"A large-scale mutiny in the Lunwenton Army?! Are you sure?!" Ye Renwu's eyes were full of disbelief. Although the Lunwenton Army was large in number, 85% of them were old subordinates and private armies of the Duncan family. They had always been firmly controlled by the Duncan family. With their military skills, how could such a situation occur?

"Reporting to the general, the news has been confirmed. In the past ten days, mutinies have occurred in various parts of Lunwenton. At present, except for Lunwenton City, which has been suppressed, the rest of the towns are still out of control." said the lieutenant general in charge of intelligence collection and collation.

"How could this happen?" Ye Renwu frowned. According to the previous agreement, Lunvington would be officially incorporated into Tianjuan in half a month. But now Lunvington has caused such a mess. No matter how he thought about it, it felt wrong.

"The reason is that Wu Lai's army occupied Salt Marsh City and took control of the salt production there in one fell swoop." The lieutenant continued, "Lunwenton once sent tens of thousands of troops to attack, but they were ambushed halfway and suffered heavy losses. Not only did they lose morale, but the salt merchants in Lunwenton City heard the news and immediately raised the price of salt fivefold. The soldiers of Lunwenton were very dissatisfied with this, and Qi Yuan was crazy and Wei Huo neglected military affairs. As soon as the control was relaxed, they mutinied."

"How big is the impact? Has any damage been caused?" Ye Renwu's brows tightened again. She had known about Qi Yuan's madness a few days ago. However, that was not a bad thing for Tian Juan, because Wei Huo was obviously much easier to deal with than Qi Yuan. But Ye Renwu did not expect that Qi Yuan's madness could actually become one of the causes of the mutiny.

"Big, according to what we know, salt fields everywhere have been damaged to varying degrees, and the stockpiled salt has been looted by the mutinous soldiers. Now the price of salt in the city of Lovington has risen to twelve times its original price. If this out-of-control situation continues for a while, it is estimated that it may increase by twenty or thirty times. Moreover, as the news spreads, not to mention other provinces, we will certainly be affected." The lieutenant general said with a worried look on his face.

Ye Jianwu's face became more and more solemn. He had chosen to win over Lunvington instead of using military force because he was worried that if he pushed the Duncan family too hard, they would do something "dirty" that would destroy the salt industry and harm the continent. If Lunvington's salt production was cut off, the consequences would be disastrous...

But now it's really broken...

"I hope everything goes well with Haiklu..." Ye Renwu gritted his teeth and thought to himself.

…

Just as Ye Jianwu knew, Longwenton was in chaos, but all this chaos was "created" for Ye Jianwu or the Tianjuan Empire to see -

The mutiny was fake, of course. The Duncan family had been in charge of the army for many years and had always been good at controlling their subordinates. Qi Yuan's "madness" was indeed known to the whole city, but that was just "made" by Qi Yuan to sacrifice his reputation for the future of the Duncan family . How could Wei Huo, who knew the real situation, "neglect military affairs and cause his subordinates to mutiny"? The destruction of the salt works was also fake. Those soldiers were just ordered to close all the large salt works in Lunvington. In order to make it look like that, they violently dismantled the fences, warehouses, and houses of the salt works, and gathered all the production tools together and burned them. Except for a small part of the "captured" salt, the rest was distributed equally to the residents of the villages and towns where the salt works were located. Because of this, the local residents only objected for a while and then nothing happened, because the salt everyone got was enough for several years...

It is true that the price of salt has increased, but the extent of this increase was caused by human interference. The Glyndwr caravan led by De Leng had already infiltrated the business network of Lovington under the instruction of Woolley. Almost all salt merchants were their secret friends. Puya's occupation of Saltmarsh City, the ambush of Duncan's army, and the "destruction" of other salt fields in Lovington by mutinous soldiers all became the best reasons for the Glyndwr caravan to urge salt merchants to raise prices.

The purpose of the rise was no longer to make money, but to create chaos and panic. Although the first to reap the chaos and panic was Lovington, Woolley knew that these chaos and panic would spread quickly, sweeping across Assyria, Annan, and Titania...

Wu Lai also knew that the Tianjuan Empire was helpless in this regard, unless they were willing to reduce the use of the people in the rear areas and transport them to the Assyrian territory at all costs to suppress the market - not to mention that the Tianjuan Empire could not ignore the population in the rear areas and resolutely "aid" the front. Even if they did it with all their might, their output would not be enough to achieve control of the market.

