Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Chapter 602: In the East, if the ruler wants his subjects to die, they must die
This is a blatant slap in the face, a blatant humiliation! The Queen of Hungary became the concubine of an Eastern monarch, what are they?

"Grand Prince, we pledge allegiance to you. Our two countries were originally allies. How can you humiliate our great king?

Queen Maria is the legal wife of King Bela IV, and she will be buried with King Bela IV even after her death." A Hungarian officer shouted angrily.

The Mongolian soldiers in the tent turned their heads with cold expressions, and some even put their hands on the hilts of their swords, as if they were ready to draw their swords and kill people at the command of their commander.

"What? Isn't Queen Maria my father's wife? Isn't her only son now my father's bloodline?" Zhang Dingguan said with a sneer.

Since I have decided to eradicate you old nobles, I will not give you face. Moreover, this can be regarded as fulfilling my father’s long-cherished wish to give Queen Maria a position.

"You! King John did rape Queen Maria, but the Queen did not do it willingly. She is not your father's concubine, but our Queen. This is a matter of dignity for our two countries to maintain the minimum level of communication."

"Hahaha! You're talking to me about dignity? You were defeated miserably by the Western Expedition Army, and your king was assassinated by a noble and died unexpectedly. Originally, Hungary might even have been destroyed, but my father showed mercy and allowed your country to be preserved.

He even let the son of your former king inherit the throne of Hungary, but it was only because of his own health problems that my brother took the throne." Zhang Dingguan said.

This matter is quite ridiculous. The reason why Kalman, the Grand Duke of Croatia, who was of Hungarian royal blood, rebelled.

It’s because his brother’s son died, but what does this have to do with them in the East?

Queen Maria would never murder her own son! And when his father left, he did not leave behind any secret army or special backup plans.

So to put it bluntly, the reason why this child died was simply because of an accidental death. At that time, his father arranged for this brother to be a Grand Duke.

But who would have thought that sometimes accidents come so quickly that this son actually became king and ruled the entire Hungarian region.

"He is a bastard, he is not a king. Woohoo!" A young Hungarian officer spoke, but his mouth was covered by his companion.

Please, don't be so outspoken. Can't you see that? Is the other party testing us? We can't talk nonsense at this time.

An elderly Hungarian official wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Bringing this young man here is really ridiculous. I can't keep my composure at all."

What on earth was Duke Kalman thinking, sending such a person to act as an undercover agent before the Eastern Commander?

"The great eldest son of King John, this guy has some problems with his brain and speaks in a rude way. Please don't mind if you take him away."

"Yes, the eldest son of the great King John. This guy is just a dandy nobleman. He doesn't have any great abilities and always likes to talk nonsense."

"Hahaha! Is that so? But I think he is a man of temperament. He can say anything, and what he says is the truth. It is also the voice of you Hungarian nobles, right?" Zhang Dingguan sneered and asked.

The translator standing nearby also said it in the local language, but he was a man of simple temperament and called it an honest man.

Every country in the West has its own language, and you have to find a translator wherever you go.

This did make Zhang Dingguan feel uncomfortable, but who told him that he knew both Mongolian and Chinese?

Upon hearing this, several veteran Hungarian noble generals sent by Duke Kalman broke out in cold sweat and didn't know what to do.

Today's incident is indeed quite strange. Logically speaking, the Mongolian army should not go to Hungary, or even just send envoys there symbolically.

“Great King John’s eldest son, the commander from the East, we are just afraid that you will bring hundreds of thousands of troops into Hungary and cause some panic among the local people.

You should know that the war more than a decade ago caused serious damage to both our countries, and the local people are very afraid of the foreign cavalry on horseback. "A Hungarian officer said with a guilty conscience.

This reason seems a bit lame, and I don’t know if it can be used to fool people.

"Hahaha! This is really funny, someone come here!

Take away all their weapons and lock them up in the prison van." Zhang Dingguan sneered and said.

Now he was basically certain that these old Hungarian nobles, as well as the Grand Duke Kalman, all wanted to break away from their father and the Daqian Empire.

In that case, don't blame me for being rude.

"Wait, great eldest son of King John, we, we just offended you with our words, you won't lock us all up, right?"

“It’s just verbal offense, you know?

In the East, there is a crime called deceiving the emperor, which means deceiving the emperor. Anyone who dares to defy the imperial power will be punished. You have insulted my father, which is a crime. The imperial power is inviolable. "Zhang Dingguan said.

No wonder these European nobles were unwilling to obey the king's orders! The kings here were so inferior to the monarchs in the East.

