Li Wen’s head!

For the vast majority of the people in the Great Zhou Empire, they did not know what happened in the southern border. They completely regarded the culprit of the southern border rebellion as Li Wenhua. They even made it clear in the previous negotiations that as long as Li Wenhua was killed, they could be granted the title of Bo.

And cutting off Li Wen's head means the quellation of the rebellion.

After Ao Qi handed Li Wen's head to Yun Zhonghe, he walked outside.

At this time, the six thousand prisoners of the Great Zhou Empire were still kneeling on the ground, waiting for the verdict of fate.

Ao Qi ordered: "Release them all."

As soon as these words were spoken, the six thousand prisoners were immediately dissatisfied with joy.

Many people finally couldn't bear it and fell to the ground.

They have been captured for more than two months and are wandering on the vertex of death every day.

Especially two days ago, everyone was dragged out, and the executioner was right next to them. They really thought they were going to die and their life's glory and wealth would end.

Now I can finally survive.

Duke Zhou Long, the great patriarch of the southern territory, got up with difficulty, stepped forward and held Ao Qi's hands and said, "Mr. Ao Qi is very wise and has great achievements. I will submit a memorial for you and ask Your Majesty to be a marquis. Not only do I want to be a marquis, but I also recommend you to be the champion general and serve as the admiral of the Great Southern Province."

Now that these people are in the hands of Ao Qi, Duke Zhou Long of course has to desperately be appointed as an official and make a wish.

Ao Qi pulled his hands out of Zhou Long's hand expressionless. He really had nothing to talk about with this person.

Duke Zhou Long is a bad guy and a bad official?

Not exactly that. After this person replaced Ao Xin as the Southern Protectorate, he still carried out Ao Xin's route.

But after he took office, the powerful and powerful Zhou went deep into the southern border to gain benefits, desperately dividing the cake and oppressing the natives. In the past, Ao Xin, whoever dared to come in would cut off his hand, no matter how big your background is, no matter how high your official position is.

But Zhou Long is different. He is more good at being a human being. He actively uses the interests of the southern border to win over a large number of people and forms a huge interest group. In the face of the powerful and unruly acts in the southern border, he also turns a blind eye.

It was under his indulgence that the natives were exploited more and more severely. After the earthquake broke out, the epidemic was rampant, and Yuan Tianxie took the opportunity to rise, which eventually led to this rebellion.

Therefore, Duke Zhou Long was responsible for this rebellion in the southern border, and was even one of the culprits.

Ao Qi was upright and stubborn, and of course he didn't want to pay attention to Zhou Long and others, so he turned around and walked away.

"If it weren't for my brother Ao Yu, you all had already landed on the ground." When he left, Ao Qi left a murderous sentence.

And at this time Yun Zhonghe walked out.

Duke Zhou Long's face changed a few times, and he didn't know what kind of face he should use to treat Ao Yu.

After a moment, he smiled and said, "My dear nephew, don't be fine."

Yun Zhonghe said: "Duke Zhou Long, please come in and speak."

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In the Great Protectorate, Yun Zhonghe and Duke Zhou Long had a secret talk.

"Time is tight, we are straight to the point." Ao Yu said: "You and I are not enemies."

Duke Zhou Long frowned, isn’t he an enemy?

Faced with this rebellion, Zhou Long had to take responsibility no matter how he was, at least it was an incompetent responsibility.

Now that the rebellion has been calmed down by Ao Yu alone, wouldn’t it seem that Zhou Long is even more incompetent?

So if it weren't for the 100,000 native rebels who were afraid of Ao Qi, Zhou Long had already killed people and robbed the merits.

Don’t kill people just because Duke Zhou Long is known as a good old man. The so-called good old man is just his character. For the sake of profit, what can he do?

Yun Zhonghe said: "Duke Zhou Long, your real enemy is Fu Yantu. What is he going south to suppress the rebellion?"

Duke Zhou Long said: "Of course, after quelling the rebellion in the southern border, he became the new General of the Cavalry."

Yun Zhonghe said: "Will he be transferred directly to the army as Privy Councilor?"

Duke Zhou Long said: "That won't be possible."

Yun Zhonghe said: "He will replace you and become the Great Protector of the Southern Region."

Duke Zhou Long said: "Do you think I can still maintain this position? I will not be locked and taken to Beijing. It is good to dismiss the office and get the title. How can I maintain this southern territory? "

Yun Zhonghe said: "How can I know if I don't try it? This rebellion was quelled, but everything I did was secret, only the emperor knew it, and this credit cannot be made public."

Duke Zhou Long understood as soon as he thought about it.

The southern rebellion was mobilized to suppress the rebellion by hundreds of thousands of troops. As a result, before the army arrived, the rebellion was quelled, and it was quelled by Yun Zhonghe alone.

Wouldn't that tell the people of the world that the southern border is the southern border of the Ao family? It was Ao Xin before, but now it is Ao Yu alone to quell the rebellion.

And in this way, wouldn’t it seem that the emperor had summoned hundreds of thousands of troops south to suppress the rebellion?

