In fact, in the past few years, Mo has helped a lot.

It is precisely because of their existence that the Lu family has basically sorted out the situation of the entire court in the past few years, formulated a lot of policies, and promoted them.

Redundant officials were laid off, local garrison troops were laid off, and construction expenditures were basically stopped besides restoring Pingzhou's armed forces. Until then, the dynasty's expenditure was greatly reduced in a few years.

At the same time, due to the control of local governments, it has gradually increased through the efforts of all parties during this period, and the taxes and industrial income that should be obtained are also in place.

In the first and second year, the Lu family had to send blood to the court from Feiyunzhou. The life was indeed quite hard, and the reconstruction of the imperial guards was delayed again and again. Moreover, the northern border was also affected by the disaster of the White Ghost's journey to the south, which was not easy to live.

In the past two years, the Lu family has been in a tight position.

However, by the third year, the court itself could basically balance income and expenditure; in the fourth year and the fifth year, not only could it balance income and expenditure, but it could also make some surplus.

This surplus can even be used to nurture the Lu family.

In fact, the Lu family itself is already quite rich. Various industries are developed with great success, including two major industrial lines: refining weapons and alchemy, and their production capacity is almost the best in Feiyunzhou. Moreover, in the west and north, after the Northern Wilderness Demon Clan was destroyed, the Lu family is actually leading the development and exploration of the entire Feiyunzhou to the northwest.

In fact, some results have been made in this regard.

Originally, Anling County was a county in the northwest corner of Feiyun Prefecture, but now it is not.

A newly established Shenlu County became the fifth county in Feiyun Prefecture.

The land planned by Shenlu County is the largest, and it can even be half the size of Feiyun Prefecture. Of course, although the name is so, most of the land in Shenlu County now seems to be still wasteland and there is no one at all.

This matter has actually been done for a long time. But in the past, the development of Shenlu County was mainly based on Feiyunzhou itself. The Lu family led the matter and mobilized various major families in Anling County to explore and explore industries; migrate mortals and take root on the spot; send monks to protect the results...

But this process still seems a bit slow.

In the past five years, after the imperial court gained some strength, it began to increase its investment in Shenlu County.

In the plan, if the development of Shenlu County is achieved in the next few decades, the entire Feiyun Prefecture will benefit. At present, Feiyun Prefecture is the second to last among the seven states of Yan State. But when Shenlu Forest is well developed, it is hard to say that the prosperity is, at least the resource output will increase a lot, and the benefits it brings will not be worse than that of Jinzhou.

Of course, the increase in income has nothing to do with the court and will become the income of the Lu family.

But this is the family world. In a sense, the income of the Lu family can be regarded as the inner treasury of the Dayan Dynasty. Of course, it is separate from the national treasury and mainly supplies the royal family. However, when the country needs it, it is not impossible to take it out for emergency treatment.

To put it bluntly, the Lu family became the Dayan royal family, and one thing was certain: they strengthened themselves as their national identity, and led the Yan Kingdom to become stronger was by the way, not the other way around.

The Lu family did not come to work for Yan State, and did not consider using their own blood to supplement the Yan State. If you need it in the short term, you can do this. It is definitely impossible to do this in the long run. Although it seems great, it is actually a stupid behavior. Although the Lu family is developing quite well now, it is impossible to replenish the blood of a country with its own strength.

In short, everything is developing well within Yan.

Of course, there are many bad things.

Although internal problems are being solved one by one, Lu Chaoxi gradually settled in the position of the emperor, and the Lu family's atmosphere as a royal family has become more and more powerful. However, the external pressure faced by the entire Yan State is not small at all.

Mainly from Wei State.

The Great Wei was unstoppable. After the war a few years ago, the main army of the Great Wei, General Xia Cang, retreated, but they still had a legion stationed on the south side of the Pingzhou defense line, and from time to time, they sent some scouts to cross the border and to Pingzhou for reconnaissance and some sabotage tasks.

Logically speaking, the two countries are still in a state of war. After all, after the war, the two sides did not sign any armistice agreements or other things.

