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Chapter 1468 Conquering the Empire (14)

"It seems that there is nothing wrong with outsiders, and I also know that you call the lord differently from others, in order to show that the relationship between yourself and the lord is very different, but you don't think that all your cronies call the lord Don't you think it's a bit extra prominent when you address him as your lord?" Peter said.

Zhou Wen frowned and asked, "Master Peter, what do you want to tell me?"

Peter smiled: "Listen, you address me as an adult, and I address you as an adult. If you still call the lord an adult, don't you think it's a bit like lowering the lord to a lower level?" Are we at this level?"

Zhou Wen's body shook violently.

Zhou Wen always felt that he kept the first title of his lord, which was a matter of not forgetting his roots. He didn't expect to put the identity of his lord on the same level as himself!
Damn, how did no one ever remind myself to pay attention? !Even Sun Jie and the others didn't remind themselves? !If it wasn't for Peter's reminder, he would still be caught in a self-righteous delusion.

Thinking of this, Zhou Wen immediately saluted respectfully and said, "Thank you sir for reminding Zhou Wen, Zhou Wen is very grateful."

Peter waved his hand.

"It's nothing, everyone is a colleague who works for the Lord, and it is right to help each other."

With this incident, the conversation between the two became more heated.

On the surface, Peter didn't care about reminding Zhou Wen, but he was extremely proud in his heart: Hehe, it's really wonderful to be able to get the favor of Zhou Wen, the important minister in charge of the two important departments of the inner guard and the secret guard, with just a word.

Those idiots thought that Zhou Wen wanted to be the lord's wife and concubine, so they didn't want to call the lord the lord, and they didn't know how to judge his words. They were stupid and loyal. As long as it was beneficial to the lord, Zhou Wen would accept it, and it had nothing to do with love!

Hey, I let myself pick this up for nothing. Today I sold a paragraph of my words well, and maybe I will save my life because of it in the future.

"My lord, my subordinates think that the surrounding warlords are now at a critical point, so how about sending people to fan the flames and frame them, so that they fight each other?" Zhou Wen who came back suggested to Zhao Hu.

Before he opened his mouth, he was thinking about how he should call Zhao Hu, my lord?It's too common, almost everyone calls it that now, but what about the master?My lord doesn't like this kind of title of a slave owner, er, my lord?That's what the Secret Guard System is called, um, let's call it that.

Hearing this title, Zhao Hu was taken aback. Why did Zhou Wen suddenly change his title?But I didn't think it was a big deal, so I didn't care, just nodded and said: "Very good, but the main target is the Lu family, let them fight with the surrounding warlords, so it will be much easier for us to occupy this area."

"Yes, my subordinates are going to arrange it now." Zhou Wen immediately said excitedly. He felt that he had a tendency to be a bit dark. If he didn't want to follow the Lord, he would definitely come to the front line to arrange the arrangement.

Compared with other places, the atmosphere in the eastern part of the province is both dangerous and stable. Although the surrounding warlords had secretly made an agreement to carve up the Lu family, it was just that a recent surprise attack added a brigade, and the total strength reached two The brigade has two wings, and one of them is the third fleet of the cavalry wing.

Oh, it's not the Third Fleet, but the warlord of Colonel Zhao Hu, so neither the Lu family nor the surrounding warlords dare to make any changes, fearing that the new warlord Zhao Hu will take advantage of it.

Zhao Hu didn't hide his identity, and hung the flag of the chief general with his name and military rank written on it in the last battle.

After the last big war, now in the entire seaside province, everyone knows that there is a new warlord named Zhao Hu in the east of the province with the military rank of colonel.

As soon as Zhao Hu took the lead, his previous experience was immediately revealed, which made many forces who could not jump and sweep very optimistic about Zhao Hu, the new warlord.

As for the public, since Zhao Hu himself is an serving officer in the coastal province and belongs to the coastal garrison division, no one treats him as an outsider.

And because Zhao Hu did not use the title of general to exaggerate his power like other warlords did, but honestly displayed the rank of colonel, which made the people think that Zhao Hu was an honest warlord.

Although at the beginning everyone doubted whether this Zhao Hu was just a lieutenant colonel, after all, it was recorded in the information.

However, after the gossip came out of the Governor's Mansion, everyone understood that Zhao Hu's rank of colonel was not appointed by the Imperial Military and Political Department, but the original division commander. The current governor's promotion is considered a temporary rank, but this is more confirmed Zhao Hu's honesty.

After receiving this news, the whole Qin family was very proud. Hehe, borrowing the tiger's skin to pull the banner is a great trick. I never thought that it would be so easy to become a local warlord in the coastal province. At first, I thought it would take a lot of trouble to get the world's approval. Woolen cloth.

