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Chapter 892: Chapter 377 Defense Adjustment_2

Therefore, these two completely different methods of selecting and employing people also made it difficult for Lu Yuan to accept all captives from the Three Nations.

For instance, the captured military officers either came from Coastal Aristocratic Families, whose families were still resisting Chu State’s invasion,

or they were disciples of the Southsea Sect or Nine River Sword Sect, and held grudges against Lu Yuan for murder of their masters, murder of their disciples, murder of their sect members, or the destruction of their sect.

Tell me, even if these people had talents, would Lu Yuan dare to use them?

Of course, he dared not.

Thus, in incorporating captives from the Three Nations, Lu Yuan could only integrate the lowest-level soldiers. As for middle and high-level officers, unless he could confirm they had little to do with the high-level powers of the Three Nations, under no circumstances would he employ them.

Since these middle and high-level officers couldn’t be absorbed, Lu Yuan had to find his own way to train and appoint officers for the reorganized army of five hundred thousand.

But the gap in military officers for an army of five hundred thousand was not easy to fill overnight.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, to ensure the complete organization of the main forces such as the Forbidden army and county soldiers,

Lu Yuan had to sacrifice local security forces when training various armies, prioritizing the appointment of officers for the main combat troops.

This led to the current situation where the basic strength of local military commanders, such as the Commandant and County Captain, is generally low.

Even with such a configuration, due to the sheer number of reorganized troops, there were still a significant number of vacancies for positions such as Commandant and County Captain in Chu State’s newly acquired prefectures and counties.

This resulted in a situation where there were soldiers without leaders on the local level, ultimately leading to civil officials such as county magistrates and prefects taking control of the military.

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Situations such as these, where civil officials commanded military affairs, could not be allowed to continue indefinitely.

So when Yin Huixuan came to offer his services, Lu Yuan did not make it difficult for him at all, but directly accepted him and even encouraged him to recommend more disciples and sect members to serve in Chu State.

His aim was to capitalize on the large reserve of masters within the Liuyang Sect.

As an Innate Great Sect renowned across three provinces, the Liuyang Sect had no fewer than twenty first-rate masters; even second-rate masters were in the hundreds, and third-rate and below counted in the thousands.

Such a vast reserve of masters could instantly fill Chu State’s local shortage of high-level officers if harnessed.

Currently, Lu Yuan had entrusted Yin Huixuan with reorganizing the Liuyang Sect, so before long, many of its masters should be arriving to serve Chu State.

As for the sudden influx of many Liuyang Sect masters possibly leading to the sect’s increased influence locally within Chu State, that wasn’t a concern.

Although the Liuyang Sect had many masters, they were still insignificant when compared to Chu State.

Within Chu State, from the court to local government offices and army barracks, there are hundreds of first-rate masters, over a thousand second-rate, and tens of thousands below the third-rate.

The strength of the Liuyang Sect doesn’t even amount to one-tenth of Chu State’s, and as such, it’s fundamentally not a concern.

Moreover, in today’s world, the strength of a power is measured by the number of Inborn Grandmasters.

Without Inborn Grandmasters, no matter how many first or second-rate masters there are, it doesn’t make much difference.

In the Liuyang Sect, Yin Huixuan is the solitary Inborn Grandmaster; within Chu State, there are already fifteen.

Taking into account vassal states and those like Purple Cloud Dao who are about to join, the number of Inborn masters exceeds twenty.

When compared with the twenty-plus Inborns, even an Inborn second realm Grandmaster like Yin Huixuan doesn’t amount to much.

Furthermore, this gap will only widen and deepen as Chu State’s influence continues to expand.

The longer the time passes, the smaller the influence powers like the Liuyang Sect will have over Chu State.

When the time comes for the final demise of the spirit in this declining era and all the Inborn are gone, leaving only Lu Yuan and his Avatar, the influence that other powers without Inborn can have becomes even less significant.

By then, one Inborn could secure a province, ensuring the long-term stability of a nation.

Therefore, Lu Yuan has never been worried about integrating Yin Huixuan and the Liuyang Sect’s forces. Instead, he confidently employs them without hesitation.

Regardings the Prefectures and Counties’ troops, Lu Yuan’s arrangement is just as described.

First, to fill the ranks, and then gradually improve the quality of base-level County Captains and Commandants over time with the addition of people from the Liuyang Sect and others.

After more than a decade, the foundation will be sufficiently established.

Having dealt with the local security troops, Lu Yuan also began planning for the Forbidden army and county soldiers.

In this great war, Chu State gained control of Yuzhang, Jianan, Southsea, Yulin, and the half prefecture of Through Sea—a total of four and a half prefectures.

Each of these five prefectures has prepared ten thousand county soldiers, with Lu Yuan’s confidants in charge.

However, these newly pacified prefectures still contain many fugitive soldiers and bandits, and remnants of the Three Nations lurk in the shadows, constantly ready to cause trouble.

At the same time, all five prefectures border enemy nations; Through Sea and Yulin lie adjacent to Dali and Song Country, both of which can field armies of one hundred thousand and possess Inborn Grandmasters.

Without an Inborn to secure these regions, stability is unattainable.

Yuzhang and Jianan prefectures are on the front line with Ning Country.

Although Ning Country has been defeated, they are undoubtedly intent on recapturing the two prefectures.

Even though the greater war has ceased, skirmishes involving hundreds or thousands still break out from time to time along the border of the two prefectures, never coming to an end.

And for the past thousand years, the Coastal Aristocratic Families have deeply entrenched themselves in Yuzhang and Jianan, with countless hidden ploys scattered across the regions.

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