Chapter 131: Strong

On April 10, Zhou Rui officially took office as the envoy of Zhenwei Festival in Linxing City, becoming the youngest envoy of the Han and Tang Empires.

Zhenwei Town originally had 23 cities under its jurisdiction, except for Jingyang City, which was ceded to the envoy of Fengwu Jiedu, the remaining 22 cities, and the new Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion had completely controlled 5 of them.

And the various families that control the other 17 cities have sent people to participate in Zhou Rui's inauguration ceremony.

These families didn't dare not send people over, and the two strongest families in Zhenwei Town before, the Xu family and the Lu family, were swallowed up by the Zhou family.

It can be said that the Zhou family is in Zhenwei Town, and they are already a dominant family.

At this time, if you don't hurry up and play a new Zhenwei Festival to make a whisker, isn't it uncomfortable to find yourself?

You must know that the new Zhenwei Festival makes Zhou Rui not a good stubble.

Even a behemoth like the Silver Wolf Empire has to bow its head in front of the Zhou family where Zhou Rui is located, if Zhou Rui looks at any family that is not pleasing to the eye, it is estimated that the good days of this family will come to an end.

Soon, these families in Zhenwei Town knew that the new Zhenwei Festival was really ruthless enough.

At the beginning, in Zhenwei Town, he secretly accepted the benefits of the Silver Wolf Empire and promised to cooperate with the Silver Wolf Empire to deal with the Zhou family.

In addition to the Tongze Lu family, the Huitong Wang family, the Huitong Li family, the Yiguang Sun family, and the Yiguang Zhang family, which were destroyed by the Zhou family, there are also three families in Ningweicheng.

Ningwei City is about 200 kilometers away from Linxing City, which is a relatively close city to Linxing City, with a population of about 500,000 and a population of about 600,000 in the villages and towns around Ningwei City.

The entire Ningwei City was controlled by these three families, and each family also controlled a mixed brigade of the Zhenwei Army.

After the inauguration ceremony, Zhou Rui directly took out the evidence that the three families colluded with the Silver Wolf Empire, and gave the three families two paths.

One is that Zhou Rui immediately mobilized the army and sent troops to Ningwei City.

The other is that the three families give up their military power and hand over Ningwei City.

For these families who control the army under the feudal town, letting them hand over the army is simply digging the foundation of these families, so none of the three families chose the second path.

After Zhou Rui took office as the envoy of the Zhenwei Festival, the three families of Ningwei City immediately began to reorganize their armaments and war, and actively contacted other families in Zhenwei Town, hoping to unite more families to fight against the new Zhenwei Envoy.

After all, the new Zhenwei Festival makes it possible to collect the military power of their three families today, so tomorrow it may take away the military power of other families in Zhenwei Town.

However, the other families in Zhenwei Town were a little hesitant about aiding the three families in Ningwei City, after all, the new Zhenwei Festival envoy Zhou Rui had come up with evidence that the three families were colluding with the Silver Wolf Empire.

Once this kind of thing is brought to light, it will inevitably be pointed out by Wanfu.

But just as the three families of Ning Weicheng proposed, if you don't help today, what if the matter of collecting military power in the future falls on your own family's head?

But when the other families in Zhenwei Town were still hesitating, the Zhou family army conquered Ningwei City in less than four days with lightning speed.

This also includes the time required for the Zhou family army to assemble and hurry, in fact, the real battle only lasted for more than ten hours.

Some of the three mixed brigades of Ningweicheng, as well as the other armed forces of the three families, defected, most surrendered, and the rest were all annihilated.

Of course, Zhou Jiajun was able to take Ningwei City so quickly, and the "ghost" under Zhou Rui's command contributed a lot.

So far, in Zhenwei Town, the number of cities completely controlled by the Zhou family has increased to 6.

The rest of the families in Zhenwei Town were all frightened by Zhou Rui, the young festival envoy.

The three families of Ning Weicheng are not too weak in strength, not to mention that the three families are together this time, but Ning Weicheng did not hold even a day, and the Zhou family army under the command of this young envoy is inevitably too ferocious.

Subsequently, the remaining families in Zhenwei Town all became regular on the surface, but in secret, the connection between them became closer.

With the strength of this young Jiedu envoy, these families were worried that the fate of the three families in Ning Weicheng would fall on their own families.

For the remaining 16 cities in Zhenwei Town, Zhou Rui is ambitious, but Zhou Rui knows that there are some things that cannot be rushed.

The situation of the Han and Tang Empire's feudal towns being divided and each family supporting their own troops has lasted for more than two hundred years, and if the Zhou family is too ruthless, the remaining families in Zhenwei Town are likely to unite or even collude with the forces of other feudal towns to deal with the Zhou family.

Therefore, Zhou Rui decided to stabilize himself in Zhenwei Town for the time being, give the "ghost" some time, and give full play to the advantages of the Zhou family's wealth.

After Zhou Rui's army captured Ningwei City, he left Linxing City and returned to Ganyang City.

And when Zhou Rui returned to Ganyang City, he also brought the Fourth Division of the Zhenwei Army that had just been reorganized.

All the machinery and equipment of the 10 25,000-ton docks, 12 20,000-ton docks and 20 15,000-ton docks of the three large shipyards of the Manniu Empire have arrived in Ganyang City.

