It has been a few days since the poetry meeting that caused a lot of discussion among the people of Jinling, and the enthusiasm of the people in the market, who were originally keen to argue whether the imperial court lost the battle in the north or defeated the king of Yan, gradually faded, after all, they all realized later... Whether they lose the battle or not doesn't seem to have much to do with them.

Everyone is talking about the family and the country, but what should happen to the world, and the common people have no right to speak, so they still take care of their own families, what's the use of worrying about national affairs? Let's wait until King Yan hits Jinling.

This kind of thinking sounds sad, but it is a true portrayal of the psychology of the people of Jinling, so these days the spies of the secret spy department continue to distribute leaflets, scattered on the streets, stuffed into the cracks of the door, constantly criticize the hypocrisy of the imperial court, expose the truth of the battlefield, the action is in the wind and fire, but it did not cause any fluctuations in the people at all, and even the Jinyi Wei was like a great enemy at the beginning, but slowly developed some contempt for the spies of the secret spy department.

That's it? Even the people don't eat this set anymore, these Yan Wang spies can only do this kind of embarrassing thing?

If you change the brocade clothes and eat such a big loss a few days ago, the most direct reaction is to return a tooth for a tooth, what poisoning, arson, assassination are all over again, even if you die, you have to bite off a piece of meat from the other party, so that the court knows its own interests, and as a result, King Yan's secret spy department only dares to send leaflets? It's a bit too burying.

However, in fact, many members of the Secret Spy Division did have such thoughts at the beginning, but they were just raised their heads and were pressed down by Gu Huai.

The battle between the secret spy department and the brocade guard can't fall on the table, everything is for the frontal battlefield service, the mission of the secret spy department is just to spy on intelligence and rebel personnel, if it really becomes such a terrorist attack, the anger is out, but what about the impact later?

Retaliating-for-tat and killing a few Jinyi Guard's fans or hundreds of households, apart from exhausting the latent force that was painstakingly deployed in Jinling in the confrontation, is there any benefit?

Terrorist attacks such as poisoning and arson cannot be used, you must know that this is the internal struggle of the Ming Dynasty, not an alien invasion, the emperor and the vassal king are fighting for the orthodoxy of the throne, and the spies of the secret spy department have really done such a thing, which can indeed make the people of Jinling panic, but Zhu Di will not completely lose the hearts of the people of Jinling?

What did he become after that? The leader of a terrorist organization?

You must know that Zhu Di has been able to survive until now, in addition to the fact that there are military generals such as Gu Huai Daoyan and Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng around him, as well as factors such as brave soldiers and incompetent imperial court, the most critical point is that in addition to Zhu Yunwen and hundreds of officials in the court and some scholars who are mainly orthodox in the Mandate of Heaven, most of the Shinong, industrial, commercial and even local wealthy families in the world have no strong hostility towards Zhu Di.

is still the same sentence, just live your own life, who will sit in this country, does it really have an impact on them?

Maybe they won't support Zhu Di, but at least they won't do their best to deal with Zhu Di.

In this way, all kinds of revenge actions of the spies of the secret spy department were vetoed by Gu Huai one by one, and the reason why he let the spies spare no effort to distribute leaflets was not to make the people biased towards King Yan, because the people never cared about the truth, what he wanted was to let everyone in Jinling really realize the existence of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, from that day, instead of just treating him as the protagonist of the war in a distant place.

And in the current situation, at least this goal has been achieved.

The second phase of the plan has begun.

In the days when Yanwang leaflets were flying all over the sky, a rumor gradually spread in the market, as if overnight, Sheng Yong, the rebellious general who was confronting Zhu Di in the north, had countless more supporters, up to scholars and scholars, down to vegetable sellers, all of them mentioned that Sheng Yong had endless topics, in their mouths, Sheng Yong seemed to have become the first general of the Ming Dynasty, the talent of the imperial court, it seems that there is no Sheng Yong, the imperial army will be vulnerable, a thousand miles away, the reason why the war situation can still be stable until now is due to Sheng Yong alone.

Let's not mention how the people in the market learned that Sheng Yong was the world's famous general Daming God of War, let's just say that the generals of the Northern Expedition, Guo Ying, Ping'an, Wu Jie... Which is not famous for its military exploits? Among them, the most junior are the second-generation generals of the Ming Dynasty, where is Sheng Yong, such a mediocre military career, only by defending Jinan to become famous generals can compare, Wu Jie is the founding marquis, Ping An is a Mongolian who has followed Zhu Di for more than ten years, Guo Ying is also a brave and good fighter, I really don't know what kind of expression they should have when they hear these rumors in Jinling City.

This kind of sudden flourishing "god-making movement" did attract the attention of Jinyiwei at first, but because this matter is fundamentally beneficial to the stability of the court and the people, so it did not cause any vigilance and suspicion, so in the case of the government can't help it, the voice of the people is getting louder and louder, and more and more blindly obedient people have joined the ranks of advocacy, as Zhu Di withdrew his troops to the north, more and more cities were "recovered" The news spread to Jinling, and Sheng Yong seemed to have been compared with General Xu Da and other generals.

The people were relieved, the court saved its strength, and the shadow that briefly lingered in Jinling because of those leaflets of King Yan seemed to dissipate, and everyone was very satisfied, and the only one who was dissatisfied was probably Li Jinglong, who was nested in the mansion of Cao Guo.

That's right, I don't know who started it, Li Jinglong was pulled out and whipped again, the more cities Sheng Yong "recovered", the more incompetent Li Jinglong became, and when the court fought a small defeat, Li Jinglong was even more scolded by countless people, after all, the people have always believed that the victory was because His Majesty was wise and martial, and General Sheng Yong was brave and good at fighting, and lost? The reason for the loss was that Li Jinglong's two defeats of this waste had greatly damaged the vitality of the imperial court.

