In a study room in the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion in Xiushui City, Fengwu Jiedu made Shen Xiao punch hard, and actually broke four table legs of a solid wood desk that had been used for many years.

Shen Xiao, who is sixty-seven years old this year, was promoted to a high-level martial artist when he was young, but unfortunately he was never able to break through to the realm of a grandmaster martial artist.

Over the years, although with the increase of age, Shen Xiao's physical fitness in all aspects has been declining, but after all, he has the realm of a high-level martial artist.

I can't complain that Shen Xiao would be so angry, on the side of Ganyang City, the Zhou family has just given the other five families an ultimatum to leave Ganyang City, and the Zhou family has gathered heavy troops in the border area of Jingyang City.

What are you Zhou family going to do?

Do you want to annex even the entire Fengwu Town?

Shen Du, the commander of the first division of the Fengwu Army, hurriedly persuaded at this time: "Father is angry, I feel that the Zhou family may not want to attack Jingyang City.

The Zhou family's accumulation of tens of thousands of army troops in the border area of Jingyang City is likely to threaten our Fengwu Jiedu Mansion not to meddle in the affairs of Ganyang City. ”

Staff member Ding Lin followed and said: "Big handsome, the eldest prince is reasonable.

The Zhou family has just entered Zhenwei Town, and they should not be willing to break out a war with our Fengwu Jiedu Mansion now, and their subordinates feel that the Zhou family's move is more of a threat.

As long as the Jiedu Mansion does not interfere in the affairs of Ganyang City, the Zhou family's army will never attack Jingyang City. ”

Shen Xiao said in a deep voice: "Call the doctor over first, this time it seems to have hurt the bones." ”

When the doctor in the Jiedu Mansion rushed over, he checked Shen Xiao's right hand, and found that Shen Xiao's punch just now really cracked the bones of his right hand.

After the doctor put a plaster cast on Shen Xiao's right hand, Shen Xiao's anger had calmed down a lot.

Shen Xiao asked his eldest son Shen Du and his staff member Ding Lin, "What do you think of the matter in Ganyang City?" ”

Shen Du hesitated for a moment, "Father, the other five major families in Ganyang City seem to be preparing to choose to evacuate Ganyang City.

The Zhou family has a coastal defense fleet in their hands, even if our Jiedu Mansion transfers some more troops to Ganyang City, I am afraid there is no way to confront the Zhou family in Ganyang City.

I think it's best to withdraw the Third Division as well, with the strength that the Zhou family has shown recently, the Third Division may not be able to stay in Ganyang City. ”

To tell the truth, because the Cui family in Ganyang and the Chen family in Ganyang both secretly took refuge in Shen Du, this time the Cui family and the Chen family evacuated Ganyang City, in fact, there was also a certain loss for Shen Du.

However, among Shen Xiao's sons, the only one who can really pose a threat to Shen Du's successor to the next Fengwu Festival envoy is his third brother Shen Zhi.

And Shen Zhi's third division of the Fengwu Army has always been stationed in Ganyang City, and if Ganyang City is monopolized by the Zhou family, it will have the greatest impact on Shen Zhi.

Therefore, Shen Du was a little happy about the Zhou family's forcible expulsion of the other five major families in Ganyang City this time.

Staff member Ding Lin then said: "Boss, you can only make a choice at this time.

Comparing Ganyang City with Jingyang City, Jingyang City, which is completely controlled by Jiedu Mansion, is more important to Jiedu Mansion. ”

Shen Xiao pondered for a while and said, "Send a telegram to the third child, asking him not to act rashly in Ganyang City, and to prepare to evacuate Ganyang City." ”

Originally, Chen Xian, the head of the Chen family, also hoped that through the intervention of the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, things could turn around.

Presumably, Fengwu Jiedu Mansion did not want to see that Ganyang City, the largest port city in the west of the Han and Tang Empires, was monopolized by the Zhou family.

As a result, in the face of the strength of the Zhou family, Fengwu Jiedu Mansion chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and even Shen Zhi hid in the barracks of the Third Division of the Fengwu Army and did not come out.

Then what else do you have to say, hurry up and leave!

At least you have to get the 10 million silver coins you promised by the Zhou family.

By May 1, 1537, although the forces of the five major families had not all withdrawn from Ganyang City due to time.

However, the several troops under the control of the five major families have already left the Ganyang region.

Since the officers and men of these units were basically Ganyang people, when several units withdrew from the Ganyang area, a large number of deserters inevitably appeared.

The homeland is difficult to leave, and even if the five major families have made various promises to the officers and soldiers of their respective units, they cannot suppress this wave of deserters.

What is even more infuriating is that the Zhou family actually sent people to erect a number of recruitment points directly near the stations of several troops to recruit deserters from these troops.

The five major families were forced to have no choice but to strictly control the weapons and ammunition of their respective troops.

People can go, but weapons and ammunition can't be taken.

Anyway, there is no shortage of people who are willing to serve as soldiers these years, as long as the weapons are still there, after a few troops leave Ganyang City, they can quickly make up for the shortfall.

This time, in order to allow the other five families in Ganyang City to leave Ganyang City, Zhou Rui not only paid the opening fee of 50 million silver coins, but also needed to spend about 150 million silver coins to acquire the properties of the five major families in Ganyang City and the surrounding villages and towns.

However, with only 200 million silver coins, the five major families can be driven out of Ganyang City without blood, and Zhou Rui is still very satisfied.

Maybe there are other things, Zhou Rui may be lacking, but only money, Zhou Rui is really not lacking.

