Imperial Palace, outside the Tai Chi Palace.

In the past, it stands to reason that the morning dynasty should have started as early as the hour, when the sky had just dawned, the stars were vague, foggy, and the dew was still heavy.

However, due to Li Shimin's sudden physical discomfort last night, he had to postpone it a little earlier this morning.

Originally, the ministers thought that the saint dragon was sick, and the early dynasty should be spared, but they knew that their saint was a diligent saint, even if he was sick, he had to go to the court.

Li Shimin's move couldn't help but make the ministers look awe-inspired, and their hearts became more and more convinced.

"The Holy One is really the Emperor of the Ages! With the Holy God in power, the future of the world can be expected! The prosperous era is coming! An old minister sighed sincerely.

Who knew that at this time, another minister beside him pulled him: "Hey, I know this in my heart, but don't let Wei Xiang hear it, lest he join you on the grounds of flattery!" ”

The old minister suddenly blew his beard and said angrily: "What are you afraid of? Holy Saint, I'm just sighing. ”

"Isn't it for fear that the words of praise will fall into the ears of the saint, and the saint will be proud because of it?"

The former opened his mouth and said coldly: "It's okay to find trouble......

The minister's expression immediately changed drastically, and he hurriedly covered his mouth, waved his hand, dispelled the gaze of those who looked over, and whispered an admonition: "Be careful, be careful!" ”

Lao Chen suddenly rolled his eyes to express his speechless feelings, these days, don't let people say the truth? Isn't it just a little bit of praise for the saints, which is sycophancy?

Then what the hell am I going to offer to the Holy One, wouldn't it be a great traitor?

"!" He couldn't help but curse.

……

While the ministers were talking, they suddenly heard a high-pitched voice with a hint of shrill voice coming from the Taiji Hall.

"Holy Ascendant!"

The ministers were immediately solemn, tidied up their appearance again, lined up outside the Taiji Palace, and walked into this magnificent and solemn hall.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Li Shimin was dressed in a yellow robe with gold threads, wearing a crown of the same color, sitting on the dragon throne with a slightly pale face, looking down at the lower officials, so not magnificent, so majestic and noble!

Suddenly, he coughed, and Wang Sheng, the eunuch next to him, immediately wanted to go up to help, but was stopped by Li Shimin waving his hand.

"In the morning today, there are two topics, one is the snow disaster, and the other is the displaced people." Li Shimin slowed down and continued, "All Aiqing, matters related to the issue can be reported, and you can speak freely if you have any opinions......

Fang Xuanling, who was in the forefront, and Du Ruhui glanced at each other, looked at their noses, their noses cared, and they chose silence most wisely.

For a while, no one in the court of Nuoda came out to play right, and Li Shimin looked at this, his brows furrowed slightly.

The ministers saw that the Holy Dragon was about to attack, and a minister walked out of the court, first saluted Li Shimin, and then said with a sad face: "Thanks to the Holy Hongfu, the sky is pitiful, the snow in Longyou, Guannei, Hebei, Henan, Hedong and other provinces has decreased, and the displaced people have been properly settled, but the number of displaced people is too much, and I am afraid it is not enough to rely on the surplus grain thrifty of the provinces." ”

If the people are hungry, there will be chaos, chaos will cause trouble, and if there are many things, the world will not be at peace.

"In that case, why don't you let the local garrison spread some food out to help the displaced people temporarily?" Some people started, and the others immediately chimed in.

"Holy! This must not be done! A military attache immediately stood up and retorted, "Putting aside the civil strife for the time being, the northern Turks are eyeing each other, if the food of the soldiers is cut, if the Turks take advantage of the situation to go south, where will the soldiers have the strength to resist the enemy?" ”

The civil official who was the first to report immediately snorted and said-for-tat: "If there is still a little surplus food in each prefecture, how can they focus on military rations?" Do you just ignore the displaced people? Do you know that there are many displaced people, and it is inevitable to gather crowds to make trouble, and there are lessons from the past Sui Dynasty, can it be said that they are watching the country die? ”

"And according to my estimates, the military rations are enough to last a few months!" Speaking of this, the minister sneered, "The officers and soldiers in the army are fat and strong one by one, but the ordinary people are skinny, have you ever seen such a scene?" ”

"No, where have you seen it! But I've seen it! ”

Speaking of this, the minister's voice was a little choked, and with tears in his eyes, he immediately bowed and said, "There are so many homeless people! The provincial governments have long been worried, and they ask the Holy God to answer! ”

"Confused!" The military attache did not know the hardships of the people's lives, and although he was sympathetic in his heart, his position did not allow him to make the slightest compromise!

"You literati always say that we are short-sighted martial artists, but in my opinion, you are short-sighted!" The more the general spoke, the more excited he became, "Do you know that there has been a change in the Northern Turks recently?" Invasion of large numbers of Turks more and more frequently? A war is inevitable, and this is the real disaster! ”

"If a strong enemy breaks through our defenses, we will die nothing, but there are thousands of people behind us, so why don't we watch them kill our brothers and relatives and friends, and kidnap our wives and children?!"

The words of the military attache were sonorous, like a heavy hammer, striking everyone's heart.

At this time, another military general stood up and said, "I have an idea to solve the crisis of the displaced people. ”

"Oh?" For a while, the eyes of the ministers were all on him.

He coughed softly and said, "It's almost March in the spring, and there are large tracts of barren land due to the war, why don't you let those refugees return to cultivate the land?" As long as we persist until the harvest season and there is enough food and grass, how can there be refugees? ”

As soon as the military attache spoke, there was a moment of silence in the court.

"Lao Tzu said that I have a good plan!" He thought with pride that he could just look at the strange eyes of the ministers.

However, just after he finished praising himself, Fang Xuanling, who was at the forefront of the court, laughed and said, "It's a joke that you just think that general." ”

"Not to mention whether those displaced people will survive to the time of the harvest, I am afraid that the actual situation is that they have just been eaten up as soon as the grain seeds are distributed to them, right?"

Disaster relief is like fighting fires, where to wait for that time!

So it can only be heard as a joke.

"How does the prime minister know that my plan is not working?"

"That's it!"

The military general was not convinced, and just wanted to argue with Fang Xuanling, but he listened to Li Shimin's majesty on the dragon throne, and immediately silenced the court.

The ministers were solemn, and no matter how heated their arguments were, the decision on matters ultimately rested with the Holy.

Li Shimin rubbed his temples, his head ached faintly, which made him very uncomfortable, and after a while, he asked, "How much surplus grain is there in the treasury?" ”

"Back to the saint, there are still about 80,000 quintals of surplus grain left in the Sui Dynasty......"

"Enough, the grain and grass in the army cannot be even, take 60,000 quintals from the treasury to help the displaced people." Li Shimin seemed to be very tired, and he used all his strength to give this order.

"But the Holy One, then this Chang'an ......," said the civil official who had previously proposed to equalize food from the army.

"I have made up my mind, needless to say, I can be thrifty, but I can't suffer the people of the world!"

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers gasped, and then Gu all knelt down and said in unison: "Holy Saint! ”

"Okay, I'm tired, let's retreat."

The ministers said again: "I vainly ask the Holy Lord to take care of the dragon's body." ”

Li Shimin waved his hand, and then in Wang Sheng's duck voice, the ministers retreated. Exiting the Taiji Palace, Li Shimin was about to go to the Shang study room to deal with the folds, and at this time, a palace maid hurriedly came to report.

"Holy Lord, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Wei are back."

"Oh? How did they get back? ”

He remembered that there should still be some time before the end of the training of these two boys, but Li Shimin didn't think much about it, and immediately said, "Well, I know." ”