The end of the military era

The Zhou family has just entered Zhenwei Town, so they probably don't want to start a war with our Fengwu Jiedu Mansion right now. The subordinates feel that the Zhou family's move is more of a threat.

As long as the Jiedu Mansion does not intervene in the affairs of Ganyang City, the Zhou family's army will never attack Jingyang City. "

Shen Xiao said in a deep voice: "Call the doctor here first, it seems to have hurt a bone."

When the doctor in the Jiedu mansion rushed over, he checked Shen Xiao's right hand, and found that Shen Xiao's punch just now really shattered the bones of his right hand.

After the doctor put a plaster on Shen Xiao's right hand, Shen Xiao's anger has calmed down a lot.

Shen Xiao asked his elder son Shen Du and his staff Ding Lin: "What do you think about the Ganyang City matter?"

Shen Du hesitated for a moment, "Father, the other five major families in Ganyang City seem to be planning to withdraw from Ganyang City.

The Zhou family has a coastal defense fleet in their hands, even if our Jiedu Mansion dispatches some troops to Ganyang City, I am afraid there is no way to fight against the Zhou family in Ganyang City.

I think it's best to withdraw the third division as well. With the recent strength of the Zhou family, the third division may not be able to stay in Ganyang City. "

To be honest, because both the Cui family in Ganyang and the Chen family in Ganyang have defected to Shen Du in secret, this time the Cui family and Chen family evacuated Ganyang City, in fact, Shen Du also suffered a certain loss.

However, among Shen Xiao's sons, only his third brother, Shen Zhi, could really pose a threat to Shen Du's succession as Fengwu Jiedu envoy.

And Shen Zhi's Fengwu Army Third Division has always been stationed in Ganyang City, if Ganyang City is monopolized by the Zhou family, it will have the greatest impact on Shen Zhi.

So in Shen Du's heart, he was a little secretly happy about the Zhou family's forcible expulsion of the other five major families in Ganyang City this time.

Staff member Ding Lin then said: "Marshal, at this time we can only make a choice.

Comparing Ganyang City with Jingyang City, Jingyang City, which is completely controlled by the Jiedu Mansion, is more important to the Jiedu Mansion. "

Shen Xiao pondered for a while and said: "Send the third son a telegram, telling him not to act rashly in Ganyang City, and make preparations to evacuate Ganyang City."

Originally, Chen Xian, the head of the Chen family, hoped that through the intervention of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, things would turn around.

Presumably, the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion is also unwilling to see that Ganyang City, the largest port city in the west of the Han and Tang Empire, is monopolized by the Zhou family.

In the end, facing the strength of the Zhou family, the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and even Shen Zhi hid in the barracks of the third division of the Fengwu Army.

Then what else to say, hurry up and leave!

At the very least, he had to get the 1000 million silver coins that the Zhou family had promised as a start-up fee.

On May 1537, 5, Tianyuan, although the forces of the five major families had not all withdrawn from Ganyang City due to time constraints.

However, several troops controlled by the five major families have already left the Ganyang area.

Since the officers and soldiers of these troops were basically from Ganyang, when several troops withdrew from the Ganyang area, it was inevitable that there would be a large number of deserters.

The homeland is hard to leave, even if the five major families have made various promises to the officers and soldiers of their respective troops, they cannot restrain this wave of deserters.

What made people even more angry was that the Zhou family actually sent people to set up multiple recruiting points directly near the camps of several troops to recruit deserters from these troops.

The five major families were forced to have no choice but to strictly control the weapons and ammunition of their respective troops.

People can leave, but weapons and ammunition cannot be taken away.

Anyway, there is no shortage of people who are willing to serve in the army these days. As long as the weapons are still there, after a few troops leave Ganyang City, they will soon be able to make up for the shortfall.

In order to allow the other five major families in Ganyang City to leave Ganyang City this time, in addition to paying 5000 million silver coins for the start-up fee, Zhou Rui also needs to spend about 1.5 million silver coins to acquire the properties of the five major families in Ganyang City and surrounding villages and towns.

However, with only 2 million silver coins, Zhou Rui was very satisfied with being able to drive the five major families out of Ganyang City without bloodshed.

