Man Tanghong

Chapter 64 Li Shimin Wants to Talk?

Changsun Wuji took the lead, and all the generals in the hall also spoke to persuade him.

But Li Shimin didn't speak, nor looked at them, as if he didn't hear their words.

Seeing this, Changsun Wuji winked at the other people in the hall, and prepared to take everyone away.

In Li Shimin's current situation, he probably needs to be alone for a while.

Changsun Wuji retreated to the side of the desk, and was about to leave when Li Shimin suddenly said, "Where is Yuanji now?"

Changsun Wuji was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked at the four ginseng at the end of the hall.

Xingcan, also known as Xingcanjun, is a subordinate official of the royal palace, an official position from the eighth rank.

The four entourages felt the eyes of Changsun Wuji, and one of them came out, bowed and said: "Return to Your Highness, His Highness King Qi has already traveled to Anyang in Xiangzhou, and will arrive here soon."

Li Shimin commanded without any expression on his face, "Send someone to urge him to come here as soon as possible."

Xing Shen hurriedly said: "Here!"

Changsun Wuji waits for you to look at me, and I will look at you.

They felt that Li Shimin probably wanted to talk to Li Yuanji, but he still couldn't accept Li Yuanji's burning of the Luoyang granary.

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Xiangzhou, Anyang, Anyang Station.

Li Yuanji sat on the seat in the big house of the post station, and Qu Tutong, who was sitting at the bottom, looked at me with big eyes and small eyes, and I looked at you.

Just half an hour ago, Qu Tutong drove over from Luoyang on a fast horse with three followers.

Qu Tutong was on the road day and night, he looked a lot more sluggish, his eyes were bloodshot, when he saw Li Yuanji, he stumbled off his horse, rushed to Li Yuanji's side and asked.

"How did His Highness manage to do it?"

Seeing Qu Tutong on the verge of madness, Li Yuanji realized that he seemed to have gone too far, but he didn't regret it.

In order to prevent Qu Tutong from suffering to death, Li Yuanji had to tell Qu Tutong the truth.

The Luoyang granary is nominally stocked with 300,000 shi of grain, but in fact, there is no 300,000 shi of grain in the Luoyang granary.

More bran, and grain husk.

As the saying goes, the cunning rabbit has three caves.

After being stolen once by Li Shimin, he realized that the Luoyang granary was not safe. In order to prevent the grain from being stolen again, he privately stored the grain in three places.

People in Luoyang City saw cartloads of grain transported into the Luoyang granary, but at night, the grain would be quietly transported out of the Luoyang granary and transported to the other three grain storage places.

The reason why they set up defenses in the Luoyang granary with great fanfare is the strategy of suspicious soldiers.

As long as everyone felt that he cared about the Luoyang granary and that the grain was still in the Luoyang granary, no one would pay attention to the other three places where grain was stored.

Therefore, there is not much food in the Luoyang granary, only some of the daily food consumed by the officers and men of the first left and the second military mansion of Prince Qi, and the food he left for Li Sixing to help the refugees.

Most of the rest are bran and grain husks used as feed for horses.

When he ordered Li Sixing to burn the granary, he had privately ordered Yu Wenbao to smuggle the little grain and horse feed out of the Luoyang granary, and asked Yu Wenbao to fill it with crushed wheat straw, crushed Grain sacks of grain stalks filled the granaries.

So what Li Sixing burned was only some broken wheat stalks and broken grain stalks.

In order to be more realistic, he also specifically ordered Yu Wenbao to bring people in to grab a few bags of grain when Li Sixing set fire to the granary.

There are a few bags of food to prove it, and other people will not doubt anything after being stimulated.

He asked Li Sixing to burn the Luoyang granary three days later just to let Yu Wenbao arrange these.

Otherwise, there was absolutely no need for him to keep Li Sixing waiting for three more days.

He only told Li Sixing half of this matter. He told Li Sixing that he would transport 25 shi of grain from the Luoyang granary and leave [-] shi for burning.

The reason for doing this is also to allow Li Sixing to carry out his orders, and it is also to allow Li Sixing to express the pain of burning food with his true feelings.

If Li Sixing was really asked to burn a granary with 300,000 shi of grain, Li Sixing would definitely not want to do it.

Li Sixing is not only his person, but also Li Yuan's person.

If he didn't tell Li Sixing something dry, Li Sixing would definitely dare to resist orders on the spot.

He told Qu Tutong the truth about the burning of the Luoyang granary, and Qu Tutong became a wooden man, sitting there without speaking, but only looking at him from time to time.

"Has General Qu Tu seen enough?"

Li Yuanji felt a little uncomfortable being watched by Qu Tutong, so he couldn't help but speak.

Qu Tutong was not pretending to be dumb either, and said with a complicated expression: "Your Highness, don't scare people like this anymore, it will scare people to death."

Li Yuanji sighed: "Some people think about the grain in my hand again and again. I have to teach them a lesson, don't I? Otherwise, wouldn't my granary become their granary? How much grain do they want to take?" , How much food do you take?
Then what have I become? "

Qu Tutong hesitated for a moment, and said: "But this farce of His Highness is a bit too big..."

Li Yuanji said bluntly, "It's not too big, how can you scare people?"

Qu Tutong said with a bitter face: "That's not to scare people, it's to scare people to death. Feng Li under the prince's command was almost killed by us, and Yuwen Shiji almost jumped off the gate of Luoyang City in fright." .”

