Chapter Eighty-Six: War Welfare
Danxuan Mountain, three days ago, the last group of monks of the Danyang Sect withdrew here, and the three-state war, which lasted more than half a year, was completely drawn.
The army of Qingshan County was also retreating, and the Ningshui faction also reopened the mountain gate, ready to silently lick their wounds to restore their strength, and the dark clouds that hung over the heads of everyone in Ninghe Prefecture finally dispersed.
"Qi Sheng, have all the data been counted?"
"Ancestor, after two or three months of statistics, it's almost there, more than half a year before and after the Battle of Sanzhou, Tianyun Prefecture has paid great sacrifices, and the casualties add up to more than two thousand, of which the casualties of our Danyang Sect have reached ·····."
It took more than half a year before and after the Great War of the Three States, but more than three months ago, the Three States entered a period of confrontation, and basically no fighting broke out, so the Danyang Sect quickly made statistics.
In the whole war, Tianyun Prefecture paid for the lives of more than two thousand monks, of which the heaviest casualties were of course the Danyang Sect, after all, the Danyang Sect was the dominant consciousness, if they didn't fight to the death, how could the rest of the people follow them.
The second casualty should be the recruited loose cultivators, these scattered cultivators are also cannon fodder of the Danyang Sect, but they are making money with their lives, there is nothing to say, they have all said it in advance,
The third casualty was Tianhaimen and Hongshanmen in the battle line of Qingshan County, although Qingshan County did not attack with all its strength, but after several attempts, there were also one or two hundred casualties on their side.
The rest is the rest of the sect families and the like, the casualty rate of these sect families is different, mainly depends on the strength of the sect and the strength of investment, like the Heavenly Saint Sect, there are not many casualties on the front line, the main thing is that Lin Xiao is willing to invest and prepares the best equipment for his disciples.
In addition to casualties, the entire Tianyun Prefecture also invested tens of millions of Xuanjing into it, of which the Danyang Sect alone accounted for seven layers, including several third-order large arrays, as well as the invited Daogang Scattered Cultivation, all kinds of spirit runes, magic weapons, pills, etc., the previous preparations were consumed ninety, and the Danyang Sect's hundred years of accumulation were basically consumed.
"I spent so many Xuanjing and died so many people, what about the benefits?"
"Back to the ancestor, the existing income is very small, the loot and looting combined, the Danyang Sect has only recovered less than one million Xuanjing now, and the biggest benefit is still this Danxuan Mountain.
According to our human detection, this Danxuan Mountain is at least a medium-sized Xuanjing mine, buried extremely deep, and can dig out at least 100 million Xuanjing, and at the same time, this is a spiritual mountain with a third-order spiritual vein, once developed, the value is no less than the spiritual mountain of our Danyang Sect Mountain Gate, which is worth a lot of money, but these all take time, our monks are too few, and they can only rely on mortals to mine, and now there are about 50,000 mortals who are absent from work, and they can dig out five or six hundred thousand Xuanjing every year."
Qi Sheng replied, this war has undoubtedly made the Danyang Sect a lot of money, and this Danxuan Mountain alone is more valuable than the entire Danyang Sect.
"Third-order spirit veins, medium-sized mines, why haven't they been discovered before?"
"Ancestor, the spiritual veins and mineral veins are both visible and invisible, it depends on how deep they are buried, the spiritual mountains that the various sects in Tianyun Prefecture now occupy are all explicit, what is what is on the surface, but this Danxuan Mountain is different, the spiritual veins and mineral veins are buried deep underground, if it is not for our large-scale exploration now, we can't find it at all, we confronted the Ningshui faction a hundred years ago, and no one dared to easily develop it on a large scale, so Baoshan is in hand, but I don't know the value of Baoshan."
"Okay, Danxuanshan must be launched as soon as possible, our Danyang Sect must grow stronger as soon as possible, this time Ninghe Prefecture has been disabled, Qingshan County has already prepared, if there is another big war, it will not be so easy to fight"
"Understand, Ancestor, I have already dispatched people to come over, in the future, the center of gravity of the Danyang Sect will be this Danxuan Mountain in addition to the mountain gate, and the rest of the Lingshan only needs to send a few people to station, it is the hinterland of Tianyun Prefecture, as long as our Danyang Sect is not weakened, no one dares to fight the idea of the Danyang Sect."
"Yes, is there anyone who is fighting Danxuanshan now?"
"No, someone from each sect put forward the idea of assigning Danxuanshan, but I snuffed it out, and Danxuanshan will not allow the rest of the sects to get involved."
"Then they have no opinion?"
"There must be opinions, so we have to appease them next, and the war rewards will be rich, otherwise the Danyang Sect will deviate from morality, and no one will follow us next time."
"This can be had, the foundation of the sect lies in Lingshan, it doesn't matter if you have a little floating wealth, what about Haimen and Hongshanmen that day, what are their opinions?"
"They haven't mentioned it yet, but they can guess one or two, it must be appeased, before they promised Tianhaimen, defeat Bishui Pavilion, and occupy the disputed Lingshan on their side, but now it's impossible, so we have to make up for them, now in Tianyun Prefecture, there are still several Lingshan that have not been developed, and when the time comes, give them the quota of our Danyang Sect, anyway, we don't have the manpower to develop, by the way, speaking of this matter, there is one more thing that needs to be discussed, the head of the Shanyang faction has privately approached me, they want to change a Lingshan"
"Is it because of the Heavenly Saint Sect that you changed a spiritual mountain?"
