The largest palace in the palace city of the Ming Palace is in an I-shaped layout, with the base of the hall ten feet above the ground and divided into three layers. The front hall is connected to the back bedroom at the north end - Xiang Pavilion, through a long colonnade. Now the real gold lives here. Now it is summer, the marten hanging in the hall is replaced with Persian ice silk curtains.

Last night, Empress Kuokuozhen cried to Zhenjin that Tiemur had been stranded in the Southern Dynasties for several months. She was very worried, fearing that she would be harmed by the Southern Dynasties and could not sleep at night. She hoped that the Khan would try to let him return to the north as soon as possible. He comforted him and calmed down Kuokuozhen and promised to try to let the Southern Dynasties release people. Then, he talked about Boyan's domineering arrogance, and wanted his nephew who had entered the Guard to serve on the front line of Xuzhou and make some military achievements, but he refused.

Zhen Jin didn't care much about this. The Mongols valued military merits the most. It was not an exaggeration to have this idea and agreed. What made him unhappy was that Kuokuozhen said that the traffic in front of Boyan's mansion was full of traffic, and the people who gave him gifts blocked the road. Their own affairs were not done, mostly because he disliked the few gifts he gave. It can be seen that there was no difference between the superiors and the inferiors in Boyan's eyes.

For Boyan, Zhen Jin now has unconditional trust. All matters in the court are determined by him. Now he has accepted bribes on a large scale, which surprised him and was hard to believe. He scolded Kuokuozhen and told him not to interfere in the affairs of the previous dynasty, but he was still a little unhappy. This morning he received a quick-track memorial saying that Wang Weixiao disobeyed the Khan's will and refused to withdraw from Xichuan for a long time, which led to constant conflict between the two armies, which made him feel depressed again.

In the morning, he met several sect kings who entered the harem, and said that they were also dissatisfied with the fief assigned by Boyan and hoped to make adjustments. After talking to them for a while, Zhen Jin felt very tired. After holding them back, he yawned a few times, tears flowed down, and his heart became more and more irritable. After going down to the court, he went straight to the quiet room of the back hall. When he smelled the fragrance emitted from it, he felt refreshed.

"Sweat, the blessing and longevity cream is ready!" He Weixian, who was waiting here, immediately bowed and lie on the soft couch with Zhenjin on his side.

‘Huh…’ Zhen Jin took the cigarette gun, took two puffs, closed his eyes and savored for a moment before spitting out the smoke, saying, “I’m looking for this blessing and longevity cream to save my life, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to stand today.”

"This is my duty. As long as the Khan lives for a hundred years, I will be willing to lose everything even if I lose everything!" He Weixian said respectfully.

Zhen Jin sighed again, "I feel that I am increasingly unable to live without this blessing and longevity cream when I am close. Can I present more of my dear?"

"It's not that I don't do my best, but this blessing and longevity cream is too rare." He Weixian said, "It's not easy to plant this medicine plant, and it's very delicate. It can't survive if it leaves the land on the island, and can only collect dozens of kilograms of original medicine every year. Refining is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Often, ten kilograms of original medicine can only be made into one or two kilograms of medicine. The old Taoist priest can only make at most two kilograms of medicine every month, and keep it for his own use and refuse to give it to others. I send someone to stay there with a lot of money to buy it all."

"Oh, so that's it. No wonder I've never seen it on the market!" Zhen Jin said disappointed. Thinking that he was bedridden before the New Year, but with this, he felt comfortable after taking a few sips, and he was not sick. More importantly, he was much more energetic and was able to attend the court director.

"I will do my best to protect the Khan from a prolonging life!" He Weixian lit another cigarette bubble for him.

"If my officials of Dayuan are like my beloved, I don't have to worry so much!" Zhenjin said with relief.

"Khan, there are Boyan, Li Qian, and Brother Sang in the court. There will definitely be no mistakes. It is important to take care of the dragon body!" He Weixian said.

"Haha, I heard from the outside that there are traffic in Boyan's mansion every day, and there is no place to store the gold and silver when sent to it, so it is placed in the corridor. But it is true!" Zhenjin asked with a sneer.

"This..." He Weixian looked puzzled when he heard this, and pondered for a moment, "I don't know if the Boyan Mansion has a full warehouse of gold and silver, but there are many people visiting the mansion. The carriages and horses block the roads in front of the mansion, and I also need to detour from the court. Maybe it's because Boyan's affairs are too heavy and he works day and night, and it's difficult for the yamen to complete the official duties, so they can only go to the mansion!"

"It seems that the rumors are true!" Although He Weixian said it was obscure, Zhen Jin felt uncomfortable when she heard it and frowned.

"Don't be too careful with Khan. Boyan is the pillar of my throne, and he is even more loyal to Khan!" He Weixian put a thin blanket on the Jin Jin and said with a smile.

"If I had said that before, I believed in his loyalty. But now my body has been pretending, and some people will inevitably have a bad intention, thinking of supporting the new king and taking over the power!" Zhenjin snorted.

"Some people are not good to the Khan, so I am willing to lead the troops to attack him!" He Weixian immediately asked for his order.

