One day later, the results of the negotiations between the courtiers and the Xueyuan people came out quickly.
In Yongzhou and the snowfields in the north, winter has begun, and wind and snow have begun to fall.
The war between the Tibetan people and the Zhou people also reached its most intense moment.
If the Tibetan people on the snowy plains want to avoid fewer deaths this winter, they have to take advantage of the winter to grab more supplies and food from the Zhou people.
Therefore, the spring and autumn are often the times when the war between the Tibetan people and the Zhou people is most intense.
At this time, in Hexi and Longxi counties, hundreds of thousands of Tibetan troops were fighting with the Zhou people, and they were at a disadvantage. It was the time when external assistance was urgently needed.
If Lu Yuan was able to send troops at this time, then when the Chu troops came to Hanzhong County, even if they did nothing later, it would be enough to arouse the fear of the Zhou people.
With such a powerful enemy peeping from the side, the Zhou people had no choice but to mobilize heavy troops and deploy defenses around Hanzhong County to prevent Chu from moving north.
This way.
In He and Long counties, the pressure of the Tibetan plundering army in autumn can naturally be alleviated a lot.
If we have no choice but to grab more food supplies and go back this autumn, hundreds of thousands of people in the tribe will die less.
With this general premise, the negotiations between the two parties were naturally rapid.
Some of the terms that Lu Yuan strongly demanded, such as the 100 million taels of silver that the Tibetan people paid to buy Chu's troops, after discussions, several Tibetan envoys agreed that they could be teleported back to the snowy plain now and have them sent over immediately.
When these Tibetan envoys came, they brought with them the messenger wind eagle domesticated in the snowy plains. This is a strange beast tamed by the secret technique of the great Mo religion. According to legend, it is the degeneration of the divine blood alien species and has a trace of alien blood.
This eagle can fly three thousand miles a day, faster than the world's best BMW.
With this strange beast, even if the snowfield is thousands of miles away, the news can be sent back within three days.
When the news is received over there, the silver will be transported over. If the speed is faster, maybe the first batch of silver can be delivered in time for the trade between Zhou and Chu on October 3rd, that is, before Lu Yuan launches his army. Riverdale County.
After all, in order to impress the Chu State, those Xueyuan people had already collected money, and the money was all readily available.
They also wanted the Chu State to send troops as soon as possible, so they sent the money to an area near Hehe County early and hid it in advance.
Now just give an order and transportation can start at any time.
Regarding this, Lu Yuan, who had received the envoy's guarantee, was naturally quite satisfied.
However, Lu Yuan was more interested in the wind eagles tamed by the Tibetan people than the money that was almost in his pocket.
Nowadays, as the territory of the Chu State is getting larger and larger, the country's east, west, north, and south are all three to four thousand miles apart.
It is 3,700 miles from the capital of Baling to the county town of Hehe Valley. Even if you take a fast boat and a horse, it will take you at least five days to get there.
If the entire Yangzhou is unified in the future, it will be seven or eight thousand miles away from Linhai County in the east of Yangzhou to Hehe County in the west.
Such a long distance, the courier has to travel eight hundred miles, and it will take more than ten days to go there.
And if Chu State continues to expand to the north after unifying Yangzhou, the land area will be larger and the distance between the four directions will be further.
At that time, it is possible that the country will take a month, or even more than two or three months, to spread the news from the northernmost to the southernmost, and from the easternmost to the westernmost.
As everyone knows.
Communications, roads, and timely communication from top to bottom are the key factors that test an empire's control over local areas.
Lu Yuan's Chu State at this time has no need for this yet.
But after he unified Yangzhou, it was nearly ten thousand miles from east to west. Such a wide area had already affected Chu State's control of the local area to some extent.
Although he and each clone have a spiritual connection with each other, they can still sense each other even if they are thousands of miles apart, and can ignore the communication between the central and local governments to a certain extent.
But even so, he currently only has two clones, which can only cover two counties at most.
Just two counties won't help at all.
You must know that Chu State has five counties, and it will soon become six counties.
Even if the cooperation with the Tibetan people goes smoothly, Chu's territory will soon become seven counties, eight counties, or nine counties.
When the area expanded so much, Lu Yuan naturally needed more effective means to achieve rapid communication between the central and local governments.
Although the post system currently being maintained is good, it can deliver messages over 800 miles a day and a night.
But in this world of great strife, in this world of innate masters and immortal masters, there are too many dangers and too many emergencies.
