"General Zhang, now we have occupied the three cities of Ning'an, Huaishan, and Nanbian for several days. The news must have been spread. In time, the Kang army will come to attack. By then, our number will be several times less than the Kang army. What will happen to us? Okay?" Yin Xiuyuan asked with a serious expression in the room.
Zhang Xing sat opposite him and said with a smile: "Brother Xiuyuan, don't worry so much. I asked Xu Changsheng to recruit soldiers in the city a few days ago. We have just started, and the court does not know our identities, so they will definitely think that we are Shan The thieves rebelled, so Kang Jun will not come with too many people this time. And in a war, victory will not be won if there are more people."
Yin Xiuyuan was still uneasy, but he didn't ask any more questions. He just frowned and swallowed a sip of tea.
"How's it going? How many people have been recruited?" Zhang Xing asked when he saw Xu Changsheng walking in and wanted Yin Xiuyuan to put down his worries. With a smile on his face, he waited for Xu Changsheng's answer.
Xu Changsheng shook his head and remained silent.
Zhang Xing saw that his expression was not very good-looking, and he had a bad premonition.
"The three cities combined only have fifty people."
"How could this happen?" Zhang Xing was puzzled: "Did you tell them why?" In his imagination, when the people heard that Da'an was restored, many people would join the army enthusiastically.
"That's natural. After all, you have to be famous, but the effect is not good." Xu Changsheng was also helpless.
"You try again. If it doesn't work, increase military pay."
"General Zhang, thirty taels of silver per month is already a lot. Besides, we don't have any extra money that can be used to increase military pay." Just as Zhang Xing finished speaking, Yin Xiuyuan stopped him.
"What should we do? Are we going to let His Highness down?" Zhang Xing naturally understood the reason, but this was their first move after they decided to revive Da'an.
The three of them were silent.
"Adults, do you know why this is so?" Song Wenjie stood outside the door holding some snacks. General Zhang and the other three were discussing just now, so there was no need to disturb her since she was a daughter. After he was sent to the Meng Mansion, he received a lot of help. Seeing that the three of them were in a very difficult situation, he wanted to repay them and said.
"Of course we don't know." Zhang Xing shook his head: "Miss Song, do you know why this is?"
"Da'an has been replaced for almost twenty years. Even though there were many people who had the idea of reviving Da'an at first, time has passed and most of those people have grown old or passed away. They are powerless."
"Looking at people my age now, it can be said that they have lived in Kangguo instead of Da'an since they were young. Naturally, they have no feelings for Da'an. How can they want to revive Da'an? What's more, life is very good now. Not many people will give up their current lives to follow our unknown future." Song Wenjie put the snacks on the table and stepped aside: "This is just my personal opinion. Adults can just listen and don't take it too seriously. ."
Xu Changsheng thought that this was indeed the case. After all, he was like this. If he hadn't been instilled many things in this area by his father who had been thinking about Da'an since he was a child, he would not have known what Da'an was. Even so, compared to people like Zhang Xing, my feelings for Da'an seem weak.
The three of them fell silent again. Song Wenjie's words were very reasonable.
"Hey~ what should we do?" Zhang Xing lowered his head and looked at the light yellow tea in the cup: "Is there really no hope of reviving Da'an?"
After a moment of silence, Zhang Xing suddenly raised his head with a happy face and said excitedly: "I thought of it!"
"General Zhang, tell me now!" Yin Xiuyuan became excited after hearing this.
"I recall that when I was reading military books, I studied many military laws in the book. One of them was a case that happened during the change of dynasties. The article mentioned that the emperor at that time was extravagant and extravagant. He did not care about the world and the people, and often caused chaos. To kill innocent people is to act as a tyrant, so all the princes raised armies to seize power.”
Yin Xiuyuan stared at Zhang Xing, a little dissatisfied: "Is now the time to talk about the art of war?"
"Why are you anxious? Listen to what I have to say." Zhang Xing also glared at him: "Since there are not many people who have feelings for Da'an now, and we can't force them to come, then we can just make them resent the current court. When we continue to recruit soldiers under the banner of crusade, those who are disgusted with the imperial court will inevitably join our ranks, and we will have an endless supply of soldiers!"
"It's true, but if we make it up at will, not many people will believe it." Yin Xiuyuan frowned.
"Then we have to make up something real." Zhang Xing said with a smile.
"Real things? Then we have to make them up?" Xu Changsheng was puzzled.
"That's natural. When we combine some things that are real but have nothing to do with each other, and then exaggerate them, it's easy for people who have only a little knowledge of these things to believe them."
