Since 2,000 years ago, the Linhai family crossed to the south, built the capital Jinling, captured Jiangdong, and passed through this place.

Since the establishment of the county in Yuzhang, Yuzhang has been the land of fish and rice since ancient times.

The territory of Yuzhang is mountainous, only the four prefectures of Yuzhang, Pengli, Xunyang, Linchuan and so on in the north have a large area of plain basins.

Therefore, the five major water systems in Yuzhang, Ganshui, Fushui, Xinshui, Raoshui, and Xiushui, originate from the source and finally converge in the land of the four prefectures.

In the end, the water converged, forming the grand occasion of today's thousands of miles of Pengli Daze.

Benefiting from this thousand miles of Daze, the land around Pengli Lake is fertile, and 100,000 hectares of fertile land have been reclaimed, feeding 600,000 households in the surrounding area.

The rest of the provinces in Yuzhang are also due to the flow of the five major water systems, and more fertile fields are opened between the banks of the rivers and the valleys. On the top of the mountains, water is diverted to irrigate and terrace fields are cultivated.

These five water basins feed no less than 500,000 households.

Therefore, in the whole Yuzhang County, there are as many as one million households, more than 6 million mouths, the prosperity of the household registration, the abundance of fish and rice, and the prosperity of boats and boats, which can be said to be the best in Jiangdong and the first of the counties.

So wait for Lu Yuan to lead the army to defeat Bai Yi'an and kill this Marquis of Wu'an.

He was not in a hurry to continue to supervise the army to the east, and waved a large army to conquer the remaining two counties of Linhai and Guangling in Ningguo.

Instead, after leading the troops into Nanchang, the county city of Yuzhang, he led 50,000 soldiers and horses to sit in this important place.

Then, he divided his troops and sent generals to conquer the rest of the prefectures and counties in Yuzhang.

Now there are ten prefectures in Yuzhang County, most of Yuzhang Mansion has been captured, and only some remote counties are still resisting.

However, when the news of the defeat of the Ning army spreads, I believe that these small counties will definitely look at the wind and surrender, and they will no longer dare to resist the Great Chu Heavenly Army.

However, these remote and small counties are easy to fight, but the rest of the provinces, local prefectures and counties are completely armed, and they all have 2,000 standing troops.

With the prosperity of Yuzhang's household registration, it is not difficult to temporarily recruit people to defend the city.

There are also local wealthy families, families, and monks to help each other.

The rest of the provinces, I am afraid that in an instant, can gather 10,000 soldiers to resist the Chu soldiers.

At that time, according to 10,000 soldiers to defend the fortified city, even if the Chu army can conquer it. However, the cities were attacked one after another, not only were there many casualties, but the delay was not known for how long.

The time spent in the receiving place has taken a long time, and when Ning Guo recovers his breath and sends troops to support the prefectures and counties that are still resisting in various places, it will inevitably become an extremely tragic tug-of-war.

At that time, the soldiers will be together, the place will be eroded, and Yuzhang County, which was originally prosperous and rich, is afraid that it will also become a ruin.

This scene is naturally unacceptable to Lu Yuan, who has already controlled the Yuzhang County Mansion and regards this county as his own.

Therefore, taking advantage of the new defeat of the Ning army, the people of the county governments in Yuzhang are panicked, and they are not yet ready, it is necessary to select the generals and send the army to attack.

In addition to Yuzhang Mansion, Luling Mansion, the southernmost part of Yuzhang County, was also captured by Chu at this time.

Therefore, there are still eight mansions left in Yuzhang, and they must be divided into troops to occupy them.

It just so happened that after Lu Yuan led the troops to defeat Bai Yi'an, news came from Baling that after Chu Wei, Li Liang and Zhuang Hua, who stayed in the rear, finally broke through the innate barrier and became the second master of Chu after more than a year of retreat and penance.

In the middle of the month, the Chu State added two more innate masters, and the high-end combat power was further enriched.