Chu State needs better communication methods and better communication technology to maintain local rule.
So after learning about the existence of this strange beast, the Wind Eagle, Lu Yuan specially summoned the envoy of the Damo Sect and asked if he could sell some of the strange beast, the Wind Eagle, to the Chu State.
The envoy would certainly not be stingy with the King of Chu, who had a smooth cooperation and was about to marry his spiritual daughter and become his own divine uncle.
It's just that the strange beast Wind Eagle has a different bloodline and is difficult to tame. It even needs to be fed divine blood elixirs to help it deepen its bloodline before it can grow.
If you want to tame an adult wind eagle, you will need to spend at least ten divine blood pills from birth.
Given the trend in today's world where spiritual energy is gradually drying up and divine blood alien species are gradually aging, dying and degenerating, the Damo Sect does not have many divine blood elixirs to feed these alien beasts, the wind eagles.
Today, there are only thirty-three wind eagles in the entire sect, and ten of them have been distributed to the tribes in the snow field. Except for some underage eagles and some for their own use, the Damo Sect has at most only I can send ten wind eagles to Lu Yuan.
Moreover, after sending the Wind Eagle, the Damo Sect had to withhold 100 of the five hundred pills originally promised to Lu Yuan.
Because they want to retrain ten wind eagles, these one hundred magic pills are the growth food for the wind eagles.
Lu Yuan naturally agreed to this request.
Just a hundred divine blood elixirs.
With this little elixir in his hands, he could train at most a few top-notch masters, but it would not be of much use to the current state of Chu.
The Chu State now only lacks innate masters, not first-rate masters.
One hundred elixirs are far from enough to cultivate an innate master. On the contrary, ten wind eagles, if used well, can solve the communication problem between Chu State and the local area.
The value that can be exerted in this is far greater than that of a first-class master.
After all, the Wind Eagle can travel three thousand miles a day. But a top-notch expert can only travel a thousand miles a day even if he is exhausted.
The communication speed difference of three times is enough to wipe out the value of a first-class expert.
At least Lu Yuan felt that ten wind eagles were worth much more than ten first-class masters.
Because the former has a special source and a rare bloodline, the quantity is destined to be limited.
Even if the latter does not have the divine blood elixir, a warrior with good talent and good skills can become a first-rate master after decades.
Can something that is rare and cannot be mass-produced have the same value as something that can be mass-produced?
After 100 million taels of silver, the matter of the strange beast Wind Eagle was settled.
The Da Mo Sect spirit girl at the back, as well as the spirit girl's four hundred dowry pills, will only be sent over by the Xueyuan Fan people after Lu Yuan sends troops.
in short.
It was necessary for Lu Yuan to make a statement first, send troops to attack Zhou State, and give the queen a certificate of surrender.
People from other countries will marry a spirit girl and give a dowry.
This is very reasonable, and Lu Yuan has no objection.
After all, they are willing to give 100 million taels of silver first, so what kind of sincerity do they need from the other party?
Instead, now is the time for him to show his sincerity.
Lu Yuan quickly gave this sincerity.
After reaching a preliminary intention to cooperate, on September 30th, Lu Yuan summoned the ministers and publicly canonized Qingyunzi as the real protector of the country, ranking first grade.
Then that day, he ordered the clone to go north overnight to Xicheng Mansion in Xiangyang County to take over the imperial army and navy that had arrived there.
Over at Xicheng Mansion, Chu State has secretly gathered 60,000 forbidden troops, 10,000 county soldiers, and 20,000 navy troops, totaling 90,000 troops.
On the day of the transaction on the third day of October, Qingyunzi will lead the 90,000 people on land and water to launch a surprise attack on the Zhou Kingdom and attack Hanzhong County.
At the same time, there are also 40,000 forbidden troops and 10,000 county soldiers in Xichuan County, a total of 50,000 people on standby at Jianmen Pass.
The person in charge of the two counties of Hehe and Xichuan appointed by Lu Yuan, the real protector of the country, the clone Huang Xuan, also quietly arrived at Jianmen Pass a few days ago.
When the time comes, they will attack Hanzhong County from the south and serve as a partial army to support Qingyunzi.
Yes.
This time to attack Hanzhong County, Lu Yuan had no intention of personally leading the troops, but was preparing to hand over the war to his two clones.
Originally, Lu Yuan was planning to send the newly trained clone Qingyunzi to Qianzhong County.
At the same time, he had no immediate preparations to send troops to attack Hanzhong County.
