Man Tanghong

Chapter 498 Why Not Eat Minced Meat

"Your Highness, just meet Li Zhongwen, or my Highness will have to go there in person."

After Ma Sanbao accompanied Li Yuanji to finish his digression, he begged again.

He didn't want Li Xiuning to return to Chang'an City at this time, especially when her brothers were about to kill each other.

With Li Xiuning's temperament of emphasizing love and righteousness, no matter if her brother dies in front of her, she will suffer for the rest of her life.

Ma Sanbao didn't want Li Xiuning to suffer, and he didn't want Li Xiuning to bear the pain caused by Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, and Li Yuanji killing each other.

Li Yuanji saw what Ma Sanbao was thinking, and he didn't want Li Xiuning to bear the pain caused by the three brothers' struggle, so he hesitated a little, nodded, and sighed: "Then we will see each other." Bar."

Seeing that Li Yuanji agreed, Ma Sanbao was overjoyed, and immediately said excitedly: "Then I will arrange it now?"

Li Yuanji shook his head and said: "There is no need to deliberately arrange it. When we go to Quchi for a banquet, just drop by and meet us."

Ma Sanbao hurriedly said: "Then you have to say hello in advance, otherwise the people from Dali Temple may not let you go..."

Li Yuanji was overjoyed when he heard this, and stared at Ma Sanbao and said, "Are you underestimating me, King Qi? I'm going to visit people in Dali Temple, and I still need to say hello and let them go, show them face? "

Ma Sanbao was taken aback, and immediately realized that he was confused, and immediately said with a smile: "Yes, yes, your highness is right, I think too much."

Li Yuanji glared at Ma Sanbao and said nothing more.

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Three days later, it was the summer harvest.

Early in the morning, Li Yuanji rushed to Chang'an City with Ma Sanbao, who was disguised as a bodyguard, and the Xue brothers.

When you get off the Jiudao Palace and out of Jiulongtan Mountain, what you see is golden.

The scene depicted by Bai Juyi in "Viewing Barley" was completely displayed in front of Li Yuanji.

The wheat covers the Long, a large golden area, and the morning breeze blows, creating layers of wheat waves.

The farmer's head is wrapped in a sweat towel, holding a sickle in his hand, and harvesting wheat one by one.

The women and aunts in the family, carrying baskets one by one, delivered food and syrup in the fields, and the children followed the farmer in twos and threes, picking up the fallen ears of wheat.

Everything is like a peaceful picture scroll, which makes people want to take a second look.

Xue Wanche is a reckless guy through and through. Although he has read books, he is not considered an educated person, so facing this situation, he said something without hesitation.

"The people in Guanzhong don't have much to see when harvesting wheat, but the people in Youzhou have something to see. When the people in Youzhou harvest the wheat, the grassland people come to grab it. The people in Youzhou have to fight the grassland people while harvesting the wheat. That’s the only way to see it.”

When Xue Wanshu heard his younger brother's stupid remark, he gave him a vicious look.

Who harvests wheat for the sake of looking good?
It was all for food.

Who doesn't want to harvest wheat safely and without disasters?

Youzhou people live in the borderlands, surrounded by non-productive alien races. The alien races don’t grow crops, but they want to survive through the crops, so they rob them every now and then, especially for summer and autumn harvests.

The Youzhou people had no choice but to harvest wheat while resisting the grassland people.

If the people of Youzhou had a choice, they would definitely choose to harvest wheat in a safe and trouble-free way like the people of Guanzhong.

Xue Wanshu felt that he protected his younger brother so well that he couldn't understand the suffering of the people, so he would say such stupid things.

So he decided that after this period of time passed, he would take his younger brothers to experience the hardships of the people.

Li Yuanji pretended not to hear what Xue Wanche said, nor did he reprimand Xue Wanche like Xue Wanshu. The reason why Xue Wanche felt so emotional after seeing the busy scene of the farmers was related to his class.

Xue Wanche was born in a wealthy family and has been an official for generations. He has never had a hard life, nor has he been as busy as a farmer, so he has no idea what it means to a farmer to harvest wheat safely and without disaster. what.

After all, you can't expect a person who has been pampered since childhood to experience the pain of farmers who are working hard in the fields.

You can't expect a killer who kills like hemp on the battlefield to pity the lives of a group of people who are struggling on the food and clothing line.

Perhaps in his eyes, no matter how poor a person is, he will not starve to death because of a small harvest of food, and no matter how miserable a person is, he will not suffer as much.

This is like many experts in later generations who think that no matter how poor the people at the bottom are, at least they have a few houses and a few cars. When they have no money or work, they can rent out their houses to generate income, and they can go out to drive to generate income.

It's not that they are ignorant, but that their level is too high. The poorest people they come into contact with have at least a few houses and cars at home.

So when people give income-generating advice, they naturally use the poorest people around them as a reference.

