Chapter 48 Public Opinion War
Everyone was shocked.
Is this young man hysterical?
Five thousand bandits are coming with great force, but he is so happy?
Liu Zheng smiled and nodded, "Shen Xing, draft two documents immediately, one to Liangzhou Prefecture and one to Yangzhou Prefecture!"
Shen Xing's eyes lit up when he heard this: "What do you mean, sir?"
Liu Zheng laughed coldly and said, "As the saying goes, we have a legitimate reason to fight. We should inform Liangzhou first, so that Yinzhou can be established on a legitimate basis! Then let Yangzhou know that the bandits are rampant. If Yangzhou is not eliminated, Yinzhou will come!"
Everyone's scalp tingled after hearing this.
No one expected that Liu Zheng would be so ambitious.
Before anyone else could say anything, Shen Xing was already shaking with excitement: "Master, you want Yangzhou to be in chaos first, and I, Yinzhou, will just sit there and watch!"
Liu Zheng laughed and said, "Yes, this is a war of public opinion!"
"Give orders to tell the bandits that Yinzhou Prefecture cannot raise the 20,000 taels in seven days, so can we wait another seven days? Then find a few smart people to go to the streets of Yangzhou and spread rumors that the bandits are causing chaos and that Lu Zhengyi has been colluding with the bandits and horse bandits."
Shen Xing slapped his thigh and shouted, "Seven days after seven days, seven days is so long!"
"As long as we drag this out, Yangzhou will be in chaos!"
Liu Zheng smiled slightly.
As mentioned before, since ancient times, mercenaries and reinforcements have been the most dangerous. The former have no loyalty or discipline, while the latter want your city directly!
If it were just a thousand scattered soldiers, Liu Zheng would not take it seriously.
But five thousand people came...
Then Liu Zheng really had some ideas.
Previously, Yangzhou had been plagued by horse bandits many times, and the people had to pay money and food to make the bandits retreat. Once this "rumor" spread today, even the falsehood became true!
By then, the people of Yangzhou will be unstable and conflict with the mercenaries will be inevitable.
On Liu Zheng's side, he was preparing his troops for war, and when the time came, he would take advantage of the opportunity and directly enter Yangzhou City in the name of "suppressing bandits". Wouldn't Yangzhou then be in Liu Zheng's pocket?
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became.
I didn't expect that after only traveling to this ancient time for a few months, my territory hasn't developed yet, but I have the opportunity to expand my territory. As for Liangzhou Prefecture? The documents have been delivered, and you can't say anything. By the time they reacted, Liu Zheng had already controlled Yangzhou.
war!
For the first time, Liu Zheng was so close to the war, and he seemed to have smelled the inevitable bloody smell of this war.
What is war?
War is an act of violence to force the enemy to obey our will.
Then, if you want to make the other side surrender, you must do everything you can! Expecting to show mercy in a war? That will never be possible!
After Liu Zheng gave a few orders, the entire Yinzhou became busy again.
Qin Changfeng was responsible for escorting merchants between Yinzhou and Yangzhou, where there was a pavilion every mile and a guard post every hundred steps, and he was also responsible for the formation training at the Divine Workshop.
The Fine Iron Workshop and Weapon Workshop of the Divine Workshop also began working overnight.
Three days later.
The documents from the county magistrate's office have been delivered to Liangzhou Prefecture at full speed.
Wang Lin, the soldier from Yinzhou who was in charge of delivering the letter, didn't quite understand why the young master had repeatedly told him to hand the letter to Chen Ruoshi.
So after he arrived at Liangzhou Prefecture, several deacons and counselors took turns asking him questions, but he remained silent and insisted on meeting Chen Ruoshi.
"You kid, are you here to cause trouble?"
"This is Liangzhou Prefecture, not a place for you to throw a tantrum!"
"Beat him out with a stick!"
Seeing Wang Lin like this, everyone became angry.
"What is it?"
Just then, Chen Ping and Chen Ruoshi, who had just returned from outside, heard the quarrel and came over to ask.
"Sir, this soldier from Yinzhou is quite stubborn! He insists on seeing the young lady before he tells her the reason!"
"oh?"
Chen Ruoshi looked over in surprise: "Yinzhou?"
Suddenly, her body trembled slightly: "But what happened to Liu Zheng?"
Chen Ping's face darkened.
Wang Lin looked at Chen Ruoshi and asked for confirmation: "Are you Miss Chen?"
"it's me!"
Wang Lin then knelt down and shouted, "Miss Chen, Master Chen, save my Yinzhou!"
"Five thousand bandit soldiers are attacking, Yinzhou is being massacred, I beg you to send troops to rescue us!"
Chen Ruoshi was shocked: "What did you say? Bandits?"
"Five thousand bandits? This, this, this, father..."
Chen Ruoshi was obviously very anxious.
Chen Ping smiled coldly when he heard this.
How could he not know about this? The Liangzhou Order in Lu Zhengyi's hand, which said: "Observe his character, correct his behavior, and act according to your discretion", was written by him.
Therefore, he wanted to turn a blind eye to this matter.
did not expect……
Liu Zheng, this little fox, was really very slippery. He insisted on asking this little soldier to report the matter in front of Chen Ruoshi, which made Chen Ping a little bit caught in a dilemma.
"If this is true, tell me quickly!"
Chen Ping's face straightened and he said.
The soldier immediately told the story of what happened in Yinzhou. Hearing the seven-day limit, Chen Ruoshi became anxious again: "Seven days, how can this be possible? Liu Zheng must not be prepared!"
