Wang Yangming made meritorious service with an arrow, and then led everyone across the border and flaunted his might. Later, I heard Ye Qingmei say that the unlucky guy who was crucified by him was one of the ten elders. According to Ye Qingmei's inference, the House of Elders must have announced that she, the former Holy Maiden, had died under the attack of the Xia Army, and now that one of the Ten Elders had been shot to death by Wang Yangming, the House of Elders would definitely try its best to incite the hatred between the Elite and the Xia people, and the war in Jiayuguan in the northwest would inevitably become tense.

But Wang Yangming and the others are already far away in a foreign country, and they can't take care of the situation on Boyan's side even if they want to.

Entering the border of Chechi Country, everyone finally relaxed their minds a little. Unlike the Jingjue Kingdom, the Chechi Kingdom and the Great Xia still nominally coexisted peacefully and did not go to war. Moreover, the Chechi country is not composed of a single race like the Jingjue country, the Chechi people themselves are a hodgepodge, among which there are residents of various races in the Western Regions living together, and even the Xia people have settled here after coming here to do business in the early years, so the relationship between Chechi and Daxia is the best one among the sixteen countries in the Western Regions. Of course, this is best only relative, and in fact, the intrigue between the two countries is also unlimited.

Not long after entering the country, Che Chiguo's army found traces of the Eagle Yang Army. The border guards sent a team of 100 people to check, and Wang Yangming ordered Biluo to inform the other party of the identity of his group, and the other party said: "Since it is a delegation from the Great Xia court, why don't you go to our country to pay homage to the king?"

Zhang Qian saw that the other party seemed to mean that he wanted his party to meet King Chechi, and agreed at the moment. The Yingyang army and his party walked all the way to the capital of Chechi under the supervision of the border guards of Chechi, but there was a fierce argument between the two sides when they entered the city, and Chechiren meant that since it was an embassy of the imperial court, it could carry weapons into the city.

Wang Yangming's side is not a fool, naturally he knows that weapons can never be handed over, otherwise there will be changes in the city at that time, and his hundreds of people will only be tied up. The two sides were arguing, someone had already entered the palace to report to King Chechi, and after a while, the palace reported that since it was the mission of Great Xia and the protection of the Great Xia soldiers, short weapons could be carried, but long weapons could not enter the city.

Zhang Qian asked Wang Yangming's opinion, and Wang Yangming said: "Since the other party has given in, we can't be too hypocritical." Everyone only brought their swords with them, and as for the spear and halberd, they were placed here for the other party's safekeeping, but we had to hand them over to the other party clearly, and when we left, we found that the other party had detained our weapons, but we had no evidence. ”

Long weapons were handed over between the two armies, and Zhang Qian led the delegation to enter the city on foot with the Che Chi people. Wang Yangming saw that the city was also prosperous, with shops on both sides, and it was especially amazing that you could often see the shops opened by Xia people. These Xia people all came here to do business in the early years, and they were very cordial when they saw Wang Yangming and others, and they all came up to ask questions. Some of them came to Chechi during the Great Shang period of the previous dynasty, and they don't know much about the current Great Xia, but after all, blood is thicker than water, and they are still excited to see the Xia people of the same root and species, and tears are in their eyes.

Wang Yangming was watching, and suddenly saw a wealthy businessman in the middle of the street whipping his subordinates, and the ruthlessness of his attack was breathtaking. The man seemed to be the private slave of a wealthy merchant, dressed in tatters, and his appearance was quite different from the nationalities of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions, this man had black eyes and a wide nose, but a little like the Huns, although he was beaten viciously, but this man did not cry or shout, but just looked at his master coldly, and his eyes revealed a resentful look. The rich merchant was too ruthless, and the leather whip was merciless, and the skin of the man was open, revealing a bright red texture on his body, and he was about to be killed in a moment or three, but none of the onlookers in the city came up to stop it, and it seemed that he was not surprised by this, and even the Che Chi soldiers who escorted Wang Yangming and others into the palace ignored it, and just let the rich merchant vacate the place and not block the traffic artery.

Su Mu couldn't bear it a little, so he was about to step forward to take care of it, but Wang Yangming grabbed him in advance and said, "Grandma, you must stop." This is other people's territory, and we are a little difficult to protect ourselves, so you must not cause trouble for everyone again. Su Mu listened to what he said, so he had to endure it bitterly.

Wang Yangming asked Biluo quietly: "What is the situation?" Why doesn't anyone care about this man beating people in the street? Isn't there a law in this country?"

Bi Luo also whispered: "Brother Yang Ming doesn't know, the system of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions is very different from that of the Xia Dynasty, people in these countries like to keep private slaves, slaves are completely the private property of the master, the master wants to kill it, sell it if he wants to, and this power of the master is protected by the laws of the country." These slaves were all Khitans, and they were related to the Huns on the steppe by kinship. ”

Wang Yangming raised his eyebrows and asked, "What kind of ethnic group are the Khitans?"

Biluo replied: "The Khitan is a people who once wandered in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and they are good at raising horses. Their ancestors were Turks, and later some of the Turkic people moved eastward into the northern steppes and slowly evolved into the Xiongnu, while the other remained in the Tianshan Mountains and became the Khitans, and also established a huge state, the Khitan Khanate. It's just that the later khans were all mediocre and incompetent, and the country killed each other, causing the national strength to wither. At this time, new forces such as the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions rose one after another, and the Khitan Khanate was scattered and even disappeared, and the Khitans wandered around the Sixteen Kingdoms. The people of the Western Regions were good at business, but the Khitans were not good at business, so they became poorer and poorer, and slowly became slaves of the rich people of the Sixteen Kingdoms. ”

Wang Yangming said in his heart, it turned out to be a poor nation that had lost the country. Since ancient times, the living conditions of all peoples who have no state support have been very bleak, such as Gypsies and Jews before World War II. The bleak status quo of the Khitan people today once again confirms this truth. He asked, "Is there a count on the total number of these Khitan slaves in the Sixteen Kingdoms?"

Biluo shook his head and said: "Slaves are not registered, they die today and will be buried tomorrow, and no one cares, and there are no detailed statistics in the official." But according to our estimates, there must be a million slaves in the sixteen countries combined. ”

Wang Yangming exclaimed: "One million people? With such a vast territory as our Great Xia, the population is only 40 million, but the Xia people are weak, and the total number of soldiers who can fight is only one million. If the Khitan million people can all be trained into soldiers, the combined number of these million people is enough to level the sixteen countries of the Western Regions. ”

Zhang Qian heard the two talking in front of him, and turned around and said, "It's easier said than done." The Khitan people have been destroying the country for a hundred years, and if they want to restore the country again, they need all kinds of conditions. The most important thing is that they lack a leader with great talent. ”

Wang Yangming nodded and stopped discussing the matter. After everyone walked for a while, the palace was already close in sight. It turned out that Chechi was only a small country among the sixteen countries in the Western Regions, with limited national strength, and the capital was not necessarily very big.