After communicating with Sun Siwen and asking him to continue to do what he did boldly, Lu Yuan returned to his mansion.
Now with the arrival of the imperial army, especially the arrival of the two innate masters, the assassination of the Saint of the Five Poison Sect that had been hanging over his head, he finally no longer has to worry so much.
The Zhou and Miao coalitions have two innate masters, and the imperial court also has two innate masters. With these four masters checking and balancing each other, some unconventional assassination methods will be greatly reduced.
Lu Yuan finally no longer has to huddle in the military camp every day and live like an ascetic monk.
After traveling for half a month, he was a little tired, so after returning home, he asked the maid to take a bath, then curled up in bed and had a good sleep.
In the early morning of the next day, Lu Yuan got up on time as usual, then washed up a little and started practicing palm skills.
Although he is now about to break through the innate world, and even begin to practice immortal magic.
But Lu Yuan did not fall behind on martial arts moves.
I can still practice the palm skills that need to be practiced, and I have also begun to try to get in touch with the sword skills and fingering skills included in the Chiyang Divine Skill.
However, time is short. It is estimated that it will be impossible to master these martial arts moves in less than ten years.
Fortunately, Lu Yuan was not in a hurry.
As long as you can break through the innate, and use your tyrannical martial arts true intention to overwhelm them, for those who are inferior to the innate, it will be crushing, and there will be no use of moves at all.
What should we do if we are both congenital?
Lu Yuan felt that with his stable temperament, even if he broke through the innateness, he would most likely not take the initiative to fight against masters of the same level.
What's the point of fighting and killing? If you're not careful, you can easily lose your life.
In contrast, he prefers to sit in front of a large army, command thousands of troops to attack and kill the enemy, and let others work for him, while he sits at the back and waits for the result in peace.
Innate cultivation, according to Lu Yuan's thinking, this is more of a deterrent, like a nuclear bomb.
Don't worry about whether I can fight it out. At least I have it, and then I have the qualifications to sit down and negotiate with other innates.
Regardless of what others did, in Lu Yuan's case, innate force was more symbolic than practical.
He either doesn't make a move, and once he makes a move, he needs to make a final decision, so that he won't engage in a three-hundred-round battle with others.
"Well, there is also the Taoist Book of Taiping. After you break through the innate world, you can try to practice.
When the time comes, I will be an innate warrior on the surface, but secretly an immortal cultivator.
Combining martial arts and immortal magic, who knows what kind of immortal martial arts can be created?
If someone doesn't know my details and dares to fight with me, he will definitely suffer a big loss and lose his life to me. "
Lu Yuan couldn't help but laugh when he thought about the scene that was very likely to happen in the future.
As a steady person, this method of being extra cautious in everything and being secretly underhanded is what suits him best.
When it comes to trump cards, the more the better, there is never too little.
That's it.
Even though he would soon have the innate true meaning of martial arts and the immortal skills, Lu Yuan did not despise the martial arts moves, but still practiced hard.
After all, life is unpredictable and the situation is ever-changing.
No one knows whether the extra martial arts practice at this time will play a big role in the future?
To be conservative and practice more when you have time, it's always right.
After practicing the palm technique for an hour, washing himself, changing into clean clothes, and having a hearty breakfast, Lu Yuan went out to the military camp outside the city.
After leaving for a long time, he originally handed over the 20,000-strong army to his disciple Li Liang and ordered him to be responsible for training new soldiers and reorganizing the military equipment.
Now that I'm back and about to launch troops, I naturally want to take a good look at the effect.
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military camp.
There was a continuous sound of shouts, and from time to time the military drum beat, and then the flag was waved. The soldiers who had already formed a formation on the school field slowly changed their formation according to the drum beat and the flag.
Lu Yuan stood on the general platform, looking at the army changing formations below with a serious expression.
It can be seen that it is still very difficult for the soldiers at this time to change formations. Even just turning left and right and changing formations are very difficult to do.
At this time, you can see some soldiers with poor foundation, falling behind in a sudden change, and then colliding with others, causing chaos.
But generally speaking, relying on the original five thousand veterans, a certain formation can still be maintained.
