Hu Yanming arched his hand and said, "Then please wait for King Qin for a while, and the foreign ministers will return to the city to make some arrangements, and we will set off immediately."

"Okay." Ying Zheng nodded.

Hu Yanming led the men and horses back to the city, and his speed was faintly a few points faster than when he came.

"Hehe, with this Hu Yanming to guide the way, I guess we won't be hindered when we encounter the town again." Thorin laughed.

"Well, though, he said that King Qiang is waiting for us at the Jiayuguan you mentioned." Ying Zheng looked in the northwest direction and said, "I don't know what kind of person this Qiang King is."

"King Xiqiang, he is very good, righteous, daring, and quite smart, and I think the second brother is really very similar to his father."

Indeed, Qiang is such a person, although the contact time is not very long, but Ying Zheng still has a thorough understanding of Qiang Qiang, including Thorin.

"Does the widow need to prepare something? After all, when two monarchs meet, they can't be rude." Ying Zheng asked.

Thorin looked at the large and small vehicles behind him, scratched his head, and said, "I said, Brother Wang, what kind of silk and porcelain did you bring, just pick up a few things, it's enough for the Qiang tribe to be rare for half a year."

Although it is a joke, the real situation is not much worse, and in the life of the Rongdi people, there seems to be nothing else to show off except cattle and sheep.

Not long after, Hu Yanming came to Yingzheng again with his people, and this time, his team seemed to have increased a lot of people, and there was a lot of baggage behind him.

Hu Yanming arched his hand and said, "I don't know if King Qin wants to go fast or slow this time?"

"If you are in a normal hurry, how long will it take to reach Jiayuguan?" Ying Zheng asked.

"On foot, it takes about seven days." Hu Yanming said, "But if you run on horseback, it will only take two days."

Ying Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Okay, you ride forward in front, and the widow will follow behind."

"Then the foreign minister will go first." Hu Yanming said goodbye, turned the horse's head, galloped away, and his men and horses also rode their horses and whips, and followed behind.

Ying Zheng smiled and said loudly: "The soldiers of our army listen, follow the widow to chase the team in front on foot, and the others escort the baggage, let's have a race, whether the foot strength of the person is fast, or the carriage is fast."

Thorin: "......"

If we talk about speed, the horse pulling the cart may not be faster than the person who runs with all his might, but after a long time, the difference in endurance will appear, and the person will definitely not be able to outrun the horse.

But Ying Zheng's meaning is clearly to catch up with Hu Yanming in front? !

Even if this "our army" has strong combat power, it will not be able to outrun the war horse, not to mention that there is such a drag oil bottle as Yingzheng.

Thorin was thinking about it, only to see that Yingzheng had already taken the lead in running out, and the three thousand "our army" dressed as merchants behind him also accelerated with all their might.

Thorin shook his head with a wry smile and looked at the Meng brothers.

Meng Tian also looked helpless: "Let's just follow on horseback, the focus is to protect our belongings."

It seems that in Meng Tian's eyes, King Qin has no goods of value.

"Well, when they get tired of running, they naturally stop." Thorin muttered, urging the horse to follow.

What is surprising is that although the "our army" led by Ying Zheng is not faster than the horse team in terms of speed, it has not been caught up by the horse team, and has always maintained a similar distance.

ran like this for half a day, until the sun set, and the horse team led by Meng Tian failed to catch up with the "our army" led by Ying Zheng.

Thorin wondered in his heart, this is strange, even if this "our army" has strong physical strength, it can't run with King Qin.

As he pondered, he saw the team in front of him stop, and it turned out that he had rushed to the outside of another small city.

Hu Yanming was already waiting here, and when he saw that Yingzheng was following him on foot, he couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Could it be that King Qin came all the way?"

Ying Zheng raised his hand to signal the team to stop, and then took a few big breaths, slowly calming down the fast-beating heart rhythm.

Look at the "our army" in the back, too

One by one, they were out of breath, and many soldiers were spread on the ground, and they couldn't slow down for a while.

Although "Our Army" is in good health, it will not run all afternoon without doing anything

。

Ying Zheng took a breath, and then said, "Yes, I ran all the way, but I still can't outrun your war horse."

