Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Envoys Gather
Jingguo needs time to recuperate, and Li Yunyi needs time to straighten out the military and political sides and build a strong army.
He was afraid that the mastermind behind the scenes would make some more moths, which would make him tired of coping. Therefore, Cao Li can only be sent to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Cai State, so as to attract the attention of the Southern Chu Dynasty and the major vassal states to this side, so that the mastermind behind the scenes does not dare to mess around.
There are rules of the game in this world, and there is balance in this world.
If there were no rules and balance, neither the Southern Chu Dynasty nor the Nine Great Vassals could exist, and they would have been subverted long ago. Since the mastermind behind the scenes does not dare to stand on the bright side, then he has no ability to break the rules of the game, so he does not dare to mess around.
In addition, there are also the Shaking Mountain Camp Blood Wolf Camp and the Divine Bow Camp, Li Yunyi believes that the secrets of these three battalions have been more or less known by many big forces, and those forces will definitely be jealous. Many big forces may be secretly plotting to see how to get the secret of building these three classes.
Li Yunyi couldn't give them a chance to make a black hand, he let Cao Li go on the expedition, attracting the attention of all forces, and putting Jingguo on the cusp again.
This is to make them all cast a mouse, staring at each other, so as to give him enough time to stabilize his foundation and develop.
Jingguo is a third-class vassal state, and there are second-class vassal states and first-class vassal states above. Above the vassal states there was the Southern Chu Dynasty, and there were five major dynasties in this Eastern Shenzhou.
Jingguo is too weak, Jingguo's foundation is too weak, any super force makes a move, Jingguo and Li Yunyi will be pinched to death as easily as an ant.
Half!
Li Yunyi believes that as long as he is given half a year, he will be able to build a powerful army, an iron army that can only defeat one against ten. As long as he has a strong army in his hands, even if the big forces are openly attacking, he will not be without the capital to fight.
The first thing Li Yunyi chose to promote was the city defenders.
The army was originally only about 2,000 men, and some of it was purged. The more than 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers in the back were reorganized, and the army became simplified. Although the combat power of these miscellaneous soldiers is not strong, they have not been infiltrated by any powerful big family, which is a blank slate. This army has also fought with Li Yunyi, and it is easy to become an army that is absolutely loyal to him after training.
Lin Jian didn't have many medicinal materials to collect, so he could only improve a part of them first, which was estimated to be about two or three thousand. More than 10,000 troops want to be promoted, and it is not enough for the medicinal materials of all the cities in the entire Jingguo to gather together, and it is necessary to buy and mobilize medicinal herbs in the major vassal states in Southern Chu.
Xiong Jun was very busy during this time, these miscellaneous armies had no military discipline, acted casually, and had weak individual capabilities, not to mention coordinated operations and combined military formations. Xiong Jun has been training the Huya Army all day long, and those miscellaneous soldiers have been trained so much that many sergeants want to be deserters.
Li Yunyi gave the Huya Army double the salary, in addition to the daily food, plus Xiong Jun painted a beautiful blueprint for them all day long, and from time to time let the Shaking Mountain Battalion show off, showing the terrifying combat power of the Shaking Mountain Battalion, so that those sergeants gritted their teeth and persevered.
A few days later, the cultivation of the medicine pool was completed, and Xiong Jun also divided the Beidaying into two areas. The first batch of elite sergeants went in to gradually improve with medicinal baths, and after being promoted, they were locked up in a separate area for training, running-in, and training military formations.
The Huya Army has 15,000 people, plus the original Shaking Mountain Battalion, the Blood Wolf Battalion and the Divine Bow Battalion, adding up to almost 17,000 people. Xiong Jun asked Li Yunyi to prepare to expand into the Shengong Battalion with 2,000 people, the Blood Wolf Battalion with 5,000 people, and the remaining 10,000 people to expand into the Shaking Mountain Battalion.
In fact.
