lerbook Chapter 159 Analysis of the Great Zhou Situation, the Path of the Avatar (1/2)
Chapter 159 Analysis of the Great Zhou Situation, the Path of the Avatar (1/2)
In the room of Li Yan's clone in Guiyuan Sect, three pieces of white paper were neatly placed on the table. Li Yan was beside them, examining the contents on the three pieces of white paper.
The three pieces of white paper were placed in a front-to-back arrangement. The first piece of white paper did not contain much information, but they were all major events that affected Da Zhou.
There were only a few paragraphs written on it.
[Information obtained by the clone of Xuanfeng King City]
[Da Zhou continued to increase its troops, with a total of more than 100,000 troops, including two legions and one cavalry battalion]
The highest commander of the battalion-level army of Da Zhou was Wan Hu, which means that the number of people in a battalion was 10,000.
[Da Yue and Da Zhou, at the border of the two countries, namely Da Zhou Zhan Yue Dao and Da Yue Tun Zhou Diocese, each stationed more than 200,000 troops, and the number of armored soldiers on both sides was close to 500,000. ]
Zhan Yue Dao and Tun Zhou Diocese, the meaning was very clear, both sides wanted to annex each other.
However, at present, Dayue is obviously stronger than Dazhou. In fact, because of the last rebellion of the [Red Blood Army], Dayue took advantage of it and annexed one-fifth of the territory of Dazhou's Zhanyue Dao.
This gave Dayue more territorial depth and greater advantages in this battle between the two countries.
Diocese is a name for Dayue to divide its own domestic territory, just like Dazhou's Dao.
Dazhou's twelve Dao masters govern Dazhou's eighteen Daos, while Dayue has nine bishops who govern nine dioceses.
[In Xuanfeng King City, the court has reported that it is preparing to form a new legion, with an estimated number of three to five]
Obviously, the previous recruitment of soldiers from various Daos and officers from major forces in Xuanfeng King City was a preparation for the formation of these new legions.
Moreover, the recruitment efforts are still increasing. The Su family has once again obtained a quota of officers of one hundred households and three captains.
Li Yan is going to let the clone of the Su family find an opportunity to break through to the innate realm, and then strive for an officer position of five hundred households.
There is a transitional military position of five hundred households between the hundred households and the thousand households, and this military position is promoted from the hundred households.
In other words, the five hundred households have a direct team of one hundred people under them, and can also manage the other four hundred households.
The reason why Li Yan wants to participate in such a war is to obtain more resources.
After all, the innate resources of Xuanfeng King City have begun to rise sharply due to the war, and Li Yan can no longer afford it.
On the contrary, the welfare in the army is getting better and better, and the things that can be exchanged for military merits are gradually increasing.
Many people who have no channels to obtain officer positions even spend most of their wealth to buy an officer position on the black market.
There are a very small number of people who have good cultivation, but do not want to spend money, but want to counterattack as an officer as a soldier.
It can only be said that these people are still too naive. What they don’t know is that soldiers like them are the fastest to die.
He will be envied by fellow soldiers, suppressed by the captain above, and the most dangerous and hardest work will be given to this person.
If he does well, the credit belongs to his captain; if he does not do well, he will be punished.
If he wants to resist, so many strong men in the army can suppress it in an instant, and there will be no waves at all.
This is why Li Yan did not create a clone and join the army of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Entering the army with the identity of Su Han, with the connections he has maintained and consolidated these days, as long as there is credit, he can get a share.
And if he himself has made merit, he can also ensure that most of the credit will be in his hands, and it will not be directly taken away by others.
[The Red Blood Fu Zhou Army has frequent movements in Lingshan Road. The court intends to stabilize the country before fighting against foreign enemies. It is currently determining which legion to send to reinforce]
Lingshan Road was completely captured by the [Red Blood Fu Zhou Army] three years ago.
At that time, when the news came out, the whole country of the Great Zhou Dynasty was shocked. The Great Zhou Dynasty court could not believe that a rebellious remnant who had no roots and was chased by them and fled in panic could actually capture a place quietly.
