After waiting for five days at Wushan Pass, the news of the Xiangyang camp finally came.

Bai Mengyang ordered, Shangguan Ming took Ji Hui and Qiao Kangquan, and the remaining 60,000 troops under his command, and rushed to the Xiangyang camp to meet him.

When this group of people arrives in Xiangyang, then the army under Bai Mengyang's command can increase to about 200,000. Among them, there are no less than 100,000 elites, and there are six innate grandmasters, which are enough to compete with Zhou and Liang.

The land of Xichuan County was temporarily handed over to Lu Yuan to maintain local security and stability, and it was handed over after the end of this battle.

As for the matter of Hanzhong County that Lu Yuan was concerned about, Marquis Wu Anyi also made a decision to let Lu Yuan lead his troops and horses north to defend against the Zhou people in Hanzhong County.

Among them, Bai Mengyang wrote in the letter that came: "Now that the Liang people are coming to the east, the battle of Xiangyang is no longer possible. The confrontation between Zhou and Vietnam should end with peace talks.

But the peace talks have already been promoted.

Therefore, I expected that this time the Zhou people would mobilize heavy troops to the south, hoping to recover Hanzhong County, and even capture Xichuan County again, so as to threaten my flank.

Therefore, the land of Hanzhong must be guarded by heavy soldiers.

On the west side of our army, it is entrusted to the hands of the king of Changsha, and the king is expected to be the police, and the people of the imperial Zhou are outside Hanzhong County. ”

At this time, the Liang people threatened Xiangyang, so the Zhou and Yue countries did not dare to fight.

But Hanzhong County is thousands of miles away, and the mountains and rivers in the middle are blocked, and the Liang people can't reach it, so they can't intervene at all.

Therefore, Xiangyang County can't fight, but Hanzhong County doesn't have these problems.

Therefore, the focus of the next game between the two countries is the gains and losses of Hanzhong County and even Xichuan County.

If the Yue side can hold Hanzhong County, then in the next negotiations, it will naturally be able to gain the upper hand.

And if the Zhou people recaptured Hanzhong County, then under this threat, the Yue State would naturally be constrained everywhere in the negotiations, and it was necessary to try to give up a large number of benefits that had been swallowed.

Maybe in this Northern Expedition, except for Tianmen Mansion and Xichuan County, everything else that stayed overnight will have to be spit out again, and the two countries will restore their original borders.

Although Bai Mengyang didn't say this explicitly, seeing the letter he wrote, Lu Yuan had already seen the meaning behind it.

And because of this.

Regarding the fact that the other party let himself alone and fight against the main force of Zhou Guo, although Lu Yuan was a little dissatisfied in his heart, he didn't say anything.

Because the facts are obvious.

Now occupying the territory of Hanzhong County and the western part of Xiangyang County, it is he Lu Yuan. As for the imperial court, it has only occupied the three southern prefectures of Xiangyang County until now.

When it comes to harvesting, it's clear who is big and who is small on both sides.

Therefore, the imperial court can spit out the southern three mansions of Xiangyang County, which is not much loss for them.

But can Lu Yuan accept to spit out the three prefectures in the west of Xiangyang County, as well as the land of Hanzhong County?

For him, this is simply losing half of the territory he now controls, and losing all the achievements of the Northern Expedition, which is simply unacceptable.

Therefore, in this battle of Hanzhong County, he will not be able to go up.

If he doesn't block the Zhou people, then he will be ready to lose all his money this time and directly lose all the results.

……

"What a monkey vampire!"

Lu Yuan threw away the letter, cursed, and then sighed, and let people give an order, and the army was ready to set off for Hanzhong County.

Later, he ordered people to guard the prisoners, and obtained 50,000 Zhou soldiers from Yuzhong Mansion and Wushan Guan, as well as thousands of Qiang prisoners, and escorted them all back to Jiangnan to accept reorganization.

Speaking of captives, I have to mention here that the captives of Lu Yuan's Northern Expedition were harvested.

In the battle of Guining Mansion, after beheading Guilianyun, Lu Yuan broke through the city and captured 40,000 Zhou soldiers.

Then Xiangyang County ambushed the Zhou soldiers and horses who fled from Dangyang and captured more than 10,000 people.

When he was in Hanzhong County, he also captured thousands of county soldiers.

Counting the more than 50,000 captives in Xichuan County at this time.

