Tuluzhijin's 100,000 troops were defeated by Shifang Valley, and the eight thousand iron-armored cavalry swept across the world were wiped out. Within two months after Lu Bu left Sichuan, he occupied all the land in the northwest, defeated the famous general of the Yuan Dynasty and became king in the northwest.

It was not until this time that the court realized the horror of this man who had never been king, and quickly mobilized a large army to invite him to kill Lu Bu. However, at this time, Lu Bu's momentum had been established and he occupied a large number of cities in the northwest. He had a very high reputation in the northwest. When he left Sichuan, all the people would submit to him wherever he went.

After the defeat of the Xifang Valley, Tuluzhijin, who had defeated many rebels in the south, was beaten by Lu Bu and had no power to fight back. He even died in the Xifang Valley, which made Lu Bu's prestige reach the peak. The fear of the Manchus in the hearts of the people in Zhongzhou was also shattered with this battle. The army sent by the court did not have a famous general commander like Tuluzhijin, and was even more defeated by Lu Bu first with a small defeat, and then completely defeated by the geographical advantage.

The two consecutive defeats also made the court realize how terrible Lu Bu was. However, what was even more terrifying was that the general Liu Kaida under Lu Bu suddenly walked down the river and captured Jingzhou, and then began to quickly sweep the city of the court near Jingzhou.

With Tu Lu Zhijin's withdrawal of troops, the defense in the south was already weak. With the remaining rebels greeted him, Liu Kaida felt as if he had entered a deserted state in the south, and quickly opened up the situation and echoed Lu Bu's north and south.

Facing Lu Bu's pressing step by step, the whole court was forced to move to Shangdu after losing a lot of battles, from west to east, and after passing the Hengduan Mountains there was a large number of plains, which were suitable for cavalry to gallop. Although Lu Bu also had a group of cavalry, the number of cavalry corps to fight was far less than that of the whole court.

But here, there were countless people from Zhongzhou who were welcomed by Lu Bu. The two sides attacked each other in the Central Plains and fought each other for three years. Lu Bu finally took advantage of a flood to flood the three armies and rushed to the north bank of the river.

It's funny to say that if Manchus had not cared about the lives and death of the people, and had not repaired the water after the river broke, and allowed it to flood, forcing the people in this area to leave their hometowns and make this area a dead land, Lu Bu would never dare to take into account the life and death of the people.

This time, Lu Bu had a water attack, annihilated 300,000 troops of the army, and directly shattered the last vitality of the court.

After this, Lu Bu did not give the court too much breathing opportunity. At this time, although the people in the north were still under the jurisdiction of the court, the people's hearts had already fallen to Lu Bu's side, resulting in the people's helping to open the city gate or deliver food and supplies every time Lu Bu went to the place.

The whole court was dissatisfied with this situation and was furious, and slaughtered the three cities in a row to shock the people.

However, to this point, the fear of the people in their hearts for Manchus had long disappeared. The disadvantages of the whole country building with force and then governing the country with force were also fully reflected at this time. They used their killing to make the people afraid. When their force was strong, the people naturally did not dare to resist in order to make a living.

However, the situation in the whole court is now gone, and Lu Bu is defeated on the battlefield in Zhongzhou. At this time, the deterrence is no longer enough. Nearly 30,000 soldiers died during the massacre of the city. More than a dozen cities directly killed their officials and voluntarily surrendered to Lu Bu, which scared the whole court to no longer threaten the massacre of the city.

It was not until this time that the court of the People understood the importance of the people's hearts and began to promulgate a series of people-friendly policies, such as tax reduction and exemption, abolishing corvee labor, intermarriage between Manchus and Zhongzhou people, Manchus violated the law and committed the same crime as Zhongzhou people, etc.

But not to mention whether the people of Zhongzhou recognize this question or not, the court of the court threatened the interests of their own officials. Not only did they fail to win the hearts of the people, but instead made their own officials collectively condemn and resist.

For a time, the court was quarreling, and no one stopped Lu Bu from crossing the river. The biggest problem for the dynasty was not outside, but the proliferation of privileged rights within the internal period had already begun to decay, so that Lu Bu crossed the river easily eradicated the dynasty's forces from the local area.

Those nobles who like to slaughter villages were skinned and cramped by angry people, and some crazy people forced them to see their wives and children torture to death like they were slaughtered by them.

This is certainly wrong, but Lu Bu doesn't care. The public grievances need to be vented. As long as it is not excessive, Lu Bu will not care.

Under this silent indulgence, the nobles of the dynasty who remained among the people were almost killed to extinction, and there were naturally grievances. However, in order to restore the world as soon as possible, Lu Bu didn't care about that much and fought until Shangjing. The court had just reacted. However, at this time, the dynasty had really been exhausted. After barely spending a year with Lu Bu, he was finally captured by Lu Bu and completely withdrew from the territory of Zhongzhou.

Although Lu Bu was determined to kill everyone, once he entered the grassland, he would be filled with the world. It was not impossible to go deep into the grassland to fight, but it just required a lot of manpower and material resources.

