The leading Imperial Guard cried out, "Your Majesty, I have returned."
"Get up!"
Liu Hong hurriedly stepped forward and personally helped the Imperial Guard up.
"Where have you all been these past two years? I've been missing you all the whole time!"
Looking at these Imperial Guard soldiers who had been away for more than two years, Liu Hong was also moved to tears.
Yu Linlang wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes: "Your Majesty, when I led my brothers eastward from Mahan, we first arrived at a place called Zhouhu Kingdom, where we stayed for three months before sailing eastward to Gounu Kingdom..."
(Juho Kingdom, presumably present-day Jeju Island, served as a transit point for landing on island nations.)
Then, this Imperial Guard recounted in detail what he had seen and heard in the Kingdom of Dog Slave and the Kyushu Islands to Liu Hong and his ministers.
As the Imperial Guard mentioned one country after another, Chen Fan, Cao Song, and the others were somewhat bewildered.
They couldn't believe that such a small island could house so many countries. Judging from this, how big is each of those countries? Probably just a small town?
After hearing the general situation, Liu Hong led a group of ministers and the dozen or so Imperial Guard soldiers to Deyang Palace.
Recalling that famous country in later generations, Liu Hong asked impatiently as soon as he sat down, "When you were in the Dog Slave Kingdom, did you ever hear about the Yamatai Kingdom?"
Yu Linlang nodded: "Your Majesty, I have heard that the Dog Slave Kingdom is a vassal state of Yamatai, but because Yamatai is currently in the midst of internal strife, I have never been there."
"Damn it! How dare the mere Yamatai Kingdom accept the Dog Slave Kingdom as a vassal state? Where do they get the guts?"
It was Li Ying who spoke, and everyone was taken aback when they saw Li Ying's angry expression.
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