Chapter 1448: Partition (2)
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Fell's voice was very crisp, not at all like it was spoken by someone who had just surrendered. At the same time, he secretly looked around when he shouted this, and it was not surprising that Phil had been prepared for the disgusted look on his soldier's face, but what made him strange was that Zhao Hu shouted at him so smoothly that he didn't seem to realize that something was wrong.
Fell didn't dare to think about it carefully, and continued: "Your Majesty thinks that the current priority of my family is to let the people in the territory understand that Mingyue City has changed owners, the first thing is to collect the ruling power of all the territories, summon the lords of the wealthy clans and mercenary groups in various places, and at the same time send troops to guard the border.
"You must know that the top floor of the castle tower is on fire, due to the terrain, most of the territory can be seen, and everyone knows what is going on in the castle tower, so we should act quickly while they are still watching."
"Well, how many troops do you need to send troops to guard the border? Who need to be guarded? Zhao Hu asked, he didn't care how Fell, a subordinate, would instruct himself as soon as he surrendered.
Zhao Hu has this mentality entirely because he is not taboo about surrendering, in his opinion, if he is not loyal enough to the original head of the family, he is captured by the enemy and persuaded to surrender, then it is normal to surrender to the enemy.
Of course, if the loyalty is high enough to be unwilling to surrender, then there is nothing to complain about being executed.
"About 5,000 troops are needed, mainly to prevent the bosses and colleagues of the former Mingyue City Lord from taking advantage of the fire to loot," Fell said, although he was not good at military affairs, he still knew the rules of these previous territories.
"Oh, just need defense? The bosses and colleagues of the Bright Moon City Lord saw that the Bright Moon City Lord was destroyed, wouldn't they send troops? Zhao Hu asked curiously.
"That depends on whether there is chaos in Mingyue City and whether there are regular soldiers to defend it, if there is no chaos and there are many soldiers, they will not send troops; If it's the opposite, I'm afraid it will attack immediately. Fell didn't think about it and said immediately.
Originally, after Zhao Hu heard that Mingyue City still had his boss and colleagues, he was ready to ransack Mingyue City and flee, but when he heard Fell's words, his interest came: "How could they be like this?" Could it be that Bright Moon City has a bad relationship with them? Bright Moon City wouldn't have failed to ask for help from them, would it? Anyway, it's all under the same forces. ā
Fell sighed and said, "There is no way, because the forces close to us have hostile forces behind them that are eyeing them, so if they can't swallow us in one go, they won't move."
"As for the relationship, in this chaotic southeast peninsula, even close relatives will have opposite interests for the sake of interests, not to mention the relationship between colleagues who will attack at any time, so don't even think about asking for help from colleagues."
"Even the boss of Bright Moon City is the same?" Zhao Hu asked.
"Yes, the boss of Bright Moon City is also the lord of this force, but in fact, he can only manage one or two cities, and the city lords are only nominally subservient. Sometimes, however, the boss of this power is able to use the general trend to weaken the power of his city lord.
"Like last time, because other city lords were jealous of the cavalry of the original Mingyue city lord, and forcibly demanded a tribute of two hundred war horses, if it didn't cause public anger, the boss wouldn't open this mouth at all, and even if it did, he didn't have to pay attention to it." Fair said.
"What a strange relationship, isn't it the relationship between all forces up and down?" Zhao Hu asked.
"Almost all, only some emerging forces can avoid this kind of situation at the beginning, but when the emerging forces become old forces, they still follow the old path." Fell nodded.
"Isn't there anyone going to change?" Zhao Hu asked.
"How could it not be? This phenomenon will occur, mainly because of the private soldiers and Shi Gao's feudal system, so now most of the forces give money to the heroes instead of canonizing Shi Gao, but the retainers who were canonized before have no end to it, so they still maintain the status quo. Fell said.
Fair is now a little instigated Zhao Hu to do the same, because it takes military merit to divide the Shigao territory, but he is not good at military affairs, since this is the case, it is better to divide the money, anyway, he is the best at getting money.
Zhao Hu thought for a while, and ordered the guards beside him: "Let the cavalry team work hard, gather men and horses to patrol the border, and order Juan and Maude to select four thousand troops from the militia and the Liukou army, and start to camp at the border."
"At the same time, send heralds to the whole territory, order all the heads of the Hao clan to visit Mingyue City, and invite the mercenary group leader to come and gather."
The order was issued, and the cavalry team immediately got on their horses and rushed out of Mingyue City without saying a word, and knowing that the reward could not be carried out so quickly, Maude immediately happily selected people and horses, and did not miss any opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
Only Juan has some opinions, and he was sent to the border to garrison as soon as he rested, so it's no wonder that he has no opinions.
