Datang Longya

Chapter 753 Laizhou Mansion

The old man assured that he heard correctly, the voices of these soldiers were "Prince".

And the prince is not the son of the emperor, the future emperor!
Li Chengqian smiled, and supported the old man again: "Old man, Gu really said the prince. But don't be afraid, Gu brought you here to settle you down."

Li Chengqian felt that since he met this old man, he had to help him settle down.

It's fine if you can't see it. Now that you have encountered it, you can't harden your heart and pretend that you didn't see it.

Seeing Li Chengqian nodding, the old man immediately didn't know what to say, so he got into the carriage with the help of the soldiers and followed Li Chengqian on the road.

The carriage moved forward and arrived at Laizhou City after an hour.

The city of Laizhou is not very far from Dengzhou, which makes it convenient for Li Chengqian to transport grain to Dengzhou in Laizhou.

Song Baocai, governor of Laizhou, had been waiting at the gate of the city.

He knew about the prince's tour of the world, but he didn't expect the prince to come to his small place.

Although Laizhou is better than Dengzhou, it is still not ranked high.

Originally, he was still thinking about the dignified prince, why would he go to a small place like him instead of enjoying it in a big state city?

I, a poor official, can't afford to entertain him!
But when he knew that the prince came here to distribute food to Dengzhou, he couldn't help admiring the prince.

The prince not only mobilized the treasury's grain according to the system, but also bought a lot of grain for Dengzhou out of his own pocket.

As for enjoying?

The general food that Li Chengqian ate since he arrived in Laizhou City, although it was good compared to common people with wine and meat, was far from the level of luxury.

This changed Song Baocai's impression of Li Chengqian greatly. He suddenly felt that even if the current emperor abdicates, Datang can be handed over to a good leader.If this continues, Datang Wanshi can look forward to it!
When they got close, Song Baocai asked his men to help the prince out of the carriage.

Seeing that it was Song Baocai, Li Chengqian couldn't help saying: "You came at a good time, but I still have something to trouble you to do."

Song Baocai immediately cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, just give orders."

Li Chengqian took out a money bag from his hand and handed it to Song Baocai: "Although the people in Dengzhou have enough to eat, they still eat too little. After looking around alone, I found that in many places, one bowl of porridge per person. One bowl of porridge , so that these people can’t starve to death, if this doesn’t work, you can find a way to buy some grain and send it to Dengzhou.”

Song Bao thought for a while before saying: "Then, Your Highness, should it still be included in the food relief?"

Before that, he couldn't understand why His Royal Highness paid for it out of his own pocket, but it still had to be included in the part mobilized by the court.

Li Chengqian nodded.

Song Baocai smiled wryly and said, "Your Highness, don't blame the officials for talking too much. Why don't you just announce the list and tell the people about it? This is a good opportunity to buy people's hearts!"

Li Chengqian looked at Song Baocai strangely: "The people are hungry, and we want to feed them. Why do you say it out loud? Isn't this what we should do?"

At this time, the old man in the carriage also got out of the car, and he kept listening to the conversation between the two, and couldn't help but say, "Okay, okay, your officials just like to do face-saving work, there is no need to post notices, we have already listened to cloth porridge." People have said it before, and know that His Highness the Crown Prince has done his best for us ordinary people. We all know that His Highness the Crown Prince has a Bodhisattva heart."

Song Baocai couldn't help being ashamed when the old man directly said that doing this was a matter of saving face, and covered his face with his sleeves and left the gate of the city.

In fact, he is also a very good official, but he is really thinking about Li Chengqian.

In just a few days, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already spent thousands of silver coins.This is a huge sum of money. In his opinion, the crown prince shouldn't be allowed to spend so much money.

Li Chengqian walked over, still supporting the old man to walk inside.

Although the old man felt that he could walk by himself, he didn't feel that His Royal Highness was pretending.Although the contact was very short, he had already seen that His Highness the Crown Prince was not deeply involved in the world, and he was not like an old fritter official.

The place where Li Chengqian lived was of course the governor's mansion. Because of his arrival, Song Baocai specially arranged three floors of defense inside and outside. Even the vegetable market not far from the gate of the governor's mansion was temporarily closed.

It was about Li Chengqian's safety, Song Baocai did not dare to be careless.

When he reached the gate, Li Chengqian found that there were uncharacteristically many women in front of the governor's mansion.

They were all sitting on the ground with piles of sackcloth in front of them.

They are holding needles and threads and are sewing clothes one by one, and the material is still very thick.

Di Renjie was also very puzzled, and asked the guard at the door: "What are they doing?"

The guards were arranged by Di Renjie's grandfather Di Xiaoxu. When he heard his master's question, he said: "These are hired by the lady. The lady said that the poor people in the west of Dengzhou can't afford clothes, especially some children. Wearing shorts and bare legs for the winter, so the lady is going to prepare a set of clothes for these children."

The lady the guards were talking about was naturally Wu Mei.

Di Renjie looked at the women outside the door, and couldn't help but said to Li Chengqian: "Senior brother, it seems that senior sister is still rich! There are so many clothes, although they are made of linen, but it takes thousands of gold coins to make them. Come out!"

Li Chengqian said with a smile: "You take care of others, my junior sister is kind-hearted, I don't want those children to suffer, and they spend their own money, why do you feel bad?"

Wu Mei had studied business before and earned a lot of money during this period.Because the money was earned by Wu Mei herself, Leng Feng didn't take it, but told Lao Li to save it for her.

The three Li Chengqian brothers have fiefdoms, and although they don't actually get as much money in name, they are all rich.

In contrast, only Di Renjie is relatively "poor", and only Leng Feng's and Di Xiaoxu's cases are taken.

The old man looked at the clothes all over the floor, and said with a smile: "I just don't know if we old men have a share! Hehe."

Even so, the old man knew that he didn't deserve this. The girls were kind-hearted and couldn't see their children suffer. Adults like them had hands and feet, so it was right that they didn't get the clothes.

Li Chengqian said with a smile: "Old man, Gu didn't bring so much money when he came out this time. When Gu comes next time, or returns to Chang'an, he may make clothes for the old and weak in western Dengzhou!"

The old man hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness, the old man is joking, don't take it seriously!"

Li Chengqian shook his head, he had his own arrangements.

After learning that widowed and lonely old people can't really take care of themselves, he has been building a plan in his heart.

As long as the plan can be achieved, maybe these old people can really have a good death.

Surrounded by guards, the three entered the Governor's Mansion.

(End of this chapter)