Li Zhi felt that he didn't know what was going on in the past few years, God's mood was always cloudy, sometimes a flood washed away countless houses, and sometimes there was a big drought in the Guannai, and finally he was able to live a little, and now there is an earthquake again. In the past few years, the imperial court has followed various disasters and is exhausted for disaster relief.

When Li Chen ran to the Hall of Eternal Life, he happened to meet Li Hong who came out of the East Palace on the road.

"Brother Prince, where are you going?"

When Li Hong saw Li Chen, his originally slightly frowning brows relaxed, "I'll go to the Hall of Eternal Life to find my father." ”

Li Chen bent his big eyes, "What a coincidence, I'm also going to find my father." ”

Li raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Chen.

Li Chen pointed to the several palace maids holding trays in their hands behind him, and said: "The last time I left Buxian Garden, Lu Sicheng brought some mountain spring water from where I don't know where to make tea, my father has been working very hard these days, and my mother also has to take care of things in the harem, I want to go to the Palace of Eternal Life and make him a pot of tea while my father is resting." ”

Li Hong glanced at the palace maid behind Li Chen, and couldn't help but be a little surprised when he didn't see Shangguan Wan'er, whom she usually liked to take with him: "Why don't you see Wan'er?" ”

Li Chen and Li Hong walked towards the Hall of Eternal Life one after the other, and their attendants were trained to turn into two columns, following behind the two in an orderly manner.

Li Chen said: "Sister Taiping seems to be saying that she wants Wan'er to help with something today, so I let Wan'er pass." "Sister Taiping is a little mysterious in the past two days anyway, I don't know what I'm doing, it seems that it will be Xue Shao's cousin's birthday in a few days, I'm afraid that Sister Taiping wants Wan'er to help prepare a birthday gift.

Li Hong said: "Wan'er is ingenious, if she can read less miscellaneous books, it will be better." ”

Li Hong's words made Li Chen stunned, she always knew that Shangguan Wan'er was a person with aura and talent, but since she was boating on Buxian Garden Lake that day, she had been thinking about whether she should keep Shangguan Wan'er by her side. 's mother once told Aunt Chengyang that Shangguan Wan'er may have talent and aura, but she has no backbone. Such a person may be involuntary in the harem and need to rely on the strong to survive, but because of this, the word loyalty and Shangguan Wan'er have no fate.

Shangguan Wan'er may become Wu Zetian's henchman in the future, but not Li Chen's confidant.

Li Chen shook his head, ran to the back of his mind about the things that he hadn't figured out in his heart, and went to the Hall of Eternal Life with Li Hong. Wang Fulai was about to go in to report, but was stopped by Li Chen, "Don't disturb my father, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and I can go in quietly." ”

Li Chen said, took the tray in the hand of the palace maid, Wang Fulai saw this, hurriedly stepped forward, took the tea set in his hand, and said: "These tea sets of the princess, let me put them in the courtyard where the usual saints rest and enjoy the flowers." ”

Li Chen smiled and nodded, and went into the hall with Li Hong to find Li Zhi.

My father was in the West Pavilion in the Hall of Eternal Life at this time, and when the brother and sister saw their father, they saw him staring at a piece of music in his hand.

"Ayer."

When Li Zhi heard this, he smiled slightly but didn't look up, "Yongchang." ”

Yongchang saw that his father's attention was still on the fold, so he couldn't help but run over and stand beside his father, his chin resting on his father's arm, and also to see what the fold in his hand was saying. It's okay not to look at it, but when you look at it, you can find that something is wrong, because two days ago, I heard that although Jinju also had an earthquake, the disaster was not severe. But now the fold in my father's hand is obviously not like that.

Li Chen's eyes widened, "Aye, is someone lying?" ”

Her words had no beginning or end, but Li Hong, who was present, understood, he looked at his father and asked, "Father, has anyone lied about the disaster in Jinju?" ”

Chang'an and Jinju earthquakes one after another, he and his father and others returned to the palace together, he listened to the officials' reports non-stop, Chang'an is the foot of the Son of Heaven, disaster relief, reconstruction, although there was some chaos at the beginning, but now a qiē is in an orderly manner. On the contrary, Jinju, the situation of the disaster depends on the report of local officials.

Li Zhi was a little surprised when he heard Li Hong's voice and raised his eyes to look at him.

Li Hong said: "My son came with Yongchang. ”

Li Zhi put down the booklet in his hand, stretched out his long arm, and picked up Li Chen and sat on his lap, Li Chen sat on his father's lap, curiously pulling the fold on his table. Two of the folds were annotated, both of which reported the disaster in Jinju, but the descriptions of the two were 108,000 miles apart.

"Father, is there anyone who is colluding with the officials in Jinju to lie about the disaster?"

Li Zhi responded, and some people were angry with local officials in the court, so there were local reports that were untrue. Li Zhi's slender five fingers tapped lightly on the table, and in the middle, he also put aside a bunch of folds that Li Chen curiously pulled over, and he said, "I plan to send someone to Jinju to have a look." "Instead of looking at the newspaper like this, it's better to send someone you trust to find out.

Li Hong thought for a while and said, "Father, why don't you let your son go to Jinzhou to see what is going on?" ”

Li Zhi was stunned and looked at Li Hong.