Since the entire Northern Expedition, Lu Yuan has captured as many as 110,000 elite soldiers before and after.

That's an extremely horrific amount.

You must know that before the Northern Expedition, counting the Miao soldiers and the local government and county soldiers, all the soldiers and horses under Lu Yuan's rule were only about 170,000.

And now after the Northern Expedition and the consumption of previous wars, there are only more than 80,000 soldiers left under his command, 30,000 Miao soldiers, 10,000 prefecture and county soldiers, and a total of about 130,000 troops.

Now there are as many as 110,000 prisoners, and they are all elite soldiers, and if these people are not controlled and digested well, they will become a hidden danger under Lu Yuan's rule, and they may explode at any time.

Therefore, in order to suppress these prisoners, he divided the few remaining soldiers on hand into another 10,000, and arranged the task of taking the prisoners back to Jiangnan.

After these people send the captives back, they will rest and recuperate, and at the same time, together with the 40,000 soldiers and 10,000 soldiers from the prefecture and county who stayed behind in the south of the Yangtze River, they will take care of the prisoners.

Jiangnan has these 60,000 people, barely able to maintain local stability, and then optimistic about these 110,000 captives.

After dividing these 10,000 people, there were less than 20,000 people left in the original tribe of Changsha in Lu Yuan's hands. There are also nearly 10,000 righteous soldiers, more than 30,000 people, a total of 70,000 people.

After these transfers.

Before leaving, he ordered Zhou Qing to be the temporary governor of Xichuan, leading 10,000 soldiers and horses, temporarily responsible for the security and stability of Xichuan County, and at the same time mobilizing grain and grass to support the front line of Hanzhong County.

In addition, he also asked Zhou Qing to be responsible for selling the fields and properties seized by the local government in various parts of Xichuan County, as well as checking the fields and properties seized by the Zhou and Qiang people along the way, and transporting all the goods that Li Xiong and the Zhou people had collected and hoarded over the years to Changsha.

At the same time, he began to relocate the household registration of those who had joined the army and the people, and moved them back to Dongting County for resettlement.

After so many years, although the Western Shu Kingdom has been war-torn for a long time, the local people and even the squires are extremely tired and poor.

However, the Qiang and Zhou people, as rulers, and even the local government offices, became full of money and money in this series of liquidation and looting.

Previously, when he conquered the official city of Xichuan County, Lu Yuan directly looted more than 20 million taels worth of gold, silver, jewelry, and various goods from the treasury of the city and the inner treasury of the palace.

According to the officials who guarded the treasury, the two treasury were originally hoarded with more goods, which were three or four times as large as they are now.

However, the Shu State used troops for many years, and the place was dilapidated and poor, so in order to raise the army, it had to pay money to buy ordnance and food from the Zhou State and the Southwest Zhuyi State, and spent a lot of money for this.

After the arrival of the Zhou army, they also need to be rewarded and provided with money and food, which is another large expenditure.

After several times, there was only so much money left in the city treasury.

After listening to it at that time, Lu Yuan couldn't help but be secretly speechless, and he was almost a little moved, wanting to learn from Li Xiong.

But thinking about what the other party did, it was to hollow out Xichuan's family foundation at one time, and exchange it for such wealth with the current situation of the entire Xichuan County.

As for his own Dongting County in Changsha State, although it has just experienced war, with the gradual recovery of local production, officials at all levels have gradually replenished, and have begun to provide themselves with sufficient taxes steadily.

Now not counting Tianmen Mansion, in the land of one county and nine prefectures in the south, Lu Yuan can collect more than five million taels of taxes from the local government every year. And with the gradual recovery of local production, the amount of this broken silver will increase year by year.

According to Sun Siwen and Cui Changqing's estimates, when Dongting County returns to its pre-war peak, the annual tax can reach more than 8 million taels.

With such wealth, recuperating for ten years is equivalent to Li Xiong's income from plundering the entire Xichuan.

After the other party plundered, Xichuan County was dilapidated, and it could not recover for tens or hundreds of years, and it was abolished at one time.

But Dongting County has a long stream, and the longer it lasts, the better it can operate, and the more money and food it can provide.

It is clear which of the two is better or worse.

Therefore, Lu Yuan was only moved, so he abandoned this thought, and then began to happily receive Li Xiong's inheritance.

In addition to the cash silver, Li Xiong also had a large amount of other property, the value of which was even ten times more than the cash silver.

