Chapter 212: If You Don't Surrender, Let's Fight!
When Mu Changan got the news, he was searching the Sun Mansion in the south of the city, but Sun Qin Chong was obviously not in a hurry, and almost took away everything that could be taken away in the mansion, leaving these subordinates and beautiful concubines.
"Hand over all the valuable things on your body!" In the end, Mu Changan stretched out the demon's claws to these subordinates and concubines, and Sun Fu instantly began to jump.
As for Sun Qin Chong's smooth slipping away from under the Zhong family, Mu Changan felt that this Zhong master might be undertidyed.
"Ignorant person, I can't see the general trend at all, how did he get mixed up with the head of the three major forces in Xuzhou?" Mu Changan took the golden hairpin he snatched from the concubine and walked towards the lobby.
This golden hairpin is good, the style is very beautiful, take it back and give it to Ah Xue, and set her a routine.
According to the subordinates, the Zhong family used to be the weakest of the four families in Xuzhou, but in recent years, it has suddenly risen, not only becoming the head of the four families, but also driving out the Li family, one of the four families, and people in the city speculate that the Zhong family may have met nobles to help. Zhang Mingyang informed Mu Changan of some of the information he had investigated.
"Encounter noble people to help each other?" Mu Changan shook his head, he didn't believe it, when he met a noble person to help him, he would take the initiative to let the entire Sun family go?
Even he Mu Chang'an understands this truth, doesn't that noble person understand?
But that doesn't matter.
"Send people to guard the checkpoints in the north and west of the city to prevent the Zhong and Zhao families from raiding, and we have just laid down this area in the south of the city, and the residents are nervous, you quickly send someone to pacify it, and by the way, maintain law and order." "The top priority at the moment is to stabilize the situation in the south of the city, and wait until the rectification is completed before plotting against the two forces in the north and west of the city, and finally complete the unification of the entire Xuzhou.
If you want to do it, you can do it with a big vote!
Mu Changan poked Jin Hai fiercely.
"Yes, young master. Zhang Mingyang left in response.
Mu Changan waited until Zhang Mingyang left, and then continued to walk towards the lobby, but the ground was a little slippery because of too much snow, so he had to walk carefully.
"Anyway, it's been snowing for several days, why hasn't it ended yet?" Mu Changan raised his head and looked at the sky, there was endless white in the gray, and there was no sunlight at all.
However, after all, this was the first winter he had spent here, so he didn't know the situation, thinking that the winter snow in the Cursed God Continent would be like this for several days, so he didn't pay too much attention to it, shook his head and walked into the lobby.
"Young Master, there is your letter. "As soon as I walked into the lobby, before I had time to look at it, a soldier ran in from outside, holding a letter in his hand.
"Letter?" Mu Changan wondered, there was still someone in this world who wrote to him? Could it be Tang Shenyu and them?
How could Tang Shenyu know that he was in Yongle City, and it was still unclear how far Qiu Chuyuan was from Yongle City, and now that the general environment was bad, who dared to run around, maybe someone would be intercepted and killed.
After receiving the letter handed over by the soldier, Mu Changan glanced at the envelope, which read the words 'Mu Changan personally opened', the handwriting was delicate and elegant, like it was written by a woman.
Not to mention, whether it was on Earth or the Cursed God Continent, it was the first time he received this kind of letter, and he was still quite expectant in his heart, so he opened the envelope and took out the letter inside to open it.
'Tomorrow five miles south of the city, under the old locust tree. ’
Just a few words.
Nope.
I didn't leave a specific reason or a name.
The most important thing is, what time is tomorrow?
Do you want to wait there for a day?
It's just a trick.
Casually throwing the letter into the brazier on the side, Mu Changan sat on the Taishi chair in the hall and began to be in a daze, all that came to his mind was the words on the letter.
Who is it that wants to see him?
What does he want to do?
Thinking about it.
Mu Chang'an's upper and lower eyelids began to fight.
And then.
