With the promulgation of a series of new decrees by the General's Palace, the entire Huainan is surrounded by a depressing atmosphere of mountain rain and wind full of buildings, and the dark tide is surging, and even the ordinary people of Huainan are faintly aware that an unusual storm is gradually brewing, and it seems that it may break out at any time and sweep the entire Huainan land.

The Jinfan army in Anhui City began to move frequently, and for the Huainan family outside Anhui City, Wang Chong could give them half a month to prepare, but in order to stabilize the interior of Anhui City as soon as possible, Wang Chong gave the family in the city only half a day to consider.

The murderous Jinfan soldiers surrounded the mansions of all the families in the city, Wang Chong only gave these families two ways to go, either honestly hand over the private soldiers to accept the reorganization, or muster up the courage to fight with the Jinfan army.

Wang Chong's domineering strength made the Wancheng family sit on pins and needles, and have a fight with Jinfan? What's the difference between this and looking for death? But they were too unwilling to let them hand over the family's armament to Jinfan like this, so they could only find Qiao Gong, the old man Wang Chong, who usually had a good relationship with them, to complain, hoping that Qiao Gong could come forward to make decisions for them.

But what Wang Chong was determined to do, how could Qiao Gong stop it? After a fierce quarrel between the two, in the end, Qiao Gong, who could not convince Wang Chong, could only choose to compromise, and even became Wang Chong's lobbyist in turn, and went to the door one by one to dismiss those Wancheng families, so that they could obediently hand over the family's private soldiers to Jinfan, and not kill themselves.

After all, Wang Chong is the son-in-law he values very much, not to mention that just for the happiness of his two daughters, Qiao Gong must also stand on the same front as Jinfan.

Qiao Gong's energy in these Wancheng families is still very large, and after his persuasion, almost all Wancheng families were forced to accept this cruel reality, and reluctantly handed over the family's private soldiers to Jinfan.

Only one family was lucky, thinking that Wang Chong was just scaring them, but in fact he didn't dare to really attack them, so he refused to hand them over, and in less than half an hour, his family of more than 200 plus 500 private soldiers were all killed under the Jinfan soldiers, and the entire mansion was full of blood, corpses were everywhere, and all family property was confiscated.

I didn't expect him to dare!

Wang Chong's ruthless methods shocked the entire Anhui City, and the other families were also frightened one by one, and secretly luckily obeyed Qiao Gong's persuasion, otherwise, their fate would probably be the same, right?

However, for Wang Chong, all this is just the beginning, the reason why there are so many families in Wancheng who choose to compromise is mainly because they are under the nose of the Jinfan army, and there is no other way out, but those Huainan families outside Anhui City, I am afraid that most of them will not implement Jinfan's almost harsh decree.

Shu County, Zhou's family.

In the secret room, Zhou Hui, the head of the Zhou family, was sitting opposite a white-haired old man in his fifties with a solemn expression.

Zhou Hui asked the old man respectfully: "Uncle, I don't know what you think of Jinfan's actions this time?" ”

In the Zhou family, there is one person whose status and power are far above Zhou Hui, the head of the family, that is Zhou Hui's uncle, Zhou Yu's father, the former Danyang Taishou Zhou Shang, that is, the white-haired old man in front of him.

Zhou Shang sighed faintly: "Wang Chong said on the surface that it was for the stability of Huainan, but this is obviously not his real purpose, Wang Chong can dominate Huainan in just a few months and be named the general of Annan by the imperial court, it is enough to show that he is not a brave and unscrupulous man, not to mention that he has Liu Ziyang and Lu Zijing by his side, these two powerful helpers, how can they not know what kind of turbulent waves this decree will set off in Huainan?" ”

"What does that uncle mean ......"

A gleam flashed in Zhou Shang's cloudy eyes: "Wang Chong is deliberately forcing our Huainan family to rebel!" ”

"This ......" Zhou Hui's pupils shrank, and his face changed greatly, "Why is this!?" ”

"Who knows?" Zhou Shang shook his head and said, "But Wang Chong is ruthless and cunning like a fox, we must not rashly make enemies with him, otherwise it is very likely to bring ruin to our Zhou family!" ”

"So...... The uncle's suggestion was to obey Wang Chong's decree and hand over the family's private soldiers to Jinfan? ”

"No, wait, it's not too late to see how the other families react before deciding!" Zhou Shang paused as he spoke, and asked, "By the way, did you send the 1,000 gold and 100,000 stone grains promised to Wang Chong before?" ”

Zhou Hui nodded: "The handover was completed in Wancheng three days ago." ”

"That'll be fine." Zhou Shang breathed a sigh of relief slightly, "In this way, it can also prevent my Zhou family from suffering from Wang Chong's differential treatment." ”

Zhou Hui glanced at Zhou Shang cautiously, and said tentatively: "Uncle, about Gongjin ......"

"I know what you're trying to say." Zhou Shang said to Zhou Hui in a cold tone, "Write a letter to Gong Jin, and ask him not to have any correspondence with his family in the future, unless they can defeat Jinfan in the future and occupy Huainan!" ”

Zhou Yu has always been very fond of Zhou Yu, since his brother Zhou Yi died of illness, Zhou Shang has always taken Zhou Yu with him and treated him like a parent.

Zhou Yu is talented and outstanding, but unfortunately he is not a son-in-law, otherwise he is definitely the most suitable person to inherit the position of the head of the Zhou family, and now Zhou Yu is angry because of his help to Jiangdong, which makes Wang Chong angry, and the Zhou family has lost 1,000 gold and 100,000 stone grains, in order to protect the family and calm the anger of the clansmen, Zhou Shang can only cut off the connection with Zhou Yu first, even if he is reluctant.

"Sir!"

At this time, the voice of the housekeeper of the Zhou Mansion came from outside the door, and Zhou Hui cast an inquiring glance at Zhou Shang, and only after seeing him nod, he got up and went to open the door.

"What's the matter?" Opening a gap in the secret room, Zhou Hui frowned and asked the housekeeper.

The housekeeper took out a letter from his arms: "This is a secret letter sent by the head of the Longshu Zhao family, saying that the matter is very important, and the master must destroy it immediately after reading the letter!" ”

"Got it." Zhou Hui took the letter and closed the door of the secret room again.

Handing the letter to Zhou Shang, Zhou Hui asked with a smile: "Uncle, you said that Zhao Xi's letter at this time will be related to Jinfan's decree?" ”

"See for yourself." Throwing the finished letter to Zhou Hui, Zhou Shang sneered, "I usually really underestimate this Zhao Xi's ambition, this guy seems to be for the benefit of my Huainan family on the surface, but in fact, I am afraid that he has already had the intention of replacing Wang Chong and becoming my lord of Huainan!" ”

Zhou Hui hesitated: "Uncle, maybe this is really a great opportunity to solve Wang Chong." ”

"Good chance!?" Zhou Shang's face changed, and he scolded sharply, "If you want to die, don't drag our Zhou family to the family, if that Wang Chong is really so easy to deal with, Jinfan will not be able to develop to such a scale as it is now!" ”

Zhou Hui's face turned red, and he said with a dry smile: "Then according to my uncle's opinion, how should my Zhou family respond?" ”

Zhou Shang thought for a while and said: "The reply rejected Zhao Xi, but you let him rest assured that although my Zhou family is not involved in this matter, it will never be leaked out." ”