If he could, Li Yunyi would turn more than 10,000 troops into a blood wolf battalion, and he would become the real number one cavalry in the world and sweep through Eastern Shenzhou. The blood wolf is no problem, the Nanban Mountain Range is everywhere, he used to use the Heavenly Machine Pot to easily take in a large area, the problem is the rations of the blood wolf!
These blood wolves only eat meat, and Jingguo is too small and too poor. Forming a battalion of five thousand blood wolves is already the limit, and no more will be able to feed it. Two thousand Divine Bow Battalions are also sufficient, the main task of the Divine Bow Battalion is to shoot the enemy's masters, and the Shaking Mountain Battalion is the main force.
10,000 mountain-shaking camps, 5,000 blood wolf camps, plus 2,000 divine bow camps.
If he can improve all the training, plus he can cultivate two or three grandmasters, Li Yunyi will have no worries for a short time. Even if the first-class vassal states attack the whole country, he is sure to resist a wave, unless the army of the Southern Chu Dynasty attacks, otherwise he will not be able to destroy Jingguo.
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In the next few days, the entire Jingcheng became extremely busy, and the officials of the upper and lower ministries of the imperial court were tired enough. The household department was the worst, and the household department Shangshu cried a few times, Li Yunyi was unmoved, and he could only grit his teeth to raise funds.
Li Yunyi asked Cao Li to go on the expedition, which was an army of 50,000, and the daily consumption of money and food was a huge amount. Li Yunyi also gave Huya Army a double salary, and what was even more excessive was that Li Yunyi allocated 30 million taels of silver to Lin Jian. Not to mention what to do, many ministers are wondering if Li Yunyi is filling his pocket with the money from the state treasury......
The entire six departments of the court actually have a lot of opinions, because Li Yunyi is very domineering and does not respect them at all.
These high-level people feel that they are all puppets and cannot have their own thoughts, and they can only implement what Li Yunyi wants them to do.
However, many of Li Yunyi's behaviors are undesirable and wrong in their opinion. Many old ministers are very worried that if Jingguo continues like this, it will definitely perish, and they will also sink to the bottom of the sea with this big ship.
Two days later, Wu Jian came.
Li Yunyi gave authorization, and Wu Jian didn't need to be notified when he came, and he could directly enter Jingyi Palace. Inside and outside the entire court, except for Li Yunyi's personal father-in-law Xiao Anzi, only Wu Jian has this privilege. The government and the opposition didn't feel anything, Wu Jian was friends with Li Yunyi before, and it was normal to go into the palace to drink and chat with Li Yunyi.
Wu Jian Ming did not have any official position on his face, but he inherited Wu Tiance's title, and he was demoted by one level and became a second-rank military marquis. He was outside Jingyi Palace, and he met Xiaodao Gu Jiang Xiaocicada again, he teased as usual, but unfortunately Xiao Daogu was too simple, a little naΓ―ve, and didn't understand it at all, and every time he looked at Wu Jian with idiotic eyes, which made him feel very hurt......
"Nan Chu has news!"
After Wu Jian entered, he got down to business: "Nan Chu's canonization decree has come down, and the legal identity of the lord of the country has been recognized, but this edict is a bit interesting, guess who will pass the decree?"
Li Yunyi lowered his head to deal with official business, and he said angrily: "If you have a fart, release it quickly, I'm busy, I don't have time to guess riddles with you here." β
Wu Jian didn't sell Guan Zi anymore, he said: "Xiaotianhou, Zhu Xiaotian!"
"Is that him?"
Li Yunyi put down the brush in his hand and groaned, and after a while, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said: "It's a little interesting, the envoys of the vassal states such as Yasukuni, Lu, and Chen are probably about to leave, right?"
"Huh?"
Wu Jian showed surprise in his eyes, and gave a thumbs up and said, "Yes, His Royal Highness King Yi, can you be a prophet? I have also just received news that these countries have sent special envoys through their envoys to congratulate the new monarch on his accession to the throne. Except for Cai, the rest of the vassal states will send envoys. β
"Congratulations are fake!"
