While the soldiers and civilians of Chang'an were still excited about the rebellion of Li Yi, Li Yuanji locked himself in the study.

A piece of high-quality hard paper, a simple charcoal pen, and a homemade ruler are Li Yuanji's only drawing tools.

Li Yuanji, who has never eaten pork, but has been moving bricks at the construction site all the year round, has also seen engineering drawings, although he can't read it, but he doesn't need to understand it, just know how to draw it.

This is Li Yuanji's old business, and there is no reason to hand over this work to others.

"Your Highness, I found out, the families in Chang'an City also have more than one million stone of grain in stock." Song Zhong ran into the study in a hurry, he was the only family member who could enter and leave the study freely, and even the daughters who had recently warmed up their relationship with Li Yuanji were not allowed to enter and leave the study at will.

After Li Yuanji came back yesterday, he asked Song Zhong to secretly inquire about the grain storage in the hands of various families in Chang'an, and it took less than a day for Song Zhong to give the answer.

"Million stones! Long enough for the first half of the year. Li Yuanji secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it is easy to say that there is food, but what he is afraid of is that there is no food.

If you save a little food, this food is enough for a million people to eat for a year, or even more than enough, but in this case, don't think about being full, at best, you will not starve to death.

"Continue to send people to the surrounding areas to investigate, Luozhou, Bianzhou, Yangzhou, and Datang all the grain-producing areas to investigate, and this king must know the grain storage situation in all important areas." There is a lot of grain stored in millions of stones, but it still can't satisfy Li Yuanji.

"Your Highness, will Your Majesty ...... if we do this?" Song Zhong was a little worried, he was afraid of everything, if Li Shimin knew that Li Yuanji was inquiring about the food situation, it would be a big deal.

"Don't worry about him, when the time comes, he will not blame us, but will thank us." Li Yuanji snorted coldly, the Tang Dynasty court's ability to deal with emergencies was very average, and it didn't change until there were several major natural disasters, but what could be done was still very limited, Li Yuanji didn't want to ignore this matter with his conscience, even if he made a dowry for Li Shimin? It's all worth it if millions of lives are saved.

"No!" Seeing Li Yuanji's resolute attitude, Song Zhong did not continue to dissuade him.

"Go and call Ma Zhou." Looking at the drawings on the table that were about to be completed, Li Yuanji once again remembered Ma Zhou.

……

More than half of the first 3,000 people solved the problem of night blindness, and the rest of them still had no effect or little effect no matter how Ma Zhou prepared food, and for several months in a row, Ma Zhou had completely given up the treatment of those people.

Instead, he focused on the 1,000 new troops outside the city.

Ma Zhou had long been eyeing the 1,000 new army, and when Li Yuanji made the request, he had clearly informed Ma Zhou that he wanted to test these people, so Ma Zhou often ran at both ends for a period of time before the expedition, and after the army came back yesterday, Ma Zhou completely moved to the barracks.

Cheng Zhijie, who won the battle, did not rest at home, he carnivaled all night last night, and came to the barracks early this morning, waving his horse whip, and training the 1,000 soldiers fiercely, as if he wanted to vent all the wretched anger received on this expedition on these soldiers.

Ma Zhou was tidying up Wen'an in the tent, carefully proofreading the results of the experiments in the past few months, and at the same time studying some foods with common characteristics, and then making new attempts.

"Sir, what a talent!"

Suddenly there was a voice, and the frightened Ma Zhou almost threw away the brush in his hand, and when he looked up, he saw that an old man and a young man were standing in front of him, although they were standing in opposition, but the plan he wrote down was all seen clearly by them.

One of the two is familiar to him, and the other has not seen him, but Ma Zhou is also well-informed.

Looking at the young man's dress, it is obviously not something that ordinary people can enjoy, and there is only one person in Datang today who can make Chang He so humble.

"I don't know that Your Majesty is coming, and the minister is far away! May Your Majesty forgive your sins! Ma Zhou hurriedly got up, walked to the desk, and bowed to Li Shimin.

"Mr. has done his best for the Tang Dynasty and sacrificed himself to forget himself, what is the crime? Even if I want to apologize, I should make amends. Li Shimin smiled, casually probing everything in the tent, and by the way, he inquired about Ma Zhou.

"Don't dare!" Li Shimin's intention made Ma Zhou a little confused, but he thought that the New Army had played an important role in this counterinsurgency, and it was natural for Li Shimin to come to visit the New Army, and he should have just happened to pass by here.

"I have read the report written by Mr., it is clearly organized, accurately conceived, and it is taken care of before and after, and every word is fine!" Li Shimin subconsciously squinted his eyes slightly, probing Ma Zhou's reaction, seeing that Ma Zhou was unmoved, he was very happy in his heart, and continued: "I want to streamline the imperial court, but I have no clue, I don't know what Mr. thinks?" ”

Ma Zhou was shocked in his heart, and looked up at Li Shimin in astonishment, he understood Li Shimin's purpose for coming here, and also understood why Li Shimin asked this question.

