Qin Dong stayed at Saidika and worked with Modo to analyze the possible situations and situations in the future, and formulated corresponding responses to these possible situations, and the two decided to attack and defend each other no matter what kind of situation they faced, and advance and retreat together.

Qin Dong nominally belongs to the commander of Modo, but he was directly sent by Dadan Yu Erak, so Modo did not really regard him as a subordinate commander, but as an ally of the same front, both of them are Elak's people, they are people from the same camp, and Modo also recognizes Qin Dong's strength, Qin Dong is by no means different from other commanders, and now Qin Dong's territory is more than double the size of the land that has just been ceded from the Eastern Roman Empire, which he has obtained by his personal ability, Modo could no longer see him as an ordinary commander.

After resting for one night in Saidika, Qin Dong rushed back to Dirmit City with two hundred men and horses the next day, he had to arrange the next things, Dirmit City was his first real city, and it was a fortress, or it was ceded from the hands of the Eastern Roman Empire, and he had to manage it carefully.

It is definitely not a simple matter to govern a city that has just been obtained from the enemy, Qin Dong thought about it, and decided to adopt the method of razing and razing, and use the Eastern Romans to govern this large piece of land that he had just obtained, but all the ruling power in this land cannot be handed over to only one person, and the consuls of each city can only govern one city, including the towns and villages around the city that belong to the jurisdiction of this city, from Dimeter to Quesnel. Not counting the border fortress of Dimet, there are two county towns and fourteen county seats.

The two county towns are Mercapaca and Mabro, with seven counties under the jurisdiction of Mercapaca. There are six county towns under Mabro's jurisdiction. The population of the two counties is about 110,000, after all, there are many hills and mountainous areas in this area, and the population living in this area is not much, compared with the total population of the original Pazar and Plov in Qindong, which is more than 20,000 people.

After a few days of statistics and surveys, Qin Dong found that in addition to some Eastern Romans, the original inhabitants of this area were mainly Bulgars, Slavs, Thracians, and a small number of Persians and Arabs. Among them, many Ostrogoths and Alans migrated from more than 100 years ago, and these people have a large population.

In order to implement the policy of razing and razing, Qin Dong invited some famous and literate slave owners, priests, guild leaders, and leaders of the peoples around the city in the two counties and the city of Dimit. On the spot, these people were appointed officials.

The county town of Mercapaca was headed by Zhong Hui and Mabro by Pethius, each with a local celebrity as his deputy, and the consul of each county was either Greek or Roman. The heads of other nations and prominent slave owners, clergy, and guild leaders formed councils. They were members of the parliament, and Qin Dong sent people to serve as the president of the parliament, of course, there were also Huns and Han Chinese among these councilors, and the consuls had to report to the parliament before issuing heavy political measures, and more than two-thirds of the people in the parliament voted in favor of it, and the consuls' governing program could be passed, and the officials under the consuls were appointed by Qin Dong respectively, mainly by people of prestige of various nationalities. However, the finance and taxation officer was appointed by Qin Dong himself, and this position was very crucial. Qin Dong can't be handed over to others.

The security of the city is headed by the consul and the local people as the chief officials, and the adjutant of the peace is appointed by Qin Dong, who is responsible for supervising and splitting the power, and the people in charge of law and order are composed of locals recruited by the sheriff's office, and the sheriff adjutant is responsible for review.

The city defense army is composed of two parts, one part is the original army of Qindong, the county is generally stationed with a centurion and a hundred-man team, and the county town is stationed with a tun general, that is, five hundred generals, commanding five hundred people, this is the main force, and each city also has a city guard, which is equivalent to a puppet army, the city guard army is recruited locally, composed of young and middle-aged people of various ethnic groups in the local area, the county town recruits 2,000 people, the county recruits 400 people, and military training is carried out after the recruitment is completed. After the completion of the training, the combat effectiveness and military command ability of the talent selected as the commander-in-chief, the command of the city guard of each city belongs to the centurion or general stationed in the local area, and then select elite men to supplement the main battle army.

After consideration, Qin Dong transferred Su He to lead 300 archers and 200 light cavalry to be stationed in the county town of Mercapaka, with Su He as the military governor of this city, and transferred Ma Li to lead 300 light cavalry and 200 light infantry to be stationed in Mabro County.

