Seeing the old man Deng leave in a trance, Zhou Yue's heart was also gloomy, maybe this is the last resort of being a superior, if from the perspective of ordinary people, as a relative, he must raise his hands to support the Deng family.

But in his position, he can't think about the problem like this, this is already the best he can give Old Man Deng, and it is also the last reminder.

As the saying goes, the trend is the same!

Although Zhou Yue is known as a man of his word in his team, there is no way to reverse the general trend, Liu Yue Qin Lang, Li Rui and others, they are modern people, and when they take care of the economy, they will naturally bring more effective modern methods, so from the very beginning, the conflict with the Deng family is inevitable!

That is, Zhou Yue's prestige, so they couldn't make trouble very early, but now, even the army is strongly demanding, so they can't pretend to be confused, form a large corps, this is the general trend, and an independent corps with a high degree of freedom and the power to respond in a timely manner, the first thing to ensure is a complete and perfect logistics system, especially in cold weapon warfare.

If the Deng family still insists on controlling and monopolizing the logistics system, no matter which corps is the commander, he will not be at ease, even if the old man Deng will not have such a mind for the time being, but over time, there will undoubtedly be problems, either the Deng family will pull the commander of the large corps over and snake and rat each other, or the army will be in trouble, and it will not be impossible for the army to meet each other when the time comes.

Can he Zhou Yue suppress it? It can't be suppressed at all, because this already involves a more complex level, and it has long been detached from the simplest good and evil!

Are the Deng family bad guys in this matter? No, they work hard and do their best! True blue!

And Liu Yue Qin Lang, is he a bad guy with the army? Neither are they, and their starting point is also for the future development of the team.

If Zhou Yue doesn't distinguish between right and wrong, doesn't understand the truth in this, and makes judgments purely based on personal likes and dislikes, then he is stupid, and it will not be far from the collapse of this team.

With these thoughts, Zhou Yue said goodbye to Cai Yan and the others, set off overnight, and went straight to Ma Chao's black city under construction outside Mohe County.

After galloping all night, by the morning of the second day, they had already entered the territory of Mohe County, and from a distance, they could see a towering black city standing in the wilderness, without looking at the details, Zhou Yue knew that this black city was only quite good, and Ma Chao's vision was not blown.

It's just that when Zhou Yue and the others came to the black city, they were stunned to find that this magnificent and huge black city had only completed the construction of the outer city wall, and there were no buildings in the city at all, not even the details such as the defense platform at the top of the city wall, which was nothing, after all, it was only a month, and such progress was already quite good.

However, in this unbuilt black city, the number of coolies and craftsmen who built it was very small, Zhou Yueke still remembered that the last time he came, there were at least 100,000 craftsmen and coolies gathered here, so what about those people?

What happened?

There are still Ma Chao's black armor blood riding guards at the entrance of the unfinished city gate, and it can be seen that Ma Chao has not had time to expand the army in this month, so he is still the more than 1,000 veterans, and they all know Zhou Yue at this time, so they are quite familiar with each other when they meet.

But when Zhou Yue asked why the project of this black city stopped, those black-armored blood riders had a bitter face and sighed: "Mr. Xiao Zhou, don't you understand, we were in the Western Regions before, because we transferred a large amount of property to the Black City of Spike, but we didn't expect that after the battle of Broken Leaf City, Pang De's gang actually betrayed and embezzled all the wealth of the Grand Governor, and now when I came to the East, it was thanks to you and the help of the Dragon Gate Inn that the city was built, but because the requirements of the Grand Governor were too high, This cloud city is built according to the standard of the four-star black city, if all are completed, it is said that at least 20 million gold will be needed, and although the big boss of the Dragon Gate Inn admires the governor, he can't take so much, there is still a discussion on this matter, but not long ago, the big boss of the Longmen Inn was suddenly assassinated, and for a time the Longmen Inn group of dragons had no leader, in order to compete for the position of the big boss, they fought hard, and finally split into a south and a north, an east and a west, four Longmen inns, so, The cost of building our black city has to be interrupted, and in the past few days, most of the governors have sighed for a long time, and even we are distressed when we see it! ”

……

"I'll take it, Ma Chao's luck is too much, right?" Zhou Yue sighed in his heart, this is really a feeling of the end of a hero, thinking of this, he hurriedly thanked him, and at the same time walked into the cloud city that was still barren, because during this time, Ma Chao actually gave up the comfortable inn and moved here.

I saw that under the shade of countless barren grasses, several sparse military camps stood there, and more than a dozen heroic black-armored blood horsemen on the battlefield were also listlessly guarding there, and in the camp tent, there was occasionally the sound of snoring and sleeping or drinking and punching, and it was estimated that these elite soldiers were really bored.