However, the Zhou State sent envoys to buy grain. Ji Hui and Cui Changqing, two important ministers of the Chu State, died of illness. The Xueyuan Fan people sent people to seek alliance...
This series of huge changes brought many opportunities, but also undoubtedly disrupted Lu Yuan's arrangements.
In order to carry out the plan of concealing the truth, confuse the Zhou people, and show weakness to the outside world, Qingyunzi, who originally planned to be exposed, had to hide in the snow.
After Ji Hui passed away, Sun Siwen needed to rein in the situation and was unable to get out.
Faced with signs of unrest and instability in Qianzhong County, Lu Yuan had no choice but to send Queen Lan Cai'er to inspect the southwest and stabilize the local people.
Without the queen sitting in the court and relying on Sun Siwen alone, it would be impossible to stabilize the court and intimidate all parties.
Of the kings and queens of Chu, one must stay in the capital, so as to stabilize people's hearts.
So when the queen left, the king, Lu Yuan, naturally had no choice but to stay.
And seriously.
Without him, the founding monarch, and the intimidation of the current god of war, it would be difficult to contain Ning Guo, whose strength in the east has increased dramatically after recuperation and who is beginning to be ready to make moves.
Lu Yuan's personal intimidation alone is no less than that of four or five innate masters in the eyes of the world.
After all, the achievements of the Xiantian Four Killers were the lessons of blood and tears given by the Xiantian Grandmasters with their lives.
Coupled with Lu Yuan's reputation of not losing a single battle for decades, with him leading the army, the Chu State would have no less than an additional 200,000 troops.
As long as there is only one Chu king sitting in Baling, the Chu country will have two or three more innates and hundreds of thousands of troops out of thin air.
As long as he was around, Ning Ren would never send troops to Chu, no matter how restless he was.
certainly.
Although he was very confident in his reputation, Lu Yuan didn't really think that he alone could intimidate Jiangdong and feel completely at ease.
After making the decision to sit in Baling and coordinate the rear.
After confirming the alliance with the Xueyuan people, he issued an order to carry out a new round of military expansion in the country.
Lu Yuan planned to recruit another 100,000 people from the country and train five new forbidden armies.
Today, the various ministries of Chu State only have 490,000 standing troops. In this era of great strife, they can barely meet the basic defense needs.
It is a situation where there is more than enough internal defense but not enough progress.
Just like this time in the conquest of Hanzhong, apart from the local garrison troops in Xichuan and Xiangyang counties, the central government of Chu State could only send 60,000 troops to participate in the war, including 20,000 naval forces.
This strength naturally made Lu Yuan feel dissatisfied.
But in the past, due to financial problems, Chu State could not feed too many troops.
Even if the troops are insufficient, there is nothing we can do.
But now that there are 100 million taels of silver supported by the Xueyuan people, the above military expenditure issue is naturally not a problem.
Not to mention recruiting 100,000 new soldiers, even if it recruits 500,000, Chu State can afford it.
However, although it was said that he could support 500,000 new recruits, Lu Yuan was not really crazy and he really directly recruited 500,000 soldiers.
Now the ratio of soldiers to civilians in Chu State is sixteen to one.
That is to say, among the sixteen people in Chu State, including men, women, old and young, one person is serving as a soldier.
If Lu Yuan really recruits another 500,000 people, then the size of the army will directly exceed one million. With the Chu State's population of 8 million, it is equivalent to one out of eight people. Every household will have someone serving as a soldier.
How crazy this is.
If you really do that, not only will the quality of the soldiers you recruit vary, but they will also include a large number of old and weak soldiers.
It will seriously affect the local production of Chu State, resulting in not enough people to farm, a large-scale reduction in grain production, labor in the city and commerce in various places will wither, and tax revenue will be greatly reduced.
Of course Lu Yuan would not do this kind of thing of fishing from the lake.
So this is a conscription. He only plans to recruit 100,000 people and maintain the ratio of soldiers to civilians at 13:1, which means that two or three households can support one standing soldier.
This can not only ensure the quality of the troops, but also keep the impact on the local area within a controllable range. It will not affect production and taxation, and will not cause much loss to Chu's national power.
At the same time, one hundred thousand soldiers can almost meet the needs of Chu State.
At least with these 100,000 people, plus Dongting County's original 100,000 forbidden troops, 30,000 county soldiers, 5,000 Jinwu guards and 5,000 palace guards, Dongting County has a standing force of 240,000. Soldiers and horses.