After the recruitment work is completed, a special officer training regiment will be sent to each city to train all the recruited recruits, and after the recruitment training is completed, the recruits will be withdrawn to the regiment training regiment, and then the outstanding ones will be selected from these recruits to serve as officers and commanders at all levels, and the command will be vested in the hands of the commanders of the main battle army stationed in the local area.

The city guards of each city have cavalry, infantry and archers, of which the infantry accounts for the vast majority of the logarithmic, and the cavalry is only responsible for the tasks of issuing orders and reconnaissance, according to the ratio of two archers among the ten soldiers, and two of the other ten soldiers must be logistics soldiers, and one is the siege equipment operator.

Since Qin Dong's series of cards were played, the leaders of various ethnic groups, guild heads, and big slave owners who tasted the sweetness were very supportive of Qin Dong, these people could not be officials when the Eastern Roman Empire ruled, but Qin Dong not only did not deal with them when he came, did not discriminate against them, but also treated them like guests, and appointed them as officials, let them participate in the management of the city and turn over as masters, although Qin Dong's abolition of slavery offended some slave owners, but Qin Dong did not do things absolutely, in terms of taxes and other treatments, gave these slave owners great benefits, plus Qin Dong made them officials again, and the contradiction was eliminated, and these people also supported Qin Dong very much.

When it came to recruiting soldiers, these people were very supportive, and many freed slaves signed up one after another, not only because Qin Dong ordered the abolition of their slave status, but also because the army was paid very well. Although the salary of the city guard army cannot be compared with the salary of the main battle army, it is not much worse, and as long as the combat effectiveness and comprehensive quality meet the requirements of the main battle army. You can also be selected to supplement the main battle army, with stronger combat effectiveness than other soldiers, and may also become a centurion, and if you have military command ability, you may also be promoted to a centurion, which is something that many people dream of.

In order to prevent the consuls from gaining the absolute support of the local forces and secretly developing their own power, Qin Dong stipulated that the consuls could only govern in other places. Cannot serve as consul in the place of birth.

After a period of more than ten days, the administrative organs of the newly acquired land have been set up one after another, and the appointed officials have taken up their posts one after another. The ruling bodies of the cities began to enter a state of work, and Qin Dong stayed in Dimeter City for more than ten days, seeing that nothing happened as usual. The local people of all nationalities are safe and sound. It was a very peaceful life, and the Eastern Roman Empire did not send troops to regain the territory, so he returned to Pazar from Dirmit.

The Eastern Roman Empire ceded the land of the three counties to Qindong, but did not prohibit merchants from trading with the Xiongnu, and Qindong not only did not exploit the common people who had newly acquired land, but reduced a lot of unreasonable miscellaneous taxes, which made the local people very supportive of the new regime, and the people who had fled before heard about the situation here and returned one after another. Commerce and trade were more developed, and Pazar was the seat of governance in the eastern part of Qin. Therefore, it has also become the most political, economic and military emerging city, and the trade industry is more prosperous, many merchants come from far away, bringing a large number of goods that Pazar does not have, taking away Pazar's specialties, and even buying dried seafood in Pazar, and North African specialties.

In order to alleviate ethnic contradictions, Qin Dong decided to set up a Department of Ethnic Affairs, send special officials to mediate and deal with the facts of various ethnic groups, and gather the leaders of various ethnic groups in Pazar, Plov and several other places, like the cities of Macapaca and Mabro, to form a parliament, and Qin Dong appoints consuls. The consuls must obtain the permission of the parliament when issuing the heavy dà government measures, and the issued heavy dà government measures can take effect, which can suppress the rights of the consuls, and also let the leaders of various ethnic groups have official positions, honorary status, and things to do.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to harvest the crops, the farmers in Qindong's territory, as well as those who volunteered to be slaves, began to harvest crops in the fields, when the weather was bad, Qin Dong ordered the army to go to the fields to help the farmers and slaves harvest, the number of people is really powerful, with the help of the army, the crops that took a long time to harvest are now harvested in a short time, and the people still have a lot of time to do other things.

Qin Dong's move won the hearts and minds of the peasants and slaves, who sent their sons to serve in the army, and heard that the army was well paid, and it was also very reassuring to follow such an official as a soldier.

