After completing the plan for Zhou Qing to be promoted to Grandmaster, Lu Yuan wrote a letter in person to apologize to his fiancée.
There is no way, after this Northern Expedition, the coalition forces have won consecutive battles.
But the resistance from the Zhou people was also extremely tenacious.
Although they lost Tianmen Prefecture one after another, as well as several prefectures south and west of Xiangyang.
But even at this moment, in Wushan Mansion and Xiangyang City, the Zhou people still had four innate masters and an army of 200,000.
Unless these enemy forces are swept away and driven back, Lu Yuan and everyone in the coalition army will have no time to escape.
However, the wedding day originally scheduled for today for the two people naturally cannot be held, and the wedding can only be postponed.
Yes, it is already the third day of the first lunar month of the eighth year of Hongdao, and the new year has arrived.
This time last year was the day when Lu Yuan and Lan Cai'er got engaged. It was originally agreed that the wedding would be held today.
But the current situation changed and wars continued. Even if the wedding date was already agreed, the date could only be changed.
Fortunately, although Lan Cai'er has a strong and arrogant character, she is also a sensible and sensible person. Moreover, she also participated in the Northern Expedition and knew the situation on the front line. Therefore, although she was a little sad and unhappy about the postponement of the wedding, she could still understand it. of.
In fact, Lu Yuan had actually told Lan Cai'er about this matter some time ago when the two of them raided Guining Mansion together, and the other party also expressed his understanding.
Writing a letter at this time is just to express your feelings and apology, so as to appease the other party.
"It's easy to handle the queen's side, but it's a bit difficult to handle the envoys from various countries who come to watch the ceremony."
After writing a letter of apology to Lan Cai'er, Lu Yuan felt a little headache when he thought about the envoys from various countries who had arrived in Changsha City one after another.
When he got married, he invited envoys from more than 20 countries including Liang, Yue, Zhou, Nanhai, Linhai, the Yi countries in the southwest, the Yi countries in the East China Sea, etc.
But now that the wedding day has arrived, envoys from all over the world have been invited, but the two principals, he and Lan Cai'er, are fighting in other places. I have to say that this is an extremely disrespectful thing.
If a situation is not handled well, it may lead to a deterioration in its reputation among countries and affect its own credibility.
This can already be considered a diplomatic accident.
"Fortunately, my absence from the wedding is somewhat excusable.
After all, the only major military and state affairs are sacrifice and military affairs.
Now I am fighting for the country and leading the troops. This is related to the fate of the country, and envoys from various countries should also understand.
Especially since the Northern Expedition, I have won successive battles, defeated hundreds of thousands of enemies, and destroyed the two pillars of the Zhou Dynasty.
With such a prestigious record, even though it was a bit disrespectful this time, for the sake of this prestige, envoys from various countries should be able to understand and accept it.
So it shouldn't be difficult to ask them to wait a little longer.
But how to operate these things depends on my two prime ministers. "
Lu Yuan thought like this in his heart, and then he quickly wrote a letter to Cui Changqing and Sun Siwen.
Now that he is out fighting, all the affairs of the country, including some of the military power, have been handed over to these two prime ministers.
Naturally, they are also responsible for receiving envoys from various countries.
At this time, his wedding was overdue, so it was natural for two people to do the work of appeasing the envoys from various countries.
However, this is ultimately his fault, so it is necessary to also write a letter to apologize and let the two of them bear more trouble.
The content of his letter, apart from mentioning the wedding.
Another order was also given, that is, let the two prime ministers start preparing for a new round of Enko.
Well, yes, after the imperial examination in November last year, it has only been two months, and Lu Yuan needs to hold another round of imperial examination.
no way.
Who made this Northern Expedition achieve great results? Not only had they captured the three prefectures of Xiangyang County. It is very likely that the land of the three prefectures of Xichuan County will be taken over next.
The land of six prefectures in total has exceeded half of the county. For such a vast territory, if we follow regulations and arrange officials in local prefectures and counties, there will be a shortage of about 700 people.
Even if a county government were to be established on the land of these six prefectures, the shortage might reach as many as a thousand people.
With so many official vacancies, Lu Yuan wanted to fill them, so of course he could only hold another imperial examination.
However, preparations for the imperial examination are now underway and will not start soon.
For the newly recovered territory in Jiangbei, he planned to maintain military control for half a year and then arrange officials.
And within this six months, it was just time to prepare for the new imperial examination.
Lu Yuan gained a lot from the last imperial examination. Because he absorbed scholars from Ninghai and Nanhai, his luck increased a lot, which can be regarded as a sweet taste.
Therefore, this time for the imperial examination, he planned to send some more details to Nanhai and Ninghai to continue promoting activities in these two countries.
In the last imperial examination, although eight thousand scholars came from Nanhai and Ninghai, this was not the limit for the two countries.
There are still four to five thousand qualified scholars in the two countries who have not come to participate in the imperial examination.
Moreover, after the last imperial examination, many scholars from the two countries who had participated in the imperial examination returned to Nanhai and Ninghai. This time Enke was re-opened and thousands of officials were selected. Naturally, these people had to be called back.
