The Chu army captured Jiangxia City, but Lu Yuan did not stay any longer in the city.
He only stayed in the city for two days, and after a short rest, he led his army to continue heading north.
The current situation can be described as very good.
The nine vanguard armies have all achieved good results. Donghai County has been pacified, most of Xingyang County has been pacified, and the three counties of Jiyin, Liang, and Chengyang are under attack.
Even Daliang, the capital of the Liang Kingdom, was now under threat from the Chu army.
The original plan to send out the Nine Route Army has already achieved a lot of success.
However, it was precisely because of this that the follow-up army led by Lu Yuan had to follow up early to look after the retreat and fill the front line.
Although the nine-pronged vanguard was overwhelmingly powerful, there were still only 900,000 people in the end. At this time, they were ravaging five counties at once. As troops and horses were dispatched one after another, the strength of the troops was quickly diluted.
Now at the forefront of the three counties of Jiyin, Liang, and Chengyang, the Chu army has less than 200,000 troops. Although its edge is still there, with the arrival of Liang Guoqin's army from various places, Liang's resistance has also declined. is rapidly strengthening.
At this time, the vanguard army could no longer guarantee the previously overwhelming progress.
In the three counties on the front line, the Chu and Liang sides had already occupied their respective fronts, forming a deadlock.
At this time, it was naturally impossible for Lu Yuan to sit still.
Therefore, after defeating Jiangxia City and wiping out the last stronghold of the Liang Army on the southern front, they immediately decided to take the main force northward for support.
Now that Liang Guo was caught off guard, it was at its most embarrassing and critical moment.
If he didn't take advantage of this great opportunity to kill the other party at once, wouldn't he have wasted his thirty years of waiting and planning?
Therefore, after ordering Huang Lin to lead the west camp to continue northward to attack Xingyang and Jiyin, Lu Yuan continued to lead the middle camp and the east camp to the East China Sea, heading towards Daliang and Chengyang. .
As for the three prefectures in Jiangxia and Jiangbei Guangling prefectures that have been captured, the cabinet has arranged for military officials to accompany them in advance. Under the protection of the army, they can immediately form government offices and teams in the two places to restore local production and stability.
At the same time, we must also connect with the immigrants arriving from the south and help them resettle in the prefectures and counties north of the Yangtze River.
Lu Yuan's people from various vassal states who moved from the southwest and Lingnan numbered more than 18 million, almost as many as the entire Northern Expedition army.
So many people are piled up in various places along the Yangtze River in the south of the Yangtze River. They eat horse chews every day, which consumes an unknown amount of money.
At the same time, a large number of people gathered and had nothing to do, causing public security problems that are difficult to describe.
It has only been half a year, but the officials in various places along the Yangtze River in the south of the Yangtze River are already complaining and complaining one after another.
He said that if the situation is not dealt with, local people's dissatisfaction will boil over and a civil unrest may occur.
Lu Yuan naturally attached great importance to this.
Now that the Northern Expedition was slightly successful, he immediately ordered that five million people be arranged in advance to be placed in Jiangxia County and Jiangbei Guangling County.
Although the area of this county and three prefectures is not large, it is only about 7,000 miles away.
However, there are not many local people in the two places, only about five million people in total.
Compared to the Jiangnan Chu State, which had tens of millions of people per county, this population was sparsely populated.
Therefore, although it is very stressful to relocate five million people, it is not impossible.
It's just that the people of the Chu State who have just been relocated may not be allocated much good land and need to open up wasteland by themselves in the wild. They will have a very hard time in the first few years.
However, Lu Yuan had already anticipated this and made preparations.
It takes three to five years to cultivate a new wasteland, but no results can be seen.
During this period, those people basically had to rely on the court for support.
After three to five years, the reclamation has produced some results, and the immigrants can basically support themselves.
However, at this time, their income was still meager, and the world was just enough to support themselves, so it would take another three to five years for them to develop before the court could collect taxes from these people.
Therefore, it would take as fast as six years, or as short as ten years, for the court to see any income from an immigration.
Based on Chu State's current family background, plus the Liang State in the north, if the Northern Expedition goes smoothly, the total population of Chu State will reach about 150 million after annexing the 14 counties of Liang State.
Among them, there are about 20 million people who need resettlement subsidies.
In other words, Chu State will use 1.3 billion people to feed and subsidize 20 million people.
It will take three to five years.
Although this pressure is great, it is actually acceptable if you grit your teeth.
And if we can further annex Wei and obtain the other country's four counties and a population of 40 million, it will be easier to feed 20 million people.
