The Pamir Plateau is the main throat of the ancient Silk Road to Central Asia, spanning the Xinjiang region of China, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. Of course, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there were no two countries, Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The entire Pamir region and even the Fergan Valley belonged to the territory of the Yarkand Khanate. To the west of the Fergan Valley is the Uzbek Khanate, and to the southwest of the Uzbek Khanate is Persia, and to the southeast is the emerging powerful empire-The Mughal Empire.

"Pamir" is a Persian language, which translates to "flat roof". As the name suggests, the altitude here is very high, but the top is flat and accessible.

In fact, the Pamir Mountains are huge mountain knots formed by the intersection of Kunlun Mountains and Tianshan Mountains. The area is 100,000 square kilometers and the average altitude is 4,500 meters. Not only is the air thinner, but the winter is long and cold. The mountains will be blocked with heavy snow in October, and it will not be unblocked until April of the following year. The appropriate time for crossing is only a few months.

However, even so, during the Tang Dynasty, when the Silk Road was at its peak, there were still constant business trips across the Pamir Mountains. As for the current Jiajing period, the Yarkand Khanate, the Uzbek Khanate, and Central Asian countries such as Persia still had close business dealings. Therefore, there were many business trips across the Pamir Mountains every summer.

Let's retreat. On September 16, the sixth year of Jiajing, a strange team appeared on the Pamir Road.

Why is this team weird?

First, this team was not a caravan, because they did not carry a large amount of goods, and secondly, they were not an army, because they did not have uniform clothing and weapons.

There were about fifty people in the entire team, and except for several camels, yaks and horses, most of them were walking. The strangest thing was that the composition of this team included both Persian-faced warriors and Han people dressed in short dress. Most of these Han people were middle-aged men with frosty faces, and most of them were disabled, either with one arm, lacking one ear or one eye, or were not walking very easily. It was probably because of their legs.

However, these middle-aged men were carrying weapons. They had a firm look, a tough look, and a ferocious face. They knew it was not easy to mess with at first glance. They were obviously cruel characters who had blood on their hands and had killed people.

However, the most eye-catching thing is the man and woman riding camels in the middle of the team. The woman was dressed thickly, looked very bloated, and her head and face were wrapped tightly, revealing only a pair of eyes, but these eyes were very lively and clear, as if she could speak.

A young man next to him rode a camel with the woman, about twenty-seven or eight years old, dressed as a mid-eastern dog, white Persian robe, a headscarf-like white hat, blonde hair and blue eyes, tall figure, and very handsome, a bit like a Bollywood male star in A Sanguo.

There were three camels in the entire team. A woman was riding on the third camel, and she was carrying luggage behind her. Judging from her behavior and clothes, she was probably a maid.

Two strong men, particularly tall, held the reins of the camel and opened the way in front of the two women. The two strong men were nearly two meters tall, giving Kong Wu a strong man. One of them held the reins in his right hand and a cooked copper stick in his left hand. He also carried a shark-skin sheathed scimitar on his waist, which was probably worth a lot of silver.

However, seeing the strong man carrying a cooked copper stick weighing dozens of kilograms, it was as relaxed as if he was carrying a noodles. I believe no thief dared to take a gem scimitar.

It is already mid-September, and the window period for crossing the Pamir Mountains is about to end soon. The temperature is close to zero. In another ten days and half a month, heavy snow will be blocked. There are no other business trips on the road.

At this moment, the team reached a mountain pass near a mountain pass. The fierce mountain wind blew in front of him. The Persian young man looked happy and said, "Wang, please see, that is the Bren Pass. After leaving the mountain pass, it is equivalent to crossing the Palacio. Walking forward five hundred miles is Kashgar."

"Is that so good!" The woman on the camel and lou said happily, her voice was as nice as the sound of nature, and her agile eyes were filled with joy.

The Persian youth couldn't help but exclaimed with intoxication: "Well, everyone, how much Babur hopes that you can hear your moving voice at all times. If you agree, Babur can swear to Allah at any time to be your slave forever."

The woman smiled indifferently and said, "Your Highness the Prince is joking, how can a little girl have such a blessing."

The Persian young man hurriedly said sincerely: "Miss Cuiqiao, I am serious. If you are willing to stay and stay by my side, I would rather be your minister for generations."

Having written this, I believe everyone knows who the woman in front of me is. Yes, this woman is the winner of the third Jiangnan beauties - Wang Cuiqiao.

This Persian young man also made a show in front. When Xu Jin swept across the Japanese pirates and pirates along the coast of the Ming Dynasty and Westerners, he took Wang Cuiqiao to visit West Lake in Hangzhou and enjoyed the snow on the broken bridge. Later, he met a group of Persian merchants outside Hanshan Temple and played the game of Hercules. I wonder if you still remember it?

