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But the next day the two failed to leave.

Because in the early morning of the next day, few houses in the village had turned on the lights, and the middle-aged man had just packed up some things, and ran out without telling his wife, sister-in-law and eldest nephew, when he heard a sharp cry.

The howling was particularly shocking in the quiet dawn, and instantly alarmed many villagers who had woken up or hadn't woken up yet.Everyone came out one after another to find out what happened, and it turned out that a sister-in-law in the village whose husband had been away for several years was crying there, and there were two bewildered men standing beside her.

The straightforward man in the village thought that his sister-in-law was being bullied by outsiders, and went up angrily to teach her a lesson, but was stopped by the experienced village head.The village chief went up and asked the sister-in-law first: "What's the matter?"

But I heard the other party say: "Uncle! Chengzi is gone!"

Her cry was very sad, and many people in the village actually had guessed in their hearts before, but after hearing this voice, they still felt a burst of sadness in their hearts.

The open space was suddenly extremely quiet, and many people were looking at each other, unable to bear to make a sound.

The village head said, "Why did it disappear?" Then he asked the two outsiders, "Are these two brothers here to report? Where did you meet Chengzi?"

Those two seemed to be just ordinary farm workers, and when they heard the village chief's question, they repeated what they had said to the sister-in-law before.

It turned out that these two people didn't know Chengzi himself very well, and the reason why they came to deliver the letter was also entrusted by others.They were originally laborers who had fled to return home. On the way to escape, they encountered a sick soldier. They suspected that it was a deserter or remnant soldier from one of the warlords in the previous battle.The other party seemed to know that he was going to die. Before he died, he gave them all the dry food and water on his body, and gave them a stack of hand-painted simple maps with different styles, hoping that they would report to the people on the map. .

In fact, there were about seven or eight people on the list, and they were all comrades in arms of the soldier, but the addresses of many people were not clear, and the map was difficult to understand, so the other party didn't force it, just let them do what they could. 33 Novel Network

Since this village was on their way back home, the two of them stopped by.

"Brother Zhu said that when Brother Chengzi was in the army, he was very worried about his younger siblings. How can life be... So although he is reluctant to part with it, he still wants his siblings to have a good home in the future... Only then can he feel at ease."

This remark irritated Cheng's sister-in-law even more. She was emotional and shouted hysterically, "I won't marry! I won't marry!" Leaving aside the people in the village, even the person who came to report the news could see that the young couple must have a very good relationship , that intense emotion makes people very embarrassed.

Compared with Cheng's sister-in-law's excitement, the village chief has more ideas in his heart.He called the older one of the two messengers aside, and asked him some questions: "Do you know how Chengzi joined the army? He originally said that he wanted to work in a big city, but I never said I was going to join the army."

He felt in his heart that the other party might not know what happened, but he didn't expect that person to really tell the cause and effect.The man said: "Brother Zhu said that a group of them were all recruited by force. In their team, they were originally farmers or migrant workers, and there seemed to be a merchant who was arrested while walking on the road. They were strictly controlled, and if they dared to run away, they would be beaten and punished in various ways... After coming and going, many people did not dare to escape."

Hearing this, the village head was both annoyed and frightened, and said with lingering fear: "The world outside is so uneasy. I have only heard of local farmers being arrested by force, but I have never seen any outsiders who came and went. Be a strong man!"

But I heard someone say: "I heard that after the battles in Qingzhou, almost no one was farming. Didn't Brother Yu say that the newspaper reported this incident yesterday? Now that I think about it, it's no wonder Brother Yu didn't let us dig Gold mine."

He didn't say this very loudly, and the middle-aged man was far away from the man in the fine clothes. At this time, it was getting closer to dawn, and the village started to bark, and it was not as quiet as before, so the middle-aged man The man didn't hear it.But after all, something seemed to have happened in the village. Although the middle-aged man wanted to dig a gold mine, he didn't really have no worries. He still wanted to inquire after all.

A man in silk and satin naturally doesn't want him to be troublesome, but this matter is inconvenient and difficult to stop.The attitudes of the villagers towards him are actually rather polarized. Some people are enthusiastic about him, while others are wary, such as the middle-aged man's nephew Yugeer.Therefore, in a village where men grew up from childhood, it is not good for men in brocade clothes to interfere too much with the behavior of middle-aged men and act too tough.

As a result, the middle-aged man was stunned when he asked about it.

He didn't want to believe this in his heart, so he dragged the two people who reported the letter to him and kept asking.As a result, the more I questioned, the more I felt that the other party's attitude was true and not fake, and I was suddenly surprised and doubtful about the whole thing.

When the man in brocade clothes looked for an opportunity to avoid the crowd and keep up with him again, he didn't expect that in this short moment, the middle-aged man's thinking would undergo a new change.He really couldn't hold back, although he still forcibly maintained a nearly stiff calm on his face, he had already cursed the other party bloody in his heart.

