A day later, the results of the negotiations between the courtiers and the people of the snowy fields came out quickly.

In the northern Yongzhou and snow fields, winter has now begun, and the wind and snow have begun to fall.

And the war between the Fan people and the Zhou people has also reached the most intense time.

If these people on the snowy fields want to die less this winter, they have to take advantage of the winter to grab more supplies and food from those Zhou people.

Therefore, in spring and autumn, it is often the time when the war between the Fan people and the Zhou people is the most intense.

At this time, in the two counties of Hexi and Longxi, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Fan people were fighting with the Zhou people, and they were in a disadvantage, and it was the time when external assistance was urgently needed.

At this time, if Lu Yuan can send troops, then when the Chu soldiers come to Hanzhong County, even if they don't do anything later, it will be enough to arouse the jealousy of the Zhou people.

With such a strong enemy peeping on the side, even if the Zhou people were unwilling, they had to mobilize heavy troops and deploy to the periphery of Hanzhong County to prevent the Chu State from going north.

And so it goes.

In the two counties of Hehe and Long, the pressure of the Tibetan people to loot the army in autumn can naturally be alleviated a lot.

This autumn, I can't say that I will be able to grab more food and materials to go back, and by then, there will be more than 100,000 fewer deaths in the tribe.

With this premise in mind, negotiations between the two sides will naturally be rapid.

Some of the terms that Lu Yuan strongly demanded, such as the 100 million taels of silver that the people of Nabo bought the troops sent by the Chu State, after negotiations, several envoys of the Fan people agreed that they could be teleported back to the snow field now, so that they could be sent over immediately.

When these Tibetan envoys came, they brought with them the Transmission Wind Eagle domesticated on the snow field, which was a great beast domesticated by the secret art of the Mo Sect, and according to legend, it was degenerated from the degeneration of the god's blood, with a trace of the blood of the alien species.

The eagle can fly 3,000 miles a day, faster than the world's first-class BMW.

With this strange beast here, even if the snow field is thousands of miles away, it can send the news back within three days.

When the news is received over there, the silver will be transported over quickly, and maybe the first batch of silver will be delivered to Hegu County in time for the transaction between Zhou and Chu on October 3, that is, before the date when Lu Yuan moves his troops.

After all, in order to impress the Chu State, those Snow Plains Fan people had already scraped together the silver, and the money was all ready-made.

They also wanted the Chu State to send troops as soon as possible, so they sent the silver to the area close to Hegu County early and hid it in advance.

Now, at the slightest order, transportation can begin at any time.

For this, Lu Yuan, who had been assured by the envoy, was naturally quite satisfied.

However, compared to the silver that was about to be in his pocket, Lu Yuan was more interested in those wind eagles domesticated by the Tibetan people.

Nowadays, as the territory of Chu is getting bigger and bigger, the country is in all directions, east and west, north and south, and the distance is three or four thousand miles away.

From Baling, the capital of the country, to the county seat of Hegu, it is 3,700 miles away, and even if you take a fast boat and horse, it will take five days to arrive at the earliest.

Later, if the whole Yangzhou is unified, then it is seven or eight thousand miles away from Linhai County, the easternmost county of Yangzhou, to the westernmost Hegu County.

For such a long distance, the messenger is 800 miles expedited, and it takes more than ten days to go to it.

And if Chu continues to expand to the north after unifying Yangzhou, then the land area will be larger, and the distance between the four sides will be even farther.

At that time, it will be possible for the northernmost to the southernmost, the easternmost to the westernmost of the country's borders, and it will take a month, or even more than two or three months, to spread the news.

As everyone knows.

Communication, roads, and timely communication up and down are the key factors that test an empire's control over the locality.

Lu Yuan's Chu State at this time, although there is no need for this for the time being.

But after he unified Yangzhou, nearly 10,000 miles from east to west, such a wide area has affected the control of the local government of Chu to some extent.

Although he and the various clones have a divine connection with each other, even if they are thousands of miles away, they can sense each other, and can ignore the communication between the central and local governments to a certain extent.

But even so, he currently has two clones, and he can only cover two counties at most.

With only two counties, it doesn't help at all.

You must know that there are five counties in the state of Chu, and they will soon become six counties.

Even if the cooperation with the Fan people goes smoothly later, the territory of the Chu State will soon become seven, eight, and nine counties.

By then, the area had expanded so much, and Lu Yuan naturally needed more effective means to achieve rapid communication between the central and local governments.

The post station system currently maintained, although it is good, can deliver news for 800 miles a day and a night.

But in this world of great contention, in this world with innate grandmasters and immortal masters, there are too many dangers, and there are too many emergencies.

