After accepting Canglong Dao's surrender, Lu Yuan waved his hand for Dongyun Dao to leave.
A fairy sect rushed over, begging to be a dog, and he easily accepted seven innates. It was indeed a happy thing.
But he didn't pay too much attention to this.
After thirty years of cultivating internal strength, Chu's accumulation has reached a terrifying level.
When the remnants of the First Emperor, Fen VI, wiped out Liuhe and unified the world, their advantages were nothing more than this.
Therefore, it is inevitable for Chu State to unify the nine states.
This is inevitable, and there will be no turning points or differences because of Dongyun Lao Dao's surrender or resistance.
In front of the hundreds of innates in the Chu Kingdom, the mere seven innates of Canglong Dao seemed insignificant.
Under this situation, Lu Yuan really didn't pay much attention to the matter and just treated it as a minor matter.
And what happened to Canglong Dao was just the beginning.
Later, when the Chu Kingdom quickly sweeps across Jiuzhou, such as Henan County and Shanyang County, then the Yuchan Dao and Danding Dao above it will also rush to seek refuge like the current Canglong Dao.
This is the general trend.
With the outbreak of the Chu State and the emergence of advantages, anyone or anything standing in the way will either choose to follow the general trend and join the Chu State.
Or become a pebble under the wheel of the times and be directly crushed into pieces.
There will be no third option.
As the protagonist who leads this era, Lu Yuan only needs to set a good direction and strengthen his will to drive the carriage in the direction he wants.
Therefore, after Dongyun left, he immediately devoted his energy to this great journey.
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Lu Yuan is very busy, really busy.
It involves the command and mobilization of tens of millions of people, the battlefield spans tens of thousands of miles, and involves three states and four countries. The number of things that happen every day is a despairing figure.
Although he has sixty-four clones to help deal with these trivial matters.
The clones will first filter out some unimportant things, then classify and summarize the important things, and then inform him through spiritual thoughts.
But even so, Lu Yuan almost didn't have time to sleep just from the daily contact with his clones.
On June 1st, civil unrest broke out in Yiyang Mansion in Jiangxia County. The Lin family, a local wealthy family, led a hundred thousand people to revolt. The Mansion was guarding 10,000 soldiers, but the 10,000 civilians were defeated.
In just two days, Lin's rebels captured Fucheng and raised the flag of Liang State.
After hearing the news, Huang Yi, the clone guarding Jiangxia County, personally led an army of 50,000 to attack. The war is currently in full swing.
On June 3rd, in Hailing Prefecture, Guangling County, Jiangbei Province, the Chen family, a local wealthy family, raised an army and gathered tens of thousands of people because they were dissatisfied with the immigrants from the Chu State who had invaded their forest land.
However, the guards of the mansion responded quickly. When the rebels had just gathered, the leading troops suddenly attacked, defeated the enemy in one battle, and captured thousands of people.
Thousands of members of the Chen family were executed, and their heads were sent to the three prefectures in Guangling in the north of the Yangtze River. The local area was shocked and all the riots suddenly disappeared.
On June 7, on the front line of Jiyin County, the vanguard army fought with Liang Guo. In the end, they were outnumbered, losing more than 10,000 soldiers, and had to retreat three hundred miles to avoid the enemy.
In the middle of the same month, the State of Zhao was horrified to hear the sudden change of the State of Liang, and immediately named the East County of Qingzhou it occupied and dispatched its army to invade the northern part of Xingyang County occupied by the State of Chu.
Fortunately, Chu's follow-up army arrived at this time. Huang Lin's 3 million troops marching westward entered Xingyang, and happened to run into the invading 500,000 troops of Zhao.
The two sides fought in Guancheng. Facing several times the strength of the Chu army, the Zhao army was defeated and defeated on the front battlefield. The Chu army pursued them for hundreds of miles.
Huang Lin then divided his troops and sent another clone, Qing Lingzi, as his deputy commander, leading 300,000 soldiers and 700,000 civilians. Taking advantage of Zhao's defeat and the loss of the main force, he went straight into Dongjun.
Chu State officially fought against Zhao State.
Later, Dong Yun Lao Tao arrived and personally entered the Liang Army camp in the east of Xingyang to surrender, causing the two Xiantian Grandmasters of Canglong Dao to revolt anyway and fight back against the remaining Xiantian Grandmaster who was born as a minister of Liang Guogong.
