The plan to take Rongzhou went smoothly.

No matter in just half a month, before the imperial court's reinforcements entered the southwest region, Rongzhou was almost all controlled by the people of the Plum Blossom League.

The An family had been in the dark, and quickly used ox carts, horse-drawn carts and donkey carts to pull away a cart of good copper and iron ore, and hid them in a small hill outside Rongzhou City that had been hollowed out by them a long time ago.

The hill they hollowed out was in the middle of a forest of mountains, inaccessible to outsiders.

Those copper ores, iron ores, and smelted copper and iron can be preliminarily estimated to be able to create iron armor and weapons that can be used by 30,000 soldiers. Coupled with the copper and iron ore discovered by the Zhou and Wei families in Huanshan, almost everyone in the 50,000 people of the Meihua Alliance and Meihuawei can be armed in place.

In this regard, Mr. Anda, Mr. Xu, Mr. Zhou and others all expressed great satisfaction.

What made them even more satisfied was that after the civil rebellion in Rongzhou, even though the vanguard army sent by the imperial court to quell the rebellion had already passed through Huaizhou and entered Rongzhou, due to the limited number of troops who had just arrived, they were in a hurry to pacify Rongzhou, and directly avoided the chaotic people and mountain bandits in Huaizhou and Qingzhou. As a result, the civil unrest in these two states has intensified.

According to Master An's plan and expectations, the forces of the Anjia Plum Blossom Alliance have penetrated the entire southwest step by step.

Later, before the counterinsurgency army led by the crown prince all arrived in the southwest, Master An had uprooted all the families and forces on his blacklist.

He also ordered that those cronies of the Plum Blossom League, who pretended to be mountain bandits and rebels, and led and participated in the people's uprising, should hide in the mountains as much as possible.

It's a pity that these people have enjoyed the rapid accumulation of wealth in the midst of the civil uprising. The sense, and the delicacy of commanding a group of subordinates to power, is hard to stop. Most of them thought that they and their subordinates were very capable, and they didn't need to be afraid of the useless counterinsurgency troops sent by the imperial court. Many people ignored Lord An's orders.

They are the same as those whom they instigate to make trouble, with the arrogant fools, with the rich, with the greedy. Greed, lust. Hope and ambition. Blinded and mind-blinded, the officials, county officials, and squires and families continued to burn and loot everywhere to accumulate wealth.

It's a pity that the people sent by the imperial court to quell the chaos this time were not ordinary and incompetent officers and soldiers. It is the crown prince and the elite soldiers he leads.

The rebel army that came to the southwest this time was extremely brave, and soon caught those arrogant rebels and thieves off guard, and cut out the hope of those rich squires and families who wanted to get enough benefits to escape.

The crown prince led the army and entered the southwest region. It took only one month to put down the rebellion. This is not inefficient. It also fundamentally shocked the Diao people and foolish people in the southwest, and sounded the alarm for Master An and others.

Let them understand that Dajing's army is much more powerful than they expected.

Although the number of soldiers under the crown prince is about the same as that of the An family, the overall appearance of those people is more than twice as strong as that of the uneven generals under the An family.

The gap in strength. As a result, the third of the people who did not take the prince and his army in their eyes because of greed for money or self-righteousness, and ran one step slower, were caught by the people who taught the prince and punished for their crimes.

About 100 of them were executed for inciting the people into making trouble. The rest of the people have received the lesson they deserve, to a greater or lesser extent.

In the process of punishing the troubled people, the prince showed wisdom and wisdom, iron and courage. It's eye-catching.

This also frightened Master An and others, and at the same time, their hearts were completely cold.

The first time he launched a civil rebellion to test the waters, he found out that the people of the Plum Blossom Alliance and the Plum Blossom Guard were far inferior to the regular army, which was really chilling.

It's not to blame anyone else. Mr. Anda, they are almost all businessmen. Doing business is very set. Mr. Xu and Mr. Ji are standard readers and are good at reading sage books. But they really don't have much experience in training soldiers and leading soldiers to fight, so how can they train elite soldiers and strong generals!

And eight out of ten of those who settled down have never been on the battlefield, and none of them have been baptized in blood.

So. Compared with the battle-hardened veterans under the crown prince, they are more than a step behind.

Master An, Mr. Xu, Mr. Ji and others, after this battle, recovered the IQ that was almost burned by ambition, and rested on the desire to win the world.

They have been preparing for a long time, and they can't even bear the prince's people, let alone deal with the elite troops in the hands of the saint.

Isn't that an egg hitting a stone?

The people of the An family are not only inferior to the crown prince, but also their weapons are worse than those of the imperial army.

Therefore, there is really no suspense in the battle and defeat.

Fortunately, the families of those arrested were accused by them in advance, so that those people were tight-lipped and did not break out of the An family from beginning to end. No matter how much the prince investigates, he can't involve them.