You don't have to grit your teeth and you can accomplish this in a relatively prosperous manner.
This is one of the reasons why Lu Yuan wanted to include Wei as a target in this Northern Expedition.
Because only by annexing Liang and Wei, integrating Chu, and gathering the power of the three countries can we support the immigration work of tens of millions of people all year round.
Now the first batch of immigrants are the southwestern and Lingnan vassals.
After them, there are still 70 million people in Chu State.
Calculated based on the fact that each batch of 20 million people will last for a total of five years.
If the Chu State wants to successfully resettle all the people in the territory, it will take at least twenty years.
This kind of consumption and pressure is not enough for the Chu State alone. Liang Wei must also be brought in.
At the same time, the sooner immigration work can be carried out, the better.
It is impossible to immigrate to Jiangbei this year and expect them to farm.
What Lu Yuan wanted was for them to arrive at the immigration location as early as possible, and then clear up a piece of rough land in advance so that they could cultivate it the next year.
In this way, when the grain harvested next year grows, even if the harvest is small, it can make up for some expenses and reduce some pressure on the court.
Similarly, the arrival of new immigrants can also change the local population structure of Chu State in Liang State, diluting the number of locals.
Compared with the Liang people who were hostile to Chu, these Chu people who migrated to the north naturally had to rely on the imperial government if they wanted to establish themselves in this unfamiliar place.
From this aspect, they are naturally close to Chu.
With these people here, Chu State can quickly take root in Zhongzhou, Jiangbei, and have its own basic base in the local area, so as not to become a rootless duckweed.
This will be of great benefit to quickly establishing the rule of Chu State and stabilizing the place.
And it is actually not difficult for a mere 18 million people to settle down in Jiangbei.
Five million people have been arranged in Jiangxia and Guangling.
Xingyang and Donghai, the two counties with deep control, can accommodate approximately 10 million people.
As long as the official offices of these two counties are established and suitable places are sorted out for resettling immigrants, those immigrants waiting in Jiangnan can quickly follow them.
Later, when the Chu army continues to capture more counties and counties in Liang State and establish its rule, the remaining immigrants can gradually fill in.
In short, with the resettlement of 18 million immigrants from the vassal country this year, the problem is not big.
However, with the influx of so many outsiders at once, the contradiction between man and land will naturally increase, which will eventually arouse the dissatisfaction of local people. This is for sure.
In the end, they might force many Liang people whose interests had been usurped to rebel, causing them to rebel in the local area and cause trouble.
Therefore, in order to protect the immigrants and stabilize the place, Lu Yuan made plans before leaving.
In the areas occupied by the Chu Kingdom in the north of the Yangtze River, we plan to leave 500 soldiers and 500 civilians in each county, and 5,000 warriors and 5,000 civilians in each prefecture.
At the same time, the county also has a separate station of 100,000 soldiers, as well as a Xiantian as the commander-in-chief of the county, as an absolute force to coordinate with all parties and maneuver at any time.
Such a county will guarantee a strength of 300,000 troops. One innate is absolutely enough to maintain stability and suppress the local area.
With this force, it is enough to protect immigrants and prevent rebellion.
After making all these arrangements, Lu Yuan set off with peace of mind.
On May 15th, Shengjia arrived at Chengyan County, Donghai County with his troops from the middle and east routes.
The army was stationed here, and the sacred order was issued, ordering Gao Xuanfeng, an officer accompanying the army, to formally establish Donghai County in Yan County and build the county government team.
At the same time, troops and horses were dispatched to escort officials from various prefectures and counties to various prefectures and counties in the East China Sea to take up their posts.
In the meantime, Lu Yuan, who was repairing in Yan County, also received a request for an audience.
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The county town was the residence of the Chu Emperor.
In the study, Lu Yuan, who was busy dealing with official duties, finally took time out to receive the visitor.
"Xiao Dao Dongyun, pay homage to His Majesty."
An old Taoist entered the room, looked at the heroic emperor in front of him, and immediately bowed down and saluted.
"Master Canglong, you are the headmaster of the Immortal Sect. As a foreigner, you don't need to be so generous."
Lu Yuan looked at the old Taoist who was kneeling below and said calmly.
"In the whole world, everything is the land of the king. On the shore of the land, there is nothing but the king's ministers."
When Old Taoist Dongyun heard Lu Yuan's words, he did not stand up, but kowtowed again and said: "My Canglong Road is in Donghai County, and now Donghai County is controlled by His Majesty, that small road is His Majesty's minister.