With the cooperation of the Chu army, the remaining tens of thousands of Liang loyalists and the innate master were quickly wiped out.
Xingyang County was successfully pacified.
So after leaving a clone and 300,000 troops to guard the area, Huang Lin led the remaining troops and continued northward to conquer Jiyin County.
On June 11, Qing Xuanzi, the general manager of the West Road Camp, officially led the West Road Camp and the Middle Road Camp commanded by Lu Yuan to divide their troops and headed towards Chengyang County.
On the 12th, the governor of Donghai County reported that many of the officials who went to take up their posts were assassinated by Liang people. As a result, the officials suffered heavy casualties and many people did not dare to go to their posts.
On the 13th, the Xingyang County branch reported that the local area was sorted out and officials were requested to go there. At the same time, immigration work could be started.
On the 16th, the local government in Guangling County, Jiangbei Province, reported that the immigrants in Lingting County were not accustomed to the acclimatization and climate, and a plague broke out, killing thousands of people.
On the 23rd, Sun Siwen, the capital of Baling, sent a message that fires broke out in three Changping warehouses with a grain storage of 5 million dan. They are currently under emergency investigation. It is not yet confirmed whether it was intentional or accidental.
In early July, a month of heavy rain fell in Baling, causing Dongting Lake to overflow. Floods occurred in the county and hundreds of thousands of people became refugees.
Immigrants resettled along the Yangtze River were affected, and hundreds of thousands of people died from the floods.
In mid-July, reports came from Linhai, Yuzhang, and Xiangyang counties at the same time. Floods also occurred in these places, which had a serious impact on local areas and immigrants.
Urgent news came from the cabinet that due to the severe floods in the country, there were problems in the transportation of grain, and the logistics supply may not be able to keep up.
At the end of July, due to lack of food, Lu Yuan, who had already led his army to Liang County and surrounded Daliang City, had to temporarily stop his troops and lead his troops back to Donghai County.
To shorten the supply distance and reduce logistical pressure.
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Returning to the East China Sea again, Lu Yuan seemed a little depressed.
This time the expedition against Liang County ended in a hurry. After finally encircling Daliang, they had to withdraw their troops.
Millions of troops rushed back and forth, but the result was useless work, and no one could be happy.
But no matter how unhappy he was, he could only accept it.
There were so many things going on locally, floods broke out in the rear, and various natural and man-made disasters occurred one after another, which dampened the joy of this great victory in the Northern Expedition.
At this time, bad news came from Xingyang County, and there was another rebellion by a wealthy family there.
At the same time, thirty-seven of the officials who took office in the county were assassinated by Liang people this month and died in office.
In the local area, three Chu people's immigrant villages were massacred by good people and bandits, with thousands of people dead.
Seeing this news, Lu Yuan, who was angry because of the withdrawal of troops from the Northern Expedition, couldn't bear it anymore.
He immediately contacted the guard clones in Jiangbei counties with his spiritual thoughts and issued orders.
“From now on, whenever a local official is assassinated or a county-level official dies, the wealthy families in the county, as well as the Jianghu sects and gangs will be massacred regardless of the reason.
If a government-level official dies, regardless of the reason, all the noble families of the government, as well as the wealthy families, gangs, and sects in the city area will be massacred.
If a local immigrant village is attacked and massacred, all landlords within ten miles of the village will be killed.
Whenever the Chu immigrants in each city were massacred, all the merchants and clans in that city would be killed. "
Lu Yuan issued a ruthless implicated order.
He had had enough of these endless assassination attacks over the past few months.
Only four or five months after crossing the river, more than 300 officials sent by the Chu State to the north of the Yangtze River had been assassinated and more than 200 people had died.
As many as hundreds of immigrant villages were attacked, and immigrants in various towns were attacked thousands of times, with hundreds of thousands killed.
These assassinations and massacres have seriously affected Chu's rule in Jiangbei.
Fortunately, those immigrants had little information, and they didn't know much about their current situation in Jiangbei.
Therefore, I am quite happy to move to Zhongzhou, which is near the plains, and will not resist.
But the officials sent by Chu State to Zhongzhou were all on tenterhooks and terrified.
Everyone knows that there are many people in Zhongzhou who specialize in assassinating Chu officials.
