As long as someone does something, it can be done well.
Order was restored in Luoyi.
The Luo family naturally disappeared, and the Zhou family naturally rose. The Luo family's original house in the ancient city of Luoyi was naturally occupied by the Zhou family. It was a castle with a wall scale and defensive facilities that were much stronger than the outer wall of Luoyi, and it was enough to accommodate 200,000 people.
The Zhou family, including all the family members, servants, maids, private armies, etc., has a population of no more than 10,000.
Therefore, the Zhou family began to absorb a large number of people to strengthen itself.
This included taking over the Luo family's various inheritances, various relationships and connections, and various secret resources... Naturally, it was inevitable that the Qin family and the Lin family would take advantage of Zhou Laodao and others' unfamiliarity with the situation and secretly gain benefits in various aspects.
However, although the Qin and Lin families acted in secret, there were many things, including complicated matters like the Emperor's Money Contract, and Zhou Laodao and his family had no idea about the ins and outs of them.
The Qin and Lin families used various secret tricks to gain more benefits, and to test whether the Zhou family had the big forces and big figures they suspected. If so, they would naturally hand over all the benefits left by the Luo family to Zhou Laodao's family. If not...
Of course, in the hearts of Qin Mi and Lin Qun, they firmly believed that the Zhou family had hooked up with some big shot.
Otherwise, they could not explain the sudden appearance of hundreds of true practitioners in the Zhou family, especially the hundreds of awakened spirits, as well as their sophisticated armor and weapons... These things were extremely difficult to obtain even for their two families, let alone the Zhou family with shallow roots?
If it were in the hands of other suddenly rising "nouveau riche", Zhou Laodao's family would have probably been figured out by the Qin and Lin families, and would have been completely wiped out without a trace left.
But who can blame Lu Yi for being behind the Zhou family?
Relying on various magical powers and secret methods, and various methods learned in Jishengtian, Yuanlingtian, and Liangyitian, including but not limited to various financial, intelligence, personnel, etc. Although Lu Yu was only half-baked in many things, he found that the entire Luoyi, including the so-called Qin family and Lin family, were just like that in many things!
Therefore, with the help of Lu Yi, the various attempts by the Qin and Lin families were frustrated again and again.
The vanguards sent by the Qin and Lin families either disappeared without a sound, or were inexplicably seriously injured and then stripped naked and thrown at the most prosperous intersection in Luoyi for public display - even the unlucky guys themselves, as well as countless people around them, had no idea how the hell it happened!
After repeated incidents, the Qin and Lin families became extremely honest.
They honestly helped Zhou Laodao's family, straightened out various relationships inside and outside Luoyi City, and helped the Zhou family to smoothly swallow up the Luo family, whose size and power were at least hundreds of times that of the Zhou family.
In the battle of Dadaofang, many heads and high-level officials of large and medium-sized families met with accidents. They died in the chaos. Without a true cultivator to lead the family, they naturally had no right to be listed among the 'famous families' in Luoyi.
Therefore, hundreds of households were also swallowed up by the Zhou family.
Their mansions, their wealth, their fields, farms, serfs, tenant farmers outside the city, even the young men and women in their clans, servants, and even all kinds of livestock... Let's put it this way, even the loyal watchdogs that were unwilling to change masters were beaten and stewed into a pot of spiced meat!
The Zhou family was like a monster that suddenly grew deformed, greedily and ruthlessly devouring all the nutrients it could.
In response to this, everyone in Luoyi was laughing and no one complained!
Such is the nature of the wasteland.
This is the law of survival in the wilderness.
The winner takes all, and the loser is willing to lose everything!
Calculated in terms of time, in just half a month, the Zhou family had more than 250,000 people from top to bottom. Among them, there were more than 150,000 elite armored private soldiers, and there were more than a dozen garrisons inside and outside the city.
Countless wealth...Lu Yi was too lazy to describe them one by one.
