After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

Liu Jinchang looked sinister. He hunts geese all year round, but in the end he gets pecked in the eye?

He was working hard to make money in front of him, but the unknown and hateful thief easily used some dirty powder to take advantage of him behind him. How could he tolerate this?

After the guards repeatedly confirmed that the government office was now safe, Liu Jinchang stepped inside and gnashed his teeth and swore in his heart that he would catch the shameless thief and skin him.

But the problem is, if the determination works, Yu Zizhen will not steal the residences of most corrupt officials in the capital, and he can continue to be her Prince of Zhenbei without taking any part in it.

He stepped up the investigation with a sullen face, and Yu Zizhen, who had taken away almost all the frivolous wealth in his house, had already begun to take advantage of this opportunity and began to help Hengtai Escort Bureau transfer the family members of the escort masters.

When Liu Jinchang finally gave up and gave up the pursuit, he turned to the Hengtai Escort Agency to find bad luck. However, the Hengtai Escort Agency had already gone empty.

Liu Jinchang realized that something was wrong and hurriedly sent people to chase the team of escorts responsible for escorting the disaster relief money and food along the way.

Then, his trusted guards brought him a piece of terrible news that made him vomit blood and fall into coma as soon as he heard it.

According to his close guards, although they and the soldiers entrusted by Liu Jinchang rushed out of the city to catch up with the team, they were unfortunately a step too late.

When they arrived, the bodyguards of the Hengtai Escort Bureau and the disaster relief money and grain they were responsible for escorting had disappeared. Liu Jinchang's confidant had agreed with the food transporter as an internal agent at the place where the drug was administered. Only the escorts of the Hengtai Escort Bureau were left. The teacher is a ghostly citizen husband who is tied up with five flowers.

The other innocent civilians who were affected have been dismissed immediately by the bodyguards. These people were originally captured temporarily by Liu Jinchang's minions to work for nothing. Now that such an incident has happened, they are afraid of getting into trouble that they shouldn't. After the escorts signaled that they could leave, these people immediately turned around and ran away, quickly scattering.

The disaster relief money and food disappeared, and the people who were supposed to take the blame were nowhere to be found. Liu Jinchang couldn't bear this blow, and was so stimulated by the bad news that he vomited blood and fell into a coma.

His minions, who were also aware that something was about to happen, were filled with uncontrollable panic, but at the same time they had to cheer up and invite doctors to come and treat Liu Jinchang.

Before he finished speaking, he witnessed with his own eyes the terrifying scene of his master vomiting blood and falling into a coma. After Liu Jinchang woke up, the guards did not dare to continue talking about the content that would undoubtedly make Liu Jinchang more anxious and angry, but that part of the content was The matter was so important that none of them dared to make any claims and conceal it.

The leading guards discussed with each other, and then took advantage of the moment when Liu Jinchang finished drinking the medicine and began to rest, and together they found Liu Jinchang's confidant.

They told Mr. Wang, who was full of evil but highly trusted by Liu Jinchang, "Those bodyguards are so brave that they actually pulled up a banner naming the person who framed the man."

According to them, the bodyguards of the Hengtai Escort not only took away the disaster relief money and food and tied up the evildoers, but also used the simplest language to tell the Cangzhou Zhizhou Yamen that they first forced the Hengtai Escort to take the wrong business. Then they arranged for the people who were transporting food to poison their meals, intending to frame the Hengtai Escort Bureau while embezzling money and food for disaster relief. They wrote banners, jokes and jingles about it and spread it everywhere.

Especially in the place where the bodyguards captured stolen goods and caught the evildoers, there were so many banners that it was as if the banners were made for free.

When Liu Jinchang's guards rushed over with the Cangzhou garrison, the place was surrounded by Cangzhou people and disaster-stricken refugees who pointed at the peasants and banners and discussed the matter angrily. Although they quickly dispersed the people who were obviously not in the right mood, the rumors had obviously spread long ago. They could disperse the people who were watching and talking, but they could not stop the rumors from spreading quickly like the plague. It spread widely in Cangzhou and even surrounding counties.

On the way back to the capital city, the guards often heard people spreading and discussing the matter privately, and banners, jokes and jingles related to it would float into their ears from time to time.

They were eager to come back to report the news to Liu Jinchang, and did not dare to delay on the way. Therefore, the most they could do was to stop when they heard the people say this, and destroy the eye-catching banner when they saw it. But more of them were There's no time for that.

This matter had a very bad impact on Liu Jinchang's official reputation, and countermeasures must be taken to solve it in time. Therefore, when the guards did not dare to provoke Liu Jinchang, they had no choice but to retreat and choose to seek help from Liu Jinchang's most trusted person as soon as possible. That bad master.

Master Wang never dreamed that those vulgar warriors, who in his opinion may not have brains as big as walnuts, would not only defeat them at an absolute disadvantage, but also know how to control public opinion. Tit-for-tat forced them to take responsibility for this matter.

He waved away the guards, then frowned and started pacing back and forth in Liu Jinchang's yard.

He thought very clearly that there were two most important things at the moment. One was to suppress the terrible rumors that were not good for Liu Jinchang as soon as possible, and the other was to capture those bodyguards as soon as possible and collect the disaster relief money and food. return.

As long as he does these two things well, Liu Jinchang can still keep his life and even his official position under the operation of the Lu family.

Master Wang thought clearly and acted quickly enough. However, the people he sent out to trace the whereabouts of the escorts and the relief money and food failed to find even the slightest trace.

There are also people who were previously ordered to trace the whereabouts of the old, weak, women and children from the Hengtai Escort Agency, but they have made no progress at all after so many days of tracing.

As for those terrible rumors that are not conducive to Liu Jinchang, although Master Wang has racked his brains and thought of ways to suppress them, rumors are like banned books. The more you don’t want people to talk about it and the more you don’t want people to read it, the more people will get upset. I can’t help but want to talk and see.

If the rumors were spreading as fast as the wind before he had time to take action, then after he started to take action, the rumors could be said to be spreading at the speed of light.

And because he used an iron-fisted method to suppress rumors, many people were beaten and arrested by government officials and soldiers just for gossiping. This simple and crude method of suppression not only made people fearful, but also inevitably caused misunderstandings. Make people dissatisfied.

They originally believed only a third of the rumors, but soon believed them all because of the government's "guilty conscience."

In addition, rumors are inevitably distorted as they spread, and with people adding fuel to the fire intentionally or unintentionally, the rumors eventually developed dozens of versions on their own.