The Nameless of the Common Clans

"My Lord, you are right. The guards have reported that Ma Jun can't control the situation." A few days later, Dian Wei came to Chen Mo and said, "I will ask my son to take people to help Ma Jun. Anyone who dares to disobey at this time will be killed directly."

Ordinary craftsmen have no status. At most, they can do better work. Chen Mo values ​​Ma Jun because of his ability to innovate in equipment. If it is only about craftsmanship, how can Ma Jun, a young man, compare with a craftsman who has been immersed in craftsmanship for a lifetime, no matter how talented he is?

Chen Mo nodded. Ma Jun is not even from a poor family and has never seen much of the world. He suddenly became a 600-stone official. How can he control the situation? Now Chen Mo has no time to let Ma Jun get familiar with the means of officialdom. At this time, he is racing against time. This is why Chen Mo directly asked someone to help Ma Jun control the situation.

But let Dian Man go?

Chen Mo looked at Dian Wei and seriously suspected that this guy abused his power for personal gain and wanted his son to become an official.

"My lord, Dian Man is not young anymore. You know his abilities. He follows me in martial arts, but you follow me in knowledge!" Dian Wei felt uncomfortable when Chen Mo looked at him, and laughed dryly.

What do you mean by follow me?

Chen Mo's face darkened, and he snorted coldly, "If you can do this well, you can come to my door and be a chief bookkeeper. As for what position you will be assigned in the future, we will see."

Dian Man is indeed taught by Chen Mo, but his personality is indeed similar to Dian Wei. It is difficult for you to let him be a civil servant, but it is not good for him to be a guard commander for his whole life like Dian Wei. However, Dian Man is still young, unlike Dian Wei, who has already formed and is difficult to change. Now he has begun to learn military tactics and reading, and he may be more promising than Dian Wei in the future.

"Yes, thank you, my lord!" Dian Wei heard the words, his eyes lit up, and he thanked him immediately.

"Go and do things. This year will be very busy." Chen Mo waved his hand. Since he had promised to teach Dian Man, he was prepared to use him. Unless Dian Man was really a piece of rotten wood, the son of his personal guard general would be closer than others.

"Yes!" Dian Wei got what he wanted and ran to continue his own business. In fact, as a personal guard, Dian Wei usually didn't have any serious work in Chang'an City. He trained Chen Mo's personal guards, and most of the time he helped Chen Mo or Li Ru and Jia Xu. After all, as Chen Mo's personal guard, Dian Wei could represent Chen Mo's face in many cases. In many things, he represented Chen Mo and the effect was unexpectedly good.

Spring ploughing has arrived, which is the busiest time of the year. This year is just as Chen Mo expected. It is a drought year. There was not a drop of rain in Guanzhong throughout the spring. In addition, the drought was accompanied by insect plagues. Generally, if there is no snow before the New Year, there will be a lot of insects in the next year. There are not many effective ways to eliminate insects. If doctors prepare poison to kill insects, the farmers will be poisoned, so they can only eliminate insects manually.

Even if enough things are done, the poor harvest this year is a foregone conclusion. Moreover, with the end of spring, Guanzhong suffered a severe drought, and more and more rumors began to spread. For example, this year's severe drought was actually a punishment from God for Chen Mo's misconduct.

Although there is no basis for this rumor, and the people in Guanzhong actually have a much better impression of Chen Mo than Li Jue and Guo Si, they can't stand the rumors flying all over the sky. Ordinary people have no ability to distinguish right from wrong, and they just follow the crowd. In addition, people believe in this these days. I don't know if ordinary people, even Chen Mo believes in gods.

"My lord, someone wants to undermine your rising reputation among the people." Li Ru frowned and looked at Chen Mo. This year seems to be particularly hot. It's still early summer, and it's already a breathtaking feeling. But what's more depressing is that there are more and more voices against Chen Mo in Guanzhong now. Even if Chen Mo has done well and decisively enough in dealing with this year's drought, politics is not something you can do well.

This matter is obviously promoted by someone with ulterior motives. It's linked together. At the beginning, it was just a little bit of rumors, and then some specious evidence, step by step, hit Chen Mo's reputation accumulated in the past year.

"My lord, you should dispel the rumors as soon as possible." Xu Shu also nodded.

"If dispelling rumors is useful, rumors will not be so easy to breed. Once people have an inherent cognition, it is difficult to change." Chen Mo shook his head. He naturally knew the harm of rumors. In fact, Chen Mo was really angry during this period. Some people in the court had squeezed him in a veiled way. What disappointed him most was that Zhao Wen and Zhong Yao, who had a good relationship with him on weekdays, did not stand up to support him in this incident.

Although he had no friends in politics, Chen Mo was still very uncomfortable.

"But we can't do nothing. Although rumors stop at wise men, how many such wise men are there in the world? Rumors are as fierce as tigers." Xu Shu said anxiously.

"Of course I can't do anything, but dispelling rumors is too tiring. Now there is a severe drought in Guanzhong, and there are many things to do. I don't have time to waste too much energy on such things." Chen Mo smiled.

"What is the lord's plan?" Xu Shu and Li Ru looked at Chen Mo.

