Ma Yin's surrender was significant.

Historically, although Huainan's strength was far less powerful than today's Wu State, it was also the most powerful force in the south.

However, in the era of Yang Xingmi, it may be said that Zhu Wen held back a large number of troops, so he could not take advantage of the war with the southern forces; But later, when the Jin and Liang struggles for hegemony were at their most intense, the Wu army also failed to take the opportunity to unify the south, which cannot be explained by the fact that the strength of the Wu State was contained.

In addition to the fact that Xu Wen and Xu Zhihe successively held the power of Wu State, they spent more of their energy on usurping the throne and seizing power, another important reason was the resistance of Ma Yin, the king of Chu, and Qian Biao, the king of Yue.

Not to mention, Qian Biao was the last country in history to be annexed by the Song Dynasty, and Ma Yin's strength was also extremely strong, and he won many victories in battles with the Huainan army, blocking the way of Wu's westward expansion.

In this way, Qian Biao was in the south, Ma Yin was in the west, and Zhu Wen was in the north, and the three joined forces, making it difficult for Wu to expand externally, although it later succeeded in destroying Chu and Fujian, but in the end it was not possible to unify the south.

But today's Wu State, among the two most important enemies, Qian Biao has been eliminated many years ago, and the territory of the two Zhejiang provinces has been completely incorporated into the rule of Wu after so many years of operation.

Now that it has succeeded in forcing the Chu State to cede land and submit, it means that the entire south will completely lose an enemy capable of confronting the Wu State.

Next, the only areas in the south that were still not conquered were the two states under Lu Guangchou and the many forces represented by Liu Yan in Lingnan.

Compared to Ma Yindu, these forces can only be regarded as lightweight opponents, and there is no need to send too many troops to deal with them, at most one partial division is enough.

In other words, the attention of the current state of Wu should be shifted to Jingxiang and the Central Plains.

In the city of Shaozhou, after the envoy sent by Yang Wu read out the decree to canonize Ma Yin as the envoy of the Baisheng Army Festival and canonize the generals under his command, Ma Yin and others began to remove some illegal and transgressive places under the instructions of the officials of the Wu State Rite Department.

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, there have been many encroachments in feudal towns around the country, but today's Wu State naturally will not tolerate these.

Whether it is a salutation, a ritual vessel, or a palace building, etc., everything that exceeds the status limit must be cleaned up.

In addition, Ma Yin, Qin Yanhui, Yao Yanzhang and other meritorious generals are bidding farewell to their children and preparing to send them to Jinling.

And the assassins of the states under Ma Yin were also ordered to begin surrendering to the state of Wu.

Of course, like some prefectures and counties in Hunan, it is good to say that a piece of paper can make them surrender obediently; But in many remote areas, such as the prefectures below Jingjiang Town, Ma Yin's control over the local areas was already very low, and it was obviously impossible for them to surrender obediently with a single order.

In fact, Yang Wu could not be satisfied with maintaining only nominal ownership of these areas like Ma Yin before him.

What he wanted was real control, the kind of control that the Wu court could effectively manage.

Therefore, even if these remote areas are willing to surrender, Yang Wu will not easily accept their surrender.

At the end of June, Yang Wu ordered to gather a total of 50,000 state soldiers from Liangzhejiang, Jiangxi and other prefectures, plus 40,000 forbidden troops led by Chai Zaiyong and Lu Shi, preparing to use these 90,000 troops to accept the territory.

If the local forces are not properly cleaned up, they will inevitably leave hidden dangers, and once the situation in Wu is turbulent in the future, these areas may riot again.

This process is by no means easy to complete, and many people will lose their heads during this period, but it is also a necessary process, even if it takes a certain amount of time and effort.

In the city of Jinling.

"Hey, Ma Yin himself didn't want to come to the court to see the king, and he excused himself from saying that he was too old to travel far, but he rode a horse to fight quite neatly, and I don't see how old he is." Chen Yanqian teased with a smile.

"Ma Yin himself is timid, and it is normal that he does not dare to come to Jinling, but he can barely represent him by sending his subordinates and eldest son to meet him."

If Chen Yanqian and others were most dissatisfied with this surrender, it was that Ma Yin was unwilling to come to see Yang Wu in person no matter what, and would even rather go to war than come to Jinling.

Although Yang Wu and others had expected this result in advance, they were still dissatisfied.

After all, a local festival envoy is not even willing to enter the court, so what kind of submission is it?

Of course, they also knew that Ma Yinning would not come to Jinling even if he died, in addition to being afraid of being detained, he also wanted to hold his last bit of face.

