The snow has stopped for two days, but this day is a little colder, of course, Princess Mingyue, who is wearing a silver fox robe, doesn't care much about this cold, not only because she has long been accustomed to the winter in the Western Regions, but also because there is a hot pot urgently sent from the field, but she can't suffer it, but people are a little lazy, don't want to move much, and her appetite is much worse, although it has already come time for dinner, Princess Mingyue has no appetite at all, just copy the warm pot, and lean on the head of the bed in her kimono, Silently thinking about my thoughts.

"Mother, mother." Just when Princess Mingyue was thinking about it, a maid rushed in from outside the door in a hurry, and even forgot the rules for asking for instructions before entering the door, and swayed the thick door curtain without a head, and the cold wind immediately poured into the room, making Princess Mingyue tremble.

"Autumn Red." Princess Mingyue has always been responsible for the housework in the backyard of the palace, and she has always been very strict, but at this time, seeing this maid so reckless, she suddenly became angry and scolded with a cold face.

"Ahh Qiu Hong is Princess Mingyue's personal ring, she has always known that Princess Mingyue has big rules, but when she saw her master's face, she suddenly woke up and made a mistake, so she hurriedly stood still, lowered her head, and listened to Princess Mingyue's punishment.

Although Princess Mingyue has been in a bad mood recently, she is not a master who is easily angry with others, and Qiuhong's maiden ring has always won her heart, but she can't bear to be serious, she frowned and swept her eyes at the panicked Qiuhong, and said coldly: "Say, why are you so flustered?" ”

"Your Highness, it's Your Highness who has returned." Qiu Hongsheng was afraid of falling into punishment, so she hurriedly said the news of Li Zhen's return.

"Ah, really?" When Mingyue Gongzhu heard that Li Zhen was back, how could he care about Qiu Hong's careful thoughts, stood up quickly, and walked quickly to the door curtain, but he stood up reservedly, pursed his lips, bit his silver teeth like braided shells, and said in a trembling voice: "Send the order to go down, prepare hot water and dinner for Your Highness, and go quickly." ”

Seeing that Princess Mingyue did not punish her recklessness, Qiu Hong immediately secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stuck out her tongue, and hurriedly answered "yes", and hurriedly withdrew from the door, and went to arrange for related matters without mentioning it.

"He's back, he's finally back." Princess Mingyue stood silently at the door for a while, sighed faintly, walked back to the head of the bed with a changed face, and sat down quietly, but her heart was a little more chaotic because of this......

Emotional, very emotional! I didn't expect it, Li Zhen didn't expect that he would be greeted so ceremoniously - in order not to disturb the people, Li Zhen went to Mingzhou and Anzhou to return to Gaochang City very low-key, except for arriving at the capital town of Anzhou Xicheng (formerly Qiuzi Wangcheng) when he entered the city to rest for a night, all the states and counties he passed through passed through the city without entering, and no one in the entire metropolitan protectorate except Mo Li could know the itinerary of Li Zhen and his party, but just like that, when it was time to enter the city, he was still blocked by the enthusiastic people, and he toasted and kowtowed and knelt to thank him. From the city gate to the Dadu Protector's Mansion in a short distance of more than half an hour, everywhere he went, all the people thanked him, and this scene made Li Zhen feel a lot of emotion in his heart - the people's eyes are bright! I couldn't help but feel secretly proud of my behavior of issuing a disaster relief order in time when I arrived in Mingzhou, but unfortunately this good mood didn't last long - as soon as I returned to the study, after seeing the wry smile on Mo Li's face, Li Zhen knew that trouble was coming!

"Master Strategist, what's the matter, aren't you happy to see this king?" Li Zhenming knew that the trouble that could give Mo Li a headache would not be much smaller, but he still pretended to be indifferent and joked, and then sat down on the chair.

