After practicing, Lu Yuan got up and left the palace, wandering around Jinfeng Mountain.
Jinfeng Mountain is one of the royal gardens he built in recent years.
Over the years, with the unification of Yangzhou and peace of life, Chu State rapidly became prosperous and wealthy.
Not only did a large number of people begin to converge towards the imperial capital of Baling, causing the area of Baling City to expand rapidly, more than tenfold in more than ten years, it became a giant city with a circumference of hundreds of miles.
Even Lu Yuan's imperial city expanded a lot outside Baling City, and enclosed many beautiful places as royal gardens for his own enjoyment.
This Jinfeng Mountain is such a place.
As a royal garden, the scenery of Jinfeng Mountain is naturally excellent.
Lu Yuan walked around for a while, looking at the lush green nature, his mood suddenly became much brighter.
After swimming around, I unknowingly came to a waterfall on the mountainside. Before I could get closer, I saw two young figures approaching where the water vapor was steaming in front of me.
"I have met my father."
The two approached and saluted Lu Yuan.
"It's He'er, Hao'er."
Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile as he looked at the two young men in front of him. These were his eldest son Lu He and second son Lu Hao, so he asked: "Are your two brothers practicing here?"
The two brothers, Lu He and Lu Hao, both inherited the good genes of Lu Yuan and their mother. As they grew up over the years, they both became young and handsome princes. I don’t know how many girls in the capital were fascinated by them. The one you like.
Hearing his father's question, Lu He, the elder brother, nodded: "Back to my father, Er Chen and Brother Hao were indeed practicing martial arts just now. We have only broken through the innateness for a few years, and we want to practice more martial arts.
So we came to the Purple Smoke Waterfall, hoping to use the mutual restraint of water and fire to temper our red sun body. "
Five or six years ago, the two brothers Lu He and Lu Hao, after more than ten years of accumulation, finally broke through the innate realm and became martial arts masters.
Like Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen, they practiced the "Red Yang Divine Art" that Lu Yuan had studied and pioneered all the way. The martial arts outer body that they finally condensed was naturally polished by Lu Yuan and became the incomparable "Red Yang Divine Fire".
The secret to cultivating the Red Sun Divine Fire is to use the principle of water and fire to restrain each other, allowing the warrior to go to a water environment with completely opposite attributes, and use a completely uncomfortable environment to make the Red Sun Divine Fire have to grow in order to survive, and slowly condense to reach the level of Quickly strengthen the effect of martial arts outer body.
This is a small skill that Lu Yuan has figured out in order to improve his realm after breaking through to the Grand Master level over the years. The details of it will be recorded in the "Red Yang Magic" later.
The two brothers Lu and He probably came here to try it after seeing the latest version of the magical skill.
"Yes, in martial arts, you need to study hard and practice hard every day. If you have this diligence, you will definitely achieve great success in the future."
Lu Yuan patted his son's shoulder and encouraged him expectantly: "My father was born alone and had no relatives since he was a child. My Lu family's foundation can only be supported by my father alone.
Now that you have grown up, you cannot waste your talents and work harder.
Father, I am waiting for you to grow up and hold up a sky for me, the great Chu. "
Compared to his calm-tempered elder brother, the younger Lu Hao was high-spirited. At this time, he listened to his father's encouragement and said confidently: "Father, don't worry, as long as my son is here, he will definitely protect my Lu family's country and prevent others from being harmed." Xiaoxiao succeeded."
After saying that, Lu Hao looked at Lu Yuan expectantly and said nervously: "Father, I heard that there are barbarians in Hanzhong who are causing trouble and invading our border. They are extremely abominable. My son has been practicing martial arts hard these years, and he also learned from Brother Zhou. The art of war has been practiced for a long time, and it can be regarded as a small success.
But doing this behind closed doors is ultimately just talk on paper and not essential.
My son, I would like to ask my father for orders to lead troops to conquer the barbarians in Hanzhong in order to pacify our border with Chu. "
In the past few months, as the Xueyuan Tibetan people have gradually moved into Chu State, the Longxi County they occupied has also been gradually abandoned.
These abandoned territories did not remain vacant for long, and soon the prairie barbarians who migrated south followed and occupied them.
