Chapter 2409: Couple City

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The prince himself can still hold his breath, and he didn't take the initiative to start negotiations with the people of Cao's firm.

and so on, but the people of Cao's House will urge this guy to negotiate, and the idea of ​​Cao's House is also very simple

, as long as you mention this matter, we will say that we have got some news from you. Did the news let the people of the Northern Empire take

You are sent to die, anyway, you are not a real prince, maybe the high-level officials of the Northern Empire will have their own ideas, such as

It is said that if the people of Cao's house kill the prince, the people below will be the same as the enemy? This kind of thing never happened before

It has never happened, just look at how it is now, it is best not to have such a thing, but if it really happens

It's not something you people can handle if it happens. It will definitely upset him when something like this happens.

What will happen is beyond the estimation of the people of Cao's firm, but one thing is certain, that is, Cao

The future path of the commercial firm will definitely be more comfortable than it is now. Since they are urging them to start negotiations, they must

It is only necessary for them to make some progress on the battlefield. If there is no great progress, they probably won't put themselves on the battlefield.

After speaking out his thoughts, Hong Lie has already formulated a small-scale battle plan, which is to open up the Northern Empire

The southern city of Lucheng is their goal. In fact, this is just a small county town.

But this is the largest smelting center in the southern part of the entire Northern Empire. If it can be occupied here, those local

The craftsmen and so on are all given to the people of Cao's business. The ruler looks down on these craftsmen and thinks that these people

They are the bottom of society. ￡∝ small, ..o but for the people of Cao’s House, especially for those who come from the earth, this is

It’s different, all of them belong to handicraftsmen, these people are not important, what kind of people are important?

? Things like this are very important to a lot of people.

If there are only so many craftsmen here, it is estimated that the Northern Empire doesn't care much, what they care about is all here.

some industries.

If this place is occupied by people from Cao's House, more than 30% of the Beidi army will have no weapons.

In the future, there will be no supplies in this area. This is a very terrible thing for them. These people

None of them are fools, of course they know how difficult things are here, if they really can't do well

In other words, there may really be a lot of disasters in the future, if your own army does not have weapons in their hands. then to

At Cao's House, they can do whatever they want. If this is the case, why don't they just let themselves die?

What's the point of talking about war? What qualifications do you have to fight against the people of Cao's House of Commerce? You're not human when you have a weapon

The opponents at home, let alone when they have no weapons, they all understand such things very well.

Another important place in Lucheng is that the ancestral tomb of the queen's family is also in this place. So if this place is taken down, it is estimated that the high-level officials of the entire Northern Empire will feel a little uncomfortable, and the people of Cao's House of Commerce cannot hold larger-scale exhibitions. Because all of their troops have been dispatched to the rear, and now the troops of Cao's House are basically in the appeasement area, and it is impossible to sprint to the front line on a large scale. If the people of the Northern Empire know such a If there is news, it is estimated that they will also start bargaining with Cao's House in negotiations. We often use this specialty. How could it be used by you at this time, so I can't let you know. The people of Cao's House made a very bold move, gathering one-third of the troops on the front line to match Lots of airships. Let them attack the provincial capital of Lucheng with all their strength. Although there are more than 10 million troops from the Northern Empire there, according to the news from the military intelligence department, it is clear that the people there are basically recruits. Speaking of those without any combat capabilities, those guys have no ability to do things one by one. For the people there, it is also a very easy thing to kill them, and those people are fooling around when they do it That's it, but the most powerful army in Luancheng is not theirs, but the private army of the Tetar family, the empress of the Northern Empire. They are the most powerful army in the entire Luancheng. There are not many people, but all of them are It is said that most of them can reach the level of second-level archers. There are about 150,000 people. They are the guardians of the Tetar family's ancestral grave. Some people have seen it before, but not many people have seen it recently, because their family has a queen, and basically they don't need to take action for some things. For the prince, if the queen is killed If it is killed, that is the best thing. His mother is just a concubine. Since the son is expensive, such a thing is also a good thing for his mother. It can be said that the Tetar family is not such a big family in the whole local area. Twenty is enough, but there is a queen in someone's family, this is no joke, the queen's father and two brothers have become dukes, which directly makes the Tetar family advance several names Yes, you must know that things like enfeoffment are not limited to them. Several of the queen's nephews also have their own earls. You must know that in the past, the patriarch of the Tetar family had a marquis. The status, most of the others are some jazz or something, it is impossible to have any high-level titles, it will be different immediately, these guys have become high-level nobles one by one, so yes Their family's private army has become even more powerful, and they were chosen as their opponents to show Gao Zeng of the Northern Empire the combat effectiveness of the Cao family's commercial army.

