After convincing the Haowu family, Diao Si continued to take Zuo Rui and the others to visit various families. In this way, after paying a considerable price, he continued to negotiate with several smaller families, but two of them were powerful. Family members Gong La and Lei Gang no longer buy his fault.
Diao Si knew very well that this was because they had not been threatened yet, especially the Lei Gang family. He had laid the foundation for them in Chihu City last time. Supported by such a food base, they would certainly not collapse easily.
So in addition to letting Zuo Rui engage in vicious competition with the Gong La family, Diao Si also had to find ways to destroy the internal relationships between these families. Of course, he couldn't take advantage of their past feuds. Oso had warned Diao Si that doing so would destroy the unity of the entire empire's army and have a great impact on the military.
Diao Si's idea is to hold an event to "appraise the contribution of major families to the empire". I believe such an event has never happened in this world. Originally, Diao Si really wanted to use these activities to stimulate the enthusiasm of the major families, but today he wanted to use it to attack the Lei Gang family.
In order to make this activist well-known and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Diao Si did not hesitate to spend a lot of money on publicity, and even built a large statue to commemorate those families who had made great contributions to the empire.
People in this world still don't know what publicity effect is. When Diao Si successfully made this event a hot topic of discussion every day, those families slowly began to pay attention. But this event was completely led by Diao Si. With a lot of publicity about the Lei Gang family's contribution to food, it quickly jumped to the top of the list.
Unexpectedly, they would suddenly receive such an honor, and the Lei Gang family was naturally very proud. In the end, at the award ceremony, their people even rushed to the stage to receive the award, causing a lot of jokes.
However, other families began to be dissatisfied. They kept poaching for the Lei Gang family and pointed out that the Lei Gang family actually had no construction work. Last time, there was a food crisis because of the little monster incident. The members of the Lei Gang family were naturally dissatisfied at being suddenly attacked in this way, and they kept turning over their family history to explain their contributions to the empire.
In short, after a discordant golden apple, the farce was staged one after another. In the end, the Lei Gang family also fought with many members of the family. As they became more and more marginalized, they began to think of the possible purpose of Diao Si's activity.
In this regard, Diao Si took advantage of publicity and apologized to major families for this matter to improve his image. As some countries on Earth say, if you control the media, you control everything.
During this period, the Gong La family, which was determined not to cooperate with Diao Si, was not having a good life. Under the vicious competition from the Zuorui Group, they were almost bankrupt and now relied on the salary of the royal family to live.
When it comes to capital monopoly, it is impossible for people in this world to be too cunning. He had enough kerosene resources, and then he sold them at a low price, which made the Gong La family unsaleable and had to sell at a low price. Then they sent people to seize the opportunity to buy them all, and then raised the price all at once.
Seeing the resources being sold at low prices turn over dozens of times at once, the Gong La family was so angry that they immediately stocked up on goods, and then the prices bottomed out again. After being deceived for a few times, it was like a retail investor in the stock market. It was difficult to support the daily expenses of the mine.
However, contrast is the driving force for development. When my own family suffered such a complete defeat, but saw that the Haowu family and others lived so freely and happily because of their cooperation with Diao Si, the people of the Gongla family would naturally put great pressure on their leader. In the end She had to take the initiative to find Diao Si to cooperate.
A few days later, after paying some development costs, Diao Si has basically become one with the major families. Even the Lei Gang family, which does not rely on him, at least does not dare to offend Diao Si. This is the general trend.
The three-month deadline is coming soon, and the Blazing Empire is developing rapidly under Diao Si's management. This development speed is even unacceptable. Not only did he make himself a god known to everyone, but even the royal family was influenced by him.
In the past, when people from the royal family appeared, the common people were frightened and hurried away. Now when they appear, people will give up their positions respectfully and serve them sincerely.
Of course, this relies on an important means, which is the propaganda effect, because people here have not experienced anything like this, and they do not know the false nature of this propaganda, so they all believe it to be true. In fact, many of the problems that arise during development have been hidden by the dwarves.
I have to praise those dwarves. Not only did they help Diao Si deal with the annoying Ouma, but they also monitored every move in the entire imperial city for him, including the Mages Association who always monitored others.
Therefore, the information of the entire imperial city is gradually under Diao Si's control. There are almost no secrets that he does not know. Even if he wants to stand up and proclaim himself emperor, it is estimated that no one will resist.
Although Diao Si now actually controls everything in the imperial city, people who are accustomed to imperial thinking cannot accept his status as a management official. Therefore, even if there will be opposition from the royal family and the Mages Association, Diao Si still has to proclaim himself emperor, because only in this way can he have the true highest power.
But that morning, those dwarves detected news that shocked Diao Si. Someone in the imperial city was spreading rumors that Diao Si was the murderer who used magic to kill Oso.
This is incredible, because this is exactly the truth. With the development of the magic academy, many people now know a little bit about magic. If they speculate that spreading rumors is not terrible, they may find some evidence.
Therefore, Diao Si must first find out the initiator of this matter, so that he can know whether this is a casual rumor or whether it is based on evidence. Although Diao Si believed that this was a trick played by the Mages Association or some family to spy on him, he could not take it lightly at such a critical moment.
The only ones who really knew that Diao Si used poison magic to kill Ou Suo were Hei Yu and Ou Yun. Hei Yu was already dead, but Ou Yun had been kept in the basement by Diao Si under surveillance and could not leave.
Unless Black Rain is still alive. Diao Si only heard from Ou Yun that she was dead. It was not impossible if Ou Yun had deceived him or she had deceived Ou Yun. Diao Si became even more nervous when she thought of this, because if Heiyu was still alive, she would definitely cause a lot of trouble when she came back.
So he hurried to Ouyun to question her about Black Rain. But when he got there, Diao Si was stunned again when he saw the scene. That bad guy Ou Yun was tying herself to the bed, moaning in pain, waiting for him.
There was no other way but to motivate this bad woman first, so Diao Si tortured her while asking about Heiyu's situation at that time: "Tell me, is Heiyu dead? How did you kill her? Her Where is the body?"
"Uh-huh, uh-huh... She, I killed her with her staff. Her body was thrown into the river behind Zhenzhi Ancient Temple. She must be dead, otherwise how could I get her ring... "
Ou Yun's words make sense, but if Hei Yu is dead, who else will say that he used magic to kill Ou Suo? Is it just those people who pieced it together based on their guesses and imaginations
Now the entire imperial city is in harmony. This is obviously not a random rumor. Breaking out such a thing at such a critical time is deliberately aimed at Diao Si. Diao Si still had no choice but to do so because he didn't know who wanted to deal with him like this.
After careful consideration, Diao Si remained calm, because the person who stirred up the rumors was probably just to test him, and his overreaction would only make him more sure. So after leaving, he signaled the dwarf responsible for monitoring to continue to keep an eye on the development of this matter.
But Diao Si never expected that another even more terrifying news came out the next day. This time it was that Diao Si had used mental magic to control Ouma, and that was how he got his current position as a management official.
This made Diao Si even more uneasy, because now the population density here is high, and good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. In this way, after the news that harms him comes out, many people will know about it soon.
But those dwarves were never able to find out. They just knew that the news came from near the palace. There are royal family members and Diao Si's people near the palace. Some of Ouma's former male servants may know Diao Si's magic to enchant Ouma, but it is impossible to know about Ou Suo's murder. (To be continued)