Li Yuanji was taken aback for a moment, then chuckled.

Feng Li was almost beaten to death because of Thaksin.

But Yuwen Shiji almost jumped off the city gate, he didn't believe it.

If Yuwen Shiji was really so staunch, he would not be able to become Li Tang's son-in-law.

"You still need to keep this matter a secret for me. You must not reveal the news to my second brother."

Li Yuanji exhorted.

Qu Tutong hesitated.

He is Li Shimin's man, seeing Li Shimin worrying, but he can't help Li Shimin share his worries, which violates the duty of being a minister.

Li Yuanji stared at Qu Tutong, and said earnestly: "You entered Hebei from Weizhou, along the way, the people you saw were worse than the refugees who fled to Luoyang?"

Qu Tutong nodded without hesitation.

The refugees who escaped from Hebei were already miserable, and those who did not escape would only suffer worse.

Li Shimin raised the food and grass needed for the army early, and got a wave of autumn wind from Li Yuanji, so after entering Hebei, he distributed a lot of food to help the people in Hebei.

Under such circumstances, the people in Hebei look worse than the refugees who escaped, which shows how miserable the people in Hebei are.

Changing children to eat is no longer a sentence in the book. From time to time, people can be seen freezing to death or starving to death on the side of the road or street.

Most of the people who are still alive have insensitive faces, and when they look at people, their eyes are all white.

The eyes do not move or blink, so the whites of the eyes stand out.

"Since you are aware of the tragedy in Hebei, then you should understand the importance of those grains to the people of Hebei."

Li Yuanji said solemnly.

Qu Tutong pondered and said: "What does this have to do with telling His Highness the King of Qin? After being frightened by you, His Highness the King of Qin probably won't dare to think about the food in your hand."

Li Yuanji glanced at Qu Tutong, "While defending against the Turks, Li Yi led an army to conquer the four states of Ding, Luan, and Lian successively. Do you want the imperial court to reward you?

Youzhou under Li Yi's rule is currently suffering from famine, if the imperial court wants to reward Li Yi, what is the most suitable? "

Qu Tutong narrowed his eyes slightly.

There is no doubt that it must be food.

What Li Yi needs most now is food.

You gave him gold, silver, jewels, beauties and official titles, but you didn't give him food to make him happy.

"My second brother has allocated [-] shi of grain and prepared it for Li Yi. If he knew that the grain in my hand was not destroyed, he would definitely scrape some more from Xiang Fang and give it to Li Yi."

Li Yuanji said seriously.

Giving Li Yi food will make Li Yi feel at ease.

Once Li Yi is at ease, he can help Li Shimin expand his achievements.

In front of military affairs, civil affairs must give way.

Therefore, if there is any surplus food, it must be provided to Li Yi first.

Li Shimin was frightened by him, and maybe he would not directly seek food from him again, but Li Shimin could give it to Li Yuan, and Li Yuan's imperial edict came down, and he had to give it if he didn't.

But if the food is given to Li Yi, what will the people in Hebei do?
Li Yi still has some grain in his hand, which can still be supported. The people in Hebei have no more grain in their hands. If they don't give relief, a large number of people will die immediately.

Qu Tutong thought about it for a while, and then understood the relationship, he could only sigh, "I understand, I will keep my mouth shut."

Li Yuanji nodded in satisfaction, and asked, "You have come to Anyang, what about Luoyang's defense?"

Qu Tutong immediately said: "I have handed over the defense of Luoyang to Yuwen Shiji."

Qu Tutong is the well-deserved second-in-command under Li Shimin's command. When Li Shimin doesn't show up, he is the leader of Qin Palace.

He temporarily handed over Luoyang's defense to Yuwen Shiji, and Yuwen Shiji could only take over.

As for whether Yuwen Shiji can defend Luoyang well, there is no need to worry.

Yuwen Shiji is also proficient in military affairs, and it is more than enough to guard Luoyang.

"If you do this, you will inevitably be scolded by my second brother."

Li Yuanji smiled and sighed.

Yuwen Shiji is not a good person in Li Shimin's heart. Qu Tutong handed over such an important place in Luoyang to Yuwen Shiji, and Li Shimin must reprimand him.

Qu Tutong glanced at Li Yuanji, not knowing what to say.

The reason why he did this was not caused by Li Yuanji.

"Then you can accompany me to the front of the battle."

Li Yuanji invited with a smile.

Qu Tutong did not refuse either.

Since Luoyang's defense has been handed over, he doesn't mind taking a walk in front of the battle.

He is getting older, and his chances of being on the battlefield are less.

Walk as long as you can.

Otherwise, you won't have to leave if you want to leave in the future.

Li Yuanji ordered people to arrange for Qu Tutong to have a good meal, and then arranged for Qu Tutong to sleep.

Early the next morning, the two of them rushed to Mingzhou with the followers of Prince Qi's mansion.

With Qu Tutong around, Li Yuanji became the hands-off shopkeeper.

Qu Tutong will clearly arrange the marching route and so on, so he doesn't need to worry about it.

Traveling to Ye County, the people sent by Li Shimin arrived.

　Thanks to 'Feng Yu Wu Fei' for the reward of [-] book coins!Thanks to 'Lord of Destruction' for rewarding one hundred book coins!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)