Let's see.
In less than a year, our country in Changsha held imperial examinations three times in a row, and more than 2,000 officials were selected.
This national destiny, this rising momentum, this expectation for scholars, this opportunity for promotion...
All scholars who know this will have to sharpen their heads and rush to Changsha Kingdom with all their strength.
Scholars from other countries came to Changsha to serve the Changsha Kingdom. Isn't that just a disguised form of weakening the talent pool of other countries?
In this way, the country has a lot of talents who can contribute to the construction and development of the country. However, other countries are short of talents and lack excellent talent management, which has led to the decline of the country's power.
Under this situation, even if there is no war, other countries are equivalent to weakening themselves.
Lu Yuan was naturally happy about this method of subduing others without fighting.
Moreover, the scope of this imperial examination can not be limited to the three countries of Nanhai, Ninghai, and Changsha. The newly developed six prefectures in Jiangbei and even the two countries of Xichuan that are about to establish a country can be included in the selection of officials.
As long as the elites of these places are included in the ruling system, they can naturally win over the hearts and minds of these newly opened territories.
Even the two countries of Xichuan and Sichuan can use this to win over the hearts of their domestic scholars.
"I just don't know if Ji Hui and Qiao Kangquan will be like Yan Wangqiu and Su Xuange, who reject domestic scholars and take advantage of me."
Lu Yuan was thinking this in his mind, but he had already decided that after some time, when he found an opportunity, he would go and test it out.
But in his estimation, it might be difficult to tell Qiao Kangquan's side.
After all, they were born into a noble family and were close to the imperial court. They naturally knew the role of those scholars, so it might be difficult to recruit talents from them.
But on the side of Holy Monk Ji Hui, it should be much simpler.
After all, the other party has a special status. He is a holy monk in a Buddhist holy land, and what he wants to establish is a Buddhist kingdom.
As for this kind of Buddhist country, those scholars are naturally not interested in it, and are even hostile and disgusted.
By the same token, this kind of Buddhist country governs the country by faith and precepts, not by royal ethics.
Scholars actually play little role in the Buddhist Kingdom.
Thinking about it from this perspective, Saint Monk Ji Hui might be able to write more articles.
Lu Yuan noted this down and finished writing the last line in his hand. He called his own soldiers and sent people to deliver several letters to various places, and finally his hands were empty.
Now that the army is resting and recuperating, there is not much military affairs for the time being. With nothing to do, Lu Yuan continued to practice Taiping Taoism.
In the past few days, with the arrival of officials at all levels in Changsha from the rear, local production has gradually resumed, and the people are living in peace and tranquility, the good luck gathering around him has become more and more abundant.
Since the Northern Expedition, Lu Yuan has won consecutive battles, not only defeating enemy armies repeatedly, but also killing powerful enemies. It even expanded three prefectures and recruited hundreds of thousands of people.
This kind of harvest made his luck soar.
Now the Northern Expedition has only been a month, but my luck has increased by 30% compared to before the Northern Expedition.
This 30% increase in luck, when reflected, is a great improvement in his cultivation.
The mana accumulated in the body now, including what was consumed in the previous two battles with Xiantian, is enough for Lu Yuan to use eleven spells.
This kind of growth is extremely gratifying.
Lu Yuan has a deep understanding of the power of magic.
Even the weakest spell is as powerful as a full-strength strike from a first-level innate master.
Since it was a full blow, it would naturally take a lot of energy to do something that even an innate master could not do a few times.
Anyway, judging from Lu Yuan's own calculation, he used his martial arts outer body with all his strength, and based on his current amount of energy, he could only use it six or seven times at most.
After that, the true energy will be exhausted and you will fall into a weak state.
So if you look at it from this perspective, Lu Yuan's mana accumulation at this time is already equivalent to that of two innate masters.
Of course, things can't just look at one point.
First of all, this kind of all-out attack, even among innate masters, is used to determine the outcome after a long battle to discover the enemy's weaknesses.
It is impossible to use it during normal combat.
Because when the enemy is on guard, even if you strike with all your strength, they will be able to evade the defense and block most of the damage. It is impossible to kill them with one strike.
Therefore, it is extremely difficult or even impossible to forcibly kill an innate master with these dozen spells.
But even so, relying on these spells, even without martial arts strength, relying solely on the power of immortality, Lu Yuan is enough to face the innate master without defeat.
At this moment, in terms of immortality and martial arts, his strength can finally be said to be on par.
"I have been practicing Taiping Taoism for just over two months, but I have been practicing martial arts for eighteen years. Two months versus eighteen years, the gap between immortality and martial arts, no, it should be said that Taiping Taoism is terrifying, The abnormality of luck is really shocking." Lu Yuan couldn't help but be speechless.
Ordinary immortal skills and cultivation are naturally not so fast.
Just like the Five Thunder Dao Shu he practiced, he has been practicing it for two years now.
But over the past two years, the magic power Lu Yuan had accumulated was extremely thin. Even counting the two spells consumed in the first two attempts to kill Xiantian. The mana saved so far is only enough to cast five spells.
