"After a monthly count, there were 23,000 households and 110,000 households in Yangshan Prefecture. 3,000 new homeless households, about 10,000 people. There were 120,000 men and women in the province.

There are 17,000 households and 85,000 people. 2,000 households and 8,000 people were newly recruited. There were 93,000 men and women in the whole province.

There are 38,000 households and 190,000 people in Lingling Mansion. 5,000 new homeless households, about 20,000 people. There are 210,000 men and women in the province.

In the other three prefectures, 54,000 Miao families were captured, with about 270,000 men and women.

Among them, 13,000 families and nearly 70,000 people are relatives of the deceased, and the general's grace and pardon have been granted, and now they are organizing households and people to enrich the local population.

There are 41,000 families left, 200,000 people, who are in the process of selecting suitable ones to marry the soldiers.

In this way, the total number of Yue Miao households in the whole province is about 132,000, and there are 700,000 men and women. ”

In the barracks, Sun Siwen brought a bunch of newly counted household registration books and reported to Lu Yuan about his work in the past month.

"Good, good."

After listening to Sun Siwen's report on the registered population, Lu Yuan couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then asked: "Brother Sun, I remember that the household registration in Luyang Mansion was counted a year ago, and there were already 43,000 households and 220,000 people, right?" ”

Sun Siwen had been serving as the prefect of Luyang before, so he was naturally clear about the situation over there, so he nodded at this time: "That's true." However, in the first two months, the Miao people of the southern three provinces sent troops to attack Luyang Mansion.

Although it did not capture any county seat, many local towns and villages were poisoned by it and many people were killed and abused.

During this period, there were successive wars, which damaged many local militia groups.

Now in Luyang Mansion, there should be only 210,000 people left. ”

When Lu Yuan got this exact number, he couldn't help but nod again and again, and said secretly: "If you calculate it like this, there are 700,000 people in the Southern Three Mansions. Luyang Province has a population of 210,000.

On the side of Shaoyang Mansion, I remember that before the Sui Miao people attacked, the household registration reported was 51,000 households, 260,000 people.

Although Shaoyang Mansion has experienced a major war and has suffered heavy casualties, there should still be 200,000 people left.

In this case, the total number of people in the five prefectures in the south of the county will be 1.1 million.

If you count the eight counties of Wuling Mansion that I have recovered, there may be another 100,000 people. ”

When Lu Yuan calculated this, he couldn't help but get up and paced back and forth in the tent.

Seeing this, Sun Siwen next to him couldn't help but feel slightly stunned, I don't know what this friend and lord is thinking?

However, although he was puzzled, he didn't bother, just watched quietly.

So I saw that in the camp tent, Lu Yuan walked back and forth several times, his expression changed more than ten times, and finally settled down, turned around and said, "Brother Sun, I have something to entrust to you." ”

Seeing that his lord and friend were so solemn, Sun Siwen's expression became serious, and he nodded and said, "General, let's say." ”

"I want to build an altar to the heavens, and for this reason, I need to ......"

At that moment, Lu Yuan told Sun Siwen about his requirements, and when it came to the back, the simple language description was still not straightforward enough, so he simply picked up the pen and paper and began to draw.

Soon nearly an hour passed, and the two talked for a long time, and the sketches were stacked one by one.

After explaining everything clearly, Lu Yuan handed over the sketch to Sun Siwen, and then said solemnly: "Brother Sun, this map is related to my future practice, so I must be cautious." And this matter cannot be made public, you should find a suitable place and find someone to build secretly.

I'm not in a hurry, I'll fix it in a year or two, and I'll be done.

Is this possible? ”

From the above words, you may have guessed it.

That's right, the altar that Lu Yuan asked Sun Siwen to build is the altar recorded in the Taiping Taoist Book to sacrifice the heavenly pillar and knock on the gate of heaven.

Now Lu Yuan has unified the five prefectures in the south of the county, and the number of people under his rule has reached one million.

This amount has met the minimum requirements for sacrificing the Heavenly Pillar, and it can be used to worship the Heavenly Pillar left by Emperor Huaguang in ancient times. Open a million-scale small ritual, attract the qi of the fairy into the body, and practice.

In other words, although he has not yet broken through the innate nature, he cannot open the jade piece immortal yuan.

But now Lu Yuan has met the requirements of cultivating immortals, and he can try to cultivate the Taiping Dao Book.

Of course, he will not miss this.

So after listening to Sun Siwen's household report, he immediately asked him to start building the altar, preparing to try to sacrifice to the Heavenly Pillar and practice the immortal law.

However, this matter should not be too publicized.

