When Chen Boyun heard this and came to the entrance of the village, he saw the official officer who was under his command, holding a brush and dipping it in red paint to draw circles on the snow-white wall of Chen's house.
Then write a big reverse word in the circle.
Everyone in the Chen clan was so confused by this abstract performance that they thought it was a magic spell, but no one stepped forward to stop it.
It was Chen Boyun who reacted first and asked loudly: "Daozhengtai, what are you doing?"
"According to the order of the prince, all the villages that rebelled must be marked so that the people of Yangcheng know that you were wiped out purely at your own fault!" Daotong rode on the horse and continued to speak the harshest words.
"It's endless, right?!" Chen Boyun almost fainted with anger. Dao Tong did not give up, but it was hard to tell that this act of venting anger was well thought out.
"Damn it, I shouldn't have let them out just now!" Chen Bojin spat bitterly.
"I have already said in the Chen Family Ancestral Hall that I have to bring you clan leaders and the suspects on the list with me this time, otherwise the next people who come back will be the counter-rebellion army!" Daotong responded loudly.
The Chen clan members looked at each other in shock. He had indeed said such a thing, but no one took it seriously.
But he took it seriously and wrote it in big red letters on the white wall of Chen's house. Didn't this make the conflict between the government and the Chen family public?
Chen's house is located next to the main road in Yangcheng. Wuyang Wuyang, a businessman and a common man coming and going, has attracted a large number of spectators, who are pointing and pointing from a distance.
The big red words in the circle are so eye-catching that you can see them clearly without getting too close.
Now the Chen family just wants to find someone to make peace with, but it's impossible. They can only fight to the end. Otherwise, the people of Yangcheng will definitely say that the Chen family is just a bastard, no matter how harsh they say it, the government is behind the wall of their home.
Just writing a word on it scared them away.
"Okay, okay, Daozhengtai humiliated my Chen family without any mercy." Chen Boyun also got really angry and shouted loudly: "Then my Chen family can only stay with me until the end!"
"Will you stay with me to the end?" Dao Tong glanced at Chen Boyun and the Chen family with the same hatred. "It's just you? How can I stay with you to the end?"
"Yes, it's just us common people!" Chen Boyun's forehead was filled with twitching veins, pointing to the big red letters and saying: "The Chen family obeys orders."
"Yes!" Chen's family members shouted in unison.
"No one is allowed to rub this word, just leave it there." Chen Boyun gritted his teeth and said: "Since the government has determined that we are rebels, we will wait for the government and soldiers to come. Don't let us wait too long!"
"Okay!" The Chen clan members responded with a louder voice, and some hot-blooded young people showed off their weapons and weapons on the spot, showing their determination and ability to guard the Chen family house.
"Just wait, what is supposed to come will always come." Daotong said without expression, and then left the Chen family house with his soldiers and officers, and went to the next village of the Xu family.
"Brother, do you really keep this word?" Chen Bojin looked at the dazzling red word and felt uncomfortable all over.
"Keep it, let the villagers see it. Our Chen family cannot be scared." Chen Boyun snorted, glanced at his brother and said, "What, are you scared?"
"How could it be possible? We have had so many rebellions in the past few decades, including two for the Ming Dynasty. How can we still be here? We are not afraid of real rebellion, but are we afraid of the anti-character written by them?" Chen Bojin hurriedly shouted.
Lala's statement, but to be honest, I don't know why this time, I'm really a little scared.
Are you getting older and don't have the courage you once had?
However, as the patriarch said, the matter has reached this stage entirely as a result of the government's aggressiveness. No matter what, we can only fight to the end.
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Dao Tong's experience in Xu's house was very different from that in Chen's house. He would say harsh words before the person he wanted came to him, but he would stop abruptly before the other person was so angry that he wanted to take action. He would pretend to be cool and then leave.
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Before leaving, I didn't forget to draw a big red circle on the big white wall outside the house and write the word "big red" in reverse.
Naturally, the Xu family will not be frightened by him. I heard that the Chen family still has the negative word, so they won't touch it. They want to see how the government ends this.
Then came the third and fourth families... Daotong spent two days visiting all the families on the list. The speed was faster after that, because each family already knew what happened to the Chen family and the Xu family.
They simply closed the door tightly and refused to allow the same group of people to enter.
Is it okay if I don't open the door? It's obviously impossible.
Daotong announced that they were openly resisting arrest and considered treason, so he also drew a circle and wrote the opposite on the wall of their house. There were more than a dozen houses without exception.
If he had only targeted the Chen family, he might have wanted to kill the chickens to scare the monkeys. But now he has targeted all the local tycoons in Yangcheng. This is no longer killing the chickens to scare the monkeys, but killing all the monkeys.
Daotong's actions make people worry that the King of Chu behind him probably has some back-up plans. If they are marked as 'rebels' and nothing happens, where will Lao Liu's face go? They
Huang Guizhou will never be able to swallow this breath these days...
So that night, more than a dozen wealthy families who had been marked gathered at Baiyun Villa to discuss countermeasures with the second master of the He family.
Before entering, they deliberately let the carriage drive around Baiyun Villa, but they didn't see the big red word. This made them a little unbalanced and felt that the He family had not shared the joys and sorrows with them.
"Master He, why didn't you write that word for your family?" As soon as he saw He Di, he asked impatiently.
"Daotong is going to the clan village to arrest people. The entire He family is in Dongguan. This is just a separate business for me. What is he doing here?" He Di said calmly: "Don't worry, our He family will always advance and retreat with everyone.
I won’t be a coward just because of the government’s petty tricks.”
"What this means is that we are all in the same spirit, and we will both prosper and suffer." Everyone nodded and said, "We can only win if we advance and retreat together and put pressure on the government together."
"If you are not united, you will be defeated by the government!" The chiefs of the major clans also shouted one after another.
This was the main purpose of their coming here, for fear that someone would give in and make them sad.
"Yes, yes, we must share the same hatred of the enemy. But does this make us rebels?" Some people still find it difficult to accept it at this moment.
"Isn't the government most afraid of rebellion?" The Liang clan leader said depressedly: "I have also been a county magistrate and a magistrate, and I know that officials have always been better off doing more than having less, and having less is worse than having nothing at all. How can I be like a Taoist colleague? Is this so that the world will not be in chaos?"
"It's not the Taoist fellow who is afraid of chaos in the world, but the person behind him." He Di, who was watching clearly, said in a deep voice: "His words and deeds are all instructed by that highness. Drawing a red circle and writing the wrong word is such a ridiculous behavior.
It's not something that a Taoist gentleman like him can think of, only a dragon son and grandson who has no taboos would do such a thing."
"That makes sense." All the clan leaders nodded. But instead of feeling relaxed, their moods became even heavier.
