Chapter 172: After the War

Chu Yun came to the Heavenly Prison with a complicated mood, and the current Heavenly Prison has been continuously built by Daming, which can really be said to be inescapable. The entire heavenly prison is divided into three layers, one above ground and two underground, and the bottom third layer is more than thirty meters underground, each cell is made of stainless steel, thicker than one zhang, tightly combined with the ground, even if Chu Yun enters, it will take a certain amount of effort to get out.

Chu Yun built these cells in order to use death row prisoners to test the efficacy of the Divine Stone, after all, each Divine Stone has a special technique or ability, how could Chu Yun not be greedy. Chu Yun didn't know how that guy from Fo Tucheng fused the two divine stones, so Chu Yun wouldn't use his own life to try, but Chu Yun hadn't had time to use it yet, so he didn't expect Mo Han to become the first person to move in.

Chu Yun asked Hu Tiezhu to leave, and then walked into Mo Han's cell alone.

"Mo Gong, I didn't expect you to be really me, but since you are one body and two souls, then why don't you help me, but betray me, isn't the glory and wealth I gave you enough?" Chu Yun looked at Mo Han and asked, looking at his hateful gaze, Chu Yun knew that this was not the personality he knew.

"I really underestimated you, I didn't expect you to hide so deeply in front of your own people, you actually completely fused the divine stone to reach the god-breaking realm, but you still have to die, it is absolutely impossible for you to win against that person, of course I have to follow the winner, hahaha. Looking at Mo Han's crazy and disdainful expression in front of him, Chu Yun really wanted to smash his mouth, but Chu Yun finally held back, after all, they shared the same body.

Chu Yun sealed his dumb hole, and after calming down, Chu Yun recalled his words, and there was still some information. Breaking the God Realm? It should be the heavenly step that the martial artists of this world say, it's just a title. But Chu Yun was very interested in the person he was talking about, could it be that person who was the initiator of the Bloodstone?

Chu Yun tried his mental power to investigate Mo Han's soul, but after trying a few times, he found that Mo Han's soul was quite fragile, and it could be shattered if it was touched slightly, if Mo Han's soul was shattered, then it would become a thoughtless shell, which was not what Chu Yun wanted. Something went wrong with either of the two souls, which could cause a chain reaction, and Chu Yun stopped moving.

"Come on, if you have the ability, come here, if I die, he won't live, hahaha. Chu Yun untied his dumb hole, wanting to test it, this personality actually provoked again, looking at his crazy appearance, he was not pretending, this personality was irritable, arrogant, dark, crazy, but it was the hardest, Chu Yun tortured him physically for a long time, and he did not soften a little. Unless he defiles his soul with the murderous aura of the demon source, or directly invades with telekinesis, he may be able to get some information, but Mo Han is sure to die.

Chu Yun sealed his dumb hole again, and then used his mental power to test it again.

"There is nothing wrong with one body and two souls, it's really difficult, if something happens to one, the other is estimated to be dead, Mo Han is very important, he can't die. However, this one body and two souls are a bit like the splitting technique of one qi and three clears, and it is really magical, and I don't know how the divine stone appeared. Regardless of how much his twin souls were flawed, was his realm not enough, or what was the reason?, could I give it a try?" Chu Yun muttered to himself.

"Don't think that Lao Tzu can't deal with you, since you want to die, then I will fulfill you. Looking at Mo Han's sarcastic eyes, Chu Yun sneered.

Chu Yun took out a sharp dagger and shook it under Mo Han's gaze, in Mo Han's flustered eyes, Chu Yun directly cut Mo Han's abdomen with the dagger, and took out the divine stone in Mo Han's body as soon as he stretched out his hand. Mo Han's eyes dimmed, and Chu Yun was overjoyed, this was really useful.

Chu Yun carefully stitched Mo Han's wound, then gave Mo Han the wound medicine, and waited for Mo Han to wake up. Since Chu Yun's soul was born from the Divine Stone, then Chu Yun directly took the salary from the bottom of the kettle and took the Divine Stone away, then Mo Han and everything should be restored.

Of course, Chu Yun is not without risk in doing this, but Chu Yun has no other way. Chu Yun thought about it again and again, but still felt that he was very sure.

Mo Han was very important to Da Ming, and Chu Yun did not hesitate to wait for him to come to his senses. Chu Yun meditated cross-legged beside him, silently transforming the vitality in this dantian, and I don't know how long it took, Chu Yun heard a coughing sound in his ears.

"Your Majesty, the old minister has let you worry about it. Mo Han finally woke up, looking at Mo Han who was full of tears, Chu Yun was in a good mood, after all, people have feelings, no matter what Mo Han said, he has been with him for so many years.

