Zeng Lin stood up: "Or I'll talk to Ning Zhiwen!"

"Talk, talk about what?" Cheng Wuben smiled indifferently: "Go and tell Ning Zhiwen that you don't want to cooperate with Bian Wushuang's counteroffensive plan?"

The crowd was dumbfounded.

"It's going to make people laugh." Cheng Wuben stood up, "Ning Zhiwen has won many sinister battles for Da Chu in the past year, it can be said that Jinghu has the current situation, and it is inseparable from his credit. But I won't forget who he really is! I'm not stupid."

Ning Zhiwen and Ming Guo are inseparable, this is something that everyone in the house knows, but to what extent, no one can say clearly.

However, in the past year, Ning Zhiwen's performance has made all of them forget about this layer, after all, they have shed blood and sweat together. Now that Cheng Wuben said this, everyone has woken up to this level.

The eyes of everyone in the room looked at Jiang Shangyan again.

Jiang Shangyan suddenly became annoyed, and stood up suddenly: "What do you want me to do?" I have fought in Daming for many years, commanding a battalion of soldiers and horses, but I stand up straight, walk right, and am not afraid of anyone chewing my tongue."

"Okay, okay, Jiang Shangyan, why are you so angry, don't you know who you are?" Cheng Wuben glared at him, "Everyone didn't suspect you, speaking of which, I have been in Daming for a few years?"

"That is, no matter who he Ning Zhiwen is, I only know that we can't leave him in Jinghu now, and he has never been fatal when he fights." Jiang Shangyan said angrily.

"We all know this layer!" Cheng Wuben said lightly: "But Jiang Shangyan, one thing you have to be clear, when we went to help Qin Feng back then, we had a purpose. At that time, our Great Chu was much stronger than Qin Feng's Taiping Army, and Qin Feng at that time was at most a separatist force, and we wanted to support him, overthrow Qianyue, and replace him, so as to establish a good relationship and play a role in containing the Qi State. So our goal is not pure."

Jiang Shangyan lowered her head.

"Now that the form is reversed, Ming is strong and Chu is weak, so what is the purpose of Ming Guo?"

"Do you also want to help us fight against the Qi State and contain the Qi State!" Jiang Shangyan said in a low voice.

"There's a reason for that. But Jiang Shangyan, don't forget, Ning Zhiwen was originally from Chu, and even now, Ning Zhiwen's influence in Quanzhou is much greater than that of the imperial court. If Ning Zhiwen really completely surrendered to the Ming State, could it be said that more than half of Quanzhou was not considered the territory of the Chu State? We didn't want to go to the land before." Cheng Wuben sighed. Glancing at the crowd.

"In this world, if you divide for a long time, you will be together, and you will be divided for a long time! Whether it is Qin Feng or Cao Tiancheng, they are all staring at the unification of the world! Qin Feng has already annexed the Qin State, and in the next step, won't his eyes be cast on our Great Chu? If he swallows the Great Chu again, then he will gather the power of the three kingdoms of Ming, Qin, and Chu, but he will not be afraid of the Qi State at all."

"Our Da Chu, how can he swallow it so easily?" A general in the house was unconvinced.

Cheng Wuben smiled bitterly: "I don't know if he can swallow it, but in the past year or so, what Da Ming has done to us Da Chu doesn't look like he has good intentions. Don't look at the weapons we all have in our hands now, don't look at the weapons that these weapons played a huge role in our fight against the Qi State and helped us get through the most difficult stage, how could this not be a means for the Ming people to weaken us!"

Most of the people in the room looked at Cheng Wuben in confusion.

"First, these weapons were bought back with our money, but they were not aided by the Ming Kingdom for free. These weapons, which cost us too much money, are hollowing out the foundation of our Dachu little by little. Our soldiers are accustomed to such weapons, and one day, suddenly they are gone, so what? Have you thought about it? A person who is accustomed to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, suddenly asks him to eat black buns and nibble on pickles, can he eat it? At that point, all I can think of is that our combat effectiveness will drop dramatically."

"Second, those most powerful weapons, such as crossbow machines, such as thunderbolts, the damage rate is inevitably too high, these weapons are extremely sophisticated, we don't understand, we can't imitate, we can only buy replacement parts from the Ming people again and again, I let people calculate, hehe, say it to scare you, the cost of buying these replacement parts, is several times the cost of the whole machine. Akito is really good at making money! Jiang Shangyan, you have been in Daming for the longest time, and these weapons are also very familiar, don't you say? When you were in the Baoqing camp, did these weapons break down so quickly?"

Jiang Shangyan shook his head. When I was in the Baoqing camp, those weapons were very durable. I consulted the technicians from the Ming Kingdom, and they said that the climate in Jiangnan is different from that of the Ming Dynasty, so these parts break down quickly!"

"The climate is different? It's a joke." Cheng Wuben snorted.