The state of Chu needed better means of communication and better communication technology to maintain local rule.

Therefore, after learning of the existence of this strange beast wind eagle, Lu Yuan specially summoned the envoy of the Great Mo Sect and asked if the other party could sell some strange beast wind eagle to the Chu State.

For the king of Chu, who cooperated smoothly and was about to marry a spirit girl and become his own god and aunt, this envoy would certainly not hide his stinginess.

It's just that the alien beast Wind Eagle has a different bloodline, which is difficult to domesticate, and it usually even has to feed the Divine Blood Spirit Pill to help it deepen its bloodline before it can grow.

If you want to domesticate an adult alien beast Wind Eagle, from birth, you have to spend at least ten Divine Blood Spirit Pills.

With the trend of the spiritual energy in the current world gradually drying up and the god-blood xenomorphs gradually dying of old age and degeneration, the Great Mo Sect does not have many god-blood elixirs to feed these exotic beasts and wind eagles.

Now in the entire sect, there are only thirty-three wind eagles left, of which ten have been distributed to the tribes on the snow field, except for some underage eagles, as well as their own use, the Great Mo Sect can only send ten wind eagles to Lu Yuan at most.

Moreover, after sending the Wind Eagle, the five hundred pills of the Divine Pill that were originally promised to Lu Yuan would be deducted by the Great Mo Sect.

Because they have to retrain ten wind eagles, these hundred pills of divine pills are the growth food to feed the wind eagles.

Lu Yuan naturally agreed to this request.

A hundred pills of divine blood elixir.

This elixir, when he got it in his hands, he cultivated a few first-class masters at most, which was not of much use to the current Chu State.

The state of Chu now only lacks innate grandmasters, not first-class masters.

One hundred spirit pills are far from enough to cultivate an innate grandmaster, but ten wind eagles, if used well, are enough to solve the communication problem between the Chu State and the locality.

The value that can be played in this is far greater than that of a first-class master.

After all, the Wind Eagle can travel 3,000 miles a day. But a first-class master, he can only travel a thousand miles a day when he is tired.

The three-fold speed difference in communication is enough to erase the value of a first-class master.

At the very least, Lu Yuan felt that the value of ten wind eagles was much higher than that of ten first-class masters.

Because the former has special sources and rare bloodlines, the number is destined to be limited.

And the latter, even if he doesn't have the Divine Blood Elixir, a talented martial artist, coupled with good exercises, can boil up a first-class master for decades.

Can the value of what is rare and cannot be mass-produced be the same as that that can be mass-produced?

Following 100 million taels of silver, the matter of the alien beast wind eagle was decided.

The Da Mo Sect Spirit Girl in the back, as well as the four hundred dowry pills of that Spirit Girl, will only be sent over after Lu Yuan sends troops.

In a nutshell.

It was to ask Lu Yuan to make a statement first, send troops to fight Zhou Guo, and give a certificate of surrender.

Only then will people marry a spirit girl and give a dowry.

This is very reasonable, and Lu Yuan has no opinion.

After all, everyone is willing to give 100 million taels of silver first, what sincerity do you want the other party to give?

On the contrary, it is time for him to show his sincerity.

This sincerity, Lu Yuan also quickly gave.

After reaching a preliminary intention of cooperation, on September 30, Lu Yuan summoned his ministers and canonized Qingyunzi as a real person to protect the country in public, ranking among the first ranks.

Then, on the same day, he ordered this doppelganger to go north overnight and rush to Xicheng Mansion in Xiangyang County to take over the forbidden army and sailors who had arrived there.

On the side of Xicheng Mansion, the State of Chu has secretly gathered 60,000 forbidden troops, 10,000 county soldiers, and 20,000 sailors, totaling 90,000 soldiers and horses.

By the third day of the October month, Qingyunzi will lead this 90,000 people on land and water to launch a surprise attack on the Zhou State and attack Hanzhong County.

At the same time, on the side of Xichuan County, there are also 40,000 forbidden troops and 10,000 county soldiers, a total of 50,000 people on standby at Jianmen Pass.

The head of the two counties of Hegu and Xichuan appointed by Lu Yuan, the real person who protects the country, and the doppelganger Huang Xuan, also quietly rushed to Jianmen Pass a few days ago.

As soon as the time comes, he will attack Hanzhong County from the south, as a partial division, to respond to Qingyunzi.

Yes.

This time to attack Hanzhong County, Lu Yuan did not intend to personally lead the troops, but was ready to hand over the battle to his two doppelgangers.

Originally, the clone Qingyunzi who had just been trained, Lu Yuan was going to be sent to Qianzhong County.

