On the third day of the sixth month of the sixth year of Shenwu, Lu Yuan led the army to Yuzhong Mansion in Xichuan County.

After arriving, he did not lead the troops to fight immediately, but checked the internal affairs of Xichuan County.

After several years of development, especially the rare peace after the war, a wave of newborn babies has ushered in all parts of the Chu State, and Xichuan County is no exception.

In the ninth year of the former Yue Hongdao, it was still Changsha at that time, and Lu Yuan made a census of the country's population.

At that time, there were 160,000 households and 830,000 people in Xichuan County.

After years of recuperation, the number of households has not increased much, and it is still 160,000. But the population has grown to 880,000, most of whom are newborns.

This rapid population growth is still going on, and if it continues, the population of the three prefectures of Xichuan County will exceed one million in fifteen years at most.

In this regard, Lu Yuan was quite pleased.

For the state of Chu, it was important to open up new territories, but it was even more important to increase the population.

Because of the opening up of a new territory, the luck it can obtain is fixed, it is a one-time gift, and after it is given, it will not continue to increase.

But the population of the territory can also give luck.

And the more the population, the more luck is given.

Nowadays, newborns are being born in Xichuan, and the population is increasing at a high rate.

In the future, when these newborns grow up, no, even the moment they are born, they have already provided luck to the Chu State.

And when they grow up, they will be able to provide even more luck. And newborns who grow up can also continue to reproduce.

And so on, and ever.

In the conceivable future, Lu Yuan will be able to obtain more Qi Luck, and the share of Spiritual Qi that can be leveraged through these more Qi Luck will also be more.

In this battle for the aura of the end of the world, he has already occupied a firm share of himself, and is rapidly expanding this share.

After looking at the natural population growth of Xichuan County, Lu Yuan looked at another demographic list.

Since the surprise attack of the Nanzhao army on Xichuan in June last year, the local people of Xichuan have continued to flee to the surrounding areas.

There were not many directions for them to flee, and there were only two choices, either Han China in the north or Chu in the east.

Among the two options, Chu is the most attractive.

Because Han China is weak, compared with their Xichuan Kingdom, there is no advantage.

The Xichuan Kingdom was defeated by those enemies, and the Han China had to deal with the Zhou State in the north, and another Xichuan State in the south, which was a huge pressure, which can be imagined.

Many of the displaced people who had a little insight and controlled a large number of resources and population, such as those who were powerful and powerful or Jianghu people, knew that the future of escaping to Han China was worrying.

Running to Han China may be able to obtain temporary peace, but when the Zhou State goes south, or the Southern Zhao army chases after it, it should be just as dangerous.

But the state of Chu is different.

This is a large country with four counties and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, especially in Xichuan County, where tens of thousands of troops are stationed.

Running to such a place, whether it is security or future development prospects, is far stronger than that of Han China.

It is better to be a citizen of a big country than to be a citizen of a small country.

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So how to choose, in fact, many people have a number in their hearts.

Therefore, during the period when the Nanzhao army was raging, all the displaced people who had conditions chose to run to the Chu State.

In the second half of the fifth year of Shenwu last year alone, the Chu State successively received almost 100,000 people from the Xichuan Kingdom.

This year, as the atrocities of the Nanzhao army became more and more excessive, more people fled.

In the first two months of this year alone, Xichuan County received more than 70,000 displaced people.

However, since March, those Nanzhao troops have also noticed the mass exodus of people from Xichuan County.

Therefore, as mentioned earlier, the aforementioned barriers were set up on various key roads leading to Xichuan County to intercept and block the fleeing people.

After months of lockdown, a large number of people were intercepted, and a considerable number of them were tortured and killed.

However, the number of the Nanzhao army is limited after all, and there are three prefectures on the border between Xichuan County and Xichuan Kingdom, and it is impossible for the other party to stop them all.

Therefore, in the past few months, more than 50,000 Xichuan people have fled to Xichuan County.

Since the beginning of this year, after setting the strategy of conquering the Great Changhe in the west and chasing the Zhao army in the north to the south, Lu Yuan has already decided to recover the Xichuan Kingdom.

Xichuan has half a county and five prefectures, with a wide area of 2,400 miles, and the territory is not small.

And now such a large piece of territory, after the disaster of the Southern Zhao Army, there are also a large number of displaced people fleeing, and the population loss is serious.

It is preliminarily estimated that the total population of the territory will not exceed 300,000, with an average of 50,000 or 60,000 people in one province, and not a single tragic word can be described.

