Chapter 330: Hong Chengchou's Response to the Man of Destiny in Troubled Times
"Homeowner!"
Wang Lu went on to say, "Li Dingguo and his Fuxing Army, who marched into the pass in a large force, were so powerful that they were unstoppable for a while."
"I have already arranged to move all of our Wang family's assets in northern Qin to Jin Province and Xi'an Prefecture as soon as possible."
"I think that with Hong Chengchou personally in charge of Xi'an Prefecture, its safety is guaranteed."
"Our large-scale evacuation plan is expected to be completed within three months. Although the loss of property and materials is a bit large, it is better than being completely eaten up by Li Dingguo."
"The same is true for the other major Shanxi merchants. They are quickly evacuating personnel and property from the northern part of Qin to minimize losses."
"In view of this, Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army he founded have become a major concern for all of us big Shanxi merchants, and even a force that is difficult to control."
Not only him, but all the big Shanxi merchants now regretted the most that they did not concentrate their forces early on to eliminate Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army he founded.
As a result, in just three years, the Fuxing Army grew completely powerful and became a guillotine hanging over the heads of these big Shanxi merchants, which could fall at any time and kill them and wipe out their clans.
The main reason for this was that Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army he founded grew and developed too quickly, completely beyond the imagination of all major forces.
Before anyone could react, the Fusion Army had already become a top force.
What was even more unexpected to all the forces was that Li Dingguo actually brazenly led his troops into the pass at the beginning of this year, and launched a large-scale siege in the northern part of Qin territory. He was unstoppable and swept rapidly in all directions.
This was the end of these big Shanxi merchants.
Because their roots are in the three northwestern provinces, once the Restoration Army occupies any of these provinces, the losses of various interests will be very severe.
If it is just the loss of some economic interests, it is not a big deal, but with the usual style of Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army, once they gain power in the future, none of these big Shanxi merchants will be able to escape the blow.
"Yes, Wang Lu."
Wang Dengku thought for a moment and said to the chief steward Wang Lu, "Let's not rush the Kang family's affairs for now. Let's wait until we get the exact news of whether Kang Baiwan is in trouble."
"Kang Baiwan is not someone you can easily get along with. In the past, those who tried to take over the Kang family not only failed, but also suffered great losses."
"As long as our colleagues and major forces are not stupid, they will not attack the Kang family now."
Wang Dengku knew very well that the Kang family was able to become the richest family in the three northwestern provinces, but it was not as simple as it seemed.
Not to mention the genius Kang Baiwan, even the large number of warriors, servants and guards hidden in the Kang family and those old immortals of the Kang family, once they launch a full-scale counterattack against any major force, it will be enough to give the other party a hard time.
Others may not know, but these big Shanxi merchants all know that over the past hundreds of years, the Kang family has produced many geniuses and evildoers, and there has never been a break in the generation.
Even though human Qi Refining cultivators only have a lifespan of 180 years, there must be quite a few immortals from the Kang family still alive, usually living in seclusion and practicing meditation.
Once the Kang family suffers the disaster of genocide, they will inevitably jump out from those secret spiritual places and launch bloody revenge.
This invisible deterrence is also the reason why the major forces dare not take action against the Kang family at will.
"Wang Lu, go and talk to the Kang family's chief steward to see if they can sell our Wang family a large amount of spiritual food to make up for the shortfall we agreed to trade with Huang Taiji."
"No matter what, let's get through this difficult time first."
For the Wang family, they dared not offend Huang Taiji's Later Jin clan to death.
Otherwise, the family’s demise may come at any time in the future, and it will be too late to regret.
"Yes, Master."
Wang Lu immediately took the order and left. Soon he led a group of family servants and guards out of Lingshi City, riding on a spirit beast warhorse and galloping towards Pingyang Prefecture.
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"grown ups!"
In the meeting hall of the governor's office in Chang'an City, Hong Yuanfeng walked in quickly and reported to Hong Chengchou, who was working on documents at his desk, "Most of our spies in Yansui Town and Suide Prefecture have sent back urgent military intelligence."
"So far, not only has the entire Yansui Town been captured by Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army, but even the important town of Shenmu and its surrounding areas, as well as Mizhi, Suide Prefecture and even the coastal towns of the entire Wuding River Basin have all been captured by the Fuxing Army!"
"The most surprising thing is that even the important towns on both sides of the Yellow River, from the north of the Wuding River where it merges into the Yellow River, except for the northernmost Fugu City and Baodezhou City, Yangtu Fort, Tangjiahui Fort, Huigouzhai Fort, etc., have all been captured by the Xuanwu Corps of the Fuxing Army!"
"Their large fleet has blocked the entire Wuding River Basin and the Yellow River waterway heading north from the Wuding River outlet."
"The Xuanwu Corps of the Fuxing Army has three combat battalions with a large number of soldiers. In the past few months, they have seized a large number of large treasure ships of various levels from the fleets of various forces!"
"The Qilin Corps and the Three Black Tortoise Battalions of the Renaissance Army, which were attacking northward along the Yellow River, captured the important town of Shenmu and the surrounding areas, and then the main force returned to the Yellow River along the Yechuan River."
"Our spies have urgently sent back intelligence saying that the Fuxing Army's northern corps has about 120,000 soldiers and is heading upstream along the Yellow River, preparing to capture all the riverside fortress towns in the northern section of the Yellow River."
"Once they complete this round of rapid sweeping plan, nearly half of the waterways in the Yellow River Basin between our Qin territory and Jin Province will be completely blocked by the Renaissance Army!"