"Mo Gong, you have suffered, how do you feel now?" Chu Yun asked with concern.

"Your Majesty, although the old minister is a little weak, it is fine. Since last night, my whole body suddenly seems to have entered a dark room, and although I am conscious, I can't get out. I don't know how long I stayed inside, but the little black house actually broke, and my soul seemed to be drifting in a big river, and I encountered a lot of fragments with information, and I found out that it had something to do with me. Then I woke up, and it was weird. After Mo Han finished speaking, Chu Yun's mind moved.

"Mo Gong, what information do those fragments have?" After Chu Yun asked, Mo Han spoke slowly, Chu Yun listened and thought, and according to Mo Han's words, Chu Yun summed up the general information.

After Mo Yun left, during a meal, Mo Han inadvertently ate something, and then fell into a coma. Chu Yun guessed that what he ate should be the Divine Stone, if Mo Han didn't lie, this should have been specially designed by someone. And after Chu Yun fell into a coma, his second soul came out to replace Mo Han, which also coincided with the time when Mo Han had a series of problems. And Mo Han was like a dream, and he spent several days waking up, during which he found that there was something wrong with the cabinet when he was awake, so it was like investigating clearly, so he started the previous plan, and it wasn't until yesterday that Qingfeng went to find him, and he started to make a move, and then fell into a coma. And the fragments in Mo Han's memory are mostly useless information, but what impressed Mo Han very much was that there was a very terrible person in the fragments, Mo Han couldn't help but be afraid when he saw this name, this person's name is Blood Buddha.

Chu Yun kept this name in his heart, and told him everything Mo Han had done during this time, and when he knew that he had split into another personality and done so many wrong things, he was shocked, but Mo Han was Mo Han, and he quickly calmed down.

He immediately asked Chu Yun to punish him, and asked Chu Yun to resign and no longer serve as the first assistant. Chu Yun tried his best to keep it, but Mo Han still stubbornly refused, and in the end, under Chu Yun's sincere retention, Mo Han agreed to serve as a cabinet minister, but he still gave up the position of the first assistant.

Chu Yun asked Hu Tiezhu to send Mo Han back, after all, Chu Yun was tortured in order to deal with Mo Han's other soul, and Mo Han's mental state was not good.

Just after Mo Han left, Chu Yun felt that Mo Han didn't completely tell the truth to himself, first of all, Mo Han said that he was just an anomaly that appeared in the past few days after Chu Yun left, but how to explain that his strength had reached the early stage of the ground level? You must know that Chu Yun also took many years to reach this point. Mo Han said that he had come to his senses several times, but couldn't he notice that there was something wrong with his body?

And Mo Han said that he found out about the problems of the cabinet and made the later plan, and even did not hesitate to let the forbidden army and the southern army fight among themselves, and even did not hesitate to let the plague break out in Chang'an, and even did not hesitate to let people besiege Daming Palace, but Mo Han was imprisoned by the divine power derivative during that time, and when Qingfeng went to contact him, he did not say anything about the situation inside and outside Chang'an, so the question is, how did Mo Han know about these situations, and he also formulated the plan for the future according to these circumstances. Even Chu Yun didn't find out who was behind the plague in Chang'an, but Mo Han actually knew that he was in the mansion of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, could he be more clever than Chu Yun?

In addition, when Mo Han explained to himself just now, Chu Yun's True Eye probed the hesitation in Mo Han's words more than once, Chu Yun didn't believe that an ordinary person Mo Han who was taken away by Chu Yun could feel the exploration of Chu Yun's True Eye, so the hesitation in Mo Han's heart was true. What made Mo Han hesitate? It's a pity that Chu Yun's True Eye didn't detect any exact information, but Chu Yun was sure that Mo Han had hidden it from him.

This is also the reason why Chu Yun reluctantly agreed after hearing Mo Han's resignation. Chu Yun attaches great importance to Mo Han and doesn't want anything to happen to him, but if Mo Han really has a problem, or even betrays himself, Chu Yun will never be soft.

This time the enemy's plot is really fierce, if he didn't come back suddenly, maybe there would really be a big problem in Chang'an, but fortunately, although Daming suffered heavy losses, he still survived. But Mo Han's weirdness, the mutiny of the dumb cow, and the mastermind behind the scene called the Blood Buddha all made Chu Yun dare not relax his vigilance easily, and Chu Yun's strength had not yet reached the level of ignoring everything.

The Ming court silently changed a first assistant, except that the Ming Dynasty did not cause any fluctuations, the old prime minister wandered away and became the first assistant of the new Ming Dynasty, and Ma Liang is still the second assistant, Mo Han, Ma Liang and Zhou Yan are still cabinet ministers.

