Faced with Zhang Xiaomei's request, Wang Xu thought about it and finally decided to agree.

However, he had a request, it was okay to leave this group of soldiers and horses, but Zhang Xiaomei couldn't leave, and he had to stay with him as a staff member.

The staff must be fake, Wang Xu takes a fancy to Zhang Xiaomei's strength.

The new army was trained for the southern expedition of the barbarians, and there were countless masters among the barbarians, and it was difficult for Wang Xu to support it alone.

Coupled with the sixth-order masters, there are a number in the world, how could Wang Xu be willing to let Zhang Xiaomei run away.

Zhang Xiaomei did not refuse this, because she had nowhere to go.

However, the matter of Zhao'an cannot be solved in a few words, and it needs to be operated.

Wang Xu first wrote a book, saying that the followers of the White Lotus Sect who captured Tianshui County had nothing to do with the people, just a group of poor people, and now the White Lotus was initially decided, the world returned to the heart, and it was inevitable that it would be ominous to kill in vain.

"Eighty thousand White Lotus elites are also a lot of strength, and the bigwigs of the military department should not refuse. With the support of the military department and the support of the teacher, the Son of Heaven should be happy to see it happen, and it is rare how to keep these elites in the new army instead of being carved up by others. ”

Wang Xu wrote a letter to the court and his teacher, and began to think about who could come forward and insert these 80,000 elites into the new army.

After thinking about it, a name came to mind, when today's son's brother, King Zhongyi, Wu Tao.

Wu Tao is the younger brother of today's son, but he is much younger than the son of heaven, and he is only in his early forties this year.

When the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, because King Zhongyi was too young to threaten the throne, he was not involved in the seizure of the throne.

After the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, the royal bloodline withered, and in order to show that he was not a mean and ungrateful emperor, he had to be ruthless to the princes who fought for the dragon, so he had a lot of grace to the loyal king.

King Zhongyi's fief was in the north, but the emperor never drove King Zhongyi out of Beijing, but let him go wherever he wanted.

How can there be fun in the capital in the north, of course the king of Zhongyi doesn't want to go, and he carries a cage to tease the birds all day long, so he can't be at ease.

If King Zhongyi can come forward, there is a chance that he will be able to leave 80,000 White Lotus elites in the new army, and King Zhongyi spends money like running water, loves money, loves sex, as long as the silver is sufficient, it is not difficult for him to intercede with the emperor.

Similarly, if you don't return to the fiefdom all year round, you just want to bully men and women all day long, and be a loyal king who is a free prince, it is easier for you to open this mouth than the ministers in the court.

"King Zhongyi is luxurious, there is no time when there is no shortage of money, 300,000 taels of silver, should be able to impress him."

Wang Xu wrote another letter, asking the steward of the Wang family in the capital to bring his letter and silver ticket to ask for the loyal and righteous king.

With both of these done, all that's left is to wait.

Three days later, the imperial court agreed to Zhao'an for this group of White Lotus Sect believers, and in the name of strengthening the new army, the 80,000 White Lotus Sect elites in Zhao'an were incorporated into the new army camp.

Seeing this, Wang Xu breathed a sigh of relief, but from the tone of the holy decree, he knew that in order to leave these white lotus elites, he asked the King of Loyalty and Righteousness to come forward.

Otherwise, the decree will not be indifferent and will not mention how to reward it.

If you know, you know, with a little unhappiness from the Son of Heaven, it is worth changing to a master like Zhang Xiaomei and the elite of the White Lotus, anyway, the emperor doesn't like him for a day or two.

There is Zhao'an's holy purpose, and Zhang Xiaomei is secretly responding, and the reception of the surrender army is going very smoothly.

According to statistics, there are 87,000 followers of the White Lotus Sect who have surrendered, of which 50,000 are elite soldiers and 27,000 are fanatical followers of the White Lotus Sect.

Among these people, the soldiers are basically high-grade Taoist soldiers, not only the fifth-order master of the difficult scripture, but also several fourth-order generals, and the remaining third-order captains, two-order teams, and first-order soldiers are even more.

Wang Xu was ecstatic about this, only a high-grade army can be called elite, and if you want to train such an elite soldier, you can't do it without three or five years.

Take the current new army as an example, just three months after enlistment, the queue is not even, there is no external force, and three against one can't beat these elites.

Back in the battalion, scatter these veterans, and the veterans bring the new recruits, and it is easy to form combat effectiveness.

After receiving the elite of the White Lotus Sect, Wang Xu only left the soldiers, and he didn't leave any fanatics, and all of them were disbanded with travel expenses.

Fanatics are different from soldiers in that they have strong beliefs.

Wang Xu was also afraid that if he brought these people back and secretly promoted the idea of the White Lotus Sect, then stealing chickens would not be a loss of rice.

200,000 when they came, 250,000 when they left, and the army returned the way it came.

In the following time, there were no more accidents.

Tuntian, training soldiers, has become Wang Xu's main work.

Three years later...

Time flies, this year, Wang Xu is twenty-eight years old, and the new army has been trained.

The 550,000 new army, under Wang Xu's full strength, was mostly a first-order elite in three years, and the price was the tax revenue obtained from border trade, and two-thirds fell into the stomachs of these people.

If you want to train a strong army, in addition to the appropriate tactics in the army, food is the most important thing.

Wang Xu ordered five meals a day, a meal of chicken, duck and fish, and with high-intensity training, all the sergeants became warriors.

