Regarding Ying Jieyan's 'accusation', Zhao Yu did not deny or admit it, but just laughed it off. As for why he inspected Geeyang, he couldn't say the specific reason, but he urged him to prepare for war, find iron mines, resettle refugees, and seek other places for development...... However, it seems that it is too early to consider other things except war preparations, especially at a time when the situation is extremely tense, the war is on the verge of breaking out, and the outcome is unpredictable.

If you lose, everything will stop, these are all jokes, and you will be embarrassed to say a few more words, 'Your Highness's ambition will die before it is rewarded'. But then again, if you win, you must consider these things, a war that is far away has no self-sufficiency, and it will not last long by robbing and smuggling, and will only end up becoming bandits, pirates, and perishing in endless attrition.

And Zhao Yu chose the Jiyang Army as the strategic rear also has historical reasons, from the beginning of this dynasty, Taizu Kaibao in April and February, with the general Pan Mei conquered Guangzhou, the Southern Han Dynasty perished, and Hainan Island began to be ruled by the Song Dynasty. Less than two months after taking over Hainan, it was once again clear that the four prefectures of Dan, Zhen, Ya and Wan'an belonged to Qiongzhou, and at the same time, the Qiongshan County where Qiongzhou was located was moved to the current Fucheng, opening the status of the political, economic and cultural center of Hainan for nearly a thousand years.

During the Song and Song dynasties, the administrative construction of Hainan Island changed very frequently, and the Northern Song Dynasty regime made major adjustments to the construction of Hainan, that is, the so-called "merging the cliff into Qiong" and "changing the revitalization into the cliff" - abolishing Yazhou, and changing the three counties of Shecheng, Chengmai and Wenchang to Qiongzhou, ending the situation of the two states on the north and south coasts of Hainan; However, the Yazhou that has been used for hundreds of years has not been abandoned, but the Zhenzhou in the south of the island has been renamed Yazhou, and since then, a cliff and a Qiong, separated from the north and south, have not been changed again until Shaoxing.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang realized the importance of Hainan Island's strategic position, and completely changed the traditional view that most of the feudal rulers of previous dynasties despised and even scandalized Hainan Island, and regarded the island as a shelter for criminals and degraded officials, so that it became a daunting position for eunuchs. Another important measure in the construction was to upgrade Qiongzhou to the prefecture, and Qiongzhou Mansion also became the highest level of local government on Hainan Island in the Ming Dynasty, but Yazhou was changed to Zhili Prefecture, and since then it has been on an equal footing with Qiongzhou, and its role on the island has become increasingly prominent.

From these changes, it can be seen that those founding monarchs with strategic vision had a clear understanding of the importance of Yazhou. Zhao Hao also thought that if the status of Yazhou remained maintained after the Southern Song Dynasty, Hainan Island would not form a situation in which the north was heavy and the south was light, and the development of Yazhou would not lag much behind, so that there would be a difficult situation of narrow land and sparse population and weak development. Therefore, even at the strategic level, it is necessary to change the state of Yazhou at this time and operate it into a large rear of the whole island, so that even if Qiongzhou is temporarily defeated in the war, it can rely on the lofty mountains and mountains in the middle of the island for defense, so that Qiongzhou will not be driven into the sea if it is lost.

Of course, all this is just Zhao Hao's idea, and he also knows that it is unrealistic to mobilize a large number of manpower and material resources to run Yazhou now, and everything has to be said after stabilizing his position. In addition, he is also short of people, otherwise no matter how good the plan is, the fields will still be uncultivated, the iron will not be mined, and he will still follow the old road of Mao Kui. Therefore, recruiting people has always been Zhao Hao's heart, and he also tried to recruit displaced people in Guangzhou, but Qiongzhou's reputation is too bad, and no one is willing to come to give generous gifts, so Zhao Hao has to think of some crooked ideas......

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Recently, several pieces of news have been circulating in the Jiangnan area, and almost everyone knows about it, and the government has also clarified on several occasions that a reward has been offered for the arrest of the spreaders, but not only has it not been contained, but it has spread more and more widely.

Among them, the most widely circulated is that Kublai Khan, the chief of thieves, secretly issued a secret decree to the provinces to kill all ten surnames, which are divided into the upper five surnames and the lower five surnames. The 'Shang Wu surname' refers to Zhao, Liu, Li, Yang, and Wang, because the Han people with these surnames have all had emperors, so they must be killed; There are several versions of the "next five surnames", some say that it is Han, Yue, Zhang, Di, and Yu, because these surnames have produced famous generals in this dynasty; There are also Han, Kou, Jiang, Jia, and Qin, because these surnames have had prime ministers in this dynasty; There are also Qian, Zhang, Lin, Huang, and Sun, because there are the most people in these surnames in Jiangnan, and it will be difficult to control once they rebel, so they have to be killed.