Mo Li has not seen Li Zhen for nearly half a year, but the connection between them through carrier pigeons is very close, and there is no sense of estrangement between Li Zhen and Li Zhen for a long time, seeing Li Zhen's smile, he immediately rolled his eyes angrily and said: "Happy, I should really be happy, His Royal Highness is here, the burden on my shoulders can be unloaded, how can I not be happy." ”

"Hehe, the military advisor wants to pick a son, this king is tired and panicked all the way, he has to rest for a while, this burden, the military advisor bothered, it's good to carry it for a little longer, hahaha......" Li Zhen had the heart to enliven the atmosphere, laughed and talked a few words, and looked at Mo Li and laughed.

"Does Your Highness want to hear good news or bad news first?" smiled and smiled, but as soon as he talked about business, Mo Li immediately became serious, frowned slightly, and asked.

Since Li Zhen left Mingzhou, he has always been in a hurry in the wind and snow, and the contact with Gaochang has been cut off, even when he arrived in Zhenxi City, he only talked with Lin Xiangting, the assassin of Anzhou, for more than half an hour - although Lin Xiangting is also from the Yue Wangfu, but because of his insufficient level, many things Lin Xiangting is not clear, Li Zhen did not talk to him about the court situation, but just asked about the government affairs of Anzhou itself, and comforted him, and sent it away. Eight days of news blockage, at this time, listening to Mo Li said so carefully, his heart moved, and he smiled indifferently: "Good news and bad news are news after all, both left and right are listening, Mr. is free to do so." ”

"Hmm." Mo Li nodded and said: "The first piece of news is this catastrophe, although my Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate is properly rescued, but the losses are still serious, so far, one hundred and twenty-one people have died in Anzhou, and more than 100 people have been injured; Mingzhou killed 217 people and wounded 87; One hundred and twenty people were killed and sixty wounded; 192 people were killed and more than 300 were injured in Yangzhou, 144 people were killed and more than 90 were injured in Hezhou; Yizhou ......" Mo Li said this, paused for a moment before continuing: "Yizhou has more than 1,300 dead and more than 400 injured, and the states have lost countless cattle, sheep and horses. ”

"Huh?" As soon as Li Zhen heard the casualty report, her face suddenly sank - this heavy snow came very suddenly, even if the disaster relief was timely and powerful, it was difficult to endure the power of the sky, and some casualties were inevitable, which Li Zhen could understand, but the appearance of such a large casualty in Yizhou made Li Zhen a little angry, and looked at Mo Li with a gloomy face, and did not say anything to ask.

Mo Li pondered for a moment and said: "This disaster is basically a small tribe of nomadic herders, scattered in various oases in the desert, the incident happened suddenly, and it was impossible to escape back to the state and county in time, and it was difficult for the army to be rescued, and it was even more so in Yizhou, it was not because Chai Zhewei did not respect the order. ”

The topography and topography of Yizhou Li Zhen knows in his heart, except for the oasis where Yiwu City is located, the rest of the oases are not too big, the stars are scattered in the desert, and the grassland at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains is very fragmented because of the topography, since the beginning of the year after the retreat of the Ashina Sero Department over the Tianshan Mountains, the small tribes that served the Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to rise, spread around, and the result of dispersion was to bring great trouble to the rescue work, and encountered a sudden snowstorm without any preparation, The plight of these small tribal herders can be imagined.

"That's it, let's not talk about that." Li Zhen naturally knew that Mo Li's explanation was not because he had any private transactions with Chai Zhewei, but because he was worried that he would be angry and ask Chai Zhewei is question, so he would cause trouble, so he didn't bother to say anything more about this matter, waved his hand, and could be regarded as revealing the matter.

Chai Zhewei has only been in office for more than half a month, but the various decrees of the Dadu Protectorate have always been meticulously implemented, and the cooperation is extremely in place, which is very well understood, and I am really afraid that Li Zhen will take advantage of the heavy snow disaster to find Chai Zhewei's trouble, which will cause a major earthquake in the officialdom of Anxi. According to the news of the 'Yan Ji Firm', most of the grain and grass in Longyou, Shanxi and other places have been mobilized by the imperial court for military use, if you want to transfer grain, I am afraid that you can only start from the south of the Yangtze River, and you will not be able to reach Anxi before June next year, and the war that was originally scheduled to attack the north of the Tianshan Mountains may be postponed. ”

"What's going on over there in the Western Turks?" After rescuing the victims, it will inevitably affect the reserves of military grain and grass, which Li Zhen had already calculated when he ordered the opening of the warehouse to release grain, so after listening to Mo Li's explanation, he didn't pay much attention to it, just frowned and changed the topic.

