Chapter 159: A City with Less Black and More White Eyes (Text)
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Zi Baifeng was puzzled, so he stopped thinking about it and concentrated on the matter at hand.
When Mengcheng Mansion was originally built, it is estimated that there were experts who pointed out, calculated feng shui and other factors, and because Mengcheng Mansion was the place where the beliefs of the entire Mengcheng City gathered, the aura of the entire Mengcheng Mansion was the strongest. At this moment, those officials outside had not completely dispersed, so Zi Baifeng followed the aura of Mengcheng Mansion and carefully observed.
A person in Mengcheng Mansion, in Zi Baifeng's field of vision, showed a deep and shallow dot.
A black dot is striding out of Mengcheng Mansion, it is Luoqian Mountain, he and Zi Baifeng are friends who live and die together, and they trust him very much.
Several sergeants around him are hollow circles of different shades, some black and some white inside, their trust in Zi Baifeng is not as good as that of Luo Qianshan, but they are all controlled by Luo Qianshan, so as long as Luo Qianshan trusts Zi Baifeng, they are Zi Baifeng's help, which is like the attitude of a villager in Xiayan Village towards Zi Baifeng under the coercion of the four dogs.
There was no doubt about Luo Qianshan's control, Zi Baifeng felt that these people didn't have to worry, so he ignored them and continued to watch.
The two dots with white inside and black outside are outside Zibaifeng's study, which are two documents.
Zi Baifeng had some doubts about these two people, and then quickly understood.
These two people don't trust Zi Baifeng very much, but they obey Zi Baifeng's authority, so it is this kind of dot that is white inside and black outside, just like Luo Qianshan's subordinates obey his authority.
After understanding this, Zi Baifeng found that there were many such people in Mengcheng Mansion.
They may not trust Zi Baifeng, but they trust authority, they don't need to think too much, just do what they are told, and when there is a conflict of orders, they will naturally listen to whoever is the greatest.
This is also the norm in this world, most people are not interested in any power struggle, power struggle, just do their job with peace of mind and get their own money.
What's more, now that the entire city of Mengcheng is in a famine, only these people in the city of Mengcheng can get a lot of money from drought and flood protection, so that the family can have enough to eat.
The famine in Mengcheng is a test for Mengcheng, but from another point of view, it is good news for Zibaifeng.
In this case, people who don't have much ambition will unite more closely around Zi Baifeng and will not easily change course.
However, this phenomenon is limited to grassroots personnel, the second-in-command of Mengcheng, Zi Baifeng's current deputy, and Master Bo is a complete white dot, not even a little black.
When the lord was there, Lord Bo could still dutifully assist the lord of the house, but when the lord left, he actually pressed the hat of the acting lord on Zi Baifeng's body, which made Lord Bo completely angry and unable to think rationally.
At this time, Lord Bo must not have imagined that Zi Baifeng would be able to use abnormal means to see his every move.
The study of the lord and the study of the lord are separated by a courtyard, and in the middle is the courtyard where the clerks of the lord and the lord are located. At this time, the lord Bo was pacing around in his study, like a lone wolf trapped, and there was a townsman standing in his room, which was the townsman of Xiding Township.
"Lord Bo, the car has been prepared outside the house, shall we leave now?" Xiding Xiang lowered his head and asked cautiously, he really didn't want to touch his head at this time, but standing here was also a kind of torment for him, and it was not necessarily a good thing to get too close to Lord Bo at this moment.
Looking at Lord Bo's expression at this time, you can know that you are in the way.
At this time, Xiding Township is even regretting, he regrets that he should not invite the Lord Bo to his Xiding Township to visit and investigate, although it is called a visit and investigation, in fact, he wants relief, but at this moment, the new Lord Fujun, will he regard himself as a diehard loyalist of Lord Bo?
Zi Baifeng looked at the dot representing Xiding Xiangzheng and kept jumping around, black and white for a while, which showed the fierceness of the struggle in his heart.
"If Lord Bo is ...... If it's inconvenient at this time, I'll take my leave first, and when Lord Bo is idle in the future, I'll come and invite Lord Bo again. Xiding Township was quietly hunching his waist, and seemed to want to retreat.
"You dare!" Lord Bo turned his head suddenly, and a porcelain pen was smashed in front of Xiding Xiangzheng: "Ding Sanji, let me tell you, if you dare to go out of this door, you won't come to me again in the future!"
Ding Sanji, the head of Xiding Township, hurriedly lowered his head and said with a smile: "Lord Bo, what do you say, what do you say......"
He was secretly angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to offend Lord Bo, he was just an ordinary township, and Xiding Township was now the most severely affected township in the entire Mengcheng.
At the beginning, he was just worried that when the cold winter passed, the people of Xiding Township would flee on a large scale, resulting in the loss of personnel and the barrenness of cultivated land, which was a great crime for the land-based township.
