The person who came was sent by Karovira, the king of Karlingka.

Their king had heard of the final victory of the distinguished guests of Bactria and was already on his way back.

Therefore, they were specially sent to wait here and invited them to be guests in the kingdom of Kalingka.

It is said that they have been waiting here for a few days.

Jiang Yuqing and his wife were moved by Karobira's sincerity, so they decided to make a detour to the Kingdom of Kaling Coffee to be a visitor.

When they heard that they were willing to visit their own country, the officials who led the team were overjoyed. Hurriedly sent someone back to report the news, and he led the distinguished guests back slowly.

Jiang Yuqing and the others arrived at the capital of the Qianling Coffee Kingdom on the morning of the next day.

King Karobira and Queen Yin Shani led all the members of the royal family, civil and military officials, to greet them outside the city gate in person. The people of the city welcomed them on both sides of the road, singing and dancing, and the scene was very joyful and grand.

It can be seen that this royal couple is really very caring. The two sides exchanged a few words at the city gate, and Jiang Yuqing hugged the child in Yin Shani's arms and teased him.

More than a month has passed, and the little baby who was wrinkled at the beginning has grown white and fat, and it is very cute.

The three princesses of the king and his wife also inherited the excellent genes of their parents, and they were born with white skin and beautiful appearance.

Especially the fifteen-year-old princess, with thick eyebrows in the distant mountains, eyes like stars, and a nose like a gall, a typical exotic beauty with a strong face, this appearance is also one of the best among the high-caste groups.

She was a little shy and took her two younger sisters to Jiang Yuqing. Jiang Yuqing gave each of the three sisters a meeting gift in accordance with the etiquette of Great Xia.

For Princess Celestia is a pair of bracelets set with gemstones in gold. For the second princess is a South Sea pearl ruby necklace. The third princess was only seven years old, and Jiang Yuqing gave her a gold and precious stone Yingluo collar.

The three princesses all expressed their gratitude to Jiang Yuqing.

Qianling coffee is a small kingdom, and the country is not very wealthy. As a result, even if they are princesses, they don't have much jewelry.

I was very surprised by the gift given by Jiang Yuqing, and I liked it very much.

The royal couple prepared a sumptuous luncheon for the guests who had come from afar. The staple food of the banquet is rice. There are two dishes, one is chicken curry and the other is fish curry.

Karobira knew that Bactria was a country of etiquette, including dining, and had very strict etiquette, and was not used to eating with his hands, so he also prepared spoons for them very intimately.

After eating and resting, the king and his wife led Jing Yan and Jiang Yuqing to visit their palace.

Naturally, this palace cannot be compared with the imperial palace of Great Xia, and it is even far less than the area of Jiang Guogong's mansion, but the white walls of the dome are very exotic.

The next day, Jing Yan again held brief talks with Karobira, and the two countries reached a friendly consensus.

Great Xia supported the Karma Coffee Kingdom to become the overlord of the Northern Kingdoms, and the same Karma Coffee must also support Bactria as well. The two countries have formed an alliance of friendship and mutual assistance.

To put it bluntly, there are many small kingdoms and various religions on this continent. There are too many uncertain factors and it is easy to get into chaos, and Great Xia needs a strong ally.

After all, no one wants riots on their colonized territory for three days or two. So how do you make money?

After staying in the Kaling Coffee for two days, the couple said goodbye and set off for China.

Before parting, Karovira asked him to bring four richly decorated elephants: "I know that your Highness the Crown Prince is very fond of elephants, and this is a gift from us. Please don't shirk. ”

Jiang Yuqing didn't expect his son's playful language to be remembered by him. At the same time, I feel that this person really understands people's psychology to the extreme.

With such a king who is good at judging the situation and perceiving people's hearts, it is difficult for the Kalinga Kingdom not to take off.

The couple did not refuse this precious gift, and happily accepted it and expressed their gratitude to the king and his wife.

When Yiyi heard that the seemingly friendly king had given him four elephants, he had been thinking about them for a long time, and he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly expressed his gratitude to the king and his wife.

As the Emperor of Great Xia, Jing Yan invited them to come to Great Xia as guests when they had free time.

After leaving the kingdom of Qianlingka, Jiang Yuqing used the excuse that the elephants could not go to the plateau, and sent people to escort the elephants back to China by water, taking advantage of the lack of attention, and took the four elephants into his spiritual realm.

The army made its way north, and after five days finally set foot on their own soil, returning to the camp where they had left.

He was still far away when he heard the cheers of the soldiers. They lined up in front to welcome the warriors back in triumph.

Everyone's hearts invariably gave birth to a feeling: It's good to go home!

As the old saying goes, a golden nest and a silver nest are not as good as your own kennel. Besides, for the soldiers, that continent is too hot, and there are a lot of snakes, insects, rats and ants, and the customs are very strange, so it is really not a good place.

It's not even as comfortable as the plateau.

Although the plateau lacks oxygen, the scenery is magnificent and picturesque. The main thing is that it is comfortable to live on its own turf.

After discussing with several generals, Jing Yan withdrew the 50,000-strong army to the shore of Nacao Lake. And build permanent camps there and control the surrounding border for hundreds of miles.

