Even Mrs. Zhurong is a six-rank peak powerhouse, and at this time, she couldn't help but change color suddenly, and said in a lost voice: "What? Chu He is our son-in-law?"

Meng Shu laughed and said, "Exactly!"

"Madame doesn't know about this kid Chu He, but she met Qingtong earlier. If it weren't for my love for Qingtong and my intention to be my son-in-law, why would I have to give us thousands of sets of steel soldiers for nothing, and sell us 100,000 catties of steel for three million taels of silver!"

Three million taels of silver sounds like a lot, but 100,000 catties of stainless steel can completely create five or six thousand steel soldiers, even if there is no labor cost, a steel soldier will cost seven or eight hundred taels of silver, and there is no place to buy it if you have money.

These five or six thousand steel soldiers are not too much to sell for seven or eight million taels of silver.

The trading of the ancients was not as large as it is now said, but was determined by market relations.

Later generations had sufficient materials, paid attention to small profits and quick turnover, and the ancient productive forces were backward, and it was a seller's market, and it was a hoarding and curiosity.

The reason is very simple, there are so many goods, there are more people who buy them, and the goods are in short supply, so the price must rise.

You may only need 1,000 taels of silver to buy a steel soldier, 1,000 steel soldiers are likely to cost 1,200 taels of silver, and 10,000 steel soldiers are afraid that you can get the unit price of 2,000 miles of silver!

Chu He sold 100,000 catties of steel to the Southern Barbarian Army for three million taels of silver, which really gave the Southern Barbarian Army a big advantage, and the Southern Barbarian Army now captured Qinzhou City, with tens of millions of money and silver in their hands, and a large number of other materials, which had no place to spend if they wanted to.

Mrs. Zhurong's brows couldn't help frowning slightly: "Tong'er and Chu He met, why haven't you heard of it?"

Meng Shu explained: "More than a year ago, Qingtong Zhongzhou returned after boarding the Lower Diving Dragon List, passing through Qinzhou, and accidentally met the Chu River. ”

"The two had tried on the Qinzhou Tiger Stage, listening to what Mu Xiang said, Chu He obviously had the upper hand, but he didn't really make a move on Qingtong, the two were tied, and it was clear that they were in love with Qingtong. ”

"After Qingtong returned home, he went into retreat and penance, which had a lot to do with Chu River. ”

As he spoke, Meng Shu touched the steel needle-like shortness on his chin, and said with a smile: "Now it seems that the strength of this Chu River is really powerful, and our family's Qingtong is far inferior to it, I'm afraid that even the wooden elephant will look away." ”

The wooden elephant is the younger brother of the king of Mulu, and he is also a close general of Meng Shu, because he can naturally resist beasts, and a 5,000-strong beast cavalry under Meng Shu's command is his commander, but the combat power is slightly inferior to the giant elephant ride of the king of Mulu.

In this way, the meeting that determines the future strategic direction of the Southern Barbarian Army, of course, the wooden elephant is also qualified to participate.

Hearing Meng Shu say this, Mu Xiang's face became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "Great King, it is unlikely that the last general will be mistaken, the original Chu River definitely only had the cultivation of the Strong Bone Realm. ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but show a look of surprise in his eyes, and said: "A month ago, the last general met Chu He again, and found that it was difficult to spy on its virtual reality, but the scorpion-tailed winged tiger under the seat was a five-grade demon beast, which shows that Chu He's strength can already be compared with the last general." ”

King Mulu also showed surprise and shock on his face: "Then why does the battle report say that Chu He is suspected of having the combat power of a seven-rank god of war?"

He took a deep breath: "This Chu River should only be eleven years old, an eleven-year-old god of war?"

Meng Huo's face also became solemn: "Chu He's civil and military fellow practitioners, the real strength should be at the level of the sixth grade, summoning the heroic spirit of the overlord of Western Chu with the momentum of war poems and military formations, blessing himself, and with the help of the blood and qi of the army, he has the combat power of the seventh grade." ”

As a seventh-rank god of war, his strength is extremely terrifying, and he has a deep knowledge of the way of the battle array, but he knows the reason why Chu He can have the power of the god of war.

King Mulu still said with a strange expression: "Even if the real combat power is only at the sixth-grade level, it is also a unique genius in the world, that is, Zhang Jiao, the reincarnation and recultivation of the eighth-rank peerless national warrior, also has the sixth-grade cultivation after the age of twenty." ”

"What is the origin of this Chu River?"

It's not as much as the King of Mulu is not shocked.

He is confident that he is a first-class genius in the world, he has a lot of cultivation when he was young, and he even devoured the blood of a Heavenly Dragon Divine Dragon, so that he could only be promoted to a sixth-grade Fangshi at the age of fifty, and now he is only at the peak of the six-point realm.

