At this time, Ning Gong asked the envoys of the four families, what do you want?

Only then did those envoys express the true meaning of the four of them.

They said that as long as Ning Gong was willing to agree to the two requests, the four of them would ensure that the siege of Wanzhou would be resolved without bloodshed.

As for those two requests, listen to me in detail.

The first request was to forgive Tian Yiguang and others from their culpability and let him continue to serve as the commander of Wanzhou.

Let's talk about this article first, think about it, the four major families of Shang, Zhong, Duan, and Mi are not related to Tian Yiguang, the commander of Wanzhou, why do they want to intercede for him in front of Ning Gong?

In fact, to put it bluntly, this Tian Yiguang has long hooked up with the four major families, and he wants to use the hands of the four major families to keep his military power.

That's why I borrowed the mouths of the four major families to make requests to Ning Gong. ”

After the storyteller finished speaking, the people suddenly realized that they couldn't help but be amazed.

Some of the more anxious people couldn't help but urge: "What is the second requirement, you can say it quickly." ”

"yes, let's hear about it."

Only then did the storyteller slowly spread out the newspaper and continued: "This second request is to ask Ning Gong to exempt the matter of measuring the land on the Huainan side and checking the hidden households.

Do you know what the messengers said?

They said, 'I heard that Ning Gong seems to be interested in re-measuring the land in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and by the way, taking stock of the hidden households.

This rumor made the people on the Huainan side panic and uneasy, thinking that the Northwest Army was going to forcibly take away their land.

Even in many places, there is a chaotic situation in which a large number of peasants sell their fertile land at a low price and move their families away.

Several of us believe that now that Jiangnan has just experienced war and plague, and at a time when its vitality is greatly damaged, the people really cannot withstand this kind of shock and turmoil.

Wangning Gong was sympathetic to the people and exempted the Huainan side from the inventory, so that the people could cultivate with peace of mind. ’

Tsk, listen, these people are very good at talking.

Obviously, they didn't want the imperial court to conduct an inventory of their land, but they used the local common people as a cover.

On the surface, it is for the sake of the local people, but in fact, the real purpose is to prevent Ning Gong from doing this great thing for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

"I see, these big families are really hateful. If it hadn't been for the news, we would still be in the dark. ”

"That's right, these big landlords are so hateful. It is so nice to use us ordinary people as a cover to seek personal interests for ourselves. It really deserves to be killed. ”

"Then what next, how did Ning Gong answer them?" Some of the impatient ones began to urge again.

Mr. Storyteller continued: "Ning Gong was a far-sighted person, and he did not attack on the spot, but endured his anger and asked, 'What if I don't agree?' ’

Guess what the messengers would have answered? ”

"Don't sell it, say it quickly."

"That's right, we're all anxious to hear the following, you can go on."

At the urging of everyone, the storyteller who had sold enough of the pass said unhurriedly: "The messengers first looked at each other, and then the leading merchant envoy deliberately pretended to be embarrassed and said, 'Then the matter may be more troublesome.'"

Don't hide it from Ning Gong, there are many people in Huainan who have misheard, thinking that the Northwest Army wants to loot in the name of measuring land.

Therefore, many people spontaneously formed militia groups, ready to defend their hometowns with their flesh and blood.

Especially on the side of Wanzhou City, more than 200,000 people have joined the army, intending to defend to the end.

Although the Northwest Army under the command of Ning Gong is invincible, Ning Gong must think clearly, the other party is just some ordinary people.

Once the fight really starts, whether it is won or lost, such extremely unpleasant rumors as 'wantonly massacre of civilians' are likely to spread all over the world, and then it will be very damaging to Ning Gong's reputation.

Wangning Gong thought twice, thought twice. ’

Listen, does this smell of threat?

What they meant was that if Ning Gong refused to agree to those two requests, then the four of them would let the local people stick to Wanzhou City and prevent Ning Gong from stepping into Huainan for half a step.

Moreover, they also threatened Ning Gong's reputation, forcing Ning Gong not to dare to use force against Wanzhou.

Think about it, if Ning Gong really wants to use troops against Wanzhou City, then wouldn't the four of them be able to spread rumors everywhere, saying that Ning Gong was massacring civilians in Huainan to ruin Ning Gong's reputation?

This trick is poisonous and insidious enough, right? ”

"Wow, these big families are really vicious enough to come up with such a way to fight against the Northwest Army."

"Indeed, I think it's scary."

