"What's wrong?" Shaodianshi's face showed displeasure, "This king thinks you can give it a try, can't Shaodian even tolerate ten first-grade dukes?"

Excluding the duke who took refuge in Shaodian Yong, there are indeed no ten first-class dukes in the Senate.

Shaodian Zhang and Shaodian Huang made eye contact, and in the end, the more qualified Shaodian Zhang said: "A product of the public can not be lightly sealed, Shaodian has not been newly sealed for 4,000 years."

At first, the ancestors of the Xiong Emperor divided the land of the ten states, which corresponded to the ten dukes of Yipin, fixed the position of the ten elders of the Senate, and set up ten courtiers in the Government Council and the Commander's Office, which were all fixed numbers.

After many generations of ancestral innovation, the current political situation was finally formed, only the ten elders and ten Yipin Gong are still preserved, which is the ancestral system of the Shaodian clan has always been unchanged, and it is a tradition respected by the royal family, and it has the inevitability of its existence.

In the more than 4,000 years of history of the kingdom, there have been many families whose merits are better than those of the ten first-rank princes, but they still have not been promoted to their titles, not only because the royal family follows the ancestral teachings, but also because the suppression of the ten families is the result of the joint efforts of the top forces of the kingdom.

Now, if you can be promoted to a first-class prince just because of money, it will not only cause dissatisfaction among the great family, but also change the concept of the people of the whole country, and the honor of the nobles will be lost, all because the nobles can exchange money for it.

The Shaodian Kingdom can accommodate ten first-rank dukes, that is under the condition of national unification, but not now, and nobles can be promoted to the knighthood on merit, but they must not be promoted because of money! Please think twice, Your Royal Highness!"

The system that the Shaodian Kingdom has maintained for more than 4,000 years is not that simple, and there are many complex factors in it, including the generation of god-level power, which is a pool of water deeper than the ocean.

"Now the royal family is facing the most dangerous situation, we can no longer keep the old concept unchanged, the court only accepts donations from nobles, donations from commoners, does not affect the honor of nobles, nobles who can be promoted to a rank must be dukes, and so on, as long as we find a way, there is no problem that cannot be solved. ”

Shaodian grabbed a life-saving straw and refused to give up easily.

"Your Royal Highness, the Lord in charge has something inconvenient to say, and the old minister will make it clear for him. This fundraiser is for the rebuilding of the corps, mainly for recruiting and training new soldiers, as well as military salaries and equipment, on the surface it seems that it has nothing to do with middle and high-ranking generals, but the problem lies with them.

If a donor makes a side request to recommend someone to be a mid- or high-ranking general or a mid-level officer, will the people below refuse? ”

Taiwei Shaodian Huang said what Shaodian Zhang didn't dare to say.

"The son family is willing to donate family property, and no strings attached. Zibi knelt in front of Shaodian on the spot.

As far as he was not in the royal family, Shao Dianzhang and Shao Dianhuang had some inconvenient words to say in front of him.

"You see, there are still many loyal and righteous people in the kingdom, but things must also be handled with discretion, and do not mess things up. In this way, the Government Council and the Commander's Office discussed a charter, temporarily calling on the barons and viscounts to donate money and give appropriate rewards for promotion. "Shaodian came up with a way to think he was a compromise.

Jiang Li, who was far away in Zhongwangzhou, quickly got the news and immediately rushed back to Zhenjing to visit the surviving elders of the Senate one by one.

Calling on nobles to donate money has appeared in history, usually for lifelong nobles, using donations to complete the assessment of the Senate and smoothly pass on the title to their children, which is not so important for hereditary nobles.

"Hahaha, rush to the doctor in a hurry!" Ding Kui was already in Tunchang County when he got the news.

The Magic Guild did not intervene in the disputes between the imperial court and the eldest princess, and all the magicians in Tunchang County did not help the local government to resist the attack of the New Twelve Legions.

The county guard Pang did not accept the kindness of Liangchong, and insisted on organizing soldiers and horses to confront the New Twelfth Army, and fought with the 111th Division in the county town.

The 111th Division is the most experienced of the New 12th Army Corps, and has participated in the battle to resist the invasion of its own country, although it has done some soy sauce work, it has also experienced actual combat.

Han Rujian set up an ambush, easily annihilated the defenders of the county town, and then personally led the main army to storm the county garrison.

When the gate of the county guard was breached, Pang Hui rushed to the wall and killed himself in full view of everyone.

The county town was broken, and the cities below did not resist for long, and were broken one after another under the division and encirclement of ten divisions.

At the beginning of August, Gong Cheng, the son of Gong Wei, Ziliubo, was appointed as the warden of Xintunchang County, and Tunchang County was declared to be under the jurisdiction of the superintendent state.

Within two days, the main force of the 20th Army forcibly entered the cities of Daling County, expelled several city lords and county guards who were unwilling to be loyal to the prison state, and announced that they were waiting for the prison state to send people to take over Daling County.

At this time, the five southernmost counties in Nannuma Prefecture fell into the hands of Ding Kui.

A middle-aged man with a sallow face sat opposite Ding Kui and said with a smile: "Lord Ding can be publicly canonized as a nobleman, congratulations, congratulations!"

"There is no one else here, Brother Kong Ren can relax a little. Ding Kui cleared a confidential conference room in the county guard's mansion.