In this way, you retreat and we advance. Within two months, after all the Tibetan people had withdrawn into the Chu State, the prairie barbarians occupied the entire Longxi County, bordering the Chu State.
Being neighbors with such a nation that lives by nomadic life, advocates the law of the jungle, and is accustomed to plundering.
Needless to think about it, there is no peace in Chu State's borders.
This is also true.
In recent months, barbarians have been crossing Longshan Mountain and infiltrating towards the border of Hanzhong County. They started to invade the Chu State just like they did against the Tibetan people before.
Although most of these invasions were not systematic, they were basically small groups of dozens or hundreds of people. They could not be called troops, but could only be regarded as horse bandits.
But as the invasion deepened, the number of troops sent by the barbarians became more and more frequent, and their frequency became stronger and stronger.
According to Huang Xin's contact with Lu Yuan a few days ago, the barbarians had dispatched thousands of troops not long ago.
This can no longer be said to be horse bandits, but a real army.
Based on this incident, Huang Xin judged that the barbarians might launch a large-scale invasion in the near future, hoping to cross Longshan and enter the warmer Hanzhong County.
Therefore, Huang Xin felt that it would be too passive to stick to it.
Moreover, setting the battlefield in Hanzhong County allows the enemy to break into your home. No matter you win or lose, your family will be damaged.
Instead of doing this, it is better to strike first.
Send troops to take the initiative to attack, cross Longshan Mountain, fight back to Longxi County, and catch the barbarians by surprise.
Kill him first and turn the world upside down, killing the barbarians and making them afraid when they hear the name of Chu State. Hanzhong County will naturally be stable.
Naturally, Lu Yuan would not refuse this proposal. He had handed it over to the court and asked various departments to make preparations and make a series of personnel and material mobilizations to coordinate with the actions of the Hanzhong army.
This matter was widely spread among the senior officials of the Baling Court. Lu Hao may have heard about it and then took action.
"You want to go to war?"
Lu Yuan was slightly surprised by his son's request, and then looked at Lu He next to him, who also looked expectantly after Lu Hao made the request, and couldn't help but ponder:
"It's not impossible to let you go to the battlefield, but you two brothers have to promise me that when you get to the front line, you can't act like a prince, and you can't disobey military orders.
On the battlefield, there are no princes, only soldiers, and everything is based on military orders.
Master Huang Xin’s order is my order. You must not violate it. Can you do it? "
Lu Yuan looked at his two sons, his eyes scrutinizing and sharp.
"no problem!"
"My son must listen to Master Huang Xin just like he does to his father."
Seeing that their father's tone had softened, the two brothers quickly agreed happily. While answering, they couldn't help but curse in their hearts.
'Who still doesn't know that the eight Qing and Huang Zhenren in the country are clones of the father. Even if we go to the front line, being in front of Huang Xin is no different than being in front of our father. Do we dare to disobey orders? '
Lu Yuan was not aware of his son's psychological activities, but when he saw that they agreed to the conditions, he nodded with satisfaction, waved his hands and said, "In that case, I will agree to it.
Now the Hanzhong army has begun to gather, and it will go out in half a month.
Time is urgent. You go to the Ministry of War to receive your appointment, and then go to the Hanzhong Camp as a partial general. "
When Lu Hao and Lu He heard this, they quickly bowed down and said, "Thank you, Father."
After saying that, the two of them looked excited and couldn't wait to say goodbye and headed outside the imperial city.
"He is indeed a spirited young man."
Seeing the two sons leaving, Lu Yuan also had a loving and gratified expression on his face, and said with emotion: "In the blink of an eye, the little one who was following me can now go into battle to kill the enemy."
He didn't necessarily have the idea of raising his son at home, protecting him like a canary, and not being able to bear any harm.
Not only is that not love, it will also make your son a loser.
Lu Yuan has always believed that one cannot become talented without going through trials and tribulations.
So it's actually quite good to let two boys go to the battlefield, see the world, see the cruelty of war, and know the horror of life and death.
What about the safety of the two sons?
Wherever Huang Xin is in Hanzhong, this clone is himself, no different from Lu He and Lu Hao under his nose, so he can watch it best.
