Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Now that they are helping the Han people in Hebei, they will only thank themselves verbally.

In fact, it will not bring any help to Zhang Yong. On the contrary, the Han nobles in Hebei will show their kindness to him, which will also arouse the suspicion of some people.

Moreover, these guys are just a bunch of losers, and they will not obey themselves sincerely. What this gang and the Han princes follow is that I will follow whoever robs them, and I will follow whoever gives me benefits.

Kublai Khan gave them huge benefits and rights, so they followed Kublai Khan and then reached the Mongolian headquarters.

In the future, even if these princes of the Han Dynasty in Hebei help themselves conquer the country, these guys will also support themselves in the future.

It is very simple to subdue them. When they are at their wits end and even half of them are wiped out, it is safest to take over the entire Hebei area by yourself.

What I want is the entire Hebei region, not a large group of Han military princes who control Hebei. No matter what time or dynasty a large number of warlords appear in the Central Plains, and they are all autonomous warlords, that is the most dangerous.

Some lands in the West are relatively far away, and they can indeed be governed in this way and cultivate some principalities and kingdoms, but the land of the Central Plains must be unified.

Absolutely no warlord is allowed to appear, not even a small warlord.

"I'm relieved, boss, these guys are not good people. You should be careful with them." Tu Lanlun said.

"Of course I know what kind of people they are, don't worry!" Zhang Yong said.

After advancing for half a month, the army had left the vast prairie and officially entered the Central Plains region.

After entering the Central Plains region, Zhang Yong's army had supplies along the way, as well as a large number of cattle and sheep.

We need to transport food and grass over long distances from Guanzhong, but now we are very close to Guanzhong, so there is no problem.

This time, Zhang Yong's team, in addition to his own army and herdsmen, also carried nearly 100,000 livestock, including a large number of European war horses and sheep.

These are all to be brought back to Guanzhong and grazed on the grasslands of Xixia or Qinghai. The tall war horses from Europe can cultivate a powerful heavy armored cavalry army for themselves.

The English sheep from Europe can produce fine wool and their own mutton.

Of the large number of livestock brought back from the west this time, Zhang Yong left more than half of them with Guyu to raise them on the grasslands, while the rest were brought back to Guanzhong by Zhang Yong.

After walking for a full month, Zhang Yong's army traveled during the day and rested at night. Finally, they arrived in Guanzhong. Zhang Yong, who had been away for five years, finally returned to his own territory.

At this time, the Han soldiers following Zhang Yong were also extremely excited. After five years of traveling in a foreign country, I finally returned to my homeland today.

"Chatuohua, Bart, you lead the herdsmen team and go directly to live in Qinghai, so you don't have to follow me back to Chang'an Mansion. After you go back, you can settle down well, give them a piece of pasture, and let them move their livestock to "Go to my breeding shed." (Please note that the protagonist has changed Jingzhao Mansion to Chang'an Mansion.)
"We know, Master Imperial Master, please rest assured that we will arrange all these." Cha Tuohua nodded and said.

This veteran who has followed Zhang Yong for more than ten years is already in his fifties and will soon be over sixty.

During the first Western Expedition, he and Genghis Khan met for the first time in his military camp. More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In more than ten years, I have transformed from a young man in his twenties to a middle-aged uncle who is about to enter his fourth year. (Let’s talk about the timeline here. The protagonist was thirty-three years old when he went on the Western Expedition. He returned from the Western Expedition five years ago and was already thirty-eight years old.)
"You two have been with me the longest. This time I will let you go on an expedition for five years. After you go back, spend time with your family! I will not let you two participate in expeditions again in the future." Zhang Yong said.

"National Master, I am not over sixty yet this year. General Subotai can conquer the west even if he is over sixty, and I can still fight." Cha Tuohua said.

"Yes, Master National Preceptor, we are going to help you destroy the Southern Song Dynasty!" Bart said.

"Okay! I just said I won't let you go on another expedition. I didn't say I won't let you fight with me." Zhang Yong said.

The character of the Mongolian people is like this. Zhang Yong kindly wants them to go home and retire in peace, but these people are not willing!
The lower class soldiers would be happy if they were allowed to stop fighting at this age.

But some middle- and high-level Mongolian generals still want to continue to build military merit.

After bidding farewell to Zhang Yong, Chatohuabat and his men, with their respective cavalry units, as well as a large number of herdsmen, cattle, sheep and horses, began to advance towards the Qinghai Lake area.

"What do you think of Cha Tuohua and Bart? I will grant them two households, what do you think?" Zhang Yong looked at Tu Lanlun and asked.

"Ten thousand households! Are you kidding me, the head of the family? Only the Great Khan of Mongolia can appoint this. You can appoint Thousand Households of this generation. It's already a mercy of the Great Khan." Tulan Lun said with some surprise.

Before the Western Expedition, after Ogedai became the Mongolian Khan, Zhang Yong actually had the qualifications to appoint Qianhu.

It's just that for these matters, Ogedei needs to be informed and the Mongolian Khan issues a formal appointment letter, but the real decision-making power of Qianhu is already in Zhang Yong's hands.