Answer, answer well, and your life will take a huge turn.

If you can't answer it, if you can't answer it, you may be like this in your life.

Answering or not answering, it is a dilemma, from the heart, Ma Zhou really wants to answer, he wants to show his talent, and from then on to the peak of life.

But Li Yuanji is so kind to himself, and he trusts him so much, if he answers, wouldn't he be ungrateful?

One is a benefactor and the other is an emperor, how to choose?

looked up at Li Shimin, and found that Li Shimin was looking at him with a smile, without the slightest hint of urgency, and even took a cup out of his own and came out of the pot to a cup of tea.

Taking a sip of tea, Li Shimin pursed his lips gently, the taste was a little light, but he was used to drinking tea of this era, and drinking this weak tea again, especially the lingering fragrance left in his mouth, was very enjoyable.

"This tea is good, and it was also made by Yuanji, right?" Seeing that Ma Zhou was embarrassed, Li Shimin opened the topic.

"It was made by His Royal Highness King Qi." Ma Zhou replied absentmindedly.

"I went back to Yuanji to buy some back, and I drank too much oily tea, and it really didn't taste as good as this weak tea." Li Shimin muttered to himself.

"Your Majesty's streamlining of the imperial court has several advantages, the reduction in the number of officials, the reduction of the burden on the imperial court, and the elimination of some black sheep who do not seek political power in their positions, from these two points, it is beneficial to the imperial court and the people. But the disadvantage is that the reduction of personnel means that the people left behind need to take on more work, how to reasonably divide the new work, will be the biggest problem, and the other is the interests of the nobles, in general, the benefits of this matter outweigh the disadvantages, but a careless move, it may also be more harmful than good. Ma Zhou expressed his opinion.

Listening to such an ambiguous answer given by Ma Zhou, Li Shimin couldn't help laughing anymore, pointed at Ma Zhou and scolded with a smile: "You, you are a talent, but you are also a person!" ”

Ma Zhou, who was seen through by Li Shimin, scratched his head in embarrassment, he wanted to get ahead, but he didn't want to be infamous for being ungrateful, so he could only do this, and he was also desperate.

In the face of Ma Zhou's cleverness, Li Shimin became more determined in his heart to recruit the idea, Li Shimin is an ambitious emperor, if he wants to bring the Tang Dynasty to a new height, he needs the assistance of countless capable ministers, and the existing ones are far from enough.

In fact, Li Shimin did not have many people in the court at all, the emperor and Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji's power should not be underestimated, streamlining the imperial court, in fact, in the name of the imperial court to reduce expenditure, to eliminate some forces that do not belong to themselves and are unwilling to belong to themselves, completely stabilize their own status, and at the same time clear obstacles for Li Chengqian.

Li Yuan has a certain threat, but Li Shimin doesn't pay much attention to it, on the contrary, the threat that Li Shimin cares about the most is Li Yuanji, the emperor's brother who does not fight or grab on the surface, wants to kill but does not dare to kill, and cannot be killed.

"I want to transfer you to serve on duty, what do you want?" Although Ma Zhou deliberately hid it, and although Ma Zhou was jealous, Li Shimin was still very optimistic about Ma Zhou and appreciated his approach.

Loyalty to the old master, this is not a reason to make him angry, but a reason to add points to Ma Zhou, no king will hold a grudge against a person who is loyal to the old master, such a person is like a hard bone, once you gnaw it, they will be as loyal to you as the old master is finally the same, Li Tao is like this.

"Panic!" Ma Zhou was a little frightened and overwhelmed.

The door is on duty to serve, that is, to the matter, is on the five products, to the matter in charge of the service left and right, the judgment of the province, where the hundred divisions are copied, the service is approved, then read and signed first, in order to refute the violation, where the system is appropriate, the major event is repeated and please implement, and the small thing is signed and issued.

The official position is not high, but the power in his hands is very large, and there are a total of four people in the matter, but anyone who can sit in this position, none of them are fools, and none of them are not the emperor's henchmen.

Li Shimin can give Ma Zhou such an official position, which is enough to see the importance he attaches to Ma Zhou.

Li Yuanji gave him an official position, but in the final analysis, he is just the director of biological research of the Academy of Sciences, and he is just an official position on the eighth grade, besides, who knows what biological research is? Compared with the one given by Li Shimin, Li Yuanji is simply drizzle.

Listening to Ma Zhou's reply, Li Shimin was both happy and helpless, he liked Ma Zhou's refusal, but he didn't want him to refuse, he was very entangled.

"Mr. Ma! Your Highness called you to go......" Song Zhong, who was bored, pushed open the tent curtain and shouted loudly, but the moment he raised his head, the whole person instantly looked confused, who could tell me what was going on? Why is Li Shimin here?

I looked at Ma Zhou again, and looked at this tent that I was very familiar with, and I was not wrong.

"Well, what's that, you talk first, the slave waits outside to ...... first"