This is the same as the allusion of Emperor Hui of Jin's "Why not eat minced meat".

It's not that Emperor Jin Hui was ignorant, but that the poorest people around him ate minced meat. If you asked him to give the people a suggestion to survive, he naturally let the people eat minced meat.

This has nothing to do with his intelligence level, it is purely a cognitive problem.

It is precisely because of his example that later emperors attached great importance to experiencing the sufferings of the people.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the founding emperors would allocate a large area of ​​Huangzhuang at the foot of the capital, and then the successive emperors would bring their ministers to sow and harvest together when it was time to sow and harvest.

There is such a piece of Huangzhuang in Datang.

Now people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs are serving. After a few days, Li Yuan should order all the officials to go to work in the fields with him.

Li Yuanji didn't like to participate in this kind of thing in the past, because he felt that it was a bit formalistic, but this year, he felt that it was necessary to participate.

Otherwise, next time on that important occasion, if Xue Wanche said such a sentence again, he would be completely humiliated.

Li Yuanji took Ma Sanbao and the Xue brothers to stay in the fields for a long time before leaving for Chang'an City.

After arriving in Chang'an City, Li Yuanji did not rush to Quchi, but followed Ma Sanbao to Dali Temple first.

When I arrived at Dali Temple, I was catching up with Dianmao of Dali Temple. I heard that Li Yuanji was going to see the treasonous invasion. He was taken to the prison of Dali Temple.

The gate of the prison is very low, and you have to bend over to pass through.

After entering, he turned through three low doors before entering the prison.

The reason why the gates of the prison are so anti-human is to prevent prisoners from rioting and escaping.

Just think about it, there are iron walls all around, and there are only three low gates that can only allow one person to pass through the way out. Even if the prisoners riot and escape, how much can they escape in a short while?
I'm afraid that after a few ran out, the soldiers and horses guarding the surroundings rushed over.

The environment in the prison was better than Li Yuanji had expected. Prisoners not only lived in cells that were one foot long and four feet wide, with three brick walls and a wooden fence. There were heated kangs and clean bedding in the cells.

In addition, there are places for prisoners to bask in the sun and move around outside the cell.

The hygiene inside and outside the cell is also very clean, which is completely different from the mess Li Yuanji imagined. Except for the place where the toilet is a little messy and smelly, although the rest of the place is not spotless, it is not up to the mark. Dirty and messy, and there is no peculiar smell.

Li Yuanji thought about it carefully and understood the joints.

For the master of the cell, all the prisoners in the cell are free labor.

Before they are assigned and beheaded, the master of the cell can let them do anything.

Cleaning up hygiene can only be regarded as a trivial matter.

If it weren't for the fact that all the prisoners in the cells of Dali Temple were felons, and Datang didn't have relevant regulations on using prisoners to generate income, then these prisoners might have been used long ago.

However, according to the relevant laws of the Tang Dynasty, even if all the conditions are met, the yamen in various places will not use prisoners to generate income for the Tang Dynasty.

Because rather than letting the prisoners generate income for Datang in the prison, Datang prefers to let them guard the border and open up the bitter cold land.

Therefore, it is impossible to use prisoners to generate income in Datang.

Because Li Zhongwen is a serious prisoner among serious criminals, he lives in a separate cell surrounded by brick walls. There are two guards guarding the door. It can be seen that the clothes on his body are not neatly dressed, and he stands there with a serious expression. The restrained look is obviously just arranged.

The purpose, of course, is to deal with Li Yuanji's patrol.

Although Li Yuanji didn't come here to supervise the work of Dali Temple, if he saw something that was not pleasing to the eye, he could pass a copy to Li Yuan, or when he met Li Yuan in private, he would mention it to Li Yuan, which would be enough for Dali Temple. man drinking from a jug.

Li Yuanji ordered someone to open the cell door, and saw Li Zhongwen eating chicken.

Although Gou Ri's is in prison, and he is still in prison for treason, his treatment in prison is really good.

Not only do they live in single rooms, but they also use high-quality mats, well-made beard beds, cattail fans and other things.

Food is also very good.

There is chicken and mutton, and a jug of wine.

"Not bad, the little days are quite nourishing."

Li Yuanji stared at Li Zhongwen and said mockingly.

Li Zhongwen hastily put down the chicken in his hand, pulled out half of the chicken butt from his mouth, wiped his oily hands on his clothes, and saluted hastily: "Sinner Li Zhongwen, please refer to Your Highness King Qi..."

Li Yuanji glanced at Li Zhongwen, did not speak to Li Zhongwen, but said to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple and the head of the cell who were guarding outside the door: "Who asked you to serve him wine and meat? Don't you know that he is a traitor?" ?”

The Shaoqing of Dali Temple and the head of the cell heard the unkindness in Li Yuanji's tone, and they looked at each other without daring to answer.

(End of this chapter)