In autumn, there was a bumper harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and the corn harvest was also good.

These high-yield crops, during the period of Emperor Wu, have basically been popularized throughout the country, solving a considerable part of the grain problem. This year, even the locust-stricken areas have had a good harvest.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes are crops that can be used as grains and vegetables, especially potatoes, which can be steamed, boiled, stewed and fried. The high yield and low price make it a lifesaver in a famine year.

Li Longji also secretly praised that she still did some good things without knowing where her aunt collected the crops from. Of course, it would be better if you could hand over all the guards in your hands. The Emperor Taishang has not allowed him to take back his aunt's guards, thinking that it was given to the eldest princess by the Empress Zetian back then, and no one has the right to take it back.

Li Longji also received vermicelli from Luoyang, saying that it was a new product that had just been researched this year, including round, wide, potato flour, and sweet potato flour. Soak and boil, how to cook it is delicious. I also sent a jar of chili powder, saying that it was used to make hot and sour noodles. After eating it once, the Emperor Taishang fell in love with hot and sour noodles completely, and he had to eat them every two days.

The vermicelli and chili noodles of the princess's mansion were quickly promoted from the waterway of Luoyang, the western market of Chang'an, and the postal route of the princess's mansion to the whole country and the Western Regions, Turks, and Goryeo.

Just when Shen Mengxi was developing the economy and the military at the same time, Li Dan died.

Shen Qi rushed directly into the study, "Princess, the emperor has died, and the informant said that he choked to death from eating hot and sour noodles!" Your Majesty has already sent troops to Luoyang to arrest people! ”

The book in Shen Mengxi's hand fell to the ground with a click, and he was stunned for ten seconds.

"You can die if you eat a vermicelli?" She grabbed the rice paper on the case and crumpled it into a ball, "What about them?" ”

"Shen Jiu said that they had been notified separately and retreated according to the established plan."

Shen Mengxi stood up, "Then let's withdraw." ”

It seems that Li Longji has run out of patience, and if he doesn't kill her, he probably won't be in the mood to engage in economic construction.

As soon as the city gate was opened the next day, the forbidden army rushed into the city and rushed to the princess's mansion, breaking down the door, only to find that the palace was empty. The grain storehouses were also empty, as were the case in all three mansions. Rushed to Qingyun Villa again, found a large number of horseshoe prints and footprints towards the east official road, chased for a while, found that the footprints were messy, divided into several directions and scattered, the general had to send people to disperse and chase, while sending a letter back to Chang'an.

Li Longji was furious when he learned about it, "Sure enough, it was a deliberate plot to kill the Emperor!" ”

I wondered in my heart, how could my aunt get the news so quickly and run away so completely in a short period of time? The gates of Fangmen were closed at night, how did they manage to get out of the city quietly? Suddenly thought of something, and immediately ordered the arrest of Xue Chongyin and Xue Chongjian, and found that these two palaces were also empty. Even Di Jingen and Lu Xingzhi fled.

Li Longji was so angry that he smashed the teacup in his hand and pointed at Di Guangyuan, who was kneeling at the bottom of the steps, "Do you dare to say that your son and daughter-in-law are away from home?" Are you a three-year-old kid to be fooled? ”

Di Guangyuan hurriedly defended, "The minister is guilty, the minister really doesn't know when they left home, yesterday morning their husband and wife also asked the minister and the old wife to say goodbye, and at dinner in the evening, the maid went to invite, and said that they were gone!" Then His Majesty sent someone to fetch them, and the minister knew that they were not in the palace. Your Majesty! The old minister doesn't know what the dog has committed, the three generations of the Di family are loyal and good, and the minister guarantees that the dog will never be a traitor, it must be the wicked man's false accusation! When he finished speaking, he fell to the ground and cried.

Li Longji indifferently watched Di Guangyuan singing and fighting, but there was no evidence to prove that the Di family had rebelled, so he had to sigh secretly that it was too hasty. Today, the emperor was in a hurry to eat vermicelli, choked on chili peppers, coughed violently, and suddenly fell to the ground, and the imperial doctor arrived, and there was no life. The imperial doctor said that the emperor went because of a sudden heart disease, but he didn't care, the heart disease was caused by coughing, and the cough was caused by vermicelli! took advantage of this reason to order the arrest of the eldest princess of Taiping. The princess's mansion has cultivated many years of guards, each elite, with one enemy and five, the princess's mansion's property is countless, it is said that the queen's private treasury is also in the hands of the eldest princess, she still has so many industries and food in her hands, and now it is used to fill the vacancy in the treasury, isn't it right.

Who knows, such a surprise attack still made her run away after hearing the news in advance, and what made him most angry was that Cui Jin, who had always been disgusted and hated by Princess Taiping, actually ran away with her whole family! In a hurry, almost no belongings were taken away from the house, only a few hundred soldiers were brought with them.

All these made Li Longji even more determined to get rid of Princess Taiping.

On the second day, there was news that Princess Taiping had murdered the Emperor. The emperor ordered the arrest of Princess Taiping and her children, and confiscated all the properties of Princess Taiping.

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Shen Mengxi made a lot of calculations, but he didn't expect Li Dan to suddenly die.

As long as Li Dan lives, she is basically safe. In history, Li Dan will live for at least another six or seven years, and give her another three years, and everything will be almost ready. Iron smelting and gunpowder were carried out in secret in the cave to avoid people's eyes and ears, and Li Longji now monitored her very strictly, and he did not dare to conduct large-scale military training.

In the past 20 years, he has been in a relationship with his fourth brother, although Li Dan has a cowardly personality, he takes great care of his sister, and in the past two years, he has relied on his protection.

Shen Mengxi silently wore a pearl headdress in his hair, and when he saw the breeze, he couldn't help but shed tears.

They went out of the city from the tunnel of the crawler workshop to Qingyun Villa overnight yesterday, so the suspicious array asked a few groups of servants and maids to run south and east, but she took the main force to the north, preparing to make peace with a few children in Youzhou. Her destination was Hebei Province, which is Liaodong.

In order to catch up with the speed of the post station's announcement, they also ran day and night, and most of the servants let go of their lives and gave silver taels.

Jian Er has traveled around the years, secretly purchased land in the Liaodong region, and deployed troops. This is thanks to Emperor Wu, if it had been earlier, Liaodong would still belong to the territory of Goryeo.