Looking at the appearance of the Danding Dao sprinkling exercises everywhere before, Lu Yuan knew that this exercise was estimated to be no secret in the entire Kyushu Immortal Cultivation Realm.

Even not only in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, outside the Six Great Dao Gates, those slightly larger forces may have some understanding.

Therefore, if Lu Yuan builds the altar openly and openly, isn't it clear to tell the people of the world that he wants to cultivate immortals?

This kind of thing, of course, is not in line with his steady temperament.

Because at that time, there is no way to explain why he practiced Taiping Taoism, but he did not die at the end of his life?

Immortality, but Lu Yuan's biggest secret, he will never let it be exposed.

In this way, it is very necessary to build an altar in secret, and then cultivate immortals in secret.

For this reason, Lu Yuan can bear it, the progress of the altar construction is a little slower, and the completion time is a little later, as long as it can be completed secretly in the end.

Anyway, in another two or three months, I'll almost be able to break through the innate level. At that time, there will be the fairy fate in the jade tablet, and exploring the secrets of this will be enough for me to study for a year or two, and I can wait slowly. ’

Lu Yuan thought like this in his heart, and his state of mind was very calm.

And Sun Siwen below, after listening to his request, thought about it carefully, and also said: "In the land of the Southern Three Mansions, there are many mountains and dense forests, if you want to be secret, you can build an altar in the mountains.

As for the construction manpower, those captured Miao prisoners can just be used.

When the altar is completed, it will be dealt with afterwards, so that it will not leak. ”

For the sake of his friends, Sun Siwen, who was originally quite benevolent, couldn't help but be ruthless at this time.

Of course, it is not excluded that he does not treat the Miao people as human beings.

After all, in the past few years, the killing and destruction caused by the Miao people to the Yue people in Dongting County is obvious to the eye.

Dongting County, which was originally prosperous and peaceful, was ruined like this by them.

Anyone with a little conscience can't help but feel resentful when they see this.

It is not surprising that Sun Siwen's mentality has changed.

And Lu Yuan didn't care about this, and said, "That's it." ”

As long as he can build an altar and die a little Miao people, it is nothing to him.

Maybe after these Miao people die, the place can be a little more stable.

It's not bad to be able to recycle waste.

In this way, the construction of the Heavenly Pillar Altar was handed over to Sun Siwen to carry out.

The practice of the Taiping Taoist book has finally begun.

The gate of the fairy road is not far away.

……

Although the construction of the altar to heaven began, it was destined to be a long effort.

Because Sun Siwen later reported that although the place he chose was secret, correspondingly, the transfer of various materials was also extremely inconvenient.

And in order not to attract attention, the number of people used should not be large.

So in the end, only 1,000 Miao people were taken prisoner, and Lu Yuan's cronies were sent into the mountains to start the construction of the altar.

According to this point of manpower, it is estimated that it will be two years before the altar is completed.

In a short period of time, I still think too much about counting on this cultivation Taiping Dao Book.

Therefore, in addition to the first few days, Lu Yuan put some energy into paying attention, and then he didn't retract his interest and put his energy back into the army.

Now, with the arrival of Sun Siwen and other officials from the three governments, the local government has been reorganized. Officials and officials at the grassroots level were also gradually recruited and replenished, and the basic order of the local area was maintained.

At the same time, with Lu Yuan's clean-up and suppression for more than two months, a large number of rebellious villages of the Miao people who were entrenched in the local area and openly opposed to the government were also uprooted one after another.

Except for some Miao people hiding in the mountains, which are really difficult to clear, there are no large-scale Miao rebels in the land of Sanfu.

The remaining Miao people hiding in the mountains often only have a dozen or dozens of people, and this number of people does not pose much of a threat at all.

Therefore, after assisting the local government and establishing the prefecture and county militia regiments, the elimination of these mountain thieves was slowly handed over to the local government.

And Lu Yuan's main energy was to put it on rectifying the army.

As the place gradually stabilized, the 50,000 people from Luyang Mansion and Hengyang Mansion had already been released by Lu Yuan and let them participate in spring ploughing.

The 30,000 soldiers under his command, including 10,000 veterans, were also sent north as early as the last two months, after the situation in the three southern provinces stabilized a little, and returned to Zhou Qing's command to assist him in encircling and suppressing the Miao people in Wuling Mansion.

This initiative has proven to be extremely useful.

Because just in the last two months, the news that the three southern mansions were pacified reached Wuling Mansion. Immediately, the rebels of the Five Poisons Sect caused a great psychological shock.

Among them, after Lan Zhaoyun learned that he had been tricked, he was not only ashamed in his heart, but also worried about his future prospects.

