Chengdu Prefecture, Jinguan City.
The army with high morale came from the east and marched into the city with unparalleled momentum.
Lu Yuan was riding on his horse, looking around at this world-famous majestic city.
There are a lot of signs of damage on the mottled city walls, and there are some faint dark red stains that vaguely tell the story of the terrible wars that this city has experienced.
Many of the original bluestone streets are now full of potholes, and most of the houses and tiles on both sides have been damaged. Some have even collapsed without anyone taking care of them.
Occasionally, some eyes came from the houses, but they only glanced twice. When they saw the fierce soldiers on the street, they shrank back like fertilized rabbits, not daring to look again.
Lu Yuan noticed all this and couldn't help but shook his head in disappointment.
The world's most powerful capital, which was once known as Baling, has fallen into such a state in just over ten years, which is really sad.
Today's Baling City, as the capital of Da Chu, has a household registration of 150,000 and nearly 700,000 permanent residents.
And here in Jinguan City, the grand occasion of 100,000 households in the city is no longer there. After searching all over the city, whether we can find 5,000 households is a question.
War is indeed the most destructive thing to a place, and in some aspects it is even more terrifying than natural disasters.
Walking all the way through the streets, we soon arrived at the palace in the center of the city.
The royal palace in Jinguan City has a long history, and is said to be thousands of years old.
In the beginning, the royal palace here was built by the barbarians living in the Xichuan area, and this place served as the capital of the local barbarian country for thousands of years.
Later, those barbarians were defeated by the Qiang people, and the Xichuan area was dominated by the Qiang people. As the political center, Jinguan City naturally became the capital of the Qiang people.
The royal palace here was naturally inherited and preserved, and even expanded and built as the population multiplied.
Later, seven hundred years ago, Jinling City was dominated by the Kingdom of Wu, which belonged to the previous dynasty of Qianyue.
At that time, Emperor Wu sent 500,000 horse infantry and 200,000 naval troops up the Shuo River to conquer the Qiang Kingdom in Xichuan.
In the end, after three years of fighting, this place was destroyed and Xichuan County was established here.
At the beginning, it was because of the new expansion of Xichuan County, in order to stabilize this place, and to win people's hearts. Therefore, Emperor Wu often visited this place in the west and stayed in the city intermittently for more than ten years.
The royal palace in Jinguan City was also preserved as the villa of Emperor Wu.
In the subsequent dynasties, from time to time, some emperors would visit this place in the west either out of war needs or out of interest.
The residence is naturally the palace in the city.
Later, when Li Xiong rebelled, Lu Yuan led the Changsha army to recover, the Xichuan Kingdom was built, and the Nanzhao army invaded, they did not damage the palace building much, and at most they robbed some of the palace belongings.
Therefore, compared to most of the dilapidated buildings in the city, the royal palace, which has been somewhat maintained from time to time, has become the most complete building in the city.
Now that Lu Yuan had regained Xichuan County and entered Jinguan City, he naturally did his part and directly used this place as the Great Chu Palace and settled there.
There were actually not many people in the palace.
The beautiful court ladies that Li Xiong had previously plundered from various places in Xichuan had all been plundered by Lu Yuan when Lu Yuan launched his Northern Expedition ten years ago and raided Xichuan.
More than a thousand beauties from Xichuan, half of whom were the best, entered the Chu Palace and became his forbidden concubines. Most of them were rewarded by him to the ministers and generals of the DPRK, leaving nothing here.
It was the group of monks from Baifeng Temple who later established the Xichuan Kingdom. Even the monks who established the Buddhist kingdom had strict rules and regulations. It was impossible to get close to women, at least on the surface.
So even though Ji Hui lived in the palace, there were only monks and some eunuchs left over from previous owners.
There were about a hundred of these eunuchs. Ji Hui took pity on them and did not expel them. Instead, he stayed in the palace, asked them to do cleaning work, and raised them.
The above is the public information about the Xichuan Palace that the Imperial City Foreign Affairs Bureau has collected over the years.
And after Lu Yuan entered the palace.
In the square in front of the main hall, a group of graceful nuns wearing gray clothes came to Lu Yuan under the escort of the personal guards who were entering the palace.
