As Jiang Xinghuo shouted loudly and was recited in unison by the soldiers around him, everyone in the mud was stunned. But some people quickly reacted, lifted their prostrate prayer posture, and got up from the ground one after another.

"Jiang Xinghuo?"

In the crowd, a voice came out: "You are Jiang Xinghuo, the national teacher Jiang Xinghuo who wants to disobey the gods and let the two gods meet?!"

This question had already reached everyone's ears when his words fell, and it immediately resonated with countless people, and everyone looked at the figure in the green shirt on the causeway, their expressions were full of disgust, anger, and a trace of fear.

These villagers, for generations and generations, have lived in an environment where the god Pu is worshipped.

This custom can even be traced back to the Southern Song Dynasty, when the Wusong River, which is part of the Taihu Lake water system, and now Dahuangpu, already had a rich folk belief in the god Pushen.

Of course, any folk belief does not arise for no reason, but has its profound geographical and human conditions.

In the south of the Yangtze River, the lakes and rivers that store water are essential for the people to make a living by irrigating their paddy fields and growing rice. However, the frequent flooding in the south of the Yangtze River and the lack of regulation capacity of lakes and rivers are also the main culprits for the destruction of farmland, houses and collapses.

In the course of long-term agricultural production, it became a natural belief to revere various water gods, pray for water for irrigation, and pray for no flooding.

Of course, there are very few things in this world that money can't solve, and if you can't solve it, you just can't add enough money. Is Jiang Xinghuo's strength enough to add money?

Absolutely!

In order to quickly solve a series of problems caused by the explosion of gunpowder into the dammed lake, Jiang Xinghuo asked Huang Ziwei, the prefect of Songjiang, to compensate the farmland on both sides of the Great Huangpu-Shanghai Pu Long Causeway for nearly three miles at a price much higher than the transaction price in the market.

As I said before, the county often maintains the embankment in this section of Shanghaipu, so there is not much farmland on both sides, and the object of this compensation is mainly the unmanaged part of the Dahuangpu dammed lake to the end of the Shanghaipu dam.

But in fact, the problem is not that Jiang Xinghuo can solve it by asking Huang Ziwei to add money, in this case, what everyone didn't expect is that this very sincere increase in money will even have the opposite effect...... The more you add, the stronger the reaction.

The high cost of compensation for the damage to farmland can only solve the problem of some farmers whose farmlands are on both sides of the river. But what about the others?

There's a saying for that..... That is, some people are red-eyed, so they want to make trouble.

Yes, just like in a village, there is a small half of the people who have received the demolition money because of road planning, and they have become generous in the blink of an eye, and the rest of the people still have to live a hard life, can they not be red-eyed? Can you not want to make trouble?

Of course, they reacted directly to the prefecture and Matsue Prefecture. But how can this kind of selfishness be satisfied by the government?

The government is carrying out Jiang Xinghuo's order, just to clear a safe flood discharge area, and not to show kindness to irrelevant people.

Therefore, it was naturally sternly rejected by the government.

After touching the hard nail, people's jealousy began to go crazy, coupled with the fact that the White Lotus Sect saw the opportunity and took advantage of the situation to agitate, naturally such a concept was established in the hearts of the villagers who had not received compensation for the expenses in more than ten nearby villages.

- What I can't get, you don't want to get.

Anyway, the compensation fee has not been paid yet, so wouldn't it be over if we combine the people's anger with the belief in Pushen and stop the gunpowder from blowing up the lake for the common benefit of everyone?

In the eyes of the high-level of the White Lotus Sect, this national teacher is indeed a bloody baptism in the eunuch field of Changzhou Mansion, and he is not a soft egg, but his various good deeds to the people still reflect one of his weaknesses.

In fact, the White Lotus Sect is not a moral pedant, if it can achieve that "a gentleman can deceive his way", use the people and public opinion to coerce Jiang Xinghuo, delay the time of dredging in Dahuangpu, and prevent Jiang Xinghuo from successfully achieving his goal.

Then the food raised in Huating County can't

Going up against the gentle Wusong River, and sending it to the officials and soldiers in the land of the Three Lakes, the rebels of the White Lotus Sect who were compressed into a very small range would naturally get a chance to breathe.

Therefore, there is a sudden attack after today's secret series.

Looking at Jiang Xinghuo, who had never opened his mouth to respond, Wang Yihan, the owner of the White Lotus Church in the crowd, who was dressed as a Pu Shenguan walking appearance, secretly sneered in his heart.

He had already heard from the middle and high-level of the sect that this national teacher, in addition to the immortal law and the full stomach, is this three-inch incorruptible tongue, the most demagogic and inadvertently able to speak convincing people and even the five bodies, and the more culture, the easier it is to be recruited. br>

It's a pity that Jiang Xinghuo's ability has taken root among the people all the year round, but it has a fatal weakness for the White Lotus Sect, which has sufficient experience in bewitching fools and fools.

