Kunlingguan is thriving as always. The years of war did not cause much damage to this majestic border city, when the Qi State captured here, there were not many garrisons here, and the elite of the Chu army followed Min Ruoying to play all the games. Some of the rich fled early with their families and wealth, while more ordinary people could not escape and had nowhere to escape, so they had to stay.

The Qi people came, but they didn't hurt them. After Yue Kaishan took up the post of county guard, he implemented a policy of gentleness, and the wealthy families of the Qi State injected a lot of wealth and a lot of people here, which stimulated the central city of the original six eastern counties and made him glow with new vitality in the shortest possible time.

For the people at the bottom, I am afraid that the biggest change is that the fluttering Great Chu Fire Phoenix Flag on the highest tower in Kunling Pass has been replaced by the current Dragon Flag.

Taxes are paid, servitude is served, and life is no different than before.

As a result, the entire Kunling County and even other counties occupied by the Qi State slowly calmed down. At least, on the surface, the ancient well is not moving.

And so the days went by.

I have to say that the people of the six eastern counties are lucky. Because those wealthy families of Qi have the intention to make this another basic plate for them, a place where they can bargain with the emperor of Qi, since this is the case, then naturally they can't fish the people, they can't try to be fast for a while, but they have to be fine and long-term, and manage carefully.

Unlike the Yiyang, Wuling, Taoyuan and other counties that occupied Qianyue, in those three counties, the Qi people implemented the cruel ruling method of drying up the river and fishing, in a short period of time, the people of these three counties were not able to make a living, and also made these three counties still slowly recover after returning to the Ming Kingdom, and they are no longer prosperous.

After leaving Zhou Jiyun's official residence, the old man surnamed Wu did not go back to the inn where he stayed directly, but walked slowly and leisurely along the bustling front street to a quiet alley in the back street.

Walked to the door of a house and gently knocked on the brass ring on the door.

A small window opened on the door, revealing a weather-beaten face.

"Please go back to the Zhou patriarch, and say that Wu's Wusuo is visiting." The old man of Wu politely bowed his hand.

After a while, the closed door suddenly opened, and an old man with several entourages appeared at the gate, smiling, looking at the elder surnamed Wu, and laughing: "I didn't expect Elder Wu to visit, I missed the welcome, forgive my sins!" ”

Uso returned the salute with a fist: "Mr. Zhou is polite, but he suddenly came without telling him, and he was rude." ”

The old man laughed: "Please, please!" ”

The two seem to have known each other in the old days, and their friendship is irreversible, and they actually go hand in hand.

This old man is Zhou Shuguang, the patriarch of the Zhou clan in Bozhou.

In the study, when he retreated left and right, Usuo looked at Zhou Shuguang, who seemed to be a lot older, and sighed: "I didn't expect to wait, but I fell to the point of struggling to survive today." Patriarch Zhou, have you always been okay? ”

Zhou Shuguang smiled bitterly: "Elder Wu, do you think I'll be okay?" Thousands of elites, once lost, the defeat of Jinghu, your Wu family's Chenglong fast son-in-law thinks that it is my Zhou someone's unfavorable command, so that the naval army is destroyed, so that my army has lost all the advantages, I have returned for more than a month, but General Zhou has not summoned me! Now I am also considered to have a military position, and I can't be ordered, I don't dare to leave, but I stay like a thorn in my back, and I can't sit still. I'm worried that General Zhou will be in the mood to use my head to deter the three armies that day! ”

Wu Suo laughed: "Patriarch Zhou laughed, Zhou Jiyun was a little arrogant, but in front of Patriarch Zhou, he didn't dare to be presumptuous, he was just depressed in his heart and became angry with others." Where do you dare to touch Patriarch Zhou, speaking of which, Patriarch Zhou still helped us a lot. ”

"I can't talk about helping, my lips are dead and my teeth are cold, my Zhou clan can feel the chill of Tianwei earlier through your Wu Chang!" Zhou Shuguang shook his head: "It's a pity that I failed." ”

"It's us who failed." "But it's okay, it's not the last minute yet. We still have the energy to run it. Maybe another village will be bright! ”

"The alliance is going to invest more here?" Zhou Shuguang's eyes widened, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to return to the sky." ”

"That's not necessarily, there is still a chance, Zhou Jiyun suffered this setback, he will always raise his spirit and deal with it carefully, he underestimated Bian Wushuang before, but now as long as he is willing to pay attention to the opponent and put Bian Wushuang in the same position as him, Bian Wushuang may not be able to please him, Patriarch Zhou, we have no way out, retreat will be dead! Your Majesty's thunderous means, you have not been taught. "Oo Cableway.

Zhou Shuguang pondered for a moment, "Elder Wu is right. But what is the purpose of Elder Wu coming to me today? I can't help with the next thing, if it's just to pay some military salaries, then I'll still be able to get some of it, but there is really nothing I can do about it. ”

To Zhou Shuguang's surprise, Usuo waved his hand again and again, "The next thing, don't want the Zhou family to give another tael of silver, the alliance has another arrangement, I hope the Zhou patriarch can agree." ”

"I wonder what the arrangement is?"