In short, after the Zhou family initially gathered this huge fortune and used some means to intimidate and subdue this large-scale newly formed private army, a large number of scouts were sent out, and countless people began to run under the will of Zhou Laodao.
With Luoyi as the center, all geographical information and information from all aspects within a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles were quickly collected.
The two heads of the Qin and Lin families were also invited to come and drink heartily - without their knowing it, they were knocked out by Zhou Laodao's strong liquor and Lu Yi's talismans, and told all the secret information they knew.
In the backyard of the Zhou family, thirty-six white bone relics were flying in the air, and pieces of rock were melted by the white Buddha flame. Under the fine-tuning of magic power, a giant sand table covering an area of ​​more than ten acres on the ground was slowly expanding to the surroundings.
This is the entire topographic map of Mikawara.
Sanheyuan is the latest opened, smallest, most infertile and weakest territory among the eight plains under the jurisdiction of "Tiemenguan" - the so-called wasteland mentioned by Zhou Laodao and others is just a part of Sanheyuan on the southern side of Luoyi.
Mikawahara alone is over three million miles long and wide.
The eight plains under Tiemenguan, the other seven plains, and the smallest "Fengxiao Plain" are about twice the size of Sanheyuan, and the population is about five times that of Sanheyuan. Whether it is the proportion of people entering the true cultivation, or other production levels and production skills, they are much better than Sanheyuan.
Tie Wuxin, the current guard of Tiemenguan, belongs to the Tie family, and has a little grandson, Tie Fang, who is the backer of the Luo family. It is precisely because of Tie Fang that the Luo family has controlled 60% of the right to issue imperial coins in Luoyi City for many years, and has been domineering and arrogant in Luoyi... Correspondingly, the Luo family also supplies Tie Fang with a large amount of rare resources, handsome men and beautiful women, etc. every year.
There is a guard at Tiemen Pass named Qin Zhen. Qin Mi's family is from a branch of the Qin family, a side branch that is not highly regarded. They were sent to this remote place to "enjoy a peaceful life"!
The same is true for Lin Que's family, who are the collateral branch of Lin He, the chief of Tiemenguan. Lin He and Tie Wuxin had some minor frictions, and often had some conflicts over the distribution of military funds, the allocation of military equipment, and the number of garrison soldiers... Therefore, Lin Que's family was sent to Luoyi City, and their fundamental goal was to make Tie Fang, who was behind the Luo family, unhappy. If they could find some fun for Tie Wuxin through Tie Fang, that would be the best!
Let’s not talk about the intrigue and bullshit involved.
In short, Tiemenguan is very powerful.
According to publicly available data, Tiemenguan has 126,900 officially registered soldiers. All of these 120,000 soldiers are so-called "true practitioners."
The Tie, Qin and Lin families in Tiemenguan are extremely powerful.
To name just one, Tie Wuxin, the guard of Tiemen Pass, has reached the level of Heavenly General… Above the Heavenly Soldiers, Heavenly Cavaliers, Heavenly Lieutenants, and Heavenly Schoolmasters is the Heavenly General!
Not to mention what rank Tie Wuxin is among the heavenly generals.
Just look at how many great realms there are between heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals, and you will know how powerful Tie Wuxin is.
As for other members of the Tie family, such as the Tianxiao and Tianwei, the army of Tiemenguan is basically firmly controlled by the Tie family. Officers from top to bottom are basically direct descendants of the Tie family. Qin Zhen and Lin He cannot be involved in any way.
In Tiemenguan, as the deputy commander of Tiemenguan, Qin Zhen can only get involved in the "garrison troops" in the eight major cities under the control of Tiemenguan. These garrison troops are responsible for the daily work of suppressing bandits, maintaining peace and pacifying the local areas in the major cities. According to the division of powers of Tiemenguan, all military affairs of these garrison troops, including the allocation of military equipment and military supplies, are under the responsibility of Qin Zhen.
As for Lin He, the chief of Tiemenguan, all he could intervene in were the tax revenues paid by the major cities of the Eight Great Plains to Tiemenguan. These included taxes collected from "big and small buckets", "drainage", "rat bites and insect infestations", "robbery and hijacking", etc. Everyone took advantage of this and made a staggering amount of money.
