Seeing that their companions looked embarrassed and had nothing to say, the generals who held military power in the room couldn't help laughing with joy in their faces.
"What are you laughing at?"
The man became angry and said: "Isn't it right? Now we are too dependent on the border officials. If one day they suddenly withdraw their hands or play tricks, we will be in big trouble!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the house fell silent!
I'm afraid the air will suddenly become quiet!
Such truth is very unpleasant.
That is to say, people close to you talk in private, but they don't talk nonsense outside.
"Hey, I know it's not good to be tied too tightly to the border area, but we don't have that many talents at our disposal. What can we do?"
The big leader broke the dullness with a wry smile, shook his head and said: "Right now, the best choice is for us to get closer to the frontier!"
"Yes, at least we have strong support from the border, and all we have to pay are the old, weak, women and children among the refugees, which is pretty good for us!"
"I also know this. Unfortunately, our foundation is too shallow. We have just barely stabilized the border in recent times and stopped the war with those local forces. Otherwise, if we quietly cultivate for a few years, the talents we have cultivated can also be put to use.
If you don’t, you don’t have to worry so much!”
"Don't think about such a good thing. As long as we are close to the border, it is very difficult to remove their influence. It is better to find a way to go deep into the hinterland of several states, occupy more territory, and slowly separate from the border land. It is the right thing to do.
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"I'm afraid there are some difficulties, and those local snakes are not easy to deal with. The key for us right now is to train enough manpower, so that when the territory becomes larger in the future, we will have to rely on the border to send people to support and control the lifeline of others!"
"My brothers have been very exhausted in the past few years. It's really time to take a good rest and strengthen training to improve their combat effectiveness. At this time, we have border support, so we don't have to worry about money, food or weapons!"
"We and the Frontier are currently in a relationship of mutual utilization. As long as we still have value, the Frontier will not go too far. Accumulating strength is still the first priority!"
"..."
Listening to the discussions among his trusted generals, the big leader had no expression on his face, but he was smiling bitterly in his heart.
What the confidants said were all right, but they were also a bit one-sided.
Regardless of the fact that his subordinates control several counties, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the lord of a thousand-mile territory, but it is nothing compared to the lord of the frontier.
The main reason is that the gap in strength is too large. In the past few years, he has led his troops to fight hard and finally seized the land of several counties. Looking at the states near the border, he can be regarded as a heroic person.
But the three-thousand-mile frontier was not idle either. Taking advantage of the chaos in several nearby states, it recruited refugees on a large scale, with nearly five million refugees joining the army. Due to the peaceful environment and proper layout, its strength increased even more rapidly.
Let's put it this way, in the past three thousand miles of the frontier, only the cities and towns where humans lived were prosperous, and there were more barren lands where no one was farming or raising livestock.
But the situation is different now. Although there are still only five major cities in the three-thousand-mile border, with the influx of nearly five million refugees, the number of towns and villages has greatly increased, which means that the power in the hands of the lord of the border has greatly increased.
In the past few years, he had seen with his own eyes just how capable the talents trained by the border officials were, and he could only admire them.
According to past experience, it is simply impossible for the several newly occupied counties under his command to be stabilized within a year and a half.
But what now?
He led the army to capture this area, and in a blink of an eye, the reception personnel sent by the border government followed. With the cooperation of the army, it took less than ten days and a half to reintegrate the originally collapsed order.
Not to mention being well-organized, at least there is no need for troops to monitor and suppress things at all times.
Just this, how much trouble did he and his brothers save?
What shocked him even more was that with the re-establishment of the government offices in the occupied areas, the talents trained by these frontier government officials worked tirelessly to penetrate into the most basic villages, and defeated the local wealthy families and clans in three strikes and five strikes.
The majesty of the government penetrated to the village level.
Although when he was in Tongyuan City, he had seen the local government's control methods that extended their tentacles to the lowest level of society, but to actually see them come from nothing and do it again under his nose still shocked the big leader.
I'm so envious.
This point alone, not to mention the speed of restoring order after the war, but only the materials and manpower that the government can mobilize, is astonishing and unimaginable before.
If it hadn't been for several years of fighting, and all the brothers under his command were exhausted and in need of self-cultivation, I'm afraid it wouldn't be a problem to use the newly acquired land as a foundation to sweep into the hinterland of several border states.
To put it bluntly, the soldiers and generals under my command are all professional elites. The generals in the hands of local forces in several states near the border, except for the core few soldiers and horses who are barely enough to see, the rest of the soldiers and horses say that they are the army and praise them.
Okay, they are just a bunch of people who can only wave the flag and shout to build momentum!
