When Qin Dong received Da Dan Yu Erak appointing him as the king of the Eastern Yuan and the general of Zhengdong, Mo Duo also received an order to lead his troops north to cross the Danube River and go deep into the hinterland of Enek, and at the same time, Da Shan Yu also promoted him to the right big household, and the new territory was in a grassland north of the Tatra Mountains, and Saidika's territory was left to Qin Dong to be responsible for the deployment of defense, only to retreat to the northern grassland after the task of going deep into the hinterland of Enek this time and forcing him to lead his troops back to reinforce was completed.

Although Mo Duo was a little dissatisfied with Qin Dong's promotion to a much higher position than him, he only made a few complaints and set off with the whole army, this expedition is naturally as fast as possible, the time is very tight and cannot be delayed, Mo Duo led the troops to set off first, and the family still stayed in Saidika to pack their bags, preparing to go west to the royal court, and then from the royal court to the territory north of the Tatra Mountains.

After Mo Duo led the troops to withdraw, Qin Dong quickly led 15,000 troops to enter Saidika, including 10,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry, fully taking over the blank area left by Mo Duo after leaving, and quickly sent troops to garrison in various regions, fortunately, Qin Dong's recruits who had been trained for nearly a year were all formed into an army, otherwise such a large territory, with his original strength, it was really a bit weak to want to occupy this place steadily, but now the new recruits and veterans in his hands add up to a total of nearly 30,000 people, and when the cavalry is concerned, the number of cavalry has reached 22,000 horsemen.

The speed with which Qin Dong took over Modo's territory was simply jaw-dropping to Edika and some of the surrounding forces, and before everyone could fully react, the southeast changed its owner within a day, and according to Qin Dong's current official position and the territory and number of troops under his jurisdiction, he was already a veritable king of the southeast. Although there was still an Edika on his territory, Qin Dong didn't care, with the strength in his hands. Even if he faced Edica head-on, he was 90% sure of winning.

Qin Dong's current territory includes all the territory of Bulgaria and part of the eastern part of Serbia in the future, if Edika is in the same boat as him, with 10,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry in Edika's hands, he can completely maintain local law and order, but now Edika's attitude is not clear, so the nearly 30,000 horses in Qin Dong's hands are enough to maintain local security, but he has no strength to attack other forces. If you want to free up troops and have offensive capabilities, you must also recruit tens of thousands of people as militias to maintain local law and order.

However, Qin Dong was not prepared to recruit too many people, and could only recruit another 10,000 people at most. Otherwise, he will not be able to afford too much military spending, and these local militia forms of troops are only used to maintain local security, and do not participate in offensive operations, except for the maintenance of local security. In the event of a foreign invasion. They are also responsible for resisting aggression.

After all the defense areas were stationed, Qin Dong began to recruit soldiers in various places, although at first the locals were somewhat resistant, and even hostile to Qin Dong's army, but after a period of time, the locals found that Qin Dong's army did not commit any offense against the locals, and the discipline was very strict, never stealing chickens and dogs, and forcing them to buy and sell. There was no robbery of the locals' property, gradually. Only people of all ethnic groups in various places recognized Qin Dong's rule.

The generous military salary and good food treatment made young men of all nationalities from all over the country very enthusiastic to go to the recruitment site to sign up. Qin Dong recruited 15,000 people in a very short period of time, Qin Dong was not going to ask for so many people, only 10,000 people were needed, but many young men just refused to leave, Qin Dong had to grit his teeth and leave the extra people, he sent people to select 5,000 strong young men from these 15,000 people, intending to train these people into a regular army and supplement them to the main force.

Dadan's move to set up the four kings of the four courts in Erak is really too beneficial to Qin Dong, with the official position of the king of the Eastern Court of Qin Dong and the general of Zhengdong, even Edika, the captain of the left, must be under his official office, and he is responsible for all military and political affairs from the east of the royal court, west of the Black Sea and the southeast, that is, the military and political affairs, and the civil affairs that Edika is responsible for must also report to him at any time, which is completely the rhythm of doing local princes and feudal towns.

After Qin Dong settled in Saidika, he changed the habit of Moduo stationed in the camp outside the city, he ordered the army to be stationed in the camp outside the city, but he took a thousand guards into the city to temporarily live in the church where Mo Duo lived before, and at the same time ordered the architect to design a mansion for him, and openly recruited the construction team from the outside world to build the East Courtyard Palace, stipulating that the labor force in the construction team must be recruited locally in Saidica, and the building materials used must be purchased from the outside except for those that must be purchased from outside. This is in line with the principle of not flowing outsiders, these two measures make the residents of Saidika happy, all say that Saidika is about to change the decadence of the past, and is about to usher in a new spring, Qin Dong also announced that after the completion of the construction of the East Courtyard King's Mansion, the entire East Courtyard military and political institutions will move in to exercise their functions, and then return the Hagia Sophia Cathedral to the church, and the church will send someone to receive and be responsible for the management, the East Courtyard King's Mansion will not interfere, but the person in charge of the church must be approved by him, Moreover, the actions of the church must abide by the laws formulated by the Eastern Courtyard and the local government office of Saidika, and if the church members violate the law, they will be dealt with in accordance with the law.