Along with the arrival of these dockyard equipment in Ganyang City, there were also more than 400 human technicians and more than 6,000 human workers who had been laid off in various shipyards of the Barbarian Bull Empire, as well as more than 20,000 family members of these technicians and workers.

Originally, Joanna, the fox businesswoman of the Wild Bull Empire, had already told the Admiral Minister of the Wild Bull Empire, Larion, to sell the 7 unbuilt Punisher-class all-main gun battleships to the Ganyang Zhou family at a high price.

It's a pity that because of the local war between the Zhou family in Ganyang and the Silver Wolf Empire, especially the Zhou family's coastal defense fleet, which suddenly came up with a number of battleships and battle cruisers with full main guns, Larion, the naval minister of the Barbarian Bull Empire, had concerns.

Therefore, Larion immediately vetoed the decision to sell the seven unbuilt Punisher class battleships with full main guns to the Zhou family, and began to contact other buyers.

Although he did not buy 7 unbuilt Punisher-class battleships with full main guns, Zhou Rui was already very satisfied with the 42 large docks.

With these 42 large docks, the Zhou family can even build a large shipyard on a world-class scale.

Of the several port cities currently controlled by the Zhou family, Ganyang Port is the most suitable for building a large shipyard.

After all, shipyards are not only docks, whether it is to build warships or repair warships, they need a variety of materials and equipment, many of which can be purchased directly from Ganyang City.

In addition, Zhou Rui has prepared to build a steel mill with an annual output of 5 million tons of crude steel near Panlong Mountain, so that the shipyard can rely on the steel plant in Panlong Mountain to solve the problem of shipbuilding steel.

Not long ago, the power plant and artillery shell factory obtained from the lottery system, Zhou Rui is also preparing to build next to the Panlongshan Iron and Steel Plant.

There is no doubt about how important the Ganyang Port Shipyard and the Panlongshan Iron and Steel Plant, which are about to be built, as well as an artillery shell factory capable of producing various types of large-caliber artillery shells and torpedoes of various types, are to the Zhou family.

But the problem is that Ganyang City is not exclusive to the Zhou family, and the other five families in Ganyang City still have deep hostility towards the Zhou family.

In this way, even after the completion of the Ganyang Port Shipyard, the Panlongshan Iron and Steel Plant, and the artillery shell factory, they will always face the danger of being attacked by the other five families.

Zhou Rui did not forget that the Cui family's gun and ammunition factory, which had not yet been put into production, was blown up by him.

Since you can blow up other people's gun and ammunition factories, then of course the other five families may also find ways to destroy your factory.

Zhou Rui returned to Ganyang City with 30,000 people from the Fourth Division of the Zhenwei Army this time, hoping to clear the field and completely clear the forces of the other five major families from Ganyang City.

In a study room in the Zhou Mansion, Zhou Xiaozheng, who was in a wheelchair, frowned and said to Zhou Rui: "If you want to clear the field in Ganyang City, I support it."

However, if the other five major families are united, their strength is also very strong, if they fight hard, although it should not be a problem to capture Ganyang City, but they are afraid that Ganyang City will be destroyed.

Moreover, Shen Zhi's third division of the Fengwu Army is also stationed in Ganyang City, and our Zhou family also has to consider the attitude of the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion.

Our Zhou family has just entered Zhenwei Town, and it is not appropriate to start a war with Fengwu Jiedu Mansion now. ”

Zhou Rui nodded, "I also hope that our Zhou family can get a complete Ganyang City, and it is best not to fight."

But if some people don't know each other, I won't be polite, for the sake of long-term interests, I can only let Ganyang City suffer some losses. ”

Now Zhou Rui's mentality is different from when he was reborn.

When he was just reborn, he was burdened with more than ten years of hatred in the previous life, coupled with more than ten years of repressive life at the bottom of society, which made Zhou Rui eager to get rid of the five major families in Ganyang City.

Now Zhou Rui has become the envoy of Zhenwei Festival, and the height of the station is different, and the angle of looking at the problem is also different.

If the other five families in Ganyang City met each other this time, Zhou Rui was even willing to leave a way for these five families to live.

"What about the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion? Fengwu Jiedu Mansion won't watch our Zhou family monopolize Ganyang City! ”

"Dad, Ganyang City is a port city, and our Zhou family has the Northwest Coastal Defense Fleet in our hands, even if the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion is unwilling?

I think that as long as our Zhou family is stronger on the issue of Ganyang City, in the end, Fengwu Jiedu Mansion can only pinch its nose and admit it. ”

A smile appeared on Zhou Xiaozheng's face, "It is worthy of being the youngest envoy of the Han and Tang Empires, and what he said is domineering enough!"

By the way, a few days ago, Sun Quan came to visit, and he hoped to marry his second daughter Sun Xiushu to you as his wife, what do you think?

Your father, I know, you used to like Sun Xiushu's girl very much. ”

When Zhou Rui heard this, he immediately shook his head, "Dad, in the past, I could only be regarded as a hot shaved head picker for Sun Xiushu, and Sun Xiushu could be called a shunner for me."

I don't want another Zhao Yan to appear at home. ”