"This, this ......" Hu Yanming's lips trembled and he couldn't speak.

Soon, Ying Zheng recovered, and said with a smile: "This occasional run, the whole body is really quite happy, very relaxed."

Hu Yanming came back to his senses at this time, his eyes widened and said, "Daqin actually has such a skill, and he is really a god!"

"Hehe, little meaning." Ying Zheng didn't want Hu Yanming to dwell on this, so he looked at the small city in the distance and asked, "Is there another city ahead?"

"Not bad." Hu Yanming also looked in the direction of the small city and said, "This small city is called Yemi City, the population is not large, from this place to the north, it is Longshou Mountain, and over Longshou Mountain, it is the territory of the Huns."

At this moment, Ying Zheng's soul seemed to be touched by something.

"Longshou Mountain?" Ying Zheng asked, "You mean the mountain here is called Longshou Mountain?"

"Yes, it is said that from a high place, the shape of the mountain looks like a dragon's head, and there is also a legend that there is really a giant dragon buried in this mountain, and it is the origin of a dragon vein." Hu Yanming said.

This casually said a legend, but it caused a huge impact on Ying Zheng's heart, because he clearly remembered that Ji Fa told him that there were three dragon veins in Huaxia, and the two in the middle and south had been repaired, leaving only the one on the edge of the grassland in the north.

If so, could it be that this Longshou Mountain is the origin of the dragon vein in the north?

At this moment, Meng Tian, Meng Yi, and Solin rushed over with a team of carriages.

"Your Majesty, are you alright?" Meng Tian asked with concern.

"Hehe, what can happen?" Ying Zheng smiled and looked at the staggering soldiers, and said, "It's not light that they're tired, and it's not too early this day, so hurry up and camp."

Hu Yanming said on the side, "I wonder if King Qin wants to repair here, or go into the city to rest?"

Ying Zheng waved his hand and said, "No need, the widow is here, you can also go and settle the people, as soon as the sun comes out tomorrow morning, we will hurry."

"Okay, then King Qin should rest early." Hu Yanming said, turned around and went back to his camp.

But seeing that he shook his head, he didn't know what he was muttering, as if he was still thinking about Yingzheng leading the army to run just now.

Thorin was also curious, pulled Ying Zheng aside, and began to ask questions.

Ying Zheng explained to Sorin, then took out a porcelain bottle from his bosom, poured out a few Linggu Pills, and stuffed them into Sorin's hand.

Early in the morning of the second day, the two teams marched towards Jiayuguan one after the other.

Ying Zheng and "our army" didn't run all the time, he got on the horse when he was tired, and continued to run when he rested.

After another day of traveling, I finally saw Jiayuguan, which is between two valleys.

Ying Zheng's team set up camp ten miles away from the pass, and then sent Meng Yi to follow Hu Yanming to hand over the credentials.

Taking advantage of this time, Ying Zheng changed out of his sweaty clothes, took a shower, and then changed into his royal robe.

Everything was cleaned up, Meng Yi came back, and there was a tall and straight young man beside him.

It's Qiang!

"Brother Wang!" Qiang ran forward and grabbed Yingzheng's arm.

"Haha, Brother Xian." Seeing Qiang, Ying Zheng was also in a good mood.

Thorin also came over: "Second brother!"

Qiang smacked Thorin on the chest, "Good brother, you really brought Brother Wang here."

"Uh-huh, hey." Thorin laughed again.

"Did you encounter any dangers on the way?" Qiang asked.

"With me, what's the danger?" Thorin pouted.

"Alright, don't blow it yet, sit down

Say." Ying Zheng dragged the two brothers into the big tent.

Although the three brothers have only been separated for a short time, they seem to have not seen each other for several years, and they are extremely cordial.

After chatting for a while, Qiang Yan remembered the political affairs and said: "The younger brother came to greet Brother Wang this time, but at the behest of my father, after I returned to Xiqiang, I told him all the things in Longxi, and my father praised Brother Wang well, saying Brother Wang, you are broad-minded

Kuo, not only spared his subordinates and 30,000 tribesmen, but also accepted the Yiqu tribesmen."

