"What the hell is going on?" Jiang Hong rubbed his temples with both hands and said irritably.

The few people below all bowed their heads and remained silent.

"Zijing, come on." Jiang Hong was a little irritable, so he ordered one casually.

"Ahem, this one, the recruitment of troops everywhere has been delayed to varying degrees, so that we have not yet reached the goal we set. In addition, there were even rumors in the army that were unfavorable to the lord. Lu Su glanced at Jiang Hong and saw that he didn't react, so he continued.

"Fortunately, even if the generals prohibit the spread of rumors in the army, it is not a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and it is not a way to do it for a long time."

"Also, for some reason, bandits suddenly began to increase, and law and order everywhere invariably declined. However, even if the county magistrates tried their best to search, they could not find the person in charge, and the people complained about it. ”

"The officials of the counties and counties have begun to slack off to varying degrees, and they no longer do their best for the Lord, mainly the children of the family, and even some officials have left their posts. The speed of construction projects in various places has suddenly slowed down. ”

Lu Su cautiously looked up at Jiang Hong, and saw that his face was cloudy, so he could only stubbornly continue:

The gentry in various places also began to resist the decree, unwilling to cooperate, and even openly opposed. Your lord, you also know that those foolish people, the local gentry, they believe whatever they say, and they do not want to listen to the decrees of the local officials. ”

"In addition to the above situation, the most serious thing is that there have been people who refuse to pay taxes, they say that they have paid taxes to the local gentry, but the gentry say that it is just a rent, and they don't know anything about taxes or anything."

"Hahaha, good, good, really good." Jiang Hong suddenly laughed.

"Let Chen send an army to kill all the gentry who are unwilling to pay taxes to make an example." Jiang Hong said extremely ruthlessly.

"Also, those officials who spend OEM work, don't do it if you don't want to do it, and rush home for me. As for the bandits. The smile on Jiang Hong's face was extremely hideous, "Implement joint sitting, if there is a person who harbors bandits, he will be beheaded together with others." ”

"In the end, let Ling Cao and Chen stop recruiting soldiers, and their homes will be set on fire by others. The vacant official positions are selected from the army to take over. ”

"In the end, martial law was imposed on the whole territory, a curfew was imposed, and after the end of the day, there will be another wandering blade on the street, regardless of identity, all of them will be taken down by me."

"If they want to play, I'll play with them." Jiang Hong was very calm, but Lu Su and the others knew that Jiang Hong was the most angry at this time, so it was better not to touch the moldy head.

After everyone left, Jiang Hong suddenly said:

"Huang Yuan."

"The minister is here." Behind the screen, a man came out, half-kneeling on the ground.

"Check, check for me, find out who is making trouble, those who spread rumors, kill them on the spot. In addition, if there is an abnormality in any of the families, you can decide for yourself, you can cut it first and then play it. ”

"In the end, all, all the civil and military generals under my command have been carefully monitored by me, especially those from big families, and they have to report anything abnormal to me, you know?" Jiang Hong said slowly.

"No." Huang Yuan simply replied with one word, and then walked behind the screen.

The intelligence network that he spent many years and spent countless money to build was Jiang Hong's reliance. Relying on it, Jiang Hong dared to wrestle with these big families, to see if their energy was greater, or his own knife was faster.

A few days later, the entire family of a small family in Lingyang was killed, and only a few scholars who had traveled abroad escaped.

When local officials examined his belongings, they found a letter from the Yuan family.

Subsequently, after entertaining the guests, a gentleman of Gaoyou found his blood in his room the next day, and finally found his body in the well in the backyard.

With these two events, it was like a beginning, under Jiang Hong's command, the land of the four counties seemed to have fallen into a bloody storm overnight, and every night, the children of the family, or the squire and gentry, were found dead at home.

Among the four counties, everyone is in danger, so the children of those families are all pressed to death at home by the elders and grounded.

"Lord, I want to see Lord." Gu Yong jumped down from the carriage and rushed into the mansion.

"Yuan sigh, what kind of wind blew you here?" Jiang Hong said with a smile.

"Lord, why are you still laughing?" Gu Yong shouted anxiously.

"What's wrong? I can't even laugh anymore? ”

"Lord!" Gu Yong said very solemnly, "Now the land of the four counties is in chaos, and the people dare to be angry and dare not speak!" ”

"People?" Jiang Hong sneered and laughed, "Yuan sigh, are you sure it's the people?" Not those big families behind you? ”

"It seems that the lord has identified those families, right?" Gu Yong said with a wry smile.

"I can tell you for sure, yes." Jiang Hong snapped and threw the bamboo slip in his hand far away.

"Yuan sigh, you also know, who made the first move, I, Jiang Hong, am not the kind of person who doesn't fight back after being beaten, and lets others ride on my neck to and pee. Those families behind you want to play, it's good, I'll play with them. Jiang Hong pretended not to care and said.

"The lord is saying, those are indeed the hands of the lord?" Gu Yong asked with some trembling.

"There are a lot of smart people in the world, and you should have guessed it a long time ago." Jiang Hong said.

Gu Yongshen exhaled a few breaths and said with some bitterness:

"It's just that I don't want to admit it."

"Yuan Si came here today, I'm afraid someone can't stand it, let you talk about my tone, right?" Jiang Hong walked to the table and poured a cup of tea for himself and Gu Yong.

"Yong also begged the lord to stop it, stop smearing and killing, if it continues like this, it will only be a lose-lose situation, so that outsiders will be happy." Gu Yong knelt on the ground and persuaded with great sincerity.

"What kind of sigh is this? What is this? Jiang Hong smiled angrily, "It's they who started to provoke me, I can't play anymore, let's stop fighting, when I call it, come and go?" Yuan sigh, do you think I'm so cheap? ”

"But the lord, Yong told the lord the truth, what the lord is facing now is at best just some small families, the kind that can't be put on the table, the real family is still waiting, and has not yet made a move." Gu Yong said very seriously.

"For example, the four surnames of Wu Jun?" Jiang Hong asked with a smile.

Gu Yong nodded, indicating that what Jiang Hong said was not wrong.

"Huh." Jiang Hong smiled mockingly, "What if they join in?" Can you still kill me? ”

"Yes." Gu Yong replied.

"Yuan Si, you go back and tell them, I, Jiang Hong, am waiting in Moling."