With such a large army, including the two innate masters Lu Yuan and Sun Shiwen, without taking the initiative to attack, even if the Ning Kingdom came to attack with all their strength, they would not be able to get the slightest advantage.
Just right.
Jiangdong Ningguo is recruiting 150,000 new soldiers and plans to expand the number of domestic troops to 800,000.
Lu Yuan now also recruited 100,000 troops, expanding his troops to 600,000.
If there is still a need to expand the army in the future, after Hanzhong County is captured and more than one million people are obtained, and new sources of troops are obtained, tens of thousands more can be recruited from there.
After marrying the spiritual daughter of the Damo Sect, the number of innate masters of the Chu Kingdom has further expanded, and they can also go to conquer the Nanhai Kingdom and the Su Kingdom.
After Lingnan is captured, more troops can be recruited.
By rolling this snowball several times, Chu State will be able to expand its army to 800,000 troops like Ning State without affecting domestic production.
For every step of future development, Lu Yuan has already had a clear plan in mind, and at this time he is just following the steps.
However, after shouldering the two important tasks of guarding the rear and expanding the army, Lu Yuan naturally had no spare time to take care of other things.
So no matter whether he was willing or not, he had no way to intervene in the Battle of Hanzhong this time and could only leave it to Huang Xuan and Qingyunzi.
Fortunately, these two people were his avatars, so Lu Yuan had nothing to worry about when they were asked to lead the troops in the war.
Even if he wanted to, he could directly control this battle thousands of miles away through spiritual contact and give indirect command.
It's just that there's not much need for it.
Both Huang Xuan and Qing Yunzi inherited part of Lu Yuan's memories and abilities. They both had extraordinary abilities in terms of personal force and troop commanding ability. They could complete their tasks well without the need for him as the subject to interfere too much.
Huang Xuan had already proven this during the previous conquest of the Jianchuan Kingdom in the Southwest War.
This clone led an army of tens of thousands and defeated the Jianchuan Kingdom without much effort, and led the army to plunder part of the territory directly under Nanzhao. It was quite outstanding.
With this example, the Chu State had made many preparations for the Battle of Hanzhong. When the Zhou people were not prepared at all, Lu Yuan naturally had nothing to worry about.
"And there is an advantage to letting Qingyunzi take action this time.
Since this clone is going to frighten the Southwest in the future, no one will be convinced without any achievements. "
In Baling City, it was already the third day of October. After Lu Yuan finished handling some trivial matters regarding recruitment, he couldn't help but look to the distant north, as if he could see the Hanzhong battlefield thousands of miles away.
Previously, Huang Xuan was able to intimidate Southwest due to his record of defeating the Jianchuan Kingdom and his personal strength shown several times.
As Huang Xuan's successor, Qingyunzi naturally needs merit and achievements to intimidate the hearts of the southwest.
This time he led the troops to seize Hanzhong County, and if it goes well, Dongfang Wuyun, the general of the Nanzhu Kingdom who killed the Zhou people, will use his innate achievements in one county to declare to the world the power of Qingyunzi.
I believe that with these two things, when this real clone arrives in the southwest, it will be enough to scare the unruly barbarians there and the restless vassal states.
at the same time.
Two thousand miles away from Baling, at the border of Xiangyang and Hanzhong counties, more than 10,000 Zhou soldiers and more than 100,000 Hanzhong civilians were pushing carts and small carts, looking eagerly at the pier towards the lower reaches of the Han River. .
And in their eyes.
A ship with the characters "Chu" and "Liang" was facing the early morning sunshine and broke through the fog on the river.
Against the backdrop of the frost-covered grass and trees on both sides, they drove quickly towards the dock.
However, what was loaded on a ship was not the food that the Zhou people were looking forward to, but the elite Chu soldiers who were all ready, waiting to stop the ship and dock, and kill them.
At the front of the fleet, a figure in a green robe stood facing the wind with his hands on his back and an extraordinary demeanor.
It is Qingyunzi.
At this time, he had taken over the fleet and the tens of thousands of forbidden troops carried on the fleet.
With such a powerful army behind them, they looked at the unprepared Zhou soldiers in front, and looked at the Zhou general who wanted to come up and contact them under the banner of banner.
A cold smile appeared on Qingyunzi's face: "Send the order, prepare the bow and crossbow, shoot!"
After approaching a hundred feet away, with an order, clusters of dark clouds flew up, and the terrifying man-eating beast tore off its disguise.
