Li Chengqian worked hard in Chang'an City to help the victims, and the Xue Yantuo Khanate, thousands of miles away in the north, was also worried about the snowstorm this winter.

This summer, when the Tang Dynasty general Qibi He Li returned to the grassland to visit his mother, he was detained by Xue Yantuo, Xue Yantuo Khan Yi Nan hoped that Qi Qi He Li would serve the Xue Yantuo Khanate, and Qi Qi He Li swore not to surrender, and cut off one of his ears to make his intentions clear.

Li Shimin asked Cui Dunli to send Xue Yantuo to promise to send the princess to make peace with Yi Nan in exchange for Xue Yantuo to return Qibi He Li.

When Li Shimin found that the surrounding ethnic minorities were getting stronger and stronger, he drew up two plans, one was to send elite troops to destroy the country to ensure stability for 100 years, and the other was to protect stability for 30 years.

After discussing with Fang Xuanling, Fang Xuanling thought that it was better to be friendly, so Li Shimin agreed, and Cui Dunli knew that he could agree to be friendly before he sent the envoy.

Xue Yantuo's current Khan Yinan has fought with the Tang Dynasty several times, and each time he has failed, plus his people are old and unwilling to have a frontal war with the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, Cui Dunli successfully completed the mission and was on his way back to Chang'an.

After Cui Dunli left, Xue Yantuo Khan began to collect cattle, sheep, horses, leather and other goods from the tribes below as a dowry, preparing to officially come to the Tang Dynasty to propose marriage.

However, the sudden cold snap caused most of the livestock in the entire Xueyantuo Khanate to die, and it was difficult to collect enough livestock for a while, which made Yi Nan very anxious and annoyed.

When the white-haired Yi Nan was angry in the king's tent, his son Bazhuo walked in from outside, saluted Yi Nan and said, "Father Khan is still worried about the dowry for marriage?"

Yi Nan glanced at Ba Zhuo and did not say a word, he knew that Ba Zhuo had always been arrogant and unwilling to make peace with the Tang Dynasty, and wanted to join forces with Goguryeo to attack the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing this, the tall bearded Ba Zhuo didn't care, and his eyes flashed with excitement and said: "Father Khan also supports marrying the son of the princess of the Tang Kingdom, after all, the princess of the Tang Kingdom is still the son in the end." ”

"Bastard!" The old man was furious.

"Hahaha" Bazhuo just laughed, not caring about Yi Nan's anger.

After laughing, he whispered: "Father Khan, we have suffered a disaster, but has the one to our north also suffered a disaster?"

"That's nature, they're only going to get worse to the north of us." Yi Nan said angrily.

"Now that Datang has promised to make peace with our department, then we can use the prestige of Datang to levy livestock from them, if we don't give it to them just to take advantage of the disaster to destroy them, no matter what, we can make enough to pay tribute to Datang livestock." The appearance is rough and good, and there is such a fine calculation.

Yi Nan subconsciously wanted to shake his head when he heard this, but after thinking about it again, if he wants to make peace with Datang, he must not go to the south to rob, and the tribe has suffered a disaster, and he will prepare to give Datang a dowry if he doesn't rob the north.

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There are more and more victims next to the Qixia Gate in the south of Chang'an City, and I heard that there is food here, and many destitute displaced people have come to take refuge here.

In just a few days, the number of victims has increased to 30,000, and most of them are young men.

According to the registration, some people have families, but their families are living in difficulty, and now they have nothing to do in the fields, so they come here when they hear that there is food here.

But the vast majority of them were destitute households, and in the face of this situation, both Hao Chujun and Xu Jingzong believed that the current limited capacity of the imperial court should blow away the people who came after them.

But Li Chengqian thinks that they are from the Tang Dynasty, and if he is in difficulty, the court should help him, otherwise what will the people pay taxes for the court to do?

However, in the face of the empty grain depot, Li Chengqian was also very embarrassed, so he held a meeting in the tent hall outside the city.

Hearing that Li Chengqian was going to hold a meeting to discuss the solution to the problem of the victims, Xiao Yu, who had been staying in the East Palace, rode out.

"The Lone King's request is very simple, that is, to find enough food for these people before the summer harvest next year. King Gu wanted them to reclaim 3 million acres of fertile land under the Longshou Plain in the northeast of Chang'an City to feed these people. ”

Li Chengqian announced the main purpose of the meeting in a clear and righteous manner, that is, to find a way to get grain, money, and people to open up the fields.

