Li Shimin, the emperor, deserves a hard life.

Maybe Li Shimin's eight characters are too hard, and the whole world has been restrained, since he ascended the throne, the Tang Dynasty has been plagued by disasters, from locust plagues to floods, from drought to snow disasters, every year there is a suitable for Datang, and every year it is not the same, so that the current people have a faint distorted idea of looking forward to surprises, yes, this year is over again, what kind of natural disasters will be waiting for us next year? It's really exciting to think about......

Li Shimin, who has to lie down innocently once a year, cried and fainted in the thatched house of Taiji Palace, and there was no argument, who told him to do a disgraceful thing in order to be the emperor back then, so after ascending the throne, all the disasters that occurred in the world, of course, the people threw this black pot on his head without pressure, and he had to carry it if he didn't carry it, so if the current Tang Dynasty talked about who was most afraid of natural disasters, it was not the people, but Li Shimin, there was no way, his heart was weak, his face changed as soon as the sky thundered, for fear that the old god who couldn't hit the eight poles was warning him again, The slightest bit of killing brothers and killing brothers has not stopped for more than ten years.

Li Su is also afraid of natural disasters, and he is also afraid that the people will rebel and make trouble.

It's been five or six years since I came to this era, the children of grassroots farmers, father and son couldn't even fill their stomachs, gritted their teeth and stayed up all night making toilets for rich families to change food in their mouths, and my father jumped into the ditch to dig the soil for the landlord on a cold day, and came back with a cold dug up, carrying two bags of brown rice in his hands, smiling as if he had won a big prize.

Five or six years have passed, the Li family, who was once hungry, has now jumped into the elite class of the Tang Dynasty, Li Sugui is a county marquis, and he is the emperor's son, the prime minister and the famous general, and his reputation is illustrious in the world, and the fields and households at home are increasing year by year, and the assets are getting thicker and thicker, and now even Li Su himself can't figure out how much money he has in his family's treasury.

The Li family is up, although the family is not prosperous, and it is not a thriving gatekeeper, but after all, it is the number one powerful family in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty.

No matter how you remind yourself to keep your heart and take root among the people, in fact, it is undeniable that the Li family has indeed become a wealthy family, and has gradually broken away from the grassroots class of peasant households.

Therefore, Li Su is also afraid that the people will rebel and make trouble, because he is not exempt from vulgarity, and those with vested interests are concerned about whether the interests of their own class will be harmed, and whether there will be a day when "seeing high-rise buildings rise and see them collapse", and the people's rebellion is undoubtedly a kind of damage to their own interests.

The difference is that Li Su still has a little more conscience after all, he will not hurt the people for the sake of profit, and do his best not to starve a common people, as a new magnate who has escaped from the poor class, with a little compassion and kindness in his heart, Li Su has a clear conscience.

Li Zhi didn't want to see a rebellion within the Tang Dynasty, because the benefits of the damage were more direct than Li Su's, the county marquis, and this consensus was the basis for Li Su and Li Zhi to work together today.

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The refugee tents outside the city were quickly erected, and thousands of honor guards went up the mountain to cut wood and quarry, and quickly set up shelves in the open plains outside the city, and as in Jinju, in strict accordance with Li Su's zoning law, the districts were separated by fences, and the guards were sent to patrol to maintain order.

More than 10 large iron pots were set up in the dining area, and behind the iron pots stood the men, using a big shovel to stir the rice porridge in the pot, and bursts of tempting porridge fragrance gradually spread on the plains outside the city with the cold wind.

Food is the best inducement, no words, soon, a group of ragged people suddenly appeared inside and outside the city, standing far away from the outside of the tent area to look, looking at the more than ten steaming iron pots, smelling the faint fragrance of rice porridge in the air, hundreds of people secretly swallowed saliva, but motionless, hesitant and did not dare to step forward.

Li Su and Li Zhi stood in the dining area, looking at the people who did not dare to step forward, Li Zhi was so anxious that he jumped to his feet.

"I didn't take any money from them, not only did I give them food for nothing, but I also helped them cook it, and they almost fed it into their mouths, what are they still hesitating about?"

Looking at the people who didn't dare to move, Li Su's eyes flashed with a hint of color, his expression was thoughtful, and after observing for a while, he turned his head and said: "Come on, call a few guards with loud voices, beat gongs and drums and tell the people that this is where the government is providing relief to refugees, and they are in charge of two meals a day, not only to be full, but also to live, and to eat and drink Lazar The government is in charge of everything, so that the villagers don't hesitate anymore and come to get food quickly." ”

The Praetorian Guards took the order and left.

Soon, at the edge of the tent area, several loud guards beat gongs and drums and shouted loudly, telling the people hoarsely that they could eat and drink for nothing here, and the government was in charge.

The people in the distance heard it clearly, but their expressions were still hesitant, and a few of them cowered and took a step forward, but quickly retreated.

Li Su's brows furrowed even deeper, and he muttered: "I don't dare to come here for nothing, it's completely different from Jinzhou, and there are obviously people doing something here......"

Li Zhi was stunned: "What's the matter?" Do you mean that someone is against the government? ”

Li Su smiled faintly: "There is no evidence at the moment, and I don't dare to make a conclusion, but there must be something strange in it...... Fifth Uncle Fang, they haven't come back yet, maybe they can give me a satisfactory answer when they come back. ”

After a pause, Li Su suddenly frowned, pointed to the dozen or so iron pots erected in the distance and said, "By the way, why do you have fifteen iron pots?" And it's a mess, and there is no rule for the first seven and the last eight......"

Li Zhi was dumbfounded: "There are also rules for setting up iron pots?" ”

Li Suzheng said: "Of course, there must be rules, no rules are not a square circle, not only if it is a double number, but also the arrangement must be symmetrical, what the left side looks like, what the right side must look like, just like looking in a mirror, so it is called a rule......

