After about half an hour of understanding, Zhou Ming.

The reason why the Duke of Paris raised an army to rebel.

To put it simply, there are actually two reasons.

money, as well as ambition.

And personal ambition accounts for the majority.

Duke Paris, who controls the 300,000 Kingdom Field Legions, wants to take the royal capital of Dilo City, sit on the throne, and replace it.

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

With this huge amount of money, the Duke of Paris can expand his armaments, suppress other forces that disobey him at home, and have the ability to resist the interference of foreign forces, and even expand externally.

At the end of the day, it's money that's to blame.

So I want to ask, how rich are the royal family and many franchise families now, so that Duke Paris is so red-eyed?

Hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Through the pharmaceutical export industry, the royal family and the franchised families have earned hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Especially in the half year that Zhou Ming left, after the pharmacy production plant scrapped more than 100,000 medicinal materials, the workers carried out strict operations according to the operation process provided by Zhou Ming, and the 88 processes were all careful, and finally produced a batch of "excellent" quality [tranquilizers] without Zhou Ming's guidance from the factory.

After that, it was out of control, due to the sufficient supply of medicinal materials, in just half a year, the pharmaceutical production plant, a total of more than 1 million bottles of various medicines.

These potions were sold to hundreds of surrounding kingdoms, and even if the net profit per bottle was 100 gold coins, 100 million gold coins were still in the account.

Among them, the royal family alone has made a net profit of more than 20 million gold coins.

The royal family of the Kingdom of Adud suddenly became the richest royal family among the hundreds of kingdoms around, and there was no one.

With ample funds, the king has more to do.

For example, to change the equipment of the royal capital defense army, improve their salary, and expand the number of people...... The power of the royal family is growing.

The Duke of Paris was in a hurry now, on the one hand, he asked for more military funds and demanded that the treatment of front-line soldiers be improved, and on the other hand, he was also stepping up preparations for war, inciting his cronies and officers, and preparing to do it!

Not bad.

At this time, the Duke of Paris, driven by ambition, was like a "gambler", especially after seeing that his chances of winning were constantly decreasing, he chose to bet all his chips, and before his chances of winning were relatively large, he went out to sweep away all resistance!

Fulfill that dream that has been made for decades!

But......

It has been more than three months since the start of the army, and the 300,000 troops brought by the Duke of Paris, although the initial period was very smooth, except for sporadic resistance, all the way to the wind, when it reached the city of Dilo, the losses were very light, less than 1,000 people.

However, under the city of Dilo, after encountering fierce resistance, due to heavy casualties and the successive deserters, the rebel army now numbered less than 200,000 men.

Whether it is combat effectiveness or morale, it has reached the end of the strong crossbow.

And King Jaime was still loved by some people, including the teachers and students of the Brno School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, at least more than 200 magicians volunteered to help defend the city, causing a lot of casualties to the rebels.

In addition, more than 100 families related to the royal family because of their interests have contributed one after another, and the rebels brought by Duke Paris have successfully blocked the wave of impact.

Now Zhou Ming plans to deal with this group of rebels, which is actually not a very difficult thing.

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

……

After a little rest for half a day, the magic was fully restored.

That night, Zhou Ming took a "special operations team" and launched an operation.

There are five members of the Special Operations Group: Zhou Ming, Sayles, Princess Stepnis, Nabe, and another great magician named "Campbell".

A trio and WWII combo.

The role of the mage is to help set fires, and the role of the warrior is to be responsible for setting the wind and fighting against the powerful swordsmen of the rebels.

Not bad.

Zhou Ming planned to burn all the grain and grass of the 200,000 rebels outside the city.

These include forage for horses and livestock, rations for soldiers, and some kitchen cooking facilities (e.g., 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 ice.

Burning grain and grass?

In fact, when the rebels first began to besiege the city, the defending generals in Dilo City also thought about this method, but did not adopt it.

The Duke of Paris is old in the army, how can he not know the importance of protecting grain and grass?

Therefore, the grain and grass in the rebels are not only stored separately in dozens of places, but each storage point is guarded by elite soldiers, and one place is burned, but only a few tenths of the grain and grass are lost, which is not hindered in the overall situation.

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

If he has enough gasoline in his three spatial rings (the gasoline is provided by the Continental Chamber of Commerce), burn another batch of tents and horse rings.

It's just that the black light is blind at night, and the road is not clear at 23 grain and grass storage points, how can he burn it?