"The three holes of the cunning rabbit, now, I have to arrange the back road!" Uso sighed. "Otherwise, if we fail again, it will be a catastrophe."

"Arrange the back road?" Zhou Shuguang raised his eyebrows, and after a little thought in his mind, he also understood: "My Zhou family is now only left with ships, and the alliance wants to arrange a back road, doesn't it want to use our fleet to develop in other places?" ”

Uso snorted coldly, but shook his head: "If a family like you and I leave this land and go to another place, what can we do, become a rich man?" Master Zhou, you are in Bozhou, near the sea, you have a boat, your real strength is not on land, but in the sea, don't tell me that what you lost in Jinghu this time is really the main force and core of your Zhou family. ”

Zhou Shuguang was stunned, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Elder Wu, what do you mean?" ”

Wu Suo looked at Zhou Shuguang for a long time, and said: "Master Zhou, I know that you have an island in the sea, although we don't know where this island is, but he really exists, and the things on this island are the real strength of your Zhou family, this, you can say if there is one, right?" ”

The smile on Zhou Shuguang's face gradually disappeared, and he squinted his eyes and looked at Wu Suodao: "Yes, so what?" ”

"Okay, the head of the Zhou family is happy, how is the Zhou family doing in Bozhou now?"

Zhou Shuguang sank his face, "Didn't you ask this knowingly?" Since last year, the imperial court has begun to work in Bozhou, step by step has tightened my neck, now Zhou's is in Bozhou, it is very difficult to catch a breath, and now I have lost my hand in Jinghu, and I want to come to the imperial court will be even more unkind to me. Do you know Xiang Lian? ”

"It's the guy who suffered a big loss when he was in the Ming Eagle's Nest and was captured alive in the end?" Uso chuckled.

"That guy was unlucky, not really planted in the hands of the Eagle's Nest, but unlucky to meet the eldest princess of Chu twice in a row, the queen of the Ming Kingdom Min Ruoxi, so he lost cleanly both times, but after the Ming Kingdom caught him, he didn't kill him, and in the end, Cao Hui didn't know what to do, and actually took him back. After going back, of course, the deputy commander of this ghost shadow can't be done, and he has been demoted several levels, and has become the person in charge of the ghost in Bozhou, this guy is eager to show loyalty to the emperor, and he bites me Zhou like a madman in Bozhou! Zhou Shuguang shook his head, looking a little distressed.

Usogege smiled: "Patriarch Zhou can really bear it?" In my opinion, if Patriarch Zhou wants to clean him up, it should be effortless, as long as Patriarch Zhou lets go out, he can immediately let him fall to the streets. ”

"That's what I said, but people are His Majesty's dogs, and it depends on the face of the owner to beat the dog, if you really kill this dog, you will provoke jackals, tigers and leopards, and then the gains outweigh the losses." Zhou Shuguang shook his head and said.

"But let this dog bite bite bite one by one, and eventually Zhou's blood will run out." Uso said slowly.

"There's no way, there's no way, I can only take one step at a time." Zhou Shuguang sighed: "Otherwise, what else? I was expecting to help Zhou Jiyun this time to create a big prospect, but now, it is also in the soup, this is the day to die, I am waiting! ”

"Patriarch Zhou is really ready to sit idly by? Or can't stand it anymore and set sail to that one of the outlanders on the island? ”

"What else? Can you still rebel? Zhou Shuguang stared at Uso, a little dissatisfied with the other party's aggressiveness.

Usuo smiled and clapped his hands: "Since Your Majesty doesn't give us a way to live, what if we rebel?" ”

Zhou Shuguang looked at the other party dumbfounded, and after a while, he sneered: "So you have this idea, let me be this bird?" My Zhou clan took the lead in rebellion, what benefits can I get? It's just waiting for the army to come to the imperial court, I'm not stupid, now that my Zhou clan is dying, the emperor's attention to me is not as tight as before, and it can always be delayed for some time, maybe I can find another life. ”

"Patriarch Zhou, this leader is indeed up to you, but you are thinking about the future of all of us, how can we watch you fight single-handedly?" Uso looked at Zhou Shuguang with a smile, "Naturally, we are in the same boat." ”

"Don't know how to work together in the same boat?" Zhou Shuguang asked indifferently: "You are all in the core of Daqi, although your strength is strong, but the rebellion is not possible." ”

"That's true, but we can contribute money, we can also send people, and we can use connections within the court to help you after your Zhou family carries the banner. Believe this, you will never doubt it! Usuo waved his big hand down and said, "Master Zhou, now that the emperor has figured out the dagger, if it goes on like this, we will all have to finish the game, and we can only take risks." ”nt

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