East Mirror of the Iron Castle Kingdom. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A group of invaders from the north, after entering this kingdom, attacked the city with impunity.

In the face of the all-out attack of the invaders, who were as fast as the wind, as thunderous as thunder, and as powerful as a rainbow, one castle after another fell, and one field battle after another continued to fail miserably, and the situation deteriorated day by day.

In just three months, 14 of the 20 earls of Prince Lawrence of the Iron Castle Kingdom have fallen.

Coupled with the 2 counties in the south that have fallen into the Copper Mountain Kingdom, Prince Lawrence raised his eyes and was shocked to find that in his hands, only the royal capital Iron Castle City and the surrounding 4 earls have not completely fallen, but under the accelerated offensive rhythm of the group of invaders in the north, these 4 counties, except for a few lonely castles are still resisting, all villages, towns, populations, land, and mines are in the hands of that group of invaders.

"What should I do, what should I do? The demons in the north, how can we drive those devils away!"

In Iron Castle City, Lawrence, who could hear bad news almost every day, walked back and forth in the court, like a drowning man, grabbing the hand of the palace minister on the side, and he was hit by repeated blows, and he no longer had the noble pride of the former king, only the hopeless pessimism about the future of the kingdom.

"Oh no! Your Majesty is bad, Fort Valé has been breached by the army from the north, and the Earl of Wintington has been killed!"

"What?how is it possible?!" Lawrence "Ho" stood up from the Iron Throne, looking incredulous, how could Valé Fort fall so quickly with the entire body made of iron ingots, and the walls were taller than the Iron Castle?

"Oh no, Your Majesty, Ironforge has also fallen, and Count Hart of Ironforge has been killed!"

"What?!" Lawrence was dizzy and almost fell to the ground, Ironforge Fort is the largest iron ore smelting base in the kingdom, 40% of the kingdom's iron ingots are produced here, Ironforge, which can be said to be the foundation lifeblood of the kingdom, has also fallen?

……

Soon after, a large army arrived outside the Iron Castle, set up camp, and surrounded the Iron Castle.

"Anyway, why do you like to cast a city with iron ingots so much?

Looking at the fifty-meter-high giant steel city in front of him, which was brown and yellow and made of iron ingots, Zhou Ming, who was riding on a horse, couldn't help but tease.

Indeed, this kind of castle made of steel, the power of black powder is not open, but the metal is afraid of acid, a dye workshop in the Gran Ling workshop area, there is just a kind of strong acidic dye, after evaporation and concentration, a strong acid made of a strong acid, has a strong corrosive effect on the metal, more than ten centimeters thick iron ingots, a few days will be eroded for you, and then in the corrosion of the big hole, put a sufficient amount of gunpowder, boom, a steel castle known as "never fall", just like this.

"Boom~!"

With a loud bang, after more than a month of siege, the thick iron gate of the Iron Castle City was blown open, after a fierce battle for the city gate, in a burst of cheers, tens of thousands of troops poured into this city that had almost never experienced war, after eliminating all resistance, the soldiers in charge of the search, caught Lawrence, who had changed into civilian clothes, but because of the treasure brought too much, Lawrence, who showed his horse's feet, a glass of poisoned wine, sent him on the road.

So far, in just half a year, the 20 countdoms of the East Mirror of the Iron Castle Kingdom and the royal capital Iron Castle City, except for the 2 counts occupied by the Tongshan Kingdom, the remaining 18 are all controlled by Zhou Ming and the seven counts who participated in the southern invasion together.

"The Copper Mountain Kingdom is currently the largest trading partner of the Shang Alliance and the largest source of slave population, will it have a little impact on trade if it beats the army of the Copper Mountain Kingdom?"

Zhou Ming thought about it, anyway, the Tongshan Kingdom is a big fat meat in his mouth sooner or later, it is better to send a force to him fiercely and make him suffer a little!

So, Zhou Ming gave the thief Jairo a mercenary group of more than 3,000 people who were born as thieves, and asked him to go to the 2 earls of land occupied by the Tongshan Kingdom, whether it was to fight stuffy sticks, dig traps, or play ambushes and guerrillas, in short, the army of the Tongshan Kingdom could not be allowed to stay comfortably in these 2 territories, otherwise the Copper Mountain Kingdom, which has both copper and iron, will have a slightly more strategic monarch, and maybe it will grow into a new No. 1 medium power.

After the thief Jairo took the order to set off, he really did not disappoint Zhou Ming, and took his "thief group", but after tossing in the two territories for half a year, the invading army of the Copper Mountain Kingdom, which had a nervous breakdown, ignored the strict orders of its king, took a few iron ingots, and fled back to the country without permission, and Zhou Ming took advantage of the situation to send people and horses to take over the two territories.

The other side.

In the western border of the Iron Castle Kingdom, several surrounding kingdoms that invaded in, in the face of the desperate resistance of the Duke of Milton, not only did not take any advantage, but instead lost their troops and jumped a mouthful of bloody teeth.

For example, the king of the Kingdom of Volis, Herian, with a knight order of more than 2,000 people, plus a total of 20,000 men and horses of the collar (the collar system has been adopted by many lords due to its ease of operation), plans to swallow at least 6 or more earls of the Iron Castle Kingdom with high spirits, and then digest these territories, and then go north to eradicate all the rebellions in the country that do not obey the order!

In his heart, the king, who was in the prime of life, was already imagining the scene where the 7 northern Yankees knelt side by side in front of him, and were finally pushed out by him to be beheaded.

However, when he and his army, on the way to conquer two more counties, and on their way south to take another one, were in a viscous muddy, black bubble-like swamp valley, they were burned by a sudden fire that burst from all around the swamp.

