After completing his cultivation, Lu Yuan got up and walked out of the palace and wandered around Jinfeng Mountain.

Jinfeng Mountain is one of the royal gardens he has built in recent years.

Over the years, with the unification of Yangzhou and the tranquility of life, the state of Chu quickly became prosperous and wealthy.

Not only a large number of people began to converge towards the imperial capital Baling, which made the area of Baling City expand dramatically, increasing more than tenfold in more than ten years, and becoming a giant city of hundreds of miles around the city.

Even Lu Yuan's imperial city has expanded a lot outside Baling City, and many scenic places have been confined to royal gardens for their own enjoyment.

This Jinfeng Mountain is such a place.

As a royal garden, the view of Jinfeng Mountain is naturally superb.

Lu Yuan walked around for a while, looking at the lush nature, and his mood suddenly opened up a lot.

After swimming around, I came to a waterfall on the mountainside, and before I could get closer, I saw two young figures leaning towards the steaming place in front of me.

"I've seen my father."

The two approached and saluted Lu Yuan.

"It's He'er and Hao'er."

Lu Yuan looked at the two young people in front of him, and couldn't help but smile on his face, this was his eldest son Lu He and second son Lu Hao, so he asked, "Your two brothers, are you practicing here?" ”

The two brothers, Lu He and Lu Hao, have inherited the good genes of Lu Yuan and their mother, and as they have grown up over the years, they have become a young and handsome nobleman, I don't know how many girls in the capital have charmed, and they are their intended people.

Hearing his father's inquiry, Lu He, who was the elder brother, nodded: "Back to my father's emperor, Erchen and Brother Hao are indeed practicing martial arts. We have only been breaking through the innate for a few years, and we want to practice more martial arts.

Therefore, I came to this purple smoke waterfall, wanting to use the characteristics of water and fire to temper our red yang body. ”

Five or six years ago, the two brothers, Lu He and Lu Hao, after more than ten years of accumulation, finally broke through the innate realm one after another and became martial arts masters.

Like Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen, they all practiced the "Chiyang Divine Skill" that Lu Yuan had learned and created all the way, and the final condensed martial arts outer body was naturally the Chiyang Divine Fire that had been polished by Lu Yuan and had been perfected.

The trick of cultivating the Chiyang Divine Fire is to use the principle of water and fire to restrain each other, allowing the martial artist to go to the water environment with completely opposite attributes, and use the completely uncomfortable environment to make the Chiyang Divine Fire have to grow in order to survive, slowly condense, and achieve the effect of quickly strengthening the outer body of the martial arts.

This is a small skill that Lu Yuan has figured out in order to polish the realm after breaking through the Great Grandmaster over the years, and the details of it will be recorded in "Chiyang Divine Skill" later.

The two Lu He brothers, probably after watching the latest version of the divine skill, came to try it.

"Yes, all you want in martial arts is to study hard and practice hard, and you will not die every day, if you can have this diligent heart, you will be able to achieve something in the future."

Lu Yuan patted his son on the shoulder, and said with anticipation: "My father was born alone, and I have no relatives since I was a child.

Now that you have grown up, you can't waste your skills, you have to work harder.

Father is waiting for you to grow up and hold up a piece of heaven for my Dachu. ”

Compared with the eldest brother with a calm temperament, the younger Lu Hao was full of spirits, and at this time he listened to his father's encouragement, and said confidently: "Father, rest assured, with his sons, he will definitely guard my Lu family's country and not let Xiao Xiao succeed." ”

After speaking, Lu Hao looked at Lu Yuan expectantly, and said nervously: "Father, I heard that there are barbarians in Hanzhong who are rioting and violating my border, which is extremely hateful. Erchen has been practicing martial arts hard for many years, and he has also learned the art of war with Senior Brother Zhou for a long time, which can be regarded as a small success.

But this has been done behind closed doors, after all, it is only on paper, and it is not essential.

The son is willing to ask his father for his father's life, and lead the army to recruit the barbarians in Hanzhong, so as to calm the border of Dachu. ”

In the past few months, as the people of the Snow Plains have moved into the Chu State one after another, the Longxi County they occupied has been gradually abandoned.

And these abandoned territories did not sit vacant for long, and soon those steppe barbarians who moved south followed closely and occupied them.

