In the pavilion on the shore, Tang Xiaobei was still flipping through grain dealer information.
Suddenly, one of the messages caught her attention.
According to the information, the backer behind this grain merchant was a wealthy family called the Hou family. More than a hundred years ago, the family had a state pastor and occupied a lot of land in their hometown of Baling County.
Later, Zhou Mu died, and the Hou family began to decline.
What attracted Tang Xiaobei was the last paragraph of the information.
A few years ago, the Hou family attached itself to the Zhou family in the capital.
"Go and check the Zhou family behind the Hou family. Who is the person behind the scenes in Jiangnan?"
Tang Xiaobei circled the Zhou family with a pen.
"Yes!" Yuan Caiwei took the information and left.
As an important water transportation town, Baling County has various forces intertwined and is much more complicated than Guangyuan.
Zhong Ming's team was unfamiliar with the place and didn't know where to start. They put in a lot of work, but the results were far from ideal.
Now that Tang Xiaobei had pointed out the direction of their investigation, Zhong Ming's team immediately went into full swing.
That night, the information about the Hou family and the Zhou family was delivered to Tang Xiaobei's table.
Tang Xiaobei understood everything when he saw that the Zhou family had recently changed their Jiangnan talker. The new talker was named Zhou Jinrong, and Zhou Jinrong had a son named Zhou Wenyuan.
Zhou Wenyuan had a grudge against Jin Feng, and he was in Baling County.
So it is self-evident who is behind the scenes.
"Zhou Wenyuan is in Baling County. Why didn't you find out such important news earlier?"
Tang Xiaobei looked up at the leader of Zhong Ming's team.
The person in charge lowered his head and did not dare to speak.
The establishment of the Zhongming Group was still too short, and there was a lack of professional training, so many things were not done well.
In this regard, Tang Xiaobei didn't have a good idea. He waved his hand and said, "Okay, help me keep an eye on every move of the Zhou family. If there is anything unusual, come and notify me immediately."
"Yes!" The person in charge bowed and agreed.
"Zhou Wenyuan..."
Tang Xiaobei knocked on the table and fell into deep thought.
After a long while, Yuan Caiwei was called over: "I heard that there are many scholars who write storybooks in Baling County. Find some of them here."
Zhou Wenyuan ruined Jin Feng's reputation, so Tang Xiaobei naturally couldn't let him go.
During his stay in Xihewan, Tang Xiaobei spent time with Jin Fengni every day and learned a lot.
The two once talked about the propaganda war and the public opinion war.
Compared with the method Jin Feng told her, Zhou Wenyuan's little tricks were nothing worth mentioning.
That night, Tang Xiaobei met with several scholars who specialized in writing story novels at a restaurant.
Under the huge power of money, the scholars worked on the manuscript all night long.
Back in the capital, because of the poems on the black knife and the soap box, the storytellers in the capital made up many versions of the story for Jin Feng.
Tang Xiaobei thought it was interesting, so he asked Luo Lan to collect some and send them back to Xihewan to read them as stories.
Now what the scholars have to do is to follow Tang Xiaobei's request and rearrange the stories circulating in the capital, and then add Zhou Wenyuan's role.
The next night, the Baling County storyteller had a new story.
It has to be said that Tang Xiaobei is very talented in writing articles about female pornographic soldiers.
In this story, Jin Feng is a general guarding the frontier. He is tall and handsome. He is not only skilled in martial arts, but also full of knowledge. He also has a beautiful confidante Tang Xiaoxiao.
When the Dangxiang people came, the general went to northern Xinjiang to fight for the country. He turned the tide on the border and beat the arrogant Dangxiang people until they were running away.
Tang Xiaoxiao was in her hometown, but she was targeted by Zhou Wenyuan, a bad boy from the capital.
The evil young man coveted Tang Xiaoxiao's beauty and failed to express his love, so he colluded with the local bullies in Guangyuan to harm the Tang family.
The Tang Dynasty's family was deceived and the family was destroyed.
The evil young man came to threaten Tang Xiaoxiao again, but Tang Xiaoxiao loved the general so much that he would rather die than obey. With the help of his maid, he hid.
The general who was far away on the frontier learned that his lover had encountered a catastrophe, so he quickly led his troops back to his hometown, and found the distressed Tang Xiaoxiao at the place where the two had their first date.
It happened that the evil young man also found the evil slave with his evil slave. The general was furious and chased the evil young man for hundreds of miles overnight. He fought with the evil slave guard of the evil young man on the river bank and was inseparable.
The evil young man took advantage of the guard to hold the general back and escaped alone, leaving the guard alone. Like a drowned dog, he fled to the south of the Yangtze River.
Then he went around slandering the general's reputation.
In this era of serious lack of entertainment, stories about iron-blooded generals, talented women, and villains in the capital are simply not very popular.
Coupled with the national hatred between Dakang and Dangxiang, this story simply has its own flow.
At first, it was just the storytellers that Tang Xiaobei paid to tell the stories. Later, when other storytellers saw that the stories were very exciting and received a lot of rewards, they also took the initiative to join the team.
In these days without television or newspapers, storytellers are the best tools for public opinion.
Under their impetus, the people of Baling County's view of Jin Feng soon underwent a 180-degree turn.
"Have you heard that we have wronged General Jin before? He really bought food for disaster relief."
"Yes, it's all the fault of that thief Zhou Wenyuan for making up lies to deceive us!"
"Everything a storyteller tells is just a story, not necessarily true. Don't take it seriously."
"Mr. Jin's story is true. My son was studying in school, and he taught him several poems written for our people. He said that these poems were all written by General Jin."
"Is it the one at noon on the hoeing day? My son also carried it for me when he went back."
"The war is also true. My cousin fought with the Dangxiang people in the north. He came back this year. I asked him yesterday. General Jin really led the Tielin Army to defeat the Dangxiang people in the north. Everyone who is a soldier in the north knows it.
, if you don’t believe me, go back and ask.”
"Yes, yes, I also asked about it. It's true. I heard that General Jin beat the party members in the north so that they didn't dare to stand up. As a result, Zhou Wenyuan, the dog thief, spoke ill of General Jin everywhere, deceiving Your Majesty and causing the general to lose his official position.
"
"Yes, if General Jin is still at the border, the Dangxiang people will be beaten back, and we won't have to pay so many taxes!"
"The dog thief Zhou Wenyuan, I heard he is in our Baling County?"
"Yes, the cripple who likes to go to Jiuxiao Tower is Zhou Wenyuan!"
"It turns out it's him. If I see him again in the future, I will definitely spit on his face!"
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Tang Xiaobei's story only exaggerates Jin Feng's personal strength and depicts more romance, but in fact most of it is true.
The common people can tell the truth from the lies by asking the northern veterans who have returned this year.
After learning that Jin Feng had really defeated the Dangxiang people, coupled with a large number of poems to prove it, I was convinced of the whole story.
After all, storytellers cannot write such good poems.
Jin Feng quickly became a celebrity in Baling County, and his reputation continued to rise.
Zhou Wenyuan, on the other hand, was exactly the opposite of Jin Feng. In just a few days, he became a notorious villain in the capital.
A few days ago, people spat at the door of Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce. Zhou Wenyuan didn't know how happy he felt. Now it was his turn.
Every day, countless people would secretly spit at the door when they walked out of Zhou's house.