However, Master An and they were also a little apprehensive: after all, they had relied on their good luck and courage to attack Rongzhou, kill some soldiers, and hide a batch of copper and iron ore.

If this is revealed, all of them will not escape punishment.

In order to save their lives, Master An, Mr. Xu, Mr. Ji, and the Governor of the Southwest all made up their minds to rot this matter in their hearts, treating them as if those ores did not exist, and let them rot in the deep mountains.

To this end, they also took action to clear out some of their subordinates who knew the truth, ensuring that only a few of their leaders and the hundred or so secret guards guarding the ore knew about it.

The secret guards who were selected to come to see the mine were all strictly selected and absolutely loyal and reliable people, and Master An was not worried at all, these people would betray them and leak secrets.

……

The crown prince and his army used thunderous means to intimidate the southwest. The saint also praised the prince's high efficiency, and ordered the prince to take people back to Beijing as much as possible to reward them for their meritorious deeds.

The southwest place will be taken care of by Zhou Dashao for the time being. Zhou Dashao is the eldest son of Zhou Guo's uncle - the eldest cousin of the prince's relatives, but in the year of his establishment, he has made a lot of military achievements, and he has a very good set of marching and fighting, and he has a lot of prestige in the army.

The southwest region was led by the crown prince, and half of his generals belonged to the Zhou family. The prince stayed in the southwest region for a month, and also found that this place is remote and remote, with treasures everywhere and a lot of oil and water.

The most important thing is that there are 30,000 soldiers under the name of the Governor of the Southwest.

Therefore, this position is for the prince who is in urgent need of military power and money. It's inevitable. The crown prince wanted his henchmen, who would not betray him, to sit in the position of governor. Thinking about it, only Zhou Dashao is the most suitable.

So the prince also handed the fold of Zhou Dashao as the governor of the southwest to the saint. Originally, the crown prince didn't think that he could succeed once, he planned to fight for a long time. Who knew that this time the saint wanted to support him. The third prince, who was too good at attacking the table, agreed to his request at once.

In this way, Zhou Dashao became the new governor of the southwest.

The original governor of the southwest, due to dereliction of duty and ineffective pacing of chaos, was demoted to Zhou Dashao's adjutant general.

And An Sanshao because of the military exploits and political achievements that Master An specially asked people to pile up for him. was made the deputy governor by the saint, nominally assisting Zhou Dashao to govern the southwest, but in fact he was holding him hostage and dividing his power, so as not to make him bigger.

As for the prefect of Huaizhou Prefecture, the Holy Lord appointed another official from the Six Princes' faction to take over.

The southwest is a treasure land, and the saint doesn't want the prince to swallow it alone. Because the crown prince and the Zhou family got most of the benefits, they didn't mind the arrangement of the saint to let the six princes who had not yet shown their water drink soup.

The crown prince even thought about using some small profits to win over the six princes. Let him be on his side. But I didn't know that the six princes, who did not participate in the battle for the prince of the country and had always been very dutiful, actually wanted to compete with him for the world.

Since the second half of last year, the prince has been the more prominent one so far. His efficiency and iron-blooded bravery in quelling civil unrest in the southwest region were very satisfying to the saints and hundreds of officials.

But he's not the best.

Because the third prince is in the East China Sea, he has made better achievements than him. He completely collected the garrison, and also recruited many military eunuchs to be used by him, and even repelled the murderous pirates, and defeated and co-opted many pirates.

The three princes are slightly better than the crown princes, and they are still on par with the Xiàn in Mobei. Even the five princes who were involved in a book by Liu Guobang said that the third prince threw him at least five streets.

Nowadays, in Beijing, the call for the three princes to be the protector of the country is the highest.

on this. The prince didn't mind much. Because he didn't want to be a protector at all.

First, because he is the prince, he has always believed that the entire scene will be his. The name and benefits of the Prince of Protector are not rare at all. If you lose the country because you are the prince of the protector, it is tantamount to losing watermelons and picking up sesame seeds, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Two. The crown prince knew that the Holy Lord was jealous of the Prince Protector. understands that even if he becomes the protector of the country, not only will he not get substantial benefits, but he will also become the target of everyone, as well as a thorn in the eye and flesh of the saint, and the end will never be good.

Let's take this moment as an example, the three princes' merits are the greatest, and their voices are also the highest, but his father, looking at the eyes of the three princes, is getting colder and colder.

Even if the dragon case asked the saint to crown the third prince as the prince of the protector of the country, and gave him the fold of the East China Sea as a fief, it was almost piled up on the beams of the house, and the saint did not make a clear statement.

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Not to mention how the situation in Beijing has changed, Anping Town has also changed at this time.

To be precise, Anping Town changed its days as early as two months ago when the civil unrest was raging.

More than two months ago, the people of the Plum Blossom Wei and the Plum Blossom League entered Anping Town, and after controlling the Zhou and Wei families, they entered the mountain in batches at night, replacing the Zhou and Wei families, and became the masters of the silver and copper mines in Huanshan.