The Ming Dynasty mobilized two armies, the Eastern Army and the Southern Army, to support Luoyang, and the army besieging Luoyang slowly retreated, apparently acquiescing in the fall of Luoyang. However, Da Zhao still occupied several counties in the eastern part of Sili Prefecture and began to build positions. The Ming Dynasty occupied several counties west of Luoyang, stabilizing the situation in Sili Prefecture.

And Ran Liang finally had news, the 50,000 iron-blooded Praetorian Guards led by him were surrounded and suppressed by Da Zhao's hundreds of thousands of troops, which is why Da Zhao couldn't get more troops to counterattack Luoyang. Ran Liang dragged down half of the army that Da Zhao had assembled in Sili Prefecture. After holding out for more than a month, Ran Liang, who had only more than 20,000 people left, finally found an opportunity to break through the encirclement and returned to Shangdang County under Xie Ai's response.

The Ming Dynasty gathered 150,000 troops in Luoyang, and the Great Zhao, who was attacked by Chu Yun and Ran Liang successively, only had more than 200,000 people left in Sili Prefecture, so the war in Sili Prefecture calmed down.

And on the border of Youyi, Da Ming, Da Zhao, Da Yan, Xia and Liao also broke out large-scale battles, Da Zhao and Da Yan gathered 350,000 troops, Da Ming, Xia and Liao also gathered 220,000 troops, the two sides carried out a large-scale battle, and finally Da Zhao and Da Yan won the victory, Wang Jie commanded more than half of the Three Kingdoms army killed and wounded, Xia State's 100,000 Tiefu cavalry died only more than 20,000 people, Da Ming and Yuwen Liao also died tens of thousands of people, and finally the Three Kingdoms lost all the territory of Youzhou except for Dai County and part of Shanggu County. Xia Guo was even more depressed, more than 100,000 Tiefu cavalry died in just half a year, and only more than 20,000 people remained.

Of course, although Da Zhao and Da Yan won the victory and occupied almost half of Youzhou, they did not bargain much, under the command of Wang Jie, the number of dead and wounded in the two countries was almost equal to that of the Ming Three Kingdoms, and more than 100,000 people died in this decisive battle. Compared with the three kingdoms of the Ming Dynasty, the dead and wounded were all the Tiefu cavalry who betrayed the Ming Dynasty, but the two of them were killed and wounded by the main force of their own country.

After this battle, each of the five countries suffered damage, and it is estimated that none of them will be able to launch another offensive in a short time.

Wang Jie's defeat was also in Chu Yun's prediction, after all, the Ming Dynasty only sent out thirty or forty thousand troops, and the main forces were Tiefu and Yuwen Xianbei. Chu Yun gave Wang Jie an order, asking him to find ways to consume the strength of the Tiefu people, and he did it perfectly. It also hit Da Zhao and Da Yan hard, so that they could not launch a new offensive in Youzhou in a short time, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy.

Liu Dog wanted to go back silently to lick his wounds, but Chu Yun did not agree, Chu Yun issued a holy decree, ordering Liu Dog to send troops to deal with the Daiguo Tuoba Xianbei who was driven to the grassland by the Ming Dynasty. Liu Dog, whose life was in the hands of Chu Yun, could only lead the army to fight with Tuoba Xianbei, both sides suffered heavy losses, and their strength was greatly reduced, and it was estimated that they could not tell the winner in a moment and a half, which was exactly what Chu Yun wanted.

The battle that lasted for more than half a year in the ninth year of Shengwu finally ended, and the major powers in the world were basically involved in disputes, first the Great Jin attacked the Great Zhao, and was pressed to the ground and rubbed. Later, Da Ming and Da Zhao fought in Sili Prefecture, and Da Ming, Da Zhao and other five countries fought two big melee in Youzhou, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands of people, and the strength of all countries was greatly damaged.

The Ming Dynasty also suffered more than 100,000 casualties due to civil strife and war, only half of the 100,000 forbidden troops remained, 40,000 iron-blooded janissaries also died, and the Eastern Army, the Southern Army and the Northern Army also lost a lot of troops. The 600,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty disappeared one-fifth in the first war, and the cruelty of the war can be seen. And this is not counting the casualties of civilians, you must know that when Guang Wangjie led Tiefu's army of more than 100,000 to sweep Yizhou, tens of thousands of civilians died in Dazhao, and hundreds of thousands of civilians were homeless and became refugees.

