"Okay, then I'll leave this matter to you."

Governor Cui nodded, and he was quite satisfied.

He still trusts Lu Yuan's ability to lead troops.

After all, he was the same person in advance, who led the troops to quell the Wugang rebels and suppressed the Miao rebellion.

These are all real achievements, and they cannot be faked.

Then the two discussed a little, mainly on how much money to give, how many times to allocate it, and what soldiers to recruit.

Lu Yuan naturally asked for more money and to pay it early. This time, Governor Cui said that he would deal with it as soon as possible.

In terms of the source of soldiers, it is naturally the same as before, recruiting some hunters in the mountains.

Anyway, in the mountainous area of Shaoyang Mansion, there is no shortage of these brave mountain people.

It wasn't until nearly noon that all these issues were finally finalized.

Cui Changqing left Lu Yuan for another meal, and then let people leave.

After returning to the mansion, Lu Yuan asked Liang Hu to be called, and the people arrived quickly.

"My lord, are you looking for me?" Liang Hu saluted.

"The prefect asked me to recruit another 600 soldiers, and I plan to leave this matter to you."

Lu Yuan looked at this Liang Hu and ordered: "People still recruit those mountain people, and give priority to being young and good in archery." ”

"Yes, don't worry, my lord, it's very chaotic outside, and the people below are not having a good time. I don't know how many people want to be soldiers and find a way out. In less than ten days, I'll help you get all the people together. Liang Hu replied in a loud voice.

This old man who is an official fan has become more and more energetic since he made a patrol. After working hard in the army, he didn't see any old age, but his face was ruddy.

Last year, he even accepted a concubine, and at the age of forty-seven, he was not afraid of being squeezed dry by that little girl's skin.

Not long ago, I heard that the little concubine also gave birth to a big fat son for him, which made the old man laugh, and gave Lu Yuan a happy candy.

"Well, go ahead. With you to do things, I can rest assured. Lu Yuan nodded and waved his hand to retreat.

After explaining the matter of recruitment, Lu Yuan continued to retreat at home in the next few days.

Today's meeting and conversation with Cui Changqing gave him a wake-up call.

Now that the country of Dayue is declining more and more, no one knows when it will be over, and then there will be no owner in the world, and the dragons will chase the deer, I am afraid that there will really be no peace.

At that time, even if it is Lu Yuan, it is not that he can hide, he can dodge.

After all, even if he cultivated now, he would need a large number of medicinal materials to assist. As long as you buy medicinal herbs, you must have contact with the outside world.

This world is in chaos, and even his cultivation will have an impact.

Unless he can hide in the mountains wholeheartedly, stay for decades and not come out, shrink after this formation, wait for the world to be peaceful, and then escape the world.

However, this choice is only the most inferior for Lu Yuan. If you don't have to, you will never choose.

"Turbulent times may be chaotic, but they also represent opportunities. I can't be spared, can those gangs with big families and big businesses be spared? ”

Lu Yuan thought of the mental method that he was gradually practicing now, and his eyes couldn't help but show a trace of coldness.

Troubled times should be murderous.

The order of the world has collapsed, and it is not a good thing for him.

"After all, strength is respected in troubled times. has enough strength, no matter how many people are killed, no one will care. ”

Today, the situation in Dayue is still stable, but on the one hand, it is the protection of Lu Yuan. But on the other hand, it is also a constraint on him.

With the pressure of the imperial court, even if Lu Yuan wants to go to those big factions to kill people and steal merit, he has to worry about the risk of being hunted down by the rivers and lakes and the imperial court.

But the imperial court is gone, no one maintains order, everyone takes care of their own things, and there are no restrictions on many things that could not be done originally.

For example, leading the *** Lake gang.

If there is a court and the troops are transferred without authorization, it is a rebellion.

But if there is no imperial court, the thousand soldiers and horses under Lu Yuan will not listen to him.

You can do whatever you want.

"It's time to take a good grasp of this military training." Lu Yuan thought so.

Originally, he was going to train a hundred pro-soldiers, but now it seems that this number may be increased to two hundred or even four hundred.

Even so, it will make his annual expenses a few thousand taels of silver.

But thinking of the benefits cultivated by these pro-soldiers, this little effort is nothing.

"Then it's decided."

The tone was set, and Lu Yuan's mood was much better.

