Time passed in a hurry, and in a blink of an eye it was the thirteenth year of the founding of the emperor.
There was nothing going on in the Central Plains, except for the fact that Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty promulgated some measures to benefit the people and then secretly fought with powerful families. The entire Sui Dynasty was prosperous and the people were prosperous and happy.
The rebellion in the south was basically over. Most of the rebels were wiped out, and the remaining troops retreated into the dense mountains and forests of Guizhou and Yunnan. The main force of the Sui army's counter-rebellion force had returned to Jiankang, leaving only a small number of troops to continue chasing the rebels.
The entire Sui Dynasty entered a rare period of peaceful development.
King Yang Guang of the Jin Dynasty sat in Yangzhou to dominate the south, and slowly sorted out the land in the south of the Yangtze River where the war had just subsided.
This person’s performance can definitely be called a ‘Wise King’!
While trying hard to win over the southern gentry, while providing a fairly relaxed political environment, it was easy to win over a group of southern gentry to join them and have a decisive voice in the south.
With him in charge, the South quickly emerged from the shadow of rebellion and restored normal production and life order at an extremely fast speed, showing a dynamic development scene.
Especially in Yangzhou, the development speed is astonishing, which is comparable to the development speed of Wuhou in the south. It has become the two pearls of the entire Yangtze River and the southern region.
Through the extremely developed Yangtze River shipping and the convenient connection to the East China Sea, Yangzhou's development has been rapid, and the living standards of the people have been greatly improved.
Yangzhou also gradually showed its prosperity and wealth in later generations, which made Jin Wang Yang Guang's reputation in the south flourish for a while. Both local nobles and common people praised him.
Perhaps, this was the main reason why he later felt that Guanzhong and Heluo were no longer safe, so he still chose to move to Jiangdu. The people and nobles here all supported him very much.
Of course, in the southern realm at this time, Jin King Yang Guang was not alone in his achievements. There were also Wu Hou in the south who were as good as him or even more outstanding.
After all, Jin Wang Yang Guang represented the face and majesty of the Sui Dynasty, and the various resources he had access to were extremely amazing, and they were simply not comparable to those of Wu Hou.
Coupled with Yangzhou's special geographical location, it is not difficult to develop.
As for Wu Hou, he needs to develop his territory bit by bit. Just the road transportation connections in the territory are a very difficult thing.
Wu Hou Leihu is worthy of being a great man of his generation. When his territory was at the juncture of its development, he resolutely mobilized all the resources at hand and invested them all in the unseen improvement of the road transportation system.
At that time, the Lingnan Song clan and the main force of the Sui army were facing off in Lingnan. Wu Hou used the Sui army's wounded to attack and busy for a month, and he actually repaired the official roads of several major towns and grain-producing areas in the general's territory.
With the solid and durable official roads connecting the main towns and grain-producing areas in the territory, the development of Wu Marquis was out of control. The word "prosperous" is not enough to describe the enterprising vitality.
After several years of intensive cultivation, Wuhou Territory has completely become one of the most fertile lands in the south, a land of fish and rice. It can not only meet its own needs for food and meat, but also deliver large quantities of food to surrounding areas, causing the territories around Wuhou Territory to follow suit.
Developed slowly.
It's not that there are no envious forces or powerful beings who want to attack the leader of Wuhou, but in the end they either return without success or completely disappear from the world. This suddenly wakes up the envious forces around him and realizes that Wuhou is not that easy to bully.
You must know that the idea of taking Wuhou's territory exists, in addition to the powerful officials of the Sui Dynasty, there are also famous forces in the southern arena, and even innate masters are involved, as well as local nobles who are secretly involved.
, is definitely not an easy existence to deal with.
As a result, neither the powerful men of the Sui Dynasty, the famous innate masters in the southern arena, nor the local gentry received any favors.
Wu Houling is like an iron barrel. Once you enter, you can't help yourself.
It's just that they didn't come here with any malicious intentions. If they were full of evil intentions and made obvious actions, they would definitely be greeted with a violent blow like a storm, and they would definitely not be polite at all.
Wu Houling has considerable autonomy and is not very restricted by the court. If he wants to rely on his status as a court boss to do whatever he wants, it is simply a miscalculation.
If you really want to push Wu Hou Leihu into a hurry, it is not difficult to make a few or hundreds of people disappear completely in the territory. No one dares to push too hard.
When the Sui army destroyed Chen, several powerful nobles in the north had experienced the power of Wu Hou. Since their power was concentrated in the north, they would not rush southward or fall out with Wu Hou.
The forces of the lower-level aristocratic families want to make trouble, but they don't have the strength and foundation. The innate warriors are the mainstay of the family, and if there is an accident, the losses will be too heavy.
Besides, Yang Guang, the king of Jin who is in Yangzhou, is not a decoration. This "good king" praised by the government and the public is working hard to cultivate power. Wu Hou is the person he is trying to make friends with and win over. How can he help the Beidi family run away?
Come to the south to show off your power?