In Zhongzhou, the rebels who had been retreating in the south took advantage of the opportunity to seize the southern area that Lu Bu had not had time to occupy while fighting with the Manchus.

Lu Bu could only leave Zhang Guangyao to guard here, and led his army back to the south. After joining Liu Kaida, he began to clear the Southern Rebel Army and completely unify Zhongzhou.

It was just that I thought it was a very simple thing, but after I really arrived in the south, Lu Bu realized that things were far less simple than he had imagined, because the north was enslaved by the Manchus for many years, causing a large number of people to choose to move south.

The country was established for decades, which made the population in the south not worse than that in the north, and it was even worse. Although Lu Bu successfully expelled Manchus and obtained Sichuan territory, he was blocked by the southern rebels several times while crossing the river.

Apart from Liu Kaida, there was no one under Lu Bu's command who was good at water warfare, and the navy was even more insignificant. In front of the Southern Rebel Army, which was good at water warfare, although Lu Bu had troops that were powerful and could not reach the enemy. He had only one who could confront the Southern Rebel Army across the river.

In the following years, Lu Bu began to study the Southern Rebels carefully, including how they gained the hearts of the people, their sources of income, their methods of combat, and their convening craftsmen to study advanced warships.

In fact, Lu Bu had never seen the warships of the Han Dynasty. During the Daqian period, Lu Bu didn't need to care about these things because Lu Boyong planned everything for Lu Bu. But this time, Lu Bu not only had to be responsible for the people's livelihood himself, but also studied the enemy's weaknesses.

Not to mention the economy in the south, but transporting goods is much easier than in the north, mainly boats, and the ships here are not the flat-bottomed boats that Lu Bu had seen. The bottom is sharp and can be more stable in the water.

Because of the waterways everywhere, the water transportation in the south is very developed. Lu Bu actually experienced this. Whether it was his previous fight with Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu's transportation method, or the water transportation in Daqian, they were very convenient, and the labor cost could be greatly reduced.

But today's Southern Rebel Army gave Lu Bu a new direction, water trade!

The profits caused by applying the developed water transport in the south to trade were beyond Lu Bu's imagination.

Because the dynasty has controlled the world for many years, most of the interests have been occupied by the court and the people have no way to survive, so many people have begun to secretly accumulate costs, and some people have sent Zhongzhou porcelain along the river and sold it to overseas countries to earn a lot of trade.

The porcelain, silk and tea in Zhongzhou seemed very popular in overseas vassal states, allowing these rebels to obtain a large amount of money and allow them to form their own army. The rebels, which had been in trouble in the south over the years, almost all relied on maritime trade to accumulate a large amount of money and property in a short period of time, then recruited soldiers and continued to compete with the court.

If it weren't for the large amount of profits brought by shipping, the southern economy wouldn't have been so fast.

Lu Bu gradually figured out the other party's wealth. He asked Liu Kaida to train the navy at the coastal port, and at the same time sent people to various countries to capture these maritime trade lines in his own hands.

After the economy was damaged, the rebels who were not prepared to fight Lu Bu to the end began to launch a fierce counterattack, which was much more fierce than when they fought against the whole country before.

Lu Bu also discovered that the disadvantages brought by the convenience of water transportation in the south are very likely to cause powerful forces in some places.

When Lu Bu studied the terrain of the southern prefectures, he found that not all places were rich and had the ability to raise a strong naval army. There was only one common point in these places, that is, the rivers and seas are connected, and there were rivers connecting the entire prefectures. For example, a prefecture had a main river that could run through most places without a break, so that the resources of each place could be quickly concentrated through the inland rivers and then transported to the needed places through the rivers and seas.

Such places can often be rich and have enough money and food to support soldiers, but such places are very likely to form local forces that can compete with the court.

After understanding these problems, Lu Bu did not rush to attack the south, but continued to strengthen his power at the sea and blocked the exit of the river. In this way, it would be equivalent to isolating the port of the river to overseas.

A large number of forces with damaged interests began to attack Lu Bu frantically, using all their money to bribe officials under Lu Bu.

Of course, some people turned against each other and could not withstand the temptation, but these were all within Lu Bu's expectations. He held the military power tightly. Those who rebel, who were not captured and killed, could only cross the river in disgrace.

Among these people crossing the river, Lu Bu took the opportunity to let a few of his own people in and began to persuade some people to surrender to Lu Bu.

At first, some southern cities took the initiative to surrender to Lu Bu. Lu Bu began to have the capital to cross the river. After reaching the south bank, a big plague broke out on Lu Bu's side, which forced him to give up and unable to cross. After nearly ten years of cultivation, Lu Bu crossed the river again. As many southern forces further blocked Lu Bu in recent years, their profits continued to shrink, and their troops were less and less, and they were eventually swallowed up by Lu Bu.

It took Lu Bu nearly ten years to expel the whole court, and it took Lu Bu nearly fifteen years to cross the river to attack the south. When the world was unified, Lu Bu was already fifty-five years old, but he looked quite energetic.
Chapter completed!