In any case, Ma Yin is nearly sixty years old, he was born in the same year as Yang Xingmi and has fought with Yang Xingmi for many years, and his seniority is obviously higher than Yang Wu.

Ma Yin, as a hero, let him surrender to Wu is already a matter of losing face, and then let him come to Jinling in person to kowtow to Yang Wu, it is more uncomfortable than killing him directly.

As for Yang Wu, since the actual benefits have been received, he doesn't mind saving some face for Ma Yin, not only agreeing that Ma Yin doesn't have to come to Jinling to see him, but also allowing him to stand and listen when he listens to the order.

In addition, Yang Wu temporarily issued an order to canonize Ma Yin as the Marquis of Anyuan, so that he could get another face, which would naturally alleviate the resentment and dissatisfaction in his heart and reduce the possibility of betrayal in the future.

After teasing Ma Yin a few words, Yang Wu's expression became solemn.

"Suddenly accepting so much territory, we can't rely on the local officials who have taken refuge in us, we must send some people from our side, at least the key positions must be in the hands of trustworthy people."

"Tao Shangshu, your officials should prepare well during this time, at least select enough suitable people, so that no one can be available at that time."

Tao Ya hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the king can rest assured, after Ma Yin intends to surrender, the old minister will start to prepare, as long as the king gives an order, he will not dare to guarantee it, but the candidates for the positions of the assassin and long history of the Xinna states, as well as the county commanders of each county can be guaranteed." ”

Yang Wu was immediately relieved when he heard this.

Huainan has insisted on the imperial examination for six or seven years, and has held five imperial examinations so far, and nearly 100 jinshi will be admitted in each session, and so many jinshi are basically rated as eight-rank or even ninth-grade officials.

Now that he has been trained in the past few years, there is basically no problem for the first two Jinshi to be a county commander, and even those who perform well can be promoted to assassins.

Therefore, there is indeed no shortage of talent reserves for the time being.

Yang Wu looked at Li Chengsi and said: "Li Shumi, although after Ma Yin surrendered, those assassins on his original territory were not able to confront our country at all, but there is no guarantee that they will not jump over the wall in a hurry." ”

"If you really dare to stand up to our army, don't be merciful!"

"The minister understands that the main purpose of the king's mobilization of so many troops is to clean up those local forces. Therefore, the ministers will let the armies cooperate with the assassins appointed by the king to sort out! Li Chengsi hurriedly replied.

At this time, Chen Yanqian stood up and said, "King, in addition to preventing them from coming hard, we must also prevent them from coming soft." If those local forces disobey the yang and the yin, they dare not confront us on the surface, but secretly make stumbling blocks, although they cannot affect the overall situation, they are enough to give us a headache. ”

Yang Wu's eyes froze, and he hurriedly asked, "Yes, is there anything Chen Aiqing can do?" ”

"King, in the past, when our army captured Liangzhejiang, because of the lack of troops and the need to hurry, the areas occupied were weakened by immigration, and now we might as well follow suit." Chen Yanqian replied with a smile.

"Immigration? Are you referring to the relocation of all the big families in the area? The population of Hunan is already insufficient, so what if you move away like this? Yang Wu hesitated.

"It's not all moving away, but those who don't obey are being restrained."

Chen Yanqian explained: "If there are really families in those places who don't know the current affairs and disobey us, it is too bloody to kill them directly, and it is easy to arouse too much dissatisfaction; But we can directly move his family to the states of Jiangxi. ”

"This will allow you to quickly control the local area without shedding too much bloodshed, and at the same time, it will not reduce the population of Hunan too much."

At this time, Yang Wu finally nodded with satisfaction.

The reason why those big families are strong and dare to defy the yang is mainly because they have been entrenched in the local area for many years and have long been deeply rooted.

In the case that these people do not directly confront the Wu court, if they directly kill them with ruthless hands, this is obviously too tyrannical.

But if they are relocated, left in their original environment, and then completely dispersed and let them live in different states, then their original relationship will no longer exist, and it is impossible to talk about causing trouble.

In fact, when Chen Yanqian mentioned immigration, the best way Yang Wu thought of was to relocate a large number of people from other regions to Hunan and other prefectures, which would not only strengthen the control of the Wu government over those areas, but also develop the local area.

It is a pity that the population of the south is really small today, and all places are basically in a situation of small population and more land, and after all, the period of peace in various places is not long, and rash immigration is easy to cause turmoil.

