Liu Yan finally wisely chose to surrender, which allowed Wu to seize the most important part of Lingnan without bloodshed.

Although there are still many separatist forces in the remaining territory of Lingnan, those small forces are far from being comparable to Liu Yan; Under the circumstance that Liu Yan has already chosen to surrender, it is difficult for the remaining small forces to become a climate.

Pang Juzhao and Liu Changlu finally chose to surrender to Wu, while Ye Guangluo of Yongzhou chose to fight, but the final result was not surprising, the Yongzhou army was defeated by Lu Shizhou, and Ye Guangluo fled west with a small number of remnants into the Great Changhe Kingdom.

However, the Qu family on the Guangnan side relied on the remoteness of the terrain and raised troops to confront the Wu army, and the Wu State could not take it for a while.

Fortunately, this situation is only temporary, for Guangnan, which became independent in the original history of the Five Dynasties period, and eventually developed into a hegemon in the southeast, so that later generations of China have some headaches, Yang Wu knows that it can not be allowed to have the slightest independence. The possibility of independence must be forcibly subdued from the outset, so that it can always remain in China.

Therefore, before attacking Guangnan, Yang Wu first ordered Lü Shizhou not to act for the time being, and did not launch an attack until the end of August when Li Chengding led his troops to Qinzhou.

However, the 40,000-strong army under the command of Li Chengding and Lu Shizhou was still just a pretense, just to attract the attention of the Qu family, and Yang Wu's real trump card was the navy army that rushed to Guangzhou before that.

When the main forces of the Qu family were concentrated in the north, relying on the terrain advantages of Liangshan and other places in later generations to resist the Wu army, 8,000 battle-hardened naval officers and soldiers landed in the rear of the Qu family's army, cooperated with the frontal army to attack on both sides, defeated the Qu family's army, captured dozens of high-level Qu family figures, including the head of the Qu family, and captured nearly 10,000 Qu family officers and soldiers.

Then, the Wu army drove straight in, captured the city in one fell swoop, completely destroyed the Qu family, and incorporated Guangnan into China again.

At this point, the unification of the entire south was basically completed, and Yang Wu's eyes began to shift from war to internal affairs, preparing to accumulate strength in the next few years to prepare for the future Northern Expedition.

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Time flies, more than six years have passed in a blink of an eye, and it is now April of the fourteenth year of Wuyi (921).

On the blue waves of the East China Sea, a large sea ship with a length of 20 zhang, a width of 2 zhang, and a height of nearly 3 zhang is riding the wind and waves, driving rapidly.

On the bow deck, a handsome middle-aged man of about thirty-five years old stood quietly, looking into the distance, as if looking at the distant land.

In the sky, from time to time, a few seabirds fly by; In the sea, there are occasional schools of fish jumping out of the sea.

"From the point of view of time, you should be able to dock after half a day's drive. I don't know why the king is in such a hurry to summon me back. The middle-aged man stood with his hands in his hands, quietly thinking about his thoughts.

On the side, a man in a short shirt walked over and said, "What, General Li, are you still thinking about the big battle last month?" ”

"Nope." The middle-aged man turned his head and said.

"Actually, you don't have to take that matter to heart, if you don't have to talk about it, your heart will be different, even if you want to talk about benevolence and righteousness, you don't have to talk to those barbarians. You should know that if we are defeated, we will end up worse than them. ”

The middle-aged man trembled in his heart, shook his head and didn't say anything.

It turned out that this person was Li Chengding, the most prominent general of Wu State in recent years, who was already the governor of the First Army at a young age and had great prestige in the army.

And the man in the short shirt next to him is Sima Fu, the current commander of the navy, because he is on the boat all the year round, he is usually used to wearing only a short shirt.

Needless to say, Li Chengding's identity is naturally the eldest son of Li Shenfu, the Duke of Wei, who inherited his father's title of Duke of Guo at a young age; At the same time, he is also the brother-in-law of Yang Wu, the king of Wu, and he has outstanding ability to command troops, so he has achieved the position of governor many years ago.

After these years of training, his ability to command troops has been greatly improved, and he is now the most prestigious commander in the Wu army, even the reputation of the veteran Zhou Ben can only barely overpower him.

And Sima Fu was originally just surrendered under Qian Hao, and it stands to reason that it is difficult for a surrenderer like him to get ahead in the Wu army, but Sima Fu is different.

