After a while, Cai Maode clapped his hands heavily. This is a good strategy. Firstly, it can stabilize the people's hearts. Secondly, if war breaks out, it can also unite people's hearts and defend the city to the death.
It turns out that Chang Yu really wants them to use their strengths and spread rumors to cause trouble, which is the so-called war of public opinion.
The reason why the bandits are so popular among the people wherever they go is because they do a good job in publicity and publicity: "Don't plunder, don't kill, don't levy, don't take... Love the people like your own children..."
It is because of this that the rebel army gained a huge public base. Fans warmly welcomed them everywhere along the way, allowing the officers and soldiers who had no intention of resisting the war to offer the city.
In fact, after Li Zicheng established the country, he has been adopting Li Yan's policy of attacking the enemy's hearts, and he has indeed achieved it on the surface. From Xi'an all the way to the capital, he has done almost no harm to ordinary people in the cities he conquered, but he has a different face towards the officials and gentry.
Among them, only Ningwuguan got angry after being beaten by Zhou Yuji. After the city was broken, the whole city was massacred. However, some later generations who washed the land for the rebels said that the massacre was not done by Li Zicheng, but by the former Ming Army Shanxi Commander-in-Chief who surrendered to the rebels.
Bingyou Shilu, after he was dismissed, he lived in Ningwu and forged old grudges with Shanxi officials and gentry. Later, he was recruited by Li Zicheng to surrender and Zhou Yuji was scolded. So after capturing Ningwu, he violently retaliated and massacred the city.
However, in fact, You Shilu and his brother You Shiwei were killed in a decisive battle with the rebels in the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643).
Since you can brag about yourself and try your best to put your face on the line, I dare to undermine you and smear you. Small things turn into big things and nothing happens. There are so many literati in the city who have pens. It would be a pity not to use them.
In fact, this kind of public opinion war against each other actually happened in Taiyuan. When the rebels broke into Fenzhou Prefecture, Cai Maode and Fu Shan joined forces to smear the city and how the rebels burned, killed and looted. They committed all kinds of evil.
, in order to unite the hearts of the people of Taiyuan and work together to defend the city.
It's just that God's calculations were not as good as those of man, and in the end the city gate was opened by a traitor.
This time, due to Chang Yu's butterfly effect, the patent for this method was also changed to Little Eunuch, and Cai Maode and Fu Shan were only the executors at this time.
Late at night, Chang Yu left the governor's office. He went deep behind enemy lines for several days and ran all night without a good rest. He was exhausted. At this time, he had no energy to accompany this group of scholars to discuss how to act as a black fan and develop a navy to smear the blind man Li.
He doesn't care about these details.
Chang Yu, who left the governor's yamen, did not go directly back to the south gate tower to rest. In response to Shi Sheng, he told him that he had private matters to deal with, so the two said goodbye at the yamen gate.
In front of a remote small courtyard at the northwest foot of the city, Chang Yu stopped at the door and glanced left and right. It was quiet in the night and there were no pedestrians.
"Don't worry, Mr. Factory, this place is extremely hidden and is a place for low-level workers." Zheng Xingguo smiled slightly, and a Jin Yiwei next to him also bowed and said, "It used to be the base of Jin Yiwei's secret agents."
This is an ordinary courtyard house. There are several big trees in the courtyard. Even without leaves, they look like they are blocking out the sky and the sun.
The yin energy was quite heavy. Chang Yu raised his head and glanced at the dark night sky, then followed Zheng Xingguo and others into a side room.
The lights in the wing were like beans, flickering, and there was a bed in the corner. There was a person lying on the bed, but his hands and feet were tied, something was stuffed in his mouth, and his eyes were blindfolded.
Hearing someone come in, the person on the bed sat up and kept buzzing.
Chang Yu winked, and Qin Xing went over and took the thing out of the man's mouth.
"Who are you, who are you...what do you mean by helping me to this point?" The man was horrified.
"Who do you think we are?" Chang Yu sneered.
The man was stunned for a moment, then whispered: "You are not from the Yamen, nor can you be from Dongchang or Jinyiwei, because they have no reason to take me. You, you are... from the rebel army?"
"Rebels? Hahaha..." Chang Yu laughed, walked up to the man, and pulled off his mask: "Li Zhisheng, please see who I am?"
This person turned out to be Li Zhisheng, whom Chang Yu said was kidnapped by the rebel spies just now!
