What does it mean to practice in seclusion without having a reputation?
What does it mean to lead an army to defeat thieves in order to repay the favor of the country?
Is it possible for your hidden cultivation to become an innate master simply by cultivating it?
Did your thief go to the first battle with an army of hundreds of thousands led by an innate master?
Lu Yuan looked at Chu Wei's dull tone and really wanted to punch him, but he felt that the other person was too ordinary.
But I have to admit it.
The other party's Versailles really shocked him greatly.
The Jintan Shangguan clan is also one of the six surnames and seven clans in Linhai County.
However, among these top families, the Shangguan family is not too outstanding. Just like the Chu family behind Chu Wei, they are among the lower ones.
But for such an ordinary family, at this moment, an innate master suddenly appeared.
Although Chu Wei said that Shangguan Ming was the innate who had just made a breakthrough at the beginning of the year.
But the breakthrough time was so coincidental, and they appeared just when the Miao people captured Baling City, clamoring to be thieves for the country.
The meaning of this is hard not to make people think deeply.
That Shangguan Ming happened to have a breakthrough, and then happened to want to serve the country.
Or it happened that Baling City was captured, so there happened to be such a grandmaster who came out to clean up the mess.
Lu Yuan thought about it in his mind, but still felt that he would rather make a conspiracy argument than be too careless and optimistic.
'So thinking from the darkest angle, this Shangguan Grandmaster may be the hidden trump card among the six surnames and seven clans, and he can use it at critical moments to catch his opponents off guard.
As for trump cards, if there is one, there is no guarantee that there will not be two, and if there are two, there will be no guarantee that there will not be three.
The six surnames and seven clans have been married to each other and have been helping each other for thousands of years.
For such a well-established family, it is really unbelievable to say that it does not have two trump cards. '
At this time, Lu Yuan looked back at the imperial court and saw the six surnames and seven clans behind the imperial court. He no longer had the pessimism and contempt he had in the past, but instead felt unfathomable.
If the other side can produce a Shangguan Ming today, how can we know that there won't be other grandmasters like Chu Ming and Li Ming emerging in the future?
First-rate forces such as the Yuzhong Guo Clan and the Luyang Seven Star Sect all have the inherited treasures of their families and sects. How can the six surnames and seven clans that occupy the resources of the entire Da Viet world be without these?
If two or three of these thirteen families have a deep enough background, then it is entirely possible to use their family treasures to create two or three innate masters.
Under the current situation, we must not fall out with the court.
At present, the tiger skin of the Dai Viet imperial court is quite easy to talk about.
Lu Yuan had these thoughts in his mind. After slightly changing and adjusting his strategy, he looked at Chu Wei and said happily: "If two innate masters can come this time, then the Miao thieves of the Five Poison Sect will definitely be defeated." All gone.
Dongting County will also be peaceful, which is a great good thing. "
As he spoke, he looked friendly but also showed weakness. Lu Yuan said with a bit of embarrassment: "To be honest, Mr. Chu, I have been having trouble sleeping and eating these days since I got the news of the fall of the county city.
With the evil master of the Five Poison Sect above my head, Lu was really afraid day and night that she would come and take my life.
Now that there are two innate masters here, it is expected that the demon girl will not dare to be rampant, and she can finally sleep peacefully this time. "
Chu Wei heard this and smiled softly: "General, don't worry, there are two grand masters here this time. If the demon girl is sensible, she will never dare to target the general, nor the local officials.
Otherwise, he can assassinate the imperial official, and my two grandmasters can also assassinate the top leaders of the Five Poison Sect.
Two against one, if you really don't follow the rules, the only one who will suffer is the rebellious Five Poison Sect. "
Lu Yuan nodded lightly: "That's exactly the reason."
A big banquet slowly came to an end amid the laughter and laughter.
…
In the next two days, Lu Yuan kept Chu Wei in the camp for a while, and then gathered a large army to practice for the court angel.
At the same time, he also exchanged martial arts with the other party, inadvertently revealing his top-notch strength, which aroused admiration.
One of these actions is to show goodwill and show closeness.
Secondly, he also showed his strength to the court and told the court that he, General Pingxi, also had strength under his command.