Ten days later, the price of salt in Assyria and Annan increased tenfold overnight. The news was finally not blocked...

Just as Ye Renwu's heart tightened, the messenger from the Duncan family arrived. Although he knew that it was impossible for the Duncan family to send any good news at this time, after reading the letter, Ye Renwu's heart sank completely.

Because the situation in Lunvington was much worse than she expected - the letter was written by Wei Huo, in which he begged Ye Renwu to send troops to reinforce Lunvington and assist the Duncan army in suppressing the bandits, because after destroying the salt fields, those soldiers who mutinied in batches actually played the trick of occupying the mountain and becoming the king, using force to control the villages and towns where the salt fields were located while declaring independence. After hearing the news, the soldiers in Lunvington who had been almost pacified were in turmoil again. Nearly 10,000 people fled the camp and left the city overnight, either to those places that declared independence, or simply gathered together to become bandits. As a result, more than half of the entire territory of Lunvington was out of control, with more than 40,000 "bandits" of various kinds, and the civilians who were "encumbered"...

"Revenue is in turmoil right now, and my Duncan family is being criticized by many citizens in the city every day. If the empire does not send troops, Ranvington will certainly get out of control in a short period of time. Once this happens, Saltmarsh City will take advantage of the chaos to grow stronger, and secondly, it will definitely affect people's livelihood..." Wei Huo wrote at the end of the letter.

After suppressing the urge to tear up the letter, Ye Renwu walked to the window and opened it. The sun was shining brightly and the scenery was pleasant outside, but she had no time to look at it. She just wanted to stand here and enjoy the breeze and calm down...

…

The person who was most excited about the return of the Lolita to Mauritania was Pu Tong, because the Lolita not only brought him letters from his parents, wife and children, but also the weapon he coveted the most - a light mortar.

After learning that the supplies brought by Sares included light mortars, Pu Tong didn't even bother to pick up the letter from home and rushed to find Wu Lai.

"My good lord, respected high priest, Sarres has brought all the mortars here, you have to take care of our Sixth Regiment. You know, the combat effectiveness of the Sixth Regiment still needs to be improved. If you could give us a few more mortars..." Pu Tong begged with a drooling face as soon as he entered the room, making Wu Lai, who was listening to Sarres' report, laugh and cry.

"Shut up, can't you see I'm busy?" Wu Lai interrupted Pu Tong and said, "Besides, we only brought 30 guns this time, and the number of shells barely exceeded 1,000. Half of the shells have to be used for training. It will take some time before we can officially send them to the battlefield, so don't give me this."

Sarres was startled, thinking, didn't I just report that there were 40 guns and 3,250 rounds of ammunition? Didn't the high priest hear it clearly? "Lord, don't hide it from me." Pu Tong said with a smile, "I have found out everything. 40 guns and 3,200 rounds of ammunition. We have three regiments now. The fourth and fifth regiments have ten guns each. My sixth regiment has such a weak foundation, so you can give me ten more guns. You can give me as many ammunition as you want, just don't give me less than the other regiments."

Wu Lai laughed: "You are good, Pu Tang, you have found out everything. You told me that the ammunition cannot be less than that of other regiments. How can you say that I can do whatever I want?"

"My good lord, it doesn't matter who uses it. You said the day before yesterday that among our four, five, and six regiments, our six regiment has the strongest mobility. Since it is the strongest, give us more so that I can make more contributions." Pu Tong said with a smile.

"Nonsense. When I said you had the best mobility, I wasn't complimenting you. I meant your regiment had the most horses. By the way, speaking of horses, I haven't settled accounts with you yet." Wu Lai glared at Pu Tong. After the construction of the fortification checkpoints, other regiments were resting and training. Pu Tong used the excuse of taking turns to march and train to send a battalion out every few days to "earn extra money" -

They made roundabout moves to plunder the small units of the Tianjuan Army stationed in various towns and brought back a lot of food and mules and horses. The most recent attack led to an ambush. If Pu Tong's men had not been trained by him to be cunning and tenacious enough, and if Wu Lai's reinforcements had not arrived quickly enough, the Fourth Battalion of the Sixth Regiment might have been completely wiped out.

Hearing Wu Lai bring up this again, Pu Tang quickly shut up. Although the Fourth Battalion was finally rescued that day, it also lost nearly a hundred men. Wu Lai was so distressed that he gave Pu Tang two horsewhips in public. You have to know that the Fourth Battalion were all veterans who had been stationed in the Gap Defense Zone. How could they not feel pain when they lost so many men just to get some horses and food?

