The rise of the prince

Chapter 306 The Benefits of Words

Under Linyang City, the army besieged the city. At the beginning of May, Di Zhi brought back a large amount of food from Luzhou, and there were more than 2000 troops.

The people heard that King Pingnan had defeated the rebels and rejoiced after besieging Linyang City. Many brave men gathered in Luzhou City, wanting to serve under the prince's command. Many people voluntarily sent food and clothing for the army.

Di Zhi was naturally happy, but he remembered what the prince had repeatedly told him: no reward, no delay in spring plowing.

He had no choice but to refuse all of them. As for Shang Wanxiangyong, he picked out 2000 people who had brothers at home to supplement. After all, the rebel army was defeated in the Battle of Lengfengqing, but the prince also lost a lot.

Some people were happy and some people were sad. When Qifang saw Qirui's body, she couldn't help crying. Both brothers died within a month, which was a heavy blow to her.

But there are still many people who don't know that their family members have died, because the army was formed temporarily, and many people were temporarily incorporated, and it was too late to register for registration, and no one knew who died when they died in battle.

So heroes are often lonely ghosts, tens of thousands of people buried in the cold wind, one year later, ten years later, who will remember, who will remember that they used their blood and lives to seek peace for the two prefectures.

After the supply of soldiers and food is sufficient, the next step is to siege the city.

Originally, Li Xingzhou planned to take advantage of the dry season at the end of April and the beginning of May, when the summer wind blows the sky and everything is dry, to bombard the city gate with artillery.

However, he found that more than half of the gunpowder and bullets he brought with him to the south had been consumed. It would take several days of continuous bombardment to break through Kaesong, and the gunpowder and bullets were insufficient.

There was another big thing to deal with right now.

At noon, Li Xingzhou took Yan Yan to the open space outside the camp. This place is located on the north side of the camp. Fences were erected everywhere, and more than 2000 rebel prisoners were detained here.There are guards day and night.

More than 2000 people needed surveillance and food, so Di Zhi proposed to kill them.

As soon as Li Xingzhou arrived, many eyes focused on him, most of them were fear, restlessness, and prayer.

He ignored them all and walked up to them.

Meixue was very tall, condescendingly looking down at the ashen-faced prisoners of war kneeling all over the hillside, Li Xingzhou said: "You must all want to know who I am. This king will change his name and surname when he goes, Li Xingzhou, the king of Pingnan County in the imperial court."

Most of the prisoners of war froze, then buried their heads lower, and some were trembling with fright.

A prisoner at the front suddenly burst into tears: "My lord, the villain is just a hunter. I don't mean to fight against the court. They forced me to fight. I beg my lord to spare me a dog's life and spare me a dog!" Die!"

As he spoke, he kowtowed his head.

Seeing this, the guarding soldiers pushed him to the ground, and he was too frightened to stand up immediately.

Li Xingzhou knew in his heart, why and how Suzhou rebelled, Wang Lun had already explained it clearly, but it was just like the Universal Immortal, and it was another big play to fool the people, but he must be a half-hearted Universal Immortal.

The Ansu government and several major merchants in Suzhou are more vivid in acting, with strong financial and material resources. Countless innocent people are just victims of the power grab of several major families in Suzhou.

He rode back and forth on Mei Xue: "It is a conclusion that the Ansu Mansion is in chaos. It stands to reason that you are all rebellious officials and thieves. You should be executed according to the law, and you will implicate the nine clans."

As soon as these words came out, many people burst into tears in fright. Someone wanted to stand up and say something, but the crossbow of the guarding soldier next to him was aimed at him immediately, and he was so frightened that he crouched on the ground with his head in his arms and cried.

Li Xingzhou went on to say: "However, after my careful investigation, some of them were behind the scenes. The people of Ansu Mansion were kept in the dark and knew nothing about it. Ding Yi can tell you, why did the imperial army attack Ansu Mansion?"

Many prisoners of war looked stunned. After all, most of them were brave men from all over the world. They obviously didn't know it. This also verified what Wang Lun had explained at the beginning.

When the imperial army went south to Suzhou, they didn't intend to fight rebellion at first, but wanted to force the prefect of Suzhou to give an explanation, or he could take the initiative to confess his guilt. As a result, Suzhou turned against him directly, and it became the situation today.

If the root cause is uncovered, the greatest success of the Ansu Mansion's rebellion lies in the alliance between the government and several big businessmen to fool all the people.

As a result, the power of the government was again suppressed by the Ding family in the big business, and the authorities were too clever to calculate, and they missed Qingqing's life.

The power of the people is the greatest.

Don't deceive the people, even if they have a lot of money, food, armor and weapons with several big merchants and the Ansu government, if they are unpopular, they can't make these things happen.

Li Xingzhou sighed, so many people died and such a big incident was caused by the limited information technology and inconvenient transportation.

"Tell me the whole story of the rebellion in Suzhou. If you tell the truth, you won't die." Li Xingzhou said to the prisoner who just kowtowed and begged for mercy. The prisoner was grateful and excitedly told him.

You can't listen to people's one-sided words. Wang Lun is a high-level executive in Suzhou, and these prisoners of war are low-level Suzhou. If their words can match, it is likely to be true.

The prisoner of war quickly explained the whole story of the rebellion from his point of view, including how Ding Yi told the people, what Su Banchuan told them, etc. There were naturally many deceptions in it.

