Chapter 82: A Brilliant Strategy
The curtain that had always fallen in the Heart Cultivation Hall had been unveiled at this time, and the entire hall showed a strange light.
Everyone bowed down and saluted, and then the four members of the cabinet stood up and stood on both sides, leaving only Zheng Mi still kneeling on the ground.
Emperor Jianxi had already changed into a Taoist robe and tied up his long hair.
"Let's talk about it." Emperor Jianxi's voice was a little casual, "What is the result?" β
"Returning to the Holy Heavens," Zheng Mi slowly lifted a note from his arms, "In the camp in the south of the city, there are a total of 1,234 displaced people in the north, and after investigation, a total of 37 suspected gold thieves have been imprisoned pending trial, and the remaining displaced people are still placed in the camp in the south of the city, waiting for further screening. β
"What to screen for?"
"Screen whether there is a suspicion of borderline collaborators," Zheng Mi raised his head, "The follow-up work, the ministers have already written it in the excerpt, please take a look at it!" β
Huang Chongde stepped forward slowly, took Zheng Mi's recital with both hands, and slowly handed it to Emperor Jianxi.
Emperor Jianxi did not reach out to pick it up.
"These thirty-seven gold thief suspects......" Emperor Jianxi's body leaned forward slightly, "How did you find out?" β
At this moment, the eyes of Song Bozong's father and son also fell on Zheng Mi at the same time, and they waited for Zheng Mi's answer almost with bated breath.
Zheng Mi raised his head, "These thirty-seven people are proficient in Jinren writing!" β
For a moment, everyone was stunned.
Since the early years of the Apocalypse, the Great Zhou Dynasty and the eight Jin tribes have all broken off diplomatic relations, and the control of people-to-people exchanges is also extremely strict - there were originally many Zhou people in the north who could also speak Jin people, and by the time of Jianxi, there were fewer people who could speak Jin people.
Except for a few perennial infested areas, few of the Zhou people who were slightly south could still understand the Jin language.
But even before the apocalypse, when many people in the border Zhou could speak fluent Jin people, there were still very few people who could write Jin people's characters.
The reason is very simple, the Jin people themselves do not educate, except for a very small number of nobles who have been taught by masters since childhood, most of the Jin people only recognize their own names throughout their lives - and these illiterate Jin civilians are also the main groups of people who will communicate with the people of the Great Zhou on a daily basis.
Therefore, in the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, except for a few translators and envoys who had important clerical duties, almost no one could master the script of the Jin people.
This point is also the important information that Shen Jichuan revealed to Bai Ling yesterday.
"How does Lord Zheng know that these thirty or so homeless people know the Jin script?" Song Bozong frowned, "Such a secret thing, will they confess it in person?" β
"Of course they won't confess!" Zheng Mi Zhensheng said, "We have entered the information of all the displaced people in the city the day before yesterday, and one of them is whether they will come into contact with the Jin people in the past - a few people answered yes at that time, because they have been a militia on the northern border for several years, and no one has admitted it." β
ββ¦β¦ So it's a fraud? Song Bozong asked again.
"Yes and no." Zheng Mi looked at Song Bozong, "Can Elder Ge listen to me finish speaking first?" β
Song Bozong kept silent for the time being.
Zheng Mi said again, "General Shen said before that the reason why he suspected that this group of displaced people was related to the Jin people was that in addition to the bizarre cases in the past half a month, there were also people who had found unburned shredded paper in the city, with strange symbols on them.
"There is no need to say anything more about this paragraph," Huang Chongde on the side looked at Emperor Jianxi's face and interrupted softly, "General Shen has already told the emperor about the matter of the Jinren writing note found in the city, so the emperor will give General Shen a secret decree and ask him to assist Lord Zheng in his errand." β
Zheng Mi was stunned for a moment, and quickly returned to his previous demeanor.
