On the morning of March 12, 1537, the front pages of newspapers in various parts of the Han and Tang Empires were occupied by a black and white photo.

The photo shows a group photo of a human youth shaking hands with a wolf clansman, and this human youth is Zhou Rui, and the wolf clan is the commander of the Third Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Silver Wolf Empire, Longra.

After Longra was ordered to arrive at Jingsheng City, it took only one day to reach an armistice agreement with the Zhou family in Ganyang.

This armistice agreement did not involve any terms for the cession of land and indemnity, and the two sides only reached a few agreements on the withdrawal of the Silver Wolf Empire from Xiangshi Island.

For example, the Zhou family army allowed the Fourteenth Army of the Silver Wolf Empire to collect the corpses of those fallen wolf clan officers and soldiers in front of the burial position, as well as the specific time when the Fourteenth Army of the Silver Wolf Empire withdrew from Xiangshi Island and so on.

After this armistice agreement was published, the shops selling firecrackers in various parts of the Han and Tang Empires suddenly became crowded again.

In the eyes of the people of the Han and Tang Empires, this armistice agreement represents the recognition of the Silver Wolf Empire.

Don't think that our Han and Tang empires are now in the era of feudal separation, so they have become strong and powerful.

The Silver Wolf Empire is powerful, isn't it?

One of the six great beast empires, isn't it still in the hands of a local family in our Han and Tang Empires!

Such a happy event must be celebrated with firecrackers.

At 2 p.m. on March 15, the last infantry regiment of the 14th Army of the Silver Wolf Empire also boarded the transport ship parked at the pier of Xiangshi Port.

Immediately, the Silver Wolf Empire expeditionary fleet consisted of 6 all-main gun battleships, 4 all-steel battleships, 6 large armored cruisers, 12 light cruisers, and 12 destroyers.

There were also 37 large transport ships carrying the remaining officers and soldiers of the Fourteenth Army of the Silver Wolf Empire, which slowly sailed away from the waters of Xiangshi Island.

So far, the local war between the Ganyang Zhou family and the Silver Wolf Empire has come to a complete end.

In the evening of the same day, four battleships with full main guns, two battle cruisers, two large armored cruisers, and two light cruisers of the coastal defense fleet re-entered the port of Xiangshi.

Early the next morning, more than 20 other warships of the coastal defense fleet returned to the Ganyang military port.

Immediately, the Cui family and the Chen family couldn't help but change the rumors, and the ninth division of the Cui family's Fengwu Army and the fifth division of the Chen family's Fengwu Army all entered a state of readiness.

Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.

The problem is that the Cui family and the Chen family have both received the benefits of the Silver Wolf Empire before, and even the two families have also received a batch of weapons and ammunition sponsored by the Silver Wolf Empire for free, preparing to take the opportunity to completely eliminate the Zhou family's forces from Ganyang City.

Now that the Silver Wolf Empire has withdrawn, the Cui family and the Chen family are of course worried that the Zhou family will settle accounts after the autumn.

As for the Silver Wolf Empire's secret purchase of the Cui family and the Chen family, neither the Cui family nor the Chen family thought that they could hide it from the Zhou family.

Zhou Rui and Liu Yiqiu also followed more than 20 warships of the coastal defense fleet and returned to Ganyang City.

In a study room in the Zhou Mansion, Zhou Xiaozheng, who was in a wheelchair, said to Zhou Rui with a smile: "I didn't expect our Zhou family to have such a beautiful time!"

Even a behemoth like the Silver Wolf Empire had to give in to our Zhou family!

Well done, son!

is worthy of my son Zhou Xiaozheng! Ha ha! ”

Zhou Rui said with a smile: "It's also just in time for the intensification of the contradiction between the Silver Wolf Empire and the Flying Leopard Empire, otherwise it is not so easy to make the Silver Wolf Empire soften." ”

Zhou Xiaozheng said: "No matter what, this time our Zhou family has shown its face once in the entire Han and Tang Empires.

