Soon after breaking through Suicheng, the Black Turban Army went all the way north to attack the palace capital of the government of Chunan County, and suddenly stopped marching one hundred miles south of the palace capital, and camped on the spot to hold the steep, as if there were signs of rectification. This allowed the Xian army to take a breather and buy more time for the formation of the new army.

At the same time that the Black Turban Army suddenly stopped going north, Baili Yan suddenly felt strange.

With the power of the black turban army to attack Suicheng, there is no problem in going down to the palace capital, and suddenly stopping a hundred miles south of the palace capital, and it is understandable to rectify the army and gather the righteous army, but it has been repaired for many days, and it still does not move, and it is unbelievable to see the main force of the Xian army going south.

At the same time, Guangxin's public security has deteriorated rapidly due to the impact of the civil uprising, and the messages in the market have been circulated by various myths and strange places, and there are hundreds of propaganda slogans of unknown origin that suddenly appear everywhere every night, and the content is also a rumor of gods and ghosts and various miracles, which has attracted thousands of people to believe that it is true.

In order to prevent the civil uprising, all the soldiers and horses of Guangxin were transferred into the city and the counties, and the whole city implemented a curfew.

In early April, bad news spread frequently, first the Black Turban Army quickly captured the important town of Zhiguo, then the Changsun State Sangnan County was lost, and then the Sun State Shangguan County fell down, Sun Guo's conquest army was defeated by 400,000 Black Turban Army in Xiaguan County, and fled south to Changyin, Jianghui, Jiao County three counties, even though Sun Guo was defeated, the Black Turban Army 400,000 troops were inevitably sensational.

The Black Turban Army can use 400,000 soldiers to fight Sun Guo, and how many soldiers and horses will be used to invade Changsun, Zhiguo, and Xianguo, and there will definitely be no 400,000 soldiers, and there are still 400,000 people who drag their families and mouths.

The former overlord Sun Guo was defeated, the news shook the Central Plains, Zhiguo tightened the famous generals of the Zhenbei Army, Taiwei Gongliangyi led an army of 300,000 to the west to quell the rebellion, and the confrontation situation in the south of Xianguo was able to breathe, and the King of Xian transferred 30,000 horses to the southern army of Zhennan to be controlled by Lu Ji, thus increasing the counterinsurgency army to 120,000.

The vanguard of the western army of Luji Town 10,000 arrived at the mandala in early April, and three days later received 50,000 reinforcements from Chenling, and the next day they went south to aid the palace capital, the black turban army did not move, and the confrontation between the two armies had become a decisive situation, and it seemed that victory was just around the corner.

In mid-April, the news was mixed, the Black Turban Army suddenly fell silent after capturing Shangguan County of Sun State, and the rebellious army of Zhiguo gave up the occupied city in an orderly manner, and took the monarch's father as the leader and accepted the reorganization into the Black Turban Army, and the Black Turban Army of Zhiguo coerced more than 100,000 people to migrate northward, and held the land south of Wanchuan and Pengyuan counties, so as to prevent the Gongliang army from taking the opportunity to attack the two counties.

The situation seems to have eased up at this point, and all parties have breathed a sigh of relief, the power of the Black Turban Army has been suppressed in Shangguan, Wanchuan, Pengyuan, Sangnan, Qiunan and the northwestern border counties of Zhiguo, the territory far exceeds the area of Liang State, the population is roughly estimated to have exceeded 5 million, and the army is fraudulently claimed to be 800,000.

At this point, the Black Turban Army, which had just risen for more than two months, offended all the countries on the entire continent, and almost no force was optimistic about this rising rebel army, and it was even rumored that Sun Guo wanted to invite Changsun, Xu, Xian, Jin, Yan, and Liang to jointly send troops to defeat the Black Turban Army.

