Chu He understood everyone's thoughts very well.

There is competition to make progress, and he cannot ask everyone to be of one mind, and if this is the case, it will be a great threat to his authority.

There is nothing to say about the big wedding ceremony, everything is handled by the elders of the Chu family and the Xiang family, and Chu He is at the mercy of a puppet.

On the bright side, the wedding was quite lively and joyful, and in essence it was still a political ceremony, in addition to bringing the relationship between Changdingjun and Nanban, it was also an opportunity for gentry, officials and businessmen from other places to get close to the Chu River.

There is nothing to say about the candle night in the cave room, anyway, everything that should be done and what should not be done has been done.

Chu He's current cultivation realm, with the world's contention in mind, although it will not break off love, but love and desire are by no means essential, but more to fulfill the obligations of the husband.

The issue of heirs, which the generals were most concerned about, was not urgent.

Chang Dingzhu hoped that the more heirs of Chu He would be, so that he could better select a suitable heir.

In this world where force is respected, the heir is not the firstborn son system, but the capable first, even if Meng Qingtong gives birth to the eldest son, it does not mean that he will be able to inherit the position of Chu He, but with an heir, it is not reassuring in the end.

Originally, Chu He planned to retreat and impact the realm after getting married, but the result was a series of social exchanges, many of which could not be shirked.

Within a few days, more than a dozen wealthy families outside Tianshui County expressed their intention to surrender and moved their families to Tianshui County, with slaves and slaves, private guards, private serfs who cultivated the fields, etc., with more than 100,000 people, which shows the depth of these wealthy families.

These wealthy families from Hongdong County, Birdsong County, and even Baozhou, Yongzhou, and Wangzhou were able to preserve themselves in the war, in addition to the strong force they had, but also because the gentry were all one.

Even barbarians like Meng Huo did not dare to really wage war against the gentry class.

As long as the gentry do not resist to the death and sacrifice part of their family wealth and labor army, the anti-Shu soldiers and horses will not really do it, of course, it is inevitable to kill some of the gentry families who resist badly.

These gentry said that they would come to vote, but in fact they were just saying good things.

Most of the gentry families, some people in the clan have joined the anti-Shu formation, and there are also many children who serve in the Dashu official mansion, and now they have moved to Tianshui County, but they are just betting everywhere, no matter what the result is, it will not make the family break the inheritance.

Lu Bu's Fang Tian painting halberd is really easy to use, and when it is erected outside the city lord's mansion, it adds a lot of royal and domineering atmosphere to Chu Heping, and many gentry come to vote, a very important reason is that Chu He is strong enough.

Such a strong man who can seriously injure Lu Bu, and there are 100,000 strong soldiers under his command, it is already worth their heavy bet.

Meng Qingtong married into Tianshui County, in fact, she had already expected that she would be harassed by some Tianshui County generals, and Mrs. Zhurong had already talked to her many times about how to deal with it.

As the daughter of the Southern Barbarian King, she knows some of the art of power struggle, and Chu He also told her the bottom and knows where Chu He's bottom line is.

In the face of Wu Meier's provocation either openly or secretly, Meng Qingtong actually endured it, and showed considerable generosity, so that Wu Meier's rudeness was contrasted, and some officials and generals unconsciously leaned towards Meng Qingtong, especially the barbarians from Shuangyue Cave.

In the final analysis, Wu Meier is just a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, who has never received a strict and systematic education, and was occupied by Meng Qingtong.

In Tianshui County, in addition to the headquarters of the Chu River, the Changding faction represented by Jiang Wei, the Jiangwu faction headed by Xiang Xiong, the Qinzhou faction led by Qin Shengnan, and the Southern Xinjiang faction dominated by Meng Qingtong have become clear, and other foreign gentry factions are slowly attached to these four factions.

Jackdaw County and Heyuan County have been merged into Tianshui County, but in addition to Meng Qingtong's military power, other things are handed over to Chu He for arrangement, and officials at all levels are dispatched by the City Lord's Mansion to be responsible for various matters.

Wu Mei'er couldn't fight Meng Qingtong, and finally changed the strategy goal very smartly, and during this time, she has been looking for Chu He for various reasons, anyway, except for sleeping and resting at night, she will not give Chu He and Meng Qingtong a chance to get along alone.

Chu He was helpless against Wu Mei'er, and he was really angry, so after Qin Shengnan led Ping Haiwei to leave Tianshui County, he simply retreated and cultivated, and came out of sight.

I don't know how long this retreat lasted, but before the retreat, Chu He set three major strategies for the development of the Standing Army.