After the end of the war, Chu Yun was not in a hurry to retreat. Chu Yun first divided the Supervision Department into two institutions because of his dereliction of duty during the war, namely the Supervision Department and Jinyiwei. The Supervision Department did not perceive Da Zhao's military deployment and did not discover the great changes in Chang'an, because the high-level of the Supervision Department in Luoyang was uprooted by Da Zhao. The Luoyang Supervision Department has no leader, Chu Yun, the emperor, has become blind in Sili Prefecture, and Zhou Yan, the commander of the Supervision Department, has not received any news, which is a huge loophole in the Supervision Department.

Chu Yun appointed Cheng Yang, the former deputy head of the Supervision Department, as the head of the Supervision Department, replacing Zhou Yan, which can be regarded as a punishment for Zhou Yan. Zhou Yan became the leader of Jinyiwei and concurrently served as the secretary of the Criminal Department, and he was responsible for establishing a new intelligence organization, Jinyiwei, which together was enough to compete with the Supervision Department.

In addition, Chu Yun established the Privy Council, which was responsible for the foreign wars of the Ming Dynasty, and the military department in the imperial court only became the logistics department in the war. The highest officer of the Privy Council is the Privy Council, who is directly responsible to Chu Yun, the emperor, and in the event of a war, Chu Yun, the emperor, will authorize the Privy Council to command, and the Privy Council is equivalent to the highest staff in later generations.

The privy envoy Chu Yun appointed Lu Zhong as the position, and Ran Liang, Xie Ai and Wang Jie were the deputy privy envoys respectively, and the cabinet no longer had military power, but was only in charge of the politics and economy of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Chu Yun sensed that the number of Daming's army was not enough, this time he occupied half of Sili Prefecture, and after sweeping half of Youzhou, the number of Daming's citizens reached more than 10 million, so Chu Yun was ready to expand the army to 800,000.

The four expeditions and four towns of the army remained unchanged, but the personnel were replenished completely. However, the forbidden army has undergone great changes, the forbidden army was renamed the five-battalion forbidden army, and five parts were set up, with 50,000 people in each battalion, which was equivalent to the four expeditions and four town armies, a total of 250,000 people, which was regarded as a force directly under the central government. This also avoided the embarrassing situation of Chu Yun not even having any troops available in the end, and Chang'an was left with only a few thousand iron-blooded Praetorian Guards and less than 20,000 forbidden troops.

The Iron-Blooded Praetorian Guard has also expanded to 150,000 people, and the Iron-Blood Praetorian Guard did not disgrace Chu Yun in this battle, and the 50,000 people led by Chu Yun successively defeated several Great Zhao armies, occupied dozens of cities and towns, and captured Luoyang, which can be said to have made great achievements.

And the 50,000 people commanded by Ran Liang were not inferior, under the siege of more than 100,000 horses of Da Zhao, they held out for several months, successfully attracted Da Zhao's attention, and dragged Da Zhao's counterattack on Luoyang. And in the end, he actually escaped, even better than Chu Yun best imagined.

After this war, Chu Yun awarded Ran Liang and Wang Jie the title of marquis, and the entire Ming Dynasty except for the three princes of Youziyuan, Mo Han, and Ma Liang, that is, Lu Zhong, Xie Ai, Hu Tiezhu and Qingfeng, the last two are because of their personal strength, which shows the preciousness of the marquis. Needless to say, Lu Zhong said that Xie Ai relied on the strategy of merging states to seal the marquis, but unfortunately he didn't have a chance to perform in this battle. By the way, Cui Cheng, a young general under Lu Zhong, became the commander of the rear battalion in the five battalions of the forbidden army by virtue of his merits in this battle, and the speed of promotion was like riding a rocket, but no one objected. Not to mention his combat effectiveness and the credit of previous battles, that is, he quelled the internal strife of Lu Zhong, Xie Ai and Bo Bing, and won the favor of the Ming Dynasty, he became the commander of the Houying Forbidden Army is the strong recommendation of Lu Zhong and Xie Ai, the two marquis, he is only in his twenties this year, but the two most dazzling generals of Daming Xie Ai and Wang Jie are only in their thirties, so no one makes a fuss, and the positions in the army are won by strength.

After Chu Yun grasped the overall situation, his subordinates began to act in an orderly manner, and Chu Yun chose to retreat again, Chu Yun was not worried about the last disaster in Chang'an again. Chu Yun has established two intelligence departments to further control the world's news, not to mention, and Chu Yun has separated military power from financial power, the cabinet controls logistics, and the Privy Council controls the army.

Moreover, all countries in the world need to cultivate, and there will be no major war for at least a year and a half, so Chu Yun feels that if he does not completely stabilize his vitality, he will never go out.