Lu Yuan felt a little worried in his heart.

At this moment, he finally settled down, and he didn't really want to start a war again.

Millions of people in the country are now unsettled, and the people who are able to afford these migrations will need a lot of money and food.

The 240,000-strong army, which has just been reorganized, also needs time to run in and train before it can form combat effectiveness.

Moreover, Zhou Qing had just received the infiltration of the immortal qi at this time, and it would take a long time to adapt to the transformation, and it would take five or six years for him to break through the innate realm, to say the least.

Which one does not need a stable environment to complete?

If the world is really chaotic at this time, then what Lu Yuan originally thought, recuperating for five years and ten years, will be empty.

If these achievements are not digested, it will become a burden for both immigrants and the entire army.

Changsha needs to carry these burdens with it to face the dangers that are sweeping around it.

Zhou Qing will also not have time to grow, so he will have to follow and face many innate grandmasters.

'How hard it is. ’

Lu Yuan thought about these thoughts in his mind, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Wu Anhou died.

The loss of this pillar of the sky in the Yue Kingdom has weakened its strength, which is originally a good thing for the Changsha Kingdom.

But in today's situation, it has become a matter of unknown risk.

The changes in this world are really uncertain.

But either way, that's a matter for later. ’

Lu Yuan was helpless and bitter, put away the shock in his heart, then looked at the messenger in front of him, and nodded solemnly: "I never expected that Wu Anhou would pass away at this time. Back last year, during the Northern Expedition, Lone met with Wu'anhou, and he was still in high spirits at that time.

At this time, it was only two or three months, and the world changed like this.

The envoy can rest assured, please go back and tell the Son of Heaven and the family of Wu'anhou, and my Changsha will send an envoy to come and mourn for Wu'anhou. ”

Although the two sides belong to different camps, they are even hostile.

But for Wu Anhou himself, Lu Yuan admires this contemporary military god.

Since the Northern Expedition, although the coalition forces have been on the side, it seems that Lu Yuan has made two surprise attacks, which have defeated the Zhou people in one fell swoop and completely reversed the situation.

can be substantially.

These two surprise attacks were planned by Wu Anhou. It was the other party who came up with this plan, so that Lu Yuan could carry it out.

And even if Lu Yuan made a lot of achievements during the execution, it would only belong to the partial army after all.

If there was no Marquis Wu Anhou on the frontal battlefield to fight against the main army of the Zhou people alone, then even if Lu Yuan wanted to make a surprise attack, even if the surprise attack was successful, he would never be able to achieve the miraculous results later.

Therefore, in any case, the battle of the Northern Expedition is said to be Lu Yuan's first achievement, and the performance is the most eye-catching.

But the merits of Wu Anhou, the commander of the army, cannot be erased.

Anyway, judging from Lu Yuan's actual contact and experience, he greatly admired and recognized Wu Anhou's ability and achievements.

I think there are still a lot of gaps between myself and the other party.

At this time, such an old-timer died, and as a junior, he even had the grace of his comrades, so it was reasonable to send someone to mourn.

When the envoy below heard Lu Yuan's reply, he also saluted: "The king is benevolent and magnanimous. Since this is the case, the foreign minister will retire first and return to the court to resume his life. Jinling City and Baifu will sweep the couch to welcome the king's envoy. ”

Lu Yuan nodded: "The messenger walks slowly." ”

……

After sending off the messenger.

Lu Yuan was in the hall, and he thought about it alone for a while, and then asked people to call Chang Huairen, the secretary of Honglu Temple.

Honglu Temple is in Changsha, and its main powers and responsibilities are in charge of domestic affairs of various ethnic groups, foreign diplomacy, and funeral ceremonies. Broadly speaking, you can think of it as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Changsha State.

"Meet the King."

After Chang Huairen received the order, he hurriedly arrived at the main hall and saluted when he entered the door.

"Get up."

Lu Yuan nodded, and then said: "You are the secretary of Honglu Temple, in charge of Honglu Temple, this time the envoy of the Yue Kingdom came, you should already know what it is."

I called you here this time to arrange a suitable messenger to go to Jinling City to mourn Wu Anhou. ”

As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Changsha State, the envoys from all over the world came to Changsha State, and the first thing was that Honglu Temple was responsible for reception.

The intentions and etiquette of the envoys from various countries will be coordinated and inquired by Honglu Temple in advance.

Therefore, regarding the fact that the envoy of the Yue Kingdom came to report the funeral, Chang Huairen wanted to know about it one step ahead of Lu Yuan.

