Great Tang princess

Chapter 298
Li Yuechen and the others did not stay in the Hall of Renshou for too long, after all, they knew that the children were all tired.

Especially Li Xian and Li Lun, seeing that their clothes were disheveled and lacking manners at all, Wu Zetian didn't teach them a lesson, but gently told them to go back to rest early.

Now it's just that the flood is under control, but the disaster relief work is far from over, and we will be busy tomorrow.

The children bid farewell to their parents and left the Hall of Renshou respectively.

Li Yuechen returned to Anfu Palace with his two sisters, and just entered the courtyard when he saw Shangguan Wan'er standing on the Linbo Pavilion waiting.

Seeing a few people coming in, she moved lightly and came to Li Yuechen.

The moonlight in this era is much brighter than that after more than a thousand years. The bright moonlight poured on her face, and a pair of big black eyes seemed to be shining with a ray of light.

The two looked at each other without speaking.

Shangguan Wan'er opened her arms, took two steps forward, and hugged her tightly.

Li Yuechen who was suddenly hugged was a little dazed, but she didn't resist, just pressed her cheek and asked softly: "Wan'er, you..."

"Your Highness, don't be sad." Shangguan Wan'er said slowly, her tone soft, "No matter what, Wan'er will always be with Your Highness!"

Hearing these words, Li Yuechen fell into silence. Presumably, Shangguan Wan'er knew what happened on the front line yesterday.

She nodded slightly, and reached out to hug her: "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"Really?" Shangguan Wan'er turned her head slightly and asked.

"Well, really!" Li Yuechen nodded, then stepped back slightly, looked into her eyes and replied seriously, "Don't worry, this will never happen again in the future."

After coming back tonight and listening to her father's teachings, she already understood.

Now that I am no longer alone, there are too many people around me who need my protection.

The two elder sisters are probably my mother's worries so far. If I die, who will protect them?
Although the second brother Li Xian has deposed the crown prince, he is still alive after all. His father may kill him to pave the way for the new crown prince. In the future, the third brother may change his mentality because he becomes the emperor, and he also wants to kill him... If he died, no one could protect him.

Not to mention Shangguan Wan'er, even though she is a genius, she is still a court lady after all, and all arrangements are nothing more than a word from the emperor...

There are too many people around who need to be protected by themselves, not only the army, but also many people who are usually by my side, these people are the easiest to ignore after getting used to it!

So you must not have any problems, and you must learn to protect yourself in the future!
Hearing her assurance, Shangguan Wan'er smiled slightly, her eyes became crooked: "Then Wan'er can rest assured."

……

In the early morning of the next day, Li Yuechen returned to his usual work and rest. After breakfast, he went to the front line again without stopping, and began to direct the soldiers to continue to build the temporary shelters for the victims.

As for things like adjusting grain from other places, she doesn't need to do it. These things have already been handed over to the prince, which can be regarded as contributing to this incident and gaining prestige among the people.

It is also from this incident that the public's impression of the royal family and the army will gradually begin to change!

Li Yuechen has been perfecting the details of his future plans, including some ways of getting along with the royal family and the public.

Since the future is still a society of absolute monarchy, the royal family's spectrum will still continue to be laid out.

Serving the people can be done in action, but it must not be said in words!The royal family is the royal family after all, and they are still aloof.

The same goes for the army, they can sacrifice for the people, but they can't say that, they are not protecting the people, but protecting the stability of Datang!

This must be determined in the future education system.

Guard the gate, die Sheji!
This is not the responsibility of the emperor alone, but the code of conduct for the entire royal family!The emperor is just the leader among them!
While thinking and perfecting the details of the future plan, Li Yuechen directed the soldiers to perform their duties and solve the follow-up problems caused by the flood as quickly as possible.

The first thing is to re-select a place to rebuild the village for the victims, and at the same time reclaim a large area of ​​land for them to grow crops.

However, this matter is not difficult. The ground hit by the flood is relatively flat, and it is relatively easy to cultivate.

Perhaps in the future, we can find an opportunity to raise the dam a little higher to avoid such a situation from happening again.

Of course, Li Yuechen is also very clear that this kind of heavy rain that lasts for several days is usually not seen once in a hundred years, and it is a low-probability event.

