At the beginning of October of the 34th year of the Great Unification, the dry season in southern Xinjiang had just passed, and it had been more than half a year since Wu Xie came to Yucheng. Now the mountain puppet army is flourishing, through the chaotic political situation within Taisha, under the planning of Wu Xie, the military advisor, the mountain puppet under the banner of mediating the internal contradictions of the Taisha nobles, annexed a lot of Taisha's territory, the national strength of the military has risen greatly, and now the mountain puppet has nearly 200,000 soldiers, and its prestige in southern Xinjiang is greatly enhanced.

Mu Sheng, as the Immortal Emperor, in view of the national conditions of Taisha, he fully learned from the expansion strategy of the ancient Roman Empire in later generations, and gave full autonomy to the newly conquered Taisha region, and paid a part of the taxes to Yucheng in proportion. Between keeping most of the wealth and nothing, everyone will know how to choose.

In fact, the military conquest of the mountain puppet for more than half a year is to force the Taisha nobles to stand in line, in the past they swore allegiance to the Taisha Emperor, but now it is a change of master, or as in the past, allegiance to the Immortal Emperor, there is not much difference, but the beliefs and living habits between the two races are not the same, and they still have to go through a long time of full running-in to become a family.

Although Taisha was wary of the mountain golem's wolf ambitions, he couldn't stand the fact that there was a more ferocious neighbor in the northwest than the mountain puppet, the former clan.

The mountain puppet still has to nod his face, and he wantonly annexes the territory of Taisha under the banner of a noble mediator of Taisha, but the former tribe is different, it is completely like a gluttonous beast, no matter how much Taisha territory is eaten, he does not know how much he eats, and the former tribe has taken advantage of the weakness of Taisha and occupied more than a dozen states in Taisha, and the expansion is unscrupulous, and it seems that it is about to hit the core area of Taisha.

The expansion strategy of the former tribe is very different from that of the mountain puppets, and the mountain puppets annex these large and small princely states of Taisha, at least they still leave a way for people to live, as long as the Taisha nobles are willing to join the Yucheng Elders' Church, they are their own people, although they have no command of the army, but their wealth is guaranteed.

However, after the former tribe conquered and annexed these large and small states in the Taisha region, it directly drove out the original nobles of Taisha, and the territory was directly divided by the former magnates within the elders of the former tribe, compared with the mountain puppets, the food of the former tribe is too ugly, and now the top and bottom of Taisha can be said to hate the former tribe to the core, such as facing a great enemy, the main combat direction of the Taisha aristocratic coalition is to resist the violent invasion of the former tribe in the northwest.

The military camp on the outskirts of Yucheng, the current Immortal Emperor, Mu Sheng was dressed in casual clothes, took a foot chariot to inspect the military camp outside the city, and the leader inspected the military camp, which means that the country is going to use troops to foreign countries recently.

Anyway, after the Great War, his political future in Taisha was ruined, and it was impossible to return to the royal capital of Taisha in this life.

Accompanied by the lord of the mountain puppet, the Taisha elder Morosh, he was the real Marquis of Taisha, but the mountain puppet army killed, he couldn't resist, so he had to choose to keep the wealth, sacrifice the city and surrender the mountain puppet, and finally was able to enter the mountain puppet elders' meeting, his surrender led to a large number of Taisha wall riding nobles who were not firm in their position to surrender, these Taisha magnates faced the immortal soldiers of the mountain puppet, in order to protect the wealth, they surrendered to the mountain puppet, as a model of the Taisha surrender faction, the Taisha nobleman Morosh was elected as one of the standing elders, became an important minister by the side of the Immortal Emperor.

In order to let the newly joined Taisha nobles have the right to speak within the mountain puppet, he has specially added three new places in the seats of the ten permanent elders of the mountain puppet, these three places are limited to the Taisha nobles, and only the Taisha nobles can be selected, so that the old forces of Taisha can also be effectively integrated into the mountain puppet, and lay a good institutional foundation for the future to gradually encroach on Taisha and unify southern Xinjiang.

Sixty years after the death of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's ruling technology was quite clever, the reason why the Qing Dynasty was able to destroy the Ming Dynasty and complete the feat of swallowing the elephant was that the Qing Dynasty fully integrated all the forces to join his camp, the Eight Banners system at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to their own people full of eight banners, there are also Mongolian Eight Banners, Han Eight Banners, the Qing Dynasty on the surface seems to be a tribal alliance headed by the Jurchen people, in fact, in the early Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has built itself into an entrepreneurial platform, anyone can join the camp of the Qing Dynasty to seek wealth, This is the reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to seek the world's institutional innovation, otherwise, with the Eight Banners army in the early Qing Dynasty, which was more than 100,000 in the early Qing Dynasty, let alone the Ming Dynasty with a million armor, it would have been very good to be able to keep the Northeast.