Therefore, he had been prepared for this matter, and when he heard the inquiry, he immediately replied: "Back to the king, Li Tingjing, the pawn officer, is agile and eloquent, intelligent and knowledgeable, and can take on this great responsibility." ”

"Li Tingjing?"

Hearing this name, Lu Yuan thought about it and faintly had some impressions.

This person seems to be when he was in Shaoyang Mansion, he was engaged in the position of Li Cao under Cui Changqing, he was a fair and upright scholar, and his relationship with Sun Siwen seemed to be quite good, he once went to Sun Mansion to drink, and had a relationship with Lu Yuan.

At that time, this person was just a petty official from the ninth grade, but he didn't expect that in the past few years, with the establishment of Changsha State, he would also become a middle-level official from the sixth rank under his own.

With the endorsement of Cui Changqing and Sun Siwen, Lu Yuan naturally trusts this person's ability and conduct.

So after hearing this recommendation, he nodded and said, "This person over there." ”

After arranging the candidates to go to mourn, Lu Yuan did not let Chang Huairen immediately retreat, but continued: "This time I called you over, in addition to choosing a messenger to mourn Wu Anhou, there is another matter that I want to explain to you. ”

Chang Huairen's expression was solemn: "Please ask the king to command." ”

Lu Yuan muttered: "Wu'an Hou is the pillar of optimus in the Yue Kingdom, and its collapse at this time is tantamount to the collapse of the pillar of heaven. With this sudden change, I am afraid that the situation in the world, which has finally calmed down, will change again.

Your Honglu Temple is responsible for diplomatic affairs with all countries in the world, and the news trends of various countries, you should be the most well-informed.

Therefore, I want to let Honglu Temple send more envoys during this time to go around various countries and listen to the direction of the wind.

Let's see if there is any change in the countries after receiving this news?

If there is, and it is confirmed that the country wants to use troops, let people listen to the details as much as possible and send them back to the country, so that our country can prepare as soon as possible.

If you can, if you can stop the rebellion, then try to stop it as much as possible.

At the beginning of the establishment of our Changsha country, everything was in ruins, and we could not afford to fight at this time, nor could we fight. ”

Well, the above is the main purpose for Lu Yuan to call Chang Huairen this time.

When Chang Huairen heard these orders and knew that the rise and fall of the countries involved, he immediately said solemnly: "Please rest assured, the king will send more envoys to listen to the truth of various countries." Whatever is blown, it will be passed back to the country. ”

Lu Yuan bowed his head and said, "Please leave this matter to Qing." ”

In this way, the arrangement of Wu Anhou's death has finally reached a conclusion.

……

In the next period of time, Honglu Temple was busy.

The death of Wu'anhou is too significant, and it is very likely to affect the three states of Yong, Qing, and Yang to rise up again, and the scope of the impact is too wide.

All the surrounding countries that may be affected by this, Honglu Temple has to arrange envoys, or go to monitor and investigate, which is a lot of work.

Even if the Honglu Temple finally decided to send envoys after continuous research and discussion, there were as many as seven countries. and the others sent to work in detail are even more than thirteen.

In 20 countries, more than 100 people will be arranged.

If these people are sent out, they will almost hollow out the Honglu Temple.

So it's bound to be a onerous task.

In the busy time of Honglu Temple, in Changsha City, the March 13th examination also came to an end.

Then a few days later, hundreds of new science and technology scholars held a palace test in the palace Chaoyuan Palace, and the top three leaders were decided.

Lu Yuan personally gave the top three leaders of this session an official position, which completely brought the curtain to an end to this nine-year Enke.

Also at this time.

was selected as the messenger to go to Jinling City to mourn, Li Tingjing also took the lead and went to Jinling City.

At the center of the storm, he will observe the movements of all parties in the vicinity, confirm what the turmoil will become, and spread the news to the country.

Lu Yuan's side, during this waiting period, also stepped up the cultivation of the Taiping Dao Technique.

Now he has been cultivating this Taoist book for more than a year.

This long time has passed, and the cultivation has long been different from the past.

If you ignore the defects in the loss of life, other aspects of the Taiping Daoshu method of luck are indeed much stronger than ordinary immortal methods.

With the end of Lu Yuan's Northern Expedition, he opened up the land of Bafu and moved back millions of people, and now there are two imperial examinations in a row, buying a large number of people's hearts.

Under the repeated operations, the luck he had gathered at this time had really increased by more than twice as much as during the Northern Expedition.