Zhou Rui may lack other things, but Zhou Rui really does not lack money.

Not to mention that there are gold bricks, silver bricks, rice and flour worth billions of silver coins in the lottery system, just relying on Zhou's bank, it can now provide Zhou Rui with more than 10 billion silver coins in funds.

Now Zhou's Bank has established branches in various cities in Zhenwei Town. Thanks to the strong support of Zhou's army, this time Zhou's Bank will never be ransacked like its predecessor Liu's Bank.

Zhou's Bank, which straddles Fengwu Town and Zhenwei Town, has absorbed nearly 1500 billion silver coins in cash, not counting the 20 tons of gold that Zhou Rui placed in the underground vault of Zhou's Bank headquarters.

According to Liu Yiqiu's plan, Zhou's Bank will expand to the market towns of Fengwu Town and Zhenwei Town, extending the influence of Zhou's Bank to market towns and villages outside the cities of the two feudal towns.

In the future, Zhou's Bank will be able to provide Zhou Rui with more cash flow.

On the night of May 5, Zhou Rui held a banquet in the Zhou Mansion for Cheng Xianhou of the rebel army and Wei Zhao, commander of the rebel silver wolf column.

The Silver Wolf Column is one of the six major columns of the Rebel Army. All the rebel troops in the Silver Wolf Empire are under the command of the Silver Wolf Column's headquarters.

Wei Zhao can be said to be the supreme commander of the rebel army in the Silver Wolf Empire.

Holding the wine glass, Wei Zhao said respectfully to Zhou Rui: "Marshal Zhou, on behalf of the rebel army, thank you for your kindness in helping our rebel army. I will finish this glass of wine. Marshal Zhou, you can do whatever you want."

After finishing speaking, Wei Zhaoduan drank about three taels of liquor in one gulp.

Zhou Rui said with a smile: "The commander of the guard is really bold, I will have a toast with the commander of the guard."

Immediately, Zhou Rui also drank the three or two taels of liquor in his glass in one gulp.

Cheng Xianhou next to him said with a wry smile: "I can't compare to you young people, I'll drink half of it!"

Wei Zhao is just 30 years old this year, but he has served as the commander of the Silver Wolf Column for more than four years.

The previous commander of the Silver Wolf Column was Wei Zhao's father.

In the army of the Silver Wolf Empire, Wei Zhao took over the position of the commander of the Silver Wolf Column after Wei Zhao's father was unfortunately killed in battle.

Wei Zhao then said to Zhou Rui: "Marshal Zhou defeated the expeditionary force of the Silver Wolf Empire this time, which has caused quite a stir in the Silver Wolf Empire.

Encouraged by this, our Silver Wolf Column launched a new round of offensive within the Silver Wolf Empire.

It's a pity that the difference in strength between the enemy and ourselves is too great, and no decent results have been achieved. "

Zhou Rui couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, and he had never heard of it before, what kind of movement the rebels made in the Silver Wolf Empire!

Cheng Xianhou explained: "Marshal Zhou, because of the repeated encirclement and suppression of the Silver Wolf Column by the Silver Wolf Empire, the strength of the Silver Wolf Column has been limited.

Therefore, the offensive launched by the Silver Wolf Column can only be regarded as a small-scale attack, attacking some security forces stationed in villages and towns. "

The security forces of the Silver Wolf Empire consisted of wolves and dogs as officers and humans as soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was generally weak.

Zhou Rui asked curiously: "Commander Wei, how many people are there in your Silver Wolf Column?"

Wei Zhao said: "Our Silver Wolf Column currently has 1 column headquarters, 12 divisions and 10 independent brigades, and all the troops add up to about 7000 people.

However, our Silver Wolf Column has at least hundreds of thousands of peripheral personnel, and has a very complete intelligence network, which is fully capable of helping Marshal Zhou to recruit enough technicians and workers within the Silver Wolf Empire. "

Zhou Rui wants to build Ganyang Port Shipyard, Panlongshan Iron and Steel Factory, Arsenal, Shell Factory, Power Plant, and even more factories. The most critical point is that there must be a large number of technicians and workers.

So Zhou Rui contacted the rebels in the six orc countries, hoping to recruit human technicians and human workers from the six orc countries through the rebel army.