And Kaihai, who was not ordered, could only be busy with how to arrange siege equipment at the head of Mingyue City.
After Fell's retirement, when Zhao Hu and his guards were about to visit the castle tower, there was a commotion outside the door, and then after a coquettish reprimand, it immediately fell silent. Then not long after, Zhou Wen walked into the hall with nearly a hundred women in order.
Zhao Hu was a little surprised and pointed to these young women with good looks and figures, and asked Zhou Wen, "Zhou Wen, what are these women doing?" ā
Zhou Wen said with a smile: "My lord, these are your maids, I have carefully selected them in the whole city, and they are all knowledgeable, intelligent and clever daughters." ā
These women may have been instructed, as soon as Zhou Wen finished speaking, they immediately knelt on the ground and said in a crisp and delicate voice: "See your lord!" ā
The voice was good, but Zhao Hu was speechless for a while.
When he entered the city, he disappeared Zhou Wen, and he thought that he was going to control the stronghold, but he didn't expect to find these daughters to be maids. However, Zhao Hu, who originally wanted to say something, saw Zhou Wen's tired face with a look of waiting for praise, sighed helplessly in his heart, nodded with a smile and said, "Well, you did a good job, then these maids will be handed over to you to manage." ā
After receiving the praise, Zhou Wen nodded with joy on his face as if he had picked a gold coin and said, "Of course, it's not me, who cares?" Don't worry! ā
Not to mention, with this beautiful maid, the deserted castle tower immediately became lively, and Zhao Hu soon had a place to live.
In addition, the guards are all high-spirited, and their posture is also much taller and more fierce, and Zhao Hu's personal guards are also vulgar, not only are they more particular about their words and deeds, but they also pay more attention to personal hygiene than before.
The next day, Zhao Hu got up under the waitings of several of the most beautiful maids led by Zhou Wen.
Coming to the hall on the first floor, Sun Jie and Oakde and other guards had been waiting for a long time, Zhao Hu sat down cross-legged and smiled: "Feel free, this Southeast Peninsula is not good in this regard, there is no chair at all, and it is difficult for them to kneel all year round." ā
"yes, it stands to reason that there are so many trees in this place, why didn't you think of making chairs? It is said that this custom came from the East, which is really a strange custom. Yesterday, my subordinates sat cross-legged for a day, and their feet were numb. ā
After a few words, Sun Jiehara began to report the situation: "My lord, according to the receiving inspection, there are more than 500,000 gold coins, more than 700,000 silver coins, and more than 5 million copper coins in the inner city. The gold and silver coins were oval-shaped, and both weighed one or two, and in terms of gold content, one was equal to three on the Imperial side. ā
Zhao Hu didn't care much about this huge number, he didn't know what it meant that a small city could hoard so many coins, but he was very interested in that "Guan", and couldn't help asking: "What's going on with this Guan?" ā
"My lord, this is consistent, that is, a thousand copper coins, a long string, also known as a hanging coin. And we have a hundred copper coins for a silver coin over there, so there are no such names. Sun Jie said.
Zhao Hu turned his head to Oaked and asked, "If we want to exchange money through exchange, do we transport copper coins back to the empire from here, then exchange them for gold coins, and then transport them over for copper coins?" ā
"Yes, my lord, the copper coin here has always been exchanged for a gold coin in the empire, and this imperial gold coin can be exchanged for more than three times here, deducting the cost, that is to say, we have more than two times out of thin air, that is, two imperial gold coins and a few imperial silver coins." Oaked nodded.
Zhou Wen thought for a moment, blinked and interjected, "It doesn't seem to be a lot." ā
Oaked said with a smile: "Sister Zhou Wen, of course one or two gold coins are not much, but the number is very large.
"If you exchange all the gold and silver that Master Sun Jie just said for copper coins, one gold coin for ten yuan, and one silver coin for consistent, Mingyue City now has about 12 million copper coins, and if you exchange them for imperial gold coins, it will be 12 million pieces.
"And this gold coin can be exchanged for four million southeast gold coins, that is, 40 million copper coins, and these 40 million copper coins can be exchanged for 40 million imperial gold coins.
"If you think about it, it has nearly quadrupled as soon as it goes out, and if you come again, it will become 13 million southeast gold coins, which can be exchanged for 100 million copper coins! After a few times, the numbers were terrifying! ā
Due to Zhou Wen's strength, Zhao Hu's personal guards all called Zhou Wen the eldest sister, but as for whether it was really the eldest sister, they deliberately forgot about it. However, Zhou Wen's appearance, tone and demeanor still make it easy for people to forget his true identity.