Chapter 232: The Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions
Suorin and all the Yiqu tribesmen had already rushed to the outside of Longxi City, which was not much different from the estimated time.
Ying Zheng took Meng Wu's father and son, and Yu Tu took the four elders to greet him outside the West City Gate.
Long before, Xu Wan took the Longxi army to wait for the Yiqu clan at Yongding Pass, and escorted them all the way back to Longxi.
Now, the Yiqu clan has been settled in a place ten miles west of Longxi City, and Suo Lin, the Great Elder, the Second Elder, and the Third Elder are all looking forward to it.
"Brother Wang!!" Seeing Yingzheng riding his horse galloping, Thorin shouted and greeted him.
"Brother Xian!!" Running to the front, Ying Zhengfei dismounted, "This way, is it still smooth?"
Thorin arched his hand and said, "Thanks to Brother Wang's blessing, this journey has been extremely smooth. Come, brother, brother, to introduce you to some elders."
At this moment, the three elders behind Thorin also came over and said in unison, "See the king."
"Elders excuse me." Ying Zheng raised his hand and said.
"Brother Wang, this is the Great Elder, Yu Yong." Thorin respectfully gestured with his hand and said.
"The old man sees the king." The Great Elder was a burly figure, with a straight nose and a wide mouth, and a slight domineering spirit between his eyebrows.
"This is the Second Elder, the Yu family." Thorin gestured to the old man beside the Great Elder and said.
"I've seen the king." The second elder arched his hand.
"Hehe, I have heard the prestige of the two elders for a long time, and when I see them today, it is true." Ying Zheng said with a smile.
At this time, Yu Tu and others in the back also followed.
"Grandfather!" Thorin stepped forward and hugged Yu Tu and asked with concern, "How are you, you haven't dizzy anymore, are you?"
"Hehe, good boy, still thinking about grandfather." Yu Tu said with a smile, "Grandfather's bones are harder than before."
"Old Patriarch." The Great Elder and the Second Elder also called, and walked quickly to Yu Tu, looking Yu Tu up and down.
"I heard that you were not very sick a while ago?" The Great Elder asked.
"Well, I went to Hades for a while, and let the king save me again." Yu Tu said with a smile.
"Oh, thank you to the king for saving my life." The Great Elder looked at Ying Zheng and bowed his hand.
The second elder also bowed in the same way.
"Hehe, it's just a gesture, let's go, let's go into the city." Ying Zheng waved his hand.
The clansmen of Yiqu rested in place, and Yu Tu, Suo Lin and the elders followed Yingzheng into Longxi City.
In the mansion, after taking a seat, Ying Zheng first said a few polite words, and then asked, "I don't know how many people of the Yiqu clan are in total this time?"
The Great Elder replied, "Back to the king, there are 240,000 people of the Yiqu tribe, and now all of them have migrated."
240,000, that's not much, but it's not a lot.
Ying Zheng nodded and said, "Now, the land of each household has been allocated, and when the whole clan enters the northwest of Longxi, it will be re-checked, and if there is no naturalization, the land will be redivided."
"Good!" The Great Elder and the Second Elder looked at each other, their eyes full of joy.
"Brother Wang, this is Yiqu's household register." Thorin took out two bundles of scrolls from a box and handed them to Yingzheng.
It's a simple action, but it's significant.
The submission of the household register of one state to the monarch of another country means complete submission and submission.
After Ying Zheng took it with both hands, he opened it and looked at it, and then handed it to Meng Wu: "General Meng, this matter is still left to you."
"Wechen takes orders." Meng Wu responded.
At this time, the Great Elder also took out a scroll, held it in both hands, and handed it to him, saying, "Your Majesty, this is a map of the countries of the Western Regions, please look at it."
"Oh?" Ying Zheng suddenly became interested, and said urgently, "Then open it up and take a look."
The Great Elder walked up to Ying Zheng and opened the scroll as he said, "This map of the Western Regions was exchanged for sheepskin when the old man went to the refinement, fearing that he would get lost
, although it has been used for many years,
But the handwriting is legible."
"Yes, when the younger brother returned to the clan and mentioned that the king wanted to secretly visit Jingjue, the Great Elder specially found this map of the Western Regions." Thorin added.
The map unfolded, only to see the north and south sides are very clearly marked with two mountain ranges, and the middle is relatively open, marking one by one states, different sizes, names, and quite strange.
Yu Tu, who was sitting next to Ying Zheng, leaned over, pointed to the vein above the map, and said: "This continuous mountain, called Tianshan, is a sacred mountain believed in by many city-states in the Western Regions. The reason why the countries of the Western Regions believe in this mountain is because the Tianshan Mountains are a natural barrier, so that the countries will not be disturbed a lot."
"Tianshan, the widow has heard of it, it turned out to be in this place." Ying Zheng looked at the mountain range on the map carefully and said intently.
Yu Tu moved his finger to another mountain range at the bottom of the map and said, "This larger mountain range to the south is Kunlun Mountain."
"Kunlun Mountain?" Ying Zheng's attention quickly turned to the mountain range below.
"Yes, Kunlun Mountain." Yu Tu nodded slightly, and continued, "On the south side of this Kunlun Mountain, there is a plateau occupied by the Qiang people, they are a branch of the Qiang tribe, although their population is not too large, but the area is very vast."
Ying Zheng nodded, indicating that he had also heard of it.
"These two huge mountain ranges form two barriers in the north and south, so that for thousands of years, the countries of the Western Regions have rarely been invaded by foreign races, although they occasionally kill each other, but they can't set off too much wind and waves." Yu Tu said.
