In September of the twelfth year of Shenwu, Ziyun of Ning State rebelled, openly raised his flag and announced his surrender to Chu State.
In an instant, the land of seventeen prefectures in the two counties of Ningguo, and eight prefectures in the blink of an eye, changed their gates and became the land of Chu.
Of the 800,000-strong army, 400,000 changed their uniforms and pledged their allegiance to the King of Chu.
And Chu State also responded quickly.
At the first moment of Ziyundao's surrender, the 100,000-strong warlord Huang Xuan of Yuzhang County marched into Xin'an and Dongyang Prefectures of Linhai County. They joined the 200,000 rebels from Xuanyin and Xuanyi of Ziyundao County and took control of Jinling. The southern prefectures.
The governor of Qingyunzi in Jian'an County, with 100,000 troops, advanced into the Yongjia and Linhai areas of Linhai County, and joined forces with 150,000 troops from Ziyun Daoxuanxi, Xuanyu, Xuanlu and other tribes to control the prefectures in the eastern part of Linhai.
Ziyun Daoxuanyu raised 50,000 troops at the junction of Linhai and Guangling counties, captured the county, and cut off the land transportation between Jinling and Guangling.
For a time, Jinling, the imperial capital of Ning State, was surrounded by troops on three sides. 400,000 rebels joined 200,000 Chu troops.
Wherever they passed, Ning's army was defeated and defeated.
When the news came back, Jinling was shocked, the court was shocked, and the Linhai family was shocked.
Ningguo is in danger, and it's just a matter of time.
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Tianluo Mountain.
"So, three of the seven innates from the Linhai family are already inclined to surrender to our great Chu."
Lu Yuan looked at Du Xin, the commander of the Imperial City's Foreign Affairs Department, and asked with a smile.
"His Majesty, it is true."
Du Xin replied respectfully: "Wujiang Marquis Chu Ming, Wuming Marquis Wang Xiu, and Wuyi Marquis Yu Ying, these three representatives of the six surnames and seven clans, all expressed their willingness to raise their flags and surrender to the Chu Kingdom when our Chu army marched westward.
In addition, Wu Minghou Mu Changqing and Wuxuan Hou Yang Jing were both a little shaken.
Perhaps when the situation in Ningguo is over and the troops approach the city, these two people will surrender.
Only Ning Emperor Shen Qiu and Wucheng Hou Shangguan Ming were resolute and refused to surrender.
However, most of the people from their two clans are afraid of and admire me, Da Chu, and they are stepping up their efforts to persuade me.
For the clan's sake, these two may eventually surrender. "
After instigating the rebellion of Ziyundao, the Chu State's series of actions to win over and divide Jiangdong were as smooth as a tiger's wings.
The wealthy families in Jiangdong are all smart people who are good at adapting to the changing circumstances.
These people all know that with Ziyundao surrendering and the motherland under control, they simply cannot defend Ning State with their own strength alone.
After all, nearly half of the innate masters and half of the army in the country are controlled by traitors like Ziyundao.
The iron barrel defense line originally built was instantly opened, and the Chu army could easily march in and meet the traitors in the country.
In this case, what can their remaining seven innates and 400,000 soldiers and horses do?
Even the ancestral lands of some of the six surnames and seven clans have been controlled by Ziyundao. The tribesmen are all in the hands of Ziyundao. If the six surnames and seven clans really dare to resist, they will be massacred in an instant. .
Their wealth and life are being controlled, who dares to resist?
As Du Xin said, the three Xiantian Wuhou who clearly expressed their intention to surrender were the ones whose families were controlled by Ziyundao.
Thousands of people in the clan, old and young, all depended on Ziyun Dao for life and death. What the three Wu Hous could do was to surrender for the sake of the lives of the entire clan.
As for Mu Changqing and Yang Jing, they are all members of the clan, although they are not controlled by Ziyundao.
But the territory where the family is located is also close to Ziyundao.
Now he is being watched or surrounded by troops sent by Ziyundao people, and he is also under constant threat.
In addition, after seeing Ziyundao's rebellion, these two people also knew that the situation in Ningguo was really over.
Continuing to resist will be meaningless except for adding more casualties.
So I gave in half, and vacillated between surrendering and holding on.
As for Shen Qiu and Shangguan Ming, these two really wanted to die to serve their country.
The Linhai family's two thousand years of foundation fell into the hands of their generation. It can be said that one of them, Shen Qiu, would commit suicide in shame.
Under such circumstances, one would naturally have no face to live in the world.
Moreover, these two people from aristocratic families were not willing to surrender to Lu Yuan and could not let go of that face.