Qin Zhen and Lin He, one has a certain amount of military force in his hands, and the other has enough money in his hands.
If the two of them join forces, they can barely put up a good fight against Tie Wuxin.
The fight inside Tiemen Pass was basically a projection of the fighting among the Luo, Qin and Lin families in Luoyi City in previous years.
Pieces of bluestone were continuously thrown into the slowly taking shape of the sand table. After the mountains, hills, rivers, lakes and other terrains of all sizes extended about 20,000 miles from Sanheyuan to Fengxiaoyuan, there was no more strength to go on.
The two family heads, Qin Mi and Lin Qun, are also knowledgeable people in Luoyi City.
It was thanks to such knowledgeable people, including the explorations of countless people in Luoyi over the years and the intelligence information collected intentionally or unintentionally by countless people, that Lu Yi was able to complete a geographical atlas, which was the pinnacle of it.
How big is the jurisdiction of Tiemenguan? The specific geographical atlas is probably available in the military affairs room of Tiemenguan.
And for outsiders like Lu Yu who want to find out this kind of information... or in other words, want to know this "knowledge"... the risk is very high and the rules do not allow it.
After Qin Mi and Lin Qu were drunk and their minds were confused by Lu Qu's spell, what they said was very direct - the people are like leeks, just waiting to be harvested by those in power, they don't need to understand too much!
"Then, it's the Iron Gate Pass." Lu Yi looked at the majestic pass suspended above the sand table, which was also shaped by molten magma.
This is the Tiemenguan model cast according to the descriptions of Qin Mi and Lin Qun.
It was a truly majestic city, about a thousand miles long and wide, with tens of millions of residents. It was rich, prosperous, and extremely developed. Its splendor and prosperity were simply unimaginable for the poor people in a remote and poor place like Luoyi.
However, Qin Mi and Lin Yu... In this world where knowledge is strictly sealed and monopolized, these two heads of families who are considered top figures in Luoyi, don’t seem to have read any books... They could only repeat to Lu Yi over and over again how prosperous and great Tiemenguan was, but their vocabulary was extremely limited, making it difficult for Lu Yi to have a clear understanding.
But it doesn't matter.
Since I can't get any clues from them, I'll go to Tiemenguan myself!
In particular, Zhou Laodao's Zhou family replaced Luoyi's Luo family, and behind the Luo family was Tie Fang of Tie Wuxin's clan... In order for the Zhou family to live in peace and not be destroyed by revenge in a few strokes, Lu Yi also had to make a trip to Tiemenguan.
As for how to eliminate Tiefang and the revengeful desire of the Tie family to which Tiefang belongs, once we arrive at Tiemenguan!
Lu Yi hit his head hard.
In his chaotic mind, the light of his soul had recovered to the size of three bowls. Circles of weak light of his soul were released, and a lot of fragments of memory emerged in his mind, but they were quite messy, and Lu Yi himself had a hard time sorting them out and understanding them.
But it doesn't matter.
From those messy memories, Lu Yi has found a very feasible method.
In order to make the Zhou family worry-free, the Tie family must be unable to take care of themselves. So how to make them unable to take care of themselves? Of course, it is to stir up trouble and fan the flames to make the Tie family make trouble.
Why are you making such a fuss?
It's nothing more than framing others, making up rumors, etc... For example, killing a few playboys from the Qin family and the Lin family, and throwing them into the private residence of the playboy from the Tie family... Haha!
Anyway, Qin Mi and Lin Yu had leaked countless details about their family. There were countless scums in the three families of Tiemenguan, and their daily behavior style really made Lu Yi dislike them. For example, Tie Wuxin, this guy, actually has another real name. The reason why he was called Tie Wuxin, and he proudly used it as his real name, was because he had an extremely creepy habit!
He loves to eat the hearts of handsome men and beautiful women!
