Zhenguan Crown Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 47

Countless red feathers galloped through the counties of Guanzhong, conveying the imperial edict to the fathers and villagers, the emperor has not forgotten us!

The crown prince has not forgotten us. Such scenes are being staged all over Guanzhong. Countless people are appeased, and countless people begin to ignite new hope. They thank the court, the emperor, and His Royal Highness the crown prince.People in some states and counties have even begun to write the Wanmin Book spontaneously, praising the emperor and the imperial court for their love for the people.

Seeing the great efforts of the imperial court in disaster relief and winning so many good names among the common people, the five surnames and Qiwang are also envious, so in their territory, these aristocratic families have also started to rescue the common people, but what they preach is not Only the emperor and the court.

Of course, their own family must be added. For hundreds of years, these aristocratic families have been oppressing the people living in this land. It must be a lie to say that the people have no resentment in their hearts.

The reason why no one resisted was because they could still live. How could the honest and honest people think of resisting these exploiters if they were not able to survive?

What's more, which of these aristocratic families did not have personal weapons, but because they were afraid of the emperor's scruples, they didn't show it blatantly.But among those who dared to rebel against these families, which one would end well?This also filled the hearts of the people with fear.

So at this most embarrassing time, the people began to thank the exploiters who have exploited them for generations, and thanked them for giving these small people a glimmer of hope and giving them the hope of living.

Of course, the aristocratic families have not completely bought everyone's hearts, and there are countless people praying silently, silently engraving that person's name in their hearts.

There is never enough food to eat. Last year, there were thousands of miles of bare land in Guanzhong, and the victims were all over the place. The people changed their children to eat. Although the court temporarily solved the problem of food for most of the population, due to the previous war, countless fields were abandoned and turned into wasteland.
Moreover, most of the young and strong died in the war. Even if there was a lot of land, no one planted crops. How much land could the remaining old, young, women and children grow?
Although Li Chengqian took out so much grain from the reserve, it was far from enough for the countless victims of the disaster in the 27 prefectures of Guanzhong. About 150 million people were affected. It will take at least two more months. Where do we have to find food for such a long time interval?

This is the result of many years of war and the decline of the population, otherwise the number would have increased significantly.With so many people, less than two months have passed, and the food in stock is about to be eaten up, and even if the food is mobilized from other places and transported, the loss along the way is not a small number.

And even if it is delivered at any cost, I am afraid it will take more than ten days. In other words, these 150 million people are at least ten days short of rations. Where can I get so much food?
Li Chengqian didn't say that he hadn't thought about embezzling the grain stored by the army first, but he dismissed this idea in a flash. Because of the Xuanwumen change the year before last, Jieli seized that opportunity to send troops south. The alliance has not yet come to fruition.

This locust plague may happen again, not only to prevent the Turks, but also to be prepared to suppress civil unrest at all times.Besides, the ghost knows whether those aristocratic families will give themselves a Tang version of Nangong Change with the one from Da'an Palace, so the army's reserves must be preserved.

Now every grain of grain in Datang is very precious. When children drop a grain of millet on the table after eating, adults will pick it up and put it in their mouths.

People who have never suffered from hunger do not know what kind of tragedy it is to starve to death.Anyway, Li Chengqian himself has never seen it, but Niu Jinda, Minister of the Ministry of Integrity and Government, has seen it.

The day before yesterday, when he came to the East Palace to report to Li Chengqian that the Ministry of Integrity supervised the disaster relief in various states and counties, he said: This person can die of illness, be killed, drowned, fell to death, burned to death, whatever, but don’t starve to death , that is God's greatest punishment to man.

At that time, his family consisted of dozens of people. In that famine era, the family left the last piece of broomcorn and wild vegetable cake to him, and all the dozen or so members of the family starved to death. , Minister of the Ministry of Integrity, he regards hunger as a nightmare.

Chang'an City, East Palace
Countless food urging reports were piled up on Li Chengqian's desk again, and Li Chengqian couldn't eat for several days because of this, and the maids and eunuchs on duty in the palace dared not speak loudly for fear of offending the prince Grandpa eats a board.

In later generations, Li Chengqian is just a small grassroots officer, as long as he does his duty well.But things are different now, he is the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and while worrying about Li Shimin who is far away in the northern border, he has to worry about the stomachs of countless people in Guanzhong.

We also have to guard against the living ancestor of Da'an Palace. Countless burdens are placed on his young body, so for him, this is the most difficult time in his life.

Li Chengqian rubbed his eyebrows, took a sip of the cold tea on hand, and said to Zhang Xuansu: "Master Zhang, when will Du He bring back the grain purchased from the south? Wait two months."

"Your Highness, I haven't received the report from Du He's food escort team yet, and there is nothing I can do if I am in a hurry. The road is long and the road is rough. It is not easy to transport such a large amount of food."

Zhang Xuansu looked at Li Chengqian who was getting thinner and said, to be honest, he lived for decades and served several monarchs in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but he had never seen Li Chengqian like this.

In his opinion, even if Li Chengqian didn't have much talent, with his pure heart, he was more than enough to be the heir apparent of the Tang Dynasty.

He is teacher Li Chengqian, an important minister of the East Palace, he knows Li Chengqian's pressure, and the officials of the aristocratic family see jokes, but Li Yuanna is still eyeing him.

Even the monks of Taoism and Buddhism came out to join in the fun and said that the coming of a prosperous age is subject to the test of natural disasters, and only those who can stand the test will be blessed by the sky. .

Li Shimin is not in Chang'an right now, and all the burdens are on Li Chengqian's body. In his opinion, it is very good that Li Chengqian can do this. He really doesn't know how to comfort his student.

Du Ruhui, who was sitting by the side, looked at the teacher and the student being troubled, and couldn't help but think of his second boy.

Ever since Du He went on business with Li Chengqian, the exaggeration of the past has disappeared, he just kept his head down and did not care about the sarcasm of those old dude friends.

Du Ruhui didn't understand what kind of magical power Li Chengqian possessed that could change such a bastard so thoroughly.Just when the three of them were in distress, a young man walked into Li Chengqian's study in a shabby seventh-rank official robe.

(End of this chapter)