"You go back to the camp first. We will have a meeting after dinner." Wu Lai waved his hand at Pu Tong and said.

"Lord, the content of the meeting is not to investigate me...my..." Pu Teng was startled, thinking, are you really going to settle the score? Although I lost some men and horses, I gained a lot. Didn't you say that we should fight to support the war?

"Don't let your imagination run wild." Wu Lai smiled. "It's just an ordinary military meeting."

"Then I'm relieved. Well, Lord, I'm leaving now. You must pay more attention to the Sixth Regiment regarding the mortars. Let me thank you on behalf of the Sixth Regiment." Pu Tong left the office with a grin.

"This Pu Tong..." Wu Lai smiled bitterly and shook his head. He waved his hand and said to Sarres, "You continue to report."

Sareth puffed out his chest and nodded: "Yes, the communication between the caravan intelligence personnel and Kati City has made progress..."

…

Many people attended the meeting. Not only all the officers from the regiment, battalion and company attended, but also the director and deputy director of the district government office and twenty mass representatives - In'er and Eddie were among these mass representatives.

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It is worth mentioning that these mass representatives are not appointed by Wulai or the military or the regional government, but are elected by all men and women over the age of sixteen in the Muritania region.

When Eddie saw Wu Lai, who looked energetic at the podium, she felt an indescribable feeling in her heart. Yin'er saw that her face looked bad, and she knew what was going on. After thinking about it, she held Eddie's hand and squeezed it gently.

Eddie understood and quickly came back to his senses.

"Everything will get better, right?" Yin'er said with a smile.

"Yes, aunt." Eddie nodded...

After Bailey signaled that everyone was present, Wu Lai stood up gently and the meeting room suddenly became quiet.

"Everyone, in recent times, with the concerted efforts of all parties, military, livelihood, construction and other work have been carried out smoothly, production has gradually recovered, and people's hearts are becoming more stable." Wu Lai's words made everyone smile knowingly -

Yes, although Muritania was nearly overthrown and its population dropped by 45%, after Wu Lai led the army to recapture it, he first "tyrannically" abolished the classes and established a democratically elected district government, and then replanned and arranged Muritania's city layout, industry population, etc., and established schools... After this series of combined efforts, Muritania was not only full of vitality, but also blossomed into a thriving bud.

Woolley pointed out the window and said, "While we are sitting here and talking, while the people are enjoying their families in their homes, our soldiers are standing guard at checkpoints, outposts, and in the wilderness. They are doing this because we are not far away from the war."

"It's been a while since we recaptured Spearitania, and the enemy should be almost ready. So, I have to warn you that a big battle is imminent!" Wu Lai's voice rose slightly. "The main battlefield will be in an area very close to our new checkpoint, and the number of enemy troops may exceed everyone's imagination."

After hearing what Wu Lai said, many people felt heavy-hearted, but some were secretly delighted. For example, Pu Tong and other officers had been sharpening their swords for less than ten years, but they had weapons that could sweep and crush the enemy. How could they not be eager to fight? "But there is nothing to be afraid of. When the enemy shows its fangs, we will go forward with our swords. I believe that as long as we are united, we will be able to defeat the enemy. District civil servants and representatives of the masses, you must remember that you come from the masses and serve the masses. You must do a good job of propaganda and appeasement before the war, and you must do a good job of support and stability during the war, and tell people that they are the strongest and most powerful backing for the soldiers..."

Wu Lai paused, then continued, "Our army currently has more than 21,000 main combat troops. After all regiments have been overstaffed, there are still more than 3,500 people in training. I plan to form the Seventh Regiment with these 3,500 people, and the leader I have in mind is Inelhuman! Stand up, Inelhuman! Mauritania needs you, Caikede needs you, and Assyria needs you."

Yin'er stood up excitedly. After cooperating with Wu Lai to disband the Xiuman Army, she had always thought that she would never have the opportunity to lead an army into battle again. However, she did not expect that Wu Lai would use her so much just after she recovered from her injury.

"Please rest assured, Your Excellency the High Priest, Iner Xiuman will do his best to protect the border and the people." Iner said firmly.

Wu Lai smiled and nodded, and was the first to applaud, but Pu Tong, who was sitting in the front row, felt bitter...

Oh my god, another tough guy has come to steal the credit, he thought.