'And in Hanzhong County, in addition to Huang Xin, there were Han Hu and Han Liang. Those Tibetan people who had taken refuge in Xiantian also served in the southern army.
This adds up to eight innate masters.
If you send Hao'er and He'er again, there will be ten people.
At the same time, including the elite Tibetan troops recruited in Hanzhong County, the number of soldiers and horses increased to 280,000, of which, except for 20,000 prefecture and county soldiers, they were all elite soldiers.
With such strength, not to mention sweeping away the barbarians in Longxi County, it is almost enough to directly exterminate the barbarians entrenched in the five counties of Yongzhou in the northwest. ' Lu Yuan thought.
With all these preparations, this expedition to Longxi is a sure thing and there will be no risks.
It's okay to let your son go and practice with you.
"After all, I, a descendant of the Da Chu royal family, are not just trash waiting to die. Such a guy is not my kind, Lu Yuan." Lu Yuan's eyes were indifferent.
…
After meeting the two brothers Lu Hao and Lu He, Lu Yuan became interested. In the next few days, he began to care about the schoolwork of his other children.
Over the years, as his life became more stable, he no longer had to lead troops on expeditions as frequently, so he gradually spent more time in the harem.
After some hard work, in addition to brothers Lu He and Lu Hao, Lu Yuan had seven more sons and five daughters, giving a total of fourteen children.
Among them, no less than eight people over ten years old are practicing martial arts to prepare for the impact of Xiantian.
Those who are still young have also begun to lay the foundation and have not neglected their studies.
Lu Yuan carefully trained his children, both male and female, and gave them the best resources and education, striving to cultivate them into talents instead of raising them as waste.
Lu He and Lu Hao are just the two oldest among them. Below them, there are twelve younger brothers and sisters who are still growing up.
The educational resources they received were no worse than those of the two brothers.
Especially the brothers Lu Xin and Lu Ji who were born to Lu Yuan by the spirit girl are both fifteen or sixteen years old. Under Lu Yuan's careful training, they have begun to prepare to attack the innate realm.
In two or three years, the Lu family of Chu State will have two more innates.
However, putting so much effort into cultivating princes and princesses, and letting them all strive to be innate, is very costly.
If Lu Yuan hadn't made a fortune before, he wouldn't have been able to support it.
Over the years, with the depletion of active spiritual energy between heaven and earth, a large number of divine blood mutants that could still survive in the blessed land cave began to die of illness on a large scale due to the lack of spiritual energy.
Therefore, in order not to waste resources, as early as the year when the Jiuzhou monks ascended, after noticing the changes in spiritual energy, Lu Yuan ordered in the country to kill all the more than a hundred divine blood mutants raised by the imperial court in order to collect spiritual blood spirits. material.
Just that wave made Chu State's depleted elixir store suddenly rich.
Later, in the Chu Kingdom, Lu Yuan asked the local government to purchase the divine blood mutants from those Jianghu sects. Then send envoys to the vassal state to ask those vassals to donate their divine blood mutants.
After a lot of coercion and inducement, nearly a hundred divine blood mutants were obtained at home and abroad.
After forcing Ning Guo to surrender, Lu Yuan snatched away the 2,000-year heritage of those Linhai aristocratic families in one fell swoop, acquiring more than two hundred divine blood mutants.
In the end, more than 400 divine blood mutants in total were killed to collect their blood and materials, and more than 11,300 elixirs were refined for the Chu State.
These elixirs, plus the original inventory of Chu State, are enough to cultivate twenty-three innates for Chu.
Naturally, Lu Yuan could not give such a large amount of wealth to outsiders. Of course, it was all used to educate his own children.
After all, in these troubled times, of course, your family is reliable and worthy of trust.
So the remaining twelve children, one by one, were all arranged to take the path of innateness, and they were prepared to train them all to become martial arts masters.
Moreover, Chu State will continue to cultivate for another thirty or forty years, and there will be enough time for these children to grow up.
It's not as if they are clinging to the elixir, causing the top-level combat power that Chu State should have been wasted.
But even so, there are still eleven places left over from the elixirs accumulated this time that have not been used up.
Fortunately, Lu Yuan still had a lot of concubines in his harem, and some of them wanted to give him children, so he didn't have to worry about running out of all these elixirs.
