The progress of things is much smoother than that of Lu Qing's resemblance.

The person who came forward was the leader of the Shenlu Forest Demon Clan, that is, the demon cultivator whose strength was about the late Qiming period, Lu Lao.

He came here with a hundred and ten Shenlu Forest Demon Clans and connected with the three Demon Clan settlements. Along with him came several reliable Lu family and even the Qiming monks of the Qingfeng Sect.

The means in the middle are both grace and power.

Not many people died, and the three demon clan settlements quickly realized that this matter was not something they could withstand if they were it. So, the whole thing was settled.

In fact, to be honest, in a turbulent environment, leaving their hometown and migrating eastward for such a long distance, the life of these three demon clan settlements is not very good.

This point made Lu Lao feel a little empathetic.

Under his coordination, another batch of supplies was transported from Feiyun Prefecture.

Of course, it was not given for nothing, the name of this batch of materials was given to these three demon settlements in the name of compensation. Advance a part of the remuneration they will pay for the Lu family's mining of the spirit stone mine, so that they can take the first step at ease, and in addition, they can put the matter of mining the ore veins on the agenda as soon as possible.

And the arrival of this batch of materials has made these demon settlements more homely. Life is better, and there will always be more hope for outsiders.

Of course, the Lu family would not directly hand over the matter of the spirit stone vein to these demon clans.

The team of the Shenlu Forest Demon Clan will be stationed here for a long time to act as an overseer, and in addition, the Lu family will also have an elite team of monks to stay here.

At the same time, the entire area was redivided, and a new human base was established as a new human base. And the entire Shishan County is under strict martial law at the moment. Within the demarcated area, no unauthorized people or demons are allowed to enter.

This needs a reason, otherwise it would be tantamount to telling the world that there is a special secret buried here.

And the excuse used here is to resettle the demon refugees from the west.

The Lu family has promulgated a new policy against demons. From the expulsion and extinction of the past, to limited acceptance. The demon clan from the west, whether it is an individual or a group, can be accepted by Shenlu County. Shenlu County also established a department in the name of the government, which was specifically responsible for the affairs of the demon clan, known as the Demon People's Bureau.

These demon clans can choose their own living area and scope in the three counties, including Shishan County, and settle down, so that they will not be attacked and driven away by human monks.

However, this is conditional.

The Demon People's Bureau will give each demon clan who is qualified to survive in the three counties a waist card engraved with the word 'Yan', which means that they have become subjects of Dayan. They had to pay taxes, they had to work, they had to accept various jobs and tasks assigned by the officials of Shenlu County, and they had to live according to the laws of Dayan......

The demon race is very similar to humans in a way. Among them, not all of them were cultivators, and there were also many ordinary 'people' who had not even reached the Qi refining period.

It's just that the demon clan has a special physique, even if they don't have cultivation, they will have some special abilities, ordinary humans, picking up swords and soldiers are not opponents, their fertility rate is relatively lower than that of humans, but relatively, they want to achieve something in cultivation, and it is easier, and the cultivation of demon cultivation is different from that of human beings who rely on spiritual roots, they are more important to blood and flesh.

Of course, there are also many demons, which are animals and plants, and after absorbing the aura and the essence of heaven and earth for many years, they have attained success, which is another matter.

All in all, demons and humans are different races after all.

But as long as there is wisdom and communication, the two are not incompatible. Just like the Liang Kingdom, the history of shemales has been mixed for thousands of years, and it is not an incredible thing to see a fox demon open a tavern in the town.

Yan Guo does not have such experience, and the Lu family's management experience in this area has accumulated a little from Shenlu Forest, but it is not rich. But all in all, this thing can be tried little by little.

Some of the demon tribes within the three counties were assigned some resource points - this is also something that Lu Qing found out through the 'Complete Exploration' exchange item before. They are responsible for managing and developing those resource points, and then, in addition to paying taxes, they use the surplus production to do business with human towns and exchange them for all kinds of other abundant products.