It took a long time for Li Zhisheng's eyes to adapt. He looked at the dozen or so big men with sneers in front of him and panicked for a moment: "You, you, who are you?"
He didn't know Chang Yu.
He was confused! Because it didn't feel like these people were thieves.
"What would you think if I told you that all people here are from Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and I am the director of Dongchang?" Chang Yu whispered in his ear.
Li Zhisheng suddenly looked frightened and shouted: "You, you, why do you want to take me? What have I committed?"
"It's a small thing, but it's enough to lead to death." Chang Yu sneered, and then winked at Qin Xing. Qin Xing understood, took out a thin wire, walked behind Li Zhisheng, wrapped it around his neck and strangled him hard...
Uh-huh... Li Zhisheng's eyes widened angrily, and he let out a low roar. He struggled hard, but his hands and feet were tied, and soon he was paralyzed and strangled to death.
"Throw it to Haizi in the west, and let the blame fall on the thieves." Chang Yu said calmly. There were three or four small Haizi in Taiyuan City against the west wall. In history, thieves massacred nearly a thousand Jin kings next to Haizi.
One lineage.
Li Zhisheng did not know why he died until his death. He had only been in Taiyuan for three months and did not commit any unforgivable crimes.
He won't die with his eyes in peace
But Chang Yu definitely had a reason to kill.
In history, when the bandit army came to the city, the King of Jin took out three thousand silver (which shows that the King of Jin was also a stingy man in history) and sent it to the city to "recruit warriors to kill the bandits", but this Li Zhisheng withheld it and replaced it with a note of merit.
The morale of the soldiers and civilians, who were already demoralized by cash, has become even more demoralized now.
For this alone, Chang Yu must kill Li Zhisheng. Although Li Zhisheng has not done such a disgusting thing at this time, and may not even have the opportunity to do such a thing, such disgusting people will always figure out your unexpected disgust.
Well, who knows what trouble will come out.
In addition, Chang Yu is a person who must retaliate for his flaws. After time travel, he was determined to settle the accounts with these people one by one. The prince still has the patience to wait until the autumn to settle the accounts, but he is happy to take revenge and kill when he wants. He can't do anything in the capital.
They went on a killing spree, and after leaving the capital, there was Shang Fang's sword. If we don't eradicate these cancers at this time, we will keep them for the New Year.
So after he arrived in Taiyuan, he secretly ordered Zheng Xingguo to do this secretly. Although he had expected that this would cause a backlash from the literati, the backlash was beyond expectations. Even Cai Maode joined the camp and made such a big splash.
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Fortunately, he was a master of Tai Chi, and he was able to remove the strength by pushing and pushing. Immediately, dirty water was poured on the traitor army spies, and he took this opportunity to launch a publicity war to discredit the traitor army. At this time, those literati
Just when I was thinking about what to do, once I discovered Li Zhisheng's entity tomorrow, it would add fuel to the fire...
It was so perfect that Chang Yu was a little proud of his masterpiece.
Needless to say, he was the one who ordered Wang Zongyou, the patrol censor, to be beaten violently. The reason for being beaten was just to stand up for Cai Maode.
Although Cai Maode was upright and capable, and a devout Buddhist, he was a bit pedantic. When the rebels had just crossed the Yellow River, he went to the front line to command the defense, but when the Jin princes, clansmen and officials in Taiyuan City heard that the rebels were coming,
He was immediately frightened and asked him to come back to Taiyuan quickly to set up defenses. Defending his hometown was the most important thing.
At that moment, Xiong Tong surrendered and his troops were completely defeated. Cai Maode hurried back to Taiyuan, but as soon as he arrived in Taiyuan, Pingyang Mansion behind him was lost.
This was so bad that the censors in the city began to blame him crazily and directly impeached him. The most enthusiastic one among them was Wang Zongyou.
Historically, Cai Maode was dismissed because of Wang Zongyou's impeachment, but now with the arrival of Chang Yu, history has changed slightly. Although he was impeached, Cai Maode was not removed, but was retained for review.
Ordinarily, Cai Maode and his friend Liang Zi were reconciled, but Old Man Cai was a roundabout person and felt that Wang Zongyou did this just as part of his job, so he didn't care about it.
But Chang Yu was a chicken, and Lao Cai Tou didn't mind, but he wanted to help Lao Cai Tou vent his anger and let the Jin Yiwei men secretly beat the guy up.
After walking out, Chang Yu looked up at the sky and took a long breath: "There will be a lot of people who can't sleep tonight, but I'm going to sleep now."