"Master, I train diligently every day, one small exercise every day, and one big exercise every three days. After two months, there is no problem walking in the formation, but the art of changing the military formation is still a bit behind." Next to him, these two months have passed. Li Liang, who was in charge of leading the troops, said with a little uneasiness as he looked at the chaotic military formations that occasionally occurred below.
Lu Yuan entrusted the training of the army to him, which was a sign of respect and trust.
But now that the master has come back to review the army, the results are like this, which is undoubtedly a loss of points.
"It's already pretty good."
Lu Yuan turned around, looked at his disciple's slightly uneasy expression, and said with a smile: "The new recruits in the army have been recruited for only two months, and they can already understand the array and understand the flags and orders. They are already somewhat impressive.
After practicing like this for another half a year, you can go to the battlefield and fight the enemy in formation.
I will hand over the army to you for training. I am indeed the right person. "
Lu Yuan had led troops for several years and was not an incompetent person.
In order to train 15,000 veterans, he stayed in the military camp every day and supervised the training at all times. Even the subsequent training was not enough, so he was dragged out to fight for half a year, and only then did he achieve the brilliant results of putting down the Seven Star Gate rebellion in March.
Because of this experience, he knew that it took a lot of energy and time to train good soldiers, to train elite soldiers who could fight in formation and face the enemy without defeat.
It requires a lot of hard work and money investment.
At this time, Li Liang was able to achieve the current results in two months, which can be regarded as a person who is good at training soldiers.
Lu Yuan couldn't even appreciate this disciple, so he couldn't blame him.
"This is all due to the high quality of the soldiers recruited by the master, and with the help of many brothers in the camp, this achievement can be achieved. I dare not take the credit." Faced with the praise from the master, Li Liangzhong was happy, but his face was humble. .
"It doesn't have to be like this, it's your credit, it's yours. How can a teacher treat his own disciples badly?"
Lu Yuan said something to his disciple, and then said: "You must be rewarded for your merits in military training. I have a martial arts, you can copy it and learn it, and then return the copy to me afterwards, it will be regarded as a reward for you. .”
With that said, Lu Yuan took out the Chiyang Divine Art that he had prepared in advance and handed it to his disciple.
The Chiyang Divine Skill that was taken out only had the first seven levels, the last two levels were deleted, and there was only one supporting move called Sword Technique.
But even so, this abridged version of the Chiyang Divine Skill can be practiced to the second level of the magical sutra. Counting the supporting sword skills, it is already a first-class martial arts that is not weak in the world.
"Thank you Master for the gift."
Li Liang looked at the martial arts that was handed over to him. When he saw the four characters "Chiyang Magic" on it, his body started to tremble.
As one of the few registered disciples who were close to Lu Yuan and Zhou Qing, he certainly knew that his master and senior brother were majoring in the Chiyang Divine Art.
"Now that Master has given me this skill, is it possible that he plans to accept me as his true disciple?"
When Li Liangliang thought of this, he almost couldn't hide his excitement.
God knows how embarrassing and difficult it was for these registered disciples to face Lu Yuan and Zhou Qing.
Take a look at how the true disciple Zhou Qing is treated?
Take a look at how people like you are treated?
In name, he is a disciple, but in fact he is no different from his subordinates, and he is not one of his own at all.
Lu Yuan's dozens of registered disciples, not to mention how much they envied Zhou Qing and how much they wanted to become true disciples.
Will the dream come true now?
With trembling hands, Li Liang took over the Chiyang Magic Skill and said with a trembling tone: "Master, don't worry, as soon as the disciple returns, he will copy the secret book immediately and return the Magic Skill tomorrow."
"Don't be in a hurry, just copy it slowly and don't spread the technique to others."
Lu Yuan, as his master, was naturally aware of the thoughts of his disciples. He smiled and said, "After you copy the exercises, remember to practice them diligently. If you can break through the first-class realm, you will become a master." I will accept you as my true successor."
After obtaining the Taoist Book of Taiping, Lu Yuan knew that it was almost impossible for him to live a low life.
But even so, it doesn't mean that he has to be tough.
Cultivate more disciples, let them become talents, and then give yourself as a teacher to fight in the world. Isn't this much better than fighting to the death on your own?
As for the Chiyang Magic Technique, it is no longer the core secret technique for Lu Yuan, who is about to break through the innate and cultivate the immortal technique.
