The land is vast and sparsely populated.

To what extent?

In addition to the 60,000 mountains, the land area of Dayao is about a quarter of Huaguo.

Among them, the land of Tianjing occupies one-sixth of the area, that is, 400,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the area of two ordinary provinces and houses 10 million people.

The remaining 2 million square kilometers, equivalent to the area of ten ordinary provinces, have less than four million ancient tribes.

The ancient people have a population of more than 10 million, of which 10 million are in the 60,000 mountains.

The area of the ten provinces is only 4 million people, which shows how vast and sparsely populated the land has become.

It is not uncommon to not see a village for three or two days, and the farther away from Lancheng, the more desolate it becomes, except for the barren mountains and old forests where all kinds of fierce beasts live, there are endless grasslands, grazing large herds of horned cattle and jumping sheep.

Tens of thousands of horned oxen and jumping sheep move across the grassland, and the scene is extremely spectacular.

But when it comes to this, Ren Baqian's most distressed thing is the road.

There are almost no roads.

There was only one dirt road with potholes, much worse than the rest of the road, and it was all muddy after the rain, and the wheels often sank directly into the mud.

In this way, I walked forward for a week with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and finally approached the last destination before entering the 60,000 Mountains.

When the peaks of the mountains towering to the sky could already be seen in the distance, Ren Baqian and the others finally came to the last and largest city outside the 60,000 Great Mountains, which was also the port of communication between the 60,000 Great Mountains and the outside world.

It is also called a brute city.

This city is left by the previous dynasty of the Hao Kingdom, and the barbarians are their name for the ancient people, which also means that passing through this city is a wild land.

Now that even the Hao Kingdom has been destroyed for seventy years, but the name of this city has been handed down, and even the ancient people call this city a barbarian city most of the time.

"Zhang Jushan, the captain of the Southern Metropolitan Protectorate, has seen Your Majesty!" came to greet an army of 1,000 people, the same in leather armor and equipped with a long sword.

However, it always seemed that Ren Baqian felt a little different, and it seemed to be more fierce than the soldiers in other places.

The empress lifted the curtain to let the soldiers outside see her, and then said lightly: "Let's go to the city!"

"Yes!"

After walking for a long time, it was getting closer and closer to Yacheng, but the most attractive thing was still the mountains in the distance.

The peaks of the mountains stand straight up, like pillars towering between heaven and earth, and go straight into the clouds.

A cursory look at the past shows that there are at least 100 such peaks, which are extremely spectacular.

Between these peaks, there are many shorter mountains that wind and fall, and the boundaries are completely invisible as far as the eye can see.

From here, you can hardly see anything other than a mountain being a mountain.

That's the 60,000 mountains.

When he arrived at Yacheng, Ren Baqian finally shifted his attention to Yacheng.

The walls are all made of gray boulders, and they are full of coldness. Above the walls, there are sharp protrusions, like fangs in the mouths of wild beasts, all over the wall.

These fang-like sharp protrusions used to prevent the ancient clan from attacking the city, and I don't know how much blood of the ancient clan and the Jing clan flowed on them.

When you enter Tooth City, there are rows of stone houses with doors that are three meters high, and one-story houses are generally four meters high, without any decoration, full of quaint taste.

What made Ren Baqian even more concerned was the ancient people who stopped and watched on both sides of the road.

Some wore cloth, animal skins, shirtless, tattooed, and even made of grass.

Some had bird feathers tied to their heads, others had a tail on their shoulders, some had snakes wrapped around their bodies, some had a loon horn around their necks, and many had strings of fangs around their necks.

There are also all kinds of fierce beasts that have been tamed, including a white-toothed tiger, a black Langjun who exudes a strong aura, a giant snake with intertwined gold and honeysuckle patterns, a monkey about the size of a human with smart eyes, and a giant bird two people tall......

It's a strange place.

Ren Baqian felt as if he had entered another world.

The only thing that is the same is that everyone smells of wildness from top to bottom.

"Those people, they're all from different regions. People in each region have their own characteristics, which is a way to identify themselves. For example, the one with a bird feather tied to his head is a person from Montenegro. And the kind of person who wears the tail of the beast, if it is the tail of the toothed tiger, is the person of the terracotta peak. If it's a fluffy raccoon tail, it's a person from the Rocky Mountain......" said the empress as she looked at the various men and women outside.

"Your Majesty has been here?" asked Ren Baqian, turning his head.

"When I was younger, I came once. The empress replied lightly.

"Your Majesty, you have a good memory. "Ren Baqian is staggered, when I was a child, at least more than ten years ago, I still remember it so clearly.

It is worthy of being a player who has opened the hanging.

"They are my people, and I must remember. As she spoke, the empress got up and pulled open the curtain of Luanjia, stepped out, and stood there looking down at everyone.

"It's the little emperor!"

"The little emperor is back!"

"It's Your Majesty back!"

There was a sudden chaos outside, and many people shouted that the little emperor was back, and their voices were full of joy.

It seems that seeing the empress makes them feel very happy.

However, it has been nine years since the empress ascended the throne, but in the eyes of these ancient clans far away from Lancheng, she is still a little emperor.

"Your Majesty, do you still remember the Yuequan Village of Chitu Peak? You still rested in our village back then!"

"I also had dinner in Yangquan Village, our terracotta peak! It was a golden feather eagle that my father beat me at the beginning!" someone immediately shouted.

These people don't know a little etiquette, but they are free and simple in the mountains.

Although the voice was messy, it made the empress feel calm from the heart.

"Don't shout nonsense! In front of Your Majesty, what are you shouting like this?" The general who had greeted the empress before immediately rebuked the people on the side of the road.

"It's okay!" the empress waved her hand, looked down at the surroundings for a while, and then said calmly: "I came back this time to go into the mountains to have a look, and also to see if you are doing well." ”

"It's a good thing, it's just that salt is too expensive now, and there are no skins left!" someone immediately shouted.

"This is temporary, now there is a war going on in the north, and when we win, we will have a large number of salt works, and then the price of salt will come down. Keep the skins for now, and someone will collect them in a few days. The empress said to everyone with a calm face.

"That's good! If there is a shortage of people in the war, tell us! Last time, my boy was a step too late and didn't become a soldier!"

"Yes!" the Empress laughed.

"Little Emperor, are you getting married?" I don't know who suddenly shouted such a voice.

The empress nodded and smiled: "Yes, the news about my marriage will be delivered soon." ”

Ren Baqian walked out of Luan's drive and arched his hand around: "I've seen you." ”