Nine million and six hundred thousand has always been a dream in Yang Hao's heart, and with the actual control of Qi State extending to Jiangnan, he is one more step away from this dream.

Yang Hao knew in his heart that if he followed the example of the feudal dynasty in later generations, the Qi State had basically completed its unification and had the conditions to be called emperor, at least his territory was larger than that of the weak Song Dynasty.

The only thing that could stop him from expanding outward was the population, which didn't match his territory well.

Although there are many tribes living there, the population cannot be compared with the Central Plains.

Yang Hao was a little regretful, and his eyes subconsciously looked at the west.

"It's a threat!"

Central Asia.

Caesar, who had a white beard, realized that his days might not be numbered, people would always die, he was not afraid of death, but he fought all his life, and he was still too far away from the world that his father said.

Standing in this palace, named the City of the Conquerors, Caesar's gaze looked to the east.

This huge empire has taken two generations and more than a hundred years to develop from scratch to what it is today.

He couldn't help but regret that if he was younger, he wouldn't have stopped his steps.

It's just that at his age, when he wants to lead a large army across the mountains in the east that stretch for countless miles, a sense of powerlessness rises in his heart.

He knew that to the east of that mountain range, there was a more fertile and open land.

Just when Caesar was a little distracted, an attendant came up respectfully.

"My king! Sir Neil has captured a group of exiles from the East, whom Sir thinks our king may be interested in.

”

Caesar's cloudy eyes seemed to brighten up a lot.

"Orientals?"

"Yes, my king! It's Oriental! ”

"Hmmm! I know, tell Sir Neil to take a good look at those people, and let him bring them tomorrow. ”

"By the orders of my king!"

After the chamberlain left, Caesar paced around the palace on crutches.

"Interesting!"

Day 2.

A palace in the city.

"Neil's greetings to my king!"

Neil, who had blonde hair, took off his military hat and bowed ninety degrees, as if he had met the gods.

"Oh! It's Neil! Have a seat! ”

"Thank you, the king!"

"I heard you've arrested some Orientals lately?"

"Yes, I met these people in the Northern Territories a month ago."

Caesar nodded: "How many?" ”

"About 20,000 people."

"20,000?"

Caesar was a little surprised.

"Yes, my subordinates were also a little surprised at the time, we have rarely seen such a large tribe in these years."

"Can you communicate?"

"Back to the king, among these people are the natives of the north, who can barely communicate."

"Alright! Where are these people now. ”

"Already waiting outside the palace."

"Hmmm! Bring them in! ”

After a while, several frightened-looking yellow men were brought to Caesar, followed by several natives with Central Asian faces.

Caesar looked curiously at these people who looked a little different from Westerners, and said to Neil, "These are Orientals. ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! ”

"Who are you? Where did it come from? ”

Under the stumbling translation of several natives, the yellow man at the head understood the question, and replied tremblingly: "I am the leader of the Xiongnu, Wuliang, from the grassland on the other side of the mountain. ”

"The Huns of the East, why did you come here?"

Wuliang looked a little unwilling, and said, "My tribe was defeated and fled. ”

"I heard that there are tens of thousands of you, and you have also been defeated?"

Wu Liang's expression was suddenly a little unnatural when he heard this, and he said resentfully in his heart: "Damn, isn't this talking nonsense again? If you don't defeat the battle, how can Lao Tzu be here. ”

But the situation is stronger than people, and what I have seen and heard in the past few days knows that these color-haired people are too strong.

"Twenty thousand people is nothing, there are greater forces in the East, and we are not their opponents."

"Oh! A greater force? ”

Caesar was clearly interested.

"Hmmm! Their name is Qi State, they are very powerful, and the population is like stars in the sky, and they are in charge of thunder and lightning! ”

Caesar frowned, although he was not a godless, such words were obviously unbelievable.

After all this time, he had never seen these miracles, and if he could barely call them miracles, perhaps only the civilization passed down from his father.

"Orientals! Are you fooling me? ”

Caesar felt that his IQ had been humiliated, and the momentum he had cultivated for a long time was startled.

Neil looked at your black beam coldly, and the long sword at his waist was drawn, and he was about to kill this person on the spot.

Seeing this, Wu Liang was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, and hurriedly began to defend himself.

"Sir Neil, put away your sword!"

"Yes! Your Majesty! ”

Neil glanced coldly at Wuliang, put away his sword, and sat down in his chair.

"Don't test my patience, Oriental, for if there is any more deceitful words, I will look down at your head and feed the crocodiles in the pool.

”

What a crocodile was, Wu Liang didn't know, but the words of cutting off his head did make him scared.

"Wuliang doesn't dare!"

"And what's the matter with Thunderbolt?"

"The Qi people have a weapon that can make a loud noise, emitting white smoke, and if a person is hit by a round stone, the person will die."

Hearing this, both Caesar and Neil suddenly stood up.

"You say it again?"

Wu Liang didn't know that sentence was wrong, cold sweat flowed down his forehead, and he could only say it again.

Caesar sat down heavily, his brow furrowed into a Sichuan character.

"As my father told me! The civilization of this world should be very backward, how can there be a civilization of muskets! Could it be that the father could be wrong, too? ”

Caesar thought to himself, and his heart had raised his alarm against the mysterious East.

And with Wuliang's description, Caesar was already very sure that the Qi country was a very great threat to his empire, and this was the first time in his life that he had raised a civilization to a level equal to his own.

After having the people take Wuliang and the others down to take care of them, Caesar stood up and paced back and forth?

"Neil! What do you think? ”

"Your Majesty, I don't think the Oriental is lying."

"Hmmm... I can't imagine that in addition to us, there are civilizations equal to us in this world, and this world is really getting more and more interesting. ”

"Your Majesty?"

"Hehe, keep those Orientals, maybe it will be useful to us."

In August, the weather has begun to cool, and soon the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and farmers near Chang'an are already busy.

However, this year's autumn harvest was different from previous years, and the agricultural officials from various villages and towns came to the fields for the first time.

This made the farmers, who were already worried about the harvest of the new crop, even more nervous.