Not to mention that the lottery system also has gold bricks, silver bricks, rice and flour worth billions of silver coins in stock, and with just one Zhou's bank, it can now provide Zhou Rui with more than 1 billion silver coins.

Now Zhou's Bank has set up branches in various cities in Zhenwei Town, due to the support of Zhou's strong force, this time Zhou's Bank will never be looted again like its predecessor Liujia Qianzhuang.

Zhou's Bank, which straddles Fengwu Town and Zhenwei Town, does not count the 1,500 tons of gold that Zhou Rui put in the underground vault of Zhou's Bank headquarters, which has absorbed nearly 2 billion silver coins in cash.

According to the plan formulated by Liu Yiqiu, the Zhou Bank will expand to the market towns of Fengwu Town and Zhenwei Town, and extend the influence of the Zhou Bank to the market towns and villages outside the cities of the two feudal towns.

In the future, Zhou's Bank will be able to provide more cash flow for Zhou Rui.

On the evening of May 1, Zhou Rui hosted a banquet in the Zhou Mansion to entertain Cheng Xianhou of the rebels, and Wei Zhao, the commander of the rebels' silver wolf column.

The Silver Wolf Column is one of the six major columns of the Resistance Army, and all the resistance units in the Silver Wolf Empire are under the command of the Headquarters of the Silver Wolf Column.

Wei Zhao can be said to be the supreme commander of the rebel army in the Silver Wolf Empire.

Wei Zhao held a wine glass and said to Zhou Rui respectfully: "Zhou Dashuai, on behalf of the rebels, thank you for your help to our rebels, I have dried this glass of wine, Zhou Dashuai, you are free." ”

After speaking, Wei Zhaoduan dried up about three taels of liquor in one gulp.

Zhou Rui said with a smile: "Commander Wei is really bold, I will accompany Commander Wei to have a drink." ”

Immediately, Zhou Rui also drank up the more than three taels of liquor in his wine glass.

Cheng Xianhou next to him said with a wry smile: "I can't compare to you young people, I'll drink half of it!" ”

Wei Zhao is just thirty years old this year, but he has been the commander of the Silver Wolf Column for more than four years.

The last commander of the Silver Wolf Column was Wei Zhao's father.

In the army of the Silver Wolf Empire, in an encirclement and suppression of the Silver Wolf Column, after Wei Zhao's father was unfortunately killed, Wei Zhao took over the position of the commander of the Silver Wolf Column.

Wei Zhao then said to Zhou Rui: "Zhou Dashuai defeated the expeditionary force of the Silver Wolf Empire this time, which can be said to have caused quite a stir in the Silver Wolf Empire.

Encouraged by this, our Silver Wolf Column also launched a new round of offensive within the Silver Wolf Empire.

It's a pity that the difference between the strength of the enemy and us is too great, and no decent results have been achieved. ”

Zhou Rui couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, he hadn't heard of it before, what kind of movement did the rebels make in the Silver Wolf Empire!

Cheng Xianhou explained: "Zhou Dashuai, because of the repeated encirclement and suppression of the Silver Wolf Column by the Silver Wolf Empire, the strength of the Silver Wolf Column has not been much.

Therefore, the offensive launched by the Silver Wolf Column can only be regarded as a small fight, attacking some security forces stationed in villages and towns. ”

The security forces of the Silver Wolf Empire are armed with wolf people and dog people as officers, and humans as soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is generally very weak.

Zhou Rui asked with some curiosity: "Commander Wei, how many people are there in your Silver Wolf Column now?" ”

Wei Zhao said: "Our Silver Wolf Column currently has 1 column headquarters, 12 divisions and 10 independent brigades, and all the troops add up to about 7,000 people.

However, there are at least hundreds of thousands of peripheral personnel in our Silver Wolf Column, and we have a very complete intelligence network, which is fully capable of helping Zhou Dashuai to recruit enough technicians and workers in the Silver Wolf Empire. ”

Zhou Rui wanted to build the Ganyang Port Shipyard, the Panlongshan Iron and Steel Plant, the Arsenal, the Artillery Shell Factory, the Power Plant, and even more factories, and the most crucial point was that there must be a large number of technicians and workers.

So Zhou Rui contacted the rebels in the territory of the six major beast countries, hoping to recruit human technicians and human workers from the six major beast countries through the rebels.

Of course, this favor, the rebels will not help in vain, Zhou Rui promised to help the rebels with a large number of weapons, ammunition, food and medicine.

Because of the army weapons and equipment produced by the lottery system, Zhou Rui can't look down on the weapons of the Yuan Zhenwei Army at all.

This time, Zhou Rui promised to help the rebels with 8,000 breech single-shot rifles, 2,000 repeating rifles, 80 heavy machine guns, and 3 million rounds of ammunition, all of which were weapons and ammunition that had been eliminated after the reorganization of several descendants of Zhenwei Jiedu Prefecture.

Hearing that the Silver Wolf Column had such a large establishment, and the total number of combat troops was only more than 7,000, Zhou Rui said with some emotion: "It seems that Commander Wei is in the Silver Wolf Empire, and it is not easy!" ”

Wei Zhao sighed and said, "Zhou Dashuai, I really don't hide it.

Maybe it's my lack of ability, in the past few years, under my leadership, the Silver Wolf Column has been fighting fewer and fewer, and now the Silver Wolf Column can be said to be the column with the least strength and the weakest combat effectiveness among the six major columns of the Resistance Army, which is why I have traveled thousands of miles to see Zhou Dashuai. ”