Standing on a high place, Li Yuechen held the binoculars to look at the whole situation, and couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.

After the events of the previous two days, the relationship between the victims and the soldiers has become much better today, and many victims have offered to help with physical work within their capabilities.

At the same time, these soldiers will be handed towels to wipe off their sweat and so on.

What's more, they actually asked these soldiers directly if they had married wives, and their daughters are now of marriageable age...

It made these soldiers dumbfounded for a while.

These people were all recruited from the original Qianniuwei, and they knew what the common people's attitude was towards them.

On the surface, people are afraid of them and will run away as soon as they see them.

But secretly, they generally look down on them, thinking that they are all a bunch of stinky soldiers.

Fubing is better, the boundary with peasants is not so obvious.But professional soldiers like Qianniuwei and prison guards are still too far away from them.

……

The whole morning passed quickly, seeing the sun rising higher and higher, Fulai who had been behind Li Yuechen raised his hand to wipe the fine sweat from his forehead, and reminded softly: "Your Highness, it's almost time for dinner."

Li Yuechen looked up at the sky: "Well... let them eat first, there must be no one on the command post, tell Hongfeng and the others to arrange for the victims..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums coming from the gate of the Eastern Capital.

Turning his head curiously, he saw that several luxurious four-wheeled carriages were slowly driving out of the city.

Now most of the people in Dongdu have changed into this kind of four-wheeled carriage. Not to mention the strong transport capacity, the key is to be stable.

Several carriages stopped by the river bank, and then many people came down and began to divide the work, and set up several suggested sheds with bamboo poles.

Then I saw a few servants dressed up taking a broken gong and knocking on it: "Come on, come on, Mr. Cui is thinking about the common people, and specially donating porridge, everyone..."

The shouts from the other sheds were similar. It was nothing more than the fact that the rich merchants in the city felt that the people affected by the disaster outside the city were pitiful, so they deliberately opened up the porridge shed, which was a small effort...

This kind of thing, the average rich businessman wants to do it but can't do it, and those who can do it basically have a strong relationship and background at home.

Seeing this scene, Li Yuechen was a little dazed.

Fulai from behind was a little bit aggrieved: "It's too much! Your Highness, servants go..."

"No need!"

Li Yuechen waved his hand, but didn't let Fulai come over to make trouble.

Although the purpose is too obvious, since you are willing to do something for the people, it is worth encouraging.

So she didn't stop, but let them do it.

Many victims saw that there were porridge handouts over there, and it was indeed time to eat, and they felt a little hungry. The army always delivered meals on time, and it took half an hour to deliver them.

It’s okay to go over there first and drink some porridge to pad your stomach. Anyway, the army here will send steamed buns and vegetable soup at noon.

Seeing some disaster victims passing by one after another, Li Yuechen thought that this is not bad, at least there might be a batch of costs left on his own side, and then maybe he can discuss with the people behind the staff and work together on disaster relief. a good thing.

However, I just thought of this step, and before I continued to think about it, I saw those victims came back one after another, and only a few sporadic ones were still receiving free porridge.

"Fulai, go and see why the victims came back." Li Yuechen raised his head.

"Yes!"

Fulai promised and ran over to have a look, walked around there, looked at the various porridge sheds, and trotted back all the way.

"Your Highness, those people are really hateful! What is porridge? It's just a pot of water with a few grains of rice..." Fulai opened his eyes wide and said exaggeratedly, "Drinking it is nothing more than quenching your thirst... "

Hearing the report, Li Yuechen frowned.

I have a feeling of disgust towards these people in my heart, knowing that you are doing this for a purpose, but even so, you should pretend to be a little bit, right?

Is this kind of shameless thing really capable?
It can be seen from the attitudes of those victims who left that Fulai's words were true, but if he was honest, it wouldn't be like this.

It happened that at this time Geng Yunqiang had already eaten and came over to take over. Li Yuechen asked him to continue to direct here, while he took Fulai and walked over to the porridge sheds.

……

In this era without photos, it is difficult to recognize even the most famous people.

However, Li Yuechen was an exception. Princess Taiping's unique hairstyle and attire were well known in the Eastern Capital, and she was considered the most recognizable member of the royal family.

