The whole procession began to advance towards the west, and the empress and the others could only watch Qin Dong take the emperor away and could not do anything while standing on the city gate tower. Pulkaria once thought that she couldn't be coerced by Qin Dong so much, and wanted to send an army to strangle Qin Dong and others regardless of the emperor's life or death, but she didn't dare to take this risk, in name she was still Marcian's wife, a wife who didn't care about the danger to her husband and the emperor's life, just to breathe a sigh of relief, just for her own face, she couldn't afford this crime, if she really did it, she was afraid that she would be spurned by everyone again.

The number of people in the team was large, and the speed of travel was very slow, and it was not until the evening of the afternoon that they arrived at the small town of Ermel, which was dozens of miles away to the west, and what made Qin Dong distressed was that half of the fur and clothing of the goods he brought this time were confiscated by the city guards, and he didn't get a copper plate, but the money from selling some of the goods first also earned several times, which can be regarded as being able to compensate for the value of the confiscated part of the goods, as long as the Eastern Roman Empire sends the ransom to the border, he will make a lot of money when he comes to Constantinople this time.

After meeting up with Peteaus and Charlie Cao and others in the small town of Omer, it was a really difficult time to spend the night, because there were too many mosquitoes and flies in the wild in the summer, and many people woke up the next morning with red spots on their bodies, which were the result of mosquito bites, and many people did not sleep at all.

In order to change this situation, Qin Dong could only send people to ask the officials of the Eastern Roman Empire for tents, the magistrate did not want to give them, the tents of more than 5,000 people, the cost was not a small amount, but the people who were sent were fierce and vicious. They were all Hun cavalry, and the magistrate was so frightened that he could only send five hundred tents from the local garrison to Qin Dong. Qin Dong sent people to buy a large amount of incense to repel mosquitoes at night, and also bought a large amount of food, so he was delayed in place for another day, but this day's delay was worth it, at least no one could sleep because of mosquito bites that night.

On this day, in addition to preparing marching tents, buying food and mosquito repellent incense, Qin Dong also sent people to register and classify these more than 5,000 Orientals. This work was carried out by Pethius and Charlie Cao, with Pethius registering Latin names and Charlie Cao registering Chinese names.

After registration and classification. It is known that there are 5,123 Han Chinese, and the vast majority of these people are young and middle-aged, of which 80% are pure Han Chinese, and 20% are mixed with other Europeans. A few are the elderly and children. There are not many Han women, only more than 600 in total.

In addition, there are more than 200 Indians, Southeast Asians, and more than 400 Turks, making a total of 5,768 people.

That night, Qin Dong gathered everyone together, and after looking at the registration list of more than 5,000 people, Qin Dong said, "I took a look. Of the more than 5,000 people, 137 were literate, and 25 of them were of a good level. And seven of these twenty-five people are very literate, Arfard, you send someone to invite all seven of them! ”

"Yes, sir!" Alfald said yes and left the tent.

It didn't take long for the seven people who were invited to come into the tent and salute Qin Dong together, and it was a big salute, Qin Dong hurriedly got up and helped them up.

After everyone took their seats, Qin Dong said to the seven people led by Zhong Hui: "Several of them are people of insight with both ability and political integrity, and they are all literary masters ......."

Qin Dong's words were a little too exaggerated, too face-giving, and the seven people led by Zhong Hui hurriedly got up and saluted, saying things like dare not dare and Miao Zan.

"This time, you were arrested and imprisoned by Roman soldiers along with so many people outside, in fact, you were implicated by me, I am really ashamed, how to say that this matter is caused by me, I am responsible, so I threatened the emperor's safety and they sent you over, and now you can't stay in the Eastern Roman Empire, I mean please go west with me, now the Hun Empire is not only fighting, is facing a situation of fragmentation, it is the time of turmoil, but at the same time it is also a rare opportunity, You are all sober-minded and intelligent, why don't you and me take this opportunity to do something big? ”

After Qin Dong finished speaking, he looked at these seven people, among which Zhong Hui had already agreed to follow under the persuasion of Charlie Cao, he used to be a thorn in the Northern Wei Dynasty, he was only in his thirties and made a state thorn history, and he did not have any background in his family, and his ability was obvious, but he also offended many powerful people, in order to avoid the end of the family being destroyed, he had to give up his official position and take his clansmen to flee to the Western Regions, and later came to Constantinople, where he made his home.

