Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

The road to Shu is not easy to walk. It has been said since ancient times that the road to Shu is difficult and difficult to reach the sky. Even in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the connection between Sichuan and Shu and the mainland has been greatly strengthened, but the road is still difficult to walk.

All kinds of rugged mountain roads and steep mountain walls caused Zhang Yong and his family to suffer a lot.

When we led the army, these rough men walked this road, we didn't feel it yet. Everyone tolerated it as long as they could. But when they led a bunch of delicate ladies on this road, in Zhang Yong's ears, each of them The complaints never stop.

"How did you come here with your army? Isn't this road too difficult?" Tu Lanlun looked at Zhang Yong from the horse and asked with a frown.

Is there any mistake? The roads in these lofty mountains and ravines are extremely difficult to navigate, and large-scale cavalry units simply cannot exert their due strength.

How did the master capture this land of Sichuan and Sichuan in more than two months?

"It's so difficult to leave! Master, you are so powerful, you can actually capture such a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack." Farmaena said.

Fortunately, the children were left in Jingzhao Mansion, otherwise, this road would have been even more difficult.

"It's just that the road to Sichuan is relatively rugged. It will be fine once you have passed this section. After officially entering the Sichuan-Sichuan region, there will be a large basin plain area. By then, it will be similar to the Central Plains region or even the Mongolian grassland, and the scenery will be even more beautiful. Beautiful." Zhang Yong said with a smile.

How do I walk when I'm leading troops? Of course I walk on two legs!

Could it be that I put on wings and flew there?

When he entered Sichuan, he did not bring many cavalry. Some of the cavalry stayed in Hanzhong to guard, and most of them were infantry.

Moreover, the willpower and endurance of the army are much stronger than that of ordinary people. Zhang Yong didn't find it difficult when he led them across this road, and he didn't even feel it when they left Sichuan.

"I will never come again next year. The road here is too difficult." Tu Lanlun shook his head and said.

"The road is indeed difficult to walk, but don't you think the scenery here is very beautiful? The beautiful scenery in Sichuan and Sichuan is rare!" Zhang Yong said.

This girl really doesn’t know how to appreciate it! Even in modern times, the scenery in the Sichuan-Sichuan region is quite good, with various dense jungles and various famous mountains and rivers.

It is very suitable to retire here. The weather on the grassland is too cold, and many elderly people cannot even survive the winter. But in the land of Sichuan and Sichuan, you don't need to worry about this problem.

"I still like the blue sky, white clouds, and endless prairie on the grassland, where I can live and graze on water and grass everywhere," Tu Lanlun said.

This is the life that Mongolians like, but I have to say that the scenery here is indeed beautiful, but she doesn't want to admit it.

"I think it's quite beautiful here, sir! The mountains are very beautiful, there are green trees everywhere, and the air is very fresh." Farmaena said with a smile.

After hearing this, several other women also nodded, but several Mongolian women headed by Turan Lun were not very cold about it!

There are mountains everywhere, which are extremely unfriendly to the Mongols.

After several days of travel, Zhang Yong brought his family, wives and concubines to Chengdu Mansion. At this time, officials of all sizes in Chengdu Mansion, as well as some aristocratic families, came here to welcome him.

After all, they knew that Zhang Yong’s eldest wife, the Princess of Guanzhong, was the daughter of Genghis Khan and a Mongolian princess!

This status is quite noble. They are afraid that they will lose their lives in vain if they say something accidentally.

It is said that the Mongols were murderous. Whether they were attacking the Jin Kingdom, Xixia, or even the Western Regions, they would massacre cities in various ways. Khwarezm, which originally had a population of tens of millions, was killed by 90% of the population.

If the King of Guanzhong hadn't suppressed the Mongolian cavalry downstairs, their land in Sichuan and Shu would have been a river of blood. Now that they can preserve the entire land of Sichuan and Shu and accept Mongolian rule, there seems to be nothing wrong with it.

"Excuse me, I've been away for more than a month. How is the development of Sichuan and Sichuan?" Zhang Yong waved his hand and said.

When I left, the summer harvest work had just been completed. Now I don’t know how the autumn harvest work is going.

Damn it, the tax system developed by the Southern Song Dynasty is really easy to use. Although there are more exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the money comes in really quickly.

However, Zhang Yong understands that you cannot squeeze ordinary people forever. Now that he has eliminated some of the old nobles in Sichuan and Shu, his image is still relatively decent in the eyes of ordinary people in Sichuan and Shu.

Therefore, in terms of taxation, Zhang Yong cut off all the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the tax pressure on the people was much reduced.

However, the overall summer tax revenue has not been reduced much. Why is this? Because the answer is very simple, ordinary people can even reduce some exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

In fact, they are not the main taxpayers. The real taxpayers are all famous families and wealthy businessmen. The total tax paid by ordinary people does not exceed 20%. (Thank you for your corrections here. In the Song Dynasty, there were indeed no powerful clans as terrifying as those in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. However, some wealthy families still existed, but these people can no longer be called top clans.)