As soon as the flag comes out, the army is together, the army is like a dragon, and then the brave man serves as the general, let you be the Taoist Arhat, and you will be hated when you enter the military formation.

If Wang Xu is in charge in person, with the blessing of his literature and poetry, Tianzun and Bodhisattva will not be afraid to come.

If three or five people come, one or two, it is not certain who will kill whom.

No wonder Huo Qu is sick as a fifth-order martial artist, but he can kill the sixth-order demon god again and again, in addition to his strength is particularly terrifying, the blessing of the military array is probably also one thing.

Wang Xu fights alone, and he can break his wrist with a demon god, but he can't fight two or three.

There is a military formation, and two or three demon gods are not afraid, one is not good, and there is even a risk of being slaughtered by him.

It's just annoying that Wang Xu's right route army has been refined, and Jingzhou's left route army and the central middle route army have not been completed in three years because of lack of money and food.

Wang Xu went to patrol the camp, only to see that nearly half of the soldiers and horses of the Left Route Army had not yet entered the product.

The Central Army is better, but it still has one-third of the soldiers and horses, which is not enough to step into the elite ranks.

Do the math, if the Left Route Army and the Middle Route Army want to become elite divisions, I am afraid it will take two more years.

It was another two years, this year Wang Xu was thirty years old, and he was already in the age of standing.

After years of preparation, nearly two-thirds of the territory of the barbarians has been marked on the map.

Similarly, because of the merchants' aggressive purchase, a kind of charcoal made from iron and aluminum trees unique to the barbarians, large swathes of the mountain forest were cut down in five years.

What charcoal made of iron and aluminum trees, with a faint fragrance, is better than the charcoal of the human race, etc., is just an excuse for the merchants.

The real goal is to wipe out the mountains and forests in the territory of the barbarians, when the mountains and forests are gone, the biogas will also be gone, and the barbarians will also lose the natural barrier they rely on to survive.

At first, the barbarians did not agree, because the main food of many barbarians was berries in the mountains and forests.

The merchants had their own countermeasures, and soon under the instruction of Wang Xu, they began to teach the barbarians to move mountains and build roads, and return forests to farming.

The barbarians were overjoyed, and the berries, of course, were not as good as corn, and fools knew this.

Even some shamans believed that the barbarians would be able to greatly increase the strength of their tribes if they learned the farming techniques of the Terrans.

But really, is that really the case?

The answer is no, when the barbarians who run like flies in the mountains and forests start to work in the fields, they will no longer chase wild beasts.

The best example is the historical Liao State, the Liao State is the Khitan people, the people on horseback, brave and good at fighting.

They soon defeated the Northern Song Dynasty and established their own dynasty.

However, the aristocrats of the Khitan people are very yearning for the Han culture and think that the people on horseback are barbaric.

It's funny, the Khitan conquered the steppe on horseback and defeated the Northern Song Dynasty, but in the end they disliked life on horseback and began to build their own cities, changing pastures to arable land.

Later, the nobles of the Liao State, who could not ride horses and could only sit in sedan chairs, were completely defeated militarily by the rising Jin State.

It's more fun here, the Taizu of the Jin Kingdom is also very admiring the Han culture, and after seeing the luxury of the Liaodu, he can't help but think about it, and even the offensive against the Southern Song Dynasty has been relaxed, and he has begun to change from nomadism to farming.

What is the final result, the Jin Kingdom has not played much, just like the Liao State back then, the fierce generals of the Jin Kingdom who could not ride horses were crushed by the Mongolian iron horse.

From here, you can see that you should not change your national identity easily.

When the barbarians in the Tiger Roaring Mountains and Forests become an agrarian nation like the human race, what he may get is not a rich life, but the beginning of destruction.

The most obvious change is that the barbarians of the past had to learn gladiatorial fighting from an early age, and at the age of twelve they had to go into the mountains to hunt.

Now, twelve-year-old barbarians have to learn to take care of their crops, because they don't have to hunt, they just take care of the crops and have enough to eat.

Five years is enough time to influence a generation.

Today's barbarians, those under the age of twenty, are no longer willing to go to the mountains and forests to chase fierce beasts.

Once, those who could fight tigers were warriors and could marry three wives.

Now, with his eyes closed, he can plant seedlings, he can marry five, and he doesn't have to fight with beasts, so he doesn't have to worry about when he will die.

If you were a barbarian, what would you choose?

The nobles of the Liao State and the nobles of the Jin Kingdom gave up bumping on horseback, and today's barbarians have also given up fighting with fierce beasts.

The barbarians are weakening, visibly weakening, and they are cutting down large areas of wood, making trees into charcoal and selling them to the people, turning woodlands into arable land.

The teenagers have gone from learning how to survive in the mountains and jungles with bows and arrows and gladiatorial fights to learning how to take care of the fields.

What about young people, but what about adults?

They sold the charcoal to caravans in exchange for large quantities of wine, silk, cloth, condiments, and even luxury goods, improving their quality of life.

With the barbarian leaders, the best relationship is no longer the Terran polymath, but the gentlemen who don't learn and don't know how to enjoy.

They taught the leaders how to enjoy, and taught the leaders their heirs what it means to carry a cage and walk a bird, what to call a cricket, and what to call ****.

It's not that there are no sober ones, it's just that these sober rulers will soon be exterminated by other tribes, or killed by their warriors.

Five years is enough time to change a lot of things, so much that you will be overwhelmed.

When Wang Xu heard that there were leaders of barbarian tribes who wanted to invite the human race to teach the way of Confucius and Mencius, he knew that the time was ripe to destroy the barbarians.