At night, a carriage drove from the direction of the county town and entered Jingjing Pass. Bian Wenkang rubbed his hands, stomped his feet and jumped down from the carriage. He looked up at the brightly lit place at the highest point of the well, wrapped his cloak tighter, and walked upwards under the leadership of a lieutenant.

At the door opened, a heat came to my face. Looking at Bian Wenhao opposite, Bian Wenkang smiled and opened his arms, "Third brother, I haven't seen you for many years, I miss you so much!"

"I miss you so much, too." The two of them hugged each other with a big laugh, and they were hammering each other's backs hard.

"Come on, Lao Wu, I have prepared wine and food here. We will never stop drunk tonight." Pointing at the table full of wine and food behind me, Bian Wenhao said, "

"Okay." Bian Wenkang sat at the wine table and hesitated again when he lifted the wine pot. "San brother, you are in the military camp now, and you can be considered as performing military affairs. Can you drink?"

"I'm the biggest here!" Bian Wenhao smiled and said, "Besides, what kind of military affairs are there to make money here?"

"That's good, that's good!" Bian Wenkang said: "I'm better off than a phoenix tail. Seeing my third brother living a fairy-like life here is really envious. Brother, I'm in Jinghu, and I'm in the military camp every day. Those military rules are like a confinement curse that is stuck on my head all day, making you dare not step over the line."

"Where are you fighting every day, it's naturally different. I'm here, just a nanny, fighting wits and courage with Anyang people all day long. Hey, you can only talk, not knives and guns, it's so boring!" Bian Wenhao picked up the wine pot and gave it to Bian Wenkang, shook his head and said.

"Third brother, you are born with blessings and don't know how to be blessed!" Bian Wenkang sighed: "If you can avoid war, who would want to fight? In the past few years, you have lost five uncles and brothers. Lao Jiu has not even found his body. He was strapped to the point of being trampled by a war horse and couldn't tell the difference. In the end, he only used a little cloth bag and went back to bury it."

"Dede, Lao Wu, let's eat and drink, why are you talking about this?" Bian Wenhao said.

"Yes, drink, drink." Bian Wenkang raised his neck and whispered the wine, and his face turned red in an instant: "Mingren's burning knife, third brother, you are living a good life! Look, your room is full of glass and warm earth dragons. You are still sighing in your letters, making us think that you are living a life worse than death here. Now it seems that you are playing with us, and you are completely living in a honeypot."

"I haven't enjoyed this blessing for a few days!" Bian Wenhao laughed. "Guan Hongyu left, and I found the opportunity to take office. In fact, there was no one or two people in the Chu people, otherwise it wouldn't be my turn."

Bian Wenkang slapped the wine glass on the table, and his face showed joy: "When I came, I really didn't expect that such a situation was. The current situation in Anyang was equivalent to falling into our Bian family. Zhu Yi had no soldiers, that's a big deal! Third brother, you must not let go of such a good opportunity."

Bian Wenhao smiled and said, "Anyang's situation is quite complicated. It's hard to describe it. By the way, did you come here this time and bring Bian Shuai's instructions?"

"Of course I came here with a mission, but now it seems that the situation here is very good, so there is no need to execute it." Bian Wenkang excitedly pulled a chicken leg and nibbled hard, "Bian Shuai must have not thought about the situation here. I will send someone back to repay Bian Shuai immediately and wait for Bian Shuai's letter."

"Then what did you mean by me?"

"Bian Shuai originally wanted you to transfer the military family here to Jinghu."

"What a joke?" Bian Wenhao slapped the chopsticks on the table: "There are nearly 100,000 people, all of whom are old, weak, women and children. How can we pass by this thousands of miles? How can we live without people? Besides, how can we get through?"

"The Chu people are in chaos now, and there is no way to take care of us. The long journey is indeed a problem. But you have always said that you are living here badly. Now in the six eastern counties, Bian Shuai has the final say. Although our people will be more difficult on the road, will they enjoy happiness as soon as they arrive?" Bian Wenkang explained.

"Even if you have to go there, it's not OK now. You have to wait until you get warmer tomorrow. It's really a death-making time for you to travel in this weather." Bian Wenhao shook his head and said. "Is that just the matter?"

"I also need to transfer all your ten thousand elites to you. Now is the time to use people, and Bian Shuai is not enough!" Bian Wenkang said.

"Bian Shuai was under 20,000 people, and Bian Wenzhong also had 20,000 people. Didn't Bian Shuai recruit 20,000 people there to fill the hole after the migration, and 60,000 people. There is no war there now, how could it be not enough?" Bian Wenhao pretended to be surprised and filled Bian Wenkang with wine.

Bian Wenkang smiled strangely: "It's not enough. At the beginning, with the past 40,000 people, many have died in battle in the past two years. Now we have controlled the five eastern counties. If the people are sprinkled, they will not be able to see the bottom. Wen Zhong's 20,000 of them are broken into pieces and are entrenched in various parts of Jiangnan. Once the time is ripe, we can start and take down Jiangnan while the chaos is in trouble. How can those new people be trusted? This time, we are going to do a big thing."