And Li Liang and Zhuang Hua broke through the innate level, so Han Shun and Zhang You, who were at the same progress as him, thought that the speed was not much different.

Maybe in a few days, good news from Xichuan and Hanzhong will come.

And with the breakthrough of these disciples to the innate nature, the originally empty domestic rear can be regarded as stable, and there is no need to worry about local unrest.

So Lu Yuan was happy, and Shilling Zuo Xiang Sun Siwen returned to China and sat in Baling to stabilize the inside and outside of the court.

Then Li Liang and Zhuang Hua were transferred to the front line, and they were ordered to lead all the way to attack Pengli, Xunyang, Linchuan, and Raoyang Prefectures in the north-central part of Yuzhang County, together with Huang Xuan and Hanhua in Nanchang City.

He also ordered the two soldiers and horses of Lingnu and Chu Wei in Hengyang and Luyang, as well as Li Xiong and Hanliang who captured Luling Mansion, to lead troops and horses to attack Yichun, Nankang, Ji'an, and Fuchuan in the south of Yuzhang County.

In this way, the remaining eight prefectures in Yuzhang County all have a congenital grandmaster and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack.

With such strong strength, even if the eight prefectures controlled by the Yuzhang Ning army were garrisoned by 10,000 soldiers and horses, it was difficult to resist the Chu army.

The state of Chu can also pacify the eight prefectures as quickly as possible, completely control the entire Yuzhang, and turn this land of fish and rice into its own use according to the six million people of this county.

The soldiers and horses of the Eighth Route were dispatched, and for a while, the banners of the Chu army could be seen in all the prefectures and counties of Yuzhang.

And led by eight innate grandmasters, wherever the Chu army passed, it was naturally unbreakable.

After Li Dao and Bai Yi'an were killed in battle, Shenqiu fled back to Jinling along the Yangtze River waterway.

In the entire territory of Yuzhang, the only remaining innate grandmasters in Ning Guo were the two innate grandmasters who fled back to China after the defeat of Luyang and Hengyang.

But these two innate grandmasters had already suffered a new defeat, and they were beaten by the Chu army and ran in embarrassment, and the army was lost, and they were only spared, which can be described as a lost dog.

Such a person, now facing the huge offensive of the Chu army in eight directions and echoing each other, how dare he stay in Yuzhang to resist?

Therefore, after hearing the news of the Chu army's troops, the two of them were immediately shocked, and they didn't dare to stay for half a day under the thunderous blows of the eight innate grandmasters and hundreds of thousands of Chu troops.

Yuzhang has become a dangerous place, stay here, only die.

Therefore, after hearing the news, the two abandoned the city directly before the Chu army arrived, and disappeared.

Without the innate obstruction, some of the remaining Ningguo soldiers and horses in Yuzhang will not be led by the backbone, so they will naturally not become a climate.

Under the attack of the Chu army's eight-way soldiers and horses, it was only in the middle of October, and it was only at the end of April that it was completely pacified.

and the entire Yuzhang County, because of the Chu army's attacks everywhere this month, as well as the overwhelming and irresistible sharp military might, were completely frightened.

During this period, under Lu Yuan's instructions, those powerful families in the local area, because of helping the Ning army and resisting the Chu soldiers, were destroyed and destroyed, implicating countless clans.

Taking advantage of this, the state of Chu not only counted a large number of hidden households, but also enriched the local household registration.

He also obtained a large amount of money and grain from the land by raiding his family and exterminating the clan, and the treasury of the country, which had been consumed a lot by the war, was quickly filled.

And under this catastrophe, the remaining remnants of the wealthy families also changed their color when they heard this, and they no longer dared to have the slightest dissent, and they were completely obedient.

Under the thunder sweep, with the help of strong soldiers and horses, the state of Chu can be regarded as in Yuzhang County, and has initially gained a firm foothold.