At this time, just like the Flowing Cloud Palm and Qi-Building Heart Sutra previously, they can be used to reward the disciples and use them to improve their strength.
There is only one first-class disciple in Zhou Qing right now, but the number is still too low.
If he could cultivate a few more first-class disciples and give them the ability to take charge of their own business, Lu Yuan could even let go of the war.
Just let these disciples do the work for the teacher and let them lead their own troops to fight.
Therefore, Lu Yuan imitated the imperial court's Ten Great Masters plan and also planned to create a Ten Great Disciples plan.
Cultivate ten disciples with first-class strength, and then train one hundred thousand soldiers. In this way, one disciple can lead ten thousand soldiers and horses, and he can even touch the innate master.
And with such a foundation, even if Lu Yuan wants to take over a whole county, it is no longer an illusion.
After all, ten first-class masters and one hundred thousand soldiers and horses placed here are enough to be worth two or three innate masters.
Taking into account Lu Yuan's own strength, as long as he does not rebel openly, then even if he separatizes Dongting County, the court will have to pinch his nose to recognize him.
"And while I am expanding, I can also contact the Jianghu masters attracted by other imperial courts to form a cooperative alliance. When the time comes for several parties to join forces and protect each other, no matter how dissatisfied the imperial court is, they will have to swallow this sigh of relief for me."
Joining forces with several other Jianghu masters in the Ten Grandmasters plan is a method that Lu Yuan has come up with these days.
Compared with the grandmasters from the six surnames and seven clans in the imperial court, Lu Yuan and those martial arts masters were obviously not from the same group as the grandmasters from these aristocratic families.
Even if they are temporarily united at this time, it is just for profit and there is no friendship at all.
And since it is for profit, then the benefits given by the court are benefits. The interests they, the Jianghu masters, want to fight for are also interests.
Why should people like Lu Yuan be given two counties in the land of nine counties in Dayue?
Among the ten grandmaster plans, there are four Jianghu masters, accounting for 40% of the power. But with such strength, they can only obtain the land of two counties, and they are all in ruins.
This distribution plan is obviously unreasonable.
You must know that in wealthy places like Yuzhang County and Linhai County, one county is almost worth three poor counties.
Therefore, it seems that the imperial court has separated two counties, but in fact, the possible loss of money, food and population is less than one-tenth of the total, which is completely insignificant.
Lu Yuan felt that among the nine counties in Dayue, the four martial arts masters could each occupy one of them. On the imperial side, it is enough to guard the five most core and wealthy counties.
This is only fair.
Of course, the above are just Lu Yuan's temporary thoughts. Whether it can be done in the end and whether it should be done or not depends on changes in the situation.
Things are impermanent and everything is uncertain.
Until that moment, he didn't know what the outcome would be.
But even so, it does not prevent Lu Yuan from slowly increasing his strength according to this plan.
That's it for cultivating Li Liang at this time.
And the effect is...
"Master, don't worry. This disciple will practice hard and break through to the first level as soon as possible and join the master's sect." Li Liang got Lu Yuan's encouraging promise and knelt down on the spot. He couldn't be too excited.
Breaking through to the top level is actually not too difficult for Li Liang.
After all, he has now reached the eighth level. If he can master the remaining four levels and one extraordinary level, he will be able to reach the top level.
There are a total of five meridians. Even if you don't use external force and just practice hard on your own for fifteen years, you can reach the top level.
In reality, this is obviously not possible.
Not to mention that Lu Yuan would from time to time give spirit-boosting pills or other divine blood pills to disciples who had made meritorious deeds to cultivate their strength.
In private, disciples like Li Liang would actually spend their own money to buy spirit-boosting pills from Zhou Qing to practice.
In this day and age, most of those who can practice martial arts are wealthy.
Although many of Lu Yuan's named disciples were promoted from the bottom and were not considered wealthy. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t kids from rich families.
He has more than forty named disciples, half of whom are from poor families and the other half from rich families.
Generally speaking, disciples from rich families are stronger than those from poor families.
After all, he has practiced martial arts since he was a child, has a good foundation, and is willing to spend money to buy medicine to practice martial arts. It is normal for his cultivation to improve faster than his fellow disciples who have no money.
Coincidentally, Li Liang belongs to the wealthy family.
