After confirming the master-slave cooperative relationship, the relationship between Lu Yuan and Xuan Chengzi has eased a lot.
Then we can discuss further cooperation.
Thinking back to the fact that just before he took refuge, he was even an enemy of the Chu State, which was regarded as a bad deed.
So when he entered the Chu Kingdom, Xuanchengzi began to take the initiative to make suggestions, hoping to make contributions and secure his position.
"Your Majesty, the four divine generals who protect the Dharma in our sect are all serving as generals in the Ningren Army. They each command different armies. The total number is about 130,000, and most of them are stationed in the southeast of Linhai County.
If your Majesty needs it, I can send a message to these four people, asking them to turn their troops against each other, open the checkpoint, and lead the Chu army to enter and seize the eastern region of Linhai County.
What does the king think? "
Xuan Chengzi looked at Lu Yuan, full of expectation.
Ziyundao sent a total of four protector gods out of Shining Kingdom, named Xuanyu, Xuanyin, Xuanyi, and Xuanxi.
Of these four people, Xuanyu was originally on the battlefield in Jiangbei, and had recently fled back to the capital, Jinling, with Yang Jing. At present, he is in charge of the remnants of more than ten thousand Ning people in Jiangbei and is stationed outside Jinling City.
Xuanyin and Xuanyi were originally ordered to lead troops to attack Hengyang and Luyang in the Chu State. However, they were cut off by Li Xiong when he attacked Luling in Yuzhang. They were severely defeated and eventually fled back to Ning State alone.
Later, due to the successive deaths of Xiang Duan, Li Dao, Bai Yi'an and other Linhai aristocratic families in battle, Ningguo's top-level combat power was suddenly in short supply, with no one available.
So the two men were re-appointed, each with 50,000 troops, and were stationed in Xin'an and Dongyang in the south of Linhai County in Ning State to guard against the Chu army in the south of Linhai County.
Xuanxi followed Shangguan Ming into Lingnan to aid the Nanhai Kingdom. In the end, because he was defeated by Qingyunzi, he fled with the remnants of the Nanhai Kingdom by boat and retreated to the country.
After returning to China, Xuanxi followed Shangguan Ming and led the army to camp in Yongjia and Linhai areas in the southeast of Linhai County. He was responsible for Linhai Prefecture in the rear and commanded more than 20,000 troops.
Therefore, the four divine generals of Ziyun Dao led a total of four armies, totaling about 130,000 people.
Among them, Xuanyin and Xuanyi were solely responsible for the defense line in one direction and had monopoly power.
Xuan Chengzi dared to offer this strategy not with empty words, but with considerable confidence.
"Not urgent."
Lu Yuan looked at Xuanchengzi who was a little eager and waved his hand: "Now that I am the new leader of Chu, I have expanded the territory to nearly 30,000 miles and added tens of millions of people. I have already expanded a bit too fast.
At this time, there is a shortage of officials in various local governments, and the central government is urgently deploying them; local people are frightened, but they also need to appease people's hearts; the troops and horses have just been reorganized and still need to be tempered.
At this time, there is no intention to continue sending troops to attack Ningguo.
Let's let it go for two or three years. After our great Chu has digested the results of this battle, it won't be too late to mobilize troops to unify Jiangdong. "
Lu Yuan rejected the proposal to mobilize troops immediately.
Now in the newly occupied territory of Chu State, officials in various places are not fully equipped, and the operation of the government is problematic.
Without completely filling these vacant official positions, Chu State would not be able to implement its own policies and maintain its rule at the grassroots level.
Moreover, there are two counties in Jiangdong, and there are two counties in Song Dynasty. If these four counties are all captured, there will be a gap of 6,000 officials.
Chu State does not have that many officials to fill in the existing territory.
After acquiring so much territory, unless Lu Yuan takes over all the original officials of Ning and Song, there is no way he can even think about governing the new territories.
But would Lu Yuan dare to accept all the officials from Song and Ning?
Come to find out, is the newly hit place owned by the Lu family or the Linhai family?
In addition, Lu Yuan annexed five counties during this war, which increased the population of Chu by 13 million, more than doubling its population.
Such a large number of new people were all citizens of the enemy country before, and there were also a large number of powerful nobles from the enemy country. They were deeply entangled in the local area and formed a large network of interests.
If these local forces cannot be sorted out and controlled, then the Chu country will never have peace.
In the future, there will be one after another rebellion, or there will be no escape.
Therefore, in addition to the official shortage, the public sentiment in these places also needs to be stabilized.
In view of the powerful local noble families in Ning, Su, Nanhai and other countries, the Chu State needed to suppress and clean up the local nobles to ensure its control over the local areas.