This model has encountered some problems. For example, some demon clans, who are difficult to train by nature, have clearly promised to be good in the past, but in the future, they ignore the agreement, leave the clan land without authorization, and even attack humans, refuse to pay taxes, and directly plunder human caravans during the exchange of goods...... All sorts of these things have happened.

But firstly, the frequency is relatively small and not so frequent, and secondly, the scattered and leaderless demon clans are often suppressed after this kind of thing happens.

And when the Shenlu County Government suppressed the demon clan, it didn't just resort to force and violence to solve the problem. Violence is often accompanied by indoctrination.

The so-called combination of grace and power is like this.

And when the three counties were in full swing to carry out the transformation of the demon clan, the development of the spirit stone veins by the three demon clans in Shishan County was hidden in this tide. They are just like other demon clan settlements that have been incorporated by the Lu family, but the resources developed are more special, and then the surrounding area is further tightly blocked. But in the same way, they will be more obedient than other demon settlements.

On the one hand, the Lu family will give them more rewards, and on the other hand, there are several high-level human monks stationed here in the spirit stone vein for a long time, as well as elite monk squads.

These monks are either descendants of the Lu family, or they are people whose loyalty is very guaranteed. In addition, they are strong and fully capable, and when something bad happens, they do not need support to suppress the problem independently.

A year later, the spirit stone vein had already been produced, and by the third year, the annual output value of this fourth-order spirit stone mine had reached 300,000 spirit stones.

At the same time, the reorganization of the demon clan under the direction of Lu Qing and the leadership of the Lu family also made the development progress of the entire Shenlu County faster than expected. Combined with the large number of resource points that Lu Qing explored before, the speed at which Shenlu County prospered was faster than many people had imagined in the past.

In the past, the development of Shenlu County mainly relied on migrating people from the familiar land.

The migratory population here mainly refers to ordinary people.

However, it is not easy to rely on ordinary people to gain a foothold in a wilderness like Shenlu County. And the monks sent by the official can't have many people at once, after all, whether it's the Lu family, or the Qingfeng Sect, or even the imperial court, the plate is bigger, the chain of interests is more, and it's complicated, so it all has to be done by hand, and it is difficult to draw out a lot of people at once.

Moreover, staying in such a 'wild' place for a long time must be drudgery for most monks. Even if there are more rewards and rewards, the number of people who are willing to come will actually be very limited.

Even the monks who have been ordered to come are like this, so it is even more difficult to expect ordinary casual cultivators, or some local forces, who are willing to really come to the Northern Wilderness.

Although, to a certain extent, although the Lu family has made it look like they want to carry out the large-scale development of the western region, there will still be many people who doubt whether this matter can be done in the end? Even if some people think that this matter can be done in the future and Shenlu County will become prosperous, I am afraid that it will be many years later.

Although there are some people who want to eat the first bite of crab and want to be the first to come here, but this number is not enough. In most people's minds, they are still reluctant to do such a thing as 'I will plant trees, and future generations will enjoy the shade'.

However, in these years, the development speed of Shenlu County has exceeded many people's expectations. After it prosperes here at a speed visible to the naked eye, there will indeed be more people, and even some small forces, who feel that it is a very reliable thing to develop here in Shenlu County.

For example, in many Feiyun Prefectures, a few decades ago, when the Lu family and the Hai family were fighting openly and secretly with the head of the family, they stood on the side of the head of the line, and as a result, they stood on the wrong team.

The Lu family didn't say that they would retaliate against them after they took power, and they didn't have any other thoughts, in fact, they couldn't wait to hold the Lu family's thighs firmly. But the interests of Feiyun Prefecture are limited, to put it bluntly, you were on the wrong side back then, and after the Lu family stood in the dominant position, the corresponding benefits would naturally be distributed to the forces that were closer to them.

They don't have to deliberately suppress it, they will naturally feel that their lives are not as comfortable as before, or that there is no room for further improvement.