In this way, you retreat and I advance, within two months, after all the people of Fan have withdrawn into the Chu State, the grassland barbarians will occupy the entire Longxi County, bordering the Chu State.

Be neighbors with such a nomadic people, who advocate the law of the jungle, and are accustomed to plundering.

Don't think about it, the frontier of Chu State can't be peaceful.

And so it is.

In recent months, barbarians have continued to cross Longshan and infiltrate the borders of Hanzhong County, starting an invasion of Chu as they had done with the Tibetans.

Although most of these invasions are not systematic, they are basically small groups of tens or hundreds of people, not troops, but horse bandits.

But as the invasion deepened, more and more of the barbarians were sent out, and the frequency became stronger and stronger.

According to Huang Xin's contact with Lu Yuan a few days ago, not long ago, the barbarians had sent a team of thousands of people.

This can no longer be said to be a horse bandit, but a real army.

According to this incident, Huang Xin also judged that those barbarians might launch a large-scale invasion in the near future, wanting to pass through Longshan and enter the warmer Hanzhong County.

Therefore, Huang Xin felt that blindly sticking to it was too passive.

Moreover, setting the battlefield in Hanzhong County is to let the enemy break into his home, and no matter whether he wins or loses, his own family will be damaged.

Rather than this, it is better to strike first.

Send troops to take the initiative to attack, cross Longshan, kill back to Longxi County, and take those barbarians by surprise.

Kill him first and turn the world upside down, kill those barbarians and make them afraid when they hear the name of Chu State, and Hanzhong County will naturally be stable.

For this proposal, Lu Yuan naturally would not refuse, and had already handed it over to the court, so that all departments of the department could prepare and do a series of personnel transfers and material mobilizations to cooperate with the actions of the Hanzhong army.

This matter was spread at the top of the Baling court, and Lu Hao may have heard the rumors, so he moved his mind.

"You want to go to war?"

Lu Yuan was slightly surprised by his son's request, and then looked at Lu He, who was also looking forward to Lu Hao after Lu Hao's request, and couldn't help but groan:

"It's not impossible to let you go to the battlefield, but your two brothers must promise me that when you get to the front line, you can't play the prince's temper, and you can't disobey military orders.

On the battlefield, there are no princes, only soldiers, and everything is based on military orders.

Huang Xinzhen's order is my order, you can't disobey it, can you do it? “

Lu Yuan looked at his two sons, his eyes scrutinized, and his eyes were sharp.

"No problem!"

"The sons must listen to Huang Xinzhen's words like they treat their father."

Seeing that their father's tone had loosened, the two brothers hurriedly agreed with great joy, and while answering, they couldn't help but slander in their hearts.

'Who doesn't know now that the eight Qing and Huang Zhenren in the country are the doppelgangers of their father. Even if we go to the front line, in front of Huang Xinzhen, it is no different from in front of our father, do we dare not obey orders? ’

Lu Yuan didn't know his son's mental activities, and when he saw that they agreed to the conditions, he nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand and said, "Since that's the case, then I will allow you."

Now the Hanzhong army has begun to assemble, and in half a month, it will be on the march.

Time is urgent, you go to the military department to get the appointment, and then go to the Hanzhong battalion to take up the post as a partial general. ”

When Lu Hao and Lu He heard this, they hurriedly bowed: "Thank you, father." ”

After speaking, the two of them looked excited, couldn't wait to say goodbye, and went outside the imperial city.

"It's a high-spirited boy."

Looking at the back of the two sons leaving, Lu Yuan also had a loving and relieved expression on his face, and said with emotion: "In the blink of an eye, the little one who followed my ass at the beginning can also go into battle to kill the enemy." ”

He didn't necessarily raise his son at home, protect him like a canary, and couldn't stand the slightest injury.

Not only is that not love, but it will also raise your son to be a waste.

Lu Yuan always believes that without going through trials and hardships, you can't become a talent.

So it's actually quite good to let the two boys go to the battlefield to see the world, see the cruelty of war, and know the horror of life and death.

As for the safety of the two sons?

Where is Huang Xin in Hanzhong, this doppelganger is himself, and there is no difference between Lu He and Lu Hao under his nose, and he can watch it best.

