The entire second year of Shenwu was spent quickly in the chaos of the local and court halls.

And at the end of that year, Lu Yuan received another piece of good news.

That's his queen, pregnant again.

Yes, after giving birth to her first child, she will raise her for a year, and with Lu Yuan's unremitting efforts, Lan Cai'er has it again.

I'm going to be a dad again.

Although this news is not as happy as Lu He's birth, it is still news worth happier.

And his queen is pregnant, and Lu Yuan, as the king, naturally can't help but devote some energy to it, and even less of his thoughts on external expansion.

So at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, he spent time dealing with the two reforms and accompanying Lan Caier to raise a baby.

This kind of busy and leisurely days lasted until the beginning of March of the third year of Shenwu.

The three years of Shenwu are destined to be a bumper harvest year for the Chu State.

In this year, the previous immigration project that began in the ninth year of Hongdao has completed three years. The 410,000 households and more than 2 million immigrants who settled in various parts of Dachu began to pay taxes.

After more than three years of cultivation, the seventeen prefectures of the three counties of Dachu have also become increasingly prosperous and prosperous under the governance of the local ministers in the central court.

According to what Sun Siwen said before.

Since the beginning of this year, Da Chu has made even payments.

Even if there is another sailor now, there will be hundreds of thousands of millions of taels of silver more every year.

However, relying on the previous reform of military expenses for soldiers and local soldiers, 1.2 million taels of silver can be left every year, which can be used as military expenses for sailors, and can barely cope with the past.

Not to mention, there are five million taels of silver aid from the Soviet Union and the South China Sea here.

However, the five million taels of silver, Lu Yuan was going to use it as military expenses.

If you want to conquer the Great Changhe Kingdom, you must use at least 100,000 troops, and the annual military expenditure will be at least 3 million taels of silver.

Therefore, he had already discussed this money with the two prime ministers, and it was the military expenses of the army, and it could not be diverted for other purposes.

And Sun Siwen and Cui Changqing also agreed.

Even the two of them also said separately that the imperial court would find a way to save as much money as possible for military purposes.

What can Lu Yuan say about this?

On the one hand, he could only be moved by the support of the two prime ministers for himself, and then on the other hand, he was more and more gearing up, preparing for the crusade against the Great Chang and the country.

However, this matter is not urgent for the time being.

First, Lu Yuan was not sure that he could pacify the Great Changhe Country by himself alone, leading an army of 100,000.

On the other side, there are two innate grandmasters, as well as an army of more than 200,000 people.

It's not that easy to defeat the other party.

Second, Lu Yuan is still not at ease in China.

He left with an army of 100,000, and the defense force of the Chu State was half empty at once.

In this case, it is not only easy to cause chaos internally, but also easy to attract the covetousness of enemy countries externally.

If someone takes advantage of the emptiness in other countries, and also thinks that they have invaded the country of Dachanghe, and suddenly kills them, then it will be fun.

Don't believe it.

In case Lu Yuan is really dragged in Dachangheguo, he can't pull away.

Believe it or not, the Ning State and the Zhou State, who have long hated him to the bone, will immediately send hundreds of thousands of soldiers to attack the whole country?

It's definitely possible.

Anyway, if you change places, put Lu Yuan in the position of those two countries, and see a guy who has robbed his own territory, suddenly revealing such a big weakness, he will definitely not be able to help but be moved.

The human heart cannot stand the test.

It was also with this in mind that even if the military expenditure was sufficient at this time, Lu Yuan did not dare to send troops.

The time is still not ripe.

He's going to wait.

The first is to wait for the Great Chang and the country to continue to confront and consume, and constantly weaken their own strength.

The second is to wait for the strength of his side to be further enhanced, and at the same time, the external environment can become better.

And this opportunity was quickly waited.

In August of that year, when Lan Caier had just given birth to her second son, the palace was celebrating.

Lu Yuan received a letter from Jiangbei.

Changle Palace.

Lu Yuan looked at the letter in his hand, and the more he flipped through it, the more joyful and excited he became.

"Xiaoqing is about to break through the innate nature."

He took the letter, looked at Zhou Qing's greetings on it, and congratulated his teacher on having another son. Then he described some of his feelings from his recent cultivation.

According to Zhou Qing, over the years, he has followed the teacher's instructions and washed his internal strength with the immortal qi in the jade tablets every day and night.