At present, the Daming Palace has not yet been built on the Longshou Plain, and there is a lake below the Longshou Plain, which can be turned into millions of acres of fertile land as long as it is slightly repaired, and these peasants are the most loyal soldiers to him as long as they have a little training, and Li Chengqian can not let it go.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince loves the people like a son, and the minister understands it very well, but now there is no grain in the imperial court, and even if there is grain, it is impossible to support them until next summer's harvest, not to mention that I don't know how next year's harvest will be, what if there is no harvest next summer?" Hao Chujun began to have difficulties.

Xu Jingzong was also embarrassed when he heard this: "According to General Su, the weather has been sunny in the past two days, and the ice in the river has shown signs of civilization, and this fish will not be able to be caught for a few days." ”

"It's just that there is no food, so what should the court do if they don't care about these disasters?" Li Chengqian asked directly, meaning that he should let the victims die, or let these victims rebel.

I don't want to be educated by Xiao Yu, since the last time Li Chengqian took back the right to repair books, the old man has been bent on the overall situation of the prime minister, so he has been reading the classics in the East Palace for the past few days.

But he is also enthusiastic about political affairs, otherwise he would not be almost eighty years old and still be the prime minister.

Therefore, he is also very concerned about Li Chengqian's affairs outside the city, and almost wants to intervene in almost everything.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't know, these people are all helpers of big families in Guanzhong, and when the spring comes, these are going back to help the big families farm together, and when the time comes, there will naturally be big families to feed, and the court will not starve them to death." Xiao Yu said it very naturally and naturally.

But Li Chengqian heard different things from it, and after a long time, these people were in a similar situation to Ah Q, he had neither land nor tools, and he had no skills, so he could only work for people for a short time, and when he worked, he had food to eat, and when he didn't work, he was left to fend for himself.

Li Chengqian wanted to understand that these anger suddenly came up, and immediately slapped the table and said: "The lonely king of the barren mountains around Chang'an will not charge taxes to them this year, let them go into the mountains in batches to cut wood and burn charcoal, mine and smelt iron, as long as they can exchange money, let him do it, and the other part of the people will stay and cultivate the wasteland, and all the harvest will be returned to the public account, everyone will work together and eat together, and it is not enough for the East Palace to make up for some more, and the lonely king is to tighten his belt, and he will not let them continue to make livestock for those big families with wolf hearts and dogs." ”

A few people looked at Li Chengqian with some inexplicability and suddenly became angry, what's going on, hasn't the big family always been like this?

However, they listened to Li Chengqian's words and did not dare to refute them for a while.

Li Chengqian said and glanced at the crowd: "Since you don't have an idea, then do what the lonely king says, first publicize the meaning of the lonely king to the bottom, and this Xu Jingzong can make a small song and sing it to them."

If you are willing to follow the lonely king, stay and divide them into groups, and arrange what each group does every day.

The old and weak women and children arranged for them to cook and wash, before cutting wood to go to logging, if there is a mine, they go to mining, if they have good land, let them go to open up wasteland, Chang'an now has no grain, grain has to be transported from Luoyang, it must be expensive to buy grain in Chang'an, directly arrange people to go to Luoyang to buy grain and send a group of people to be responsible for transporting grain on the road, this can be profitable, we can transport grain can also be sold to others to ......"

The people in the tent were stupid, none of them thought that Li Chengqian still understood this, and they hadn't heard of many things, like Xiao Yu, Hao Chujun, Pei Xingjian, and Xu Jingzong, who was not the son of an official eunuch from a family?

I started reading and practicing martial arts when I was born, who has ever understood this.

Li Chengqian glanced at them and knew that these people would take a detour when doing these things, so he said loudly: "Write down everything that King Gu said, and then a few of you will first go to the victims to understand the situation, and write down what you have learned, and then discuss which of you is responsible for which part, and if there are not enough people, transfer Ren Yaxiang over." ”

Everyone became more and more puzzled when they heard this, and Li Chengqian also had a black line on his face, so he had to tell them in detail about the seventh part of "Opposing Fundamentalism" written by ***......

Only a few members of the East Palace were stunned, Li Chengqian also sighed in his heart, remembering that he liked to read books when he was a child in his previous life, but there were no books in the countryside, and there were a few Mao Xuan who had lost their skin at home, and the articles in Mao Xuan were written very easy to understand.