Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

Jiang Tuan was very panicked. He didn't know what to do.

Should I say to Jiang Qi, I’m sorry, I lied to you before, there are actually no gods, they are all lies made up by the system?

No, no, as soon as the thought of confessing came to his mind, Jiang Tuan suppressed it himself.

The reason why Jiang Qi believed him was because of the blessing of the gods in his dreams. Now if he suddenly tells the other party the truth, will the other party think that he is dishonest and become suspicious of him?

Even if you want to tell the other person, you should wait until they have more trust in each other.

But how to answer now?

It is said that human potential is infinite, and it is easier to stimulate it when being forced into desperate situations.

So, in order to avoid being exposed, the usually silly Jiang Tuan used his brain for a rare moment and came up with a brilliant excuse.

"Your Majesty, it was given to me by the spirit Xia."

"God? Wasn't He already asleep? Why did He wake up so soon?"

“He hasn’t fully woken up yet, but he appeared in my dream last night and told me that the soy products I made helped Daxia and increased its luck, and he was very happy.

As soon as He was happy, He gave me this map, hoping that I could better help Daxia in the future."

"Oh, is that so? Nothing else?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. He didn't say anything else. He just gave me the map and continued to sleep."

“I see…”

Seeing that Jiang Qi was no longer obsessed with the origin of the map, Jiang Tuan silently calmed his heart that was almost jumping out of his mouth, and quickly drew the other party's attention back to the map.

"Your Majesty, do you think this map is usable? Is it a little rough?"

Jiang Tuan, who was eager to change the subject, did not notice that Jiang Qi and Zong Zhenghe exchanged a meaningful look before turning their gaze to the map as he wished.

Regardless of its origin, this map is indeed very helpful to Daxia.

Jiang Qi looked at it for a while, then asked Zong Zhenghe to come forward and take a look, while he asked Ning Bai to get their own map of Da Xia for comparison.

Jiang Tuan knew that the map was very important, so he didn't feel bad when drawing it this time. He even asked Ning Ling to get him a larger piece of parchment.

However, when he saw the huge map that Ning Bai had people move over, he found that he was still a little petty.

Look at the difference between the king of a country and a commoner like him. The map is as big as a carpet, and when you want to look at it, you need to step on it and look for it step by step.

After the map was put away, Jiang Qi and Zong Zhenghe took the map drawn by Jiang Tuan and compared it with their map of Daxia bit by bit.

In fact, Bactria was not completely ignorant of the Xiongnu. At least the approximate locations of some rivers, mountains and sacred cities close to Bactria were known.

After all, the Huns also need to survive, and they have to buy some necessary daily necessities from the caravans when they cannot snatch them.

Don’t ask why the Huns didn’t rob the caravans. It would be fine if they robbed once or twice, but if they robbed too many times, no caravan would be willing to go.

Without caravans to transport goods, and unable to rob, they would never get certain items, which was not worth the loss.

The Huns were a bit cruel and barbaric, but they were not stupid. They could distinguish between getting something once and getting something over the long term.

In this way, some powerful caravans still have the opportunity to go deep into the grassland. After going there more often, the approximate locations of some places will become clear, and some rough maps can be drawn.

Now that Jiang Qi compares those maps with Jiang Tuan's, he will know whether this map is true or false.

But even without those sketchiest maps, there are other ways to verify it.

There is a large buffer zone between Bactria and the Xiongnu, but there are always some places that are divided by mountains, and the shape of the mountains is unlikely to change in a short period of time.

By comparing the boundaries of Daxia's map and the map brought by Jiang Tuan, we can tell whether the two maps are accurate or not.

Don’t think that Jiang Tuan has been complaining to the system about how rough and abstract this map is since the first time he saw it.

But in the eyes of Jiang Qi and Zong Zhenghe, this map is much more recognizable than most maps of Daxia.

In the map of Daxia, only some important places are detailed, while other less important places, or places with mountains, dense forests, and rivers, are only drawn in a rough outline.

Sometimes the gap between what is drawn on the map and the actual situation is outrageous.

Not to mention that this map, which they thought was very accurate, was also the map of the Huns that they had been longing for. Its significance was too great.

After an unknown amount of time, the king and his minister finally finished comparing the maps. They were already 90% sure that the map was real and accurate.

In this case, they don't need to worry too much about getting lost after entering the grassland. They can use this map as a trump card and launch a surprise attack at the right time without having to passively defend all the time.

Jiang Qi was very happy, so happy that even the unhappiness he had felt in the court disappeared.

As an emperor, when he was happy, he wanted to reward those who made him happy.

"Jiang Tuan, you want..."

Jiang Qi turned around halfway through his question and saw that Jiang Tuan had collapsed on the chair and had fallen asleep in a very ungraceful manner, with saliva even flowing from the corners of his mouth.

Who among the common officials dared to fall asleep in front of the emperor? Who dared to sleep so ungracefully? The answer is, no one.

He had never heard of or seen a minister who dared to fall asleep in front of the emperor. Not to mention ministers, even the princes and princesses who were a little sensible would not sleep so casually in front of their father.

Apart from his little princess, how long had it been since anyone had been so casual in front of him? Jiang Qi himself couldn't even remember.

He sighed, not feeling neglected, but thinking that he should be more protective of the other party in the future. Otherwise, if the other party continued to be so casual, he would suffer sooner or later.

"Did he get up too early?"

"Your Majesty, I heard that Mr. Jiang woke up in the middle of the night yesterday and worked until dawn. It was useless after breakfast, so he came to see Your Majesty."

“Oh, you started drawing in the middle of the night?

Go, wake him up. He is not feeling well here, have him taken back to sleep. Oh, and tell the kitchen to prepare a meal for him to eat before he goes to sleep.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Ning Bai accepted the order and asked Ning Ling, who was guarding outside, to come in and wake up Jiang Tuan.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Jiang Tuan is very sleepy. Unless there are special circumstances, he can sleep ten hours a day. If conditions permit, he can sleep twelve hours.

If he stayed up late the night before, he could sleep directly from day to night and from night to day the next day. He would not wake up unless he was hungry or needed to go to the toilet.