Chapter 11
Song Zhehao had anticipated the current situation three years ago and began preparing for it.
Three years ago, Song Zhehao spent money to buy the village where he was born, and also bought a piece of land suitable for living near the village.
Song Zhehao bought the village and did not want the villagers to leave. He also gave them silver and hired them to work for him.
A large amount of manpower, material resources and financial resources were spent to build a mansion of unprecedented scale.
Although it is called a mansion, it is actually built according to the style of a fortress, and it looks more like a city.
Song Zhehao spent a large sum of money to hire a master architect and personally stationed there to build a new Song Mansion. Not far from his hometown village, he built a mansion that was easy to defend, strong and indestructible, not afraid of water or fire, and could accommodate tens of thousands of people.
The Song Mansion will not suffer any damage even if the rebels attack.
Not only that, after Song Zhehao moved in, he bought more than a dozen villages around the Song Mansion and evenly distributed all the people he brought with him to those villages. These villages surrounded the Song Mansion and formed a solid barrier.
Moreover, after the war broke out, displaced victims were everywhere. Song Zhehao bought vacant land around the villages and built reception villages for the victims to live in, giving them food, houses to live in, and jobs to make a living.
After persisting in this way for less than three years, Song Zhehao had provided relief and accommodation to hundreds of thousands of people, and the base he established could already be called a small country.
At this time, the country is in chaos. As long as they are not attacking us, who would be willing to provoke you?
At this moment, Song Zhehao suddenly had an idea. He wanted to build a prosperous and powerful metropolis on the barren and desolate land of his hometown.
His mind was made up, and Song Zhehao had many talented people under him, and they were extremely powerful, so this idea was not empty talk for Song Zhehao.
Song Zhehao knew that if he wanted to make this place prosperous, the old agricultural thinking was no longer acceptable. What was needed here now was demand, supply, and trade...
So, Song Zhehao began to build a large number of shops in the base, encourage trade, create more jobs, and then drive demand, and demand in turn drives supply. The base, which was originally stagnant, is now like a waterwheel. With the first stream of water, it can rely on its own rotation and continue to run.
Industries that had been abandoned due to war across the country began to flow into the base area due to the rise of the base area.
At this time, as the base area continued to expand, a series of corresponding systems came into being.
In the blink of an eye, five years have passed, and the base originally built around the Song Mansion has become a prosperous metropolis.
To be more precise, it would be more appropriate to call it a pocket-sized power rather than a metropolis.
A prosperous place can attract people, and a place with people can attract other people's attention.
The construction of Song Zhehao's business empire has attracted the attention of various princes and rebel kings. They all agree that if Song Zhehao's business empire cannot be taken into their pockets or become a partner, it will definitely become a most difficult opponent.
Therefore, at one time, countless rebel kings sent envoys to act as lobbyists. Some wanted to form a partnership, some wanted to form an alliance, and some wanted to become one family.
Song Zhehao's consistent attitude towards these requests is - no way!
What if I can’t get it?
Then destroy it!
After being rejected, the rebel kings immediately changed their attitude. Some of them formed an alliance of three or five to attack, some rushed forward alone, and still others united seven or eight to divide up Song Zhehao's great trading empire.
Song Zhehao is not afraid of all this. Not only is he not afraid, but he has extremely strong countermeasures and strength.
Although Song Zhehao has attached great importance to economic development over the years, he has not fallen behind in military and national defense.
But they have always been extremely low-key in their actions, unlike other rebel kings who are so blatant.
Song Zhehao had built a military academy a few years ago, which provided training for generals as well as soldiers. Not only that, he also advanced the invention of the crossbow by several hundred years and greatly improved it, developing a repeating crossbow that was no less powerful than the crossbow.
With these weapons, which were considered very advanced at the time, and a large number of talents trained in the military academy, Song Zhehao immediately established the □□ Team and the □□ Team.
And once you join this kind of team, you will receive a fixed high amount of silver every month.
In addition, when planning to build this metropolis, Song Zhehao hired professionals at high prices and chose this place with easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack geographical advantages as his base.
Over the years, Song Zhehao has taken in disaster victims, built cities, developed commerce, revitalized education, and pursued technological innovation.
Moreover, he was compassionate and sympathetic to the merchants and residents under his jurisdiction. When those hungry refugees arrived, they only had to report to the Civil Affairs Bureau under Song Zhehao's name, and they could get an identity certificate. With the certificate, they could get an interest-free loan from the local money house. There were also jobs provided by the Commerce Bureau, and if they didn't like it, they could also start their own business.
For such a large city, the entire management is well-organized and meticulous, and the government understands public opinion and is deeply loved by the people.
If someone wants to destroy such a harmonious society, will the people inside not fight back desperately?
In this way, Song Zhehao has the right time, place and people, so how could he fail?
The first to provoke Song Zhehao were the rebels formed by the alliance of three anti-kings in the Jianghuai area in the south. Their strength was only average among the many anti-kings. Precisely because they were not very strong, they often felt insecure, so they lost their minds when they saw this piece of fat meat.
The three armies were combined into one, intending to fight a tough battle head-on, but in the first round, they were completely wiped out by the foreign rifle team and the □□ team!
This victory made Song Zhehao famous, and all the rebel kings who were ready to make a move were suddenly frightened by the strength of the metropolis!
This is not a piece of fat meat at all, it is clearly a piece of real gold that can knock out your teeth!
After maintaining peace for several months, there are still some enemies who are unwilling to give up and are eager to take another bite of this piece of fat meat.
