Zhou Jian's words made Zhuang Feng stunned, and some didn't dare to believe it;

Cai Xingmiao is the contemporary head of the Pingzhou Cai family, according to the rules between the families, that Cai Xingmiao belongs to the older generation, Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian have to be called uncle;

As an older generation of characters, Cai Xingmiao has a lot of experience, and Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian have also talked about it behind their backs;

The existence of Cai Xingmiao is longer than the existence of Jinguo, after experiencing the drastic changes of Jinguo, the tyranny of Yang Yue, and the coup of Zhou Xizong;

Such a strongman has passed away suddenly like this, which makes Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian a little speechless and a little sad;

"The cause of death?" Zhuang Feng relieved himself and asked aloud;

Zhou Jian only received news from the intelligence network in Pingzhou, and as for the more specific situation, it was not clear in the phone call just now, and perhaps the specific situation has not been obtained;

"It's not clear yet;" Zhou Jian replied truthfully;

"Let's go back;" Zhuang Feng listened to Zhou Jian's answer, as if he had thought about something there, and then said there;

"Hmm;" Zhou Jian responded, pulled Xiao Zhou with him, and ended his stroll under the escort of the guards;

Back in Zhou Garden, Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian chatted alone in the study about the changes in Pingzhou;

"I haven't heard of any illness in the old man, although he is a little old, but he died suddenly, I'm afraid there are still some twists and turns;" Zhou Jian said in the study;

"It can't be that vulgar story, right?" Zhuang Feng said with some hesitation;

Zhuang Feng's words Zhou Jian understood it, but it was the internal struggle for power in the Cai family, and there was such a ruthless and vicious character who did the Cai Xing Miao;

"If you want to play that broken drama, it should have been staged a long time ago, where can you wait until now?" Zhou Jian thought for a while and said there;

Zhuang Feng listened to Zhou Jian's analysis and nodded there; Zhou Jian also made sense, that Cai Xingmiao is already in his nineties this year; if there are people in the interior who are not in a hurry to take the position, then there should have been this drama in front of them a long time ago, and they will not wait until now to do this;

An old man who is already in his nineties, who has said something ugly, does not have much time to live, and is purely a person who lives every day;

"Attacking a person who lives every day, the juniors of the Cai family are really promising;" Zhuang Feng thought, and couldn't help but sigh there;

When Zhuang Feng was sighing, the phone in his pocket reacted, and Zhuang Feng took it out and said directly: "Say;"

"Cai Xingmiao is dead, are you conspiring with Zhou Jian and the others in Pingzhou;" Tang Guiyi on the other end of the phone said directly there;

Listening to Tang Guiyi's tone that seemed to be questioning, but was certain, Zhuang Feng choked for a while and didn't know what to say;

When Zhuang Feng talked about Pingzhou, Tang Guiyi said that Zhuang Feng came to Tingzhou to conspire with Zhou Jian in Pingzhou; now that Zhuang Feng has only been away from Pingzhou for a long time, Miao Caixing is dead, which can't help but make Tang Guiyi confirm with that Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian did it;

"If you don't speak, you acquiesce;" Tang Guiyi didn't hear Zhuang Feng reply, and made a confirmed conclusion with that;

Zhuang Feng was choked by Tang Guiyi and was speechless for a while, and finally relieved himself, so he said there: "If I said that I was also shocked by the death of Cai Xingmiao, would you believe it?"

"I'll believe what you say;" Tang Guiyi replied;

"I didn't do it, well, I didn't do it happily;" Zhuang Feng thought for a moment, and replied truthfully there;

Tang Guiyi listened to Zhuang Feng's words, and also believed that Cai Xingmiao's death had nothing to do with Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian, because Zhuang Feng was that kind of person, if he said no, he wouldn't, and Zhuang Feng didn't need to hide anything from Tang Guiyi;

"I believe it has nothing to do with you and Zhou Shao, but since Cai Xingmiao is dead, do you have any ideas?" Tang Guiyi said with some amusement;

Tang Guiyi's words really stopped Zhuang Feng;

Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian were still paying attention to the cause of Cai Xingmiao's death, and were ready to see what kind of play the Cai family was singing, but they hadn't thought about Cai Xingmiao's death, they could actually take advantage of it;

"Hang;" Tang Guiyi didn't hear Zhuang Feng speak, and probably knew that Zhuang Feng hadn't thought of this yet, so he didn't say anything more;

Zhuang Feng hung up the phone, frowned and thought about something there, and said after a long time: "It was Lao Qi's call just now, he thinks we killed Old Man Cai;"

"Your seventh child's imagination is too rich, isn't it?" Zhou Jian listened to Zhuang Feng's words and said jokingly;

"If it were me, I would think the same way;" Zhuang Feng said seriously;

Zhou Jian looked at Zhuang Feng's rather serious appearance, and was a little puzzled there;

"I appeared in Pingzhou some time ago, left two weeks later, arrived in Tingzhou yesterday, and today came the news of Cai Xingmiao's death, what do you think of this statement?" Zhuang Feng said quite seriously;

"It's kind of interesting;" Zhou Jian said with a smile;

"I think Cai Xingmiao's death has something to do with you;" Zhuang Feng didn't laugh with Zhou Jian, and said quite seriously there;

"Spicy can be eaten casually, if you eat too much, it will hurt your eyes at most, you can't talk nonsense, it will kill people;" Zhou Jian put away his smile and said quite seriously;

"Dream and ambition are actually the same word, you know; the difference is that dreams sound nobler and more euphemistic; ambition sounds a little unpleasant, so people always emphasize dreams and despise the heart;" Zhuang Feng didn't know what he was talking about;

Zhou Jian looked at Zhuang Feng and didn't speak, but he also put away his smiling expression, and just stared at Zhuang Feng quite calmly;

"The five states in the southwest, you have the land of three states, if it weren't for my appearance, Shaozhou would have become your bag, and even Jiangzhou was in your plan, right;" Zhuang Feng looked at Zhou Jian's calm appearance and said to himself;

Zhou Jian didn't react particularly to Zhuang Feng's words, he was still so calm;

"My appearance made you give up Shaozhou, and also terminated Jiangzhou's plan, and disrupted your plan to monopolize the southwest;So you skipped Jiangzhou, continued the follow-up plan, and captured Pingzhou;" Zhuang Feng seemed to straighten out his thinking, and after speaking, he curled the corners of his mouth with a playful smile;

"Seventh brother, sometimes I really can't see through you;" Zhou Jian also laughed with Zhuang Feng and said out loud;

"You're right, I had this plan after you disappeared, or maybe this plan was still the inspiration you gave me;" Zhou Jian said with a smile;

"Continue;" Zhuang Feng continued;

"Back then, you captured the southwest with your own strength and emptied the forces of the five southwestern states; when I was still in pain, I was thinking, what you can do, I can also do it; you know, we are all conceited people, why can you do it and I can't do it?" Zhou Jian looked a little emotional;

Zhuang Feng stood up, walked behind the desk some distance from Zhou Jian, and lit a cigarette habitually;

Zhou Jian watched Zhuang Feng light up the cigarette, and continued there: "What you can do, I can also do;

"What about after that?" Zhuang Feng asked, lighting a cigarette and continuing there;

"After annexing the five southwestern states, then annex Pingzhou, and eat Xizhou with the land of the six states in your hands;" Zhou Jian was no longer so calm when he said, and he looked a little excited;

Perhaps, when a person talks about his dreams, he will always be a little excited;

"Perfect;" Zhuang Feng also said with some excitement;

Zhou Jian's plan is indeed quite perfect, or at least the idea is beautiful;

Sitting on the five states in the southwest, naturally you can't just sit and wait for death; south of the court state is Pingzhou, and the meat on the side of the mouth naturally has to be eaten; after eating Pingzhou, further south is the two states of Lingxiang, the tax center of Jinguo; these two states are under the control of Jindu, and Zhou Jian also understands that in his plan, going south is to Pingzhou;

Xizhou, north of Tingzhou, is located in the middle of Jinguo, with convenient transportation, and can even be regarded as the transportation hub of the entire Jinguo; such a place is naturally the top priority of Jindu;

According to Zhou Jian, after the annexation of Pingzhou, it is necessary to accumulate the strength of the six states to make a move on Xizhou, which can also show the importance of Xizhou;

After the annexation of Xizhou, this Zhou Jian did not say, but Zhuang Feng could also guess;

To the east of Tingzhou, it is also the tax center of Jinguo, and even the entire southeast of Jinguo belongs to the tax area of Jinguo.