Qi luck increased so fast, and the amount of immortal qi that Lu Yuan could receive from the Heavenly Pillar was also more and more than before.

And not only is the immortal qi attracted a lot, but even when cultivating the Dao Method, because of the luck of the Qi Method, the speed of practicing the Dao Law is also a few points faster.

After these many gains, Lu Yuan's cultivation realm naturally improved by leaps and bounds.

It has only been cultivated for more than a year, and not only is the mana in the body strong, but it is also knotted. It is also a condensed soul and growing stronger day by day.

Under his strength, he felt that he was not far behind Anqiu Zhenren at this time.

Only stay for three or four months, wait for those immigrants in the country to settle down, and then harvest a wave of luck, maybe you can catch up with each other.

And Anqiu Zhenren, this immortal monk, in terms of strength, is comparable to the master of the innate second realm.

If it can be three or four months later, Lu Yuan's Immortal Dao cultivation will reach this level.

Then there is the combat power of the innate second realm, even if all countries in the world are really turbulent again because of the death of Wu Anhou.

With this strength, he can more or less protect Changsha State, and in this troubled world, he will not fall.

After all.

Wu Anhou is only the combat power of the innate second realm.

Lu Yuan can reach the strength of the other party, and his soldiers and horses are not bad, and he also has great military exploits. It's really comparative, it's almost a copy of Wu'anhou.

A Marquis of Wu'an can shelter the Yue Kingdom for a hundred years.

Such a king of Changsha may not be able to shelter Changsha for a hundred years and a thousand years!

Lu Yuan is extremely confident in this.

……

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, the residual heat of the March imperial examination disappeared into the mouths of people on the streets.

And those new people who raised people and jinshi, under the arrangement of the imperial court officials, began to go to various places to take up their posts.

With the arrival of these people, the three counties and 17 prefectures of Changsha were finally filled with officials at all levels, and the local operation was normalized.

As a new nation.

At this time, Changsha was full of vitality and an atmosphere of striving for progress.

Moreover, a large number of young officials have flooded the officialdom, which has also caused the ugly phenomena of seniority and corruption in the original officialdom to be washed away a lot.

Young people are always motivated.

At this time, Changsha is also full of opportunities.

Therefore, with the addition of the two, the entire domestic government affairs are handled rapidly.

Various government decrees and policies have also been greatly implemented.

The newly recovered land of Bafu in Jiangbei soon quickly restored local stability under this trend of diligent and honest government, ended the state of military management that had lasted for a year, and began to normalize.

Thanks to the efforts of these new officials, the long-standing local policies on resettlement and household registration statistics have also been quickly implemented.

Therefore, in June of the ninth year of Hongdao, Lu Yuan finally got a complete household registration report in his country.

"My lord, I am in Changsha, the land of three counties and seventeen prefectures. Now, after half a year of sorting out and counting, there is a clear number of local household registrations. ”

In the Hongwen Palace, Sun Siwen held a book and sent it to Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan took it, and then flipped it up.

Sun Siwen next to him continued: "Among them, the ten prefectures of Dongting County, the land of the nine prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, have 420,000 households and 2.13 million people. After the Northern Expedition, Tianmen Mansion was recovered, and later 300,000 households from Hanzhong County were accepted.

In this way, there are 740,000 households and 3.81 million people in the ten prefectures of the county.

Then there are the three prefectures of Xichuan County, which were originally mountainous and poor, and then experienced wars, and the household registration was even more withered.

However, later the king moved 50,000 households from Hanzhong and 60,000 households from Xichuan there, making the local household registration abundant again.

Now that the original household registration and the immigrants from the two counties are counted, there are now 160,000 households and 830,000 people in the three prefectures of Xichuan County.

Finally, there are the four prefectures of Xiangyang County.

Xiangyang County is a rich place, sitting on the Han River and the Yangtze River waterway, convenient water transportation, and the junction of the three countries, through which the north and south business travelers pass.

The county is irrigated by two waters, and the fertile fields are even strange, and I don't know how many people have been fed.

According to statistics, although Xiangyang County did not accept immigrants, even if it suffered a round of war, there were still 200,000 households and 1.07 million people left.

In this way, the total of these three counties has 1.1 million households and 5.71 million people in Changsha.

With a household registration of one million and a vast land, Changsha is already a big country in the world. ”

Sun Siwen finally made this summary in a proud and proud tone.

Truly.

There are 1.1 million households, nearly 6 million people, covering an area of 3 counties and 17 prefectures, with a territory of 10,000 miles and 240,000 soldiers.