He tried to continue persuading the other party, but unexpectedly, someone had already walked over. While calling the middle-aged man uncle, he looked at the man in brocade clothes with vigilant and hostile eyes, so that he had no doubt that if the other party heard his words If one or two sentences are malicious, he will be beaten up straight away.

The person who came was Brother Yu's younger brother, so his position was self-evident.The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, then changed his mind, which made the man in brocade clothes very angry.However, a young and middle-aged man walked over aggressively, and the danger was self-evident. The man in brocade clothes, who looked a little puffy and sluggish, had no choice but to quickly hide in the dark of the village and disappear.

In fact, Brother Yu's uncle is not a target that must be taken away by men. Now that the population in Zhongzhou is severely lacking, Lord Hou really wants to use the rumors of gold mines to attract people, whether it is as a young labor force or a soldier reserve They are all very fast methods, but the fight is actually the attention of casting nets everywhere to catch fish. The attitude is not too tough, and the meaning of coaxing is more than forceful arrest.

But the strategy is like this, and the people who actually implement it have their own emotions.The head of the Zhongzhou warlords is like this, and most of the people below are "informal", with no bottom line in their behavior, and cheating is the norm. Occasionally, they become inflated, and they feel that they can control the situation. It is not uncommon for them to be arrested by force.

Yin Lian didn't have a deep understanding of the details of this turmoil. The prince hid his identity to discuss with him. Naturally, many places also concealed the details and dealt with them vaguely. There is often cause and effect without a specific process. Otherwise, she would probably soon find out that this Many details of the incident are very similar to the pyramid schemes of later generations.

Of course, due to the difference in identity and social status of the mastermind behind the scenes, this wave of "pyramid marketing" operated by warlords has rougher and tougher methods, but the essence is definitely understood.

So even if Yin Lian didn't understand the situation, all the suggestions she gave were on the key points, and the staff secretly regarded her as a character.

The situation in Nanyi Province and even a few neighboring provinces and cities has undergone unexpected changes at a lightning speed under the strategy of Yin Lian relative to the book, and the strategy made by the prince and his staff after repeated pondering and careful revision.

On this day, Brother Yu's second uncle thought about it over and over again, and planned to give up the idea of ​​digging for gold, but he was consciously being teased, and the man in brocade, who was unwilling to spend the past few days in vain, led someone to attack him.Unexpectedly, a reporter in disguise was secretly ambushing nearby because of Cheng's sister-in-law. After noticing the clue, he deliberately made a big fuss, and took the initiative to obtain a piece of news that was bigger than expected.

This incident suddenly became a big issue. Under the instigation of people with good intentions, the reporter did not immediately point the finger at the Zhongzhou warlords that many people knew well, but reported the incident as if they didn't know it, and then used it as a sensationalist The title makes a direction that is easier for ordinary people to guess, but it is more frightening than the warlord's envoy.

[Gold mining is also a new method of human trafficking? A 42-year-old adult man was almost attacked and robbed because he refused to go to the Nuggets? 】

This overly long title is based on Yin Lian's previous example. The bloody tone in the tone will probably make many Chinese people have a strange sense of intimacy, but media workers in this era basically have a relatively simple work ethics, so the title is mostly realistic, and there is no trickery.

But even so, the incident itself is sensational enough.

Of course, human trafficking is more likely to arouse the fear and vigilance of the people than being forcibly recruited by the army.This kind of vigilance is close to life, and has a greater sense of urgency and crisis than warlords who are separated by provinces.

After this kind of news is published in the newspaper, it does not exist only as newspaper news. The newspaper is only the most initial source of dissemination, but the main and more efficient way of dissemination is through word of mouth after some low-level people hear about it.The confrontation itself is a pyramid scheme spread through rumors, and spreading fear of such events through rumors has turned out to be surprisingly effective.

Moreover, the people at the bottom of this era also have a unique reverence and superstition towards unknown cultures for new media such as newspapers, so not long after this news spread, several villages and towns in Nanyi Province followed the people who claimed to dig gold mines in Zhongzhou to make a fortune The propagandists clashed.

The newspaper under the prince immediately followed up and published several articles in a row, one by one—"There are many gold diggers in the province who 'get rich' in Zhongzhou, how many 'gold mines' have been discovered in Zhongzhou?", "Outside provinces There are also rumors of gold mines, the mastermind behind the gold-digging craze is amazing!?" "A total of 17 gold-diggers in 53 villages in Sulu Prefecture have lost contact, and their lives and deaths are unknown. The reporter is following up and reporting!"

This kind of progressive news gradually not only caused panic among the common people, but also attracted the attention of intellectuals.