Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

Chapter 2 Why Do Workers Go Hungry?
At this time, the people were at the scene of besieging the convoy of the King of Shu on the banks of the Yangtze River.

Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, the figure of Shu King Li Ke stood on the shaft of the chariot.

Suddenly, everyone could see him.

The emotions on the scene exploded in an instant.

"King of Shu, help!"

A tearful man shouted sadly at Li Ke.

"King of Shu, help!"

The voices of tens of thousands of disaster victims swept across the world.

It's tearful.

brush!
In the next second, Li Ke raised his right hand expressionlessly, pressed it down, and made a silent gesture.

The whole scene was silent.

Many people looked at Li Ke's figure and felt a sense of peace.

They also don't understand, they have experienced hell-like baptism in the disaster, they are sleepy, hungry, full of despair, why are they so relieved when they see this prince?
"All the fathers and elders of the Shu Kingdom, all the people of the Tang Dynasty!"

"This king is the son of the current emperor, and also your local parents."

"You have asked this king to write a letter, begging the court for relief, this request, this king can understand."

"However, don't you think it's too late?"

Li Ke's voice came with the wind in complete silence, as warm as the spring breeze.

"Forehead?"

"His Royal Highness Shu, did not refuse!?"

"It's too late, what do you mean?"

The people were in an uproar, and everyone's faces were not disappointed, not unwilling, but puzzled!

They have already seen the government at all levels push each other, and even many officials who directly control them ran away because of the Xuanwumen change.

In any case, no one ever told them it was too late!
Could it be that the king of Shu is more eager to help the people than they are?
A flame of hope burned in everyone's heart.

Everyone's eyes became more and more eager.

"Elders and elders, the imperial court will send food, but the treasury is thousands of miles away from Sichuan and Sichuan, how many people will starve to death in the middle?"

"If you want to save the people, you must first provide food locally."

"Those gentry are small, and they will never be merciless when collecting your food."

"But if the imperial court sends a letter asking them to provide relief, they will inevitably delay until the imperial court's food arrives. How can they be willing to pay for it?"

"It's not that there is no food to help you. It is precisely because of the gentry's own calculations in the city that your family was ruined and you starved to death!"

Li Ke shouted expressionlessly.

Since they want to detonate their emotions, of course they must first raise their grievances.

Only then can they break the shackles of the feudal society on people's hearts in one fell swoop, and unleash their destructive power!
"Damn gentleman!"

"Those bastards, when have we been short of their land rent in previous years?"

"Yeah, it's abhorrent to sit back and watch our family die. I took it for granted before."

"My poor sons and daughters, starve to death!"

"And my parents, my family, I'm the only one left!"

"Gentleman, gentry, I want to die with these bastards!"

The emotions of the people were suddenly detonated.

Cries resounded throughout the mountains and fields, and resentment broke through the sky!

"Common people, since ancient times, the imperial power has not been sent to the countryside, and the power of the gentry is very strong."

"But, since you are already too hungry to survive, you have even more sworn hatred with them."

"Why don't you let them try it too, the taste of a broken family!"

Li Ke's words made the eyes of all the people flash with a strange light.

"His Royal Highness, be careful with your words..."

Li Tong, the captain of the guard, was frightened to death.

This prince is here to rebel!

"If you don't do this, you can get out?"

Li Ke asked in a low voice with no expression on his face.

"Forehead……"

Li Tong suddenly trembled.

"Then... what to do afterwards?"

Li Tong asked with a pale face.

Rebellion, the consequences are very serious!

"Afterwards? The gentry knew that the king was coming today, and sat and watched the disaster victims ambush the king. After they couldn't get what they wanted, they attacked Chengdu and killed all the gentry."

"Ben Wang escaped with his life by chance, and even more so, he never stepped into Chengdu, so what does this have to do with me?"

Li Ke spread his hands, and Li Tong immediately yelled, shit.

This works too! ?

What they are telling is the truth. Li Ke has not entered Chengdu, so what does it have to do with him?
"Why do my poor people, soldiers and civilians deserve to starve to death?"

"Those gentry are just a bunch of worms. How can they deserve to have enough food and clothing in troubled times?"

"Everyone, with the village as the unit, unite and elect their own leaders."

"The chiefs above the village level will elect the deputy chiefs."

"Deputy leaders, elect the chief leader again, and kill them all!"

"Some of you will die because of this, but in the following disaster years, no one will dare to let the people starve to death."

"Because you have been here!"

"History will remember your immortal achievements!"

Li Ke raised his arms and shouted.

"Kill the gentry!!"

"Let them taste the taste of family ruin!"

"That's right, Lao Tzu's family is dead, so I'm not afraid of implicating the nine clans!"

"Go to the Nine Clans, I will let the gentry die first!"

The sound of shouting and killing resounded through the sky.

Looking around, there are hungry faces everywhere that have been completely exploded by Li Ke's skills.

"I'm the leader, I'm going ahead!"

"Okay, good man, I am willing to follow you around!"

"Go on!"

In the next second, the leader was quickly elected from the crowd, and then, he rushed towards Chengdu City in a mighty manner.

All the houses along the way were demolished, the trees were cut down as banners, and the poles were raised to revolt!
All the strong men who couldn't survive along the way also joined them.

There are countless craftsmen who have created siege ladders.

Blood and killing are about to erupt in this hungry land.

"If you play with the gentry, you won't be able to go to the countryside, and I will have to endure those greedy moths."

"Then it's better to kill them all. I, Li Ke, make a decision in Sichuan and Shu, which means..."

"Imperial power can also be decided in the whole world with one word!"

Li Ke looked at the backs of the crowd swarming towards Chengdu City, and said with a sneer.

The imperial power and the power of the gentry, that is the biggest contradiction in the entire feudal society.

Li Ke's sin in this matter is not even a small wave.

The gentry is incompetent, unable to protect the environment and the people, let alone defend the city of Chengdu, it has nothing to do with him, a half-way vassal king who has not yet entered the fiefdom.

……

At the same time, in the west of Chengdu.

Hundreds of officials and gentry, headed by the governor Liu Zhao, were watching the excitement on the top of the city.

"The King of Shu, this society should be surrounded by those mud legs, right?"

Everyone looked smug, and didn't realize that disaster was coming.

(End of this chapter)