At the same time, for Hanzhong County, he was not prepared to attack immediately.

But the Zhou State sent envoys to buy grain, Ji Hui and Cui Changqing, the two important ministers of the Chu State, died of illness, and the people of the Snow Plains sent people to ask for an alliance......

This series of huge changes brought many opportunities, but also undoubtedly disrupted Lu Yuan's arrangement.

In order to carry out the plan of concealing the sky and crossing the sea, confusing the Zhou people, and at the same time showing weakness to the outside world, Qingyunzi, who was originally going to be exposed, had to hide in the snow.

And after Ji Hui died, Sun Siwen needed to rein in the court and couldn't get out.

Faced with Qianzhong County, which showed signs of turmoil and instability, Lu Yuan also had to send Queen Lan Cai'er to inspect the southwest of Zhenfu and stabilize the hearts of the local people.

Without this queen in the middle of the court, relying on Sun Siwen's strength, it is impossible to stabilize the court situation and deter the Quartet.

There is a king and a queen of the Chu State, and one must be left in the national capital, so as to stabilize the hearts of the people.

So when the queen is gone, Lu Yuan, the king, can naturally only stay.

And seriously.

Without him, the founding monarch, it would be difficult to contain the Ning Kingdom, which had skyrocketed in strength after recuperation in the east, and was beginning to be a little ready to move.

A Lu Yuan, with the deterrence brought by himself alone, in the eyes of the world, is no less than four or five innate grandmasters.

After all, the record of the congenital four people is a lesson of blood and tears given by the innate grandmasters with their lives.

Coupled with Lu Yuan's prestige that he has not tasted defeat for decades, with him leading the troops, the state of Chu is no less than adding 200,000 heroes.

There is only one king of Chu, as long as he sits in Baling, then the state of Chu is equivalent to having two or three more innate and hundreds of thousands of troops out of thin air.

As long as he is there, even if the Ning people are restless, they will never send troops to the Chu State.

Of course.

Although he was very confident in his prestige, Lu Yuan didn't really think that he could deter Jiangdong by himself alone, and he could rest easy.

After making the decision to sit in Baling and coordinate the rear.

After confirming the alliance with the Snow Plains, he issued an edict to carry out a new round of military expansion in the country.

Lu Yuan was ready to recruit another 100,000 people in the country and train five new forbidden armies.

Now the standing troops and horses of the various ministries of the Chu State are only 490,000, and in this world of great contention, they have just met the basic defense needs.

It is a situation where there is more than enough internal defense and insufficient progress.

Just like this expedition to Hanzhong, in addition to the local garrisons in Xichuan and Xiangyang counties, the central side of Chu could only send 60,000 soldiers and horses to participate in the war, including 20,000 sailors.

This strength naturally made Lu Yuan feel dissatisfied.

But in the previous time, the state of Chu was limited to financial problems and could not feed too many large troops.

Even if the troops are insufficient, there is nothing to be done.

But now that there are 100 million taels of silver supported by the Xueyuan people, the above military expenditure is naturally not a problem.

Not to mention recruiting 100,000 recruits, it is to recruit 500,000, and the state of Chu can afford to raise it.

However, although it was said that he could feed 500,000 recruits, Lu Yuan was not really mad, and really recruited 500,000 people directly.

Now the ratio of soldiers to civilians in Chu is already sixteen to one.

That is, among the sixteen people in the Chu State, including men, women, and children, there is one person who is a soldier.

If Lu Yuan really recruits another 500,000 people, then the size of the army will directly exceed one million, with the population of eight million in Chu State, it is equivalent to one out of eight, and every household has someone to serve as a soldier.

How crazy it is.

If you really do that, not only will the quality of the recruited soldiers be uneven, but you will also mix a large number of old and weak.

It will also seriously affect the local production of Chu State, resulting in not enough people to farm, a large-scale reduction in grain production, labor in the city and commerce in various places will also be exhausted and withered, and tax revenue will be greatly reduced.

Of course, Lu Yuan would not do this kind of thing.

So this is conscription, and he is only going to recruit 100,000 people, and maintain the ratio of soldiers to people to the extent of thirteen to one, that is, two or three families to raise a standing soldier.

In this way, it can not only ensure the quality of the soldiers, but also have a controllable impact on the local area, which will not affect the production and taxation, and the national strength of the Chu State will not be lost much.

At the same time, 100,000 soldiers can almost meet the needs of the Chu State.

At least with these 100,000 people, plus the original 100,000 forbidden troops, 30,000 county soldiers, 5,000 Jin Wuwei and 5,000 palace guards, Dongting County has 240,000 standing soldiers and horses.

