In the Heavens

Once Pandora's Box is opened, it can never be closed again. The power of role models is powerful. Feng Qingyang's breakthrough is the benchmark, and the countless cases around him are role models.

Seeing a guy with a similar cultivation base, the snarl after a breakthrough in cultivation base is hard to let go of.

Now these guys are gaining both fame and fortune, but they have improved their cultivation base and gained the title of "Anti-Hu Heroes".

Why can others break through, but you can't?

Not killing enough barbarians!

It hurts my teeth to think about this answer.

On the surface, it is said that not enough Hu people have been killed, but in secret, I don't know how many people are criticizing: the character is not good, there is no family, country, and national righteousness.

Walking in the rivers and lakes, if the reputation is bad, then the road will be narrowed.

Whether it's for fame or for cultivation, everyone has the motivation to look for the bad luck of the barbarian again.

The most important thing is that the Central Plains Wulin paid a very small price for breaking hundreds of thousands of grassland cavalry before. The casualties of hundreds of people in the area can't keep up with a big fight in the rivers and lakes.

In terms of the degree of danger, it can't keep up with the battles in the rivers and lakes. In the eyes of many people, the sap used to beat barbarians is like pinching a soft persimmon, which can be easily captured.

Ordinary people in the rivers and lakes don't need to take Hu people seriously, but the major forces in the martial arts dare not take it lightly.

In addition to the large number of martial arts masters participating in the last battle, another reason for the easy victory was that everyone had the right to choose the battlefield.

The Eastern Chagatai Khanate raided into the inland and put themselves in a disadvantageous situation. Everyone can choose favorable terrain to set up traps on their way home.

The current situation is different. If you go to the prairie to find the bad luck of the barbarians, the offensive and defensive momentum will be changed.

The vast prairie is a paradise for cavalry and the home of prairie people. It is not as simple as before to ambush Sap in the past.

Yuquan Palace

As the host, Li Mu, in order to show his friendship as a landlord, is having tea with a group of bigwigs at this moment.

If you observe carefully, you will find that there are not only leaders of various sects here, but also Buddhist and Taoist hermits, wealthy businessmen, and even members of the royal family.

Anyone with a little bit of knowledge will know that this tea party is extraordinary as long as they look at this special combination.

The gangsters who appeared here are all leaders of a large force, and their disciples start at least four figures. If you add the affiliated younger brother, it will be no problem to mobilize thousands of people.

Buddhist and Taoist hermits can't see the history, but the cultivation base of the extreme state knows that they are not simple.

Although the wealthy businessmen did not show their military strength, they were all extremely wealthy, and they couldn't spend a few million taels, so they were not qualified to enter the door.

In fact, it can be seen from the seats that these wealthy businessmen have the lowest status here. If they weren't required to be sponsors, I'm afraid they wouldn't even have the qualifications to enter the door.

The representative of the royal family is the King Qin of Guanzhong. However, this prince who used to be invincible in the past is also very approachable now. He has no airs of a prince at all.

Li Mu couldn't help but want to laugh when he saw all the important figures in the weekdays dealing with them cautiously.

To be exact, he laughed. With the improvement of his status, now he no longer needs to look at anyone's face.

To be able to appear here in person is to give everyone face. Otherwise, send a brother to deal with it, and everyone can't say anything.

He picked up the teacup and took a sip. Li Mu said slowly: "Poverty Dao knows everyone's reason for coming. Although the killing of heaven and earth is a catastrophe, it is also a great opportunity.

For the sake of this world, for the sake of all beings in China, and for ourselves, this murder is imperative.

We know this truth, and so does the enemy. Since it was the prairie who swung the butcher's knife at us first, then I don't have to be polite.

Just wanting to destroy the enemy on the vast prairie is not that simple. With only our little manpower, it is obvious that we cannot control the huge grassland.

But my land of China lacks everything, except people. If we join forces, it is no problem to organize an expeditionary army. "

Alliance is inevitable. Although the strength of the major forces is not weak, no one is sure about the last steppe khanate alone.