"There are many more, except for the military, I don't know much about the rest. But Ming Guo did business with us with such fanfare and gave us loans, and I intuitively felt that it was not a good thing. Zeng Junshou, let's Jinghu, is it actually the banknotes of the Ming Kingdom? You're a pro-people official, so you should be more proficient in this than I am, and I don't think it's a good thing, is it?"

Zeng Lin nodded: "Cheng Shuai, don't you know that we Jinghu, now the more prosperous cities in Dachu basically use the paper yarn of the Ming Kingdom, and no one uses our own standard copper coins at all!" That's really not a good thing. This means that the Ming people can exchange a piece of fancy paper that is worthless for what we really have. For example, tea, silk, silk, and many other things. Now there is nothing in the relationship between Ming and Chu, if Ming and Chu are bad one day, then the paper yarn of the Ming Kingdom in the hands of our people will be worthless in Da Chu, but they are real wealth in the Ming Kingdom, and at that time, I am afraid that the people's hearts will fall to the Ming Kingdom."

Cheng Wuben nodded: "You said it very thoroughly, that's the truth. I believe that many of our Dachu people know this truth, knowing that this is drinking doves to quench their thirst, but they have to pinch their noses and drink it, because if we don't drink it, we won't be able to stop the attack of the Qi people. Our wealth has been completely lost in years of war, especially in the last war, which has left us so wounded."

"Cheng Shuai, then what should we do now?" When the officials in the room heard Cheng Wuben's analysis, everyone's faces changed.

"I don't know." Cheng Wuben stood up, "I've been immersed in military affairs all my life, and I don't know much about other things, and I don't know how to deal with these things!" The Ming Kingdom is now infiltrating our Great Chu in all directions, if the Qi people are showing the carriages and horses, and the swords and guns are robbing, then the Ming people are quietly digging into our corners. What I can do is to block the Qi people with clear swords and guns, and there is no way to dig for the Ming people, which can be regarded as righteous and bright. Therefore, the arrival of Bian Wushuang may be a turning point. He was not only a military strategist, he was also a full-fledged politician. If we can really succeed in the counterattack this time, can take back the six eastern counties, and drive the Qi people out, then we will have the capital to negotiate terms with the Qi people, or at that time, our situation will be improved! Our Da Chu can only live in the cracks, live carefully, and if you are not careful, it will overturn. Either die in Qi or die in Ming."

Cheng Wuben stood up: "So I hope that everyone here will put national affairs first. Don't think of Cheng."

There was silence in the room.

Cheng Wuben smiled: "Okay, okay, don't put on a look like this, it's about to be the New Year, a year ago, Zhou Jiyun was afraid that he wouldn't have the energy to attack, and he also needed time to digest and reorganize his strategy and offensive against us, so this year, we can live well, everyone is happy, don't have a bad face, otherwise our soldiers still think that something bad has happened, isn't this a blow to morale!" Let's go, let's go, I'm going to have a good rest."

Seeing Cheng Wuben leaning back on the chair and closing his eyes, Zeng Lin and Jiang Shangyan at the back glanced at each other, and finally sighed and retreated with everyone.

It's warm inside the house, but it's cold outside. Coming out of the house, Zeng Lin couldn't help but shiver excitedly, reached out and tightened the cloak, and wrapped himself tightly in it. The snow that had been swept away in the yard during the day was covered with a thin layer after it was dark for a while. It's nothing to a person like Jiang Shangyan who has been in the north for many years, but for Zeng Lin, the weather is really a bit difficult.

"This kind of weather is really not suitable for soldiers!" Zeng Lin said to Jiang Shangyan beside him.

Jiang Shangyan shook his head: "This little snow is nothing, the river is not even frozen, Bian Wushuang is a person who is used to staying in the west, and the weather there is much colder than ours. We southerners don't think it's suitable for the weather, but they don't care."

Zeng Lin was stunned, "You mean to say that Bian Wushuang will start a war this winter?"

"Or after the Chinese New Year!" Jiang Shangyan said: "Because January is the coldest time for us here. But this temperature is not a matter at all for his 20,000 elites."

"So, the Qi people will definitely suffer this time?" A flash of excitement flashed in Zeng Lin's eyes.

"Maybe!" Jiang Shangyan's eyes were a little confused.

Looking at Jiang Shangyan's expression, Zeng Lin sighed: "General Jiang, if, I mean if, one day, Cheng Shuai is gone, will you still stay here?"

Jiang Shangyan, who was walking in a hurry, suddenly stopped, and Zeng Lin beside him was unguarded, but he rushed forward a few more steps before he stopped, and turned his head to look at Jiang Shangyan.

"I don't know. I don't know!" Jiang Shangyan shook her head in pain. If the emperor can't even tolerate people like Cheng Shuai, I don't know what the point of my persistence is!"