On May 27, 1543, the 4 infantry divisions of the Zhenwu Army and the 2 infantry divisions of the Fengwu Army under the jurisdiction of the Zhou family suddenly attacked the town of Rongbei without warning, and the troops were directed at several cities controlled by the Jiedu Mansion in Rongbei.

Seeing that the Zhou family actually stretched out their hands to Rongbei Town again, the two remaining feudal towns in the southwest region, Boting Town and Deyang Town, finally couldn't sit still.

Your Zhou family sent troops to Rongnan Town, it can be said that the Huanan Festival made Feng Zhihuan suffer by himself.

But Rongbei Town did not provoke your Zhou family, even if your Zhou family sent troops to attack Huanan Town, the descendants of the Jiedu Mansion in Rongbei and the armies of the major families in Rongbei Town did not enter Rongnan Town.

Your Zhou family invaded Huanbei Town at this time, obviously with the intention of annexing the entire southwest region.

Immediately, the Boting Jiedu Mansion and the Deyang Jiedu Mansion immediately began to assemble the troops of their own towns and prepared to enter the town of Rongbei to participate in the battle.

However, after the descendants of the Jiedu Mansion in Rongbei Province defected, the Zhou family entered the army in the territory of Rongbei Town, and it took only a week to capture Zeyang City, the capital of Rongbei Town, and Wang Yongxing was also defeated and captured.

Seeing that the Zhou family was almost effortless, the Boting Jiedu Mansion and the Deyang Jiedu Mansion made Wang Yongxing a prisoner and immediately suspended the plan to send troops.

Ma Sheng, the envoy of the Boting Jiedu, and Xia Shijie, the envoy of the Deyang Jiedu, were already stupid at this time, and the military strength of the Huanan Jiedu Mansion and the Rongbei Jiedu Mansion were above the two Jiedu Mansions, but as a result, the descendants of the Nan Jiedu Mansion and the Rongbei Jiedu Mansion all surrendered in the face of the Zhou family's army.

This made Ma Sheng, the envoy of the Boting Festival, and Xia Shijie, the envoy of the Deyang Festival, couldn't help but worry about whether the generals under their command who led the troops were also bought by the Zhou family's money?

As a result, the two Jiedu envoys immediately began to investigate the descendants of their subordinates, and even arrested many suspected officers.

Originally, the five Jiedu Mansions in the Northwest Region also had the intention of participating in the war when they saw that the Zhou family sent troops to Rongbei Town, but the Jiedu Mansion in Rongbei was defeated too quickly, and the five Jiedu Mansions in the Northwest Region subsequently canceled the plan to send troops.

After Zeyang City, the capital of Rongbei Town, was conquered by the Zhou family's army, the major families in Rongbei Town who were originally preparing for mobilization suddenly didn't know what to do next.

More than 100,000 descendants of the Rongbei Jiedu Mansion have defected, and even the Yongxing of the Northern Jiedu has become a prisoner of the Zhou family, making the major families in Rongbei Town become leaderless, and many families in Rongbei Town, like some families in Huannan Town, expressed their willingness to submit to the Zhou family and are willing to hand over their own family's army.

After taking control of the Huanan Jiedu Mansion and the Huanbei Jiedu Mansion, the Zhou family immediately began to collect the military power of the major families in Huannan Town and Rongbei Town.

In the face of the strength of the Zhou family, even if some families were unwilling to hand over the army in their hands, they had to grit their teeth and endure it.

The key is that the Zhou family is too ruthless, if you don't hand over the military power, the Zhou family's army will directly fight over, not to mention the military power at that time, the entire family will be wiped out.

Although there were some twists and turns in the process of incorporating the armies of the major families in Huanan Town and Huanbei Town, by the end of July 1543, Huanan Town and Rongbei Town had been owned by the Zhou family.

Zhou Rui's official position has more envoys of Huannan Jiedu and Huanbei Jiedu, and the territory of Huannan Town and Huanbei Town also began to establish the Huannan Army and the Huanbei Army in accordance with the previous practice of the Zhou family.

