"So what? This is not what you want, Your Majesty! Li Yuan turned around and said coldly, and copied the dust he had carefully built on the rattan chair, and when he shook off the dust, it was really a bit of a fairy wind bone, and those eyes looked down on Li Shimin, flashing a look of contempt from time to time.

The first time they met, Li Yuan admitted that he eased the completely rigid father-son relationship, but if the jujube was given, it was time to give the stick, and he still understood the truth of "red dates in one hand and a stick in the other", Li Shimin had to be beaten.

"Poor Dao? Father, don't tease your child. Li Shimin smiled bitterly, he also heard about this restless father and emperor becoming a monk, but his old Li family had already invited Lao Tzu to enter the ancestral temple, and at this time, entering the Taoist gate was the same as returning to his own home, there was no problem, and he did not lose points. (In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao and Li in Yayan were homonyms, so Li Er was called Li Zi, and was also called Lao Tzu, which is not in conflict.) )

After thinking about it, he continued: "Jasper Coral Tree, I have already redeemed it for you, if the dispatch in the palace is not enough on weekdays... Just tell me that I can't let my father have a lot of money in his hands......"

After speaking, Li Shimin clapped his hands, Wang Zhen walked in from outside, holding a thing covered with a bright yellow handkerchief in his arms, where his hand touched the thing, he could see the suspicion of the thing in his arms, it was indeed the jasper coral tree that Li Yuan pawned a few days ago.

After putting the things on the lacquered wood table, Wang Zhen retreated to the door of the warm pavilion.

"Father, I have already made a holy decree this morning, and the homeless people that my father met in Dongshi and the other 3,000 homeless people will be moved to Cuihua Mountain to settle the fields, and the three counties of Lantian, Weinan and Gaoling will be used for your father's food." Li Shimin said.

"What a big breath." Li Yuan felt that he was a little inflated, sat on the rattan chair, and shook the dust and smoked the rattan chair, "Before the poor road was in the world, he was also the founding emperor, and this world is the poor way to give me that... The son who does not grow up, divides the three counties into three counties and gives me as a food, and you can say it. ”

"This..." Li Shimin was not lightly frightened by this, for fear that Li Yuan would whip him with a whisk. Even if Li Yuan really smoked him, he couldn't resist, "Father... Emperor, so-and-so said wrong, so-and-so should not be the master to divide the food for his father, this is so-and-so's fault, so-and-so go back and let Zhongshu Province withhold the holy decree. ”

If you swallow what you have in your stomach, you can still vomit it!?

When Li Yuan heard this, he was anxious, the food of the three counties meant that from now on, the taxes of the three counties would not have to be handed over to the imperial court, and they would directly belong to him.

At first glance, I heard that there were only three counties in taxes, didn't this ruin him, the emperor? Those founding county dukes or something, aren't they also sealing a county. One county sounds better than three, but that's a false seal.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there were at least more than 20 founding counties, and when Qin Shi Huang divided the counties of the world, there were 36 counties! It's impossible to give out most of the Tang Dynasty, so at most one county is actually sealed, and most of them are lower counties.

The counties of the Tang Dynasty are divided into red, ki, wang, tight, upper, middle, lower seven and other differences, of which more than 20 counties under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Prefecture, because Chang'an County and Wannian County are in Chang'an City, so it is Chi County, like this Chi County, there are also two in Luoyang, but it is one level worse than the two counties of Chang'an City, it is the second red.

The other prefectures administered by Gyeongzhao Prefecture are called Ki County. Don't be surprised by this, Guanzhong has been a place of anointing since ancient times, otherwise Sima Qian would not have said that four out of ten of the riches in the world are in Guanzhong. In the early Tang Dynasty, where the south had not yet been vigorously developed, the three counties of Jingzhao Prefecture had the highest tax in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yuan's face remained unchanged, and he coughed dryly and said: "Shimin, the poor road understands your hard work, although the three counties are a bit small, but compared to those displaced people, the situation of the poor road... It's still a lot better. ”

"Yes, father, the 200,000 exiles are always pressing on the heart of a certain person, since he negotiated peace with the villain of Jieli Khan, a certain has been sleepless almost day and night, and he is worried that he can't eat......" Li Shimin took the opportunity to complain about his bitterness, and he couldn't wait to tell Li Yuan all the bad things in the past few days, to prove that it was not easy for his son to be the emperor.

"So..."Li Yuan frowned and said: "Although the poor road is an outsider, it has always been my responsibility to save the dead and help the wounded, and the jasper coral tree is just an ordinary thing placed in the corner to hide the luster in the poor road, rather than making the treasure dirty, it is better to use it in a useful place... For the people, it is life-saving food, and you can entrust the county order to notify the rich and noble families in Chang'an to sell the jasper coral tree, and all the money obtained will be used to relieve the victims. “

But Li Shimin was in a hurry, and he was going to sell it as soon as he got it back? He frowned tightly and said: "Father, this matter must not be done is really detrimental to the royal majesty, and a certain has already asked Hedong Province and Jiangnan Province to urgently mobilize grain to Guanzhong to relieve the displaced people. ”

"Detrimental to royal majesty? Joke! After the grain from Hedong Province and Jiangnan Province arrives in Guanzhong, how many victims will starve to death before then? Li Yuan felt angry for the first time, this Tang Taizong, who loved the people to the bone, said that "water can carry a boat, but also can overturn a boat", the first emperor of the ages is so old!

The Tang Dynasty, which has been nine years of martial arts, is still fragile and poor. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty Huo Huo Sui Dynasty decades of accumulation, coupled with the smoke at the end of the Sui Dynasty, led to a sharp decline in the population of the country, and the statistical population in the Wude period was only more than 2 million households. In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, the hukou was restored to 3.04 million.

However, according to statistics, during the period of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui, there were 8.9 million households.

"Recalling the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty in the past, Xiaoyi still has thousands of rooms. The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are abundant. ”

The prosperous scene described by Du Fu will be slowly restored after more than 100 years, and the people of the Tang Dynasty at this time still have vegetables and no surplus food at home.

Li Yuan understood that this was the first collision between his and Li Shimin's ideological concepts, and the jasper coral tree was invaluable, but in the era of soaring prices in the ninth year of Wude, the rice and grain exchanged were very little, and only a few hundred people could be saved. But the Emperor of the Ages would rather this part of the people under his rule die than lose the royal majesty, because there are very few hundred people after all......

But Li Yuan is different, he was just an ordinary family in his previous life, and he never suffered a famine, but going back to eighty or ninety years ago, there were not a few grandfather's brothers who starved to death during the Republic of China, and in the eighties, there was a local drought, and his grandparents went out to beg for food, so they barely pulled his older generation.

There is no famine in the memory of the post-90s, but... In those bad days, the older generation still couldn't hold back their tears when they mentioned it...

"It's time to bring it up." Li Yuan breathed a sigh of aggrief in his heart, I am afraid that the 200,000 displaced people will die every moment now, even if they say that there will be endless troubles, but it is better than stuffing in the stomach.

"Shimin, the jasper coral tree can only save a small part of the people, but... I have a way to save those 200,000 displaced people! ”