Yan Kingdom, in fact, there are two Yan Kingdoms in the history of the Spring and Autumn Period. One is the Southern Yan Kingdom and the other is the Northern Yan Kingdom.

The Southern Yan Kingdom is in the Yanjin region of Henan Province today, the monarch's surname is Nuji (ji), the ancestor is one of the twenty-five sons of the Yellow Emperor, the "Zuo Chuan" literature records that the Southern Yan Kingdom first appeared in the Shang Dynasty, and it still existed until the Spring and Autumn Period of Zheng Ligong, his monarch was captured by Zheng Guo because of the internal turmoil of the Zhou Dynasty, and finally dissipated in the long river of history.

Although the Southern Yan Kingdom dissipated early, it is the ancestor of the Chinese surnames Yan and Ji.

The Northern Yan Kingdom is also the Yan Kingdom of the later Prince Dan. This country was founded relatively late compared to the Southern Yan Kingdom.

The founder of the country is the same name as the Duke of Zhou. However, like the Duke of Zhou, he did not rule in the fiefdom but sent his son to govern.

Therefore, the Northern Yan Kingdom, like the Lu Kingdom, is a Zhou royal country with strong roots.

However, the three big powers of the Zhou royal family can no longer take care of themselves at the moment.

Jin Kingdom, Zhao Wei Han is planning to carve up the Jin Kingdom. The state of Lu was taken alive by the state of Qi for thirty miles of land on the border, and it was falling into a civil war again. What about the Northern Yan Kingdom? Many people died of starvation due to the drought, and coupled with the desperate battle with the Zhongshan Kingdom, the population is now less than one in ten. And most of the people who exist are widows and old and infirm.

Lu Di planned to bring only 20,000 regular troops to destroy the Northern Yan State this time, not only because the army had just been disbanded and returned to the field, and if it was recalled now, it would be discredited, but more importantly, because of the current strength of the Yan State, the Qi State only needed 20,000 elites to destroy its country.

However, Lu Di still followed Wu Zixu's advice and planned to recruit 200,000 servant troops from the ronin across the country to attack Yan State.

Wu Zixu thought about it this way, he said that it was not a problem to destroy the Yan Kingdom, but the problem was how to govern the uninhabited Yan Land after the Yan Kingdom was destroyed.

Lu Di naturally understood what Wu Zixu meant, he wanted to give the identity of the people to those homeless ronins through military exploits, and then intermarry with a large number of widows in Yandi, and realize the integration of Qi and Yan as soon as possible.

Of course, with the emancipation of slaves every year due to the expiration of their service periods, due to their homelessness and huge mobility, it has brought great instability to the Qi society.

That's why Wu Zixu came up with such a doctrine and let these people settle in the desolate, poor land and bad water.

Lu Di also agreed with this idea, but he recruited not 200,000 servants, but 300,000.

A large number of homeless ronins from all over the Qi country soon gathered, and when they heard that their own monarch was going to take them to destroy Yan, they all went crazy.

Because in the laws of the Qi country, ronins have no right to become warriors, and they have no right to take up arms. Now that Lu Di has made them a servant army, it has already shown that their identities are going to change drastically.

The city commanders in various places ordered the selected ronin to march along the gallop road in the direction of the great river in the north, and when they reached various places on the way, their own squires gave them free grain.

After about three months, the 300,000 ronins arrived on the south bank of the river.

In Linzi, Lu Di once again warmed up with his family for a while, and then set off towards the north with the Xiliu Camp, the Tiger Camp, and the new generation of powerful children of the Qi State.

This time, the sons and daughters of the powerful of Lu Di's team made Lu Di's scalp numb, Sun Wu's three sons went into battle, Wu Zixu's four sons went into battle, Hua Zhou's seven grandsons went into battle, the two sons of the Guo Fan family, Gongsun Jie, Gu Yezi, Tian Kaijiang and their respective grandsons totaled fifteen people, Yan Yu's third son, Xian Shi's two sons, Ji Ran's two sons and one grandson, Fan Li's two sons, and Zhong You's two sons...... Gao Chai's son, the son of Fen Huang, the son of Ran Geng and Ran Qiu, the two sons of Dongmen Wuze, and Zhang Mengtan have a son...... The son of Yanghu, the son of Bu Shang, the son of Duanmu Ci, the son of Zaiyu, the son of Yang Tongue Eater, and the son of his father-in-law Wenbo...... The eight grandsons of Gongsun Xia, the sixteen grandsons of Pu Yuhou, and the twenty-eight grandsons of the imperial calamity are even more ruthless...... There is also a national son-in-law poultry slippery.

After Lu Di saw the long registration list of the little guys, her whole eyes were about to burst out in shock. What's going on?

This is to go to war, not to open a gathering of the powerful of the Qi Dynasty.

However, since everyone wanted to get some combat merits in Yan Yan, Lu Di didn't say anything, he just scolded these people in his heart for being really good, and knew that Yan Yan would win, so they pushed their own heirs to the army of Yan this time to death.

The army is marching forward in a hula, how can these gentlemen have suffered this crime, and they have not traveled five miles to cry and cry for their mothers.

Seeing this, Lu Di frowned, and was thinking about how to fix this group of gentlemen, when Xiong Yiyi reported that the eldest son asked to see him.

Lu Di didn't react for a while, eldest son? Then there is great joy, and the relationship is since the arrival of the eldest son Lu Qu. He hurried out of his tent to meet his son.

Seeing that his son has grown taller and stronger, and his beard has faintly appeared, Lu Di is very relieved, and the eldest son will be crowned in another year.

After treating Aiko to a big meal, I asked him if he didn't study there in Zengdian? How do you have time to come here.

Lu Qu said that when he heard about Lu Di's Northern Expedition, he thought that he had grown up and wanted to share his worries for Lu Di. Lu Di was very moved when he heard this.

The father and son reunited after a long absence, and they had a lot of words.

Lu Qu learned from Lu Di that the gang of bigwigs in the court of Qi had pushed a group of gentlemen into the army to seek to send them to the door, and his face was extremely gloomy.

For Aiko's current performance, although it has not yet met Lu Di's requirements, it is already good compared to the past. Therefore, Lu Di did not have any dissatisfaction.

In Lu Di's view, it doesn't matter if people are stupid and start late, but it is good to change and move forward from time to time.

Lu Qu thought for a long time and said to Lu Di that in order to prevent these people from spoiling a pot of soup with a rat droppings, another battalion should be compiled, so that the famous generals who are not afraid of the powerful should be the main generals.

Lu Di's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she said in her heart, why didn't she think of it? But who is the main general?

Lu Di looked at the eldest son again, and Lu Qu's face turned red: "Father, the child doesn't know." ”

Lu Di laughed, in fact, he was still a little worried, because he was afraid that Aiko would recommend the general.

With such a big career, there are more and more children, and the matter of the heirs competing for the heir will soon be staged, and Lu Qu, as the eldest son, is naturally also a popular figure in the competition.

Lu Di was afraid, afraid that Aiko would start to collect henchmen for his own use. This is what he does not want to see as a monarch.

Now Aiko doesn't recommend it.,Either Aiko is pretending.,Or I really don't know.。 pretending to be out, Lu Di was happy, because the eldest son knew how to protect himself. I really don't know, Lu Di is also happy, after all, it is his own son, and he is a son without the slightest emotional impurity.

In the end, Lu Di ordered Tian Kaijiang to be the main general of this group of gentlemen, with the banner of the Torch Battalion, with the intention of passing on the torch, hoping that this new generation of Qi nobles can inherit the ability and loyalty of their fathers and ancestors to continue to fight for the Qi State for a lifetime.