"In short, we speculate from this that this group of Jin spies who infiltrated among the homeless people must not be idle people - they can fluently use the language and writing of the Jin people and the Zhou people, and they can still be unrecognized in Pingjing, they must be the intermediaries that Jin Ting has vigorously cultivated."
Emperor Jianxi was already a little impatient, in fact, he didn't care about these reasoning at all, he, like Song Bozong, just wanted to know - how these thirty-seven people knew how Jin Wen was found out.
Those who have been carefully cultivated will never expose their flaws in the enemy!
No matter what you show him or listen to, he just pretends not to understand.
If Zheng Mi wants to use some specious evidence to confuse the public today, then he doesn't need to bring this black gauze hat anymore.
"As for how we found out that these people are Jinwen and can't speak clearly, I can show it to the emperor, you just need-"
"Master Zheng, let's start." Huang Chongde reminded in a low voice on the side.
At this time, he still has to sell Guanzi, this Zheng Mi is simply disgusted with his long life.
Zheng Mi nodded, and pulled out a stack of white paper from his arms.
He unfolded the white roll of paper and laid it out in front of the crowd.
There are different large characters written on it in a variety of paintsβ"green" in cinnabar, "blue" in ink, "white" in red gold, "black" in brown, and so on.
Zhang Shouzhong, who was standing on the side, took a look at it and exclaimed almost immediately, "This is ...... The Sichupu effect! β
None of the people next to him heard clearly, only Zheng Mi's eyes lit up, and he immediately raised his head and said, "Has Master Zhang also heard of the 'Si Chupu effect'?" β
Emperor Jianxi frowned slightly puzzled, "Si ...... What the? β
Zhang Shouzhong stood up, he bowed his hand to the emperor, and said softly, "Back to Your Majesty, this is an experiment mentioned by Bai Siyao in the "Psychological Handout", saying that when people read words and say colors, although they both say what they see, they can go through two sets of cognitions - so when people see the meaning of words that are different from colors, there will be contradictions between the two. β
"That's right! That's what Pak Si Yao says! Zheng Mi nodded repeatedly, "But anyway, this matter is to put it bluntly - if I can't read, then I can easily say the color of the words on these pieces of paper, but if I know that the words themselves refer to that color, for example, when I see this red 'green' word, it is easy to blurt out 'green'."
"Last night, Bai Siyao asked a general under General Shen who knew Jin Wen to help, and wrote many color words in Jin Wen with different pigments.
"Our people don't understand the golden script, and when they see these ghost-like characters, they can quickly report the correct color;
"But those spies who understand Jin Wen will be disturbed by the meaning of the words when they read these words, and it is easy to make mistakes!"
Speaking of this, Zheng Mi took a deep breath, "These thirty-seven spies are exposed in this way!" β
Zhang Shouzhong almost immediately high-fived.
Wonderful!! Wonderful!!
When he was looking at the Si Chupu effect, he never thought that it could be so useful!!
On the other side, Song Bozong and Song Ne were stunned on the spot - what kind of tricky method is this......
This...... How do you do this?
Huang Chongde handed the colored pieces of paper to Emperor Jianxi.
Emperor Jianxi looked at it in turn, his eyes became clearer and clearer, and a slight smile slowly floated into him.
Interesting.
It's really...... It's funny.
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It was past noon, and in the tent in the camp camp, Bai Ling had already woken up.
There were homeless people in the camp who had diarrhea, and Bai Shijun ran out to shine in the spirit of the benevolence of a doctor, and there were only two brothers and sisters left in the tent.
Bai Ling ate Bai Yi's warm porridge, and also told him what he did last night.
Bai Yi was terrified when he heard this, and finally asked with some trepidation, "How do you know that the Stroop effect will definitely work?" β
"How could it not work?" Bai Ling rubbed his sleepy eyes and scraped the last bit of porridge at the bottom of the bowl, "When we were freshmen studying Puxin, my teacher said that during the Cold War, the United States began to use the Stroop effect to catch Soviet spies. β