To give the simplest example, in modern times, big tax collectors have never been ordinary people. Only those with a salary of more than 5,000 yuan start paying taxes, and the tax payment is basically less than 100 yuan.

For a large company, a big boss, or a certain celebrity artist, their annual tax payment reaches a terrifying millions, or even tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

As for ordinary people, the total tax paid in a year may be less than 100 yuan. The tax paid by 10 million ordinary people in a year is not even the tax paid by a large company or a top artist. many.

This is also the reason why many top company celebrities and artists evade taxes. After all, if you earn tens of thousands, you will have to pay millions in taxes. Thirty or forty percent of your salary is taxed.

Summer taxes generally collect money. The tax that ordinary people really have to pay is the autumn harvest tax, which is the food obtained from farming. This is the bulk of the tax. It is also Zhang Yong’s most valued boss.

"Reporting to the King of Guanzhong, the land of Sichuan and Shu has been busy with the autumn harvest for more than a month. Now, the autumn harvest has come to an end. In another half month, the autumn harvest will be completely over. At that time, all profits will be reported to The King of Guanzhong." The official of Chengdu Prefecture said.

Zhang Yong nodded and entered the city with a group of officials from Chengdu Prefecture. This big city with a population of one million was indeed an eye-opener for Zhang Yong's wives and concubines.

Due to the war in the Guanzhong area, the originally extremely developed Chang'an City, also known as Jingzhao Prefecture, now has a population of less than one million, but Chengdu, the land of Sichuan and Shu, has reached this level.

However, as time goes by, Chang'an will return to its original appearance. After all, it is an ancient capital for thousands of years!

"What a big city! I have never seen such a lively and big city with so many people here." Along the way, Famayina said in admiration when she saw such a prosperous and huge Chengdu Prefecture. said.

Their Khwarezm is also a big country in the Western Region. It can even compete with the Abbasid dynasty to a certain extent.

But neither their old capital, Yulong Jiechi, nor their new capital, Samarkand, was as huge as the city in front of them.

There are several cities in Khwarezm with a population of hundreds of thousands, but in this era, you can't see cities with a population of one million anywhere except in the Central Plains.

Whether it is the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt, the Abbasid dynasty, the Ayyubid dynasty, the Delhi Sultanate, or the Holy Roman Empire of Western Christians, Byzantium, Hungary, France, Poland, and the Russian states.

In the largest cities in these countries, it would be good to have hundreds of thousands of people, but they have never seen one with millions of people, haha, they have never seen it.

It is also unimaginable that there have been several cities with a population of one million in the Central Plains.

After entering the city, the girls were shocked by the temporary palace built for Zhang Yong in Chengdu Mansion. In terms of magnificence, it was even more luxurious than the palace in Jingzhao Mansion.

There is no way, one is a city that has experienced many wars, and the other is a big city that has not experienced wars for hundreds of years. The gap is a bit big for a while.

"Master, I think this place would be good as your capital." Turan Lun looked around the magnificent palace, looked at Zhang Yong and said.

Chengdu Mansion made Tu Lanlun very satisfied. He had seen some things in the world. Most of the capitals in the Jin Kingdom could not compare with this place.

"Chengdu is indeed a big city, but it is not suitable as a capital. First of all, its geographical location is not qualified. This place can be the economic lifeline of a land, but it is not suitable to be the capital." Zhang Yong shook his head and said.

The current Jingzhao Mansion is indeed far behind Chengdu Mansion in terms of prosperity and luxury. but. After all, it is an ancient capital that has existed for thousands of years, and it can recover as long as there is time. Moreover, the geographical location of Chang'an City is too important. It can be said to connect China and the West. But for the Chengdu Prefecture, it would be okay if they just huddled in Sichuan and Shu and established a political power. But if they left Sichuan and Shu, it would be inappropriate.

"But if you like it, we can come and live here every once in a while." Zhang Yong said.

"What a pity! Forget it, it doesn't matter where you live. Anyway, I will be where you are. By the way, call out all the women you have here. Ask them to come and pay a visit. I know who the mistress of this family is. Who?" Tu Lanlun said.

"Ahem! Just two of them. They come from big and famous families here. I can't help it. I just won this place and I have to establish some connections with the families here." Zhang Yong said.

Depend on! I knew you were secretly going to get mad.

"Huh! That's pretty much it." Tu Lanlun said.

If it were just two women, she could still accept it. After all, her father and brother would bring back dozens of them at a time.

Soon, Zhang Yong's two concubines who were in Xina, Chengdu came to Tulan Lun and knelt down to the Mongolian princess.

"Daughter of the Xue family, meet Princess Tulanlun."

"Daughter of the Cui family, meet Princess Tulanlun."

Both women were very careful about what they said, for fear of offending Tulan Lun in some way.

"Xue and Cui? Don't you have your own names?" Tu Lanlun frowned and asked.

"Princess, we girls from big families all have a nickname. After we get married, we all take our husband's surname." The woman surnamed Cui said.

For example, she can now be called Zhang Cui, and add Zhang Yong's surname before her own surname to get her name.

"You two, please follow me from now on! I am the Princess of Guanzhong and Zhang Yong's number one Hanerduo." Tu Lanlun said.

