I, the prince, only want to be deposed.

Chapter 415: Public opinion cannot be violated and the trend cannot be reversed!
"This……"

After hearing this, everyone was confused about what Liu Ju was selling.

Everyone here knows who the "Huns" are who entered the city and massacred the royal family and noble ministers of Gushi. It would be fine if Your Highness deceived others, but how come he deceived himself?
Are you still trying to be vindictive and then resentful?
At this time, the Han army broke into Jiaohe City without losing a single soldier, and seized all the property of the royal family and noble ministers of Gushi. Apart from the expenses on the journey, there was also money and food to provide relief to the people of Gushi, so they must have made a huge profit.

After all, in a small country like this where slavery is the main system, the vast majority of assets must be in the hands of the royal family and aristocratic ministers of Gushi. Otherwise, how could it be that when these people died, the people of Gushi would immediately have no food to eat and would starve to death if no relief was given?
So what does it mean to be grateful for a little bit of rice and to venge for a little bit of rice?
Your Highness is clearly taking advantage of the situation and still acting cute. This is simply a bit shameless...

"It has been decided. You should hurry and do it, lest the Xiongnu cavalry travel day and night and catch up with our army when we retreat, causing unnecessary losses."

Liu Ju didn't care what they were thinking and just waved his hand.

"promise."

There was nothing more to say and everyone obeyed the order.

Although they felt that Liu Ju was a little unscrupulous, compared with the soldiers under their command, these soldiers were naturally more important. Therefore, as long as Liu Ju listened to their opinions and decided to withdraw his troops, the people of Gushi would naturally have to move aside.

……

So about half an hour later.

Hundreds of Gushi people were kneeling in front of the palace occupied by the Han army, and their cries gradually rose:

"Your Highness, the Respected Prince of the Han Dynasty, please have mercy and save us!"

"The Xiongnu are vicious and cruel. They slaughtered all our royal family and nobles before. If they invade the city again, they will hear that we surrendered to the Han army and that the Xiongnu were wiped out by the Han army. I'm afraid they will slaughter the city in anger!"

"Your Highness, the Respected Prince of the Han Dynasty, you cannot leave. You are our only hope, and the Han Dynasty is our only way to survive..."

"Please save us! We are willing to be the subjects of the Han Dynasty. We beg the Emperor of Han not to abandon us!"

"Since the prince of the Han Dynasty is your parent, you really can't leave..."

"..."

The previous atrocities committed by the "Huns" in slaughtering the royal family and noble ministers of Gushi in the city undoubtedly left a great psychological trauma on the people of Gushi, forcing them to worry about their own situation.

As the news of the Han army's retreat spread, a considerable number of people in Gushi decided to flee with their families. Even if the Han army ignored them, they only wanted to follow the Han army and migrate into the gap in the Tianshan Mountains.

But not everyone can leave whenever they want.

Even if the poor slaves had received some relief before, the food was not enough to sustain their consumption during the journey.

There are also some families with old and young people who can't walk with them, and there are no livestock to travel with them. Migrating in the desert Gobi that is thousands of miles long is no different from seeking death.

For these people, the Han army is their only hope...

"Ugh……"

General Zhao Po Nu and other soldiers saw this scene and felt a certain amount of sympathy in their hearts.

If these people were all enemies, Liu Ju would have ordered them to be slaughtered, and they would have slaughtered them all, and they would have been able to find self-consistent reasons in their hearts.

But after the extinction of the Gushi royal family and noble ministers, most of those left were the poor, helpless, old, weak, sick and slaves.

They would rather kill these people with a single blow and be done with it, rather than listening to these poor people crying and begging, and watching them waiting to die in despair.

So if we talk about cruelty, Your Highness is more heartless...

Gradually, more and more people from Gushi gathered together. The number of people kneeling and crying at the gate of the palace exceeded a thousand, and the number was still increasing. The crying was getting louder and louder.

The mayor of this small town with a population of over 10,000 people posted a notice and it soon spread throughout the city.

Seeing this, Sima Qian couldn't help but find Liu Ju's personal soldiers in private and asked in a low voice:
"Does Your Highness know about this situation?"

"I already knew that."

The guard nodded and said, "Your Highness means that if they cry, let them cry. Don't pay attention to them. When they get tired of crying, they will leave... Sima, the military supervisor, should get ready quickly. We should leave early tomorrow morning to avoid any more trouble."

"Oh……"

Sima Qian didn't know what to say, so he had to leave reluctantly.

Not long after, Wang Hui also privately found Liu Ju's personal guards and asked the same question:
"Does Your Highness know the situation here?"

Then there is Su Wu.

Then there is Zhao Po Nu.

More than five thousand people from Gushi were kneeling at the gate of the palace, crying and begging, accounting for more than half of the total population of Gushi, and they surrounded the square in front of the palace.

Zhao Po Nu had to personally lead his troops to guard outside the palace to prevent anyone from causing trouble while there were many people.

However, Liu Ju remained firmly seated in the palace, slowly tasting the wine that the dead ghost Gu Shiwang had treasured in the palace… Although he knew that he was not a good drinker and would easily sing, dance and rap after drinking too much, so he had not drunk a drop of alcohol for a long time, but it was still okay for him to just take a couple of sips to taste the flavor of the fine wine from the Western Regions.

Amidst the crying.

Everyone's mentality is changing.

The people of Gushi went from being panicked at the beginning to being disappointed, and finally to despair, the kind of despair where no one could get any help from them.

Zhao Po Nu, Sima Qian and others as well as the Han army soldiers went from being indifferent at first to gradually feeling compassion, then sympathy, and finally some inexplicable resentment.

Only Liu Ju remained calm.

……

The sun gradually sets towards the west.

In the summer in the Western Regions, the days are long and the nights are short. When the Central Plains have already fallen asleep, the sky in the Western Regions is still half blood-red.

at last.

"Your Highness, General Zhao, Sima Jianjun, and General Wang are outside the palace asking for an audience."

"Let them in."

Liu Ju, who was leaning on the bed, swinging his feet leisurely with his eyes closed, opened his eyes, and for some reason his feet, which were always swinging unconsciously, stopped.

After a while.

Zhao Po Nu, Sima Qian and Wang Hui entered the hall together and came before Liu Ju.

The three of them looked at each other, and finally Sima Qian stepped forward and saluted:
"Your Highness..."

"Okay, no need to say more, I understand."

Liu Ju raised his hand to interrupt, and then walked out while greeting several people,
"Come with me."

What do you mean?
We haven't said anything yet, what does Your Highness understand?

The three of them looked at each other, but could only quickly follow.

Liu Ju strode to the outside of the palace, looked down at the thousands of Gushi people kneeling at the steps of the palace, took a deep breath, and suddenly said loudly:
"There is a saying in the Han Dynasty: the will of the people cannot be violated, and the trend of the times cannot be reversed!"

"Since you are sincerely asking for your help, how can we, the Han Dynasty, a righteous and benevolent army, sit idly by and do nothing?"

"The Han army is here and will not go anywhere. We swear to live and die with you and Jiaohe City. Order to prepare for war!"

(End of this chapter)