Seeing his king, a guard general who led the team hurriedly came over, bowed and then reported: "Your Majesty, the general has been ordered to clean up the palace city and has captured more than 500 maids in the palace. They were all from Nanzhao last year. After the army invaded Xichuan, they looted it from various places.
There were also more than 300 monks. These were all captured by the Nanzhao army. They originally lived in the palace. However, after they were captured, they were all castrated by the order of the Nanzhao prince. As eunuchs, they were responsible for cleaning the palace. city.
There are also more than a hundred monks and nuns, some of whom originally lived in the palace city, and some of whom were captured from temples in various places after the Nanzhao army captured Xichuan Kingdom.
Finally, there were more than a hundred eunuchs left, all of whom were old men in the palace.
All of them add up to a total of 1,093 people. Please tell me how to deal with them. "
After listening to these reports, Lu Yuan looked at the crowd in the square who were driven from all over the palace city.
Among them were palace maids, monks, nuns, and eunuchs. At this time, they were surrounded by a large army. They all looked frightened and looked here nervously and fearfully.
After looking around, his eyes focused on the palace maid and the nun for a moment.
Especially the latter, although he is wearing monk's robes, his graceful and graceful figure cannot be concealed at all. And being able to be accommodated in the palace was obviously regarded as a forbidden concubine by the monks of Xichuan Kingdom and the eldest prince of Nanzhao Army. His appearance was the best choice.
Even Lu Yuan couldn't help but be greatly moved after seeing some of these top-notch products.
In particular, some female nuns actually possess internal martial arts skills, and they are people from the martial arts world, but I don’t know if they came from Bai Feng Temple.
'By the way, when I first traveled through time, I aspired to be an emperor, a martial arts overlord, three palaces and six courtyards, and find those ladies from aristocratic families, witches, seductresses, and saints as wives.
Nowadays, ladies from aristocratic families, those aristocratic families from all over the Chu Kingdom have contributed a lot in recent years, and they are tired of playing in the palace, and there are not many surprises.
Witch, my queen must be qualified.
The witch has not been found yet, but we may focus on searching for one in the future.
In terms of saints, these nuns who were born in Hakuho Temple are barely half of them, and they can more or less get what they want. '
Lu Yuan's eyes kept wandering over those nuns, thinking happily in his heart.
Since she gave birth to her second son, Lu Hao, four years ago, the third year of Shenwu, she has spent a lot of time taking care of her two children and has not had much time to deal with herself.
In addition, the status is really different, and a king cannot have only one woman, so with good words and comfort, Lu Yuan finally got Lan Cai'er and completed the queen's work, so that he could open up the harem with the other party's tacit approval.
After that, he completely let go of his nature, doing whatever felt good and comfortable.
Lu Yuan had played with all the maids in the palace, the ladies from aristocratic families who were offered as gifts from outside the palace, the heroines of the rivers and lakes provided by the local martial arts sects, and the Xiaojia Biyu collected by the local government.
What is the purpose of his hard training so far?
Immortality?
This Lu Yuan existed when he traveled through time.
A tremendous strength?
Under the desire of self-preservation, this person has worked hard for nearly twenty years and barely reached the pinnacle of this world, enough to be on par with those immortal Taoist masters.
Power?
He is already the King of Chu, and controls four counties and two kingdoms. Except for those overlords of the world, there are few people in the world who are more powerful than him.
Lu Yuan already has life span, strength, and power.
For him, what others are pursuing is no longer a problem.
So after having enough confidence, Lu Yuan naturally only pursues enjoyment.
You have worked hard for so many years and worked so hard to build this foundation. If you don't enjoy it, what's the point of working hard?
Just to pass it on to future generations?
Whether those descendants can survive themselves is still a question!
Therefore, what ordinary people struggle with and value is meaningless to Lu Yuan.
He doesn't have to worry about it so much, he just needs to do whatever he wants.
This is freedom and freedom.
Shaking his head and throwing away these distracting thoughts, Lu Yuan took his eyes away from the nuns and looked at the palace maid next to him.
The remaining palace maids are not bad either. Although most of them are just top-notch in appearance, there are also some top-notch ones who are no worse than the women in his palace.
He couldn't help but nodded secretly.
"Those castrated monks should all be returned to Hakuho Temple and let them deal with it themselves. Since those eunuchs are old people, they should stay and be responsible for taking care of the palace.
As for those nuns and palace maids..."
