Green Ridge, that is, the Pamir Plateau, is the throat of the ancient Silk Road to Central Asia, across China's Xinjiang region, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, of course, there were no Tajikistan and Afghanistan during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Green Ridge region, and even the Fergan Valley belong to the territory of the Yarkand Khanate, west of the Fergan Valley is the Uzbek Khanate, and the southwest of the Uzbek Khanate is Persia, and the southeast is the emerging powerful empire - the Mughal Dynasty.

"Pamir" is a Persian word that translates to mean "flat-roofed house", and as the name suggests, the altitude here is high, but the top is flat and passable.

In fact, the green ridge is the Kunlun Mountain and the Tianshan Mountains and other mountains to form a huge mountain knot, an area of 100,000 square kilometers, the average altitude of 4,500 meters, not only the air is thin, and the winter is long and cold, in October will be heavy snow to close the mountain, until the next year in April can be unsealed, the suitable time to climb is just a few months.

However, even so, in the Tang Dynasty when the Silk Road was at its peak, there was still an endless stream of business travelers crossing the Green Mountains, and as for the current Jiajing period, the Yarkand Khanate and the Uzbek Khanate, as well as Persia and other Central Asian countries still had close business contacts, so every summer, there were many business travelers over the Green Mountains.

Let's set back the time, on September 16 of the sixth year of Jiajing, a strange team appeared on the Green Ridge Post Road.

Why is this team weird?

Firstly, this detachment was not a caravan, because they did not carry a large amount of goods, and secondly, it was not an army, because there was no uniform clothing and weapons.

The whole team consisted of about 50 people, and most of them were on foot, except for a few camels, yaks, and horses. The strangest thing is the composition of this team, both robed warriors with Persian faces, and Han people dressed in short costumes, these Han people are mostly middle-aged men with weathered faces, and most of them are disabled, either one-armed, or lack ears and eyes, or walk not very neatly, it is estimated that there is a problem with the legs.

However, these middle-aged men all carried weapons, their eyes were firm, their expressions were fierce, and their faces were hideous, and they knew at a glance that they were not easy to mess with, and they were obviously ruthless characters who had blood on their hands and killed people.

But the most striking thing was the man and woman on camels in the middle of the procession, the woman was thickly dressed, looked very bloated, and her head and face were tightly wrapped, revealing only a pair of eyes, but these eyes were very agile and clear, as if they could speak.

A young man next to him rode a camel and rode alongside the woman, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, dressed as a big Middle Eastern dog, with a white Persian robe, a turban-style white hat, blonde hair and blue eyes, a tall figure, and very handsome, a bit like a certain Bollywood actor in the Three Kingdoms.

There were three camels in the whole team, and on the third camel was also a woman, carrying luggage behind her, and judging by her manners and clothes, she was probably a servant girl.

I saw two particularly tall and strong men, respectively, holding the reins of camels for the two women, and opening the way in front. The two strong men were nearly two meters tall and powerful, one of them holding the reins in his right hand, a wrought copper rod in his left hand, and a sharkskin scabbard studded with precious stones at his waist, estimated to be worth a lot of silver.

However, seeing the strong man carrying a cooked copper stick weighing dozens of catties is as easy as carrying a noodle, I believe that no thief dares to pay attention to the gem scimitar.

It is already the middle of September, and the window period for crossing the green ridge is coming to an end soon, the temperature is close to freezing, and in another ten days and half a month, the heavy snow will close the mountain, and there are no other business trips on the road.

At this moment, the procession reached a mountain pass, and the fierce mountain wind was blowing in front of him, but the Persian young man said with joy on his face: "Look, king, that is the Buren Pass, and leaving the mountain pass is equivalent to crossing the Green Ridge, and five hundred miles further is Kashgar." ”

"yes, that's great!" The woman on the camel said happily, her voice was as good as heaven, and her smart eyes were full of joy.

The young Persian man could not help but show a look of enchantment and exclaimed: "O king, how Babur wishes to hear your moving voice at all times, and if you agree, Babur can swear to Allah at any time that he will be your slave forever." ”

The woman smiled indifferently and said, "His Royal Highness the prince said that it was funny, how could a little woman have such a blessing." ”

The Persian young man hurriedly said sincerely: "Miss Cuiqiao, this prince is serious, if you are willing to stay, stay by this prince's side, this prince would rather be your minister under your skirt for the rest of his life." ”

Writing here, I believe everyone knows who the woman in front of you is, that's right, this woman is the three-time Jiangnan Oiran winner - Wang Cuiqiao.

