"Since Yin Qing has been appointed, don't rush into anything. You can go back and settle your disciples first. When everything is ready, it won't be too late to come back and take orders."
After registering his fate, Lu Yuan looked at Yin Huixuan and said pointedly.
It is impossible for everyone to agree with Yin Huixuan's move to join the clan. There will always be some people who do not understand the general situation or who are interested in Ning State and are unwilling to surrender to Chu State.
For these stubborn guys, Chu State will definitely use thunderous means to resolutely attack and eradicate them.
However, instead of the Chu State taking action and expanding the scope of the attack to affect innocent people, it is better to let Yin Huixuan, the sect leader, clean up the matter first, so as not to cause trouble in the future and involve him.
This means that the sect is governed by the sect, and the rivers and lakes are governed by the rivers and lakes.
"Yes, thank you Your Majesty for your tolerance."
Yin Huixuan heard Lu Yuan's intention and immediately replied: "I will go back to sort out the general affairs first. After everything is settled, I will bring my disciples to the king's tent to listen to him."
Lu Yuan nodded with satisfaction, then raised his glass to see off the guests: "You are interested."
Yin Huixuan understood and saluted, "Your Majesty is busy with official duties, so I don't dare to disturb you. I'll take my leave now."
"Go." Lu Yuan said calmly.
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After sending Yin Huixuan away, Lu Yuan thought for a while and confirmed that nothing had been missed before he felt relieved. He was not in a hurry to summon Xuan Chengzi, and planned to show off the Taoist Master Ziyun first.
Ziyundao has brought a lot of trouble to Lu Yuan over the years.
It can even be said that Chu's hegemony was almost destroyed in the hands of the other party.
Four divine guardian generals came out of the mountain gate directly, and gave Ningguo a large amount of divine blood elixirs, helping the other side to cultivate four innate martial princes. It can be said that they single-handedly raised up most of Ningguo's top combat power.
In addition, Ziyundao also donated a large amount of gold and silver to Ningguo. According to the investigation of the Imperial City Division, the cumulative amount reached hundreds of millions.
He also mobilized the believers and asked them to join the army enthusiastically to help Ning State conquer Chu State.
Just now Lu Yuan said that with Yin Huixuan, he could win 100,000 soldiers, which may be an exaggeration.
But Ning Guo's acquisition of Ziyun Dao, such as the acquisition of two hundred thousand soldiers, was not exaggerated at all, and there were even omissions!
Tell me, can Lu Yuan not hate such a Ziyundao and such a Xuanchengzi?
If it weren't for Ziyun Dao now being in Ning State, there would be four Wuhou. In the mountain gate, there are still a few innates who are still strong and powerful.
Lu Yuan had already led his troops to defeat this evil mountain gate.
"Now let this thief out to dry, temper his spirit, and then see how this person reacts." Lu Yuan thought in his heart.
How could he not know the purpose of Xuanchengzi's coming? Just like Yin Huixuan, he saw that Ning State was defeated and Chu was about to unify Jiangnan, so he rushed to seek refuge.
No, Ziyundao should have some intention of apologizing for coming here.
After all, the Liuyang Sect has always adhered to neutrality and has never interfered in Chu Ning's affairs. Although there was panic, it was better and not too panicked.
But Ziyundao is the kind of real traitor who is attached to the enemy and needs to be eradicated to avoid future troubles forever.
They helped Ning Guo resist Da Chu and caused countless losses to Chu State, which could not be let go easily.
Lu Yuan would not let them go without showing enough sincerity and paying enough price.
Otherwise, he would rather pay huge casualties and destroy the Ziyun Taoist lineage to vent his hatred.
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Ziyundao was waiting there, and Lu Yuan just asked people to look at Xuan Chengzi, pay attention to his words and actions, and report them in time, but he didn't pay much attention.
His energy was refocused on military affairs.
Recently, with Lu Yuan's sorting out, half a million prisoners from various countries have completed the initial reorganization and absorption.
With the elimination of the old and weak, a two-tier system of local government and county soldiers was quickly established in the newly occupied Lingnan and Jiangdong counties.
These newly built prefecture and county soldiers, in conjunction with officials at all levels urgently transferred from the country, have initially stabilized local order by cracking down on bandits and encouraging farming and business, allowing the counties in both places to resume normal life and production.
However, there is a slight flaw in these newly built prefecture and county soldiers. Their county captains and commanders are generally low in strength. They are basically third-rate warriors as county captains and second-rate warriors as commanders.
Compared with the normal standard configuration of a second-rate county captain and a first-rate commander, it is indeed quite shabby.
