Chapter Eighty-Three: The Boundless Return

Ji Yan, Mei Yuning, and Sun Dayong packed their luggage, buried Chen Laohan and other victims, and set off to return to the capital of Zhancheng State.

However, not long after leaving, the sky changed, and it should have been just past noon, but the sky was very gloomy, as if it had reached dusk.

The wind is not small, although it is not enough to blow and I can't walk, but it is also much harder than before.

After the three of them disembarked from Zheng He's fleet and landed, it was the first time they had encountered such harsh weather.

It seems that the next typhoon is coming and will cause them a lot of trouble.

The whole country is a long strip of land in the north and south, surrounded by mountains and seas, there are many flat land on the side of the sea, there are pipelines and county seats, there are many hills and mountains on the side of the mountain, there are no big roads and it is very difficult to walk, except for the occasional small villages that are sparsely lala, there are basically no traces of people.

When Ji Yan and the others came, in order to avoid people's eyes and ears, and Chen Laohan, who was familiar with the terrain and mountain roads, led the way, so they chose to take the side of the mountain.

Regarding the return trip, at the beginning, their plan was to return the same way, but as they walked, seeing the current weather situation changing, Ji Yan and the others were a little hesitant.

Now, there is no one who is familiar with the road conditions to lead them, and secondly, the weather is much more serious than the wind and rain when they came, and if they still stick to the original plan and walk the mountain road, the risk is very high.

The last typhoon had a lot of momentum, but fortunately it only passed over the Champong country at the corner of the day, and did not pass over the Champa country in its entirety.

But now, above the three of them, the fast-moving black pressure looked like the center of a typhoon.

Although none of the three of them were born by the sea, the capital is not particularly far from the seaside, so they have all heard of the severity of the typhoon and have learned a little.

Ji Yan is a step further than Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong, he has seen more from TV before, and he probably knows what happens in the southeast and Southeast Asian coasts every summer and autumn.

Since they found that the momentum was not right, the three of them discussed it a little, and quickly reached an agreement, adjusting their thinking and plan to hurry as quickly as possible. Not an hour or two after going out of Chen Laohan's house, Ji Yan and the others began to move sideways, walking in the direction of the seaside, preparing to approach the pipeline road.

Occupy the long and narrow border of the city country, so the whole country is more than 100 miles wide, Ji Yan, Mei Yuning, and Sun Dayong are estimated to be close to dusk at this time, but the sky is no different from late at night, and they are walking from west to east, and they are moving forward against the wind, so it is not easy to go.

Fortunately, after they arrived at the pipeline, it was much easier to hurry, one was that the road was easy to walk, and more importantly, there were a lot of pedestrians, and they were not lonely.

Although the typhoon is coming, there are quite a lot of people coming and going from the south to the north on the pipeline, which can be said to be far beyond Ji Yan's imagination, after all, there was a war in this border area a few days ago, and the battlefield is very tragic, why are there so many people in this vicinity.

What is especially special is that Ji Yan and others saw a lot of people who were earning their families and leading their families from south to north.

This is the exact opposite of when they first arrived in Champa.

At that time, the Champa State and the Jiaozhi State were fighting in the north of the Champa State, and Ji Yan and the others went north after getting off the ship, except for the occasional army that drove to the north to follow them, and watched the common people go south to avoid the war.

It's the other way around.

A large number of people are still walking in the opposite direction with them, pushing carts, holding babies, dragging families and mouths, and carrying bags from south to north.

Ji Yan pricked up his ears and listened to a family that seemed to speak Chinese, so he cheekily leaned in and talked about it.

This family is not wary, and the situation of their family is similar to that of Chen Sihan, who has been killed, the difference is that Chen Sihan's ancestors are Chen Youliang's old department, and the ancestors of this family are Zhang Shicheng's old department.

Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng are the two most powerful opponents Zhu Yuanzhang encountered on the road to establish the Ming Dynasty, and they both have a characteristic that the naval army is very strong, not the kind that sprays people on the Internet, and they are real shipbuilders and sailors who fight.

Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang defeated these two, on the one hand, he vigorously studied shipbuilding technology and trained sailors, and on the other hand, he strictly guarded against the old departments of these people and the craftsmen and people who had provided shipbuilding for Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng.

Therefore, when the founding of the country was not stable in the early Ming Dynasty, many people in these places had no way to live, so they ran away by boat, and an important destination for them was Southeast Asia, that is, Nanyang.

Most of the people left behind in those places have changed their livelihoods and changed careers to do other things.

Ji Yan inquired with the family about why so many people began to go north, and the family answered enthusiastically, explaining the reason to Ji Yan with a smile.

It turned out that the king of the Champa State had already announced the whole country early, and now all the people of the Champa City knew that the Ming Dynasty envoy Zheng He and others led an army of 100,000 to arrive in the capital, responsible for mediating the military disputes between the Champa State and the Jiaozhi State.

Therefore, when these people heard the news, they all felt that the war would not be fought again, and they rushed back to their homes in the north from the places where they had taken refuge in the south, for fear that they would be too late to return and that their things would be stolen or stolen.

After hearing this, Ji Yan expressed his gratitude to the people who were migrating, and then returned to Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong.

Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong listened to Ji Yan's words, one covered his mouth, and the other laughed.

First of all, the 100,000 army from the Ming Dynasty?

Although Ji Yan has also heard that the ancient people liked to falsify the numbers of the army, they often patted their heads and said casually, for example, Cao Cao claimed that he had 800,000 people in the Battle of Chibi, but in fact, there may have been about 10 million people in the entire northern China at that time, and the 800,000 army did not even have a door.

This is the same, Zheng He's fleet is only more than 20,000 members, and the mouth of the king of this Champa country has become an army of 100,000, which is enough.

Secondly, the king of the city of Zhancheng publicized the arrival of Zheng He and others with such fanfare, and also made a national announcement with great fanfare, for fear that some people had not heard of this, which was actually a kind of fox and fake tiger power. This news is obviously not only for the people of the country, but also for the wolf's ambition to listen to the country. Let the Jiaozhi country break off the idea of going south, after all, the Ming fleet has arrived.

Ji Yan, Mei Yuning, and Sun Dayong sighed in their hearts at the same time.

One day in the mountains, a thousand years in the world.