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

The reason why Duke Paris rebelled.

To put it simply, there are actually two reasons.

Money, and ambition.

And personal ambitions account for most of them.

Duke Paris, who controls the 300,000 Kingdom Field Legion, wants to take down the capital of Dilo, sit on the throne and replace it.

And the drug manufacturer, as well as the tens of millions of gold coins owned by the royal family and various nobles, will all enter his pocket.

With this huge sum of money, Duke Paris can expand his armament, suppress all forces that disobey him at home, and have the ability to resist interference from foreign forces, and even expand outside.

After all, it's money that causes trouble.

So I would like to ask how rich the royal family and multiple franchise families are now, which makes Duke Paris so jealous?

Hundreds of millions of gold coins.

Through the pharmaceutical export industry, the royal family and the public joined the family and earned over 100 million gold coins.

Especially in the six months after Zhou Ming left, after the chemical manufacturer scrapped more than 100,000 portions of medicinal materials, the workers carried out strict operations according to the operating procedures provided by Zhou Ming, and were careful in 88 processes. Finally, when Zhou Ming was not in the factory's guidance, he produced a batch of "excellent" quality [Sanshen Pharmaceuticals].

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

These potions were sold to hundreds of kingdoms around, and even if each bottle had a net profit of 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 King of Adud suddenly became the richest royal family among the hundreds of kingdoms around, no doubt about it.

With sufficient funds, the king has more things to do.

For example, update the equipment for the Royal Capital Defense Army, increase their treatment, and expand the number of people... The power of the royal family is increasing.

Duke Paris was now anxious. On the one hand, he asked for more military expenditures and demanded increased treatment for frontier soldiers; on the other hand, he was stepping up preparations for war, inciting trusted officers, and preparing to take action!

good.

At this time, Duke Paris, driven by his ambition, was like a "gambler". Especially after seeing his chances of winning were decreasing, he decided to bet on all the chips, intending to move all the way before his chances of winning were still relatively large to eliminate all resistance!

Realize the dream that has been in existence for decades!

but……

It has been more than three months since the reign of the army. Although the 300,000 army brought by Duke Paris was very smooth in the early stage, except for sporadic resistance, they all descended all the way. When they reached Dilo City, the losses of personnel were very minor, less than a thousand people.

However, after fierce resistance at the city of Dilo, due to heavy casualties and continuous desertion, the rebellious army now has less than 200,000 people.

Whether it is combat effectiveness or morale, it is at the end of its strength.

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

More than 100 families who were associated with the royal family due to their interests were all contributed to the efforts. The waves of attacks brought by Duke Paris were blocked again and again.

Now Zhou Ming plans to deal with this group of rebels, which is actually not a difficult thing.

It was not because he said that he would solve the problem within five days, but because he was sure of this.

...

After a little rest, the magic power was completely restored.

That night, Zhou Ming led a "special operation team" to launch an operation.

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

A three-law World War II combination.

The role of the mage is to help set fire, and the role of the warrior is to be responsible for letting go of the air and fighting against the powerful swordsmen in the rebels.

good.

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

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

In addition, seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, Zhou Ming plans to burn a batch of sheepskin tents to let some rebel soldiers spend the cold wind, ice and snow.

Burn food and grass?

In fact, when the rebels first began to siege the city, the defenders in Diluo City also thought of this method, but did not apply it.

How come the Duke of Paris, Lao Yu, the army of the army, did not know the importance of protecting food and grass?

Therefore, the food and grass in the rebels were not only stored in dozens of piles, but also guarded each storage point, and burned one place, but it was only a few tenths of the food and grass, which was not hindered from the overall situation.

But Zhou Ming planned to burn all the 23 grain storage points in total!

If the gasoline in his three space rings (gasoline is provided by the Mainland Chamber of Commerce) is enough, then burn a batch of tents and horse rings.

But it was so dark at night, and there were 23 food and grass storage points that I couldn’t see clearly on the road. How could he burn it?

