After being exiled, I led my whole family to rebel.

Chapter 288 Chaos in the East
"That's right. We also have to have spies in the palace, preferably around the emperor. Zhou Chong is a concubine who is not favored. He must be walking on thin ice when he is suddenly pushed to the throne. He and Zhou Mian and his son must be walking on thin ice. There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, so we must take the opportunity to provoke them to fight among themselves. "

"There is also General Zhao Yi in the north. We also have to find a way to win over him."

"Zhao Yi's loyalty to the Zhou Dynasty should not be underestimated. I'm afraid he won't be impressed by small favors, so I have to give him several hard dishes."

"What hard food?"

Feng'er squinted her eyes and smiled, "Didn't you say that he loves his soldiers as much as his own children? Let's start with military pay. The emperor of the Zhou Dynasty has learned from past mistakes. If we start with military pay, we will be silent. If the soldiers in the north He resisted the Tatars at the front and fought bloody battles, but couldn’t even pay out pensions from the rear. Do you think Zhao Yi would be dissatisfied with the Zhou Dynasty? "

"Yes! Anyway, the finances of the Great Zhou Dynasty are tight. We can send beauties to the palace, and use both the beauty trap and the alienation scheme. We can get twice the result with half the effort!"

"The beauty trap works well for the Supreme Emperor, but I'm afraid it won't work for the Emperor. I heard that there is a young couple behind enemy lines, and they have a very good relationship. But we can try the divorce tactic."

The two of them became more and more excited as they talked. Xu Huiming also swept away his previous depression and became more and more excited now, "I don't believe it. If the Zhou Dynasty can't even pay the army, all the soldiers under Zhao Yi will be hungry." How can Zhao Yi remain indifferent even though he is charging into battle?"

Feng'er immediately said: "Let's send warmth thousands of miles away, keep our posture lower, speak more beautifully about our ideals, make the cake bigger, and send some cotton clothes and food from time to time. I don't believe we can't poach the corner of the Zhou Dynasty!"

"What about the Tatars?! If we can't control the scale and let hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the north rebel, it will be a waste of time! What if the Tatars take the opportunity to go south again? This problem must be dealt with carefully . Before you left, did His Highness teach you any tips alone?"

"Your Highness didn't mention this specifically, but when I looked at her attitude towards the natives of Qianzhou, I found that Your Highness actually doesn't have the thoughts of a small family like ours. It seems that for her, as long as the people living in this land are Everyone can become her people.”

"As long as everyone lives on this land, they are all her people-" Xu Huiming muttered this sentence to herself, feeling a little enlightened.

If there was still a little jealousy and sadness in the past, now when he faced Xu Zhenying with such a broad mind, he only felt a feeling that he was lucky to be born in the same world.

"So I think there is no difference between Tatars and natives. As long as it can be digested, His Highness will try his best to digest it. Our early deployment should also follow His Highness's idea."

"That's right, the tone has to be right, and it has to follow His Highness's ideas." Xu Huiming felt a little energetic when talking about this, "I'm actually looking forward to the trip to Bianjing now -"

Feng'er sighed, "I have to be tied to you for several more years!"

Xu Huiming smiled but remained silent.

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Jinzhou Prefecture is undergoing a vigorous westward migration movement.

All personnel in Bao'an Mansion and Xiangshui Mansion are in place. The newly arrived officials have not yet taken their positions, but the parents and officials who stayed at their posts after the Zhou Dynasty surrendered have already heard the news.

The officials of Jinzhou Prefecture are different from those of the Zhou Dynasty. Since they became officials of Jinzhou Prefecture, they naturally have to behave that way.

The previous mentality of lip service and neither merit nor fault is unacceptable.

It is said that His Highness King Zhao likes hard-working people.

Therefore, they can only sing folk songs wherever they go to the top of the mountain. The magistrates of several counties who stayed in office heard that cotton would be grown in this area and they would make cotton-padded clothes in the coming year to improve people's lives and increase their income.

This group of people immediately took advantage of the time difference when other officials did not arrive at their posts, and led people to re-survey the land early and delineate the place for planting cotton.

They also followed the style passed down from Jinzhou Prefecture and sent people with dexterous tongues to fight in the front line and mobilize and publicize door to door.

In some places, even before the new officials from Jinzhou Prefecture arrived, the county magistrate had already reorganized the county government office and transferred all valuable items to the newly expanded college.

The college, canteen, and county office were all prepared early, waiting for the people behind to take over.

County magistrates who remain in office are automatically demoted to the deputy level, and may become full-time officers only after the one-year study period.

But even so, the deputy county magistrates were inexplicably excited.

