"This year's broad beans and peppers are growing well, and the wheat is also good!" Cuihua was busy and came to Dali Village to see her father and mother, to see the crops, without the scourge of locusts, they can make more douban sauce this year.

Steward Li smiled: "This year is a bumper year!" ”

Zhang's family was hatching chicks and ducks for the first half of the year, and only stopped after the weather became hot, and the two granddaughters were also brought into the city by their mothers, leaving only Xiaowei of Hu Sanniu's family to accompany her.

"I'm used to it, I'm not used to it!" Zhang was very happy to see his daughter and left her at home for dinner.

"What has my dad been up to lately?"

"What about raising fish, this dragon, fish also love to eat, your father dislikes chickens and ducks that is too smelly, and he doesn't let me raise it, and the dragon pond is not easy to be idle, so he raised and fed the fish!"

"That's a good idea, my dad has a lot of ideas."

Daddy Hu is really talented, he used to fish with the dragon, and now he feeds the fish with the dragon, probably because he saw the chickens and ducks eating the dragon growing fast, and the fish didn't want to let go.

"Is your second sister-in-law good at teaching?" The girl is virtuous and does not avoid relatives, but she is also afraid that her relatives are not capable.

"It's very good, mother, our family is really married, my second sister-in-law's hairpin is written so well, and the nieces and nieces can learn from her thirty percent, they have earned it!"

"Your second brother is happy like a second fool now, I don't even see it, really, God bless, I married a good daughter-in-law, I talk and act very generously, I can be relieved of your second brother."

"Mother, you are blessed, where is this, when they get up, you will be the old feudal king!"

"Then I can live a few more years, and it would be better if I could see Xiaoliu and them marry and have children!"

"Hehe, mother, let me tell you, your fifth grandson already has a little daughter-in-law."

After having lunch at her mother's house, she explained everything about making bean paste to Aunt Li, and went to see Sister Yuan and Ding Lele, and Cuihua went back to the city.

Lao Yuan Tou and Ma still live in Yuan's Mansion in Dali Village, and now there are dozens of carpenters working on the puzzle, and the drawings of the new puzzle all rely on Cai Hanwen and a few people.

In the palace, the three companions will be a little sullen, and Gao Qianli and several people are looking at the account books of the last few months.

"In the past few months, our puzzles have been selling averagely!"

Cai Hanwen has a relative: "There are imitations everywhere, in Yuan Wenwu's words, it is piracy, everyone is swarming to do this, we can't sell it without reducing the price!" ”

"A few of you, don't get into the eyes of money, the brothers of the Yuan family have the son of the country and the master to go to sea together, but when other people's families come back, they play and play, and they are better than you, so it's up to you to laugh!"

"Your Highness, it's hard for others to say, this kid Qin Ke is definitely not able to tell the way from the south, south, and north!"

This is also wronged Qin Ke, Qin Ke and their boat were caught very tightly by Master Yan, and after arriving at the place, they were taken to learn Inca by Zhongqin Bokeng. There is no need to play, and there is no end to learning.

Heiwa learned the experience from the natives of the island last time, and to learn the language, she still needs young people.

Among the eight teenagers, Qin Ke and Yuan Wenwu are the thickest-skinned, and they are not embarrassed at all to learn these bird languages, and no matter how strange the pronunciation is, people dare to imitate it.

The two brainwashed each other: Anyway, this group of people in Great Xia can't understand what they are talking about, even if they say it wrong, what can they lose?

The natives, who wore crests of eagle feathers on their heads and lived in stone houses, took up spears and bows and arrows when they landed, and almost shot them into hedgehogs as soon as they came up.

"They look so much like us, black hair, yellow skin." Qin Ke's eyes were the most powerful.

"Then you two go, let them speak well for the sake of our kind!"

Heiwa sent Qin Ke and Yuan Wenwu to take the lead, their faces were about to laugh, and they couldn't wave their hands before they let the family put down their spears.

Compared with the bare-bottomed natives of the island, this is a country with a much more complete social system, but at most the material conditions are not good.

Only between countries can there be dialogue, Huang Shangshu immediately handed over the credentials to the local governor, although they should not be able to understand it, but there is a jade seal in this kind of battle, and the other party should still be able to understand.

The city by the sea will certainly not be their capital, and Zhongqinbo let everyone stay on the sea ship, and before the two countries established diplomatic relations, their naval army could not go ashore, and it would be bad for the other side to think that they were here to fight.

They set foot in this country called the Inca Empire, and after three days of contact with the locals, the news reached the king of the Inca Empire.

Gao Huaiyu took a keen interest in the station where they delivered the news, and it took at least five days to ride a horse from the docks to the capital Manchester City.

Three days later, a 20-member delegation of Bactria represented by Huang Shangshu, Zhong Qinbo, and Gao Zongbing was summoned by the king.

When they set off, they saw the post road that extended in all directions. The Inca Empire had a messenger system that could quickly transmit information across the country.