The probability and death rate of officials being assassinated are also very high, reaching 3%, almost one in 30.
A mortality rate of one-thirtieth may not sound like much. After all, the death rate of the army on the battlefield is often more than one-tenth, or even one-fifth, which is much higher than this.
But those on the battlefield are soldiers, and those on the ground are officers.
One is on the front line and one is on the rear.
Can these differences be compared?
For officials, the mortality rate of one in 30 is already a terrifying figure that can scare many people out of their minds.
Going to Jiangbei to take up a post may mean that you can gain wealth and wealth at great risk, but you are also keeping your head in your belt.
Many officials who heard about the terror in Jiangbei, when they knew that they were selected and were going to Jiangbei to take up their posts, would rather hang up their seals and have their crowns, so that they would never be used in the future, rather than go to Jiangbei to serve as officials.
Even among the officials who had arrived in Jiangbei, many abandoned their posts and fled.
It can be seen how much this wave of assassinations frightened and shocked Chu officials.
Sun Siwen has been writing letters to Lu Yuan these days to complain, saying that it has become increasingly difficult for middle school officials to change their minds after hearing about Jiangbei, and to mobilize distinguished scholars to come to Jiangbei.
If things continue like this, it will become increasingly difficult to select enough officials later, until no one is willing to go to Jiangbei.
So the behavior has been very bad.
It was precisely for this reason that Lu Yuan was so angry after seeing reports of assassinating officials and massacres of immigrants.
He knew that in the counties in the north of the Yangtze River occupied by the Chu army, the only ones capable of assassinating Chu officials were the aristocratic families and Jianghu sects in those places.
The strength of the soldiers of the Chu army is not bad.
The captains in charge of fifty people in the army are basically third-rate senior players or second-rate masters. The team vice-presidents and some capable players in the team are basically third-rate players.
In the area occupied by the Chu State in Jiangbei, the security arrangements for local officials were basically county-level chief and deputy officers, such as county magistrates, county lieutenants, county magistrates, etc., who arranged one or two teams of people for protection.
Other officials such as the chief registrant, the edict, the patrol officer, etc. arranged a group of people to protect them.
To be honest, this kind of security arrangement is already very strict.
But even so, a large number of officials were assassinated.
To be able to assassinate the Chu officials who were sent to their posts in the heavily guarded environment under the heavy protection of the soldiers sent by the Chu army requires a master, and he must be a second-rate master or above.
Or only by the cooperation of several third-rate masters can such a thing be accomplished.
As for those who could use such experts and manpower, besides the local aristocratic families and Jianghu sects, Lu Yuan could not think of anyone else who could do this.
And for these local forces, the Chu State was a full-fledged foreign invader and enemy. And a large number of immigrants from Jiangnan are constantly eroding and impacting their existing interests.
They were in a situation where their country was ruined, their family was ruined, and their interests were damaged. It would be a shame if they could have a good impression of the Chu State.
And those who raised troops to resist the Chu State, the rebellions that were suppressed one by one, and the families that were annihilated by the whole family, all reminded and frightened them that raising troops was the stupidest choice.
But we can't do it by raising troops. I can secretly carry out assassinations and attacks. That's no problem, right?
If you, Chu State, have no evidence, what can you do to me?
As local snakes, it couldn't be easier for them to use this method.
In fact, these people are really successful at playing.
In the face of those assassination attacks, even if the Chu State was extremely furious and pursued desperately, it was indeed difficult to find any trace of these people and could not catch any evidence.
Facing these people who are causing trouble secretly, within the scope of the rules, there is really nothing the Chu army can do against them.
Those secretly mice may be feeling proud and mocking the Chu army for their stupidity.
But now, but now, but at this time, I, Emperor Chu, Lu Yuan, will no longer play with you.
Just flipped the table over.
Don’t you think that I don’t dare to get involved or involve others, so I can only take the law but not blame others?
Okay now, I won’t talk about evidence or reasons.
As long as there is a problem somewhere, they will directly identify the locals there as having a problem, and then kill them all.
Lu Yuan didn't believe it.
Kill all the wealthy sects in the local area. Without these leaders, there will only be those low-level people in the local area who are miserable and don't know what the country is.
Can you still be so conscious that you can stand up and resist your own Chu army for the sake of national justice?