Such a small population, not to mention the development of the newly recovered Xichuan County, is enough to maintain the rule of the local government.

Therefore, it is imperative to immigrate to Xichuan County.

Therefore, since the beginning of this year, Lu Yuan has not sent the nearly 130,000 displaced people who have been sheltered before and after to Qianzhong County as before.

Instead, he stayed and was temporarily placed in Yuzhong Mansion.

It is planned that when the Nanzhao army is driven away, it will be able to return to its original place of origin and serve as a place for the local population to be enriched.

However, even if these 130,000 displaced people are sent back, it is still too few for the land of the five prefectures in the west of Xichuan, far from enough.

Therefore, the immigration from the three counties in the mainland of Chu to the five prefectures in the west of Xichuan County will soon become another major immigration project in China.

However, the difficulties and obstacles faced by immigrating to Xichuan County are much less than those faced by immigrating to Qianzhong County.

After all, as a long-term cooked land operated by the previous Jinling dynasties, the wealth of Xichuan County is famous all over the world.

Jinguan City in Xichuan County is also a Xiongcheng city such as Baling City in Dongting County and Xiangyang City in Xiangyang County, which are among the famous cities in the world.

Such a rich and fertile place is quite tempting for people who lack land and want to have a chance in Chu.

Immigrating to Qianzhong County, as long as they are not forced to a dead end, few people will go.

But if it was changed to Xichuan County, there were quite a lot of people who signed up.

Not elsewhere, let's just say that the current Dongsanfu of Xichuan County has gradually grown to 880,000 people, and it is already quite crowded locally.

After all, this is a mountainous area, and there is not much farmland that can be cultivated, and the yield per acre is far less than that of those rich places.

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There is a limit to the number of people that can be fed in these three places.

Relying only on local grain production to feed one million people is the limit, and this limit is still based on the fact that the local people's lives are quite poor.

Now, although it is still some way from this limit.

But the pressures of life have been revealed in some places.

Many people at the bottom of the land have had to give up farming and choose to work in the city to subsidize their family business.

But in such a mountainous area, where there is no handicraft industry, how many people can the city support?

As more people enter the city to work, there are more people competing for various positions, and the lower wages in disguise make it impossible to earn much money from work, at most it can only feed the whole family.

And this subsistence line is slowly decreasing with the growth of the population.

It is foreseeable that if industrial reform is not carried out and more handicrafts that can bring economic value are introduced, then it is certain that the people in the land of the three eastern provinces will become poorer and poorer.

However, how to reform, whether to reform or not, these are the business of local officials and court ministers, Lu Yuan has no spare time to take care of these, and he is not good at this.

He only knows one thing.

The people of Xichuan County in the eastern three prefectures have initially felt the pressure of life and have a greater willingness to emigrate.

"It doesn't need more, there are 880,000 people in the three mansions, and it is enough to move 200,000 people.

In this way, the last remaining population will average more than 200,000 per government, and every household will be allocated enough farmland, and the food produced in the local area and the living conditions will also be greatly improved.

In the end, in Xiangyang County and Dongting County, 120,000 people were relocated each, and 600,000 people were gathered together.

In addition, these displaced people who stayed in Yuzhong Mansion, as well as the remaining people in Xichuan Kingdom, there are also a million.

With these people, it is enough to support the development of the five western prefectures of Xichuan County. ”

Lu Yuan made a plan in his heart.

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After making a decision, Lu Yuan did not delay, immediately wrote down the holy decree, sent it back to China, and asked Cui Changqing and other ministers to prepare and carry out the preliminary immigration work.

This time, he commanded 200,000 troops, including more than 100,000 elite soldiers, and it was not a problem to expel the 100,000 Nanzhao army with this strong division.

Not even to mention expulsion, it is not difficult to keep all these people behind.

As for the eldest prince of the Nanzhao Army, a talented and congenital guy, Lu Yuan can easily defeat the other party with one hand.

If he doesn't find a chance this time, that's it.

Otherwise, if there is a chance, Lu Yuan doesn't mind killing another innate and achieving the achievement of four people for his own innate killing.

It also happens that the three congenitals of Nanzhao are already a little out of the norm and out of the category of small countries. Counting the territory of the two and a half counties of Nanzhao, there is already a faint amount of the prestige of the Chu State at that time before the conquest of the Southwest Yi.

In the face of such a small overlord in the southwest, without weakening it, even if Xichuan is recovered, Lu Yuan will have some trouble sleeping.

An extremely aggressive powerhouse that can dispatch an army of 100,000 at any time, and three innate grandmasters can call on it, is staring at you from the sidelines.