Da Yue fell, and he was fed.

This time, he will take advantage of the opportunity of the fall of the court to have a good meal, and it is best to eat well.

A few days later, Liang Hu, who was in charge of recruiting troops, returned to Fucheng with 600 men who had just been recruited from the mountains.

Lu Yuan personally returned to the barracks to receive it.

After confirming that these recruits are all about fifteen to twenty years old, they are the most malleable.

He couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, then turned his head to Liang Hu and said, "You did a good job in this matter, go to the silver room to get fifty taels of silver, this is your reward." ”

Patrolling the monthly salary of twenty-five taels of silver, and taking two months' salary at once, Liang Hu suddenly blossomed, and thanked him again and again: "Thank you, Lord reward." ”

Then he went to get the money.

Now this old man Liang has a wife in his house, a concubine, three babies below, and five servants. That's a lot of money every month.

Even if it's twenty-five taels of silver a month, if you want to live a decent life, it's still tight.

Now he can get fifty taels of silver, which is enough for his whole family to nourish for a long time.

……

After receiving the recruits, Lu Yuan did not return home, but stayed in the barracks, where he personally supervised the training of the recruits.

In fact, he doesn't know how to train soldiers, and he has his own special person to be responsible for the various queue flags in the barracks.

Lu Yuan stayed, mainly to let these recruits know who is the boss, who will pay them, and who should listen to them in the future.

To put it simply, it is to let these big-headed soldiers recognize the Lord and know who their surname is.

However, although he did not interfere in military training, while he was in charge, Lu Yuan still selected two hundred and fifty people among the recruits and veterans.

Together with the 50-person pro-soldier team recruited before, a 300-person barracks was built.

After passing on the exercises to these two hundred and fifty soldiers, Lu Yuan spent time teaching for two days. Then let the old soldiers each take five, and be responsible for teaching those who came after them.

After practicing like this for a month, these selected pro-soldiers have all gained a lot, and some of them with good talent have even trained their internal strength.

This made Lu Yuan couldn't help but be surprised, and he was even thinking in his heart, whether to pick a few more good seedlings out of them and accept them as registered disciples.

After all, he is a first-class master, and he only has one true disciple and five registered disciples under him, which is really a bit shabby.

However, although he was moved, he did not directly put it into action.

Instead, they are going to take another look, and when these seedlings behave better, they will emerge from the crowd of pro-soldiers, and then they will be accepted as registered disciples.

In this way, you can not only harvest disciples, but also use their deeds to motivate those recruits and make them more diligent in their martial arts training.

Wouldn't it be beautiful to kill two birds with one stone?

Just when Lu Yuan's military training was hot, in October, news came from Xichuan County. After being besieged by the Shu army for two months, the county town of Xichuan finally could not hold on and was broken by the Shu army.

The Xishu Emperor Li Xiong directly set the capital in Xichuan County, and even held a ceremony to worship the heavens again, once again swearing his hegemony over Xichuan County.

Then the Western Shu army raised 100,000 troops, marched eastward, and successively broke through the two remaining mansions of the imperial court in Xichuan.

It wasn't until he was in Wushan Mansion that the imperial court urgently transferred another batch of reinforcements from Dongting County, and then relied on the local terrain to barely block the Xishu army and keep the last place in Xichuan County.

But even so, nine of the ten prefectures in Xichuan were occupied by Shu, and most of Xichuan County fell.

In the face of Xishu, which has already established the country and is in full swing, the imperial court wants to recapture Xichuan County from this traitor, but I am afraid it will not be so easy.

However, as a martial artist in the rivers and lakes, Lu Yuan was concerned about the fall of Xichuan County and the loss of Xichuan County. Although he was also shocked, he was more concerned about the details of the destruction of the county town.

"The imperial court was originally in Xichuan County, and there were 20,000 elite soldiers stationed there.

Later, the men in the city were urgently requisitioned, and there were 50,000 defenders, and there was no shortage of money and food, which could be used by the defenders for more than a year, enough to wait for the imperial court to send reinforcements in the coming year.

However, the result of this battle was that the defenders only lasted two months before the city was breached. It's just too weird. ”

Although the morale of the defenders plummeted, there were many examples of cities being easily captured.

But Lu Yuan always felt that the imperial court soldiers and horses in Xichuan County should not be like this.