On the one hand, it is to send soldiers and horses to the Tongtian River front for training, the second is to cross the Huya Ridge to spread the sphere of influence to the land of Panyue, Shanguo, and Xiqiang, and the third is to attack at sea.

On the side of Shanyue, the Chu River was temporarily put down, after all, to get to Shanyue, you have to pass through Yongzhou and Baozhou, which are occupied by the Sanzhou Coalition Army, and it is impossible for the Sanzhou Coalition Army to watch the Changding Army pass by, and now is not the time to turn around with the Sanzhou Coalition Army.

There are many experienced veterans watching the anti-normal army, and Chu He can also rest assured.

After being troubled by Lu Bu like this, Chu He really realized that the five-grade realm alone was unreliable.

He is no longer just fighting in Tianshui County, but participating in the battle for deer in the world, facing those legendary figures who can leave their names in the history books, and they are often the cultivators of the God of War and the country, and even Zhang Ning, the Holy Maiden of the Yellow Turban, is the peak cultivation of the sixth grade.

It is quite necessary to elevate the realm to the top.

Going out along the Xiaoqing River, about 400 miles, it is the mouth of the endless sea, on one side is the steep and high cliffs of Huya Mountain, and on the other side is the flat and fertile tidal flat.

The estuary is the southern part of Xinjiang.

Compared with other places, this fertile tidal plain is an excellent settlement, for hundreds of square kilometers of fertile land, the southern Xinjiang tribes have not known how many wars, and finally this tidal plain was controlled by the fifth cave.

The 36 cave tribes in southern Xinjiang are all large tribes in southern Xinjiang, and the fifth cave has a population of 100,000 and more than 30,000 soldiers who can fight.

Although many elite warriors were lost in the battle for the tidal flats, the population slowly recovered and became stronger and stronger under the nurturing of this fertile land.

Now the fifth cave has joined the formation of the Southern Barbarian Army, and 20,000 elites are fighting fiercely on the battlefield of Tongtian River under the leadership of the cave master, but there are still 10,000 warriors left in the tribe, and no one dares to fight the idea of the fifth cave.

Although the land is fertile, it is not so easy to feed a tribe of 100,000 people, and it is impossible for barbarian warriors to eat only the rice produced in the fields, so many barbarian warriors will venture out to sea in small wooden boats to fish, or climb Huya Ridge to hunt wild beasts.

Rumanla was a full-time fisherman, built a large wooden boat by himself, and went out to sea with his three sons and several offspring to fish for a living.

Although it is extremely dangerous to go out to sea to fish, Rumanla's luck has always been good, and every time he can return with a full load, he can exchange the catch with other tribesmen for rice and other supplies, and the family of more than 30 people lives quite well.

Recently, Rumanla plans to switch to a real sea vessel, recruit more men, and go further afield in search of seafood.

Rumanra is confident that he will gain more wealth in this treacherous sea, because he has a special martial spirit.

Sea wolf martial arts, the effect is very simple, and the adaptability in the sea is +12.

Before occupying this tidal flat territory, Lu Manra was likely to be the weakest third-rank martial artist in the fifth cave.

Although he has a martial gall of the highest grade Xuan, but it is useless, on land, this sea urchin cannot improve his combat power at all, and Lu Manla does not even have the courage to tell others that what he has condensed is a waste gall.

Fifteen years ago, the fifth hole was given a tidal flat and an estuary, and Rumanla learned about the benefits of his sea urchin.

If it weren't for a sea urchin, an ordinary third-grade barbarian martial artist would never have been able to marry three wives and give birth to more than a dozen children, and he would still have the spare energy to help his brother support his family.

The sea adaptability plus 12, the range is unusually wide, can greatly improve the vision in the sea, improve the speed in the water, can dive thousands of meters of the seabed, and even can draw some oxygen from the sea, a dive can last a whole hour.

Rumanla can also sense the dangers of the sea, the situation of undercurrents, the fierce beasts lurking at the bottom of the sea, and so on.

It is precisely because of this Xuanpin sea wolf martial arts courage that Lu Manla can drive a small wooden boat to catch seafood in the angry waves, and then the small wooden boat becomes a large wooden boat, and there are three more eldest sons on board, as well as a few young people from the same village to help.

Lu Manla, who is less than forty years old, has become one of the leaders of the village, often his big wooden boat goes to sea, followed by more than a dozen wooden boats, and his prestige in the village is extremely high.

Lu Manla was ready to change to a real sea ship, and the silver was all saved, just waiting for the sea merchants of Julang Island to come.

The tribes of southern Xinjiang are not good at shipbuilding, and if they want to get real sea ships, they can only trade with the maritime merchants of Julang Island.