An army of 20,000 men was burned to death and burned two-thirds of them, and less than a quarter were pursued by the ambushes who came out on all sides.

It turns out that a lot of land in the western border of the Iron Castle Kingdom is this kind of gurgling black swamp with bubbles, and the bottom of this swamp is buried with a large amount of shallow oil, and after the oil seeps out of the surface, the natural gas bubbles and toxic asphalt that come out are very easy to ignite substances, and Herrian's lack of knowledge led to a fiasco.

The withdrawal of the army returned to China in embarrassment, and soon after, he was suddenly shocked to learn that the 40,000 troops of the Free Business Alliance had taken all the territories of the East Mirror of the Iron Castle Kingdom, and Herrian in the palace of Watts City was so depressed that he almost vomited blood, and issued seven or eight orders for the king to summon and withdraw the army in a row, but no one stopped him.

"You damned traitors and traitors, you all wait for me, I will definitely make you pay!"

Herrian, who had a breath in his chest, did not have the slightest desire to expand his territory at this time, he just wanted to train another powerful army, sweep the north, and kill all those traitors!

……

After taking the 20 counties of the Iron Castle Kingdom and occupying the royal capital of the Iron Castle City, because of the lack of troops, Zhou Ming and the others did not formulate the next expansion plan, but sat together to discuss the distribution of these 21 territories.

Distribution of benefits.

This is a key question that no matter what field, any organization, any team has to face!

The cake is distributed, hello, hello, everyone, if the cake is not divided, even if it is the best brother, it is possible to draw knives and cut each other.

As for how to distribute these 21 territories, the seven earls have their own ideas.

Some earls proposed three pieces for one person and seven counts, and it happened to be divided, and no one would suffer.

But this proposal was immediately rejected, because among the seven counts, the amount of contribution was not the same, some contributed more soldiers, some contributed more money, some suffered heavy casualties, and some captured a lot...... If these factors are taken into account, I am afraid that no matter how it is distributed, there will be people who are dissatisfied, and there will be people who will slap the table.

Therefore, the distribution of benefits is even more difficult than winning a battle.

"I have a proposal, I don't know if you earls would like to hear it?"

When the quarrel became more and more intense, Zhou Ming got up and said a word.

"What a proposal, Edward. The old earl, who sat at the top, said kindly, that Edward, the boy, had always had a lot of ideas, and that perhaps he had some good advice.

All eyes were on him.

Zhou Ming looked around and said: "I think the land of these 21 territories is still too little, and it is not enough for everyone to divide it, it is better to wait until a few kingdoms are conquered, and then divide these kingdoms one by one, so that it is more interesting and easier to divide, do you think this is the case?"

"Si~"

Hearing this, everyone took a breath of cool air, their hearts twitched violently, and then they beat violently.

There was also an earl next to him who had just won the battle for red ears, and after receiving the terrifying information of this pattern, he was dumbfounded and muttered: One person, one kingdom?

But after thinking about it carefully, the earls found that this was not impossible, if this was still a few years ago, it would be difficult for them to put together an elite army, not to mention 20,000, even 2,000 people, and it would have been only a few years?

Looking at Zhou Ming again, everyone thinks that this kid is a monster, relying on a small barony alone, he pulled out 20,000 horses, and the elite level is on par with the people and horses they brought, if all the territories are like the Grand Territory, then the result is ......

"As to the 21 territories at hand, I propose the formation of a 'United States of Ironkee', to be temporarily entrusted to the Free Chamber of Commerce, to elect a chairman to administer it, and to have a Council of Elders and seven elders to participate in the administration of the United States, and to have the right to oversee and vote in all matters of the United States. and that each elder shall have a share of the proceeds generated annually by the United States......"

Zhou Ming said another idea of his.

After hearing this idea, everyone's eyes lit up.

The "United States" system proposed by Zhou Ming, under the condition of mutual checks and balances and mutual supervision, not only protects everyone's interests, but also allows them to concentrate their efforts on doing great things, thus reducing many constraints.

Just like the Free Business Alliance founded by Zhou Ming, the seven counts actually don't know much about the detailed rules for the operation of the business alliance, but it is undeniable that it is precisely because of the existence of the business alliance that the seven counts can lie in the castle without worrying so much, and hundreds of thousands of gold coins are credited to their accounts every year.

Therefore, as for the candidate for the chairman of the "United States of Iron Castle", the earls were surprisingly unanimous in deciding to make Zhou Ming the chairman of the United States, because there may be no one present who can make the "United States" set of things.

However, Zhou Ming, who should have been secretly happy in his heart at this time, suddenly picked it up and said, "I can serve as this chairman, but I have a small condition." ”

Condition?

"What conditions?" asked the First Earl.

"I want to be the Count of Łódź, and Count Lausitz has always wanted to kill me...... Also, I need a territory close to the United States of Ironkeep, which is easy for the United States to manage. ”

Soon after Zhou Ming led his troops to attack the Iron Castle Kingdom, Count Lauzitz, who had been looking for an opportunity to avenge his three sons all these years, seized this opportunity, and last month, with thousands of soldiers and horses, frantically besieged the Grand Territory, wanting to kill several of his closest relatives before he died of old age, even if he could not kill Zhou Ming, an enemy who did not share the sky, so that he could taste the pain.

"Yes!"

The counts thought about it for a while, and nodded one after another, in fact, with Zhou Ming's merits, not to mention the earl, it is enough to be crowned a duke, but these counts do not have this kind of knighthood authority that only kings have, and now Zhou Ming said that he wants to become the earl of the county of Łódz, but he actually wants the territory of the Count of Lozitz.

As for the title of earl, they privately recognized it, but before it could be publicly recognized by all, it had to be knighted by the king or the church.