Seeing that Wang Lang directly denied his thoughts, Heijiao looked a little depressed, and said respectfully: "Obey!" ”

Since Wang Lang still had his own things to do, he said: "If there is nothing else to do, let's go down!" ”

At this moment, a soldier hurriedly ran towards Wang Lang's "palace", but was stopped by the guards.

"Your Majesty's residence, it is forbidden for idlers and others to trespass!" The guard said coldly.

"I have something important to report to Your Majesty!" The soldier said anxiously.

Seeing this, the guard said, "You wait here, and I'll go in and report to Your Majesty." ”

Just as Lin Huo and the others were about to turn around and go out, the guard walked in and reported: "Your Majesty, there is a soldier outside who said that he has something important to see. ”

Wang Lang nodded and said, "Let him in!" ”

"Yes!"

After the guards retreated, Lin Huo and the others paused, and they were also curious, now that Xia Guo basically has no enemies, I don't know what else is going on.

Seeing that the two of them stopped, Wang Lang smiled and said, "Since you want to listen, sit down and listen to what is going on!" ”

Hearing this, the two smiled, and each found a chair to sit down.

A moment later, the guard walked in with the soldier.

When the soldier saw Wang Lang, he bowed and bowed, "Your Majesty, the fourth expedition is back." ”

"Fourth Expedition?" Wang Lang asked suspiciously.

The soldier nodded and said, "It's the expedition that disappeared for more than a year." ”

When Wang Lang heard this, he touched his chin, this fourth expedition team was Zhou Tianshi and they set off together, these people have been included in the death list, but they didn't expect to be alive.

"Where are they now?" Wang Lang asked.

"Just waiting for His Majesty's reception in the outer city." The soldier replied.

"Bring them here!"

"Yes!"

The soldier hurried out.

Outside the city, seven or eight ragged expedition members waited quietly for the arrival of the herald in a crowd of onlookers, and everyone remained silent, since there were acquaintances and wise people who came to inquire, these people were also silent.

The soldier who delivered the message hurriedly ran over and said to these people: "Your Majesty has summoned the fourth expedition, come with me." ”

Under the watchful eyes of the people, the expedition team walked through the inner city gate towards the "palace".

"Your Majesty, here they are." Guards report.

Wang Lang nodded and motioned to bring them in.

Seeing these expedition members in tattered clothes and dirty faces, Wang Lang was shocked, looking at their appearance, they must have suffered a lot.

"Give a couple of warriors a seat." Wang Lang hurriedly commanded.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The expedition members said respectfully.

After they sat down, Wang Lang asked, "Why did it take so long for you to come back?" ”

A long, rather sturdy man replied with a lonely expression: "Back to Your Majesty, we have been heading in the northeast direction since we left that day, but we have basically found nothing, so we have decided to continue to move farther and farther, and the further we go, the colder the weather becomes, and in about four months, we walked out of the grassland, where the situation is very different from here, and the forest is also bare without a single leaf, and we have to wrap ourselves in animal skins in order to resist this cold weather." And so we went on, and there we saw a mountain covered with white stuff, and there we met other humans, who looked about the same as the queen, all with white skin and yellow hair, and we had a conflict with them, and we killed four of our companions, and we killed them all, and then the whites were very unfriendly, and when they saw us and attacked us without asking anything, we fought and retreated, and then slowly withdrew from the place, and it took another half a year to return. ”

Wang Lang was silent, he didn't expect these people to go so far, and the amount of information in their words was very large, it was normal to go north to the cold zone, but this situation was very different from the land he was familiar with, before he guessed that he was on the American continent, and most likely in South America, but through their descriptions, he felt that his guess was a little unreliable.

If in South America then the tropics are the rainforests of Brazil, then they go north, and they are Mexico, where he does not remember the tall mountains that run east-west, and the question of where he is is even more confused.

While Wang Lang was thinking about this question, the sturdy man took off the animal skin bag behind him and took out a black stone.

"Your Majesty, we found this strange stone in the north, the stone we used to make a fire to keep warm, and at first we used this time to build a stove, but when the fire burned, this kind of stone can actually burn, we have never seen such a strange thing, and we thought it was a good thing, so I brought it back."

Wang Lang looked at the stone, and was overjoyed, he didn't expect these guys to find a coal mine, although the most important thing in the world is wood, but the heat of coal burning is much higher than that of ordinary wood, basically like charcoal, and the burning time is longer, compared to charcoal, it is more cost-effective.

At the current pace, the Xia Kingdom will sooner or later advance its territory to the northern cold zone, where the value of coal will be reflected, and although this resource is not needed now, it will definitely shine in the future.

The white men of the north seemed to him to be no threat at all, and when his army arrived there, these savages would become only obedient people under his rule.

Wang Lang took the piece of coal and looked at it, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "This thing is very good, your expedition this time is really hard." ”

"Thank you Your Majesty for your appreciation, we don't feel hard, we just feel a little sorry for those dead companions, and we heard that the tribe has announced our death, dare to ask Your Majesty, I don't know what is the situation of our wife and children now." The sturdy man said.

When Wang Lang heard this, he suddenly became a little embarrassed, Xia Guo does not allow widows to exist, although he has not personally understood the situation of these people's wives and children, but he can also guess that most of these people's wives have remarried, if these warriors who risked their lives to go out on the expedition know that they have worked hard to get such a result, it is too chilling, for a while, he doesn't know how to open this mouth.

After the scene was silent for a while, Wang Lang spoke: "Warriors, I won't hide it from you, you have been declared completely dead a few months ago, and you must be able to guess what the result is. ”

When the members of the expedition team heard this, they immediately fell silent, and at this moment their emotions were extremely complicated, with disappointment, anger, and more helplessness.

Looking at their expressions, Wang Lang sighed.