The spring rain continued, even on this dry plateau on weekdays, you can still feel the unconscious sense of oppression, the sky is getting darker and darker, Li Chengqian squatted at the door and looked down at the map around him carefully, Hou Junji behind him sighed, and stepped forward to put the big coat on him: "Now that the situation is evenly matched, this kind of battle is the most interesting." After Li Chengqian finished speaking, he put the pen on the map, Hou Junji thought about it, but muttered softly: "It's better to solve the matter here as soon as possible, a few days ago, Chang'an City sent a letter, the price of grain has grown sharply recently, although those few families are desperately suppressed, but ...... After all, it's a war. ”

"Food prices are turbulent, and my father's side has begun to move the country......" Li Chengqian smiled, "Does Uncle Hou believe in fate?" ”

"It's like licking blood from the knife's edge, those things...... I never felt anything. Hou Junji shook the Tang knife in his hand, "We are martial artists, relying on the knife in our hands?" Isn't Your Highness also untrustworthy? ”

"Knives? Sometimes it may not be very reliable, and sometimes, people still rely on the heart, a ...... A heart that can withstand temptation. Of course, I don't believe in fate, but I believe in cause and effect. ”

"Your Highness means that someone is making trouble behind your back?"

"It's inevitable." Li Chengqian tightened his grip and thought about it, the lights in the military camp and courtyard in the distance had gradually turned on, and the dim light of the fire reflected the light and shadow of the fleeting raindrops, which looked a little beautiful, and he continued to talk after a long time.

"In Datang, the threat will never be those so-called five surnames and seven sects, because from the moment they hand over the book, they and Datang have begun to merge into each other, regardless of each other. On the other hand, this also allows more people to see the opportunity, they seem to have something they want to replace, everything that is happening now, such as the rise in food prices and the like, is to make their family carry forward, although this will anger my father, but they also know that the law does not blame the public......"

"The law does not blame the public! After all, these people are the mainstay of this country, even if they do something wrong, you can only endure it, otherwise, something will happen, something big will happen. Hou Junji told word by word.

Li Chengqian did laugh: "In this world, there are many things that cannot be speculated, but if you think about it carefully, you will find some of them, such as cause and effect: the retribution of good and evil follows like a shadow, and the cycle of cause and effect in three lifetimes is not lost." Everything arises and develops for a cause and effect. The cause of the emergence of one thing must be the result of the development of another; The result of the development of one thing must also be the cause of the emergence of another. Causes and effects are constantly circulating and endless. ”

Hou Junji frowned, obviously confused.

Li Chengqian took the branch and drew a few circles on the ground.

"At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, five surnames and seven families, together with various smiling landlords, began to annex land, which is the cause of this incident, and then what? This kind of behavior was not tolerated by my father, so after several families discussed, they began to consider the matter of changing the field system, this matter is too widely implicated, the people of the five surnames and seven families have been silent about this matter repeatedly, and the occasional outflow is also regarded as a rumor by those people, and it is not true, so they still use various methods to annex the land, which is still the cause, but I was hijacked by my aunt to the Western Regions, which is the reason, although the two causes and effects seem to be different, but when I decided to design Tuyuhun, this fruit began to merge together, and the Tang Dynasty began to lack food, And those landlords began to go crazy with high food prices, and I was not liked by the big families, so they wanted to find someone in the court to replace them. ”

Hou Junji thought for a while, but he didn't know what Li Chengqian's words meant, and thought for a while: "The truth is such a truth, but now, with the rise in grain prices, I am afraid that the war in Tuyuhun will be difficult." ”

"Hmm~ This is naturally also a causal relationship." Li Chengqian smiled, "Because the price of food has risen, the country has to pay a greater price to deserve this war, but what? This effect will become a new cause, and greed will be the cause, and then the effect? Hehe~ It's just a kind of evil cause, and the natural result is evil. Those people, I'm afraid, are going to be unlucky. ”

"Well~ should be what it means......" Hou Junji said, "But even so, this matter is a later matter, and it is imperative that we consider the military food and grass first."

Li Chengqian ignored him and said to himself: "The results that we create and lead to are of course beneficial and harmful to the country. The state is a huge system, and through the operation of this system, every day it absorbs these causes and effects, and through laws and the like, tries to evenly distribute these causes and effects on everyone's head. ”

The nearby soldiers lit torches and lit a bonfire next to them, and Li Chengqian banged on the small circle on the ground.

"At the beginning of the establishment of the country, people were all positive, and they all went through wars, knew that peace was not easy to come by, and they were prepared for danger in times of peace, and they would not easily create those causes that damaged the country—that is, they would not do bad things that harmed the country. Because the country is also young, all the systems are very imperfect, and it is difficult to react very quickly to some things. So in the early days, the country was getting stronger. But as time passed, there were always some people who gained a lot of positive causes, became landlords, became big families, and became small circles in the imperial court......"

Li Chengqian didn't finish speaking, Hou Junji nodded thoughtfully: "This understands, it's time to go down next." ”

"That's right." Li Chengqian also nodded: "After becoming those big families, after the small circle has money and power, they will start to buy land and buy peasant households, these peasant households should have contributed wealth to the country, but after the merger, they have become contributions to those landlord families, and then it is conceivable that with the passage of time, the country gets less and less, and the landlords get more and more things, when one day the country's economy begins to make ends meet." ”

Li Chengqian said this, breathing a sigh of relief.

"That's when the country's finances begin to collapse, it's when the country loses credibility, the country has no credit, the enforcement of the law will decline, this cause and effect will gradually expand, it will become turmoil, this is the cause that was planted at the beginning, this cause has led to the decline of the country's national strength, the country has no ability to deal with these turmoil, on the contrary, at that time, those big families, small circles gradually accumulated wealth, but they can protect the peace of one side, so gradually these people control the credibility, As this credibility gradually expands, it will become a kind of guide, guiding another group of people who want peace and want to be prepared for danger in times of peace to consolidate this credibility. ”8)