However, the source of the secret decree mentioned in this statement is surprisingly consistent, saying that one of the envoys to Jiangnan encountered a strong wind and capsized when crossing the Yangtze River, and the envoys and entourage of the edict were drowned, and the body floated to the shore for a fisherman surnamed Liu to find, and his greed for money took away all the belongings on the corpse, and the corpse was thrown back into the river. He was illiterate and illiterate, so he threw the holy decree to the children to play with, and happened to be seen by a master surnamed Li in the village, so he hurriedly ran away with his family.

That night, the people surnamed Liu and Li in the village were killed by the Tartars, and the master felt guilty when he learned about it, so he told the others about it. But everyone thought he was crazy and talked nonsense, so he took out the holy decree and showed it to everyone. Those who believed fled overnight and changed their surnames, and some were killed soon after not believing them. Therefore, many people on the list have fled their hometowns, but now that the Tartars have occupied Jiangnan, the imperial court has been defeated and retreated, and it is not safe to run anywhere, so some people say that now King Wei is in Jingluo Qiongzhou, and there are 200,000 soldiers and thousands of warships under his command, and the Tartars dare not invade the border......

There is also a very terrifying rumor, saying that the Tartars are all cavalry and are not good at attacking the city, and I am the best at defending the city, so why can't I stop the attack of the Tartars even after losing the defense? That's because the Tartars have a secret weapon called the gold juice cannon, and the cannonballs fired by it will burst when they hit the ground, and the gold juice will flow out, as long as a person gets it, it will festered and die, and there is no way to save it. The reason why the golden juice is so powerful is because it is refined with human oil, and it is best refined from the living, followed by the dead. Because of this, there is no city that cannot be broken.

Now the Goryeo people are rebelling, and the thief chief Kublai Khan wants to send troops to suppress it, but there are also countless cities over there, and only the golden juice cannon can break the city. However, because the Central Plains had long been pacified and sparsely populated, and Jiangnan was densely populated and rebellious, he thought of arresting people in Fuzhou and Quang Nam to refine oil for the purpose of conquering Goryeo. Now the thieves have received secret orders from Li Heng and Instigation, and in order to prevent people from escaping after hearing about it, they used the method of requisitioning the people to deceive people to remote places in the name of requisitioning people's husbands, and then threw them alive into the cauldron to refine human oil.

The person who broke the news is said to be a former Song army leader Wang Erlang, who was incorporated into the Tartar army after surrendering, and their task is to specialize in refining human oil. One day, when he found out that his brothers and fellow villagers were among the deceived people, the old troops in the liaison army killed the Tartars who were watching them and fled from the enemy camp with a few hundred rescued people. But thinking that they had nowhere to go, they went all the way south to join the Shuaifu army in Qiongzhou, and on the way, in order to prevent anyone from being fooled again, they told everyone about it, and they went to Qiongzhou because the Shuaifu army had a meteor cannon that specialized in breaking gold juice cannons, and they were not afraid of Tartars at all......

Another piece of news is both fearful and hateful. It is said that a group of monks have gone south, and these people will use demons to abduct children. As long as the child they like only touches the top of their head, the child forgets that their parents and relatives have followed them. And they kidnapped young children because they wanted to refine the elixir of life for the thief chieftain, and they needed to use the hearts and livers of 3,000 boys and girls as a medicine primer.

At the same time, these monks also emit miasma, which causes plagues to prevent them from being caught abducting young children, which is why no one knows how many children they have taken away, because people have died in the places they have passed due to the plague. And now it is said that only the Shuaifu Medical Institute has the elixir of **** miasma, and those who are dying after taking their medicine can be saved, and many people in Leizhou are alive because of the medicine given by Shuaifu......

Although these rumors are spread in different places and versions, they are all extremely terrifying and terrifying, but there is no way to resist them, because the enemy is too powerful, and the only way is to flee as soon as possible to avoid doom. And there are also smart people who find that the demons all point to Kublai Khan, but the savior is the king of Wei who is far away in Qiongzhou, and it is safe to escape there. Ying Jieyan is not stupid, and if you think about it, you can think that His Royal Highness must be making trouble, but he doesn't admit it, and he can't grasp any evidence.