Seeing the princess coming, the people in charge of the porridge shed hurriedly saluted: "I've seen Your Highness!"

Li Yuechen didn't speak either, and walked past them on his own, picked up a spoon and stirred the pot twice, scooped up a spoon casually and looked down.

Indeed, as Fulai said, some rice was added to the clear water.

After counting carefully, there are only twenty-eight grains of rice in this spoonful of "porridge".

And this is a large spoonful that can fill a bowl!

Li Yuechen was silent for a few seconds, took the spoon and turned back to the servant who had just saluted.

"Your Highness!"

"Come on! Drink it!" Li Yuechen handed over the spoon.

The other party didn't know what it meant, but he still agreed, took the spoon respectfully and opened his mouth to drink.

Let alone porridge, even if it is ink, he must drink it if the princess asks him to drink it.

Seeing the other party finish drinking a spoonful of water, Li Yuechen asked blankly, "Are you full?"

Hearing the princess's question, the other party also knew that it was Xingshi who came to question her.

Anyone who can be sent out to do this kind of thing cannot be an ordinary servant.Facing the princess's question, he could only answer bluntly: "I'm full!"

"Ah……"

Hearing such an answer, Li Yuechen suddenly grinned, and his heroic face suddenly became very sweet.

She smiled and turned her head and waved to the two soldiers next to her: "Let this person work here for two days. He is not allowed to eat and drink water for these two days!"

"Yes!" The two soldiers agreed, stretched out their hands, supported each other from left to right, and pulled towards the construction site.

"Your Highness can't be like this...the villain didn't commit a crime..." The servant struggled.

But Li Yuechen didn't care about that at all, and turned his head to look at the few people in the other porridge sheds as if he didn't hear it.

"Do you also think that this porridge can fill your stomach?" Li Yuechen asked.

These people all kept silent.

Li Yuechen didn't bother to talk nonsense, he just waved his hands, asking the soldiers around to let them work for two days, and starve for two days by the way.

……

After finishing the matter here, Li Yuechen ignored them and went to eat by himself. In the afternoon, he discussed the post-disaster reconstruction with the people called from the engineering institute.

Li Yuechen's idea is to directly build a bamboo-reinforced concrete house similar to that of the army, and at the same time make a fireplace for them, so that they can keep warm in winter.

There is nothing wrong with the engineering institute, but the key is that the cost is a bit high.

The high cost belongs to the high cost, but it is durable!
Besides, this place in Henan is not in an earthquake zone, so generally there will be no problems.

After the decision was made, the production began immediately. The engineering institute sent people to start surveying the terrain and drawing design drawings at the same time.The transferred students also began to calculate the amount of cement and various materials needed, as well as cost calculation and other issues.

Today's Academy of Engineering can be said to have the embryonic form of a gathering place for some high-level talents. Li Yuechen plans to completely merge the Military Weapons Supervision Department in the future and set up a special weapon development department.

The plan has been finalized in one afternoon, and the design drawing can be started tomorrow.

After dinner, Li Yuechen discussed with Geng Yunqiang and several battalion commanders what to do next.

"The combat troops don't have to come here tomorrow, just go back and rest for a few days, and then resume daily training. Brother, the engineering troops on your side stay, and together with the Engineering Academy, assist the victims in the reconstruction work."

Listening to Li Yuechen's order, Li Xian nodded and agreed: "Okay."

"I will live in the palace for the next few days, and discuss with the crown prince how to transport food from other places. When the time comes..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Xian: "Send a student here too, I don't have any math talents here..."

"Okay!" Li Yuechen agreed, "But I may not be able to come here at any time in the past few days. If I think right, there will definitely be a lot of movement in the court these days..."

"Today almost all those who gave the porridge were arrested. It's strange that there is no movement..." Li Xian couldn't help laughing, but then realized that he was already a commoner, and it was not good to talk about government affairs like this, so he shut it down quickly mouth.

But Li Yuechen really looked indifferent: "It's okay, if you catch it, you will catch it. I'm a princess, and it doesn't matter if I act perverted occasionally... It's a big deal to quarrel, if you can't quarrel, just beat them up!"

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