And in Hanzhong County, in addition to Huang Xin, there are also Han Hu and Han Liang, and those who have taken refuge in the Fan people are also serving in the southern army.

This adds up to eight innate grandmasters.

Send Hao'er and He'er again, that is ten people.

At the same time, Hanzhong County counted the elite of the Tibetan people who were recruited, and the soldiers and horses also increased to 280,000, of which in addition to the 20,000 soldiers of the prefecture and county, were all elite soldiers.

With such strength, not to mention sweeping the barbarians in Longxi County, it is almost enough to directly exterminate the barbarians entrenched in the five counties of Yongzhou in the northwest. Lu Yuan thought to himself.

With so many preparations, this expedition to Longxi is a matter of nine out of ten, and there will be no risks.

It's good to let your son go with him to go through the experience.

"After all, my son of the Great Chu royal family is not just a waste that eats and waits for death, and that kind of guy is not my Lu Yuan's species." Lu Yuan's eyes were indifferent.

……

After meeting the two brothers Lu Hao and Lu He, Lu Yuan was aroused, and in the next few days, he began to care about his other children's schoolwork.

Over the years, as his life has stabilized, he no longer has to lead troops frequently, so the time spent in the harem has gradually increased.

After some hard work, in addition to Lu He and Lu Hao's brothers, Lu Yuan had seven more sons and five daughters, for a total of fourteen heirs.

Among them, there are no less than eight people over the age of ten, all of whom are practicing martial arts and preparing for the impact of the innate attack.

Those who are still young have also begun to lay the foundation, and they have not abandoned their studies.

For his children, whether male or female, Lu Yuan has carefully cultivated them, given the best resources and education, and strived to cultivate them all into talents, rather than raising them as waste.

Lu He and Lu Hao are only the two eldest of them, and below them, there are twelve younger brothers and sisters, who are still growing.

The educational resources they received were no worse than those of their two brothers.

Especially the brothers and sisters Lu Xin and Lu Ji who were born to Lu Yuan by the spirit girl, they are also fifteen or sixteen years old, and under Lu Yuan's careful cultivation, they have already begun to prepare to impact the innate realm.

In another two or three years, the Lu royal family of Chu State will add two more congenitals.

However, it costs a lot of money to train the princes and princesses so much, so that they all go to the innate one by one.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Yuan made a windfall before, he really couldn't support it.

Over the years, with the depletion of the active aura between heaven and earth, a large number of god-blood xenomorphs who could still survive in the blessed land cave began to die of illness on a large scale due to the lack of aura.

Therefore, in order not to waste resources, as early as the year when the Kyushu monks were promoted, after noticing the changes in spiritual energy, Lu Yuan ordered in the country to execute all the more than 100 god-blood xenomorphs raised by the imperial court in order to collect spiritual blood and spiritual materials.

Just that wave made the depleted elixir treasury of the Chu State rich in an instant.

Later, in the territory of Chu State, Lu Yuan asked the local government to buy those god blood aliens of the Jianghu sect. Then send an envoy to the vassal kingdom and ask those vassals to offer their own god-blood xenomorphs.

After some coercion and temptation, at home and abroad, he received nearly 100 god blood xenomorphs.

After forcing the Ning Kingdom to surrender, the two-thousand-year-old heritage of those Linhai families was plundered away by Lu Yuan in one go, and more than two hundred god blood xenomorphs were obtained.

In the end, this total of more than 400 god-blood xenomorphs were all killed to take blood and materials, and more than 11,300 elixirs were refined for the Chu State.

These elixirs, coupled with the original little inventory of the Chu State, were enough to cultivate twenty-three innate beings for Great Chu.

With such a large amount of wealth, Lu Yuan naturally couldn't give it to outsiders, and of course, it was all used to train his children.

After all, in this troubled world, of course, your own family is reliable and trustworthy.

Therefore, the remaining twelve children, one of whom is counted as one, have all been arranged on the innate path, ready to train them all to become martial arts masters.

Moreover, Chu Guo will continue to cultivate for thirty or forty years, and there will be enough time for these children to grow up.

It is not enough to say that the spirit pill is pinched to death, which leads to the top-level combat power that the Chu State should have been wasted.

But even so, there are still eleven places in the elixir accumulated this time that have not been used up, and they are left.