There is no other reason than that everything coming from Jinzhou Mansion makes people fascinated.

What about universal education, standardized breeding, cement roads, pencils, cotton-padded clothes, and even the newly developed movable type printing method? It's like arriving in a strange and strange new continent. Everything is new and they have to start all over again. Adapted to the official atmosphere of Jinzhou Prefecture, and even got used to the down-to-earth style.

Also, as an official in Jinzhou Prefecture, there are great opportunities for promotion!

But ordinary people who are more diligent, more honest, and more flexible in their thinking will soon be promoted as long as they achieve results.

Although the areas around Bao'an Prefecture and Xiangshui Prefecture had been the territory of Prince Ming for a long time, Prince Ming's governance style was no different from that of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Many people had been stuck in their original positions for years with the idea that they had done nothing wrong, and seeing that there was no hope of promotion, they had no interest in political achievements.

Unexpectedly, he was recruited into the command of King Zhao this time.

You have to work hard to do this!
Take a look at Renlan County. In two or three years, the per capita income has doubled several times! It has become a benchmark construction city in the southwest region.

It is said that they will be organized to study and visit Lan County in the future. Therefore, these remaining officials are very enthusiastic and roll up their sleeves to get to work!
Unlike Jiangling Mansion, which was undergoing vigorous development, life for Prince Ming in the east was really difficult.

The officials from Jinzhou Prefecture are still on the road, even for a long distance, and have not yet reached Jiangling Prefecture, which is closest to King Ming's territory. However, the people here got the news from nowhere, and there is a rumor that Jiangling Prefecture is dividing the land. The grain distribution made the people in the east feel like they were scratching their hearts, and even those who were bold and close to the area simply took their families and went to live with their relatives in Jiangling Mansion.

In King Ming's palace, dozens of his staff, civil servants, and generals gathered together. The atmosphere in the room was silent, and no one spoke.

Prince Ming, who was sitting high on the throne, was very young, and his angular face showed a depressing sinister look at this moment. He was born with red lips and white teeth, a bit feminine, and his voice was like water hitting rocks, cold and sweet.

"Everyone... take a look. This is the news from our west side."

A guard passed the stack of information in front of King Ming's desk to read in sequence.

Everyone became more and more silent as they watched. King Ming tapped his fingers on the table, and his voice could not be heard as he was angry: "The man from the southwest...has become the king, and his honorific title is Zhao, which means the sun and the moon Zhao Zhao. Unexpectedly, this person is only fifteen or sixteen years old, but he is actually She is able to dominate the princes, but we underestimated her before, right? Oh, it’s ridiculous, it’s said that she is a woman!”

Everyone was stunned.

The legendary green-headed thief king with three heads and six arms who loves to drink human blood is actually a woman?
Master Meng stroked his beard and half-opened his eyes: "Yes, she is indeed a woman. It is said that this woman occupied Lan County at the age of thirteen, and in just two years, she took over eight cities. Everyone... this woman should not be underestimated. Also Do any of you know about the firearms mentioned in the battle report by General Tan?"

A young general who had just returned from the front said: "It's a very powerful weapon! We once bribed the soldiers over there. They said it was made of very hard iron sheet, with two wheels at the bottom and an adult man's arm on it. A tube as thick as a barrel can be moved and become powerful simply by filling it with gunpowder. I have seen it with my own eyes——"

I don't know what he thought of, but the young general's face was full of fear, "That thing... is rumbling. When it comes out, the ground shakes and the sky changes color! It can blow up the mountain in an instant! Our two teams are approaching Two to three hundred people were blown up to the sky! General Wang said... that it was not a thing from this world at all, but a magic trick! Didn't everyone say that King Zhao was the reincarnation of some kind of fairy boy? She must have cast a spell from a distance!"

"You are deceiving the public with your nonsense! Little General Gu, if you continue to shake the morale of the army with your nonsense, please be careful of military law!"

The young general's face turned pale after being scolded by Master Meng, his body swayed slightly, and then he sat back in the chair.

King Ming frowned, naturally he was not happy, but he didn't have many capable generals at the moment, so he could only hold back and said: "Every one of our soldiers is scared to death. They are afraid of a dead thing." ? It’s just a weapon, just like the previous serial crossbow. As long as we have a blueprint and a skilled craftsman, we can cast spells from a distance.”

Master Meng nodded, "Yes, from their description, they should have obtained some powerful weapon. Don't panic, as long as we can steal the blueprint of the weapon, we can also make the same thing according to the blueprint."