After the crops in the entire area were harvested, Qin Dong ordered the officials of the cities to go to the countryside to count the grain harvest, and to collect the surplus grain from the peasants and slave owners, and the purchase price of the grain was increased by 10% according to the market price, so as to protect the interests of the free people.

This year's harvest is much better than in previous years, and the harvest per atabi is about 350 pounds, which is already a good harvest, and a total of 53.5 million pounds of grain has been harvested in the whole jurisdiction, and 8.56 million pounds of grain have been harvested at a price one percent higher than the market purchase price, and the surplus grain has basically been expropriated, and the peasants and slave owners may not have much surplus grain in their hands. And this grain has to be sold to many people in the towns to live.

According to the population calculation of the whole jurisdiction, each person's ration is about two hundred pounds, which is almost enough to last until the first season of grain harvest next year, but if there is a war or a natural disaster, the food will definitely not be enough, so Qin Dong has to send people to the eastern Roman cities in the east and south to buy grain, and grain is the most important strategic material in this era of relying on the sky to eat.

Because Qin Dong canceled Dimet, McCapaka and Mabro, many unreasonable miscellaneous things that had just won the city, although he had a lot less taxes, but it made the local people have a lot of surplus money in their hands, and after having these surplus money, these people want to consume and buy things, not only does not make Qin Dong's taxes less, but also increases, mainly because the money is not hidden by the people, they used to want to buy things but have no money to buy, now they have money, and there are more opportunities to make money, so they are willing to spend money, After the circulation of money accelerated, Qin Dong's taxes naturally increased.

After Qin Dong introduced so many new policies to appease the local people, the people who originally belonged to the Eastern Roman Empire not only did not resist his rule, but also supported it, and the entire jurisdiction was calm and thriving.

Qin Dong had a good life in Pazar, and the territory developed very well, and the Eastern Roman Emperor Marcian vowed to take revenge on Qin Dong since he returned to Constantinople, but his health was getting worse and worse, and the court doctors thought that he was only frightened after being taken away, and because of the long distance and fatigue, plus he used to fight all year round, and there were many old injuries on his body, so he couldn't afford to get sick, and now Marcian's body has reached the time when the oil is exhausted, and he has no power to return to heaven, so he can only prescribe some medicine to hang himself.

Soon after, Qin Dong finally received a flying pigeon from Constantinople, Marcian died, I heard that his body was too weak, and he was taken captive by Qin Dong for such a long way, the journey was tiring, and his body could not bear it before he fell ill, and finally died.

According to normal history, Marcian should have died four years later, and Queen Pulkaria died in November of this year, and now that time has passed, Queen Pulkaria did not die, but Marcian died.

Marcarian's death put the Eastern Roman Empire into a passive situation, even if Marcian has an heir alive, because his heir was not born with Pulkaria, so he has no right to inherit, not to mention that he has no heirs, now Pulkaria and the senators If they don't want the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire to be inherited by the Western Roman Empire, Pulkaria must find another husband to be the emperor, and the two will govern the empire together. The senators and ministers of the Eastern Roman Empire were again struggling to find a husband for Pulkaria.

Pulkaria is already in her fifties, and if she wants to find a man of the same age and not too low status, this man must also be a widower, that is to say, an old man without a wife, this is very difficult, but any old man with a little status is afraid that he rarely has no wife.

At this time, Leo began to move, he ran all day and all night in the homes of various ministers and senators in Constantinople, lobbying them to support him, and also found Zeno, the governor of Isolia, and promised him that as long as Zeno supported him to become Pulkaria's husband, he would marry his youngest daughter to Zeno, which meant that Zeno was eligible to inherit the throne of Leo who had no heirs in the future, after careful consideration, Zeno agreed to Leo's conditions, Zeno had no choice, his patron Marcian died, and he had to find a new patronAt this time, Leo begged to come to the door, which was equivalent to bringing him a pillow to sleep on, as long as he took refuge in Leo, Pulkaria would not fix him anymore.

The senators and ministers all recommended Leo to Pulkaria after receiving Leo's benefits, and Pulkaria was originally a little disgusted with finding Leo as her husband, but thinking that there was no other person more suitable than Leo at this time, she could only reluctantly marry Leo as her husband, and in this way, Leo became the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, four years earlier than normal history. (To be continued......)