And not long after the Zhou family sent troops to Huanbei Town, the imperial forbidden army of the Han and Tang Empires suddenly gathered millions of troops to attack Jinggu Town in the northeast.

Jinggu Town and Zhongfang Town and Yongwei Town in the Northeast Region have already formed a Northeast Alliance, and when the imperial court forbidden army invaded Jinggu Town, Zhongfang Jiedu Mansion and Yongwei Jiedu Mansion immediately said that they would send troops into Jinggu Town to participate in the war.

However, the armies of Zhongfang Town and Yongwei Town had not yet entered Jinggu Town, and the Imperial Forbidden Army mobilized 20 infantry divisions and invaded the territory of Zhongfang Town in three ways.

At this moment, something shocked the outside world happened, Shuodong Town, the largest feudal town in the Han and Tang Empires, actually sent hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Yongwei Town.

You must know that the outside world has always thought that once the imperial court has the intention of annexing Jinggu Town, Zhongfang Town and Yongwei Town, Shuodong Town will inevitably send troops to prevent the imperial court from annexing these three feudal towns.

But the current situation seems to be that the imperial court and Shuodong Town have secretly discussed, and they will jointly carve up Jinggu Town, Zhongfang Town and Yongwei Town.

What's going on?

In a study room in the Jiedu Mansion of the Thirteen Towns of Ganyang City, Zhou Rui said to Yan Shaoqiu with a smile: "Boss Yan, thanks to your Yan family's help this time, otherwise the Zhou family would not have been able to annex Huanan Town and Huanbei Town so easily. ”

Because Zhou Rui has two more official positions, the envoy of the southern section and the envoy of the north of the city, the eleven towns and the eleven towns have become the thirteen towns and the thirteen towns.

Yan Shaoqiu said respectfully: "The handsome man is too humble, with the current strength of the Zhou family, even without the help of our Yan family, those families in Huannan Town and Rongbei Town will not be the opponent of the big handsome." ”

Zhou Rui continued: "Meritorious service is meritorious service, I will not forget the merits of your Yan family this time."

I came to you today to discuss with you about the Yan family's money bank.

Boss Yan must also know that among the various feudal towns of our Zhou family, the only money bank or bank that can issue gold and silver bills is Zhou's Bank. ”

Yan Shaoqiu hurriedly said: "Dashuai, our Yan family is willing to merge the Yan family's money into Zhou's Bank unconditionally. ”

Zhou Rui waved his hand, "It is the general trend for Yan's money to be merged into Zhou's Bank, but Zhou's Bank will not take it by force."

Boss Yan, do you think this is good, I will use 20% of the shares of Pingluan Gold Mine in exchange for the entire Yan family money village. ”

When Yan Shaoqiu heard that Zhou Rui was going to exchange 20% of the shares of Pingluan Gold Mine for Yan's money village, the whole person couldn't help but get excited.

In the coffers of the Yan Family Bank, although there are more than 3 billion silver coins worth of coins, there are still hundreds of millions of silver coins in loans that have not been recovered.

However, after removing the gold and silver bills issued by Yanjia Qianzhuang, as well as the current fixed deposits, plus some loans that can no longer be recovered, such as the 300 million silver coins that Yanjia Qianzhuang loaned to the original Huannan Jiedu Mansion, in fact, Yanjia Qianzhuang is currently in deficit with hundreds of millions of silver coins.

Of course, if you count the value of the Yan family money village itself, the deficit of hundreds of millions of silver coins is nothing, and the entire Yan family money bank is still very valuable.

However, no matter how valuable the current Yanjia Qianzhuang is, it should not be worth 20% of the shares of Pingluan Gold Mine, you must know that the gold reserves of Pingluan Gold Mine are more than 60,000 tons, which is currently the fourth largest gold mine in the world in terms of gold reserves.

