Huang Yingyun replied: "The King of Wu said that before I arrived in Hangzhou, I just ended a water battle with King Yanping. The cause of the war was that the navy under King Yanping was robbed of merchant ships under the Northern Expedition Army in order to raise military funds..."

"How is the battle?" Li Dingguo asked anxiously. As for the cause, he did not pay attention to it. He only paid attention to the result of the battle because it was very important. Moreover, Li Dingguo was really curious. Who would win when the two strong men met?

At this time, due to Huang Yingyun's statement and his own judgment, Li Dingguo's heart had actually lowered his power ranking to behind Zheng Sen and Wu Zheng.

So, he wanted to know who is better, Zheng Sen or Wu Zheng.

This was a subconscious reaction, but inadvertently, Li Dingguo hoped that Wu Zheng won.

Because Li Dingguo "despises" Zheng Sen too much. Nearly 200,000 troops attacked a Fuzhou city with less than 20,000 defenders. After half a month of fighting, he still failed to capture it. In the end, he was surrounded by the Qing army around him, and his troops were damaged and his vitality was severely damaged.

Because Li Dingguo was too "not happy" with Zheng Sen, and he had sent envoys three times, hoping that Zheng Sen could join forces to recover Guangdong and Guangxi, in the sense of being the king of the same dynasty, but was rejected by Zheng Sen every time.

Such a person is indeed very annoying to Li Dingguo. In Li Dingguo's view, black, white, right, wrong, loyal and treacherous are extremely clear!

If you want to fight, beat them, don’t beat them down, and the thief will not be in harmony! If you drink a big bowl of wine and eat a large piece of meat, don’t be shy and pretend to be a big tail wolf.

Wu Zheng was gradually being included in Zheng Sen by Li Dingguo's heart. Because Wu Zheng was in charge of such an elite tiger, he had no intention of making progress in the Northern Expedition. However, compared with Zheng Sen and Wu Zheng, Li Dingguo was more inclined to Wu Zheng because he was not familiar with Wu Zheng, and he also believed that Wu Zheng was still young and his blood and energy had not yet weakened to cure. Simply put, there was still "a medicine to save him."

This is, distance produces beauty!

"According to the King of Wu, the two sides were tied, and although there were casualties, the main force was not damaged."

Li Dingguo "hissed" a breath, "Can he really tie the Zheng Navy at sea?"

Huang Yingyun said: "It's not only that. Although the King of Wu said that, when his subordinates retreated, the King of Wu's staff told me privately that it was actually the Wusong Navy's small victory, defeating a main force of the Zheng family Navy and seizing nearly 50 main warships."

Li Dingguo glared and said, "That person is not bragging, right?"

Huang Yingyun shook his head and said, "At that time, I thought it was impossible, but then, I had inquired in private from many officials of the General's Office. The statement was almost the same, and there was no big difference... Later, I also figured it out that with the strength of the Zheng family's navy, if it was not defeated or deterred by force, I would not easily stop the war and reconcile, so this matter is probably true."

Li Dingguo thought, nodded slightly, "Mr. Huang's words make sense. Li also thinks that with Zheng Sen's nature... tsk, how to say it, Wu Zheng is indeed powerful! Land wars and water wars are all the best."

He said this because Li Dingguo absolutely trusted Huang Yingyun.

Many people can trust each other with life and death when they meet.

Li Dingguo and Huang Yingyun are both of this type of people.

Therefore, Li Dingguo was a rude man, while Huang Yingyun was a destitute student. The two had completely different classes, but they could fall into the same state at first sight, and they would swear to support the Ming Dynasty and fight against the Qing Dynasty.

As a result, Li Dingguo recognized Wu Zheng, who had never met before, had strength that he could not reach.

However, it is still difficult to trust Wu Zheng.

Huang Yingyun also knew that no matter how generous Li Dingguo was, he would not be reckless in his position of tens of thousands of lives. He decided to obey Wu Zheng's eastward advance.

Huang Yingyun did not continue to force persuasion. Although the two fell in love with each other at first sight, their personalities were still very different. Huang Yingyun understood that if he continued to persuade him, he would be suspicious of Li Dingguo, wondering whether he was interested in Wu Zheng, which would backfire.

"Your Majesty, the power of King Wu is so powerful that I don't know, but what shocked my subordinates even more were the three major academies under the King of Wu."

Li Dingguo was surprised and said, "Didn't it mean that Wu Zheng is just a scholar? Besides, aren't there any ranks and ranks of more than a dozen prefectures under Li and the Great Western Army also enrolled in the imperial examinations and recruited soldiers?"

Li Dingguo did respect scholars. Although he was a rude man, he held a child exam in his jurisdiction and gave three hundred rewards to scholars who passed the exam to encourage young people to study hard. If they recover their power in the future, they would let them become officials.

In Li Dingguo's opinion, he has done his best.

"The King of Wu is indeed just a scholar." Huang Yingyun nodded, "But his wonderful ideas changed the entire Jiangnan... The prince was afraid that he didn't know that almost no one in the four palaces of Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Songjiang under the jurisdiction of the King of Wu could not find a way out. As long as he was willing to do things, he could live a good life... For the prince, he wanted to visit Hangzhou City privately to prove what King of Wu said to his subordinates."

"That day, I went out to a restaurant and walked into a casual shop. Seeing that there were not many customers in the shop, I ordered a few ordinary dishes and served a pot of wine... After I had enough wine and meals, I suddenly wanted to try it, so I told the shopkeeper that I had no money... Does the prince know what happened to my subordinates?"

Li Dingguo laughed, "It is natural to pay for meals. If you want to eat a king meal, you have to be ready to be beaten!"

Huang Yingyun shook his head and said seriously: "No. My subordinates told the shop owner that he had fled from Guizhou. Because he was exhausted from his body and hungry, he became a scoundrel. But the shop owner did not beat me like what the prince said."

Li Dingguo's face changed and he still smiled, "So you met a good person. So, this shop owner has the style of Gu Mengchangjun."

"No." Huang Yingyun shook his head.

Li Dingguo was stunned, "What exactly?"

"After hearing the subordinates' statement, the owner immediately tried to keep his subordinates."

"Are you threatening you as a qualifier?"

"No, the main subordinates of the store will pay for their work." Huang Yingyun smiled bitterly, "Even the owner of the store heard that his subordinates had a wife at home, he even advised his subordinates to take his wife to Hangzhou, saying that as long as he was willing to work in his store, the wages would not be inferior to his subordinates."

Li Dingguo was stunned and suddenly said, "Stop it, can a woman go out to do things?"

Huang Yingyun sighed, "I'm afraid the prince doesn't know that in the Jiangnan prefectures, women earn more money in one day than ordinary men."

"Why is this?"

"Girl embroidery, women's tailor, old woman washing, and helping servants... Prince, it's useless to have no one in Jiangnan." Huang Yingyun said, "The most shortage of the land under the jurisdiction of King Wu is the population. The people of the surrounding prefectures are gathering in Dongchong... Prince, Jiangnan is now like a paradise."
Chapter completed!