Fortunately, there are still a lot of concubines in Lu Yuan's harem, and some women want to give birth to children, so they don't have to worry about running out of these elixirs.

The only thing that makes people have a little headache is that in recent years, with the improvement of their cultivation, their bodies have gradually changed towards immortal bodies, but the concubines in the harem are still mortals.

Because Xianfan has other reasons, it is difficult for Xianfan to get along, which makes it more difficult for him to keep an heir now than before.

And this difficulty is still climbing with time.

In his estimation, maybe when he condenses the four qi, has all the ice muscles and jade bones, and completes the immortal body, he will no longer be able to have children with mortals.

In this case, Lu Yuan didn't know if the heirs he finally gave birth to before he completely lost the ability to give birth to an heir with a mortal woman, and whether he could fill the remaining places.

But it doesn't matter if you are dissatisfied, it's a big deal to take the remaining elixir as a inheritance and leave it for future descendants, so as to ensure that in the next hundreds of years, in addition to yourself, the Lu family can have innate from generation to generation.

Or take the excess elixir as a reward, and reward it to the meritorious hero.

This precious treasure will never be smashed in your own hands and wasted.

After accompanying his children for a few days, Lu Yuan broke away from the worrying parent who supervised his children's studies.

It's not that he's scared of torture and wants to be lazy.

To put it mildly, my children are very hard-working and motivated, and they are extremely attentive in learning and practicing martial arts.

The schoolwork on weekdays was also watched by their mother concubine and the civil and military masters in the palace, and Lu Yuan didn't have to bother much.

In the past few days, he has been teaching his children homework, but in fact, he still plays with them, so that these poor guys who are overwhelmed by their studies can relax and relax.

This can be regarded as a little compensation for being a father.

So Lu Yuan actually didn't mind spending more time with his children.

But he is the emperor in the end, and there is a major country to worry about.

Therefore, when the news came from the north that Zhao had launched a southern expedition, it had already fought with Liang.

And the envoy sent by Lu Yuan to Zheng Guo in Yuzhou finally returned after half a year.

In the face of these two major events, he also had to withdraw from the joy of parent-child to deal with these two events that were destined to affect the changes in the entire Kyushu.

……

Zhao wants to invade Liang State, this is not a secret, in Kyushu, it is basically a public news.

Since a few years ago, Zhao has stationed troops on the border between the two countries, and has constantly sent small troops to try to harass the territory of Liang State.

Liang Guo also fought back strongly.

Not only did they also garrison heavy troops on the border, but also killed those Zhao soldiers who dared to enter the country.

Over the years, numerous skirmishes have erupted between the two countries on the border, and the smell of gunpowder has long been on the verge of exploding.

Because of this huge pressure, even the Liang State began to ignore the threat of the Chu State for the time being, and instead purchased grain from the Chu State to deal with the upcoming war.

Now that they have been testing each other for a few years, Zhao Guo finally can't help it.

In the middle of last month, that is, on the 13th day of August in the 25th year of Shenwu, 1.2 million troops were raised, and 20 people were mobilized to invade the eastern county of Liang State.

As for the Liang State, there were originally 300,000 soldiers and horses in Dongjun, and there were ten congenital commanders, but now they are guarding the big city, and they can support it for a while.

And after learning the news, now in the territory of Liang State, a steady stream of reinforcements has begun to be mobilized and sent to Dongjun to prepare for support.

According to the investigation of the Imperial City Division in the Liang State, it was finally estimated that within a month, the Liang State would be able to gather 500,000 soldiers and horses in Dongjun, and twenty innate people.

Within three months, it will be able to gather millions of soldiers, and there will be no less than 30 people.

If Zhao Guo can't make a breakthrough quickly before this point in time, then when Liang Guo reacts, the soldiers and horses in the country are all gathered, and in the end, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape the fate of being driven back to the river.

However, even if he can gain a foothold in Dongjun first, with the national strength of Liang State, it will be difficult to support Zhao Guo alone.

Therefore, regardless of whether it breaks through or not, the key to victory in the northern war that finally broke out is not in the Zhao State, but in the Xu State adjacent to it.

Zhao and Xu, in recent years, have already concluded an alliance.

At this time, as soon as Zhao Guo moved, Xu Guo must not be far away.

Only when Zhao and Xu join forces and gather the two overlords can they compete with Liang.