By the way, what's going on in Zhenwei Town? ”

"After Huitong City and Yiguang City were taken by our Zhou family, most of the families in Zhenwei Town have expressed their willingness to respect you as the new Zhenwei Festival envoy."

Zhou Xiaozheng waved his hand, "You can make our Zhou family into the current situation, I am already one hundred and twenty satisfied, and you will be the envoy of Zhenwei Festival!"

Now that I'm like this, I won't go to the false name of the festival envoy, and I will be ready to retire in Ganyang City in the future.

A few days ago, Shen Zhi came to visit, and the meaning of his words was that Fengwu Jiedu Mansion hoped that the forces of our Zhou family could withdraw from Fengwu Town.

Ganyang City is where your father and I made a fortune, I don't care about anything else, our Zhou family's territory in Ganyang City must not be let out. ”

Zhou Rui hurriedly said: "Dad, I have already sent someone to find medicine to treat tendon and vein injuries and spinal injuries, maybe ......."

Before Zhou Rui finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhou Xiaozheng, "Don't waste more manpower and material resources, I know my injuries best in my heart, and it is impossible to heal them." ”

Of course, Zhou Rui knew that an injury like Zhou Xiaozheng could not be cured, but Zhou Rui pinned his hopes on the lottery system.

At the beginning, Zhou Rui asked the lottery system, can the "primary physical fitness enhancement medicine" cure his father's injury?

Although the lottery system told Zhou Rui that it was not recommended for seriously injured people to take "primary physical fitness enhancement drugs" to avoid counterproduction, the lottery system mentioned healing medicines.

It's a pity that until now, Zhou Rui has not prescribed healing drugs that can treat his father's injuries.

Zhou Xiaozheng continued: "Now that your eldest brother is gone, in the future, this family business of our Zhou family will be yours after all."

Zhenwei Jiedu makes this position, you sit early and sit late, and there is no difference. ”

Seeing Zhou Xiaozheng's attitude, Zhou Rui did not insist that Zhou Xiaozheng have the false name of Zhenwei Festival.

"Dad, don't worry, Ganyang City is the foundation of our Zhou family, and no one can let our Zhou family leave Ganyang City.

Over there in Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, I will take care of it. ”

"Our Zhou family's army troops, how did you and your second uncle come up with this new reorganization plan?"

Zhou Rui first told his father Zhou Xiaozheng about the slimming plan proposed by Zhou Xiaorong, and then continued: "Dad, I discussed with my second uncle that several troops on the side of Fengwu Town will be reorganized according to the new establishment.

There are about 30,000 division-level troops and about 10,000 brigade-level troops.

The extra officers and soldiers were transferred to the various units of the Zhenwei Army.

After taking Huitong City and Yiguang City, the 8th and 9th Divisions of the Zhenwei Army, as well as the 9th Mixed Brigade and the 11th Mixed Brigade, the numbers of these four troops also fell into the hands of our defenders.

So in the next step, our Zhou family will reorganize 6 infantry divisions and 5 mixed brigades on the side of Zhenwei Town.

With the addition of the Ganyang Garrison Division, the 17th Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army, the 22nd Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army, the Longshan Garrison Brigade and the Xiangshi Garrison Brigade, the total strength of our Zhou Army's army will reach 300,000 people. ”

On the afternoon of the day when Zhou Rui had just returned to Ganyang City, Shen Zhi, the commander of the Third Division of the Fengwu Army, came to visit.

"It's really three days, that is, even more impressive.

I don't know if it's appropriate to call Zhou Xian's nephew Zhou Dashuai now, or to call Zhou Shaoshuai? Shen Zhi said with a smile.

In the Han and Tang Empires, the title of the marshal was not called casually, and only the envoys of the feudal towns could be called the marshal.

"Uncle Shen still calls me like before, I don't know what Uncle Shen is coming to the door this time?"

Shen Zhi hesitated for a moment and said, "Then I'll say it bluntly, now your Zhou family's entry into Zhenwei Town is already a certainty."