The maritime merchants of Julang Island, in fact, are more suitable for pirates, and every once in a while, they will come to the sea to get rock salt, animal skins, grain, etc. from the fifth cave, and at the same time, they will also sell all kinds of seafood, such as black blood seahorses, silver sea seals, seven-colored starfish, deep sea East Pearl, etc., to the fifth cave is the barbarian tribe of the entire southern Xinjiang.

The value of a sea ship is very expensive, a sea ship of 500 materials, 30,000 taels of silver, Lu Manla naturally can't afford it.

But he had already discussed with everyone in the village, and one of them would join together to buy a sea boat.

As long as you have a real sea boat, you can go to the farther sea area to operate, if you can find such a good thing as Haidongzhu, once you go back and forth, the income of two or three thousand taels of silver is not a problem.

Haidong pearl is a pearl containing rich vitality, is a treasure bred by the green mussel, only at the bottom of the sea more than 300 zhang can be found, grinding powder to eat, can enhance internal strength, strong physique.

The most ordinary Haidong pearls are equivalent to the second-grade elixir, one will cost more than one hundred taels of silver, and the effect of the best Haidongzhu is even comparable to the five-grade elixir, of course, it is unattainable!

The silver had already been prepared, and a large amount of rice, grain, animal skins and other materials had been exchanged from the people of other caves, and Lu Manla had been looking forward to the arrival of the maritime merchants of Julang Island.

Today he did not go to sea, but basking in the sun outside the cave.

The fifth cave is the big barbarian tribe, which is divided into many caves, a cave village is equivalent to a village of the Han people, about five or six hundred people, the cave of the inhabitants is often concentrated on a mountain.

Although this is a tidal plain, and the rain has washed the mud from various mountains here and filled in the ravines, there are still many hills. The top of the Dongzhai Mountain, where Lumanla is located, is only ten miles away from the mouth of the sea, and you can see the turbulent angry sea from the top of the mountain.

The eldest son, who was working in the mangrove forest by the sea, was excited to rush back to the cave at this time, and shouted from afar: "Abba!

Lu Manla was in good spirits, and quickly went to the top of the mountain to take a look, but he was slightly stunned, there were indeed several sea boats at the mouth of the sea, but the style was a little different from the sea boats on Julang Island, and they came from the inland river.

"Could it be that a new maritime merchant has appeared on Julang Island, entered Tianshui County, and traded with the Han Chinese?"

Lu Manla rarely enters the inland river land, after all, his sea urchin can only work in the sea, and any third-grade demon beast on the land can take his life.

Lu Manla had heard that there was a big force on the side of Tianshui County, and the leader was called Chu He, and the force should be not much worse than the fifth cave.

The seafood brought by the maritime merchants of Julang Island is worth tens of thousands of dollars every time, and it is not something that ordinary forces and merchants can eat.

They also refused to stay in the interior for long, so they often only traded with the big powers, sold their goods in a short period of time, and then quickly returned to the island.

A large force has appeared in Tianshui County, and it is possible for them to go to Tianshui County along the inland river to trade with the Changding Army.

Just when Lu Manla was suspicious, these sea ships stopped at anchor and docked in the natural deep-water port next to the mangrove forest.

The maritime merchants of Julang Island have been to the tidal plains several times, and no barbarian tribe dares to provoke the fifth cave, and Lu Manla and the others are not afraid that the comers will have malicious intentions.

As one of the leaders of the cave village, even if he does not trade sea ships with maritime merchants, he must bring people to negotiate with maritime merchants.

According to the previous rules, the maritime merchants would only stay for two days at most, and presumably the old clan leader of the fifth cave who received the news would quickly come over and negotiate the goods transaction with the maritime merchants, leaving not much time for Lu Manla.

For maritime merchants, the benefits of buying and selling sea vessels are not high, and if they don't have enough time, they are likely to be too lazy to trade with Rumanla.

Therefore, Lu Manla asked his eldest son to inform the owner of the village, and then hurried towards the mangrove forest.

In order to make the fruit grow more and bigger, there are usually people here to take care of the forest, apply guano and mud to drive away the green haired monkeys and toucans that come down from Huyaling and like to eat red crystal fruit.

When Rumanla arrived at the mangrove forest, he found that there were already many people working in the mangrove forest, looking at the fleet in a circle with curiosity.

The fleet of six seagoing vessels is definitely not small.

Especially the largest sea ship, Lu Manla judged at a glance that it was a big ship of 3,000 materials, which could transport more than 30,000 stones of materials at a time.