Dominate the Country

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Yuzhou, Lu's Camp.

As a camp leader of Nanyang Town, Zong Weifeng and his men seemed to have forgotten something. After the Chen family army retreated from Xuzhou, this group of defeated soldiers firmly entrenched in Yuzhou and did not even report to Kaifeng City. At this critical moment, Asaha in Kaifeng City had already ignored Lu's Camp. He was trying his best to find someone to ask for help so that people would say a few good words for him in front of the emperor.

Asaha's main business was the Fucha family. Empress Xiaoxianchun had been dead for more than ten years, and Emperor Qianlong's second empress Nara had died, but the Fucha family was still glorious. Fuheng rose rapidly in his youth. In recent years, he has been the leading minister of the Military Affairs Office and the first-class loyal and brave duke. After pacifying the Dzungar, Qianlong even wanted to confer Fuheng the first-class loyal and brave duke again. Fuheng had already won the first-class loyal and brave duke in the battle of pacifying Jinchuan. It was a special grace to confer him the title of duke again.

Asaha served as a military secretary in his early years and had some dealings with Fuheng. As long as Fuheng could say a few good words for him in front of the emperor, Asaha felt that he really didn't need to go to Xinjiang to eat sand or suffer in the Northeast. Asaha, who was fully focused on Beijing, had no leisure to greet the "Lu's Camp"?

Lu's Camp, like Yuzhou, has become a place "forgotten" by all parties in the central Henan region at this moment.

The Yuzhou government and the local gentry and people were very unwelcome to this outsider who was entrenched in their own land, so Zong Weifeng had to show his muscles once, and then he got another batch of food and salary from the government.

It was about to enter August, autumn was coming, and the day for the Qing soldiers to change their clothes was approaching, but the Yuzhou government had not shown any intention of preparing autumn clothes for them. Zong Weifeng has been worrying about this problem these days, and he didn't want to report to Kaifeng Prefecture. It would be best if the big men in the provincial capital could treat their Lushi Camp as the previous Yuzhou and forget about it together.

The experience of being used as cannon fodder several times made the Lushi Camp full of vigilance against Kaifeng. No one wanted to die, so everyone hated the big men in Kaifeng. The green camp soldiers of Lushi Camp certainly wanted to go home, although their nest had not been occupied or threatened by the Chen family army. Because the terrain of Lushi County was too weird, it was completely surrounded by clusters of mountains. It is located in the western border of Henan Province, bordering Luonan, Danfeng and Shangnan counties in Shaanxi Province, spanning the three major mountain ranges of Xiaoshan, Xiong'er Mountain and Funiushan. With Xiong'er Mountain as the boundary, the south is the Yangtze River Basin and the north is the Yellow River Basin. Chen Ming couldn't tell which was Xiaoshan, Xiong'er Mountain, and Funiushan on the map of this era, but before Chen Ming captured Heluo, it was absolutely true that the Chen family army could not threaten Lushi.

The green camp soldiers of Lu's camp missed home, but they all knew that returning to Lu's camp at this time would be uncomfortable for them. The big guys in the provincial capital would definitely not let go of their two or three hundred people. The Henan Green Camp was beaten miserably by the Chen family army. No matter how small their two or three hundred people were, they were still a piece of meat for some people who were crazy. Instead of being cannon fodder for the troops of Hebei Town, Kaifeng City Guard Camp or Governor's Camp, it would be better to continue to stay in Yuzhou and live a comfortable life. So they also grabbed the civilians who escaped with them and didn't let them go home.

How could the Lu's camp, which had made such a decision, just leave after being driven away by the Yuzhou government?

While the Lu's camp was fighting wits and courage with the local government in Yuzhou, Huang An in Xuzhou, not far from them, had already driven the prisoners of war to build a new Xuzhou city bit by bit. Just like the victory on the northern front, the front line advanced to Pengpo Town, Linru Town became the rear, and the guard pressure was greatly reduced. Xiang County has now been replaced by Xuzhou in strategic position. This new Xuzhou city will replace Xiang County as another strategic support point for Chen's army in the future.

In order to form a defense system as soon as possible, Chen's army has publicly recruited workers. However, with such a movement, Yuzhou, which is only a stone's throw away from Xuzhou, has not received any news from Kaifeng City.

Since the Chen's army started the war, the business of Yuzhou's medicinal materials market has been greatly affected. Especially after Chen's army captured Zhoujiakou, Yuzhou's drug dealers were almost desperate. But the world is so wonderful. It took a turn overnight. After Chen's army conquered Xuzhou for the first time, it did not harm Yuzhou at all. The market of Yuzhou's medicinal materials market has also rebounded significantly.

Yuzhou people and those foreign merchants doing business in Yuzhou know why this is. No one ran to the state government in anger and scolded the local officials for colluding with thieves. Everyone knows what is going on. Who made them businessmen? And many of them are Shanxi merchants.

Their ancestors sold their ancestors and the court for silver more than a hundred years ago, and now they can also put the Qing court aside for silver. As long as they can make money, as long as the Chen family army can keep their promise not to attack Yuzhou and not harm their interests, these merchants don't care who their customers are. As long as they get a lot of silver, they don't care about anything.

No one knows that the middle-aged man who often goes in and out of Yuzhou will be the core figure of the Chen family, Chen Ming's tenth uncle Chen Yi. Chen Yi, who goes by the alias Huang Pin, has been in Yuzhou many times and is a VIP of many Yuzhou medicinal materials merchants. So when Chen Yi came to Zong Weifeng, although Zong Weifeng was very polite and solemn, he only regarded the Chen family as ordinary people of the Chen family army.

This time Chen Yi came to see Zong Weifeng to give him silver. Eight hundred taels of silver was enough to solve the urgent problem for Lu's Camp. And Chen Yi's request was that Chen's army would take a large batch of goods from Yuzhou to Xuzhou recently, and Lu's Camp would escort them all the way to ensure that the batch of medicinal materials arrived safely at the border of Xuzhou and Yuzhou.

That night, Chen Yi mysteriously disappeared under the surveillance of countless eyes. No one knew that he had taken a very ordinary carriage to a landlord's house outside the city that seemed to be very ordinary.

"Haha, Mr. Chen has come from afar. I am sorry for not welcoming you. I am sorry." A very wealthy middle-aged man came out of the room to greet him. He looked a few years older than Chen Yi. He also knew Chen Yi's identity, but he was not humble at all in front of Chen Yi, and behaved very stylishly.

"How dare I, Master Zheng, you are too polite." Chen Yi narrowed his eyes as if he had seen a close friend he hadn't seen for many years, and his smile was so sweet.

This is the leader of the Shouyuan Sect in Yuzhou. He has been rooted in Yuzhou since his great-grandfather's generation. In the early years, the government knew that there was a Zheng family in Yuzhou, but they just couldn't catch them, and they didn't know the Zheng family's public identity at all.

Now the Chen family army also needs them. The Zheng family has been operating in Yuzhou for hundreds of years, and the relationship is complicated and deep-rooted. They are very capable in society.

Sitting in the double-sided room, Chen Yi got straight to the point and asked his followers to open the four small boxes they were holding, "Master Zheng, this is the deposit, which is enough to exchange for 5,000 taels of silver." The four small boxes were full of gold and silver jewelry, each piece was wiped clean and tidy, and it was bright and dazzling. The moment it was opened, it would dazzle people's eyes.