Man Tanghong

Chapter 63 Can't I go and plead guilty to him?

Qu Tutong's face was flushed, panting like a bull and tugging at Li Sixing's collar, he said in disbelief: "You... how dare you? How dare you!"

Li Sixing closed his eyes in pain, gritted his teeth, and tremblingly said: "Your Highness has orders, I have to follow..."

Qu Tutong grabbed Li Sixing by the collar and dragged Li Sixing into the fire scene.

"There is a full 300,000 shi of grain in there! 300,000 shi of grain, save some food, enough for millions of people to survive this cold winter! You are not burning food, you are burning your life!"

Qu Tutong roared at the top of his lungs, "You burned millions of lives to death! You are worse than that man Tu Baiqi! You are worse than that man-eating Zhu Can!"

Zhu Can was one of the anti-kings conquered by Li Shimin. In the Tang Dynasty, he was famous as a fierce ogre king.

Li Yuanji's notoriety was not enough in front of him.

Its ferocity has exceeded human cognition.

Qu Tutong said that Li Sixing was worse than Zhu Can, which shows how terrifying Li Sixing's act of burning down the Luoyang granary was.

Li Sixing gritted his teeth, turned his head away, and tried not to look at the scene of the fire. To Qu Tutong's roar, he could only answer with the same words, "Your Highness has orders, I have to follow..."

"Your Highness has a kind heart, how could you do such an evil thing?!"

Qu Tutong lifted Li Sixing up at once, brought it to his eyes, and questioned him growlingly.

Qu Tutong noticed Li Yuanji's many good deeds after he left Chang'an City.

He didn't believe that Li Yuanji would give such an order.

Li Sixing slowly opened his eyes, stared at Qu Tutong and gritted his teeth: "Without His Highness's order, do you think I would dare to burn the Luoyang granary?"

Qu Tutong's pupils shrank.

"You... why don't you persuade me?"

Qu Tutong yelled subconsciously, but he stood there as if under a spell.

His head was already filled with mud, and he could no longer tell what kind of person Li Yuanji was.

Is it the benevolent person who is kind to the people and wants to save the people's lives at the cost of a bad reputation, or the wicked person who ordered Li Sixing to burn 300,000 shi of grain.

"why why?!"

Feng Lice rushed to the Luoyang granary, fell off his horse, staggered and scrambled to Li Sixing's side, dragging Li Sixing to question him frantically.

When Li Sixing saw Feng Li, his anger immediately rushed to Tianling Gai.

Li Sixing yelled at Feng Li with red eyes, "You still have the face to ask me why?! One or two of you came here to steal food, and you came here to cheat food.

What does the food here have to do with you? !

The food here was exchanged by His Highness for the official position in the house with his bad reputation, not the taxes collected from various places, nor was it seized from the hands of thieves?

Why do you covet the food here, and what qualifications do you have to covet the food here? !
It was you who coveted the food here again and again, and drove His Highness crazy, so His Highness ordered the food here to be burned! "

When Li Sixing said this, he couldn't bear it anymore, and punched him when he went up.

Amidst Li Sixing's questioning, Feng Li lost the momentum he had just now, and lost his thinking, allowing Li Sixing to fight.

"Evil thief! Why are you forcing him?! He just turned around!"

Qu Tutong roared and joined the 'battlefield'.

Qu Tutong heard Li Sixing's words very clearly, and he roughly understood the reason.

The reason why Li Yuanji frantically ordered the burning of the Luoyang granary was forced by Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng.

Li Yuanji has obviously changed for the better, why should he be forced to go back to be a villain, an even bigger villain? !
Qu Tutong was very ruthless, dragged Feng Li and beat him to death.

The fire in the granary in Luoyang, along with their fight, quickly spread throughout Luoyang, and soon spread to every corner of Datang.

……

Guangfu, the nave of the summer palace left by Dou Jiande.

Li Shimin was sitting on the throne of the main hall of the summer palace where Liu Heita's butt was still warm, and he was instructing Luo Shixin to replace Wang Junlang and station in Mingshui City.

A few days ago, he defeated Liu Heita's generals Liu Shishan and Zhang Junli in Xuhe, and beheaded more than [-] people. Li Quhuo, the general of Liu Heita's department in Mingshui City, asked him to surrender because of his majesty, but he did not kill anyone. He captured Mingshui City and sent Wang Junlang with [-] cavalry to assist Li Quhuo to garrison Mingshui City.

In recent days, Liu Heita suffered a great loss on the battlefield in the north of Hebei, and began to counterattack to the south, intending to seize Mingshui City by force. He was afraid that Wang Junlang would be useless and could not defend Mingshui City, so he planned to send Luo Shixin Go to garrison Mingshui City.

"Shixin, when we go to Mingshui, remember to stay firmly in Mingshui. Only in this way can we attract all Liu Heita's soldiers and horses to Mingshui, gather and annihilate them."

Li Shimin stared at Luo Shixin's solemn instructions.

Since Liu Heitai wanted to take Mingshui City by force, Li Shimin was going to use Mingshui City as the final battlefield to attract all Liu Heitai's troops and annihilate them in one fell swoop.