The emperor of the East was supreme, possessing an absolutely transcendent status, and the same was true for the Mongolian Khan who called himself the Son of Heaven.

"Explain to them again what it means that if the ruler wants his subjects to die, the subjects must die."

But in this western land, they don't care much about this, because everything is given by God and they are all God's people.

The translator standing by very kindly translated for them what the crime of deceiving the emperor was and what the supremacy of the imperial power in the East was.

Simply put, when you deceive the emperor, you will die, and when the emperor wants you to die, you must die.

"The crime of deceiving the king! Should I be put to death just for deceiving the king?"

"How could there be such a reason? If the king wants us to die, then we must die. This goes against God's will. This is definitely not God's teaching!"

Obviously, these Western nobles, these generals sent by the Croatian Grand Duke Kalman, could not understand what it meant.

君要臣death,臣不得不death!

In their Western understanding, even if the lord made a mistake, the king should be more generous and forgive him or even rebel. The lord only needs to pay some money.

If you swear allegiance to the king again, you will be forgiven. But if the king wants to plunder the lord's money, it would be wrong.

The king could not take away anything that belonged to the lord for any reason. Even during the reign of Bella IV, the lord did not consider himself and the king to be in a superior-subordinate relationship, but only a cooperative relationship.

But according to the explanation of this Eastern monarch, in the East, subjects are not allowed to deceive the monarch, and even when the monarch unconditionally wants you to die, you must offer your life.

"And I'm not killing you for no reason, are you plotting a rebellion?

Croatian Grand Duke Kalman, he is plotting to overthrow my brother's comrades, don't you think I don't know about this?" Zhang Dingguan slammed the table and shouted.

Hearing this, several Hungarian officers looked solemn, but they still gritted their teeth and tried to make excuses.

“The eldest son of the great King John, this is slander, this is naked slander, someone must have slandered the Grand Duke of Croatia, he is the most loyal to King John and also loyal to Hungary.

He is the younger brother of the previous king, Bella IV, the uncle of the previous young king, and the uncle of this young king as well."

"He is not an uncle. He has no blood relationship with the current King of Hungary. Let me tell you one more thing. In the East, there are two ways to rule the world and become the supreme emperor.

The first is to inherit from your ancestors and inherit your throne.

The second is to rely on one's own strength to conquer the entire country and seize the land that belongs to you.

My father conquered your Kingdom of Hungary with his absolute strength, so it is only natural for my brother to inherit your throne." Zhang Dingguan said.

The reason why these old Hungarian nobles and the Croatian Grand Duke Kalman rebelled was very direct and simple, that is, it was because their younger brother was of impure blood and was just the illegitimate son of King John and the Queen of the East.

But now he wants to tell these old Western aristocrats that your so-called bloodline doesn't work on me and is of no use.

"This, this is against the law, eldest son of King John, you can't do this, you can't do this to us, you have to give us a fair trial instead of detaining us on a trumped-up charge!
Moreover, our relationship is that of allies, which does not mean that Hungary is submitting to you, Mongolia or the Daqian Empire."

Some Mongolian soldiers had rushed in and confiscated the weapons of several Hungarian officers, then held their hands and forced them to kneel on the ground.

“That’s just to give you a little face at the end, but the real meaning is that you submit to us.

My father has given Hungary the greatest autonomy, but you are still not satisfied. In this case, I will clean out all of you nobles!

To tell you the truth, I am leading the army to Hungary this time just to clean up these disobedient old nobles like you." Zhang Dingguan said.

The autonomy these Western countries have obtained would be unimaginable in the East, where their status is equivalent to that of a prince, ruling at least millions of people, owning their own armies, and enfeoffing domestic officials.

In the West this is a very common thing, but in the East, this is a king of a different surname who has a powerful army, just like his father did in the past.

Only some Western regimes and nomadic regimes would allow the existence of such kings of different surnames.

Zhang Dingguan did not bother to be polite with the Hungarian officers, but directly locked them in the prison van.

He is a guy who is more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything.

Kalman, you sent them here just to please me, but judging from their performance, even if Queen Maria hadn't written to me, I wouldn't think highly of them.

He always brings up the aristocracy's ways, comments on his own bloodline, and even interferes with his own command.

Zhang Dingguan had long disliked them.

After dealing with these destabilizing factors, Zhang Dingguan led his troops and continued to advance towards the Hungarian royal city.

Half a month later, they gathered together with the Han army troops that came to join them.

Afterwards, an army of 120,000 troops marched into the Kingdom of Hungary. Zhang Dingguan's actions shocked the nobles of the Kingdom of Hungary, both big and small. Even Duke Kalman felt a pang in his heart.

