Cai Cong's report Li Shimin listened very seriously, he didn't care about Li Youliang at all, the only thing that could make him serious was Jieli's movements, hearing Cai Cong's countermeasures against the Turks, Li Shimin's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands wonderfully, and it was time to close the net after half a year's arrangement.

Out of the palace gate, Cai Cong saw Feilu going to the three provinces, sighed, lowered the door curtain and let the carriage go faster. These people are all from all over Shandong to ask for help, there has been no rain for several months, the land of Qilu is cracked, and the cracked ground in the fields is like a big mouth in urgent need of rain, which looks ugly and makes people feel sad.

The little water left in the river was either usurped by the landlord class or cut off by the villages upstream. A person may not have the courage to resist the landlord, but the people of a village or several villages have no way to live, so they have no scruples, breaking through the gate of the landlord, killing people and robbing, and the court has received no less than a hundred armed fights between villages.

The order of the whole Shandong was suddenly gone, and some people guarded the little water they had, hoping to hold on until God showed mercy and pity them who were suffering from their lives.

And more people, with the only bags on their backs, dragged their mothers-in-law, and cried all the way with their children, hoping to leave this dry place and have a way to live, so they became homeless people, and when they couldn't hold on, they could only sell their children and daughters.

The land of Shandong is too big, don't say that Cai Cong won the money from betting, even if he smashes all his net worth into it, he may not be able to make a little splash.

It was because of his incompetence that he did not have the courage to look at these messengers with white lips and painful faces. Out of Chang'an, it is even more shocking, one by one the refugees with yellow faces and thin muscles are lying on the side of the road at will, and occasionally people pass by them, but they may not have the strength to look up at people.

Some women, silently wiping their tears and sticking straw marks into the sparse hair on their children's heads, have no choice, there is no way to live, no matter how reluctant they are, they can only pray that their children will meet a kind master in the future, and ask for a stable two meals and one night.

Cai Cong really couldn't stand it, his clenched fist loosened and tightened, tightened and loosened, and the last punch smashed on the window and roared: "Turn around!" Go back to Chang'an and enter the palace. ”

Looking at the majestic and solemn palace gate, Cai Cong only felt the anger in his eyes, and was about to ignite this palace full of deceit, and entered the palace and went straight to Li Shimin's palace, but was stopped by the chamberlain and told him that Li Shimin was discussing state affairs with the minister.

Li Shimin ordered someone to pass the decree and asked him to wait in the side hall, but Cai Cong stubbornly stood under the steps outside the hall, just standing quietly. He didn't realize his own personality, he was changing, and he was slowly detached from the indifferent and cautious character in his previous life, and he actually took on a childish attitude in doing things.

Li Shimin was a little surprised, Cai Cong's performance was very abnormal, but national affairs were important, and he forgot about Cai Cong when he was busy. It wasn't until everyone walked out of the hall that they saw Cai Cong standing outside the hall with chapped lips and kept beating his legs.

A trace of anger flashed on Li Shimin's face, and when he saw the kettle next to Cai Cong and the umbrella that fell to the ground, the anger disappeared. looked at Cai Cong playfully, this kid has always loved himself, and today he actually used this self-harm method to protest, and he didn't know what happened.

The other ministers also looked at Cai Cong in confusion, and Li Gang stepped forward and asked, "Cai boy, what are you doing here?" It can be known that the parents of the body do not dare to damage it. ”

"Master Li's lesson is that the kid just wants to feel what kind of life the people live under the drought." Cai Cong said hoarsely, but the others were moved, and they were exposed to the sun for two hours just to empathize.

"So, can there be a conclusion?" Li Gang stroked his beard and asked solemnly, although he didn't know what was going on, he knew that Cai Cong must be very helpless and angry at the moment.

"It's very uncomfortable, my limbs are heavy, my throat is smoking, and I just feel that the whole person is about to catch fire." Cai Cong grinned, said hoarsely, and as soon as the words fell, the whole person fainted face down.