"It would be good to kill all those powerful families and Jianghu gangs. Without them, the unstable factors in the local area will disappear.
By cleaning them up, a lot of local interests will be freed up, and the court can directly take over and obtain a lot of wealth.
At that time, the consumption of the Northern Expedition may be directly replenished by this. "
Lu Yuan whispered to himself, the murderous intention in his heart could no longer be concealed.
Perhaps I have been the King and Emperor of Chu for too long, and I care about face after I go ashore. Many people think that I am a gentleman and can be bullied.
He forgot the thunderbolt methods he implemented when he was still a local warlord.
Those proud Liang people, let them now experience what the military and political iron fist is.
Lu Yuan has made up his mind that as long as the place is not peaceful, his butcher knife will not stop.
So even if there is a massacre, even if all the people in Jiangbei are killed, this military order must be carried out.
It's just right for people to die cleanly.
When the immigrants from the Chu State came over, they would be able to directly take over the houses and fields of the dead people, and they would not have to open up wasteland, which would save the court a lot of money.
There are 70 million people in the Chu State, plus the 20 million people in the vassal state, there are 90 million people, enough to fill half of Zhongzhou.
He is not afraid of dead people, he is just afraid that not enough people will die.
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In this way, with the strong push of Lu Yuan, an iron fist to control chaos was quickly implemented in the area occupied by the Chu army in Jiangbei.
For a time, no matter good or bad, right or wrong, guilty or not, as long as a Chu army official or immigrant was killed, Bai Di's powerful family and Jianghu sect would also be implicated.
The confrontation between the Chu army and the local forces of Liang State reached its peak in an instant.
Numerous local forces in Liang State rebelled. The originally stable control area of Chu State suddenly erupted in war, and the world was in chaos.
Countless local wealthy families coerced the rebels, and countless Jianghu sects turned into assassins and launched an attack on Chu State.
Lu Yuan responded forcefully.
It happened that the Northern Expedition to Daliang failed and millions of troops withdrew, leaving no room for them to use.
At this time, these rebels bumped into each other, giving them a chance to show off their skills.
Lu Yuan dispersed millions of soldiers and horses to the counties in Jiangbei, and responded with the most fierce iron fist according to the configuration of one to two million people and twenty or thirty innates in one county.
After the rebellious family was suppressed, the entire family was killed.
The rebels who followed the rebellion, whether voluntarily or coerced, were all demoted to criminals, their houses and land confiscated, and driven into the wilderness to reclaim wasteland.
The confiscated houses and land were directly given to the immigrants from Chu State, allowing them to live in them directly and instantly own real estate.
The status between the local criminals and the immigrants from Chu State was instantly reversed.
As for those Jianghu people who came to carry out assassinations, they directly pursued and killed their families.
The martial arts of those martial arts masters are so powerful that no one can touch them. But their family members, relatives, and disciples may not have as high a level of martial arts as they do.
Facing the Chu army's pursuit, it was difficult for these people to escape.
As long as they are caught, they will immediately threaten the Jianghu people, force them to surrender, exchange the lives of their relatives for their lives, and then be punished.
At the same time, various innate masters were dispatched, leading the military masters to track down some die-hard elements.
This time, Lu Yuan sent out enough innate masters. On average, one or two innate masters could be assigned to each mansion. This density was enough to strictly control each area, making it impossible for any criminal to escape.
Facing the innate grandmaster's dimension-reduction attack, those first- and second-rate martial arts masters could not hold on for long even if they wanted to resist to the end.
In less than ten days and a half, they were all arrested and sentenced to death.
Such an iron fist campaign lasted for two months, affecting two states and six counties, and gradually came to an end.
The Chu army also quelled thousands of rebellions, massacred hundreds of wealthy families, destroyed hundreds of Jianghu gangs, and killed millions of people, and finally stabilized the Jiangbei land it now controls.
In the local area, all those who have different intentions will be killed and all future troubles will be completely eradicated.
Or he will be killed and his courage will be broken, and he will no longer dare to have the slightest thought of resistance.
Lu Yuan's goal of stabilizing the place was also successfully achieved after the Iron Fist campaign.
at the same time.
At this time, October came.
Heavy snow fell for the first time in the forty-one year of Shenwu.
The floods in Jiangnan have slowly subsided in the past few months.
The Northern Expedition in the first year came to an end.
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