Rather than giving up dignity, it is better to die vigorously and preserve one's reputation.
Death seemed to be their best option.
But the two of them wanted to die, and the Shen family and the Shangguan family didn't want to die together.
The Shen family and the Shangguan family are the top families among the six surnames and seven clans. They have been extremely prosperous in recent hundreds of years, with tens of thousands of members.
It is easy for them to seek death, but to bring fifty or sixty thousand people from the two tribes to die together is too much.
No one wants to die, and even fewer people are willing to die when there is a choice and that choice is better.
The National People's Congress and Chu State have made conditions.
As long as the six surnames and seven clans are willing to surrender, any clan with innate talent can cut off half of the county and create a prince, and go to Lingnan to establish a state.
Although Lingnan is poor and not as rich as Jiangdong, it is still the master of a country.
They, members of the lord's family, could still dominate the place and act as masters when they moved there.
There is always no shortage of wealth, power and position.
Moreover, the former Marquis of Wu Ping and the current Duke of Song Dynasty, Xie Ning, were also from six surnames and seven clans. In terms of relationship, they could be called relatives to these aristocratic families in Jiangdong.
With the other party helping and taking care of him in Lingnan, it will be much easier to establish himself.
Where is the great future, who is willing to let the powerful people of the new country do nothing, and instead accompany the family leader to die vigorously here?
So when the Jiangdong family was lowering their flags, the people of the Shen family and the Shangguan family were extremely anxious.
Clan elders came one after another to persuade them, and groups of women and children came to cry with their children in their arms, just to persuade Shen Qiu and Shangguan Ming to change their minds and stop fighting until the end. Think about them, old and weak women and children.
The clamor to persuade them to surrender was so loud that it was said that the whole city of Jinling was in a commotion, and that Shen Qiu and Shangguan Ming were also very worried and shocked.
In recent days, there has been no talk of preferring death to surrender.
Looking at this trend, it is estimated that these two will also drop.
"Hahaha."
When Lu Yuan heard this, he laughed heartily and expressed his joy. Then he stopped laughing and said happily: "Very good, Ziyun Dao did a good job. They should be the first to conquer Ning State this time."
However, the Ning Kingdom has not yet completely surrendered. There are still hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the country, and there are also several Xiantian people, who still cannot be underestimated.
If these people do not surrender, there will still be variables in Jiangdong. "
After Lu Yuan was overjoyed, he thought of those people on the ground in Jiangdong who were still watching and resisting. He pondered for a moment and then said: "You should contact Ziyun Dao immediately and ask them to send the surrendered Marquis of Wujiang Chuming, Marquis of Wuming Wang Xiu, and Marquis of Wuyi to Yuying. Come to Tianluo Mountain.
Gu had previously promised them that as long as they surrendered, they would be rewarded with a feudal state.
Now that these three companies have surrendered to me, they should fulfill their promises.
You tell them that I plan to use Yulin County and Tonghai County to build Ninghai Kingdom, Nanning Kingdom, and Tonghai Kingdom respectively to reward the three families for their contributions.
Now let these three people come to Tianluo Mountain to receive the title, and then arrange for the tribe to move to Lingnan and return to the country as soon as possible.
In addition, those Linhai aristocratic families who are not gifted are also allowed to migrate with the aristocratic families who have left their country. Each country can choose a family to follow and go to the country together.
I will not stop you. "
Two months before the war, Lu Yuan decided to launch Ziyundao in advance to force Ning to surrender as soon as possible, and enfeoffed those Linhai aristocratic families to Lingnan and southwest counties.
Lu Yuan began to migrate to the local household registrations in Tonghai and Yulin counties.
Among them, the main people migrating to Tonghai County were the local Chu people.
Originally, some local conquered Yi people were abandoned locally because they were too lazy to manage assimilation, and were planned to be thrown to those Linhai aristocratic families.
Yulin County mainly relocated civilians, as well as some local gentry and wealthy families who were interested in the Chu Kingdom.
Some local remnants of the Su Kingdom, mainly family members of disciples from the Jiuchuan Sword Sect, and some local wealthy families who were hostile to the Chu Kingdom, these unstable elements were left behind.
Now a few months have passed, and those controllable obedient people, about 600,000 people, have been moved by Lu Yuan to Xiangyang County in the north of the Yangtze River to enrich the local household registration.
The two counties of Tonghai and Yulin each have about 100,000 people left, and the population can be said to be further sparse.
However, those Linhai aristocratic families all have great businesses, and their ethnic groups have been multiplying for more than two thousand years. It can be said that every family has a large population.
Basically, any one of the six surnames and seven tribes would have a population of tens of thousands. If you include some relatives, the population would be easily a hundred thousand.
