In the hot May, in Tehran, the capital of Persia, Leon officially became a Han prince who was crowned king. Beginning in April, wealthy merchants from all over former Persia flocked to Tehran in the hope of reaping tangible benefits from the new kingdom established by Leon. As one of the largest classes in the original Persia, these rich merchants had a power not to be underestimated, so when he captured Tehran, Leon only confiscated the nobles of the original Persia, did not invade the merchants in the city, and when he unified the whole territory of Persia, he did not use force on a large scale, but sent envoys to persuade the rich merchants in the cities of the original Persia, and they came forward with the envoys to force the defenders and officials of the city to surrender. This caused the wealthy merchants of the former Persia to reverberate, and they decided to invest in Leon, a generous monarch who was not as brutal and unkind as the legend suggests.

Li Ang did not care about the little Jiujiu in the hearts of these rich merchants, he met with the representatives sent by these rich merchants, and told them that their loyalty would be rewarded, that he would bestow them various titles in recognition of their contributions, and that he would also give preferential treatment to merchants in the new Tang law, but he needed the support of merchants to deal with the nobles of the original Persia, and he needed the land in the hands of those nobles to appease the largest number of commoners.

Several representatives of the wealthy merchants agreed to Leon's terms almost without thinking, knowing that the seemingly well-spoken monarch before them was generous, but his will could not be disobeyed, and the fate of the old nobles had been pronounced, and they could not offend their new masters for it. Moreover, although they had close contacts with those old nobles in the past, they did not give those old nobles any less benefits, and they did not owe each other, and there was no moral burden.

This time, at the founding ceremony of the Tang Kingdom, all the major families in Chang'an sent people to attend, for those former Persian officials. They all opened their eyes greatly, you must know that the ancestors of the major families were all prominent generals during the Great Qin Army's westward expedition, and their prestige has been remembered by people even now.

After the founding ceremony, what worried the Persians the most was how many Persians could occupy among the officials in the court, after all, it could be seen that the monarch Leon had an attitude towards the Persians, and what reassured them was that in addition to the Privy Council, which represented the army, the Persians occupied several important positions in the cabinet. Although the head of the cabinet is held by Wang Meng, the Persians have little hope for the position of the head of the civil office, and although the original left and right ministers are not as powerful as before, they still hold important positions in the cabinet, and govern the six ministries, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War. The six-ministry system is the same as that of Great Qin, but it is directly under the control of the cabinet, which omits the three provinces in Great Qin, headed by nobles, to restrict imperial power. , and in the six ministries, the Persians also held many positions of real power. Finally, the entire court. Persian officials accounted for nearly forty percent, the rest of the Hu accounted for about one-tenth, and the rest were all Han Chinese. Especially in the Privy Council, except for a few henchmen of Li Ang, who were born in Huren, almost all of them are Han generals.

For the Privy Council, the Persians don't have any voice, after all, the Han people are famous for being able to fight, and the reputation of the people is there. If you want to blame, you can only blame the Persian generals for not being angry and not being able to enter the Privy Council.

Li Ang's establishment of the Tang State in Persia greatly surprised the major families of Chang'an, who originally thought that Li Ang would go directly west to Haixi. But he didn't expect Leon to directly annex Persia as the foundation, and it seemed that he was planning to have an all-out confrontation with the Romans. This inevitably makes them anxious, you must know that for Great Qin, the Dragon City Qin Mausoleum must not be lost, it is not only a symbol of Great Qin's hegemony, but also a holy place in the minds of all Han people, and it is also the place where their ancestors rest, so they are all worried that Li Ang will slowly pacify the people after the founding of Persia, and he will have no time to take care of Dragon City and Qin Tomb. In response to this concern, Leon assured the envoys of the great families that he would move the capital to Baghdad and would never let the Romans touch Asia.

So less than a month after the announcement of the founding of the country, Leon announced the relocation of the capital to Baghdad, which made the people of Tehran very frustrated, knowing that they would lose the status of the royal capital, but because the big nobles in the city had already been dealt with, and those rich merchants had already fallen to Leang, there was almost no resistance to the move of the capital, and for the merchants, the geographical location of Baghdad was more suitable for them to do business.

Since Baghdad was originally an important trading city on the Persian border, all it needed as a royal capital was to build a royal palace befitting Leon's status and fortify its defenses. However, for Leon, these two problems do not seem to exist, and Leon does not pay attention to accommodation, so in his opinion, the construction of the palace can be postponed, as long as the office office is built first, as for the city defense of Baghdad, under his personal control, those small countries in Asia Minor do not dare to make a mistake.

