Lingnan began with the imperial court's dispatch of troops in April and was pacified in mid-August, which lasted four months. The military strength of Lingnan, which had not been eradicated for a long time by the Shun Dynasty, was also completely uprooted after this war.

The imperial court sent 200,000 troops before and after, and there were more than 40,000 soldiers and horses in actual combat. This includes more than 200,000 ethnic minorities in the south.

The pacification of Lingnan by the imperial court was an opportunity for the development of Lingnan, and of course, in the face of the opportunity, everyone wanted to get a piece of the fruit of victory. Several soldiers and horses, as well as ethnic minorities in Lingnan, expressed some "demands" to Liu Yu after the war. And the "appeal" is, to put it bluntly, to make an extra profit in the distribution of spoils.

Land, City, Wealth, Lordship...... Lingnan is also a vast land, and many places have not been really developed, so who doesn't want to make more land capital? If he can be a stable prince of southern Xinjiang, he will have the final say in Lingnan in the future, and he will establish a small kingdom in southern Xinjiang with high mountains and distant emperors, and be a soil emperor who doesn't care about it...... This kind of good thing is not only the leaders of the land leaders who surrendered have this idea, but even Huo Yuan, who seems to be missing the heart, also shouted after the war to let Liu Yu reward him with a large piece of land in Lingnan.

The pacification of Lingnan was on 17 August, and in the next few days, Liu Yu basically did not see anyone and made no arrangements except for some simple garrison affairs. This made it impossible for the whole army to see his intentions.

Hua Ji'an came to Liu Yu on behalf of some neutral factions in the army and proposed that the army return north earlier. Liu Yu also told Hua Ji'an, in fact, the focus now is not on the question of when to withdraw the troops. The army can be withdrawn at any time. But the key is how to withdraw. Who will guard the fruits of this victory, and who can guarantee that in such a devastated Lingnan, they will not be blinded by the desire for profit, and they will be at ease to pacify after the war instead of plundering?

In Liu Yue's opinion, Hua Ji'an will automatically ask for help, indicating that he can complete this burden himself. But Hua Ji'an was very clever and understood what it meant to retreat bravely, and he didn't make any requests, and only said some basic opinions. For example, the garrison is stationed in turns, and the rotation defense system is established; Or it was the independence of the military and the government, and the establishment of Daxing Province in Lingnan. Although Hua Ji'an's suggestion was good, Liu Yu didn't take it, because Liu Yu himself had a lot of things he couldn't figure out.

After Lingnan settled down, Liu Yu had more worries. The main reason is that all parties covet this unclaimed land, which makes him see the difficulty of governing Lingnan.

The garrison will mean Lingnan in more than ten or decades, or continue today's pattern of local military dominance, and the significance of this battle is not so obvious. Even if the imperial court can take the power. There will always be times when you can't take it back, because of the rulers of this age. It has always been dismissive of the barbaric land on the border, and the successors of the Shun Dynasty may not pay attention to such a place as Lingnan.

When Liu Yu couldn't make up his mind, a letter came from Chang'an City, which was a proposal written by Han Sheng to him. Its proposal can be summed up in four words - recuperation.

Han Sheng has always advocated "non-war".

Han Sheng hoped that Liu Yue would end the pattern of Shun Dynasty's external expansion as soon as possible and recuperate for a long time, in exchange for a truly peaceful and prosperous era, not the kind of rulers said.

In the letter, Han Sheng also listed the wars in the past few years, the taxes owed by the imperial court, and the deficit of the treasury in the next few years. The imperial court completed the two wars of pacifying the Turks and Lingnan under the extreme circumstance of taking advantage of the people's taxes, and the pacification of the Turks was the most important thing in Su Yan's tenure, and Pinglingnan was the first thing after the new emperor ascended the throne. To sum up in Han Sheng's words, these two wars cost the people and money, and the people can no longer afford the burden of supporting the army, and now most of the soldiers in the army must be discharged and returned to the fields in order to make the finances of the imperial court fundamentally improve.

But Liu Yu also knew that the net of war was so wide now, and taking it back would mean that the previous two years of war had been fought in vain.

But in any case, it is time for the army and population absorbed by Lingnan to be properly disposed of. After pacifying Lingnan, Liu Yu's first decree was to disband the local army and reduce its military status to the people.

In order to prevent this incident from causing a mutiny in the army, Liu Yu used a very ingenious "refinement method", and conducted an open selection in the local army in Lingnan, specifying criteria to keep some soldiers and horses, and dismissing most of the soldiers and horses.

Although this matter seems simple, it still caused a lot of shock in Lingnan.

The local strength is more than 100,000 troops, in addition to being destroyed by the imperial court, there are nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, the imperial court said that it was disbanded, and only a small amount of severance pay was given, which easily caused a lot of criticism in the army. Many local armies wanted to take refuge in the imperial court, and then continued to follow their local leaders as a party to the disaster, and now they have changed from soldiers to peasants, and the dissatisfaction of the soldiers is very loud, and for several days, there are generals in the army who come to see Liu Yulai to say something about this matter.

The general's words did not change Liu Yu's will, and a harsh selection in the army began, and many old, weak, sick and disabled were dismissed by the first wave, then the garrison battalion, and then to the elite division of local power. The selection criteria of the imperial court were too strict, so that less than 6,000 of the original nearly 100,000 soldiers could pass the selection in the end, and these 6,000 people would not stay in Lingnan to continue to garrison the locality, but would be transferred to Jiangjiang and Jiangnan to garrison.

Liu Yue didn't want them to come up with the original set of bullying the people of Lingnan, especially those ethnic minorities.

Appropriately, Liu Yu also mobilized the garrison battalions in some places in the south of the Yangtze River to garrison Lingnan, and then set up military offices in the six major cities in Lingnan.

The garrison of the military affairs office was the main force in the new army of the imperial court, and Liu Yu would leave the trusted generals among his subordinates to garrison in Lingnan in batches, and the six military affairs offices were all under the orders of the general office of Meiguan, and Meiguan also became the first important town of Lingnan garrison.

After arranging these, although Liu Yu felt that he could not be perfect, at least he solved the temporary trouble. Liu Yu thought about it, and Xu Xuanzhu's delivery period was approaching, and Liu Yu was away for more than four months, and he couldn't be with his wife for a long time, which also made him, a man from the Gu family, a little homesick.

Liu Yu will leave, and Liu Liniang will naturally follow to the north. And Liu Liniang, as the supreme leader of the ethnic minorities in Lingnan, is actually fighting for the interests of the ethnic minorities in Lingnan these days, fighting with Liu Yu.

The first thing Liu Liniang wants to strive for is to establish a city in Lingnan that truly belongs to ethnic minorities. And she has already chosen the address of this city, that is, in the Lanping area, as for how big the city should be, her idea is naturally that the bigger the better.

Then Liu Liniang blew the pillow wind in Liu Yu's ears, wanting Liu Yu to help her and the ethnic minorities behind her to complete this grand plan. (To be continued......)