Ying Zheng looked at the Western Regions in the middle of the two mountain ranges and asked, "Then how many states are there in the Western Regions?"
"Thirty-six in all." Yu Tu replied, "The strongest of them are Loulan, Qiuzi, and Khotan."
After that, Yu Tu pointed out the positions of the three powerful countries with his hands.
"Where is the essence?" Ying Zheng asked.
Yu Tu pointed to the position between Loulan and Khotan, and said, "On the southern side of the entire Western Regions, between Loulan and Khotan."
"Oh." Ying Zheng nodded, and asked again, "Where did the Yiqu tribe live?"
Yu Tu shook his head with a wry smile, poked a corner on the lower right with his finger, and said, "It's in this place. This place was originally under the jurisdiction of the Huns, but because the environment was not too good, even if they gave up that place, it is a pity that the population of Wuyiqu is not weak compared to the powerful country in the Western Regions, but they can only choose to condescend to a corner."
"Before, did you want to go to the Western Regions to find a place to live?" Ying Zheng asked.
Yu Tu said: "Hehe, the old man has thought about it, but helplessly, after Dunhuang, there is a pass called Yumen Pass, and the defenders of Loulan are stuck there, not to mention the old man's men, even the Huns can't easily break it."
Ying Zheng looked at the map, found the location of Yumen Pass, nodded, and asked, "But this location?"
Yu Tu looked down and said, "Exactly."
Ying Zheng placed his index finger on the place where the Yiqu clan had lived, and then followed the marked route, and his finger slowly slid towards the location of the Elite Country.
"It's ......," Ying Zheng muttered, "so far?"
"yes." Yu Tu nodded slightly and said, "Every time I go to the Elite Country to do business, I have to walk for more than twenty days to arrive."
When it came to doing business, Ying Zheng asked curiously: "Old patriarch, what do the people of the Western Regions like, the widow has brought a lot of good things this time, I don't know if they can like it."
Yu Tu frowned, smiled, and said, "There are too many good things in Great Qin, as long as they are valuable, the people of the Western Regions will like them."
Ying Zheng looked at Meng Yi and said, "Meng Yi, go and bring a few boxes of goods, let Yiqu Gong see if it is applicable or not."
"Yes." Meng Yi answered, turned around and walked out the door.
Several elders, including Suo
Lin Du looked at each other, and his eyes were full of anticipation.
Yiqu is poor, poor and afraid.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have forced those 1,000 cows to move.
The reason why I wanted to return to the country before came down to wanting to live a good life.
It's not a last resort, no one wants to gamble their lives.
And Daqin's wealth at this time is well known.
After a short time, Meng Yi returned, followed by several sergeants, each carrying a large wooden box, which seemed to be quite heavy.
"Let's go, let's see." Ying Zheng was the first to get up and leave the table and came to the first box.
A sergeant opened the box, and everyone looked inside.
I saw that there were horses of brocade silk of various colors inside.
Ying Zheng picked up the red silk on the top and scattered it.
Almost at the same time, everyone in Yiqu stretched out their hands and rubbed them with their thick fingers.
"What a delicate satin!"
"yes, I think I've touched the red hijab again."
"Could it be that you want to marry another room?"
"Old, I can't get married, I can only watch Thorin marry."
"Hahaha......
Several elders joked with each other and laughed together.
Yu Tu said with a smile: "Yes, it is indeed good to do business with this silk, you must know that all the tribes in the Western Regions wear cloth and linen, and even the royal family rarely wears silk like the king, the old man dares to conclude that using this silk to do business with the royal families in the Western Regions is several times better than cattle and sheep."
Just look.
"Yiqu Gong said that these silks are mainly sold to the royal family?" Ying Zheng asked.
"yes." Yu Tu said with a smile, "Originally, the old man was still calculating, if the king didn't go with the army, I'm afraid there would be some mistakes, but if he moved forward with the army, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to enter the Jade Gate Pass." But if the king had brought these silks with him, and had exchanged them for the sake of exchanging state gifts, he would certainly not have been hindered."
"Hehe, it's still Yiqu Gong who is thoughtful, it seems that this silk is the right one." Ying Zheng smiled and said, "Then let's take a look at this one."
Ying Zheng pointed to the second box, and the sergeant on the side opened it lightly.
Several cloth bags were exposed inside the box.
Ying Zheng personally lifted a cloth bag and opened the mouth of the bag to put dark green tea leaves.
"Hehe, it's a rarity, too." The Great Elder said, "Look at this quality, it's the best tea in Badi."
"Oh?" Ying Zheng said with a smile, "I didn't expect the Great Elder to know a little about the tea ceremony."
Yu Tu glanced at the Great Elder and said, "In Yiqu, he is an outlier, he doesn't like to drink, but he loves tea as much as his life, but whenever he has some intersection with the Central Plains, he will buy some tea."
"Hahaha, see the laugh, see the laugh." The Great Elder said with a laugh.
"Since the Great Elder likes it, the few are enough." Ying Zheng said quite magnificently.
"Thank you, the king."
"The Great Elder is gracious." Ying Zheng looked at the third box and waved his hand.
Two sergeants stepped forward and opened the lid more carefully.
The moment the contents were presented in front of everyone, all the Yiqu people were stunned.
After a while, Thorin asked in a trance, "Brother Wang, what is this, how can it be so exquisite?"
"Hehe, this thing is called porcelain, and it is unique to the widow's palace." Ying Zheng said.
At this time, several sergeants took out pieces of porcelain from the box and put them in the hands of the Yiqu people.
Including Yu Tu, all the Yiqu people stared at the porcelain in their hands, as if they had seen the most beautiful thing in their lives.