A minister facing a king is naturally insurmountable.
Moreover, Xiaodao had offended His Majesty Tianwei by helping Liang Guo fight against Chu, and he really deserved death.
Now that I meet His Majesty, I must apologize.
In the past, I helped Zhou to commit cruelty, and all his actions were done by a small Taoist and had nothing to do with my Canglong Dao disciple.
Your Majesty, please punish me if you convict me. Xiaodao is willing to accept the punishment.
I, the other disciples of Canglong Dao, are willing to welcome the destiny and serve your Majesty.
He asked your majesty, for the sake of my Canglong Dao inheritance for thousands of years, please don’t rain down thunder and leave me a piece of the Dao tradition. "
Old Taoist Dongyun burst into tears and kowtowed to Lu Yuan several times, pleading endlessly.
Lu Yuan looked at this scene with a dull expression.
He naturally knew why this veteran was acting like this.
Qingzhou, where the Liang Kingdom is located, has had two major immortal gates since ancient times. One is Canglong Road in Zhulong Mountain in Donghai County, and the other is Danding Road in Tiannan Mountain in Shanyang County.
These two immortal sects are located in Qingzhou and have close relations with Liang State, so they naturally support each other.
Therefore, since the Four Pole Incident, the two immortal sects have begun to strongly support the Liang Kingdom, and each of them has trained eight or nine innates for the Liang Kingdom. It can be said that they have given their heart and soul to it.
During Lu Yuan's Northern Expedition, two of the three innates stationed in Guangling County were from Canglong Dao.
Of these two people, one was killed by Lu Yuan's clone, and the other was captured, and is now being guarded by the army, waiting to be dealt with.
The interest class and die-hard elements of Liang State naturally became the targets that Chu State must attack.
Therefore, after leading his army to the north, when the army arrived at Donghai County, Lu Yuan immediately mobilized a hundred thousand troops, as well as the twenty Xiantian who accompanied the army, and directly surrounded Zhulong Mountain.
Facing such a formation, the Canglong Dao people in the mountains were naturally frightened.
Although they are also an Immortal Sect, when all the monks from Nine Provinces have ascended, the so-called Immortal Sect is just a title.
Today, there is no monk in Canglong Dao, and the top leaders are just innate masters.
There are not even many Xiantian Grandmasters left.
As mentioned before, Canglong Dao has successively contributed many innate masters to the Liang Kingdom over the years, totaling eight people.
Among these eight people, three have died on the battlefield due to the wars between Liang Guo and surrounding countries in recent years.
The remaining five people were distributed throughout the Liang Kingdom and served as generals to command the troops.
The only Xiantian who really stayed in Zongmen Mountain were the headmaster Dongyun and the other two Xiantian elders.
In addition, there are more than three hundred disciples who also stayed in Zhulong Mountain.
At this time, the Chu army made dumplings for this group of people and surrounded them on the mountain, unable to escape even if they wanted to.
Not only these Canglong Dao disciples, but also some core believers around Canglong Dao were controlled by the Chu army at this time and captured.
It can be said.
Except for the five Xiantian Grandmasters who held important positions in Liang Jun and a few disciples, the rest of Canglong Dao had fallen into the hands of the Chu State.
Their life and death depended only on Lu Yuan's thoughts.
In this case, don't say that Dongyun is just a fake Taoist master of the Immortal Sect now. Even if it's true, it's hard to be stubborn.
The sect's inheritance was about to be cut off in his own hands. Of course, the old Taoist was extremely anxious. After pleading hard, he finally got the opportunity to meet Emperor Chu.
So there was this scene in front of me.
"So, Taoist Master Dongyun feels that he has sinned deeply and wants to ask for my forgiveness?"
Lu Yuan looked at Dongyun who was crying and asked calmly.
"Your Majesty, Xiaodao has indeed been convicted of his crime." Dongyun sobbed, raised his hands and swore: "As long as your majesty can spare my life, Canglong Dao, I, in the name of Canglong Dao Master, will be the leader of the Chu Kingdom in all my life from now on." minister.
If you violate this oath, all members of my Taoist sect will die, the Taoist lineage will be cut off, and both heaven and man will abandon it. "
This old man swore a poisonous oath.
People who seek the path to immortality have always taken their oaths seriously.
Because although the way of heaven is not obvious, it has spiritual responses in the dark.
If you make a promise to God and then break it, even if you are haunted by inner demons, God will not forgive you and there will be retribution of its own.