What Mu Sheng needs most now is these Taisha versions of "Wu Sangui, Hong Chengchou, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi" If you don't engage in united front, it will be difficult to become bigger and stronger with the size of a mountain puppet country.

The lord of the mountain puppet, King Booker, and other high-ranking mountain puppets came to the front of the barracks, and the mountain puppet soldiers guarding the barracks immediately opened their doors to welcome the emperor's holy drive.

The mountain puppet soldiers stood on both sides one after another, and when they saw the emperor arrive, they shouted in unison Long live the emperor, and the call sign went straight into the sky, which showed the god-like status of the Immortal Emperor in their minds.

After the high-level of the mountain puppet accompanied the emperor to the training school, the commander of the army, Borjak, came to report on his work: "Enlighten the ancestors, this batch of newly recruited Taisha sergeants will be officially enlisted in the second half of the year after training. ”

When Mu Sheng heard this, he smiled and said: "Okay, very good, Jacques, you have worked hard, in the future, if we continue to go south, you don't have to be Zongbi's deputy, and you should lead the army to fight independently." ”

When Borjak heard this, he was overjoyed, he knew that this was the ancestor who wanted to reuse him, so he kowtowed: "Thank you, the old ancestor, Jacques will live up to your high hopes." ”

As the core high-level of the Bor family, Borjak also knows that the old emperor is gone, but in his heart, the current immortal emperor Bordesa is obviously much more wise and powerful than the old emperor, and now the mountain puppet country can not be described as thriving, in his heart, it seems that he has seen the bright prospect of the mountain puppet dominating southern Xinjiang under the leadership of the new emperor.

Mu Sheng bowed his head and said, "Okay, let's start the drill, I want to see how the soldiers you train are." ”

Borjak nodded yes, took the order flag and began to practice the military formation, this is the territory of the mountain puppet absorbing Taisha, the newly recruited Taisha soldiers, after the training is completed, they will be mixed into the main force of the mountain puppet to assist in the operation, Mu Sheng doesn't want to make the mountain puppet army like Taisha, loose and crumbling, and what is directly under the central Wang family's army, the local princes' imperial army, just this kind of military organization, it is okay to bully a small country, a little bit of hard stubble, it will be conspicuous immediately.

At this time, in the barracks, the newly recruited Taisha soldiers lined up in a neat phalanx, holding wooden shields and spears, and under the command of the commander's command, chanting slogans, waving their stabs in unison, and blocking.

Mu Sheng was very satisfied when he saw this, and King Booker Gakun Patura took the opportunity to step forward and pat himself on the back and said: "The emperor has the army of this king, and he will be able to enter the capital of Taisha again and reign over the world when he moves his army south." ”

Mu Sheng laughed and said, "Then borrow your auspicious words from the king." ”

Elder Morosh of Taisha saw the elite of Taisha trained by the mountain golem, and his mood was quite complicated, it won't be long before these Taisha guys will go to the battlefield to deal with their home country, and now even he has become the important minister of the mountain puppet, he is just remembering his homeland in his heart.

After Gakun Patura licked it cheekily, Morosh also stepped forward and said: "The Emperor is wise and powerful, I really hope that I, Morosh, can also be strong and persistent for the Emperor, go to the battlefield in person, open up territory for the Emperor, and make immortal feats." ”

When Mu Sheng heard this, he said, "Morosh, there will be opportunities in the future." ”

After the Boljak concession army retreated, he stepped forward and reported: "Qi Ancestor, the Divine Machine Battalion that was trained according to your intention has been preliminarily formed, please ask the Ancestor and the elders to watch the battle." ”

Borjak waved the flag again, after the sound of the military trumpet, the soldiers of the Shenji battalion lined up in a neat line, the sergeants all had short swords on their waists, wore leather armor, and held crossbows aimed at the straw man target in front, only to see Jacques give an order, with the beat of the military trumpet and drum, the crossbows of the soldiers in the front row shot ten times in a row, it was really dense with arrows like flying locusts, after the first row of arrows, the second row of sergeants came out of the crowd, holding the crossbows and frantically out, and then the third row came out of the crowd, and the fourth row fired arrows in front of the crowd, At this time, the sergeant in the first row had already loaded the arrows, and after the fourth row finished shooting, the first row went up to output until the arrows in his hands were exhausted, and the grass target was full of arrows like a hedgehog.

At this time, Bortath, Elder Tessa Morosh, King Booker Kakun Patura, and others were dumbfounded, and they were somewhat convinced that the Emperor's military plan was true.

The more than 5,000 mountain puppet god machine battalion actually played the firepower output of tens of thousands of crossbowmen, and combined with the mountainous terrain of southern Xinjiang, this is simply an ambush artifact!

Mu Sheng was stunned when he saw the elders looking at it, and he was secretly proud in his heart, this was the Divine Machine Battalion that he built after the Zhuge Repeater Crossbow in later generations, which was an artifact in the future battle for domination in southern Xinjiang!

