"Alas! On the contrary, I heard many inexplicable sayings, saying that the poison will be bad, the fire will burn the mountain, and the lives will be ruined, so we have been punished by God, and our people have been affected by the poisonous general...... Alas, we are poor people, we just want to feed our family, and those big people have their own opinions, where can we tell the difference? Just keep your head down and go your own way......"

The people are the most easily fooled, this is the truth that has been unbreakable through the ages, since ancient times, a few rumors and a few incitements for the leader, the people who can't survive are happy to obey, so they gather into an army, attack the city and plunder the wall, and one dynasty after another is basically overthrown in this way.

The old man's words speak to the mentality of most refugees.

They can't see so much in the long run, what "poison will be bad", what "will eventually lead to heaven's damnation", these things are not at all what they are interested in, or rather, these things are too far away from them, they can't afford to get involved, and they are not interested in getting involved.

What are the people's primary concerns? Two words, "clothing" and "food", no matter what kind of era, whoever gives the people clothes to wear and food to eat, the people are willing to recognize whom, it doesn't matter what kind of fighting method between you big guys, the important thing is that we have food to eat and clothes to wear, which is enough.

Obviously, Wang Junlin's enemies also realized this, so some families, nobles, and landlords in Yongzhou only let out their words, as long as the imperial court cleaned up the scourge of Wang Junlin, they selflessly took out their own food for the victims to eat, obviously trying to make the people share their hatred with them through this method, and forced the imperial court to kill Wang Junlin together.

At this moment, Wang Junlin is most worried about this, because of natural disasters, "clothing" and "food", the court can no longer meet the people in time, so that people with intentions first mislead with rumors, and then lure with food, and finally ruin Wang Junlin's reputation, and then incite a few words of demagogy among these refugees, causing some civil unrest, forcing the court to kill Wang Junlin to quell the people's anger and Yongzhou rebellion. After all, because of natural disasters, the most basic needs of the people can no longer be guaranteed, for the people, this is no way to live, since there is no way to live, as long as someone gives them food, what do they dare not do?

Wang Junlin saw that the old man's face was very bad, so he waved his hand and ordered someone to hold dry food and give it to the family to eat, until the family was completely full, and the old man's face finally recovered a little ruddy brilliance, and his spirit and confidence were enough, Wang Junlin was not in a hurry, squatting in front of the old man to accompany him, chatting for a while about inconsequential household matters, seeing that the old man's complexion had recovered its ruddy health, Wang Junlin then got to the point.

"Old man, who did you say these rumors came from?" Wang Junlin smiled gently.

The old man shook his head: "Where can the rumors be found, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and finally everyone knows it, we are also happy to hear it, no one will inquire about it, in the final analysis, our peasant families are concerned about the stomach, and the rumors and these false things cannot fill the stomach." ”

"So, are there many people who believe these rumors?"

The old man hesitated for a moment, and said: "I'm afraid that there are many people who believe it, the old decay has gone all the way, the villagers have complained a lot, and this year's snow disaster is indeed very evil, the most important thing is that as long as the court cuts off the head of the poisonous general, those landlords and nobles will take out their own food for everyone to help, all of them believe it or not, they all say that it is the poisonous general who burns the mountain, and the killing is too heavy, resulting in the misery of life, so it was punished by God, and the villagers suffered ......."

The old man paused, looked at Wang Junlin, and said, "The old man is right...... Isn't it too much? Dare to ask this strong man, but is he a spy of the imperial court? ”

Wang Junlin would not answer the old man's question, and it was estimated that he would not be able to ask the truth again, after all, this family was just an ordinary refugee, and he didn't know much about the rumors, so he ordered someone to fetch a large bag of grain and handed it to this family, and then continued to Jincheng.

The group entered the city, under the leadership of Shen Guang, settled down in a secret house, and locked up Su Mei'er, Shen Guangcai was ordered to mobilize people to arrest those who maliciously slandered Wang Junlin, Wang Junlin took Xu Jingzong, and did not bring any guards to the state capital.

But Wang Junlin did not enter the yamen, but handed a jade pendant to Xu Jingzong, who was dressed up in disguise, and then gave Xu Jingzong a few words, he disappeared, and Xu Jingzong exhaled, suppressed the nervousness in his heart, and went straight to the corner gate in the north of the courtyard, dismounted ten steps away from the corner gate, and slowly walked over with the reins.

Before they reached the door, a servant came up to meet them. Xu Jingzong took out the jade plate from his bag, handed it to the servant, and said loudly: "This place is the residence of Lord Assassin Shiwang, and the little brother is annoyed, saying that there is a junior Wang family Saburo from Taiyuan who came to visit the elders!" ”

"This place is the back house of Lord Thorn Shi, you don't have to wait, I'll pass the word for you." Wang Tong is from the Taiyuan Wang clan, and when the servant heard that he was from the Taiyuan clan, he didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly took the jade plate and threw it to the ground.

Xu Jingzong stretched out his hand to hug each other, and when the other party got up, he stuffed a small half string of copper coins into his sleeve. The servant was accustomed to welcoming guests on weekdays, and he knew from the sudden increase in the weight of his sleeve that the boy in front of him had given a lot of money, so he thanked him and ran in in a hurry.

A moment later, footsteps sounded again in the courtyard. As soon as the door moved, it was the servant who came out, who saluted first, and then took out a square towel to wipe his sweat, and said breathlessly: "My lord went to the governor's mansion to talk to General Yang Hushi, the general of Zhonglang, about business, and he has not returned at the moment, but the villain reported to my eldest son, and the eldest prince invited two distinguished guests to the front door, where he greeted his old friend!"

Xu Jingzong couldn't help but shrink his pupils when he heard that Wang Tong was going to see Yang Hushi, and then looked at this thorn mansion and felt like a tiger's wolf's den, but when he thought that Wang Junlin was secretly watching, he forcibly suppressed the tension in his heart, thanked him, threw the reins of the horse to the servant, and walked to the front door. The servant looked at each other with eyes, and it was not until Xu Jingzong's figure walked away that he led Ma Yi to the courtyard.

The Great Sui Dynasty inherited the Han system, and the official yamen all sat in the north and faced south. If the position is high enough to bring family members to the office, the officials' wives and children are usually placed in the back house of the yamen. Ordinary official exchanges, guests go through the front door, only close friends or their juniors enter through the back door. Hundreds of years later, the wind of greed prevailed, and the term "going through the back door" also came from this, which is a later story, let's not mention it for the time being.

And the guests who alarmed the host's family to greet them at the front door were the VIPs of the family. Therefore, although Xu Jingzong asked to see him as a junior courtesy, he was arranged by the master to greet him at the front door.

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