Lingyuan's team directly expanded to 30,000 people.
Once many people were screened, they were directly given to Lingyuan because they did not meet the requirements of the Sharp Knife Group.
After that, Ye Tiandao eliminated another 20,000 people, bringing Lingyuan's team to 50,000 people.
Pei Yong's army has expanded to 1.5 million.
He, Xiao Yunfang and Meng Qingyin each led an army of 500,000 and continued to advance towards the imperial capital.
However, after Ye Liuyun left the imperial capital, the chaos in the imperial capital did not end.
Those big forces, especially those who have lost all their wealth, will naturally ask the empire to give an explanation. If the culprits cannot be found, they will not agree to unblock the imperial capital.
This also allowed Ye Liuyun's recruitment of strong martial arts warriors to go smoothly, and the empire had no time to interfere with him.
And the empire is also suffering from something that cannot be told.
Their treasure trove was also stolen.
But the empire could not leak this news, lest it cause greater chaos.
If those big forces knew about it, maybe they would join forces to overthrow Liu Qiang's rule.
Emperor Liu Qiang also stopped practicing at this time and came out to take charge of the overall situation.
The guards in gold and silver armor in the palace are all on standby at all times.
Some other small forces also followed the big forces to make trouble. Even if they didn't lose anything, they all claimed that they had lost something and wanted compensation from the empire.
The excuses of these large and small forces are all the same: the empire should be responsible for the security of the imperial capital.
Now that many families in the imperial capital have been robbed, the empire should be responsible for compensation.
It will then be up to the empire to track down the thieves and recover the resources.
Liu Qiang also asked his silver-armored guards to search for suspicious persons from house to house every day.
Almost all the people in the imperial capital were arrested and interrogated, but there was no news of the culprit.
Of course Liu Qiang knew it was Ye Liuyun's hand.
But even if he is just showing off now, he still has to act like it.
If he reveals that it was Ye Liuyun who did it, those big forces will have to ask him to compensate.
By then, these families will definitely say that he provoked Ye Liuyun and implicated them.
They did not dare to go to Ye Liuyun, so they could only unite to settle the score with the empire.
But he was really curious about how Ye Liuyun was able to steal so many houses at once, and how he was able to disappear out of thin air in the imperial capital.
The imperial capital has been closed for half a month, but it still cannot be lifted, and none of the major forces agree.
The news has spread throughout the empire.
Ye Liuyun's side has been seizing the time to recruit people, recruit troops, and seize planets.
He even showed up in person to recruit strong martial artists to get rid of the suspicion of stealing resources.
In the end, Liu Qiang was also upset by these big forces.
"Since you are unreasonable, don't blame me for being rude!"
Thinking of this, he also took action against a big force that was causing the most trouble. Twenty thousand guards in gold armor were dispatched, and one hundred thousand guards in silver armor were dispatched, completely wiping out that big family.
All family resources were confiscated.
On the surface, Liu Qiang's strong suppression made other forces afraid, but secretly they were working together more closely to study the overthrow of Liu Qiang's rule.
All of their families have been stolen now. If they don't take action to rob the empire or rob other small forces, then they won't be able to survive.
So just when Liu Qiang thought everything was alright and was about to announce the unsealing of the imperial capital, these major forces joined forces and stormed into the imperial palace, triggering civil strife.
In this way, Liu Qiang did not dare to unblock the imperial capital. He could only destroy these big forces first and then start a bloodbath in the whole city.
Liu Qiang also took action against the small force that had been causing trouble before and robbed some of them, which could make up for his losses to some extent.
But the family influence of these large and small forces is not only in the capital, but also has branches all over the country.
After learning that their main line had been wiped out by the empire, they immediately surrendered to Ye Liuyun to prevent the empire from liquidating them later.
These forces even took the initiative to rob the City Lord's Mansion before surrendering, and dedicated all the resources of the City Lord's Mansion to Ye Liuyun as protection fees.
So Ye Liuyun got support from more people without doing anything.
The army advances faster and captures more planets.
And he didn't leave anything for the empire at all. He would take it away directly after occupying the planet, or he would directly take away the original power and let the planet collapse.
The civil strife among the empire's major forces also involved the army.
Liu Haotian, Meng Wenxiang and more than 20 commanders, big and small, were all the children of the big forces who caused trouble, so they were stripped of their authority on the spot.
Fortunately, the other commanders did not make things difficult for them.
Moreover, Han Qiao led troops to protect Liu Haotian and Meng Wenxiang.
Meng Wenxiang's army also followed Han Qiao to protect his commanders, so it was difficult for the empire to decide how to deal with Liu Haotian and other commanders.
Without the command of Liu Haotian and Meng Wenxiang, Han Qiao had no idea himself and could only ask Ye Liuyun for help.
Ye Liuyun rushed over immediately, first asking Liu Haotian and Meng Wenxiang for their opinions.
Because if he wants to save people, he has to ask for their consent.
Otherwise, if he forcibly rescues people, it will ruin their reputation and make them completely traitors.
Finally, Liu Haotian decided to stay, even if he died, to show his loyalty to the empire.
Meng Wenxiang decided to join Ye Liuyun.
The family is gone, and he no longer has any scruples about being loyal to the empire anymore.
The same goes for Han Qiao, who wants to defect to Ye Liuyun directly.
Liu Haotian also agreed with Meng Wenxiang and Han Qiao's approach and asked them to follow Ye Liuyun well in the future.
Not only Meng Wenxiang and Liu Haotian, but other captured commanders also unanimously asked Ye Liuyun to rescue them.
Ye Liuyun didn't refuse, it was just a matter of course.
After that, Meng Wenxiang and Han Qiao said goodbye to Liu Haotian in tears, and directly took their 400,000 troops to defect to Ye Liuyun.
Some of the other commanders defected to Ye Liuyun and brought an army of 200,000 people. Some of the others fled directly without any troops, while some just escaped with some personal guards.
In this way, Ye Liuyun went to the military camp and brought back 600,000 troops.
No one in the empire's army dared to stop Ye Liuyun, and could only watch helplessly as the 600,000-strong army was taken away by Ye Liuyun.
After Ye Liuyun took them back, he still put Meng Wenxiang and Han Qiao in charge of the 600,000 troops and let them manage them themselves.
It just changed its designation and became an army of Wolfhounds.
Liu Qiang was furious after learning the information.
The recent events were already bad enough, but now even the army was suddenly reduced by 600,000. How could he not be angry? The army was not enough in the first place, but now it is even less.
So he vented his anger on Liu Haotian, thinking that he was not strict with his subordinates, encouraged his subordinates to defect, and ordered his death.
Later, he remembered Liu Haotian's suggestion and asked the silver-armored guards to take action and began to capture a large number of martial arts cultivators from large and small families to serve as soldiers and quickly replenish the army.
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Chapter completed!