Therefore, the method of resettlement to develop the south can only exist in the heart for the time being, and we will find a way to implement it when the population increases in the future.

"Whether it's immigration or repression by force, in short, we need to see results, and we need to see results as soon as possible. Lone can only give you three months, and after three months, Lone wants us to take complete control of these territories. Finally, Yang Wu announced to the ministers in a deep voice.

……

When the state of Wu completely subjugated the state of Chu and forced Ma Yin to remove the title of king and become a vassal in various places, Liu Shouguang, the king of Yan in the north, was busy with his great cause of becoming emperor.

When a person is blinded by power, his gaze will become extremely short-sighted and ridiculous; If this blinded man had been a stupid and arrogant man, what he would have done would have been even more unbelievable.

At the beginning of this year, when Li Cunqiao led the Jin army, the Zhao army and the army of the king of Beiping to defeat the Liang army in Gaoyi, although the coalition army launched a large-scale attack on the Liang State immediately afterward, but because of the Battle of Gaoyi, the most elite Longxiang army and Shenjie army of the Liang army, still partially retained.

These elite soldiers resolutely resisted under the leadership of Wang Yanzhang, and Yang Shihou, a famous general of the Liang army, led troops to help, so although Li Cunmiao was powerful, he did not take much advantage.

However, what forced Li Cunmiao to finally withdraw his troops was a threatening letter sent by Liu Shouguang, the king of Yan, to Wang Rong, the king of Zhao.

After withdrawing his troops and returning home, Li Cunqiao immediately began to prepare to eliminate Liu Shouguang.

For the impending danger, Liu Shouguang was not aware of the impending danger, but became more arrogant and began to prepare to become the emperor.

On this day, in the palace of King Yan, in the magnificent hall, Sun He and Feng Dao looked at Liu Shouguang in a russet robe, and their faces were a little worried.

The robe worn by Liu Shouguang is the dragon robe worn by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Although the Tang Dynasty has now fallen, Liu Shouguang is still nominally orthodox in the Tang Dynasty, and the era name used is still the Tianyou year.

Now that Liu Shouguang is openly wearing a dragon robe, this ambition to be the emperor is also obvious.

It's a pity that today's Yan State has the strength to be called the emperor?

"If there is chaos today, heroes and heroes from all sides compete with each other by force. My Yan country is strong and strong, and the terrain is dangerous, and Lone also wants to ascend the throne and become the emperor, what do you think? ”

Before the two of them could figure out how to make Liu Shouguang dispel his ambition to become emperor, Liu Shouguang had already opened his mouth to ask the ministers.

After so many years of cleanup, there are not many loyal ministers who are honest and dare to speak out in the Yan Dynasty today, and most of them were forced to flee from Yan under the persecution of Liu Shouguang, and most of those who stayed were flatterers.

When these people heard this, they naturally immediately flattered them.

"The king is wise and powerful, and his achievements cover the world, if the king is not qualified to be the emperor, then what virtue do the lords of Liang and Shu have, how can they be called emperors?" Someone should stand up and say.

"It is the right time for the king to be the emperor at this time, and now that Jin and Liang are fighting, he will definitely not be able to dry up to our army, so it is most appropriate for the king to be the emperor at this time!" Another humane.

"Nonsense, my king is strong and strong, how can I be afraid of the Jin State and the Liang State? Even if they dare to send troops to dry up, our army can easily defeat them! Someone retorted.

……

Listening to the flattery of the Manchu Dynasty, the worries on the faces of Sun He and the others became even heavier.

"Such a group of villains who are not enough to succeed and more than to lose, if the king continues to listen to them, Yan Guo will be finished sooner or later!"

Thinking like this in his heart, Sun He couldn't help but take a step forward and was about to speak, but was gently pulled by Feng Dao beside him.

Sun He was surprised in his heart, turned his head to look at Feng Dao, and understood his thoughts from the other party's eyes.

"The old man didn't know that forcibly admonishing the king would cause the king to be dissatisfied, and it might even cause the old man to lose his head. But if the old man doesn't admonish, then is there any hope for Yan Guo? ”

He sighed in his heart, and at the same time, he broke free from Feng Dao's pull.

"Your Majesty, now that the civil strife in my Yan Kingdom has just been pacified, both in the treasury and the ordinary people are extremely difficult; On the outside, the Khitan Yelu Abaoji in the north entered the army every year, the Jin king Li Cunqiao in the west was eyeing the tiger, and the Liang State in the south was ambitious. ”

"So in the opinion of the minister, this is definitely not the time to be the emperor!"