Lu Yuan was indeed sincere in what he said.

For him, the Kunhai area on the other side of the river, although good.

There is lake irrigation, the land is rich, and with a little management, it can feed millions of people, and it has become an important base for attacking the southwest Yi.

But for Da Chu, who has now swallowed the land of one county in the southwest, if he wants to digest the current one county and eight mansions, it is already extremely difficult and difficult, and he is about to be supported to death.

At this time, if you go to fight the Kunhai area and add such a large piece of territory, it is completely because you don't die fast enough, and you want to explode on the spot.

So for Lu Yuan, although Kunhai is good, it is equivalent to poison to himself.

There may be an instant sweetness when you eat it, but when the poison spreads to all the limbs and bones of the body, then it is time for the poison to attack, and it is time to die.

For him, there is no need to rush external expansion, and he has a long life to wait slowly.

Attacking the Southwest Yi region can completely follow the example of the previous Jinling courts, spending more than 100 years and 200 years, slowly expanding county by county.

In five or six hundred years, Southwest Yi will be annexed and digested.

Otherwise, the consequences of rapid expansion will be equivalent to the destruction of the Six Kingdoms by Qin in his previous life, and the territory will be defeated, but there are not enough officials to rule, so he can only appoint the remnants of the Six Kingdoms.

The local people also had their hearts set on their homeland and hated Qin Law, so when the First Emperor was still there, his control over the place was rotten.

Qin Shi Huang was in the Gyeonggi area, and he could still encounter bandits, can you believe this?

The ministers of the DPRK and China openly sheltered Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu, who were wanted by the imperial court, can you believe this?

Zhang Liang assassinated the First Emperor, but the First Emperor couldn't find the assassin, can you believe this?

Not even to mention the first emperor, the former Qin Fujian is a clear example.

Before the southern expedition, looking at the great north and the crowd surrendered. The result was a great defeat, and the entire empire collapsed.

Even if he is alive, he will not be able to stop this trend.

All of the above examples illustrate how fatal it is for a dynasty to expand too quickly and become a fat man in one go.

And whether it is winning Qin or pre-Qin, they are unified, or they are still places that jointly recognize Chinese culture, they can be regarded as a member of Zhuxia.

Now Lu Yuan has conquered the Yi people, who are completely different from the descendants of the Three Emperors and Miao, and the cultural system, belief civilization, and bloodline of the Dongyang people.

For this kind of enemy, if you still have to learn to expand rapidly and swallow it in one go, then Lu Yuan really doesn't know, how will his Great Chu die?

He is a stable person, and he also has stable capital.

With an endless lifespan, he doesn't have to be like those heroes of the world in history, because his life span is gradually coming to an end, so he is eager to complete all his deeds in his lifetime.

Do something to fight for your life.

Therefore, for the above situation, Lu Yuan will naturally not be stupid and repeat the historical risk.

Step by step, eat slowly one bite at a time, this is the most beneficial strategy for him and the most beneficial to the Chu State.

And in order to let himself eat with peace of mind and digest Qianzhong County with peace of mind, the promise to Li Xiong just now is very important.

Although he can't eat Kunhai, it doesn't mean that Lu Yuan wants to give up this rich land to Dachangheguo.

If this Yi country is allowed to continue to occupy this territory, then if it is supported by this place, the Dachang and the country can recuperate for ten years, and then they can regain their strength and continue to harass and attack Qianzhong County.

On the premise that the other party has ethnic identity, faith identity, and righteous reputation, it is difficult to say whether those Yi people in Qianzhong County who are still relatively honest will be agitated to create a rebellion against the Chu State.

It's quite possible.

Therefore, for the stability of Qianzhong County, for Dachu to be able to digest Qianzhong County quietly and quickly.

It is necessary to erect a barrier between Qianzhong County and Dachanghe Kingdom, establish a buffer zone, and set up a target for the Yiren on the opposite side.

So here's the problem.

Who will afford this barrier, where is this buffer zone located, and who can withstand the firepower of this target?

The above three questions, the final answer and candidate, can actually only point to one person, that is, Li Xiong.

This person has ambitions, as long as the Kunhai region is given to the other party, then Li Xiong, who has already occupied such a piece of the foundation of the king, will never give up this territory.