Organizing an expeditionary force is easy to say, and anyone with a bit of military common sense will know that "together, there will be thousands of miles of gold."

Looking through the history books, you can see how expensive it is to go on an expedition to the grassland. The awesome Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because of his counterattack against the Huns, his domestic household registration was directly halved.

The powerful Tang Dynasty has also been entangled with the Turks for many years. But that was just suppression, not elimination.

An empire can be dragged down, let alone a party. Even the richest Shaolin could not afford to support an army of 100,000 to march on the grassland.

One soldier fights, ten soldiers carry food. This is not a joke, it will really appear after the army goes deep into the grassland.

Perhaps starting from the south of the Yangtze River, transporting 10,000 shi of grain may not be worth a thousand shi when it is delivered to the army.

Raising war with war is a joke. The whereabouts of grassland tribes are erratic. Who can guarantee that they will be found?

In case of bad luck, if you don't meet a tribe for a few months, wouldn't the army want to eat dirt?

If it hadn't cost too much, Li Mu's western expedition army would not have been recruited for a long time.

As if thinking about the feasibility of Li Mu's proposal, everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but no one spoke for a while.

Seeing the change in the atmosphere, King Qin, who had been smiling all the time, suddenly said: "My lord, for the safety of all living beings in Ming Dynasty, we are obliged to go on an expedition to the grasslands!

Just how should the expeditionary force be organized? What do we need to do? How to conduct command? How to guarantee the logistics?

Also please show me the real person! "

No matter how the court fought endlessly, the royal family's goal was very clear - to repel the invading prairie people first, and to preserve their century-old foundation.

All other issues can be discussed later.

Now is the time for dragons and snakes to land. Once the grassland people break through, there will be a lot of ambitious people in the world.

If it were not forced by the situation, Emperor Shenwu's "Decree to Open Frontiers" would not have passed smoothly. In essence, it is to attract ambitious people to the outside, so as not to shake their own foundation.

As for the dominance of the army?

Just kidding, is the Ming Dynasty short of soldiers now?

If the imperial court is willing, it will be no problem to recruit another million soldiers. But they don't have that much money and food, and they simply can't afford to support so many people.

Whoever gets the dominance of the army will be responsible for the eating and drinking of the two or three million people.

Even if you stay where you are, you will have to pay millions of taels of expenses every year. These recruited soldiers are much more expensive than guard soldiers who bring their own dry food.

Once the grassland is conquered, it is normal operation to spend tens of millions a year. Moreover, the deeper you go into the grassland, the more expensive it is. If the captured spoils can fill up the rewards, that is God's blessing.

The Ming Dynasty already had a gold-swallowing behemoth with nine sides, and if such a giant was added, it would be playing itself to death.

For the royal family, the most important thing is to fool all the forces out first and solve their urgent needs in northern Xinjiang.

The imperial court couldn't afford it, and the Huashan faction couldn't afford it even more. In order to relieve the disaster, the Huashan faction has sold millions of acres of land options one after another.

Now to raise military expenses for the Western Expedition, naturally we can only continue to sell land. In order to increase credibility and increase the number of customers, it is necessary to recruit various schools of martial arts.

With the strong cooperation of these places, it was possible to sell this picture cake to the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, how could the gentry and merchants in the Guanghuashan faction's sphere of influence afford such a huge expense?

After taking a look at everyone, Li Mu smiled slightly: "Pindao has two plans: one is that we each raise military expenses to form an expeditionary force, and only when we encounter the main force of the enemy will we join forces.

The second is that everyone raises military expenses together to form an expeditionary force, and each faction sends people to form a joint headquarters to jointly command the army to fight.

Of course, with these two different plans, the risks everyone takes are different, and the distribution of spoils is also different.

In the first option, everyone usually has to fight on their own, and only unite at critical moments, so they can only rely on their own means.

In the second option, everyone bears the risk together, so the benefits are directly distributed according to the size of their respective contributions. "

After hearing Li Mu's proposal, many people murmured in their hearts: There are two options, but there is only one choice.