At the same time, Sun Siwen, the left minister who had returned to China, also began to coordinate the country, and dispatched capable officials from the Chu court and local governments to Yuzhang in batches to take over the captured prefectures and counties captured by Chu County.

However, although Sun Siwen has been trying his best to transfer officials, the shortage of officials in Yuzhang is still very large.

Since its launch in September last year, the state of Chu has successively conquered the state of Su and the state of the South China Sea, and obtained the land of the three counties and twenty-four prefectures of Lingnan, and it is necessary to send officials to take office.

Now it has taken two counties of Jiangdong, Yuzhang and Jian'an, and the land of these two counties and eighteen prefectures is a large number of official gaps.

In less than a year, the state of Chu opened up five counties and forty-two prefectures, and its territory nearly doubled.

Just to fill these five counties and forty-two prefectures, the state of Chu needs no less than six thousand officials, large and small, and it is also necessary to almost double the original number of officials in the state of Chu.

This huge gap in officials is not something that can be replenished casually by holding a few enkes in the Chu State.

In order to ensure the stability of the operation of the grassroots level, Lu Yuan even had to keep the original officials of the Three Kingdoms directly after the assessment, filling nearly half of the gap.

However, if you do this, the consequences will be great.

Originally, the officials of various countries were deeply favored by their homeland, and it is difficult to say whether they had resentment in their hearts for the Chu State that attacked and destroyed their country.

In particular, the officials of Yuzhang and Jian'an counties are basically from proud families, and they naturally don't have a good impression of Chu State, which has just cleaned the wealthy families of the two counties.

The Ning Kingdom has not been destroyed, and it is still in the eastern half of the Jiangdong, and its strength still exists.

For the officials of these two counties, the Chu State has the hatred of destroying the family and destroying the clan, and there is the old lord by the side to lure them, and the loyalty is really worrying.

Lu Yuan didn't have much to do about it, so he could only try his best to transfer the original officials of Ningguo from Jian'an and Yuzhang counties, and send them to Lingnan, Southwest, Xichuan and other places far away from Ningguo.

Then officials were then transferred from these places to fill the vacancies in the two counties and eliminate hidden dangers as much as possible.

Under such means, the newly occupied five counties were finally settled, and the state of Chu established a foundation in the local area, and the regime was no longer rootless.

In the future, it only needs to be maintained for a few years, and when the hearts of the people are attached, Jiangdong Lingnan will be completely Chu Tuye.

There is a large army guarding the four directions, calming the riots inside, and resisting the enemy captives outside.

The country also selected strong officials and quickly stabilized local order.

With the efforts of these capable generals, Yu Zhang quickly settled down, and Lu Yuan didn't need to bother with it.

Therefore, after seeing that the situation stabilized, he also turned his attention to other things.

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Nanchang City, in the temporary residence of the King of Chu.

Since entering the city, in order to soothe people's hearts, Lu Yuan has continuously summoned the local scholars and famous people in Yuzhang County, and achieved the goal of controlling Yuzhang by subduing these locals.

And at this time, the Chu army conquered all parts of Yuzhang, and all those who did not accept the rebellion in the local area accepted the discussion and calmed down.

and though they slaughtered a great many, there were many great tribes in the land, and they perished because of it.

But it is also because of this, by killing to deter people's hearts and make the people of Yuzhang County afraid.

Lu Yuan was in Nanchang City again, recruiting talents, and appeasing the people with benevolence, and the effect was immediately remarkable.

For a time, in Yuzhang County, all those who wanted to survive, those who wanted to fight for the future, and those who abandoned the darkness and turned to the light came to Nanchang.

Even in the two counties of Linhai and Guangling, there are many people who see that the general trend of the Ning State has gone, and it has become inevitable for the Chu State to unify the south of the Yangtze River.

So there are also many scholars from the two counties, who come thousands of miles to vote.

