Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

Li Shimin continued to walk inside in disbelief. Next to Chang'an City, behind the prosperity of Ganye Temple would be such poverty.

The people inside still looked curiously at the outsiders, especially the children, who looked enviously at the bright clothes on Li Chengqian and the others, eager to touch them.

And the clothes they were wearing were so tattered that they couldn't be mended, and they couldn't even see that they were clothes. It would be winter in a while. Do they still have clothes to keep out the cold?

Li Shimin always believed that during the years of stability in the Tang Dynasty, even if he could not live and work in peace and contentment, the basic living conditions should be guaranteed. As long as there were no natural disasters, life would be peaceful, especially the places near Chang'an.

Unexpectedly, reality slapped him.

"Lang Jun, do you still think that there will no longer be naked people in this world?" Li Yi'an asked.

At the beginning, the samurai didn't quite know what they were going to do, but now he probably understood that this gentleman wanted to bring their majesty out to experience the people's livelihood?He actually still has this kind of ability, which can make His Majesty trust him so much!

At this moment, the warrior's mind became active. As a timber merchant, he was able to climb onto Li Yuan's lap and become a hero of the founding of the Tang Dynasty. .

He could tell at a glance that Li Yi'an was extraordinary.

"You are right, sir, but I was wrong."

Li Shimin said with emotion: "I am often in the deep palace, and I know very little about the people's sentiments outside. Today, if I don't have Mr. Guidance, I can't see the people's livelihood. How stupid I am."

The samurai thought for a moment, and then immediately said: "The current sage, benevolent and wise, will not let the people of the world suffer. The Tang Dynasty is so big, it is normal that some places have not been taken care of for the time being."

Li Shimin didn't think so, and said: "If Your Majesty is wise, such a situation would not have happened."

"Who are you, dare to slander His Majesty today!"

At this time, an old voice came from beside them.

Everyone looked for the sound, but saw an old man walking with a cane, just in time to hear Li Shimin's words.

The old man snorted coldly: "Although I don't know how honorable your identities are, if you dare to slander Your Majesty again, don't blame us pariahs for being rude."

Listening to the old man's words, people in other villages also put down their busy farm tools and looked at Li Shimin and the others, a little unfriendly.

"Old man, do you admire His Majesty?"

Li Shimin asked in surprise. Logically speaking, they shouldn't be unfriendly to him. After all, under his governance, people's livelihood is so miserable.

"Without Your Majesty, all the people in our village would have died."

The old man said excitedly: "A few months ago, the locust plague in Chang'an destroyed all the grain we planted. The grain merchants took the opportunity to raise the price of grain. After eating up the surplus grain, they couldn't afford it, so they could only starve in vain. If it weren't for Your Majesty Keep the price down and give us food relief, not many people in the village can survive until now!"

"Also last year, the Turkic soldiers came to the city. If His Majesty hadn't come to the Weishui River in person to scare the enemy away, we ordinary people would have been killed before the locust plague."

It turned out that these things made them admire him. Li Shimin felt a little touched in his heart, but the credit was not with him, but with Mr. He asked again: "But now you are naked and living in thatched huts without even walls. Don't blame His Majesty at all?"

"Don't complain!"

The old man said again: "How long has your majesty been the emperor? Just as that gentleman said, before he had time to help us, we can see from the matter of food that your majesty is definitely an emperor who does practical things. Now we It’s very satisfying to be able to eat a full meal.”

Li Shimin was a little choked up, the people at the bottom are so easily satisfied, this is the most simple folk custom, and it is also a general representative of the current situation of the people.

"When it comes to His Majesty's practical work, the best place is a school. It seems to be called a primary school."

The old man said excitedly again: "In the coming year, even if I don't eat or drink, I still have to save enough tuition fees to send my grandson to elementary school so that he can read and write. Even if I can't be an official in the future, I won't be like me. Nothing can be done here."

The status of scholars has been very high since ancient times, and there are very few people who can afford books.

"Old man, you are really right!"

The samurai took the opportunity to flatter him and said, "Your Majesty is definitely an emperor who handles practical things, a rare and wise emperor."

The old man nodded and said: "This gentleman is right!"

As he said that, he still stared at Li Shimin with an unfriendly expression, and snorted softly: "If I hear you dare to speak ill of His Majesty again, I will definitely not let you go!"

He was so angry that he almost blew his beard up, and walked away slowly while leaning on his crutches.

Li Shimin smiled awkwardly, but he didn't expect such a result. Before he knew it, he remembered the Junzhou Minshui that the husband had mentioned.

"Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it, but the water that carries the boat is not only the people outside who have no worries about food and clothing, but also the people who are suffering here."

After leaving the village and returning to the Ganye Temple, Li Shimin said in shame, "I'm the one who's sorry for them."

"Lang Jun is not sorry, it's just that the people below didn't report it, and the people above didn't know about it, so they ignored them for the time being."

Li Yi'an cupped his hands and said, "However, congratulations sir, the hearts of the people are here!"

The samurai also quickly said: "Mr. is right, the hearts of the people will return, the world will be peaceful, and it will last forever."

Li Shimin sounded comfortable with these flattery words, but felt that he, the emperor, was not doing his duty conscientiously. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Chengqian, what do you think of them?"

"Mr. and I explained that there is a sentence in the book "Lunheng" in the Han Dynasty that goes like this: those who know the leakage of the house are in the sky, those who know the government and lose it are in the grass, and those who know the classics and make mistakes are in the scholars."

Li Chengqian said: "If the master hadn't brought us here today, I'm afraid we would never know how pitiful they are, and the people at the bottom are living so poorly."

Li Shimin glanced at Li Yi'an gratefully, thinking that this is because the teacher taught him well, Li Chengqian already knew so much at a young age, if it were Lu Deming, he would only be full of words.

"I want to help them, but I don't know how." Li Chengqian said.

"Your Highness, I can help them!"

The warrior immediately found an opportunity to show himself, and said: "Those people, I feel very sad when I look at them. They are naked. I can give them cloth and needlework. If they don't live in peace, I can rebuild their houses for them. What they lack I can do my part, not for anything else, just to help Erlang share his worries."

Li Yi'an found out that this guy is quite good at acting in front of Li Shimin, with both voice and emotion.