And this Persian young man also appeared in the front, when Xu Jin swept the Japanese pirates along the coast of Daming, as well as Westerners, he took Wang Cuiqiao to visit the West Lake in Hangzhou, and enjoyed the remnants of the snow on the broken bridge, and later met a group of Persian merchants outside the Hanshan Temple, and played the game of Hercules Bell, I don't know if you remember?

The Persian young man in front of him is the Persian merchant Babur who set up a stall outside the Hanshan Temple to sell goods, his real identity is a prince of the Persian country, who traveled to Daming with the caravan back then, and happened to meet Xu Jin and Wang Cuiqiao and others outside the Hanshan Temple.

This Persian prince fell in love with Wang Cuiqiao at first sight, and even pleased the king in front of Xu Jin, but naturally touched his nose, and finally was robbed of a Persian score by his own soldier Zhao Datou.

As the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the ground snake, not to mention that Xu Jin is not the ground snake, but the earth head dragon, Prince Babur can only consider himself unlucky, and then followed the caravan back to Persia, but the king of the side of the heart is still remembered.

Sometimes I have to say that fate is really wonderful, it can make two people who have nothing to do with each other meet across tens of thousands of miles!

It is said that more than three years ago, Wang Cuiqiao, who was persistently pursuing music and rhythm, finally made up his mind to leave Xu Jin temporarily, go out to travel around the world, to complete his lifelong dream, and take a long-distance trip for three years.

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

Later, in the territory of Guangzhou Prefecture, Wang Cuiqiao said goodbye to Xu Jin with pity, and went on the road with a bitter longing for men and a dedication to his dreams!

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

Originally, according to the original plan, after traveling to Lhasa, Tibet, the next destination was the Yarkand Khanate, but Wang Cuiqiao heard that Tianzhu singing and dancing was 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 the administrative level was called Wusi Tibetan Capital Division, so Wang Cuiqiao's trip was unimpeded, and as a result, he entered the territory of the Mughal Dynasty all the way south.

Fortunately, the Mughal Dynasty at that time had just been established, and it was quite friendly to the Ming Dynasty, coupled with Wang Cuiqiao's status as a "singer", so he was quite respected by the locals, and with the protection of Song Dayan and a group of retired veterans, personal safety was not a problem.

So, our kings became more and more bold, not only did they not look back, but simply traveled to almost all the Central Asian countries, everywhere they went, in addition to visiting local celebrities and nobles, and communicating with peers, they also held a "concert tour", and finally conquered countless people with their fairy posture and natural sound, and gained a large number of "fans".

In this way, Wang Cuiqiao's fame is getting bigger and bigger, his connections are getting wider and wider, and he is getting safer and safer, and his courage is naturally getting fatter and fatter, and at the end of last year, Wang Cuiqiao traveled to Samarkand, a big city in the Uzbek Khanate.

There, Wang Cuiqiao met her colleague Yena Catherine, the Persian beauty that Xu Jin had captured in Warat, and the two learned from each other for a while.

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

This Babur prince was infatuated, only thinking that he would be able to move Wang Cuiqiao and win her heart in the end, but everyone has already belonged physically and mentally, compared with Xu Jin, this Babur prince has no attraction to her, so he made it clear early on that there is no possibility between the two.

However, this prince of Babur did not give up, he kept pestering, and he couldn't get rid of it, and he couldn't solve it by force when he was in a foreign land, so he could only leave it to him.

Fortunately, although this prince of Babur is as annoying as a dog's skin plaster, he also has the side of a gentleman, but he has always followed the great courtesy, and has not been rude, nor has he resorted to any indiscriminate means.

Moreover, this Babur prince has indeed helped Wang Cuiqiao a lot, and with his existence, he can at least stop a group of local magnates and gentlemen who want to eat swan meat.

Let's say that after Wang Cuiqiao traveled to several major cities in the Uzbek Khanate, he planned to cross the green ridge and return to Daming, because the three-year period agreed with Xu Jin was about to expire.

However, it was already the end of the year, and the snow covered the mountain, and there was no way to cross the green ridge, so Babur took the opportunity to invite Wang Cuiqiao to travel to Persia, and promised to send her back to Daming in the spring of the next year.

During this time, Babur did him a great favor, and there was no way out of the heavy snow, so Wang Cuiqiao thought about it again and again, and finally agreed to Babur and followed him to Persia.

Unexpectedly, Wang Cuiqiao's trip to Persia caused a big trouble!

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