This prince, it doesn't matter if you don't do it!

Chapter 818 Volume The Tang Dynasty's Response

"It's called Daming Daily, so why do you still ask where it came from?" Hearing this, Wang Renyou was speechless.

Quan Wanji didn't take it seriously and continued to ask, "Are you sure?"

Du Chuke nodded upon hearing this, and then said, "It is confirmed that the news came from Changming Restaurant. The meaning is very clear."

Of course he knew why Quan Wanji asked this.

They had not forgotten what King Liang had done in Chang'an before, so if someone wanted to cause trouble now, they could fully understand.

Moreover, Changming Restaurant represents the Ming Dynasty court, which has a completely different meaning.

"Hundreds of thousands of people, how dare they do this!" After confirming the authenticity of the news, Quan Wanji could no longer suppress his compassion for the world.

He couldn't understand how those guys could have the heart to kill hundreds of thousands of people!
Wang Renyou, who was standing by, was also deeply moved when he heard what he said.

They had never witnessed the cruelty of war, but just hearing the number of hundreds of thousands made many stories pop up in their minds...

"Master Quan." Just as everyone was sighing, Du Chuke suddenly said, "Do you think it was because His Majesty was assassinated? Did the Ming Dynasty do this on purpose?"

"It is possible." Hearing this, Quan Wanji nodded and said, "And this possibility is very high. After all, as of now, regarding the assassination of His Majesty, no matter what we do or not, many people will suspect that person.

At this time, if they staged a massacre in the city, they could indeed share a lot of public opinion.

I despise using this method!"

Quan Wanji really couldn't approve of Ming Dynasty's actions. In his opinion, it was understandable to want to compete for that position. As long as he was the son of His Majesty, it would be rare for him to have no idea about that position.

However, Quan Wanji couldn't bear to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to fight for that position.

The reason I say this is not because he is in Li Ke's camp. Even if he was in Li Chengqian's camp and something like this happened, he would not be like Li Qinjian, Wang Xuance and others.

In other words, he is a scholar with noble character, but definitely not a qualified politician.

"That's right." Du Chuke nodded immediately after hearing this and said, "In this case, no matter who gets the position in the end, I am extremely pessimistic about that person.

Today, that person can sacrifice hundreds of thousands of people in Northern Tianzhu. In the future, that person may sacrifice the people of our Tang Dynasty. If that person is allowed to ascend to the throne, the future of the Tang Dynasty will be worrying..."

Compared with Quan Wanji, he seems more utilitarian.

In his opinion, such things were actually harmless to that position. Not to mention that those who were slaughtered were the people of the Tang Dynasty, even if they were, he could accept it.

Every time the imperial power changes, there is always a lot of bloodshed.
As long as he is not killed, he does not care.

In fact, looking at the entire Tang Dynasty, there are many officials who think like him.

It's not the first one, and it certainly can't be the only one.

Wang Renyou, who was standing by, nodded when he heard this. He did not have as noble a character as Quan Wanji, but as a new official, he had his moral bottom line, but he also had ambitions.

At this time, if he can agree with something, it means that his ambition is gradually replacing his conscience.

It is said that scholars have a conscience, but this conscience only exists when one has just started studying.

At that time, who among them didn't want to do something for this country? However, as time went by, those great dreams of the past had long since disappeared in the long river of time.

People like Quan Wanji are, after all, a minority.

In this regard, even Wei Zheng may not be more pure than him!
"If this is true, we can't just sit there and wait for death!" Quan Wanji said immediately, "Since this is their goal, we dare not say that we will help them, but we should at least do something!
This is also the reason why I was willing to assist the King of Shu. Compared to that person, the King of Shu is more kind and merciful. Even if he has to do something, he must follow the etiquette..."

No matter who they are, once they have decided on something, they will always find the most suitable excuse for themselves, and Quan Wanji is no exception.

"What does Mr. Quan mean?" Du Chuke roughly guessed it, but he was a politician after all, and was much more experienced in doing things than Quan Wanji.

