Lu Yuan's words were indeed sincere.
For him, the Kunhai area on the other side of the river is very good.
With lake water and rich land, it can feed millions of people with a little management, making it an important base for conquering southwestern Yi.
But for Da Chu, who has now swallowed up one county in Southwest Yi, it is extremely difficult to digest the current one county and eight mansions. It is full of difficulties and is about to be exhausted.
At this time, if you attack the Kunhai area and add such a large territory, it is simply because you don't want to die fast enough and you want to self-destruct on the spot.
So for Lu Yuan, although Kunhai is good, it is equivalent to poison to him.
It may feel sweet for a moment when you eat it, but when the poison spreads to your body, limbs, and bones, that's when the poison attacks and kills you.
For him, there is no need to rush to expand externally. He has a long life to wait slowly.
To conquer the southwestern Yi region, one can completely imitate the previous imperial courts of Jinling and spend more than a hundred or two hundred years slowly expanding one county after another.
It took five to six hundred years for the southwestern barbarians to be annexed and digested.
Otherwise, the consequences of rapid expansion would be the same as when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms in his previous life. The territory was conquered, but there were not enough officials to rule it, so the remnants of the Six Kingdoms could only be used.
The local people also yearned for their homeland and hated Qin's laws. Therefore, when the First Emperor was still there, his control over the local area was in shambles.
Can you believe that Qin Shihuang still encountered bandits in the Gyeonggi area?
Can you believe that the ministers of the DPRK openly tolerated traitors such as Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu who were wanted by the court?
Zhang Liang assassinated the First Emperor, but the First Emperor could not find the assassin. Can you believe this?
Not even mentioning the First Emperor, Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty is an obvious example.
Before the southern expedition, it looked like everything was going well in the north and everyone surrendered. As a result, there was a huge defeat and the entire empire collapsed.
Even if he is still alive, he cannot stop this trend.
All the above examples illustrate how serious and fatal it is for a dynasty to expand too fast and become fat in one breath.
And regardless of whether it is the victory over Qin or the former Qin, any place where they unified and recognized Chinese culture can be considered a part of Zhuxia.
What Lu Yuan is conquering now are the Yi people who are completely different from the Miao descendants of the Three Emperors and the Dongyang people, whose cultural system, belief civilization, and blood group are completely different.
For this kind of enemy, if he had to learn to expand quickly and swallow him in one breath, then Lu Yuan really didn't know how his big Chu would die?
He is a stable person and also has stable capital.
With his endless lifespan, he does not need to be like those world heroes in history. Because his lifespan is gradually coming to an end, he is eager to complete all his achievements in his own lifetime.
What to do to fight for your fate?
Therefore, in the above situation, Lu Yuan would naturally not be foolish enough to repeat historical risks.
Take it step by step and eat it slowly, bite by bite. This is the strategy that is most beneficial to others and the country of Chu.
In order for him to eat and digest Qianzhong County with peace of mind, the promise he just made to Li Xiong is crucial.
Although he can't eat Kunhai, it doesn't mean that Lu Yuan wants to give up this prosperous land to Da Changhe Kingdom.
If the Yi country is allowed to continue to occupy this territory, then with the support of this place, the Dachanghe country can rest for ten years, then it can regenerate its strength and continue to harass and attack Qianzhong County.
On the premise that the other party has ethnic identity, belief identity, and righteousness, it is difficult to say whether the relatively honest Yi people in Qianzhong County will be incited to rebel against the Chu State.
This is very possible.
Therefore, for the sake of the stability of Qianzhong County, and for Da Chu to be able to digest Qianzhong County quietly and quickly.
It is necessary to erect a barrier between Qianzhong County and Dachanghe State, establish a buffer zone, and set up a target for the barbarians on the opposite side.
Then here comes the problem.
Who will afford this barrier, where should this buffer zone be located, and who can withstand the firepower of this target?
The final answers and candidates to the above three questions can actually only point to one person, and that is Li Xiong.
This person is ambitious. As long as he gives the Kunhai area to the other party, Li Xiong, who has already occupied such a piece of land that can be called a king, will never give up this acquired territory.