"My father admired the most generous and courageous people in his life, and then he said that he wanted to see Brother Wang, and it happened that Thorin sent a letter, saying that he would accompany Brother Wang to the Western Regions on the same day."

"When my father learned of this, he came to Jiayuguan in advance to wait, and now he is looking forward to it."

"Oh?" Ying Zheng was slightly surprised and asked, "King Xiqiang specially came to Jiayuguan in order to see the widow?"

"Hmm." Qiang Qi nodded and said, "If Brother Wang is ready, then follow me into the customs."

"Then you wait a minute, the widow will arrange it." With that, Ying Zheng got up and left the tent.

Thorin and Qiang followed suit.

When he visited King Qiang for the first time, he naturally couldn't bring all the soldiers into the pass, so Yun Zheng only took the Meng family brothers, Daniel Zhang and a dozen other people to the door of Jiayu Pass on horseback.

The Jiayu Pass that appeared in front of everyone was not as tall as the pass in Huaxia, and it didn't seem to be too strong.

On one side, against the southern mountain wall, on the other, it connects to the edge of the Gobi. And the entire wall, many places are ruined walls.

Perhaps because the competition is quite fierce, the successive owners do not want to spend a lot of money to repair it.

Looking at Jiayuguan, which was not very heavy, Ying Zheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Such an important strategic location, if it were in your own hands, would certainly not look like this.

The Qiang army guarding the gate saw that it was their young patriarch who had returned, and hurriedly opened the city gate.

As soon as I entered the city gate, I saw a group of Qiang warriors wearing Qiang costumes rushing across the opposite side.

The leader is tall, with thick eyebrows and square lips, and looks quite similar to the Qiang fistula.

"Hahaha......" The person at the head laughed loudly when he was far away, "Is it the Lord of Great Qin who came with Wu'er?"

"Father." Qiang Yan took a few steps forward and introduced, "This is the child's sworn brother, King Yingzheng of Qin."

Qiang Qi turned to Yingzheng again and said, "Brother Wang, this is the father of the younger brother."

Ying Zheng smiled and arched his hand: "Ying Zheng has heard of the name of King Xiqiang for a long time, and when I saw it today, it was really heroic."

"Since King Qin is here in person, then ......" King Qiang suddenly looked cold, and suddenly shouted, "Someone!"

With a hula, the Qiang warriors surrounded Yingzheng and others.

Qiang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly stepped forward to block Yingzheng's body: "Father, what do you mean by this?"

Thorin was also frightened, and hurriedly protected Yingzheng's side, and said urgently, "Yes, uncle, why are you doing this?"

But the king of Qiang said in a deep voice with an expressionless face, "Bring him up!"

At this time, I saw two Qiang warriors walking out from the side with a middle-aged man.

King Qiang pointed to the detained man with his left hand and said indignantly, "This man is an elder of our people, but he has done little on weekdays, and he has instigated civil strife."

The two warriors who were holding the man each kicked him hard in the leg, and the man fell to his knees with a pop.

"However, just a few days ago, he heard that this king was going to meet the king of Qin here, and he actually offered a plan to this king, saying that he would take this opportunity to kidnap the king of Qin and ask for land and money from Great Qin."

"Phew! How could this king, who has lived a bright and upright life, do such villain acts?"

"What's more, the King of Qin is benevolent and righteous, not only let Qiang and 30,000 warriors return, but also let the entire Yiqu clan return to Qin.

Ying Zheng and his party understood what was going on, and their right hand, which had been pressed on the handle of the knife, slowly

Put it down.

"This man's words and deeds have ruined my reputation and brought shame upon this king." King Qiang said sharply, "Today, this king will use this person's blood to prove Xiqiang's determination to make friends with Great Qin!"

When the kneeling man heard this, he trembled with fright: "Patriarch, don't, don't kill me."

And the next moment, King Qiang had already drawn his saber and walked towards him.

Look at the elder who was spread on the ground, his soul was already scattered and he couldn't move.

Burst!!

In another moment, the bright steel knife had already pierced the man's chest.