Although Wang Meng advised Li Ang many times that the palace must not stop, but Li Ang seemed to be hard-hearted and ignored it, just lived in the military camp of the army with his wife and children, and only cared about training the army every day

Hands were thrown to Wang Meng and Cui Hao. At this point, Li Ang and the statue of Great Qin Taizu, they are not incapable of handling political affairs, but they don't like to be tied up by political affairs, and compared to the gorgeous palace, they prefer to live in the military camp, Emperor Taizu of Great Qin spent only a few years in the imperial capital Chang'an, and spent the rest of his time in the military camp. And Li Ang seems to be developing towards this trend, and Wang Meng and Cui Hao can only smile bitterly at this.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, everything was complicated, after Wang Meng took over the political affairs thoroughly, he knew how fortunate it was to manage a country, he didn't know that Li Ang had seen Cao Anmin in Chang'an how hard he worked every day, so he entrusted all the political affairs to him, concentrating on war and military affairs, although poor Wang Meng was a first-class smart man, he was still moved by Li Ang, and he almost didn't say 'do your best, and then die.' 'Words come.

However, fortunately, although the two ministers of the original Persia were treacherous, they were also good at governing the country, and because of the murder of his mother, he completely forgot his Roman identity An Changsheng's talent in political affairs, so that Wang Meng was not too busy. The only thing that made Wang Meng dissatisfied was Cui Hao, obviously his ability was not under him, but he was arranged by Li Ang into the Supervision Yuan, this country has just been established, Li Ang's prestige is there, which official dares to touch the head and find death, for Wang Meng, Cui Hao's ability is equivalent to being wasted, but he has no choice but to watch Cui Hao get away.

After Leon moved the capital to Baghdad, the small countries in nearby Asia were all looking down, Leon didn't even show his intention to do something to them, these small countries took the initiative to ask for annexation, and Leon also did not refuse, all under the account, in just three months, the territory expanded nearly doubled, mainly in the current Turkish region, on the surface, Leon now owns the land directly across the sea from Greece, and at the same time adjacent to the Jews, so that both countries are greatly relieved.

While Leon was busy incorporating Asia into his territory, and the Romans and Arabs were not idle, Constantine continued to promote his Christian extremist doctrine, leading the entire country to militarism, while increasing the harassment of the Macedonian region, and the navy was frequently dispatched to threaten the coastlines of the Jewish state and Greece, so that the combined fleet of Great Qin and Greece could only watch the Arabs cross the sea and attack Egypt.

Egypt, as one hundred and fifty years ago to support the three major foreign vassal states, has always been in the Qin hegemony system has a non-negligible role, Egypt is rich in grain and very rich, in the era of the Romans dominating the Mediterranean, Egypt has always been an important source of taxes, but in the current situation, the Romans are unlikely to take back Egypt, it is better to sell it cheaply to the Arabs.

Because they have been living under the hegemonic protection of Great Qin, the Egyptian army is the worst of the three foreign vassal states, in the face of the wolf-like Arab cavalry, the Egyptians did not even have a decent resistance and fell, and finally the Egyptian royal family escaped by chance, to the Jewish country, after visiting the Qin Tomb in Jerusalem, without making any stops, they desperately rushed to Baghdad, they were really frightened by the Arabs, those wrapped in white robes, brandishing scimitars, shouting like madmen when fighting' Allah's Almighty's Islamic cavalry is so cruel that they take pleasure in slaughter.

Leon had taken in the Egyptian royal family, but for him, he was not currently able to deal with the Arabs, not to mention the Romans were on the sidelines, he did not have enough fleet to send troops to Egypt to expel the Arabs, and more importantly, he also needed time to consolidate the newly annexed territory and Persia.

"It will take years for the Arabs to pacify Egypt." At night, in Li Ang's royal tent, Wang Meng, Cui Hao, Murong Ke and a group of Li Ang's henchmen and courtiers were all present, although the country's new construction is not suitable for large-scale use of troops, but Li Ang has never been the kind of person who will use troops according to common sense, but at the moment Wang Meng's meaning is clearly that he hopes to take advantage of the time when the Arabs invaded Egypt to consolidate the territory first, and Greece can also be abandoned, but it must create some trouble for the Romans to buy time.

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"Arabs, you must not give them time to eat Egypt." Leon knew Arabs and Islam better than the generals present. In his opinion, Islam is more offensive than Christianity, he will never let the Arabs grow up and become a disaster, China since the Tang Dynasty, the sphere of influence in Central Asia and the Western Regions has been Islamized, until his time, it is still one of the unstable regions of the country, he also came to Daqin because of the fight with the Islamic East Turkistans, now there is such an opportunity in front of him, he will never give up, the Arabs and Islam must be destroyed.

Seeing that Li Ang said it categorically, Wang Meng had no choice but not to speak, after all, Li Ang said that he had the final say in military affairs.