"Whose rule is this?"

Li Su pointed his thumb at himself in turn, and said lightly: "This is the rule of my Li family, if my family's husband lined up the iron pot into this virtue, he would have broken his leg a long time ago." Quick, ask someone to add an iron pot, lined up in the dining area, eight on the left, eight on the right, and leave two pots of plum blossoms in the middle...... Forget it, there is no need to engage in these decorations at this time, the plum blossoms are not placed, anyway, the sixteen iron pots, must be neat, must be symmetrical, must be pleasing to the eye, refreshing and pleasant......"

Li Zhi's cheeks twitched a few times, this problem ...... I haven't seen it in the whole Datang.

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The guards beat the gongs and drums vigorously like the shopkeepers in Chang'an East City to attract customers, shouting hard, shouting while their faces were pale, their heads were soaked with sweat, and they looked very ashamed.

After all, the effort was still rewarded, hunger finally triumphed over fear, and it didn't take long for a bold and cautious step forward in the crowd of onlookers, and this step never went back, but continued to take the second step......

The people are blindly obedient, and all that is missing is a person who takes the lead, and someone takes the first step, and then the situation completely changes.

Soon there was a second people, a third, a fourth......

Eventually, all the people gathered towards the sixteen iron pots in the dining area, swallowing their saliva and gazing greedily at the steaming iron pots.

"The queue is coming in turns, the government doesn't care about the dishes and chopsticks, each family takes it by itself, hurry up!" One of the guards shouted.

The people were silent and quickly lined up in a dozen long columns, and on the empty plain, the mighty and mighty ones meandered like a long dragon.

A smile appeared on the corner of Li Zhi's mouth, his expression was quite excited, and his heart was full of a sense of accomplishment, and the feeling of rescuing a large group of people turned out to be much more wonderful than commanding the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace.

turned his head to look at Li Su, but saw that Li Su was still frowning and looking solemn.

"Brother Zizheng, it's a good thing that the people come to get food, why are you still worried?" Li Zhi asked curiously.

Li Su said in a deep voice: "Your Highness doesn't think there's anything wrong? ”

Li Zhi was confused: "What's wrong?" ”

Li Su sighed: "The number of people is not right, the sixteen teams in front of us, each team is about 200 people, adding up to only more than 3,000 people, Jinyang is a big county, a total of more than 50,000 households, more than 200,000 people, even if half of the people flee, at least 100,000, when we first arrived in Jinyang, we have ordered the guards to notify the government of the government's grain relief, it stands to reason that there are no more than these people......

Li Zhi was stunned for a long time, and said, "Perhaps, the people are still on the way to come......"

Li Su turned his head to look at him and smiled slightly.

Children can be so simple, but adults can't, the situation in front of them is very abnormal, compared to a shout in Jinzhou, the picture of the people crowded, this person in front of him, it is too cold, is it true that the people of Jinyang have food in their homes, and it is not rare for the government to give relief?

A chaotic sound of horses' hooves interrupted Li Su's deep thought, and when he turned his head to look, he saw Fang Lao Wu leading a group of Li family's subordinates to gallop over.

Fang Lao Wu took the lead, and suddenly reined in the horse when he was about five zhang away from Li Su and the two, the horse neighed, and the person stood up, Fang Lao Wu clamped the horse's belly tightly, his face was close to the horse's neck, and the whole person seemed to be integrated with the horse, allowing the horse's front hooves to vacate in the air, still riding on the horse's back without moving.

Li Zhi's eyes lit up, and he blurted out: "What a handsome riding skill!" ”

Li Su was also a little surprised, he had never seen Fang Lao Wu perform riding skills before, but he didn't expect his riding skills to be so clever, and the veterans of decades really had some real skills.

Fang Lao Wu couldn't care about playing with his riding skills, and after the horse's two front hooves landed on the ground and stopped moving, Fang Lao Wu's legs deviated and flew off the horse.

"Master Hou, something is not quite right in the nearby village!" Fang Lao Wu trotted in front of Li Su and said with a solemn expression.

"Tell me what's wrong." Li Su's heart sank, but his expression did not change.

"The villagers are all gone, the villain ran to more than a dozen villages, each village is almost ten rooms and nine empty, leaving behind some orphaned old people and disabled, the villain inquired carefully, said that the people fled to Chang'an, but the villain still felt strange, it makes no sense that the whole village ran away......"

Li Su nodded, Fang Lao Wu's suspicion was right, fleeing is fleeing, but many people should choose to stay, even if they stay and starve to death, they are not willing to leave the village for half a step, this mentality can actually be explained in four words, "the homeland is difficult to leave", the old people basically have this feeling, there is no reason to run away without a single left.

"What about the rich landlords? Have you found a rich landlord or two? Li Su continued to ask.

Fang Lao Wu nodded: "I didn't find it in the village, but the villain was lucky, he picked up one on the way, this guy was wearing coarse cloth clothes and pretending to be poor people outside, fortunately, the villain was riding on a horse at the time, and he condescendingly saw that he was wearing a green silk under his collar, this thing is not something that poor people can afford, ask him if he still doesn't admit it, he smacked his mouth twice before admitting it, saying that it was a landlord in a nearby township......"

Saying that, Fang Lao Wuyi raised his hand and said, "Invite that landlord to come over and give a salute to Master Hou!" ”

As the words fell, a middle-aged man with a panicked expression was carried in front of Li Su by the Li family.

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PS: I just got home, well, I almost couldn't miss it...... I don't know if this bottleneck period has passed smoothly...... Let me adjust my state and mood for two days, calm down and resume two shifts a day...... (To be continued.) )