Of course, there were some farmers in the Khazar Khanate, but these people were only a small minority in the entire Khazar Khanate.

Especially after the grain of the Chinese Empire was exported to the Khazar Khanate, the cultivators of the Khazar Khanate had already abandoned their farming tools and remounted their horses to start semi-nomadic, semi-commercial operations.

This is also something that cannot be helped, after all, the price of grain in the Chinese Empire is lower than the cost of their farming, which makes the Khazar Khanate rely on the grain of the Chinese Empire to live.

And some of the herdsmen of the Khazar Khanate were lured to Taozhou by the Chinese Empire's Taozhou Mulong Yaru.

When the herdsmen of the Khazar Khanate arrived in Taozhou, they found that their lives had become different from before, and they had enough food and clothing, which made them have no resistance to the assimilation of the Chinese Empire.

What Taozhou Mulong Yaru did back then was also discovered by Ashina Zachariah, the khan of the Khazar Khanate.

After all, a large number of herdsmen rode horses and ran to Taozhou with cattle and sheep, which would definitely be discovered.

Therefore, the khan of the Khazar Khanate can also be called the emperor Ashina Zachariah directly asked Taozhou Mulong Yaru for an explanation.

Long Yaru gave Ashina Zachariah some exquisite crafts and costumes to make amends, and then Long Yaru discussed a matter with Ashina Zechariah, the emperor of the Khazar Khanate.

Long Yaru planned to exchange food and supplies for the poor herdsmen of the Khazar Khanate, and Ashina Zechariah thought about it and agreed to Long Yaru's proposal.

It's just that Ashina Zachariah told Long Yaru categorically that he could give Long Yaru the population, but the cattle and sheep should stay in the Khazar Khanate.

Long Yaru nodded in agreement, and Ashina Zachariah and Long Yaru reached an agreement similar to buying and selling human beings.

After that, Long Yaru was impeached several times by the officials in the court of the Chinese Empire, but these were suppressed by Prime Minister Mei Andao.

Although the imperial court of the Chinese Empire did not openly support Long Yaru's behavior, it secretly allocated food and materials to Taozhou Mulong Yaru in exchange for population with the Khazar Khanate.

In fact, this is also a helpless move, originally the Chinese Imperial Court had a proposal to forcibly relocate people to Taozhou, but this proposal was directly vetoed by Prime Minister Mei Andao.

Moving people, how is this possible, people are living well, why do they have to travel thousands of miles to a land that has not been developed much!

Prime Minister Mei Andao knew that such a thing as forced relocation could not be done, unless there was turmoil in the country and the fertile land was destroyed, this kind of thing could happen.

Therefore, after careful consideration, the imperial court of the Huaxia Empire decided to secretly support Taozhou Mulong Yaru to become the people of Taozhou by exchanging a small amount of materials for poor herdsmen who could not eat from neighboring countries.

After all, the king of Lizhou, who was still the Great Khan of Magyars, took almost all the herdsmen and people in the Taozhou area away.

So when Long Yaru was appointed as the state pastor of Taozhou by Gao Yang Yajun, the Holy Son of Heaven of the Chinese Empire, Long Yaru could be said to be a black line.

At that time, Taozhou could be said to be full of people, and there were no buildings to build, and because there were few people in Taozhou, Li Shanglong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, did not know how to plan the city.

Therefore, when Taozhou was sparsely staffed, the government department was a simple team, and it was not until Long Yaru brought a group of poor herdsmen from the Khazar Khanate that Taozhou slowly began to be built.

Of course, the progress was slow, and it didn't take long for the Khazar Khanate to have no poor herdsmen, after all, the Khazar Khanate was still relatively wealthy in general, and there were not many poor herdsmen.

Therefore, Taozhou Mulong Yaru brought a group of poor people from the Bulgarian kingdom in the southwest.

During this period, the Khazar Khanate had a war with the enemies in the east, and a number of prisoners were captured, and these captives were also brought to the territory of Taozhou by Taozhou Mulong Yaru and became the subjects of the Chinese Empire.

And Taozhou is also under the joint construction of Long Yaru and these people, and gradually changed from a sparsely populated state to a normal state.

The territory of Taozhou can be said to be a state with all kinds of people in the Chinese Empire, of course, they are now wearing Chinese costumes and speaking Chinese language and have become a subject of the Chinese Empire.

These included the Turks from the Khazar Khanate, the poor Jews from the Khazar Khanate, the Slavic Bolgars from the Bulgarian kingdom, the Persians from Persia, and the Uighurs, Qarluqs, Tocharians, and so on from further east.

Of course, most of the Uighurs, Qarluqs, and Tocharians were slaves of the nomadic peoples of the eastern Khazar Khanate.

Now that they have arrived in Taozhou, the Chinese Empire, they have changed from slaves to ordinary people, and they are very excited and happy.

They worked together to make Taozhou, which had to rely on the support of the Chinese court, into a self-sufficient state.

And Taozhou also has a characteristic, the people of Taozhou are fierce, they like to wear the Chinese Empire's trolling and riding horses and archery, but they can get down from the war horses to cultivate grain.

Moreover, after dredging and excavation, the Chinese Empire had a waterway that could directly flow down the river from the north to the Black Sea, and then enter the Mediterranean Sea from Constantinople (New Rome), the capital of the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Rome.

This is where the Chinese Empire was counterbalanced by the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, because in order to reach the Mediterranean, the merchant ships of the Chinese Empire had to be inspected in Constantinople and pay a certain fee to reach the Mediterranean.

This made the merchants of the Chinese Empire very troubled, but what could they do, reach the Mediterranean, go to Western Asia, either by land by the Khazar Khanate, or by land by the Byzantine Empire of Eastern Rome.

However, the overland route was too time-consuming and dangerous, so the merchants of the Chinese Empire could only pinch their noses and take the waterway of Constantinople (New Rome), the capital of the Byzantine Empire in Eastern Rome, to reach West Asia or North Africa.

The Chinese Empire was dissatisfied with this matter, and even the northern capital of the Bolgar Khanate knew about it, not to mention the emperor Basil of the Byzantine Empire of the Eastern Roman Empire. Macedonia.

Among the imperial palaces of the Byzantine Empire of Eastern Rome, Emperor Basil of the Byzantine Empire of the Eastern Romans. The emissaries of Macedonia and the Bolgar Khanate and the Cumen Khanate are still talking.

Just the emperor of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, Basil. Macedonia was very unhappy with the rhetoric of the Bolgar Khanate and the Cuman Khanate.

The Bolgar Khanate and the Cuman Khanate actually said that the Chinese Empire was no threat to them, only the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire.

Basil. Macedonia is not a fool, no matter how much the Chinese Empire threatens the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, there is still a Bulgarian kingdom between the Chinese Empire and the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire.

However, the Bolgar Khanate was different from the Cuman Khanate, and their territory was directly bordered by the Chinese Empire.

So the emperor of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire, Basil. Macedonia directly waved his hand and asked the chamberlain to take out the Bolgar Khanate and the Cuman Khanate.