For these scout squads, of course, the local garrison troops in Pingzhou received orders to expel and annihilate them. However, the scout squads sent in were considered elite. The garrison troops of the imperial court were difficult to deal with, and often after a considerable casualties, they even escaped.

Only the direct monks of the Yunxiao Sect stationed on the Pingzhou defense line are able to achieve some results.

In the past five years, this has almost evolved into the daily life of the Pingzhou front line. The two sides fought everywhere in Pingzhou on such a small team scale.

The overall number of casualties was not too large. Moreover, the Wei State neither did nor dared to risk the world's tyranny to instruct a team of monks to massacre mortals. But just such infiltration and destruction was still annoying.

The three counties south of Pingzhou were all affected by disasters. The local small sects and local forces were in a difficult situation, and the output of various resources was greatly reduced. This led to the reduction of the entire Pingzhou production capacity by at least 30% to 40%.

Although the court itself could not receive taxes in Pingzhou, Pingzhou's output was basically taken away by Yunxiao Sect. However, Yunxiao Sect lost this money and had to bear the pressure exerted by Wei on the front line. They would not resist all of these costs by themselves.

In the past few years, the imperial court has always allocated funds to the Pingzhou front line, and its expenditures are increasing, and it is impossible to see when it will be the end for a while.

More importantly, the Yunxiao Sect cultivator army on the front line of Pingzhou did not dare to take the initiative. Perhaps, they had the ability to organize a raid to burn the war into the territory of Hezhou, the neighboring Wei State. But first, the place they could reach with the natural chasm of the river was just the north of Hezhou, and they could not cross the river; secondly, assuming that the war was ignited again, the Wei State would rekindle its army, and it would be the same thing if Yan State could not withstand it.

In fact, in recent years, in addition to small-scale confrontations on the front-line battlefield, there have been more than once or twice in the diplomatic confrontation between the two countries. Mo Chengdong, a son of the Mo family, who was in charge of diplomatic affairs in Dayan, was working hard to advance the peace process between Dayan and Dawei according to the intentions of the court and Yunxiao Sect.

However, Wei State's requirements were too excessive. On the one hand, it required the cedes of territory, and on the other hand, it also required very high war reparations. Yan State also required the Li family to be handed over...

Of course, these conditions cannot be agreed. Both sides are just arguing about these matters, and Pingzhou is still burning with small-scale wars.

However, this faceless meeting made some changes in things.

After Bai Yuan's death, Wumeng will be destroyed. A large amount of information was obtained by the Lu family, which records many secret camps of Wei State's secret support for Wumeng.

In addition, when he was sieging Bai Yuan, five clones of the ghost-faced god appeared unexpectedly, which made people feel particularly angry.

After the court communicated with Yunxiao Sect, the Grand Minister of Rites, who was responsible for the national diplomatic work, sent a diplomatic note to the State of Wei, denounced their actions.

Of course, the Wei State completely denied these accusations.

But this denial seems powerless. On the one hand, they cannot produce anything, deny the materials found from the faceless meeting, and on the other hand, they can only speak with excuses such as "this is pretending" and "purely slander".

Then this must be very nonsense.

If only Yan and Wei countries are denied, it will be difficult for them to do something else if they have no choice.

But the entire world of cultivation is not just the two countries of Wei and Yan.

The nine immortal kingdoms are not just a joke. Their Wei Kingdom is considered to be a relatively powerful family among the nine kingdoms, but after all, it was still very early to unify the world. Wei Kingdom and Yan Kingdom had a bad relationship, but the feud was Qi Kingdom in the east.

Daqi's strength is not bad either.

To be honest, if we hadn't been worried about Qi causing trouble in the east, Xia Cang would not have withdrawn his troops in the war eight years ago. No matter how much more power is applied in Wei, it would be impossible to destroy Yan State by going north.

After being caught, Mo Chengdong, the Minister of the Great Yan Honglu, also walked around many times to contact Qi and put pressure on them. As Jin, who had always had good relations with Yan and was also controlled by the sect alliance, also helped on the diplomatic battlefield under the active contact of Yunxiao Sect.