He fell asleep.
......
When he woke up, the sky was already a little gray, and he had an extra pair of blankets on his body, and he didn't know who put them on him, so he took off the blanket and got up and walked towards the door, only to find that the snow in the sky had finally stopped.
The snow had been falling for seven days, and finally stopped.
After a day of rectification, the southern area of the city finally stabilized, and the residents began to accept the owner from Yongle City, and there was no attack on the north and west of the city, and Xuzhou City was still a three-legged trend.
In the early morning of the next day, Mu Changan left the original Sun Mansion alone and walked towards the south of the city, he wanted to see who wanted to see him so much, and he was so mysterious that he had to make an appointment alone.
The distance of five miles was not far, and soon Mu Changan arrived at his destination.
However, looking at so many trees in front of him, Mu Changan fell into deep thought, he didn't know which one was the old locust tree at all.
So he started riding back and forth and running around.
'Dadada~'
'Dadada~'
Run two miles left and right.
Run two miles back and forth.
Running and running, Mu Changan actually forgot the purpose of his coming, and had a lot of fun, and he didn't even notice a woman in a veil standing not far away.
Finally, Mu Changan was tired of running.
Standing on the horse, lying on it panting, I saw the veiled woman in the distance.
"Are you the one who is looking for me?" Mu Changan shouted.
The veiled woman bowed slightly, stood in the distance, and replied, "It's the little woman." ”
The sound is nice and pleasant to listen to.
"What are you looking for me to do?"
Mu Changan felt a little strange, he could be sure that he didn't know this woman, it stands to reason how could two people who had never crossed paths at all suddenly connect?
"I have a plan for you to subdue Zhong Hong. ”
Zhong Hong, the head of the Zhong family in the north of the city, was also one of the largest forces in Xuzhou City before, occupying almost half of the existing territory in Xuzhou City.
Subduing Zhong Hong, this made him quite interested, and asked, "Let's hear it." ”
He didn't ask the other party why he did this, it doesn't matter, if you don't ask, she will take the initiative to bring it up after all, because usually she must ask for this kind of thing.
"Zhong Hong is greedy for money and afraid of death. The veiled woman whispered.
Isn't that nonsense!
Who is not greedy for money, who is not afraid of death?
However, he did not refute, but asked, "So what should I do?"
"Let him be scared ......"
......
On the second day of the occupation of the south of the city by the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce, it was announced that it would recruit soldiers, and the monthly salary of six hundred spirit stones attracted the young residents of the south of the city, and the number of recruits reached one thousand in one day.
Coupled with the number of troops before, the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce instantly had 2,000 people, surpassing the other two forces in one fell swoop and becoming the most powerful force on the surface.
After the Zhong and Zhao families got the news, they were also panicked, and they sent troops to garrison the checkpoint at the border with the south of the city, and also began to recruit soldiers, although the price was not as high as the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce, but also recruited a lot of soldiers, and gradually leveled with the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce.
However, the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce has not stopped recruiting soldiers, with a population of nearly 100,000 in this Xuzhou city, half of which are in the territory of the Zhong family, and the other half are in the Zhao family and the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce, although there are only more than 20,000 people, but the recruited soldiers are still very sufficient.
So in the next two days, the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce recruited more than a thousand people, bringing the total to the size of the army of three thousand.
Over the course of three days, a total of 2,000 people were recruited.
One million spirit stones were spent.
When the news came out, the Zhong and Zhao families were miserable.
In fact, their recruitment lasted only one day, because it simply could not be sustained.
Even if the cost of their recruitment is only half of that of the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce, it will cost 300,000 spirit stones to recruit a thousand people, and the monthly salaries they gave to the soldiers before are all formulated according to the monthly salaries of the unified soldiers of Xuzhou City, and each person is a hundred spirit stones.
But now because the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce has raised the soldier's monthly salary to six hundred spirit stones without authorization, the two of them must increase the soldier's monthly salary, even if it has risen to three hundred now, those soldiers in the barracks are still unwilling.
