After Ling Jingyang spoke, Li Rufeng no longer insisted on opposing opinions, Ling Jingyang and the others set the general policy, and led Yue Ling and other personal soldiers to the direction of Fenzhou, Wang Mu asked Ling Jingyang and other Iron Fist Legion infantry to arrive, and lead some infantry to go together.

Wang Mu was kind, but Ling Jingyang waved his hand, saying that Fenzhou is Zhang Luofu's territory, and he is also a veteran who started with him, how can he have different intentions?

Ling Jingyang rushed to Fenzhou with his personal army and twenty days of grain and grass, and the grain, grass and silver from Fenxi County were transported to Yicheng and distributed to the officials and soldiers stationed in Yicheng.

Wang Mu, Shi Tie, and Li Rufeng waited for the arrival of the Iron Fist Legion soldiers in Fenxi County, and in the evening of the same day, a thousand Iron Fist Legion soldiers rushed to Fenxi County, and Wang Mu decided to start suppressing the enemy.

He ordered Shi Tiebing to divide into three routes, and rushed to Lingshi County, Pu County, and Hongdong County near Fenxi County, which were rarely populated.

Then under the gate of the city issued a notice, the local people can go to the barracks within ten days, there are grievances and grievances, the five armies are the governor of the Jingyang will support the general public, at first there was no one, and then there are people who are not afraid of death, come to the military garrison and scold the local officials for being shameless, after some complaints, the military overseers were surprised to find that almost all the officials in these three counties have lives in their hands.

The overseer brought the news to Li Rufeng, who was killed with a big knife, but was stopped by Wang Mu and said: "Governor Li, there may be people who oppress the people and really deserve to be killed, but I don't believe that the officials in these three places are like this, and you don't have to listen to one side of the story." ”

Li Rufeng had a short temper, and he was in pain from being oppressed by thousands of households back then, and hated some dog officials in his heart, and argued with Wang Mu: "Wang Dudu, shouldn't these people be killed?" ”

Wang Mu is the right governor, he is the left governor, the two are of the same level, Wang Mu can't do anything to him, but he still said: "Li Rufeng, these people have been killed, won't the forces that the governor of Lingdu have gathered with great difficulty be destroyed by ourselves?" ”

My Healing Game

"Then you have to peel off a layer of skin."

"Don't be in a hurry, these dog officials in your mouth may have done a lot of evil before they defected to us, but after they defected to us, they changed their ways and turned to the right, and it is impossible for them to defect to us, but we want the things of the past

Kill them, right? ”

Li Rufeng could listen to Wang Mu's words, and he really couldn't kill them, but he still stiffened his neck and said, "Okay, I'll ask again." ”

Wang Mu and he suggested that this time ask the people, don't stand on the opposite side of the gentry, this is to move Li Rufeng, he took the overseer to the remote villages of Lingshi County, and gathered some of the people, asking the people if the local officials can bully men and women, but there are evil deeds such as oppressing the people.

Li Rufeng's question doesn't matter, he actually got a completely different rhetoric, some people and Li Rufeng gave a thumbs up, praising the local officials for loving the people like sons, and some people shook their heads, saying that the officials did not act, but it was also reasonable, and they did not oppress the people, let alone burn and plunder.

Li Rufeng did not believe in evil, and took the overseer envoy to visit other places, and went in the wind and rain in the three counties through thick and thin, and got more first-hand information.

This situation made Li Rufeng's scalp numb, if it weren't for Wang Mu persuading him, he would have killed all the officials in these three counties, not only him, Wang Mu and Shi Tie have also been evaluated by many people on the local officials, not all of them are evildoers, there are also officials who are conscientious, sheltering the people from the wind and rain, and there are officials and the people who eat and live together, and strive to restore agriculture.

After the three of them met in Fenxi County, they sat together and exchanged what they had learned, and finally came to an astonishing conclusion, that is, there was an invisible hand that was manipulating public opinion in Pingyang Province.

Wang Mu gasped, this force can actually influence public opinion, this is no longer the scope of his solution, he and Li Rufeng and Shi Tie said: "Li Dudu, General Shi, I will go to Fenzhou and Lingdu Governor for instructions, please two here." ”

Shi Tie said calmly: "Wang Dudu, you think this is good, we gathered the officials of these three places in the barracks of my Iron Fist Legion, and let out the wind to the outside, and the officials who oppressed the people were beheaded, maybe we can lure the forces behind this?" ”

This is a good strategy, Li Rufeng was the first to agree.

"I think I can, so let's do it."

"Then according to General Shi's method, I will go to Fenzhou to report to the governor first, and during this period, we will continue to go to other places

Kill the enemy and lure this black hand to reveal his true face. ”

The three of them made up their minds, and Wang Mu rode on a fast horse and hurried to Fenzhou under the escort of twenty iron-fisted soldiers.

Ling Jingyang arrived in Fenzhou seven days ago, Zhang Luofu, Mei Shifeng, and Lin Erle solemnly welcomed Ling Jingyang and his party, and after entering Pingyao City, the largest city in Fenzhou, Ling Jingyang sighed that Pingyao City was large in scale and had a large population, which made him very envious.

Everyone came to Zhang Luofu's mansion in Pingyao City, Zhang Luofu was the commander of the reserve corps, and was also the highest administrative leader and military general of Fenzhou, Lin Erle was the same acquaintance and was the nominal second-in-command, and Mei Shifeng was the deputy general of Fenzhou and the military second-in-command.

Most of the officials in Fenzhou were old Ming officials who came to defect to the imperial court, and a few people with considerable local prestige were also promoted to local officials.

After coming to take Zhang Luofu's mansion, it was very simple inside, only a few servants were busy working, Ling Jingyang asked Yue Ling to lead the horses down to feed, and Zhang Luofu and a group of Fenzhou civil and military officials sat in the hall.

Zhang Luofu introduced to Ling Jingyang one by one the officials above the seventh grade in Fenzhou, almost all the civil officials are prefects, Tongzhi, etc., and the military generals are guerrilla generals and above, Zhang Luofu is not proud of his achievements, and Ling Jingyang said: "Governor, it is all thanks to you that the war has been burned to areas outside Fenzhou, so that Fenzhou has time to recover its vitality." ”

Ling Jingyang laughed at Zhang Luofu's modesty, and asked Zhang Luofu how the reserve army was preparing for war?

Speaking of this, Zhang Luofu looked proud, and said to Ling Jingyang: "This is all the credit of Lin Tongzhi, if it weren't for Lin Tongzhi, this Pingyao City, and most of Fenzhou, would still be in ruins." ”

Ling Jingyang came to Fenzhou to talk to Lin Erle, listening to Zhang Luofu say this, Ling Jingyang felt more confident in his heart, it seems that with Lin Erle and other local gentry forces, they still have strong strength, and it is time to join forces with this group of people.

He deliberately looked around and asked, "Where is Lin Tongzhi?" ”

Lin Erle heard Ling Jingyang call him, and hurriedly stood up from among the officials and generals, and bowed to Ling Jingyang for his officialdom.

Ling Jingyang was not surprised by this strange etiquette, he and Lin Erle bowed their heads slightly.