He was especially good at commanding the naval army, and in the battle to eliminate the Quang Nam Qujia that year, he personally led the naval army to land behind the enemy army, and cooperated with the main force of the Wu army in front of him to achieve victory in one fell swoop.

After that, Sima Fu's status in the Wu army continued to rise, and now he and another commander of the water army, He Jingzhu, are known as the "double heroes of the water army".

The reason why he got such a title is actually related to the national policy of Wu in recent years.

Since the unification of the south, Wu has rarely moved troops in the country, and has always maintained peace with Liang, sitting and watching Jin and Liang fight for hegemony; Although a war was waged from time to time against Shu to play a role in training soldiers, on the whole, it was still peaceful.

However, outside of China, that is, overseas, the power of Wu is growing rapidly.

In the second year after the unification of the south, that is, six years ago, Yang Wu dispatched naval forces to land on the southern island of Luzon and Boni, and built cities and immigrants in suitable areas along the coast, and successively established four states, including Luzhou, Pennsylvania, and Luozhou.

Of course, these newly established state towns, if they are placed in the south of the Wu River, can only be regarded as a small county at most, not only the scale of the city is very small, but also the local Han people are also very small.

After all, the population of Wu was not large, and the people of China were reluctant to migrate, even though the Wu court continued to propose preferential policies to attract people to immigrate, but it still did not have much effect.

Although the imperial court could also forcibly immigrate, in addition to forcibly immigrating to Yizhou, that is, the treasure island of later generations, which achieved certain results at the beginning, the subsequent immigration to Qiongzhou suffered a huge setback.

Many people who heard that their villages had been included in the migration list preferred to flee to other places than to join the migration.

At the same time, there have been various voices of opposition to immigration in the DPRK and China.

After all, the taxes and other taxes in each state are closely related to the local population, and no one wants to let the people under their rule move to other places.

In addition, the population of Wu is not large now, and after the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty, although it has settled down a little, there is still a situation of more land and less population in various places, and there is no urgent need for immigrants.

These factors eventually forced Wu Wang Yang Wu to order the abolition of the forced immigration strategy and instead use preferential policies to attract people to voluntarily immigrate.

Of course, after establishing the four overseas continents of Luzhou and Pennsylvania, Yang Wu then established a new city in the southern area of Singapore, and named it the Lion City, to control this important route for overseas trade.

In the process of this series of overseas expansion, it is inevitable that there will be conflicts with those indigenous forces, and the role of the navy is even more prominent.

Of course, in addition to expanding overseas in the south, Yang Wu did not forget to expand overseas in the north.

Three years ago, Wang Jian, a general under the command of the head of the Tae-feudal kingdom, rebelled against the kingdom of Tae-feudal and established the kingdom of Goryeo.

After that, Wang Jian did not forget to send envoys to Wu to seek canonization, and at the same time asked Wu to send troops to help him unify the peninsula.

Originally, Yang Wu refused this request, but in the end, considering that if Goryeo rose, it could also play a role in containing the Khitans in the rear, so he finally sent Li Chengding to lead 5,000 troops to help in the war.

It was there that Lee Seung-ding won consecutive battles and built a huge reputation.

Of course, at this time, Sima Fu and the "great battle last month" he mentioned were not a war on the peninsula, but a war with the Japanese kingdom next to the peninsula.

Three years ago, a merchant of the Wu Kingdom accidentally discovered a huge gold mine on an island near the Wa Kingdom, and even a lot of gold was on the surface and did not need to be mined.

This news immediately alarmed the court of Wu, and Yang Wu, the king of Wu, immediately ordered to send troops to capture the island, and used the power of the government to organize manpower to develop it.

Subsequently, some silver mines and smaller gold mines were discovered in the nearby area, which made Wu a fortune and created a gold rush.

Even in the sparsely populated new states of the South, there was a sudden increase in the number of immigrants, many of whom dreamed of discovering new gold and silver mines and becoming rich overnight.

Of course, the possibility of this happening is almost non-existent, and the gold rush has only lasted for more than half a year before it has calmed down again.

At the end of the day, there are only a handful of people who dare to take risks, and most people choose to venture overseas only when they can't get by.

And now the state of Wu is in the stage of prosperity, there is a lot of land in the country, the monarch is wise and virtuous, the politics is clear, and the people can basically live a stable life, who is willing to venture overseas.

The gold and silver mines found in the Wa Kingdom were nothing to do at first, but after a long time, the Wa people also realized the huge benefits in it, and immediately stopped doing it.