Maybe Zhou Jian also knows, so there is no plan about the southeast in Zhou Jian's statement, at least not for the time being, and Zhou Jian's plan seems to be to eat Xizhou;

Sitting on the backing of the five southwestern states and taking Tingxiping as the frontier, this world may indeed be able to compete;

Zhuang Feng listened to Zhou Jian's words and understood Zhou Jian's dream;

Zhou Jian listened to Zhuang Feng's somewhat excited affirmation, and he also had the feeling of knowing it there, and it was not in vain that he had intersected for many years;

Zhuang Feng calmed down his rather excited mood and said loudly: "The plan is perfect, but accidents can happen at any time, such as me;"

"I know that apart from these accidents, there is also Jindu, they will not sit idly by, and the reason why this plan was formed is actually only because of you;" Zhou Jian said frankly;

"Oh?" Zhuang Feng looked a little questioning in the face of Zhou Jian's frankness;

"You empty the southwest, the military in the southwest has remained silent, and the Jindu has also remained silent; from this, I guess that there are people from your Zhuang family in the cabinet today, not only the cabinet, but also your Zhuang people in the southwest military;" Zhou Jian was still so frank;

Zhuang Feng didn't speak, just looked at Zhou Jian with a smile;

"I don't have the fanfare like you, I just swallow the southwest within the scope of the rules, perhaps, my ability is worse than yours, the original plan was to swallow the southwest within ten years, and the two states of Pingxi;" Zhou Jian said naturally, but there was some loss in his words;

Looking at Zhou Jian's somewhat lost appearance, Zhuang Feng didn't say anything, just lit a cigarette;

Zhou Jian's words, Zhuang Feng could understand them;

Zhou Jian said that when he emptied the southwest, the southwest military and Jindu remained silent; perhaps it was because Zhou Jian guessed that there were Zhuang people in both the military and Jindu, or maybe they had scruples about each other;

It's just that no matter what, Zhou Jian did get a chance, or Zhou Jian got at least ten years;

The plan, which should have been completed in ten years, is now only halfway through, which makes Zhou Jian question himself a little;

"You think too much, you know that you are much stronger than me; under the blow of the year, you rose rapidly, and I fell for the love of children; sometimes I think about it, I really admire your courage, and you can rise under such circumstances, instead of falling like me;" Zhuang Feng lit a cigarette, and looked quite emotional;

Zhou Jian watched Zhuang Feng change the topic without a trace, did not deny or admit Zhou Jian's conjecture, and laughed with there;

"I'm most tired of you being like this, and when you encounter something you don't want to say, you change the subject;" Zhou Jian said jokingly;

"Do you have a share in the affairs of the Cai family?" Zhuang Feng avoided Zhou Jian's topic and asked naturally;

Zhou Jian looked at Zhuang Feng to avoid it, and did not continue to ask; Zhuang Feng is like this, what he wants to say, he will naturally say it, what he doesn't want to say, no matter how you ask, he will not let go;

"If I say that Old Man Cai's death has nothing to do with me, do you believe it?" Zhou Jian continued Zhuang Feng's question;

"I don't believe it;" Zhuang Feng said bluntly;

"I swallowed Sanzhou and am actively enterprising Shaozhou, at this time you are back, can I continue? No, I can only give up Shaozhou and go back to Tingdong to eat spicy food;" Zhou Jian was quite joking, but what he said was true;

"Don't get off the subject, I'm talking about Pingzhou;" Zhuang Feng looked impatient;

"You said Pingzhou, then I did have an early investment;" Zhou Jian looked at Zhuang Feng's impatient appearance and said after thinking about it;

"Happy, you have changed, and your words are getting more and more rounded; I said that the old man was about the old man, and you said that it had nothing to do with you; now you said that you have invested in Pingzhou in the early stage, which is not good;" Zhuang Feng looked quite joking with that;