In this way, isn't it a little inappropriate for your Zhou family to stay in Ganyang City and control Longshan City? ”

"Not suitable? I think it's a good fit!

Even if our Zhou family enters Zhenwei Town, on the side of Fengwu Town, we will still obey the orders of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, and the taxes that should be paid to Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, our Zhou family will never pay one less copper plate. ”

Shen Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "But after your Zhou family entered Zhenwei Town, it means that it is Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion."

If you still stay in Ganyang City and control Longshan City, you will inevitably make the outside world mistakenly think that Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion has invaded my Fengwu Town. ”

Uncle Shen said with a smile, now Jingyang City in Zhenwei Town is under the control of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion.

If you want to talk about the invasion, it is also the invasion of Zhenwei Town by Fengwu Jiedu Mansion. ”

Zhou Rui's words made Shen Zhi's heart sink, in fact, the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion was very worried that after the Zhou family entered Zhenwei Town, they would attack Jingyang City.

After all, Jingyang City was originally one of the cities directly belonging to Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, and Jingyang City also involved a silver mine with silver reserves of tens of thousands of tons.

"Nephew Zhou Xian, for the ownership of Jingyang City, the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion and the Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion signed an agreement at the beginning."

"Hehe, Uncle Shen, it was the Xu family's Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion that signed the agreement with the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, not our Zhou family's Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion.

If the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion is willing to return Jingyang City to our Zhou family, the matter of withdrawing from Ganyang City and Longshan City will be easy to discuss. ”

In a study room of Fengwu Jiedu Mansion in Xiushui City, Shen Du, the commander of the first division of the Fengwu Army, held a telegram in his hand, and said to Shen Xiao, the envoy of Fengwu Jiedu, in a deep voice: "Father, the third brother sent a telegram back from Ganyang City.

The Zhou family actually asked our Fengwu Festival Mansion for Jingyang City! ”

Shen Xiao couldn't help frowning when he heard this, took the telegram in Shen Du's hand and looked at it, then shook his head and said, "It seems that it is impossible to get the Zhou family to take the initiative to withdraw from our Fengwu Town." ”

Jingyang City and the villages and towns around Jingyang City add up to a population of millions.

Moreover, there is a silver mine with silver reserves of up to tens of thousands of tons in Jingyang City, and now Fengwu Jiedu Mansion can mine hundreds of thousands of silver coins worth of silver from this silver mine every month, which is still under the premise of not increasing the scale of mining.

If Jingyang City is exchanged for the urban area of Ganyang City and Longshan City controlled by the Zhou family, it must be Fengwu Jiedu Mansion that suffers.

After all, Ganyang City is not all in the hands of the Zhou family, Longshan City and the villages and towns around Longshan City combined, there may only be more than 400,000 people, and the Longshan area is in Fengwu Town, which is still a relatively poor area.

"Father, according to the information obtained by the Intelligence Department of Jiedu Mansion, the Zhou family is likely to carry out a new round of army expansion in Zhenwei Town next.

Now that the descendants of our Jiedu Mansion only have the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, the 3rd Division, the 1st Independent Brigade and the 2nd Independent Brigade, do we have to consider expanding the army? ”

At this time, Ding Lin, a staff member in the study, also suggested to Shen Xiao: "Dashuai, from the attitude of the Zhou family to ask for Jingyang City this time, you can see the wolf ambition of the Zhou family.

For the Zhou family, the handsome man has to guard against it!

It's time to make up your mind and expand the descendants of our Jiedu Mansion! ”

Shen Xiao nodded slowly, "Then strive to form the 24th Independent Brigade and the 25th Independent Brigade as soon as possible, as for the formation of these two independent brigades, Shen Du will be in charge!" ”

What Shen Xiao didn't see was that after he agreed to form two new independent brigades, his eldest son Shen Du and his confidant Ding Lin actually exchanged glances with each other.