In late April, locust plagues broke out again in various places, and the people were struggling to make a living, and Lu Ji led an army of 80,000 to try to fight a decisive battle with the Black Turban Army without success. The Black Turban Army retreated all the way south to avoid the battle, and the chaotic army seemed to be contained, and the dawn of victory was just around the corner.

But Bai Liyan faintly felt that the situation was unusually smooth, and it was obviously not normal for such a fierce Black Turban Army to retreat without a fight.

At present, most of the counties occupied by the Black Turban Army are the places where the locust plague was attacked last year, and the people's grievances are boiling, and this year's locust plague is resurrected, and there is no possibility of spring plowing and summer planting.

The Black Turban Army is so large in scale and has such a high spiritual sustenance, it will never easily give up the territory it has grabbed, and the only explanation can only be that the Black Turban Army is patient and waiting for the opportunity.

On this day, in a teahouse in the west of the city, Bailiyan and Sikong Nan drank tea together.

Since the Black Turban Army invaded Chunan County, the city trough transfer has made people and horses have been patrolling in the west of the city, and all kinds of rumors and legends have spread widely among the civilians in the west of the city.

Drinking tea, Sikong Nan looked around vigilantly, full of vigilance against those passers-by who were drinking tea and passing by, quite a taste of grass and trees.

"Brother Sikong doesn't have to be so nervous, come, drink tea." Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) comforted and poured water for Sikong Nan.

"My lord, do you think General Lu Ji can defeat the thief army?"

"It's hard to say. Lü Ji only led 80,000 horses to the south, and the field battle should not be a problem, if it was led to Suicheng by the thieves, the reinforcements of the Xian army and the new army did not arrive, but it was not conducive to the attack of Lü Ji's army. The thief army was at least 780,000 people, and Lu Ji went south with 80,000 people to attack the city, and it was difficult to have a chance of victory.

However, the retreat of the thief army to the south is not a long-term solution, and the thief soldiers are short of food and grass, so it is impossible to confront each other for a long time, and they can only fight quickly. At the moment, we can only listen to the news from the front, and as for whether it can be defeated, it is not yet known. ”

"The rumor that the rebel monarch's father Wan Ni has no intention, do you think the rumors are credible?"

Nine times out of ten, all the rumors have been rumored, and the worst is that the bandit leader Wan Ni has no heart. It is said that Wan Ni is a saint of Tiandu, so he has no heart. This kind of talk can only be the ignorant people in the world, where can he deceive Bailiyan, he grinned easily and said:

"People's hearts are longer than the left side, is it credible that Brother Sikong has someone whose hearts are longer than the right side?"

Sikong Nan was surprised when he heard the news:

"How is this possible. The human heart grows on the left side, how can it be born on the right side. Could it be that the adults think that Wan Ni has no heart because his heart is longer than the right side? ”

Bai Liyan nodded and said:

"There are many people in my book who know that they have heart disease, but there is not one among the millions of people whose heart is born on the right side, but this kind of person is no different from ordinary people, so what is the truth."

Wanne's unintentional theory is obviously that Wanne did not die after being hit by an arrow in his left chest, and did he find a heart when he took the arrow, so he was packaged as a god descending from heaven.

In fact, he is a mirror person, and his body organs are just the opposite of normal people, and the probability of this mutation is only one in a few million, for people at that time, this kind of situation that is different from ordinary people is easier to shape into various gods and legends, and is used to deceive and blind the world who do not know the truth.

At this time, Sikong Nan said:

"My lord, if the heart of Wan Ni is born on the right side, then it is rumored that the Black Turban Army can refine real gold, is this true or false?"

"I have mentioned this matter to Guangxin Gong, and I think there will be a result today."

It is rumored that Wan Ni can turn stones into gold, so after the Black Turban Army occupied the county, a large amount of gold was alchemized, and the real gold obtained rushed into the Sun market, causing the price of Sun to skyrocket and the market was disordered. As a result, Sun's economy was severely damaged, and the mobilization potential of Sun's strategic materials was seriously weakened, which was also the reason for Sun's defeat in this battle.

