The matter between Ling Xiaotian and Helian Xiyue was no secret in front of Helian Qing and Chen Gonggong, and they had done a detailed investigation into these things. www.biquge.info At the beginning, Helian Qing was not very willing to be with Ling Xiaotian, but later Ling Xiaotian became famous in the empire in the name of Xiao Tian, and became a leading figure in the military, and even became the protector of the people of the empire, and he was the fastest and youngest imperial duke in hundreds of years, and he was also a good match with the empress.

"Yue'er, sit back in your place," Ling Xiaotian whispered.

Helian Xiyue nodded, obediently sat back on the throne, Helian Qing, as the empress dowager of the prison country, said with a smile: "Duke Ling, this time I recruited you into the imperial capital, I didn't discuss it with you beforehand, I hope you don't mind."

Helian Qing's meaning was very clear, after all, Ling Xiaotian's army did not take a penny of the empire's food and salary, and was completely supplied by himself, so to a certain extent, there was no need for his army to completely obey the orders of the imperial family, let alone garrison the imperial capital for them.

"Hehe, it is our duty as soldiers to protect our family and defend the country" Ling Xiaotian said with a smile: "Don't be polite to the Empress Dowager of the Prison Country, I, Ling Xiaotian, guarantee the safety of the imperial capital"

Helian Qing nodded with satisfaction, and then motioned to Gong Chen to announce the decree.

"Duke Ling Xiaotian, who led the team to fight against the enemy army many times, made outstanding achievements, made great contributions to my Nanlu Empire, and even worked tirelessly to guard the safety of the imperial capital......" was preceded by a word of praise, and Gonggong Chen then read: "In view of this, I hereby appoint Duke Ling Xiaotian as the generalissimo of my Nanlu Empire, commanding the soldiers and horses of the world."

"Your Majesty Empress Xie, Empress Dowager Xie Jianguo" Ling Xiaotian said flatteredly, "He knows that this is just a gimmick, what kind of generalissimo commands the soldiers and horses of the world, just kidding, except for my soldiers, it is strange that other armies can listen to me."

However, since the establishment of the empire, there are no more than three people who can get such an official position, and Ling Xiaotian is fortunate to be one of them, which is quite face-saving

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Ling Xiaotian knew Helian Xiyue's thoughts, so he dealt with those old guys who hindered reform and were stubborn, the way was very simple, first, confiscate their territories, the reason was that they had just entered a big war, and the entire empire needed to recuperate and need a lot of money and food, and those old guys were very stingy during the war, and almost no one took the initiative to send their own private soldiers to participate in the battle, so they had no casualties and did not need to recuperate. Moreover, Ling Xiaotian adopted the method of temporary repossession, promising those old guys that as long as the empire recovered, he would return the city to them, but when it would be returned, there was no exact date, that is to say, I would return it to you when I wanted to, and I would not return it if I didn't want to

Second, they were sent to the front line to comfort the army, and the nearest distance was thousands of miles, and in order to show frugality, they were not allowed to ride in luxurious carriages, but ordinary carriages without any shock-absorbing equipment. Ling Xiaotian wanted more than once that he could exhaust a few of them, and at all times, he would card the descendants of the various departments of the empire and find trouble with them, so that they could realize that retreating bravely from the rapids was the best choice.

Of course, there is a third point, and the most important point, killing chickens and monkeys, digging up the diehards led by them, finding a fault that they can't refute, going to prison, killing heads and killing heads to find the flaws of these people is too simple, these old ministers are mostly from big family backgrounds, as the saying goes, when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, who dares to guarantee that a family of such a big one will not be a traitor

As a result, those old ministers were much more honest, and they no longer dared to go against Helian Xiyue, they had also conspired to retaliate against Ling Xiaotian several times, how could he have a heavy army in his hands, it was easy to take down, plus Ling Xiaotian was usually cautious in doing things, they couldn't find any handle.

The old guys hated it so much, but they could only knock out their teeth and swallow their stomachs, and there was nothing else they could do.

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The royal families of Dongning and the Western Han Empire were out of luck, and took the initiative to ask for peace talks, so that the Nanlu Empire would not dump them

The envoys sent by the two empires soon arrived in the imperial capital of Southern Lu, and Ling Xiaotian, as the representative of Southern Lu, received them. Because Ling Xiaotian is a commanding general, and he has defeated the armies of the two empires on the battlefield many times, so this negotiation Nanlu has the advantage, and this is Nanlu's home field

The three of them sat down in turn, and Ling Xiaotian was the first to speak, saying: "From the time you started the war to the present, in more than a year, you have embezzled nearly half of our land and more than half of our cities, bringing great losses to Nanlu, how are you going to compensate us?"

The representative of Dongning said arrogantly: "We have also suffered huge losses, we were deceived to attack your Duke Ling, you should know very well, just the soldiers of our country who died in your hands are not under 200,000, how can you say that we should compensate?"

The representative of the Western Han Empire was relatively not very good at words, and he quickly nodded, indicating that his side also had a big loss

Ling Xiaotian said angrily: "Could it be that this is the sincerity of your coming over to negotiate?" Why are you also deceived, didn't the Holy Martial Sect sign a contract with your emperor, I admit that your soldiers don't know the inside story, but what about your high-ranking people, don't they know either? Now that you know, who is wrong with coming to invade us, what's wrong with me asking you for a little war reparations, shouldn't you give it? If you don't want to give it, you can go back and tell your emperor, I will take my soldiers to kill your territory, and I will return to you the large area of the land of Nanlu without the war, how many cities we have destroyed, how many of our citizens have been killed, and I will return it to you as it is, so that you don't have to compensate."

If this was said by someone else, it would definitely not be as weighty as what Ling Xiaotian said, the two representatives had a look of fear on their faces, they knew that Ling Xiaotian was not joking

"Why don't you speak?" Ling Xiaotian completely grasped the initiative here, and said: "You go back and tell your emperor, let him send a sensible person to talk to me next time, and those who are flamboyant or disrespectful will be exempted, I only have one way to treat such people, that is, to beat them out with sticks, and prepare the compensation money, you can go back, I don't bother to talk to you."

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Three groups of envoys were sent in a row, but they were all sent back by Ling Xiaotian as they were, and the people who were sent by those people were very polite, but they were all masters of the mud, and talking to them could not talk about the substantive content at all, and the Western Han Dynasty and the Dongning Empire were determined not to pay compensation.

At this time, it has been more than three months since the armistice, and everything in the current imperial capital is very calm, Ling Xiaotian began to plan a counteroffensive, he felt that if he didn't hurt Dongning and the Western Han Dynasty, Nan Luxiu wanted to get compensation. In fact, in the Phantom Cloud Continent, such a thing as reparations rarely happens, and it is precisely because there is no such precedent that the two empires disagree with their faces.

Looking at the huge map hanging on the wall, Ling Xiaotian said to himself: "NND, you beat us so badly, and you don't lose money, Lao Tzu has to make you suffer a little loss."

The original 100,000 horses in his hand, plus the recruits recruited during this time, plus a legion of Gongsun Jingcheng and a legion of Liu Tiancheng's father, Ling Xiaotian was able to mobilize an army of 200,000, which was his capital.