Three years later.
Lu Lin was appointed as the General of the North, overseeing all military and political affairs in the four prefectures and twenty-eight counties of the North.
Lu Lin was granted the title of Lord of the North River, with a fief of ten thousand households.
However, the so-called fief was all in the territory of the alien races in the North; the emperor was merely drawing a big pie for Lu Lin.
Similarly, his title North River was near the extreme northern area of the North, on a perpetually ice-sealed river, which was the origin place of the prairie alien tribes.
After this event, Lu Lin became even more disillusioned with the Da Feng Dynasty.
If so, then...
Lu Lin was arming and preparing in the Northland, engaging in trade and procurement, gathering refugees, and acquiring intelligence, while infiltrating all prefectures within the Da Feng Dynasty with the Longshan Trade Team as his network.
Wealth in one hand, military force in the other.
