Taiyuan City.

After Chen Zipeng came back from Su Yuan's place, he immediately came to the Prefectural Mufu and found Xu Yichuan.

Xu Yichuan was waiting for him to come back. When he saw him, he immediately went up to hold his hand and asked, "Xian son-in-law, how did things go?"

Chen Zipeng smiled bitterly: "Not very good."

Xu Yichuan's face changed slightly: "Why is this? Dear son-in-law, tell me in detail! But then Su Yuan doesn't accept gifts?"

"No, he accepted the dancing girl, but..."

Chen Zipeng explained everything that happened when he arrived in Beifeng City.

When he heard that Su Yuan had detained soldiers from the Prefecture Mufu, Xu Yichuan was furious and cursed: "It's a shame for Su Yuan to detain my soldiers from the Taiyuan Prefecture!"

But when he continued to listen and heard that Chen Zipeng witnessed Su Yuan's tens of thousands of cavalry galloping freely and in strict discipline, Xu Yichuan fell silent.

After finishing speaking, Chen Zipeng said helplessly: "Sir, please forgive my son-in-law for speaking frankly, the power of the cavalry is definitely not something that we Mozhou soldiers can compete with. If Su Yuan leads the army to attack, we can only hold on to the city and not leave."

"So, we can only defend but not attack?"

"Exactly. If we take the initiative... we will definitely lose!"

Chen Zipeng said it categorically. At this time, he really didn't care whether Xu Yichuan liked it or not.

To put it harshly, this is already related to the life and death of his entire Chen family.

You know, all the major families in Mozhou know what happened to the five major families in Beifeng City.

No one wants to end up in that situation, right?

Chen Zipeng said: "Sir, I suggest that our four major families in Mozhou should immediately discuss the countermeasures for this matter, put aside the past grudges, and jointly contribute to the external defense of Su Yuan."

The four major families in Mozhou often fight among themselves and have dissatisfaction with each other.

But at this time, the enemy is facing us, and it is time to unite and deal with the outside world.

Xu Yichuan also nodded repeatedly and said: "That is indeed the case. Then, my son-in-law, please contact the Che and Lu families. Not only that, but you also need to recruit troops from various cities in Mozhou to bring out some strong men!"

The Xu family and the Chen family are in-laws, while the Lu family and the Che family are also in-laws. They can be said to be two different alliances.

In the past, the two alliances disliked each other, but now they must cooperate. Otherwise, when Su Yuan's army comes, if Mozhou really falls into his hands, then no matter which alliance is there, it will probably disappear.

"By the way, sir, please look at this."

Before leaving, Chen Zipeng showed Xu Yichuan the notice torn from Beifeng City.

Xu Yichuan looked at it and his expression changed drastically.

"How can this be true!"

"My son-in-law doesn't think it's true either...but it is indeed posted everywhere in Beifeng City."

"this……"

Xu Yichuan was sweating profusely as he read the notice.

"If this is true, if the people of Mozhou see this thing, the people of Mozhou will have to run to Beifeng City!"

"Exactly..."

The tax-free notice posted by Su Yuan is too tempting for ordinary people.

The cities in Mozhou are not far from Beifeng City. If the people saw it, they would all have to move to Beifeng City.

"Stop this news! Don't let the people know!" Xu Yichuan said quickly.

Chen Zipeng nodded: "Sir, not only that, we also want to spread some news. It is best to let the people of Mozhou think that Su Yuan is cruel and violent and kills people like crazy."

"Yep!"

Xu Yichuan clapped his hands.

"I immediately asked someone to write a note. Su Yuan killed his mother and killed his younger brother, and also engaged in torture. He killed people like hemp. Write all these in so that the people will be afraid when they hear about Beifeng City and never dare to do it again.

Go over there, haha!”

"Your Excellency is wise, my son-in-law has resigned first."

Chen Zipeng left to contact the Che and Lu families.

Xu Yichuan hired scribes and asked them to fabricate some terrifying rumors about Su Yuan and spread them in Mozhou.

What Xu Yichuan didn't know was that before he spread the rumors about Su Yuan, someone had secretly spread the series of policies issued by Su Yuan in various cities in Mozhou.

Those who do these things are naturally the imperial guards scattered in various cities.

Su Yuan still attaches great importance to the work of public opinion. Even if he has an absolute advantage in force, he is still more willing to weaken the enemy's power through public opinion first, so as to achieve the result of victory without fighting.

There is a rumor among the people in various cities in Mozhou that most people in Beifeng City do not need to pay or pay very little land tax. Only the rich households with more land pay more. The more land they have, the more they pay.

After spreading the word, people naturally became interested and wanted to visit Beifeng City.

Not only among the common people, but also among some wealthy young men, this matter was occasionally discussed, but mostly in a sarcastic and mocking manner.

At this moment, in the Wanchun Tower, the largest singing studio in Taiyuan City, some wealthy young men who came here to have fun talked about this matter for some unknown reason.

A young master waved his folding fan lightly and said with a smile: "That traitor Su Yuan, after all, is from the royal palace, but he actually hangs out with a group of country fools. He really embarrasses my noble face."

"Hey, Brother Wang doesn't know that Su Yuan's biological mother is just a charlatan. It's natural for him to be born like this."

"Haha, it's precisely the small town of Beifeng, where there are only a few well-established aristocratic families, that allowed his useless tax reform policy to be implemented. If it were in Taiyuan City, do you think who would pay attention to him?"

"No! Let me tell you - Hey, who can pull me?"

A young man was waiting to answer a message when he suddenly felt a strong force grabbing his neck from behind.

With a strong tug, he fell to the ground.

With a crash, several of his companions stood up and glared at the man.

"you--"

Several people were about to yell and scold, but when they saw the man's appearance, they suddenly swallowed back the words and lowered their heads.

I saw that the man had long messy hair, a full beard, smelled of alcohol, and his clothes were wrinkled. He looked like a beggar.

However, these noble gentlemen did not dare to offend the homeless man at all. The man who was dragged down also got up and patted the dirt as if nothing had happened, without daring to say a word.

The "beggar" asked: "You guys, what policy were you talking about just now? What tax reform?"

"This this……"

"It's that traitor Su Yuan. He seems to have done something in Beifeng City..."

Several people stuttered out some things they knew. Unexpectedly, the more the homeless man listened, the brighter his eyes became.

After hearing the meaning of "Starting Point", he looked up to the sky and laughed several times: "The sky has eyes, and finally I can find the Lord of Light!"

After saying this, he fluttered his long sleeves and rushed out of Wanhua Tower in a few quick steps, disappearing without a trace.

Several young masters looked at each other, each seeing helplessness in the other's eyes.

Having lost their interest, several people did not want to stay any longer and left one after another.

Many onlookers were puzzled.

"Who is that beggar-looking person? How dare you cause trouble in the Wanchun Building owned by Che's family?"

"I don't know, he must not be a mortal... Those young masters just now are all from the rich families in the city. Even they didn't dare to scold that man, I'm afraid..."

"Haha, some of you don't know." A regular customer of Ten Wan Chun Tower smiled at this moment, "That 'beggar'-looking man is Lu Wuyou, the second son of the Lu family. Tell me, do you dare to offend those people?

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