Just ask, who can feel at ease?

Lu Yuan can also understand more or less at this time, what it is like for the former Yue Hongdao Emperor and the current Ning State to build a martial emperor, facing the Changsha State and the current Chu State.

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Thinking about them, they are also afraid of Chu State just as they are afraid of Nanzhao State now.

I can't wait to eradicate this big problem in one fell swoop, solve my worries, and then concentrate on dealing with other big countries.

"But how can everything go well in the things of the world? Just as the Ning State has no way to destroy the Chu State now, with the strength of the Chu State now, it is still unable to destroy the Nanzhao State.

This time, we can only eliminate and capture some more soldiers of the Nanzhao State and weaken the national strength of the other party.

At the same time, let's see if there is a chance to get rid of the eldest prince Zhao Changqing and cut off the other party's arm. ”

Lu Yuan's eyes were hot and his fighting spirit was high.

These two goals, no matter which one is completed, will be a great blow to Nanzhaoguo.

If both are completed, it is equivalent to subtracting two percent of the national strength of Nanzhao.

Coupled with Huang Xuan of the Southern Middle Route Army, Li Xiong and Li Chuan of the Southern Route Army, they each made their own gains.

At the end of this battle, it may not be possible to think of destroying the Nanzhao Kingdom, but it is no problem to deal a heavy blow to the other party, making it slump and unable to recover for thirty years.

At that time, the Nanzhao State, which had been greatly injured, would no longer be able to pose a threat to the Chu State before it regained its strength.

And if the other party wants to recover, he will also face harassment from Chili and Kunhai.

Lu Yuan accepted two dogs, but he didn't just put them out to watch the door.

At critical times, it can also be released from the cage and run to bite the enemy.

After this attack on Nanzhao, it does not mean that the war between Chu and the other party is over.

After recovering Xichuan, the Chu army, which will enter the recuperation period next, may not take the initiative to take action against Nanzhao.

However, Kunhai and Chili, which are tired at home and urgently need a large amount of money and food, are still hungry and need a lot of food to satisfy their appetites.

And where does this food come from?

It is impossible for the state of Chu to give, and even collect tribute from these two two dogs.

In the end, only Dali and Nanzhao on the side can give it.

With a little guidance from Lu Yuan, these two vassal states can target Nanzhao and contain each other's recovery.

As for Dali, there are Su and Song to deal with, and there is no need to worry about Lu Yuan.

After conquering the Great Changhe Kingdom, Lu Yuan had already made proper arrangements for the remaining two Great Yi Kingdoms.

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On the eighth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of Shenwu, he rested in Yuzhong Mansion for five days and inspected the internal affairs of Xichuan County.

Lu Yuan finally began to dispatch troops and began to attack the Nanzhao army.

Outside the city of Yuzhongfu, the army camps, and the Chinese army has a big tent.

"Chu Wei, in this battle, you led the sailor division and transported the army to the rear of the Xichuan Army to help them land. I led the 20,000 sailors in my hand to block the Yangtze River for me, and I must not let any soldiers cross the river. ”

Lu Yuan looked at the many generals gathered in two rows below, and said to Chu Wei, the head of the water division and disciple at the front on the left.

"Your Ministers obey."

When Chu Wei heard the order, he immediately went out of the column and received the order arrow.

In this battle of Xichuan Raiding, the two naval divisions originally transferred will also participate.

Counting the 20,000 naval troops, as well as the 180,000 army troops gathered in Yuzhong Fucheng, the total number of soldiers and horses on land and water is 200,000, which is the total number of soldiers and horses in this battle.

With this naval force to intercept the Yangtze River, it is enough to form a solid defense line.

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How did the 300,000 army of the Zhou people be stopped in the north of the Dongting River by the Yue State Naval Division, and how will the Nanzhao Army without a naval division be stopped in the north of the Xichuan River today, they can only look at the Yangtze River and sigh.

Even if a small part of the Nanzhao army was lucky, they were lucky enough to cross the Yangtze River and escape back to the south of the Yangtze River.

Subsequently, in Jianchuan, which is adjacent to Jiangnan and Xichuan, there are also 60,000 soldiers and horses led by Huang Xuan, who will form the second line of defense to further block the Nanzhao deserters in Jiangbei.

With such layers of fortification, those Nanzhao troops in Xichuan want to escape back, except to follow the original route, risk a shortage of materials and a large number of casualties, and cross thousands of miles of uncrowded mountains again, there will be no more possibility.

