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The well-fed and well-fed common people like to spread all kinds of unreliable palace secrets.

From the emperor's golden toilet to the flatbread baked by the mother of the East Palace, everyone who comes does not refuse.

But not all folk news is so marginal, for example, recently, there is a saying among the people of Lin'an City:

Today, the relationship between Emperor Longdao and Wen Xianggong has become a little strained.

Some time ago, the Goryeo envoys went to the court outside the imperial city to cry, accusing the Qi Provincial Governor's Office of invading Goryeo and coercing Wang Jing.

Before the imperial court could find out what was going on, Goryeo suddenly sent another group of envoys to Lin'an.

These people made it clear that the first so-called Goryeo envoys were fake, that they were the real representatives of the Goryeo Kingdom, and presented the credentials with the king's seal.

The second group of envoys played the imperial court, and Goryeo did have some misunderstandings with the governor's office, but now the misunderstanding has been resolved, and the king of Goryeo, Li Liang, clearly realized his mistake and accepted the suggestion of the provincial governor's office to send an envoy to pay tribute to the imperial court and ask for canonization.

Since the Great Zhou moved south, Goryeo had never paid tribute, and now it has taken the initiative to resume tributary activities, which seems like a good thing.

It just sounds like a good thing.

The Great Zhou court was not a fool, and the emperor and the two prefectures could understand at a glance that this was a private war provoked by the Governor's Office, bypassing the permission of the imperial court to attack and force Goryeo to submit.

This means that the Governor's Mansion is less and less concerned about the imperial court.

They had become a de facto independent regime, and the imperial court's dispatch of overseers did not limit the governor's actions.

The Governor's Office ignored the authority of the imperial court, was only verbally loyal to the imperial court, and had to take a large amount of aid, military salaries, and imperial rewards every year.

How can the court endure this?

Reminiscent of Wen Xianggong's youngest daughter marrying into Qi Province.......

Hehe.

Some people say that the saint Chong Wen Xianggong threw the golden cup, and scolded Wen Xianggong for being a traitor, and asked him to explain his in-law relationship with the Qi Provincial Governor's Mansion.

Wen Xianggong was also stubborn, and went home directly and said that he couldn't get sick.

As soon as Wen Xianggong left, a group of demons danced wildly in the court, and the main battle faction that had been pinched together in order to overthrow the main peace faction split into seven or eight small parties, and they poured into each other.

In the end, it was Weng Shuping who won a partial victory, and the emperor personally ordered a thorough investigation into last year's Jianghuai mutiny (one of Weng Shuping's relatives was killed by the rebels for embezzling too much military salary).

Because of shielding the rebels, it took three years to reach the peak of the Great Zhou martial arts, and Captain Xu Shisong, who fell several levels in a row within three months, became the Xuanfu envoy of Huainan West Road.

Weng Shuping, who was politically opposed to Xu Shisong, served as the Xuanfu envoy of Huainan East Road, and he was already equal to Xu Shisong in terms of rank.

and Xu Shiliu served as the Xuanfu envoy of Jinghu North Road.

In this way, the development of Jianghuai, which was originally run by Xu Shisong, was cut into three parts, and Xu Shisong, Weng Shuping and Xu Shiliu were each responsible for one of the parts.

The 200,000 Jianghuai Army, originally organized and trained by Xu Shisong, was also divided into three armies: Huaixi, Huaidong and Jinghu.

There was only one warrior among the three Xuanfu envoys, which seemed to have become a characteristic of the Longdao Dynasty - Wen Xianggong repeatedly called for "re-emphasizing the power of generals", and the imperial court insisted on the military with literature, so he simply gave high-grade military posts to lower-level civil officials.

The imperial court still trusts civil officials and guards against military officials, and there is not much difference between Emperor Longdao and Emperor Jianxing in this regard.

He probably wanted to break up his own people first, and make it a familiar appearance of using small to control big and martial arts with civility, right?

Of course, for ordinary people, the political struggle above the court has little to do with them, no matter how they play - as long as they don't engage in a bastard thing like rooting.

Everything else is an after-dinner conversation, that's all.

Since it is a talking point, the news of victories at the front is naturally easier to be praised than defeats - such as the successive victories of the Qi army in Liaodong and Goryeo.

In this regard, the Governor's Office already had a good foundation.

First, Xu Shiyang's reputation for burning the capital pavilion in Jiangnan a few years ago was too great, and the people of Lin'an and even the entire Jiangnan still remembered him.

The second is that Xu Shiliu's fierceness on the night of the coup d'état made the people who suffered from the root cause angry, and at the same time deepened the impression of the common people on the Xu family in Qi Province - everyone felt that the Xu family in Qi Province was particularly capable of fighting, and even the Tartars who could beat knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Finally, Xu Shiliu was in Jiangnan, and he originally had the task of promoting Qi Province, so in recent years, he has vigorously bought various opera troupes, Qinglou celebrities, and made friends with poetry experts, and through their pens, their singing lyrics have promoted the image of Qi Province to the entire Jiangnan.

The current Xu Shiliu is not only a young and promising new civil official and propaganda envoy, but also a giant in the entertainment industry in Jiangnan and the leader of the green forest.

Now, if Xu Shiliu wants to instill some views into the people of Da Zhou, whether this point of view is true or not, there is no one who can refute him in the entire Da Zhou.

Of course, propaganda is also about strategy.

For example, Xu Shiliu will not say that Qi Province is a paradise for people, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, but he will imply through the troupe that it is the Qi army's struggle on the front line that has saved Jiangnan from the threat of the Tatars, and it can continue to prosper, and the people will not suffer from the roots.

At the same time, he will also quietly carry some private goods and tell those rich families in Jiangnan that Qi Province is now full of opportunities to make money:

The salt in Qi Province is not slightly worse than that in Jiangnan, but the price is much cheaper.

Qi Province occupies southern Liaoning, so it can obtain a large number of Liao goods that have long been extinct in the south of the Yangtze River: ginseng, deer antler, mink, Dongzhu, and so on.

Qi Province can also produce glaze and glazed utensils.

All of the above, either way, can bring a lot of wealth to those who have a heart.

At the same time, all kinds of materials urgently needed in Qi Province - cloth, grain, cotton, steel, etc., were transported to Qi Province, which could make a lot of money.

Xu Shiliu, through the propaganda group that gradually formed under his hands, continued to feed the story of getting rich overnight to Jiangnan, and the play usually added the characters of interracial girls who people like to see and are willing to recommend themselves to the pillow.

In short, try to satisfy all the fantasies of men, and try to attract rich people to invest in Qi Province, and poor people to go to Qi Province to find opportunities to get ahead and change their fate, so as to attract the attention of everyone in Jiangnan to pay attention to every move in Qi Province.

This propaganda strategy reached a new peak after Goryeo submitted to Qi Province and the two Goryeo princesses were sent to Jiangnan to be concubines of Xu Shisong and Xu Shiliu.

The common people of the Great Zhou are not war-weary, they are just war-weary.

Like before, every time Da Zhou fought with a foreign race, it cost a lot of money and lost his army, and no one would like war.

But if you conquer the enemy, take the enemy's wife and daughter into the back house, make the enemy's children slaves, and force the enemy to offer gold, silver, and jewels in both hands, and do all this without paying any price for yourself, then the beastliness hidden in the depths of the human male soul will burst out.

Under the subtle propaganda and guidance of Xu Shiliu, at the beginning of the third year of Longdao, the original population flow from Jiangbei to Jiangnan began to be quietly reversed.

A large number of Jiangnan people began to try to go to Qi Province to find their own opportunities.