Even during Zhang Yong's expedition to the West, he appointed several thousand households through correspondence.

But if you want to say that it is Wanhu, it is not a joke. The status of Wanhu in Mongolia is actually the clan king. Even the clan kings of some golden families do not have as much power as Wanhu.

Only the Great Khan of Mongolia has the qualifications to appoint ten thousand households, and it cannot be done casually. The other party must have sufficient merit.

"The number of Mongolian herdsmen under my command has reached nearly 30,000. Adding the herdsmen in your brother's hands, I now have more than 33,000 herdsmen. If I appoint 20,000 households, it is true that There is ease of management.

And now that Guiyou is supervising the country, as long as I write a letter to Guiyou, I can get an edict conferring the title of Ten Thousand Households.

Moreover, Cha Tuohua and Bart followed me on the Western Expedition and made great contributions, so the credit is sufficient. "Zhang Yong said.

Thousand households and ten thousand households. In the past, these could only be canonized by the Mongolian Khan, but now the situation has changed a lot. Batu in the West has begun to appoint thousands of households and ten thousand households under his subordinates.

And it was the same as Zhang Yong's previous operation, which was to write a letter to the Mongolian Khan and inform him.

"It's true what you said. After being granted the title of Ten Thousand Households, the two of them will be even more loyal to you." Tu Lanlun nodded and asked.

The title of Wanhu is different. For Mongolians other than the Golden Family, it can be said to be the highest-level title.

It's basically the end. Maybe after death, I can be crowned a king, but while I'm alive, Wanhu is already at the top.

"The two of them have been following me for more than ten years, and their Qianhu status was granted by Genghis Khan!
Over the years, I have indeed given them some rewards, but not actual official positions. "Zhang Yong said.

"Yes! The two of them are indeed worthy of trust." Tulan Lun nodded in a daze.

Once upon a time, only his father, Genghis Khan, could accept the fate of Ten Thousand Households in Mongolia, but now his husband, the head of the family, can actually be enthroned in Ten Thousand Households in Mongolia.

He who is the head of his own family can also found a country and become a khan in the future, or the emperor of the Central Plains.

hehe! Then she will be the queen.

"Okay, let's move on! We will arrive at Chang'an Mansion soon." Zhang Yong said.

After returning to Chang'an Mansion, he wrote a letter to Guyu, telling him about the canonization of Bat and Cha Tuohua as ten thousand households. After the canonization was confirmed, Zhang Yong summoned the two of them to Chang'an Mansion. Tell them the news.

A few days later, Zhang Yong took Tu Lanlun back to Chang'an Mansion. At this time, officials of all sizes in Chang'an Mansion, and even top officials from Guanzhong and Sichuan and Sichuan, had gathered outside the city gate to welcome the King of Guanzhong. Return.

"I pay my respects to the King of Guanzhong!" Under the leadership of Tao Jie, Xu Ming and other civil servants, all the officials collectively knelt down to Zhang Yong.

On the general side, "Everyone is exempt from courtesy!" Zhang Yong, who was riding a horse, raised his hand and said.

"I wish the King of Guanzhong on his return from the Western Expedition victorious."

"Ok!"

"Welcome the King of Guanzhong to the city! Welcome the King of Guanzhong to the city." The people gathered outside the city gate, as well as officials and soldiers of all sizes, all shouted collectively.

"Hahaha! I really should celebrate my victory after returning from the Western Expedition. Come, kill a thousand sheep for me and reward the soldiers who returned from the expedition.

At the same time, he killed another five thousand goats and distributed the meat to the people in the city. He told the people in the city to celebrate the king's return from the Western Expedition. "Zhang Yong said.

Although he has been away for five years, Zhang Yong is not completely ignorant of the development in the Guanzhong area. After all, Tu Lanlun sends letters here every year.

Report to yourself about the situation in Guanzhong and ask how to arrange it in the coming year.

Now his large-scale breeding farms have become two, and another giant breeding farm has been established near Xixia.

The number of cattle and sheep produced every year has reached a terrifying figure. Killing thousands of sheep is just drizzle to Zhang Yong.

Moreover, I really need to make room for the big sheep brought back from the West to live in my own breeding farm. Killing 6,000 sheep now is just a trivial matter.

"Thank you King Guanzhong for the reward." All the civil and military officials, as well as all the residents, said in unison.

The sound was like a torrent that shook the heaven and the earth.

No matter which dynasty you are in, you can eat shabu-shabu. For ordinary residents, this is a good thing.

"Hahaha! Enter the city!" Zhang Yong said.

The more than 10,000 Western Expedition troops were assigned to the generals who were responding outside the city, and then sent to the military camp to live temporarily. They would be assigned housing after a period of time.

Zhang Yong himself, surrounded by officials, both civil and military, entered the Chang'an Mansion.

Eupracia, who was sitting in the carriage at this time, was watching this scene curiously. Since following Zhang Yong back east, all she had seen along the way was the vast Gobi Desert, the endless prairie, or the white snow. Capped mountains and rivers.