As for why Zhao Hujun stood with the Third Fleet, I don't know whether it was because he was concerned about the reaction of other fleets, or because he was afraid of being too prominent and ostentatious. Anyway, Zhao Hujun only announced to the outside world that he had formed a very strong military and political alliance with the Third Fleet. Alliance only.

Although the people in the Third Fleet curled their lips secretly: What an extremely strong alliance, the words are better than the songs, and they are Zhao Hujun's subordinates!Subordinates who can go wherever they are told, and do whatever they are asked to do!But on the bright side, he nodded with a smile and agreed with Zhao Hujun's statement, and he was also very grateful to Zhao Hujun from the bottom of his heart.

Because this statement saved the face of his Third Fleet, and it also made the people in the Third Fleet less resistant to Zhao Hu's army, and even worked harder to serve Zhao Hu.

However, although the warlords in the east of the province did not start a big war due to various concerns and restraints, no one can bear this confrontation.

The warlords in the east of the province, including the Lu family, sent people to inquire about Zhao Hu's intentions.There are [-] to [-] elite soldiers in the hands of this new warlord who doesn't know where he came from. He is completely a super bargaining chip to win whichever side he chooses. He must be recruited.

Since Zhao Hu had participated in the officers' meeting of the garrison division held in coastal provinces before the warlords, most of the officers who were warlords knew Zhao Hu, a young officer who was promoted on the spot, and many warlords sent their cronies to carry A personal letter comes close.

To these, Zhao Hu responded lukewarmly, neither making them feel arrogant, nor making them feel easy to bully. Anyway, Zhao Hu was just delaying time, quietly waiting for the time to come.

The confrontation pattern was quickly broken, and the troops patrolling the border of the Lu family were completely wiped out by someone. When the reinforcements arrived, only corpses were left behind, leaving no trace at all.

Upon hearing the news, the surrounding warlords shouted that they did not do it themselves, and told the Lu family to calm down and not fall into other people's tricks.

When the Lu family was arguing about who was the real murderer, the main leader of the smallest warlord group among the surrounding warlords was suddenly assassinated to death at the same time, and a warlord next to him saw that the advantage had appeared, and immediately annexed the group. Block completely lost command site.

As soon as this action came out, there was an uproar immediately, and the surrounding warlords all accused this warlord of taking advantage of others!

The Lu family didn't know what was going on, but immediately sent troops to attack the warlord.

The surrounding warlords immediately rejoiced secretly, but on the surface they pretended to be just and dissolved, and even prepared to unite to attack the Lu family and that warlord.But I don't know what happened, the news leaked out immediately, the two families who were fighting for life and death immediately stopped their efforts to make peace, and at the same time, they made efforts to quickly eliminate a warlord who was the most clamoring.

As soon as this trick is used, the surrounding warlords' eyes are red, dare you two are acting? !
Without further ado, immediately dispatch troops to fight.So it didn't take long for Shengdong to completely enter the period of war-torn melee.

However, when the warlords in the east of the province were probing and attacking each other, yelling at each other and threatening each other, and before the war broke out, Zhao Hu began to implement a new status hierarchy system because of Peter's return.

The slaves who were originally hopeless and lazy at work, after knowing the existence of the status hierarchy and the conditions for how to advance to the status hierarchy, immediately exuded amazing enthusiasm, and cooperated with the craftsmen to start the construction in full swing.

As for the extent of the fanaticism of the slaves?A huge pier that is simple but big enough to park dozens of warships was actually managed by them in a month.

After the construction of this huge pier, which replaced the small pier of the Third Fleet and stood proudly on the seashore province, hundreds of slaves were promoted to pariahs, and several slaves directly became commoners.The slaves didn't complain about the announced results, it was so fair that people couldn't speak, it was completely meritorious, but it also made the slaves even more fanatical.

Seeing this result, Zhao Hu rewarded Peter severely, and made Peter a third-class honest scribe on the same level as the elders of the same family.

However, Peter, who was born to work hard, immediately rushed to Mingyue City and began to prepare an organization that would be responsible for changing the ranks of retainers to civil warriors.

Originally, Zhao Hu did not plan to change the retainer system on the southeast peninsula, but the retainers knew that they would develop and spend the rest of their lives in the empire, so they all strongly demanded that the status system be implemented in the entire Qin family.

So, Zhao Hu, who was a little indifferent to this, easily nodded in agreement, but it was a pain for the proposer of the status hierarchy system.

With the outbreak of war in the eastern part of the province, more and more people fled from all directions to enter the Zhao Hu Army's separatist regime. This is the only stable place in the entire eastern part of the province. Since then, the Zhao Hu Army's territory has bid farewell to the population structure of soldiers, military members, or slaves. , finally emerged the demographics of the general population.

(End of this chapter)