Seeing that the carrier pigeon was killed, Prince Gong did not believe in evil and ordered the soldiers to release another one.

It turned out to be the same, and the pigeon was killed again.

The soldier carrying the pigeon cage probably felt sorry for those carrier pigeons, and whispered: "Lord Wang, if this continues, the carrier pigeons will be killed, and the urgent letter will not be sent!"

Prince Gong glared and said, "Then don't release them one by one, let them all out in one go!"

The soldier was about to do so with a bitter face, and Ling Ye said coldly: "Prince Gong, don't you think you died fast enough?"

Huang Quan also said loudly: "Lord Wang, please don't do this!"

Prince Gong was stunned for a moment, and looked at Huang Quan: "What is General Huang's opinion?" Regarding Ling Ye's words, he didn't hear it this time.

Huang Quan bowed down and said, "I don't dare to do it." However, the following officials speculated that at present, these bandits have not launched a strong attack, if the prince really releases so many carrier pigeons to fly out at once, the bandits know that there will be officers and soldiers coming, and they will inevitably attack immediately, and we will not be able to withstand it at that time. ”

Prince Gong stroked his beard: "So, do you have any clever plans?"

Huang Quan said: "In the opinion of the following officials, the prince can talk to them first and find out what the other party wants, so that he can temporarily stabilize the situation and delay time, and second, to see if the opponent's formation can be forcibly broken through." In case the other side really attacks and we have to fight to the death to break through, we will be more sure if we choose a good path. ”

Prince Gong thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay! General Huang is very good at this, he is a famous general who has been in a hundred battles!"

Huang Quan smiled: "The prince has won the award!"

Prince Gong was no longer in a hurry to send the pigeon, waved his fat hand, and walked to an arrow tower under his personal escort. He was so fat that it took a lot of effort to climb the tower out of breath. He gasped for a long time, looked around, and shouted: "This king is here! Which thief who is not afraid of death wants to see this king?"

Huang Quan instructed his entourage a few words, asking them to prepare for the worst, and then glanced at Ling Ye. The two climbed up to another arrow tower and looked out as well.

It was just near noon and the sun was shining. Under the blue sky and daylight, I could see clearly in the middle of the night, and outside the fence of the school yard, where were the bandits and robbers? It was clearly a group of peasants. They were ragged, their faces were dish-faced, and all they held in their hands were no more than hoes and poles, and there were very few sharp sickles.

If you want to say that a thief is like this, let alone robbing others, it is estimated that he will be killed by others when he shows his head.

Huang Quan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not a bandit, but I don't know what this group of peasants wants to do? They gathered five or six hundred people to surround this place, and they also shouted for Prince Gong to talk, which shows that they knew that Prince Gong was here, so they came straight to him. This is a capital crime to be beheaded!"

Ling Ye nodded, and was also thinking in his heart, what did this group of farmers take such a big risk for?

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The peasants who were surrounding here had been shouting for Prince Gong before, but now when they saw Prince Gong come out to speak, the shouting of the people stopped. The crowd stirred for a while, and three men riding oxen lined up and went straight to the opposite place opposite Prince Gong, shouting in unison: "Greetings to the prince! We are not bandits, but farmers in the village!"

When Prince Gong saw that it was just a group of peasants, his confidence obviously skyrocketed. He snorted heavily, and said, "Peasants, a group of untouchables, armed with weapons, gathered to surround the prince of the court, don't you know that this is a crime of rebellion that wants to kill their heads?"

Among the three bull riders, it is obviously the middle one. He arched his hand towards Prince Gong and said, "Lord, we also know that this is a big crime, but the situation is already a last resort, please forgive me!"

Prince Gong shouted, "Forgive your mother, you have already frightened this king in the first place...... If you say something rebellious, this king will immediately let you kill you without leaving a piece of armor!"

The man said, "Lord Wang, please listen to us first." The prince wants to gather soldiers to collect additional taxes to prepare for war, we all already know, the situation is serious, and we also know it. But, my lord, you can't force us to death!

Prince Gong shouted: "Nonsense! It's not that this king wants to gather soldiers to collect additional taxes, it's Your Majesty! This king is completely in accordance with His Majesty's will, and you are disobeying the holy will in this way!"

The man said: "We don't believe that Your Majesty will be so unsympathetic to the people's feelings! Each household has two men and a military salary of 10 taels, and this is our life! At present, it is the spring ploughing season, and each household has two men, so who will cultivate it? How can we have so much money when each household pays 10 taels of military salary? We can't hand it over, so the officials take away our ploughing cattle and pigs...... Lord, is this to starve us to death?"

Prince Gong shouted: "Shut up! This king has already said that this is His Majesty's will." Everyone knows that you Diao people obviously have money and food hidden at home, but every time you pay rent and taxes, you will shirk it in every possible way and try your best not to hand it over. You tricks, this king has long been tired of watching!"

The man said: "Absolutely not! We dare to swear to heaven that we don't have that much money at all, and if we really have to levy so much silver, we will starve a lot of people to death!"

Prince Gong shouted: "Dare to make a fool of the people! Still crying there to be poor! And even dare to gather a crowd to surround this king, it is simply lawless, and it is no different from rebellion! Hehe, listen well, now this king counts three times, if you get out of obedience immediately, this king can still let you go in large numbers." Otherwise, when the bow and arrow pierce the heart, don't blame this king for being ruthless!"

He paused and shouted, "One! All crossbowmen ready!"

Standing on the turret were all crossbowmen. Hearing his order, the crossbowmen all wound their bows and arrows and aimed them at the ragged peasants outside.

The peasants outside were in a hurry again, and many of them were obviously afraid when they saw that they were being pointed at with bows and arrows, and they had the idea of retreating, and some people began to retreat. The man in the middle gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Don't retreat in a hurry! This is to scare us! Besides, if we can't get this done today while Prince Gong comes out alone, I will starve to death when I go back!"

Ling Ye listened to the words of both sides in his ears, and he had completely understood what was going on, and couldn't help but sigh secretly. This is another case of official coercion and civil rebellion!

This is the imperial capital, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and it is also the richest place in the entire empire, there are so many poor people, and other places are estimated to be worse. In normal times, it can still survive, but now that the empire temporarily summons soldiers and collects salaries, this life will not be able to go on, so I have to come up with this way, surround Prince Gong, and try to solve this matter from this imperial prince.

The wish is good, but the result will only be cruel!

really didn't wronged Prince Gong, this fat-brained prince is such a good person, no wonder his son King Fu is so careless about human life, shooting untouchables as fun. What kind of father teaches what kind of child, this is true.

On the arrow tower over there, Prince Gong said again: "Two!"