Last time, the three rebel kings failed to defeat the enemy, but this time, a total of eight rebel kings joined together, and their strength accounted for two-thirds of the rebel forces at that time.
This time, the "Bite the Meat" army went to the crusade with full confidence, but they didn't expect the result to be the same as the last army. Although they were numerous and powerful, they could only abandon their armor and flee in all directions in the face of □□ and repeating crossbows.
If there were only these two weapons, there would be nothing special, but I didn’t expect that there would be an artillery team this time!
The lethality of this artillery team is far greater than that of the □□ team and the □□ team, and it is specifically designed to restrain the enemy's human wave tactics!
In the end, the war lasted less than three days and ended with Song Zhehao's metropolis winning the battle.
After this second battle, the metropolis's reputation rose even more, making rebel kings all over the world and even the dying imperial court covet it. However, they could only covet it for a while, as it would be extremely difficult to annex it.
Unexpectedly, these rebel kings were persistent. Now that they could not take it down by force, they wanted to change their tactics to deal with the metropolis.
Among the rebel kings in the world, seven of them are powerful and six of them are weaker. They formed the Thirteen-Rebel King Alliance and adopted the strategy of surrounding but not attacking, hoping to besiege the metropolis to death.
These rebel kings all knew that the reason why the metropolis was prosperous was entirely due to its prosperous trade. In the final analysis, even if it was prosperous, it was only about exchange and trade, not production. If the metropolis was surrounded, goods from outside could not come in, and the people inside had nothing to sell. Not only would its strength be quickly depleted, but if the siege lasted for a long time, they might not even have food to eat.
These thirteen rebel kings acted without delay. Instead of attacking by force, they blocked all entrances and exits to the metropolis, sent soldiers to guard it, and did not allow even a single grain of rice to enter.
The blockade lasted for fifteen days, with people from outside not being able to enter and people from the big city not being able to leave.
Another fifteen days passed, which was a month in total, but the people in the big city still did not move. Now the thirteen rebel kings were getting restless!
This, I guess they have been prepared for it?
good!
The rebel kings were not wrong. What they could think of, how could Song Zhehao not have thought of before building the city?
Besides, Song Zhehao is surrounded by talented people, so how could there be no one to give him advice?
When the metropolis was being planned, large grain depots were built in the four branch cities in the east, west, south and north. The grain in the depots was always sufficient, and old grain was replaced with new grain every year to ensure that the grain was edible, would not become moldy, and would not even affect the taste.
The food in these granaries is enough to feed the people in the city for half a year. Although it is a prosperous place for trade, Song Zhehao also encourages the citizens to build many pig farms, chicken farms, fish ponds, and even many vegetable gardens and orchards.
These places don't occupy much land, but they produce a lot, enough for people in big cities to stay in the city for half a year without going hungry.
What's more, the problem of water resources was taken into consideration as early as when the city was built. The capital city already had lakes and rivers, and mountain streams were brought into the city. Open and underground channels were spread throughout the city, which not only effectively prevented the spread of fire, but also ensured that people had water.
The rebel kings’ iron-clad siege was completely ineffective against the people in the city.
But even so, Song Zhehao was still somewhat dissatisfied.
Because even if we can't do anything to the big cities, but the trade routes are affected, won't the people have no money to earn?
This is absolutely not possible!
Since they want to catch the turtle in the jar, why can't they sneak into Chencang?
Over the years, as Song Zhehao's business spread all over the world, he naturally established a strong network of relationships and intelligence networks.
As early as when these rebel kings started their rebellion, spies were placed in their ranks, knowing that the military supplies, food, manpower and weapons they needed were all plundered from the occupied areas.
If you want to get the things you need, it is not enough to just plunder them from the people. You also have to search from the landlords, officials, gentry, merchants and powerful people in various places, as they occupy most of the resources.
These landlords and merchants actually had more or less business with Song Zhehao. A letter sent by Song Zhehao via carrier pigeon made them understand immediately and immediately cut off the supply routes of those rebel kings.
Moreover, Song Zhehao formed an alliance with some rebel kings who were not strong and did not participate in the encirclement and suppression. When the metropolis led by Song Zhehao launched a full-scale counterattack, those rebel kings immediately wiped out these rebel kings.
In this way, these thirteen rebel kings will have to die!
When the metropolis launched a full-scale counterattack, the rebel kings were very excited, thinking that Song Zhehao could not hold on any longer and that they would reap the rewards after the siege was over.
However, they did not expect that the metropolis was too powerful, and the thirteen rebel kings could not gain any advantage. Just when food, weapons and soldiers were consumed in large quantities, news came from the rear that all the landlords and merchants stopped cooperating and instead formed teams to resist, and no supplies could be collected.
At this time, the thirteen rebel kings faced two choices: either to withdraw immediately; or to fight to the death, defeat Song Zhehao's city defense army, occupy the metropolis, open the warehouses to distribute food, and reward the three armies.
But they knew that neither of these two ideas would actually work...
Because, before they could capture the big city, they would probably be wiped out by Song Zhehao's city defense army due to the lack of manpower and food.
However, before that time came, another fatal news came out. Several small rebel kings captured their lair and cut off the source of their survival.
Now, the thirteen armies became like a stream without a source of power. It didn’t take long before they were wiped out one after another by the powerful city defense army.
After this incident, peace returned to the metropolis. The world was in chaos, with things rising and falling, but no force was willing to provoke a place called the metropolis.
The metropolis has always enjoyed a long period of peace.
At this time, the key figure that Song Zhehao had been waiting for for a long time, Prince Jing, finally appeared!
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