Chapter 342: Turning the tables against the wind 16
Although the people who support the Four Princes want to be their own masters, they can't do it even if they want to help the Four Princes.
The people who support the four princes also control several states, and they can completely let those states garrison King Qin, but many of those rich places are in the south of the Yangtze River, far away from the capital.
What's even more terrifying is that the people in the city who secretly support the Three Princes may have taken control of some of the city gates, and they can open the city gates at any time to let the Three Princes in.
If it weren't for the three princes to let the four princes take the initiative to surrender, not wanting to hurt the people in the city, it is estimated that the three princes would have come in long ago.
And as the four princes were unwilling to admit defeat and take the initiative to surrender, the common people began to have opinions.
I don't know if it was the people who secretly supported the Three Princes who fanned the flames, or if the common people thought like this, and felt that the people they were living now were panicked, it was caused by the fact that the Four Princes had reached such a point and did not surrender, anyway, the common people had more and more opinions about the Four Princes.
Don't blame the common people for thinking like this, the common people don't care if the three princes are bad for rebellion, they only know that the four princes are surrounded in the capital, it must be no longer good, so if they don't surrender, isn't this going to hurt their ordinary people?
Of course, the main reason is that the reputation of the four princes in the folk is not good - Linlang has not let people have made many people have made the alliance between the four princes and the Zhang family and the Sun family, and finally broke the contract and did not marry the original body, and then spread it everywhere, and then the old lady Zhang and others, as well as some people who had a good reputation among the people, but were the three princes before, were finally driven away or executed by the four princes, and publicized it many times in the people, resulting in the image of the four princes in the people, that is, faint monarchs, tyrants, and untrustworthy villains.
Who are the Four Princes? An ungrateful and untrustworthy villain, whose character is not good in the first place, naturally flew into a rage after hearing these news, and ordered people to be arrested, and whoever dared to say these words would be arrested.
Well, now it's good, the big guy doesn't dare to discuss the things he did on the surface, but the perception of him in his heart is even worse.
The most important thing is that in order to win over those neutral people and give them benefits, the four princes spent a lot of money, but the treasury had no money, so they could only raise taxes, and when they got the money, they rewarded them to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Give money to the people, the people may not necessarily be grateful to you, after all, there are always some thorns, I think this is what the court should give, why should I be grateful, but if you ask the people for money, the people will definitely hate you 100%, so it is normal for such people not to stand on his side.
When the common people saw that the four princes did not surrender for a while, and after there were complaints, things became complicated.
Finally, after ten days of siege, on this morning, when the four princes were about to discuss with their henchmen how to deal with this matter now, there was a noisy noise outside the palace gate, and the noise became louder and louder, so that it could be heard in the imperial study.
The fourth prince was unhappy, so he asked the palace guards to see what was going on outside.
Soon the guard came back with an ugly face and said to the four princes: "There are people surrounding the palace and saying...... Say ......"
The fourth prince with serious dark circles looked at the guard, and couldn't help but get angry: "What are you talking about?!" It's a mouthful! ”
The guards saw that the fourth prince was angry, and hurriedly said, "Say let Your Majesty open the city gate and surrender." ”
When the fourth prince heard this, he couldn't help but be furious, and immediately kicked over the small table on the side, and said, "Cut down all those rebellious ministers and thieves!" ”
The guard said, "But ...... There are too many people outside, but I am afraid that I can't kill them, and once the contradiction intensifies, the palace guards will not be able to stop so many people from breaking into the palace gate, and the time will ...... I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to clean up. ”
In fact, he still thought in his heart that he was afraid of listening to the emperor's words and killing a lot of ordinary people, and then if the third prince entered the city and liquidated, he knew that he had killed a lot of ordinary people and dealt with himself, it would not be good.
The reason why he was afraid that the third prince would liquidate him was because, in the current situation, many people understood that the fourth prince was afraid that he would not be able to bear it, and since this was the case, he naturally did not want to continue to listen to his orders and do something that would bring trouble to himself in the future.
So at that moment, the guards found such a reason to dissuade them.
The fourth prince doesn't care about this, he only knows that now even those untouchables who are low to the mud have the courage to find trouble for themselves, disobey themselves, anger him, hate him to death, how can he bear it, even if the bastard of the third child will rush in the next moment, he will let those people die before him!
So when I heard the guards say this, I yelled and shouted regardless of it, saying, "Kill me, kill me!" If you don't kill you, I will kill you! ”
The guard listened to the words of the fourth prince, and his hands couldn't help shaking.
Killing will be death in the future, and if you don't kill, you will die now......
How should he choose.
Thinking of this, looking at the fourth prince who walked in front of him because of anger, and was close to Chi Qi, the guard suddenly pulled out his knife and stabbed him.
The fourth prince never thought that this guard dared to stab himself, so he was defenseless at all, so he was stabbed by the other party, and he couldn't help but look at the guard in disbelief at the moment, and said, "You...... How dare you kill me! …… Come...... Come! Kill this traitor. ”
Without waiting for the other guards to move, the guard pulled out his knife and said to the guards around him: "The three princes are besieging the capital, the emperor ...... The Four Princes can't escape! If I kill him now, will you still die for him who is dead, kill me, and then go out and kill the people? In the future, if the three princes know what you have done, do you think the three princes will let you go? ”
When the guards heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.
The palace guards, although many of them are from rich and noble backgrounds, but there are also those with average backgrounds but strong abilities, after all, they are all incompetent, how to protect the emperor.
The group of people around the four princes, even if they have some ability, but their backgrounds are average, so they are not those young master soldiers, they come from those confidants of the four princes, there is no need to think that the four princes are gone, and their own family has stood in line with the four princes before, and their future prospects are gone, so they can not continue to work for the four princes.
In addition, this guard said that if you listen to the words of the fourth prince, you will go out to kill the people, and in the future, the third prince will come in, and if you pursue this kind of indiscriminate killing of innocents, you will definitely find trouble for yourself, and then the fourth prince was stabbed, and the blood flowed all over the ground, and he was about to die, so what are you going to do with him?
So there was a humane at the moment: "Since you want to do it, make it big, hurry up and contact your brother, open the city gate, and earn this credit." ”
This is from the dragon's work, close at hand, at your fingertips, it's a pity not to do it.