You can obviously send one person to quell the rebellion, but you send hundreds of thousands of people with great fanfare? Isn’t this an unknown destruction?

Yun Zhonghe said: "So, the Emperor can know my achievements in suppressing rebellion. And you, Duke Zhou Long, also have great contributions to this rebellion."

Duke Zhou Long quickly figured out the joints inside.

Yun Zhonghe said: "Duke Zhou Long, so what you need to do now is to restore the order of the government immediately, and send secret envoys to report the victory to the capital. In addition, you must go north immediately to block Fu Yantu and not allow him to enter the southern border. That is to say that the rebellion has been quelled and the army will enter the country again, it may cause trouble."

Duke Zhou Long's eyes turned rapidly.

Yun Zhonghe said: "Duke Zhou Long, you are not representing one person, but the entire force group. Once Fu Yantu enters the southern border, all the force groups in the southern border will fall. Because Fu Yantu also has a force group behind him, and he is hungry and ready to feast on his feast, and you cannot have a relationship."

Duke Zhou Long suddenly asked, "Ao Qi has 100,000 rebels on hand, what should he do?"

Yun Zhonghe said: "They will leave and leave the southern border completely. How many other troops can you gather on hand?"

Duke Zhou Long said: "We originally had more than 100,000 defenders in Nanzhou, and they were basically in the hands of Li Wen. He rebelled. These more than 100,000 troops were first infected with the epidemic, and then were disarmed in a sleepy state. Now there is not even half left, and they are all locked in shackles to serve labor."

Yun Zhonghe said: "After Ao Qi leaves, he will immediately release these tens of thousands of prisoners. You will immediately arm them and summon tens of thousands of people to form a hundred thousand troops. At least you can confront Fu Yantu."

Duke Zhou Long's eyes were still flashing.

Yun Zhonghe said: "Duke Zhou Long, what are you waiting for? You and Fu Yantu have no room for friendship. Once he takes charge of the southern border, you will be the first person to completely defeat him."

Duke Zhou Long gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, try it!"

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The next day!

Aoqi led 60,000 elite natives to leave Nanzhou, and there were originally 100,000 people.

But only 60,000 people were willing to follow him. After all, these natives have become accustomed to the flower world in the southern border and are unwilling to enter the primitive jungle again.

There were tens of thousands of people left, some fled and returned to their hometowns. Some of them were actually persuaded by Duke Zhou Long and continued to stay and become the garrison army in the southern border. Yesterday was a rebel, but today it became an official army. Everything can really happen in this world.

After Yuan Tianxie disappeared, the faith of the natives collapsed instantly.

The former native race that was united, proud and generous was like a flash in the pan.

"Brother, maybe we will meet again one day in the future." Yun Zhonghe said: "At that time, you will have your place."

Ao Qi trembled and said, "Ao Yu, when my father was in the southern border, we really regarded ourselves as the people of the Great Zhou. I still fantasized that in another twenty or thirty years, there would be no natives' statements, and everyone would be exactly the same."

Yun Zhonghe was also full of emotion. According to normal development, it would take only 20 to 30 years for the more than 20 million natives in the southern border to be assimilated and completely became an inseparable part of the Great Zhou Empire.

Unfortunately, some traitors used just five or six years to force the natives who could have been assimilated into alien races.

Are they not smart? Don’t they understand these principles?

Of course not, they are very smart, but profitable.

"Goodbye, brother!" Yun Zhonghe waved.

Ao Qi said: "I led tens of thousands of tribes to the real wild land in the west to open up a new home. If I do not die in the future, I will successfully open up a new world. And you and your father will no longer be able to gain a foothold in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Welcome to our new home. The Great Zhou Dynasty cannot accommodate us, but I can accommodate you."

Then, Ao Qi left with an army of 60,000 natives.

Yun Zhonghe kept looking at him, watching them disappear on the horizon.

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After seeing off Ao Qi, Yun Zhonghe did not stop and immediately met with the Black Ice Platform warrior of the Great Zhou Empire. He took Li Wen's head and Duke Zhou Long's memorial and quickly headed north.

It is December 17th today.

The emperor made it clear that the deadline was the ninth day of the first lunar month. He did not want to kill Ao Xin, but because the rebellious army was indeed Ao Xin's two adopted sons, and he established a garrison army.

Once the rebellion is not quelled within this period, once Fu Yantu's army enters the southern border to quell the rebellion.

Ao Xin had to kill him.

Now there are only twenty-two days before the ninth day of the first lunar month.

It was nearly ten thousand miles from Nanzhou to Dazhou Capital, which means that Yun Zhonghe would have to rush to 400 miles every day without sleeping.

It's definitely not a day to delay.

Yun Zhonghe is not good at riding horses and usually can only ride a car, but now he has to ride a horse because the speed of riding a car is too slow.

Dozens of Black Ice Platform warriors escorted Yun Zhonghe and went north and changed horses every 100 miles.

Yun Zhonghe learned not to sleep on the horse's back, so he rode a horse during the day and took a car at night.

Fast, fast, fast.
To be continued...