Therefore, in order to survive in death, after confirming that Lu Yuan's elite was indeed not in Wuling Mansion, this Blue Sect Master immediately led the army and poured out of Qianling County to attack Zhou Qing's army.

Cooperated with the defenders of Chenxi County, after several battles, Zhou Qing was deflated again and again.

The people under him who were requisitioned from Hengyang Mansion were simply useless, and they were afraid of the Miao people like tigers, and they were often crushed at the slightest touch.

If it weren't for Zhou Qing's hands, there were still 30,000 newly recruited soldiers to support him, I was afraid that he would really be defeated.

But even so, as the people were killed by the Miao and tens of thousands, the number of troops under his command was greatly reduced.

still forced him to form a village to defend himself, leading the remaining more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, retreating in the camp, not daring to fight the Miao people head-on.

But even so, in the face of the crazy attack of the Miao people, Zhou Qing still felt a little overwhelmed.

After all, the soldiers under his command are said to be soldiers, but in fact, they are just recruits who have been trained for three or four months.

In addition to a name, it is not necessarily stronger than the Miao people.

And those remnants of the people, it is even more unbearable.

Although Miao fought several times, the losses were not small, and only more than 60,000 soldiers and horses remained.

But on Zhou Qing's side, there is only a camp to rely on, not even a city, it is said to be a defense, but the advantage is not big.

In this situation, it is really extremely difficult to defend.

At that time, he was ready to lead the troops to retreat and withdraw to Shaoyang Mansion to hold on.

Fortunately, at this time, the 10,000 elite veterans sent back by Lu Yuan had the effect of saving the situation.

Lu Yuan's 10,000 elite soldiers are elite soldiers who have been in the army for several years and have gone through more than 100 battles.

In terms of combat power, it is not inferior to those heroes in the world.

The arrival of this army immediately made Zhou Qing overjoyed.

He didn't even defend the camp, and directly used this veteran army as the backbone, and those recruits as wings, a total of more than 30,000 people, and officially fought head-on with the Miao rebels of the Five Poisons Sect.

And the facts have once again proved that although the Miao people of the Five Poisons Sect are brave, their combat power is really not strong.

In a head-to-head battle, more than 30,000 against 50,000, even if they had a numerical advantage, the Miao soldiers were still defeated.

During this period, Lan Zhaoyun took the lead and wanted to turn the tide with first-class peak strength.

But in the end, Zhou Qing mobilized the masters of the South China Sea faction, cooperated with the army, and directly surrounded the army.

If it weren't for the desperate rescue of the Miao soldiers of the Five Poisons Sect, those masters sacrificed their lives to rescue this sect leader.

I'm afraid that if it's the Five Poisons Sect, I'm going to have to change the sect leader.

But even so, the left protector of the Five Poisons Sect, as well as the right elder Bai Shuxuan, also died in the battle array.

Counting the left elder who died in the Southern Three Mansions, the left and right protectors and left and right elders of the Five Poisons Sect, there was suddenly only one right protector left.

Originally, it was not easy to increase to five first-class masters, but in one day, there were only two left.

And those Miao soldiers, not to mention.

More than 50,000 troops were directly killed on the spot, more than 10,000 were captured, and the rest were scattered.

Seeing the defeat of the main force, the defenders in Chenxi County did not even dare to defend the city. Abandon the city defenses and flee with them.

When Lan Zhaoyun withdrew to the old nest in Qianling County, he counted the soldiers and horses, and there were only 30,000 people left in his hands.

There were more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, but they fled directly, scattered in the countryside and mountains, and never dared to get involved in this matter again.

"The foundation of my Holy Sect, the bloodline of the Miao people, is it necessary to be extinct here?"

It is rumored that after Lan Zhaoyun returned to Qianling County, he let out this lamentation, and then vomited blood and fell into a coma.

Whether this is true or not, no one knows.

But there is one thing that can be confirmed, Lan Zhaoyun has been cowering in Qianling County since then, and there is no sign of going out to fight outside.

And Zhou Qing's side, after defeating Lan Zhaoyun's army, was stationed in Chenxi County on the spot and repaired here.

After this series of battles, there were only 30,000 soldiers left under Zhou Qing's command. As for the people, after the count, in addition to the 30,000 people in the counties that broke up, there were only more than 10,000 people left.

After a battle, nearly 10,000 soldiers were lost, and nearly 40,000 civilians were lost.

The number of casualties of more than 50,000 has caused a heavy setback to the army, and it will be impossible to fight without recuperation for a period of time.

And even if he can fight, relying on the remaining more than 70,000 people, he can't defeat the Qianling County garrisoned by more than 30,000 Miao people.