Zhong Hui got up and said: "I am waiting in this western place, I am not familiar with the place, I am surrounded by people of different races, I can't understand the language, it is difficult to talk, the Westerners are hostile to us, it is not easy to live in Junbao, now Junbao can't stay, where should we go?" Now thanks to Lord Qin, Hui is willing to follow the left and right, the lord is above, please accept Hui's worship! ”

The other people glanced at each other, and they all got up and bowed to Qin Dong, saying, "Thanks to the lord's attention, we will follow us to the death!" ”

There is no way for them, even if they don't want to follow Qin Dong to the Huns, they can't stay here, they can't even save their lives if they stay any longer, and when they look at Qin Dong, they know that he is Han, everyone is Han, they can be regarded as fellow villagers, and Qin Dong is still the commander of the Huns, and his official position is not small, so he may be able to mix well with the past, and when he goes out, he can take care of his fellow villagers together, right?

When Qin Dong saw that these seven people had agreed to follow, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly helped them up one by one. If you want to do a career, you must gather enough people to complete it together to fight your own territory in this western land, and it is absolutely impossible to rely on one person alone, Qin Dong knows this, as a descendant of the Han people, his subordinates are all Huns, Greeks, Romans, Germans, how can this work? No matter how capable he is and how powerful his force is, he always has some estrangement from these people and feels very lonely, but if there are more than 5,000 Han people, the situation is completely different, and these people can be regarded as his mother's family. Once something happens, these Han people will inevitably support him, because they all know it. If Qin Dong falls, they will surely suffer a catastrophe.

Then Qin Dong said: "Ladies and gentlemen, now we have more than 5,000 people here, and a large number of people will slow us down, and because of the large number of people, it is easy to cause chaos and difficult to manage. How do we manage these people? If something happens, how can we keep these people from fleeing? I don't know if you have any solutions? ”

Zhong Hui stood up and said, "Lord, this matter is not difficult. There are only 5,000 people in every 10 households who need to be appointed as the pavilion chief, one person out of every 10 pavilion people as the chief, and one person out of every 10 miles as the village chief. It is possible to form six villages. If you have an order, you only need to convey it to these six village chiefs, and as long as you manage these six village chiefs well, you can manage these more than 5,000 people! ”

This Zhong Hui really has some talents, this problem is so simple in his place, Qin Dong Dayue immediately ordered the other six people to each take the position of a village head, managing a thousand people, and ordered Zhong Hui to be the town mayor as the official of these six village heads.

Next, Qin Dong appointed the remaining more than 100 people who were a little literate and literate to be the chief and pavilion chief respectively, and these people could read and write. Generally speaking, people who can read and write understand some truth, and in this era, people who read are very respected. With these people as the lieutenant and pavilion chief, the other Han people should not object, and they can all read and write, and they can also understand the official documents issued by Qin Dong, and they can also teach other Han people to read and write, which can be said to kill multiple birds with one stone.

After these problems were settled, Qin Dong immediately asked them to confirm who and how many Han people were under their jurisdiction overnight, and those Han people who were assigned to a certain pavilion should know their pavilion chiefs and lieutenant chiefs, and after these people and their pavilion chiefs and lieutenant chiefs knew each other, the six village chiefs also came to know each other with the Han people under their jurisdiction, so that it was easier to manage. As for the remaining few hundred Indians, Southeast Asians and Turks. The Turks were all scattered and incorporated into the villages.

Early in the morning, after breakfast, with Qin Dong's order, these more than 5,000 people quickly gathered together under the management of their respective pavilion chiefs and lieutenant chiefs, and the Hun cavalry scattered around to be on guard.

