Become a feudal king from today

Yanzhou.

When Han Zheng secretly contacted the Japanese envoys, Zhao Xu was inspecting military affairs in the three southern counties.

After deciding on the strategy of keeping constant in the face of changes, he asked Xu Ke to actively collect information from all parties.

At the same time, Chang Wei also transferred the royal family's troops from Ningcheng to Guangning County, Dai County and Fanyang County, leaving only 5,000 people to guard Yancheng in case of any emergency.

As he planned, the Ningjin Army will be responsible for the defense of the north.

The royal family's troops will deal with the chaos in Dasong.

"Your Highness, during this period, I will send several scouts to Qizhou for investigation. I found that from the county town to the county town, they are all heavily guarded, and artillery is installed on the city wall. In addition, there are soldiers patrolling with matchlock guns."

On the top of Fanyang City, Chang Wei looked towards the direction of Qizhou and said to Zhao Xu.

After a pause, he said: "When we were investigating Qizhou, the Han family's scouts also crossed the border to investigate us many times."

Zhao Xu nodded and patted the artillery in front of him.

In addition to leading the royal army to the three southern counties, Chang Wei also brought a lot of artillery.

Unlike dealing with the Northern Di, it is only necessary to guard the Yan Pass and the bastions in Yanshan.

The south of Yanzhou is flat.

This means that if the Han family attacks Yanzhou, they can come from anywhere.

They have no defense.

Therefore, they are currently heavily guarding important cities, and at the same time, with the county as a corner, deploying a small number of troops to prevent the other side from launching a sudden attack.

"My repeated victories over the Northern Di have made them more dependent on firearms." Zhao Xu said lightly.

The love of the powerful families for firearms surprised him, but it was also within his expectations.

In contemporary history, except for the Qing Dynasty, which was afraid that the Han people, who they positioned as slaves, would master firearms and threaten their rule, thus suppressing the development of firearms.

Any Han dynasty attached great importance to firearms.

During the Ming Dynasty, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty belonged to the first echelon in the world.

But by the Opium War, the firearms of the Qing Dynasty did not make any progress, and were eventually beaten by the British.

Then came the Taiping Rebellion. The Taiping Army attached great importance to firearms. They not only bought advanced muskets from foreigners, but also spent a lot of money to hire Western craftsmen to help them make firearms.

So much so that Li Hongzhang lamented that the Taiping Army's firearms were more advanced than theirs.

All of the above is enough to show that the people of the Central Plains are good at accepting new things.

Although the powerful families are blood suckers in the Central Plains, they are also part of the Central Plains after all.

It is not surprising that they quickly equipped firearms, not to mention that they have a threat like Yanzhou.

"Indeed, they are very smart." Chang Wei sneered.

Then, thinking of something, Chang Wei said, "Your Highness, the Dou family established the Southern Liang, and the Xie family supported the eldest prince to ascend the throne in Jinling. I don't know how many people will become kings and emperors in the future. The world will not be peaceful in the future." "I think that we should take advantage of the fact that each family has just been established and has no energy to provoke a war to take Jinzhou and Sizhou, so as not to be attacked from the west in the midst of the war. After all, the loyalty of the Ma family to your Highness is questionable, and the Sixth Prince..." At this point, Chang Wei stopped talking, he knew that the King of Yan knew better than him. "I understand what you mean. This time when I return to Yancheng, I will integrate Jinzhou and Sizhou to ensure that the King of Yan is safe and secure in the west." Zhao Xu narrowed his eyes. In troubled times, people's hearts are floating, and they are separated and united because of interests. What is not in your own hands is always unsafe. Now is the time to make a final test of the Ma family. In addition, it is Jinzhou. The Sixth Prince has arrived in Jinzhou for some time. During this time, he has been recruiting soldiers and horses, looking like he is going to do something big. But what he didn't know was that, in addition to the 1,000 guards he brought from Jinling, 90% of his newly recruited soldiers were in Cao's camp but their hearts were with Han.

As long as he gave an order, these soldiers would rise up.

At present, with the application of steam engines in various industries in Yanzhou, the consumption of coal has increased greatly. How could he hand over such an important place as Jinzhou to others?

Moreover, according to the information provided by Xu Ke, the sixth prince also had correspondence with Yuan Li.

I really don't know how to write the word "death".

He chatted with Chang Wei about the current situation for a few more words. In the next few days, he and Chang Wei inspected Guangning County and Dai County.

When he returned to Yancheng, his butt was not warm yet.

Xu Ke sent two more heavy news to the palace.

"Wu?" Zhao Xu glanced at the documents.

This was the news just sent to Yancheng. Liang Kai established a country in Lincheng.

In this way, Nanliang, Wu, and the pseudo-Song established by the Xie family appeared on the territory of Dasong.

Zhao Heng is still alive in Yancheng, and he will not recognize the eldest prince as a fake emperor.

"This is the news sent from Qingcheng, Qizhou. Han Zheng met three Japanese in the Japanese trading house. After returning to Lucheng, Han Zheng asked people to prepare for the establishment of a country." Xu Ke said.

Zhao Xu was slightly surprised. When he and Mi Zhuang analyzed it, they did not take into account the factors of the Japanese.

But what guarantee did Japan give Han Zheng that gave Han Zheng the courage to establish a country?

"This Japan is really as restless as the contemporary Japanese." Zhao Xu slammed the table heavily.

In modern times, the Japanese in history have always been in two extreme states of arrogance and inferiority.

In the Battle of Baijiangkou in the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese were defeated. After seeing the tall warships of the Tang Dynasty, they frantically sent people to the Tang Dynasty to learn from them. They did not dare to covet the Central Plains Dynasty for a thousand years.

At that time, the Japanese were extremely inferior.

During the Ming Dynasty, after the Japanese mastered the iron cannon, that is, the matchlock gun, it became more powerful and dared to formulate a plan to invade North Korea and destroy the Ming Dynasty.

During the First World War in Korea, they were brutally tortured by the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese country fell into silence again for more than 300 years.

During the Meiji Restoration, they encountered the loser Qing Dynasty again, and their ambitions expanded infinitely.

It goes without saying what happened next.

Therefore, after Zhao Xu got to know Japan in this world, he concluded that Japan would use all the strength of the country to take advantage of the decline of Dasong to wage a war with Dasong on a scale of gambling on the fate of the country.

This time he is praising the civil strife, this is probably the beginning of his gambling on the fate of the country.

But it can only be considered unlucky for Japan to meet Zhao Xu, the King of Yan.

Next, he will definitely let Japan understand what fear is.

"Let me go, I want to see His Highness King Yan, woo woo..."

While the two were talking, suddenly there was a burst of crying.

Zhao Xu frowned when he heard this and called Feng'er in.

"What's going on? Who is crying in front of the palace?" Zhao Xu asked.

Hearing this, Feng'er smiled helplessly, "His Royal Highness got into the study as soon as he came back. Before the slave could say anything, this man had just escaped from the south. He was rejected by the Emperor and then made trouble in the palace. He said that he was The prince of Ryukyu Kingdom, please help your highness to restore Ryukyu Kingdom."

"Ryukyu Kingdom." Zhao Xu thought for a while, and his eyes lit up slightly.

He was thinking about Japan, and like justice coming from heaven, the opportunity to deal with Japan came to his door.