Chapter 52: The Undercurrent (I)
Liu Yu was an ordinary officer in the Imperial Department of General Administration, and whenever there was a major announcement in the Empire, he and his colleagues were responsible for publicizing the news in the imperial capital.
In the scorching sun, Liu Yu panted and wiped the sweat on his forehead, holding a map in his right hand, "One, two, three.... I didn't go to the next eight o'clock, and I was busy for most of the day, and I didn't even know what this shadow was. ”
Whether it was the coming-of-age ceremony of the Great Prince decades ago, or His Majesty's birthday a few years ago, or the propaganda of the Miracle War Celebration that had been prepared a few months ago, there were instructions with very clear content handed down from above.
This time, however, Liu Yu and the other officers received a small light curtain and a map that was already full of content, and all they needed to do was to place these light curtains at every location on the map.
"Who knows." At this time, an officer who was about the same age as Liu Yu next to him spoke, "It may be that the descendants of a big family need to be famous, or maybe a big man has newly accepted a concubine who acts in dance dramas to make her happy." ”
"It's really possible," another middle-aged officer who looked more stable couldn't help it, "Do you remember the year before last, that Prince Bao had a new favorite who acted in dance dramas, so he specially arranged a dance drama for her, what is that called......"
"Lady's evening dress." Liu Yu said.
"yes, that's the show." The middle-aged officer clapped his hands, "At the beginning, it took the boss's strength to publicize the whole imperial capital, and the five- or six-story building was floating in the air, but what was the result?" At the beginning of the performance, except for the good-looking concubine, she couldn't even memorize all the words, and later she temporarily found someone to dub her behind the scenes, and she played a double reed before she passed over. ”
"Not to mention the difference in reviews."
"This time, I think it's about the same."
The same conversation, the same speculation, not only happened in Liu Yu's group, but the other officials who went to place the light curtain also talked about what the Demon Shadow was.
Most of them were not optimistic about the future of the shadow.
This is true even for the officials of the Empire, not to mention those people, especially when the Empire is about to hold a war celebration, and some forces that are usually hidden in the Imperial Capital and have bad intentions towards the Empire have also emerged at this time.
For a time, there was a lot of talk about the empire ignoring the martyrs and using solemn celebrations to serve as a stepping stone for the descendants of a top family or the new love of a big man in such an important period.
The empire, faced with an almost uncontrollable state of opinion, did not say anything.
In fact, at this time, only the Imperial Pavilion elders and a few military core layers who had seen the Demon Shadow on their hands, and even the prince was not qualified to understand it.
Including dialects, all the crew members involved in the filming were told one by one not to go around claiming that they were involved in the filming of the Shadow Shadow.
But at the beginning, there were a lot of students in Shuimu Academy who participated in the onlookers, and there was no way for these students to count their identities and keep their mouths shut, and some students who were not strict in their mouths couldn't help but tell the shadow they saw.
However, most of these onlookers have only seen a few scenes of filming, and in today's complicated public opinion, the news from their mouths has reached the ears of the people in the imperial capital, and they don't know how much it has been distorted.
Fang Yan didn't know what the core of the empire was planning, but looking at the increasingly noisy "conspiracy theory", a sentence suddenly popped up in Fang Yan's heart.
If you want to destroy it, you must first make it crazy.
Wang Ergou, who was in a tavern in the imperial capital, was shirtless, with one foot on the table, and shouted loudly with a red face.
"How many years have passed? The teleportation array where the Seven Princes fled was still emitting a faint purple light! The empire has already begun to go sour! The celebration of the commemoration of the martyrs has become a stage for some people to make a name for themselves, alas, there is no help! ”
Wang Ergou's words made the other diners around him also open up the conversation box and began to accuse the demon shadow.
Wang Ergou quietly sat back in his seat, took a leisurely sip of cheap wine, and felt a little proud in his heart, the task given to him by the two unknown men in black was completed so easily, these 20 first-grade spirit stones were really easy.
At this time, four or five men in strong suits came in the door of the tavern, and the leader glanced at the door a few times and went straight to Wang Ergou.
"What are you going to do?" The sharp-eyed Wang Ergou noticed that this group of obviously ill-intentioned people was coming towards him, and immediately shouted loudly, and the attention of the surrounding diners was also attracted.
The group walked to Wang Ergou's table, two of them quickly controlled Wang Ergou, and the man led by reported to the surroundings to hug his fists and took out a contract from his arms.
The contract was stamped with a handprint, "Everyone, we are here to ask for debts, this person owes us more than 200 first-grade spirit stones, we are here to ask for it, I am really sorry to disturb you, Xiao Er, I will make up a meat dish for you, it is my apology to everyone." ”
After speaking, he took out a spirit stone from his arms and threw it to the shopkeeper.
The man's appearance of talent looks like a sense of trust, Wang Ergou's dress looks like a splashy look, plus the contract in the hand of the big man, the diners in the tavern who don't know Wang Ergou are no longer curious, and a few arched their hands towards the man, and said loudly, "Debt repayment, it is justified, such villains should have been taught a lesson." ”
Then the big men half-dragged and half-dragged Wang Ergou out of the restaurant.
Everyone turned into an alley, and Wang Ergou's eyes were dark, and he lost consciousness.
When Wang Ergou woke up, he found himself in an unknown dungeon, and a man was sitting outside the cell.
"You, when are you from, I am a resident of the empire, and I don't owe you money, you are violating the basic law of the empire by imprisoning the residents of the empire at will!"
Sitting outside the cell was the man who had taken out the contract in the tavern, and his face was no longer as smiling and polite as in the tavern, and his face was grim.
"Wang Ergou, male, 44 years old, father Wang Quandan, mother Li Dahua, idle and not doing business, living at home.... At the age of five...."
Every time the man finished speaking, the cold sweat on Wang Ergou's face was a little more, and by the time the man finished speaking, Wang Ergou had completely collapsed on the stool.
Wang Ergou is idle, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't know anything, on the contrary, this kind of idle gangster understands the meaning of some things better.
It is not difficult to know your address and parents, but if you can find out all the things about bedwetting at the age of five, in the heart of the empire like the imperial capital, there is only one force - the imperial family.
"Tell me, who instructed you to spread these rumors in public, and if you confess all of them now, we can consider giving you a proper reduction in sentence."