In the past year, Lu Bu's department, which had been fighting in a foreign land for two years, finally led the people back to the Central Plains.

When the army was dispatched, there were 20 combat legions, almost 5 million troops, and when they returned to Cyprus, it was still 20 legions and 5 million troops, and the total strength of the army was almost unchanged, but the personnel within the army had changed by about one-third.

Expeditions to foreign lands and thousands of miles of territory may sound heroic, but they are actually very dangerous moves. The army is lonely, there is no support, there is no friendly army, everything has to rely on itself, the slightest carelessness is the end of a catastrophe, that is, the Hengwu country has a deep heritage, there are many hole cards, and other forces dare not play like this.

In order to maintain the flexibility of the army, Lü Bu's army did not expand its army aggressively (also because the Shang did not allow it, in order to prevent Lü Bu from becoming a Ottoman warlord), and only when the army was attritional, would elite soldiers be selected from many Ottoman governorates to supplement the expeditionary legion.

After two years of experience in blood and fire, the combat effectiveness of the corps in charge of the expedition has been significantly improved, and several of them have reached the level of the Titled Legion, and the God of War Legion led by Lu Bu has become a powerful legion in the Shang Army second only to the Praetorian Legion and the Shura Legion.

Of course, the expeditionary force gained much more than that. Relying on his military might, Lü Bu plundered the Ottoman Empire by force, not only harvesting a large number of gold coins and precious materials, but also plundering a large number of special architectural drawings and top talents.

With the return of the expeditionary force to the Central Plains, there was also a huge caravan, and the size of the caravan was not inferior to the expeditionary force itself. High-level talents from all walks of life were collectively packed and taken away by Lu Bu, and millions of productive talents were semi-forcibly moved to China.

After two years of war, the Ottoman Empire's combat power plummeted, and it evolved from a united, thriving state to a third-rate state.

Its development background was almost uprooted, except for some perennial reclusive fish that slipped through the net, the Ottoman Empire at this time could not even find a master production talent.

Culture, art, military, and economy have regressed in all aspects!

And with the departure of the Lü Bu expeditionary force, more than 100 satraps in the Ottoman Empire almost immediately went to war, fighting for hegemony, and there was a bloody storm, so that the people of the Ottoman homeland began to miss the days of Lü Zhan.

At that time, although Lu Bu was harsh, at least his safety was guaranteed. Now although the "invaders" are gone, they are living in exile, and they will die of the scourge of swords and soldiers if they are not careful.

In fact, this is also one of the arrangements of the Shang Ji, with this before and after comparison, in the future, when the Shang Ji frees up their hands and completely occupies the Ottoman territory, they will have a mass base, which is much simpler than the current forcible occupation.

As for the suffering of the Ottomans at this time, it was brought by Lü Bu - there is no need to worry about this, the people are forgetful, the truth can be covered up, and the masses are even more ignorant, a few years later, Shang Ji is the living Bodhisattva of the Ottoman rescue, and Lü Bu will also become the great hero who saves the people from the tyrant Eldot.

By the way, by the way, last year, Eldord, who had lost all his prestige, suffered a coup d'état in reality and was shot directly in the presidential palace. What is even more embarrassing is that the Turkish general who planned the coup was murdered by another general, and the latter general was murdered two months later without enough prestige and strength to stabilize the situation. So much so that in reality the whole of Turkey is in chaos, the countries are torn apart, and they are fighting each other at every turn.

Among them, many players who gained surreal power because of the beacon fire The Ottoman governor took advantage of the situation, which further exacerbated the chaos in Turkey.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with the merchants, and for at least five years the merchants will no longer care about the Ottomans.

Shang Ji greeted the triumphant Lü Bu expeditionary corps with great courtesy, Liu Meng led the crowd and traveled 10,000 miles west to the Western Regions to meet Lü Bu's corps, and Liu Yi joined the greeting team at the border between Liangzhou and the Western Regions.

When the Triumphant Corps arrived in Sizhou, a young man with a handsome face, sword eyebrows, and starry eyes, wearing a gown, stood with his hands in his hands, waiting for the arrival of the expeditionary force. Beside him, there was also a beautiful girl wearing a long fiery red dress with a bright flame mark on her forehead.

Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, and Dian Wei, the three legendary generals of the Shang Army, stood behind the two of them, with respectful expressions on their faces.

In the whole world, in addition to Shang Ji himself, there are only a pair of Shang Ji's children, the prince of Hengwu Kingdom and the county lord - Shang Cheng and Shang Jun!

That's right, this handsome young man is Shang Cheng, and the beautiful girl is Shang Jun.

In the second year of the first peace, Shang Cheng and Shang Jun came into the world, and the sky descended on a vision, which attracted the attention of the world. Today, ten years have passed, and Shang Cheng and Shang Jun are ten years old.

As the so-called alien has his own vision, although Shang Cheng and Shang Jun have just turned ten years old, in terms of appearance and body shape, they are almost the same as ordinary fifteen-year-old boys and girls, and as for their minds, they are far beyond their appearance. In the past two years, Shang Ji has also begun to let them meddle in military politics, although they are still mostly learning, but their knowledge has been far beyond the reach of others.

"Shizi, county lord, General Lu's triumphant headquarters is less than twenty miles away from here."

Not long after, a fast horse came to inform the Triumphant Legion of its journey.

"Excellent! Prepare to play. After speaking, he bowed his hand to the generals next to him and said, "I bother you uncles and Cheng to go to meet General Lu." ”

"The last general commands."

The crowd turned sideways and bowed, then replied respectfully.

However, in the next moment, I saw a small black dot in the distance approaching more rapidly, but someone was flying horses. Behind him there were several others struggling to catch up. However, the people in front of him were fast, and the distance not only did not shorten, but became larger and larger.

Zhao Yun and the others stared, and immediately stepped forward to protect Shang Cheng and Shang Jun.

Shang Cheng looked closely, but saw that the person who took the lead was Lu Bu, and the people chasing behind him were Cao Xing, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and other old generals of Lu Bu.

Shang Cheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's the war marquis who has arrived." The warlord has worked hard for the country, expeditions to foreign lands, and has made outstanding achievements, so go and greet the princes! ”

Everyone hurriedly responded and stepped forward with the merchants.

After the state of Hengwu, the great feudal ministers, Lu Bu made meritorious contributions to the land and was awarded the title of war marquis.

The title of Hengwu Kingdom was modeled after the Spring and Autumn Period, and was temporarily divided into five classes, that is, the prince and the prince. At present, there is no duke in the Shang army, so the marquis is the top title in existence.

The marquis is divided into titled marquis and regional marquis. Among them, the title marquis is a specially customized title name according to the characteristics of the recipient, and the status is higher than that of the regional marquis. For example, Lu Bu is known as the god of war, and his title is the marquis of war.

Up to now, there are only ten marquises. Lu Bunai is one of them, and the rest are Xingchen Hou Liu Yi, Yinlong Hou Zhao Yun, Yi Hou Huang Zhong, Greedy Wolf Hou Liu Meng, Ba Hou Dian Wei, Lieyang Hou Tai Shici, Zhenhai Hou Ling Cao, Shura Hou Wang Shu, and Evil Marquis Beimihu.

In addition to the title of marquis, there are more than 20 fief marquises, named according to the position of the feud, for example, Yuan Shao was named the Marquis of Yin'an, which was named after the fief of Yin'an County, Wei County.

As for the lower-level uncle, son, and bar, there are even more, and the cumulative total is tens of thousands. However, according to the current sphere of influence and the population base of more than 20 billion, tens of thousands of titles are not much, and they can even be said to be very rare, so the gold content of the titles of the Shang army is very high.

As for the title canonized by the royal family of the Han Dynasty, Liu Wei at this time didn't even say it in the Chang'an Palace, and the title he canonized didn't even have the most basic gold, and the gold content of a simple empty name dropped to the freezing point.

Everyone ignored it very tacitly, anyway, at present, in the Shang Ji's sphere of influence, Lu Bu is called a war marquis, and almost no one will call Wen Hou without opening his eyes.