Chapter 716 Water can carry boats and capsize boats

As soon as the prince entered the city gate, the people in the city were suddenly in a sensation, and all the houses around the city gate were crawling with people, and they were scrambling to see the prince's honor.

Although General Zeng was not a member of the prince's line, he usually disagreed with what the prince did, and felt that the prince was too idealistic, but when he witnessed the prince's prestige among the people, the sound of the tsunami in the mountains, and the prestige of ascending to the heights and obeying everyone, really made his heart shake and his heart broken.

General Zeng was excited, and he knelt down and said, "General Zeng Guang, the commander of the Taiyang Army, see His Highness!"

Zhao Hanqing stared at General Zeng sternly, and scolded: "Fang is the one who ordered you to release the arrows?"

General Zeng immediately had a sweat on his back, where did he dare to take this pot, he immediately used the magic skill of throwing the pot, and said: "The humble position is just to follow orders, and please ask Your Highness to punish the crime!"

Although he is an old Qiu Ba with a vulgar personality, Zeng General is also an old oilman and is well versed in the rules of the game in officialdom.

When the superior asks the teacher about the crime, if the responsibility is conclusive, do not blindly deny it, but must not accept it all.

Zeng Shen threw the pot to the city guard Li Tianli, and on the other hand, he groveled and begged for punishment to show his attitude of admitting his guilt and accepting his succumbness, otherwise once the prince thought that he was stubborn and stubbornly resisted and denied, then he would be finished.

The prince really raised his head and swept away his gaze: "Who gave the order!

The people around looked to the side, but the prince saw a fat man standing not far away, with a trembling face like dirt, the prince took two steps forward and asked sharply: "You ordered the arrows to be released?"

Li Taishou's face twitched, he cried and mourned, looked at the master with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks on the side, and said in a trembling voice: "Yes, it's him......"

The prince was furious and angrily rebuked: "You are the Taishou of the city, the local parent official, the boss! You actually obey a master in your words and deeds? How did you become an official!!"

The people who were listening outside were resentful in their hearts, and when they heard Taishou's reprimand, they immediately cheered loudly: "Well said!!"

For a while, the respondent Yuncong, who was ordered by Taishou to release arrows and lost his family and relatives and friends, shouted angrily: "Kill him!!"

At this moment, the emotions of the people were instantly stirred, and the angry people roared inside and out: "Kill him, kill him!"

Under the roar and shouts of nearly 100,000 people, the entire Taiyang City was shaking, and everyone's ears were roaring, as if countless thunderbolts had exploded, the air seemed to be trembling, and their internal organs were shaken, from their skin to their hair, they all trembled!

Taishou Li Tian knelt down tremblingly, his legs were incontinent, and the urine quickly flowed down the roots of his legs to the ground, and he shouted loudly: "Your Highness spares your life, Your Highness spares your life!"

But he opened his mouth and screamed loudly, even if he stood a meter in front of him, he could only see him open his mouth, and he couldn't hear what he was saying at all.

The crown prince was not complacent about such prestige and appeal, but instead glanced around with some vigilance, because he instantly remembered what the prince he revered the most had said.

"If the people are like water, the good is like water, and the evil is also water; if you drive it to the stream, it will be the flow, and if you gather it with a square circle, you will be in control, otherwise the water can carry the boat and overturn the boat; if you are the king, you can drive the people, but not the people!"

Translated to mean that the common people are like water, the best moral character in the world is water, and the same thing that can cause the most damage in the world is also water.

The torrent in front of you is the best example of this.

And the flow of water like this of the common people, where they are driven, they will go, and they must be controlled, otherwise if you let the people act recklessly, they will definitely overthrow and drown you like a torrent. As a king, you should be good at driving your subjects, not being held hostage by their will.

At first, the prince did not agree with his teacher's words, after all, he grew up reading the book of the sage, and the sage cloud: the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light.

The prince kept these words firmly in his heart, and he went deep into the fields to live with the farmers under the leadership of the prince very early on, and understood their suffering, so the prince was compassionate and loving the people like a son since he was a child.