"Okay, okay, stop arguing!"
Waving his hand to stop the discussions of his trusted generals, the leader smiled and said: "At least the current situation is better than we thought before we raised the flag. That's good enough!"
When the generals around him heard this, they also showed happy smiles on their faces.
This is true. When they raised the flag and marched here, they didn't expect that they would be in the current situation in just three years.
After all, this is not the old nest where they have made trouble before. Not to mention the unfamiliar place, who among the local people and officials knows where they came from?
At present, it is not easy to occupy several counties at once with the help of the border officials. It is beyond their capabilities to ask for more.
"Of course, the places in our hands right now are all managed by personnel from the border areas, which is indeed not very safe!"
The big leader continued: "It's just that right now, we should be useful chess pieces in the eyes of the border lord. At least we won't fall out rashly until we reach the hinterland of several border states!"
"Of course, we are all good and ambitious men, so naturally we cannot leave everything in the hands of others, and the Lord of the Frontier is no exception!"
"Right now, there are two most important things for us. One is to recuperate and prepare for the future war. Our future goal is to reach the hinterland of Honshu; the second is to cultivate our own talents. Anyway, we have trained
We all know the means and methods, all we need is enough time!"
When all the generals heard this, they all nodded in praise. What the leader said was the key to what they needed to do right now.
only……
"Big Chief, if we vigorously cultivate our own talents, will it cause dissatisfaction with the frontier lord?"
A general raised concerns and said with a wry smile: "After all, the border dispatchers are doing a good job!"
"There's no need to worry about this. The reward we've given you is already generous enough, so there's no need to worry about this!"
The big leader shook his head and waved his hand: "The most important thing for us now is to rest. As for communication with the border areas, I can personally take part!"
When the generals heard this, although they were full of curiosity, they could only nod in agreement.
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Among the remaining five forces, some have the same approach as the big leader, and some are completely different from the big leader's approach.
The main reason is that the strength shown by the frontier officials is too tyrannical, which makes several heroic leaders whose mentality becomes inflated when they gain territory, no longer willing to be influenced by the frontier officials.
Their approach was very simple. Although they did not dare to directly kill the talents sent by the border officials, these talents were not put to much use. The position of 'advisor' was not unique to modern times.
Although the territory they occupy imitates the rules and systems of the frontier areas, they just do not give any real power to the frontier areas.
How could such an obvious target not attract the attention of border officials?
The news was reported layer by layer and soon reached Lei Hu.
"Let them be!"
Lei Hu didn't care about this at all, and smiled at the Blue Sky Eagle Demon who sent the message: "When they realize that their territory is surrounded by all the forces in the borderland, it will be difficult not to let go!"
Just kidding, there are always smart people who will guess his intentions. If you don't want to be annexed, you can only bite the bullet and move all the way to the hinterland of Daqi. When the time comes, the border officials will only need to take over the territory they gave up.
Whoever is blinded by profit will definitely have to face their own territory in the future, surrounded by border officials on all sides, and they will not have many choices by then.
Otherwise, I really thought that Lei Hu was running a charity. He would give him whatever money, food, ordnance he needed. If he didn't have to pay enough, he would be the most worthless refugee in troubled times. How could he take advantage of it?
He was not interested in these, but he was more interested in the magic monks who appeared in the wars in several nearby states, as well as the ghost realm that permeated the hinterland and spread to the hinterland of Daqi.
According to the news heard from various channels in the country, there are disciples of several major magic sects in several nearby states, either because of their power and wealth, or because their families are involved in wars.
What kind of battle formations, what kind of magic weapon confrontation, what kind of rune curses, the five elements of yin and yang spells, and the very few magical power competitions, in short, it is like the battle of the gods, all extraordinary powers that do not belong to the human world are involved.
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Obviously, the methods of these magic monks are a bit inferior. After hearing this, Lei Hu can basically deduce their specific strength. They are basically hovering below the fake elixir, and there are not even a few real fake elixir monks.
On the contrary, the ghostly yin energy that permeated the hinterland of several neighboring states, due to the war and the replenishment of evil spirits, rapidly expanded and spread to the hinterland of Daqi. It was obviously growing very fast. I wonder what kind of powerful ghosts there are in it?
However, every time he let go of his spiritual thoughts, there was always a cold aura stirring up, which made him feel very uncomfortable, but it did not cause any disturbance to him.
If he didn't want to be too high-profile and attract old monsters who had been cultivating for many years, or if he was targeted by some gods in the divine court, he would be interested in flying over directly to see what the strong ghost cultivators were like...