Because she was in a hurry, Yu Zizhen suppressed her dissatisfaction with the little actions of the King of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo, but now that she has taken over the capital, the only thing she has to do next is to deal with the King of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo. It shouldn't be too much for her to treat them in their own way, right?
After meeting up with her confidants, she sat down in the central army tent. She looked exhausted after a day of hard work, but she did not seem tired at all. Instead, a wicked smile hung on her excited face.
"Foreign tribes along the border have always been eyeing us covetously. Now that the Prince of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo have withdrawn most of their troops, the pressure on those guarding the border will surely be enormous."
"As a rare good person in the world, I certainly can't watch my compatriots being slaughtered by foreigners, right?"
"Then wouldn't it be reasonable for me to send some people over there as a precaution, so that they can lend a hand at a critical moment?"
As the saying goes, it is impolite not to reciprocate. Since the Prince of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo are eyeing her territory, there is nothing wrong with her eyeing their territory in return, right?
Yu Zizhen felt quite justified, but her trusted subordinates often secretly criticized their master's ability to disgust others.
Meeting her eyes that said "Praise me!", everyone unconscionably agreed, "...Yes, yes, yes, whatever you say is right."
Yu Zizhen pretended not to notice the insincerity of these guys, "So, who of you is willing to go to the northern border, and who is willing to go to the southern border?"
Kaiyang and others who already had fixed tasks sat still, while Jiang Yunshan, Zhou Zheng, Lu Huaiyi, Lu Mingyuan, Chen Qing, Zheng Yuzhi... and Mo Huaiyang, Liu Zhang, Zheng Tong and others who had just arrived stepped forward and volunteered.
Military merit, who wouldn’t want to get it?
In the end, Yu Zizhen combined his personal strengths and sent Jiang Yunshan, Lu Mingyuan, Chen Qing, Zheng Yuzhi and others to the northern border, and sent Zhou Zheng, Lu Huaiyi, Mo Huaiyang, Liu Zhang, Zheng Tong and others to the southern border.
Of the two teams, the one heading to the northern border was led by Lu Mingyuan as the commander-in-chief and Jiang Yunshan as the military advisor, while the one heading to the southern border was led by Lu Huaiyi as the commander-in-chief and Zhou Zheng as the military advisor.
Yu Zizhen also gave different positions and powers to other people based on their respective abilities and experiences.
She had two requests for these people. One was to cooperate with the two teams that set out from the capital to attack cities to the south and north respectively at the right time to counter-encircle the King of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo. The other was to assist them in defeating the enemy outside when the Zhenbei Army and the Southern Xinjiang Army were insufficient in strength, so as to prevent those foreign races from taking the opportunity to break into the pass.
Everyone received the order and withdrew, each doing what they were supposed to do. Yu Zizhen was not idle either. She had to be on guard against the possibility that the Prince of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo would unite and compete with her for territory after receiving the news.
Oh, by the way, they have also contacted those people in the eastern region who are dissatisfied with her. Maybe they will soon turn against those ambitious people who have already reached cooperation with them.
It just so happened that Yu Zizhen also wanted to take the opportunity to clean up another group of restless people who always caused bullets to ricochet.
Prince Zhenbei and Duke Jingguo had no idea that Yu Zizhen was trying her best to take advantage of their situation. After they realized belatedly that the situation was extremely unfavorable to them, they hurriedly began to speed up, while not forgetting to contact those people in Yu Zizhen's sphere of influence who were dissatisfied with her and whom they had previously instigated to rebel.
Those guys in the eastern region who were dissatisfied with Yu Zizhen and had been jumping back and forth on the line of her tolerance did not know that Yu Zizhen had already taken over the capital. When they received secret letters from their respective "allies" asking them to take action, they immediately couldn't wait to take action.
However, to their great shock, they were all quickly apprehended the moment they took action. It turned out that the bandit camps they had considered their trump cards were all left behind by Yu Zizhen for the ridiculous reason of "giving people some hope".
The trusted subordinates they sent over had a lot of trouble crossing mountains and rivers, and found the bandit camps in the deep mountains and old forests where no one lived. They also wasted countless words trying to persuade the other party to come out and cause trouble, and even promised them a lot of benefits. But in the end, those damned guys actually told them that they had just been stuck in the mountains for too long, so they didn't capture their trusted subordinates at the first time, but were deliberately teasing them and their trusted subordinates.
Such heartbreaking words infuriated most of them. Their rebellion, which had been completely exposed before it even officially began, not only gave Yu Zizhen a legitimate reason to make another fortune, but also gave him the opportunity to openly eliminate the spies of the Prince of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo.
She had someone send a ransom price list to the Prince of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo in a high-profile manner. Every name listed on the list was a powerful secret agent they had finally planted in Yu Zizhen's sphere of influence.
Along with the price list were two booklets, which recorded what the secret agents had done for them recently.
After she did this, no one believed the King of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo even if they wanted to deny it. In order not to disappoint their subordinates, they could only hold their noses and admit the loss.
However, for Yu Zizhen, the matter was not over yet. As a well-mannered child, after receiving the ransom from the Prince of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo, Yu Zizhen immediately ordered her people to swallow up the two states that the Duke of Jingguo and the Prince of Zhenbei had been managing for a long time.
While the Prince of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo were frantically arranging personnel to return to support, they issued a manifesto accusing her of "violating the alliance."
Yu Zizhen said to his subordinates, "The covenant states that we must not attack our allies during the joint attack on the Lu clan. Now that the Lu clan has been taken care of, there's nothing wrong with me attacking them, right? Besides, it's rude not to reciprocate."
Since they are planning to attack her base, wouldn't it be reasonable for her to fight back?
While Yu Zizhen had people write manifestos to fight back, he also did not forget to continue to reap the other party's territory.
During this period, Prince Zhenbei and Duke Jingguo had thought about joining forces to deal with Yu Zizhen, but the messengers they sent to contact each other were all captured by Yu Zizhen and his subordinates without exception.
The communication channels were blocked, and the two families were unable to form a joint force. Most importantly, they were far inferior to Yu Zizhen in collecting and transmitting intelligence.
Yu Zizhen always knew everything that happened in this land in a timely manner, while they would have to wait several days or even more than ten days after the event to receive the brief information sent back by the spies with great difficulty.
Without timely information, the Prince of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo were naturally unable to issue correct orders in a timely manner. Their subordinates in other places were even more vulnerable. Due to the lack of information, they made many foolish moves during their confrontations with Yu Zizhen and his subordinates.
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