Alas, no wonder everyone in the world calls Mr. foresight...ahem!

"The Shangdang's failure this time was due to Wei Wenchang's carelessness and defeat to Sima Yi's plan. There was another important reason."

Feng Duhu's face was indifferent, and there was a hint of unknown meaning in his eyes, "That's the powerful family of the Shangdang."

Everyone knows that Ji Han has a tradition of suppressing wealthy families.

From Shu to Liangzhou, and then from Liangzhou to Yongzhou and Bingzhou, no one was left behind.

There were many aristocratic families, and Hedong, adjacent to Shangdang, was even more brutally purged.

Either kneel down and be like a dog, or bleed like a river.

It is understandable that the local aristocratic family in Shangdang was saddened by the death of the rabbit and wanted to return to the embrace of Wei State, the paradise of aristocratic families.

But understanding does not mean that Feng Duhu will let them go.

Just like in later generations, the goddess refused to lick the dog.

Not only will they not let them go, they will also intensify their efforts to settle the scores.

Du Yu, who is also a child of aristocratic families, felt a hint of chill from the gentleman's plain tone, and he couldn't help but asked:

"Then what sir means is..."

"We don't need me to go over to regain Shangdang." Feng Duhu grinned with a gentle expression, "Let General Shi Zhonglang (i.e. Shi Bao) go over first."

"Sima Yi has already withdrawn from Taiyuan. General Zhendong can also attack Shangdang from the north, which is enough to capture Shangdang. If I go there again, wouldn't it be unnecessary?"

Du Yu suddenly had a cold war.

General Shi Zhonglang?

How do the Hedong aristocratic families call this person?

Skinned evil dog!

In the past two years, he had participated in the new affairs of the imperial court in Hedong, and Du Yu had heard of this person's name.

I don’t know how many people gnashed their teeth at this man and wished they could peel off his skin and eat his flesh.

Not to mention anything else, just in the Yanhai River east of the river, in the past, all the powerful families would go there to get salt without authorization and sell it privately to make huge profits.

After Shi Bao takes charge of patrolling the Salt Sea, anyone who dares to take salt without authorization will end up in a miserable state.

What's more, if you accidentally get bitten by someone behind the scenes, it doesn't matter who your boss is, you can't escape without peeling off your skin!

Shi Bao cut off a major source of profit for the Hedong family, and added new policies such as inventory of land, registration of population, and implementation of imperial examinations.

Faced with Ji Han's extensive tax sources, healthy finances, rapid development of new industries, and a talent training system that has taken shape, the Hedong Family is simply unable to resist.

In just a few years, I have fallen into a dilemma where I have no way forward or retreat, and I am at the mercy of others.

If you don't want the family to continue to decline, you have no other choice but to look up to the court.

Of course, it would be wrong to say that there is no other way.

Yes, there is another way.

It’s just that no one dares to use it—either they learn from the Party or they directly rebel.

It's just that the brutal methods used by the Han Dynasty when they regained Hedong have scared the courage of many people.

Coupled with the fact that the Royal College has expanded its student intake in recent years, is preparing to promote cotton, and also uses other methods such as expanding the number of seats in the Reserve Bureau, the imperial court can be said to be both benevolent and powerful.

As soon as the land and people were counted, the Hedong family, no matter how unwilling they were, had to kneel down obediently.

In fact, the wealthy families in Hedong and Shangdang made completely opposite choices when facing the extremely powerful Ji Han.

Their fates are quite different.

Kneel down and still have something to eat. The gentleman took the opportunity to let Shi Bao lead the army into Shangdang. The meaning is self-evident.

The local aristocratic families are powerful, and I am afraid that they will be uprooted by the time, and even three feet of their land will be shoveled away.

After all, does skinning a vicious dog deserve its reputation?

Du Yu glanced at the gentleman quietly and secretly swallowed a sip of saliva.

Sure enough, what is your second nickname?

Of course, Du Yu was in no mood to pity the powerful family members who went to the party.

Because the Du family can be regarded as a family that profited from the new policies of the imperial court, he naturally wanted to firmly support the new policies of the Han Dynasty.

Du Yu had countless thoughts in his mind, and then asked:

"Sir, don't you want to join the Party? Since you don't want to go to Gaodu and you don't want to join the Party, where should you go?"

He couldn't believe that Mr. gathered so many troops here, but in the end did nothing.

Feng Duhu smiled slightly and said to Du Yu:

"Yuan Kai might as well take a guess?"

Du Yu was startled for a moment.

This...you have to guess again?

It is too difficult to guess what the teacher is thinking. As a disciple, I always feel that the pressure is too much.

…

Compared to Du Yu, who had a gloomy look on his face, Shi Bao, who had been guarding Gaoping Pass, couldn't help but smile at the sky when he received the military order from Feng Duhu.

"Someone is coming!"

"General?"

"Send someone quickly to invite General Hu, General Wang and others to come and discuss matters!"

"Here!"

After a while, Hu Zun, Wang Han and others entered the tent:

"General Zhonglang, what's the important thing to summon us for?"

Shi Bao couldn't help but handed over the military order:

"General Hu, General Wang, and the Central Protector finally sent someone to deliver the news!"

"The Central Protector ordered me to organize the army immediately, leave Gaoping Pass, and go to the eldest son!" Shi Bao's eyes fell on Wen Shi next to Wang Han, "At the same time, he also asked me to bring the engineering battalion."

Heading to the eldest son with an engineering battalion?

Is Feng Duhu planning to hand over the important task of recovering Shangdang to General Zhonglang?

General Zhonglang, this is really a turn of events!

Can the eldest son be captured just by relying on the troops at Gaopingguan, or when there are rebel troops stationed in Gaodu in the south?

After all, in the past few days, according to the investigations of spies and scouts, the eldest son's bandit army has imitated the old Zhao State veteran Lian Po and seized the time to set up a defense line along Danshui.

It was only when they saw the back of the military order that everyone realized that the battle in Taiyuan was over, and General Zhendong would lead his army south from Dagukou to attack Shangdang.

"General Zhendong's troops were so powerful that even Sima Yi did not dare to lightly attack him and fled in a panic!"

Shi Bao was overjoyed and praised General Zhendong repeatedly.

This caused several people in the tent to look at him with some suspicion.

Shi Bao didn't take it seriously.

He grew up as a poor and unlucky guy who was extremely down and out and had to pay for whatever he did. The biggest turning point in his life was meeting the noble man General Zhendong.

Even though General Zhendong couldn't hear it, it didn't affect his ability to flatter the other party instinctively.

No, this is not flattery, this is what he truly means.

"The Zhongdu Protector has an order, and we must obey the order, but I don't know what arrangements the Zhongdu General has?"

Hu Zun coughed, intending to resolve the awkward atmosphere in the tent.

Although General Zhendong...
Chapter completed!