On a single day, eat the heart of a handsome man.
On a double day, you will win the heart of a beautiful woman.
On every full-moon night, one must consume a pair of fresh, hot hearts of a boy and girl at midnight, supplemented with secret medicine, in order to strengthen the body and practice some special body-building method!
Such behavior is just like that of a demon.
But he happened to be the guard of the Iron Gate Pass, controlling the fate of trillions of people in the Eight Great Plains!
For such people, Lu Yi thinks that it’s okay to use some tricks... no problem!
Especially, the guard of Tiemenguan Pass… This reminded Lu Yi of his Loulan deputy governor seal. Although the relevant memory fragments were still immersed in his mind and had not come out, Lu Yi could feel that if he could get rid of Tie Wuxin, it should bring him unexpected benefits.
Time passes by little by little.
Just when Lu Yi had sorted out the geographical sand table of the entire Sanheyuan and half of Fengxiaoyuan, and tried his best to collect all the information he could about this world, and was about to leave Luoyi and head for Tiemenguan, a mighty team crossed the Luoshui River and arrived at the north gate of Luoyi.
More than two hundred huge and strange-shaped chariots were floating in the air.
Thousands of soldiers with powerful skills, excellent armor and weapons.
There were also more than a dozen gorgeous carriages filled with young men and women, filled with strange kinds of incense that made people's noses itch from miles away.
This group of people and horses directly crossed the Luo River. Those strange beasts that looked like horses, had stripes like tigers, and were wearing heavy armor, rode straight over the waves, and when they ran, it was as if they were walking on flat ground, which was truly magical.
The more than 200 large carts loaded with a large number of middle-aged men and women caused the soldiers stationed on the top of Luoyi City to scream in fear, and they hurriedly sent messages to Zhou Laodao, Qin Mi and Lin Qun, who were in charge of the city.
The northern city wall of Luoyi is the northern city wall of the ancient city area, and the wall is located on the south bank of Luo River.
Zhou Laodao and others left their house and arrived at the north gate in no time.
Look out from a high place.
Among the thousands of heavily armored soldiers, half have already crossed the Luo River.
The large carts floating in the air were being dragged by the elephant-like beasts, moving towards the south bank little by little. The huge carts were floating in the air, but the beasts were floating in the water. It took a long time for the beasts to cross the hundreds of miles wide Luo River.
A dozen or so magnificent carriages, surrounded by a team of armored soldiers, were parked at the foot of a small hill only a dozen feet high on the south bank.
On the green grass at the foot of the hill, there was a large piece of snow-white fur felt. A young man with high cheekbones, thin lips, a slightly hooked nose, slightly pale lips, and a slightly red nose, obviously suffering from insufficient qi and blood, but also with liver dryness and internal heat, was actually fighting a vivid battle on the fur felt in broad daylight, in full view of everyone.
Three pretty girls surrounded the young man...
All kinds of shapes and sounds were happening openly in the open air less than seven or eight miles away from the north city wall.
Zhou Laodao, Qin Mi and Lin Qunduan were all stunned. They looked at each other and didn't react for a long time.
After a long, long time, Zhou Laodao murmured, "This brother is really bold... Tsk, tsk, tsk, this body is a bit weak!"
The protagonist of the open-air battle, a young man with a somewhat mean look and obviously not in good health, after having been indulging himself in a meal in public, actually gasped for breath, swallowed a bright red pill in public, then sat cross-legged on the ground, regulated his breath for about a quarter of an hour, and then got back on his horse to continue the battle.
Lu Yi also rushed to the scene.
He also saw the disgusting scene on the white felt. He looked at Qin Mi and Lin Yu in horror and said in a hoarse voice, "Have you ever seen such a custom?"
Qin Mi and Lin Qu looked at each other, coughed, and Lin Qu whispered, "We are only from the side branch of the family, so naturally we don't have such a bold style... But, I heard that some of the noble sons of the family are very unrestrained and have no regard for sex... Some even have strange habits."