At the same time, we need to reduce taxes and reduce burdens on ordinary people to win over them.
Only in this way can the people's minds be stable and Chu State's control over the grassroots level guaranteed.
During this process, local riots are inevitable, and military suppression must be maintained at all times to stabilize the situation.
At the same time, Lu Yuan's army expanded from the original 700,000 to 1.12 million, an increase of 60% of the troops.
On the surface, although the number of the army increased, Chu State became more powerful.
But in fact, a large number of surrendered troops were mixed into each army, and the trust between each other was greatly reduced. Morale was also reduced, and the combat effectiveness was actually reduced in the opposite direction.
Before sufficient trust is cultivated, the combat strength of this army of more than one million may not be as good as the original 700,000.
Therefore, in order to restore its combat effectiveness, the Chu State also needs two or three years of running-in before the combat effectiveness of its various armies can be restored to its peak.
The Chu State's combing of the local area at this time will definitely cause a lot of riots and rebellions, which will allow these soldiers and horses to conduct conquests to deepen their integration.
This can be considered mutual benefit.
Therefore, based on the above reasons, Chu State, which had just doubled in size, really had no spare capacity for new expansion.
At this time, even if the Eastern Expedition captured Ning State, there would be no way to manage the territory it conquered. At most, it would look too big on the map, but it would be useless and bloated.
Lu Yuan didn't want to fight for these false reputations, he only wanted actual benefits.
Moreover, the Chu State, which has now doubled in size, has gathered enough luck for his cultivation, so he has no motivation to expand.
Wait for two or three years.
When his cultivation progressed further, he achieved breakthroughs in immortality and martial arts, and Chu State also digested the results of the battle and accumulated enough foundation.
Expansion at that time was the best and least likely to cause any hidden dangers.
"Your Majesty is stable, has far-reaching thoughts, is not burdened by false fame, and is not obsessed with interests. I admire him."
Seeing that Lu Yuan did not adopt his suggestion, Xuan Chengzi could not help but be slightly disappointed, but he still said: "In that case, just listen to the king."
Seeing this, Lu Yuan thought that the other party had just arrived and it would not be too bad to undermine the other party's confidence, so he smiled and said: "Although we are not using troops at this time, after you go back, you can let the four guardian generals who have surrendered to Ning Guo further Infiltrate the Ning army and gain more military power.
In this way, after a few years, I, Da Chu, will send my army to attack, and then return to Yiyi, I will be able to inflict even greater damage to the Ning people. "
At this point, Lu Yuan pondered for a moment and then said: "In order to make the people of Ning more trustful, fellow Taoists may follow the example of Feishuang Dao and temporarily lead the disciples east to join the Ning Kingdom.
It turns out that the two elders of the noble family who promised to serve in our Chu Kingdom can also go to Shining Kingdom to take charge of their power in the name of Xiangzhu.
In this way, your clan will have deeper control over Ning Guo, and in the future, it will be more helpful to me, Dachu. "
Now that the war has ceased, all forces in Ningguo have gradually withdrawn into the country.
After several months of consolidation and reorganization, as well as the investigation and communication by some traitors from the Imperial City Division and the Linhai Family, the Chu State has learned a lot about Ning State's current specific strength and local defense.
Today's Ning State, the country's army and horses, is roughly composed of four parts.
First, the remnant soldiers who escaped from various tribes during the Western Expedition.
Among them, Yang Jing and Xuanyu brought back about 20,000 infantry, cavalry and horses, and more than 60,000 navy troops from the Jiangbei battlefield.
On the Lingnan battlefield, Shangguan Ming brought back more than 20,000 remnants of the Ning army, tens of thousands of naval troops, nearly 10,000 Nanhai infantry, and five to six thousand naval troops.
The total of the above is about 50,000 cavalry and 80,000 navy.
Second, Linhai and Guangling counties originally had troops stationed there.
Among them, Linhai County has 50,000 cavalry, Guangling County has 50,000 cavalry, and there are 40,000 naval troops stationed in Wuhu Water Village upstream of Jinling City.
The above totals 100,000 cavalry and 40,000 naval troops.
Third, Ning Guo recruited a total of about 200,000 new soldiers in Linhai and Guangling counties.
Fourth, there are about 30,000 guards stationed in the Imperial Palace of the capital at Jinling.
Adding up all these four troops, Ning Guo now had roughly 400,000 infantry and cavalry, 120,000 naval troops, and a total of 520,000 troops. It can be said that the strength is still strong.
Of course, it's just paper data.
In fact, if you remove the 200,000 people and recruit them for less than two months, they are basically equivalent to civilians and recruits with little combat power.