Because it is a big crime to open iron mines and refine soldiers privately, in order to keep secrets, they pretended to be rescuers invited by the Zhou family and the Wei family, and drove away the troublemakers in the name of the two families.

At the same time, they also claimed that in order to protect themselves, they sent people to blow up the road leading to Anping Town with Burning Sky Thunder. and blocked more than a dozen small roads around the town, prohibiting people inside and outside the town from entering and exiting. Turning Anping Town into an isolated island.

Because of their actions, they did drive away the rioters and ensure the personal safety of the residents in the town, and there was no shortage of food and medicinal materials in Anping Town, and the people in the town not only did not mind their move, but also agreed with it.

The men in the town even recommended themselves and took the initiative to join the team of the Zhou and Wei families to protect the town, blocking the passage outside the town, and not letting people in or out.

Due to the remoteness of Anping Town, after being blocked, it was soon almost forgotten by those outside who were deeply affected by the war.

In addition, the county order of Qing'an County is now the person of the Anjia Plum Blossom League, and the county order has issued a gag order internally, ordering the people around Anping Town not to mention it to outsiders.

Therefore, when the six princes sent troops to quell the rebellion, they had never heard of Anping Town.

Because they could only go as far as Cheongju at that time. The civil unrest in the small county town of Qing'an County has been suppressed, and there is no need for them to intervene. Qing'an County is the base camp of the An family, and the entire county seat and several surrounding towns are firmly controlled by the An family, and no one will mention Anping Town to the prince at all.

As a result, Anping Town has become an isolated island.

The townspeople are extremely satisfied with this. However, Cen Erniang and the villagers of Taolin Village in the back mountain of Jintian Village outside the town were very dissatisfied!

The beautiful village they built because of them has been taken away!

Those people were none other than the clansmen of the Zhou family and the Wei family, as well as a secret guard of the Meihua Guard, who was nominally guarding the Zhou and Wei families.

It was just that the golden nest was forcibly occupied, and what Cen Erniang was most angry about was that those people occupied their homes, collected all their money, and drove them to live in another extremely poor mountain village.

And that remote and impoverished mountain village, Cen Erniang is no stranger, it is the mountain village that was once dug out of the gold mine by the Zhou family!

Now the gold mine that appeared in the old homestead of the Zhou family has been exhausted by the government and abandoned.

Although the villagers of Jishan Village used to live next to the gold mine, because the government sent people to block the gold mine, separated the villagers from the gold mine, and issued an order prohibiting the villagers from going to the gold mine, and the heavy guards were guarded when the mine was opened and alchemized, the villagers of Jishan Village did not know that there was a gold mine there, and they still lived poorly, and some of them could not even eat enough.

At this time, among the poor households, there were more villagers from Taolin Village, and the Cen family.

This is all due to Zhou Dafu and Wei Zhong.

The Zhou and Wei families were sent by the six princes to go to Huanshan to endure hardships, and they had more than half of the credit of the Cen family. The rest of the two clansmen may not know the inside story and don't know who the enemy is, but Zhou Dafu and Wei Zhong are very clear.

Before hindering the prostitution of the six princes. Wei and An's family, they didn't dare to attack the Cen family.

In this civil unrest, the people of Dark Trinity came to the door and asked Zhou Dafu and Wei Zhong to come forward to do things for them, and happened to ask Zhou Dafu and Wei Zhong to send people to block the path in and out of Anping Town at the foot of Taolin Village.

They felt it was an opportunity.

You can take advantage of the opportunity to kill people with a knife.

Zhou Dafu and Wei Zhong barely thought about it, and immediately told them about it.

The existence of Taolin Village is absolutely intolerable to the dark third and others who want to secretly mine and refine the army.

So, Dark San instructed Zhou Dafu and Wei Zhong to bring people to take the people from Taolin Village away and settle them elsewhere. They were too busy mining and refining their troops to have time for those little things.

The Zhou family and the Wei family have already completely entered the thief ship of the plum blossom guard at this time, and the dark three also want them to do some small things to see their loyalty and ability. Driving away the villagers of Taolin Village and the Cen family is one of them.

Zhou Dafu and Wei Zhong will naturally not live up to this opportunity! They finally seized the opportunity to teach the enemy a lesson, so naturally they would not be cheaper than the Cen family, as well as the villagers of Taolin Village, who were already lackeys of the Cen family and should be guilty of the same crime.

Therefore, they took away all the gold and silver treasures of Cen Erniang, let them leave the house, and were driven to Jishan Village empty-handed to make a living.

In order to prevent Cen Erniang from escaping and asking for help from others, Zhou Dafu and Wei Zhong even asked one of Zhou Yuanda and Wei Zhong's sons to personally take care of them, and resolutely did not let Cen Erniang and them have a good time! (To be continued.) )

PS: Transitional chapters, the civil unrest part is over here, and the next chapter opens the mode of abusing two fools. The male and female protagonists are daily.