Such a large-scale inflow of "real gold" into the market is by no means something that can be prepared in a month or two, and it takes at least half a year or even a year ago to lay the foreshadowing before it can reap miraculous results, which shows that the Black Turban Army uprising is a long-planned rebellion.

As for the so-called "real gold", although Bai Liyan did not see the real thing, he could guess that most of it was fake gold cast from copper-zinc alloy, which was used to deceive the people who had never even seen silver, and there was no problem at all, and even the government could suffer a loss.

Previously, Guangxin Gong invited everyone to discuss this matter, and Bailiyan took the opportunity to say that he was raising alchemy in the past few days, and he was about to have a result.

The two were drinking tea, Chen Yunfeng rode a fast horse to find the teahouse, just in case, Chen Yunfeng and other powerless literati were equipped with guards.

"Brother Wei Xian is really interested, and he still has the time to drink tea here."

"I was thirsty after walking for a long time, so I took my brothers to drink tea and rest for a while, I don't know what Brother Yunfeng is about."

Chen Yunfeng was overjoyed, and took out two inches of gold from his sleeve pocket:

"Brother Wei Xian, look." Bai Liyan looked down and knew in his heart that it must be "real gold" that had been cast, he took the real gold and shook it with his hand, thinking that it was definitely a fake: "It seems that Wan Ni is nothing more than that." ”

Chen Yunfeng smiled lightly:

"Yes, it's still Brother Wei Xian who is well-informed, and such secrets can be seen through by Brother Xian, and Brother Fool has been taught."

Bai Liyan couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart, this is the bane of ignorance, if it is really popularized, how can there be a reason that fake gold can rebel.

handed the fake gold to Sikong Nan for appreciation, but Sikong Nan didn't even notice the clue for a while.

"My lord, there is nothing abnormal about this gold."

"Brother Sikong has weighed gold before?"

Sikong Nan shook his head:

"I've seen it many times, but I've never touched it."

Bai Liyan took out an inch of gold and handed it to Sikong Nan and asked him to weigh it again. Only then did I find out the strangeness:

"The original portion size is different."

"Exactly, the so-called real gold is just made of copper and smelted with other gold and iron, but it is still not gold, and fake gold often rusts over time, but real gold does not."

"How can you distinguish the true from the fake?"

"It's easy to say, gold is soft, fake gold is hard, gold has tooth marks with teeth, and fake gold has none. Gold has a sweet taste, while fake gold has an astringent taste. The biggest difference is that the amount is fifty percent different, but ordinary people have never seen gold, and they are very easily deceived. Even well-informed businessmen and eunuchs may not be spared. ”

The lethality of fake gold lies in the fact that everyone has no cognition, and the vast majority of ordinary people are very susceptible.

In addition, the current smelting technology is not developed, the fineness of gold is not good, the common gold content is 85% to 90%, and the gold collar is more than 92%, no matter how high it is, it is not simple smelting to be purified, and toxic cyanide or mercury needs to be used.

Therefore, the color of gold with a purity of 85 to 90 percent is almost the same as that of copper-zinc alloys, and it is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

Talking to everyone about the method of discernment, Bai Liyan and Chen Yunfeng said:

"Brother Yunfeng, what do the lord and son think about this?"

"The lord has ordered someone to post a notice to inform the whole city of the fake gold, and has not yet informed Chenling, but Taishou Yuzhuang should send a letter to King Xian, and presumably King Xian will know in a few days.

It's just that the Black Turban Army is fierce, and Senior Luo is worried that Lu Ji will go south this time, and there will be unforeseen things. I also thought that the Black Turban Army suddenly retreated south, and there must be a plan. Brother Xian thinks, what is the intention of the Black Turban Army? ”

"Wei was talking to Brother Sikong about this. We are not on the front line, and it is difficult to know the details. But as Brother Yunfeng said, the sudden retreat of the Black Turban Army to the south is definitely not a good thing. ”