Although his family is not extremely wealthy, it can still be considered extremely wealthy.
It would be no problem to spend three to five thousand taels of silver to buy medicine for Li Liang to practice Qigong. Including some of Li Liang's own income, it is not unaffordable for him to take a bottle of spirit-boosting pill every month.
Compared with these investments, if you can break through the first-class and become a disciple of Ruyuan, then everything will be worth it.
A top-notch master and an innate teacher. If his status is released, are he afraid that he won't be able to make any money back?
At this time, Li Liang had already decided that when he returned, he would convince his parents to sell most of their property and use it to buy spiritual pills to help him practice.
The future of wealth is right in front of him. If he doesn't take a chance now, he will definitely regret it in the future.
"I am very happy that you have such ambition as my teacher. I am waiting for the day when you become my second true disciple."
Lu Yuan liked Li Liang's attitude very much, and then continued: "In a while, I will continue to send people to recruit troops, and there should be 20,000 new soldiers entering the camp by then.
The training of these people is also left to you.
I don't require you to be able to practice well in a short period of time, as long as you can get these people to line up and fight within a year.
Can this be done? "
Li Liang was so drunk by the previous meal that he could not say no. He immediately issued a military order and said: "Master, don't worry, I can issue a military order. If I don't train the soldiers for a year, I would like to engage in military law."
Lu Yuan nodded with satisfaction: "Then it's settled."
Afterwards, he stopped talking to Li Liang, turned his head, and watched the military formation drill below.
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After checking the army, Lu Yuan settled in the military camp again.
Although there is no need to fear the threat of the innate master for the time being, the training of the army cannot be given up.
Coupled with the influence of his stable temperament, Lu Yuan chose to stay in the military camp to keep an eye on the training of new recruits. At the same time, it was more convenient to deal with military affairs, such as army expansion.
The matter of expanding the army by 20,000 was related to Lu Yuan's next strategic plan, so on the second day after he returned to camp, he had already arranged for people to recruit troops from other places.
However, now that Dai Viet is fighting every year, the military resources from all over the country have been recruited and exhausted. Even recruiting qualified soldiers is difficult.
In places like Linhai County and Yuzhang County, after the imperial court recruited hundreds of thousands of troops, there were not many qualified soldiers left.
The few remaining people in Yuzhang County were also recruited back by the people Lu Yuan sent earlier. According to the disciples who went to recruit troops at the beginning, there were no brave men in Yuzhang County.
Looking at this statement, one can imagine what the situation is over there.
But Dongting County is even worse than Yuzhang County.
Therefore, if he wanted to recruit troops, Lu Yuan had to go further.
He sent two groups of disciples to take a long detour via Yuzhang County and go to Jian'an County and Nanhai County respectively to recruit troops in these two places.
Although Jian'an County and Nanhai County also experienced war, it has been three years since they subsided.
After three years of recuperation, the vitality has been restored a lot, and the population preservation is also quite complete.
You can still gain a lot by recruiting troops in these two places.
Lu Yuan even gave special instructions considering the future. If there are more qualified soldiers in these two places, more can be recruited without limiting the number of dead soldiers to 20,000.
In today's troubled times, the population is getting smaller and smaller, and the elite soldiers are also getting smaller and smaller. It will become increasingly difficult to recruit qualified soldiers in the future.
Therefore, if we don't take advantage of this moment to recruit more troops, when we really want to recruit troops in the future, we won't know where to recruit them from.
As for recruiting too many people, how will we support them?
"You have soldiers and horses, are you worried that you won't have money to support them?"
Lu Yuan was thinking in his mind as he wrote the recruitment document for General Pingxi, dried it and gave it to the waiting disciples below.
In troubled times, if you have soldiers, you can seize territory, money and food. With land, money and food, it is natural to support soldiers.
It doesn’t even matter if you can’t grab it.
When fighting for territory, the extra troops and horses that cannot be raised are used up, and the expenses will naturally be reduced, and they can afford to raise them.
At the same time, during the battle, through continuous wars and continuous survival of the fittest, we can obtain an elite army that can fight in every battle.
No matter what kind of result it is, it is acceptable to Lu Yuan. He will not lose money, and he will definitely make a profit without losing money.
This is very logical and there is nothing wrong with it.
