Obviously, the fourth prince did not doubt what the general said, and did not think that he was the third prince's man. The main reason was that the man was not the guard general of Shazhou, but the guard general of the neighboring state of Shazhou. Therefore, the fourth prince did not think that the third prince Even if the prince has some reputation in the frontier, he can still get the generals of neighboring states to submit to him.
This was also deliberately arranged by the third prince. He was afraid that if he let people into Shazhou and then fought, the fourth prince would become suspicious. He was thinking that the generals in Shazhou would surrender to him, so he deliberately set up a trap. The prince is too conceited to think that he has the ability to conquer the generals of neighboring states, so he will not doubt him.
But now, the third prince saw that the fourth prince was so generous and actually returned the money. Okay, let's fight. So soon the general of that state told the fourth prince that troops and horses had been dispatched to deal with the thieves.
When the fourth prince heard that the thieves had been eliminated, he continued to send people to arrest Brother Sun and others. This time, just to be on the safe side, he sent thousands of people.
Thinking of thousands of people, nothing will happen, right?
...Of course something happened, and he was beaten to death by "thieves" before he arrived.
When the fourth prince received the news, Long Yan was furious and sent a message asking the previous generals why the thieves were not wiped out.
The previous general said that the thieves on his own territory had been wiped out. They were thieves from other territories. They came suddenly. He didn't know why they came. It was none of his business.
The fourth prince was extremely angry, but he no longer had the money to send out the third team. You must know that the previous two times, one or two thousand people were sent out. Because they represented the face of the royal family, he gave those people brand new ones. Weapons, armor, and because it was dangerous to go to the border where barbarians were infested, we also gave these people a lot of money. As for food, grass, and horses, they must have been prepared.
But building such a glorious team will definitely cost a lot of money. After all, weapons and armor don't cost money to build, and they won't just appear out of nowhere.
And the cost of cavalry is much higher than that of infantry - such a long distance, relying on people to walk on foot, how long does it have to go, one round trip, it is estimated to be a year short, how can it be done? He wants to take care of the Sun family immediately Dafang's team, so the team is all cavalry - in this dynasty, the cost of a cavalry is almost ten times that of infantry, so just one or two thousand people killed him a lot of money, and now one thousand people are not enough If so, if he organized two thousand cavalry... how could he mobilize them? Because this basically required him to dispatch 30,000 to 40,000 infantrymen. Such a large force was just to take back a group of people from the Sun family's eldest family... Thinking about it, he felt at a loss.
Therefore, although the fourth prince was angry when he saw that the Sun family's eldest family member was never brought back, he had no money for the time being, so no matter how angry he was, he could only forget it and only hated the Sun family's eldest family member. No one is in Jingzhong anymore, otherwise we have to deal with them.
In fact, not only did the emperor have no money to send out more cavalry, but the two teams in succession were all dead. People like the Beijing Camp did not dare to go.
——It was impossible for the emperor to ask the palace guards to "invite" people, so he asked people from the Beijing Camp.
Many of the people in the capital camp are rich soldiers with little fighting ability. It's okay to scare the princes in the capital who are ready to make a move. But if they really want to let them fight with barbarians and thieves, they really don't have the courage. After all, they usually Being served with good food and drink, with a high salary, and in front of a young master's army, naturally one is timid, for fear of dying and losing one's wealth.
Now I heard that both teams were completely destroyed, who would still want to go?
So seeing that the emperor had no money to send out a third team, they finally felt relieved. Before, they had been worried that the emperor would continue to send people, or even send more people, and if they were drawn, they would be depressed. .
And just when the fourth prince was trying several times to send people to "invite" Sun Mu and others, many months had passed, and the third prince and Linlang occupied even more territory.
But after it has developed to this level, it is a bit difficult to continue to expand its territory. The reason is also very simple. Their sphere of influence is almost approaching the capital.
The closer it is to the capital, the more prosperous it is. Such a prosperous place is more likely to be occupied by those who accompanied the fourth prince from Conglong and are now the fourth prince's confidants.
Unlike the desolate area far away from the capital, only those who do not belong to the fourth prince, secretly support the third prince, and appear to be neutral on the surface have the opportunity to move around and arrange for people to move in.
The fourth prince is also willing to take these bad things as favors and give them to these neutral people, just to show them good will and to win them over to his side, so that he can attack those who are obviously the third prince. people.
As for those good places, the fourth prince must not let them go. He must let his favorite people serve as officials there.
So until now, it is difficult to leverage more places.
But so many places are enough. The third prince has already occupied a very vast area - not only those places in Mobei, other places where the climate is not too terrible, but the mountains and rivers are barren, have also been replaced by the third prince's people. Therefore, the territory occupied by the Fourth Prince's henchmen was actually very small.
This is normal. After all, how many beautiful places can there be in the world? Most of them are either frontiers or poor mountains and rivers. Only a few places are wealthy places with good climate and lots of fields, and then they are favored by the people of the fourth prince. Occupied.
And in a place like this, to be honest, if there is a real fight, the combat effectiveness is very doubtful, because the richer the people, the more afraid they will be if the fight is severe and they will break their own bottles and jars. And consider that the third prince is also the late emperor. His son, if his own family is beating his own family, then he surrenders. Anyway, he is not surrendering to an outsider, and he does not feel guilty about betraying the country.
Therefore, if the third prince starts an uprising now, he is destined to succeed.
The third prince probably also thought of this, so seeing that another winter was coming, he began to discuss with the people below, preparing to do this when spring comes and the flowers bloom.
Just in time, he received information that the fourth prince felt that he had gained a firm footing and was preparing to summon him to the capital - he would probably get rid of him once he arrived.
He could just take advantage of this to take action.
The fourth prince was indeed planning to let the third prince come to the capital, and then get rid of this serious problem. In addition, the Sun family would also go to the capital together. He hated this family for not obeying his words and came to the capital. He had long thought about it. Get rid of them.
After trying several times last time and failing to get Brother Sun and others back, the fourth prince was completely angry, so he decided not to send anyone there this time, but planned to let them come back on their own; if they dare not come back, the border guards would do it. General, escort them back.
Obviously his method was quite useful. Anyway, not long after the spring began, the fourth prince received news that made him happy. That is, the third prince and Brother Sun's family were unwilling to go back voluntarily, and the border guard had already detained them. The third prince, Brother Sun and others rushed back.
Hearing that they were coming, the fourth prince felt comfortable and began to think about how to deal with this group of people.
Unfortunately, he may not know what kind of people he has attracted.
