After hearing Fang Yun's words, everyone put themselves in Fang Yun's position and thought that it was just as Fang Yun said, and they would definitely do the same.
"I don't know what others think of seeing some people's literary talents being covered in dust, but I am very happy! Come, on Mid-Autumn Festival night, let's have a drink for Fang Xusheng!" Wu Jun raised his glass and drank it all.
Those who had wine everywhere raised their glasses and drank.
"It's great! A real man should be able to avenge his enemies and take pleasure in revenge! How can we, the saints of the human race, be bullied by these evil spirits?" The stupid scholar Tian Songshi put down his wine glass and looked at Fang Yun with great joy.
At this time, Xiangzhou Governor Fang Shouye walked quickly to the foot of Yueyang Tower and said in a thunderous voice, "General Fang Shouye has something to report."
"The literary gathering is going on smoothly. Why can't we report it later?" Fang Yun seemed to have no idea what Fang Shouye was going to do.
"This matter is of great importance and involves the safety of Xiangzhou. I have to use up the time of the literary meeting." Fang Shouye.
"Well, go ahead."
"Yes! As soon as the midnight arrived, riots broke out in various parts of Xiangzhou. Some people in the city used chrysanthemums as a symbol to openly incite Xiangzhou people to treason, and declared that your literary talent would fail immediately and become a shame for Jingjing Country. Some people started fighting in towns and villages, where ruffians gathered to disturb the people and attempted to offer the area to Qing Country. Some people even used the same old tricks to burn houses and smash Qing people's shops."
Fang Yun and Fang Shouye immediately became the focus of the crowd.
These days, almost everyone present was paying attention to Fang Yun, the governor of the two states. As news about Xiangzhou continued to come out, they admired Fang Yun more and more. It was not only because of Fang Yun's clever methods, nor was it just because of some novel things like "Min Bao", but because Fang Yun was an upright official, a role model for the human race. What they admired most was that Fang Yun was even willing to take the risk of backlash from the bureaucrats to do things, which was something no one had done before.
It is precisely because Fang Yun is so special that he has aroused dissatisfaction among some conservative scholars.
However, although the conservative scholars were dissatisfied with Fang Yun and even regarded Fang Yun as a great enemy, they always had a bottom line. Unlike the Zong and Lei families, at least so far, the two sides were only disputing ideas rather than the holy way.
At this moment, many people also remembered Fang Shouye, who was Fang Yun's uncle.
However, more people are paying attention to "looting, smashing and sweeping" because it has occurred many times during Fang Yun's tenure as governor of two states.
Anyone with a little experience in any place knows very well that no matter where or in which country, looting and smashing, once it reaches a large scale, it is definitely not a sudden incident. It is either because the local people have deep-seated grievances, or it is a deliberate revenge by ruffians. In nine out of nine cases, it is driven by interests to achieve their ulterior motives.
Those ordinary people naturally did not understand what Fang Shouye said, but those scholars, when they heard the four words "old tricks again", immediately thought of the Xiangzhou affairs handled by Fang Yun some time ago. All the public unrest in the past few days was directed at Qing State and Qingjiang Trading Company.
Many scholars have seen an insightful person from Jing write a passage in the tone of a person from Qing on the discussion board.
If you are against Qing, we will burn down the shops of the people of Qing and then hire a group of people to mock and attack the people of Jing.
If you want to stir up hatred against Qing, we will create a few clowns who appear to hate Qing, and then hire a group of people to mock and attack the people of Jing.
Whatever you want, we have ways to bring chaos to the people.
"What's the situation?" Fang Yun asked.
Fang Shouye said firmly: "Thanks to your 'emergency plan', Governor, we have made full preparations, and under your command, we have already grasped the whereabouts of 90% of the riot leaders in advance. As soon as they took to the streets, the state army was fully mobilized to suppress all the traitors. You are a master strategist, but I am limited in my ability and failed to implement your emergency plan, which resulted in certain losses."
"How many places in Xiangzhou are experiencing riots?"
"I just counted the documents reported so far. There are fourteen cases in the six prefectures and fifty-three cases in the forty-five county towns. In addition, there are one hundred and twenty towns and villages where riots have occurred. I believe that after tomorrow, I will give you a detailed statistics."
Fang Yun nodded slightly. At least only the county town had a holy temple where letters could be delivered. It would take a long time for news from the towns to be delivered to the county town.
"What are the casualties?"
Fang Shouye said confidently: "So far, except for the state army and the rioters, no civilians have been injured, but some property has been destroyed. The total loss that has been calculated is about 3,000 taels of silver. In addition, thanks to the people's trust in you, people from all over the country have spontaneously put order. Before the literary meeting, I got a message that a man in Xiaogouzi Town, Hu County claimed to have received the imperial edict of Emperor Qing, rebelled against Jing State, proclaimed himself king and founded a country, made his own jade seal, crown and dragon robe, and wanted to use Xiaogouzi Town as his fief. It happened that two yamen runners escorting prisoners passed by and stayed overnight there. They quickly rushed to the coronation site, arrested four people, and put down the Xiaogouzi State."
"Ha ha… "
The literary gathering was filled with laughter, but Fang Shouye spoke in a very serious manner, which created a strong contrast and made people laugh even more.
"In the Xiaogouzi Kingdom, is the title the Idiot King?" A group of people laughed so hard that they held their stomachs, and many people even laughed until tears came out.
"The government officials destroyed the country! The officials of my Great Jing country are mighty, hahahaha..."
Even many people who came to Qing were laughing. They didn't expect there was such a stupid person. They even thought that all the people of Qing were stupid. But as they laughed, the people of Qing felt something was wrong.
These two idiots claim to have received an imperial edict from Emperor Qing!
A few educated people were shocked to discover that Xiangzhou officials had quietly begun to counter Qing Kingdom!
Fang Yun wanted to establish his own image by attacking Qing State. Qing State took advantage of the situation and began to smash Qing State's business in the name of supporting Fang Yun. Now, Fang Yun also took advantage of the situation and concocted a Xiaogouzi Town and Ershazi Wang, turning Qing State's long-planned large-scale riots into a joke.
Punishing evil is always more attractive than promoting good, and funny and interesting people or things often get more attention than serious incidents.
Once this Xiaogouzi country came out, no one cared about the riot at all. Everyone would discuss this interesting story and would also bring up Qing Jun, which greatly reduced Qing Jun's image.
The faces of several officials in Qing State who were responsible for manipulating the riots became extremely serious, even a little ferocious. They never expected that their years of hard work would go to waste.
In order to cause riots in so many places in Xiangzhou at the same time, all the human and material resources of the Qing Kingdom in Xiangzhou over the years were mobilized. All the Qing officials, merchants and spies in Xiangzhou joined forces and even overdrew the future power of the Qing Kingdom in Xiangzhou.
However, not only was it put out in time by Fang Yun, not only did it fail to achieve the original effect, but it was diluted by the ridiculous incident that may have been fabricated by Fang Yun, which dealt another blow to Qing Jun's reputation.
Now, everyone thinks that King Xiaogouzi is a joke, so isn’t King Qing, who might be related to Ershazi, also a little ridiculous
Some officials of the Qing Kingdom found helplessly that Fang used a short story that might have been fabricated to lower the King of Qing to a level slightly higher than that of an idiot.
Qingjun sat there awkwardly, not knowing whether to laugh or not. He could do nothing but curse Fang Yun in his heart.
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