Therefore, if he established a country here, he would definitely be able to carry the banner and become a solid barrier for Chu to resist the counterattack of the southwestern barbarians.
same.
The Kunhai area was robbed by Li Xiong, and the Dachanghe country and the Chiliyi people would never be reconciled to losing this land.
The other two overlords in the southwest, Dali Kingdom and Nanzhao Kingdom, could not just sit back and watch the Dongyang people operate a base here and penetrate into their traditional territory.
Therefore, these three parties will eventually join forces to counterattack Li Xiong and Lu Yuan who have already reached out.
And when that time comes, they want to attack Lu Yuan and Lu Yuan's Qianzhong County, so the first person to cross the border is Li Xiong.
Before Li Xiong was defeated, it was impossible for them to reach out and jump over this powerful obstacle to interfere with Lu Yuan's development in Qianzhong County.
At most, they could only send out some small-scale spies to infiltrate and encourage some ignorant barbarians to harass Qianzhong County.
But such small-scale harassment was naturally severely suppressed by local and county soldiers.
As long as the enemy does not approach the city in large numbers, there will be no major riots in central Guizhou.
Even if the opponent's innate master personally infiltrates, this situation is unlikely to happen.
Because Lu Yuan only planned to help Li Xiong capture the Erhai area, he didn't think much about the Eleven Yi Kingdom and a large part of the Huichuan Kingdom to the east of Erhai, which was directly controlled by Da Changhe Kingdom.
And the above many territories combined cover more than half of the county.
With this foundation and a little unification, even the two innate masters in the country, including Da Chang and the country, can barely maintain a dominant position.
He hadn't lost everything yet, and even retained a large part of his family fortune. It was naturally impossible for Daichangwaguo, who had not become a bachelor, to kill his master personally and carry out sneak attacks and massacres everywhere.
Because you can do this, Lu Yuan can also do the same in reverse.
In the end, it's just a matter of consumption, endurance, and who dies first.
And with the size of Chu State, there is a high probability that the opponent will lose first and die first, and Chu State will be severely damaged.
This is a lose-lose approach. As long as the other party still has sense and wants to save the last half of the county's foundation, it is impossible for him to do such crazy things.
In this way, Lu Yuanzhi could safely digest the territory he had already acquired.
'Hmph, if you want to come to Jinling, you must have been waiting to see my jokes, right? '
Lu Yuan couldn't help but sneer when he thought of this: "Since I sent troops to the southwestern barbarians, how could I not have thought of all the difficulties encountered by the Jinling dynasties when they expanded abroad?"
There are already strategies to deal with this.
Now Li Xiong is a barrier, leaving a small part of the foundation of Da Changhe Kingdom, and it is also a clampdown.
With these two items in place, it will not take a hundred years for Da Chu to digest Qianzhong County. Twenty or thirty years will be enough. '
Lu Yuan was feeling proud when next to him, Li Xiong got his affirmative promise, but he had already recovered from his excitement.
At this time, he knelt down directly and prostrated himself on the ground: "Your Majesty has such great trust in me, and I have received such great kindness, and I have nothing to repay. Those barbarians in front of me are blocking me from the water. I am willing to personally lead the dead soldiers to serve as your king." Cross the river and attack them. If we don't defeat the Yi soldiers, we swear we won't return them."
Lu Yuan has already issued a reward. At this time, all the territory west of Lu River and the entire Kunhai area that can be conquered will be immediately awarded to Li Xiong.
So now every battle fought and every piece of land captured belongs to oneself.
Li Xiong's subjective initiative at this time was as high as ever.
Because he knows that he is not fighting for others, but for himself.
When it comes to helping yourself to gain benefits, if you are not proactive, how can you expect others to be proactive?
I, Li, will do my part in attacking the barbarians.
However, in the face of his invitation to fight, Lu Yuan just smiled and did not agree. He shook his head and said: "I know Li Qing is eager, but there is no rush at this time. The chief minister and his army are on guard, and Li Chuan and the other country's great witch festival are also very The incompetent people have reached the point where their hearts are set, and there is no way they will give in.
It is uncertain whether we can gain anything by storming at this time, but casualties will definitely be inevitable.
