Bian Wushuang has been in high spirits for the past six months. Since the first battle last winter to defeat Wanzhou, the war has been smooth, and after launching a counteroffensive this year, in just a few months, three counties have been connected. In fact, it is not accurate to say that it was defeated, it is obvious that Zhou Jiyun is making a strategic contraction, giving up the land of the three counties and shrinking the main force to Kunling County, relying on Kunling Pass to build a solid defense line, it can also be said that the matter of recovering the six counties seems to have been half completed, but in fact, it can be regarded as the first step of the Long March, and the latter is the most critical and difficult.

But the ordinary people of Chu don't know all this, they will only see that the six eastern counties that were lost were regained by Bian Wushuang in just half a year, and they are completely recovered.

Bian Wushuang's momentum was unmatched in the Chu State for a while, and the voices of praise for him could be heard everywhere, and by the way, they also forgot the former commander Cheng Wuben, who gave everything he had to build the Jinghu defense line. The people are the most forgetful, in their opinion, what Cheng Wuben has not done in a few years, Bian Wushuang has done it in just half a year, which obviously shows that Cheng Wuben's ability is far inferior to Bian Wushuang.

I don't know that there is a spirit in the underground, and knowing such a fact, I don't know whether to cry or laugh, or not to cry and laugh? But with Cheng Wuben's temperament, most of them will still laugh it off!

"The spring breeze is proud, Bian Dashuai!" Ning Zhiwen walked in with a smile and carried a delicate small bamboo basket woven with bamboo scorn, put the small bamboo basket on the coffee table, and looked at Bian Wushuang with a red face.

"Each other, each other!" Bian Wushuang laughed and glanced at the small bamboo basket: "This is a mulberry?"

"The freshest, when I ordered someone to pick it this morning, I still had dew drops, and then I carried this small basket down the river, how about Bian Dashuai, taste it? When you were in the Qin Kingdom earlier, you couldn't eat such fresh mulberries, right?"

"Look at what you say." Bian Wushuang pursed his lips and threw one into his mouth: "Who am I, Bian Wushuang, what haven't you eaten?" What do you want to eat, let me go, naturally someone got it for me, but, I really haven't tasted it like this, Jiangnan is a good place, compared to Jiangnan, our Daqin side, oh, now it should be said that it is Daming, but it is really far from it. Thank you very much for that kind of kindness."

Ning Zhiwen smiled and said: "Others send goose feathers for thousands of miles, and I send mulberries for hundreds of miles, but Bian Dashuai, you said that the original Qin land is not as good as Jiangnan, then it is not necessarily, each place has its own characteristics, and everyone has different opinions."

"Do you think the poor West can be compared to Jiangnan?" Bian Wushuang said with a smile.

"Then it depends on who he is!" Ning Zhiwen spread his hands, "But look, it won't be long before the poor place in your mouth bursts out with energy that will surprise you."

"Then I'll have to wait and see." Bian Wushuang laughed, "The mulberries are delicious, otherwise you will get me some every day in the future?"

"My warships and soldiers don't have time to run around every day for this little blessing of yours!" Ning Zhiwen refused without hesitation: "Besides, mulberries are only in this period of maturity, and there will be no more in the future."

"If you don't send it, don't send it, at most I'll send someone myself!" Bian Wushuang said: "How is it, everything is going well, right?"

"Generally speaking, it's going well, after all, we are not going to rob and grab, but to dredge the river, fight the river bandits, and unblock the trade route, besides, now Bian Dashuai, your prestige can be described as famous in the world, under your banner, who doesn't give a few thin noodles along the way?" Ning Zhiwen said with a smile, "Up to now, we have five ports, and the rivers within two hundred miles can be said to be in our hands, and there are many people who want to cooperate with Bian Dashuai to make money together, so that I have to pick and choose now, and the difficulties we conceived at the beginning are rarely encountered."

"One pulse leads to the whole life, that's the truth!" Bian Wushuang laughed: "I have done this well here, and the other difficulties will no longer be difficult. Okay, General Ning, this is well done."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

For Bian Wushuang and Ning Zhiwen, they are in the next big game of chess, Bian Wushuang has his own plans, and Ning Zhiwen adheres to the opinions of Yue Jingcheng, so he naturally has his own ideas, but the plans of the two overlap to a certain extent.

Min Ruoying divided Bian's troops into three, 10,000 remained in Anyang County, 20,000 followed Bian Wushuang to Jinghu, and the other 20,000 were under the command of Bian Wenzhong to suppress bandits everywhere, and his intention could not be clearer, that is, to split Bian Wushuang's troops in several distant places.

And Bian Wenzhong, under the instruction of Bian Wushuang, changed the suppression of bandits to the expulsion of bandits, and among these rebellious bandits, many of them are inextricably linked with the Ming people, and even some are personally controlled by the Ming people's spies, the two sides hit it off, where Bian Wenzhong's troops passed, the bandits were calm, some bandits were killed, some bandits were captured, but there were still some who were fleeing step by step towards the direction of Jiangnan.