Among these people, naturally those children of the Linhai family are indispensable, Lu Yuan laughed at this, and after the assessment, he directly arranged official errands and arranged them to Lingnan, Southwest, Xichuan and other places to fill the official gap.

However, these contributors can't take over mediocrity, and even if they have some talents, they are just ordinary statecraft, and they are nothing in today's world.

Therefore, in addition to the beginning, Lu Yuan personally met with several groups of important people in order to show his attention.

Later, as the number of people grew, it was unbearable, so the matter was delegated, and the officials and Honglu Temple sent relevant officials to receive and assess on their own.

He specialized in military affairs and adjusted and rectified the defense of Jiangdong Lingnan.

Now that the territory of Chu has doubled, and the population has more than doubled, it can be said that he has become a big fat man in one bite, and he has eaten the kind that has survived.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of officials in various places, and the state of Chu even has to use a large number of old officials from other countries with hidden dangers, which is a manifestation of indigestion.

Therefore, if nothing else, it is not suitable for the next step of expansion until there are enough qualified officials to digest the existing achievements and enough to fill the territory that will be conquered in the future.

Therefore, after defeating the two counties of Yuzhang and Jian'an, Lu Yuan eliminated the soldiers, temporarily suspended the war, and began to shift from offense to defense, focusing on digesting the results of the battle and accumulating strength.

Since the offensive has turned into defense and begun to recuperate, it is natural to take advantage of this time to improve the military defense of Jiangdong Lingnan and expand and adjust the troops and horses of various domestic units.

Since the beginning of the war, the state of Chu has destroyed the Su State and the South China Sea State, and broke through the Jiangdong State, defeating the annihilated army, nearly a million people.

This army of nearly one million, the Chu army is naturally impossible, and they are all killed.

That's unrealistic, cruel and wasteful.

In fact, most of the defeated enemy forces were captured.

In the first battle of the Soviet Union, the Chu army first broke through its Tonghai County and captured more than 10,000 defenders of the county.

Later, he broke the combined forces of the Soviet Union and the Song Dynasty and captured more than 50,000 people.

Attack Yulin County and capture 10,000 local soldiers and horses.

After breaking through the capital of Yulin, more than 20,000 people were captured.

Only one Su State was destroyed, and the Chu State captured almost 100,000 Su and Song soldiers and horses.

Attacked the South China Sea, attacked the local government of Nanhai County, and captured more than 10,000 people.

Then 250,000 soldiers and horses from Ningbo and Nanhai fought in the Nanhai City, and under the repeated attacks, they captured 160,000 soldiers and horses of the two countries after the Nanhai City was captured.

Even in the past two months, the sailors of the South China Sea, who originally went to the four seas to do business, also came to take refuge after hearing that their hometown was occupied by the Chu State.

In Nanhai County, the state of Chu incorporated more than 20,000 sailors.

In this way, the destruction of the South China Sea State, the Chu State collected and surrendered 200,000 soldiers and horses.

Later, in the battle with the Ning army in Dongting, Jiangxia, Changsha, Hengyang, and Luyang battlefields, the Chu army successively broke the Ning army's 400,000 people on land and water, including more than 100,000 beheaded and 230,000 captured.

The Ning army only had more than 30,000 sailors, and because it was in the direction of Xiakou in Xiangyang, Jiangbei, and was not in the encirclement, it escaped and survived.

Later, Lu Yuan attacked Yuzhang and captured more than 20,000 local county, government and county soldiers.

Qingyunzi attacked Jian'an and captured more than 10,000 local soldiers and horses.

In the above dozens of battles, large and small, the Chu State captured as many as 560,000 soldiers and horses from the four countries from five battlefields.

Among these soldiers and horses, even if the people who were forcibly recruited by the South China Sea State are excluded, there are 500,000 standing soldiers and horses left.

Before the war of Chu, the total number of soldiers and horses in the country was only 700,000.