"Haven't all those big landowners already made a lot of money? Why are you still so greedy. ”

"You fool, how can anyone in the world think of a lot of silver. They just wanted to use this method to force Ning Gong to cancel the inventory of Huainan. ”

"It's really a lack of human hearts, snakes and greedy elephants. The people of these big families are really innocent. ”

"That's right, they do deserve to die."

Seeing that the audience's response was so enthusiastic, Mr. Storyteller continued proudly: "Seeing these people so despicable, Ning Gong is of course angry in his heart.

But Ning Gong is worthy of Ning Gong, and he knows that if he has a seizure now, he will likely startle the snake. So he replied with a smile: 'I see, the heads of the family really think about me as an old man, and I am really moved.

Well, I'm going to think about it, and I'll get back to you in two days. ’

The envoys thought that Ning Gong was beginning to soften, so they left happily.

Next, it's what Mr. Chi Fei thinks, do you want to continue listening? ”

"Nonsense, of course you have to listen to it. Don't sell it, say it. ”

"That's right, it's always whetting our appetite, let's talk about it quickly."

"Okay, then I'll read it, and you guys listen carefully. The 'I' in this is Mr. Chi Fei himself, and I have listened to it. ”

The storyteller began to lower his voice and pretend to be a young man, and read slowly: "After listening to the words of the four messengers behind the screen, I was extremely angry.

I can't imagine that there are such brazen people in the world.

It is obviously them who are the ones who have done evil, but in the name of not wanting to disturb the people, they try their best to prevent the imperial court from measuring the land and checking the hidden households, which is really hateful.

I'm sure my father-in-law must have hated these people as much as I did.

Sure enough, after the messengers left, the father-in-law was furious, swept the objects on the table to the ground with one hand, and then angrily rebuked: "A group of moths dare to threaten Lao Tzu with the face."

Lao Tzu is not powerful, and I really can't be a sick man!

Okay, since these moths don't know what to do, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite.

Ah Zhen, you immediately tell the whole army to get ready. Early tomorrow morning, we will launch an attack on Wanzhou.

After taking Wanzhou, Lao Tzu wants to sweep away these local moths that harm the country and the people. ’

I agreed on the spot, but I didn't do what he said.

Because I am just a staff member with no duties and no powers, where can I give orders to other generals.

But my father-in-law was angry, and I didn't dare to directly resist the order, so I could only wait for him to be angry and then ask him to give another order.

The above is what happened before the war in Wanzhou City, and the next issue of "Seeking Truth" Chi will continue to state the story of the incident 1510. As for believing it or not, it is up to the judges to judge for themselves.

"Qiuzhen Bao" has opened in Xinjing and officially opened.

Chi was entrusted by the owner of the museum to temporarily publish an article in the newspaper to reveal the truth.

If there is no change, the next issue of "Seeking Truth" will be listed in five days, please give more advice.

After a few years, it is a blessing for Chi to be able to write an article in the newspaper again, thank you for your support.

That's the full text, and then there is no more.

If you want to know what will happen next, you will have to wait for a new issue of Qiuzhen Bao to be launched in a few days. ”

After the storyteller finished speaking, he carefully dismantled the "Truth-seeking Newspaper" in his hand and put it away.

After listening to this, all the people in the audience stayed in place and had a heated discussion in twos and threes, and the conversation was very energetic.

This "Essay on the Eastward Journey" published in the "Seeking Truth" is really interesting, more interesting than many scripts.

The whole miscellaneous essay is written from the first perspective of "me", what I saw and heard along the way, as well as Mr. Chi Fei's own thoughts and thoughts.

There is no awkward Chinese at all throughout the text, only the easy-to-understand vernacular, which makes people feel both friendly and easy to understand.

In particular, I wrote a lot of details and character dialogues related to things, which were well-organized, reasonable and reasonable, making people feel like they were there when they listened to it.

And the most important thing is that this "Eastward Journey" is not a fictional story, but a real person and real thing that happened to Ning Zhiyuan, the prince of Zhenguo.

As for why Mr. Chi Fei knows so many things?

In fact, this question can be figured out with a little thought.

Mr. Chi Fei's wife is the second lady of the Zhenguo Mansion, and it is not surprising that Mr. Chi Fei, as the son-in-law of the Zhenguo Mansion, will take him with him on the expedition.

The identity of Mr. Chi Fei himself, coupled with the fact that the entire miscellaneous account is full of descriptions of various details, greatly adds to the authenticity of the content

For many people who want to know the truth, this miscellaneous account is really informative.