"It's not time to use troops now!" Zhen Jin waved his hand, "It has been half a year since the peace agreement between the Southern Dynasties and us have been settled. He has withdrawn from Nanyang and Kaifeng as agreed, but our dynasty has been unable to deliver it to Xichuan. The Southern Dynasties seized Tiemur for this and sent envoys several times claiming that if our dynasty does not abide by the agreement, he will launch another northern expedition!"

"Is it because the Wang family did not obey the Khan's will?" He Weixian asked for a brief thought.

"That's right!" Zhen Jin put down his cigarette gun and sat up and said.

"The Wang family actually ignored the safety of the Third Prince and insisted on doing their own way. They were too presumptuous and must be severely punished." He Weixian said angrily.

"Oh, it's hard!" Zhen Jin said, "The Wang family has lived in Pingliang for many years and its foundation is deep. In order to resist the Southern Dynasty, our dynasty transferred the king army of the Shaanxi province to the Central Plains. This was to take advantage of the court's power to take care of it, so we were confident. Now that the external troubles have not yet been eliminated, we cannot cause any more civil strife, and we can only tolerate it."

"What the Khan said is that when Kublai Khan seized the power of the Marquis of the Celestial Marquis, he did not obey the orders, and now he is too big to lose his head!" He Weixian said.

"If the marquis of the families of the past were still there, he would not dare to be so arrogant. Now he is the only one who dares to fight against the court!" Zhen Jin sighed again.

He Weixian felt aroused when he heard this. He knew that the so-called Shihou was to establish a new type of military and political organization for Genghis Khan at the Onan River Source Conference. He had the power to govern the army and lead troops to fight, and to collect taxes from local governments to manage household registration. This power was hereditary and never changed from generation to generation, which was the "Ten Thousand Houses System". When applied to the Han people, it was the "Ten Thousand Houses Majesty".

While Mongolia was expeditioning the Jin Dynasty in the south, there were many powerful local armed forces in the Heshuo area north of the Yellow River. The migration of Jin Xuanzong to the south led to chaos. The powerful families in Heshuo took this opportunity to increase their military strength and wait and see the attitudes and policies of Jin Ting and Meng Ting towards their own side. Both Jin Ting and Meng Ting solicited local Han armed forces, thinking that they would help them fight. The Jin people were grasshoppers after autumn and could not jump for a few days. Most of them followed the Mongolians, accepted their conditions and obligations, and formed the "horse class".

Shihou had great power and had great military, political and financial power in the territory under his jurisdiction. He could appoint officials and officials on his territory, and he could kill and punish them at will. He also had the power to be hereditary. The Mongolian court should not interfere. The status was like the princes in the Spring and Autumn Period, the kings of different surnames in the Han Dynasty, and the vassal states in the Tang Dynasty, and the rule of law. Intuitively speaking, the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the Mongol Empire was similar to the princes who were enfeoffed by the Zhou Dynasty. The Mongols subdued them with powerful cavalry units, allowing them to assume their obligations obediently and provide themselves with a large amount of army and money and food.

The Han Dynasty's Marquis were mainly divided into Heshuo Shihou, Khitan Shihou and Longyou Shihou. The region showed a crescent shape surrounded by Heshuo, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Longyou, Hexi, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan. The He family was also one of the many small Marquises. He Weixian knew that Mongolia was so indulging at that time, and that it had its own purpose.

At that time, the fiefs where the Marquis of Shihou were all hard to crack and the ancestral land of Han people with a long history. At the beginning of its establishment, the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties placed the ruling center on the grasslands in the south and north of the desert. For the vast Central Plains Han area in the south, the Mongolian rulers were unwilling to spend too much effort to rule, so they adopted the Han Shihou who surrendered to Mongolia to carry out indirect rule.

He Weixian knew that the relationship between Shihou and Meng Yuan was actually a mutual use.

As a subordinate of the Great Mongolian Kingdom, the Han Shihou had two basic obligations to the Mongolian rulers: to send troops to conquer and pay tribute. In order to control and win over them, the Mongolian rulers also asked them to send their children to the personal guards, and later sent Daruwachi to supervise them. Under the conditions of their loyalty to the Khan and fulfilling their obligations, the Mongolian rulers recognized their power to dominate one side. Once they encountered military threats, the Great Mongolian Kingdom also provided military guarantees.

The offering of Shihou was also an important source of finance for the Great Mongolian Kingdom. Because the Mongolian rulers had a lot of demands and had no fixed system of taxes and service, Shihou "good at taxes and service" and sought harsh and complexity. Shihou often advocated "farming and fighting", soldiers should be farmed and farmers should "prepared to defend against thieves". Once wars were needed, Shihou sent a large number of farmers to fight in response to the conscription of the Mongolian rulers.

Of course, the Shihou people also received the benefits of response. The official position of Shihou in Han was hereditary. The father died and the son succeeded, and the brothers came to an end. The father and brothers still survived, and they could pass the official position to their children. Many Shihou people held important positions in one family. In the country under their jurisdiction, they combined military, civilian and financial power. They were both military chiefs and chief executives. They could establish their own offices and appoint subordinate officials.
Chapter completed!