Along the Loulan Ancient Road, Ban Chao and others finally arrived in Khotan. With a population of more than 400,000 people, Khotan is a large country in the Western Regions, and due to the instigation of the Black Tyrant and the Shache Kingdom for many years, both sides suffered heavy casualties. Heibatian took the opportunity to levy 50,000 troops from Qiuci and other countries, defeated Khotan, and besieged the royal city. The king of Khotan's name was Yu Chi Guangde, and when he saw that Heibatian was powerful, he had no choice but to surrender Heibatian, and sent his eldest son to Heibatian as a hostage, and contributed grain, hemp, jade, and jewelry to Heibatian. Hei Batian also sent the minister Yang Totuo to supervise the country.

King Guangde believed in witchcraft, and Yang Totoh called himself a minister, but he was actually a great wizard, but he was an unknown prophet and had great powers. King Guangde saluted again for this. When the sheep got off to Khotan, he sent people close to King Guangde to learn more about his physical characteristics and hobbies. In order to convince King Guangde of his witchcraft, he deliberately sent someone to steal the jade seal, and King Guangde was furious, beheaded the seal official, offered a reward of 100 gold, and looked for the seal. After more than ten days without any news, King Guangde was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and his guards said to King Guangde: "The sheep of the prison country is a great wizard, why don't you ask him to help with divination?" King Guangde said: "Yang Tokhoff is a black tyrant of the heavenly prison country, knowing that my royal seal has been stolen, it will inevitably be more unscrupulous and despise me, how can I find him for help?" At this time, I suddenly heard the guards come in and report: "King, the sheep of the prison country is off and Jinjin." Without waiting for King Guangde to speak, Yang Tokhoff had already entered the palace, and while bowing to King Guangde, he said loudly: "How is the king?" King Guangde forced a smile and said: "There is a labor supervisor and the state is moving, everything is fine." ”

Suddenly, Yang Tuotuo stared at King Guangde and said: "Forgive your majesty, the king Yintang is dark, his eyes are dull, and he has locked the deep palace recently, beware of fire and thieves." When King Guangde heard this, he was so frightened that he didn't know what to do, where could he take care of any etiquette, and hurriedly said: "The prison country is really a great wizard, and he doesn't hide it from the prison country, more than ten days ago, the black overlord rushed into the palace and the jade seal disappeared in the palace, and he wanted to return to the country to Hei Batian in the near future, so anxious that I couldn't sleep all night, please ask the prison country to save me." Seeing that King Guangde had fallen into the trap, Yang Totok pretended to be more and more profound: "Your Majesty has already expected it, and now I have come to divinate for the king." After saying that, he cleaned his hands and changed his clothes, held his wand and chanted words in his mouth, kept circling around the empty seal box, and suddenly shouted: "Where is the demon, dare to steal the jade seal, and still show up?" With that, he slammed his wand into the seal box and opened his eyes for a moment. King Guangde hurriedly asked, "Master, where is the seal?" Yang Totoku laughed, and said miserably: "This seal was stolen by demons and wants to go east." Because the jade seal did not want to go east, the demon hid it in the house of the salt merchant on East Street, and the king could send someone to fetch it. Seeing this, King Guangde urgently ordered Wang Dingshi, the leader of the guards, to take people to the east gate salt shop to search. After a while, Wang Dingshi really found the jade seal from the salt shop and came back. King Guangde was so impressed that he threw himself to the ground and was full of praise. Since then, he has become more superstitious about sheep detachment.

One day, Chi Guangde, the king of Khotan, convened a group of ministers to discuss the matter, and the general Asalan said: "King, there are guests from Shanshan who have come over these days, saying that it is the Han envoy Banchao who killed the black overlord angel, persuading Shanshan to refuse the black tyrant to return to the Han, and also said that the Han intends to go west and restore the Western Regions Protector. Yang Tuo sneered: "My king doesn't have to worry, the Han Dynasty is thousands of miles away from me, Ban Chao succeeded in Shanshan, if he goes to Khotan, he will be captured by me." Xiangguo Zhu Sannong said: "The Black Tyrant and the Han are all my strong neighbors, if the Han envoy comes, I hope that the king will receive it carefully, and the Black Tyrant and the Han will not be offended." "Sheep off" hum! He said sharply: "The country is different!" Khotan is still a vassal to Hei Batian, Hei Batian and Han are enemy countries, how can you receive Han envoys, do you dare to surrender to the Han and reject my Hei Batian? When King Guangde saw that the sheep was aggressive, he waved his hand unhappily and said: "I don't know if the Han envoy can come, so what's the point of fighting for these now?" Nothing to retreat from. ”