The Tetar family's army is very famous throughout the Northern Empire. Not to mention anything else, let's just say that their family's fighting power is something that many people admire. What's wrong with His Majesty's Imperial Forest Army? They are also very different from the Tetar family's army. Of course, It is impossible for them to be stronger than the Imperial Forest Army in terms of overall quality. But they are very powerful in long-range attacks. There used to be a team of less than 40,000 people on the northern battlefield, which was the private army of this family. At that time, His Majesty the Emperor signaled them to go to the front line. It was very powerful. At that time, it caused a lot of damage to the army of the Northern Empire. At that time, Hong Lie was almost hit by their archers. Their range at that time was similar to that of Cao Cao. The shooting range of the Jia Commercial Bank is basically the same, but their accuracy is higher, but the firing speed is not as good as that of the Cao's Commercial Bank. It's just that the people in the Cao's House of Commerce remembered them all that time, and that was the only time when they could threaten the soldiers of the Cao's House of Commerce. During the campaign, the name of the Tetar family also appeared in the book of Cao's House for the first time. At that time, they all received a lot of rewards. Later, they specially found a powerful army to kill them. Who knew that these people actually went to the rear. In fact, this is what the Empress Empress meant, and they wouldn't feel bad if tens of millions of soldiers from the Northern Empire died. It will be added later, but it's different for him. The family's private army is so hundreds of thousands, each of which was cultivated by the Tetar family at a high price. The cost is more than a thousand taels of silver, and the training cost of this army with less than 300,000 is as high as hundreds of millions of silver every year. If such an army built with money is killed by the people of the Cao family firm, the family cannot afford such a loss. Besides, their army is also a symbol of the Northern Empire. They were all killed by the people from Cao's House. If they were all killed by the people of Cao's House of Commerce, it would also cause a huge psychological shadow to these people in the Northern Empire. This is an immeasurable loss, so they all retreated at that time, and now all Of the 300,000 troops, 150,000 are in Lucheng, and the rest of the troops are all around the capital. The queen also needs to worry about some coups. If such a thing really happens, it is still her own. The natal family is more reliable, and the safety of the whole family rests with the queen, so how could they not be worried? I heard that they have already begun to consider withdrawing the troops here because of the approach of the troops from Cao's House. But this is the ancestral grave of the Tetar family, which also makes some people in the interior hesitate. If this can't even protect their own ancestral grave, there is nothing to say, but for the loss of the family, there is a lot. It is better for everyone to be willing to protect these armies. It is impossible to take the most powerful army of the family because of some dead people. This is inappropriate.

This guy He Guo has been copied. Now that this guy has explained his problem clearly, he is already a guest of Cao's House of Firm. In fact, everyone in the prince knows what's going on with this guy, that is, he is with Cao's House of Firm. Someone broke the news, and now they live a good life in the back of the Cao's business. If you are afraid of danger, it doesn't matter. In the last two years, you can live directly on the island of the Cao's business. In those places, you think the North Can the people of the empire pass by? That's absolutely impossible, even if they want to do something to you, it's impossible, let's not talk about anything else, just say that that place is not something they can go to, they really want to find it It will be hundreds of years later. Just look at the navy of the Northern Empire. Now, apart from a naval yamen with less than a dozen people in the capital, where is there anyone related to the navy? As long as those boats in the inland river go out to sea, they will capsize immediately. Doing business in the river is completely different from doing business on the sea. You will know what's going on when a wolf head comes over. Trust these people It is also very clear.