After visiting the military exercise, a group of high-level mountain puppets returned satisfied, and returned to the palace of Yucheng, where a group of high-level mountain puppets began to discuss state affairs and formulate the next strategy for sending troops south......

The military advisor Wu Xie and the guest secretary Guo Jue had just finished attending the mountain puppet imperial meeting, so they made an appointment to go out of the palace to play chess in the tavern.

The two of them are originally from the Central Plains, their customs and languages are similar, they are old acquaintances, and they are in a foreign country, as the left and right staff of the Immortal Emperor, they went to the tavern to play chess and play chess in private, and by the way, they talked about the news from the Central Plains.

The two came to the tavern room, this inconspicuous tavern in Yucheng has been bought by Guo Jue for a lot of money, as a transit station for the exchange of information between the Central Plains and the mountain puppets, Guo Jue as a guest secretary, giving advice is not his forte, so he simply took charge of Yucheng's intelligence work.

In addition to doing serious things, this tavern is usually a good place for Guo and Wu to pretend to be public and private, and to have fun at public expense.

In the private room, Guo Jue took the black chess step first, and an hour later, the white chess on the chessboard was already in the majority.

Seeing this, Guo Jue smiled, abandoned the black chess and admitted defeat, and said, "Alas! Lost again. ”

Wu Xie smiled slightly: "Come, continue to the next one." ”

The two were about to clean up the chessboard and make the next hand, when a waiter entered the private room and handed Guo Jue a bamboo tube, apparently the news that had just been taken off the carrier pigeon.

Guo Jue opened the bamboo tube, took out the strip of cloth, took a closer look, sighed, and handed the strip of cloth to Wu Xie for inspection.

Wu Xie looked at it and thought thoughtfully.

Guo Jue asked: "Old Wu, this letter says that Lord Zhao has been recalled to the imperial court by His Majesty from his post in Huai'an County and appointed as a young man again, which is unusual!" ”

Wu Xie bowed slightly: "Well, it is indeed unusual, I am afraid that Lao Zhao will be appointed as an auxiliary minister by His Majesty in a short time." ”

Guo Jue exclaimed: "Auxiliary Minister? That means that Childe has a chance? ”

Wu Xie shook his head and said: "This is not for the son, this auxiliary minister is to escort An Guojun's succession, thanks to Lao Zhao's repeated letters recommending An Guojun as the crown prince, Lao Zhao is right, his luck is not bad, he was elected by His Majesty as An Guojun's auxiliary minister, once the new monarch succeeds to the throne in the future, Lao Zhao will definitely be reused by the new monarch." ”

When Guo Jue heard this, he said thoughtfully: "In this way, it is very likely that Your Majesty is preparing for what will happen after death?" ”

Wu Xie frowned and said, "Well, I suspect that Your Majesty's body may not last long, otherwise he would not act like this." ”

When Guo Jue heard this, he said to himself: "Auxiliary minister, I don't know which auxiliary ministers Your Majesty wants to arrange?" ”

Wu Xie analyzed: "Since His Majesty has always refused to establish a prince, in order to protect the country's social welfare, at least four auxiliary ministers must be arranged to escort the new monarch's succession, left and right prime ministers, Huo Zheng and Wang Yi are absolutely loyal to the emperor, and they must also be the best candidates for auxiliary government, Yang's relatives, in addition to Yang Yan, who is far away in the Great Wall Corps, Yang Lin, the general of the left, is also An Guojun's uncle, and he must also be an important candidate for auxiliary government, plus Lao Zhao, the four ministers of the auxiliary government, An Guojun's ability to succeed to the throne smoothly should be a certainty." ”

When Guo Jue heard this, he thought it was true, and sighed: "It seems that Lao Zhao has really invested in An Guojun's faction, at least he can be a dragon!" ”

Wu Xie smiled indifferently and said: "Lao Zhao, he will not join any faction, don't forget, since Elder Meng was killed by the Tsing Yi envoy, he is the revival elder who is expected by everyone in Yuedi, our first goal is to seek the throne for Gongzi, if it doesn't work, we will retreat to the second, lurk down and wait for the opportunity, if the world changes, it is time for me to revive the Yueguo Sheji." ”

Guo Juqi said: "Will the world really be chaotic? ”

Wu Xie affirmed: "There will be chaos, but I don't know when it will be chaotic, and I don't know what kind of situation it will be chaotic, maybe the Jin court is in power with a holy lord, maybe it won't be chaotic, maybe it's just a small chaos for a while, maybe the world will be in chaos, this is just my personal inference, it's unpredictable, maybe only God will know." ”

When Guo Jue heard this, he was even more stunned, and said in his heart, how did this old Wu speak upside down? Is it messy, or won't it be messy?