Yaotougang, this is a small town about twenty miles away from the city of Khotan. The Visa Governor’s Office before the Kaiyuan period once garrisoned a large number of troops here.

The name Visa originated from Buddhism. I remember the 22nd year of Zhenguan. Xue Wanbei shocked Yutian with fifty cavalry. Under his "persuasion", King Yuchi Fuzhexin of Khotan went to Chang'an to pay homage.

However, after Yuchi Fuzhexin arrived in Chang'an, Emperor Taizong of Tang had already passed away, but the successor Gaozong Li Zhi was extremely happy. He immediately appointed Yuchi Fuzhexin as the governor of Visha Prefecture, and later promoted to the Visa Governor's Office and became one of the four towns in Anxi.

But now that time has passed, the Tang Dynasty no longer exists, and the originally famous Anxi Tang Army garrison has also become a small castle.

The residents in the city either died in troubled times or had moved to the city of Khotan to live. The people who are still here have become thirty or forty Khotan civilians.

"Erlangjun, the household registration of the residents in the city is here. The emperor has issued an order. From now on, Erlangjun will settle down in the residence of others!"

Aside Zhang Zhao, an official in a green robe handed Zhang Zhao a thin account book.

As he said that, this official, who was obviously mixed-race, asked Zhang Zhao with emotion.

"Do you know what kind of holy relatives he is?"

Zhang Zhao signaled Zhang Zhong to take the transfer book and bowed solemnly.

"I just arrived at the Great Jin Kingdom, but I don't know the right way. I'm about to ask Mr. Tian for advice!"

When the green-robed official heard Zhang Zhao calling him Duke Tian, ​​he could not help but squint his eyes and looked happy. He was just a small household in the city management of the King of Khotan, so he was not qualified to be called Duke.

And as soon as Zhang Zhao finished speaking, he quickly asked Zhang Zhong to present a wooden box.

"I heard that Mr. Tian's ancestors were also officials of the Tang Dynasty from the Yanqi Governor's Office. This box of lard and honey cakes is a delicacy in the Central Plains. I gave them to Mr. Tian to comfort his homesickness!"

At this time, the King of Khotan changed his name from Yuchi Seng Wubo to Li Shengtian. If he likes him, he will be effective. The nobles and officialdom of Khotan all became popular with him. Anyone who could have something to do with the Tang Dynasty said that he had the bloodline of the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the Tianhu Cao in front of him originally had the surname of Khotan, but in order to cater to the above, he also found a Han ancestor for himself and changed his surname to the Han surname.

He usually has a Chinese name for his official surname, and he can speak Chinese, which needs to be listened slowly to understand, but he can communicate with others. After returning home, he naturally becomes a native of Khotan.

However, judging from the appearance of this Tianhu Cao, it may be unknown whether it has the blood of the Han family.

Tianhu Cao smiled faintly. What kind of lard honey cake can travel thousands of miles of desert and not bad? It must be just a saying.

Sure enough, after Tianhu Cao gently opened the gap in the wooden box and took a look, the smile on his face became even more satisfied, because there were three silver tins with high quality lying inside, which was equivalent to his income of at least five months.

"The second son was hard to refuse his affection, so he accepted it with shamelessness. He said that the emperor was the emperor's saintly favored the second son. That's because my Dabao Jin Kingdom has been in almost ten years since the eleventh anniversary of the same celebration. It has not given land to any subordinates, but it is still so close to the royal city."

The Khotan political system is a very strange combination as far as Zhang Zhao learned about it.

In the area near the royal city of Khotan, Li Shengtian established the Taifu, Taiwei and six officials, which seemed to be a centralized country.

But in fact, Khotan has a very strong feudal characteristics. From the king Li Shengtian, the other nine states of the Kingdom of Khotan were all enfeoffed, except for Anjunzhou, where the founding capital of Khotan City.

The governor of each state is the largest feudal lord. The areas below the governor are also controlled by other feudal lords of all sizes.

When war broke out, the feudal lords would lead private troops to the capital, and then they would go to the expedition under the leadership of the generals directly under the King of Khotan.