Lu Yuan looked at the beauties whom I felt pity for, and after thinking for a while, he ordered: "Select the ones with acceptable 'qualifications' among them, and bring them back to Baling and fill them into the palace.
The remaining ones with ordinary qualifications will be left to stay here permanently and be responsible for taking care of the palace.
Another part is also pointed out, and I want to reward the soldiers who have made meritorious service in this battle. "
When he mentioned the word 'qualification', Lu Yuan emphasized his voice.
The general of the bodyguard beside him was his confidant. Hearing this, he immediately understood what the so-called 'qualification' meant and immediately accepted the order: "General, I understand, let's make arrangements now."
Seeing this, Lu Yuan nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand and said, "Go."
I have been fighting abroad for two years.
When he was in Qianzhong County, he also enjoyed a lot of beauties with unique Yi people's flavor, and the taste was intoxicating.
Now that he has arrived in Xichuan, although he has enjoyed the beauties here among the batch of Xishu palace ladies he captured earlier, they are not new.
But those female nuns had never experienced it before.
Lu Yuan's heart melted when he looked at the nun who had both a sacred and charming temperament. He almost couldn't help but want to take her into the palace immediately, love her, and comfort these guys who were frightened by the war.
Fortunately, he had practiced cultivation for many years and had sufficient concentration, so this was not really the case.
Now that Xichuan County has just been recaptured, many military and government affairs are pouring in. They have piled up and are urgently needed by Lu Yuan to deal with. This is not the time to have fun.
And with the instructions just now, when I finish my official duties and go to bed at night, I will definitely make proper arrangements for the people under my command.
Take those beauties you like, wash them white and fragrant, and send them to your bed.
In the dead of night, in the stillness of the spring night, there is a unique feeling.
There is no rush now.
Lu Yuan looked forward to it with interest.
…
After waving his hand to arrange the handling of the people in the palace, Lu Yuan went to the Xiji Hall in the palace and summoned the officials in the city, mainly local officials from Xichuan County.
Since Jinguan City was conquered, Xichuan County, which was originally established in Dongsan Prefecture of Xichuan, naturally moved to Jinguan City. This is the central city of Xichuan that has been inherited for thousands of years and is the legitimate county seat.
Because it already had a complete county team, after regaining the five prefectures of Xichuan at this time, the Chu State did not need to spend much effort to quickly establish a new county in Xichuan County, which has now expanded to eight prefectures. Effective governance comes.
As for those officials who are lacking in the five western prefectures, Lu Yuan has asked people to open up Enke in the country and recruit a thousand candidates and Jinshi to supplement the five western prefectures in Xichuan County and the newly established Jianchang and Jianchuan Second Prefectures in Qianzhong County. There is a shortage of government officials.
Now that Enke has ended as early as April, there are thousands of new imperial examination candidates and Jinshi in Baling City, eagerly waiting for appointments from the court so that they can take up their posts as officials.
Now that both battles have been successful in the spring and the land of two counties and seven mansions has been successfully developed, it is also time for these newcomers to take office and help Dachu restore stability to the place.
Therefore, after previously annihilating the main force of Nanzhao in Nanchong Prefecture, Lu Yuan had already issued an order to return to the country and asked officials to be immediately selected and sent to various places in Xichuan and central Guizhou.
Now most of the officials have taken up their posts and have begun to set up government structures and reorganize places in various prefectures and counties in Xichuan.
Therefore, Lu Yuan did not need to take care of these chores. He summoned Xichuan County Sheriff at this time for other instructions.
“Now Xichuan County has been restored, but the new areas of the Five Prefectures are all dilapidated, the households are in ruins, and there is no human habitation for thousands of miles.
This won't work, it must be changed, and the vitality of this county must be restored. "
Lu Yuan looked at the hurried Xichuan County Sheriff with a majestic and solemn expression: "The more than 100,000 refugees who were originally stationed in Yuzhong Mansion can now be sent back to their place of origin by the county government and settled down again.
There are also three prefectures in the east of Xichuan. There are also too many people. There are countless people with no land and little land, and the people are impoverished.
The county government must also find ways to recruit landless and landless people and move them back to Xiwufu, Xichuan County for proper resettlement.
In the two counties of Xiangyang and Dongting, Gu also asked the court to order people to go to the two counties to recruit people and move to Xichuan.
