The dividends of war can make people crazy.

This point is very obvious in the Qi army.

Qi people, when they needed to fight to the death earlier, were not active enough at all. However, when the war had already declared most of the victories and the state of Wu was on the verge of extinction, they showed indescribable enthusiasm.

And this enthusiasm is not in the aspect of combat, but in the snatching of spoils.

Of course, the merits of war are still very important to them, but they are far from being the most important thing. What is the goal of acquiring military exploits?

After all, in an environment like the Qi Kingdom, the family is powerful, and they want to be promoted in the imperial court within their country, and the credit is the icing on the cake, but the more important thing is their origin.

But now, after the collapse of the Wu army, it is a direct benefit for them to almost be regarded as a vast territory of the Wu State.

In this case, the first choice of these families is often to get what they should get first.

This situation appeared in almost all Qi families. Even many Qi families, including those who were already obedient to the Lu family, were also impatient.

Lu Chaohe and Weiyun were very angry about this. Failure to obey orders, lack of discipline, and a tendency to lose organization after the war will certainly be very unhappy as a commander-in-chief.

But the one who was even more angry was Lu Qing.

It was almost something he couldn't stand to bear.

For him, attacking Dawu and even unifying the world is not for his own desire for power, nor is it unification for the sake of unification. He hopes that all the power of the Nine Great Immortal Kingdoms will be under the jurisdiction of the system, and the power of the Nine Kingdoms can be uniformly deployed, so that he can deal with those fragments of time, and by the way, integrate the power of the entire world to deal with the invasion of gods and demons.

The goal of starting a war is to serve it.

Fighting a war inevitably involves death, and this is also an unavoidable sacrifice and price. However, after the basic victory of the war, Lu Qing hoped that he could retain the vitality of Wu as much as possible, and after taking over, he could play a role as soon as possible.

And what these Qi families are doing now does not conform to this article at all.

If you really let them continue like this, and turn around and leave him with a tattered Wu country, what are you going to do here?

Of course, it can be rebuilt, but the cost is too great.

Lu Qing was furious, sent a message to Lu Chaohe, and clearly sent a letter to Weiyun.

After the two of them got the signal, they didn't have any hesitation, and directly followed Lu Qing's meaning and started to start.

This is also a very good opportunity to integrate the forces of the Qi country.

Earlier, there were two main reasons for not doing this, one was that the domestic situation in Qi was relatively stable at that time, and he was worried that a big move would damage this stability;

But now, the situation is no longer the same.

First of all, the moment is in a state of war. In this state, it is more convenient to do some extraordinary things, and in addition, Lu Chaohe has been the emperor for more than ten years. Let's not talk about how strong his wrist is, with his back on Yan Guo as foreign aid, there is Weiyun, a master of law, who directly supports him in Qi State all the year round, and the most important thing is that Lu Qing's reputation can already be regarded as the existence of his own father, and it will be easy for him to do anything.

Even, there is no need for him to do much, among the families of the Qi country, there will naturally be people who know the times and throw themselves to him.

His position is much more stable than when he first came to power.

The combination of the two reasons was enough for Lu Chaohe, with the support of Weiyun, to do something that was not easy to do before.

In the final analysis, it is nothing more than four words: eliminate dissidents.

Obedient, stay, do things well, say what is what. There should be discipline and organization, and there should be no less. Otherwise, losing status, being broken up, and even the entire family completely losing power is just a matter of one sentence.

Of course, there were many rebels, but what followed was a very bloody repression and purge. On the one hand, there is the support of Weiyun, and on the other hand, the thousands of high-level monks from the Yan Kingdom brought by Lan Nuoxing are all Lu Dynasty and solid backing.

In this wave of purging, Lu Chaohe really didn't have any mercy.

Within seven days, more than 4,000 Qi monks were sentenced to death. This number is almost equal to the total number of casualties of the previous Qi army on the Yangzhou defense line.

And, among them, the number of high-ranking monks, is many. Even in a sense, the main targets of this purge carried out by Lu Chaohe were on the leaders of the disobedient clans who had liked to serve the yang and disobey in the past, and who had performed very badly on the battlefield this time.

And under such a cruel and bloody rebellion, the rest of the people naturally didn't dare to talk more nonsense, and under fear, they could only obediently obey.

In fact, Lu Qing didn't want to engage in this kind of terrorist politics. But sometimes, if you don't come so ruthlessly, you just can't solve the problem.

Then the long pain is better than the short pain.

Of course, this is not without side effects.

When the news reaches back to Qi State, I am afraid it will cause some uproar.

For this reason, an army of the Yan State, consisting of a small number of Qingfengmen monks and most of the Yunxiao Sect monks, quickly moved south, entered the territory of the Qi State, and obeyed the orders of the Empress Kong Anyang of the Great Qi, ready to suppress the domestic situation at any time.

Speaking of Kong Anyang, Lu Qing also has some trust in this daughter-in-law.

She obviously cherishes this throne that is completely impossible to have anything to do with her, and she is also very smart enough to realize that even if the Kong clan is really restored, not only does she have nothing to do with the throne, but she is afraid that it will be difficult to save her life.

In the past ten years, she has cooperated with Lu Chaohe very much, and in terms of mentality, she is also very clear to move closer to the Lu family, and she also went back to Yuyan Mountain with Lu Chaohe once in the middle to meet Lu Qing.

And this, from the system, the list of family members, can also be reflected in the fact that her loyalty is not low.

This time, with the help of the Yan army as foreign aid, although the domestic situation in Qi became very tense for a while, and there was some chaos in some places, it was still able to be suppressed by Kong Anyang.

As for the other thing, there is no way to do it at all.

The core of the storm is the Qi army that attacked. At the moment, the Qi army, which is still in a state of war in nature, has no way to continue to fight when there is such a big change in the interior.

There is no need for that, and the results of the current harvest are enough. It would be wise to pause the pace of the offensive and switch to the defensive, resolving internal problems first while consolidating the gains made.

And this so-called turning to the defensive, of course, is not the Wu people who have collapsed and are unable to organize anymore.

The target they want to guard is the people of Chu who are eyeing them in the west.