How old is Chu He, can he compare with him, and even with the blessing of the blood of the army, he is even more powerful than him?

Meng Shu groaned and said: "Chu He has an extremely powerful body refining technique, and his body is extremely strong, if the three gods of war do not hesitate to lose their cultivation and give him an initiation, it is not impossible." ”

He paused slightly, and his face became solemn: "What is really terrifying is that he can actually summon Xiang Yu's heroic spirit with a war poem! The weapon in his hand is likely to be the legendary Heavenly Dragon Breaking City Halberd!"

Meng Shu couldn't help but chant in a low voice: "Life is a hero, death is also a ghost." From now on, I think of Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong! What a domineering war poem!"

A look of shock suddenly appeared in his eyes: "Could it be ......?"

Mrs. Zhurong's face also changed: "Could it be that he is the reincarnation of the overlord of Western Chu and can't rebuild?"

When everyone heard this, they were shocked.

They know the power of the Western Chu Overlord, this is the realm of the Eight-Rank Divine General who can be promoted more than the Eight-Rank Supreme Great!

In the past four hundred years, only Lu Bu has been able to enter this realm, and it is still the early stage of the eighth grade!

Although the overlord of the Western Chu Kingdom has been dead for hundreds of years, he is considered to be the last to break through the shackles and enter the realm of Nine Rank Creation that no one has ever reached, and become the Immortal Martial Emperor!

It's a pity that the overlord of Western Chu failed to compete for the world, not only did he not get the blessing of luck, but also suffered a backlash, which made the invincible overlord of Chu hate on the edge of the Wujiang River!

Meng Yu let out a long breath at the end, and said with a straight face: "Regardless of whether Chu He is the reincarnation of the overlord of Western Chu or not, he has such a strong army in his hands, and he also has endless steel soldiers, and he already has the capital to participate in the competition for the world!"

"Someone, please come to the reception room for a meeting, and say that this king has something to discuss with Mr. Chu!"

In the Three Kingdoms, as long as there is a strong army, it can continue to snowball and grow, not to mention that this is a super strong army that can defeat an army of 200,000.

At this time, Meng Huodu had to admit that although Chu He was not qualified to sit on an equal footing with him, he already had the capital to talk to him on an equal footing.

As the war report said, Chu He had already led the Changding army, completely defeated the visiting 200,000 Yellow Turban Army, captured nearly 50,000 generals, and also included the entire Tianshui County.

Naturally, Chang Dingjun would not be merciful to these captives, and selected those guys whose hands were covered with blood and beheaded them for public display.

Ordinary captives, whether they were from young and strong backgrounds in Tianshui County, were sent to various mine labor camps.

It just so happened that the Changding army lacked young and strong laborers, and with these 50,000 young people joining, the construction of Tianshui County could greatly speed up the process.

However, in the end, Chu He gave these captives a way out, as long as they performed well, they had the opportunity to be selected into the Standing Army, and ordinary prisoners, who worked honestly for ten years, could also be exempted from responsibility, released, and become the rulers of Tianshui County.

It is necessary to reorganize the army.

In this battle, the Changding army suffered great losses, more than 10,000 Changding troops, and other foreign army troops, etc., killed as many as 6,000 people, and the death rate reached 30%.

However, this battle also made Datong County officially accept the reality, Liu Yan took the initiative to ask the remnants of Datong soldiers to be merged into the Standing Army, and asked Chu He to send people into the Datong County official office to take over power.

Chu He was still quite satisfied with Liu Yan and others taking the initiative to surrender, although he took the military power of Liu Yan and others, but the management of Datong County was still in charge of Liu Yan, Su Ke, Chen Hua and others.

Tianshui County was fully included in the pocket of the Standing Army.

Although the six counties of Ji County, Shuangma County, Beidu County, Huanggao, Baoshan County, and Qingqi County suffered from war and the people were struggling to make a living, there were also many people, as many as 800,000.

Moreover, the old and young who were weak in health could hardly withstand all kinds of famine and military disasters and died, and most of the rest were young and strong men and women.

Most of these young men hid in the mountains and forests, evading the search and arrest of the Yellow Turban Army, and now they know that Tianshui County has been controlled by the Changding Army, but they come out of the hidden places of the mountains and forests one by one.

From here, you can know the importance of fame.

This side of the land is vast and sparsely populated, and if you throw yourself into the dense forests, mountains and forests, 108,000 people can hide, and the only problem is food.

The Yellow Turban Army could not send people to find them, so they could only gather food and force the mountain people who could not stand it to come out of the mountains, forests and hills, and take the initiative to join the Yellow Turban Army.

The people of the two counties of Chu River are not afraid that Chu He will forcibly recruit them to join the army, and even more often want to join the Changding Army and get a generous military salary from the Changding Army.

Therefore, this time the reorganization of the Standing Army is not as simple as 10,000 people.