This matter is going to be like this for the time being, but what they didn't expect is that in the next few days, there will be many eunuchs around His Royal Highness who will come to do business with the people of Cao's House. But none of them thought about it, how could such a situation happen? Could it be that these people don't care about their master's life or death? Why would they choose to abandon the Northern Empire? None of them had expected such a thing. In any case, these people are the most trusted talents around His Royal Highness. Why don't they want him now? According to Min De's understanding. In normal times, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can be said to be unpopular, especially the people around you. If you can't take care of these people, then who will come to do things for you in the future? Let's not talk about it, just say this guy's concierge, and the people at the concierge really don't know what to say when they do things. These people actually have to hand over the interest money to the mansion. There are also many people who come to visit the prince, and they earn thousands of silver every day. If the prince is greedy for the money , then things are a bit hard to say, they naturally have to get some from other places if they can't get oil from the prince, who doesn't know that people like them can only live on money, if If there is no money, I don't know how to go in the future? That's why. It is very tiring to do things one by one. They are all very aware of the matter in front of them. The prince is not very reliable in doing things. If he can become the emperor when he goes back, we will be in the early days by following this guy But they can all see that the emperor is just painting cakes for the prince, giving him a hope to watch there. In the end, he wouldn't really be allowed to be an emperor at all. After that, he was doomed to have no future. Why did we do it here? Besides, didn't that guy He Guo set an example for them, but they didn't dare to leave the prince just like He Guo. The prince also has his own skills. You If you really leave. The people in their family are still in the capital. If the crown prince is really angry with them, there is nothing he can do about it. As for betraying news or something, it doesn't matter. Anyway, everyone did that, the prince can't kill all his people, can he? If this is the case, there is no need to do anything in the future. The prince can see how failed he is from this. If something happens, the people below will betray him. There is simply no good.

Since this is the case, we didn't mean to push everyone out. Min De directly found a good place around the place where the prince lives, and just see what these people are talking about. Of course, he himself It is also necessary to keep money. If they can’t see the money, don’t think that they will give you the money. That’s impossible. These guys are not good people, and they can’t see it. The masters who don't talk about silver, each of them is not simple, and because of such things, it is not so simple for these guys to do things one by one, and they also try to test these things in every possible way. People are also very cautious when doing things, and they all want to sell what they know at a good price. If they meet ordinary people, the price will not be lowered, but Min De is an old man. I think those people have never even seen the things he did. If this is the case, if I am tricked by you, will I still have the face to continue doing it? It's a good thing if I don't hit myself. Many people feel that something is wrong with such an idea, but they are all on board the thief ship. Will they let you get off the ship in the middle? That is absolutely impossible. These people are not fools, they all have their own thoughts, and they will never be lenient in doing things.

Soon, at a price of about 30 million silver, they basically figured out everything about them. These damned guys thought that with less than 30 provinces and 100 billion silver, they could Calling back the people from the Cao's House of Commerce is almost like sending a beggar. When Min De told Li Wei the news, some senior executives of the Cao's House of Trade thought that the people from the Northern Empire were crazy. Why? Is there no sincerity? Since you all calculated in this way, then we will not say anything. Li Wei immediately assigned a mission to Hong Lie on the front line, and more than 1,500 airships took off directly, and they were about to change the couple city. Turned into a waste area, let you also know that our Cao's House of Commerce is very powerful. In fact, what Cao's House of Commerce wants is not the craftsmanship in this city, but the craftsmen inside, so it must be done well during the bombing Some are ready. First drop a bomb, and then things are dead and people are alive, and people will run around. Of course, these people are not fools, they will definitely run around. It is because of this that each of them can run out. The Northern Empire is interested in those crafts and facilities. In their view, the craftsmen who have fallen are worthless. Of course, these equipment are valuable. Back then, it cost a lot of money.