Another person said: "How can we not be anxious? Now we have invested 100,000 troops in the west, but they only have 20,000 or 30,000, but they beat us to pieces and run away! On the front battlefield, they used their weapons to blast us away. They then surrounded us from the flanks and drove us into the mountains like walking dogs. Finally, they persuaded us to surrender. As that was not enough, they also had an iron tube called a trumpet, which could amplify the sound countless times! Just say that the soldiers in Jinzhou Prefecture are given one tael of silver a month, which makes all the soldiers under my command restless! "

"Also, when the two parties were confronting each other, they used a big pot to cook meat at the city gate. The meat came from who knows where. It was so fragrant that they had it for every meal! They had three meals a day, every meal. They come to us to show off, and when we go out of the city gate to beat them, they just run away with bowls and pots in their hands! How can we fight like this! The soldiers from Jinzhou Prefecture are so slippery that they can't beat them and run away. We can’t escape, I’ve never fought such a cunning and cunning battle in my life! I think if this continues, all our soldiers will be in the enemy’s camp within half a year!”

"That's too much!" Prince Ming listened and slammed the table angrily, "I don't believe it. There was such a big flood in Jinzhou Prefecture two years ago and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. How could she, Xu Zhenying, get so much money to support the soldiers! Then Damn Zhu Kui! Even if he surrendered to the enemy, he didn’t bring back any useful information! Didn’t the others go there to find out information?”

The secret guard responsible for collecting intelligence hesitated to speak, and finally said hesitantly in the eyes of King Ming: "Your Highness, all the soldiers we sent out half a year ago were instigated to rebel, and all of them surrendered to the enemy. Only one, because his mother is still in our hands. Here, the news came back, saying that... the people in Jinzhou Prefecture were extremely rich, and that Xu Zhenying's parents were merchants. She was also very good at doing business. As soon as she arrived in Lan County, she vigorously developed business. In Jinzhou Prefecture and Qianzhou Prefecture, the people in these two prefectures either raise pigs, grow fruits, or grow tea. In short, in the past two years... the people there have praised her and all regard her as their leader. She is dead set."

King Ming's face turned livid with anger, and he threw the cup on the coffee table, making several harsh and crisp sounds.

The people in the room were so frightened that their expressions changed.

"Why didn't you tell me such important news earlier?"

The secret guard was speechless. It wasn't because King Ming himself had kept saying that the west was full of bandits and they were useless, so they didn't need to spend too much energy.

The post he reported had been posted long ago, but at that time, there were rumors that the princess was still alive. The Fang family was now well and safe in Jinzhou Mansion, and the Fang family uncle personally issued a post to reprimand King Ming for killing his wife and rebelling.

King Ming was so angry that he had no time to deal with the rumors, so he suppressed the official document without having time to read it, but now he is blaming him!

After all, isn't it because King Ming himself underestimated the enemy?

But he could only lower his head and apologize: "It was a dereliction of duty! I should have reminded His Highness earlier, but we are anxious about the war with the Zhou Dynasty... so... it was delayed..."

King Ming looked embarrassed, but he also remembered that the secret guard had warned him before. However, at that time, he was so overwhelmed by the Fang family's incriminating letter that had spread all over the world that he had no time to distract himself. Therefore, he was taken away by her without paying attention. A prefectural city was established.

Even Zhu Kui surrendered with 40,000 soldiers!

Because of this, he was even more angry.

What a Xu Zhenying, he actually occupied almost one-third of the land of the Zhou Dynasty without any sound!
He, the Emperor Zhou Heng, has pure blood and noble status, and now he is called the king together with an exiled prisoner. It is simply a great shame and humiliation!
"That's all, I'll come back to settle the matter after these troublesome matters are resolved!"

Another staff member surnamed Pei also advised: "Your Highness, as things have come to this, we cannot resist them head-on. Xu Zhenying has just taken over six cities and is surrounded by enemies on three sides. It is estimated that he will not have any plans to expand for the time being. If we talk about this firearm Before the emergence of Hengkong, we could still suppress them on the frontal battlefield, but now that they have this powerful firearm, the only way for now is to crack this thing before we can study the next strategy. "

"I don't know, but I just want to steal this picture. It's really not easy!"

"If one person can't do it, send ten people; if ten people can't do it, send a hundred people. Your Highness, the blueprint of this firearm is of great importance. No matter how much manpower, material and financial resources are invested, it will be worth it!"

"This firearm has always been a major concern. Master Pei is right. Our only plan for now is to avoid fighting and wait for the firearm blueprints to be obtained. Then we can counterattack!"

King Ming made a decision, "Okay, General Zhang, you immediately send a team of 100 people to Jinzhou Mansion. Whether it is to bribe the craftsmen there or to steal them, whoever can get back the firearm blueprints, I will give him a thousand Two golden high-ranking officials and generous salaries!”