As for Qianzhong County and Southwest Yi, Gu will also allow some Yi people to move over. The total number may be 200,000, and you must also do a good job in receiving them. "
Lu Yuan had already made a plan to relocate people to the three eastern prefectures of Xichuan County and Dongting and Xiangyang counties.
Before the war started this year, the domestic court had already made preparations.
At this time, it was just a matter of communication with Xichuan County.
As for the relocation of Yi people in Qianzhong County and Southwest Yi, Lu Yuan took into account the newly established Jianchang and Huichuan Prefectures in Qianzhong County. There were too many Yi people in the area, nearly 200,000.
Considering the current situation of large numbers of immigrants in Xichuan and central Guizhou, there is simply not enough native population to absorb the foreigners in these two places.
Coupled with the middle front, Huang Xuan's side has successfully defeated the Jianchuan Kingdom, and has occupied the opponent's capital. Now they are plundering the local wealth and population, and have gained more than 100,000 Jianchuan Kingdom Yi people.
These two groups add up to more than 300,000 Yi people, and Qianzhong County simply cannot afford it.
Therefore, Lu Yuan simply decided to move 200,000 people to Xichuan.
Anyway, there is a lack of a large population here, and immigrants are also coming from the country. In the end, it is expected that there will be one million Chu people in the Five Prefectures.
With a huge basic base, it actually doesn't take much effort to digest 200,000 barbarians.
Moreover, after being separated from the southwest region and dispersed in various prefectures and counties, these barbarians are like rootless duckweeds, unable to make waves.
As long as the local prefectural and county militia groups are there, there is no need to worry about them causing trouble.
However, after Huang Xuan defeated the main force of Jianchuan Kingdom, the Yi people in Jianchuan Kingdom did not have much resistance.
The Jianchuan Kingdom is a big country. Counting the vassal states under its jurisdiction, it covers an area of about five prefectures and has a population of close to one million.
In addition, the mainland of Nanzhao Kingdom is being harassed by Chili and Kunhai, and many territories have been lost. Faced with the brazen invasion of the two countries' hundreds of thousands of troops and the two innates, Nanzhao Kingdom does not dare to be careless at all.
At this time, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses have been gathered to fight against the coalition forces of the two countries. There is no energy left to control Jianchuan Kingdom.
Therefore, theoretically speaking, Jianchuan State is now in a state of being occupied by Chu State.
As long as Lu Yuan is willing, he can set up a county and a government here at any time and open up another three thousand miles of mountains and rivers for the Chu Kingdom.
But now Lu Yuan is not very interested in the bumpy mountains in Jianchuan.
The place is full of barbarians and barren mountains. There is not much benefit in conquering it. On the contrary, it will cost money and people to manage it.
Moreover, Chu State does not have that many innate masters who have gone to sit here.
Therefore, Lu Yuan's plan to deal with the area was to collect as much money and food as possible, and rob the barbarians by the way, intending to move them back to the country to supplement the local population that was lacking due to large-scale immigration.
Based on this concept, he had already communicated with the soul and ordered Huang Xuan to kidnap more women and children in Jianchuan, then move them back to the country and place them in various places in Chu State. Then they would be distributed to meritorious soldiers and local men without wives.
As for those Yi men, just stay in Jianchuan Kingdom and let them go.
They were not citizens of Chu State, so Lu Yuan didn't bother to care about them.
"Yes, I obey."
The current governor of Xichuan County is named Shen Xin, who is also an old man when Lu Yuan started his career.
During the Shaoyang Prefecture period, he was the local county magistrate.
Later, as the power of the Lu Yuan Group expanded, he gradually rose through the ranks, and successively held important positions in local magistrates and the imperial court. He was considered a capable man.
The other party's ability has been tested, so Lu Yuan is naturally relieved to use it. Therefore, seeing that the other party knows what he is going to do, he waves him off.
After the person left, he asked someone to summon the next person.
This person was no better than Shen Xin, and he was not a close confidant of Chu State. But in terms of status, it is far more important.
There is no other reason than that his name is Ji Hui, the innate master, his identity is the former leader of Xichuan Kingdom, and now the leader of Baifeng Temple.
After regaining the entire territory of Xichuan Kingdom, Lu Yuan finally took some time to make good arrangements for the master who surrendered.