Therefore, he established a country here, and he can definitely carry the banner and become a solid barrier for Dachu to resist the counterattack of the Southwest Yi.

The same.

The Kunhai region was robbed by Li Xiong, and the Dachanghe Kingdom and the Chiliyi people who lost this foundation will definitely not be reconciled.

The other two overlords in the southwest, Dali and Nanzhao, could not sit idly by and watch the Dongyang people run a base here and infiltrate their traditional territory.

Therefore, these three parties will eventually join forces and jointly counterattack Li Xiong and Lu Yuan, who have already reached out.

And at that time, they want to attack Lu Yuan, and they want to attack Lu Yuan's Qianzhong County, so the first person to cross the border is Li Xiong.

Before Li Xiong was defeated, it was impossible for them to stretch out their hands and jump over this powerful obstacle to interfere with Lu Yuan's development in Qianzhong County.

At most, they sent some small-scale small works to infiltrate and incite some ignorant people to harass Qianzhong County.

But this kind of small-scale harassment was naturally severely suppressed by local government and county soldiers.

As long as the enemy does not have a large army in the city, there will be no major riots in Qianzhong.

Even if the other party's Innate Grandmaster personally infiltrated, this situation was unlikely to happen.

Because Lu Yuan only planned to help Li Xiong seize the Erhai region, he didn't have much thought about the Eleven Yi Kingdom directly controlled by the Great Changhe Kingdom to the east of Erhai Lake, as well as a large part of the Huichuan Kingdom.

And many of the above territories add up, and there are more than half of the counties.

With this foundation, with a little integration, counting the two innate grandmasters in Dachang and China, they can barely maintain a hegemonic status.

He hasn't lost it all, and he even retained a large part of his family business, and he didn't become a singleton in the country, so it is naturally impossible to do the thing that the grandmaster himself ended up and attacked and slaughtered everywhere.

Because you can do this, Lu Yuan's side can also do the opposite.

In the end, it's nothing more than fighting for consumption, fighting for whose endurance, and fighting for who dies first.

With the size of the Chu State, there is a high probability that the other party will lose first and die first, and the Chu State will be hit hard.

This kind of lose-lose approach, as long as the other party is still rational and still wants to keep the last half of his county foundation, it is impossible to do such a crazy thing.

In this way, Lu Yuanzhi can digest the territory that he has already obtained with peace of mind.

"Hmph, if you want to come to Jinling, you guess you've been waiting to see my jokes for a long time, right?" ’

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but sneer: "Since Gu sent troops to the southwest, how could he not have thought of the various difficulties and problems encountered by the Jinling dynasties when they opened up to the outside world.

In this regard, there is a strategy for dealing with it for a long time.

Now Li Xiong is a barrier, leaving a small half-foundation for Dachang and the country, and it is also a clamp.

With these two items, I will digest Qianzhong County, and it will not take a hundred years at all, but twenty or thirty years will be enough. ’

Lu Yuan was proud in his heart, and Li Xiong next to him got his affirmative promise, but he had already recovered from the excitement.

At this time, he knelt down directly, and the whole person fell to the ground: "The king is so trustworthy and respectful to his ministers, and the ministers have received this kindness, and they can't repay it." Those people in front of me blocked me from the water, and the ministers were willing to lead the dead soldiers to cross the river for the king to strike them. If you don't break the soldiers, you vow not to return them. ”

Lu Yuan had already opened the reward, and at this time, west of Lushui, the entire land of Kunhai, all the territories that could be conquered, were immediately awarded to Li Xiong.

So now every battle is fought, every piece of soil is taken, it belongs to you.

Li Xiong's subjective initiative at this time has risen unprecedentedly.

Because he knows that this is not a war for others, it is a war for himself.

If you are not active in this kind of thing of helping yourself to seize benefits, do you still expect others to be active?

Fight people, I, Li, will not let go.

However, in the face of his invitation, Lu Yuan just smiled, did not agree, shook his head and said: "I know that Li Qing is anxious, but there is no hurry at this time. The Great Changhe Army is strictly guarded, and Li Chuan and the Great Witch Sacrifice of the other country are not incompetent, and they will never back down when they have reached the heart of their hearts.

At this time, it is uncertain whether there will be gains from a strong attack, but casualties are absolutely inevitable.

Although those soldiers are not valuable, they are wasted here.