Chen Ping also nodded and said, "But four days have passed, and there are only three days left. Even if I send troops from Liang Province, it will be too far to reach them!"
Even for the most elite cavalry, it would take about three days to get there, and they would also have to prepare food, fodder and weapons. Time was really not enough.
"Father, you must think of a way!"
Chen Ruoshi was about to cry.
Seeing his daughter's attitude, Chen Ping felt even colder in his heart, and said in an awkward manner: "The bandits must be eliminated. I will order troops to suppress them, but I am afraid that Yinzhou..."
Unexpectedly, the soldier clasped his fists and said, "Sir, it is too late for reinforcements. The county lord wants to ask Sir Chen for a letter of decree to fight the bandits, so that Yinzhou can follow the law and have no worries and fight the bandits to the death!"
"ah!"
Chen Ruoshi's face turned pale.
Chen Ping narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking, a fight to the death? You have 3,000 soldiers, and you want to fight to the death with 5,000 bandits? Is this Liu Dahao's or Liu Zheng's idea?
But no matter what, this request is not excessive for a dying person.
Chen Ping stood up and shouted, his face full of emotion: "Liu County Marquis bravely resisted the enemy, which is worthy of the blood of the men of Liangzhou! Bring me the pen!"
Soon, a "order to suppress the enemy" was stamped with the seal of Liangzhou Prefecture.
The soldier was overjoyed and rode away on his horse.
"Father!"
"Yinzhou really has the power to resist the enemy, this, this is..."
After the soldier left, Chen Ruoshi became anxious.
"An order to punish the thieves?"
"What do they want this for?"
Chen Ping fell into deep thought.
Suddenly, he had a very absurd guess...
Could it be that the Liu family father and son have other intentions?
However, he dared not guess that Liu Zheng was still thinking about how to control Yangzhou under such circumstances.
If I tell you, who will believe it?
…
"What did he say, another seven days?"
Chen Kui also received the news from Yinzhou Prefecture.
Luo Xiongchao was drinking and having a good time. Hearing this, he laughed out loud: "Seven days is seven days. What's the harm in waiting for him for seven days?"
"That's right. Sooner or later, you will be the meat on our chopping block. You can't escape!"
"I haven't visited all the brothels in Yangzhou yet. Seven more days. That's enough!"
A group of mercenary captains burst into laughter.
They didn't mind waiting a little longer. Anyway, in Yangzhou, they could eat meat and drink wine to their heart's content, have countless women to play with, and act arrogantly wherever they went. For these mercenaries who had been wandering around for many years, this kind of life was a rare and heavenly life.
"But……"
Chen Kui frowned and said, "General Luo, Yinzhou Prefecture can't possibly have 20,000 taels of silver and still can't come up with it. They must be playing a trick on us!"
"Um?"
Luo Xiongchao looked at him coldly: "Can you teach me how to do things?"
Chen Kui was glared at by this bitter-faced devil, and his whole body trembled: "General, Chen Kui dare not, but just..."
"That's all right. I won't charge you any more money during these seven days. Just wait for him for seven days!"
Luo Xiongchao waved his hand seemingly magnanimously.
Chen Kui didn't dare to say anything else and could only smile bitterly.
"I heard that a girl from Yangzhou Yihongyuan is getting married today, let's go take a look!"
"General, General!"
Chen Kui wanted to shout, but it was too late.
This group of military lords, with swords slung around their waists, were already swaggering down the street, and from time to time, they would tease decent women in the street.
And at this time.
No one saw that a man in black clothes and a bamboo hat had just sneaked into the city. He happened to see Luo Xiongchao and his men being domineering.
"Who are these people? So arrogant?"
He walked up to a vegetable stall and asked deliberately.
The old woman said, "Hush, young man, don't talk nonsense! I heard that they are soldiers from Liangzhou, coming here to stay for a few days. We can't afford to offend them!"
In troubled times, people have long been accustomed to all of this.
Soldiers from Liangzhou?
The man smiled coldly.
Sure enough, just as the young master said, Lu Zhengyi will definitely not tell the truth to the common people.
A group of scattered soldiers actually became the Liangzhou soldiers?
What would these common people, who have endured this in silence, think if they knew that these people were a group of stragglers and even called themselves bandits from Yinzhou?
He squeezed his backpack, which was covered tightly.
What on earth is this young master's brain made of?
How could you come up with...such a shameless method?
He found a pub, sat down and waited for dark.
He waited until the curfew began on Yangzhou Street. He had been hiding for a long time before he came out from the side. He grabbed his backpack and took out... those papers.
Crash!
He threw the scraps of paper with writings all over them onto the street.
That night, he walked almost the entire Yangzhou City, from beginning to end.
The next day.
"What's this?"
"Portrait? No, there are words on it!"
"Which young man can recognize the characters? Come and help me read it!"
When people woke up, they saw this kind of paper on their doorsteps, with a picture and a bunch of words on it. So they started to tell each other and circulate it to ask questions.
"There are several thousand bandits who recently attacked our Yinzhou merchants and robbed our goods. They are guilty of capital punishment..."
"Blackmailing the government is treasonous!"
"It brings disaster to the whole village, and it is hated by both humans and gods!"
"This portrait is of the bandit leader. If anyone kills him, you can bring his head to Yinzhou Prefecture to receive 500 gold!"
"If anyone knows anything, please report it and you will receive ten gold coins!"
People looked at the portrait carefully and their expressions changed.
It’s actually him?
Is he a bandit?
For a moment, the whole Yangzhou was in an uproar.
