The news struck Zhao Xiong like a bolt from the blue, turning his face ashen. After opening the report and confirming its accuracy, he was overwhelmed with indescribable shock.
The situation is more complicated than imagined. A judge from the underworld committed murder? No!
Zhao Xiong wasn't stupid; he knew someone was pulling strings behind the scenes. Once the public opinion was in control, Minnesota would be in chaos!
Although Zhao Xiong discovered the problem, he was unaware of what Chen Zhennan was actually doing behind the scenes.
In the eight counties of Mingzhou, nearly seven hundred people died in two days. They were all people who oppressed the good and preyed on the people and deserved to die.
Zhao Xiong clenched his teeth, thought for a long time, and finally made a decision.
"Order all soldiers in the battalion not to ask for leave. In addition, soldiers who return from leave should gather together to prevent rumors from spreading."
Zhao Xiong had no choice but to resort to this forceful method to control the situation; under no circumstances could the morale of the troops be allowed to collapse.
The stability of the army is crucial to the safety of the entire state of Minnesota; if morale wavers, the consequences will be unimaginable.
However, to Zhao Xiong's surprise, his arrangement not only failed to suppress the limelight, but also backfired.
Almost everyone in the 50,000-strong army knew about the events in the eight counties of Mingzhou. Everyone was spreading rumors about the judges of the underworld killing people, and that the underworld officials were specifically targeting evil people, and those who died were the most vicious and deserving of death.
Outside the city, in the woods, Chen Zhennan crouched in a tree surveying the terrain, while Yan Shiyu watched his surroundings warily from below.
"Shiyu, pass down the order: tonight, go to Mingzhou City and arrest a few people, leave some traces of the ghost messengers' actions, and scatter some paper money on the ground to make all the soldiers in Mingzhou City believe that it is the ghost soldiers causing trouble."
Yan Shiyu nodded emphatically, never expecting that Chen Zhennan would use this method to conquer Mingzhou City.
“Learn from Shiyu, this is called a war of public opinion. A thousand years from now, this kind of war will be more brutal than a war of swords and shadows.”
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