After entering the Mongolian grassland, she saw some Gobi deserts. She originally thought that the east was very backward and all the nomads lived a very primitive life, and she might have to live in tents in the future.

She lived a nomadic life, but after arriving in the Mongolian capital of Harakhorin, her impression changed slightly.

Although this city is not as grand as Constantinople, it can still be considered a luxurious city with hundreds of thousands of people, and its prosperity is still quite good.

I originally thought that Zhang Yong would live in this city, but I didn't expect that this place was not his man's fiefdom. His man's fiefdom was still further away.

On the way to Guanzhong, she had always thought that although the entire east would be better than the grasslands, it would still look like a European farm.

But after entering the land of Guanzhong, Eupracia truly realized what the gap was, the huge gap, and the visual impact.

What is this, the small village in her imagination?
Villages, large and small, are connected together. A large number of wheat fields can be seen everywhere, and the farmland is covered with golden ears of rice.

Countless ordinary people are harvesting crops with sickles. It is already autumn and it is the time of autumn harvest.

Eupracia was very lucky to see patches of golden wheat fields and countless people harvesting crops.

This is the representative of farming civilization. It is so prosperous!
She had never seen what Eastern Rome was like during its most prosperous period, but the prosperity here reminded her of it.

I wonder if the Eastern Roman Empire was also so prosperous at its peak?

And every time you walk, you will see a small city with walls four or five meters high.

These small towns can only be county towns. There are dozens of such small county towns in Guanzhong, with a population ranging from 50,000 to 80,000 living in them.

With a population of between 50,000 and 80,000 people, this is considered a big city in their Western world, second only to the capital city. However, such a city in the East is just a small county town!

It was the Chang'an Mansion where Zhang Yong lived that really shocked Eupracia, the princess from the Eastern Roman Empire.

The city wall, which is more than ten meters high, and the huge city gate are actually more majestic, prosperous, and taller than Constantinople.

After entering from the outer city, they walked for nearly an hour before they entered Zhang Yong's palace in the inner city. The walls of Zhang Yong's palace were also very tall, not much worse than those of the outer city, and even more luxurious and majestic. .

"My king! How many people are there in this city? Is this your royal city?" Eupracia came to Zhang Yong and asked excitedly.

"Yes, this is my royal city. When I first occupied this place, there were only a few hundred thousand people.

Now, I have ruled this place for more than ten years, and it should have a population of over one million, right? "Zhang Yong looked at Chang'an Mansion and said.

He wasn't too sure of the exact number, after all, he had been gone for five years, but it should be over one million.

"A population of one million!!! That means the number of residents in this city has reached one million! Then plus the people we saw along the way, my God, this place is so luxurious and prosperous "Have the number of residents under your rule reached tens of millions?" Eupracia asked with a trembling voice.

"This city now has a population of one million. As for the entire Guanzhong, it now only has a population of seven million, which is less than 10 million!" Tulan Lun said from the side.

"That's amazing. When our Eastern Roman Empire was at its most powerful, the population did not exceed seven million." Eupracia said.

"However, this is just the territory of the leader. The population of Sichuan and Shu is more than 20 million. Adding Xixia and the Central Plains, the population under the rule of the leader should be more than 35 million, right?" Picture Lan Lun smiled and said.

"Three, thirty-five million!! How is this possible? This, this is more than the population of the entire Western world put together. My God, is this the country of King John?" You Placia's voice was trembling.

The total population of the entire West will never exceed 30 million, but the territory of King John in Mongolia exceeds the population base of the entire West. What a joke! Isn't this too scary?
With a population of more than 30 million, that is to say, if his king wanted to, he could organize an army with a population of one million. In this Western Expedition, his king did not use all his strength at all.

"Hahaha! Just for cities with a population of one million, there are two in the leader's territory, namely Chengdu Prefecture and Chang'an Prefecture. There are seven or eight cities with a population of more than 50! Chongqing Prefecture and Jiading Prefecture Tu Lanlun said.

After five years of recuperation, the Central Plains region has finally regained some of its former prosperity. Although it is not as good as before, it has begun to slowly recover at this time. As for the Sichuan and Shu lands that have not experienced the baptism of war, there are still Guanzhong. The land is more fertile.

"Okay! Get ready and go to the banquet with me! Call Xiaoyun, Famaina, Bachnaya, and Quchiye to come." Zhang Yong smiled and said.

Come on, how dare Europe in the Middle Ages crash into the East? The East is extremely prosperous now.

If it weren't for the war, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Prefecture, and Hezhong Prefecture would all be cities with a population of one million.

Now, after more than ten years of hard work, Chang'an Mansion has finally returned to its former prosperity and has once again become a giant city with a population of one million.

That night, Zhang Yong and his wives and concubines held a grand banquet in the Guanzhong Prince's Mansion. They invited all the generals who participated in the Western Expedition, the generals who stayed in the Sichuan and Shu lands in Guanzhong, and all the civil and military officials. (End of chapter)