Both the crown prince and the top management of the Northern Empire were woken up in their sleep. On the one hand, Cao's firm was negotiating peace talks with the Northern Empire, but on the other hand, they were dumbfounded by beating the Northern Empire. This kind of thing makes other people feel very incredible. How could such a thing happen? Didn't you say that peace talks are now underway? But the Lu City of the Northern Empire was directly reduced to ashes today, and at the same time, the province where the Lu City was located was also taken down by ten divisions of the Cao Family Firm within a day. The capital of the Northern Empire received the news It was already four days later, and the people riding the flying monsters almost exhausted the flying monsters, so they passed on the news. When the news arrived in the capital, they frightened the people in the capital into stupidity. . How could such a thing happen? Could it be that the truce mentioned earlier was all nonsense? Look at this action of Cao's firm. Millions of troops are not here to watch the excitement. Are they going to end this province after conquering it? Or do you want to continue to fight in other places? This kind of thing made them all feel scared. What are these people in the Cao's firm pretending to be? How can they do things like this? In the past, I didn't feel that their people were all like this. They should have a little bit of shame. How can they do such a thing while negotiating with others?

The top officials of the Northern Empire are all paying attention to this matter. The document to the prince is also in a questioning tone. How did you negotiate? Is it because of your problem that the people of Cao's firm feel that negotiation can't solve the problem at all? So they started this kind of operation? do you know what you are doing Just because of your incident, tens of millions of people in the empire have been turned into subjugated slaves, and hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land have directly become the territory of the Cao family firm. Their army also wiped out the queen's private army. It has to be said that in this war, they also wasted a lot of their own people by destroying the queen's private army. Those people could accurately hit hundreds of The soldiers of the Cao's House of Merchant, who were one meter away, cost the Cao's House of Traders a two-to-one battle loss ratio. Nearly 100,000 people gave their lives. The bows and arrows they use are different from other armies. As long as they are hit, they are basically seriously injured. In this era, if there are no magicians of the light department If you help, it is possible that they are disabled even if they are disabled. After knowing this news, the Northern Empire has also found some good places. Is it possible to train such an army in the entire empire? If this is the case, it is not impossible to defeat the people of Cao's House of Commerce. This is also a good way out, but this idea was quickly suppressed by some people headed by the Minister of the Ministry of Finance. Only a thousand taels of silver can train them. Does the imperial court have so much silver now? With the support of the empress, they only have hundreds of thousands of people. Besides, it took ten years to train them all. Now we don't have time or money.