"At that time, the elite troops of Xuanfu and Datongfu will no longer think of crossing the Yellow River to support Qin. They can only cross the river via Pingyangfu."
"The journey required is hundreds of thousands of miles!"
"Based on the speed of their border troops, it will take at least half a year to bypass Pingyang Prefecture and cross the Yellow River to reinforce Qin."
Hong Yuanfeng reported the intelligence he had just obtained to Hong Chengchou, with a look of deep shock on his face.
He really couldn't have imagined that Li Dingguo had played such a big game without anyone noticing, and would soon accomplish his plan.
Could a petty thief who came from a beggar family come up with such foresight and skill?
Even Hong Chengchou, the master of the family, could hardly have imagined this arrangement. Li Dingguo could be said to be taking one step and looking three steps ahead, commanding the Fuxing Army to sweep all the way after entering the pass. In fact, without realizing it, in just a few months, he had almost completed these crucial arrangements.
If another force had deployed this set of defensive measures, it wouldn't be a big deal.
After all, there are too many places to protect and it is difficult to take care of them all.
But Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army was different.
According to intelligence from all sources, the number of Fuxing Army soldiers who have entered the pass exceeds 500,000, and they have the largest navy in the inland area of the Ming Dynasty.
This navy is still growing rapidly. Not only does it have more and more treasure ships, but it also has a large number of warriors and soldiers to use.
Although there are many riverside fortress towns along the Yellow River, the Fuxing Army has sufficient troops to defend them.
"Sir, the most terrifying thing about the Fuxing Army is that we have a team of secret agents who tried to enter the Yansui Town, which was already controlled by the Fuxing Army. However, they found that the city defense formation was still activated at night!"
"How could Li Dingguo and his group of rebels be officials appointed by the imperial court? They were able to regain control of the city defense formation!"
"This is just like Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai. There are also geniuses who have awakened their star destiny in the Fuxing Army, and there are even more than one!"
"After learning this shocking intelligence, our spies discovered one after another that the towns captured by the Restoration Army had their city defense formations activated at night!"
"In this renaissance army, there are genius generals with star destiny, and they are in each of the three armies!"
Hong Yuanfeng was not only the commander of the personal guard appointed by Hong Chengchou, but also in control of the intelligence department under Hong Chengchou. He was in a high position of power.
After just checking out the intelligence that had been sent back by the various intelligence teams sent out by his own army using spirit pigeons, he felt a little bit unbelievable.
Even among Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai, the largest rebel armies at present, each army only has two or three geniuses with star destinies.
Based on the large amount of intelligence he had received, Hong Yuanfeng estimated that among this restoration army composed entirely of refugees and beggars, there were at least five geniuses with star destinies, which was quite scary.
No wonder Li Dingguo could make such a big fuss. It turned out that this previously unknown Fuxing Army was full of talented people and geniuses.
Our lord, Hong Chengchou, is a genius with auspicious destiny.
As Hong Chengchou's right-hand man, Hong Yuanfeng certainly knew that those geniuses with star destinies were all favored ones with great luck.
This kind of geniuses who emerged in troubled times were the most troublesome rebels for the imperial court.
They can constantly capture cities and seize official seals of various official towns, refine and absorb the luck of the Ming Dynasty, constantly improve their own foundation, and at the same time constantly weaken the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty.
The more official towns these rebels captured, the more the imperial court's national fortune would be devoured.
As one thing grows stronger while the other declines, the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty will become increasingly weaker.
This is not the most terrible.
The most terrifying are the three rebel leaders who have the star signs Po Jun, Tan Lang and Qi Sha.
These three top-level destinies will not appear in peaceful years, but will only come into being at the end of a dynasty.
Once a rebel with these three special star destinies kills any royal family member of the prince level, he can seize and devour the opponent's true dragon luck, thereby upgrading his own star destiny to a potential dragon destiny.
In this way, they will have the qualifications to establish a dynasty recognized by the rules of heaven and earth, and then obtain the luck of a true dragon.
This kind of special genius can also be extremely dangerous.
Once they are killed, their special astrological destiny will be taken away by the person who killed them.
After he reported the situation in detail, Hong Chengchou fell into silence.
After a long while, Hong Chengchou said in a gloomy tone, "I didn't expect that Li Dingguo would rise so quickly. From the time he led his army out of the border to develop, only three short years have passed, and he has already become a major threat to the court."
"If I'm not mistaken, this Li Dingguo must have one of the three special star destinies: Pojun, Tanlang, and Qisha."
"As for the remaining two special destinies, no one knows which of the four people, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, and Luo Rucai, has them."
"Hey……"
Hong Chengchou looked very unhappy. He sighed deeply and said, "Now these rebels have become powerful one by one. It is too late to easily kill them."
"Each of these rebel armies already has a million people, and they have at least tens of thousands of warriors under their command."
"Especially Li Dingguo and his Fuxing Army, whose combined strength has surpassed the entire Qin government, making them difficult to control."
“This is truly an eventful time!”
"Yuanfeng, you should withdraw first. The imperial court's decree will arrive soon. We must first prepare for the army to march north."
"So as to avoid being caught off guard and wasting our precious time, allowing Li Dingguo to completely gain power."
After saying that, Hong Chengchou waved his hand to signal Hong Yuanfeng to step down temporarily.
He sat quietly on the armchair, frowning and thinking, no one knew what he was thinking about...
(End of this chapter)