At this time, there was only the mana left to cast three spells.
At this rate, it would take at least four years for him to accumulate ten spells comparable to those of an innate master.
After four years of practice, he has grown to the point where he is comparable to the innate. Compared to martial arts, this speed is actually quite fast.
But compared to the speedy immortal way, this kind of ordinary immortal way is still too inferior and ordinary compared to the way of luck in the immortal way.
"No wonder the Way of Luck has so many side effects and loses so many lifespans, yet so many people still go to practice it. If nothing else, the speed of cultivation alone is worth the loss of lifespan."
Lu Yuan's understanding of the way of luck is that it is roughly similar to a time accelerator.
Your life is accelerated compared to other people's at the same time. Therefore, during the acceleration period, your cultivation is stronger than others, but similarly, your lifespan also disappears faster than others.
Therefore, for immortal cultivators, practicing the way of luck is equivalent to shortening what originally took hundreds of years to just a few years.
Which one is better or worse depends on each person's needs.
Anyway, Lu Yuan liked this kind of acceleration technique.
After practicing for a day and night, he accumulated enough mana to cast one-sixth of a spell. When a new day arrived, Lu Yuan ended his practice.
Then he practiced his sword skills, had breakfast, and read a book for a while, then Zhou Qing came.
According to yesterday's plan, Lu Yuan would need to use fairy energy to purify Zhou Qing's internal energy in the next three days.
Now is the first day.
It is not difficult to purify the internal energy. For Lu Yuan, he only needs to use his own spiritual consciousness to control the fairy energy in the jade piece, and then send it directly into Zhou Qing's body.
When the time comes, these fairy spirits will naturally improve and imbue his physique, slowly strengthening and purifying his soul and internal strength.
The only thing that needs to be noted is that suddenly injecting too much fairy spirit energy may make Zhou Qing's body unable to bear it. This requires someone to watch over and make timely adjustments.
And this is what Lu Yuan wants to do.
An hour passed quickly.
Inside the camp, Lu Yuan put away the jade pendant, then looked at his disciple and asked, "Xiaoqing, how do you feel?"
Zhou Qing opened his eyes, with a comfortable expression on his face: "It's very comfortable. I feel light all over, and I'm a few pounds lighter."
Lu Yuan smiled and said: "This is a normal behavior. The human body is turbid and contains too much filthy air. Therefore, when the fairy spirit enters the body, it will neutralize and dispel these filthy air, making the human body clean.
This feeling will subside after you digest these fairy spirits and expel the dirty energy from your body.
And by then, your inner strength and soul will also be enhanced. "
Zhou Qing nodded, then stood up and saluted Lu Yuan: "Master taught the disciples the Dharma. This kindness will never be repaid by the disciples, and I will never dare to forget it in this life."
Lu Yuan helped him up: "Okay, I told you not to talk about this. At this time, the fairy spirit energy is still being digested. You should go back and practice your breathing exercises first to refine it."
Zhou Qing said: "Yes, disciple, I obey."
Then, the eldest disciple stood up and left the camp.
After Zhou Qing left, Lu Yuan continued to practice Taiping Taoism and accumulated his own magic power.
During this period, except for a meal at noon, I spent all my time practicing.
Regarding his own time planning, even though he is an immortal, he is still strict and hardworking and does not waste anything.
Especially now that the spiritual energy of the earth is thin and its stock is dwindling. Every time a cultivator in the world exhales a bit of fairy spirit, the world loses a bit.
Therefore, for Lu Yuan, every time he breathed in a little more fairy spirit and refined a little more mana, he felt like he had earned it.
After all, if you breathe out more fairy energy and refine your magic power, you will naturally have less fairy energy and magic power available to others.
This feeling of being pressed for time, racing against time, and catching up day and night.
I have to say, it's quite exciting.
He was addicted to it and felt that cultivating immortals made me happy, and he couldn't help himself.
But in the afternoon, Lu Yuan had to stop enjoying this joy of cultivating immortality.
This was not because he was tired, but mainly because someone from Bai Mengyang came and called him to attend the military meeting.
When business came, Lu Yuan had to put aside his practice, tidy up his clothes, and rush to attend the meeting.
When we arrived at the Chinese army's tent and entered it, everyone was almost there.
Seeing his arrival, Bai Mengyang, the Marquis of Wu'an, was the first to say: "The King of Changsha, Saint Monk Ji Hui and the head of the Qiao family have already received a reply. After discussion, they are willing to accept the exchange request from the King of Changsha." , replacing the three prefectures of Yuzhong, Linjiang and Wushan.
However, there is a prerequisite for this, that is, the King of Changsha must first capture the three prefectures of Hanzhong County and hold them until the two of them found the country before they can make a replacement.
And if by the time the two of them founded the country, the three prefectures of Hanzhong County in the hands of the King of Changsha were not preserved, then this agreement would be void.
What does the King of Changsha think? "
Inside the camp, Bai Mengyang took out two reply letters, shook them, and spoke to Lu Yuan in a deep voice.