"In the past few years, I have been plagued by natural disasters, and the imperial court has continued to open warehouses to release grain, and follow God to provide disaster relief, and natural disasters are easy to cause. If some of them take this opportunity to incite the victims, or if some of them bend the law to enrich their own pockets with the relief materials, the victims will have no place to stay, and if a large number of victims become homeless, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Li Chen rested his hands on the table, his chin rested on the back of his hands, and looked at the prince and brother in front of him with big eyes.

Li Hong also said: "It is not easy for the imperial court to breathe a sigh of relief from the famine caused by the drought in Guanzhong, and now the border is not stable, and the people trusted by my father perform their duties and are tightly detained, so it is better to let my son go to Jinju to share my father's worries." ”

Li Zhi frowned slightly, and said lightly: "Nonsense, as a prince, how can you leave Jingshi casually?" ”

Li Hong had a warm smile on his face, and said to his father calmly: "Hengzhu's father is going to send the minister to Jinju, so that his son can become a distant relative of the minister, and his son can go to Jinju with him." My father once said that the burden of these thousands of miles is very heavy, and I hope someone can share it with you. Although the son is the prince, he has always stayed in Chang'an, and this time he wants to go out of the palace to see and visit the Tang Dynasty governed by his father. What's more, the father trusts his son, if he lets his son go to Jinju with the minister, there will be no collusion between the court officials and the local government, and the report will be written by the son himself, and the father will definitely be able to understand what the situation in Jinju is when he sees the son's report. ”

Li Chen glanced at Li Hong, then looked back at his father behind him, and suddenly said, "I also want to go to Jinju." ”

When Li Hong heard this, he couldn't cry or laugh, "Yongchang, don't make trouble." ”

Li Chen retorted confidently: "Why am I messing around? I often hear people say that the Tang Dynasty is a rich country, when the east of Mount Tai I also saw a lot of feudal people come to participate in my father's Feng Zen, they all told my father that the people of the Tang Dynasty are kind and lovely, I am in the palace every day, I don't know what they say. As he spoke, Li Chen turned around and hugged his father's neck with both hands, "Aya, Ah Niang often talks about the interesting stories of her walking with her grandfather when she was a child, Sister Taiping and I are very envious when I hear it, and I also want to travel around with my father like my mother!" ”

When Li Zhi heard his little daughter's words, his eyebrows raised slightly, he never thought that his little princess would have such an idea. Thinking about it, he looked at Li Hong, who was standing respectfully in front of him, with a thoughtful look.

In the end, Li Zhi waved his hand and approved Li Hong's request.

His subordinates are not untrusted people sent to Jinju, not to mention, if Li Hong wants to go to Jinzhou, then the people he sends must be confidants, otherwise who will guarantee the safety of the prince.

It's just that Li Zhi didn't say anything to Li Hong.

Today's prince is like a flapping bird ready to fly, he cares about the people in his heart, so very good. Let him go out for a trip, first, to see the suffering of the people, and second, to temper his mind.

"Ayah, what about me? Can I go? Li Chen understood that she was no play, and her words about wanting to go to Jinju were nothing more than to remind her father that the prince's brother had never been to the people, which was not a good thing for him. The territory of Datang is vast, the common people, and the life of the people, maybe they should let the prince and brother go to see it.

When we were young, we were all utopian idealists, but when we experienced more and saw more broadly, some people may still be utopian, some people may no longer know what ideals are, but some people have slowly become realistic idealists.

Li Chen thought, maybe the crown prince and brother can become a realistic idealist.

Li Zhi stretched out his hand to smooth the hairband on her bun, raised his eyebrows and said, "You are too young, don't think about it." ”

Li Chen: "......"

Li Hong went to Jinzhou, and Li Zhi summoned Yan Liben to discuss who should be sent to Jingzhou with the prince.

After brushing his beard and praising the crown prince, Yan Liben bowed his hand and said, "Sage, the minister thinks that there is someone who can go to Jinju with His Royal Highness the crown prince to investigate the situation.

Li Zhi felt that when the prince traveled to Jinzhou, it was best for the minister accompanying him to be reliable and not too powerful, otherwise wouldn't it be easy for the local officials to show their stuff when they saw that the minister was now respectful to this distant relative? Li Zhi thought about it, and for a while, there was no suitable candidate. So, he came to Yan Liben, in fact, he didn't expect Yan Liben to recommend a suitable candidate immediately, but the so-called one person is short and two people are long, and it is always good to be able to discuss.

And now as soon as Li Zhi said this, Yan Li said that someone was suitable, Li Zhi was surprised in his heart and asked, "Who is it?" ”

Yan Liben: "This person's surname is Di Renjie, the word Huaiying, was originally a judge of Bianzhou, two years ago he served as the governor of the state of Fa Cao, at this time he was in Beijing to report on his work, the minister thought that this person was brilliant and upright and honest, and he was good at responding to problems, so he and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince went to Jinzhou together, which was the best candidate. ”

In the summer and autumn of the third year of Xianheng, there were earthquakes in Chang'an and Jinju in Beijing, and the houses of the people of Jinju were destroyed by the earthquake, and the current saint was exempted from Jinju's forced labor for one year.