Sometimes, he knew exactly what to do, but he would never take the initiative to ask for it.

Quan Wanji didn’t think too much about it, and immediately said: “Since the Ming Dynasty wants to overwhelm public opinion with public opinion, we can’t resist this general trend.

If my guess is correct, the Ming Daily should have spread throughout the Tang Dynasty by now, right?
Based on my understanding of those guys in the Ming Dynasty, they would never do anything useless.

In that case, why don't we help them?"

"Help them?" Wang Renyou was a little puzzled, but after a moment, he figured out the reason and said, "Master Quan means to fight poison with poison?"

"It's not like fighting poison with poison." Quan Wanji said, "Those guys from Daming did catch us off guard, but to be honest, can this trick really be used to defeat everyone?
It's impossible. Ordinary people are easily led by public opinion, but they forget that ordinary people are even more easily influenced by public opinion.

Since the Ming Dynasty wants to extricate itself from the assassination of His Majesty, we really can't do anything under the circumstances, but can't we take advantage of this opportunity to really publicize the atrocities committed by that person?"

Quan Wanji's idea is very simple. Since you, the Ming Dynasty, want to use this method to eliminate the impact of the assassination of His Majesty, then they will spread this reputation.

It is true that the Ming Dynasty controls the Ming Daily, but the real audience are actually the aristocrats. Do you expect those country folk who can't even read a single word to know what is written in the Ming Daily? Haha, is this a joke?
Therefore, public opinion has always been in their hands.

"If we really want to do this, I'm afraid we need the cooperation of the nobles." Du Chuke smiled and said, "Of course, this is not a difficult task for us.

How about this, I will send someone to inform Cui, Li, Zheng and Lu. I believe that as long as they are willing to take the lead, this matter will not be a big deal. "

Cui Mingyuan was very clear about the influence of the gentry among the people. It was no exaggeration to say that the people depended on the gentry, not the royal family.

Cui Mingyuan knows this better than anyone else.

This is not to say that the wealthy families are powerful, but the influence of the wealthy families among ordinary people is really incomparable to that of the imperial court.

Let’s not talk about people far away, just take the Lu family as an example. Their tenants are all ordinary people, and their number of tenants is no less than ten thousand households.

This is the confidence of the gentry in this era.

Controlling the people is more frightening than controlling the army.

"Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Du." After Quan Wanji finished speaking, he immediately bowed and said, "I will write a letter to inform my former colleagues and make the matter known to everyone." Wang Renyou did not interrupt. He really could not help in any way on this issue. It was not that he was incompetent, but that he really had no channels to help.

Don't forget that when he was in Chang'an, the nobles ignored him. Now, even though he is the county magistrate, in the eyes of many people, he is just a lucky minister.

He is really a person not worth mentioning.

"Then let's act separately." Du Chuke said immediately. He had actually guessed what Quan Wanji would do a long time ago. Now he pretended to cooperate with Quan Wanji, but in fact he was pushing Quan Wanji into a bigger quagmire.

This is the difference between politicians and true scholars.

Politicians only care about the final benefits and whether they are in line with their own wishes, but scholars rely on their conscience.

Quan Wanji and Wang Renyou may have this thing, but Du Chuke has never seen it.

With the help of these three people, the news reported in the Daming Daily spread throughout the Taohe County overnight. Many people were disappointed when they heard the news.

In the past, they worshipped Li Chengqian because Li Chengqian had set historical precedents in many aspects and his achievements were incomparable to others.

But once this incident happened, coupled with the exaggeration of Du Chuke and others, the good impression that people had of Li Chengqian before disappeared in an instant.

They knew very well that if someone like Li Chengqian really needed them one day, they would become Li Chengqian's victims without hesitation, which they could not accept.

Don't forget, they are also border residents!

It is an existence that can truly empathize with the people of Kushinagar.

The news spread quickly. After all, with the support of Changming Logistics, it only took a few days for the news to spread to every corner of the street.

