In the Heavens

When preparing for the Western Expedition, the major forces were not idle. In order to stabilize the rear, they have launched a major cleansing of bandits, bandits, and hooligans in their sphere of influence.

Different from the previous "chivalry and righteousness", this wave is completely wiped out. No matter who's face is not good, it is the common will of all factions to eliminate unstable factors.

All major forces issued death orders at the same time, to ensure that the food, grass, and material transportation of the Western Expeditionary Army were safe, at least not to cause problems within their own borders.

Everything is preparing for the great cause of the Western Expedition, and any individuals and forces that may hinder the Western Expedition have been bloodily suppressed.

With the joint efforts of the government and various factions of the martial arts, the Ming Dynasty, which was originally in turmoil, quickly stabilized, as if there had never been any turmoil at all.

Even the pirates and Japanese pirates who were active on the southeast coast disappeared under the sudden attack. Maritime merchants and local tycoons who had contact with the pirates were wiped out one after another.

The ban on the sea disappeared, and countless fishermen started a new era of fishing. The local government ignored it, and the heads of the subordinate officials who dared to stretch their hands were still hanging on the city tower.

Everything is caused by "meat food". If you want to train elite soldiers, how can you do without oil in your stomach?

Hundreds of thousands of Western Expedition troops have to eat meat, and the daily consumption is an astronomical figure. Animals cannot be raised in a day, so they have no choice but to cast their eyes on the sea.

According to Li Dazhen's proposal, pickled dried fish became the main meat of the army. Anyway, the ecology of the sea has not been destroyed these days, and the most indispensable thing is fish.

Coupled with the contribution of salt by enthusiastic salt merchants, the production cost of dried fish has been reduced to the extreme. Although the taste is indeed a little bit worse, for ordinary soldiers, it is not bad to have something to eat.

Compared with the meals of the Ming army, the Western Expeditionary Army was treated like a proper rich man. In addition to the normal supply of millet, flour, soybeans, and dried vegetables, there is half a catty of meat per person per day. Although it is the cheapest dried fish, it is also at the forefront of the times.

The Righteous Way is in action, and the Devil's Cult is not idle either. Ever since the news of Feng Qingyang's breakthrough came out, Dongfang Bubai personally led people into Jiaozhi.

The Shenlong Sect in the north also began to recruit troops aggressively, and it seemed that they were preparing to make trouble in Korea.

The previously hidden Blood Knife Sect, Western Demon Sect, Demon King's Palace and other demon sects have also become active at this moment.

The one who was most stimulated was Emperor Shenwu. He didn't know whether he was insane or his brain cells were too developed, so he went to hang out as a guest executioner.

The result is that there is an extra body of evil spirit. Apart from making civil and military officials tremble with fear, the fart has no effect.

Obviously, the way of heaven is not easy to mess with. To fool the death row, who is that looking down on?

Fortunately, the royal family still has some background, and soon found a way to solve the trouble. Otherwise, the civil and military officials would have to collapse in the face of the evil emperor every day.

A failed attempt, no determination to stop Emperor Shenwu from becoming stronger. The long-lost general "Zhu Shou" reappeared again.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the most determined emperor in the Northern Expedition was born. But anyone who dares to stop the Northern Expedition must be careful of the emperor's sap.

The war machine of the Ming Dynasty was activated, and everyone from the court to the people was serving the war.

The only regret is that the bad nature of the bureaucracy has not changed. The civil official group once again played its previous nature, and if it can't be stopped, it will be delayed.

To be precise, it's not a special delay, they are just acting in their true colors. It fully proves what is "not enough success, more than failure".

Li Mu's Western Expedition Army was formed in just a few months. After breaking the siege of Ningxia, it launched an attack on the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. The Ming Army is still defending the northern borders in the Xuanda and Jiliao areas. war.

Is the hastily formed army capable of fighting?

The answer is very positive - yes, but very low.

This is also the main reason why the Western Expeditionary Army immediately marched westward to find the bad luck of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate after breaking the siege of Ningxia.

After all, persimmons need to be soft to pinch. The main force of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate had already been destroyed in the last war, and the King Khan was slaughtered by Feng Qingyang, and now he is leaderless.

The Western Expedition Army with half a bucket of water is just right to deal with such an enemy. What's more, they are not the main force, the real core is still some combat groups from various factions in the martial arts.

In addition to attracting the attention of the enemy, the Western Expeditionary Army's greatest significance is to provide everyone with logistical support and a temporary resting place, so that everyone can go deep into the grassland to carry out attacks.

And after the victory of the war, they occupied the territory, searched for the loot, and cashed the empty check that was issued before.

If the Western Expeditionary Army were to kill all the enemies, wouldn't all the factions in the martial arts be busy in vain?

After figuring out the position of the Western Expedition Army, Li Mu didn't bother to search for famous historical generals, so he casually promoted a few generals with decent abilities and it was over.

Li Mu didn't even bother to participate in the big battles that people in the rivers and lakes flocked to, so as not to compete with his younger brothers for the head.

Anyway, he is not bad for the little feedback from Tiandao, and it is right to seize the time to comprehend the Dao. After passing through this village, the way of heaven is hidden, and it is not so simple to try to understand it.

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Time flies, and it is five years in a flash. After five consecutive years of conquest, the situation in the world has completely changed.

The Eastern Chagatai Khanate, which was so powerful for a while, was completely abolished by the people in the martial arts. After only persisting for less than two years, several major tribes took their tribesmen and ran away.

Once the chariot is opened, it cannot be stopped by manpower. Without Li Mu's promotion, under the common will of all major forces, the Western Expeditionary Army set its sights on Central Asia again.