The messengers relayed the message and the messenger as fast as they could, one station at a time, until they reached their destination.

It is said that each of these messengers runs 240 kilometers a day on post roads over various terrains, and can run more than horses.

While they lamented the power of the Inca messengers, the governors and civilians were also very curious about the horses they were riding.

Along the way, the delegation was refreshed by what they saw, and the country was full of mountains and valleys.

They saw a large number of terraced rice fields built on the hillside. After their on-site observation and the words of the little translator, they learned that the Incas built the terraces as follows:

At the foot of the mountain, three walls were built with stones, one on the front and one on each side, and the walls were slightly inclined inward to enhance the bearing capacity.

Then fill the wall with earth until it is level with the wall. After the first layer of terraces is built, the second and third layers of the smaller plots are built, and the layers go up to the top of the mountain.

The bottom layer is the largest, some can reach hundreds of acres, and the smallest can only be planted with two or three rows of crops, making full use of every inch of land.

In line with this, stones were dug to build canals, and large-scale canals and underground pipes were built to divert the melting snow water from the top of the mountain for irrigation.

Aqueducts are erected between the gorges, some of which are thousands of kilometers long. Such a large-scale terrace project could not have been completed without a unified organization and mobilization.

With such a huge project, as far as they could see, the farming tools of these people they saw were actually bronze tools and wooden sticks!

Five days later, they finally arrived at Manchester City, the capital of the Inca Empire.

It is not so much a capital as a castle complex built of huge stones, and the stones used in the buildings weigh several tons or even hundreds of tons. There is not even any mortar between the stones, and the bite is so tight that even the blade cannot be inserted.

The castle complex was built on a hill estimated at an altitude of five or six hundred meters, and was the main defense of Manchester City.

The complex consists of three walls, each 18 meters high, and the outer walls are several kilometers long. The view of the whole city from the top of the castle is majestic.

Within the walls of the castle is the city area, with squares, palaces, temples, residences, warehouses, and no less than 200 buildings of various kinds, all of which are built according to the terrain and are integrated with the natural environment.

The Governor saw their astonishment, and was proud that the guests had never seen such a world, and deliberately slowed down their pace so that they could take a look.

After walking for half an hour, I arrived at the destination of this trip, the palace where the king of the Inca Empire was located.

King Atahuaba, in his fifties, sits on his golden throne in a sleeveless knee-length robe, with a crown of gold and emeralds on his head.

The base of the crown is made of gold and is engraved with intricate motifs such as branches, leaves, vines, and shells.

It is not easy to count the black baby, and it is estimated that there should be dozens of emeralds inlaid with the entire crown.

The main hall where they are now is the main hall of the entire palace, where King Atahuaba went to court to discuss matters.

On the entire wall of the main hall, a huge gold plate was carved, and on the gold plate was an anthropomorphic face, which should be the sun god they worshipped.

In a short period of time, Huang Shangshu and the others learned that the most widespread religious belief in the Inca Empire was the sun god. And the king is said to be the direct incarnation of God, sacralizing kingship.

Among the Big Three, Heiwa is the most calm, Huang Shangshu is the most nervous, and Gao Huaiyu is the most shocked: In a country where a stone house lives, there are so many gold walls, and this king is very rich, does it mean that they have gained a lot from this trip?

At the first meeting, Xia Shangshu gave King Atahuaba two court embroidered screens of goshawks and horses, two sets of pastel porcelain, two sets of blue and white porcelain, ten horses of fine silk, and twenty catties of tea.

Eight little translators can't come in handy, and the first time we meet, we can only offer generous gifts and smiling faces.

Speaking of which, the biggest drawback is the language barrier, and the Tatar language of Huang Shangshuhui is useless here. The other two officials of the Imperial Court also knew the languages of a few famous peoples, and they were old and their memory was not good.

The first to learn, the people who could barely communicate with the Inca Empire were Zhao Leiting and Yuan Wenjie, even if they didn't have the talent to learn, Lu Shaoting, Han Kuangyuan, Miao Shujian, and Pei Jiesun were also better than adults.

The shippers were more flexible, but diplomatic relations between the two countries had not yet been formalized, and they had not been brought off the ship.

King Atahuaba had already had a preliminary understanding of the Bactrian envoys from the satrap who had first come into contact with them. They came in hundreds of ships of the sea, and the weapons they brought with them looked sharper than their bronzes.

He still understands the rules, and he jumped around before he arrived in the empire, and he came to see him and offered him a generous gift, saying that these people can observe and observe, and then contact and see.

"The sun god can help us identify whether we are friend or foe, let them wait." King Atahuaba commanded the governor before they left.

After waiting like this, Heiwa and his party waited in Manchester City for ten days. In addition to providing them with free food and lodging, they will be followed by people when they leave their residences, whether it is surveillance or protection, anyway, they can't leave the sight of these people.