Otherwise, the two innate masters of the imperial court would come with an army of 100,000 people. If someone comes to dispose of the enemy, rise and fall secretly, I want to sideline him and take over the military power.
Will Lu Yuan accept it?
Still don’t accept it?
The above are things that are very likely to happen.
So in order to avoid it, at this time, like Chu Wei last night, he first showed his strength and then intimidated each other to compromise.
Lu Yuan's current confidence lies in his top-notch peak strength and tens of thousands of troops.
With these two here, even if you face the Xiantian Grandmaster, face the Five Poison Sect, or face the imperial army.
He is also confident that he can fight.
'If I can gain something from going to the Tianluo Grand Meeting this time and find a way to break through the innate. Then as long as you achieve innateness, the sea and the sky will truly be vast and there will be no restrictions. '
Lu Yuan accompanied Chu Wei and watched the military formation drill of the sergeants below, thinking silently in his heart.
After staying for two days, Chu Wei, the angel, finally stopped staying and was ready to go back to resume his life.
Lu Yuan gave the other party a package of 10,000 taels of silver, and then personally went out of the camp to send the angel away ten miles away.
Then he returned to the camp, buried his head, and practiced for a while.
The great strength of the imperial court certainly gave Lu Yuan a lot of confidence, but at the same time, it also gave him a lot of pressure.
Neither the Five Poison Sect nor the imperial court can be offended by him.
And if you want to deal with the two and ensure that you don't capsize, the only way is to increase your own strength as much as possible.
In terms of improving his personal strength, Lu Yuan has no choice for the time being. But it can still be done by increasing the number of troops under his command.
…
In the past few days, the affairs officers sent by Lu Yuan to recruit troops have achieved results one after another.
The first place is naturally Luyang Mansion.
After recruiting throughout the government, Lu Yuan obtained a total of more than 500 recruits.
The main reason why the number of people is so small is that the previous war was too depleted. In addition, Lu Yuan had already recruited within the country in order to form prefecture and county troops, so there were not many qualified soldiers.
Next are the troops from Hengyang Prefecture in the north and Changsha Prefecture.
The situation in these two prefectures is a little better than that of Luyang Prefecture, but not much better. Hengyang Prefecture conducted several conscriptions and mobilized too many militia groups. The local young men suffered too many losses and there were not many adult men left.
Changsha Mansion, on the other hand, faced the Five Poison Sect directly and was always on the front line of the war. Most of the local men had been recruited into the county militia. Lu Yuan sent people to recruit soldiers and could not get a few sips of soup at all.
After a lot of work, Hengyang Mansion only recruited more than 2,000 people, and Changsha Mansion only had more than 1,000 people. Including Luyang Mansion, the three mansions combined only have just 4,000 people.
With this small number of people, Lu Yuan did not even reach one-third of his goal of expanding the army to 15,000.
In desperation, and after Sun Siwen said it several times, he could only adjust his previous strategy and recruit soldiers from the Qixingmen prisoners in Linwu County.
In fact, if the identity of the Qixingmen of Linwu County is removed, most of the prisoners in Linwu County are actually extremely qualified soldiers.
After all, the folk custom is martial arts, and many people have practiced martial arts since childhood and are good at boxing and kicking.
Moreover, warriors are also passionate and are not afraid of death when fighting with others.
Even the people in Linwu County practice martial arts, and their habits and styles are a bit more martial arts. If you want to turn them into qualified soldiers, you have to train them well.
Lu Yuan didn't have much headache about this.
Training soldiers in the military camp is very simple, it is nothing more than stick and stick tactics. If it still doesn't work, then it will be a warning to the monkeys, and the troublemakers will be killed directly, and the remaining people will naturally become honest.
As for the influence of Seven Star Gate.
Lu Yuan felt that the heads of the Seven Star Sect were all dead, and the remaining senior leaders and core members had also been put away by him. They may have left Yue Kingdom now.
Without these backbone figures, the remaining guys who are related to the Seven Star Sect are basically just a piece of loose sand and cannot make a difference.
Perhaps after two years, the Seven Star Sect will really become just a memory in the hearts of these people, forgotten deep into their minds.
So Lu Yuan reorganized the prisoners and selected a thousand qualified soldiers, and then released the remaining four thousand unsuitable soldiers back to their places.
Sun Siwen had spoken to Lu Yuan several times during this period.
