No matter what happened to Yingdu, Xiong Jing could only know by returning to Chu State. The Shao Si Ming sailed down the wind at a speed of eight knots, and after two nights, the indigo blue water was already under his feet, completely different from the light blue he had seen yesterday. After the first mate on duty entered the stern to report, Xiong Jing and the others hurriedly went up to the deck.

"This is the gully?" The young Zuo Shi looked at the indigo at his feet, and his voice was a little weak.

"Is the water deep?" Xiong Jing asked with a smile. He doesn't care about the depth of the water, only the direction of the water. After the first mate threw down the plank, the plank went north, which was the Kuroshio.

"There's no bottom in sight." Right history is also looking, and the indigo water gives people the feeling of being unfathomable.

The Commander was already turning north, and with the turn, the sailors on the main deck were busy, and they were about to turn the truss again. "If there were no sails, the boat would not be able to sail any more. The ancients called it a big gully, which has the meaning of deep water and the meaning of being uncrossable. ”

As the truss turned, the mast of the sail crashing into the truss rattled. The two didn't have time to look at the sails, they just looked at the indigo blue and black water and pondered. Right Shi asked, "Great King, where is the east of the Great Gully?" Where does the sun and moon come from? ”

"To the east of the gully is the ocean." Xiong Jing said: "The sun and moon are not above the world, they just hang high in the sky. The world is a big ball, and the big ball rotates once a day. We are on the great sphere, and we see the sun and the moon again in sixteen hours, and it is not out of it. ”

"Ahh

"In June next year, the sea boat will cross the gully and sail to Dongzhou in search of the three valleys." Xiong Jing mentioned next year's things a little.

"The king......" Zuo Shi wanted to ask the king if he was going, but he thought that the king was the lord of a country, and the sea was dangerous, so he naturally couldn't go. He can't go if the king doesn't go, but he really wants to go to another continent to see it.

Xiong Jing understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "One day, I will go." ”

"King, can others go to Yangma Island?" The historian looked forward to the distant Dongzhou, while Ma Yin was worried about the nearby Yangma Island. The purpose of this trip was to find an island where horses could be raised. The king was born to know, since there is an island to raise horses, there are islands to raise horses, but horses are kept on the island, he always feels unsafe, for fear of being snatched by others.

"If others know about Yangma Island, they can't go to the island." Xiong Jing Road. "The boat of Qi crosses the Bohai Sea and still needs to travel along the island, and it cannot be crossed arbitrarily, the sea is vast, and I don't know where Yangma Island is in the sea."

Ma Yin was worried that others would land on the island, but Xiong Jing knew that even if the Qin State ruled the world, the navigation could only go along the coast. Xu Fu's channel to find the elixir of immortality was to start from Langya Port, the northernmost port of the current Chu State, all the way north through Chengshan, and then cross the Bohai Sea along the Miaodao Islands, and shoot a big fish when passing near Zhifu (Yantai)......

This waterway was the so-called northern route that Japan later sent to the Tang Dynasty, and it continued until the Tang Dynasty. The reason for sailing is to row by hand, crossing the Bohai Sea and crossing Tsushima because you can see the opposite shore in clear weather, and if you can't see it, you don't dare to go. Navigation is so, the boat is not reliable, the twist seam is not qualified to make the boat leak seriously, the most terrible thing is to use the iron turn to connect the ship, the firmness is not enough, a little bigger waves hit, the boat is going to be scattered.

This is also the reason why you can only sail along the coast, and you can avoid the shore when you encounter wind and waves, and you can swim to the shore if the boat is scattered. It was not until the Song Dynasty that the iron turn gradually evolved into a curium nail (leech nail), and the boat was really strong. The previous Tang Dynasty was still not good, and the Tang Dynasty ships that crossed Japan from the south (although Japan has always wanted to say that the Tang Dynasty ships were Japanese ships, but Japanese scholars searched all the historical materials and could not find evidence to prove that the Tang Dynasty ships were Japanese ships, and the pictures and historical materials found proved that the Tang Dynasty ships were actually 'merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty', and the boatmen who operated the ships were all 'Tang people'), the success rate was less than half, and about half of the sea ships were broken or disappeared by the waves when crossing.

Today's shipbuilding technology restricts navigation, and with no knowledge of directions, Xiong Jing believes that others will never find Jeju Island.

*

Above the gully, the Shao Si Ming and Xiang Lady turned north and sailed to Jeju Island, which has 80,000 hectares of grassland; In the upper reaches of Yishui, the winged warboat that greeted Hu Tansuo and the two incarnated people had just arrived at Muling Pass. Seeing that Yingdu actually sent fifteen pawn-wing warboats, the Muling guard shook Dongye Ge again and again, especially after hearing that all the horses had turned to Langya Port, he was even more confused: he thought that the pawn-wing warships were here to pick up the horses, but he didn't expect that it was not, they were here to pick up Hu Shang. Why did Hu Shangyan have such a big face and asked fifteen winged warships to come to greet him?

"This general is a concubine, and I am ordered by the Queen Mother to welcome the two Huaren and Hu Shang." After seeing Hu Tansaozhi, Fei Jing told him like this, he did not look at the two incarnates, but looked at Hu Tansaozhi without squinting.

"Thank you, General." Hu Tanshaozhi knew the etiquette of this land, and as a merchant, he was not as arrogant as the two holy envoys. "Excuse me, General, when will the Holy Envoy be able to board the ship?"

"Boarding is right away." It was only at this time that Fei Jing looked at the two incarnates, with a tall nose and deep eyes, but her eyes were facing upwards and she didn't look at him.

