"Yelanghou should discuss these things with Lieutenant General Huang Changshi."

Zhang Yuan's attitude was completely beyond Duotong's expectations, and he couldn't figure out why Zhang Yuan had such an attitude.

"Envoy, didn't you come to my Yelang because of this matter, and now I want to discuss with you, why do you have this attitude."

Tang Meng is not here now, and Zhang Yuan, an official in the mission, does not think that he will be biased towards Tang Meng, even if he tells Tang Meng everything that happened today, Zhang Yuan feels that it is difficult for him to say anything.

"Yelanghou, this matter will be postponed, I want to ask your son how is his progress in studying now?"

Duotong was asked by Zhang Yuan's inexplicable question, and he was suddenly confused.

Full of speed, he said slowly.

"My son has already served as Jiangyang Ling, why should he study?"

Mom sells batches, this is so special that Tang Meng didn't even confess in advance, and he fooled me when he came up directly.

Zhang Yuan scolded in his heart.

I didn't expect that I was in my twenties, and there were still people who bullied me for not being old.

"It's nothing, it's just a casual question, if Yelanghou has other sons, he can send them to my Dahan to study, and he will benefit one party when he returns from his studies in the future."

Fortunately, he didn't believe what Tang Meng said yesterday, and if he could ask something like 'the Han Dynasty is bigger than Yelang', Zhang Yuan didn't have any hope at all, and he could voluntarily send his son to study in the Han Dynasty.

"The messenger doesn't have to worry about my son, and let's turn the conversation back to the matter of conquering the people."

"It is imperative to recruit the people, but it is not the first thing we want to do.

I don't know if Yelanghou counted all the people in the territory and then naturalized. ”

Liu Che changed the Yelang country to Qianwei County, although he only wanted to symbolically expand the territory, and never thought of really including the Yelang country into the territory of the Han Dynasty, but if he wanted to recruit the people here according to the Han law, and let these people of the Yelang country pay taxes and levy labor, they must count the number of people.

The people of Yelang are not nomads, they all have their own fixed living settlements, although the number of people takes a longer time, but only the household registration can be completed quickly.

Before asking this question, Zhang Yuan thought that Duotong must have never done such a thing, and he probably didn't know how many people there were in the county.

The reason why an arrogant person has blind self-confidence must be because he does not know himself thoroughly enough.

"It's never been counted, what does the messenger want to do?"

Although Duotong is too blindly confident, he is still an honest middle-aged man.

"The first thing to do is to count the household registration and the number of adult males in each household, so as to be able to calculate the weight of the forced labor to be borne by each household.

Moreover, once they are naturalized, they can quickly find their families if there is any tax evasion or evasion of forced labor in the future, so that as long as they are concerned about the safety of their families, they will be able to work honestly. ”

Zhang Yuan said lightly, and after Duotong accepted this matter, he even wanted to implement the joint sitting method in Qianwei County, so that everyone could be considered perfect.

Duotong is not a stupid person, he understood Zhang Yuan's words, and then remembered everything Tang Meng said to him yesterday, and felt that this was not a good thing.

"Emissary, this matter is postponed, let me think about it again."

Zhang Yuan hugged his fists at Duotong, and then withdrew from the palace and returned to the post house with the officials of the mission.

As soon as Zhang Yuan left, there were palace guards coming out of the palace and heading to the Han army camp at the mouth of the valley.

When the palace guard left the camp with Tang Meng, he happened to be seen by the second egg who was collecting news in the camp. Central Plains Book Bar

Erdan quickly weighed it in his heart, and hurried back to the post house.

Zhang Yuan was reminiscing about everything that happened in the palace today, and by the way, he connected yesterday's events in his mind, and when he saw if there was any omission, Erdan knocked on his door.

At this moment, Li Jian was also in the room.

"Master, I'm back."

"Come in."

After Erdan came in, he looked at Li Jian, and then at Zhang Yuan.

"It's okay, just tell me if you have any news."

"Lord, I didn't find any useful information in the barracks, the soldiers just said that they had gone to some villages to capture adult men to build roads, and I think this was what we had expected.

In addition, just now I saw the palace guards in Yelang's palace go to the barracks to find Tang Meng, and then Tang Meng left with him, and the direction was the palace in the center of the city. ”

Zhang Yuan nodded thoughtfully, and waved his hand to signal Erdan to go down first.

Li Jian didn't know what Zhang Yuan was probing, so he didn't open his mouth to ask.

The levy and conscription have all agreed, why can't they agree to the matter of household registration, the relationship between the two is almost inevitable, what do Duotong and Tang Meng want to do?

Whether the road in the southwest can be repaired or not, Zhang Yuan doesn't care, everyone knows about this matter, so Duotong shouldn't think about hiding the population of Yelang Country.

Not letting the household registration be counted must be to conceal the population, and no one in the Han Dynasty knows how many people there are in Yelang, and even he doesn't know how many of them, so it doesn't make sense to hide this matter now.

"What are they going to do?"

Zhang Yuan lowered his head and thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with a conclusion that could convince him.

After lunch, Li Jian pulled Zhang Yuan out of the post house directly.

"Brother Li, if you want to go out to play and bring some guards, why do you need me to follow."

Zhang Yuan was still thinking about the matter between him and Tang Meng, and he didn't really want to go out for a stroll.

"Ah Yuan, I see that you haven't made the slightest progress after thinking about it in the room for a long time, so it's better to come out for a walk, and maybe you can have some unexpected gains."

"Brother Li is also right, it just so happens that I haven't walked around the city of Juanxian County, so I'll just take a look at the exotic style."

Li Jian was not wrong at all, Zhang Yuan also felt that he was a little too much of a bull's horn, and even a little out of the original intention.

I just wanted to let the people of the Han Dynasty not run away to a foreign land to die, but now I am thinking about more things with Tang Meng.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan suddenly decided that if he still couldn't find a result in the end, he would give up directly and return to Chang'an to do something earlier.

There are also some people in Yelang County who are doing some small business, selling all kinds of strange things in the southwest.

Not only the dyes of the Dian Kingdom, but even the brocade of Shu can also be seen.

The locals did not trade metals such as gold and copper coins, but used barter.

Grain is hard currency here.

As for silk, it is a high-grade currency.