Yingdu was captured by Wu Qi's army, but the royal family members in the city had already left. Even the sacrificial vessels in the city were taken away by the Chu State. It can be said that most of the entire Yingdu has been hollowed out.

Seeing this situation, Wu Qi's face was also a little ugly, and he originally wanted to break the Yingdu, capture the King of Chu, and rebuild Sun Wuzi's great achievements, but he found that the King of Chu had run away in advance.

For a time, more than a dozen generals under Wu Qi asked for battle, one was louder than the other, this one said that 10,000 troops would capture the king of Chu, that one was 7,000 soldiers, and another said 5,000 troops.

Wu Qi directly ordered them to return to the barracks to restrain the soldiers, not to harass the people, and not to rape and plunder. Send men to maintain law and order in the city, kill all the bullies and scoundrels who take advantage of the chaos in the city to burn and loot, and send troops to fight the fire.

When the king of Chu withdrew, he emptied all the treasury in the city, and the 100,000 people in the city still needed Huai to provide grain and grass. Coupled with the prisoners of war, the logistical pressure on Huai has skyrocketed.

Pick out some of the captives who are well-behaved, willing to cooperate, and have clever brains. Let these people come forward and tell the people that the Huai army will not kill people indiscriminately, and at the same time let all the people return to their homes, and tell them that the Huai will distribute food to them.

After arranging these tasks, Yingdu quickly settled down.

After occupying Yingdu, the king of Chu fled westward, and there was no large-scale Chu army around. But there are still a large number of routs circulating everywhere.

After Wu Qi pacified the people of Yingdu, he immediately ordered the army to be divided into 1,000 teams to exterminate and surrender the defeated army in the territory of Chu.

Those who are willing to surrender will be pacified and temporarily turned into auxiliary forces. Those who are unwilling to surrender will be caught and thrown back to mine, or carry out other labor reforms.

For the routed army that has been reduced to bandits by burning, killing and looting, directly strangled and let the Chu State restore order as soon as possible.

At the same time, he ordered the rear to transport more food and materials, and after the capture of Yingdu, the consumption of grain and grass in Huai increased several times.

Fortunately, this time when the Chu State was conquered, a large number of nobles and nobles were either captured or killed, and the property of these people was directly requisitioned by the Huai State. Then let the Huai Navy transport grain through the river.

Wu Qi originally wanted to directly lead his troops to pursue the King of Chu, but after reading the news sent by the secret guard, he decided to postpone it.

The secret guard came with news that the king of Chu fled west into Badi, and if he wanted to attack Badi, the first hurdle was Kuimen. The dark guards have already reconnoitred, and the gate is steep, and the world is strong.

The river course here is narrow, the water is full of reefs, the torrent is scoured, and the boat is very dangerous. If you are not careful, the hull of the ship will be torn apart by the torrent, and the ship will be destroyed and killed in a matter of moments.

The Huai State Navy couldn't pass at all, and the King of Chu also used iron chains to cross the river, and there were Chu troops on both sides of the cliff.

There is no need for a large army to hold this place at all, only a few thousand soldiers need to hold on, even if there are 100,000 troops, they will not want to take it.

As for the land route, although there is no waterway danger, but it is also rugged and difficult to travel, out of the capital of Hunan, you need to go south to Jiangling, and then go northwest through Yidu, through the Yiling mountain road, all the places you pass are lofty mountains and mountains, among which there are many three Miao Yi people.

After passing here, you also need to walk through the plank road, the road is steep, the Huai soldiers are not good at going over the mountain at all, the place where they pass, all are rugged and dangerous mountain roads, as long as one hundred and ten people are arranged to defend on these mountain roads, it is difficult to move an inch of thousands of troops.

After learning of the situation in Badi, both Wang Pu and Wu Qi decided to postpone the attack. This battle has taken the Hanjiang Plain and the Nanyang Plain of Chu State, and the king of Chu led people into Ba in embarrassment, which can be described as a great victory.

The essence of Chu was all occupied by Huai, and the king of Chu was left with Badi and Shangyong. These two areas are located in the middle of high mountains, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is simply impossible to break through in a short period of time.

In addition, after annexing a large area of land in Chu, the territory of Huai State extends to the sea in the east, Yidu in the west, Baiyue in the south, and Nanyang in the north, with a place of 2,000 miles.

Having seized so much territory at once, Huai Guo needs to be controlled as soon as possible. Wang Pu ordered Wu Qi to build a city in Yidu to block the way out of Badi. He also sent a large number of Legalist disciples to take over the system of the Chu State, and at the same time changed it to the system of the Huai State.

Most of the nobles and feudal lords of Chu were captured because of the conversion of the right, and these people were directly deprived of their fiefs by Wang Pu, and then moved their families to Chaodi, Zhoulai, Huaibei, and Wudi.

The rest of the nobles surrendered completely, and most of them were petty nobles. Familiar with the local situation and help Huaiguo stabilize the place, Wang Pu rewarded these nobles and allowed their heirs to move to the Huaiguo Academy to study. And these nobles were appointed to a number of official positions.

After clearing out the vast majority of the aristocratic forces, the state of Chu restored calm and re-established order in an extremely fast manner.

Badi, Jiangzhou.

The king of Chu was also relieved after hearing that the Huai army did not advance westward.

This time the Chu State was defeated, and most of the territory was directly lost, and now only Badi and Shangyong are left, with a population of almost more than one million, which is still forcibly moving a large number of people of the Chu State in, before the King of Chu entered Ba, the population of these two places was not even a million.

After the king of Chu entered Jiangzhou, he immediately ordered Jing Mu's younger brothers, Jing Ming and Qu Chang, to continue to implement the reforms. And this time, the king of Chu learned from the pain and went one step further into Jing Mu's change.

The aristocracy was not allowed to be hereditary without merit, and the Shiqing Shilu was completely abolished, the well field system was abolished, the land was distributed to the people, and the land was allowed to be bought and sold.

Rewarding military merits, prohibiting private fighting, promulgating a system of rewarding military merits, stipulating that knighthoods can only rely on military merits. Heavy agriculture and suppressed business, rewarded farming and weaving, nationalized salt mines and salt wells, abolished the feudal system, and all feudal lords were revoked.

All the contents of the reform were written into the "Chu Law", rectifying the rule of officials, abolishing incompetence, abolishing uselessness, and building water conservancy. All households are divided into people, and all the population is divided into five households, and ten households are counted as one tithe, and taxes are levied and collected according to the number of households.

The strength of the change of the state of Chu this time was stronger than that of the state of Wei, and the change of the state of Wei was improved.

Without the interference of the nobles and ministers, the reform of the Chu State was implemented very quickly, a large number of people obtained land, and the original restless mood instantly calmed down.

The change of the state of Chu with such a force made the state of Chu quickly settle down.

The king of Chu even ordered the recruitment of talented people to change the law and strengthen the country. Many of the children of the Fa family who were deposed because Jing Mu was killed and failed to change the law were reused again.

Although most of the land of the Chu State was lost, after this time, all the forces that hindered the change of the law in the Chu State were almost swept away.

The king of Chu implemented the technique of domineering, so that the originally crumbling state of Chu quickly settled down, and the implementation of the cultivation and warfare system made the strength of the state of Chu continue to improve.

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Huai Gong ordered Wu to attack Chu, break the Yingdu, the state of Chu was destroyed, and the king of Chu moved west into Ba and moved the capital to Jiangzhou, which was known as Western Chu in history. - "Warring States Policy: Chu Ce"

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