Let's wait.

It's a new year, and the uncertainties are coming, so I'll just wait and see, and the opportunity will come soon. ”

When Li Xiong heard this, he rested his blood for a while, and then couldn't help but be confused.

Variable?

Opportunity?

What does this mean, could it be that the King of Chu in front of him has other arrangements, so that he has the confidence to break through the Lushui defense line in front of him?

Li Xiong guessed like this in his heart, but he also had a sense of expectation.

As Lu Yuan said, it is not so easy to break this line of defense in front of him.

Even if he personally led the charge, he didn't have much confidence that he would be able to win.

Li Chuan and the Great Witch Priest of the Great Changhe Kingdom are also veteran innate grandmasters, and although their strength has not yet reached the second realm, they are also senior grandmasters.

Really carefully compared, Li Xiong, a new generation of grandmasters, is really not necessarily stronger than these two.

At this time, there were those two on the other side of the river joining forces, even if Li Xiong personally took action, he would not be able to get any benefit at all.

Even Lu Yuan's strength at this time didn't dare to say that after making a move, he would be able to take down the other party.

After all, although the gap between the innate second realm and the first realm is large, in the end, it is still in the same big realm, and although the strength is strong or weak, it will not be said to have reached the level of crushing.

Even if he was taken by surprise and relied on spells to catch the other party off guard, but when someone answered, it was very difficult to kill the other party directly, and it could even be said that there was little hope.

Not to mention, those two people are still backed by more than 100,000 troops, and when they see that the situation is wrong, they can escape into the army at any time, which makes it even more difficult to kill.

That's why.

A few times before, although Lu Yuan had also tentatively fought with Li Chuan and the Great Witch Priest, he had always used his martial arts strength, and he had never shown his immortal Dao spells.

This is because he didn't find the right opportunity, and he didn't want to expose his strength too much when there was no guarantee that he would be able to kill with one hit.

If you want to kill these two people, you have to wait until the other party is alone, or if you are seriously injured.

Just like this, Gui Lianyun and Zhang Chanyi, who had killed before, took advantage of the opportunity of the other party's weakness and loneliness to simply attack and assassinate neatly, this is the right way to deal with the innate grandmaster.

Otherwise, the consequence of the mistake was that during the previous Northern Expedition, the general of the Beizhu State who attacked the Zhou State in Hanzhong County, He Basheng, even if he used the immortal method, he even injured the other party.

But in the end, he let this person escape back into the army, and failed to do his best.

It is precisely after eating the lessons of such mistakes that Lu Yuan is working with others at this time, and he is more and more proficient in the key to hiding strength.

If you are not completely sure, you will never easily expose your full strength.

……

In a riverside dialogue, Lu Yuan successfully appeased Li Xiong and got an extremely useful chess piece.

In the days that followed, Lu Yuan continued to lead his troops to garrison Anning City, except for sending some troops to fight on the river with the Great Chang and the army on the opposite bank from time to time, there was nothing to do.

So he also took advantage of this leisure time to devote his energy to cultivation.

Since the war with the Southwest Yi, the state of Chu has won successive battles, and now it has captured one county and eight prefectures, and opened up a territory of more than 3,000 miles.

Although Qianzhong County is still gradually developing and digesting, even some prefectures and counties at the grassroots level are only in the form of a prototype, and they are far from establishing a solid rule.

But directly laying down such a large area of territory and capturing nearly a million Yi people, the luck brought is also extremely impressive.

Not to mention, the development of this county directly increased the total amount of Qi under Lu Yuan's control by one-tenth.

And that's only temporary.

With the further development of Qianzhong County in the future, the local rule was stabilized, and the conquered Yi people continued to return to their hearts.

The luck that can be provided here will continue to grow, and it is not impossible to finally reach the current three-percent luck.

But if you want to reach this level, it will take a long time, and you won't have to do this kind of delusion in twenty or thirty years.

But even if you don't mention the future, just the help of today has already surprised Lu Yuan.

All in all, Qianzhong County has a promising future.

In addition to the luck provided by Qianzhong County, during this time, as the news of Zhou Qing's breakthrough to the innate continued to ferment, the hearts of the people in the Chu State became more and more stable.

Even the attitude of the surrounding countries towards the state of Chu has also changed.