In other words, Li Shengtian actually had full control of only Anjunzhou, the capital of Khotan and Yaerkan (Shache) in the north, and the rest of the places were under the control of feudal lords of all sizes.

Zhang Zhao suddenly thought that Li Shengtian was so obsessed with the Tang Dynasty culture, would it mean that he introduced the Central Plains county system and weakened the power of the feudal lords in China?

Then in this way, he will definitely not increase the scale of the territorial feudal lords, and it will be normal that he has not been enthroned for ten years.

Now that Li Shengtian gave Yao Tougang to him, Zhang Zhao, it can be said that he is quite loyal to the superiors.

"And..." A glimmer of light flashed in Tando Cao's eyes.

"Someone asked someone to remind Erlangjun that some things he must report to the emperor in time to know. This is his way of being a minister. Please forgive me!"

Seeing Tiando Cao walking away with his feet briskly in his arms, Zhang Zhao touched the beard that had begun to grow on his chin, and he thought quickly.

Old Zhang Zhong beside him was full of doubts, "What does this Tianhu Cao mean? After taking our thirty cents of coins, he said such a foggy sentence?"

‘Cough cough!’ Zhang Zhao coughed dryly, and was sure that he would not allow Lao Zhangzhong to participate in any political matters in the future.

The person who had to report to the emperor at all times was undoubtedly Li Ruoyu, who had a sensitive identity!

Li Ruoyu was asking Tiandu Cao to tell him that Li Shengtian had already known what he did in Guanni City, including the fact that he gave Queen Zhongyun You to his generals!

Yaotougang's castle is obviously a bit disrepaired. It is a fortress built according to the large Han area of ​​powerful fortresses. It has a circumference of at least five miles, but the earthen walls have collapsed in many places and have been reclaimed into farmland.

Only the building on the right side of the fort is quite complete, with many low and low houses built from mud, stones, branches, etc., which are closely adjacent to each other.

When Zhang Zhao walked in through the wide main entrance, there were kneeling on both sides of the gate, both tall and short men and women, old and young, standing half of them, but there were more children and adult men and women, and there were relatively fewer elderly people.

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Zhang Zhao originally wanted to give a speech to win over the hearts of his "subjects", but as a result, he basically couldn't understand his Uighur dialect, let alone Chinese dialect. Zhang Zhao was even more like listening to the book of heaven in the Khotan dialect.

It was really a bit crazy to capture people's hearts. Zhang Zhao smiled with a sarcastic smile. He had no martial arts skills and had never eaten the military job, so he didn't have to spend time to recruit people.

So Zhang Zhao handed the account book in his hand to Zhang Zhong, which was the registration book they had after they had set up the treasure of King Zhongyun in Guanni City.

"Zhongweng, we have a lot of people now. You have to carry the logistics support for me.

Wu Yuan'er looked for me yesterday and said that he didn't want to go back to Dunhuang and was willing to follow me. You can contact him. From now on, you will be the main focus and he will be the deputy."

"Here!" Old Zhang Zhong intervened and sang, his face filled with joy, "I was the butler chosen by the emperor for Erlangjun, and now it can finally come in handy!"

"Okay, Zhongweng, after you go to Wu Yuaner, discuss a plan to organize and repair Yaotougang Castle. Just use the money to find an instruction!"

But Zhang Zhao pointed to the city wall that had almost completely collapsed, "But there is no need to rebuild the city wall. Just get some fences to block the beast."

As he said that, Zhang Zhao seemed to have thought of something, and pointed to a very tall and relatively well-preserved earth wall in the distance.

"Let me find someone to strengthen it and build it according to the strictest wall standards!"

If you don’t build the city wall, it’s because it is close to the capital of Khotan. Your nephew brings hundreds of brave armored soldiers to build a fortress as soon as you arrive. What did you think about Li Shengtian?

To strengthen the distance, Zhang Zhao suddenly thought that without such a wall, how could he show Li Shengtian the power of his black gunpowder!

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