Mo Li nodded, picked up the feather fan from a few sons, and didn't care about the cold and frozen ground at this time, he shook it up, and said with a smile: "According to the news that the 'Rising Sun' came back yesterday, Ashina Serro and Yibi Lu have made a truce, and each has led troops to retreat, and the tribes belonging to both sides have suffered heavy losses in this heavy snowstorm, and countless cattle and sheep have froze to death, and it may be difficult to support this winter. ”

"Well, it's a necessity." Li Zhen knows that every time the grassland people encounter a catastrophe, they do not want to save themselves by production, but they are trying to annex other tribes or march to the Central Plains to plunder to alleviate their own crisis, and the Western Turks are no exception, but at this time, the Tang Dynasty is extremely strong, and the grassland people dare not go south, so there is only one way to go, and it is obvious that this chaotic hour is the best fighter for the Anxi Tang Army to attack the north of the Tianshan Mountains, but it is a pity that the old man in the Beijing division is stubbornly going to Goguryeo, which not only affects the collection of military rations in Anxi, It is more likely to affect the attack plan of the Anxi Tang Army, after all, although the Tang Dynasty is strong, it is difficult to support the consumption of two-front operations, and Li Zhen is not sure whether he can convince his old man, but at this time, he has not yet figured out the real dynamics in the Jingshi, Li Zhen does not plan to say anything more about this matter, frowning and thinking about it: "This disaster relief has consumed a lot of food and grass, but the people's hearts are closed, in the long run, it is still cost-effective, but this king thinks that from the perspective of this disaster relief process, There are still great deficiencies in the operation of the government, and this king has been thinking about this matter on the way back to Gaochang, and it can be regarded as a slight gain, well, so to speak, this king intends to set up a new institution for disaster relief and poverty relief - Guanghuicang. ”

Specially used to regulate grain prices, grain storage and preparation for famine to supply the government needs of the people's food and set up the granary system appeared in the Warring States Period, by Li Kui in the Wei State of Ping, its overall idea is that the government in the harvest year to buy grain storage, so as not to hurt the peasants, the bad year to sell the stored grain to stabilize the price of grain, when there is a big disaster, according to the instructions of the imperial court to open the warehouse to release grain has been relieved, to the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sang Hongyang developed the above ideas, the creation of the leveling law, relying on a large amount of money and materials in the hands of the government, cheap and expensive to sell to stabilize prices, And formally set up the regular closing system, to the later dynasties, often close when set up and scrap, and not fixed, as for the Tang Dynasty, it was in the second year of Zhenguan to start the replacement, but only in a few states and counties to try, and then in Zhenguan thirteen years forced to promote to the whole country, to the end of Zhenguan sixteen has formed a scale, with a special management agency, under the name of the Ministry of Households, in Anxi also has relevant settings, this time Li Zhen ordered the opening of the granary there is often a closed position.