Don’t worry, there is a systematic navigation, and this morning, the layout of the entire rebel barracks was scanned. Zhou Ming could find the food and grass storage point there even with his eyes closed.

Everything was ready, and the barbecue party started.

Zhou Ming, who was wearing "flying armor", led the setting team to rage for the whole night.

That night, all the food and supplies in the rebels were burned clean by Zhou Ming.

He also killed hundreds of high-level swordsmen and five magicians in 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 dazzling firelight, the guards standing on the head of Diluo City, were cheering loudly.

The next morning.

The rebels retreated twenty miles away, with mourning everywhere and extremely low morale.

According to the existing grains they have, they can only last for up to three days.

Then the cold and hungry rebels will collapse without fighting.

However, there was no need to wait for the other party to completely lose food. Zhou Ming solved the rebel army on the morning of the third day.

From General Hill, he took the head of Duke Paris.

All the remaining 80,000 rebels announced their surrender.

What's going on?

Why did Duke Paris suddenly die?

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

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

Facing Zhou Ming who suddenly appeared in his tent, Earl Hill's first reaction was that he was shocked. He took the sword and shouted loudly at the guards.

"Stop calling, I have used mute magic to this tent. No matter how loud your voice is, people outside can't hear it." Zhou Ming said.

"What do you...you want to do?"

Earl Hill drew his sword and looked at Zhou Ming, his face full of panic.

Zhou Ming said something, listed a few reasons and conditions, and made the other party nodded in agreement, killed Duke Paris, and led the remnants to surrender.

One, the rebels of Duke Paris will be defeated, there is no doubt.

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

Three, if Earl Hill is now anyway, after resolving the rebels, his sins can be written off, and even retained his title and territory, and may get a share of the "pharmaceutical export industry" of the kingdom.

In the end, Earl Hill had only one son, Martin. After the failure of the rebellion, if there was no sufficient financial support and good education in the magic school, Martin was destined to have limited achievements and could not become a powerful magician, because at that time, Martin could not afford to buy a bottle of [Sansing Potion] of 120 gold coins per bottle.

Zhou Ming said: "Earl Hill, you follow Duke Paris to rebel. The ultimate goal is not to be for your own son? What if it fails? The family is destroyed and the son is destroyed, and his son is reduced to a foreign country, and his wealth will no longer be restored. He can only struggle at the bottom... Is this ending you want to see?"

These words touched Earl Hill, and he immediately said: He would do his job well for the soldiers and take down Duke Paris's head.

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 did not treat us badly. The 3 million stones of military rations transported to the border every year, and the hundreds of thousands of stones of sand and wood chips mixed in were done by Lao Fude, the former chief financial officer."

"Old Fude was killed. It was the Duke who sent me to take him to kill. More than 8 million gold coins are all the flesh and blood of us frontier guards!"

"After the new head of the financial officer came up, the king sent us not only new grains, but also no grain of sand."

"The Duke felt that this was inappropriate, and he asked someone to put sand in it. He hoped that everyone would continue to hate the king."

"Not only that, the Duke reduced the salary that should be paid to everyone, and used it to buy weapons, and bought a batch of low-quality winter clothes, saying that this was the "gift" given to you by the king, and the winter clothes of good quality sent by the financial supervisors were all stored in the warehouse..."

"This rebellion is actually a conspiracy of the Duke, and we are all tools he uses."

"Look at the brothers who died in battle, the Duke was sad at all except insults and anger?"

"The king did not let us down, we were always kept in the dark... The Duke is taking our blood to realize his ambitions!"

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

All the middle and lower-level officers were stunned.

They had never expected that the truth of the matter was like this.

Their dissatisfaction with the royal family and their anger towards the king were actually the effect of the Duke's intentional incitement and guidance.

Let’s look at the Duke’s performance after the defeat in the war, as Earl Hill said: This is a selfish ambitious man.

They immediately burst into anger:

"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, and cut off his head in Duke Paris's shocked gaze.

...
Chapter completed!