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Two months have passed since the five great families of Menglihu and Sun of Laihe Prefecture invaded Zezhou but were defeated, and in these two months, the entire Dali Empire has fallen from south to north and from west to east to a calm that has never been seen since the Illumination Sect uprising.

There are basically no wars with more than 1,000 people, at most, each force takes the initiative to encircle and suppress the bandits, bandits, and small groups of Guangming troops fleeing everywhere.

The Baode Wang clan did not make a move, because before Wang Shuo led the Yuanzhou army to gain a relatively large area, coupled with the previous encirclement and suppression of the Guangming Sect entrenched in Tongsu Erzhou, the Yuanzhou army suffered a lot of losses, so the Baode Wang clan had to recuperate for a short period of time, replenish the lost troops, and then completely consume the newly acquired territory.

Wang Shuo did not forget that Xinzhou, the neighbor to the north of Yuanzhou, was under the control of the Bright Sect, and the Baode Wang clan and the Bright Sect had become mortal enemies, and the Bright Sect in Shinshu was a threat to the Baode Wang clan, a huge threat.

Xinzhou has nearly 100,000 Guangming Army, half of which are elite recruited from Xinzhou, and the strength is quite strong, fortunately, Xinzhou's Guangming Army must divide its forces to guard against Wuwei Pass, otherwise Xinzhou's Guangming Army will definitely take advantage of Yuan Hao's expedition to Tongzhou and move south or west.

The Guangming Army did not move, but Wang Shuo could not sit back and watch the Bright Sect cast Xinzhou into a fortress, so that the Bright Church in Xinzhou involved a lot of Wang Shuo's energy, which was not conducive to Wang Shuo's struggle for world domination, Wang Shuo had already made up his mind that before he fought for hegemony in the world, he must first destroy the Bright Sect in Xinzhou and leave a stable rear for the Baode Wang clan.

Yunhua Yun's didn't do anything, and recuperation is Yun's main plan in the next few years.

A long period of recuperation can make the economy and people's livelihood in Zezhou, Yingzhou, and Yunhua County under the rule of the Yun family develop rapidly, so that the common people are rich, and at the same time, those teenagers have grown up.

The war caused a sharp decline in the young and strong population of Zezhou, and the Yun clan could not recruit enough young and strong to expand the Yun family's army, and the number of the Yun family's army strictly restricted the Yun clan's march outward, which was also a matter of no choice.

Even if Yun Yi only has 50,000 men and horses in his hands, and only 34,000 people can go out to fight, Yun Yi dares to say that with only these 34,000 Yun family troops, Yun Yi can capture half of the Great Li Empire, and no force can stop it.

However, it is simple to capture these territories, but it is very difficult to hold these territories, with only more than 50,000 horses, how can they hold such a large territory, so Yun Yi can only set a plan to rest and recuperate, and wants to wait for those teenagers to grow up and become the new source of soldiers for the Yun family's army.

As long as the size of the existing army is more than doubled, the Yun army will be out of Zezhou.

The Baode Wang Clan and the Yunhua Yun Clan, the two most powerful families in the Great Li Empire, have not moved, although the other families have formed an alliance, but they all know that this is just a loose alliance, and they can only passively defend against the Wang Clan and the Yun Clan, and it is impossible for them to attack the Wang Clan and the Yun Clan.

It just so happened that the Bright Sect uprising had brought great trauma to all states, and now the military strength of each family was almost their limit, so it was better for the Wang clan and the Yun clan to recuperate together, so that their respective territories could recover and increase their own strength was the most important thing.

There was no sign of any move from the various families of the Dali Empire, so that the situation in the Dali Empire fell into calm, except for the emperor's will not be transmitted to Linzhou, the entire Dali Empire seemed to have returned to the scene before the natural disaster, quiet and peaceful.

But everyone knows that this is just a temporary calm, the Fang clan, which has ruled this country for two hundred and twenty-seven years, has lost power, and the major families who support their own troops will not let go of this opportunity, and the short calm will be followed by an even more violent storm.

Since the name of "North King Nanyun" spread throughout the Dali Empire, more and more people with lofty ideals came out of their homes to Zezhou, and even a small number of people who had gone to Yuanzhou to look for opportunities to join Wang Shuo before also left Yuanzhou and rushed to Zezhou.

Wang Shuo is the "King of Yuanzhou", behind him there is the support of the Baode Wang family and the Gaochang Murong family, and other small families in Yuanzhou also take refuge in Wang Shuo, with these Yuanzhou families, Wang Shuo does not lack talents in his hands, outsiders come to Wang Shuo, unless it is a big talent, it is difficult to get Wang Shuo to reuse, at most it is to give a small official position, but more is stranded in Yuanzhou, there is no way to cast, after the name of "North King Nanyun" came out, it is better to choose to go to Zezhou to find opportunities.

Maybe the Yun clan is weaker than the Wang clan, but no one knows what the future situation will be, maybe the Yun clan will defeat the Wang clan and become the ultimate overlord, at least the Yun clan's chance of winning is higher than that of other families except the Wang clan, and the Yun clan has a weak background, and the reserve talent is not enough, if you want to completely control the entire Zezhou, you need to recruit officials from the outside world.

Some people thought that they were talented, but seeing that some people with lower talents than themselves could serve as county commanders and even county guards under the Yun clan, this could not but make them jealous.

"If I hadn't gone to Yuanzhou but to Zezhou, I would have been in the position of the county guard (county order)."

Although I regret it in my heart, but it has not yet reached the point where there is no chance at all, in the future, the Yun clan will definitely not be satisfied with the southern wasteland of Zezhou, and expand to the outside world, at that time, the newly occupied land of the Yun clan needs a large number of officials, this is their own opportunity.

As a result, more people with lofty ideals have taken Zezhou as their first choice, but the number of people going to Yuanzhou has decreased rapidly.

However, most of these people who come to Zezhou to look for opportunities will probably be disappointed, Yun's does lack talents, but talent now does not mean that there will be a shortage in the future, Yun's education system has been established in Zezhou and Yingzhou, and Yunhua County has a complete education system, every year there will be thousands of junior intellectuals, hundreds of intermediate intellectuals for Yunyi's use, and these intellectuals who graduated from primary school and middle school are Yunyi's descendants, loyal to Yunyi.

In the future, the Yun clan, the people who graduated from the Yun family's education system, and the clansmen of the Yunhua family are the top three choices for Yun Yi to employ people, outsiders, if they don't have a certain talent, they will go to the primary school to be a teacher, if the character is not qualified, they will be driven away directly.

The lull was always short-lived, and two months later, Wang Shuo gathered 100,000 Yuanzhou troops in Yuanzhou, including 10,000 Tiger cavalry (replenished with men and horses).

Facing the Baode Wang clan who had gathered an army of 100,000, the other families around were not too nervous, they all knew that the Yuan Zhou army had only one goal, and that was the Bright Sect in Xinzhou.

The powerful Qinzhou family of the Shinshu Guangming Army and the Shinshu clan who retreated to Wuwei Pass know best that this imminent war must be a battle between dragons and tigers.