After many years, he is now full of energy, and he feels that his divine soul has grown to the limit of his body, which is enough to transform into the true intent of martial arts.

In terms of internal force, it has gradually turned from virtual to real, and its own internal force and aura have gradually taken on a bit of external appearance.

The changes in the conditions of the whole person, which have been described by the teacher, are about to break through the various needs of the innate time.

Therefore, this disciple wrote to ask if he should try to break through the innate nature.

The disciple has no experience and hopes that the teacher can give advice.

Above, all the contents in recognizability.

After Lu Yuan finished reading it, the whole person was pleasantly surprised, complicated and difficult to understand.

Not only can there be another congenital in their own country, or the kind that can be absolutely trusted, and the country's heritage and strength are further happy.

There is also the relief and loneliness of the child who has been raised by himself for more than ten years finally grows up, and he is about to break through the innate and catch up with his own footsteps unconsciously.

Yes.

After careful calculation, since the twenty-fourth year of Longqing, the master and apprentice have escaped from Dayu County together, and they have been in Shenwu for three years, which has been a full seventeen years.

In the past seventeen years, he and Zhou Qing have been called master and apprentice, and they are actually father and son.

And the most critical time for Zhou Qing to go from youth to youth was taught by Lu Yuan.

It can be said that he really watched his apprentice grow up like an old father.

The friendship between the two is deep, and there is really no one else who can match it except Sun Siwen.

Even Lan Cai'er, who has given birth to two children now, or the eldest son Lu He, and the newly named second son Lu Hao, can't compare.

Human feelings are so unreasonable.

Even if you are my flesh and blood, my wife in the same bed, what is not comparable is not comparable.

Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing followed Lu Yuan from the end to the beginning, from the trough to the glory.

Acquaintance in poverty, struggle to wealth.

If there were no two people to help, Lu Yuan would now be the king of the three counties, let alone the three counties. I'm afraid that I am still hiding in a small town, or in a ravine, and I am worried about how to break through the first-class.

The world happened to be between the friendship of the three.

It is precisely because of this that after receiving Zhou Qing's letter, Lu Yuan immediately put down the national politics and also let go of Lan Cai'er, who had just given birth.

The next day, he packed his bags, traveled alone in the starry night, and quietly rushed to Xiangyang County.

Break through the innate things, although as long as the requirements are met, then everything will fall into place, and there will not be too much risk.

But there is not much risk, there will still be risk after all.

Moreover, breaking through the innate and the probability of failure is also very high, and there is no experienced person staring at him, Lu Yuan is really not at ease.

It is related to the path of his disciples, and it is also related to the future of the Chu State, and he still has to watch it in person.

……

After nearly ten days on the road, in mid-August, I finally arrived in Xiangyang City.

When he arrived in the city, Lu Yuan didn't rush to see Zhou Qing, but took a good look in the city, and finally couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

Xiangyang deserves to be the famous capital of the world and the first of a county.

As a large city close to the Han River, and between the Yangtze River and the Han River, the alluvial Jianghan Plain is fed, and the entire Xiangyang County can be said to be extremely rich.

Even if Xiangyang County is now divided into three, the most elite part of it, that is, most of the Jianghan Plain, is controlled by the Ningguo Imperial Court.

However, relying on the support of the remaining three western provinces and Xiangyang Prefecture, as well as the convenience of Xiangyang County in the north-south shipping route, it still maintained great wealth here.

That's it.

The crowds of people in the city are surging, shoulder to shoulder, people from all over the world, all over the world, gather between the shops in this city, it is not prosperous and lively.

According to the latest statistics of the imperial court, Xiangyang Mansion, the capital of Xiangyang County, has 80,000 households and 400,000 people. But judging from the flow of people in this city, the number of households is still less. ”

Lu Yuan sat in the restaurant, looking at the street outside the window, with no end in sight, and sighed in his heart.

He didn't know if the extra people were business travelers from all over the world, or if the local government had concealed it.

But considering that his two disciples, Zhou Qing and Zhang You are both in Xiangyang, with him two watching, there should be no magistrate who dares to deceive him.

That's probably the former.

There are too many business travelers from all over the world who come to Xiangyang to do business, so it seems that there are more hukou here than normal.

And that says a good thing.