In addition to the development of the southwest Yi, the establishment of Qianzhong County.

Invisibly, the national character and strength of the Chu State have been further improved in the eyes of the people of the world, and it has gradually gained a bit of a hegemonic atmosphere.

After all, this is already a behemoth with four counties and twenty-five prefectures, with a territory of more than 10,000 miles, a household registration of more than 1 million, and a large country in the south of the Yangtze River with three innate grandmasters.

With this kind of strength, even compared to Ning Guo, it is not much worse.

In the eyes of the world, the State of Chu already had the qualifications to compete with the State of Ning for the hegemony of Yangzhou at this time, and it could even be called a small tyrant.

This kind of cognitive improvement has also invisibly made the world's recognition of Chu State higher, and people's hearts have slowly converged, and invisibly improved a lot of luck.

At this time, the total amount of Qi Luck that Lu Yuan possessed was nearly thirty percent more than before the war.

If before the war, his total Qi Luck was ten, then now the total Qi Luck has risen to thirteen, which is not a huge increase.

And another benefit brought by the improvement of Qi Luck was that Lu Yuan's cultivation speed of the Taiping Daoshu was about thirty percent faster than before the war.

And when his luck skyrocketed, he even broke through a lot of strength, and the mana in his body further thickened.

"At this time, I estimate that in half a year, I will be able to unite and enter the Immortal Dao, right?"

Lu Yuan communicated with the Heavenly Pillar with his divine soul, and after pulling a wave of immortal qi from it, he stopped refining mana and couldn't help but think deeply.

In the past few months, although he has been leading the army to recruit the southwest Yi, he has also been extremely concerned about the movements of Danding Road in the north.

Not only did he tell the Imperial City Division to pay more attention to the movements of Danding Dao, but also focused on exploring whether there was a large-scale personnel movement in the Dao, so as to prevent them from raiding south.

At the same time, he himself is always hiding in the army, and he will never act alone unless necessary.

Occasionally, when I went out a few times, such as the last time I inspected the construction of various prefectures and counties in Qianzhong County, they were also not far from the army. You can ensure that you are in danger and can quickly rush back to the army.

is so careful, what is prevented is Danding Dao running to seek revenge on himself.

But now that I've been waiting for almost a year, the time has come to the fifth year of Shenwu, but Danding Dao still hasn't moved.

There was no news from Liang Guo in the north.

The return of the Imperial City Division only said that the manpower of all parties in Danding Dao was on the surface, and there was no change. Some Taoist priests on the mountain also practiced penance as before, and showed no signs of leaving.

At the same time, the surveillance of various places within the Chu State did not find a large influx of groups from the Liang State, and everything seemed to be very calm.

It's like Danding Dao doesn't have the idea of revenge.

"Is it all because I'm thinking too much?"

Lu Yuan couldn't help but be a little suspicious when he thought back to the various messages he had received in the past few days, as well as his daily feelings.

Could it be that those people in Danding Dao were really frightened away by him and didn't dare to retaliate back?

This sect, which is known as one of the six great avenues of the Daomen, is so cowardly?

Lu Yuan didn't know what to say for a while.

"No matter, whatever Danding Dao thinks, it will last another half a year anyway. I'll be able to break through the cohesion. At that time, even if Danding Dao fights, with my strength, I will not be afraid at all.

No matter how much the enemy calculates, I only concentrate on improving my strength, and if I follow my plan, I can break through the tricks and suppress everything.

Danding Dao, it will be nothing more than that at that time. ”

Lu Yuan shook his head, and then continued to channel the immortal qi through the Heavenly Pillar and concentrate on cultivating.

In this kind of world where great power is one, it is better to do everything possible to improve one's own strength than to expect the enemy not to come to trouble.

As long as the strength is enough, the original trouble is not a trouble.

The enemy that was once terrible will no longer be terrible.

What about Danding Dao?

When you gather your own qi and enter the immortal path, if the other party dares to come, you can just call back.

Everyone is a condensed cultivator, there are a few immortal cultivators on your side, and I also have a few martial arts masters here, who is afraid of whom?

Not to mention, under Lu Yuan, there are hundreds of thousands of male soldiers.

Time, he just needs time now, time to allow himself to grow.

As long as it takes another half a year, then Danding Dao will no longer be terrible.