Although Yan Shaoqiu was very moved by 20% of the shares of Pingluan Gold Mine, he still insisted: "Dashuai, our Yan family is sincere and willing to merge the Yan family's money into Zhou's Bank free of charge. ”

Zhou Rui said with a smile: "Boss Yan, just by virtue of the name of the Yan family's money bank, it can be worth hundreds of millions of silver coins, so don't talk about anything gratuitous."

For 20% of the shares of Pingluan Gold Mine, I don't know if Boss Yan is satisfied?

If we are not satisfied, we can discuss again. ”

Yan Shaoqiu heard Zhou Rui say this, and hurriedly nodded: "Satisfied!" Very satisfied!

In such an exchange, our Yan family actually took a big advantage.

Previously, because of the large amount of silver coins that were loaned to the Huanan Jiedu Mansion and the Huanbei Jiedu Mansion, the Yan family money village is now in a deficit of at least hundreds of millions of silver coins. ”

Zhou Rui said indifferently: "I already know about the situation of the Yan family's money village.

Since Boss Yan agreed, it was decided in this way, and 20% of the shares of Pingluan Gold Mine were exchanged for Yan's money. ”

After talking about the matter of the Yan family's money village, Zhou Rui said to Yan Shaoqiu again: "I have always admired Boss Yan's talent.

Looking for you this time, in addition to discussing the affairs of the Yan family's money bank, I also hope that Boss Yan can stay here in Jiedu Mansion and help me deal with some government affairs.

I don't know if Boss Yan is willing? ”

"Yes! Dashuai, I do! ”

A fool wouldn't want to!

This is an opportunity to hug his thighs, and of course Yan Shaoqiu will not miss it.

Hearing that Yan Shaoqiu was willing to stay in Jiedu Mansion to do things, Zhou Rui nodded slightly, "Old Yan, what do you think of Shuodong Town's dispatch of troops to Yongwei Town?" ”

Yan Shaoqiu said secretly: Could it be that this is the handsome's investigation of me?

Yan Shaoqiu pondered for a moment and said, "Marshal, Shuodong Town sent troops to Yongwei Town this time, and it is obvious that some kind of agreement was secretly reached with the imperial court before.

And it is likely to be an agreement to divide Jinggu Town, Zhongfang Town, and Yongwei Town.

If it was just the imperial court sending troops, maybe Jinggu Town, Zhongfang Town and Yongwei Town would be able to fight together, but Shuodong Town also sent troops, so Jinggu Town, Zhongfang Town and Yongwei Town basically had no drama.

With the current situation of our Han and Tang Empires, the scattered military towns of Jinggu Town, Zhongfang Town, and Yongwei Town will sooner or later be swallowed up by other forces. ”

Zhou Rui asked again: "Old Yan, do you think our Zhou family should go all out and take down the last two feudal towns in the southwest region?" ”

Yan Shaoqiu had already considered this aspect, so he immediately replied: "Dashuai, after Huannan Town and Rongbei Town are controlled by our Zhou family, the connection between Boting Town and Deyang Town and the five towns in the northwest is equivalent to being completely cut off.

Without the assistance of the five towns in the northwest, it would be impossible for Boting Town and Deyang Town to resist our Zhou family's army.

However, with my understanding of Ma Sheng, the envoy of the Boting Festival, and Xia Shijie, the envoy of the Deyang Festival, maybe our Zhou family does not need to use force at all, and can take the Boting Jiedu Mansion and the Deyang Jiedu Mansion into the bag. ”

In the Jiedu Mansion of Yishan City, the capital of Boting Town, Ma Sheng asked Hu Wu in a cold voice: "Mr. Hu Wu, if you have anything to say, just say it directly!"

But my Ma Sheng is not frightened, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in my Boting Town are not vegetarians, what moves do you have in the Zhou family, I will definitely follow in Boting Town! ”

Although Ma Sheng's tone was quite hard, it inevitably had some meaning of being strong on the outside and doing something in it.

Hu Wu smiled slightly, "Ma Dashuai, what kind of strength does our Zhou family have, presumably I don't need to repeat it here."

