desertification.
As for the third point, the Western Regions can completely rely on the Great Wei Empire in terms of food demand, and even in terms of economy.
As long as the Western Regions don't mess around, as long as the Western Regions can be honest, and the people can grow peppers and cotton, and then buy some staple food, then the people living on the land of the Western Regions can also live a richer life. more comfortable.
However, Cao Ang also overlooked a very important thing, that is, the phenomenon of land annexation on the land of the Western Regions.
On the vast land of the Western Regions, the amount of cultivated land is very small, so under such circumstances, cultivated land is very important and can bring economic growth to people, so it will naturally become a sought-after thing.
It is also in this situation that there will be very serious land annexation among the countries in the Western Regions.
Except for Dawan and other western countries that occupy a large amount of grassland, most of the central and non-volatile countries have very precious arable land, and the rich and powerful have very serious stakes in those limited arable land.
Under such circumstances, the only thing the people can do is to herd for a living.
Chapter 747 Ambush
The people went to graze. Under such circumstances, the final situation would be that the policies of the Great Wei Empire could not be fully implemented to the end.
Cao Ang carefully looked at the various materials and records submitted, and even more carefully watched some of the more important places.
Judging from the situation of the arable land submitted here, under the current situation, there is indeed a lot of vacant arable land.
Or, some arable land is planted with very inefficient traditional crops. In this case, it will naturally affect the food production of the entire Loulan country.
After Cao Ang read it carefully, he immediately fell into a kind of thinking.
While Cao Ang was thinking about something, Lu Xun also came to Cao Ang's side, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, everything you ordered has been dealt with, and we can leave at any time!"
Cao Ang nodded after hearing the words, and then said to King Loulan, "The prince has decided to go to Nawulei Kingdom for inspection, to see how the local people live, and to understand the true appearance of the Western Regions! "
After hearing what Cao Ang said, King Loulan felt a slight difference very keenly.
In his opinion, Cao Ang's purpose is not simple at all, the purpose of this trip is not just inspection.
Of course, although King Loulan felt a little unusual, all of this was just his imagination after all, and he was not so clear about what was going on in this situation.
King Loulan, who didn't dare to ask more questions, then cupped his hands at Cao Ang in front of him and said, "The Holy Prince has a kind heart, and this move will definitely bring the people of the Western Regions into the Great Wei Empire!"
When Cao Ang heard this, he didn't say much, and led the crowd to leave from the Loulan King's Palace.
After the second day, Cao Ang, just as he said, led the people of the Great Wei Empire and set off towards Wulei Kingdom.
Wulei Kingdom is located to the west of Loulan Kingdom, so a group of people marched mightily towards the western front.
Of course, Cao Ang led only two or three hundred cavalry guards on this trip, and this team also advanced lightly, until they reached a rocky beach, and suddenly something happened.
All of a sudden, people appeared here and there on the rocky beach, and they all had weapons in their hands.
It looks like he should be dressed like a horse thief!
After these people appeared, there were bursts of bow drawing sounds and the sound of fast arrows flying out in an instant.
All of a sudden, dense arrows appeared in the sky, and they shot towards the team of the Great Wei Prince.
In an instant, there were quite a few soldiers in the team who were shot down.
All this happened too suddenly. After all, although it is located in the Western Regions, the prestige of the Great Wei Empire is still out there. I really did not expect that someone would dare to attack His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Great Wei Empire.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Protect the prince!"
Although all of this happened very suddenly, after the incident, His Royal Highness's team reacted quickly, and almost at the same time, a defensive formation was formed.
This situation is also the result of Cao Ang's training, and it is a very normal phenomenon.
After this defensive formation was formed, a lot of bandits appeared from all directions, and their number was very large, even reaching 2000!
Under such circumstances, the 300-man team led by Cao Ang became very weak in an instant, and the enemy surrounded Cao Ang's team in an instant with an overwhelming force.
Due to the large number of opponents, under such circumstances, Cao Ang's team was surrounded in the middle, and it was impossible to get through!
After Cao Ang saw this situation, he didn't panic in the slightest. He didn't bring anyone else with him on this trip, only Lu Wen, his wife.
Under such circumstances, Cao Ang had nothing to worry about.
At this time, Lu Wen was also fully armed, and she was very vigilant along the way, especially when passing the rocky beach, she was even more vigilant, after all, even if tens of thousands of people were ambushing in this place, it would not be easy to spot it.
Under such circumstances, she, who has experienced many battles, naturally knows very well where to take precautions.
Lu Wen reacted immediately, and after putting her eyes on the horse thieves who surrounded them, Lu Wen also noticed something different.
"No, these people don't look like horse thieves at all!"
After Lu Wen looked at the thousands of people, she saw something strange from the actions of those people.
She looked so strange. Although the 2000 people pretended to be horse thieves, this team of horse thieves was really unreasonable.
The Western Regions are the only way for the development of commercial trade between the East and the West, so under such circumstances, it is very normal for some horse thieves to appear in this generation.
Even, caravans are intercepted and killed basically every month,
However, in this case, the number of horse thieves is generally no more than a dozen people, or dozens of people, which is already a large team.
The largest number of horse thieves is only hundreds of people, which is the largest number.
After all, they are horse thieves and require very high mobility. In addition, they require small targets and more flexibility. After finishing their work, they can hide well and prevent being tracked.
Therefore, a team of horse thieves with a scale of 2000 people is very suspicious in the first place, and there is no such a large team of horse thieves.
Secondly, the robbery incidents that happened on this commercial road are usually robbery of money, and they will not kill people so arbitrarily!
In addition, Cao Ang's team did not bring much luggage, which means that there was no oil and water in their team at all.
Even, there are many well-equipped Wei Empire soldiers in this team. Under such circumstances, as long as they are not stupid, those horse thieves will never choose to fight against such a team.
After all, this is a very difficult bone to crack. If they want to crack it, they have to carefully weigh their own strength!
For such a situation, if it was a real horse thief, after they saw it, they would definitely choose to avoid it, or even run away.
However, under the current situation, they chose to do it, and they looked like a well-trained crowd, so these people are not horse thieves at all, and there must be something wrong.