Xiangguo Mansion is located on South Street, adjacent to the South Gate shops. On this day, Xiangguo Zhu Sannon is playing chess with Shi Jishi, the two sides have played more than 100 hands, Zhu Xiangguo has occupied three corners, and Shi Jishi is in the middle of the abdomen to form an appearance. At this time, Zhu Xiangguo, who was in charge of white, had a son in the corner of Shi Jishi. Shi Jishi thought about it repeatedly, and lost a son for a long time. Under this son, the left side of the son faces the wide mid-abdomen, and the mid-belly will lose if the mid-belly is broken. Press down on this son, this son will enter the corner, seize the corner land, it will form a four-corner piercing heart, and it is difficult to win by holding the middle abdomen. When Shi Jishi was undecided, the family of the Prime Minister came to report, and two people claimed to be the Han envoys Ban Chao and Kunlun Xiao, asking to see Xiangguo. Zhu Xiangguo said: "Don't come with me, brother, to pick up the Han envoy." Then the two of them went to the living room together.

Ban Chao bowed and said: "I have seen Xiangguo, I am Ban Chao, and now I am ordered by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty to come to your country to repair and fight the black tyrant together." Zhu Xiangguo and Shi Guo Shi said: "I haven't seen the prestige of the Han officials for many years, and I am very happy to see the Han envoy today, please sit down and serve tea." "Sit down." With that, the four of them sat down.

Ban Chao said: "I have been waiting for three days to come to your country, and I have been inspecting the people's situation. Khotan is a big country in the Western Regions, the Keriya River flows through your country for hundreds of miles, the farmland is fertile, the products are abundant, and the beauty of Hetian is abundant, and the country should be strong and the people are rich. When I look at your country, the market is cold, and the families are poor for some reason? Zhu Xiangguo sighed and said: "It's hard to say, please tell the ambassador in detail." Shi Jishi said: "Don't hide the ambassador of the Han Dynasty, our country has the benefits of heaven and earth, there are mountains and rivers, the people are industrious, and the current king also has great talents, and Zhu Xiangguo is also a capable minister of governing the country, but now the people are exhausted, and they are really provoked by the Black Batian, and the Shache countries have been fighting for many years, and the vitality has been greatly damaged, and the result is that the Black Batian has taken advantage of the fisherman, and now I am waiting for the Black Batian to be a minister under the power of the Black Batian, and more than half of the income will be paid tribute to the Black Batian every year, and the country is not enough to increase taxes, which is also a drink to quench thirst. ”

Zhu Xiangguo sighed and asked, "This time, the ambassador came to my country from thousands of miles away, I don't know what to see?" Ban Chao said: "The revival of the Han Dynasty, the division of the Black Batian, and the millions of people in the Southern Black Batian have been returned to the Han Dynasty." The Northern Black Batian has been continuously defeated by the great general Dou Gu, and has now retreated to the north of Altay. In order to save the countries of the Western Regions and expel the Black Overlord's forces in the Western Regions, he specially sent us to the Western Regions to show goodwill and unite all countries to fight against the Black Overlord. ”

Shi Guoxiang shook his head and said: "The countries of the Western Regions are constantly attacking and hating because they are provoked by the Black Tyrants, and it is very difficult to get the countries of the Western Regions to give up their past suspicions to fight against the Black Tyrants!" Ban Chao said: "The minister of the country can rest assured, not only Khotan is bullied by the Black Tyrant, but the rest of the countries are all like this, and it is the common desire of the countries in the Western Regions to get rid of the slavery of the Black Tyrant, and I will send an envoy to the South Tianshan Province to persuade the countries of the South Continent." General Dou Gu led a large army to pacify the countries of Beidao. If the north and south are facing each other, they will be able to expel the Black Tyrant forces from the Western Regions, and at that time, the Han Dynasty will re-establish the Western Regions Protectorate, and all countries will get along with each other on an equal footing, and the trouble of the Black Tyrant will be eliminated forever. Zhu and Shi got up and said: "The Han does not abandon the Western Regions, which is really a blessing for all countries in the Western Regions." We will definitely persuade the king to return to Han. "Thank you, two adults." Seeing this, Kunlun smiled and presented the silk and two sets of ceramic tableware he brought to the two of them. When the two saw that the ceramics were exquisite and the silk was luxurious, they were overjoyed and grateful: "The ambassador is far away." We deserve to be a generous gift. ”