"What is there to be surprised at!" Ning Zhiwen pursed his lips, "Master Zhou, you are not just a big pirate, you are also the actual controller of Qi Guobo Prefecture, you should be no stranger to politics, right?"

Zhou Shuguang glanced at Ning Zhiwen. With a wry smile: "Don't hide it from Brother Ning, Zhou's control of Bozhou is really not that Zhou has any talent in politics, but relies on the connections accumulated by the Zhou family in Bozhou for hundreds of years, as well as huge wealth, and of course, there are countless people who rely on the Zhou family to make a living. Zhou's words are more useful in Bozhou than the emperor's words, and that's what he relies on."

Hearing this, Ning Zhiwen couldn't help laughing. Brother Zhou, it seems that you are thinking about this matter with the thinking of Jianghu people. But for a country, if it thinks about problems with this kind of thinking, it will undoubtedly suffer a big loss."

"I want to hear about it!" Zhou Shuguang said seriously.

"There is no doubt that Da Ming will eat the Qin State, and in the next step, Da Ming's target is the Chu State." Ning Zhiwen did not shy away from saying. Then Brother Zhou thought about it, for our Da Ming, is Cheng Wuben more threatening, or Bian Wushuang more threatening?"

Zhou Shuguang thought about it seriously: "In terms of military strategy, the two of them are even comparable, maybe Bian Wushuang is stronger, but as far as the Chu State is concerned, Cheng Wuben's influence is too great."

"Not bad!" Ning Zhiwen nodded vigorously: "In terms of Da Ming, Cheng Wuben's influence is too great, Da Ming would rather be more aggressive to Bian Wushuang in the prime of life, than to Cheng Wuben. What's more, Cheng Wuben also has a very complicated entanglement with Daming, and the establishment of Daming can be said to be a great deal of Cheng Wuben. If one day the two sides face each other, Emperor Ming doesn't want Cheng Wuben to die in his own hands."

"So borrowing a knife to kill someone?"

"Between Cheng Wuben and the Emperor of Chu, there is no way to coexist, what we have to do is just add another fire and let the oil in the pot boil a little more. If the Emperor of Chu saw that Bian Wushuang had the ability to replace Cheng Wuben or even surpassed, then he would not have the slightest psychological pressure to kill Cheng Wu. And we just want Bian Wushuang to take over Jinghu with an aura of victory, and minimize the bad impact of Cheng Wuben's death."

Zhou Shuguang was silent for a long time: "Is it difficult for Cheng Wuben to sit and wait to die?" If he is unwilling to die, he only needs to raise his arms and exhale, just afraid that the Chu State will be in chaos!"

A layer of inexplicable emotion rose between Ning Zhiwen's eyebrows, "Cheng Wu is an idiot. He is willing to bear the infamy of not saving the king for the sake of the Chu State, he does not hesitate to use his life to clear his name and confront the emperor for the stability of the Jinghu defense line, and relies on the troops in his hands to force the emperor to meet all his requirements, so in the end, he must also be willing to send himself to Min Ruoying's butcher's knife in order not to divide the Chu State, and not to waste his previous efforts."

"Such a person is really incomprehensible!" Zhou Shuguang said with emotion: "But such a person makes people feel admired from the bottom of their hearts. Min Ruoying is really blind, and such a loyal minister can't tolerate it? It's no wonder that the Chu State, which was once the second in the world, has fallen to this step of the field!"

"Cheng Wuben is loyal to the Chu State, but he is not loyal to Min Ruoying, such a person cannot be tolerated by any emperor." Ning Zhiwen sighed: "Just like Cao Yun of your Qi Kingdom, isn't he also at home now?" With his identity, I'm afraid that he is also loyal to Daqi and not necessarily loyal to Cao Tiancheng, right?"

The two looked at each other and picked up their glasses in unison. Speaking of people like Cheng Wuben, it always makes people feel a little embarrassed. In the minds of the two of them, there is a common cognition that a person like Cheng Wuben is either a madman or a saint. But whether it is a madman or a saint, in this world, it is destined to have no good results.

In fact, even Ning Zhiwen didn't know Bian Wushuang's true identity. When he knew that Bian Wushuang abandoned Qin and joined Chu, he was also surprised, as Bian Wushuang entered the Chu State and was ceremoniously received by the Chu Emperor, he still vaguely guessed the Chu Emperor's thoughts, and when he received an order from the Ming Dynasty, asking him to fully cooperate with Bian Wushuang to defeat Zhou Jiyun and plot to recover the six eastern counties, he probably guessed that the Ming Kingdom would continue to work the road to take Cheng Wuben.

He just didn't know that Bian Wushuang and Qin Feng had already had an agreement to cooperate.

The cooperation between Bian Wushuang and Qin Feng is only known at the highest level, even in the Great Ming Kingdom, people who know about this matter will never be more than a slap.

"What do you need me to do?" After drinking a few glasses of wine, the mood of the two was slightly better, and Zhou Shuguang asked bluntly.

"Since Brother Zhou's intention has been decided, then I will also speak freely. If you want to recover the six eastern counties, you must first thwart Zhou Jiyun's offensive against Jinghu County, and whoever wants to win in Jinghu must gain absolute control in the water battle." Ning Zhiwen stared at Zhou Shuguang and said.