Li Shimin was shocked, stepped forward and hugged Cai Cong and shouted, "Come and pass on the imperial doctor." After saying that, he hugged and walked towards the main hall, and the others left the palace with frowns. Cai Cong's abnormal behavior shows that the problem is very serious, otherwise he wouldn't have done it, but he didn't know what it would be.

When Cai Cong woke up, he felt weak, looked at the surrounding scenery, and found that he was in Qingning Palace, covering his head and wanting to pour himself a glass of water, he heard a palace maid say softly: "Sir, lie down and rest, and the slave will pour water for you." ”

With a glass of water, Cai Cong felt like thousands of acres of withered seedlings being moistened by the spring rain, and immediately came to life, snorted, and said hoarsely: "Give me another glass of water." ”

"Now that I know I'm going to drink water, why did I go earlier? Dare to knock over the water glass, who are you messing with petty? The pleasant voice of the eldest grandson came, and when Cai Cong woke up, naturally someone would go to announce.

"I'm playing petty with Your Majesty." Cai Cong lowered his head and whispered, an old face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, and he really couldn't understand how he could protest in such a childish way?

The eldest grandson burst out laughing, and originally wanted to slap Cai Cong's hand, but also gently touched Cai Cong's little face and asked, "Why did Your Majesty provoke you, and you actually abuse yourself so much." ”

"The minister also committed such a foolish thing because of a fever in his head."

"Yes, I also know that it is a foolish thing, and since it is a foolish thing, it should be punished. Now tell me what happened to make you do such a foolish thing" Li Shimin stood at the door, the cold moonlight shining on his body, but he seemed to be holding back his smile at the moment.

"Seeing the people outside the city, the people who fell to the ground and were suddenly seen everywhere, and they had no face to see, and they couldn't bear to look at it, so they returned to the city and fled to the most powerful place in the world to take refuge."

Cai Cong looked at Li Shimin with tears in his eyes, everyone is compassionate, as long as they are not traitors and evildoers, they will feel related when they see the tragedy in the world.

Li Shimin's eyes widened angrily, and then dimmed again. He sighed and said, "Is it weird?" ”

"The minister doesn't dare, the thunder, rain and dew are all heaven's grace, the minister just can't understand, he told him a few months ago that there would be a big drought, why did he still come to this point, could it be that the people who died of hunger outside the city, not my people of the Tang Dynasty?"

Cai Cong just complained, if the disaster relief was arranged a few months in advance, the situation would not be so serious. Now the victims of Yingye outside the city, relying on the little gruel provided by the government, few of them have the physical strength to walk.

"It's weird for you to say that." Li Shimin said calmly, approached and stood in front of Cai Cong and said hatefully: "But you should know that this world is not only my world, the family, the gate valve is stirring the storm all the time, only in this way can they be as stable as a mountain and continue for generations."

Shandong has been a powerful force since ancient times, and even if they are soft now, it is only superficial. I ordered the prefabrication of disaster relief matters, but when I arrived in Shandong, I was unable to implement it, and even the disaster relief food was robbed by the strongmen, who did it, I know very well, and sooner or later I will settle this account with them. ”

Cai Cong heard that his eyes were full of killing intent here, cutting off the livelihood of thousands of families, for the eternity of a family, this is sucking blood and eating meat, he struggled to get out of bed and knelt in front of Li Shimin without saying a word.

"It's not that I don't want to, but I want to launch the whole body, and the foundation of the country and dynasty is not tolerated and chaotic." Li Shimin looked down at Cai Cong, and finally said guiltily. If Shandong is in chaos, those powerful and powerful people will not lack money and food, and they will be able to pull up an army in an instant, and they will inevitably be ruined at that time.

"Minister! Please lead 5,000 troops, and take care of the disaster relief in Shandong, and lead the power of life and death. Cai Cong raised his head and said word by word, Li Shimin and the eldest grandson were shocked, what kind of killing machine was in Cai Cong's eyes, it was clearly a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.