Bian Wenhao's heart was thrilled, "What big thing do you do?"

"Third brother, you are in Anyang, and the news is a little blocked. Now the Jiangnan of Chu State is in chaos, and the food prices have increased by more than ten times. The hungry people are rioting, but they are coming one after another. Opportunities have come. Seize this opportunity to start a trouble and hold Jiangnan in your hand." Bian Wenkang said proudly.

“Is it so easy?”

"Shishuai Bian has been doing this since the first day he arrived in Jinghu. Wen Zhong has been doing it for so long. If he didn't count, how dare he do this?" Bian Wenkang smiled and drank the wine again: "And, we will immediately launch a fatal blow to Kunling County, take down Kunling County, and all the six eastern counties will be my hands. He has Jiangnan, the third brother, and our Bian family will reappear again."

"Attack Kunling County?" Bian Wenhao's face changed color: "We have an agreement with the Ming people. Aren't they allowed us to attack Kunling County? Isn't this openly tearing the face with them?"

"This is the same as that." Bian Wenkang sneered: "At that time, we had just gone to Jinghu. If we wanted to gain a foothold, we needed the weapons of the Ming people and Ning Zhiwen's navy. We had to do this. But now, Suqian has left, Jiang Shangyan has left, and the six eastern counties have become our one-man show. Qi has undergone a major change. Two large armies have suffered a defeat in attacking Kunling County, but will inevitably make a comeback. Zhou Jiyun never expected that we would attack at this time. Third brother, we have reached an agreement with the Qi people. They support us in the seizure of the six eastern counties and Jiangnan. In this way, even if the Ming people annexed the Chu State in the next time, we have the support of the Qi people behind us, which is enough to withstand the Ming people's attack."

"This is too risky. Once we fail, we, the Bian family, will have no place to live. Lao Wu, the general, has thought about it? If we can't win Zhou Jiyun and can't win Kunling County, we will be stuck in the middle."

"There is no reason to be defeated in such a great situation!" Bian Wenkang waved his head indifferently: "Third brother, you are too careful. Of course, it is because you are careful that you are left here to deal with the people of Anyang! You are not clear about the situation there. Now Zhou Jiyun probably knows that we have some entanglements with the people of Ming, or that he got from the people of Ming, we will definitely not attack them. Therefore, in our direction, the defense is extremely weak, and we can go down in one go. As long as the gap is opened, the two Qi troops of Luzhou and Cangzhou can also launch a counterattack, and the three armies attacked him. Zhou Jiyun is not a god, so he can still find the heavenly soldiers and generals to help him?"

Bian Wenhao was in a heavy mood and took a sip of wine, "What about Jiangnan, Jiangnan will not go wrong. Don't forget that if the Ming people make a move, Jiangnan will turn upside down. Can you be sure we can take Jiangnan?"

"Wen Zhong has been doing this. Now Jiangnan is mainly silk and there is no grain, so this is how it is. Bian Shuai has food in his hands, but the time is not ripe, so he naturally cannot let it go. Think about it, wherever we have soldiers and food, we are not afraid of not being able to control it? When we take down Jiangnan and have those silk, this is a piece of wealth! At that time, the six eastern counties will have food, and Jiangnan will have wealth. Third brother, what do you think we are afraid of? Bian Shuai said that as long as we manage well, we can become the winner and loser between Chu and Qi, and everyone will curry favor with us! And for us, of course, we are the one who is weak and we will help whoever is weak. It is best if Qi Ming continues to fight like this, so that our Bian family can enjoy peace."

Bian Wenhao smiled bitterly in his heart. As expected, things were as speculated by the Ming people. Bian Shuai fell into the other party's plan but he didn't know it. Looking at Bian Wenkang's smug look, he drank the wine in his glass in one sip.

"Old Wu, I don't understand one thing. You just said that Dashuai has food in his hands. Hasn't the civil affairs of the five eastern counties always controlled Zeng Lin's hands? Bian Shuai has been trying to intervene for so many years but hasn't been inserted. Now he can succeed in one go?"

"The Grand Marshal has long disliked Zeng Lin's old man. He used to be a lot of trouble and it was difficult to deal with it. Now it's different." Bian Wenkang laughed: "Third brother, maybe when I go back, Zeng Lin's old man will be already suffocated."

"Kill Zeng Lin? This man is so prestigious in the six eastern counties. If the general wants to kill him, wouldn't it cause an uproar?"

"Who said you want to kill me publicly? There are many ways to kill someone!" Bian Wenkang smiled and said, "Third Brother, you have been in Anyang for so long, and you have even forgotten the methods of our Bian family."

"It's indeed too long, too long!" Bian Wenhao murmured.

At the third update, Bian Wenhao left the drunken Bian Wenkang, walked out of the warm room, stood on the city wall, and let the cold wind and snow hit him. After a while, he clapped his hands and summoned a personal soldier.
Chapter completed!