It is really wishful that the empress's private army was destroyed this time. In fact, if they could have left one day earlier, this would not be the case today. It's just that each of these people is more capable of expressing themselves, and they all think about it. To be able to express myself, to help the queen's family to look at their ancestral graves at the last moment, I also thought that I would have a big chance, now I know, there is no chance at all, they In the last moment, people could only choose to lose their own heads, and nothing else was done. They also made the entire army of the Northern Empire lose the confidence to resist. It can be said that their sacrifice is very important to the Cao family. It is definitely useful for the people in the commercial firm, but it has no effect at all for the Northern Empire. The senior management of Cao's commercial firm feels that the time is ripe at this time, and many things can be done like this It's time to start working on it. For example, the contact with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. As long as this guy is willing to cooperate with the people of Cao's House, some things will be easier to do in the future. If you don't cooperate with us now. What way can you go in the future? Don't say that you still have many supporters inside the imperial court. Those people are all vampires. When you can give them some benefits, they will remember you , but when you can't do them any favors, no one will treat you like they are to the prince. This world is so realistic. If you are the real prince, of course they will happily run to you and have a good talk with you about this issue. In the future, whatever you say, they will also regard you as the future of their family I hope, and even use the power of the whole family to help you, but if you spread the news about your background, this is not a small matter. The emperor was not very satisfied with your performance. Now because of such a problem, you have entered a whirlpool, so the emperor will probably replace you on the downhill slope. When did the royal family have real feelings? Even if there are feelings, you have to watch carefully See if there are other traps behind. Some things are not as easy as you think. Many things need to be seen slowly. His Royal Highness feels the pressure at this time. Because the people at Cao's House told him directly that none of the terms you brought were what we were willing to do. Our boss has already ordered the negotiation to be terminated. His Royal Highness also brought some investigators. They all found that the soldiers of Cao’s House of Merchant were gathering. At least millions of troops were assembled outside. This is Cao. It’s enough for the Cao’s firm to occupy the city, and the Cao’s firm is everywhere. It was already crowded there, and many people hoped that they could become a real soldier of Cao's House. The spies he sent out had also seen the enthusiasm of the common people. It wasn't about their occupation before. Is the area very chaotic? Now it seems that there is no such thing. All the people are very happy. In their view, it is a very honorable thing to work for the Cao Family Firm. No one said that such behavior is a betrayal of the former Western Empire. Could it be that it was before? Are all our people bringing fake news? It shouldn't be. If one intelligence agent has a problem, it doesn't mean that so many intelligence agents have problems. Many people feel that something is wrong. The few guys who came to assist His Highness in negotiating this time can't sit still Now, I want to come to the prince to see what's going on. In fact, these people are not very proud people in the court. If they were really proud, they would not go to such a place to take risks. Well, it’s not that I have no hope for my future, so I went to such a place to work hard, hoping to bring myself a huge future. Of course, if they followed their idea, thirty provinces If they can fill the appetite of Cao's House, they can certainly be said to be the heroes of the empire after they go back, and many of them will go down in history, but such things are just what they think about casually, the real thing It will definitely not be like this now. The people from Cao’s House have already terminated the negotiations, and their people have started a new attack. They are not fools, they are already on the front line. The city was taken down, and there was no news at all beforehand, and I don't know how they did it, but in the end, the actual result is like this, and you have no other way. This is the skill of the Cao family firm. What happened to the queen's private army? Aren't they all defeated by others? Now behind Lucheng is the mining base of the entire Northern Empire. If the people of the Cao family firm continue to advance If it is, it is estimated that their weapon supply is not a problem of 30% reduction, it may be that only 30% is left.

The problem that the crown prince is facing now can be said to be a very serious problem. Many people who followed him have begun to lose their morals at this time. No matter how the crown prince chooses now, he will not be right. If he chooses to compromise with the people of Cao's House Then when you go back, those officials and censors are not joking. Normally, even if you have nothing to do with you, they will do something to you. Now you have all done such things that both people and gods are angry with. Betrayal With so many benefits from the empire, there are too many differences from what I said at the beginning, and any random one can kill you. If they don’t deal with such things quickly, there will be no such thing in the future. Such a good way to reap the benefits of military merits, these censors are like this, the things they observe are not so comprehensive at all. But these people still have the strength to go up. The censors' accusations are to point out the mistakes of the officials, but they are not just looking for them randomly. At the beginning, these depressed people are still very good, at least they will look for them. Some evidence comes out, if there is no evidence, they probably won't report it directly. But later it was completely different. These guys felt the benefits one by one, so they started to do some other things, and some even started talking nonsense casually. This is also a gamble. Luck, in fact, they all understand that as long as one of the ten problems they mentioned exists, it is considered good, but as long as this one is found out, it is a good thing. They have all completed the task. At the beginning, the emperor felt that this matter should not be done that way, but now it is different. They have all received the support of the emperor. If the prince chooses this path, it will be a dead end, but choose Can the other one survive? It's not that possible. The other path is also full of twists and turns. Stop negotiating with Cao's House directly? That matter may be even bigger. Now Cao's House has defeated the confidence of the Northern Empire with a small-scale battle. Such a thing has caused a very bad influence on the army of the Northern Empire. Even the empress's private army can't resist. It's not easy to say what they are treated every year, and what we are treated every year. It can be understood at a glance. Compared with others, we are a fart. Do these things we do compare with others? It's not crazy, we are not their opponents at all, there are so many people thinking about such things before going to the battlefield, if it really goes to the battlefield, those people will run away immediately. Those who can do such a thing, they are not fools, it is because of this, they will say that the two roads of His Royal Highness are dead ends, but it is really not a good choice, and the people of Cao's House are so stupid. Tough, why don't they do things in a roundabout way? If they leave a way for others, it won't be so difficult to walk in the future, but why don't they think about it? Back then, on the northern battlefield, Cao's House The people in Cao's House were also at an absolute disadvantage. At that time, they didn't even think about giving Cao's House any chance. The people in Cao's House were also desperate at that time, but they finally survived with some other efforts. That was also the most difficult time for Cao's House of Commerce, and now it is also the most difficult time for the Northern Empire. It's just whether they have the ability to get over it. These people don't know about it, but judging from the current situation, they don't know. If you have this ability, you can't make it through.