In other words, although Wu Hou Leihu had amazing martial arts skills that almost all the top masters of the Sui Dynasty knew about, his reputation in the world was unknown.
But Wuhou Territory is not unknown. This is the base of the Holy Sect in the south. The two sects and Six Paths of the Holy Sect have strongholds in Wuhou Territory. The people who sit in the stronghold are either the elders of each sect or the middle-level backbone experts.
These holy sect elites are all famous in the world.
It's ridiculous that some people from the Southern Jianghu came to Wuhou to cause trouble under the banner of exterminating demons and defending the Tao. In the end, the whole person and his gang simply disappeared from the world and never appeared again.
Such a method is very 'sacred', and at the same time it also shocked those ambitious southern martial arts masters.
Against this background, a certain innate master who was famous throughout the southern martial arts world came with a group of disciples, disciples, and colleagues who had ambitions for the leader of Wu.
To be fair, everyone knows the actual reason.
This famous congenital master in the Jiangnan martial arts world really has some tricks. The chief officials of the Holy Sect in Wuhou were no match at all. Fortunately, this guy was not stupid and did not go on a killing spree. He just sent the Holy Sect to Wuhou.
The boss was defeated and injured.
Otherwise, what awaits him will be a group of high-level officials from the Yin Kui faction to attack.
Zhu Yuyan, the leader of the Yinkui sect, secretly raised his fetus in the Marquis of Wu. He was always surrounded by more than three elder masters of the Yinkui sect to protect him. It was quite easy to deal with a mere innate master who had been famous in the southern martial arts for a long time.
Only this time, Wu Hou Leihu planned to personally come forward to scare Xiao Xiao.
Three punches, just three punches. Under the eyes of everyone, the famous innate master of the southern martial arts was seriously injured by Wu Hou Leihu. He was rushed back to his hometown by his disciples and died of his injuries shortly after.
When the news spread, the entire southern martial arts community was in an uproar.
No one expected that Wu Hou Leihu, who had been silently concentrating on farming, would have such terrifying power.
A well-known veteran innate master in the southern martial arts world could not withstand the power of his three punches, and even died of his injuries afterwards. It was so horrifying that I couldn't believe it when I heard that he was called a hero of the southern martial arts.
But the facts are here, it’s impossible not to believe them.
Only then did the southern martial arts community know that the southern realm had not only produced a top master like Song Que of the Heavenly Sword, but also a terrifyingly powerful master like Wu Hou Leihu.
I don’t know when, but the martial arts heroes in the south gave Wu Hou the title of ‘Divine Fist’.
Fortunately, it's not the 'Invincible Divine Fist', otherwise Lei Hu would probably be depressed to death.
It was this time that the martial arts heroes in the south were frightened. The tyrannical martial arts displayed by Wu Hou were top-notch even among innate masters. If you want to take advantage of such a master, you must not be strong enough.
It's just that my brain is broken.
At the same time as the explosive news about Wu Hou's amazing strength came out, there was also the terrifying aspect of Wu Hou's leadership.
All the heroes who have been to Wuhou Territory swear that Wuhou Territory is definitely a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. The martial arts here are so prosperous that everyone practices martial arts.
This is absolutely unbelievable. You must know that "the poor in literature and the rich in martial arts", the resources required to practice martial arts are astonishing. It is not easy to support a martial artist. Even a small landowner with a hundred acres of land may not be able to afford it.
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But in the Marquis of Wu, almost everyone knew how to use martial arts, and even though their martial arts skills were so low that they were not discernible, it was still quite astonishing.
How did they know that Wu Hou Leihu was definitely a master of internal martial arts at the Grand Master level, and his understanding of the human body had reached a meticulous level, so it was too easy to come up with a suitable exercise method.
At this time, Wu Houling had dozens of sets of exercise methods, which were basically fully disclosed to the people in the territory. They had been handed over to the people during the literacy era, so that they could start exercising in the process of life and work.
That's right, the exercise method designed by Leihu can completely exert an exercise effect in the process of life and work. For example, farmers cultivate fields and have a suitable exercise method. Actions such as waving a hoe, bending down and pulling weeds are all effective.
It is included in the exercise method. As long as you practice it seriously, you will not feel back pain when you work. On the contrary, the more you work, the more energetic you will be. The price you have to pay is just an increase in food intake.
Not only are there corresponding training methods when plowing the fields, but there are also corresponding training methods when busy with other things. This is what surprises people from the outside world.
They did not know the inside story and exaggerated their claims outside, but they did a good job of publicizing it for Wu Houling.
Many ordinary exercise methods designed by Lei Hu are mainly based on transporting qi and blood. It is true that they can strengthen the body. As long as they are practiced well, they can at least maintain the peak state of the body's endurance for a long time. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are immune to all diseases.
, at least you can rarely get sick.
But compared to those who are true practitioners of internal strength, they are far inferior in all aspects. Foreign heroes do not understand these things, so they dare to be surprised and exaggerate outside.
The truly self-cultivated masters of Lord Wu are all in the army, so how can ordinary idle men easily meet them?