Qin Dong rode to the front of the more than 5,000 people and said loudly: "Fathers, brothers and sisters, I am an Oriental like you, my father is from the Northern Wei Dynasty, from the bloodline, we are the same race, there is the same blood in the veins, because of my reasons, you were arrested and put in prison, and now I have rescued you, it can be said that none of us owe anyone, but no matter what, I made it impossible for you to return to Constantinople, but you can follow me to the further west, where there is my territory, In my territory there is an endless grassland for grazing horses and sheep, and fertile fields for you to cultivate. The crisscrossing of rivers and streams for you to fish, and the dense forests for you to hunt, I promise here that if you go with me, each of you will receive five acres of fertile land, and it will be given to you free of charge, and those fields will be your own! Are there any who don't want to go out? Do you have a loved one who is still nearby and want to bring them with you? As long as there are people from the Northern Wei Dynasty, whether they are Han Chinese, Xianbei people, or other people, they can get the same treatment."

No one doesn't want to go, where to go if you don't go there? There is no place for this place, but many people feel sorry that the house and property they left in Constantinople are gone, but they finally saved their lives, and they can live better if they go to the Hun Empire.

Since no one is unwilling to go, Qin Dong immediately said: "Okay, no one is unwilling to go, now distribute grain, twenty pounds of grain per person on their backs, this is your twenty days of rations, take out one pound every morning and hand it to your pavilion chief, and the pavilion chief will assign someone to make steamed buns as a day's rations, and then distribute them to you, each lieutenant chief should arrange personnel to dig wild vegetables at every meal, and then go to your village chief to receive meat, cook wild vegetable broth together, and distribute it to everyone to eat with steamed buns!" Have more questions? If not, start distributing food now! ”

Next, Zhong Hui assigned personnel to distribute food to the people in each village, and after each village chief took it away, it was sent to the chief below, and then to the pavilion chief after the chief took it back, and the pavilion chief finally distributed it to each household, some households had only one person, some households had two, or even three, and some were a family with dozens of people.

After the sun rose, the team of more than 5,000 people began to set off, heading westward, and the cavalry of the Eastern Roman Empire appeared around from time to time to monitor all the way, but this cavalry did not dare to approach at all, and Qin Dong and others ignored these cavalry of the Eastern Roman Empire.

In order to prevent Marcian from being rescued by the Eastern Roman Empire, Qin Dong ordered someone to take off all of Marcian's emperor's clothes, put on a commoner's clothes, and then let a person with a similar figure to Marcian put on the emperor's clothes and sit in a carriage to pretend to be Marsian.

Sure enough, as Qin Dong expected, the whole team just passed through the city of Lulaibu and a group of people came to rescue Marcian, that night, the team camped outside the city of Lulaib, in the middle of the night a group of people sneaked into the camp and touched the vicinity of the carriage that Marcian was riding, when it was soon discovered by the guards guarding the carriage, the two sides had a big battle, and the people who came to the rescue suffered heavy losses, and they could only choose to retreat when they found that they could not succeed, but at this time these people could not run if they wanted to.

The next morning, the team continued to advance, and after a week, Qin Dong and others led their troops to Edir, the capital of the Balkan province, where the governor of the province, Leo, was located.

That night, Qin Dong and the others still chose to camp outside the city, and the camp was taken care of by a group of mercenaries that night, this time this group of mercenaries actually killed several guards guarding the carriage, but what they found was a fake emperor, and then these people were killed after being surrounded by Qin Dong's entourage guards.

Before the team left Ediel, Qin Dong sent people to cut off all the heads of these mercenaries and pile them into a tower, and also left a text at the scene, saying that if anyone came to rescue the emperor secretly, he would kill the emperor immediately, so that those people could only save one corpse.

As soon as Qin Dong made this move, the Eastern Roman Empire suddenly died down, and he no longer dared to send people to secretly rescue him, so he could only honestly raise the ransom that Qin Dong demanded. (To be continued......)