Although it is good to close the position, but when you really want to use it, the procedures are very cumbersome, and the local officials have no right to order the opening of the warehouse to release the grain, and there must be a holy decree to release it, just take the Anxi disaster as an example - this time Li Zhen ordered the opening of the warehouse without asking for instructions, which is already considered a violation of the rules of heaven, if it were not for the fact that most of the entire official system in Anxi is Li Zhen's descendants, those officials below may not obey Li Zhen's orders that are obviously "chaotic" - according to the regular procedure of the regular closing of the grain should be: when there is a disaster in a certain state, Local officials must report to their immediate superiors as soon as possible, and then travel all the way from the county, prefecture, and province to the central government, and after passing the resolutions of the various ministries of the imperial court, they will report to the emperor. After such a series of procedures, when the grain release begins, the disaster has long been unknown to how serious it is, like Li Zhen, who releases grain without authorization, the light one loses his official position, and the heavy one has to cut off his head if he is not good, it is really extraordinary, of course, Li Zhen is not worried that he will fall into such a field, after all, Li Zhen has just made several great achievements, and he has not filled his own pockets in this disaster relief, the last chapter explained the facts, and by the way, he asked for his guilt, and he could generally pass the test, but well, I am afraid that it is inevitable to be reprimanded, It is even possible to be cut down, but Li Zhen doesn't take those painless punishments to heart, in his opinion, in addition to being able to help the victims, it is not a big deal to be able to win people's hearts, and it is not a big deal for him to be wronged, but it is not good to go on like this, and he can't let himself carry the black pot every time he suffers from the disaster, besides, if officials from all over the world learn to come to such a hand, then the fun is not great? Therefore, Li Zhen hit the idea to Guanghui Cang, which would only appear in the Song Dynasty.

Mo Li is a well-educated person, and he has been mixed in the Guozijian, and he knows the affairs of the court well, so he naturally knows that Chang Ping has major defects in disaster relief, at this time, when he heard Li Zhen say that he wanted to set up a new Guanghui warehouse, the feather fan in his hand immediately couldn't shake, and the solemn look on his face immediately appeared, and he frowned lightly and said: "How to do it?" Although Mo Li's tone is light, but the cautious meaning in his heart is revealed - at this eventful time, more things are better than less, if it is because of the establishment of Guanghuicang and affect the stability of Anxi and even cause the court to look sideways, it is not a very good thing, moreover, in Mo Li's view, the major event in front of him is Li Shimin's personal conquest, at this time to put forward the fold that is easy to cause widespread controversy, it is not a rational move, carelessly, the limelight is big, attracting attacks from all parties, I'm afraid that the consequences are not something that the immature system that the Anxi family has just established can bear, but seeing that Li Zhen is on the rise, Mo Li can't speak out against it.

Li Zhen was originally a sober person, and when he saw Mo Li's face, he knew where his worries were, and immediately laughed and said: "Sir, don't worry too much, this king has never planned to go to the book immediately, but there is such an idea, communicate with Mr. first or two, and it is not too late to play the emperor when he has the convenience in the future." ”

Mo Li saw that Li Zhen saw his thoughts, but he didn't deny it, nodded and said: "This is very good, Your Highness should first talk about how this Guanghuicang is managed." ”

"Hmm." Li Zhen nodded, took a big sip of the tea bowl, and then said with a smile: "This Guanghui warehouse is not difficult to set up, only the states and counties set aside enough official land, the people in the township to cultivate it instead of miscellaneous labor, and the harvested grain into the Guanghui warehouse, this is the main entry ear, secondly, the rich households in the states and counties are voluntarily donated, and third, the money and grain confiscated by the official penalty are also allocated a certain percentage into the warehouse, there are these three sources, when the Guanghui warehouse can be set up, its management system can learn from the standing closing system, but there is a great difference in emphasis, As for the help of the poor, according to the king's will, the local government can make a register of orphans and widows and other old and weak people, and it will be approved by Guanghuicang, and the grain and rice that are allocated and replenished on a monthly basis will be given every three days, or countless people can live. ”

After listening to Li Zhen's explanation, Mo Li pondered it carefully, applauded his hands and said: "Good, if this law can be implemented, it should be able to save the people who are extremely poor, but there are many obstacles, and the setting of systems and regulations must not be careless. ”

"Well, this king thinks the same way, although this law is good, it must be completed before it can be implemented, and it can't be hasty, so this matter will be discussed in advance." Li Zhen nodded in agreement, and then changed the topic and said, "Is there any new news in the Jingshi?" Seeing that Li Zhen asked about the Jingshi, Mo Li did not answer, but took out several secret letters full of words from his big sleeve and handed them to Li Zhen, with a slight bitterness on his face......

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