Although the people of the church have lost their privileges, it is much better for the church to be able to preach in Qindong's territory and take back the Hagia Sophia, which is much better for the church than not being able to preach and being occupied by Modo.

In fact, the reason why Qin Dong wants to stipulate this is to restrict the development of the church's power, and not let the church develop to the point where it cannot be controlled, and the church can only be controlled by the government, and cannot be controlled by the church, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable, if so, it is likely to let the church's rights override the imperial power, which is absolutely intolerable for Qin Dong. It would be terrible if, as in the Middle Ages, the divine right was above the imperial power, and the king of a country should be appointed by the pope in order to be counted, which is ridiculous, and the later Byzantine Empire did the best job in restricting the divine right and controlling the church.

After receiving all the territory of Modo, Qindong has several outlets to the sea, these outlets are on the west coast of the Black Sea, the construction of merchant ships, the formation of a fleet and the construction of naval warships, the plan to build a navy has also been put on the work agenda by Qindong, the sooner the development of the navy, the better, in this regard, the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanid Dynasty of the Persian Empire have gone ahead, the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire began to build a navy in BC, and Qindong has not yet begun to start.

In fact, Qin Dong has been thinking about forming a fleet since he came to Pazar, but the rivers in the territory he controls cannot sail normally, so Qin Dong has always regretted this matter, now there is an outlet to the sea, and there are also places to build large seaports, of course Qin Dong wants to start building a fleet, if he wants to get rich, take the sea route! In this era, the cost of taking the sea route is much lower than taking the land route, and the return on investment is extremely high, not to mention anything else, if you transport goods from the territory of Qindong to the Persian Empire to sell, you have to go through almost the entire territory of the Eastern Roman Empire from west to east, and you have to go through layers of checkpoints on the way, just passing the tariff This item will have to pay a lot of cost, if you take the land route from the north, you need to pass through the territory of Enek and Deng Zhixik, the goods and people may not be guaranteed, let alone make money, but if you take the sea route, It is possible to reach the coast of the Persian Empire directly from the west coast of the Black Sea to the coast of the Persian Empire on the east coast, and also allow the fleet to go south through the Turkish Straits into the Aegean Sea, and then into the Mediterranean Sea, where it can reach Cyprus, Syria, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Carthage and other Mediterranean coastal cities.

Qin Dong knows that the scale of building a fleet at this stage cannot be too large, and he has to take his time, firstly, because he has no talent in this area, and secondly, because the situation during this period is tense, he may need to use large-scale force at any time, and the army needs huge military expenditures, and it requires money, and it is with a lot of money, and building a fleet is also a money-burning business, if you build a fleet on a large scale now, not only will no one come to drive the ship to lead the team, but also invest too much money for a period of time and there will be no return. Then when the army needs a large amount of troops, it will be troublesome if it can't come up with military spending, so the large-scale construction of the fleet must wait for the situation to stabilize, and there is no problem in making a small fuss now.

After Qin Dong was appointed as the king of the Eastern Courtyard, the people under him also rose with the tide, but during this time, because he was too busy, he did not have the experience and time to prepare for the promotion and salary increase of his subordinates, for promotion and salary increase, Qin Dong has a strict system, not to promote whoever he wants, he must meet several conditions for promotion, first, loyalty is no problem. Second, there is merit. Thirdly, competent, and fourthly, qualified.

Among these four conditions, loyalty is ranked first, first examine loyalty, which is a prerequisite, if there are several people at the same time with the possibility of promotion, only this condition is passed, only quò, eligible to be promoted, and then look at the merit, two people with different abilities, first look at who has merit, the person with great merit is given priority to be promoted, the same merit, the person with strong ability is given priority to promote, if these conditions are the same, the last look at the qualifications.

And when Qindong was digesting the newly acquired territory, north of the central part of the Aps, the situation in the middle and upper reaches of the Danube River had undergone earth-shaking changes, and the Xiongnu Empire's Dadan Yu Erak obeyed the construction of his generals, and led the army to pretend that the north was attacked by Deng Zhixik and quickly returned to the royal court, discarding countless burdens along the way, and the new military commander of the Western Roman Empire, Heraclius, wanted to lead his army across the Danube River to pursue on the spot after learning the news of Erak's withdrawal, but the deployment and persuasion investigation was clear. Soon learned that Deng Zhixik was violently attacking the mouth of the mountain range in the north of the Xiongnu royal court, which made Erak have to lead the army back to help, otherwise his royal court will not be protected, then Heraclius was relieved, and immediately led the army to cross the Danube River to pursue as fast as possible, but did not want to be ambushed by Erak on the way, and lost his troops, resulting in more than 100,000 troops almost annihilated, more than 30,000 people were killed, and as many as 50,000 or 60,000 were captured, leaving only more than 10,000 people to protect Heraclius and flee back to the south bank of the Danube.

After this crushing defeat, the situation of the Western Roman Empire was further worse, and Emperor Valentinian III ordered additional taxes to be levied on the people, raising more money to recruit troops, making the people even more impoverished and hated him even more. (To be continued......)