Therefore, a large number of spies were sent out to investigate, and two surprising intelligences were obtained.
First, the new leader of Lingshan Dao played a great role in this incident.
Through further understanding, it was found that the original leader of Lingshan Dao was not this person, but his brother. This person was suspected to have won the position of the new leader of Lingshan Dao with the secret support of [Red Blood Fu Zhou Army].
Second, [Red Blood Fu Zhou Army] had a large number of standard weapons of the Dayue Army, and there were also a large number of Dayue masters among its personnel.
Although the people of Dayue, as long as the crescent mark on their foreheads is wiped off, they are no different from the people of Dazhou, and the difference cannot be distinguished from their appearance.
However, there are great differences in the behavior of the two peoples. The biggest difference is that the people of Dayue have the habit of praying to the moon god they worship at night.
Moreover, they do not pray in the room, but pray outside in the moonlight.
At night, regardless of their level of cultivation, a large group of people kneeled down under the moon and prayed to the moon. Anyone who saw it knew what kind of people these people were.
These two factors directly led to the Great Zhou court's choice of the strategy of siege without attack.
The borders between Lingshan Road and other roads were heavily guarded by the Great Zhou court, blocking the rebels in the [Red Blood Cover Zhou Army] in Lingshan Road.
If it weren't for the recent sudden attack by the Great Yue Kingdom, the Great Zhou court would have withdrawn some troops from this side to support the battlefield.
Perhaps the incident in Shannan Road would not have happened.
Now, the Great Zhou court is sending an entire army over, and I'm afraid it's planning to completely wipe out the [Red Blood Cover Zhou Army].
There are only so many contents on the first white paper.
The contents on the two papers below are much more.
The leftmost one is the information sent by the clone in Nanshan City, Shannan Dao City.
[Nanshan City Clone - Intelligence Obtained by Inquiry]
[The order of the Lord of Shannan Dao has been issued to all places seven days ago to collect the first round of war taxes. ]
If the first round of war taxes cannot make up the conscription quota issued by the court, the second wave of war taxes will come soon.
Moreover, if a family cannot afford the first round of war taxes and sends their family members to the battlefield, then the second round of war taxes must continue to be paid.
If they can't afford it, then continue to select young and middle-aged people in the family to hand them over to the court.
If there are no young and middle-aged people and they can't pay the tax, then sorry, all the people in the family will be sent to the army.
Men serve as logistics personnel in the army, and women's fate is naturally more tragic. People in the army don't care about women's age and beauty.
This is also one of the important reasons why the people of Da Zhou have to have more children even if they are poor.
[Among the five continents and thirty-two counties under the command of Shannan Dao, three states and eighteen counties have received news that the counties under their command have been attacked by strange forces]
[Currently, there are as many as fifty-three counties that have been attacked, and this number is still rising]
[After these forces captured the county, they massacred the forces in the county, and then recruited personnel from the lower-level forces and ordinary people to form the Red Blood Camp]
[The Daozhu Mansion has confirmed that these forces are the people of the Red Blood Fu Zhou Army]
The reason why Li Yan can know such detailed information is that his clone in Nanshan City has already sneaked into the Daozhu Mansion.
After all, he has been in the Daozhu Mansion for a long time. Not only does he know most of the terrain of the Daozhu Mansion, but he also knows the power structure of the Daozhu Mansion.
In the Shannan County Daozhu Mansion, the Daozhu is the most important, and under him are three prosecutors, who are responsible for handling the government affairs of the entire Shannan Dao. Only matters that cannot be decided will be reported to the Daozhu.
Under the prosecutors are clerks, who are responsible for specific matters in a state or a county, so there are many clerks, but they only have the right to decide on small matters, and slightly bigger matters must be reported to the prosecutors.
Under the clerks are the lowest-ranking walkers, who are responsible for transcribing, delivering messages and executing the decisions of the adults.
Li Yan pretended to be a walker, because only walkers would often go in and out of the Daozhu Mansion and would not attract attention.
It was through this identity of a walker that he found out a lot of things.