"Here!"

Luo Shixin solemnly agreed.

Li Shimin nodded, and was about to give some instructions, when he saw a cavalryman carrying a letter flag rushing into the nave, and placed a sealed letterbox in front of him.

In the nave were not only Li Shimin and Luo Shixin, but also other generals and academies.

After the cavalry delivering the letter put down the letter box, their eyes all fell on the letter box.

The cavalryman who delivered the letter was carrying a letter flag that was only eligible for [-]-mile express delivery, and every letter that could be sent in [-]-mile express delivery was worthy of attention.

Li Shimin picked up the letter box and opened it skillfully.

He took out the letter paper inside and only glanced at it.

"when……"

The letterbox hit the ground, Li Shimin stared, his pupils shrinking into a dot.

The expressions of all the generals in the hall changed at the same time.

You know, Li Shimin is the kind of person who rides his horse through thousands of troops without the slightest bit of fear.

Now with a look of extreme shock on his face, it was obvious that he had seen something extraordinary.

Changsun Wuji hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, what happened?"

Li Shimin's mind was a little empty, and he ignored his elder Sun Wuji.

Changsun Wuji asked several more times, but Li Shimin still ignored him.

After a long time, under the watchful eyes of all the generals in the hall, Li Shimin picked up the letter again with a trembling hand, and read it carefully to make sure that he read it correctly.

Li Shimin stretched out his hand to support the case table, but it was empty, and he staggered and almost fell on the case table.

Seeing this, all the generals in the hall subconsciously stood up one by one.

They had a bold guess. Could it be that the crown prince took advantage of Li Shimin's departure to settle all the confidantes Li Shimin left in Chang'an City?

Otherwise, why would Li Shimin lose his composure?
Changsun Wuji rushed to Li Shimin's side in three steps at a time, and firmly grasped Li Shimin's arm.

Li Shimin felt the power from Changsun Wuji's hand, and regained his senses slightly.

"No... no problem..."

Li Shimin said in a daze.

Changsun Wuji didn't look at the letter in Li Shimin's hand, but looked at Li Shimin and asked, "What happened?"

Li Shimin picked up the letter, looked at it again, his eyes wandered around the generals in the hall.

After a long time, his lips trembled slightly, "He... how dare he?"

All the generals in the hall looked at me and I looked at you, with anxious expressions on their faces, but they couldn't ask questions.

Changsun Wuji didn't dare to ask again, but just waited quietly.

After waiting for a whole incense stick, Li Shimin came back to his senses completely, looked at Changsun Wuji, and said in disbelief: "Yuanji burned the Luoyang granary..."

Changsun Wuji shrank his pupils, opened his mouth in shock, and was speechless.

Yuwenshi and Li Shimin's people stayed in Luoyang City, reporting the situation of Luoyang granary to Li Shimin all the time.

Therefore, most of Li Shimin's confidants know the grain storage situation in Luoyang granary.

Li Yuanji burned the Luoyang granary, which means that Li Yuanji burned the 300,000 shi of grain stored in it.

That's 300,000 shi of grain, enough to feed millions of people.

Li Yuanji burned it as soon as he said it was burned, and there was no word of it before that.

All the generals and schools in the hall were also shocked and speechless.

No one can accept what Li Yuanji did.

In this age of constant wars and famines, food is more precious than money.

No one could accept Li Yuanji's 300,000 shi of grain in one go.

"Then... what should we do now?"

After a long time, I don't know who said a word, and everyone in the hall came back to their senses.

You look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to say.

Scold Li Yuanji, I can't speak.

Li Shimin has always been thinking about the food in Li Yuanji's hands, and it's no secret in the army.

As soon as Li Yuanji left Luoyang City, he sent people back to burn the Luoyang granary. Li Shimin probably sent people to steal Li Yuanji's grain again. Li Yuanji burned the Luoyang granary in a fit of anger.

It was Li Shimin's relentless evil intentions again and again that Li Yuanji did this kind of thing, and he can't blame Li Yuanji.

Don't scold Li Yuanji, I feel unhappy.

300,000 shi of grain is enough to feed a million people, how can Li Yuanji do it? !

Li Yuanji is not burning food, Li Yuanji is burning the lives of millions of people! !
"This matter..."

Changsun Wuji spoke with a complicated expression, but after saying two words, he couldn't continue.

He didn't know what to say.

"If he is dissatisfied with me, he can tell me. Is it okay if I go and apologize for him? Why does he want to blame the food? Just for the sake of gambling?"

Li Shimin couldn't believe it, couldn't believe that someone would do such a crazy thing just because of a gamble.

Changsun Wuji understood Li Shimin's mood very well, and so did all the generals and schools in the palace.

They couldn't believe it either.

But if the people in Luoyang City dared to use [-] miles to send the news urgently, it must be true.

Believe it or not.

"The matter has come to this point, His Highness can only think about it in the long run."

Changsun Wuji let out a long sigh, and said a few words.

The Luoyang granary is estimated to have been burnt to a piece of white ground, so what else can be discussed in the long run.

(End of this chapter)