The two lines of defense of the Yangtze River and Jianchuan will make any Nanzhao army who wants to flee south fall on this escape road.

"Han Shun."

After arranging the task of the water division, Lu Yuan looked at his other disciple, Lieutenant Xichuan and General Zuo Han Shun, and ordered: "You lead the 10,000 county soldiers of the headquarters, and 10,000 county soldiers, and you will give you another 20,000 forbidden troops, and you will lead these 40,000 people to board the ship with Chu Wei."

After arriving at the rear of Anyue and Panshi Erfu in Xichuan County by water, he immediately led the army to capture the local area.

Now the Nanzhao army is all in Nanchong, the front line of Panshi Erfu, the rear is empty, and there are not many troops.

After you occupy these two places, immediately build an interception line to block the way for the Southern Zhao army to flee west. ”

When the Nanzhao army came out of the mountains, the first place where it appeared was Anyue Mansion.

Lu Yuan sent Han Shun to blockade this place, further blocking the other party's escape to the south.

"Your Ministers obey."

Han Shun followed closely and took the arrow.

"Li Liang."

Lu Yuan looked at another disciple, General Li Liang, and continued to order: "Lone gives you a forbidden army, as well as the remaining 10,000 soldiers of the Xichuan Army, and another 50,000 militia regiments, a total of 80,000 soldiers and horses.

I want you to lead this army to break the enemy in front of Yuzhong Mansion and wipe out all the 30,000 Nanzhao troops on the front line of Panshi Mansion, leaving no one behind.

Can you do it? ”

At the junction of Yuzhong and Panshi, 30,000 Nanzhao troops were stationed, responsible for monitoring the Chu army in Yuzhong Prefecture.

It was also this group of soldiers and horses that had been intercepting the displaced people in Xichuan Kingdom and fleeing to Yuzhong Mansion.

The previous acts of brutally killing displaced people and provoking the Chu army in Yuzhong Prefecture were also done by this Southern Zhao army.

Lu Yuan hated these guys very much.

At this time, he ordered that he wanted to kill the other party and leave no one behind.

In the face of these murderous words, Li Liang was also solemn and said solemnly: "The minister obeys the order." ”

"Hmm."

Looking at this disciple, Lu Yuan nodded slightly, not doubting whether the other party would be able to complete his order.

Among the many disciples, except for Zhou Qing, Li Liang's ability is second only to Chu Wei, and he has always been entrusted with the task.

Previously, when attacking Dachangheguo, he led a partial army and successfully completed the task of capturing Nongdongguo, and later cooperated with Li Xiong to conquer the southern part of Kunhai.

In terms of military exploits, it ranks first among all generals.

The 80,000 soldiers and horses handed over to Li Liang this time were just to deal with a mere 30,000 Nanzhao troops, which was completely hand-to-hand, and there would be no accidents at all.

"Blue Zhaoyun."

Lu Yuan looked at his father-in-law again, and also gave an order: "Gu will also give you a forbidden army, and you will lead it to attack Chengdu Mansion and capture Jinguancheng, the capital of Xichuan State."

This place is the place where the Nanzhao army stores grain.

After taking this place, I feel that Nanzhao has food for 100,000 troops. Now there are only 3,000 defenders in Jinguan City, you may take it? ”

Lan Zhaoyun, as the head of a sect, was a ruthless person who had set off a rebellion before, and he naturally lacked all kinds of means and abilities.

Previously, as an army on the side, he attacked the Sichuan State and became a general of the Chu State.

Hearing the order, Lan Zhaoyun came out of the queue and said loudly: "The minister will go down to this city." ”

After completing the four-way arrangement, Lu Yuan got up, looked around at the remaining generals, and said sternly: "The rest of the people, commanded by Gu himself, led two forbidden armies, a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses, to attack Nanchong Mansion from the south.

Over there, the lord of Xichuan and a forbidden army were guarding the city of Nanchong, attracting 70,000 Nanzhao troops, as well as the prince of Nanzhao.

The generals followed me straight to Nanchong and cut off the back road of the main force of the Nanzhao Army.

This battle is going to meet the great prince of Nanzhao Kingdom and see if he is more powerful than the great witch sacrifice of the Chili clan! ”

The murderous and confident words instantly infected many generals present, so that they couldn't help but shout in unison: "Yes, I am willing to kill the enemy with the king!" ”

On the eighth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of Shenwu, the 180,000 Chu troops of Yuzhong Mansion were divided into five routes, advancing by land and water, and moving to conquer the Southern Zhao army.