Passing through these tents, in the innermost, there is Ma Chao's tent, which looks very old, but on the tent you can vaguely see a mighty tiger jumping up in the air, behind the tent, there is a pile of firewood, it seems that someone is boiling porridge there or something, you can see a wisp of green smoke, on the other side, the horse Chao's mount, the Tianshan Snow Dragon Pony, this strong war horse, is drooping his head, very dissatisfied gnawing on the grass stalks, but then spit out, the melancholy eyes, see Zhou Yue is heartbroken!

"General Zhou? How are you? ”

At this time, Ma Chao's tent was opened, and then a somewhat surprised woman's voice sounded, but it was Ma Yunmeng, but she was not wearing a military uniform now, but a cyan civilian clothes, which looked less brave and more of a small jasper.

"Uh, I'm here to visit the Grand Duke, is he okay?" Zhou Yue was a little weak-hearted, saying that Ma Chao was like this, and he also came to take advantage of the situation to marry, is it too obscene?

"Thank you General Zhou for your concern, my uncle's health has improved a lot, it's just that I have been sad recently, please come in! Uncle mentioned you a few days ago, saying that you would come soon, but I didn't expect you to really show up. Ma Yunmeng laughed a little shyly, but this made Zhou Yue's heart skip a beat,, wouldn't it be Ma Chao's bitter trick again, but he remembered clearly that Ma Chao pretended to be dead at the beginning, and he gave away one million gold.

In this way, doubting in his heart, Zhou Yue walked into the camp tent alone, there was no light in it, and there was no window opened, so it was dark and lifeless.

However, Zhou Yue's vision was not affected, and at a glance, he saw Ma Chao sitting on a majestic tiger skin seat, which should be a gift from the boss of the Dragon Gate Inn.

And Ma Chao was also wearing civilian clothes, but it was really bad, his hair was messily pulled, his eyes were blurred, and his beard stubble was old, and he didn't seem to notice Zhou Yue's appearance at all, but he looked at the front so fixedly, which made people feel that this person was really a sad person.

Zhou Yue was also taken aback by Ma Chao's state, no, such an exaggeration, if this is fake, Ma Chao can really be described as an actor.

But if it's true, Zhou Yue doesn't know, why is Ma Chao so haggard, just because a cloud city can't be built? It is absolutely impossible, 20 million gold may be very tempting for Zhou Yue, but who is Ma Chao, even if he doesn't even have a copper plate in his pocket, it is impossible for him to worry about the gap of 20 million gold.

So, there must be another reason.

At this time, Zhou Yue didn't know how to speak.

I don't know how long it took for Ma Chao to wake up from the state of the statue, sigh faintly, and sing in an extremely hoarse, low, and sad voice: "In the past, I was still in the past, and the willows were still there." Now I think about it, the rain and snow are falling. The way is slow, thirsty and hungry. My heart is sad, I don't know how I mourn! ”

Zhou Yue was dumbfounded when he heard it, and he didn't understand what was going on at all? However, Ma Chao didn't seem to have the heart to explain to him, but he still found that this guy actually had a feeling of crying, and for a while, it really made him messy.

"It is rumored that there is Penglai in the East China Sea, there are immortals in Penglai, there is an elixir to bring the dead back to life, I want to go to it, Zhou Yue, Yunmeng will ask you, and this Cloud City, as well as 1,347 black armor blood riders, I have no ambition, this thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are picturesque, and it can't make my heartache less than a point, there is no need to say more, that day the mountain snow dragon horse has followed me for many years, and I will send you it together, as for the semi-divine weapon you refined, if you have a relationship with it, take it, retreat."

……

Ma Chao's extremely short words were like a thunderbolt from the blue, which made Zhou Yue feel unacceptable and couldn't even believe it, what should I do?

But before he could persuade him to say anything, a message had already appeared in his mind.

"The epic nine-star warrior Ma Chao, because of the heartache and the death of his confidante, he was disheartened and withdrew from the world, from this moment on, Ma Chao's power will die, and the Cloud City owned by Ma Chao will be inherited by the prince Zhou Yue!"

I rub! It's true?

Zhou Yue looked at Ma Chao in a daze, couldn't help himself, recalled that when he first saw Ma Chao, he was simply radiant and mighty, and then looked at Ma Chao who was decadent and decadent at the moment, it was like a dream, and his heart was very depressed!

"Let's go, what's the daze, I'm a half-bad old man, what's there to see, take Yunmeng and them away, they are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and they are their destination on the battlefield, in addition, whether you agree or not, I will deliver Yunmeng to you, if you dare to bear her, I will definitely not spare you, there is a long road ahead, Xiaoyou, how precious it is!"