Therefore, Zhou Qing did not rush to continue to move troops, but chose to recover his cultivation and wait for his master to bring troops to help.

……

However, Lu Yuan's side, after receiving the great victory of Wuling Mansion, did not have much interest in continuing to lead troops north and pacify the Miao thieves.

The entire Wuling Mansion, one prefecture and ten counties, including the prefecture, has now been recovered in nine counties.

There is one remaining Qianling County, which is the nest of Miao people, all of whom are Miao people, and there are few Yue people.

However, there are many Miao soldiers and horses there, and it is clear that they are hard bones.

Faced with such a place, Lu Yuan was naturally unwilling to spend people and horses to fight each other.

The Miao people on the left and right have lost 150,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, lost the land of Sifu, and their strength has suffered such a heavy setback, and it will be difficult to become a climate again.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party still had an innate grandmaster and that little strength, I am afraid that no one would take it in their eyes anymore.

But even if there is an innate grandmaster, Lan Cai'er has recovered from her injuries, and in the face of such a disparity in strength, it will be difficult to set off any waves.

Therefore, Lu Yuan didn't want to fight with this group of poor ghosts and drive the other party to a dead end, but planned to let it go.

Otherwise, if this group of Miao people is exterminated, then the imperial court will ask him to lead troops to aid Yueyang Mansion, wouldn't there be no excuse for delay?

On the side of Yueyang Mansion, the fight has become more and more intense recently.

The reason is that the Zhou people in the north took advantage of the unpreparedness of the imperial court sailors to secretly send a group of soldiers and horses across the river.

Although the number is not large, there are only 10,000 people.

But even so, it greatly alleviated the dilemma of Anxiang County and the lack of Zhou troops.

Now the Zhou people over there, after replenishment, have recovered to 30,000 soldiers and horses.

Shangguanyang's imperial army was sharply reduced to 40,000, with more than half of the dead and wounded.

If you count the gap between the grandmasters at the top, the strength of the two sides has already reached the same level.

Therefore, at this time, Shangguan Yang did not even continue to surround Anxiang County, but led his troops back to Baling City, began to lick his wounds, and slowly recuperated.

On the other hand, the Zhou people took this opportunity to take back several surrounding counties, wantonly gathered grain and grass, and alleviated their food shortage crisis.

The situation in Yueyang Mansion has fallen into a stalemate.

At this time, Lu Yuan led his troops over, wouldn't he be cannon fodder for the imperial court, so that the army that he had trained with great difficulty would be lost in vain on this battlefield where he could not get the slightest benefit?

So even if Shangguan Yang and the imperial court kept issuing reminders.

But he just shirked it, saying that there were still Miao thieves in Nansanfu and Wuling Mansion, and he would lead troops to suppress it.

Moreover, the soldiers and horses under the two major battles suffered heavy losses, and they urgently needed to recuperate and replenish, and they were unable to fight again.

It dragged on like this.

Therefore, the Miao people of Wuling Mansion, no matter what aspect it is, cannot be destroyed at this time, and they cannot be destroyed.

Lu Yuan was also in this situation, hiding in Yangshan Mansion while training the 20,000 newly recruited soldiers in his hands. On the one hand, the Miao soldiers who were recruited in the three southern provinces and had a scale of 30,000 people.

If nothing else, the next time he goes north, these 50,000 soldiers and horses, including the 30,000 soldiers on Zhou Qing's side, a total of 80,000 soldiers and horses, will be his main force.

Whether these people practice well or not is related to the capital of his negotiations with the imperial court, and whether he can successfully occupy the entire Dongting County cannot be ignored.

……

And so the time passed, and another three months passed, and it was the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the sixth year of Hongdao.

It's the Mid-Autumn Festival of the year again.

On this day, there is no sleep in the middle of the night, and the full moon is in the sky.

Lu Yuan rarely stayed in the barracks, but came to a quiet mountain alone.

Under the white moonlight, he sat on a bluestone on the top of the mountain, his eyes slightly closed, and the red fire around him shone brightly, gradually turning into a sea of fire, incinerating everything around him.

After a year of hard study, Lu Yuan's lifelong martial arts cultivation finally manifested his outer body.

At this time, in the heart, the true intent of the martial arts was condensed, and it suddenly overrode the sea of fire, gradually condensing the originally disorderly sea of fire, turning into a flame shining with red fire.

It is really unexpected, the external circulation is complete, and the congenital success is also.

"After 16 years of penance, today I know the wonder of heaven and earth."

Lu Yuanfu was blessed to the heart, and he rose up from immortality, holding the crimson flame in one hand, and the red flames around him, he couldn't help but let out a long roar at the mountains.

"I'm done!"