"Yes, Ancestor, the Heavenly Saint Sect and the Shanyang Sect had a conflict during the plunder, more than a hundred people did not fight each other more than sixty people, this was still when Lin Xiao was not present, and at the beginning, we also had to rely on Lin Xiao to balance the enemy's Purple Mansion Monks, so we did not intervene, which made the Shanyang Sect disheartened, and I was afraid that the Heavenly Saint Sect would completely annex them, so I proposed to change to a spiritual mountain to practice."
Qi Sheng told the cause and effect, as soon as the conflict broke out, the Shanyang faction found someone to complain to him, but Qi Sheng did not punish the Heavenly Saint Sect for this, because at that time, everyone knew that the army of Qingshan County was coming, and there would inevitably be Purple Mansion monks to follow, in order to balance the Purple Mansion monks in the three states, Qi Sheng didn't dare to do anything with the Heavenly Saint Sect, so he was with the mud.
"And what do you mean, promise them?"
"I think I can promise them, judging from Lin Xiao's performance, this person is a man of great talent, with good qualifications, good luck, and high means, only the Heavenly Saint Sect is the most willing to invest in this battle, which is enough to show that this person is powerful, and the Heavenly Saint Sect will grow stronger in his hands sooner or later.
So even if we support the Shanyang Sect, the Heavenly Saint Sect will still annex them, if we do that, we and the Heavenly Saint Sect will tear our faces apart, this is not in the interests of the Danyang Sect, the war between us and Qingshan County will break out in a hundred years at the latest, and then we will have to let the Heavenly Saint Sect contribute.
And retaining the Shanyang Sect can also give the Heavenly Saint Sect a warning, if the Heavenly Saint Sect has anything to transgress at that time, we can use the Shanyang Sect to suppress the Heavenly Saint Sect under the pretext of the agreement of the Nine Sects Alliance."
"Very good, then promise them, aren't we short of manpower, take one out of the developed and mature Lingshan directly from our hands and give it to the Shanyang faction, lest they lose their strength because of moving, and then give the Lingshan of the Shanyang faction to the Heavenly Saint Sect, just to make up for the post-war pension, less Xuanjing, one stone."
"Old Ancestor Yingming, I think so too, anyway, the Heavenly Holy Sect will annex the Shanyang Sect sooner or later, the Lingshan of the Shanyang Sect is too close to them, instead of letting them take it for nothing, it is better to be a favor, and we can also reduce the amount of Xuanjing"
Qi Sheng nodded, he just wanted to disgust the Heavenly Saint Sect, he wanted to occupy a spiritual mountain for nothing, and there was no door, so he wanted the Heavenly Saint Sect to know that the order of Tianyun Prefecture was still what his Danyang Sect said.
Then the two of them commented on the rest of the sects one by one, through this three-state war, the Danyang Sect has strengthened the strategy of the Nine Sects Alliance, and their Danyang Sect alone will not be able to eat all the benefits, and the Pure Yang Palace, which is far away in Jingzhou, will not let them do so.
Therefore, it is necessary to support the rest of the sects to grow together, and then integrate the power of the entire Tianyun Prefecture, and slowly annex the surrounding territories, maybe hundreds of years later, when the royal road advances to the spiritual light period, it can compete with the Pure Yang Palace, even if it is not impossible for the Lu State to change the dynasty, and at that time, the various sects of Tianyun Prefecture will be their vassals and barriers, and the Danyang Sect will be able to obtain great benefits.
The two talked about late at night and formulated many plans and strategies, which were all top secrets of the Danyang Sect, and no one would know about them except for a few people.
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In the second month after the end of the Three States War, Danyang Sect announced the specific details of the war, including the losses and results of Tianyun Prefecture, the losses of Ninghe Prefecture, and the losses and gains of Qingshan County.
On the whole, this time the Sanzhou War was the biggest advantage for Qingshan County, and they were killed and injured by three or four hundred people, but they were compensated by hundreds of thousands of Xuanjing through looting and extortion, and when the Ningshui faction was disabled and the Danyang Sect gave them eye medicine, Bishui Pavilion did not stop doing anything, and directly sent troops to forcibly occupy the territory of thousands of miles in Ninghe Prefecture, and the sect family forces on those territories were either destroyed by Bishui Pavilion or surrendered.
If it weren't for the Danyang Sect in the entire Ninghe Prefecture to give up the territory occupied before, it is estimated that there would not be much left, less than one-fifth of the previous one, and now it is only about half of the previous one, and this half of the territory, except for the mountain gate of the Ningshui Sect, has been disabled, and even the number of mortals has been moved away by hundreds of thousands.
And the remaining nine major sects in Ninghe Prefecture before, because of the behavior of the Ningshui faction, completely turned against the Ningshui faction, these nine sects suffered heavy losses, but they still have a lot of strength together, at this time they have reoccupied a spiritual mountain, the nine sects united, decided to ignore no one, and lived a small life behind closed doors, so the Ningshui faction became a loner.
And the lonely Ningshui faction is not capable of resisting the two sects, so the Ningshui faction endured the humiliation and burden, and even threw himself under the door of Bishui Pavilion and became a vassal of Bishui Pavilion, and the entire Ninghe Prefecture has existed in name only, if it were not for the Chunyang Palace in Jingzhou, Ninghe Prefecture would have been removed.
And Bishui Pavilion is also very wary of the Ningshui faction, after all, the other party is a sect with Daogang monks, and they dare not really annex it, nor dare they trust it, so they have to provide nominal protection, so that the Ningshui faction can provide a little property every year, and let them fend for themselves.