Hearing that those orcs suspected of being killers had not been found, Zhou Rui couldn't help frowning, "What about the rest of Ganyang City?" Didn't find anything out of it? ”

Fox Yi shook his head and said, "We have also considered that those orcs have left the Nine Star Hotel through the secret passage, but at present, in other places in Ganyang City, there is no trace of those orcs. ”

"So, it's possible that those orcs are still hiding in the Nine Star Hotel."

"Dashuai, this possibility is the greatest.

But considering the Golden Lion Empire behind the Nine Star Hotel, we, the 'ghost', have no way to interrogate the hotel's personnel. ”

Don't look at the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet, which has defeated the navy of the Golden Lion Empire three times in a row, but for the world's number one power, it is impossible for Zhou Rui not to be afraid.

If the Golden Lion Empire is really provoked and goes all out to attack the Zhou family at all costs, even if the Zhou family can withstand it in the end, it will definitely be a lose-lose result.

At that time, there would definitely be no shortage of people who wanted to fall into the well for the Zhou family.

Therefore, Zhou Rui had to be cautious in dealing with some things related to the Golden Lion Empire.

As far as Zhou Rui knows, the boss behind the Nine Star Hotel has a lot of energy in the Golden Lion Empire, which also makes the "ghost" a little timid in this matter.

Zhou Rui narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "Since the bright one can't work, then come to the dark one, the matter of the Nine Star Hotel, the chief steward named Holke must be clear." ”

"Yes, Shuai, I know what to do."

"Do it cleanly, don't let the Golden Lion Empire grab any tricks.

Now that our arrangement in Kangyang Town has been completed, at this juncture, we will try our best to avoid extraneous branches. ”

Kangyang Town is one of the six towns in the northwest of the Han and Tang Empires, adjacent to Zhenwei Town, and is also the only feudal town with a coastline among the six towns in the northwest.

Originally, Kangyang Town was also one of the stronger feudal towns in the Han and Tang Empires, and the military and political power of the entire Kangyang Town was controlled by the Kangyang Jiedu Mansion.

However, after the death of the previous Kangyang Jiedu envoy, his two sons fought for the position of Kangyang Jiedu envoy, and a fratricidal war broke out.

And this war was fought for several years, and these two brothers appointed themselves as Kangyang Festival Envoys, which also made the court of the Han and Tang Empires not know who to canonize as the real Kangyang Festival Envoy, so that there were two Kangyang Festival Envoys in Kangyang Town.

When Zhou Rui was reborn, the civil war in Kangyang Town had already broken out, and until now, the war between the two brothers for the position of Kangyang Jiedu has not ended.

After several years of internal friction in Kangyang Town, all aspects have been seriously damaged, especially the two brothers in order to expand more troops, in their respective control areas increased a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, making the people in Kangyang Town miserable.

At present, the other four feudal towns in the six towns in the southwest, Boting Town, Huannan Town, Rongbei Town, and Deyang Town, have already secretly united in order to deal with the threat of the Zhou family.

The Zhou family made a move against any of the above feudal towns, and the other three feudal towns should not sit idly by, so Zhou Rui did not have the idea of continuing to expand his territory among the six towns in the southwest for the time being, but he hit the idea on Kangyang Town.

In a high-end hotel in Anrui City, the capital of Kangyang Town, Wei Jichang, the commander of the Sixth Division of the Kangyang Army, looked at the thick stack of golden tickets on the table, and couldn't help but show a tangled expression on his face.

At this time, a middle-aged man sitting opposite Wei Jichang said with a smile: "Master Wei, here are exactly 200 golden tickets with a face value of 1,000 gold coins from Zhou's Bank.

As long as Master Wei is willing to cooperate with our Zhou family, after the matter is completed, our Zhou family will give Master Wei another 200 Zhou's bank gold tickets with a face value of 1,000 gold coins, I don't know what Master Wei wants? ”

Wei Jichang said hesitantly: "But the second son is as kind to me as a mountain, and I ......."

Before Wei Jichang's words were finished, he was interrupted by Li Wenfeng, the commander of the Third Division of the Kangyang Army next to him, "Brother Jichang, our Kangyang Town has been tossed by the eldest son and the second son.

Now that the Zhou family is willing to enter Kangyang Town, it can be regarded as making a way for the people of Kangyang Town to live, don't be obsessed anymore. ”

Wei Jichang said with a wry smile: "Brother Wenfeng, I also know that if the eldest son and the second son continue to fight like this, our Kangyang Town will become poorer and poorer.

But the second son has been kind to us all these years, after all. ”

Li Wenfeng snorted coldly, "In the past few years, my two sons, two younger brothers, three nephews, and four nephews have all died on the battlefield, no matter how great the kindness, I don't owe the second son."

Brother Jichang, you just give me a good word, do you accept these golden tickets or not? ”

Wei Jichang stretched out his hand and picked up the stack of golden tickets on the table, "The matter has come to this, for the sake of more than 20 million people in Kangyang Town, I can only be sorry for the second son." ”

The middle-aged man sitting opposite Wei Jichang and Li Wenfeng couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "Senior Commander Wei has made a wise choice, our Zhou family welcomes Senior Commander Wei to join. ”

After the middle-aged man left, Wei Jichang asked Li Wenfeng: "Is it true that the commanders of all divisions on our side have already received the golden tickets of the Zhou family?" ”

Li Wenfeng said: "I guess I should have accepted them all, anyway, after my introduction, you are the third, Zhang Daoyuan of the Fifth Division and Wang Ren of the Seventh Division, and I also recommended this Mr. Xu." ”

Wei Jichang sighed and said: "It seems that the second prince is gone, so many golden tickets have been smashed, few people will not be moved." ”

Li Wenfeng continued: "In fact, even if we, the division commanders, do not accept the Zhou family's golden tickets, the brigade commanders and regiment commanders under our hands have long been bought by the Zhou family, and there is no way to stop the Zhou family from entering Kangyang Town. ”

The second son mentioned by Wei Jichang, whose name is Liu Yi, is the second son of Liu Hou, the previous envoy of Kangyang Festival.

Originally, after the death of Liu Hou, the envoy of Kangyang Jiedu, the position of Kangyang Jiedu envoy should have been inherited by Liu Hou's eldest son Liu Yi, but Liu Yi used his means to control the military power of several infantry divisions in Kangyang Town, so that his eldest brother Liu Hou had to escape from Anrui City, the capital of Kangyang Town.

Of course, Liu Hou also has a deep foundation in the army, otherwise it would be impossible to fight Liu Yi for so many years.

There are a total of 24 cities in Kangyang Town, and Liu Yi currently controls 14 of them, with 400,000 troops under his command.

Liu Yi's eldest brother, Liu Hou, currently controls 10 cities and has about 300,000 troops under his command, and the only naval fleet in Kangyang Town is also in Liu Hou's hands.

The army under the command of the two brothers has a similar establishment, mainly infantry divisions, and each infantry division has an establishment of about 20,000 people.