The Persian young man in front of him was Babur, the Persian businessman who set up a stall to sell goods outside Hanshan Temple. His real identity was a prince from Persia. He followed the caravan to travel to the Ming Dynasty and happened to meet Xu Jin, Wang Cuiqiao and others outside Hanshan Temple.

This Persian prince fell in love with Wang Cuiqiao at first sight, but he actually tried to please everyone in front of Xu Jin. As a result, he naturally felt disappointed. In the end, his personal soldier Zhao Datou stole a Persian music score.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon does not suppress local snakes, not to mention that Xu Jin is not a local snake, but a local dragon. Prince Babur could only admit his bad luck, and later he followed the caravan back to Persia. However, everyone still missed the king who had met in his heart.

Sometimes I have to say that fate is really wonderful. It can allow two people who have nothing to do to meet each other tens of thousands of miles away!

More than three years ago, Wang Cuiqiao, who was persistent in pursuing music, finally made up his mind to leave Xu Jin temporarily, go out to travel around the country to collect folk songs, and go to fulfill his lifelong dreams. He took a long-distance trip that he could go without hesitation, which lasted for three years.

When Wang Cuiqiao made this "shocking" request to Xu Jin with trepidation, Xu Jin actually agreed with "shocking" and Wang Cuiqiao almost fainted from happiness.

Later, in the territory of Guangzhou Prefecture, Wang Cuiqiao bid farewell to Xu Jin, and set out with his deep longing for men and his persistence in dreams!

Over the past three years, Wang Cuiqiao followed the route planned for him by Xu Jin, first traveling to western Guangdong, then entering Guangxi, then to Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet... the Mughal Empire.

According to the original plan, after traveling to Lhasa, Tibet, the next destination was the Yarkand Khanate. However, Wang Cuiqiao heard that the singing and dancing in India were prevalent, so he changed his route and went south from Lhasa to southern Tibet.

It is worth mentioning here that during the Ming Dynasty, Tibet also belonged to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and its administrative level was called Wusizangdusi, so Wang Cuiqiao's trip was unobstructed, and as a result, he went south and entered the territory of the Mughal Dynasty.

Fortunately, the Mughal Dynasty had just been established at that time and was quite friendly to the Ming Dynasty. In addition, Wang Cuiqiao's identity as a "singer", it was highly respected by locals. With the protection of Song Dayan and a group of retired veterans, personal safety is not a problem.

As a result, our kings became more and more courageous. Not only did they not look back, they simply traveled almost all Central Asian countries. Wherever they went, in addition to visiting local celebrities and wealthy people and exchanging ideas with their peers, they also held a "travel concert", which eventually conquered countless people with their fairy posture and the sound of nature, and gained a large number of "fans".

In this way, Wang Cuiqiao became more and more famous, his connections became wider and safer, and his courage naturally became stronger and stronger. At the end of last year, Wang Cuiqiao traveled to Samarkand, a big city in the Uzbek Khanate.

There, Wang Cuiqiao met his fellow traveler Yena Kathelin, the Persian beauty captured by Xu Jin in Oirat. The two of them learned from each other and learned from each other for a while.

During Wang Cuiqiao's performance in Samarkand, Persian prince Babur recognized her and couldn't help but be overjoyed, thinking that this was the arrangement of Allah and the fate of the two. So from then on, Babur stuck to Wang Cuiqiao like a dog skin plaster. He would go wherever the latter went, and every performance would inevitably come to support him.

This Prince Babur was infatuated and thought that he would definitely move Wang Cuiqiao in the end and win her heart. However, everyone in Wang had already belonged to him physically and mentally. Compared with Xu Jin, Prince Babur was not at all attractive to her, so he said early in the morning that there was no possibility between the two.

However, this Prince Babur did not give up and kept pestering him, and could not drive him away. He could not solve the problem by force even in a foreign land, so he could only let him go.

Fortunately, although this Prince Babur is as annoying as a dog skin plaster, he also has a gentleman side. He just keeps showing his composure, without being too rude, and without any despicable means.

Moreover, this Babur Prince did help Wang Cuiqiao a lot. With his presence, he could at least block a group of local powerful people and playboys who wanted to eat swan meat.

Let’s talk about Wang Cuiqiao’s trip to several major cities in the Uzbek Khanate, and planned to cross the Pamirs to return to the Ming Dynasty, because the three-year period agreed with Xu Jin was about to come.

However, it was already the end of the year, and the mountains were covered with heavy snow and the Pamirs could not cross. Babur took the opportunity to invite Wang Cuiqiao to travel to Persia and promised to send her back to the Ming Dynasty in the spring of the following year.

During this period, Babul did help him a lot, and with heavy snow covering the mountains and no way out, Wang Cuiqiao thought about it over and over again, and finally agreed to Babul and followed him to Persia.
Chapter completed!