Chapter 314: The Impact of War
The snow that Li Su encountered was very large, from midnight until the afternoon of the next day, the goose-featherlike snow began to lighten, and at night, it stopped completely, but the ground had accumulated more than a foot of deep snow, and the road was also blocked by this heavy snow, and if it was not cleaned up in a few days, they would not be able to walk at all, in other words, Li Su and they were temporarily trapped in Kinmen City.
This is a natural disaster, no matter how anxious Li Su is, it is useless, and Jin Shengman was plotted again, and he almost took his life, so he had to recuperate for at least a few days. However, in the past few days, Li Su and they have not been idle, and they have interrogated all the maids around Jin Shengman, and finally found out the maids who participated in the assassination that night, and to Li Su's surprise, the people involved in this matter were not two maids as he imagined before, but three, but one of them did not do it himself that night.
After catching these three maids, Li Su followed the vine and quickly found the person who gave them the order, it was the Jin Gongqi Jin City Lord who was extremely enthusiastic about Li Su, but when he found this Jin City Lord, the other party had already been killed, and even the wives and children at home had all died, which could be described as very miserable.
The clues were broken all of a sudden, and as for the maids, although they all had their own backgrounds, they usually mainly contacted Jin Gongqi, so they couldn't ask any important clues at all. Jin Shengman knew who was going to be unfavorable to her, but unfortunately she couldn't find even a little evidence now, otherwise as soon as she returned to Jincheng, she would immediately take down the people behind the scenes.
Li Su didn't care about whether there was evidence or not, and he didn't even care much about Jin Shengman's assassination. Although he chose to save people at the last moment, it does not prove that he cares about Jin Shengman's life and death, what he cares about is to completely control Silla in the shortest possible time, which is the first step for him to run here personally.
In this way, he lived in Golden Gate City for four days, and the road ahead was still not cleared, but Jin Shengman's body was almost fine, after all, it was only gas poisoning, and it was not very serious, so there were no sequelae.
The weather was nice today. Although it is still very cold, and the thick snow on the roof has not melted, the warm sunlight is sprinkled without hesitation, making people feel a rare warmth in the harsh winter.
Because of this heavy snowfall, Li Su has been holding back in the house for a few days, and today it looks like the weather is good, so he can just call the two girls Shangwen'er and Hua'er to go to the street for a walk, after all, since he entered the territory of Silla. I was so busy that I didn't carefully observe the folk customs of Silla at all.
But in the end, Wen'er begged to bring Jin Shengman with him. After all, she is the queen of Silla, if she is there, she can also help explain it, Li Su thought about it and felt good, it was indeed a good idea to let the queen of Silla be the tour guide, so I agreed.
Li Su traveled with four people, because of the assassination of Jin Shengman last time, so for the sake of safety, he brought a lot of guards this time. And with a special carriage, after all, it is still very cold, and riding a horse is definitely a very detrimental thing.
Kinmen City is a medium-sized city, although it is mainly the acropolis of Jincheng, but there are many residents in the city, originally in Li Su's opinion, the situation in this city can not be compared with the same scale of the Tang Dynasty. But at least it should be very lively, but when he walked around the street himself, he found that the situation in the whole city seemed to be very bad.
Although Kinmen City is a medium-sized city in Silla, it is relatively large compared to the Tang Dynasty. That is, the scale of the general county seat, in addition to one main road, there are four relatively large streets, which can be easily turned around, but Li Su, who was sitting in the carriage, found that there were very few pedestrians on the streets of the whole city, and even the shops on both sides of the street were almost all closed, and no one was doing business at all.
And when their carriage turned to the northeast corner of the city, Li Su suddenly found that this was supposed to be an open space used as a trading market, but now it has become a refugee camp, where countless tattered and simple tents are set up, and one by one unkempt refugees huddle in tents, looking at Li Su and his party with great awe.
Seeing these scenes in front of him, Jin Shengman in the carriage couldn't hold back any longer, and said very coldly: "Your Highness has seen it, these are refugees who have fled back from the front line, and there are some in every city in the rear, especially in Jincheng, where the number of refugees is more than ten times more than here." ”
The reason why Kim Seungman said this to him was nothing more than to blame him for this incident, after all, if he hadn't made a fool of himself, the war between the two countries would have ended a long time ago, and no matter what the victory or defeat, at least there would not be so many refugees in Silla.