The Liang State in the west of Wei was originally within the scope of win-win, but because Yan and Jin attacked the Northern Wilderness Society, there was a very strong tradition of human and demonic coexistence in Liang State. They were very dissatisfied with this, so they didn't say anything this time; the Wu State and Chu State, which bordered Wei State in the south, also joined in the fun and fought for the autumn wind.

Of course, these things are traded by multiple parties behind their backs. Yan State paid a lot of practical things to exchange for support from these multiple parties.

However, the efforts of these things are still valuable.

Under pressure, Wei had to restart peaceful negotiations with Yan.

At the negotiating table, Mo Chengdong was tough on the surface, but in fact he was softer.

The instructions given to him by the Lu family and Yunxiao Sect are actually very unified. After all, the civil strife, war, and natural disasters of the White Ghost traveling south have all been experienced. Now it takes time to rest and accumulate strength. The matters in his own country have not been handled clearly. It is really not appropriate to stay outside and maintain a long-term hostile state with a very powerful enemy like the Great Wei.

It is impossible to hand over the Li clan; it is not enough to cede the territory, otherwise the Pingzhou defense line will embed a nail in it, which will definitely be unacceptable.

However, the war compensation is here, Yan State can surrender.

After two years of arduous negotiations, the peace agreement finally came to an end.

Yan State needs to compensate Wei State for four million spirit stones, which will be paid in three years.

This is not a small amount of money. The court's finance, which was originally a little improved, was suddenly put on a heavy burden. The Yunxiao Sect's meaning is also very obvious. They did not plan to spend this money, so the court had to find a way to squeeze out its own finances.

When this incident was reported back, everyone in Yan State was very frustrated.

The pros and constituents who were eager to quell the war were of course welcomed. However, the pros and centrists were both disappointed by this. In ten years, the Lu royal family, which gradually established prestige, also felt some pressure in Yu Yan, and prestige was on the decline.

No matter what, even though the war was not lost, they still had to pay compensation. Of course, many people cannot accept this emotionally.

But there is nothing we can do about this. What the Lu family can do is to guide public opinion as much as possible. On the one hand, it is to throw the blame on Li, which was caused by Li Shiwen. On the other hand, it is to guide hatred to the enemy country of the Great Wei as much as possible.

Anyway, let me rest and come back to my senses. In a few years, let me see who is thick with a wrist.

...

No matter what, it is always a good thing to have the peace association interviewed.

The military expenditure on the front line can be slowed down a little, and the entire court also has more energy to devote to internal integrated management. The entire Dayan is gradually recovering its strength.

And, in addition, there is another good thing.

In the third month of the interview with the Lu family, a special offspring was added.

The Lu family’s population is not too sparse now, and newborns always come out. But the reason why this one is very special is mainly because of his parents.

This child, named Lu Tingwan, has two of the most noble people in the name of Dayan as father and mother.

He is the son of Lu Chaoxi and Li Yanling.

Lu Chaoxi and Li Yanling have been together for forty years. However, they have never given birth to new descendants until today.

What’s more important is that after the child was born, Lu Qing immediately saw his talent through the system interface:

The natural Feng Dan Spiritual Root!

This is a very good talent anyway, but in the Lu family, single spiritual roots are just like that, and many have emerged.

However, Lu Qing was very overjoyed about this.

The single-spirited cultivators who were produced by the Lu family were actually basically born with two-spirited roots. However, Lu Qing took the exchange item like "Enhanced Spirit Root" and was pushed up to the level of single-spirited roots.

From a single spiritual root to a heavenly spiritual root, five-star [Enhanced Spiritual Root] is required. Even if the five-star exchange items are not rare, Lu Qing actually doesn’t have many.

But except [Elevate Spiritual Roots].

[Enhanced Spirit Root] Even if a high-star rating needs to be used, the object that must be used must have a natural single spiritual root level. Lu Qing has several of these things in his hands, but he has always wanted to use them without any place.

Now, it can finally be used!

Without hesitation, a five-star spiritual root was exchanged for exchange. Lu Qing saw again that Lu Tingwan, the newborn grandson, had become a cultivator of the Fire Heaven Spiritual Root!

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