The scholar's face turned pale:

"When I heard such a big thing, I naturally pricked up my ears, and after hearing it, I realized that Lord Luo first went to Jiangxi, and after arriving in Jiangxi, he was furious when he learned the truth. In other words, the reason why these mountain people dared to collude with the thieves was that in the past, the court only showed favor to them, but did not demonstrate, so that these mountain people had no fear of the court in their hearts, thinking that the court was weak and could be bullied, and if they were slightly unsatisfactory, they would be capricious, and this time they would definitely be killed to the cold, so that they would have a sense of awe for the court.

Zhang Daoyuan and the others have been defeated by Hu Dashuai, and there are no hundreds of people left in their hands, how can a few hundred people kill more than 100,000 officers and soldiers?

The main force that really killed hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers was not the White Lotus Sect and Zhang Daoyuan, but those capricious mountain people. Therefore, Lord Luo personally led the troops into the deep mountains and old forests, and wanted to slaughter the eighteen villages of the mountain people. ”

"Good!" The crowd in the teahouse was bursting into applause. At this time, another scholar stood up and said, "Lord Luo's move is against the way of a saint. ”

The people in the teahouse were quiet, and they all looked at the scholar, and the scholar flicked his sleeves and said:

"The way of the saint, when it is mainly based on education, slaughtering living beings, has already taken the path of the devil, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in the eighteen villages of the mountain people, is it possible that Lord Luo will slaughter them all like this?"

"Shut up!" The first scholar angrily slapped the table and shouted, "What? Those mountain people are people, and our army of the Ming Dynasty is not people? They killed more than 100,000 of our Ming soldiers, and in your heart they are still good citizens, not the devil?

Could it be that those mountain people are people, and our soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are not people?

They can kill more than 100,000 of our Ming soldiers, so we can't slaughter them?

It's funny! ”

The scholar flicked his sleeves, and said angrily on his face: "What's even more polite is that I heard those people in the Taibai Restaurant actually saying that now the whole capital is rumored that there was Bai Qi in the past, and Luo Xin is now there." ”

“…………”

Emperor Jiajing heard this, and his eyebrows twitched. The scholar continued: "I want to ask everyone, before today, did you know that Lord Luo went to Jiangxi to suppress bandits? ”

"You don't even know that Lord Luo went to Jiangxi to suppress bandits, how did you know that Lord Luo was going to slaughter the eighteen villages of mountain people?"

"We don't know." Everyone shook their heads.

"You don't know that Lord Luo went to Jiangxi to suppress bandits, and you don't know that Lord Luo is going to slaughter Eighteen Villages, so how do you know that there was Bai Qi in the past, and there is Luo Xin today?"

"We don't know, you know?" Someone started asking each other.

"I don't know! I've never heard of it before, and today is the first time I've heard of it. ”

"It's the first time I've heard of it."

"Mr. Wang, you are a bookmaker, well-informed, have you ever heard of the saying that there is Bai Qi in the past, and there is Luo Xin today?"

The storyteller shook his head again and again and said, "I don't even know that Lord Luo went to Jiangxi, how can I know about the things and rumors about Lord Luo?" ”

“…………”

There was a lot of discussion in the teahouse, Emperor Jiajing's face was pale, with his wisdom, how did he not know, this is someone deliberately spreading the words of Bai Qi in the past, and Luo Xin in the present.

Judging from the situation of this teahouse, there was white in ancient times, and now there is Luo Xin, this sentence has just begun to spread, and this sentence is in the imperial study in the morning, Emperor Jiajing listened to Xu Jie, so since then, who has spread this sentence from, who has fueled the troubles, so do you need to say it?

"Xu Jie!"

Emperor Jiajing gritted his teeth, this feeling of being played with made Emperor Jiajing feel like he was going to kill, took a deep breath, got up and left the teahouse.

"Master, let's go to Taibai Restaurant?"

"No need to go! Return to the palace. ”

Emperor Jiajing said in a low voice, with his wisdom, he naturally knew that there was no need to go, it should be a source of transmission at this time, and then spread the rumors that were unfavorable to Luo Xin, since he knew what was going on, what else did he dare to do?

To get angry?

In the teahouse, not long after Emperor Jiajing left, the two scholars also quietly left. The two scholars and the storyteller are both Wang Cuiqiao's people, and the cooperation between the three of them is seamless, and two things are happening in countless places in the capital today.

One thing is that some people are scolding Luo Xin for being cruel, spreading the saying that there is white in the past, and there is Luo Xin today. Another thing is that there are people in various ways, there are storytellers in the way of telling stories, there are ways of gossiping among friends, there are mysterious ways of breaking the news, but no matter what way, they are stating one thing, that is, the greed, cruelty and barbarism of the mountain people, telling the countless evil things that those mountain people have done. Naturally, there were troops from Hu Zongxian and Luo Xin.

These two events spread throughout the capital at a terrifying speed, and finally collided uncontrollably, erupting into a volcanic controversy.

One side denounced Luo Xin for being brutal, the other side denounced the other party for being pedantic, and he took the lives of the Han people as human lives.

The next day.

The court also became lively, and the officials of the Fuxing Society headed by Zhang Xun and others also began to play, criticizing Xu Jie, Gao Gong and others for being pedantic, and even denouncing Xu Jie, Gao Gong, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to their own people, and if this continues, the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed in the hands of these corrupt Confucians.

Emperor Jiajing looked at these highly debated recitals between the two sides, but he breathed a sigh of relief.

It's good to have an argument!

Now it can give Emperor Jiajing room to maneuver, and it can also allow him to delay some time.

Jiangxi.

Old Forest.

Luo Xin's army was marching towards the third cottage when suddenly the front team stopped.

"What's going on?" Luo Xin asked.

Soon, General Wang, the commander of the former army, ran over, followed by a middle-aged man, Luo Xin's eyes flashed, and he recognized this as a mountain man.

"My lord, this is the owner of the third village."

"Oh?" Luo Xin looked the middle-aged man up and down, his skin was dark and very strong, and he said, "What's your name?" ”

"Villain Hao Datong, meet Lord Luo."

Luo Xin nodded and said, "What are you looking for this official?" Do you know that this official entered the old forest this time to slaughter your eighteen villages? ”

Hao Datong's eyes showed a look of fear, and his voice trembled a little: "Villain...... Know. ”

Luo Xin's gaze showed a fierce killing intent and said, "Then you still dare to come?" Do you want to die? ”

"I ......"

With a "poof", Hao Datong knelt on the ground: "The villain begs the adults to give us a way to live." ”

"Give you a way out?" Luo Xin said with a gloomy face: "Then who gave life to the hundreds of thousands of dead court soldiers?" ”

"I ......"

Hao Datong was really scared in his heart, he was not a powerful person among the mountain people. At the beginning, Hu Zongxian captured five cottages in a row, but he also lost his troops and lost his generals, and was finally united by the remaining thirteen villages, of course, he also gathered powerless mountain people like Hao Datong and them as cannon fodder, giving Hu Zongxian a fatal blow.

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