Chapter 61: The Plague Chapter—The Black Knight
"People know their faces but don't know their hearts, who knows what kind of virtue a loyal and honest person is in private? If Wei He really governed the army strictly, that kind of ugly thing would not have happened. The surrounding courtiers immediately pricked up their ears when they heard Dou Zheng's words, only to see Dou Zheng smile and continue, "One of Wei He's lieutenants has actually been having an affair with one of my wife's maidservants, and every time he goes on an expedition, that guy will frequently run to my mansion, and I heard that he even complained about why the king sent them out so often. ”
"What are you trying to illustrate? Could it be that the people under him should be blamed on General Wei for doing something wrong? ”
Looking at Xu Shicheng's more serious appearance, Dou Zheng felt funny, "Xu Guogong, I didn't say that General Wei is that kind of person, I mean what if, what if there is an upward and downward effect?" Everyone is guessing, there is no need to be so serious, if it is really what I guessed, then the relationship between the king and the general can only be said to be mutually beneficial, not to mention any deception. ”
Although most of Dou Zheng gives people the feeling that they are very impulsive, but at the critical time, Dou Zheng's control of the situation is still just right, he doesn't need to let others believe in himself, what he wants is to arouse everyone's suspicions, people always can't withstand the temptation of a verifiable thing, and when a thing appears and the deep-rooted image in people's hearts has a great turn, and that thing feels too perfect in the past, people's hypocritical spirit of inquiry will be aroused.
People always don't like the existence of things that are too perfect, because everyone is flawed, they don't want to see a person without flaws appear, at this time people will always slander or impose a flaw on that person, whether that person has done that kind of thing or not, people are happy to believe that he has done it, if that person says that he has not done it, it will attract people's duties, they think that you are so perfect, why don't you allow yourself to have such a trivial flaw?
Dou Zheng looked at the courtiers around him who were interested in him, and knew that his goal had been achieved, and then he just had to wait for things to ferment, and when people couldn't find the results they wanted, they had only two choices: giving up and being more crazy, for these idle guys, Dou Zheng believed that they would be more inclined to the latter.
"It's interesting information, but it's not the frivolous news that's the biggest problem right now." Ma Jian, the old god of Shuguo Company, said on the spot, "Money is naturally nothing to me, and it's okay if there are fewer troops, and I don't care if it's a poll tax or a war tax." What I care about is the damn plague, this catastrophe has left a large number of people abandoning their villages, more and more people are roaming the wilderness, these guys are a new disaster wherever they go. ”
When Sima Jian mentioned the word plague, the faces of those little lords were full of panicked looks, the reason why Sima Jian was able to say this disaster so calmly was because the Sima family had a great business, and the name of the thousand-year-old family was not called in vain, and they also had a younger brother who served as the envoy of the East China Sea, and the benefits they got every year were countless. But these little lords are different, not to mention the terrible disease of the plague, even a flood or a typhoon can make their lives worse.
"The plague?" Although Xiao Huan had also heard that this disease was raging in the south, he always thought that it was just a small-scale disease, but he didn't expect it to be so serious?
For a while, everyone in the castle fell silent, and some Holy Religious believers even began to pray to the Holy Lord, but what they prayed for was not the disappearance of the plague, they hoped that the plague would hit those great lords hard, and then they would be able to benefit from it.
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In the mountains of the Western Mountains, the Cathar Temple has long since lost its former glory and has been replaced by a dilapidated, strangely shaped building.
A foul-smelling viscous gas wafted out of the hall, and sneaky figures sprang through the ruins. Outside the hall was covered with muddy swamps with green bubbles, and the white bones in tattered cloaks fell on the steps of the main hall, and judging by the broken limbs, they must have been subjected to inhuman cruelty during their lifetimes.
With a sharp sound, tens of thousands of rats came out of the cracks in the stones, they knew that there was prey, and the black and oppressive rat tide all rushed in the direction of the sound, and the terrifying cries resounded throughout the mountains, and the other animals in the mountains immediately hid in their homes as soon as they heard the cries of the rats, and their lives were getting harder and harder day by day since the temple that occupied the center.
The rats fell into an endless frenzy under the tantalizing smell of food, and they gnawed everything they could on the way, and when they saw the sweet food in the distance, they could no longer hold back, and hunger drove them to burst into an unprecedented momentum, and one by one they rushed towards the food like crazy.
The rat in front of it just bit a small bite of food and was bitten alive by the companion behind him, and the rat after biting the companion to death continued to bite together for the piece of food, and for a while the whole rat group fell into a more chaotic situation, after a fight, finally two rats came to the food after a fight, just as they were about to enjoy the delicious food in front of them, a spear pierced the body of one of the rats.
The other rat was caught by the neck before another figure could escape, and the rat struggled and screamed in horror, but the next second its head was bitten off by the man and swallowed into the belly.
The moonlight shone on the two people who killed the two rats, and they saw that the two people also had a huge rat head, but their bodies were not the same as those rat men in Wenye, these two rat men had stronger torsos than humans, and a long tail as thick as an arm could kill a large number of rats with a slight wave.
"That's my food!" An angry voice came from behind the two nezumi, and a giant nezumi in black armor came out of the night, a bloodstained giant axe in the man's hand.
The first two nezumi to arrive retreated to the side with great reluctance to see this black armor nezumi, no one in the Dark Realm would be stupid enough to oppose these black warriors, because these black guys don't tell you anything about the world, they are the most ruthless executioners under the Dark King, all they have to do is cut off the heads of the rebels and those who upset them.
Unfortunately, in the end, the hunger of the two nezumi overcame their sanity, and they foolishly shoved the food in their mouths, and the next second they paid a terrible price for their bad decision, the black knight roared and smashed the head of one of them with a punch, and then split the other in half with an axe.
After killing these two companions, the Black Samurai didn't waste their corpses, picked up half of the body of the nezumi who had been split in half and gnawed it, with so much food he had no interest in the little ones. When the rats saw that the black warrior had stopped chasing them, they hurriedly ran back as hard as they could, after all, it was better to be hungry than to lose their lives.
After a few moments of minced meat and two piles of bones remained, and the Black Samurai stood up and burped loudly, then took his great axe and went on patrolling contentedly.......