After all, the emperor of Xishu directly slaughtered the entire Xichuan martial arts, and wiped out a large number of local tyrants and gentry.

It can be said that the ruling class of Xichuan County has been directly copied from the bottom.

The wealth thus obtained is naturally astonishing.

Even if it is silver, it is sixty or seventy million taels. If you count other industries such as antique calligraphy and paintings, shops and fields that are not easy to sell, then the harvest can reach hundreds of millions of taels.

Such an astonishing fortune is naturally extremely tempting.

At this time, Lu Yuan was emigrating from Hanzhong County in large numbers, and it was expected to relocate more than one million people, which was equivalent to more than half, or even more than half, of the population that he now ruled in Changsha Kingdom.

After such a large-scale migration, the money and food spent on the way, after the arrival of the immigrants, redistributing them to the land, distributing seeds and agricultural tools, relocating houses, and helping them resume production, it will take at least one or two years to redistribute the land, distribute seeds and farm tools, and help them resume production.

The money spent is like a flood, and it can't be stopped.

Judging from the expenses that Lu Yuan had paid when he received the displaced people before, it would cost more than 10 million taels of silver to receive one million displaced people.

And he is an immigrant, and he is also responsible for the expenses of those people along the way.

From Hanzhong County to Dongting County, there are more than 1,000 miles on the way, and even to the south of Dongting County, the journey is as much as 2,000 miles.

For such a long distance, just eating and drinking on the road is a big expense.

According to conservative estimates, when the resettlement work is completed, the cost can even reach 20 million taels.

Such a large sum of money, with Lu Yuan's current finances, it is not impossible to come out.

After all, he has nearly 20 million taels of silver in his account, and his annual financial income is more than 5 million taels.

All of these can be taken out, and this hole can barely be filled.

But the problem is that after filling the pit of immigration, Lu Yuan's money to raise the army is gone.

He raised an army of 100,000 people, and his annual salary alone cost 6 million taels of silver. Counting other additional expenses, it is even more than seven or eight million taels.

If you go out to fight, as now, it will be ten million taels.

With such a big expense, if there is no small treasury of 20 million taels to support it, where can it withstand it?

Even in fact, Lu Yuan now has no 20 million taels of silver on hand.

Because from December last year to the end of March, he has spent almost three million taels of silver on the four-month Northern Expedition.

That's it, because there are 60,000 Miao troops in the army, and these people's expenses are relatively low. If you change to a normal soldier, the cost can reach four million taels.

And now, this war has not yet come to an end, and it may be fought for another few months and a half, or even longer.

When the fight is over, Lu Yuan conservatively estimates that it will cost eight million taels of silver.

In this case, during the war, counting the 40,000 troops he left in the land south of the Yangtze River, then the annual expenditure would be 10 million taels.

Therefore, when the war is over, Lu Yuan's small treasury will be left with at most 10 million taels of silver, which will also fill the pit of immigration.

Therefore, his original plan was actually to make a fortune in Hanzhong County and Xichuan County, and supplement his immigration expenses through the seizure of these two places.

At this time, it seems that with Li Xiong's harvest of squeezing out the entire Xichuan, let alone filling the pit of immigration expenses. Even after filling the pit, there is still a lot of silver to spare.

Even counting the harvest in Hanzhong County, this money can be even more.

"I just don't know, how much money can be seized in the end?"

Lu Yuan thought like this, there were already large armies in front and back, and the people were already on their way to Hanzhong County.

This time when he went to Hanzhong County, Lu Yuan did not follow the path back to Xichuan, but chose the road from Guining Mansion, Fangling Mansion, and Xicheng Mansion in Xiangyang County, and entered Hanzhong County from this line.

The reason why I chose this one is mainly to see along the way, what happened to those immigrants who migrated from Hanzhong County?

At the same time, he is also leading the army, showing off his might in the land of the three provinces, and using the momentum of great victory to deter those unstable careerists in the local area, so as to ensure the stability of the land of the three provinces.

A big victory is enough to put all the instability in the place to a temporary stop.

On the first day of the fourth month of the eighth year of Hongdao, Lu Yuan led an army of 60,000 to the north, passing through the three prefectures of Guining, Fangling and Xicheng.

Everywhere they pass, they surrender.

On April 20, the army arrived in Hanzhong County. On the 25th, they arrived at Zheng, south of Hanzhong County.

……

Inside the Nanzheng County Mansion.

