The Song army was equipped with very well and was very standardized. It not only had weapons and armor, but also military caps, which were the Fan Yang hats that were worn by soldiers in the army, also called the straight-brimmed hat, which had brims around the hats. It is estimated that many people are very familiar with this style. The protagonist of the famous comic "One Piece" in later generations wore that style of hat.

The so-called hat monster, as the name suggests, is a monster that looks like a hat. This hat refers to Fan Yangli in the army. It is said that the hat monster can fly at a very fast speed and even shines at night. When Li Zhang heard Lu Yijian's description of the hat monster, he had only one thought in his mind: Could this thing be a flying saucer in the legend of later generations, right?

The place where the hat demon was at the beginning was Luoyang, Xijing. At first, someone only witnessed the hat demon, and then the hat demon flew into someone at night to hurt people. This should not be fake, because there are detailed records in Luoyang. Many people in Luoyang have been attacked by the hat demon, and countless people witnessed the hat demon.

With the emergence of the hat demon injuring people, there are more and more rumors about the hat demon in Luoyang City. At that time, the left-behind Luoyang was named Wang Sizong. This man was the top scholar in the Taizu period. It is said that during the Zhao Kuangyin period, whoever handed in the palace examination was the top scholar, but Wang Sizong handed in the paper with another person. As a result, Zhao Kuangyin asked Wang Sizong to fight with another person, and whoever won was the top scholar. As a result, Wang Sizong was more skilled, so he was known as the "hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-hand-to-leading-to-leading-to-hand-to-hand-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-hand-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-hand-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-hand-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-hand-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-hand-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to-leading-to

After the incident of the hat demon hurting people in Luoyang City, Wang Sizong, as the left-behind of Xijing, did not believe in ghosts and gods at all, nor did he believe in any hat demons. He also let the rumors appear in the city go with his indifference attitude of "not spreading rumors, not believing rumors" to slowly calm the rumors.

However, what Wang Sizong did not expect was that the rumors of the hat demon became more and more intense, and finally spread from Luoyang to Tokyo. In addition, there were records of the hat demon hurting people in Tokyo, which made the capital city panic for a while and even dared not sleep at night.

Li Zhang traveled through time after the appearance of the hat demon, so he had never experienced the tense atmosphere of the hat demon at that time. However, after listening to Lu Yijian's introduction, the entire capital was disturbed by the hat demon, and the city was filled with wind and rain. Every household in the city dared not sleep at night. The middle-aged man organized a vigil, and whenever there was a storm, he shouted in a row.

What's even more terrifying is that even rumors of the cap demon were circulating in the army. At that time, more than 400,000 imperial guards were stationed around the capital. However, these imperial guards were so scared that they did not sleep at night because of the cap demon's rumors. Instead, they sat around as if they were facing a great enemy. There were even many camp whistles, resulting in countless imperial guards being killed and injured. The remaining imperial guards were panic, and everyone seemed to be crazy and did not obey military orders.

The Imperial Guard was the basis for the Song Dynasty to rule the world. If there were problems with the Imperial Guard, the entire Song Dynasty would be in danger. At that time, Zhao Heng was old and in poor health. He was awakened many times by the shouts of the military and civilians in the capital at night, which made him realize the seriousness of this matter.

In fact, it is no longer important whether the hat monster was true or false at that time. The social unrest it caused was real and cannot be ignored. The people gathered together, soldiers gathered together, holding weapons in their hands, holding sharp swords. If people with ulterior motives took the opportunity to incite and fear, these people could do anything. Once the army was out of control, the country of the Zhao Song Dynasty would be in danger.

In this case, the old and confused Zhao Heng was particularly sober this time. He first issued an order to encourage the people to report those who are distorted and deceive the public. As long as they report, they would give them a heavy reward. This also greatly encouraged the people to report. For a time, the government received a lot of reports. Then the yamen took people everywhere, arrested several monks and sorcerers who borrowed hats to encourage the public, and deceive the public, and then killed these people.

It was a coincidence that after killing a few people who were confused, no one witnessed the incident of the hat demon again, which also made the storm slowly calm down in the capital. However, the matter was not over yet. Zhao Heng immediately dealt with Wang Sizong, the left-behind Luoyang, because it was his indifference that led to the development of the matter.

Compared with Wang Sizong, Wang Zeng's performance was much stronger, because after the rumors of the hat demon subsided in Tokyo, it spread to Yingtian Prefecture in Nanjing. At that time, Wang Zeng served as the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture. He was loose on the outside and tight on the inside. He first opened the city gate to calm people's hearts, and then secretly arrested the rumor-mongers, which quickly calmed down in Nanjing without causing any disturbances. This also paved the way for Wang Zeng to become prime minister in the future.

After Wang Zeng calmed down the rumors about the hat demon in Nanjing, although there were some small-scale rumors about the hat demon from time to time in various places, it could no longer cause too much panic, which also marked the end of the rumors about the hat demon. Later, the plane Li Zhang was riding traveled to the Song Dynasty for some reason and was called the divine bird by the Song people. This miracle once again caused a greater sensation, causing everyone to talk about the divine bird, and the hat demon was forgotten faster.

"I remember it. It seems that when people occasionally mention the Hat Demon, no wonder they feel that this name sounds familiar." Li Zhang slapped his hands after hearing this. Although the rumors of the Hat Demon have subsided, they are sometimes mentioned as a monster. Li Zhang doesn't care much when he hears it occasionally.

"Now people mention hat monsters, just treat them as ghost stories, and it's okay to listen to them. However, in the second year of Tianxi, the name hat monster really scared people. At that time, the people in the capital were completely asleep. Many people thought the hat monsters had come because of a little disturbance, but they were scared to death. Some even went crazy and killed each other, and even their own relatives were not spared. At that time, I was a living servant, and together with Zhou Huaizheng, I investigated the matter with the orders of the Emperor. There were no less than a hundred tragedies I saw with my own eyes." At this time, Lu Yijian sighed.

"Yes, I was still young at that time, but even in the palace, everyone was in danger. It was even legendary that there were palace people missing in the palace, and they were caught by the hat demon. For this reason, the father ordered two guards to take turns to guard me for twelve hours a day, for fear that I would be captured by the flying hat demon." Zhao Zhen also spoke at this time. He was still a child at that time, but it was true that the hat demon also left him with a greater psychological shadow, even if he mentioned the hat demon now.

Li Zhang couldn't help but gasp when he heard this. In fact, the casualties caused by the hat monster should not be large, but the power of rumors is really terrible. Especially in the feudal environment where most people were ignorant and ignorant in ancient times, the lethality produced by a rumor is simply immeasurable. Now that the hat monster in Luoyang appears again, if a large-scale rumors are formed like before, with the basis of the last time, the lethality produced will only be even more terrifying!
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