The people from the Cao’s House of Commerce stopped talking to the people from the Northern Empire, but they didn’t limit their freedom, and some figures were also on the prince’s table. One of the people from the Cao’s House of Business who was staying together for a day turned out to be It can be a sign of 130 soldiers. There are dozens of places like this in the whole city. This is just one of their counties. Those who were originally the people of the Western Empire are crazy. Have you forgotten that these people are invaders? Are you the one? Why are they all so willing to serve as soldiers for the invaders? The prince doesn't understand this point, in his opinion, these people should all unite to deal a painful blow to the Cao's House of Commerce, how could they hang out with the people of the Cao's House of Commerce, he doesn't understand this point, everyone else It is very clear that the war directly collapsed the economy of the entire society. If they did not serve as soldiers, it is impossible for the young and old in the family to have anything to eat in the future. Each of these people may be I will starve to death, it doesn't matter if I starve to death, but what should the family members do? Are they going to starve to death with me? This is impossible, so they have no choice but to go to the army together. The most important thing is that the treatment of this Cao's firm is still good. As long as one person is a soldier, the whole family should have no life. As for the problem, I can’t say how good it is, but presumably their food and other things are all right. It’s this time, and other things are meaningless to them, as long as they can make them feel happy. After eating enough, this matter is over.

The army on the front line has not been idle during this period of time. They held a grand military parade on the outskirts of Lucheng, and let the common people in the city come out to see how powerful the army of Cao's House is, and let them all Knowing how their army failed, many people were dumbfounded when they saw the military posture of Cao's house. They all assured that they had never seen such well-trained soldiers before. In the past, they thought that the emperor Your Majesty's Imperial Forest Army is the most powerful, but after seeing these people, no one will foolishly say anything about the Imperial Forest Army's problems. The common people in this city don't know how powerful the Imperial Forest Army is, but they all know The empress's private army is so powerful. Those troops can fight ten of them. Ordinary people are nothing in the eyes of those people. Even compared with the soldiers in other armies, they can also fight It can be regarded as one of the best in a hundred, but some people like this were killed by the people of Cao's Commercial Bank in one day. What level has the army of Cao's Commercial Bank got? Many people in the city are still thinking about doing something and waiting for the North The imperial army is back. After a military parade, people who have such thoughts probably screwed their heads off after returning. Damn, so many ordinary people didn’t do it. You still have one more head than others. What's the matter? Why do you want to do such a thing? It's just nonsense, they are not fools, of course it is very easy to understand what's going on, how can the people of Cao's House see them and don't understand what's going on, right now These people should know what to do when something like this happens, they must give everyone an explanation, otherwise, these people would not be able to go out, and they would all know clearly when something like this happened Now, they are going to give in to these people. They are no longer the common people of the Northern Empire. No more, in fact, what they don't know is that they will lose more later. (To be continued..)