The only thing that gives people a headache is that in recent years, as his cultivation level has improved, his body has gradually transformed into a fairy body, but the concubines in the harem are still in mortal bodies.
Because Xianfan has other reasons, it is difficult for Xianfan to get along with him. As a result, it is more difficult for him to leave heirs than before.
And this difficulty is still rising as time goes by.
According to his estimation, perhaps when he has condensed the four energies, developed ice muscles and jade bones, and completed his immortal body, he will no longer be able to have children with mortals.
Under this situation, Lu Yuan didn't know whether the children he would eventually give birth to could fill up the remaining quota before he completely lost the ability to have children with mortal women.
But it doesn't matter even if you are dissatisfied. The worst thing you can do is pass on the remaining elixir to future generations to ensure that for hundreds of years in the future, every generation of the Lu family, except yourself, will have innate talent.
Or it would be a good idea to use the extra elixirs as rewards to reward heroes.
This precious treasure will never fall into your own hands and be wasted.
After spending a few days with his children, Lu Yuan was freed from his role as a concerned parent supervising his children's studies.
It's not that he was afraid of being tortured and wanted to be lazy.
To put it bluntly, my children are very hard-working and motivated, and they are very dedicated to learning and practicing martial arts.
Their daily schoolwork was also watched over by their mother-in-law and the civil and military masters in the palace, so Lu Yuan didn't need to worry too much.
In the past few days, he claimed to be teaching the children their homework, but actually he was playing with them, so that these poor guys who were overwhelmed by studying could relax.
This can be regarded as a little compensation for being a father.
So Lu Yuan actually didn't mind spending more time with his children.
But he is the emperor after all, and he has a country to worry about.
Therefore, when news came from the north that Zhao State had launched a southern expedition and was already at war with Liang State.
And the envoys sent by Lu Yuan to Zheng State in Yuzhou finally returned after half a year.
Faced with these two major events, he had to withdraw from the joy of parent-child life to deal with these two events that were destined to affect the changes in the entire Kyushu.
…
It is not a secret that Zhao State wants to invade Liang State. It is basically an open news among Jiuzhou.
Since a few years ago, the State of Zhao has stationed troops on the border between the two countries, and has continuously sent out small-scale troops to test and harass the territory of Liang State.
Liang Guo also fought back hard.
Not only were heavy troops stationed at the border, but Zhao soldiers who dared to enter the country were also shot to death.
Over the past few years, numerous small-scale conflicts have broken out between the two countries on the border, and the smell of gunpowder has long been so strong that it is about to explode.
Because of this huge pressure, Liang even began to temporarily ignore the threat from Chu and instead purchased grain from Chu to cope with the upcoming war.
After testing each other for several years now, Zhao Guo finally couldn't bear it anymore.
In the middle of last month, which was the 13th day of August in the 25th year of Shenwu's reign, they raised 1.2 million troops and used 20 Xiantian men to brazenly invade Dongjun of Liang State.
As for the Liang Kingdom, they originally had 300,000 troops and horses in Dongjun, as well as ten innate commanders. Now they are defending the big city, which can be sustained for a while.
And after learning the news, reinforcements have begun to be mobilized continuously in the Liang Kingdom and sent to Dongjun to prepare for support.
According to the Imperial City Division's spies in Liang State, it was finally estimated that within one month, Liang State would be able to gather 500,000 troops and twenty innates in Dongjun.
Within three months, one million troops can be gathered, with no less than thirty people innate.
If Zhao Guo cannot make a breakthrough quickly before this point in time, then when Liang Guo reacts and all the soldiers and horses in the country are gathered, he may not be able to escape the fate of being driven back to the river.
However, even if they could gain a foothold in Dongjun first, with the national strength of Liang State, it would be difficult for Zhao State alone to support them.
Therefore, regardless of whether there is a breakthrough or not, the key to victory in the northern war that finally breaks out does not lie with Zhao State, but with Xu State, which is directly adjacent to it.
The two countries of Zhao and Xu have already concluded an alliance in recent years.
At this time, if the State of Zhao moves, the State of Xu will not be far away.
Only the two kingdoms of Zhao and Xu can join forces and gather the two overlords to compete with Liang.