After a long absence of three months, Lu Yuan finally saw his queen again.

The two warmed up for a while, and after saying some intimate words, the friendship in their hearts was finished, and they finally began to talk about business.

"King, since the past three months, and the division of troops and strategies, all the prefectures and counties in Hanzhong have been taken at this time.

Then, according to the king's strategy, the household registration was counted, the people were relocated, the treasury was searched, and the goods were collected from the local clans.

After the efforts of March, 150,000 households and 800,000 people have been successfully relocated, all of which have been sent to Dongting County.

In addition, the treasury of Hanzhong County was counted, and the money and grain that were hoarded here were used to supply Xiangyang and Wushan, and more than 5 million taels of silver, 3 million stones of grain, and more than 10,000 pieces of other armor.

Later, he collected military donations from large local households, and also obtained 5 million taels of silver and 1 million stones of grain.

At the same time, some land and properties controlled by the government were sold, and this item also received more than 100,000 taels of silver.

According to the above inventory, in this attack on Hanzhong, our army obtained 12 million taels of silver, 4 million stones of grain, and a lot of ordnance supplements.

In this battle with the Zhou people in Hanzhong, there is no need to transport grain and grass from the rear, and these captured money and grain alone can support our hundreds of thousands of troops and fight with the Zhou people in Hanzhong for two years. ”

With a little invitation and pride, Lan Caier reported to Lu Yuan the results of her work in the past few months.

After hearing her words, Lu Yuan couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately boasted: "Okay, it is really my queen, this credit can be called the first merit of this battle of Hanzhong." ”

Although the harvest in Hanzhong County is far inferior to that of Xichuan County.

But this was originally due to the fact that Lu Yuan didn't want to be desperate here, and made his reputation as stinky as Li Xiong.

Otherwise, they will be looted here, and they will not dare to say that they will get fifty or sixty million taels of silver.

It's just that in this way, Lu Yuan's reputation here, and even in the world, will stink.

Compared to this silver, it is naturally his own reputation that is more important.

And as Lan Caier said.

Even if it is just today's harvest, it is enough to support Lu Yuan to maintain a 100,000-strong army on the side of Hanzhong County and fight for two years.

Not to mention, more than 50,000 of his 110,000 soldiers and horses in Hanzhong are righteous soldiers and civilians, and they are cheap cannon fodder who basically don't spend much money.

From this point of view, then the seized money and grain are even enough for him to fight for four or five years.

In such a situation, how could Lu Yuan not be happy?

Therefore, when he caught his queen, he just boasted fiercely, only narrowed Lan Caier's eyes, and the whole person was so happy that he couldn't find the edge.

In the following days, in addition to continuing to enhance his relationship with Lan Cai'er, Lu Yuan also began to urge the local government and began to continue to relocate the people.

In addition, he also began to deploy defenses in the north and west of Hanzhong County at Xiegu Pass and Yangping Pass, stationing 30,000 soldiers and horses in the two places respectively, and then went to the town with Lan Cai'er separately.

In the rear of Hanzhong County, there were 50,000 troops left, maintaining stability and relocating the hukou.

After another half a month, another 30,000 households were moved out of Hanzhong County.

In late May, after an interval of more than three months, the Zhou State in the north finally reacted, completed the internal coordination and mobilization, and sent an army of 150,000, led by two generals of the Zhu State, to reach the Xiegu Pass.

Yes, just like Yue Guo.

After the Zhou people lost two Zhuguo generals in succession, they also began to urgently replenish.

First, he promoted and trained an innate grandmaster internally, and then absorbed one from the martial arts of the Zhou State, and replenished the original Eight Great Pillar Generals.

And Yu Wenchong, who originally escaped from Wushan Pass, also had news at this time.

This person fled to the front line of Xiangyang City, joined the local Zhou defenders, and was stationed on the spot.

And so it goes.

On the side of Xiangyang City, the Zhou people had four great generals of the Pillar State and an army of 200,000. At the same time, on the side of Xiegu Pass, there are also two generals of the Zhu State and an army of 150,000.

The generals of the Eight Great Pillars, there are only two left in the country at this time.

And these two people, obviously like Yue Guo, are the last pillars to stay in the place and stabilize the country, and they must not be moved lightly.

Therefore, the power sent at this time is already the limit of the opponent.

This time, in order to deal with the Northern Expedition of the Yue Kingdom, Zhou Guo has done his best to gamble on the national fortune.