After hearing this, Li Su smiled slightly, as if he didn't care, and said: "You and Baekje are not greedy enough, and when we conquered Goguryeo, they embezzled part of Goguryeo's territory, and as a result, the root cause of this war was buried. ”
Lee's retort was also very forceful, and the reason why the conflict between Silla and Baekje broke out was because the balance between the two countries was upset by the newly occupied Goguryeo homeland of the two countries, but of course, this situation was deliberately created by the treacherous and treacherous Li Shimin, in order to cause the conflict between the two countries to break out, so as to reduce the pressure on the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and now it seems to have worked very well.
Jin Shengman couldn't refute Li Su's words, although she also vaguely felt that after occupying Goguryeo's homeland, Datang didn't seem to see it, this reaction was really a bit strange, but it's useless to say this now, in general, because they were too greedy at the beginning.
Seeing that Jin Shengman didn't speak, Li Su didn't keep his mouth shut, but continued to ask: "We turned a few streets just now, but we found that most of the merchants in the city were not open, what is the reason for this, is it also because of the war?" ”
Hearing Li Su knowingly ask, Jin Shengman was angry again, but she also knew that only this hateful guy in front of her could change the miserable status quo of Silla, so she had to endure the anger in her heart and tell the reason.
It turned out that it was true that after nearly a year of war between Silla and Baekje, the domestic supplies had reached a very alarming level, and the merchants in the city did not want to open their doors, but had nothing to sell, because most of the supplies had already been requisitioned, and even if the army could not use them, they could be exchanged for urgently needed food and weapons in Pyongyang or Dengju.
In addition, Kim Seungman also emphasized that there is an extreme shortage of food in Silla, not only the group of refugees in front of them has nothing to eat, but even most of the ordinary people in the city are hungry, and this winter came very early, so ordinary people simply cannot afford to store food for the winter, and even in most areas of Silla, people have begun to starve to death, which is one of the sources of turmoil in Silla.
When he said this, Jin Shengman suddenly sighed, and his attitude towards Li Su became a little softer, and there was even a hint of pleading in his tone: "Your Highness, our Silla has really reached the moment of life and death, if this situation is allowed to break out again, there will definitely be a great famine that will sweep the whole country, and thousands of people will die of cold and starvation this winter, so I ask Your Highness to show mercy and save the people of my Silla!" ”
Kim Seung-man didn't know what was wrong with him, he would show such a weak side in front of Li Su, not only telling the truth and the situation in Silla, but even he couldn't help but shed tears.
In fact, if it weren't for her cousin's persecution on her deathbed, Kim Seungman would not have been willing to sit on the throne from the bottom of her heart, and after becoming the second queen of Silla, she would not only have to deal with the offensive of the Baekje army, but also win over the major forces in the country, and at the same time crack down on those who had doubts about her throne.
Although in the eyes of others, Kim Seungman has done a good job, and can even be said to be an excellent lord, but don't forget, after all, she is only a woman less than twenty years old, and dealing with the current situation in Silla has already made her feel exhausted, not to mention that there is also a Li Su who is secretly making trouble, making the situation in Silla even more difficult to control.
It is precisely because of the above reasons that Jin Shengman, who had no good impression of Li Su, was even more annoyed by him. However, in order to retain a glimmer of hope for Silla, Kim Seung-man still put aside his personal feelings and married Li Su despite the domestic reaction, and also hoped to use Li Su's strength to help Silla survive this unprecedented famine.
Originally, with Jin Shengman's strong character, although he married Li Su, he would never show his weak side in front of the other party, let alone plead with him. But maybe it was after Li Su unexpectedly saved her life last time, which made Jin Shengman's mentality towards Li Su change slightly, so he showed his weak side so abruptly today.
Looking at Jin Shengman's pleading expression, even Wen'er and Hua'er felt a little unbearable, although they hadn't known Jin Shengman for a long time, they also knew that this queen of Silla was an extremely strong person, and she had never asked others for anything, and even when Li Su bullied her, she dared to find a way to return it. But it is such a strong woman, but now she puts down her self-esteem and pleads with Li Su on behalf of the people in her country, which makes them very sympathetic to the same women.
Li Su looked at Jin Shengman, who was crying in front of him for the first time, and then turned his head to look out the window at the refugee camp, when the cold wind blew, from the curtain of the tent that was blown up, he saw some limbs that had been frozen, it seemed that some people had died in the heavy snow.
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