Compared with Ninghai and the South China Sea, this kind of strength is already doubled, or even several times the national strength.

And if it is a small country like Xichuan and Hanzhong, it will be more than ten times the difference in national strength.

If you count the southwestern Zhuyi countries in the southwest of Dongting County, it is the bright moon and stars in the sky, and the brightness cannot be compared.

Even in the face of big countries like Zhou, Liang, and Yue, even in the face of the Liang State that maintains a good strength, Lu Yuan has one-twelfth of the national strength of the other party.

In other words, it is one-third.

With such strength, how can it not be regarded as a great power?

After listening to this statistic, Lu Yuan couldn't help but have this thought in his heart.

After working hard for a long time and struggling for many years, I have finally created a big country, and this sense of achievement is self-evident.

However, while he was happy and proud, he did not forget the current situation, so he was only a little happy for a while, and then reorganized his mood and said: "The country can be so prosperous, thanks to the help of Brother Sun and other virtuous ministers, I can have this scene in Changsha."

However, the current situation is difficult and treacherous.

Since the collapse of the Marquis of Wu'an, the Yue Chamber has been in turmoil again, and it seems that it is in danger of extinction.

Under this chaos, the world may rise again at any time. My Changsha country is on the side of the Yue country, and it is also a vassal of the country, so we must not stay out of it.

If there is really chaos, it will definitely be involved.

I don't know how long I can last when this day is stable.

Therefore, taking advantage of this remaining peace, I hope that Brother Sun and other virtuous ministers can work more for the country and get through this difficulty with me. ”

these months.

With Lu Yuan's order, Honglu Temple sent envoys and spies from all sides to explore and collect information from various countries.

The news of various countries in the world continued to be transmitted back to Changsha City.

Among them, the news that Li Tingjing sent back from Jinling City is the most worrying.

Since the death of Marquis Wu An, without Bai Mengyang, the pillar of optimus, the Yue Imperial Court not only did not clamp his tail for this, but also survived this difficult time.

On the contrary, at this critical moment, in Jinling City, there was a rumor that the Xiao family was exhausted, causing chaos in the world, the decline of the Yue Kingdom, and the time for the rotation of the country.

Along with this rumor, there is another.

It is rumored that in Cheung Chau County, on the same night, dozens of people dreamed of the great sun rising into the sky. Sure enough, by the next day, thousands of people in the county saw the golden crow in the sky, and the divine beast was auspicious.

At the same time, in Jinling City, there is a sacred bird flying, landing on a mound, spitting out a jade, and writing a heavy word.

Today's Yue royal family is surnamed Xiao.

And Changzhou County is the clan land of the Shen clan where the current general Shen Qiu is located.

The golden crow is the sun, and the golden crow is in the sky, doesn't it mean that there are two days in the sky, and there should be one day to die?

In Jinling City, the sacred bird spits jade on the mound, and a sinking character is written on the jade.

A mound, a sink, isn't this the general sinking mound?

These two rumors spread and confirmed each other, directly hinting to the world that the Xiao family will retire and the Shen family will prosper.

Yueguo, it's time to change the dynasty.

That great general Shen Qiu, after the death of Marquis Wu An, for some reason, began to wait to replace the Xiao family and become the lord of the four counties in Jiangdong.

As the right minister of the country, Honglu Temple is under the jurisdiction of Sun Siwen, so of course he is also aware of what is happening in Jinling City.

And as a person who is familiar with history books, how can Sun Siwen not know what the rumors are portending today?

At this time, it was a rumor, then it was auspicious, and then it should be the advice of a hundred officials, Shenqiu was crowned king, the emperor issued an edict to abdicate, and Yue Guochan gave way.

A set of processes for usurping the throne began.

No, for the Linjiang family, this should not be considered a usurpation, it can only be said that it was an election vote, and the incompetent Xiao clan was elected, and then replaced by a more desirable and powerful Shen clan.

This is the will of the people, and it cannot be regarded as a usurpation.

But even so, for Sun Siwen, who was a native of Yue in the first half of his life, when he heard the news of the death of Yue Guo at this time, his heart was still complicated and difficult to understand.

However, as the right minister, he was not swayed by these personal emotions, and after hearing Lu Yuan's words, he immediately said solemnly: "The king trusts him with state affairs, and his trust is more important than his ministers." Receiving this heavy responsibility, I have devoted all my energy to repay the affairs of the state. Dare not to die for the king. ”

This is said categorically, affectionately, and without hesitation.

When Lu Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but be relieved and moved.

Sure enough, at the critical moment, his friends are still reliable.