No. 224 The treacherous second prince

"You don't need to say this, my imperial nephew is much stronger than you, you untrustworthy villain, hurry up and draft an edict! The province will die for a while, and they will fight for the throne. After speaking, he ordered someone to bring a pen and paper and hand it to Emperor Hao.

Emperor Hao took the pen and paper and wrote the edict tremblingly, and then ordered the six princes to announce the content of the edict in the morning of tomorrow, and the enthronement ceremony was also held.

After writing the edict, Emperor Hao said to the six princes: "Brother Emperor! Actually, I have already arranged your fiefdom, but I am a little reluctant to let you leave Kyoto, so I am reluctant to give it to you. ”

"There's no point in talking about this now, you better take care of yourself! Don't worry about the affairs of the court, I will assist His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to ascend the throne smoothly. The sixth prince said.

"Then I'll rest, you go and arrange tomorrow's enthronement ceremony!" Haohuang said.

The crown prince ordered the imperial physician to take care of his father, and the emperor himself went out with the sixth prince to arrange tomorrow's enthronement ceremony, the prince always felt that his heart was not very steady, you must know that the second prince did not remove his own river for a day, and he was especially afraid of an accident at tomorrow's enthronement ceremony.

Besides, Yang Liu took a team of people to Huyuan quickly, saw groups of refugees along the way, stopped two refugees and asked, only to know that these refugees came from Huyuan, Yang Liu asked strangely: "Didn't the imperial court send officials to your Huyuan disaster relief?" Why do you have to leave your homeland to beg in other places? ”

"Don't talk about the officials sent by the imperial court, as soon as we say it, we get angry, those people under the guise of disaster relief, at the beginning of the house for two days of porridge, but on the third day he gathered the villagers. The villagers have run out of relief money, let them, let them go to other places to beg. The villagers had no choice but to beg everywhere every day, and these officials did not leave, eating and drinking all day long, and then they began to recruit soldiers here, and some young and middle-aged people went to serve as soldiers in order to have something to eat. The refugee said.

When Yang Liu heard that the two princes were recruiting troops in the name of disaster relief, he thought that it was also of a different use. It seems that he wants to recruit troops and horses here to fight against the imperial court, Yang Liu gave the refugee two taels of silver, and took the Haojia army on the road again.

On this day, Yang Liu and the others finally arrived in Huyuan. Yang Liu came to a villager's house. I saw that there were only a few elderly refugees in my family. When he entered the house to inquire about the whereabouts of the officials, he saw that there was only one old man in the house, so he went forward to inquire and heard the old man say, "A team of men and horses has come in the morning." He said he was here for disaster relief. I gave up porridge for two days. It's just reluctant. Some young and middle-aged men were recruited to serve as soldiers, and later a team came and said that they were arresting the officers and soldiers who came first. Officers and soldiers on both sides fought every day. ”

"Old man, do you know where the pair of centaurs who seem to be living in the back are staying?" Yang Liu asked.

"Those who came first lived in the prefect's house, and the later ones set up camp in the fields to the east."

"Are there no crops in the fields?" Yang Liu asked.

"This little girl. We have a plague of locusts here, and all the crops in the field have been eaten up by locusts. ”

"Uncle, can you take us to those who come after?" As he spoke, Yang Liu took out two taels of silver and handed it to the old man.

When the old man saw the silver, he said happily, "Yes, little girl." ”

The old man brought Yang Liu and the others to the camp tent of the officers and soldiers who were ordered to arrest the second prince, and saw a team of men and horses coming, and the officers and soldiers guarding the camp were busy picking up weapons and preparing to fight, Yang Liu hurriedly shouted to them, "Don't get me wrong, we are all our own people, we are sent by the prince to assist you." ”

When the defenders heard this, they were excited to go in and report it, and after a while, they shouted, "The commander of the road is invited." ”

After Yang Liu entered the account, he saw where the person who thought he looked like an officer and soldier was sitting, and hurriedly came over to salute, so he heard Commander Li ask: "I don't know if the woman is serving in that general's ranks?" ”

Yang Liu said: "I am General Li Junlong's subordinate, and I will bring my wife back to give birth, and this time the prince ordered me to come here to arrest the criminal Haolin." ”

"I was sent here by the emperor to arrest Haolin, but this Haolin is very treacherous and difficult to arrest! We had been here for seven or eight days, and we had run out of food several times, and we had to order people to sell food thirty miles away. ”

"Commander Lu, tell me why he is not easy to arrest?" Yang Liu asked.

"That's the case, after the second prince came here, he recruited a lot of young and middle-aged people to be his soldiers, every time we fought, he asked those young and middle-aged people to find their parents, in front of the shield, the back of the bow and crossbow fired together, our officers and soldiers are afraid of hurting the people dare not release arrows, every time our soldiers are seriously injured."

When Yang Liu heard this, he thought that these two princes were not only treacherous but also cruel, and he did not hesitate to sacrifice the people for himself. Once such a person becomes an emperor, he doesn't know what kind of tyrant he will be.

Thinking of these, Yang Liu decided to start with the common people, didn't he let the common people be a shield? He also used the common people to isolate him and win over all his newly recruited soldiers.

Yang Liu told the commander of the road his thoughts, and the commander of the road also felt that it made sense, Yang Liu first asked the officers and soldiers to buy some food in the distance, how did he disguise himself as a villager and come to the village, and first came to the house of the villager who guided him. The old man still remembered Yang Liu, and when he saw Yang Liu, he excitedly walked in front of Yang Liu and said, "Benefactor, if it weren't for the two taels of silver you gave, my two grandchildren would have starved to death." ”

"Get up and take the old man, where is your son?"

"My son went to the army, my daughter-in-law is gone, and now I, a lonely old man, are left with two young children."

"Where did he go to become a soldier?" Yang Liu asked.

"And then, I went to the group of people who came first to serve as soldiers."

"The group of people who the old man wanted to come under the banner of disaster relief, embezzled public funds, it has broken the law, the emperor is now ordering them to be arrested, not only do they not obey the law, but also rise up to rebel, think about how they can fight against the dignified Dahao Kingdom, I advise you to call your son back earlier, otherwise your son will also be executed as a prisoner."

"Little girl, you have a point, I also feel that those people are unreliable, and every time there is a fight, they call us old people, and let us be shields in front, and they fire arrows in the back, regardless of our safety. On the contrary, I think that the group of people who came after me were good, at least when we were acting as shields, they never used arrows to shoot us, but they had no way to collect their troops. ”

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