Although those who support the fourth prince want to be able to do their own thing, in this situation, they cannot help the fourth prince even if they want to.
The people who support the fourth prince also control several states, and they can completely garrison those states to serve the king. However, many of those wealthy places are in the south of the Yangtze River, which is far away from the capital. You can't save the near fire.
What is even more frightening is that the people in the city who secretly support the third prince may have controlled some city gates. They can open the city gates at any time and let the third prince in.
If the third prince hadn’t asked the fourth prince to surrender on his own initiative, not wanting to hurt the people in the city, the third prince would have probably fought in long ago.
As the fourth prince was unwilling to admit defeat and take the initiative to surrender, the common people began to have opinions.
I don’t know if it’s the people who secretly support the third prince fanning the flames, or the common people think this way and feel that they are living in panic now because the fourth prince has reached this point and refuses to surrender. Anyway, the common people are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the fourth prince. Opinion.
I don’t blame the people for thinking this way. The people don’t care whether the third prince is rebelling. They only know that the fourth prince is surrounded in the capital and must be in trouble. If he doesn’t surrender like this, he is not going to harm them. Ordinary people?
Of course, the main reason is that the fourth prince has a bad reputation among the people - in recent years, Linlang has often asked people to ally the fourth prince with the Zhang family and the Sun family, and finally broke the contract and refused to marry the original person. , spread it everywhere, and then asked Mrs. Zhang and others People, as well as some people who had a good reputation among the people, but were the third prince before, were finally driven away or executed by the fourth prince. This was publicized many times among the people, resulting in the image of the fourth prince among the people as a coward and a tyrant. There are also dishonest villains.
Who is the fourth prince? An ungrateful, dishonest villain with a bad character. After hearing the news, he naturally became furious and ordered people to be arrested. Anyone who dared to say these words would be arrested.
Well, now it’s better. On the surface, everyone doesn’t dare to discuss the things he did, but in their hearts, their impression of him is even worse.
The most important thing is that in order to win over those neutral people and give them benefits, the fourth prince spent a lot of money, but the treasury had no money, so he could only increase taxes. People get richer and poor people get poorer.
If you give money to the people, the people may not necessarily be grateful to you. After all, there are always some thorns in the side. They feel that this is what the court should give. Why should I be grateful? But if you ask for money from the people, the people will definitely hate you 100%. , so for such a person, it is normal for the people not to side with him.
After the common people complained that the fourth prince would not surrender for a while, things became complicated.
Finally, ten days after the siege, this morning, when the fourth prince was about to discuss with his confidants how to deal with the matter now, there was a noise outside the palace gate, and the noise became louder and louder, causing the imperial study room to be closed. You can hear it from here.
The fourth prince was unhappy and asked the palace guards to see what was going on outside.
Soon, the guard came back with an ugly face and reported to the fourth prince: "People have surrounded the palace, saying... saying..."
The fourth prince, who had serious dark circles under his eyes, couldn't help but see the guard hesitating. He said angrily: "What did you say?! You are hesitant to speak!"
Seeing that the fourth prince was angry, the guard quickly said: "Your Majesty, please open the city gate and surrender."
When the fourth prince heard this, he couldn't help but became furious. He kicked over the side table and said: "Cut all those rebellious officials and traitors!" The guard said: "But... there are too many people outside, so I just I'm afraid that I won't be able to kill them. Once the conflict intensifies, the guards in the palace will not be able to stop so many people from breaking into the palace. Then... I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to deal with. "
In fact, he was still thinking in his heart that he was afraid of listening to the emperor's words and killing many people. If the third prince entered the city later, and during the liquidation, he knew that he had killed many people and dealt with him, that would be bad.
The reason why he is afraid that the third prince will liquidate him is because many people have clearly seen the current situation. The fourth prince is afraid that he cannot handle it anymore. In this case, he naturally does not want to continue. Follow his orders and do things that will get you into trouble in the future.
So the guard found this reason to dissuade him.
The fourth prince doesn’t care about this. He only knows that now even those untouchables who are as low as the mud have the guts to cause trouble for him and disobey him. He is mad at him and hates him. What? He could bear it, even if that bastard Lao San would rush in at the next moment, he would let those people die before him!
So when the guard said this, he shouted regardless, "Kill me, kill me!! If you don't kill me, I will kill you!"
The guard's hands couldn't help but tremble after hearing the fourth prince's words.
Killing will mean death in the future, but not killing will lead to death now...
How should he choose?
Thinking of this, looking at the fourth prince who was walking in front of him out of anger, and who was close to Chi Chi, the guard suddenly pulled out a knife and stabbed him.
The fourth prince never expected that this guard would dare to stab him, so he was stabbed by the other party without any precautions. At that moment, he couldn't help but look at the guard in disbelief and said: "You... How dare you kill me! ...Come on...kill this traitor."
Without waiting for the other guards to take action, the guard pulled out his knife and said to the surrounding guards: "The third prince is laying siege to the capital. The emperor... the fourth prince cannot escape! If I kill him now, you will still have to die for it." Did he sacrifice his life to kill me, and then go out to kill those people? If the third prince finds out what you have done, do you think he will let you go? "
The guards heard this, They couldn't help but look at each other.
Although many of the palace guards came from wealthy families, there were also some who came from ordinary backgrounds but had strong abilities. After all, they were all incompetent. How could they protect the emperor.
The group of people around the fourth prince, even if they have some ability, are of average background, so they are not those young master soldiers, they come from the families of the fourth prince’s confidants. There is no need to think about the fact that the fourth prince is gone. Prince, his future prospects are gone, he has no need to continue to work for the fourth prince.
In addition, this guard said that if he listens to the fourth prince, he will go out and kill people. In the future, if the third prince comes in and pursues this kind of indiscriminate killing of innocent people, he will definitely cause trouble for himself, and then the fourth prince will You were stabbed, bleeding all over the floor, and you were dying, so why did you follow him?
So someone immediately said: "Since you want to do it, do it big. Contact your brothers quickly, open the city gate, and earn this credit."
This is the power of the dragon. It is right in front of you and you can get it at your fingertips. , it would be a pity not to do it.