June 15th, this is the time Prince Huai attacked Qingzhou.

As for Chen Mo's assault on Huai State, the time was at the end of June.

In between, there was a gap of almost half a month.

That means the first to break the treaty was Prince Huai.

Chen Mo could only be considered to have retaliated passively, he was the victim.

Therefore, when Chen Mo announced this time difference in Huai State, it caused quite a stir.

The most crucial point is, Chen Mo had a witness.

Liu Ji, who was once a staff officer to Prince Huai, this witness is strong enough, right?

Secondly, such a huge action as Prince Huai's attack on Qingzhou, although it fell short, there's no way not a single piece of information leaked out.

Therefore, the one who broke faith was not Chen Mo, but Prince Huai.

Chen Mo knew that public opinion and righteousness were very important, so he had to establish the "correctness" of his attack on Huai State.

After declaring the matter of Prince Huai attacking Qingzhou.

Chen Mo issued a manifesto against the traitor again, and sent for Chen Ming to hold the pen for him.

He could guarantee that the previous article where Chen Ming scolded him was definitely pushed by someone related to Prince Huai's interests, or it was someone from Prince Huai's mansion, behind the scenes.

Otherwise, even if Chen Ming indeed wrote it voluntarily, without someone stirring things up, it couldn't have spread so widely in a short time.

This is not the big data era before Chen Mo's time travel, spreading information relied on manpower.

...

"Layman, please this way." Luo Yong led Chen Ming towards the study room at the Wuguan County Government Office.

In the study room, Chen Mo was discussing affairs with Sun Meng, Liu Ji, and Zhao Liang.

After Sun Meng led soldiers to Hu Zhao City and Weixian for investigation, Chen Mo finally understood the meaning of the marks Liang Xuan made on the map of Huai State.

It turns out Hu Zhao City has a granary Prince Huai secretly built, and Weixian is an arsenal, a place for building weapons and armor for Prince Huai.

Both the granary and arsenal are crucial, Prince Huai wouldn't disclose it to many people, and naturally, Liu Ji didn't know.

"From this, Huai State is mine for sure."

In Chen Mo's original thoughts, after capturing Huai State, he didn't intend to defend it, but to plunder it for a while, and then use Prince Huai's family and Huai State to make Prince Huai return Qingzhou, and then make him bleed financially, Chen Mo would return Prince Huai's family to him and withdraw from Huai State.

This idea came because Huai State is different from Yu State and Lin State.

Prince Huai has been operating in Huai State for a long time, has extremely high prestige, the noble families of Huai State, even the common people, all lean towards Prince Huai, if Chen Mo stays in Huai State, military control is very simple, but wanting to operate like Yu State and Lin State is somewhat difficult.

Secondly, Huai State serves as Prince Huai's main base, Prince Huai will definitely think of ways to reclaim it, by then with the army pressing in, internal disturbances may prevent Chen Mo from collecting military supplies, leading to major issues.

But now, although it's not completely worry-free, the pressure is not as great as before.

After discussing military affairs, Chen Mo asked Liu Ji and Zhao Liang about Chen Ming.

The grandson of a great scholar, Liu Ji and Zhao Liang naturally had an understanding.

Chen Ming, from a young age, showed extraordinary talent, at thirteen he became a scholar, before twenty he became an advanced scholar, wrote excellent articles.

Just as everyone thought he would continue to advance, become an advanced scholar, and enter the court as an official, Chen Ming went to Dragon Return Mountain to live in seclusion.

Dragon Return Mountain is a place where countless wise and capable people have lived in seclusion for thousands of years, because people saw a dragon flying into this mountain, thus the name Dragon Return Mountain.

After Chen Ming secluded himself in Dragon Return Mountain, he was called Layman Danqing.

However, Liu Ji somewhat looked down on Chen Ming.

What seclusion? Just following in the steps of his great scholar grandfather to build a reputation.

Because Chen Ming's grandfather also secluded himself at Dragon Return Mountain, the late emperor after learning this issued a holy decree personally inviting Chen Ming's grandfather to enter the court as an official, which later allowed him to become a great scholar.

But Liu Ji despite looking down on him, when it comes to bigwigs like Prince Huai, they just love this kind of secluded mountain talents, invited Chen Ming out twice, before finally getting him to leave the mountain.

Later, Chen Ming settled in Huai Zhou City.

After talking, outside Luo Yong's voice said Chen Ming had been brought.

Chen Mo let Liu Ji and Sun Meng leave first, he wanted to meet Chen Ming alone.

To be honest, when Chen Mo's men found him again, Chen Ming was very uneasy, although Chen Mo released news saying he wouldn't pursue his guilt and wanted to make significant use of him, but how could Chen Ming really dare to work under Chen Mo.

After all, he scolded Chen Mo so severely...

Thinking about why he was let go these past few days, Chen Ming realized it was probably because of his grandfather's face, wanting to gain a reputation for benevolence, saying he wanted to make significant use of him, was a courteous remark.

Because if he really wanted to make significant use of him, he would have recruited him the day he was released...

Now that he found him again, Chen Ming worried Chen Mo might have changed his mind, still not wanting to let him go.

Outside the study, Luo Yong let him in, his uneasy heart didn't want to lose a scholar's pride, immediately he swung his sleeve, lifted his head and walked in.

As a result, once inside, Chen Ming saw Chen Mo reading aloud a piece he wrote, his face sank, Chen Ming's heart immediately hit a snag, and a layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead and back.

Chen Ming angled his body and raised his hand, wanting to avoid Chen Mo, wipe off the sweat on his forehead, but Chen Mo suddenly spoke: "Layman Danqing is here."

"Commoner Chen Ming... greets the Marquis." Chen Ming originally wanted to show neither humble nor arrogant, even thought of displaying an unyielding spirit like in books, saying a phrase like 'do as you will,' but it came out like this.

"Does Layman have a blood feud with me?" Chen Mo approached Chen Ming step by step.

"No... none." Although Chen Mo's age is younger than Chen Ming, he fought his way out from mountains of corpses and seas of blood, his position was high, aura strong, watching Chen Mo approaching him, Chen Ming felt his voice slightly trembling.

"Since there's no feud, we are of the same family name, why scold my ancestor? My ancestor did not provoke you." Chen Mo said.

"Entrusted by someone, loyal to matters of men. Furthermore, commoner is naturally attached to Prince Huai, these things are what commoner... should do, what's... what's inappropriate?" Chen Ming retorted.

"Who entrusted you?"

"The... Liang Family." Chen Ming disclosed swiftly.

"Sure enough, it's those people..."

Chen Mo softly spoke a line, then Chen Ming saw him raise a hand towards him, frightening Chen Ming into reflexively lifting his hand to shield his head.

But unexpectedly, Chen Mo's hand placed over his shoulder and patted, saying: "Don't be afraid, since I said I wouldn't pursue you, I won't kill you.

Today I invited Layman here to ask for Layman's help in a matter."

"What help?" Chen Ming asked instinctively.

"Become my Assistant Military Secretary, this article is well-written, also help by writing one against Prince Huai."

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