So when the prince announced that he would go to Xijing and someone else would exercise the power of the prince on his behalf, Ding Sanji immediately moved closer to Lord Bo, after all, whether it was seniority or status, it was the center of power closest to Lord Bo in this city.
But at this moment, everything was settled, and Ding Sanji was dumbfounded.
It turned out that Zi Baifeng, who he had sued, became the monarch of the house?
How is it possible? What should I do?
He felt that he had offended Zi Baifeng, so he didn't dare to offend Lord Bo again, the pen wash flew and cut his ankle, he didn't dare to say a word, laughed with him, and let Lord Bo spit on his face, and when Lord Bo seemed to be a little calmer, he pouted his ass and personally picked up the pen wash fragments on the ground one by one.
Looking at Ding Sanji's performance, Zhu Bo only felt that his heart was a lot easier, and he now urgently needed the respect and attention of others, so that he could smooth the gully in his heart.
"Let's go, you and I will go to Xiding Township together. Lord Bo said to Ding Sanji, and then walked out of the city first.
The other townsmen did not leave, they were standing in the corridor in the front yard, discussing something in a low voice, Mengcheng suddenly changed the sky, Lord Fujun left, Zi Baifeng became the master, and the reaction time given to them in the middle was too short.
Lord Fujun has summoned Zi Baifeng into the mansion many times before, but they have never thought about anything, because Zi Baifeng has always been Lord Fujun's favorite general, whether it is something to inquire about or something to arrange, it is normal. The servants and guards in the mansion are also their eyes, and these people have never revealed any news - Zi Baifeng's visit to Mengcheng Mansion is like visiting his own garden, everyone knows about this, even Luo Qianshan, who has always been trusted by the lord of the mansion, is not as comfortable as Zi Baifeng.
But at this moment, Zi Baifeng really turned Mengcheng Mansion into his garden.
Of course, they didn't know that Zi Baifeng was watching them above their heads at this time.
Mengcheng three pavilions and sixteen townships, there are three pavilion chiefs, sixteen townships, among which Zi Jiuyan Township is still Zi Baifeng, there are three townships because there is something important to go back, Xiding Township is Ding Sanji is with the main Bo, so there are three pavilions and eleven township chiefs, three of them pavilion chiefs, Zi Baifeng is still a little trusted, one of the pavilion chiefs is a friend of Luo Qianshan, and he has drunk with Zi Baifeng before. The other two pavilion chiefs, one is the Fu Jun hand-picked up, which is considered the Fu Jun's cronies, and the other is not particularly cold to Zi Baifeng, in fact, this is not without reason, this person's surname is Hu, he is Hu Caijun's uncle, and the entire Hu family, it is estimated that Hu Caijun is still friendly to Zi Baifeng.
And the rest of the townships, one of them is so old that he can barely walk, saying black is not black, white is not white, gray is not gray, he is a grandfather of Hu Caijun, the township of Hubao Township.
Of the remaining ten, one counts as one, and none of them trust Zi Baifeng.
In fact, the reason for this is also very simple, they and Zi Baifeng are both townspeople, and they are in a competitive relationship with each other.
In such a city of Mengcheng, where there is almost no commerce, compared with the pavilion chief, the township is in charge of far more land and population, and the real status is higher than that of the pavilion chief, and each of them is actually a theoretical competitor of the Mengcheng acting king.
Some people may not have realized this before, but Zi Baifeng's ascension to the throne of the mansion as a townsman made them ignite this kind of thought, and one by one they began to hate Zi Baifeng.
When Zi Baifeng saw this, he could only smile bitterly, in the past, he only cared about the development of Jiuyan Township, but he never contacted these people, and now, he is really alone.
In fact, it's no wonder that Zi Baifeng, nine out of ten of these townsmen are the spokespersons of the local clan's power, and they are all over forty years old, and Zi Baifeng is from a class and has just been crowned, so he has no common language with them, and he is not a person all the way.
They discussed in a low voice, although they would not make a decision to advance and retreat together, but they already had a certain consensus, that is, they went back to their respective homes to see what Zi Baifeng would do.
To be honest, they are not optimistic about Zi Baifeng.
Governing a city is not governing a village, even if it is Zibaifeng's ability to govern a township, they may not agree much, such as Zibaifeng's measures to contain displaced people.
However, they didn't dare to offend Zi Baifeng head-on, after all, Zi Baifeng's various miracles were not something they could deal with.
It is rumored that there are many sword immortals under Zi Baifeng's command, who come and go, and can take people's heads thousands of miles away.
They don't want to sleep with their concubines in their arms one day, only to wake up and find that their heads are gone, and there are bull heads and horses standing in front of the bed.
These people saw Zhu Bo and Ding Sanji coming over from a distance, exchanged a few glances with each other, and immediately dispersed, rushing to the stables and post stations, and left in the blink of an eye.
Only the old fellow of Hubao Township was left, bent over his waist, leaning on crutches, muttering something while slowly moving forward.