For these children of aristocratic families who are deeply rooted in the local area, Lu Yuan naturally cannot let them stay in Linhai County and continue to collude with the local area to hinder the rule of Chu State.
So his way to deal with these remnants of the previous dynasty was to move them all away.
I don't want to kill them all, that would be too cruel.
But don't cause trouble for me locally. Get all of them to Lingnan, and I'll let you do whatever you want there.
We don't hate each other.
Therefore, each of these six surnames and seven tribes can bring a population of 100,000 people with them when they migrate, and maybe more than 100,000 people.
Nowadays, there are innate aristocratic families in Jiangdong, and even including Shen Qiu, the emperor of Ning Kingdom, they only number seven.
Therefore, there are probably only seven small countries sealed off in Lingnan this time.
The counties that Lu Yuan was planning to give up in Lingnan happened to be the three and a half counties of Jiuzhen, Tonghai, Yulin, and Nanhai, which was just enough for these seven people.
But among the six surnames and seven families, apart from these seven families who have innate abilities, there are still six families who do not have innate abilities.
These six non-innate families can only choose a country by themselves, and choose the country to migrate to according to the distribution of one country and one family.
In this way, according to the distribution method of one country and one family, plus the population of the feudal state left by Lu Yuan, there are almost 200,000 to 300,000 people in each half-county country.
This can barely support the size of a small country.
"Yes, I obey."
After hearing the instructions, Du Xin immediately took the order and left.
Lu Yuan, on the other hand, continued to think on the spot.
This time, three small countries were separated in one go. Although the population of the small countries was a little smaller, at least the promise was fulfilled.
With these three examples in front of them, those Linhai families who are waiting and watching should be able to relax and take refuge with peace of mind.
And these Jiangdong's largest resistance forces have been dismantled, leaving some ambitious people who cannot make trouble.
The situation in Linhai and Guangling counties has been almost stabilized since then.
"However, Tonghai and Yulin counties are both sparsely populated places with vast territory. There are only a few hundred thousand people relocating there, so it is not a problem.
But the remaining two counties, Jiuzhen and Nanhai, have a combined household registration of only six million. It would be a big project to move them all away. "
Migrating household registration is a common occurrence for Chu State.
In the past, when Changsha was still the Kingdom, during the Northern Expedition to the Zhou Kingdom, Lu Yuan moved two million people back to the country from Xichuan and Hanzhong counties. The immigration project lasted for more than a year, and the stabilizing immigration continued for more than a few years.
Later, he conquered the southwest, captured the two counties of Xichuan in central Guizhou, and moved household registrations throughout the country. The whole project lasted for several more years.
After millions of immigrants immigrated before and after this, Chu State was extremely proficient in various immigration matters.
Although it is a huge task to relocate six million people in one go, it is not impossible given the current background of the Chu State.
After all, he has several grain-producing areas in hand, and he will soon get two rich sites in Linhai and Guangling. The country has countless excess grains every year, which can fully support these consumption.
Although it can be supported, it will still be the migration of six million people. Once this matter is completed, Chu State's finances in the past two years will basically revolve around this matter, and it will be difficult to do other major things.
"Also in Xiliang, in order to support Huang Xin's consumption strategy in the past few months, the National High School has spent millions of taels of silver and five million shi of grain, and the expenses will continue to expand.
Now that one more immigrant is added, the finances can no longer support it. "Lu Yuan has a headache.
On the northwest side of the Tibetan people, there are four to five million people waiting for help from Chu.
Over in Lingnan, there are also six million people waiting to be relocated.
Added up, this can provide food and clothing for tens of millions of people.
The total population of Chu State is now only 28.7 million people. Even including Jiangdong, which will soon be acquired, there are only 36 million people.
This includes the six million people from Lingnan who are migrating. It will take less than two or three years for these people to move to the counties in the north of Lingbei and finally settle down and resume production.
That is to say.
In the next two to three years, Chu State will need 30 million people to support 10 million people. The pressure can be imagined.
If Lu Yuan had not owned the four major grain-producing areas of Xichuan, Jianghan, Dongting, and Pengli, he would also be able to immediately acquire Linhai County, a wealthy place also known for its output.
The five major granaries are in hand, otherwise I would not dare to launch this plan.
“Supporting the Northwest War and Lingnan immigration has basically been Chu’s biggest national policy in the past two or three years.
During this period, Chu State basically had no spare energy to do other things.
But now the Ning State has been disintegrated by me using Ziyundao and the policy of enfeoffing the country. The Liang State in the north of the Yangtze River originally supported a nail in the south of the Yangtze River to restrain the bankruptcy of our Chu State.