The fundamental reason why this phenomenon occurred was that Lu Yuan suddenly expanded a large number of forbidden troops and county soldiers, adding more than 200,000 troops and horses, which resulted in many gaps in the army for officers and generals.
The system of Ning State is different from that of Chu State. They govern the country with members of aristocratic families, and officials are based on family status. Even if there is a system of selecting officials through the imperial examination, without background and background, even if you succeed in becoming an official, it will be difficult to rise to a high position.
Looking around Ningguo, all the imperial courts are high-ranking, all the prefectures and counties are poor people, and the real class has a monopoly.
In the State of Chu, talents were selected through the imperial examination based on ability.
As long as the ability and talent are high enough, the prime minister and general can do it.
The best examples are the disciples of Sun Siwen and Lu Yuan.
Regardless of their friendship with Lu Yuan, everyone has to admit that these high-level officials of Chu State all came from poor families at the bottom.
In the end, thanks to my own efforts and Lu Yuan's appreciation, I got to where I am today step by step.
Even the Soviet Union and the South China Sea are basically nepotistic.
The officers and generals in the Imperial Army are all from the original Nanhai Sect and Jiuchuan Sword Sect. They are deeply bound to the Su family and the Yan family, and it is difficult to distinguish them from each other.
Therefore, these two extreme methods of selecting and employing talents also made it difficult for Lu Yuan to accept all the prisoners of the Three Kingdoms.
For example, those captured generals were either from Linhai aristocratic families, and their families were still resisting the invasion of Chu.
Either he is a disciple of the Nanhai Sect or the Jiuchuan Sword Sect, and has a grudge against Lu Yuan for killing his master, his disciples, his fellow sects, or annihilating his sect.
Tell me, even though these people have talents, does Lu Yuan dare to use them?
Of course I don't dare.
Therefore, to recruit prisoners of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Yuan could only recruit the soldiers at the lowest level. All middle and high-level generals would never be appointed unless they could confirm that they were not closely involved with the senior leaders of the Three Kingdoms.
But these middle and high-level generals could not absorb them. Lu Yuan had to find ways to train and appoint officers for the half a million troops he had organized.
But how easy is it to make up for the officer vacancy in an army of 500,000 people at once?
Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, in order to ensure the integrity of the main forces such as the imperial army and county soldiers.
When Lu Yuan was organizing and training the armies, he had to sacrifice the local security forces first and give priority to ensuring the deployment of officers for the main force.
This has also resulted in the current situation that the military commanders, commanders, county lieutenants and other officials at the grassroots level are generally low in strength.
But even with this configuration, because there were so many troops and horses being reorganized, there were still a lot of vacancies in the official positions of commanders, county lieutenants, etc. in the newly occupied prefectures and counties of the Chu State.
This led to the phenomenon that there were soldiers but no generals in the local area, and ultimately the army could only be controlled by civil servants such as county magistrates and prefects.
Naturally, this situation of indistinguishability between civil and military affairs, with amateurs commanding experts, cannot be allowed to continue.
So when Yin Huixuan came to serve, Lu Yuan didn't have any embarrassment and just accepted him directly, and also asked him to recommend more disciples so that more of his disciples could come to serve in the Chu Kingdom.
Its purpose is to take a fancy to the huge reserve of masters within the Liuyang Sect.
As a Xiantian sect well-known in the three states, there are no less than twenty first-rate masters in the Liuyang Sect; hundreds of second-rate masters; and thousands of third-rate masters and below.
If the Chu State could obtain and utilize such a huge reserve of masters, the current gap in local masters at the grassroots level could be filled in an instant.
Now on the Liuyang Sect, Lu Yuan has asked Yin Huixuan to go back and reorganize. It won't be long before many masters from the Liuyang Sect will come with him and shine for the Chu Kingdom.
As for whether filling in so many masters of the Liuyang Sect at once will cause the Sixyang Sect to become more powerful in Chu State, there is no need to worry about this.
Although there are many masters in Liuyang Sect, compared to Chu State, they are still not enough.
Nowadays, there are hundreds of first-rate masters, over a thousand second-rate masters, and tens of thousands of third-rate and lower ranks in Chu's court, local government offices, and military camps.
The Liuyang Sect's wealth is not even close to the eleventh in the Chu Kingdom, so it's nothing at all.
What's more, in today's world, whether a force is strong or not depends on the number of innate masters.
Without an innate master, no matter how many ordinary first- and second-rate masters there are, it will not help.
Among the Liuyang Sect, there is only one Xiantian Grandmaster, Yin Huixuan; in Chu State, there are already fifteen Xiantian Grandmasters.
If you include the vassal countries and Ziyun Dao who are about to take refuge, there will be even more, and the number of innate people will exceed twenty.