Qin Mi squinted his eyes and tried his best to look at the carriages and the armor on the soldiers.
The laws of this world are extremely strict and powerful, and have a strong suppressive power on living beings. With Lu Yi's physical strength, he can see almost every grain of sand, every flower and every blade of grass in the Liangyi Heaven with his Dharma Eyes.
But when he arrived in this world, Lu Yi could only see about ten or twenty miles away with his naked eyes.
Qin Mi and Lin Qun were far inferior to Lu Qun in every aspect. The carriage was seven or eight miles away from the north city wall. Qin Mi used all his strength but could only get a vague and approximate view.
He said hesitantly, "It seems that something is wrong... Old Zhou, which nobleman in Tiemenguan is behind your Zhou family? Now it's easy to tell, right? The team outside the city seems to be from the Tie family... Look at the flag hanging from the first cart, it has a black background with faint blood-colored patterns... In Tiemenguan, only the Tie family's iron-blooded battle flag has this color scheme!"
Qin Mi looked at Zhou Laodao, a hint of gloating flashed across his eyes and eyebrows, and he couldn't wait to watch the excitement and excitement.
"The Luo family is the dog raised by the Tiefang branch of the Tie family... You killed the Luo family, and the Tie family suddenly came..."
Qin Mi took two steps back and said nothing.
Lin Qu whispered: "Look at that young master's bold and unrestrained behavior. He doesn't care about other people's opinions at all. This is clearly something that only a noble young master of the Tie family can do. Other young masters of lesser status don't have the confidence to do this!"
Lin looked at Zhou Laodao and spread his hands: "Old Zhou, if it is really the direct descendant of the Tie family, we can't help much. We don't have enough status, and there is such a family, you know, right?"
The river breeze blows slowly from the north.
The battle on the snow-white felt became more and more intense. The young man stopped twice and took two pills. Strange screams, roars, laughter and scolding came with the wind. Everyone on the city wall looked at each other in bewilderment, not knowing what to do.
It's like, you are walking on the street and there are two stray dogs happily reproducing. You wouldn't be so bored as to run over and kick them hard, interrupting their good thing, right?
That doesn't make sense!
You wouldn't even go and interrupt a grass dog's behavior... Then the person doing this over there in the open air is a direct descendant of the Tie family, the most powerful family in Tiemenguan... Unless you are crazy, why would you provoke him for no reason ?
So, a group of people stood awkwardly on the city wall and started chatting aimlessly and awkwardly.
The weather is nice today.
The rainfall this year is quite adequate.
The fish from Luoshui is very delicious.
The crops outside the city are growing well.
After two or three hours of awkward conversation, a number of specially made giant carts, towed by strange beasts, slowly crossed the river and arrived at the south bank of the Luo River.
A small group of armored soldiers then whistled and slowly rode towards the tightly closed north gate of Luoyi City.
At the north gate of Luoyi City, the moat was a hundred feet wide, with running water drawn directly from the Luo River. On the moat, a series of heavy bridge piers formed a series of twelve suspension bridges. Because of the sudden appearance of this group of people, all twelve sections of the suspension bridge had been pulled up, and it was impossible for a decent person to cross the moat...
But this group of knights are clearly not serious people.
The strange beasts they were riding had wind on all four legs. The strong wind turned into blue-gray wind balls visible to the naked eye, lifting up their huge bodies and carrying the knights on their backs, crossing the moat and running straight to the north gate.
Raising his head, a leading knight lifted his visor, revealing a dark-skinned, sinister face with blinking triangular eyes, revealing a sour and sinister look.
"Where's Rama? Open the door and welcome Master Zhen into the city."
He spat heavily on the ground. The sticky spit was like a bullet, piercing the air with a sharp whistle and hitting the ground heavily. Outside the north gate of Luoyi, there was a large flat plain, all paved with three-foot thick stone slabs. The soldier's spit landed on the stone slab, and actually made a hole the size of a bowl!
Zhou Laodao and others took a breath.
