Daming: After self-explosive time travel, Lao Zhu's mentality collapsed

Looking at these simple and kind-hearted fellow villagers, he felt that the burden on his shoulders was getting heavier.

"Everyone, when a man lives in the world, he should take it as his duty to help the world." Chu Ze said earnestly: "I am rushing to make pesticides this time just to relieve the victims and stabilize society. If pesticides can really solve people's worries, my life will be lost. Live in vain!"

"Your Majesty is right!" Everyone nodded in agreement, their admiration beyond words.

Chu Ze added: "It's just that there are still some hidden dangers regarding pesticides at the moment. As far as I know, some people with ulterior motives are secretly destroying the reputation of pesticides in an attempt to sow discord among the people. Have you heard any rumors?"

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads: "No, Your Majesty. We have always trusted pesticides, and we have never heard anything bad about them."

Chu Ze secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "That's good. Don't worry, everyone, I will definitely find out the mastermind behind the scenes and never let them succeed! You just farm with peace of mind. As long as I, Chu Ze, am here, no one can hurt you. !”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everyone burst into tears of gratitude and knelt down to kowtow to Chu Ze.

Chu Ze quickly helped everyone up, and ordered his servants to serve wine and delicacies, and drank and talked with everyone.

For a time, the county government office was full of laughter and joy, filled with a festive and peaceful atmosphere.

Chu Ze looked at the happy scene, but felt slightly uneasy in his heart.

He knew that this was just the calm before the storm.

The Zhang family’s group must have a bigger conspiracy.

"No matter what your plans are, I, Chu Ze, will never let you succeed!" Chu Ze secretly swore in his heart: "Even if I risk my life, I will protect the people of Li and prevent you from harming them!" thought of it! Here, Chu Ze raised his glass to everyone and drank the wine in the glass boldly.

At the same time, in a dark secret room in Zhang Mansion, several men in black were plotting something.

The middle-aged man headed by him was Zhang Hongru, the leader of the Zhang family.

He said conspiratorially: "We are unlucky this time. We originally thought that the pressure to deliver pesticides was just an ordinary official. Unexpectedly, it was Chu Ze's confidant Zhao Si. He made a mistake."

Another day later, Chu Ze felt that interrogating Qi Da would be fruitless, so he frowned and said in a deep voice: "Zhao Si, go and pick a dozen clever scouts from the army to secretly monitor the movements of the Zhang Mansion. Be sure to do it." The gods and ghosts are not aware of it, so we can't scare the snake." Zhao Si accepted the order and bowed down.

Chu Ze paced back and forth in the study, frowning.

"What is this Hongru trying to do?" He thought to himself: "Is he really not afraid of the majesty of the imperial court and dares to blatantly destroy the reputation of pesticides?" For several days, Chu Ze was anxiously waiting for news from Zhao Si. .

Finally, Zhao Si hurriedly came to report: "Reporting to Prince Qi, there is indeed something strange happening in the Zhang Mansion!"

"Oh?" Chu Ze perked up and asked quickly: "What exactly is going on?" Zhao Si respectfully replied: "The scouts sent by my subordinates reported that the Zhang Mansion arranged several housekeepers and hundreds of servants. Leave the city in batches and go straight to the nearby villages.”

"Such a big battle?" Chu Ze frowned and said thoughtfully: "What are they doing in the village? Have you found out?"

Zhao Si nodded and said: "My subordinates have sent people to follow them. According to the reports from those scouts, people from the Zhang Mansion actually spread rumors in the village, saying that although pesticides can kill locusts, they are more harmful to people. Farmers in many places have already There are casualties and people are panicking.”

"Bastard!" Chu Ze was furious, punched the table and said, "They are deliberately destroying the reputation of pesticides and inciting public sentiment!"

Zhao Si was also filled with righteous indignation and said: "Your Majesty, my subordinates heard from the scouts that the people in the Zhang Mansion were absolutely sure that pesticides are extremely poisonous and will cause crops to wither, livestock to die, and even people to be poisoned after being sprayed. They also made it up. The tragic stories of many victims made the farmers horrified and vowed never to use pesticides again." Chu Ze was so angry that he was shaking all over and was speechless for a long time.

After a long time, he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Zhao Si, give me the order to immediately send people to the villages and towns to clarify the rumors and stabilize people's hearts. We must let the people know that pesticides are harmless and will never hurt. Human life!”

"No!" Zhao Si accepted the order and was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Chu Ze again.

"Wait a minute!" Chu Ze stared at Zhao Si with lightning eyes and said, "Choose a few eloquent people, disguise themselves as businessmen, and go to the village to promote the benefits of pesticides. Just say that this pesticide is a deity sent by the imperial court. We are specially here to save the victims. We must let the people trust the pesticides and not be fooled by the Zhang family!”

"No!" Zhao Si responded respectfully: "Your Majesty, don't worry, my subordinates will definitely handle this matter and will never let down your entrustment!"

Chu Ze nodded and then ordered: "By the way, don't make any noise about this matter, so as not to alert others. You must act secretly and don't make people in the Zhang family suspicious." "No!" Zhao Si accepted the order and bowed to retreat. .

After Zhao Si left, Chu Ze paced back and forth in the room, becoming more and more depressed the more he thought about it.

"This Hongru is really insidious and vicious!" He cursed in his heart: "It's a waste of time for me to devote myself to serving the people. He actually goes against me everywhere. It's simply abominable!"

Zhao Si went to carry out Chu Ze's order non-stop.

He first selected dozens of clever scouts and ordered them to disguise themselves as various people and go around Zhang's house to find out information.

Then, he selected a few eloquent subordinates and ordered them to disguise themselves as businessmen and farmers from other villages and go to various villages to promote the benefits of pesticides.

For a time, dozens of people were secretly working for Chu Ze.

A few days later, the Zhang family's purpose for spreading rumors was quickly discovered by the scouts.

It turned out that Zhang Hongru took great pains this time and sent hundreds of people to various villages and towns to spread rumors in order to completely destroy the reputation of pesticides and make people lose confidence in the court.

And the reason why he did this was because he had ulterior motives.

It turned out that Zhang Hongru had been hoarding a large amount of food secretly, preparing to take advantage of the famine to drive up prices and make a fortune from the national crisis.

Now that pesticides have come out, ordinary people have finally seen hope, and naturally they are no longer willing to let him make huge profits.

Seeing that his wishful thinking was about to fail, Zhang Hongru became angry and deliberately destroyed the pesticide.

He wants to use this to make the people lose confidence and fall into despair again. At that time, he can continue to enrich the country.

All this was discovered one by one by Chu Ze's scouts and reported.

After Chu Ze heard the news, he was so angry that he wanted to rush to Zhang's house immediately and cut Zhang Hongru into eight pieces.

But he still suppressed his anger and did not act rashly.

Because he felt that the matter might be more than that simple, and that the Zhang family might have a deeper intention behind it. (End of chapter)