Chapter 198: Worrying

Wu Yuanqing felt that getting married was a troublesome matter, but for Li Shimin, how to deal with the locust plague was the biggest trouble. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

As early as two months ago, when the locust plague first appeared, there were small-scale rumors among the people that the locust plague was a punishment for Li Shimin, punishing him for slaughtering his brothers, cruelty and thirst for killing.

Half a month ago, the locust plague began to break out on a large scale, and when there were frequent requests for help from all over the country, this kind of rumor also spread on a large scale, and even reached Chang'an City, and some people began to spread these nonsense in front of the emperor's eyes, and what else said that the locust plague was the soul of the former prince Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and came back to Li Shimin to ask for his life, and some said that Li Shimin had no king and no father, his brothers were on the wall, and the heavens were angry, and only when he returned the government to the emperor Li Yuan could the heavens dissipate the anger and go to the disaster.

Anyway, there are all kinds of rumors, and the things that Li Shimin has done and have not done are rubbed together to spread them, and in some people's mouths, Li Shimin is absurd and unreasonable, forcibly marrying younger brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters-in-law, etc., and Li Shimin is as unbearable as Yang Guang, the Emperor of Sui Yang who killed his father and killed his brother and deceived his mother and sister-in-law.

But Li Shimin was helpless about this, who made him helpless in the face of the locust plague, and who let him really do some things here, such as killing his brother and brother, marrying his brother and daughter-in-law.

Half-truths are the most deceptive and deceitful, and the people who spread these messages clearly capture the core essence of deception.

Li Shimin has no heart or ability to care about who spread these rumors, whether there is any conspiracy, and he is already exhausted in the face of requests for help from all over the world.

Of course, this is before Wu Yuanqing made a move, and now there is a huge pit where Wu Yuanqing has twice cheated people and himself, Li Shimin already has a large amount of food in his hands, although it is still a lot away from making the people not starving, but it can also save a momentary emergency, if it is just porridge to make a living, then some food can also be carried for a long time.

I have food in hand, and I have it in the world.

With food, Li Shimin's confidence was sufficient, and he launched a counterattack as soon as possible, and the cavalry scattered out in all directions, and he arrested a group of people who spread rumors and caused trouble, and the vast majority of these people were gangsters, and officials from all over the country also arrested more than a dozen.

If he is arrested, he will not be interrogated or asked, and he will be thrown directly into the prison to be beaten, and he will be locked up in prison after the fight and let him die.

At the same time as rectifying the people who spread rumors, the food and supplies sent to various places also set off from Chang'an.

At this time, more than 100,000 victims had gathered around Chang'an.

These are the people in the surrounding counties, because the crops that were ploughed in the spring were eaten by locusts, and there was no grass root left, and they had no choice but to leave their hometown and flee to Chang'an to seek a life and find a life.

After receiving the report, Li Shimin sent people to build shacks and grass huts outside the city, so that these people could have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

Fortunately, it's already May, and it's already summer when it's basically May and June in the future, and the weather is warm enough, even if you don't have a shack to shelter in, you don't have to worry about freezing, just find a flat place to spend the night.

In addition to building a shack, it is to open a weekly shed to give porridge, in this situation, there is not much food, and Li Shimin does not ask for any standard of soup soup without chopsticks, anyway, he is already thankful for being able to drink gruel, crying and shouting to thank God for his favor.

Soup kitchen, Wu Yuanqing has only seen it on TV, and generally the people who are performing there are disaster victims lined up in an orderly line, each holding a broken bowl, waiting for the person in charge to make porridge for his turn, and there is a person on the other side who is responsible for distributing steamed buns or nest heads, and then the person who receives the things has to politely say thank you. In that scene, those who have love don't want it.

But Wu Yuanqing hadn't seen the real soup soup scene with his own eyes, so Wu Yuanqing ran to the disaster victim outside the city to see the soup soup with full curiosity.

Then as soon as he left the city, more than a mile away from the place where the victims were concentrated, Wu Yuanqing was choked by the stench that rushed to the sky, and almost fainted.

Wu Yuanqing covered his nose and walked forward against the stench, the closer he got to the destination, the more cautious and difficult Wu Yuanqing walked, because if he was not careful, he might step on the "landmines" that could appear everywhere.

Wu Yuanqing walked this thrilling journey with a blushing face.

Finally, the victims gathered, and the stench here was even worse, but Wu Yuanqing was in no mood to care.

What caught my eye was unkempt figures, not ragged, but dirty.

Some are in the shack, some are in the shade, and all of them are numb, dead, and lifeless in their eyes.

Of course, there are also very active ones, and less than a hundred meters inside, Wu Yuanqing saw three or four fights, or group fights, which seem to be from different villages, or gangs formed spontaneously here, and these fights are all only young and middle-aged groups without exception.

The children are not like adults, they are either numb or crazy, although they are hungry and yellow-skinned, they still run around the camp and play, but they may step on Xiang from time to time.

After Wu Yuanqing turned around, it was already noon, and the porridge began to be put out.

As soon as the porridge was brought out over there, I saw that the people who had just been lifeless instantly came to their senses, and they surrounded me in an uproar, and you pushed me, cursed endlessly, and squeezed into a mess.

Some people had just received the porridge, but before they left the crowd, they were crowded and scattered on the ground by the people behind them.

Then these people also began to scold, and they were short-tempered and directly beat people, and continued to squeeze in to receive porridge after the beating.

Coming out of the camp, Wu Yuanqing's face turned completely black, and then without saying a word, he went straight to the palace to meet the emperor.

Because of the grain soup kitchen, the rumors have basically disappeared in recent days, and there are more people praising the current emperor as a good emperor, so Li Shimin is obviously in a very good mood.

As soon as Wu Yuanqing entered, he smiled and quipped: "Yuanqing, I know that you want to see Xiangcheng, but the etiquette cannot be abolished, and the rules left by the ancestors still have to be followed.

Wu Yuanqing ignored the emperor's jokes, his face was solemn, and he bowed deeply: "Minister Wu Yuanqing has a plan to play, it is related to the people affected by the disaster outside the city, and it is also related to the safety of the people in Chang'an City and the entire Guanzhong Plain, please forgive your Majesty."

Wu Yuanqing spoke in a rare serious and solemn tone, which made Li Shimin frightened.

This guy has no good mouth, let alone played it so seriously, it seems that he has never done it before.

It is also about the disaster victims, as well as the safety of the people in the entire Guanzhong Plain, is there anything more serious than the locust plague?