Even if Ma Dashuai can really control hundreds of thousands of troops, if our Zhou family really wants to enter Boting Town, presumably Ma Dashuai will not be able to stop it.

What's more, there are hundreds of thousands of troops in Boting Town, and what Ma Dashuai can really control is only 4 infantry divisions and 3 independent brigades belonging to Boting Jiedu Mansion, adding up to only more than 100,000 people.

Moreover, these more than 100,000 people, after our Zhou Jiajun entered Boting Town, many of them may choose to defect.

This point cannot be changed by removing the military power of some officers from Ma Dashuai. ”

The corners of Ma Sheng's mouth twitched, "Mr. Fox Five, are you threatening me?" ”

Hu Wu shrugged his shoulders and said, "Ma Dashuai, I'm just stating a fact, not a threat.

I am here this time to represent the Zhou family, and I hope that Ma Dashuai can see the situation clearly and avoid the two sides from fighting each other.

As long as Ma Dashuai is willing to give up the post of Boting Festival to our Dashuai, our Zhou family is willing to directly pay Ma Dashuai a pension of 200 million silver coins! ”

The Boting Festival made Ma Sheng stunned, "Pension? ”

"It is a pension, a pension of 200 million silver coins, and it will ensure the safety of the Ma family's private property.

To tell the truth, our Zhou family also gave Xia Dashuai of Deyang Town a pension of 200 million silver coins, and this time our Zhou family is bound to get it to Boting Town and Deyang Town. ”

Bo Ting Festival made Ma Sheng grit his teeth and said: "What if Ben Shuai is unwilling to ask for any pension?" ”

Hu Wu sighed and said: "Ma Dashuai, as the saying goes, those who know the times are Junjie.

Feng Zhihuan, the former envoy of the southern festival, and Wang Yongxing, the envoy of the original northern section, are likely to want to get a pension very much, but unfortunately the two of them have no chance. ”

After Hu Wu left, Bo Ting Jiedu asked Ma Sheng to call several henchmen over, and then told the Zhou family the meaning of several henchmen.

Ma Sheng's younger brother, Ma Xiang, the commander of the Second Infantry Division of the Boting Army, sighed and said, "Big brother, the Zhou family is now a behemoth.

If we really want to fight, we don't have a chance of winning in the Boting Jiedu Mansion.

What's more, there are many coastal cities in our Boting Town, but the Zhou family has a southwest coastal defense fleet in their hands that is comparable to the navy of the beast nation. ”

Ma Sheng's eldest son, Ma Ji'an, the commander of the Third Infantry Division of the Boting Army, continued: "Father, for the sake of our Ma family's continuity, it is better to surrender!"

The private property that our Ma family owns now, coupled with the 200 million silver coins given by the Zhou family, can at least ensure the wealth of our Ma family for future generations. ”

Several other henchmen are also children of the Ma family, and they all agree to surrender to the Zhou family, after all, the difference in strength between the two sides is too great.

Bo Ting Jie Du made Ma Sheng say with a melancholy face: "Since everyone thinks so, then ...... Let's go down! ”

Not long after the Zhou family took control of Huannan Town and Rongbei Town, Ma Sheng, the envoy of the Boting Jiedu, announced his resignation from the post of the envoy of the Boting Jiedu, and the 4 infantry divisions and 3 independent brigades belonging to the Boting Jiedu Mansion would be merged into the sequence of the Zhou army.

Three days later, Xia Shijie, the envoy of Deyang Jiedu, also announced his resignation from the post of envoy of Deyang Jiedu, and the 5 infantry divisions and 3 mixed brigades belonging to Deyang Jiedu Mansion would also be merged into the sequence of the Zhou army.

Even the two Jiedu envoys surrendered to the Zhou family, and the major families in Boting Town and Deyang Town, knowing that there was no other choice, sent people to contact the Zhou family one after another, expressing their willingness to submit to the Zhou family and hand over the military power of each family.