For a while, this "Notes on Traveling to the East", which only began at the beginning, became an important basis for people to understand the truth of the matter.

Many people are waiting for the next issue of the newspaper to come out so that they can continue to understand what will happen next.

Although most of the people in Jiangnan, who had just experienced the plague and war, were reluctant to spend more than a dozen yuan to buy a copy of the "Seeking Truth", they were not worried that they would not be able to see the contents on it.

Because there are storytellers everywhere who use the report of "Seeking Truth" as the content of their preaching to attract people to come and listen.

As long as you spend a penny or two on a tip, you can listen to these storytellers speak clearly and clearly, which is far more cost-effective than spending money on a newspaper.

Thanks to these storytellers, this issue of "Seeking Truth" has spread farther and wider than ever before.

It spread not only in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, but also in the north and in the eastern part of the country.

Being able to have such a large-scale spread in such a short period of time is naturally not for nothing, but the result of someone vigorously promoting it behind the scenes.

And this person is Chi Fei himself who wrote the miscellaneous account of "Notes on the Eastward Journey".

He used the people and resources at his disposal to fuel the fire, and the influence of "Seeking Truth" continued to expand until everyone knew about it.

The reason why Chi Fei wanted to do this was because he wanted to fight a real public opinion war with those Jiangnan clans who were interested in spreading rumors everywhere and smearing the Ning family.

……………………

In fact, long before setting out on the expedition, when Ning Zhiyuan, Zhang Wenxuan, Chi Fei and others were discussing the plan, they had already anticipated what kind of means those Jiangnan families who were about to be cleared up would take to resist.

There are only three methods they will take: one is to unite and rebel together, the second is to incite the people to resist the investigation, and the third is to spread rumors and smear and denigrate.

To deal with the first and second means, you can only use force.

First use a large army to defeat the opponent's resistance, and then directly behead the clans who participated in the rebellion.

In this way, those people who were instigated by them to participate in the rebellion will naturally fall apart and it will be difficult for them to become a climate.

When dealing with local Haoqiang in the Northeast back then, the Ning family did just that, and achieved excellent results.

However, to deal with the third method, it cannot be suppressed by brute force, but must be done by skill.

Because the more you use brutal means to suppress the spread of these rumors, the more others will think that you are a thief and have a false heart.

Therefore, the best way to deal with these malicious rumors is to fight a public opinion war with them and use public opinion to control public opinion.

Since there is to be a war, it is necessary to have weapons.

And the best weapon in their hands is the "Seeking Truth" with a good reputation.

Although this "Seeking Truth" was a newspaper secretly founded by Yan Beiqing with the help of Hu people's spies, it has a large number of readers among the people because it has exposed many truths that the Xie family deliberately concealed, and many people believe the content of the report in it.

Since we want to fight a war of public opinion, we should simply use the "Seeking the Truth" as a platform and weapon to counter rumors.

And even if they don't use it, those Jiangnan families will sooner or later think of using the underground newspaper "Qiuzhen Bao", which has a large number of readers, to do things.

In order to avoid being abused, the best way is to change the "Seeking the Truth" from private to public, from dark to light.

That is, to turn the originally illegal "Qiuzhen Bao" into a legal newspaper, and to be co-opted and controlled by the government, making it the only channel for official information release.

In order to do this, it was necessary to open an official newspaper office for Qiuzhen Bao in the new capital controlled by the Ning family, and to have an open owner, and to turn the newspapers that were originally distributed free of charge into paid purchases.

In this way, the originally illegal "Seeking Truth" will be transformed into a legal newspaper.

If in the future, if someone wants to pretend to be "Qiuzhen Bao" and publish indiscriminate news, as long as the newspaper office in Xinjing makes a solemn statement and explanation in the newspaper, it will be able to refute the rumors very well, and this is the advantage of "turning the truth into a regular newspaper."

However, although this "turning positive" is good, it has produced a small problem here.

That is, the people of Jiangnan, who had just experienced the plague and war, how could they have spare money to buy the "Seeking Truth" that began to charge.

And even if the Jiangnan literary style is at its peak, it is impossible for every person to be literate.

In order to solve this problem, Chi Fei found a large number of storytellers, and then spent money to let them go to various places in Jiangnan to explain the content of the reports in each issue of "Qiuzhen Bao", and spread the latest current affairs news to the people everywhere.

After hearing these news, the people naturally spread the word of mouth and then told it to others.