"Got it, that is, I have to lose this battle with you!" A hint of unwillingness flashed in Zhou Shuguang's eyes, in fact, after the Zhou clan entered the Qi State Naval Division, they had gradually recovered the disadvantage of the Qi army in Jinghu County, and the war had slowly burned to the core position of Jinghu County.

"Yes." Ning Zhiwen nodded and said, "Of course, Da Ming will not let the Zhou family lose in vain. Your losses will be made up for by the Great Ming Mariners. Emperor Ming's secret decree has made it very clear that when the Zhou clan is attached, a powerful fleet will be sent to you."

"A fleet with five-story warships as flagships?" Zhou Shuguang's eyes suddenly lit up.

Ning Zhiwen laughed: "Brother Zhou, you are too greedy, you must know that with the financial resources of the Ming Maritime Administration, it is already a great effort to build a five-story warship, before the Ming Dynasty unifies the mainland, there will be no second five-story warship, and what you have prepared for you is the latest Taiping Line warship of the Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty is even willing to give you the right to name the flagship of this fleet."

"Then can I call Bozhou?"

"Since the naming rights have been given to you, you can call it whatever you like!" Ning Zhiwen Dao.

"Okay, then it's decided." Zhou Shuguang clenched his fists: "I will let Baozhen keep an eye on the manufacture of those ships. Of course, we will also bring some of our top shipbuilders from the Zhou clan with us."

"No problem at all." Ning Zhiwen smiled and said: "Brother Zhou, although we want you to lose this battle, we don't want your elite sailors to really die here. We have to plan well, if we hide from the world, not only do you lose so that others can't see the flaws, but also quietly transfer your soldiers to Daming, otherwise at that time, you get those warships, but there are no sailors to operate, wouldn't you look at the ships and sigh?"

Ning Zhiwen said this, Zhou Shuguang let go of the last layer of doubts, this was also the problem he was most worried about before, he was originally going to bring it up, but he didn't expect Ning Zhiwen to say it first, which also shows Daming's sincerity to him from another level.

"In this way, it is very good, those brothers were originally making waves above the sea, and it is indeed too wronged to be wronged in this small ditch." Zhou Shuguang said with a smile. When will it start?"

"Don't worry, this has to be planned slowly. Bian Wushuang hasn't arrived in Jinghu yet, and when he arrives, he will definitely try his best to win me over, and he can see the key to this war. Rough estimate, I'm afraid it won't be until next spring to kick off this big war, and if it really ends, half a year is always required. Brother Zhou, if you are defeated in Jinghu, I am afraid that the situation in the Qi country will be very difficult."

Zhou Shuguang shook his head: "It's not necessarily that difficult. As you know, the Emperor is wide-eyed and trying to clean me up! I was defeated in Jinghu and returned, and the military strength in my hand was defeated and lost, and Emperor Qi would only laugh happily, in that case, wouldn't I be a lamb to be slaughtered by him in Bozhou? And my defeat will inevitably make Zhou Jiyun lose the opportunity on the battlefield, I'm afraid it will be Zhou Jiyun's turn to fail next. If Zhou Jiyun is defeated, then the power of our family's gate lord will be dealt another fatal blow, and the emperor will be so happy that he can't sleep."

"I heard that the emperor of your country has killed a lot of family lords?"

"So far, the killings are still second- and third-rate, like us, the emperor doesn't dare to move lightly for a while, but if this battle fails, then it may be a matter of course. I was defeated in Jinghu, fled back to Bozhou in embarrassment, and then obediently accepted the emperor's recruitment, whether he wanted money or power, I gave it all to him, and then shrank in the old mansion as an apartment, thinking that for me like a big lord who raised his hand to surrender to him, he would be a horse bone and leave me a life, right?" Zhou Shuguang laughed.

"Brother Zhou has thought of this section, then I can rest assured, in fact, Daming has prepared two sets of plans for Brother Zhou, one of which is what Brother Zhou said, Brother Zhou will transfer all the elites under his command to Daming through death, and then Brother Zhou stays in Bozhou, with Brother Zhou's influence on Bozhou, when the Ming and Qi countries officially start a war, Daming can occupy Bozhou without much effort."

"These people from my Zhou clan control this fleet, won't they show their feet?"

"Of course, there is an arrangement for this, after Brother Zhou's people take over this fleet, they will be stationed in Manila, and they will not show their faces until Ming Qi officially tears his face. The ghosts of the Qi State are indeed extraordinary, but their hands can't reach Manila, whether it is the emperor of the Qi State, or the minister, but no one has ever paid attention to the sea."

"So it's all right." Zhou Shuguang clapped his hands and sighed, "Emperor Ming, it is really a last resort. Brother Ning, you said first that there is a second plan, what is it?"

"The other set is just in case of emergency, in case the horse's feet are exposed, then we can only send a fleet to forcibly land, and take Brother Zhou to Daming, the Ming Emperor is reluctant to let you be cut off by Emperor Qi." Ning Zhiwen laughed.