[At the same time, the people of the Red Blood Fu Zhou Army also began to interfere with the collection of war taxes. Some people who could not pay the war taxes began to join the Red Blood Fu Zhou Army on a large scale]
[This greatly undermined the conscription plan of Shannan Road. The Dao Lord Jiang Bokao recently ordered the formation of an anti-rebellion army to fight against the rebellion of the Red Blood Fu Zhou Army]
[And required the state marquis and county magistrates of each state and county to send elite soldiers to participate in the anti-rebellion operation]
Shannan Road is going to be in chaos, and it will not be calm in a short time.
This is easy to guess from the information on the right paper.
[Linjiang County City Jinfu clone - intelligence obtained by inquiring]
[Three of the eleven counties under Linjiang County City have sent news that the city has been broken]
This is consistent with the information Li Yan got from Li Huahu.
【According to two city lords who fled to Linjiang County, they were able to escape in advance because someone tipped them off】
【But they didn't know who tipped them off】
【In addition to the cities being captured, the tax collectors sent by the Jin Mansion to collect war taxes were often attacked by people of unknown forces and robbed of tax money】
【And people who could not pay taxes and were taken away by tax collectors】
It is obvious that these people of unknown forces are basically confirmed to be members of the [Red Blood Covering Zhou Army].
【Currently, the Jin family has begun to organize the major forces in the county city to form a group of guards to protect the safety of Linjiang County】
【At the same time, the Jin family notified the city lords of each county that an unknown force is currently massacring the city. If you don't want people to die and your clan to be exterminated, go to Linjiang County as soon as possible】
As for sending people to protect the counties, the Jin family will not do such a thankless task.
Just like the Jin family sent a distress signal to Weizhou Prefecture City, the answer they received was that the city was not strong enough and let Linjiang County save itself first.
It was a very perfunctory answer, and there was not much cover-up.
But the Jin family can't do anything to them, because the Zhouhou family has a warrior in the Ningsha realm.
Even if they report to the main mansion, no one will care, but it will cause the dissatisfaction of the Zhouhou and lead to revenge.
In the eyes of the Taoist, a warrior in the Ningsha realm is more important than a group of innate warriors.
Of course, the Jin family did not invite the county lords to Linjiang City out of kindness, but coveted their wealth.
Li Yan's clone in the Jin family has now shown strength that has reached the Yunzang realm, and is even qualified to compete for the position of the head of the Jin family.
He is young, powerful, and has made great contributions before. In the eyes of the Jin family, he is a trustworthy and trustworthy clan member.
Naturally, Li Yan's current status in the Jin family is higher than some of the direct descendants, and he can participate in all the affairs of the Jin Mansion.
That is why he knew the news that the Jin family wanted to use most of the wealth of these county lords to form the Linjiang Guard to protect the safety of Linjiang City.
In addition, there are a series of plans to help the Jin family gain a lot of wealth in this crisis.
For other forces, this may be a crisis, but the Jin family sees an opportunity in it, an opportunity to swallow up all the wealth of other families.
If you can take all the resources of the county, why can't you cultivate a warrior in the Condensation Realm.
There was no opportunity before, but now that the opportunity has appeared, you must naturally try to seize it.
When Li Yan learned about the series of plans of the Jin family, he couldn't help but be secretly shocked and lamented the madness of the Jin family.
While the Jin family was crazy, they still had reason, and some back roads were also being laid.
Li Yan was responsible for one of the back roads. If things changed, what he needed to do was to escape with part of the Jin family's foundation as soon as possible.
So far, this is all the content on the three white papers.
Li Yan took another piece of paper and began to write on it.
[The current situation in Da Zhou is complicated and changeable. There is an invasion from the powerful enemy Dayue outside, and the rebellious Red Blood Fu Zhou Army is causing chaos inside, hindering Da Zhou's recruitment]
[Obviously, this is a plan planned by Dayue and Red Blood Fu Zhou Army together, hoping to cooperate with each other and destroy Da Zhou in one fell swoop]
[Now, I have several clones on the Da Zhou side, but I don't have any clones on the Dayue and Red Blood Fu Zhou Army side. This won't work. I need to send a clone to each of these two forces]
Li Yan, who is now in the Xiantian realm, has a much stronger mental power than the Xiantian realm. He can currently maintain the actions of ten clones to the greatest extent.