Xu Changsheng and Yin Xiuyuan looked shocked, how could there be such a person! If people are rude, nothing will happen, and if things are unreasonable, nothing will happen. Under the constraints of etiquette and morality, such a person has not been heard of for hundreds of years.
Zhang Xing's smile grew bigger and bigger, and finally he burst out laughing. He saw the two people in front of him looking at him in surprise, and coughed twice: "Ahem, tell me everything you know."
In the next few days, Zhang Xingyou walked among the people and finally pieced together some real and unreal things.
"General Zhang, what are your plans?"
Zhang Xing saw Xu Changsheng coming and stood up in a hurry to greet him: "Changsheng, you are finally here. Sit down quickly."
Xu Changsheng sat down under Zhang Xing's welcome. Zhang Xing immediately brought him a cup of tea and handed it to him. Seeing how attentive he was, Xu Changsheng had a bad feeling in his heart.
Xu Changsheng held the tea cup and looked at Zhang Xing in front of him: "General Zhang, what do you want to see me for?"
"No, no, I just want to have a casual chat with you. Drink quickly, the tea will be cold in a while." Zhang Xing said with a smile.
Seeing that the tea in the cup was almost cold, Xu Changsheng took a sip.
"Okay, very good!" Zhang Xing saw Xu Changsheng standing up immediately after drinking tea. Xu Changsheng was stunned and didn't know what he meant. Zhang Xing continued: "I heard that the Passionate Swordsman is quite famous in the world. I hope he will help me spread these things." After that, he handed Xu Changsheng a few pages of rice paper.
Xu Changsheng took a look at the rice paper and was about to refuse, but Zhang Xing said again: "Your father and I are of the same generation, that is, your elder. If your elder pours you tea and you drink it, you have to do this favor for me." , not to mention for His Highness, for Da’an!”
Zhang Xingxiao moved with emotion and reason, and at this point Xu Changsheng could no longer refuse and could only nod in agreement.
In a certain mansion.
A white-haired man put his hands behind his back and faced everyone at the door: "Do you know how the news was leaked?"
Everyone below the steps looked at each other and didn't dare to say anything.
"I'll ask again!" The white-haired man raised his voice by three points.
"Leader, we don't know either." A thin man was pushed out. He turned around and glared at the people behind him, but he didn't dare to get angry and said with a trembling voice.
"It's really interesting. There have been no flaws in the past five years, and now the critical moment is coming, but the news suddenly leaks."
The white-haired man suddenly turned around, and several black shadows flew out of his sleeves, flying past the skinny man's cheek, leaving a trail of blood. The skinny man took two steps back hastily, and suddenly felt someone leaning towards him from behind, and turned around in horror.
There was a long nail that was completely submerged in one person's chest. At this moment, he was looking at himself with a painful expression. He was holding on to his clothes with both hands, and his whole body was shaking. The skinny man couldn't hold back his scream and ran away. The man took a few steps forward and fell to the ground, rolling back and forth. Foam came out of his mouth. He twitched on the ground for a long time. Finally, his eyes protruded and he lost his breath. Death is like pain.
The white-haired man turned around again: "This person just joined in recently. We immediately leaked the news. Needless to say, everyone will understand."
Everyone suddenly realized.
"Remember this person's fate and retreat."
Everyone left, recalling the appearance of that man, they were still extremely frightened.
The white-haired man sat in the auditorium, looked at the letter in his hand, and closed his eyes. "The army has come out. Yu Wei, you are creating chaos and rebellion from within. Try to attract more attention. Cooperate inside and outside to share the worries for the army's frontal breakthrough."
Mo Guo has already taken action, and a war will break out with Kang Guo on the border soon, and all he has to do is distract Kang Guo's attention.
But recently, rumors have leaked out from nowhere.
When the Mo people entered the country, they abducted women from their natal families, opened brothels, and forced girls into prostitution; they abducted children, had their hands and feet broken, their tongues cut out, and sold as miserable beggars.
He really told the truth accurately, and he was the only middleman.
Yu Wei didn't know that he had only heard half of this rumor, and the other half was that the imperial court secretly colluded with the Mo people to allow the Mo people to enjoy privileges and cover up the Mo people's crimes.
Zhang Xing asked Xu Changsheng to spread the news. Xu Changsheng appeared in various brothels as a passionate swordsman. Every time, many people came to watch after hearing the news. The news naturally spread very fast, and it spread within a few days. All over Chiyang County, it is still spreading to other places at an extremely fast speed.