At this time, after a series of major battles, the Chu army lost more than 100,000 soldiers, and only more than 500,000 soldiers and horses remained, which was comparable to the scale of these prisoners.

Because of this, the collection and digestion of these prisoners has become a matter that the Chu army must deal with as soon as possible.

Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of captives who have mastered the art of killing will gather, and even if a large army is sent to guard them, it will be difficult to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

After a long time, it is easy to riot and rebel.

Therefore, after convening his confidants and important ministers to discuss, Lu Yuan issued an edict to eliminate 100,000 old and weak from 500,000 captives, which was used to supplement the damaged county soldiers of the Dongting Prefectures, and to form the county soldiers of the newly occupied counties to improve local security.

Then 50,000 soldiers and horses were selected and five counties were set up.

Another 80,000 people were selected to supplement the attrition of the forbidden army.

Another 40,000 sailors were captured and added to the Chu army's sailors, bringing the size of the sailors to 80,000.

The remaining 23 captives were mixed and dispersed with the existing forbidden army, and ten new forbidden armies were set up to expand the number of forbidden troops.

At the same time, 30,000 elites were selected from the forbidden army to supplement the Jinwuwei who guarded the imperial city of the national capital, and among the palace guards, the scale of the ten or two armies officially reached 20,000.

After such digestion and absorption, the standing soldiers and horses of the Chu State will officially exceed one million.

Among them, the local government and county soldiers, 196,000 people.

Local soldiers, 110,000 people.

Sailors, 80,000 people.

Jin Wuwei, the palace guards, 20,000 each.

Thirty-five forbidden armies, 700,000 men.

The five divisions of soldiers and horses combined, a total of 1,126,000 men.

All of the above are standing soldiers and horses, not cannon fodder of the nature of the people.

According to this, the state of Chu is full of soldiers, which can be among the top five in the world, and it is proud of the others.

In the future, if the army is used again, there is no need to mobilize the people, and it is easy to dispatch an army of five or six hundred thousand, which will terrify a state and have unlimited power.

In this way, it is enough to be called the overlord of the world.

With such expectations, Lu Yuan issued various edicts one after another in Nanchang City, constantly approached the generals of various armies, and made every effort to promote the restructuring and expansion of the Chu army.

For a while, it can be said that he was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground.

And in this busy, outside the city of Nanchang, two groups of guests, one north and one south, arrived in the city one after another, and sent a request to see the king of Chu.

After waiting for the people below to report and present the post, Lu Yuan, who was busy, took the time to see the identity and name on the post, and couldn't help but show surprise, and then he couldn't stop smiling on his face.

Because on the two prayer posts, about the identity signature, it is written:

The head of the Six Yang faction, Yin Huixuan.

Purple Cloud Dao Master, Xuan Chengzi.

In the territory of Yuzhang, the only two innate forces outside the control of Chu State, with the defeat of Ning State by Chu State, showed the trend of unifying Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and completely controlled Yuzhang County.

Finally put down the shelf that was held.

Without waiting for Chu Guo to take the initiative to contact, he came to the door first and recommended himself.

How can Lu Yuan not be happy about such a good thing that the people want and the general trend returns?

"Yin Huixuan, the head of the Liuyang faction, will enter the mansion to meet him."

Lu Yuan put down the post, looked at the attendant beside him, and ordered: "As for the Purple Cloud Dao Master, first arrange a separate house in the post house in the city, and let the officials of Honglu Temple properly entertain this person." ”

Strictly speaking, now Ziyun Dao and Chu are actually hostile.

The protector generals in the other sect are still in Ningguo to help the Chu army as enemies!

On the contrary, it is the Liuyang faction, which has been adhering to the principles of the rivers and lakes in recent years, never interfering in the world, and honestly serving its own people in the rivers and lakes.

Therefore, for the two people who asked to be seen, Lu Yuan naturally planned to meet Yin Huixuan first.

After meeting this person, I will decide my attitude towards Ziyun Dao.