In fact, the initiator is Zhao Yu, what he wants is to create terror, make people feel scared and want to find a safe place. But it is necessary to meet the standard of making people feel fearful enough to be not afraid of the sinister state of Qiongzhou, and to be able to cause widespread panic, and to put the account on Kublai Khan's head. So this job is not as easy as you think, but the operation should be simple. The way to meet these conditions is to stir up people's emotions, and the hardest part is to make up a 'good story'!

How to make up a good story, Zhao Yu is not good at this, but how to operate is no stranger. Because in his previous life, a person could become famous overnight, and a rumor could spread to all corners in an instant. And the reason why this is possible is that in addition to the particularity of the event or the person, there is a team that can tell a story behind it.

Zhao Yu knows that a highly inflammatory story sometimes does not need a factual basis at all, and the communication effect and inflammatory nature will not be discounted because of a lack of evidence. The absence of evidence shows the enemy's strength in destroying evidence, and highlights their threat to their own side. Moreover, if there is physical "evidence" in a hate story, it is easy to find flaws and affect the effect of incitement. For example, the story of "patting flowers" originated in the late Qing Dynasty and was drugged on the shoulder, but because it could not be falsified, it continued to be popular for more than 100 years, and it is still floating in the subway and dark alleys to "commit crimes", which makes people believe it.

Now the provenance of several stories sounds real. The news of the 'killing of ten people' came from the holy decree, because the accidental death of the envoy fell into the hands of the villagers, and the master inadvertently discovered and fled in advance to avoid the disaster. After that, because the master was guilty, he told others and showed the holy decree he had picked up, and the whole story has characters, time, and sources. But if you want to find the source, you can't find it, but you can't help but believe it, because someone has seen the holy decree, and that's what it says.

In the same 'Golden Juice Cannon' time, the Han officer Zhang Erlang revealed the truth of the matter because he was not angry that his relatives were killed, and the Song army that rebelled against the Song Dynasty and surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty was tens of thousands, and there were not a thousand but eight hundred people named Zhang Erlang, and it was not easy to find and dig out this person, and besides, this person had already run to the Qiongzhou Marshal's Mansion to join the army, where do you go to find it. The story of 'child killing' is the same, thousands of children were lost in the war, although there are different reasons, but people will believe that their children were abducted by the monks, so the matter is ironclad, because there are many such things around.

In addition, in order for a story to be communicative and incendiary, it needs to have two characteristics: one is sensational, and the other is to be able to connect with the present. By satisfying these two points, horror stories can cater to people's sense of crisis, mobilize their emotions and desire to spread. In an era when the crisis is serious and people already have a strong sense of crisis, such stories can certainly be relied upon.

The Mongols have long been known for their cruelty, and it is also true that they use gold juice cannons, but they are filled with oil, not human oil, but the Mongols have been keeping it secret for the needs of war, where do outsiders know, and they can't explain it, the more this is the easier it is for people to believe. After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, all the royal families with the surname Wanyan were killed by the Mongols, and with this antecedent, the story of the Mongols killing the 'ten surnames' has a basis, which makes it very easy to believe that it is true.

Of course, the extremes of plague, political upheaval, and economic collapse are too rare to be the basis for hate stories. There is no better way to perpetuate a sense of crisis than to threaten their children, so stories of children as victims have been repeated to this day. Most of the children's hate stories are bloody and tyrannical, and the story of the emperor making immortal medicine for immortality is even more widely circulated, and the fact that Qin Shi Huang once forcibly conscripted 3,000 boys and girls to go to sea in order to win is even more well-known. In this way, as the weakest compatriot of his own race, he must be tortured and killed by the most cruel foreign race, so as to arouse the strongest hatred of his fellow people.

Zhao Yu has seen psychologists analyze the fear of the spread of rumors, and they found that people are more likely to empathize with negative emotions, and they are also more likely to empathize with the emotions of the same group. As a result, fear and hatred can become effective mobilization mechanisms and survival strategies in the brutal and extreme environment of inter-ethnic groups. In other words, hatred has a natural advantage, and the struggle will make people automatically join it, and it will also focus resources under the banner of the demagogue.

Of course, as a good demagogue, Zhao Yu knew that this should not only rely on his own struggle, but also take into account the historical itinerary. A good story is enough to stir up ethnic hatred, and its hearers are so angry that they gnash their teeth or are inexplicably frightened, and they are asked to turn their fears into real action, sometimes depending on luck...... (To be continued.) )