Hearing this, Hu Tansuozhi asked the Holy Envoy in Sogdian, and after a few words, he asked Yu Jing, "May I ask the identity of the general?" ”

"Identity?" Concubine Jing was puzzled, he showed the bronze talisman given by Concubine Zhao, "I will come here on the order of the Queen Mother, what identity do I have?" ”

"Where is the king of your country?" When Hu Tansuozhi heard that it was the Queen Mother, he was also puzzled.

"The widow has left the capital and is heading to Jiangdong, and he can't return to the capital for a short time." Fei Jing replied.

"The king of your country is not in the capital?" Hu Tanshaozhi secretly wondered, he was wondering why Xiong Jing didn't come in person when he saw the word 'immortal medicine', it turned out that he had already left the national capital, and he didn't know that the immortal medicine had been sent to Chu State.

"Yes, yes." Fei Jing Road. "Please board the boat and enter Ying, and the king will meet him when he returns to the capital."

It was another Sogdian language that no one could understand, and at the suggestion of Hu Tansazhi, the two of them reluctantly boarded the warship. They were displeased when they boarded the warship—although it was a warship that Xiong Jing often rode on, and there was a knighthood to sit on, it was too simple compared to the luxury of the Maracanda temple and the Sogdian nobles' residences. When they learned that it was King Chuni's boat, a sneer appeared on their faces, which completely confirmed the assertion of the Honbo Rider: the more east the more lowly, and the more west the more noble. The king of a kingdom who is humble enough can only take such a humble ship.

Yu Jing couldn't understand Sogdian, otherwise he would have chopped up the two pretending avatars and threw them off the warboat. He doesn't know anything about the West or the East, he only knows that anyone who dares to insult the king will die.

The war boat was simple, but the speed of the war boat was not inferior to that of the sailing ship sailing in the East China Sea, and Yingdu received the news that Fu Jing had set sail from Muling Pass in just two days, and the war boat arrived at the Huaishui wharf north of Yingdu. At this time, the knight finally enjoyed the honor of the holy envoy, and learned that the overseas people offered immortal medicine, and hundreds of thousands of people in Yingdu went out of the suburbs under the leadership of Concubine Zhao to greet him.

After taking the elixir of immortality, not only can you live forever, but you can also become an immortal like Chang'e, and the avatar who offers the elixir of immortality is almost equal to an immortal in the eyes of the Chu people. How noble the immortals are, they can see the last immortal in this life, and they have no regrets when they die.

"The old woman has seen two incarnates." The bowl rider and the canu half are dressed differently from Hu Tansaozhi, Hu Tanshao wears a small white felt hat, and the two holy envoys wrap their heads in white cloth like Indians, with a high nose and deep eyes, and the head of the bowl rider is also wearing a red cloak, holding a thin crescent shovel in his left hand, the breath of the magic stick is coming, and Concubine Zhao salutes first as soon as she sees his style.

"Ahura Mazda." The bowl rider shouted a word to the god of light. He also looked at Concubine Zhao, her thirties are the most mature season for women, and the fair-skinned and mellow Concubine Zhao can't hide her charming face even if she wears a dark robe.

"May the god of light ......" Ben Bo Qizhi stepped forward to hold Concubine Zhao's jade hand, which was a cordial expression.

"Presumptuous!" Taibu Guan, who has always been unsightly, drank loudly. As a fellow religion, he was most taboo about the threat of immortal medicine.

"This is indecent!" Kong Qian, who was so old that he had lost his teeth, was also very unhappy. Qi Ao did not grant him an important position, and Xiong Jing had to worship him as a prince, which was regarded as preserving the face of the Kong family and the Confucian scholars.

“…… Bless. "Ben Bo Qizhi didn't look at the two blockers, and with a 'whew', a fire broke out from the hand he wanted to hold Concubine Zhao. The flame was not large, and when he waved his hand, the fire was extinguished again, and then there was a complaint from the horseman.

"The Queen Mother, the Holy Envoy said, may the Emperor of Heaven bless the Queen Mother." Hu Tansuo acted as an interpreter, "It's a pity that the Queen Mother has ...... by her side Yes"

The word devil couldn't be spoken, Concubine Zhao was already impressed by the magic skill of turning into a person, and asked anxiously: "What is beside the old woman?" ”

Concubine Zhao asked urgently, and Guan Yu glared hatefully. Facing the murderous gaze, Hu Tanshaozhi still said: "There is a devil." ”

"Ahh Not only Concubine Zhao, but everyone who heard the word 'devil' was shocked.

"The medicine of immortality is produced in the ruins of Kunlun, and it will not be made for thousands of years. In the past, Zhou Tianzi went to Kunlun, saw the Queen Mother of the West, and offered 10,000 brocade horses to give the medicine of immortality. Previously, there was Hou Yi, who wanted to be immortal with Chang'e and begged for immortal medicine, and the Queen Mother of the West took pity on him and gave him one. Today, the holy envoy went to the Chu country to offer the medicine of immortality, but there was a devil on the side of the queen mother, how to teach the holy envoy how to offer medicine? ”

"I'll kill you!" The more he listened to the anger, he suddenly drew his sword. It's just that the sword didn't stab at Hu Tansaozhi, but stabbed at this bowl rider.

A few days ago, he kept persuading Concubine Zhao not to trust others, but Concubine Zhao just didn't listen, and went out of the suburbs to greet her. Turning into a man slandered him as a devil, others don't know the reason, how can he, as a witch, not know the reason.

"Rude!" Seeing that Taibu was going to kill the person who offered the medicine, Concubine Zhao was also anxious. "Left and right, take Taibu down."

Guan Yu Wen was weak, stabbed several swords and were opened by the crescent shovel of this bowl rider, and when he heard Concubine Zhao's order, the sanitation on one side hurriedly pulled Guan Yu down, and the unwilling Guan Yu shouted again and again: "The Queen Mother can't be trusted, don't be trusted!" ”