Speaking of Linwu County, the people left in the local area are old and weak men and women. Not only are they unable to restore local production, but sometimes they are even unable to resist the bandits and rebels scattered in the area.
Now many villages have been invaded and plundered by those bandits.
Nowadays, the security of Linwu County can only be maintained by the 500 soldiers deployed by the county government and the local county soldiers, which greatly consumes the resources and energy of the city.
The need to establish local militia groups to defend themselves in Linwu County is urgent.
The release of 4,000 Linwu County prisoners this time should greatly alleviate local security problems.
After reorganizing the prisoners in Linwu County, Lu Yuan recruited five thousand new soldiers, barely reaching one-third of the expected target.
But Dongting County alone cannot provide the remaining 10,000 people.
If you want to fill up your establishment, you have to find ways to recruit troops from other counties.
The first choice that came to Lu Yuan's mind was naturally his half-hometown of Yuzhang County.
First of all, Yuzhang County is close to Luyang Prefecture. Recruiting troops there is fast and can be done in more than a month.
Secondly, Yuzhang County has not been too affected by the wars in recent years. The place has always been stable and the population has been maintained well.
Not only were there no losses, they even absorbed a lot of refugees from other counties due to the war.
Recruiting troops from here can easily raise enough troops.
So there was nothing more to say. Lu Yuan sent official envoys and asked them to go to various prefectures and counties in Yuzhang County with their own name cards to ask local officials to help recruit troops.
With the imperial court's great interest in suppressing rebellion, and Lu Yuan's status as General Pingxi and Marquis of Luyang, it was basically impossible for the officials of Yuzhang counties to refuse this request.
After all, if the Miao rebels in Dongting County are not suppressed, they will be defeated. If Lu Yuan falls, the next one to face the Miao rebels will be Yuzhang County.
Regardless of the relationship of interest, those officials also have something to do with this most basic key relationship.
I won’t make too much trouble in this regard.
…
While Lu Yuan was training his troops, the angel Chu Wei said goodbye to him but did not return directly to the court.
Instead, after leaving Luyang Mansion, he continued north and came to Changsha Mansion. Then in Liuyang County, the far west of the mansion, he met with the commander of the Miao army, Wuchenghou Shangguanming.
Smoke and dust billowed, and flags covered the sky.
The endless army stretched as far as the eye could see, like a long dragon, rushing towards Changsha Mansion with unstoppable momentum.
Chu Wei rode a red horse. After announcing his identity, he quickly met Shangguan Ming, the commander of the army.
"I've met Uncle Shi."
After meeting, the Chu angel bowed to Shangguan Ming, calling him uncle and nephew.
There are six surnames and seven clans in Linhai County, and they have been intermarried with each other for generations. There are some kinship relationships between every household.
For example, Chu Wei's aunt married the Shen family of Changzhou, and then a daughter born by his aunt married from the Shen family of Changzhou to the Shangguan family of Jintan. The person he married was a brother of Shangguanming's generation.
And relationships like this are rare among various aristocratic families.
Even his Chu family has many daughters of the Shangguan family or other women who are related to the Shangguan family who have married into it.
After generations of intermarriage, the six surnames and seven clans are basically related by blood to each other.
Therefore, it really doesn't matter that Chu Wei and Shangguan Ming call each other uncle and nephew. They are really relatives.
"My nephew, you don't need to be polite."
Shangguan Ming has an elegant appearance, which is in line with the temperament of a member of a noble family. He looked Chu Wei up and down, and then sighed with a smile: "The last time I saw my nephew was ten years ago.
He was still an energetic young man at the beginning, but he has become a stable man in a flash. The Chu family has another promising young man. "
"Uncle Shi praised me." Chu Wei was a little flattered and humbly said: "Compared to the younger generations of other families, Wei is just a mediocre person, how can he be called promising."
"Ha ha."
Shangguan Ming shook his head and laughed twice. He didn't say anything more about his nephew's humility. He just asked, "This time you went to Luyang Mansion and met the newly appointed General Pingxi. Who is he?"
Lu Yuan's previous worries were correct. Chu Wei came this time, on the one hand, to comfort the place on behalf of the imperial court, and on the other hand, he was also testing his reality.