The wisdom of the masses is endless, and the evil taste of the masses is also endless, some people just start up, others spontaneously add oil and vinegar, and mock Li Jinglong as the first waste in the world throughout the ages, all kinds of jokes are endless, and even children a few years old can jump up and sing adapted nursery rhymes to satirize the incompetent prince who is nested in the house and does not dare to show his head.

The court won the battle, and Li Jinglong was taken out as a waste for comparison, and then everyone laughed and scolded angrily; The court lost the battle, and Li Jinglong was brought out as a scapegoat to prove that if he hadn't been to get to where he is now, the more the people admired and advocated Sheng Yong, the more they hated Li Jinglong, and this happened to be the appetite of the imperial court.

It is undoubtedly extremely beneficial to the imperial court to have a punching bag to divert the attacks of the people of the government and the opposition to the imperial court, and to have a benchmark famous general to enhance the confidence of the people in the imperial army, which is undoubtedly extremely beneficial to the imperial court, and even Fang Huangqi and the three of them have adopted a tacit and even conniving attitude towards this folk trend, because there are many people who scold Li Jinglong... No one scolded them.

Such a powerful public opinion offensive can be imagined for a person's psychological destruction, in the face of Qianfu's accusation, Li Jinglong, who has been closed since he returned to Jinling, can't stand it, and even the subordinates in the house have to go out to buy vegetables secretly for fear of being recognized, and Li Jinglong, who was pulled out again and again to whip the corpse, fell completely ill, and when the news came out, it was ushered in the collective cheers of the people, and some of the angry Guozi Eunuchs even ran to the front of Cao Guogong's mansion and burned yellow paper.

It's so sad.

And Li Jinglong is indeed not pretending to be sick this time, he is really sick, since Xuzhou, his psychological state has begun to be extremely depressed, and he is even more sad and happy when he returns to Jinling, and his life is saved, but his father Li Wenzhong's face is completely lost, and now Jinling is even more inexplicably condemned by the whole people, who can stand it?

Thinking about it this way, it was really better to die on the battlefield at the beginning.

At this time, Jin Yiwei, who was distracted by another thing, finally got a glimpse of the clues he was looking for.

Pei Xi took two pieces of rice paper and compared them, and said with a light smile:

"Found you."

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Recently, Jinling is always cloudy, it has entered the winter, the temperature has slowly dropped, the early winter in the south of the Yangtze River, is always wet and cold, this kind of cold is different from the snow in the north and the water falls into ice, it is not freezing, but the humid and cold air always makes people even breathe extremely uncomfortable.

Outside the corner gate of the Gongyuan, there is a shop specializing in the four treasures of the study, because it is close to the Gongyuan and Guozijian, the source of customers is sufficient, and the business is not bad all year round, the shopkeeper is named Zhang Song, a tall and thin middle-aged man, and at this moment, he is trying his best to fool the guests in front of him:

"This son, you can see well, this inkstone clay is delicate, light yellow in color, novel in shape, simple and generous in ornamentation, it is a rare good product, keep you sold it on weekdays with face, if you want to buy, I will also give you a lacquer box, and this inkstone is very compatible, what do you think?"

The guest who is looking at the inkstone is obviously a poor scholar, just looking at the clothes to know that the family background is not very good, but in a place like Guozijian, it is not easy to calm down and read, and the four treasures of the study are still needed, otherwise I am afraid that no classmates can look at themselves, seeing that Zhang Song said it is really tempting, the poor scholar gritted his teeth, and then took out a tael of broken silver that was full of sweat, and took down this inkstone, Zhang Song packed it neatly, and sent him out of the door without hoping to encourage a few words of study, Only then did I see the scholar holding the inkstone as if he was holding a baby, with a kind face.

As soon as the poor scholar left, a scholar in a cotton robe walked up with a smile, and Zhang Song smiled and said: "This son, but you want to buy the four treasures of the study?" We're in this store..."

The scholar shook his head and said with a smile: "I don't buy it, I just want to print something." ”

Zhang Song was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Guest, the small shop only sells the four treasures of the study, this thing about printing things..."

"Hehe, it's just a simple page of thin paper, it doesn't take too much effort, those printing shops are not happy to take this job, saying that it is not worth it to re-engrave, I think your store is idle, this job is really not accepted?"

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and gently pushed it forward, Zhang Song raised it and looked at it, his face changed when he landed, and the crumpled piece of paper was the Yan Wang's unveiling post that was widely spread at the poetry meeting that day.

And the scholar on the opposite side also put away his smile, pursed his thin lips, and his eyes revealed a fierce murderous aura.

Zhang Song shouted, raised his foot and kicked it, and at the same time pushed the bookcase down, his body had been pulled to one side, and the direction was the open door, but the young scholar just turned sideways, and avoided the flying bookcase, and when Zhang Song stood still, he had already stood in front of Zhang Song, and at this time, the open door also walked into several brocade clothes with knives.

Zhang Song gritted his teeth and pulled out a short knife from the corner of the desk, but the scholar didn't look at him again, just looked at the furnishings in the store, and a few brocade clothes surrounded him.

Thinking of this, there was a hint of despair in his eyes, and the words of the Lord Commander appeared in his ears again, and he tightened his wrist and swiped the knife to his neck.

It's just that this suicide knife was still stopped by the scholar, and a little interest finally appeared in his eyes, and he said softly: "It seems that you know a lot of things, you... Is it the person of the '24 solar terms'? ”

"What's your code name?"