Although those barbarian soldiers are not valuable, spending them here is also a waste.
Let's wait for now.
It’s a new year now, and changes are coming, so I just have to wait and see, and the opportunity will come soon. "
Hearing this, Li Xiong calmed down for a moment, and then he couldn't help but be confused.
variable?
Chance?
What does this mean? Could it be that the King of Chu in front of him has other arrangements to give him the confidence to break through the Lushui defense line in front of him?
Li Xiong was guessing like this, but he also felt a sense of expectation.
As Lu Yuan said, it is not easy to break through this line of defense.
Even if he personally leads the charge, he doesn't have much confidence that he can win.
Lichuan and Dashaji of the Great Chowa Kingdom are also veteran innate masters. Although their strength has not yet reached the second level, they are also senior masters among them.
If we compare carefully, the new generation of grandmasters like Li Xiong may not necessarily be stronger than these two.
At this time, there are two people on the other side of the river who are joining forces. Even if Li Xiong takes action personally, there is no benefit at all.
Even with Lu Yuan's current strength, he didn't dare to say that he could defeat the opponent after taking action.
After all, although the gap between the second innate realm and the first realm is huge, they are still within the same realm. Although their strength is strong or weak, they cannot be said to be at the level of crushing.
Even if he was caught off guard and caught the opponent off guard with his magic, it would be very difficult to kill the opponent directly if someone was there to help him, and it could even be said that the hope was slim.
Not to mention, those two people are backed by an army of more than 100,000 people. They can escape into the army at any time when they see something wrong, which makes them even harder to kill.
That's why.
Although Lu Yuan had tentatively fought against Li Chuan and the great wizard several times before, he always used his martial arts strength and never showed off his immortal magic.
This is because he did not find a suitable opportunity and was unwilling to expose his strength too much without being able to guarantee a one-hit kill.
If you want to kill these two people, you have to wait until the other party is alone or seriously injured.
Just like Gui Lianyun and Zhang Chanyi, who had been killed before, they took advantage of the opponent's weakness and being alone to attack and assassinate them quickly. This was the correct way to deal with the innate master.
Otherwise, the consequence of the mistake would be the same as that of He Basheng, the general of the Beizhu Kingdom who attacked the Zhou Kingdom in Hanzhong County during the previous Northern Expedition. Even if he used immortal magic, he would even hurt the opponent.
But in the end, the man was allowed to escape back to the army, failing to achieve full success.
It was because of the lessons he had learned from such mistakes that Lu Yuan became more and more familiar with the secret of concealing his strength when dealing with others.
If you are not completely sure, you will never reveal your full strength easily.
…
During a conversation by the river, Lu Yuan successfully appeased Li Xiong and obtained a very useful chess piece.
In the days that followed, Lu Yuan continued to lead his troops to garrison in Anning City. Apart from occasionally sending some troops to fight on the river with Da Changhe's army on the other side, there was nothing else to do.
So he also took advantage of this free time to devote his energy to cultivation.
Since the war with the southwestern barbarians, the Chu State has won successive battles. Now it has captured one county and eight mansions and opened up more than 3,000 miles of territory.
Although Qianzhong County is still being gradually developed and digested, even some prefectures and counties at the grassroots level are only in rudimentary form and are far from establishing a stable rule.
But having directly conquered such a large territory and captured nearly a million barbarians, the luck it brought was also extremely considerable.
Not to mention more, the development of this county directly increased the total amount of luck controlled by Lu Yuan by one tenth.
And this is only temporary.
As the development of Qianzhong County further deepened, local governance stabilized, and the conquered Yi people continued to return.
The luck provided here will continue to grow, and it is not impossible to eventually reach 30% of the current luck.
But it will take a long time to reach this level. It will take another twenty or thirty years, so don’t have such delusions.
But even without mentioning the future, Lu Yuan was already pleasantly surprised by the help he received now.
All in all, Qianzhong County has a bright future.
In addition to the luck provided by Qianzhong County, during this period, as the news of Zhou Qing's breakthrough in innateness continued to ferment, the hearts of the people within Chu State became more and more stable.