"It seems that this year's customs and commercial taxes will be much more charged."

The income of the imperial court is more, the army can be raised more, and the things can be done more.

The most important thing is that when the Chu State is prosperous, the more luck he can reap.

These benefits are just too big.

A mention needs to be made here.

Since Hongdao began to practice the Taiping Daoshu in the seventh year, almost five years have passed, with the successive expansion of the Chu State and the implementation of various military and political reforms in the country, Lu Yuan's accumulated luck has been growing at an explosive rate every year.

And under this outburst, his cultivation has become more and more profound.

Up to now, he has already surpassed the previous Anqiu Zhenren and is rapidly moving towards the realm of condensation.

And according to Lu Yuan's feelings.

There should still be a small half of the way to condense one's cultivation, and it will take about two or three years.

After two or three years, he would be able to reach the realm of the Six Great Dao Dao Masters and become the strongest group of people in this world.

Of course, although he had broken through the realm of condensing one qi, Lu Yuan was only a newcomer, and in the first two years, he should still not be able to compare to those Dao Pulse Dao Masters.

But it doesn't matter, with the speed of the cultivation of the Taiping Daoshu, under his hard krypton.

This gap can be caught up in two or three years, and it is not a big problem.

But at this time, let's not talk about these future things, let's talk about Lu Yuan's current cultivation.

In his estimation, it is comparable to the innate second realm, and even among the grandmasters of the second realm, it is also a strong one.

At the very least, at this time, when he was facing the former Wu'an Hou, Lu Yuan no longer had the slightest fear and fear, and felt that he should be bigger, and he should be sure to punish the other party under his Dao technique.

This change, compared with the three points of fear when he first faced Wu'anhou when he participated in the Northern Expedition, is not insignificant.

And all of this is the change brought about by the cultivation of the Taiping Dao Book.

It is precisely because of this strength that Lu Yuan had the ambition to annex the other party after seeing the civil strife in Dachangheguo.

Otherwise, if you change to another country, you will see a large civil strife with two counties and the same size as yourself. At most, I want to think about whether I can take the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and eat a few prefectures.

Who would have such a delusion, and want to swallow the other party in one bite.

Aren't you really afraid of eating?

But now.

His strength has reached the second realm of innate nature, and his disciple Zhou Qing is about to break through the innate realm.

The high-end combat power of the Chu State can be said to have more than doubled in an instant.

With this kind of volume and strength, you can naturally do more planning and eat more benefits.

Don't dare to say anything else, eat at least one county from Dachanghe Country, Lu Yuan still has this confidence.

"At this time, it depends on when Xiaoqing can break through."

Lu Yuan muttered to himself, then raised his wine glass and drank down, leaving a few coins and broken silver, and then turned around and walked out of the restaurant.

……

"Disciple to meet Master."

In the governor's mansion, when Zhou Qing saw the master who suddenly appeared in front of him, he was obviously taken aback, but after reacting, he still hurriedly saluted.

"Get up."

Lu Yuan looked his disciple up and down, but saw that the other party's body was really surrounded by pure qi, and the immortal spirit penetrated the body, just like the feeling he gave to outsiders at the beginning, a proper immortal seed.

With just this little vision, he was sure that what his disciple said in his letter was right, Xiaoqing had indeed reached the level of breaking through the innate level.

Confirming this, I can't help but be even more happy.

And calculate the time, since the end of the seventh year of Hongdao, Lu Yuan gave the jade tablet, until now it has been three years of Shenwu, and it has been almost five years.

After five years of accumulation, with the help of the immortal qi, it is reasonable to touch the threshold of breaking through the innate nature.

You can't say fast, you can't say slow.

can only be said to be in line with his own perception of Zhou Qing's talent.

However, he was very happy here, but Zhou Qing was a little confused by his master's sudden attack: "Master came here in a hurry, but what is the urgency?" ”

"There's something urgent about it."

Lu Yuan laughed, then looked at his disciple with a smile on his face and said, "My own disciple is about to break through the innate nature, as a teacher, can I not come and watch?" Otherwise, something happens to my baby apprentice, and then the teacher will regret it. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Qing realized that the master came in the starry night for himself.

And the time when I sent the letter and the time when the teacher arrived, it was only ten days, and I couldn't help but be even more moved.

"Master......"

