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After about half an hour of understanding, Zhou Ming nodded.

The reason why Duke Paris raised an army to rebel.

To put it simply, there are actually two reasons.

Money, and ambition.

And personal ambition accounts for most of it.

Duke Paris, who controls 300,000 of the kingdom's field legions, wants to take over the royal capital of Dillo City, sit on the throne, and replace it.

And the pharmaceutical production factory, as well as the tens of millions of gold coins owned by the royal family and various nobles, will all go into his pocket.

With this huge sum of money, Duke Paris can expand his armaments, suppress domestic forces that disobey him, have the ability to resist interference from external forces, and even expand externally.

After all, it is money that is to blame.

So I would like to ask, how rich are the royal family and its multiple franchised families now, to the point where Duke Paris is so jealous?

Hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Through the pharmaceutical export industry, the royal family joined the family and earned hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Especially in the six months after Zhou Ming left, after the pharmaceutical production factory scrapped more than 100,000 medicinal materials, the workers carried out strict operations according to the operating procedures provided by Zhou Ming. The 88 processes were all done carefully, and finally Zhou Ming was no longer in the factory to guide them. Under the circumstances, a batch of "excellent" quality [Soothing Potion] was produced.

After that, it got out of hand. Due to the sufficient supply of medicinal materials, in just half a year, the pharmaceutical production factory produced more than 1 million bottles of various pharmaceuticals.

These potions were sold to hundreds of surrounding kingdoms. Even if the net profit from each bottle was 100 gold coins, 100 million gold coins were recorded.

Among them, the royal family alone earned more than 20 million gold coins.

The royal family of the Yadud Kingdom suddenly became one of the richest royal families among hundreds of surrounding kingdoms.

With sufficient funds, there are many things a king can do.

For example, updating the equipment of the Royal Capital Defense Force, improving their treatment, and expanding their numbers...the power of the royal family is increasing.

Duke Paris was now anxious. On the one hand, he was asking for more military spending and improving the treatment of soldiers on the frontier. On the other hand, he was stepping up preparations for war and inciting his trusted officers to prepare for action!

good.

At this time, Duke Paris, driven by ambition, was like a "gambler". Especially after seeing that his odds of winning were constantly decreasing, he decided to bet all his chips and planned to go out with all his strength before his odds of winning were still relatively high. Eliminate all resistance!

Realize the dream you have had for decades!

but……

It has been more than three months since the army was launched. Although the 300,000-strong army brought by Duke Paris went very smoothly in the early stage, except for sporadic resistance, they fought against the wind all the way. When they reached Dillo City, they suffered very slight casualties, less than 1,000 people. people.

However, after encountering fierce resistance under the city of Dilo, due to heavy casualties and the continuous emergence of deserters, the rebel army now numbered less than 200,000.

Both combat effectiveness and morale have reached the end of their strength.

Moreover, King James is still loved by some citizens. At least more than 200 magicians, including teachers and students of Brno Magic School, spontaneously assisted in defending the city, causing considerable casualties to the rebels.

In addition, more than a hundred families with interests related to the royal family have stepped in to help. The waves of attacks launched by the rebels brought by Duke Paris have been blocked time and time again.

Now Zhou Ming plans to take action to deal with this group of rebels, which is actually not that difficult a task.

He said it would be solved within five days, not because he was just talking nonsense, but because he was sure of it.

…

After resting for a long time, the magic power was fully restored.

That night, Zhou Ming led a "special operations team" and launched an operation.

There are five people in the special operations team: Zhou Ming, Sales, Princess Xivenis, Nabe, and another great magician named "Campbell".

A three-method WWII combo.

The role of the mage is to help set the fire, and the role of the warrior is to set the wind and fight against the powerful swordsmen among the rebels.

good.

Zhou Ming planned to burn all the food and fodder of the 200,000 rebels outside the city.

These include fodder for horses and livestock, rations for soldiers, and some kitchen cooking facilities (such as bakeries).

In addition, seeing that the weather was getting colder, Zhou Ming planned to burn a batch of sheepskin tents to allow some rebel soldiers to survive the cold wind, ice and snow.

Burning grain and grass?

In fact, when the rebels first began to siege the city, the generals who defended the city in Dilo also thought about this method, but did not adopt it.

Duke Paris is old, so why doesn't he know the importance of protecting food and grass?

Therefore, the grain and grass in the rebel army are not only stored in dozens of stacks, but also each storage point is guarded by elite soldiers. Burning one place will only lose a few tenths of the grain and grass, and it will not affect the overall situation.

But Zhou Ming planned to burn all 23 grain and grass storage points!

If there is enough gasoline in his three space rings (the gasoline is provided by the Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry), he will burn down a batch of tents and horse pens.

It's just that it's dark at night, and the 23 grain and grass storage points can't be seen clearly. How can he burn them?