The two women were quickly subdued by Tu Lanlun's aura. There was no way they could do it. Zhang Yong felt terrible when suddenly it was her turn to be cruel. After all, she was a woman who had massacred a city.

That murderous aura cannot be erased by some cleverness. Among all his women, Tu Lanlun is not the smartest one, but she must be the most domineering one.

In the next period of time, Zhang Yong took a large group of his family to live in Chengdu Mansion. His wives and concubines were warmly entertained by the wealthy local nobles in Sichuan and Sichuan.

Basically, there is a small banquet on one day and a large banquet on two days. In short, there are various banquets and even outings.

A group of noble ladies from well-known families took Tulan Lun, Famayina, Xiaoyun Quchi and other girls with them, and went around the outskirts of Chengdu to play, watch theater, listen to music, visit temple fairs, and enjoy flower lanterns.

My group of women have been very busy recently, and even Zhang Yong has been able to take a rare moment of leisure recently.

On this day, Zhang Yong found more than a dozen of the best craftsmen in Chengdu Prefecture who are good at making kites.

More than a dozen kite craftsmen all looked at Zhang Yong tremblingly, gathering together timidly, obviously very afraid.

I wonder what the king of Guanzhong had in mind for recruiting them here? After all, they were just a group of kite-making craftsmen, and their social status was not very high. They really didn't expect that one day they would be invited to the palace by a prince.

Although the officers and soldiers who came to invite them were more polite, a group of kite craftsmen were still trembling after they arrived, obviously very afraid of Zhang Yong.

"You are the best craftsmen in Chengdu. The Spring Festival is still a while away. In more than a month, I hope you can make me a special kite." Zhang Yong Looking at a group of craftsmen, he spoke.

"King Guanzhong, if you have anything to do, just give me your orders. I will definitely take care of it." A leading craftsman stood up, knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Zhang Yong and said.

If they were just making kites, then there would be no problem for them, but they didn't know what kind of kite the King of Guanzhong wanted, so he actually recruited all their craftsmen.

"I want you to make a golden dragon. It must be extremely majestic. The horns and scales on the dragon's body must be very realistic. The body length must be about seventy to eighty feet, and the head must be big. A little, leaving a hole and a shelf in the middle, I want to put things in." Zhang Yong said.

There is a lantern festival on the night of the Spring Festival, and the entire Chengdu Prefecture will come out to celebrate. Zhang Yong plans to make a big move. He will use his drone to cooperate with the triage to make a giant golden dragon, and then hover over Chengdu Prefecture.

This idea is something Zhang Yong started thinking about when he entered Sichuan. The projector is indeed magical, but it is still very difficult for the people in the whole city to see it.

They had to be divided into batches, and there were many inconveniences. Therefore, Zhang Yong urgently needed a new thing that could create auspicious, rich, and even majestic objects for all the people.

Before traveling through time, Zhang Yong saw someone online using a drone to put it on the mouth of a kite dragon, and then controlled the drone to fly into the sky, and the dragon also took to the sky.

I happen to own a drone myself, and kite-making is a traditional craft of the Chinese nation. All I need to do is find some kite-making craftsmen.

According to the calculations of Song Dynasty, seventy or eighty feet is twenty-five or six meters. My drone can just send it into the sky and fly it so that the people in the whole city can see it.

The shock that a golden dragon hovering in the sky can cause at night is absolutely unprecedented.

Having just occupied the land of Sichuan and Sichuan, Zhang Yong still needs some mythology to disguise himself.

"This! King of Guanzhong, are you sure? I want a dragon that is seventy or eighty feet long! King of Guanzhong! Such a huge kite cannot fly!" A kite craftsman said in a very embarrassed voice.

I knew it wasn't a good thing. Make a dragon-shaped kite this huge. It is very difficult to make it fly. It would be better if it was made into a big bird.

But being a dragon is not easy to fly. After all, dragons are long and snake-shaped. It's so big in the sky that it's easy to blow away.

What material is used for the dragon-shaped kite? An ordinary paper minute hand will definitely not work.

"I will give you a special material. You can try this thing. Use these hard materials to make the skeleton, and I will make the outer layer stronger." Zhang Yong said.

Of course, ordinary materials cannot make a flying dragon skeleton, so Zhang Yong took out some aluminum alloy materials.

I still have some aluminum alloy in hand, so it shouldn't be a big problem to make a faucet frame weighing a few kilograms.

The drone has an aluminum alloy frame weighing several kilograms and is put on a dragon's shell. The total weight does not exceed ten kilograms, so it is no problem to fly.

"This, is it made of iron? If the prince uses iron to make the frame, the kite will not fly easily! In fact, it will not even fly." A craftsman said in a very embarrassed voice.

How can an iron kite fly?

"You don't need to worry about how to fly. I have a flying artifact that can fly without the help of wind. You just need to make an appearance and a strong skeleton at the head of the dragon." Zhang Yong said.

Although my kite dragon is called a kite, it does not fly into the sky with the power of wind, but with a drone. (End of chapter)