Li Yunyi sneered and said, "They probably want to get the secret method of building the three major armies. Nan Chu just sent a Xiao Tianhou, that shouldn't be the meaning of the Nan Chu court, but the meaning of the left prime minister of Nan Chu, right? This time I came to test it, so I don't have to care too much, just receive it normally. Nan Chu, you pay more attention, if there is any wind and grass to report to me. β
"Hmm!"
Wu Jian nodded, and then a teasing smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said, "King Yi, you have tied up the sixth miss of the Su family, and one of the principals of his family will come over recently." In a few days, Jingcheng will be lively. β
"I see. By the way, you have recently paid attention to laying out the line on Chu Jing's side, and planted more spies, I need Chu Jing's information when I go back. β
Li Yunyi waved his hand and buried himself in dealing with government affairs, Wu Jian shrugged his shoulders and walked straight out.
"So many envoys coming?"
Wu Jian left, Li Yunyi groaned, and after a while, he muttered: "You can do some articles, maybe there will be an unexpected gain?"
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Just two days later, a huge bird fell from the sky above Jingcheng, and the bird was a black Dapeng bird. There were five people standing on the Dapeng Bird, the first one was wearing a black Xiu gold-rimmed robe, with an extraordinary bearing, and the four behind were obviously his guards.
The Dapeng bird fell into the front of King Jing's Palace, and Zhang Muzhi, the left prime minister of Jingguo Chaotang, was waiting with a group of ministers for a long time, and welcomed this middle-aged man with extraordinary bearing in.
Not long after, another huge bird arrived, and there were five people on it, one official, and four guards.
On this day, nine birds came to Jingcheng one after another, a Xiaotianhou from Nanchu, and a principal of the Su family, and the other seven vassal states each sent an envoy over. They all arrived today, nominally to congratulate the new monarch of Jingguo on his accession to the throne.
That night, Li Yunyi held a state banquet, he attended in person, the left and right prime ministers and the six major scholars came, Li Chen and the queen mother attended, and Gonggong Fu accompanied him in the corner.
At the banquet, Xiao Tianhou read out the holy decree of Nanchu and officially recognized Li Chen's position as King Jing, and Li Chen was the rightful lord of Jingguo this time.
Xiaotianhou is forty-six years old, he is the second-rank military marquis of Southern Chu, and he has no real position and no great power. However, he has one identity, that is, the cousin of Zhu Gui, the prime minister of Southern Chuzuo. The Emperor of Southern Chu had almost no affairs, Prime Minister Zuo was the head of civil officials and had great power, and Zhu Gui was one of the four giants of Southern Chu.
In a sense, Zhu Xiaotian represents Zhu Gui. Originally, the decree was a matter of eunuchs, but under normal circumstances, it was announced by the internal power supervisor of Southern Chu, but now Zhu Xiaotian is being sent, which naturally has some special implications.
There is nothing to say about the state banquet, they are all talking nonsense to each other. The level of Nan Chu is not high, and the envoys from the major vassal states are not big names, Li Yunyi sat and accompanied him, basically did not speak, and asked Zhang Muzhi and a group of ministers to accompany him.
Halfway through the state banquet, the Queen Mother left with Li Chen under Li Yunyi's hint. Later, Li Yunyi also took advantage of an important matter to deal with and resigned, leaving Zhang Muzhi and them to continue to accompany him.
Li Yunyi's departure made Zhu Xiaotian's face a little unpleasant, he was the envoy of Nanchu and Zhu Gui's cousin, Li Yunyi was a little too faceless.
The envoys of the other vassal states didn't care, Li Yunyi was a famous demon king and madman in Southern Chu, and they were all surprised to be able to attend to accompany them.
Watching this master act, even if he directly flipped the table and scolded his mother at the state banquet, they would not feel strange......