Excluding the six clones that have been sent out, he still has four clones available.
Li Yan obviously intends to use the quotas of two of the clones on Dayue and Red Blood Fu Zhou Army.
He sent clones to both sides not with the idea of saving Da Zhou, but to prepare to make a profit in this chaos.
The Chixue Fuzhou Army has the strong support of Dayue, and there are many good things. He wants to see if he can get some for himself.
Dayue is now powerful and may be able to overthrow the rule of Dazhou. If there is such a day, Dazhou will be destroyed, and there will be many good things in Dazhou's treasure house.
He may be able to grab some good things if he mixes with Dayue.
Even if Dayue cannot destroy Zhou, Li Yan can also get some benefits from Dayue's army.
At that time, there will be Li Yan's clone in Dazhou's army, and there will also be Li Yan in Dayue's army. Unknowingly, the intelligence of both sides will be obtained at the same time.
In this way, the military merits of both sides will increase.
When Li Yan thought of this, he couldn't help but show a smug smile on his face.
Then, he continued to write on the paper.
[In addition, we need to pay attention to the owner of Wuqindao and Liuhedao, Qin Wang Yingjia]
[Yingjia also needs to find a way to get a clone in]
In the eyes of the Ji family, Yingjia can be said to have become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh.
However, the Ji family did not dare to take the initiative to attack Yingjia, because Yingjia had a great background. It was rumored that he was a branch of a big family in the Tianwu Dynasty.
Because his ancestors made mistakes and were exiled to the Great Zhou Kingdom.
When Yingjia first arrived in the Great Zhou, it happened that Ji Zhou, the ancestor of the Ji family, overthrew the previous dynasty. Yingjia didn't know what he was thinking, but he helped Ji Zhou and destroyed the previous dynasty.
His great contribution directly made Ji Zhou appoint Yingjia as the King of the Great Zhou Dynasty, King Qin, and he led the two Daos alone.
This is the only Dao master in the Great Zhou who has the two Daos alone, except for the Ji family.
If other Dao masters want to learn from Yingjia, they will face a fatal blow from the Ji family.
Now that thousands of years have passed, Yingjia's strength has become stronger and stronger, and the Ji family has become more and more afraid of him, but as long as Yingjia in the Tianwu Dynasty does not fall, the Ji family dare not take the initiative.
However, they dare not take action, but the work of surveillance and espionage has never stopped.
Li Yan asked his clone to infiltrate the winner, firstly because he saw the strength of the winner, in case the winner would fight with the snipe and the clam, and the fisherman would benefit.
Since there are conditions, it is natural to bet on multiple parties.
Another reason is that Li Yan saw the background of the winner, who knows what good things he has in his hands because he can be connected with the Tianwu Dynasty.
Then, Li Yan wrote the last line.
[Passed the assessment of the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance branch in Xuanfeng King City and became a qualified first-grade alchemist]
Yes, Li Yan is now able to refine first-grade elixir.
It was the clone of Nanshan City that broke through, because the spiritual medicine in Nanshan City was not strictly restricted and managed, so it was easy for Li Yan to buy enough spiritual medicine with a large amount of silver.
After failing more than a dozen times, he finally succeeded once, but after trying dozens of times, the success rate has been stable at about 10%, and he has been losing money.
Until Li Yan broke through the innate, he used the innate true qi to refine the elixir, and the success rate went up at once, and now it is stable at about 40%.
The reason why he left the last clone's quota to the Great Zhou Alchemist Alliance was that he wanted to experiment with an idea.
If the idea succeeded, the speed of his cultivation would be accelerated again.
He glanced at the four papers full of words, and then Li Yan's palms began to turn red, and he grabbed the four papers on the table.
In less than a breath, all the papers were burned to ashes and fell to the ground.