There must be something wrong with this that no one else knows.

Sure enough, just when he felt that something was wrong, Cui Changqing came over again.

"Li Xiong, the puppet emperor of the Shu thief, was promoted to Xiantian three months ago, and then personally put on armor and went into battle to break through the county seat of Xichuan."

The first sentence of Governor Cui's mouth shocked Lu Yuan's heart.

Li Xiong was actually promoted to congenital?

Hearing the news, he felt a sudden shock in his heart.

No wonder, no wonder.

The innate master of martial arts is proficient, and he can be called a generation of grandmasters in martial arts. Such characters are enough to break the army alone, even in the face of a 10,000-strong army formation, they can come and go freely.

If there is an innate master who steals the city, then it is not uncommon for Xichuan County to be breached.

After all, the Xichuan Army is only a remote border county in Dayue, although it is rich, but because of the closed terrain, the martial arts are not prosperous, and a congenital grandmaster has never been born.

Now that Li Xiong has been promoted to congenital, should it be said that the current situation creates heroes, or does the hero create the current situation? Lu Yuan sighed in his heart, and he couldn't help but be a little envious.

Others have become congenital and become emperors.

But now that he has traveled more than ten years, he is still only a senior first-class, and he doesn't even have any further exercises in the future, let alone the innate realm.

Even Li Xiong's path pointed him in a direction.

Maybe I can also try to rebel and become emperor, and then lead the army to plunder all the way, so maybe it will take a few years, and I can become a congenital?' ’

Li Xiong was able to break through the innate so quickly, and Lu Yuan didn't believe that the other party was a genius.

There are many talents in the world, and I haven't seen a few who can break through the innate nature?

So Li Xiong was able to break through so quickly, most of them were still rebellious, and he got something good in the past few years. For example, the blood jade centipede that Lu Yuan had gotten at the beginning.

has this kind of divine blood xenomorph, so he can break through the realm one after another in a short period of time, and achieve innocence all the way.

This kind of routine of killing people and grabbing treasures is more in line with normal logic.

And it is precisely because of this experience that Lu Yuan sees Li Xiong who is further away on this road so hot.

Because successful examples are right around the corner, it's hard not to get others to copy them.

'No, it's too eye-catching to rebel and claim the emperor directly. That is equivalent to walking directly from the back to the front and attracting the attention of the world. This is not conducive to my lewd development strategy. Lu Yuan used great perseverance to suppress this somewhat crazy thought.

The gun shot the first bird, Li Xiong was the emperor, and broke through the innate one.

But his actions will undoubtedly attract crazy revenge from the Dayue court.

Although in the world of Dayue, many places have been destroyed.

But even if you only rely on the remnants of your strength, you can defeat a Xishu traitor.

As for innate?

Don't say anything else, let's just say that in Dongting County right now, there is an innate grandmaster who is pressing?

I have to say that the innate strength of Lord Du Lieutenant in the county is also one of the reasons why Lu Yuan did not dare to rebel.

Because it's so close.

If he dares to rebel here, the lieutenant will dare to kill him tomorrow, and directly take his head from the army.

Don't doubt the strength of the Innate Grandmaster, whether he can do this.

There have been too many unfortunate people who have died in the past, and Lu Yuan doesn't want to be the next example to warn future generations.

All kinds of thoughts were surging in his heart, and Cui Changqing next to him continued: "Xichuan County has fallen, and my Dongting County will face the Shu thieves. Therefore, the county guard ordered that all prefectures and localities should immediately train the villagers, form a militia group, and guard the place.

So I decided that in addition to the 1,000 soldiers originally recruited, 5,000 more Xiangyong would be recruited from the Fucheng side, and 1,000 people would be recruited from the rest of the counties, so that if you count the government soldiers, you can get 15,000 people.

In addition to the government soldiers, these villagers are brave farmers for the people when they are young, and they are soldiers in their spare time, practicing endlessly to guard the countryside.

You are the commander of the palace and the head of the military attachés, so you should be responsible for this matter. ”

It seems that the establishment of the Xichuan Shu Kingdom did give this prefect great pressure and shock. At this time, he changed his conservative style and began to recruit so many sergeants radically.

You must know that even if it is a peasant soldier, for a small mountain prefecture with a population of no more than 200,000, it is a great burden to recruit 15,000 people at once.