Bian Wushuang is going to force these bandits to Jiangnan. In this way, Bian Wenzhong's army of bandits naturally followed all the way to Jiangnan.

And when he arrived in Jiangnan, Ning Zhiwen dredged the river and opened up the waterway between Jiangnan and Jinghu Lake was almost completed, relying on Ning Zhiwen's sailor and Bian Wenzhong's sailor, he could join forces with Bian Wushuang in an instant. Of course, this is only in some extreme cases.

In fact, Bian Wushuang hopes that Bian Wenzhong can take root in Jiangnan and deeply spread the influence of the Bian family to the land of Jiangnan.

"This time you came back on a special trip, not just to deliver mulberries with me, right?" Bian Wushuang stuffed the mulberry in the small basket into his mouth in two bites, chewing indiscriminately, and asked Ning Zhiwen vaguely.

Ning Zhiwen sat down with a smile, "Bian Shuai met Cao Hui a few days ago?" I thought Bian Shuai would inform me, but I didn't expect to wait for a few days, but there was no movement, I couldn't help it, I wanted to come and have a look?"

The smile on Bian Wushuang's face suddenly disappeared, and he looked at Ning Zhiwen's eyes as sharp as a knife: "You are spying on me?"

"What kind of surveillance?" Ning Zhiwen smiled: "Cao Hui is a person who has received a lot of attention, his every move has always been our attention, he arrived at Jinghu and saw whom, we only need to stare at him."

Bian Wushuang looked at Ning Zhiwen for a long time, and then said word by word: "General Ning, the relationship between us, or my and His Majesty Daming is only cooperative, I really want Bian to submit, it is not a simple matter, since it is cooperation, then I will naturally have my secrets, just like you have your own secrets. For example, isn't your collusion with the Bozhou Zhou clan just the same as hiding it from me?"

He patted a thin letter on the side of his hand, "The news just came, Zhou Shuguang in Bozhou rebelled, what a big momentum, more than 100 warships of Cao Gang were completely annihilated in the First World War. Hasn't the main force of the Zhou Clan's sailors been killed by you?"

Hearing this, Ning Zhiwen burst out laughing. It's just a trick of the carving insect that hides from the sky and crosses the sea, and the golden cicada sheds its shell. After the elite sailors of the Zhou clan escaped from the Jinghu Theater, they went to Daming and took over a brand new fleet built for them by Daming. This matter was a huge secret at the beginning, and the things he knew would not exceed a slap count, so Bian Dashuai wouldn't be annoyed by this, right?"

"I feel like I'm entitled to know something like this!" Bian Wushuang said coldly.

"I'm sorry, it's not for me to decide. Since the above did not say that I should inform you of Bian Dashuai, I naturally won't talk too much, and Bian Dashuai, what you originally wanted was for the sailor to clear the surface power of Qi for you, so that you can divide and intersperse, cut and surround the Qi army, but we have done it completely according to your requirements, as for how to do it, why do you bother to dig into it, as you said, we are in a cooperative relationship!"

"Then you came here today, do you have any cooperation to discuss?" Bian Wushuang was dissatisfied with the authentic.

"Yes, indeed!" Ning Zhiwen smiled and said, "His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty hopes that you can stop attacking Zhou Jiyun, and you can even release some kindness to Zhou Jiyun."

Bian Wushuang silently exhaled a breath of turbidity, he had long known that it was like this.

The Ming Dynasty does not want a large-scale war with the State of Qi now, they hope that they will have time to digest the State of Qin, have time to sort out the internal affairs, and have time to infiltrate the State of Chu, and the State of Qi has naturally seen this, there is no time than the time to start a war with the State of Ming, at least, you can test how much strength and how much heritage the State of Ming can have now. So I sharpened my knife in Changning County.

Da Ming didn't want to fight, so he naturally had to find something to do for Qi Guo. The rebellion of Zhou Shuguang in Bozhou is the most important part of it. As soon as he thought that a year ago, Qin Feng began to plan and arrange this matter, Bian Wushuang felt a little chill in his heart. Maybe he planned this matter earlier in his heart, or he had already had contact with the Zhou family, so when he went to winter, the Zhou family hit it off with Ning Zhiwen.

Now Da Ming feels that Zhou Shuguang alone may not be able to hold back the footsteps of Qi people, so Qin Feng has to increase the weight, and this bargaining chip is naturally Zhou Jiyun of Kunling Pass.

As long as he no longer attacks Zhou Jiyun, Zhou Jiyun will be able to free up his hands, and the Great Qi Imperial Court will have to divide a part of his spiritual power to pay attention to Zhou Jiyun's reaction. The rebellion of the Zhou clan in Bozhou is the most severe warning to the emperor from the last wealthy families of Daqi, and the reaction is chained.

With a few prongs, I am afraid that Qi Guo will have to withdraw the raised broadsword and change course. As long as Zhou Shuguang can persist in Bozhou for a longer time, then Daming will be able to do his own thing well.

It's really a good calculation.

So what do you do? Bian Wushuang groaned for a while.