With so many armies here, counting the two innate grandmasters Lu Yuan and Sun Shiwen, if they don't take the initiative to attack, even if Ning Guo comes to attack, don't think about getting the slightest advantage.

Just right.

Jiangdong Ningguo is recruiting 150,000 new soldiers, and intends to expand the scale of domestic soldiers and horses to 800,000.

Lu Yuan has now also recruited 100,000 troops, expanding the number of soldiers and horses to 600,000.

If there is still a need to expand the army in the future, when Hanzhong County is conquered and more than one million people are obtained, after there is a new source of soldiers, tens of thousands of people can be recruited from there.

After marrying the spirit girl of the Great Mo Sect, the number of innate grandmasters of the Chu State was further expanded, and they could go to the South China Sea Kingdom and the Su Kingdom again.

When Lingnan is laid, some more soldiers and horses can be recruited.

After rolling like a snowball a few times, the State of Chu will be able to expand its soldiers and horses to 800,000 without affecting domestic production, just like the State of Ning.

For every step of future development, Lu Yuan already had a clear plan in his heart, and at this time, it was just a step-by-step plan.

However, after shouldering the two important tasks of sitting in the rear and expanding the troops and horses, Lu Yuan naturally had no other spare energy to take care of other things.

So whether he is reluctant or not, he can't interfere in the battle of Hanzhong at all, so he can only hand it over to Huang Xuan and Qingyunzi.

Fortunately, these two people were his doppelgangers, and let them lead the troops to fight, and Lu Yuan had nothing to worry about.

Even if he wants, he can directly manipulate this battle thousands of miles away through divine thought contact, and give indirect command.

It's just that there's not much of a need.

Huang Xuan and Qing Yunzi have inherited some of Lu Yuan's memories and abilities, and they have extraordinary strength in terms of personal force and ability to command troops, and they can complete the task well without him being the main body interfering too much.

In the previous Jianchuan State conquest in the Southwest War, Huang Xuan had already proved this.

This doppelganger led tens of thousands of troops, and it didn't take much effort to break through the Jianchuan Kingdom, and led the troops to plunder part of the territory directly under Nanzhao, which can be described as quite outstanding.

With this example, in this battle of Hanzhong, the Chu State made a lot of preparations, and when the Zhou people were not the slightest bit prepared, Lu Yuan naturally had nothing to worry about.

"And there is also a benefit to letting Qingyunzi do it this time.

Since this doppelganger wants to deter the southwest in the future, he has no merit at all, but no one will be convinced. ”

In Baling City, it was the third day of October at this time, and after Lu Yuan had dealt with some trivial matters of conscription, his eyes couldn't help but look at the north in the distance, and his eyes seemed to be able to see the battlefield in Hanzhong thousands of miles away.

Previously, Huang Xuan's ability to deter the southwest relied on the record of breaking the Sword and Sichuan Kingdom, as well as his personal strength that he showed several times.

As Huang Xuan's successor, Qingyunzi naturally also needs credit and achievements to deter the hearts of the southwest.

And this time, he led the troops to seize Hanzhong County, and if it went well, Dongfang Wuyun, the general of the Nanzhu State who killed the Zhou people, used the innate record of one county and one innate to swear to the world Qingyunzi's Weining.

I believe that with these two things, when this doppelganger real person arrives in the southwest, it will be enough to deter the rebellious Yi people there, as well as those restless feudal states.

Meanwhile.

On the border of Xiangyang and Hanzhong counties, two thousand miles away from Baling, more than 10,000 Zhou soldiers with more than 100,000 recruited Hanzhong people were pushing carts and small carts at this time, and they were looking forward to the direction of the lower reaches of the Han River on the wharf.

And in their gaze.

Ships under the banner of "Chu" and "grain" broke through the fog on the river at this time in the early morning sun.

Against the backdrop of frosty grass and trees on both sides, it quickly drove towards the pier.

It's just that on the ships and ships, there is not the food that the Zhou people are looking forward to, but they are ready one by one, waiting for the ships to dock and kill the elite Chu soldiers who come down.

At the front of the fleet, a figure in a green robe, with his hands behind his back at this time, stood with an extraordinary bearing.

It's Qingyunzi.

By this time, he had taken over the fleet, and had taken over the tens of thousands of forbidden troops carried on the fleet.

With such a strong army at his back, he looked at the unprepared Zhou soldiers in front of him, and looked at the Zhou generals who were under the banner and wanted to come up to contact.

A cold smile appeared on Qing Yunzi's face: "Order, bow and crossbow ready, shoot!" ”

After approaching a hundred zhang distance, with an order, clusters of dark clouds flew up, and the terrifying man-eating beast tore through its disguise.