With this kind of physique and strength, there is no one else in the whole Luoyi - well, Zhou Laodao subconsciously looked at Lu Yu, thinking that Lu Yu could do it, right? But he had never seen Lu Yu show it!
The soldier didn't wait for the people on the wall to respond, and directly gave his own orders: "In addition, the brothers have come all the way from Brown Peak City, which must be very hard. Prepare 60,000 imperial coins, which is the tea money for the brothers to dismount. In addition, prepare 12,000 virgin girls, so that the brothers can live happily."
"By the way, prepare enough food, herbs, salt, sugar, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc. for ten years for ten million people... prepare them according to the quantity for ten million people!"
The soldier raised the whip wrapped with steel wire in his hand and lashed it hard against the gate of Luoyi, shouting: "Did you hear that? Are you deaf? Master Tiezhen has been ordered to lead the pioneering group to carry out major pioneering work... This document has been sent to Luoyi half a year ago, why are you still hesitating?"
Qin Mi and Lin Qun widened their eyes at the same time and glanced at Zhou Laodao subconsciously.
They suddenly understood why the Luo family suddenly attacked Zhou Laodao's family without any warning - and even said the word "crime" in public!
It turns out that they have taken a fancy to the young and strong men in Zhou Laodao's family, as well as the three true practitioners Zhou Laodao, Zhou Changgong and Zhou Tiejiao!
Great pioneer group!
Tsk tsk!
This is indeed a good place for criminal labor.
However, the risk of a large pioneering group is very high, and the mortality rate is very high. If the Luo family deals with it simply by sending a group of ordinary slaves in, they will all be killed in a few strokes, which will definitely arouse the wrath of Master Tiezhen!
According to Rama's previous idea, there were three true practitioners such as Zhou Laodao, and Zhou Laodao was one of the few "masters" in Sanheyuan who could be ranked among the top three thousand... plus the elite private army soldiers of the Zhou family, and tens of thousands of ordinary able-bodied men, and throwing this number of people into the large pioneering group of Master Tiezhen, how could it all be explained!
What he never expected was that... Rama's wishful thinking was shattered by Zhou Laodao.
Zhou Laodao took over the entire inheritance of the Luo family, and this Mr. Tiezhen from the Tie family actually came with his men to kill them.
Qin Mi and Lin Qu looked at each other with flickering eyes, asking each other whether they had received the notice from Tiemenguan - logically, Tiezhen was leading a large pioneering group to travel, and this news should be announced to the clan members who had branched out in various places in their own clan!
But Qin Mi and Lin Qun's eyes flashed and they shook their heads slightly at the same time.
Well, they knew that the other party, like themselves, had not received any news about the Iron Needle Pioneering Group!
This is a bit, wrong.
Over at Tiemen Pass, has there been any mistake among our own clan?
While the two were silent, the knight outside the door couldn't wait to urge: "Are you deaf? Or crazy? Didn't you hear it? Master Tiezhen has arrived, why don't you open the city gate and greet him respectfully? Do you want to die?"
The knight cursed happily!
In reality, the Luo family is just a dog raised by the Tie family of Tiemenguan. Even among the many lackeys raised by the Tie family, the Luo family, located in a remote place like Sanheyuan Luoyi, is still the weakest, most inconspicuous, and most worthless of all the lackeys...
For the Tie family, the significance of the existence of these lackeys is simply that - 'they exist', right?
They maintain their presence and are able to represent the Tie family's dominance in this remote border area. This is the greatest value of their existence.
Therefore, such a lackey, even if he is just an ordinary thug leader under Tiezhen, dares to shout loudly and does not give the Luo family any face at all!
Zhou Laodao looked at the knights who were shouting wantonly outside the city, turned around with a wry smile, and asked Lu Yi in a low voice: "Brother Fahai, what is this?"
Lu Yi looked at the knights outside the city and shrugged his shoulders: "Mobilize the troops and destroy them!"
Qin Mi and Lin Qun's expressions suddenly changed and they both took several steps back!