Urban Sims

Chapter 642 Disintegration
After about half an hour of understanding, Zhou Ming nodded.

The reason why the Duke of Paris rebelled.

To put it simply, there are actually two reasons.

money, and ambition.

And personal ambition accounts for the majority.

The Duke of Paris, who controls the 30 Kingdom Field Legion, wants to take down the capital of Dillo, sit on the throne, and replace it.

And the pharmacy production plant, as well as the property of tens of millions of gold coins owned by the royal family and various nobles, will all go into his pocket.

With this huge sum of money, the Duke of Paris can expand his armaments, suppress all forces in the country that do not obey him, and has the ability to resist the interference of external forces, and even expand abroad.

After all, it's money that gets in the way.

Then I would like to ask, how rich are the royal family and the multiple franchised families now, so that Duke Paris is so jealous?

Hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Through the pharmaceutical export business, the royal family and the public joined the family, earning hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Especially in the half year when Zhou Ming left, after the pharmaceutical production factory scrapped more than 88 copies of medicinal materials, the workers carried out strict operations according to the operation procedures provided by Zhou Ming. Under the circumstances, a batch of "excellent" quality [sedative medicine] was produced.

After that, it was out of control. Due to the sufficient supply of medicinal materials, in just half a year, the pharmaceutical production plant produced a total of more than 100 million bottles of various pharmaceuticals.

These medicines were sold to hundreds of surrounding kingdoms. Even if the net profit of each bottle was 100 gold coins, 1 million gold coins were recorded.

Among them, the royal family alone earned more than 2000 million gold coins.

King Yadude's royal family suddenly became the richest royal family among the hundreds of kingdoms around, not one of them.

With sufficient funds, the king can do more things.

For example, update the equipment for the Royal Capital Defense Force, improve their treatment, and expand their numbers... The power of the royal family is increasing.

The Duke of Paris is now in a hurry. On the one hand, he is asking for more military expenses and improving the treatment of soldiers on the frontier;

Not bad.

At this time, the Duke of Paris, driven by his ambition, was like a "gambler". Especially after seeing that his odds of winning were constantly decreasing, he decided to bet all his chips, intending to go all out before his chances of winning were relatively high. Sweep away all obstacles!
Realize the dream that has been done for decades!

but……

It has been more than three months since the start of the army. Although the 30 army brought by the Duke of Paris went smoothly in the early stage, except for sporadic resistance, they fell all the way. When they hit Dilo City, the loss of personnel was very slight, less than a thousand. people.

But under the city of Dilo, after encountering fierce resistance, due to the heavy casualties and deserters appearing one after another, the number of the rebel army is now less than 20.

Whether it is combat effectiveness or morale, they are at the end of their strength.

Moreover, King Jaime was still loved by some citizens. At least 200 magicians, including the teachers and students of the Brno School of Magic, voluntarily assisted in the defense of the city, causing considerable casualties to the rebels.

In addition, more than 100 families whose interests were related to the royal family contributed their efforts one after another. The waves of attacks launched by the rebel army brought by the Duke of Paris were blocked time and time again.

Now that Zhou Ming plans to take action to deal with this group of rebels, it is actually not such a difficult task.

He said that it would be resolved within five days, not because he was talking nonsense, but because he was sure of it.

……

After resting for half a day, the mana fully recovered.

That night, Zhou Ming led a "special operations team" to start the operation.

There are five people in the special operations team: Zhou Ming, Saiers, Princess Syvenis, Nabe, and another great magician named "Campbell".

A combination of three methods and World War II.

The role of the mage is to help set the fire, and the role of the warrior is to let the wind out and fight against the powerful swordsmen in the rebel army.

Not bad.

Zhou Ming planned to burn all the food and grass of the 20 rebels outside the city.

These provisions included fodder for horses and livestock, rations for soldiers, and some kitchen cooking facilities (such as bakeries).

In addition, seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, Zhou Ming planned to burn a batch of sheepskin tents so that some rebel soldiers could survive in the cold wind and snow.

Burning food and grass?
In fact, when the rebel army first began to besiege the city, the generals defending the city of Dilo also thought about this method, but did not adopt it.

The Duke of Paris is old and dead, so why doesn't he know the importance of protecting food and grass?
Therefore, the food and grass in the rebel army were not only stored in dozens of stacks, but each storage point was guarded by elite soldiers. If one place was burned, only a few tenths of the food and grass would be lost, which would not affect the overall situation.

But Zhou Ming planned to burn all the 23 grain and grass storage points!

If there is enough gasoline in his three space rings (the gasoline is provided by the Continental Chamber of Commerce), he will burn a batch of tents and stables.

It’s just that there are 23 food and grass storage points in the dark at night, and the roads can’t be seen clearly. How can he burn them?
Don't worry, with the system navigation, and scanning the layout of the entire rebel barracks this morning, Zhou Ming can find the food storage point even with his eyes closed.