There is definitely no way I can be willing to do so.
Maybe he will become angry and want to fight with me personally.
At this critical moment, we must not let it ruin our plans for the next hundred years. "
Lu Yuan frowned, looking uncertain.
Six million people from Lingnan were moved to Hanzhong, Xiangyang, Dongting, Yuzhang, Linhai, Guangling and other border counties close to Zhongzhou in order to mobilize money, food and manpower more effectively during the future Northern Expedition to Zhongzhou.
It also prepares for an easier transfer of household registration to Jiangbei Zhongzhou in the future.
This is a major plan that benefits the country and the people and must not be given up.
As for the containment of the Xiliang Kingdom in the northwest, it was to kill a major enemy for the Chu Kingdom and solve the border troubles in the northwest, so that the country's resources could be mobilized to go northward and plot Zhongzhou.
This matter is equally important and cannot be neglected.
But the Liang State has been keeping a close eye on the Chu State. How could it be that they don't know how much of a threat it will be to them after letting the Chu State successfully complete these two things and solve all the hidden dangers?
Therefore, it is a certainty that Liang Guoguo will come to stop this matter in the end.
"No, these two national policies must not be destroyed by Liang Guo."
Lu Yuan's expression was slightly cold, and he looked at the map of Kyushu behind him. His eyes slowly moved around the Liang Kingdom, and finally landed on the positions of Zhou and Wei to the west. He sneered: "The Liang people want to control the northwest and south of the Yangtze River." Insert two nails to block threats from the southwest.
Now Jiangnan's situation has been broken by me, causing him to lose an arm.
Don't even think about keeping this nail in the west now.
If the Zhou Kingdom could be defeated and the tiger and wolf of the Wei people were allowed to enter the pass, I am afraid that the Liang people in the western border would be besieged day and night, making it difficult to sleep peacefully. "
The Wei State was a large country. Although the territory of Yanzhou, where the Wei State was located, could not be completely unified and its territory only consisted of ten counties, it had a population of more than 30 million and two million soldiers and horses.
Not counting the territory, but just looking at the background, it was no less powerful than Lu Yuan's Chu State at this time.
In recent years, the Wei people have continued to move south, first seizing Shuofang County of Zhou State, and now they are invading Guannei County where the capital of Zhou State is located, with a fierce momentum.
Under its attack, the Zhou Kingdom was almost in danger of subjugation.
Although in the past six months, as the Liang State changed its national policy and began to support the forces in Jiangnan and Guanxi, in order to protect its west and south sides, the supported Zhou State gradually became more energetic and its life became easier.
But no matter how easy life is, Zhou Guo's size is still there.
There are only four counties left in the land, two of which are in ruins.
There are only 13 million people left, and all the able-bodied men among them have been conscripted into the army.
There are only seven Xiantian Grandmasters left. Facing the more than 20 Xiantian from Wei State, it can be said that they are weak in every aspect.
With this kind of strength, even with the support of Liang Guo, he can recover a lot of energy in a short period of time.
It would be even more difficult to confront Wei.
Now they are just relying on the fortified city to hold on, constantly taking lives and cities to compete with the Wei State and stall for time.
But even so.
Under Wei's powerful offensive, the Zhou people had already lost half of the Guannei County.
The forward troops of the Wei people have arrived at the city of Chang'an, the state of Zhou.
The original proposal of the Zhou Dynasty court to move the capital was no longer disputed. Everyone in the government and the public agreed with the emperor's eastward expedition.
It's just that moving the capital is a big deal. It's not that easy for millions of people around Chang'an to move away at once.
Not to mention that there are Wei soldiers and horses nearby, watching eagerly and ready to attack at any time.
Therefore, even if the Zhou people wanted to move their capital, they would not be able to escape for a while.
Once the Zhou Kingdom moved its capital and abandoned Guannei County, the remaining territory was only two complete counties of Nanyang and Henan, and a small half of Xiangyang County.
The Wei State captured the Guannei County and would also border the Chu State and become a neighboring country of Chu.
same.
Wei only needs to go east and capture Henan County or Nanyang County to border the Liang people.
As for the two counties of Henan and Nanyang, they are the standard land of Zhongzhou, and they are the ticket for the long-lasting existence of the country in the future.
Unable to fight with so many soldiers and horses to go south, isn't it just the two tickets in Zhou Guo's hands?
At this time, the ultimate goal is right in front of us. Can the people of Wei be willing to remain still?
"As long as I send an envoy to contact the Wei people to attack the Henan and Nanyang counties of Zhou State, I'm afraid the other party will agree immediately." Lu Yuan thought.