What you fear will come true. I didn’t expect that I was so careful!
It even attracted the Mongol army to the west. Duke Kalman had a vague guess in his heart that the target of the westward expedition army this time might be him.

But to be honest, I am not ready yet. Although Croatia has been expanding its military and preparing for war, how many men are there in the whole of Croatia?
His main force had only more than 5,000 men. Even if he brought all the men to the battlefield, he could only gather more than 8,000 people, and could not even gather an army of 10,000 people.

Moreover, although these Croatian troops are nominally the Grand Duke of Croatia, if they are really taken to resist Mongolia, these people may not listen to him.

After all, Croatia was a region conquered by Hungary. Although it had been conquered for decades, the people here had never stopped resisting.

Otherwise, he would have led the Croatian army to help his brother Bella during Zhang Yong's second Western Expedition.

Now, the Croatian Grand Duke can mobilize only a small part of the troops.

The main force that can be relied upon is still the army within the Kingdom of Hungary, but the number of troops occupied by the old nobles is only 50,000.

The remaining 50,000 people are firmly controlled by the new generation of nobles and Queen Maria.

This small number of people started a rebellion, which was not even enough for the Mongolian army to deal with, the Grand Duke of Croatia.

After learning that the Mongolian army was about to enter Hungary, he immediately wrote a letter to the Grand Duke of Serbia and even the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire army.

It was hoped that they could join forces to put pressure on the Mongol rulers not to lead their army into Hungary.

However, these two letters fell on deaf ears, and no news came out at all. Their envoys did not receive the proper treatment from the two countries at all.

With the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Principality of Serbia were terrified to the extreme!
They were afraid of bringing disaster upon themselves and allowing the Mongolian army to invade their territory.

Moreover, the relationship between the two countries has been maintained well over the years. The Eastern Roman Empire and the Principality of Serbia do not want to get involved in this mess.

What's more, the Eastern Roman Empire has not yet resolved its own affairs. The remnants of the Seljuk Empire and some countries established by the Turks have always been eyeing the Eastern Roman Empire.

Under such circumstances, the Eastern Roman Empire naturally did not want to offend the Mongol army. Moreover, this time the Mongol army did not bring King John's youngest son with them and ask them to fulfill their agreement and hand over the territory of Bulgaria.

What's more, even if the Mongolian rulers spoke now, they would have to do it, because these veteran generals of the Eastern Roman Empire knew the combat effectiveness of the hundreds of thousands of troops marching westward.

After all, when Zhang Yong was conquering the Southern Song Dynasty, it was these shipbuilders from the Eastern Roman Empire who built the ships and trained the naval forces.

The Eastern Roman Empire's shipbuilders and naval commanders also reported the results of the battle back to the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Eastern Roman Empire was now able to suppress the Venetians at sea because it had referred to Zhang Yong’s naval tactics.

After Zhang Yong's army officially arrived at the Hungarian border, the Croatian Archduke's heart was in his throat. He had no choice but to secretly return to his territory with his army, hoping to avoid seeing Zhang Dingguan.

If I were to secretly garrison in the royal city of Hungary, Zhang Dingguan would probably catch me, but I would stay in my own fiefdom and be a good duke. You can't find a false reason to attack me or even kill me, right?

You, the army that is heading west, will not stay on this land forever. Once you leave, I will unite with those old nobles to launch a rebellion.

Even Duke Kalman had thought of an excuse. If Zhang Dingguan wanted to summon him after arriving in the Hungarian royal city, he would lie that he was seriously ill and unable to go.

If you don't do anything else, it's just procrastination!
And those Western monarchs, especially the Kingdom of Poland, the Duchy of Lithuania, and the monarchs of the Prussian region.

After seeing the Mongolian army at Zhang Dingguan turn its guns around and the main force enter Hungary, the monarchs of the countries bordering the Russian region all breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Zhang Dingguan had said before that he would not attack these Western lands.

But the nearest countries, such as the Kingdom of Poland, the Duchy of Lithuania, Prussia, and the Kingdom of Sweden, were still in fear every day, especially after the defeated soldiers came back.
They brought back a piece of news that made their hearts jump to their throats, that is, these troops on the Western Expedition actually had a weapon that could fly into the sky.

A giant weapon that looks like a large human head and is carved with all kinds of strange patterns. It can even carry soldiers and carry out high-altitude attacks on cities from the sky.

This type of weapon dealt the greatest blow to them, and even completely defeated the fighting courage of the Western coalition forces.

These nobles who were redeemed with money are now extremely desperate. Even their faith has been shaken and their wills have collapsed.

(End of this chapter)