But the current situation made the prince unprecedentedly vigilant, because the anger and roar of these countless people formed an extremely terrifying and terrifying force, even the prince and Li Tian himself, they all felt that the person who ordered it should be executed at Ling Chi.

But the crown prince is a high and superior person, and he needs to think about more things, which is also the overall situation that the prince has been teaching him: he must not let the will of the people sway his own will.

Because the people are shallow and short-sighted, they only care about venting their emotions, and they don't care what the consequences of killing this Taishou in one sentence will bring.

Zhao Hanqing naturally knew that if the people shouted today to kill the lord of a city, would they be able to follow suit tomorrow and kill another high-ranking official and nobleman they hated?

If this is the case, won't the world be in chaos?

So what do you want them to do? What is the use of military service? What is the use of officers and soldiers? What is the use of the law?

The crown prince's expression was grim, he originally wanted to execute Taishou Li Tian on the spot, but as soon as the people made such an uproar, he immediately changed his mind: Li Tian can't die, at least not at this time! As the prince of a country, he must not be held hostage by the will of the people!

The prince raised his hand high and made a gesture of pressing down, and all the people who saw his action stopped in unison, and for a while, the roaring sound between heaven and earth suddenly stopped, and Taiyang City, which was still shaking the sky, was instantly quiet and audible!

All kinds of officials around Taishou were in awe and admiration, this prestige, even His Majesty the Emperor was far inferior, and only the national teacher Chang Yuan could compare.

The prince said in a loud voice: "Go back quickly, here the orphans will be dealt with! Those who commit crimes and mistakes will never be spared, the injured will be supported, the dead will be buried, and the widows and orphans will be supported!!"

The people were so excited when they heard this, they burst into tears, completely forgetting that they were going to kill Li Tian and then quickly, they raised their hands and shouted, even the people who were inconvenient on the roof struggled to bow down crookedly, and some of them shouted loudly: "Long live the prince, long live the prince!!"

Where did the common people think so much, and some people shouted, and they shouted: "Long live the prince, long live the prince!!"

For a time, all the officials in the city did not change their color! This is a great disrespect!!

There is only one person in the world who can shout long live, and that is His Majesty the Emperor!

Although the crown prince is in charge of the country, it can only be called Chitose!

Even the crown prince's face changed suddenly, he was a little frightened, but he didn't know how to refute, he was surrounded by this boiling flow of people, like a flat boat out of control.

Xiao Zhuzi, who was held high by Su Yuehan in the crowd, stretched out his head to look, bent down, and shouted loudly in Su Yuehan's ear: "Sister Yuehan, is that His Royal Highness the Prince?"

Su Yuehan nodded and said loudly: "Exactly!!"

Xiao Zhuzi smiled and said, "He's so majestic!!"

Su Yuehan touched her head dotingly, and just as she was about to speak, the proprietress on the side immediately pulled her down and scolded her harshly: "Quick, kneel!"

Where did Xiaozhuzi know why she knelt, she saw that everyone around her knelt down and kowtowed, so she also knelt down honestly, but she twisted her head and said to her mother: "Mother, why do you want to kowtow?"

The proprietress pressed Xiao Zhuzi's head a few times before she said seriously: "You remember, that's His Royal Highness the Prince! Only he can let us live a good life in the future and let us go home again!"

This time Xiaozhuzi understood, she suffered a lot along the way, watching her father and mother also suffer a lot, and seeing that her favorite Sister Su suffered more in order to protect herself, she immediately folded her hands, respectfully, bowed down with a milky voice, and said: "National teacher bless, may His Royal Highness the Prince live a long life, let his father and mother live a good life in the future, let Xiaozhu eat delicious, let Sister Su marry a good man, thank you very much!"

The childish prayer was drowned out by the sound of the mountain and the tsunami, and no one heard it, and Xiaozhuzi bowed down to the prince like everyone around him.

At this moment, it seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in front of him has ascended the throne as the emperor, and everyone has returned to their hearts.