In this way, after the spread of ten or ten hundreds, more and more people will know the truth of the matter.

This kind of viral spreading method is far superior to the traditional rumor-mongering methods used by those Jiangnan families, and its influence is even more incomparable.

In order to increase the authenticity and interest of the report, Chi Fei also wrote it himself and wrote what he saw and heard along the way in the form of miscellaneous notes, so there was this "Eastbound Notes".

This kind of memoir-style writing with "me" as the first perspective is not only unprecedented, but also mixed with some complaints and thoughts of Chi Fei himself, which makes people feel very fresh and interesting, as if they are in the scene.

It can be said that this type of memoir-style writing created a new type of writing in this era, and in the following decades, many literati began to imitate this method in writing essays, and a large number of travelogues and miscellaneous notes of this type appeared.

In fact, at the beginning of his creation, Chi Fei had hesitated to truthfully reflect his father-in-law Ning Zhiyuan's usual words and deeds in the article.

After all, ancient emperors generally pursued a kind of mystery that people would stay away from, and even the act of looking directly at the emperor's dragon face would be regarded as disrespectful.

Although his father-in-law, Ning Zhiyuan, is not yet the emperor, he is already very close to this step, and he is just one official title away.

Write his words and deeds directly in the essay, I don't know if he wants to.

For this reason, Chi Fei deliberately asked his father-in-law's own opinion.

When Ning Zhiyuan knew the concerns of his little son-in-law, he laughed on the spot and said, "I'm not unsightly, what can't I write."

Lao Tzu was originally an old coarse, everyone knows about this, so why bother to hide it.

It's okay, just write what you want, don't have any scruples. ”

After getting his father-in-law's approval, Chi Fei wrote his father-in-law's true words and deeds into the article.

Of course, there are some details that need to be concealed that should be changed.

For example, after Ning Zhiyuan knew the plans of the four major families, not only did he not scold, but he was also happy. Because there's an excuse to do something to them.

Chi Fei directly used his father-in-law's usual tone here to fabricate the scene where he scolded these Jiangnan families for being moths, in order to set off his upright image.

Unexpectedly, as soon as this issue of "Notes on Traveling East" came out, it was greatly loved and sought after by the people.

Ning Zhiyuan's coarse personality was unexpectedly popular.

Many people didn't expect that the famous Northwest General and Lord Zhenguo Gongning would be such a rough and bold person, which made people feel very interesting. And there is also an indescribable sense of intimacy, as if I have met or known a rough man.

It turns out that not every prince and minister is the kind of knowledgeable and high-minded look. There are also big people like Ning Gong, who are high and powerful, but have a bold and informal personality.

In particular, when Ning Gong scolded those wealthy families who had encroached on a large amount of state-owned land, committed evil deeds, and fished the villagers, as "a group of moths", it made the people feel very relieved and happy.

For a while, through this "Notes on the Eastward Journey", many people began to have a great impression of Ning Zhiyuan, the prince of Zhenguo. Many people want to know how the Ning Guild will deal with the "moths" of these fish and meat villagers next.

In modern terms, it was Ning Zhiyuan, an old man, who inexplicably became an "Internet celebrity" under the impetus of "Notes on the Eastward Journey", which is unexpected.

In addition to using the "Seeking Truth" that has been "turned positive" to hype, Chi Fei also came up with a trick to "mix up the pearls" to fight the rumors.

Aren't you going to spread rumors and smear the Ning family?

Not only will I not stop it, but I will add fuel to the fire, add fuel to the fire, and give you a few more.

The specific method is that Chi Fei took advantage of the large number of people in the Freemasonry Society, and among the many vicious rumors, he deliberately spread some unreliable rumors, and there were many types, and there were all kinds of rumors.

People are like that, when there are multiple versions of something at the same time, there are doubts about the truth of the thing.

Chi Fei took advantage of this subtle psychology to add a lot of water to those rumors.

Not only is it mixed with water, but sometimes it is necessary to perform a play in public in a crowded place.

One of the most typical examples is to find two people, one responsible for spreading rumors in a crowded place, and the other responsible for administering justice.

When the first person spread a large number of rumors in the crowd, the second person had to pretend that he couldn't bear it, and stood up in public and grabbed that person's neck and shouted: "My life was saved by the Northwest Army and the Ning family, if it weren't for them, I would have been killed by the Hu people a long time ago." You dare to slander Ning Gong, look at how I teach you! ”

After saying that, the two fought and writhed.