However, Zhuang Feng also understood Zhou Jian's words, Zhou Jian said that Cai Xingmiao's death had nothing to do with him, which is true, and Zhou Jian's early investment in Pingzhou is also true;

The disputes between the forces of various states are not directly fought at the beginning, but require a lot of scheming battles, which is the so-called upfront investment;

At that time, the battle of scheming and conspiracy reached a certain stage, and finally it would use force to fight the winner; and the most important thing was to play scheming and conspiracy, after all, today's Jinguo is still peaceful and prosperous, and it is impossible to use force like in troubled times;

The early investment that Zhou Jian said is a scheming conspiracy with the people of the Cai family, but as Zhou Jian said, it is still within the rules, and the star picking seedlings are not done by Zhou Jian;

"Okay, the Cai family has a grandson named Cai Yongzhuo, and I made an agreement with him;" Looking at Zhuang Feng's playful appearance, it seemed that everything had been seen through, and Zhou Jian said a little weakly;

When Zhuang Feng heard Zhou Jian say that, he reacted there, and then said a little boringly: "Alas, there is nothing new under the sun, and these old tricks are still these;"

Zhou Jian also agrees with Zhuang Feng's statement, there is indeed nothing new; isn't it just that some unscrupulous descendant wants to seek a family business, and then colludes with outsiders to ask for help? This is indeed the dried plum cabbage that has been dried under the sun for a long time and has long been stale;

"It's not new, but it's always played like this, isn't it?" Zhou Jian said playfully;

"That's right;" Zhuang Feng thought about it, and had to admit this fact;

Zhou Jian laughed with Zhuang Feng's words;

"Brother, settle the account, let's make a deal;" Zhuang Feng said aloud with that smile;

Zhuang Feng's words made Zhou Jian a little incomprehensible, or only half understood;

Zhuang Feng said that his brother is clear about accounting, and this Zhou Jian understands;

Just like friends, no matter how good the relationship is, when interests are involved, the relationship will always seem a little fragile;

Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian both understand this, and Zhou Jian and Zhuang Feng have always belonged to feelings and interests;

For example, Zhuang Feng disappeared for ten years, and Zhou Jian swallowed the land of the three states in the southwest; after Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian reunited, Zhuang Feng did not go to Zhou Jian to ask for the land of the three states;

Because the land of Sanzhou is something that Zhuang Feng himself plays and disappears and gives up, Zhou Jian goes to pick it up, it is naturally Zhou Jian's; although Zhuang Feng still has a relationship with Zhou Jian, Zhuang Feng has no reason to let Zhou Jian return it to Zhuang Feng for nothing;

Zhuang Feng did not ask Zhou Jian for the land of the three states, and Zhou Jian was at ease when he occupied the three states; this is the so-called brother to brother, and interest to benefit;

Now Zhuang Feng wants his brother to settle the account, this Zhou Jian understands, but he doesn't quite understand what Zhuang Feng wants to settle the account;

"Exchange Qiaozhou for Pingzhou;" Zhuang Feng looked at Zhou Jian's questioning appearance and said out loud;

"Why?" Zhou Jian looked at Zhuang Feng with a serious look;

Zhuang Feng understood Zhou Jian's words, Pingzhou was an enclave for Zhuang Feng, and it did not border Jiangzhou or Shaozhou, while Tingzhou bordered Pingzhou, even if Zhuang Feng had the ability to swallow Pingzhou, it was just meat from Zhou Jian's mouth;

"I know you all say in private that I'm a promiscuous bastard, and that I'm always having an affair with women;" Zhuang Feng said to the words that he didn't know where to go;

"It's not that we say it privately, it's blatantly, you're a bastard, and you're very attentive to every woman you know, and people feel ambiguous there;" Zhou Jian said disdainfully;

After speaking, Zhou Jian seemed to think of something again, and added there: "Except for your brother and sister-in-law, sisters, and nephews;"

"Hehe......" Zhuang Feng looked at Zhou Jian's rather indignant appearance, and smiled noncommittally there;