Compared with more than twenty innates, even if Yin Huixuan is a grandmaster of the second innate realm, he is nothing.
And this gap will rapidly widen and deepen in the future as Chu's power continues to expand.
The longer time goes by, the less influence local forces such as the Liuyang Sect will have on Chu.
If we wait until the real Jueling Age, when all the innates are dead and only Lu Yuan and his clones are left, then the influence of many other forces without innates may be even smaller.
At that time, one person can control a state and ensure the long-term stability of a country.
Therefore, Lu Yuan had never worried about the digestive problems of the people sent by Yin Huixuan and Liuyang, but instead used them with confidence and boldness.
As for the county soldiers, Lu Yuan's arrangements are like this for the time being.
The establishment will be supplemented first, and then through time and the additions from the Liuyang Sect and others, the quality of grassroots county lieutenants, commanders and other official positions will be slowly improved.
After more than ten years of this, we can replenish our foundation.
After dealing with the grassroots security garrison, Lu Yuan also began to make plans for other forbidden troops and county soldiers.
In this battle, Chu State acquired the territory of Yuzhang, Jian'an, Nanhai, Yulin, and Tonghai, a total of four and a half counties.
Each of these five counties has prepared 10,000 soldiers, and arranged for Lu Yuan's cronies to take charge.
However, these five counties are all in Xinping, where there are still a large number of defeated bandits and bandits. The remnants of the Three Kingdoms are also hiding in the dark, always thinking of coming out to cause trouble.
At the same time, the five counties are all bordering on enemy countries, and the two counties of Tonghai and Yulin are intersecting with Dali and Song. Both of these two countries can send out 100,000 troops, and they have innate masters.
Without innate control, it will never be stable.
Yuzhang and Jian'an counties were on the front line with Ningguo.
Although Ning Guo was defeated, he must always be thinking about taking back the two counties.
Even now, although the war has ceased, wars involving hundreds and thousands of people will still break out at the border between the two counties from time to time, never ending.
In addition, over the past thousand years, the Linhai family has been deeply involved in the two counties of Yuzhang and Jian'an for a long time. It is entangled in the local areas and has buried many secrets.
Without strong personnel to guard these two counties, the place cannot be stabilized.
The only good place in Nanhai County is that there are also a large number of former Nanhai Navy troops scattered outside, numbering tens of thousands.
These naval officers are all direct descendants of the Nanhai Kingdom. The generals are either descendants of the Yan family or are from the Nanhai faction, and have a hatred of the Chu Kingdom to destroy the country and the family.
These people were neither willing to follow the princes of the South China Sea to evacuate to Ning State, nor to surrender to Chu State.
Eventually they all gathered together and began to wreak havoc in Chu's South China Sea territory.
From time to time, they would go ashore to harass and attack, attack cities and towns, and plunder money, which has become a major problem in the South China Sea.
Queen Lan Cai'er, who is responsible for guarding the local area, has been very worried about this in recent months.
He led the surrendered Nanhai navy to the sea several times to search for traces of these pirates, but in the end he gained little. He only killed hundreds of pirates and returned depressed.
Therefore, in order to deal with these pirates and prevent possible dangers, Ningguo sent navy across the sea, and Nanhai County also needed innate masters to guard it.
The land of these five counties needs to be watched over by five innate masters to ensure that it is safe.
At the same time, formal arrangements for local military affairs also need to be made in the west.
Therefore, after Lu Yuan thought about it, he ordered his disciple Li Liang to serve as the defense envoy of Yulin County, Zhuang Hua as the defense envoy of Nanhai County, Han Shun as the defense envoy of Hanzhong County, and Zhang You as the defense envoy of Xichuan Army.
He ordered these four disciples to go out of the town for him, take charge of the military affairs of each county, and appease the enemy inside and outside.
Han Hua, the former defense envoy of Xichuan County, was transferred to the defense envoy of Hehe County.
In addition, Han Hu, the god of national protection, was appointed as the defense envoy of Tonghai County.
In Dongting County, Sun Siwen, the left prime minister, is based in Baling. From then on, he will be stationed in the country to handle government affairs and arrange food and grass. He will no longer go on expeditions except under special circumstances.
In addition, due to the cessation of the war, foreign troops such as Han Liang, the defense envoy of Qianzhong County, Zhou Qing, the general and Zhou Qing, the defense envoy of Xiangyang County, Li Xiong of Kunhaigong, Li Chuan of Chili State, etc. also led their troops back to the county and country to recuperate.