Of course, in the end, it must have been the person in charge of presiding over justice who won the battle, and after the person in charge of spreading rumors was knocked to the ground, he not only begged him for mercy, but also told the "truth" of the matter in public: someone paid him to do this, and the purpose was to ruin the reputation of the Ning family.

When the onlookers heard the "truth" he said, they naturally suddenly realized. When you hear similar rumors in the future, you will habitually think that they are the same group and no longer believe what they say.

Don't look at this kind of drama is a bit plain and clumsy, but as long as it is performed well, it can still achieve excellent results.

Within the Freemasonry, the members who have been selected to be "actors" have recently begun to rehearse similar rehearsals in order to perform the play well.

This is the specific practice of "mixing fish and eyes".

If it is said that the publication of "Seeking Truth" is a clear practice, then this trick of "mixing up the eyes and pearls" is a dark practice.

If these two measures, one bright and one dark, are taken at the same time, they will be enough to turn the entire public opinion market around.

It's not that Chi Fei is boasting, it's really better than fighting a war of public opinion, those Jiangnan clans are not a little worse than him, a person from a modern network society, but the entire era.

You must know that the first non-governmental newspaper in this era was the "Literary Newspaper" founded by him.

Since the appearance of his "Literary Newspaper", more and more newspapers have sprung up, and the entire newspaper market has slowly formed.

It can be said that he is a well-deserved originator of the non-governmental newspaper industry in this era, and no one can deny or refute this.

Even when King Fu Zhao Yan'an was forced to buy a literary newspaper by force, it was Chi Fei who used the momentum of public opinion created by the "Literary Newspaper" to reverse the situation in one fell swoop, so that King Fu and others reaped the consequences.

Chi Fei, who was still powerless and powerless, was already able to do this, but now that he wants money, money, and people, how could he lose to those corrupt and greedy wealthy families?

This battle of public opinion has been doomed from the very beginning.

Sure enough, with the massive dissemination of "Seeking Truth" in various parts of Jiangnan, and the continuous exposure of false news in various places, all kinds of malicious rumors about the Ning family began to break themselves, and many rumors about the Ning family could no longer be believed by ordinary people.

At this time, the "Seeking Truth" after the "regularization" finally launched the second issue of the newspaper.

Similarly, this issue of "Seeking Truth" quickly spread throughout Jiangnan through the personal accounts of many storytellers from all over the country and the word of mouth of people.

This issue of Qiuzhen Bao not only has the second article "Notes on the Journey to the East" written by Mr. Chi Fei, but also lists in detail the specific amount of state-owned land occupied by more than a dozen wealthy families who participated in the rebellion, as well as the various crimes they have committed over the years.

When the people saw the enumeration, they couldn't help but be shocked by the numbers.

Although the people know that these powerful families must have swallowed a lot of land, no one knows how much.

However, this issue of "Seeking Truth" clearly and clearly listed the specific figures, which shocked all ordinary people.

God, these big families are really not ordinary greedy, any family is greedy for at least tens of thousands of acres of land, and some are even greedy for tens of thousands of acres.

And best of all, none of these fields are tax-free.

For many ordinary people, having thirty or forty acres of land at home is already a great wealth.

What is the concept of tens of thousands of acres of good land that does not have to pay taxes, they dare not think about it.

However, these big families have taken so much land for themselves and made a windfall, without even having to pay a little tax, no wonder the Ning Guild called them a bunch of moths.

What's even more hateful is that these rich people are not only insatiable, but also do all kinds of bad things, which is really hateful.

Kill, these moths deserve to be killed!

This is the common thought of all the people who have read this issue of "Seeking Truth".

Compared with these people who share the same hatred, those surviving Jiangnan families have completely different ideas after seeing this issue of "Seeking Truth".

The approach of this issue of "Seeking Truth" made them feel uneasy.

If in the next few issues, "Qiuzhen Bao" will publish all the amount of land they have occupied and the evil things they have done like this issue, then won't they, the wealthy people in Jiangnan who once offended the Ning family, become street rats that everyone shouts and beats?

For a time, all the wealthy families of the Jiangnan family clamped their tails and behaved carefully, so as not to cause the dissatisfaction of the Ning family, and became the target of the next issue.

Especially those families who had spread all kinds of rumors about the Ning family behind their backs, they felt a chill down their backs and trembled.

They didn't expect the Ning family to use such means to fight back, it was simply killing people without seeing blood.

This issue of "Seeking Truth" finally let these heroes see the lethality of newspaper public opinion.