The fish porridge was soon ready, and the group ate the well-seasoned fish porridge with steamed buns, which still tasted delicious, but this joyful mood soon disappeared.

A strange tall man appeared in the place where several people were camping, and said with a little question: "Excuse me, I want to ask everyone if you know how to go to Liujiazhuang, we seem to be lost!" ”

Xie Ziwen saw that this person was one of the people he had found before, and he looked the man up and down while drinking the porridge.

Xiangxin didn't speak, he still had a bad feeling about the strange day, and kicked Xu Dongdao on the side: "Do you know how to go, tell people quickly!" ”

Xu Dongzheng was drinking fish porridge beautifully, and when he heard the satisfactory question, he immediately turned his head to look at the tall man and said, "You will walk about thirty miles in this direction, but there seems to be no one living there, and the village has been deserted!" ”

The tall man seemed to be quite interested, and came over a few steps to look at Xu Dongdao: "I don't know what this brother is called, in Xia Zhao Zhao, he came to Liujiazhuang to find relatives!" ”

Xu Dong looked at this person's polite appearance and was not ambiguous, leaned over and arched his hand: "Hello Brother Zhao, my name is Xu Dong!" ”

Zhao Zhao looked at Xu Dong and said, "Brother, can you tell me more about Liujiazhuang, and the younger brother of the province will run for nothing!" ”

Xu Dong thought for a while before he said: "Then I followed my father to Liujiazhuang a few years ago, at that time it was already a prosperous village by a person, and then I heard that a villager in Liujia Village took in a teenager, and the enemy's family of this young man came and killed the entire village, it seems to be the year before last, but I am also hearsay, I have been preparing for the imperial examination in the past two years, and rarely go out, Your Excellency might as well go and take a look!" ”

Zhao Zhao nodded, and had a general understanding of the situation in Liujiazhuang in his heart, and thanked him: "Thank you, Brother Xu, I'm going to take a look, I'm going to trouble you!" ”

Zhao Zhao said that he was about to leave, but he saw that he was still drinking porridge, so he stopped leaving, and after thinking about it again, Zhao Zhao came over again and said: "This brother, I don't know if it's convenient for you, let's talk a few words with you!" ”

Seeing that Zhao Zhao, who had just left and came back, also had some question marks in his heart, seeing that Xie Ziwen didn't shake his head, he stood up and said, "What's the matter?" If you ask me about Liujia Village, I don't know! ”

Zhao Zhao hurriedly explained: "It's not about this, what I want to ask is what your name is, how old you are, and when is your birthday!" ”

Xiangxin suddenly became vigilant, and even the people with the ten teams and Xie Ziwen moved their eyes from the porridge in their hands to Zhao Zhao, and everyone's hands were on the weapons, after all, the man who suddenly appeared was not so easy to trust.

The scene quieted down suddenly, Zhao Zhao was still nervously waiting for a satisfactory answer, but he saw several people who were satisfied with their hearts and minds putting their hands on their weapons, and immediately explained: "Everyone rest assured that I have no malicious intentions, I am also here to look for relatives in Liujiazhuang on this trip, and I see that this brother is a little familiar, so I came to ask!" ”

Looking at Zhao Zhao with satisfaction, what he said didn't seem to be fake, but he was not a person without a heart, and then thought about it and said, "My name is Chen Xin, I don't know who the relative you are looking for is, brother!" ”

Zhao Zhao's eyes dimmed again, his disappointment was overflowing, and he sighed and said: "Little brother is not the person I am looking for, the distant relative I am looking for is surnamed Yang, I am very sorry to disturb you!" ”

Saying that, Zhao Zhao turned to leave, this time he didn't look back, but disappeared into the forest.

Seeing Zhao Zhao's departure, Xie Ziwen spoke: "There are more than 20 people in their group, let's leave quickly after eating, so as not to get into trouble!" ”

Xie Ziwen's words made the hearts of several people relieved again, and the group hurriedly ate breakfast and cleaned up before embarking on the trip again.

After yesterday's day of horseback riding, I was able to drive the horse through the mountains and forests at this time, although I took the path, but the paths that Xu Dong was looking for were very smooth, and the group quickly crossed several mountains, and the outline of Runzhou City in the distance could also be seen.

Looking at the scenery in front of me, I felt more and more that I would have to come again when this mountain became green.

Over there, Zhao Zhao and his entourage also arrived at Liujiazhuang, at this time Liujiazhuang was completely lifeless, except for the occasional chirping of chickens and birds, there was no trace of cooking smoke in the whole village.