"I'm most tired of you smiling, and you're still laughing;" Zhou Jian looked at Zhuang Feng's smiling appearance and got angry there;

"Okay, don't laugh anymore; just like you said, I always have a woman's fate;" Zhuang Feng looked at Zhou Jian and seemed to be about to get angry, and then turned around and said: "Okay, it's always ambiguous with women; it just so happened that I met a daughter of a Caijia;"

"You ......" Zhou Jian looked at Zhuang Feng's smug appearance, and he didn't forget what to say as soon as he opened his mouth, or didn't know how to say it;

Well, Zhou Jian admits that Zhuang Feng always has such an ambiguous relationship with the women he knows, but you Zhuang Feng knows too many women, and even the daughter of the Cai family has met, which makes Zhou Jian really speechless;

While Zhou Jian was a little powerless and had nothing to say to Zhuang Feng, he also understood the transaction that Zhuang Feng said;

Yes, Pingzhou is an enclave for Zhuang Feng, but Zhuang Feng can support the Caijia, or help the Caijia daughter that Zhuang Feng said he met;

With Zhuang Feng's current strength, coupled with Zhuang Feng's scheming methods, Zhou Jian believes that the daughter of the Cai family with Zhuang Feng's support can protect the Cai family, so that Zhou Jian will not take advantage of the slightest advantage, and even let Zhou Jian suffer some losses;

Although it is said that Zhou Jian and Zhuang Feng are brothers who are friends of life and death, Zhou Jian and Zhuang Feng also understand what it means to be brothers and interests to interests;

It seems that Zhou Jian wants to swallow Pingzhou, Zhuang Feng should give Zhou Jian help instead of demolishing the stage;

It seems that this should be the case, but there must be a premise, that is, it must not damage the interests of the Zhuang family; now Zhou Jian's annexation of Pingzhou does not seem to harm the interests of the Zhuang family, but Zhuang Feng can also get benefits when Zhou Jian annexes Pingzhou;

Putting aside the brotherhood between Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian, purely in terms of interests; if Zhou Jian wants to annex Pingzhou, then he needs to draw forces; at such a time, from the perspective of interests, Zhuang Feng took the opportunity to capture Tingzhou, which is also a matter of course;

This may be the so-called brother to brother, benefit to benefit;

Ordinary people in front of currency, friendship will appear very fragile; Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian's friendship will not collapse in front of currency, but it will also collapse under the impact of greater interests, which will not be much different in nature, the only difference is that ordinary people use currency to destroy friendship, Zhuang Feng and Zhou Jian will use greater interests, territorial strength to destroy friendship;

Knowing what Zhuang Feng said about his brother and settling accounts, and also knowing the capital in Zhuang Feng's hands, Zhou Jian said helplessly: "Why do you want Qiaozhou instead of Tongzhou?"

Tongzhou is closer to Jiangzhou, while Qiaozhou is bordered by Shaozhou Tingzhou and is not connected to Jiangzhou;

Under normal circumstances, Zhuang Feng should need Tongzhou more; with Tongzhou in hand, Zhuang Feng can advance and retreat freely;

At that time, Zhuang Feng wanted to swallow Qiaozhou whenever he wanted, Zhou Jian was blocked by Tongzhou, and he could only watch Zhuang Feng Wuxia Qiaozhou;

Qiaozhou is located in the southern border of Jin, only connected to Shaozhou, to the east is blocked by Zhou Jian's Tongzhou, which cannot threaten Tingzhou, and to the south is Lingxiang and Xiangzhou, these two places are not easy to touch by Zhuang Feng;

Zhou Jian can think about such a situation, but Zhou Jian doesn't believe that Zhuang Feng will not understand;

"We're brothers, aren't we, since we're brothers, we're always a little embarrassed to always take advantage;" Zhuang Feng said jokingly;

"This seat is Chinese New Year's Eve five years old today, two years older than you;" Zhou Jian said quite seriously;

"I didn't say you're a three-year-old child, so you don't have to be older than this;" Zhuang Feng still looked like a joke;

"No kidding, seriously, we have always been brothers to brothers, and families to families;" Zhou Jian ignored Zhuang Feng's jokes and said quite seriously;