"There are some." Chen Mo distributed the prepared bamboo slips to the three people and said, "Take a look."

The three people opened the bamboo slips in confusion.

Huangfu Song had an affair with his brother's woman? Li Ru looked at the contents of his bamboo slips in astonishment.

Zhao Wen secretly communicated with the Qiang people? Xu Shu frowned, this problem was a bit serious.

Zhong Yao secretly communicated with Cao Cao? Jia Xu closed the bamboo slips calmly.

"My lord, is this news true?" Xu Shu looked at Chen Mo in doubt.

"I don't know." Chen Mo shook his head: "I made it up casually, but it is reasonable and well-founded, so it should make people believe it, right?"

"But this cannot be punished!" Li Ru frowned. Chen Mo wouldn't fabricate evidence out of thin air to frame a minister because of rumors, right?

"I know, and I'm not prepared to punish him." Chen Mo nodded. He would not break the rules of the game: "I'm just treating him in his own way."

"The Lord's intention is..." Xu Shu felt that he had grasped the key point.

"It's too difficult to refute rumors. Since the rumors say that I have bad moral character, let people see who has bad moral character. But at this time, even in the face of everyone's confusion and abuse, I am working day and night to alleviate the drought. If I work hard and everyone is unclean, I think it will be easier for me to be forgiven by the people. What do you think?" Chen Mo said with a smile.

This is a war of reputation, invisible smoke. Chen Mo doesn’t know who is secretly pushing it, and he doesn’t need to know. There are many people in the court who are dissatisfied with him, including the three gongs and nine ministers, one by one, it is possible, even There may be more than one, because there is a severe drought this year, but it does not threaten the scholars. Instead, it is a good opportunity for the gentry in many places to develop. Not to mention, the price of food can double the wealth of many people and annex a lot of land. But Chen Mo's vigorous fight against the drought can be said to have touched the interests of many people. Even if these people are found and killed, it will not do any good in the current situation. On the contrary, they will bear more infamy. Since they If you want to play with this, don't blame Chen Mo for dragging everyone into the water.

"Wonderful!" Xu Shu said, stroking his palms.

"High!" Li Ru smiled.

"My lord is brilliant!" Jia Xu echoed.

"It's just that I have to take charge of the overall situation. Disasters in every county require my intervention. I'm afraid I don't have time to do this!" Chen Mo looked at the three of them. The method was already gone, but who would execute it...

"My lord, I'm afraid I won't be able to do this." Xu Shu smiled bitterly and shook his head. This was not in line with him. How to fight this kind of rumor war? Even if Xu Shu knew the method, he might not be able to use it well.

"The accounting and allocation of grain and fodder in various counties in Guanzhong, I'm afraid..." Li Ru and Xu Shu looked at Jia Xu in unison.

Jia Xu: "..."

Is it too late to claim illness now? This is something that offends people. It's okay if they don't know about it. But if people find out that it was him who did it, I'm afraid... the good days are coming to an end.

"Then I'll bother Wen He. I have some people who are proficient in this, so I'll leave it to Wen He to dispatch them. They must divert the people's attention away from me as quickly as possible." Chen Mo looked at Jia Xu with a smile. .

"I obey!" Jia Xu had a smile on his fat face and nodded slightly. Chen Mo obviously didn't give him a chance to refuse.

"Tomorrow I will get up and go to Fufeng, please support me together." Chen Mo stood up and said with a smile.

"Here!"

Next, Chen Mo ignored the matter and took Dianwei, Ma Jun and Dianman to Fufeng. The drought here was more serious than that in Jingzhao, and the projects here were more complex than those in Jingzhao. Slowly, Chen Mo stayed in Fufeng until mid-summer. He personally presided over the distribution of grain and organized the people to dig ditches and wells. He stayed in Fufeng for a full two months. At the end of summer, he returned to Chang'an.

The rumors in Guanzhong gradually became chaotic with the entry of another force. When Chen Mo returned to Chang'an, before he returned to the government office, he encountered scholars blocking the road and complaining, demanding that the court severely punish Huangfu Song.

So serious? What on earth did Jia Xu do! ?

Chen Mo was a little curious. After appeasing a few scholars, he returned to the house and began to look through Jia Xu's actions in the past two months.

Huangfu Song had an affair with his daughter-in-law? Zhao Wen lives alone with his uncle and sister-in-law? The secret behind Zhong Yao's ability to secure his position as commander-in-chief! ?

Many things are false at first glance, but just like when the people believed that Chen Mo had lost his virtue, many times the people were blind, and these rumors were fabricated as if they were personally watching. Therefore, from Sangong to Jiuqing, now the entire From top to bottom, there seemed to be no virtuous person in the Chang'an court.

Looking at these and some recently recorded information, the smile on Chen Mo's serious face could not be stopped no matter what.

"My lord, Huangfu Song sent someone to invite your lord to a banquet." Dian Wei came in and said with a greeting card.

"Just say that I'm tired from the journey and feel a little unwell. If you have anything to do, we'll discuss it tomorrow morning!" Chen Mo waved his hand. He won this battle.