And right now, Shenlu County is a good space.

In addition, the Lu family is now also in the entire Feiyun Prefecture, issuing an initiative to all parties for the development of the western region.

Listen to the words of the Lu family, there is meat to eat.

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The development of the Lingshi Mine, and even the large-scale development of the entire Shenlu County, strictly speaking, benefited the Lu family, not the imperial court.

This is to be clearly distinguished.

Although the Lu family is already the royal family of the Yan Kingdom, there is still a clear distinction between the two.

At least, in the definition of Lu Qing, the person in charge behind the scenes, the Yan country belongs to the Lu family, not the Lu family is the Yan family.

Shenlu County will pay a part of the taxes to the Tang court, but this amount is very small, which is consistent with the standards of Feiyun Prefecture and Selangor Prefecture. The imperial court's control over the northern frontier essentially came through the imperial family, but the imperial court itself could not control the northern frontier.

It's a back hand.

If, I mean, things change in the future, and the Lu family steps down from the throne, then at least there is still the northern border as their own.

Of course, Lu Qing himself was very reluctant to see that scene happen. It's not so easy to get something that I finally get, but I want Lao Tzu to spit it out.

However, although the words are so, the imperial court is in need, and the Lu family, as a royal family, must be fully supported.

For example, the strengthening of centralization.

This is mainly reflected in Jinzhou and Jizhou.

Lu Qing was dissatisfied with the model of the imperial court in the past. According to his imagination and the insights of his previous life, he felt that an orthodox dynasty should have a very deep control over all parts of the country.

If Yunxiao Sect can't handle it, then say another thing; the northern border is its own independent kingdom, and if you don't want to do it, then you won't say it; Jizhou and Jinzhou are still full of mountains, so you can't bear this matter.

The Lu family can set fires, the Yunxiao Sect can also set fires, and the small sects and small families in Jinzhou, Jizhou are not even allowed to light the lamps, this is what Lu Qing meant.

In order to achieve centralization, it is natural to have the confidence of centralization.

The northern border, as the base of the Lu royal family, can provide a lot of pressure to the south, which is one of the confidences, and the other is naturally the central forbidden army of Yandu.

Lu Chaoxi set out to establish the Central Forbidden Army, and it was not a matter of one or two days.

In recent years, even when the finances were particularly tight, the investment in military construction has never been put down. In the future, the imperial court's finances have become more and more abundant, and the Lu family's support to the imperial court has increased recently, and the construction of the central forbidden army has been further accelerated.

Today, the Great Yan Forbidden Army has recovered to the size of 30,000 people, which is about the same as before.

Of course, to be able to get up so fast, on the one hand, the investment is really not small, on the other hand, it is still the foundation that has been in the past, and it is not starting from scratch.

But to be honest, although the quantity has recovered, in terms of quality, if you want to compare with the forbidden army in its heyday, it must still be a little behind. The most important manifestation is that the average strength level of the monks in the forbidden army is not up to the standards of the past.

Subsequently, the investment in the construction of the forbidden army may gradually change from recovering quantity to improving quality. This requires that the personnel training mechanism within the army should be built more completely, and the resource investment should not be less than in the past.

But fortunately, this piece is also supported.

The imperial court also has its own golden lotus cultivation, and the scale is much larger than that of the Lu family. Originally, these Zhuji Dan, which were refined through the Golden Lotus, were supplied by the imperial court to the various forces below and the imperial court's own system.

At present, under the leadership of Lu Chaoxi, this part is mainly tilted towards the forbidden army system.

In addition, there is also a large source, that is, a large number of third-order white ghosts were killed during the previous white ghosts' southward journey, but they also provided a lot of soul beads. Of these soul beads, three can be used to refine a furnace of Zhuji Dan with a secret method.

Some of these Tsukidans were also allocated and provided to the Yandu Forbidden Army.

The attraction of Tsukidan to low-level monks naturally needs no words. This will also help the forbidden army and attract more low-level monks with potential to join in.

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