At this time, the Timur Khanate had just perished, and Central Asia was still full of countries that had not yet given birth to a new overlord. The failed Timur family was struggling in India.

The road has been wrought out, so naturally they continued to fight without saying anything. The Western Expeditionary Army first swept across Central Asia, and then marched towards India along the escape route of the Timur family.

After two or three years of struggle, it finally entered the Indian subcontinent.

This wave of the Timur family suffered a blood loss, and the painstakingly managed Mughal Dynasty had just taken shape when it was beaten by the Western Expeditionary Army and forced to continue moving westward.

The Western Expeditionary Army has achieved brilliant results, and Emperor Shenwu has not been idle. Fortunately, after five years of hard work, Wala was finally beaten down.

If it weren't for being restricted by financial resources, it would be necessary to seal the wolf and live in Xuxu. It's a pity that the long-term battle is a test for any farming dynasty.

Especially for a dynasty that has entered the middle and late stages, it is even more stressful to fight year after year.

It seems that the Western Expeditions launched by various factions in the martial arts have little to do with the Ming Dynasty, but in fact consume the national power of the Ming Dynasty.

Conquering Central Asia on the one hand, conquering Mobei on the other, and fighting on the Indochina Peninsula in the south, the consumption of people's power is really too great.

The imperial court is short of money and food, so why not the martial arts sects?

In the past five years, the life of the gentry and wealthy businessmen has been difficult. The imperial court asked them for money, and the martial arts factions also apportioned money and food to them.

Li Mu made a rough estimate. In recent years, the Zhengdao Martial Arts Alliance has sold 280 million mu of grassland, 390 million mu of farmland, and several mines to raise enough military expenses.

It's not like I don't know, but I was shocked when I calculated it. These messy options added up and almost sold half of Daming.

If it weren't for these empty checks being cashed one after another, the benefactors who were forced to pay would have long since exploded.

In fact, this cashing is not much better than an airdropped check. All that is left after the war is ruins. If you want to make these assets valuable, you can only find a way to develop them yourself.

The only good thing is to see hope. Grassland is nothing, the key is the cultivated land. The attachment of the farming people to the land is beyond imagination.

In order to prevent their own land from being left idle, gentry, wealthy businessmen, and even temples all followed suit after ensuring safety, and a vigorous immigration movement was set off in the Ming Dynasty.

Fortunately, there was this great immigrant movement, otherwise Shengdou Xiaomin, who was bankrupt because of the war, had to let Emperor Shenwu know why he couldn't use military force.

Thanks to the continuous development of Central Asia, it can provide a certain amount of supplies for the army, reducing the logistical pressure, otherwise the war funds will be even more terrifying.

Fortunately, they didn't go wrong this time. The Western Expeditionary Army reached India instead of continuing to fight the Ottoman Empire westward. Otherwise, Li Mu didn't know how it would end.

Seeing a series of good news from the front line, Li Dazhen felt refreshed for a while. Finally, we can support war with war.

Because of the different place names in different eras, although we don't know exactly where the Western Expeditionary Army went, but the front line can raise money and food to cover the expenses, so Li Mu is 100% sure that he didn't go the wrong way.

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"The way of heaven and man is between damage and repair! If there is more than damage, make up for what is not enough; or if there is not enough damage, there is more to offer. Its essence is both idealistic and materialistic..."

On the top of Huashan Mountain, Master Li Daren's pretentious voice that no one could understand sounded again. It's just that everyone pays attention to the effect, and if they don't understand it, it can only prove that Li Dazhen's morality is profound.

Preaching has become a routine, every few months Dazhen Li will give a sermon on the top of Mount Hua, to dispel the evil spirits of the martial arts people who have returned from the Western Expedition.

Today, this has become a major event in the world. Not only people in the Jianghu flocked to it, but even people in the imperial court, gentry, wealthy businessmen, and religious colleagues flocked to it.

Including Emperor Shenwu, they often came to patronize, in order to obtain the opportunity to break through the innate.

It's a pity that for five years, apart from Feng Qingyang, there was no second congenital birth.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone who participated in the killing felt that their cultivation was improving, many of them would have given up.

Unintentionally glanced at the crowd, Li Mu's eyebrows moved slightly, and he recovered in an instant.

It's just that Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing, who were swept away by his eyes, were shocked into a cold sweat.

Even though they have made great progress in martial arts and performed the disguise technique, they still don't have the slightest confidence in whether they can hide it from Li Mu.

It's just that there is no way, in order to obtain the opportunity to break through the innate, they still have to take risks.

Fortunately, Li Mu just glanced at them and didn't continue to stare at them, otherwise the two of them might not be able to sit comfortably even if they had heard the sermon.

Li Mu has always had a good temper when dealing with tool people. As long as you don't do anything on your own territory, everything is negotiable.

Do you really think that Master Li Daren preaches every few months because he cares about martial arts and can't bear everyone to be tortured by evil spirits?

Li Mu wouldn't be so free if it wasn't for the need for everyone to rush outside the territory to fulfill his great wish for the Dao of Heaven, and collect part of his enlightenment merits by the way.

Can't break through the innate?

This is inevitable, if Xiantian is so good at breakthroughs, he will not be dubbed a master.

Don't look at Dongfang Bubai and Ren Woxing as martial arts geniuses, but if you want to break through innateness these years, geniuses are far from enough.

When it comes to the comprehension of the innate realm, not to mention a lot of people surpassing the two, but there are always a dozen or twenty.

After all, a shortcut is a shortcut, and compared with the orthodox way of cultivation, it is still far behind, otherwise it is the magic way that will prosper in the world.

The two want to get a chance here, it is purely dreaming. For no reason, why does Master Li talk about nonsense?