Ning's army only had 320,000 soldiers and horses left, and its military strength was basically on the same level as Yongzhou Xiliang Kingdom, falling into the ranks of great powers.
Among the 320,000 veterans, the four divine generals of Ziyundao controlled 130,000 people, more than 40% of the troops.
According to this trend, if Ziyundao sends two more innate elders to Ningguo, then Ningguo will undoubtedly make great use of the olive branch extended by Ziyundao due to the current embarrassing situation of Ningguo.
By then, there will undoubtedly be more Ningguo soldiers and horses controlled by Ziyundao.
Lu Yuan did not need Ziyundao to completely ignore Ning Guo. As long as the other party could control Ning Guo's 200,000 troops, it would be a great help.
Think about it, the current total strength of Ning's army is only 520,000. Ziyundao controls 200,000 of them. What is the concept?
This means that as long as Chu State conquers Ning State in the future and Ziyundao gives an order, 40% of Ning State's troops will turn against Chu and surrender to Chu State.
Under such circumstances, what could Ning Guo do to fight with Chu State?
I am afraid that in less than two months, this country will be destroyed.
However, the above deductions are only ideal and best-case scenarios.
In fact, it is difficult to say whether the Ning National Congress will reuse Ziyun Dao in this way.
However, Lu Yuan believed that with the apparent strength of the Chu State, there were sixteen innates directly under the country and three innates in the subordinate countries, making a total of nineteen innates.
Among these Xiantian, there are four whose strength is above the second level of Xiantian.
On the other hand, in Ningguo, after successive defeats, three of the original fourteen died, leaving only eleven.
Among them, Shen Qiu is the only one in the second level of Xiantian.
With this comparison of strength, Chu State's strength at the innate level, including the gap between the second-level master and the first-level master, is almost three to one.
The gap is so huge, how could Ning Guo not be afraid?
If Ziyundao comes here at this time, it is almost certain that he will be reused by Ning Guo.
Otherwise, Ziyundao's four innate generals in the Ning Kingdom would not be able to command 130,000 troops and be responsible for one side of the defense line.
But this situation is only temporary.
As Tianluo Mountain was incorporated into the territory of Chu State, Ziyundao was under the rule of Lu Yuan, and the sect was under threat.
It is difficult not to doubt whether Ziyundao's position and loyalty have been shaken?
Xuan Chengzi, who eagerly came to seek refuge in front of him, is a living example.
In reality, Ziyundao had already defected to Chu.
It's just that the news was well concealed, and Ning Guo didn't know this yet.
But as time passed, Ziyundao was still stable in Chu State, and the relationship between the two parties was harmonious. No matter how hard he tried to hide it, he couldn't hide it for long.
Ning Guo will eventually doubt Ziyundao's position.
So at this time, some arrangements must be made to stabilize Ning Guo's trust.
So what organizational actions can make Ning Guo trust him?
In fact, the answer is already in front of you.
In the past two years, Feishuang Dao decided to join the Chu State. To express his determination and to avoid the suppression of the Ning State, he directly moved his faction and moved to the Chu State, and finally resettled in Tianshou Mountain.
So at this time, Ziyun Dao only needs to follow Feishuang Dao's example and move the disciples of the sect to the territory of Ning State, which will naturally stabilize Ning State's heart.
Let those Linhai families believe in Ziyundao's determination to advance and retreat with them.
"As long as you move the sect, you will be able to calm the hearts of the Ning Kingdom. Then you will take this opportunity to infiltrate the Ning Kingdom and control the troops.
And be patient for two or three years, wait for Gu to stabilize the country, and then march eastward with a million troops, while Qing will raise 200,000 troops, offer his land and surrender.
In this way, the Ning people's defense line is wide open, and our army can advance straight in. It will not take a month or two to destroy the Ning country. "
Lu Yuan told Xuan Chengzi his plan, then stared at each other with stern eyes, and said in a bewitching tone: "By then, if you have accomplished such an unparalleled feat, no one in our great Chu country will be able to match it.
Gu will also be given a heavy reward, have the same status as Ziyun Dao and Feishuang Dao, and respect him with the state religion. "
It has been more than two years since Feishuang Dao took refuge in Chu State.
Moreover, as the first Immortal Sect to seek refuge in the Chu State, he told Lu Yuan the secrets of the four poles being abolished and the Nine Provinces ascending, so that the Chu State could adjust its strategic layout as soon as possible to cope with the subsequent great changes in the Nine Provinces.
It can be said that this is the first achievement.
Later, he funded Lu Yuan with thousands of elixirs and three divine generals who protected the law, helping Chu win the victory in the Five Kingdoms War.
Feishuang Dao's contribution to Chu State can be said to be great.
