Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

After Chu Ying discussed everything with them, he personally sent these people from the local powerful forces out of the mountain.

Before leaving, several people said to him:

"After we return, we will contact Tongbao Pavilion first. If they are willing to arrange for someone to come over, then things will be easy."

"Tongbao Pavilion? They...won't agree."

Chu Ying had heard of the name of Tongbao Pavilion.

This is a shop spread across the entire Shenmu Kingdom, and its business covers almost everything on the market.

However, the Shenmu Kingdom had a system that emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce.

How could such a large business organization be developed?

There is only one answer.

That means there are people from the imperial court behind them.

It even involves a very large interest group.

In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that if they don't have the support of the court, it would be difficult for them to even expand a piece of land, let alone expand to the entire territory of Shenmu Kingdom.

"You will probably nod. You are not from here and don't understand the ins and outs of this."

Some people don't know about this kind of thing.

This scene immediately made Chu Ying's mind active.

It seems that the officials within the Shenmu Kingdom have done a lot of things in secret.

"Then I'll leave it to you all."

He bowed and sent the person away, then reported the news to Qin Ming.

In the military camp of the Datong sect's headquarters, Qin Ming was surrounded by dozens of people, who were constantly using telegraphs to communicate with people far away.

The crackling sounds of telegraph transmissions made the entire tent extremely noisy.

They quickly informed Qin Ming of the news one by one.

At this stage, the Datong Sect is engaged in a large-scale battle with the Western Regions Allied Forces.

Qin Ming personally took charge of the command, while Xuanfeng and another elder named Qiuyu sat beside him to assist him.

This situation has lasted for three days.

The Western Region Allied Forces seemed to have gained more confidence after learning of the support from Hua Yunhong's troops, so they launched a targeted and fierce attack against the Western Region Allied Forces in the past few days.

After dozens of checkpoints were breached, the Western Region Allied Forces adopted the simplest and most lethal tactics.

Push forward!

That’s not all, Mu Liuming’s advance team also arrived at this time.

They launched a surprise attack on the Datong Sect's extremely weak defense on the west side!

The result of the raid was that both the advance team and the Datong sect's garrison suffered heavy losses.

Although they were stopped, the situation Mu Liuming wanted had been achieved.

They will be supplemented with more staff later.

But the Datong sect has such a small number of people, and it is impossible to withdraw too many people from the western defense line as they have to resist the siege of the Western Region Allied Forces on the eastern front.

Once this group of garrisons are killed, the defense line will no longer exist.

Faced with such a dark moment, Xuanfeng and Elder Song had no choice but to ask Qin Ming to come out.

Originally this was Liu Chuang's mission, but he was assigned to the deep mountains where Fang Yuanjian was.

The elders within the Datong sect are not capable of commanding such a large-scale war.

Only Qin Ming, who had experienced hundreds of wars large and small and was able to command tens of thousands of people, could withstand such a battlefield.

So Qin Ming personally took charge of the overall command. Within three days, under his command, they repelled hundreds of almost crazy attacks by the Western Region coalition forces.

This non-stop command made Elder Song very worried about his physical condition.

Because Qin Ming not only needs to take care of things on the battlefield, he also has two games to play in the Shenmu Kingdom.

Just then, his subordinates delivered another letter.

"Your Majesty, Chu Ying said someone contacted him and mentioned Tongbao Pavilion."

"Tongbao Pavilion?"

Qin Ming was stunned and recalled this organization.

When Chen Shimao arranged the trade between the Ministry of Rites and the Shenmu Kingdom, part of the goods were received by Tongbao Pavilion.

It can replace some of the functions of the imperial court, and now it is possible for it to engage in smuggling with Chu Ying.

"interesting……"

"Remove restrictions on them and arrange for the delivery of high-quality goods from Daqian, including grain, cloth, and refined salt."

"Your Majesty! These things are too cruel!"

Xuanfeng was startled and asked quickly.

After rounds of improvements, Daqian's grain has achieved high yield and good quality.

The quality and quantity of cloth and refined salt were ahead of all the surrounding dynasties.

The key point is that these three items are related to the three major categories of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and are too involved. The quantity during trade is strictly controlled by the court.

No one can predict how much turmoil would be caused if the restrictions on Tongbao Pavilion were lifted at this time.

"The purpose of letting Chu Ying smuggle is to break into the market. People may not dare to accept these things, so let's give it a try first."

Qin Ming spoke slowly, but the decision he made made Xuanfeng and Qiuyu break out in cold sweats.

"Don't you two want to know how powerful the backing behind Tongbao Pavilion is?"

This is not just large-scale smuggling, but also Qin Ming's test of Tongbao Pavilion's strength.

After hearing this, Xuanfeng and Qiuyu also became interested.

Tongbao Pavilion is both an enemy and a friend, so it would be good for them to find out the situation sooner rather than later.

"Your Majesty is wise. You guys, send a letter to Chu Ying. The Datong Sect will soon supply him with what he needs through the cities on the border between the Western Regions and Western Shu."

At the border between the Western Regions and Western Shu, several cities ceded to Qin Ming have begun to take effect, affecting all directions.

In order to compete for population, the Daqian court began to build factories here, shelter refugees and absorb labor.

Because of the large-scale construction required, this place also became one of Daqian's material warehouses.

There is no need to requisition resources from the rear, as they can be transported from here to the Western Regions and the Shenmu Kingdom.

In order to make it more convenient in the future, Qian Cai and Wu Shizhong even wanted to build a railway track here.

However, it was later rejected by Qin Ming.

Compared to laying railway tracks separately for these border cities.

We will have to take over the Western Regions first and then select a site to take care of the entire territory.

With Qin Ming's order, Daqian's secret guards handed over the way to contact Tongbao Pavilion to the Datong Sect.

Where Hua Yunhong couldn't see, a violent storm began to brew.

The Shenmu Kingdom reacted quickly. During the days that Chu Ying was hiding, before Hua Yunhong received any news, Cao De blocked all trade routes on the border.

"Sir, the blockade has been completed and no problems have been found. My people can't stay here forever, right?"

Lu Fang found Cao De and explained the situation to him.

All his prisoners had been gathered and were ready to be taken away.

But the total number of prisoners was more than 8,000.

These troops have been trained and have considerable combat power even with bare hands. They cannot be suppressed with the limited number of people in our hands.

Lu Fang wanted Cao De to return his troops. After all, whether they left here or not was not of much concern to Lu Fang.

Unless the court orders him to take charge, but this is highly unlikely.

What he didn't expect was that Cao De had also been in a state of panic these days. As soon as he heard this, he immediately slammed the table in anger.

"Lu Fang, how come you can't tell priorities apart?"