After all, if there is no comparison of this thing, they may be happy, but once there is a comparison, they find that others take more than themselves, and there will be an imbalance in their hearts.
The soldiers were unwilling, and the heads of the Zhong and Zhao families were also very uncomfortable, and the spirit stones that rose by nearly one million went out, but the results did not end well, do you say that it is uncomfortable?
Uncomfortable is uncomfortable.
The solution still has to be figured.
The Zhong family and the Zhao family began to unite privately, preparing to resist the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce together and make up for the lack of troops.
Mu Changan was not afraid, and the recruitment of soldiers continued.
And spread the news of Gao Yuecheng's recruitment to the north and west of the city, and began to dig the walls of the other two areas.
Residents who want to be soldiers are not stupid, the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce recruits six hundred soldiers, and not only are there only three hundred on their side, but they have also stopped recruiting now, so naturally they don't have to think much about which side is better.
So, those who wanted to earn a higher monthly salary secretly left the city, and then went around to blend into the south area of the city from the south gate and signed up for the army.
By the fourth day.
Another thousand people were recruited.
The total reached four thousand people.
It has exceeded the sum of the Zhong and Zhao families.
At this time, the Zhong and Zhao families really panicked.
Especially Zhong Hong, he called Miss Zhou early in the morning and asked: "Miss Zhou, how is it good now, how is it good!"
Meng Sha's daughter sat there quietly, and when she heard the words, she replied: "The general trend is unstoppable, Master Zhong should have made a decision early." ”
When Zhong Hong heard this, he sighed lightly and said, "It's still too late......
To be honest, Zhong Hong has not had the intention of surrendering until now, because he knows very well that once he surrenders, all the resources that their Zhong family has accumulated over the years will be handed over, and it may even be suppressed by the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce, and then life and death will be in the hands of others.
But he was afraid that if he was defeated in a war with the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce at that time, he was afraid that the entire Zhong family would be burned.
It's a dilemma.
"I heard that the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce is developing rapidly, but there are no capable people under it, and the city lords of Yongle City are all descendants of the former city lords of Yongle City. Now that the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce has entered Xuzhou City, it is a matter of time before they unify Xuzhou City with their financial resources, and when the time comes, the huge Xuzhou City will inevitably need a capable person to manage, if Master Zhong can take the initiative to surrender, with the ability of Master Zhong, it is really easy to seize the position of the lord of Xuzhou City. ”
The veiled woman seemed to be telling an inconsequential matter, and her tone was extremely flat.
Zhong Hong was a little moved after hearing this, he still knew a little about the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce, what Miss Zhou said was not wrong, the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce currently has only one general, a city lord, a housekeeper, and an internal affairs.
Other than that, there is no more.
If the other party really occupies Xuzhou City, it is bound to find someone to manage it, if he takes the lead in surrendering, it can be regarded as a charcoal in the snow, and when the time comes, with his own ability and prestige, he may not be able to obtain the position of the lord of Xuzhou City.
Unconsciously, Zhong Hong also subconsciously believed that the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce would eventually be able to defeat them and the Zhao family and complete the unification of the entire Xuzhou City.
It's just that Zhong Hong is still a little hesitant, all this is his conjecture, he is not reconciled, he thinks that his strength is still there, and with the Zhao family, the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce may not dare to fight them directly.
"Dada~"
There was a sound of footsteps outside, and a subordinate ran in, knelt down and bowed down to the hall and said, "Master, the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce has started a war against us!"
"What!" Zhong Hong was taken aback, this was only in the stage of recruiting soldiers, why did the other party say that he would fight?
"How many troops are there, and where are they now?"
The subordinate replied: "Three thousand troops have been dispatched, and they are about to arrive at the checkpoint in the north of the city." ”
'Hiss~'
Zhong Hong gasped and sent three thousand troops!
This is to compete with him!
"What now?"