Everything is ready, and the barbecue party has just begun.

Zhou Ming, who put on the "flying armor", led the arson team and raged for a whole night.

That night, Zhou Ming burned all the food and grass in the rebel army.

He also killed hundreds of senior swordsmen and five magicians among the rebels, burned more than 5000 rebel tents, and a large number of siege equipment.

In the raging fire, countless rebel soldiers were burned to death.

Dazzling flames, the defenders officers and soldiers standing on the head of Dilo city cheered loudly.

Early the next morning.

The rebels outside the city retreated to twenty miles away, mourning and demoralizing.

According to the existing food in their hands, they can only last for three days at most.

At that time, the cold and hungry remaining rebels will collapse without a fight.

However, there was no need to wait for the other party to completely run out of food, Zhou Ming solved the rebel army on the morning of the third day.

From the hands of General Hill, he got the head of the Duke of Paris.

The remaining 8 rebels all declared their surrender.

How is this going?

Why did the Duke of Paris hang up all of a sudden?
Earl Hill, who had a lot of grievances with Zhou Ming before, suddenly turned his back on him and killed his master?
The reason is that Zhou Ming persuaded him... on the second night after setting the fire.

Facing Zhou Ming who suddenly appeared in his tent, Earl Hill's first reaction was to be taken aback. While taking the sword, he shouted to the guards.

"Stop barking, I have cast a silent magic on this tent, no matter how loud your voice is, people outside will not be able to hear it." Zhou Ming said.

"You...what do you want to do?"

Earl Hill drew out his sword and faced Zhou Ming with panic on his face.

Zhou Ming said something, listed several reasons and conditions, and asked the other party to nod in agreement, kill Duke Paris, and lead the remnant army to surrender.

One, the Duke of Paris's rebels will be defeated, there is no doubt about it.

Two, with the king's current financial resources and the support of many nobles, following the Duke of Paris will end sooner or later.

Three, if Earl Hill is now anyway, after the rebels are dealt with, his crimes can be written off, and even the title and territory can be retained, and it is possible to get a share of the kingdom's "pharmaceutical export industry".

In the end, Earl Hill had only one son, Martin. After the failure of the rebellion, if there was no sufficient financial support and good education in the magic school, Martin was doomed to have limited achievements and would not be able to become a powerful magician. I can't even afford the 【Sedative Potion】.

Zhou Ming said: "Earl Hill, the ultimate goal of your rebellion with the Duke of Paris is not for your own son? What if you fail? The family is ruined, the son is in a foreign country, the wealth is no longer, and he can only struggle at the bottom... Such an ending, Is that what you want to see?"

These words touched Earl Hill, and he immediately said: He will do the work of the soldiers and take down the head of Duke Paris.

So in the early morning of this day, Earl Hill summoned most of the middle and lower-level officers and told them the truth:
"The king didn't treat us badly. The three million shi of military rations that the king transports to the border every year, and the hundreds of thousands of shi, sand and wood chips mixed in, were done by the former chief financial officer, Old Ford."

"Old Ford was killed. His Excellency the Duke sent me to take people to kill him. More than 800 million gold coins are all the flesh and blood of us frontier defenders!"

"After the new treasurer came up, the food that the king gave us was not only new food, but also not mixed with a single grain of sand."

"His Excellency the Duke felt that this was inappropriate, and asked someone to put sand in it. He hoped that everyone would continue to hate the king."

"Not only that, the duke reduced the salaries that should be given to everyone, and used all of them to buy weapons and a batch of low-quality winter clothes, saying that this is a winter 'gift' from the king to you, and those sent by the treasurer, Good quality winter clothes are all stored in the warehouse..."

"This rebellion is actually the Duke's conspiracy, and all of us are his tools."

"Let's think about those brothers who died in battle. Apart from being insulting and angry, does the Duke feel sad at all?"

"The king has not failed us, but we have been kept in the dark... The Duke is using our blood to realize his ambition!"

"Brothers, kill the duke and avenge your dead brother!"

All the middle and lower rank officers were stunned.

They never thought that the truth of the matter was actually like this.

Their dissatisfaction with the royal family and anger at the king turned out to be the effect of the duke's intentional instigation and guidance.

Let's look at the Duke's performance after the defeat in the war. It is exactly as Earl Hill said: This is a selfish careerist.

Immediately they roared:

"Kill the Duke!"

"Kill the Duke!"

After gaining the trust of most of the officers, Earl Hill led a group of people into the tent where the Duke was, and under the astonished gaze of Duke Paris, cut off his head.

……

In this way, the rebellion, which lasted for more than three months, was finally disintegrated by Zhou Ming in less than three days.

(End of this chapter)