Sometimes Li Chengqian would go alone to a tavern that he had never heard of before, and at that time they would still discuss the impact of this incident on the Ming Dynasty.

It’s not that the Ming Dynasty didn’t hear any news at all, but they just didn’t care much.

This is the difference between the men on the grassland and the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Because of the scarcity of resources, they are actually more receptive to this.

However, they accepted it, but the people in the two rivers and the good generals rose up in rebellion.

For a time, the entire Tang Dynasty was in turmoil...

When the news reached Siam, Li Er was having a meal. After hearing the news, Li Er subconsciously stood up...

Five hundred thousand people! Li Er had never carried out such a large-scale killing before. But today, the news came, and it was done by his son who seemed extremely kind in the past.

"If this is really Gao Ming's order, I will also look up to him!"

In fact, he really didn't care about the massacre in the Ming Dynasty. As long as they were not his own people, he would not think it was a big deal even if Li Chengqian burned the Ming Dynasty court to the ground.

People are selfish, and this is especially true in Li Er.

"Call Zhangsun Pushe and others." After calming himself down, Li Er said this.

He was also shocked inside, but when in front of others, even though he was extremely shocked, he would not show it.

Soon, Changsun Wuji and others came over one after another. Seeing Li Er holding a letter and reading it over and over again, Changsun Wuji and others didn't want to disturb him.

When everyone, except for a few people who had military duties, had arrived, Li Er looked at everyone and said, "I know what you are wondering about, but this is all trivial to us, isn't it?"

Li Er always looked calm and composed. Seeing that everyone was silent, someone continued, "Your Majesty, do you think that the Ming Dynasty's fighting methods are too brutal?"

"It's not that he's violent." Li Er immediately shook his head upon hearing this, and after a while he said, "No matter who is in his position, it would be extremely difficult to handle this matter properly.

The fact that Gao Ming was able to do this and then suppress the news of my assassination can only mean that they really have something. Even if their individual abilities are not strong, their courage to fight and their willingness to fight are no less than that of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Er is indeed a broad-minded person. No matter what Li Chengqian does, he can accept it.

However, if he accepts it, does that mean everyone in the world will accept it?
"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty should not do this." Just as Li Er finished speaking, Wei Zheng, who always liked to stick his neck out, stood up.

He is just like that, he supports what is right and not his relatives.

In the past, he was willing to assist Li Chengqian, but now that Li Chengqian had done such an absurd thing, Wei Zheng also hesitated.

He understood Li Chengqian's impatience, but he did not understand why the Ming Dynasty did so.

Not only him, when this news spread throughout the world, things that made Li Chengqian feel annoyed started happening one after another.

Wei Zheng's dissatisfaction was just the beginning.

When they received the news back then, their indignation was nothing compared to what it is today.

"It's absurd or not, they have done it." Li Er heard this and laughed, "They are just 500,000 civilians, they are not the people of our Tang Dynasty, so it doesn't matter if we kill them.

Do you really want me, the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, to apologize for those hundreds of thousands of people on this issue?

Don’t they have the nerve to do that?!”

Is Li Er angry?
Li Er was actually indignant at the beginning, but things had developed to this point and it was no longer something he could control.

He knew very well that, judging from the current situation, even though the vast majority of people in the world despised the Ming Dynasty, there were definitely many people who secretly supported it. He could guess this without anyone telling him.

This is indeed the case. Upon hearing this, Changsun Wuji glanced at Li Er, and after considering Li Er's thoughts, he said, "I don't know how the resistance of Northern Tianzhu is, but as far as I'm concerned, if I really encounter a stubborn guy, I might end up like this.

After all, we all know what the situation is in Northern India. They are not us, nor are they like us. Their beliefs control them and they have long lost themselves. "

It's funny to say that Wei Zheng, a die-hard supporter of Li Chengqian, was against it, but it was Changsun Wuji, who always made things difficult for Li Chengqian, who showed an understanding expression...

(End of this chapter)