The middle-aged man with a sallow face is Kong Ren, who deliberately disguised himself and served as a staff member of the deputy commander of the Military Command Department.

"It's okay, it's good to get used to it, so as not to make a mistake in the future. "He's getting acquainted with his new identity.

"The new 12th Legion is not very good, in this case, there are still hundreds of casualties in a county, or the old legion has combat effectiveness. Ding Kui's finger clicked on the file on the desktop.

It was the battle report of the New Twelfth Legion, and the city defense army of Tunchang County totaled tens of thousands of people, and it caused a little trouble for the New Twelfth Legion under the command of the local generals.

"Lord Ding's requirements are too high, after all, it is a newly built legion, and the training time for recruits is not very long, and most of the soldiers should be seeing blood for the first time, and only a few hundred casualties are good. Kong Ren disagreed with Ding Kui.

"It is a big problem for recruits to not see blood, so they should not release those prisoners of their own country, and it is better to leave tens of thousands of people to train their hands for recruits. ”

Ding Kui knew what it was like to hurt people on the battlefield for the first time, it was more than ten years ago, his first time was not much heroic, and he also asked Ding Kun to help him recover from his psychological trauma.

"The life of the people of your own country is not your life, and only the demons can kill tens of thousands of people who can't resist. Next we have to face more of our own enemies, we have more recruits, casualties are difficult to avoid, and the first aid alcohol you invented will have to be produced in large quantities. ”

Kong Ren was a member of the staff, and almost all the documents had to be read by him, including the report on the evaluation of first-aid alcohol.

"Small problem, Nanqiu County has been put into production in large quantities, first of all, to ensure the military. "Ding Kui left Liu Yu and Fei Ze in Nanqiu County, there are too many things to solve over there.

"Now you can give Commander Xing a promise, and you can canonize him as a viscount immediately after capturing Chongxi County. Kong Ren pointed to a gap at the bottom of the state map.

The news of Yi Sheng's occupation of Daling County has come, counting Nanping County and Pingfu County, which took the initiative to surrender, and Chongxi County is short of being able to unify the southern part of Nannuma Prefecture.

"Do you still want the New Twelfth Army to do it? My Protectorate Red Army is hungry and thirsty. "Ding Kui brought five regiments, one special operations regiment, two crossbow regiments, two infantry regiments, and 10,000 auxiliaries.

These auxiliaries were newly recruited, and the shortest training time was only one month, and they completed the basic physical training, but at Ding Kui's request, they were brought to Tunchang County with a mixture of old and new.

The function of the auxiliaries is to assist in combat, and with the initial training, as long as they are not in adversity, they do not have to worry about them collapsing when they come to the battlefield.

At present, the regiment of the Red Army for the Protectorate of the Nation is 1,500 men, and the five regiments are 7,500 men.

"The number of the first division of the Red Army is too small, although the area of Chongxi County is not large, but the will to resist is very strong, so far no one has come to contact you, I am afraid that you are going to defend it. "Kong Ren went to Nanqiu County at the end of June, and since then he has been helping Ding Kui deal with various affairs, and his status is not under Liu Yu and Fei Ze, and he has the right to contact more high-level secrets.

He is the representative of the Kong family, Ding Kui will not refuse the kindness of the Kong family, he originally wanted to arrange him to be a county guard, and then arranged for him to be a staff member under the persuasion of Mu Sen.

"Don't underestimate my first division, it's not a problem to capture a county. "Ding Kui is very confident.

"We need time, Chongxi County is stuck in the middle, and it is inconvenient to take Pingfu County openly if we don't hurry up, and I'm worried that Nanjing City will support Chongxi County. Kong Ren's fingers drew an arc, from Nanjing City to Chongxi County, deliberately avoiding Zhushan County.

"Okay, let Xing Bao's corps see more blood! The order was issued, the 12th Army Corps swept Chongxi County, and the 75th Division cooperated with the 1st Division of the Protectorate Red Army to take Huashan County. Ding Kui began to aim for the central region.

Kong Ren frowned, and said, "It's too fast, don't you digest it?" Daling County has not been decided, but what about Chongxi County?

I estimate that the imperial court will soon remove the Nannuma Prefecture Theater, take back the military power of Commander Jiang Xi, and maybe even change the commander of the General Staff, and my country will not stand idly by. ”

"I need the refined iron ore of Huashan County, otherwise the railway will not be paved! I can't control what the imperial court does, my own country dares to have Meng State, and later they will realize the importance of refined iron ore to me, and the reinforcements from Nanjing City are stationed in Huashan County, that is the biggest trouble." ”

Ding Kui lacks iron, railways need iron, ordnance needs iron, warships need iron, steel bars also need iron, and the refined iron ore contained in Huashan County may not be enough.

"Alright, I'll go to the herald right away. Kong Ren did not insist on his opinion.

Xing Bao received the order and quickly gathered his troops, leaving only part of his troops to guard Tunchang County, and organized about 70,000 main forces to march westward.

Ding Kui left with the Protector Red Army, his main target was Huashan County, and Chongxi County was just a front to attract Shaodianxi's attention.

Sure enough, Shao Dianxi didn't expect Ding Kui to invade Huashan County with only one division and private army, and a local legion he had worked so hard to organize was rushing to Chongxi County day and night.

The 111th Division was the vanguard of Xing Bao and took the lead in entering Chongxi County, but the first city it arrived at was an empty city.