Even the attitudes of neighboring countries toward Chu changed accordingly.
In addition to the expansion of southwestern Yi, Qianzhong County was established.
Invisibly, Chu's national character and strength have further improved in the eyes of the world, and it has gradually become somewhat of a hegemon.
After all, this is already a behemoth that controls four counties and twenty-five mansions. It has a territory of more than ten thousand miles, a household registration of more than one million, and three innate masters.
With this kind of strength, even compared to Ning Guo, it is not much different.
In the eyes of the world, the Chu State was now qualified to compete with the Ning State for the hegemony of Yangzhou, and could even be called a minor hegemon.
This improvement in cognition has invisibly made the world more aware of the Chu State, and people's hearts have gradually gathered around it, which invisibly has improved a lot of luck.
At this time, Lu Yuan's total amount of luck was nearly 30% more than before the war started.
If his total luck was ten before the war started, then his total luck had now risen to thirteen, which was a huge improvement.
Another benefit brought by the improvement in luck is that Lu Yuan's practice of Taiping Taoism has accelerated by about 30% compared to before the war started.
Moreover, when his luck surged, his strength also exceeded a lot, and the mana in his body further increased.
"At this time, I estimate that in another half a year, I will be able to gather my energy and start the path to immortality, right?"
Lu Yuan communicated with the Tianzhu with his soul, and drew a wave of fairy energy from it. After breathing it out, he stopped refining the mana and couldn't help but think deeply.
In the past few months, although he has been leading troops to conquer the southwestern barbarians, he has also been paying extremely close attention to the movements of Danding Road in the north.
Not only did he instruct the Imperial City Department to pay more attention to the movements of Danding Road, but also to check whether there was any large-scale personnel transfer on this road to prevent them from making a surprise move south.
At the same time, he himself always hides among the army and will never act alone unless necessary.
The few occasional outings, such as the last inspection of the construction status of various prefectures and counties in Qianzhong County, were also in places not far from the army. It can ensure that you can quickly return to the army if you are in danger.
If you are so careful, you will be on guard against Dan Ding Dao coming to seek revenge on you.
But now after waiting for almost a year, the time has come to the fifth year of Shenwu, but there is still no movement in Danding Dao.
No news came from the Liang Kingdom in the north.
The Imperial City Division's report only stated that there were no changes in the manpower of all parties involved in Dan Ding Dao. Some Taoist priests on the mountain are practicing hard as usual and show no signs of leaving.
At the same time, various surveillance within the Chu State did not detect the large-scale influx of groups from the Liang State. Everything seemed to be calm.
Just like Dan Ding Dao has no thoughts of revenge.
"Is it all because I'm overthinking it?"
Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel a little suspicious when he thought about the various messages he had received in the past few days and his daily feelings.
Is it possible that those people in the Alchemy Way were really scared away by him and did not dare to come back in revenge?
This sect, which is known as one of the six major branches of Taoism, is so cowardly?
Lu Yuan didn't know what to say for a moment.
"No matter what the Alchemy Dao thinks, I can hold on for another half a year anyway. I will be able to break through and gather my energy. By then, even if the Alchemy Dao comes to attack me, I will not be afraid at all given my strength.
The enemy can make all kinds of plans, but I only focus on improving my strength. If I follow my plan, I can overcome my cleverness and suppress everything.
Dan Ding said, it will be nothing more than that. "
Lu Yuan shook his head, and then continued to attract the spirit of the immortal spirit through the Tianzhu, and began to practice seriously.
In a world where great power is concentrated in one body, instead of hoping that the enemy will not come to trouble you, you should try your best to improve your own strength.
As long as the strength is enough, the original trouble will not be trouble.
The originally terrifying enemy will no longer be terrifying.
What about Danding Dao?
When you gather your energy and start the immortal path, if the other party dares to come, just fight back.
Everyone has a unified cultivation. You have several immortal cultivators over there, and I also have several martial arts masters here. Who is afraid of whom?
Not to mention, Lu Yuan had hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command.
Time, he just needs time now, time to grow.
As long as half a year passes, the Alchemy Cauldron will no longer be scary.