Don't worry, with the system navigation and the fact that he scanned the layout of the entire rebel camp this morning, Zhou Ming could find the food storage point even with his eyes closed.

Everything is ready and the barbecue party begins.

Zhou Ming, who put on the "flying armor" and led the arson team, wreaked havoc all night.

That night, all the food and fodder among the rebels were burned cleanly by Zhou Ming.

He also killed hundreds of senior swordsmen and five magicians among the rebels, burned more than 5,000 rebel tents, and a large number of siege equipment.

In the raging fire, countless rebel soldiers were burned to death.

The guards and soldiers standing on top of Dilo City cheered loudly as they watched the dazzling fire.

Early the next morning.

The rebels outside the city retreated twenty miles away, mourning was everywhere, and morale was extremely low.

Based on the food they currently have on hand, they can only last three days at most.

By then, the remaining rebels, who are cold and hungry, will collapse without a fight.

However, there was no need to wait for the opponent to completely run out of food. Zhou Ming defeated the rebel army on the morning of the third day.

Obtained the head of Duke Paris from General Hill.

All the remaining 80,000 rebels surrendered.

How is this going?

Why did Duke Paris die suddenly?

Why did Earl Hill, who had had many grievances with Zhou Ming before, suddenly turn against him and kill his master?

The reason was that Zhou Ming convinced him... the second night after setting the fire.

Facing Zhou Ming who suddenly appeared in his tent, Earl Hill's first reaction was to be startled. He took out his sword and shouted to the guards.

"Stop screaming. I have cast a silent spell on this tent. No matter how loud you sound, no one outside can hear you." Zhou Ming said.

"You...what do you want to do?"

Earl Hill pulled out his sword and faced Zhou Ming, his face full of panic.

Zhou Ming said something and listed several reasons and conditions, making the other party nod in agreement to kill Duke Paris and lead the remaining army to surrender.

One, there is no doubt that Duke Paris’s rebels will be defeated.

Two, with the king's current financial resources and the support of many nobles, following Duke Paris, they will be finished sooner or later.

Three, if Earl Hill were to change his ways now, after dealing with the rebels, his sins could be wiped off, and he could even retain his title and territory, and possibly get a share of the kingdom's "pharmaceutical export industry."

Finally, Earl Hill only had one son, Martin. After the failure of the rebellion, without sufficient financial support and a good education in a magic school, Martin was destined to have limited achievements and could not become a powerful magician, because at that time, Martin could not even get 120 gold coins a bottle. I can’t even afford the [soothing potion].

Zhou Ming said: "Count Hill, your ultimate goal in following Duke Paris's rebellion is not for your own son? What if you fail? Your family is ruined, your son is in a foreign country, you no longer have wealth, and you can only struggle at the bottom... Such an ending, Is this what you want to see?"

These words touched Earl Hill, and he immediately said that he would do a good job as soldiers and take the head of Duke Paris.

So in the early morning of that day, Earl Hill summoned most of the middle- and lower-level officers and told them the truth:

"The king has not treated us badly. The three million stones of military rations transported to the border every year from the royal capital are mixed with hundreds of thousands of stones of sand and wood chips. It was the former financial controller Lao Fude who did it."

"Old Ford was killed. It was the Duke who sent me to lead his men to kill him. More than 8 million gold coins are all the flesh and blood of us frontier defenders!"

"After the new treasurer came, the food the king gave us was not only new, but it was not mixed with a grain of sand."

"The Duke felt that this was inappropriate and asked people to put sand in it. He wanted everyone to continue to hate the king."

"Not only that, the Duke reduced the salary that should be paid to everyone, and used it all to buy weapons and a batch of low-quality winter clothes. He said that this was a winter 'gift' from the king to you, and those financial controllers sent it, All high-quality winter clothes are stored in the warehouse..."

"This rebellion is actually the Duke's conspiracy, and all of us are his tools."

"Everyone, think about those brothers who died in the war. Apart from insults and anger, does the Duke feel the least bit sad?"

"The king has not let us down, but we have been kept in the dark... The Duke is using our blood to realize his ambitions!"

"Brothers, kill the Duke and avenge your dead brothers!"

All the middle and lower-level officers were stunned.

They didn't expect that the truth of the matter was actually like this.

Their dissatisfaction with the royal family and their anger with the king turned out to be the result of the Duke's deliberate incitement and guidance.

Looking at the Duke's behavior after the defeat of the war, it is exactly as Earl Hill said: This is a selfish careerist.

They immediately roared:

"Kill the Duke!"

"Kill the Duke!"

After gaining the trust of most of the officers, Earl Hill led a group of people into the tent where the Duke was staying, and cut off his head under the stunned gaze of Duke Paris.

…

In this way, the rebellion that lasted for more than three months was finally collapsed by Zhou Ming in less than three days.