After leaving the carriage, Zhou Zhongliang was dressed in a tidy manner and looked back at Zhu Yicheng's carriage with complicated eyes.

He knew Zhu Yicheng's anxiety and also understood his urgency. Like Zhu Yicheng, Zhou Zhongliang was not optimistic about Yuan Qi's future. As a scholar and master with fame, Zhou Zhongliang looked down on Yuan Qi and his rebels in his heart. In his opinion, Yuan Qi and others were just a joke. What if a group of mobs gathered tens of thousands of people? Can these people really win the Qing Dynasty?

Thinking back to the time when the Three Feudatories Rebellion, led by King Pingxi Wu Sangui, was so big that it almost occupied half of the entire Qing Dynasty. But what happened in the end? There was also the Zheng family in Taiwan who had overseas divisions, had thousands of warships and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, but in the end it was not destroyed?

The current emperor Kangxi reigned for forty-seven years. At the age of fourteen, he worked hard to govern the country, eliminated the claws and worshipped the Three Feudalists, conquered Taiwan, defeated the Rakshasa Kingdom, personally conquered Galdan, emphasized agriculture and river management, developed water conservancy, promoted literature and education, compiled classics, and loved the people... The entire Qing Dynasty was booming, with guests from all over the world and the people coming to pay tribute, which was an unprecedented prosperous era. Where could a few clowns be able to make the world come?

It does not mean that Zhou Zhongliang recognized his current identity, sold his old owner, and took Yuyao County for Yuan Qi. Zhou Zhongliang, who made great contributions, had already made plans for his future. At the beginning, he was alliance with Zhu Yicheng to save his life, but now everything he did was also for his own way of retreat, but unlike before, Zhou Zhongliang now has his own plans.

"Master Zhou, can Your Highness be safe?"

Back in the team, Yuan Qi sent someone to recruit Zhou Zhongliang, and when he arrived, he asked him with a smile. Zhou Zhongliang bowed his hand and said respectfully: "Go back to Mr. Duke, everything is fine, but the bumps these days are a little tired."

"Haha, the army is running around, it is natural to be tired, I am not the same." Yuan Qi smiled disapprovingly and raised the whip in his hand and pointed forward: "When I take Shangyu, the army can naturally take a few days off, and then I will take some good care of Your Highness."

Speaking of this, Yuan Qi looked at Zhou Zhongliang with a meaningful look: "Is there nothing else except fatigue?"

"Your Highness is clear, you can't hide anything from you." Zhou Zhongliang said with a relaxed expression: "Your Highness is indeed a little bit of care in addition to being tired. This matter also has some relationship with you..."

"Oh, Mr. Zhou might as well talk?"

"It's like this..." Zhou Zhongliang immediately expounded Zhu Yicheng's concerns and told Yuan Qi directly. At the same time, he also told him that Zhu Yicheng asked him to win over the leaders of several other sects involved in the uprising, trying to use this to restrain Yuan Qi and get rid of the situation of being a puppet.

"Haha, Grand Secretary Zhou is not doing this by his ministers." After hearing Zhou Zhongliang's words, Yuan Qi squinted his eyes and asked at him with a smile.

"Young Master is such a bad word! As a minister, you should support the wise king to correct the court. Why do you? You should use loyal ministers to do the king's affairs! Your Highness is young and has been in the people for a long time. You don't know the art of using the ministers, and you don't understand the true way of using the ministers. Now the country is floating, and the king is the pillar of my great Ming Dynasty. It can be said that without the prince, there will be no revival of the great Ming Dynasty! I have long read the books of sages and wise, and you should understand the great principles and dissuade the king from acting. This is what the ministers do!"

Zhou Zhongliang replied with a serious expression, with a look of righteousness. Yuan Qi was slightly stunned and laughed loudly, nodding while laughing: "Master Zhou said extremely, this is indeed what we and other ministers do." Speaking of this, Yuan Qi looked at Zhou Zhongliang and asked: "Then... what did you think about what your Highness asked you to do?"

"Of course it's a persuasion." Zhou Zhongliang replied immediately without thinking.

Yuan Qi showed a satisfied and mysterious smile on his face, and he shook his head and said, "No! How can you do this as a minister? If this is the case, it will confirm the charge of my arrogant and domineering? Besides, all the heroes are also my righteous men of the Ming Dynasty. Your Highness asked you to appease them and also consider me, Grand Secretary Zhou, what do you think?"

Zhou Zhongliang's expression was first confused, but then he felt thoughtful, and soon he realized it suddenly.

"It's still the master who is better than the chess. The official understands. The official will do it according to the official's wishes." Zhou Zhongliang bowed to Yuan Qi in admiration. Yuan Qi laughed proudly when he saw that he understood.

After leaving Yuan Qi and returning to his team, Zhou Zhongliang realized that his back was already wet. He let out a sigh of relief in his heart. Zhou Zhongliang was glad that he had dealt with it properly just now, otherwise there might be more misfortunes today.

Will Yuan Qi, who can do such a big thing, be a person who is easy to fool? In fact, from the beginning, Zhou Zhongliang knew very well that he was just using Yuan Qi and Zhu Yicheng to balance and protect himself. Zhu Yicheng wouldn't say it for now, Yuan Qi must have guessed a few points. As expected, his every move had been under Yuan Qi's surveillance. If he hadn't been clever, let alone the ignorant child Zhu Yicheng would not be able to protect himself.

The reason why he and Zhu Yicheng discussed everything that he and Zhu Yicheng privately had their own plans. Yuan Qi is now powerful and he can't afford to offend him at all, let alone Yuan Qi has never really believed him. Now that he has sold Zhu Yicheng privately, Yuan Qi began to change his mind. Judging from the other party's words and expressions just now, although Yuan Qi has not yet regarded himself as his own person, he has at least trusted him much more than before.

Zhou Zhongliang's master was not for nothing. Observing words and expressions and scheming people's hearts are his ability to eat. What's more, Yuan Qi is obviously using himself as a gun at the moment, that is, to let himself test the other leaders of the rebel army according to Zhu Yicheng's intention. I think as long as the result is tested, Yuan Qi will definitely make a decision next.

"It's so dangerous. Fortunately, I have already kept a move." Zhou Zhongliang said in his heart, and shook his head. Zhu Yicheng was too impatient. He had no other bargaining chips except for a person who could take advantage of it. By relying on him, Zhou Zhongliang to win over a few people, he could get rid of Yuan Qi's control. This was simply a daydream.

Zhou Zhongliang has lost interest in Zhu Yicheng now. In his opinion, Zhu Yicheng is just a puppet, and he is a puppet with little effect. On the surface, Zhou Zhongliang seems to have formed a private alliance with Zhu Yicheng, but in fact, Zhou Zhongliang has other plans. If the rebel army is undefeated, his relationship with Zhu Yicheng can make him gain a foothold in the rebel army. Once the rebel army is defeated, then Zhu Yicheng can become his last life-saving talisman for Zhou Zhongliang.

"Wang Zhong!"

"Young man, Master Zhou... No, Master Zhou, what instructions do you have?"

In Yuyao's army, Zhou Zhongliang was not idle, nor did he win over any one, as he said to Zhu Yicheng before. In fact, he still wooed a few people. These people were the yamen runners or gangsters in Yuyao County. Zhou Zhongliang was a lord in Yuyao County for several years. Those people were available and those people were not available. He had a account in his heart, just like Wang Zhong who was standing in front of him and bowing his head. The head of the county yamen prison became Zhou Zhongliang's follower anyway. In addition to Wang Zhong, there were Wang Zhong's nephew Wang San and two other people.
Chapter completed!