For example, the imperial envoy Mo Minyun originally came to inquire about the crime of Su Banan, the prefect, because his son participated in the assassination of the emperor.As a result, in Su Banchuan's mouth, it became a crime of questioning the entire Ansu Mansion.

The imperial army's going south was originally a second mover, if Su Banchuan was arrested, the army would attack and enter the city to capture him alive.As a result, according to Su Banchuan, the imperial army turned into an army that attacked Suzhou for no reason, and even concealed their assassination of the emperor.

After listening to him, Li Xingzhou felt more and more darkness in it.

The people were harassed by the rebel army first, and then oppressed by the Xiang army. The people's anger accumulated to the extreme and was about to burst out. As a result, the menacing imperial army came at this time.

Where is the imperial army?Why come?People don't know.

Only the government knows, because the Ansu Mansion has the right to speak, and if they have the right to speak, they can do whatever they want, and the people will believe what they say.

The right to speak has been a terrible weapon in the world since ancient times, and most of the time it is in the hands of officials, specifically literati.

If you look before the May [-]th Movement, it is not difficult to find that as long as the historical image is beneficial to scholars, most of them will be portrayed as perfect, like saints, such as Confucius, Mencius, Zhuge Liang and so on.

Take Zhuge Liang as an example, because Zhuge Liang fulfills the ultimate ideal of a scholar, he is not a king, he is like a king, and he is an extremely human minister.So no matter who he was originally, true or false, novels or unofficial history, he would be added to him, and over time, the people would believe it was true.

And Wei is orthodox in the official history, but Cao Cao of Wei was scolded the worst, demonized, and belittled by scholars in various ways. Over time, the people also hated Cao Cao.

To get to the bottom of it, why Cao Cao is hated by scholars who have the right to speak is simply because he proposed "only talents" and use talents if they have talents. It doesn't matter whether you are a scholar or a scholar. Cut pen and punish.

The situation is the same now, the Ansu government and Ding Yi, who have the right to speak, are fooling so many people with their mouths.

The people don't know that the rebellion by the rebel army and the oppression by the Xiang army are all plays directed and performed by the Suzhou government and businessmen. Even the imperial army's plan to conquer Suzhou is a lie.

Words are ten thousand times more powerful than swords!
It easily defeated the imperial imperial army, easily killed tens of thousands of people, and easily made life difficult for the land of the two prefectures and thousands of miles of fertile people.

Standing in front of them, Li Xingzhou said loudly, "Whether it's Ding Yi or Su Banchuan, I didn't tell you anything, you don't know why the imperial envoys went south, why the army is coming, then I will tell you.

Because Su Huan, the son of Su Banchuan, and Ding Yi plotted to assassinate the emperor in the capital, the plan was revealed, and they fled all the way back to Suzhou. The imperial envoys came here only to hunt down the traitors. "

At this moment, all the prisoners of war were stunned, because what they heard from the government was completely different.

"Also, the Xiang army rebelled and robbed the people's wealth and food, and the government gave you food. Do you think Su Banchuan is kind and loving to the people?
But this king forced a confession from Wang Lunna, the head of the Wang family, a big merchant in Suzhou. Rice sent to the West Village, in order to win the hearts of the people! "

Now, all the prisoners of war were even more dumbfounded, and they started talking in low voices.

Li Xingzhou rode back and forth, sighed and said: "Forget it, you are also innocent people, this king has no intention of killing people, go back, think carefully about what I said today, ponder it carefully, go to prove it carefully, and tell your elders in your hometown.

At the same time, please keep in mind that this king acts as the guarantor of the Pingnan County King of the imperial court. If the Suzhou people are guilty, the thieves' Ding family, Su family, and others will be deceived by them. If the imperial army does not resist, they will be exonerated. "

After speaking, he said to the soldiers next to him: "Send them out of the camp."

All of a sudden, all the prisoners of war rejoiced.

Li Xingzhou thought for a while, and then said loudly: "Remember, what the king said today, you must not say it in front of the superior, you can only tell it to your family and friends, because the disaster caused by the words has already starved to death and piled up corpses." Ye, this king doesn't want you to give up your lives for nothing."

After the voice fell, the prisoners of war fell silent and looked at him with strange eyes.

"Let's go, if you dare to stand in front of my king's formation next time, you will die!" Li Xingzhou said confidently.

The prisoners of war nodded silently, and then some people knelt down and kowtowed before getting up and leaving. Many prisoners of war seemed to be infected, and the people eager to survive seemed to overcome the fear of death, kowtowed one by one before being sent out of the barracks.

Li Xingzhou also knew that the next time these people met, they might stand opposite him. After all, individuals are so insignificant in front of the collective will, even if they don't want to, they can't help themselves.

But as he said, enough people have died because of blind words.

Furthermore, politics is always about wooing the majority and suppressing a small group. The culprit must be dealt with, and the evil should not be investigated. He also wants to use these people to expose the lies of the Ding family and the Ansu government, and then isolate them.

That's why Li Xingzhou said that only the Ding family and the Su family were questioned by the court, and the rest were innocent.

More than 2000 mouths are enough for Ding Yi to eat a pot.

Doesn't Ding Yi like to control and deceive people with his words?
Then he should also taste the evil consequences of abusing the right to speak. The people think that the words of the government are authoritative, so is the word of a court prince, the king of Pingnan County, authoritative?
Wait and see
(End of this chapter)