In this regard, Lu Yuan naturally had no objections, and readily agreed: "No problem, this matter will be handed over to me." ”

As a commander, the more soldiers and horses in the palace, the stronger his strength and power.

As for the highest military and political governor of a prefecture, Cui Changqing is nominally in charge of all the soldiers and horses under the prefect's authority, and he is just a subordinate problem?

A mere civil official, when the time comes, the order is really handed down, and the army does not carry it out, so he has to nod his head as a commander?

Of course, if you really disobey orders, it will be almost like rebellion.

Because of Sun Siwen's relationship, Lu Yuan and Cui Changqing still get along quite well, and he will not do it unless he has to.

However, after receiving the order, Lu Yuan still subconsciously asked: "Master Cui, in addition to our mansion, do other provinces in the country also want to recruit Xiangyong?" ”

Cui Changqing nodded and said, "Not bad." The county guard decided that in order to resist the invasion of Shu thieves, it was also for it to quell the rebellion. It is estimated that a total of 200,000 troops will be recruited in the ten prefectures of the county for national use. ”

200,000 troops......

Hearing this number, Lu Yuan was silent, and then became more and more determined about his idea of being a good official in the court.

In Dongting County alone, there are 200,000 troops.

In the face of such a scale, even if he completely controlled the 15,000 army of Shaoyang Mansion, he would not be able to turn the storm at all.

Not to mention, there must be other armies of the imperial court transferred in the future, which will be even more terrifying.

Facing the imperial court that has been driven crazy......

I can't afford to mess with it, I really can't afford to mess with it.

It's just that after comparing the strength of the two sides, Lu Yuan was decisive.

How good is the world's wife peaceful, what do you always think about rebelling?

As a good official with a common heart, he felt that he had the need to contribute to the stability of the place.

……

Just when Lu Yuan made up his mind to be a good official and began to actively train soldiers, on the other side, his good apprentice also made a choice that would affect his life.

Dongting County, Tianmen Mansion.

The surging river, like a running dragon, flows eastward without stopping.

A building boat floated on the river, hazy and hazy in the mist.

Zhou Qing sat on the bow deck, took out a coarse cloth, and wiped the sword in his hand. After wiping it twice, he threw away the blood-stained coarse cloth and put his sword back into its sheath.

Suddenly the wind blew, and the strong smell of blood hit the nostrils.

I saw that on the deck in the distance, scattered corpses were spread on the ground, and a large amount of blood had stained the deck red.

However, for all this, Zhou Qing had no different color, his expression was still calm, he just turned his head to the side, and another sitting figure asked, "Brother Guo, are you really sure that you want to return to Xichuan?" ”

The figure next to him is named Guo Yunshan, a young man in his twenties, dressed in green clothes, and handsome, but his expression is a little depressed and gloomy at this time, which makes his temperament greatly reduced.

At this time, when he heard the inquiry, he nodded and said, "Yes, I want to go back." ”

Zhou Qing frowned and said: "Now Xichuan has been captured by Shu thieves, and Li Xiong, the emperor of Shu thieves, is the enemy who destroyed your whole family." Now that you return to Xichuan and enter his territory, it is tantamount to entering the Longtan Tiger's Den, once discovered, then there will be no life. ”

This friend he has recognized these days is a famous martial arts family in Xichuan County, a direct descendant of the Guo family in Yuzhong.

originally had this background, Guo Yunshan should be the pride of the rivers and lakes.

But all of this was ruined with the Qiang rebellion three years ago.

Just as Lu Yuan guessed.

Li Xiong was able to break through the innate in such a short period of time, relying on plundering the resources of various martial arts families and sects, and piling them up.

And the Yuzhong Guo family can become a martial arts family, in addition to the powerful inheritance of the exercises, more importantly, their family has mastered a divine blood xenomorph called the Blue Blood Spirit Snake for generations.

Relying on this spirit snake, the Guo family has been able to produce geniuses from generation to generation, ensuring that there is no shortage of first-class masters in the family, and maintaining wealth for thousands of years.

But also because of this, when the order was broken and the rebels came.

This kind of spirit snake also became the fuse for the demise of the Guo family.

Because Li Xiong, the emperor of the Shu thief, came to ask for it.