No one is a fool. Forming an expeditionary army alone is indeed very free and has enough right to speak; but whether it can survive until after the war is unknown.

Martial arts masters can fight guerrillas on the grasslands, but they can fight head-on with the cavalry on the grasslands. Not everyone has an innate master who can kill the enemy commander as soon as he comes up.

Even if you organize an army of tens of thousands, if you encounter the enemy's main force, you will still be doomed.

After all, elite cavalry training also takes time.

"The real man is reasonable. Since ancient times, the risk and benefit have been proportional. The old man does not have too much ambition. My Wudang faction chooses the second plan and is willing to join hands with all of you."

Daoist Chongxu said freely.

Those who don't know may be fooled directly, and really think that the Wudang faction has no idea. Those who know the truth know that the southern factions are really helpless.

Not only is there a lack of horses, but also soldiers who can mount horses. A cavalry team of ten thousand people can't be assembled, so we can't send infantry to fight the barbarians on the grassland, right?

Not only Wudang, but most of the forces do not have the strength to form an expeditionary army alone. If you try to be brave at this time, you may become cannon fodder on the grassland.

The key is to take the risk of annihilation of the entire army. When they encounter fat meat on the grassland, they can't eat it even with their strength.

That being the case, why not cooperate with the Huashan faction. At least there is a congenital master accompanying the army, everyone has a bottom line in their hearts.

Even if they step into the ambush circle, they can fight a bloody path, and there will be no tragedy of the entire army being wiped out.

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Seeing that the major forces have expressed their positions one after another, the most entangled ones are Buddha Sect and Shaolin.

As the second and third largest powers in the martial arts world, these two families are not only full of masters, but also rich. If they join forces, they can also pull out a team.

Looking at each other with several representatives of the Buddhist sect, Fangzheng wanted to curse. At such a critical moment, the positions of several representatives of the Buddhist sect were divided.

After a little thought, Fangzheng made the most beneficial decision for his family: "Amitabha!"

"My Shaolin Temple is willing to advance and retreat together with all comrades!

I just don't know the real person, how to raise this military expenditure?

With the power of our various factions, I am afraid that we can only support the initial expenses if we go bankrupt.

If you want to pacify the grasslands and restore the eternal peace of northern Xinjiang, the cost may have to be hundreds of millions! "

Hundreds of millions is just an imaginary number. If there is a fight, no one knows how much it will cost.

After all, once Pandora's Box is opened, no one can control it. Killed the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, Oala, and a bunch of Khanates in Central Asia.

If you want to break even, or even make a profit, you may have to go all the way to India. The previous battles were economically loss-making.

Li Mu nodded and said: "It is true that our strength alone is not enough, but with the strength of Ming Dynasty, it is not a problem to invest hundreds of millions of dollars.

How difficult the people's livelihood is, this expense will not be amortized to Shengdou Xiaomin. Although the grassland is barren, the grassland is still valuable.

Ancient books record that the land of Central Asia also has fertile soil. Especially Tianfang World is not inferior to my Daming's Fertile Field, these are all visible industries.

From the point of view of the poor, these lands, pastures, and mines can be sold to gentry, wealthy businessmen, and temples at a discount to raise military expenses.

Thinking about the life and death of all living beings in China, everyone should not stand by and watch.

Next, everyone has money to give money, food to give food, and someone to give people. If anyone dares to obstruct it, he will become an enemy of the common people in the world.

For example: the dozen or so big businessmen who participated in the meeting today are willing to donate generously and raise 10 million stones, grain and grass and 15 million taels of silver for the army. "

After listening to Li Mu's explanation, all the people in the martial arts world didn't feel any problem, but the wealthy businessmen on the fringes felt like they were sitting on pins and needles.

I knew that coming here would inevitably lead to a knife, but I didn't expect this knife to be so cruel.

It's just that in front of everyone, they really didn't have the guts to say: I didn't agree, it's all Li Zhenren talking nonsense.