In Zhou Qing's heart, a wave of warmth and shame surged up at the same time.

"Okay, you're also thirty years old, don't look like your daughter."

Lu Yuan's disciple seemed to be moved to cry, and hurriedly waved his hand, and then changed the topic: "Looking at your appearance as a teacher, it is indeed time to break through the innate nature." If there is anything you don't understand in your heart, come and talk to the teacher.

There is also a breakthrough in the innate and need to build your own martial arts outer body, what kind of vision to choose for the outer body, do you have a strategy? ”

Seeing that when it came to business, Zhou Qing had no choice but to accept the emotion and bury it in his heart. Then he also said solemnly: "Back to the master, the disciple has been ...... these days."

In the next room, the Q&A between the master and apprentice continued to be staged.

Sometimes when it comes to the depths, Zhou Qing and Lu Yuan also directly demonstrate on the spot, giving a vivid teaching.

This continued until late at night, when it stopped.

"That's all for today."

Lu Yuan stopped, then looked at his disciple and said, "The teacher will stay in this city for ten days, and within ten days, he will solve your doubts every day, which should be enough for you to find the direction in your heart." ”

Zhou Qing bowed down and said, "Disciple, thank you Master for solving your doubts." I bothered so much about the affairs of my disciple, the love of the master, the disciple's admiration was inexplicable, and I dare not forget it in this life. ”

Lu Yuan stepped forward to help him up, and said with relief: "Okay." Your name is my disciple, but you are my Son. A father is good to his son, and there is nothing to be grateful for. If you practice with peace of mind and break through the innate as soon as possible, this is the best reward for being a teacher. ”

"Yes." Zhou Qing responded: "The disciple must live up to the master's expectations, and this time he will break through the innate nature." ”

Lu Yuan nodded, and then left without saying more.

For the days that followed, he would come to his disciples at noon every day, and then preach for them until late at night, and then leave.

The rest of the time, let his disciples ponder and digest it.

After ten days in a row, of course, everything that could be said was finished, and Zhou Qing also gained a lot, and he had already understood what kind of martial arts external body he had condensed.

Only then did Lu Yuan leave.

Before leaving, he also took away the immortal jade piece he gave to Zhou Qing.

Now that he is a disciple, his internal strength has been condensed to the extreme under the tempering of the jade tablets.

The growth of the divine soul has also reached the limit of the nourishment of the jade tablets.

In the case that his disciple does not cultivate immortals, but only cultivates martial arts, at this time, the effect of this jade piece on him is no longer great.

So Zhou Qing took the initiative to send the jade piece back a few days ago.

And Lu Yuan also had a new mind after checking the remnants of the immortal qi in the Xia Yu Pei.

"The immortal qi in the jade piece has begun to be consumed by Brother Sun's great-ancestor, and most of it has been used. Later, after being used by me and Xiaoqing, I used it again.

At this time, the immortal spirit qi that was originally enough for one person to cultivate to condense one qi was only enough for one and a half people to break through the innate spirit. ”

Yes, at this time, the immortal qi in the jade piece has only the last bit left.

It is only enough for one and a half people, refining internal strength, nourishing the soul, and breaking through the innate nature.

In other words, Lu Yuan can still rely on this jade piece to cultivate another innate one.

And who this person is, he already has a candidate.

It was his eldest son Lu He.

Otherwise, if it were someone else, Lu Yuan didn't believe it at all, and he didn't trust it.

Zhou Qing is his own person, and in terms of trust, he has more priority than his wife. It makes sense for him to break through the innate nature.

But if he was replaced by other True Transmission disciples, or people who were not even True Transmission disciples, Lu Yuan would not be so trusting.

In these troubled times, trust can be said to be extremely important.

Without trust, how can we talk about cultivating reuse?

Not to mention breaking through the innate opportunity.

As for letting a child who is only two years old break through the innate nature?

This is certainly not an immediate breakthrough.

With the example of Lan Cai'er, Lu Yuan is full of confidence in cultivating an innate person in his early twenties.

As long as he carefully cultivates himself for twenty years, then when Lu He grows up and becomes an adult, it should be no problem to successfully break through the innate nature.

Anyway, twenty years is not a long time, and it will pass in a flash.

Lu Yuan can wait, and he has this patience to wait.

In the end, he is his eldest son, and he still has to be treated a little preferentially.