Well, just last month, after successive defeats in various battlefields, the Yang Jing tribe of the Ning Army, which had been clinging to Dongsan Prefecture in Xiangyang, Jiangbei, finally gave up on the Jiangbei battlefield, led the remnants of the troops to board the naval battleship, and fled back to Jinling in embarrassment .
Zhou Qing took advantage of the opportunity to take over Xiangyang County of Ningguo and unified the land north of the Yangtze River.
At this time, except for the three prefectures of Xiangyang County of the Zhou State in the north of the Han River and located in Zhongzhou, the rest of the seven prefectures of Xiangyang in the south of the river have entered the hands of the Chu State.
At the same time, on Chu Wei's side, Lu Yuan also ordered him to return to the navy, and led the boats to take over the two water villages of Xiakou and Pengli, occupying the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and completely improving Chu's water defense.
In this way, in the old land of Chu and the counties in Lingnan, each county was assigned an innate guard, which was enough to keep the place impregnable.
As for the two counties of Yuzhang and Jian'an located in the east of the Yangtze River, close to the front line with Ningguo, Lu Yuan appointed Huang Xuan as the general manager of Yuzhang County and Qingyunzi as the general manager of Jian'an County, taking charge of all important military and political affairs of the counties under their jurisdiction.
In addition, Lu Yuan, Queen Lan Cai'er, and Princess Lingnu will be stationed in Yuzhang County.
In addition, Chu Wei also led the navy and was stationed at Pengli Water Camp.
Yin Huixuan, who has just come to seek refuge, will also be assigned to Jian'an County as Qing Yunzi's deputy to monitor Ning Guo after he returns and takes up his post.
In this way, in the two frontline counties, Yuzhang will have five innates and Jian'an will have two innates. Among them, there will be more than four grandmasters above the second level.
With such strength, even if the remaining eleven Xiantians of Ning State came to kill him, they would still be enough to stop him.
In terms of innate masters, the Chu State is already well-positioned.
Prefecture and county soldiers, county soldiers, naval forces, and Xiantian Grand Masters have all made arrangements.
As for the rest of the Forbidden Army, Lu Yuan also made adjustments.
After reorganization, Chu State had a total of thirty-five forbidden troops, totaling 700,000 people.
Among these armies, Lu Yuan restored the three counties of Hanzhong County, Xiangyang County, and Dongting County, with five forbidden troops each.
The other three counties of Xichuan, Qianzhong and Nanhai each stationed a forbidden army.
Tonghai County and Yulin County need to strengthen their defense because they are close to Dali and Song Dynasty. Therefore, Tonghaijun stationed two Forbidden Army troops and Yulin County stationed three Forbidden Army units, for a total of five Forbidden Army units.
As for River Valley County, it is located in the rear and on the border, so no imperial troops are stationed, and only county soldiers are responsible for local defense.
The above eight counties used a total of twenty-three forbidden troops.
Of the remaining twelve imperial troops, totaling 240,000 people, Lu Yuan deployed five in Jian'an County, and the remaining seven remained in Yuzhang County to be responsible for frontline defense.
In this way, after three months of sorting out the series of military and horse defense adjustments of Chu State after the war, they were finally completed in early August of the 11th year of Shenwu, just before autumn.
In the next few years, if there are no major changes, there will basically be no adjustments.
Chu State will also enter a long period of digestion.
In the land south of the Yangtze River, before unification, the only remaining peaceful time came.
On Lu Yuan's side, he was also busy with all his official duties. After taking care of Xuanchengzi for a month, he finally took the time to meet the Taoist Master Ziyun.
In the past few months, Yin Huixuan, who returned to the sect to deal with hidden dangers, had already cleared up other different voices in the sect, and finally led the sect's three thousand disciples to join the Chu State.
After Lu Yuan inspected them, he dispersed these Liuyang Sect disciples and assigned them to serve as local prefectural and county soldiers, as well as patrolling positions under the Yamen.
He did not hide this information. With Ziyundao's channels, he could easily learn it.
At the same time, the Chu State's series of military and horse defense adjustments were not covered up. Anyone who is interested can know the general outline of the situation by asking a little bit.
But after all these news spread, Xuanchengzi, who had been kept by Lu Yuan in the post house in Nanchang City, still did not move at all. He just stayed in the guest house every day, looking indifferent.
According to the report of the people sent by Lu Yuan to monitor him, this guy meditates in morning classes every day, reads scriptures and practices, and is leisurely and contented.
This thief, Ziyundao, didn't seem to be afraid at all. Chu State would attack Ziyundao.
Seeing this, Lu Yuan also knew that it would be useless to leave it to dry.
Therefore, after finishing the work at hand, he sent someone to inform Xuanchengzi to come to his house to have an audience.