Don't worry, there is a system of navigation, and after scanning the layout of the entire rebel camp this morning, Zhou Ming can find the grain and grass storage point even if he closes his eyes.

Everything was ready, and the barbecue party began.

Zhou Ming, who put on the "flying armor", took the arson team and raged all night.

That night, all the grain and grass in the rebel camp were burned clean by Zhou Ming.

He also killed hundreds of high-ranking swordsmen and five magicians in the rebel army, burned more than 5,000 rebel tents, and a large number of siege equipment.

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

The dazzling firelight, the defenders and officers standing on the head of Dilo City, saw it again and again.

Early the next morning.

Outside the city, the rebels retreated twenty miles away, mourning all over the wilderness, and their morale was extremely low.

According to the existing stock of food in their hands, they can only hold on for three days at most.

The remnants of the rebels, cold and hungry, will collapse without a fight.

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

From the hands of General Hill, the head of Duke Paris was obtained.

The remaining 80,000 rebels all announced their surrender.

What's going on?

Why did Duke Paris hang up all of a sudden?

Earl Hill, who had had a lot of grievances and disputes with Zhou Ming before, why did he suddenly turn back and kill his master?

The reason was that Zhou Ming persuaded him...... On the night of the second day after the arson.

Facing Zhou Ming, who suddenly appeared in his tent, Earl Hill's first reaction was to be startled, and while holding his sword, he shouted loudly to the guards.

"Don't scream, I've muted this tent, no matter how loud you are, no one outside can hear it. Zhou Ming said.

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

Count Hill drew his sword and pointed it at Zhou Ming, his face full of panic.

Zhou Ming said something, listed a few reasons and conditions, and asked the other party to nod and agree, kill the Duke of Paris, and lead the remnants of the army to surrender.

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

The two, with the king's current financial resources and the support of many nobles, follow Duke Paris, and sooner or later will be finished.

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

In the end, Earl Hill had only one son, Martin, and after the failure of the rebellion, without sufficient financial support and a good education in the magic school, Martin was destined to have limited achievements and could not become a powerful magician, because Martin at that time could not even afford a bottle of [tranquilizer] for 120 gold coins.

Zhou Ming said: "Count Hill, you followed Duke Paris to rebel, the ultimate goal is not for your son? What if it fails? The family perished, and his son was reduced to a foreign land, and his wealth was no longer there, so he could only struggle at the bottom...... Is this what you want to see?"

These words touched the Earl of Hill, and he immediately said that he would do the soldier's job and take down the head of the Duke of Paris.

So in the early hours of that day, Earl Hill summoned most of the middle and lower rank officers and told them the truth:

"The king actually didn't treat us badly, the 3 million stone military rations transported from the royal capital to the border every year, mixed with hundreds of thousands of stones, sand and wood chips, were done by the former financial manager Lao Fude. ”

"Old Fude was killed, it was the Duke who sent me to take someone to do it, more than 8 million gold coins, all of which are the flesh and blood of our border defenders!"

"When the new treasurer came up, the king gave us grain, not only new grain, but also not a grain of sand. ”

The Duke felt that this was not appropriate, and put sand in it, and he hoped that everyone would continue to hate the king. ”

"Not only that, but the duke also reduced the salaries that should be paid to everyone, and used them all to buy weapons, and bought a batch of low-quality winter clothes, saying that this was the king's 'gift' for your winter year, and those good quality winter clothes sent by the treasurer were all stored in the warehouse......"

"This rebellion is actually a conspiracy of the Duke, and all of us are tools he uses to exploit. ”

"Let's think about those brothers who died in battle, the duke is not the slightest sad except for insults and anger?"

"The king has not failed us, we have been kept in the dark...... The Duke is taking our blood to fulfill his ambitions!"

"Brothers, kill the Duke and avenge the dead brothers!"

All the middle and lower rank officers were stunned.

They had no idea that this was the case.

Their dissatisfaction with the royal family and their anger against the king turned out to be the effect of the duke's deliberate incitement and guidance.

Looking at the Duke's performance after the defeat in the war, it is exactly as the Earl of Hill said: this is a selfish careerist.

They immediately erupted in rage:

"Kill the Duke!"

"Kill the Duke!"

After gaining the trust of most of the officers, Earl Hill and a group of men rushed into the tent where the Duke was staying, and cut off his head under the stunned gaze of the Duke of Paris.

……

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