Then report to the Miao Zheng coach Shangguan Ming.
At this time, it was time for this Chu Angel to return to his life.
When Chu Wei heard the business, his expression became solemn, he thought about it carefully, and then said: "Uncle Hui Shi, I went to see General Pingxi this time, and my nephew gained a lot.
First of all, there are the troops under General Pingxi's tent. From what my nephew saw, they are all elite soldiers.
I heard that General Pingxi was able to defeat the Miao thieves in a row when he was in Dongting County. This time he personally defeated the Qixingmen rebellion in Luyang Mansion.
I was able to find out about it when I was in Luyang Mansion.
It is said that at its peak, the Qixing Sect had fifty thousand soldiers and horses.
Although most of them were just local people who were coerced, Lu Pingxi was able to directly defeat the Seven Star Rebels in three months, which was something only a few people could do. "
Shangguan Ming was a little surprised when he heard this. I didn't expect that Lu Yuan would be praised like this by his far-sighted nephew.
He frowned slightly and asked, "So, that Lu Pingxi has an army that is good at fighting, and he himself is also a capable general?"
Chu Wei nodded: "That's true. According to what Lu Pingxi said, there are 20,000 elite soldiers under his command, all of whom are elites in hundreds of battles. In Dongting County, Shaoyang and Luyang are also under his control.
Within these two prefectures, the prefectural and county soldiers and militia groups totaled 50,000 people.
In other words, under Lu Pingxi's full force, he could send out 70,000 troops, of which 20,000 were elite.
When his nephew left, he saw new people entering the military camp from time to time. After questioning, he found out that Lu Pingxi was worried about the Miao people's power and was preparing to expand his troops to defend against the rebels.
If this is the case, maybe it won't be long before this person's troops will become more prosperous. "
"Twenty thousand soldiers, fifty thousand militia!"
Hearing this number, Shangguan Ming couldn't help being surprised, and then said angrily: "That's it for Luyang Mansion. With the previous edict from the Holy Sage, if Lu Yuan can capture this place and give it to him, forget it. Then. How can Shaoyang Mansion be under its control?
The local prefect, I remember it was Cui Changqing, right?
He also came from the imperial court to a local government, so why would he obey a local general? "
Chu Wei said helplessly: "I heard that Shaoyang Mansion was returned to Lu Pingxi's control, and the decision was made by the former governor Lu. At that time, Du Pingxi had not captured Luyang Mansion, and he had more than 10,000 troops stationed in Shaoyang Mansion, responsible for defending against more than 100,000 Miao people from the north and south. Army.
Therefore, in order to harmonize the situation, the county government assigned Shaoyang Mansion to Lu Pingxi, who controlled the local finances and troops.
Now that several years have passed, the Shaoyang Mansion has been infiltrated, and I'm afraid I won't be able to get it back. "
"Lu Fanghai..." When Shangguan Ming heard this person, his anger suddenly froze. He wanted to curse, but he couldn't.
Jinling Lu family, one of the six surnames and seven clans, is still ranked among the top five.
Compared with the Lu family, his Shangguan family was more than a little inferior.
That is to say, now that he has broken through his innate ability, he can barely compete with his opponent for the limelight.
Wanting to scold but unable to speak, Shangguan Ming felt a little depressed, and turned around and asked: "What do you think of Lu Yuan's strength? I heard that he is also a first-class person. I wonder if he is among the first-class people, can he be considered powerful?"
Speaking of Lu Yuan's strength, Chu Wei thought of the aura that Lu Yuan "inadvertently" displayed in front of him two days ago.
The corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch, he glanced at his uncle, and said with a wry smile: "Back to my uncle, Lu Pingxi's martial arts is extraordinary and has reached the peak of the first-class. A few days ago, he showed his nephew the unique internal and external strength of a top-level master. Give visions.
This weather can cover a radius of ten feet, which is much better than the six or seven feet that the ordinary first-class peak can only cover.
Moreover, Lu Pingxi's external visions had more of a mystical spirit than others.
Judging from my nephew's point of view, this person is probably not far away from the innate realm. "
Looking back at what he saw that day, Chu Wei was still shocked.
So at this moment, when Lu Yuan was mentioned, he couldn't help but make such comments sincerely.
The realm of innateness is not far away.