That is to say, reasoning and knowledge are almost useless to ordinary villagers in this era.

This was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty in the fifteenth century, and these villagers, who were born and raised in the south of the Yangtze River, would neither listen to the teachings of others nor be inspired.

There are only two things that can impress them and make them obey, the first is profit, and the second is superstition.

And these two things, it just so happens that the White Lotus Sect is very good at exploiting. "Why don't you speak, what are you afraid of?!"

Listening to the chaotic sound drifting in the wind, Jiang Xinghuo couldn't help frowning, of course he knew why he suddenly became the target of public criticism.

Seeing the crazy performance of those people, Jiang Xinghuo also understood that if he really judged himself according to the logic of these people, then he had indeed made a big mistake, otherwise he would not have been scolded and hated by so many villagers.

It's just that the matter has come to this point, and there is nothing I can do to change anything, the only thing I can do is to try my best to find a way to solve things, and ······

Thinking of this, Jiang Xinghuo's gaze glanced downward.

Although there was no one in sight in the crowd, maybe it was his sixth sense or maybe some psychological suggestion, and he felt that a few cold gazes fell on him.

And just when Jiang Xinghuo was thinking, Wang Yihan, the master of the White Lotus Church over there, continued to agitate; "Everyone, Jiang Xinghuo's silence has already admitted that what he did was to collide with the two gods! In that case, we can't let him succeed!"

"Yes, the demons must be eradicated!" We must not tolerate the work of our adopted daughter!"

With the prestige in the local area, on the surface, he is a person in Pushenguan, but in fact, it is secretly a sentence from Wang Yihan, the owner of the White Lotus Church, the crowd that was still a little hesitant completely broke out at this moment.

They all had red eyes, even with their bare hands, they dared to walk towards Jiang Xinghuo, who was guarded by soldiers, and in this muddy field, they walked towards Jiang Xinghuo standing on the embankment several feet high, as if Jiang Xinghuo had committed a heinous crime and must punish him in the most cruel way.

"Urajin apparition!"

The crowd swarmed in, and the shouts shook the sky.

Jiang Xinghuo stood still and did not move, his face calmly watching the crowd approaching him, but there were huge waves in his heart - for the first time, Jiang Xinghuo felt this powerlessness in the face of the people's wisdom.

Again, in some places in this era, Cheng Zhu Lixue's Three Principles and Five Constants can be regarded as ahead of their time, even in a rich area like Jiangnan, it is still inevitable that a large number of primitive, ignorant, and barbaric ideas and beliefs are occupying the brains of the vast number of low-level peasants.

Really, please even engage in some feudal poison? It is also much better than this horrific sacrifice of virgins and virgins at every turn.

Now, it is impossible for them to listen to these enthusiastic villagers who tell them that there is no god in the world and that they want to believe in science.

Knowledge, they don't understand or are interested, and it is impossible to reproduce the scene on Taiping Street to quell the knocking of the Guozi prisoners.

So what to do? Can we only take the road we least want to take and let the army do it? Jiang Xinghuo slowly closed his eyes, and the painful choice made his temples beat abruptly.

Song Li beside Jiang Xinghuo,

Sun Kun, Huang Ziwei and other civil officials were anxiously waiting for the national teacher to make the final decision, while Wang Bin, Cao Song and other guards and Jinyi guards had already drawn their swords.

Zhang Anshi, Xu Jingchang, and Zhu Yong, these boys, can be said to be facing this kind of oppressive scene for the first time, and nervously clenched the handle of the knife, sweat and rain mixed together, making the handle in their hands sticky.

Ye Zongxing, who had just woken up from his state of curiosity, was soft-spoken, so naturally he couldn't say anything, and he knew that even if the national teacher ordered to do something to these people at this time, it would be a very correct choice, but he still held some kind of fantasy that he thought was unrealistic.

It's a pity that even Ye Zongxing knows that there are no good choices at the moment. "Urajin bless!"

"Destroy the evil of women!"

More and more people raised their hands high, and the cold wind and cold rain blew on their faces, bringing them cold and numb stimulation.

Their eyes twinkled with bloodlust and cruelty, and ······ Neglect for life.

In their hearts, Jiang Xinghuo is not only a female demon who offends the gods, but also the culprit who damages their interests.

And by killing him by himself and others, he is doing the right thing for heaven and eliminating harm for the people.

So, as soon as someone picks the head and a frenzied atmosphere is formed, they pounce without hesitation.

Thousands of people swarmed into action, even if there was no order, but when they stood on the embankment, the overwhelming feeling was quite palpitating.

If Jiang Xinghuo opened his eyes, then he might be able to associate a most appropriate scene. - That is, zombies are swarming.