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On November 18th of the 27th year of Jiahua in the Great Chu Dynasty, Emperor Jiahua passed the throne to the Crown Prince and retired as the Supreme Emperor.

The following year, the Emperor of Chu changed the reign title to Guangxi, and became the Guangxi Emperor of Xiong Chu, known in history as the Last Emperor of Chu.

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Since Liu Sheng was not prepared to take the risk of trying to travel through the time and space gate right now, he continued to use his troops to expand the territory of Dalai.

That month, the main force of the Hui army marched westward and captured almost the entire Nanyang Prefecture within half a month.

Upon hearing the news, the Supreme Emperor of Great Chu and Emperor Guangxi were horrified. Regardless of the fact that winter was approaching, they hastily ordered the capital to be moved to Chengdu.

Although many of the Chu officials were against moving the capital, there were also many who supported it because they had no confidence in resisting the enemy's army.

Although Emperor Guangxi had many disagreements with the retired Emperor Jiahua after he ascended the throne, they surprisingly agreed on the issue of moving the capital.

Therefore, when the time entered mid-December, the Xiongchu royal family and civil and military officials moved to Chengdu in batches. The royal family and some important officials left in the first batch, and other minor personnel followed in the back.

In fact, it was not difficult for Xiong Chu to move the capital from Xiangjing to Chengdu because they could travel by water.

First enter the Yangtze River from the Han River, and then go upstream along the Yangtze River.

Although sailing against the current of the Yangtze River requires a large number of trackers to tow the boats, the Xiong Chu royal family will not show mercy to the trackers, who are already of low status, at this time.

When there were not enough boatmen, the common people were conscripted; when there was not enough money and grain, more taxes were imposed. As a result, around the New Year, Hubei, Hunan, and even eastern Sichuan were disturbed by this incident, and the people's resentment became even worse. Several more rebel armies rose up against the Chu State...

the other side.

In view of the shortage of troops and food supplies, Liu Sheng did not rush to send troops to attack Xiangjing after taking Nanyang Prefecture.

However, seeing that the areas outside the control of the Wei army in Shandong and Henan were in chaos, he sent out several small forces and easily captured the four prefectures of Jinan, Yanzhou, Guide and Kaifeng, thus completely connecting the prefectures controlled by the Wei army.

After the Chinese New Year.

In order to clarify the legal system, Liu Sheng continued to use his reign title here, which was the 20th year of Qianyuan in Dalai.

The "this side" here refers to the former Great Chu and the islands in the North Pacific. As for the Central Valley of North America, the other side's legal system is the main one, and Yongxing continues to be the reign title, entering the fourth year of Yongxing.

Although the legal system is clear, personnel and materials have not been divided for the time being.

After all, the Dalai over there was also conquered by Liu Sheng, and Hong Niangzi and Liu Sheng's other concubines are still there.

When Liu Sheng mobilized personnel and materials, Liu Rui would not say a word as long as it was not excessive.

It is estimated that the two Dalai can only be truly separated after the crown prince Liu Yu ascends the throne.

This is actually quite understandable.

It is just like a modern entrepreneur who has established a business in a certain province. Even if he takes a team of people to another province to open a new company, he can still use the personnel and materials of the original company.

But when this entrepreneur retires in the future and passes the two companies to his two sons respectively, the two companies will truly become two companies.

In February of the 20th year of Qianyuan, Liu Sheng sent troops to capture Henan Prefecture and Dongchang Prefecture.

At this point, the Hui army occupied the entire Shandong, Jiangbei and almost the entire Henan.

In order to facilitate the control of Tianmu Mountain, Liu Sheng's palace has been in Ruyang for the past few months.

It's March.

On this day, Liu Sheng summoned important civil and military officials to hold a meeting in a hall in the Ruyang Palace of Great Chu.

Although the Ruyang King of Da Chu was a county king and had fallen into decline in this generation, the palace was not small. In addition, Liu Sheng did not have too many important civil and military officials under his command, so the palace hall did not need to be crowded when holding meetings, but instead felt quite spacious.

"Prince, please tell the ministers about the situation in all directions."

"Yes."

Liu Yu responded and came to a large map displayed in the hall with a slender bamboo stick.

Since the change of the reign title this year, Liu Sheng, for some reason, allowed Crown Prince Liu Yu to gradually participate in more military and political affairs, and even to cultivate his prestige.

At this time, Liu Yu was already 18 years old, just over 1.8 meters tall, tall and graceful. He had been in the army for more than two years (starting from the time he went to North America for training), so he had a heroic aura.

Seeing him walk to the large map, the civil and military officials present couldn't help but pay attention.

"According to Xun Fengwei's intelligence, in today's world, although our country only occupies Shandong, Jiangbei and most of Henan."

"But Xiong Chu has been abusing the people for many years, and last year he drew most of the troops from the northern border and the local troops from various provinces, and they were defeated in a battle with our army."

"Therefore, during the half year from May last year to March this year, many more anti-Chu forces emerged."

"The majority of them are in Hebei, Shanxi, and Shaanxi. According to Xun Fengwei's information, many counties and cities in these three provinces have been occupied by the anti-Chu righteous army. In addition, with our Dahui blocking the way, Da Chu has almost lost control of these three provinces."

"In addition, there are also many anti-Chu righteous armies in Liao Province, Gansu, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi. Although they are not as powerful as those in the north, they are also able to capture prefectures and counties."

"Now Xiong Chu still has strong control over the Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Hubei regions - Hubei is where Xiangjing is located after all. Although Xiong Chu has moved its capital to Chengdu, its control over Hubei is still strong..."

After listening to Liu Yu's explanation, the civil and military officials present had a clear understanding of the current situation in the world.

Then Liu Sheng analyzed and explained Dalai’s “development plan”.

"The reason why our army did not take the opportunity to attack Xiangjing last year was mainly due to the limited food and manpower."

"We have been here for too short a time, so we don't have much food and fodder. As for the troops, although we have trained 200,000 garrison troops, there are not many of them that can be used to attack cities and capture territories."

It’s not that the garrisons in Shandong and Jiangbei were incapable of capturing cities - under the momentum of the Hui army’s consecutive victories, even if the garrisons had poor quality, their morale was high. In addition, the morale of the Chu army was negative, so even the garrisons could force the Chu army to flee in embarrassment.

What Liu Sheng meant by "unusable" was that these garrison troops had been formed too recently.

These guards were formed by drawing personnel from the Imperial Guards as generals, but in order not to affect the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guards, the number of personnel drawn was not large. Therefore, not only was the combat quality of the guards far inferior to that of the Imperial Guards, but their discipline and style also needed to be tested.

What Liu Sheng was really worried about was that if he wantonly attacked cities and expanded the size of the garrison in a short period of time, not only would military discipline plummet, but some military leaders might even emerge.

Anyway, as he understood the situation of the Tianmu Mountain Space-Time Gate, he was not in a hurry and simply expanded steadily.

"So in the next few years, our main tasks are two: one is to farm and comfort the people, and the other is to train soldiers and store grain!"

"Of course, there aren't many wealthy places in the territory we occupy right now. So after the spring plowing this year, I plan to send troops from Yangzhou to the south to seize Jiangnan!"

Although Liu Sheng did not explain it clearly, all the ministers knew that the Jiangnan Liu Sheng referred to was not the area south of the Yangtze River in a broad sense, but the Jiangnan region in a narrow sense, or the Jiangnan province.

This area was the Jiangnan region of Nanzhili during the Ming Dynasty, and it was a truly fertile land.

Only after taking over this piece of land can Dalai's plan of farming and training soldiers be carried out.