Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

"The lower part of the court is ruddy. If you want to show up at the court this time, is there something good you want to say?"

When Li You walked into the main hall, he was immediately surrounded by court officials who were attending the court meeting and kept talking.

The scene was like a starry sky, among which there were many courtiers who didn't pay much attention to Li You before.

After all, after nearly two years, the officials and officials of the Tang Dynasty have long understood that Li You, the crown prince, is sitting extremely firmly, and there is no one among the princes who can compare with him!

Although it is impossible to say [-]% that the future monarch is Li You, but nine times out of ten it is him! .

Chapter 1089 The serious problem of wintering!

Seeing that autumn and winter are approaching, there is another snow falling from the sky, and most of the civil and military people in the dynasty are smiling.

It's just that among the officials in this hall, there are always those civil officials and military generals with bitter faces, as if everyone around owes him dozens of taels of silver and has not paid them back.

One of them is Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling, the two big men among the civil servants.

Fang Xuanling's face was still calm, but Wei Zheng's face was anxious, he kept spinning around, his eyes flashing thoughtfully.

After a while, Li Jing also walked into the hall.

His face is also not very good-looking, Cheng Yaojin behind him and Yuchi Jingde who was transferred back to Chang'an, the expressions are even more ugly!

This made many ministers feel uneasy, what happened? !

"His Majesty is here!"

With the resounding shout of Zhao's inner servant, the courtiers knelt down to greet Li Shimin's arrival.

"Okay, all Aiqings are flat."

However, Li Shimin's expression was good. It seemed that it was because of the snowfall that day. After all, the colder the 417th day, the more locust seedlings in the ground would freeze to death. The deeper the snow on his expression, the more abundant the rain in the coming year.

"If you have something to play, you will retreat."

Zhao Nei Shi stepped forward and spoke mechanically.

"The minister has this recitation!"

Wei Zheng took a step forward with a very firm attitude, and at this moment, Li Jing also shouted "There is a book to play", and then also walked out of the queue.

"Huh? Something's wrong..."

Li Shimin's brows furrowed. If Wei Zhengqi alone is nothing, he will play two or three books if he has nothing to do.

But Li Jing is a prudent person, and generally he will not stand up for non-major matters!

Now that both of them stood up, and they were so anxious, Li Shimin naturally had a bad premonition.

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "Mr. Wei, let's talk about it first."

Wei Zheng nodded to Li Jing as if thanking him, shook his clothes, took a step forward, and said, "Your Majesty, this minister and Lord Fang have checked the stock in the treasury these days, and estimated the balance in the hands of the common people. Bad signs."

"Hurry up!"

Food is no trivial matter. People rebelled and overthrew the imperial court because they could not eat. History abounds.

Li Shimin can tolerate other things, but only the people's livelihood is the most important thing, and no mistakes are allowed!

"According to the calculations of the minister and the minister, although Datang has experienced such a big disaster as last year, due to the proper handling by His Royal Highness, not only has there been no food shortage this year, even the national treasury has surplus, so the people can eat without worry. "

Wei Zheng said, turned around and bowed his hands to Li You to express his respect and gratitude.

"However, Your Majesty and your lords, don't think so, we can sit back and relax!"

Seeing that everyone seemed confused, Wei Zheng hurriedly continued: "Everything I just said is only based on the fact that the size of our Tang Dynasty and the number of people have not changed!"

"If we look at the land that Datang has captured this year and the livelihood of the local residents, the situation of those newly promoted Tang people is not optimistic!"

Fang Xuanling added: "Mr. Wei's words are very true. Judging from the situation of the Western Turkic Dao and Jieri Dao, they have been exploited too seriously before, and the people are not living well!"

"We investigated the warehouses in the two roads, and the food conditions in their warehouses were very poor. We estimated that normally, the poor and ordinary people in the two roads would have difficulty (ajca) to survive this winter, and a lot of people would definitely die. !"

This is actually a normal thing for any country. Under the harsh conditions of ancient times, a large number of poor people died every winter.

It's just that the number of deaths that several countries will have this year are all piled up on Datang, which seems to be too huge!

Having said this, the civil and military officials also understood the situation.

In other words, the original grain storage in Datang was sufficient to support the total consumption of the whole country for winter.

But this year alone, the land area and the number of people have soared several times!They are already seriously short of food, so they will also consume a large amount of Tang's stored food!

This was a sufficient stockpile, but as soon as it was spread out, it immediately became insufficient!

"Master Wei, Master Fang, Your Majesty, please insert a word."

At this moment, Li Jing suddenly opened his mouth and smiled apologetically: "What I'm participating in today is also related to what Mr. Fang said - suppressing the army in various places, and finding that the local poor seem to have a tendency to riot!"

"All of this is related to the lack of food!" Li Jing said seriously.

Li Shimin's face changed, and he frowned for a moment before saying, "Then... Can we requisition some food from the hands of the local people in Datang, and then open the treasury, and then adjust it to temporarily control the emotions of the local people?"

Fang Xuanling, who was silent, shook his head and said, "No, Your Majesty! The population of the Tang Dynasty has more than tripled. This method will not work!"

Li Shimin frowned. In fact, he didn't want to use this method of drinking poison to quench his thirst, but he really couldn't think of a better way for the time being.

After thinking about it for a while, Fang Xuanling continued: "Furthermore, it's not just the problem of food shortages, there are also shortages of houses in other places, and they have no way to keep out the cold! This is also one of the important reasons why people will freeze to death! "