In the future, border patrols will become the norm to prevent the territory from being encroached upon again.

Although that continent was nominally considered Great Xia, the situation was too special and strange. Jiang Yuqing himself can't guarantee how long they can control that land.

In addition, the Protectorate was set up in the south of that continent, and many small countries in the north were far away, and they were temporarily out of reach.

The emperor is far away, who knows if they are obedient on the surface, but in fact, they are secretly moths, no matter how to guard against them, it is always right.

The army retreated to the shore of Lake Namtso and set up permanent barracks on the spot.

Jing Yan and Jiang Yuqing stayed here for three days, and they were the meritorious ministers of this southern expedition.

After all the things were settled, the couple took their son, Qiu Shenyi and Siwei, bid farewell to the generals and soldiers, and returned to the county seat of Lia.

When the brother and sister meet again after two months, they inevitably have a lot to say. Even Jiang Yuming didn't expect that his sister was just here to give birth to her daughter-in-law, so why did she easily build a country?

This thing feels outrageous when you think about it, but it still happened.

The twins are two months old, they have inherited the excellent genes of their parents, and they are very cute and love to laugh.

Moreover, the brothers' personalities are full of divergent personalities. The elder brother is quiet, and the younger brother loves to make trouble. Jiang Yuqing jokingly said that this movement and stillness complement each other very well.

Otherwise, the two brothers are quiet, and it may seem a little boring. On the contrary, if they are all noisy, parents are afraid that they will have a headache.

Before Jiang Yuqing left the Li'a Southern Expedition, he wrote a letter to Princess Mingyang in the capital, saying about Zhuoma.

Princess Mingyang looked very excited in her reply, and asked Jiang Yuqing if she could help her ask if Zhuoma was willing to serve by the old master's side again.

If she wants, she will ask Jiang Yuqing to arrange someone to escort the two sisters to the capital together, and she will pay for it. When Jiang Yuqing told Zhuoma the news. Dolma agreed without even thinking about it.

"I do. The princess is a wonderful person, and it is rare that she remembers me and is willing to let me serve by her side. ”

Jiang Yuqing also felt that Princess Mingyang was a good place for the sisters.

Their old house has been completely destroyed by the former Peacock people, and the whole village is uninhabited. The sisters are like rootless wanderers, wandering around on this plateau.

Although now Jiang Yuming can take in the two of them to work in the county government and give them a temporary place to live.

However, when he is transferred, the new chief officer may not sell Princess Mingyang's face, and it is really not a long-term solution to go on like this.

Dolma is a smart girl, and she probably thought of this too, so she nodded in agreement without saying a word.

The princess is a person who misses the old love, and as long as the two sisters do things well in the future, the princess will definitely not treat them badly.

The most important thing is that my sister can grow up in a stable environment, without starving and cold, and without having to be afraid all day long.

Because Jiang Yuqing and the others still have to go to the desert in the west to find the salt lake, they will not return to the capital in a short time, and there is no way to take the Zhuoma sisters with them.

Jiang Yuming arranged for them to return to the Central Plains with the convoy that sent them to the Central Plains.

As for the Dorjee who sold wooden bowls, with the credit of leading the way this time, although he did not become an official. But he also received a large reward, in addition to gold and silver treasures, there was also a high-quality pasture within a radius of several miles.

It really made him happy. Not to mention these large sums of wealth, just because he was the translator of the emperor and empress, and followed them to build the Peacock Kingdom, it was enough for him to blow for three lifetimes.

After arranging the trivial matters here, Jing Yan and Jiang Yuqing and their entourage set off again, leaving Lia and flying to the southwest.

After searching for several days, I finally found a huge lake between Zulong Mountain and Lianyuan Mountain Range, near the northern grassland.

Viewed from above, the entire lake looks like a huge sapphire, set in the ground, quiet and mysterious.

Everyone fell to the ground, and sure enough, they saw a large area of crystals in the lake. It was the giant salt lake they had been looking for days, the Chabu Salt Lake.

Everyone was overjoyed, saying that the hard work of these days was not in vain.

With such a big lake and so much salt, I'm afraid that the people of Great Xia won't be able to use it up for a thousand years.

However, it didn't take long for them to be happy, and Canghai found traces of the lake salt being collected not far away.

At first, everyone thought that this was the trace left by the Yueshi people when they were mining salt. But after careful observation, I found that these traces are very fresh, and I think that someone has been here not long ago.

So they scattered and searched everywhere, and sure enough, they found a very sloppy burial mound about a mile from the shore.

The four guards covered their mouths and noses and opened the grave bag to take a look.

The corpse here was dressed in sheepskin garments, sheepskin boots, and an unsheathed scimitar beside it. This is a typical Hun dress.

There was a large patch of blood on his chest and a large hole, presumably buried here after being murdered.

For there is no soil at all in this place, and there is a thick crust of salt underneath. This guy is buried in the ground, which is equivalent to being buried in a salt pile, and is directly salted into a dehydrated dried corpse.

It's like the bacon marinated in the Central Plains during the New Year.

Canghai exclaimed, "Huns! What's the situation? ”