The Standing Army has one army and four guards, the abyss, the rock, the green wood, and the blood dragon.

The Qianyuan Guard, from the veterans, selected a lot of elites with performance and loyalty, and expanded the 3,000-person Qianyuanwei to 5,000.

Panshiwei and Aokiwei also recruited a large number of recruits, and each battalion had a strength of 10,000.

The newly formed Blood Dragon Guard also transferred 2,000 elite veterans from the Rock Guard and Aoki Guard, recruited 4,000 recruits, and formed a team of 6,000 people.

Of course, even if the Changding Army expands to an army of more than 30,000 people, it will be quite difficult to control Tianshui County, Chu He's heart moved, but the idea of establishing a guard station floated.

Don't look at the system of the guard in the late Ming Dynasty in name only, become the private property of the generals of the towns, the combat power is almost equal to zero, in fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, the country is stable, the soldiers are strong, relying on the system of the guard.

The situation in Tianshui County is very suitable for the guard system, so in addition to reorganizing the Changding army, Chu He also issued an order to set up a guard in the eight counties.

The soldiers of the guard station are called militiamen, with 500 guards and 25,000 people in total.

These militiamen do not receive military salaries, but they receive training subsidies, and they are also responsible for training morale, clothing, and food and clothing, and are responsible for law and order in the counties in peacetime.

As soon as the war requires, these militias that have undergone preliminary training can be directly joined into the army, and can be transformed into the strength of the standing army in a short time.

The implementation of the guard system was quite smooth, and the reason was simple, because Chu He was too kind.

The announcement of the award and pension standards for this war immediately caused a great shock in Tianshui County.

Even the generals of the Standing Army could not have imagined that the awards and pensions were so generous.

Thinking that when Datong County conscripted and mobilized the people to attack the Yellow Turban Army, the young men who died did not even receive a pension of one or two silver, and Chu He even issued pensions to the ordinary people who died in the war, and also exempted the two counties from paying taxes for three years!

Under the heavy reward, there will be a brave man, and this sentence is also appropriate to be used on military rewards and pensions.

When the standard of rewards and pensions is released, the young and strong who are required to join the army are instantly ten times improved, and most of those who cannot enter the Standing Army are also the second best to become the militia of the Guard, as long as they perform well, they can be given priority to join the Standing Army.

Of course, Chu He's reputation was exchanged for practical rice and silver.

Not to mention the promotion and promotion of the Standing Army, the silver distributed alone exceeded 5 million taels, in addition to 1 million stones of rice grain and 100,000 pieces of cloth.

If Chu Wen hadn't gotten a large order with a total value of more than 10 million silver from the Southern Barbarian Army, Chu He would not have been able to come up with so much rice and grain even if he emptied his family

Chu Wen brought back not only tens of millions of orders, but also a paper covenant of the Southern Barbarian Army.

The Southern Barbarian Army agreed that Tianshui County would be owned by Chu He and was willing to form an alliance with Chu He, but on the condition that Chu River needed to provide 500,000 catties of steel to the Southern Barbarian Army every year.

Of course, the Southern Barbarian Army would exchange silver, rice, grain, cloth, etc. with the Chu River.

After Chu He and the others discussed for a long time, they agreed to the alliance request put forward by the Southern Barbarian Army, but another article was added, the Southern Barbarian Army needed to provide more than 100,000 Dingkou to the Standing Army every year, and each middle-aged Dingkou could be exchanged for a pound of steel.

The biggest problem of Chu River now is the lack of governance of the people.

Don't look at the 1.1 million people in Tianshui County, but you must know that in Qinzhou City, it is about the same number.

The army fights in the later stage, and it is also very important in the later stage, without enough Dingkou support, it is difficult for the Chu River to develop and grow.

Chu He knew that Qinzhou had a population of more than 3 million on the surface, but many black household registrations were not recorded, so they were exempt from paying various poll taxes.

As long as he is given a period of time, the sweet potato will be rolled out, and it is not surprising that Tianshui County alone can feed tens of millions of people.

Meng Huo's side couldn't have welcomed the conditions added by Chu He. Swap the prisoners who waste food for steel, and anyone will settle the account.

Therefore, Meng Huo sent Mu Xiang and General Yang Feng over, with Meng Huo's warrant, to conclude an alliance with the Changding Army, but to Chu He's surprise, Meng Huo actually added another condition, that is, Chu He must marry his daughter Meng Qingtong.

The dowry that Meng Yu took out was also heavy, and Hongdong County was close to the two counties on the edge of Tianshui County, plus a beast cavalry of 3,000 people.

Of course, this army and the territory of the two counties are in the hands of Meng Qingtong himself.

This suddenly added alliance condition made Chu He dumbfounded, he never thought that Meng Shu would come to such a show, you must know that he is only eleven years old now!