This kind of sworn retribution means that the higher the cultivation level, the closer the connection with heaven and earth, the greater the restriction.
However, in the age of the end of the Dharma, the way of heaven is hidden and the way of immortality is cut off.
The so-called oath, whether you abide by it or not depends on your heart, and the binding force is just that.
Dongyun also knew this, and by saying this at this time, it was more to express his attitude.
He sees clearly.
In this Northern Expedition, the Chu State was massive and used countless troops and horses. The Liang State lost four counties in a few months. The east of Liang State was devastated by war, and the imperial capital was also in turmoil.
Obviously, this Northern Expedition was something that Chu had been planning for a long time.
On the contrary, Liang Guo was unprepared and fell into the trap, and the country's destruction was imminent.
Although Daliang City is still in the hands of Liang Guo, Liang Guo has stabilized the situation for the time being and did not perish immediately.
But regardless of whether the Liang State can block the Chu State in the future, it is a certainty that Guangling, Jiangxia, Donghai, Xingyang, Jiyin, Chengyang and other counties west of Daliang will never be recaptured.
And the foundation of the mountain gate is in the Canglong Dao of the East China Sea. Under this situation, unless you want the mountain gate to be destroyed, the Taoist lineage will be cut off, and the disciples will be scattered.
Otherwise, surrendering to the new winner in order to win the other party's acceptance and forgiveness becomes the only way out.
So no matter how much he has to pay, no matter how he gives up his dignity, he must ask Emperor Chu for forgiveness.
"Now that the Immortal God has not appeared, the promise of retribution is illusory. The Taoist Master wants me to accept the Canglong Tao without any proof. It is a bit taken for granted." Lu Yuandan said.
When Ziyundao took refuge, it was only through selling the entire Ning State that he could clear his name and come ashore.
Canglong Dao wants to be a dog for himself, without paying any price, just relying on his mouth, how can such a good thing happen?
"There are two elders in my sect who have served as generals of the Liang Kingdom. Currently, there are 100,000 orthodox soldiers stationed in Xingyang County.
There are also two elders who each lead tens of thousands of troops and serve as generals in Jiyin County. "
Old Taoist Dongyun heard the meaning of Lu Yuan's words and immediately said: "If Your Majesty is willing to accept me, Canglong Dao, to join me, Xiaodao is willing to write to these four elders and ask them to immediately raise their troops and surrender to the great Chu.
In addition, the elders and disciples of Xiaodao and the sect are also willing to go out and serve Da Chu. "
The mountain gate of Canglong Road is in Donghai County.
With Shanmen as the core and radiating outward, the entire eastern part of Liang State was his sphere of influence.
Therefore, many of the innate talents of Canglong Dao who have taken refuge in the Liang Kingdom basically operate within this scope in order to ensure the interests of their own sects.
This time, Lu Yuan suddenly swept through the eastern part of the Liang Kingdom. Not only did he wipe out Canglong Dao's lair, but he also blocked the retreat of his disciples who had dispersed. It could be said that they were all captured in one fell swoop.
But it was precisely this that made Old Dao Dongyun anxious.
In order to switch camps this time, I directly brought everyone in the sect and sold it to the Chu State.
Lu Yuan couldn't help but think after hearing his conditions.
The two counties of Xingyang and Jiyin were led by Huang Lin's West Road Camp.
Today, there are more than 100,000 to 200,000 Liang soldiers remaining in each of these two counties, guarding the eastern part of Xingyang and the northern part of Jiyin.
And among the remnant soldiers of the Liang Kingdom, nearly half, or even most of the strength is in the hands of Canglong Dao Xiantian.
If the West Route Camp wants to eliminate these two groups of remnants in a hurry, it will take two or three months, and it will take a lot of effort.
If we can get the help of Canglong Dao at this time and let these remnant soldiers of the Liang Kingdom recover, we will not only get more than 200,000 Liang soldiers for nothing, but also save a lot of time and quickly pacify the two counties.
Before Zhao State in the north could react, a defense line was built in the eastern part of Liang State to block the other party's tentacles from intervening in the battle of Liang State.
'This will save me a lot of effort. '
Thinking of this, Lu Yuan looked at Dongyun and said: "That's all, because you are so disrespectful, I will forgive Canglong Dao's sin this time.
As for the matter of your disciples leaving the mountain and letting the four disciples who are in the Liang Army do whatever they want, you will receive an order later, and then go to the west road to serve in front of the camp and atone for your sins. "
When Dongyun heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and kowtowed: "Xiaodao, no, I respect your order and thank your majesty for your kindness."
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