Therefore, from a common sense point of view, now that Lu Yuan has won, he should reuse Feishuang Dao to repay the other party's original investment.
It’s just common sense that you can do this.
In addition to being helpful to Chu State, Feishuang Dao is not a good person either.
Last year, when the Jiuzhou monks were preparing to cross the sea, the thieves of Feishuang Dao secretly began to dig into the Chu State.
Especially the old guy Jinyun personally went to Hanzhong to find Huang Xuan, hoping to persuade the general manager of the Xisan County of Chu to abandon his official position and go out to sea with Feishuang Dao on a boat to ascend to the fairy world.
On Qingyunzi's side, people from Feishuang Dao also came to persuade him.
Needless to say, how could Lu Yuan's two clones abandon their own bodies and go play ascension with them?
Therefore, the result of the persuasion was naturally an unhappy ending.
Jinyun, on the other hand, thought that he had done these things covertly, and the two clones did not do anything like reporting to the King of Chu. They thought that the matter had just passed.
But Lu Yuan always kept this account in mind.
If Huang Xuan and Qing Yunzi were not his clones, they would not be able to betray him.
Otherwise, as advertised outside, these two people were casual cultivators. Because there was no hope for immortality, they came to seek refuge in the Chu State to gain worldly wealth.
Fei Shuangdao's poaching behavior this time might actually be done by him.
After all, the temptation to ascend to the immortal world is really not that big for a monk.
Didn’t you see that the entire Jiuzhou monks gathered together at this time and decided to ascend to the world?
At that time, Chu State lost two monks who were in the second realm of Xiantian, and its top-level combat strength was reduced by almost one-third.
This loss cannot be compensated by the mere three divine generals of Feishuang Dao and a thousand spiritual pills.
Therefore, Lu Yuan naturally hated Feishuang Dao's impure intentions.
Just because the war between the five kingdoms was about to start, and there was a big enemy ahead, Chu State had to rely on the power of Feishuang Dao, so he had to endure this and pretend that nothing had happened.
He also ordered the two clones to conceal the matter privately from the outside world in order to confuse Feishuang Dao and calm the other party's mind.
But doing this is nothing more than a delaying tactic.
If there is a chance in the future, Lu Yuan will naturally take revenge.
Now that Ziyun Dao has surrendered, this Immortal Sect, like Feishuang Dao, is not a good thing for Chu State.
Then Lu Yuan naturally had no worries.
From now on, Ziyun Dao will be directly promoted, just like Feishuang Dao, they will jointly be canonized as the state religion, and let them fight each other.
As for the original promise to Feishuang Dao Zun as the state religion...
No one has stipulated that there can only be one state religion, right?
Moreover, Feishuang Dao's family is the only one, which is not a good thing for the country.
It would be good for Chu State to have a Ziyundao to check and balance.
At the same time, it also allows the two families to continuously weaken themselves during the fight. After they are exhausted from fighting, it will be much simpler and easier for Lu Yuan to take care of them.
'Hmph, the two thieves said, let's fight first. When I unify the world, I will take care of you. '
In Lu Yuan's heart, he has already thought of seventeen or eight ways to gradually create Ziyun Dao and Feishuang Dao in the future.
However, what he was thinking in his mind was naturally unclear to Xuan Chengzi in front of him.
But after thinking about the plan mentioned by Lu Yuan and the temptation of the state religion, Xuan Chengzi's eyes brightened.
The feasibility of this plan is indeed very high.
And after success, with such achievements, Ziyun Dao will definitely be able to gain a firm foothold in the Chu Kingdom.
At that time, Lu Yuan fulfilled his promise and canonized Ziyun Taoism as the state religion.
'With the name of the state religion, in the same honorable position, how can you fight with me on a mere Feishuang trail? '
Xuan Chengzi thought of this in his mind and immediately said: "Your Majesty's wonderful plan, I, Ziyun Dao, are willing to follow it."
…
In October of the eleventh year of Shenwu.
The first sect in Yangzhou, Ziyun Dao, fled to Ning State with his entire family on the grounds that the Chu State was tyrannical, vowing not to be a minister of Chu.
After entering Ning, Ziyun Taoist Master Xuan Chengzi and the elders Xuan Yi and Xuan Yu of the Mingmen entered the Shining Kingdom.
Emperor Ning Shenqiu was overjoyed when he heard about it.
Then the original mountain gate of Feishuang Road and Miluo Mountain were given to Ziyun Road, so that the returning martyrs could settle down.
As for Xuan Yi and Xuan Yu, they were both granted the title of Marquis of Wu, and each commanded tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to station at the borders of the country to guard against the Chu people.
Ningguo's decline was greatly revived with Ziyun Dao's coming.
The Linhai family feels at ease.
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