Zhao Zhao and his entourage stood still next to the stone monument at the entrance of the village, and even the sound of breathing stopped, and after a while, Zhao Zhao said to the people in front of him: "Big brother, is it possible that there are still people in this village, after all, you hear that there seems to be a rooster crow in this village!" ”

The man shook his head, as if he was quite confident and said: "There shouldn't be anyone, these roosters should only be left after those people were assassinated, and it's not easy for no one to support themselves for so long!" ”

Zhao Zhao knew that the purpose of this trip was mostly empty at this time, but he still said: "We have found a lot of clues before we are sure that the young master may have stayed in this village, why don't we go and take a look, maybe we can find any clues!" ”

The leader nodded, but he didn't hold out any hope at this point.

There were no rumors of the Liujiazhuang tragedy outside, and even Liujiazhuang's own family members who were working abroad returned to the village to find out about it and reported it to the officials, but there was no news in the end.

From a thriving village to a ghost village uninhabited a year later, only those who experienced it at that time know what happened.

The days that the King of Shu lived during this time were simply dream days, and the feeling that everyone revolving around him was so good that he had forgotten that his own brother had just passed away.

While guarding the spiritual shed for Li Ke, while eating melon seeds, if this situation is seen by Li Shimin, I am afraid that the king of Shu will also be driven back to the station.

However, the king of Shu is not a prodigal, after careful investigation, the king of Shu firmly believes that the king of Wu is not dead, his death is only to do other things in a new identity, maybe this matter has not been told to himself for the time being, but the king of Shu believes that his brother will definitely tell himself.

The prince left Chang'an City, the King of Chu was driven back to the station, the King of Wu died not long ago, and the King of Shu looked like eating, drinking and having fun.

Li Chengqian had only left Chang'an for a day, and the King of Wei immediately returned to the early dynasty and engaged in a war of words with those civil and military generals, and everything was justified and unconvincing.

The quarrel over trivial matters is over, and finally comes to the key thing, for this war with the Turks, the court still has two attitudes, one is war, the other is not fighting, this time those people who are with the mud simply don't speak, after all, Li Shimin has just lost his beloved son, it's better not to make him unhappy.

Gao Shilian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was the first to stand up and said: "Your Majesty, the grain and grass are really insufficient, we did not prepare in advance for this battle to come too quickly, and the disaster in the south was serious last year, so we were able to recover the harvest of the locust plague in previous years, which is really not enough to support us to finish this battle!" ”

Li Shimin glanced at Gao Shilian, knowing that he was afraid that the grain would be levied on his head, how much conscience money he Gao Shilian had taken over the years, Li Shimin was not unclear, but for the sake of face, he did not put these things on the surface, but now that the hatred of the country and the family are piled up, these people are still thinking about the interests of their own family, Li Shimin had to say angrily: "Then take out all the stocks to me, I will fight this war, and I have already sent troops out, who dares to stop and pull it out to cut me, I will do what I say!" ”

Wei Zheng also stood up immediately, this time he did not stop Li Shimin, but said in a timely manner: "Emperor Qiqi, the ministers think that the granaries and governments in various places can take out the grain stored in the second half of the year to share military supplies, this battle is related to the face of my Tang Dynasty, and it is also related to the status of our Tang Dynasty in various feudal states in the future!" You have to beat them, and you have to beat them up! ”

Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng and came to support him, and said with a smile: "That's right, have you forgotten the shame of the Weishui Alliance?" I haven't forgotten, I think about it every day before I go to bed, at that time, Datang was not strong enough so he was forced to the doorstep, but now Datang is different! ”

As soon as King Wei's eyes rolled, he immediately clenched his fists and said loudly: "Datang Wansheng, Datang Wansheng!" ”

The generals would naturally chant along with the voice of King Wei, and there were also many people from King Wei's faction in Wenchen who shouted together: "Tang Wansheng!" ”

Gao Shilian came to Wei Zheng's side and said, "What are you making a fuss about, even if you fight this battle, you can't fight like this!" ”

Wei Zheng didn't look at him and whispered: "Yesterday, the emperor didn't consult with you and me, but found a group of generals, which already shows how determined the emperor is for this war!" ”

Gao Shilian naturally knew Li Shimin's determination for this war, but if the grain stored in the granary for half a year was requisitioned, it was not sure how many granaries would be exposed. ”

Li Shimin nodded, but he was also afraid that too much grain would cause instability in the people's hearts and minds in the matter of grain and grass, seeing that Wei Zheng was so active, Li Shimin then asked: "Zheng Guogong has a high opinion, such a sudden grain collection for half a year, I am afraid that the people's hearts will be unstable!" ”

Gao Shilian also hurriedly said: "What Your Majesty said is yes, the matter of requisitioning grain should be considered more, and the people's will is the most important thing!" ”

Although Wei Zheng didn't know what Gao Shilian's idea was, he could guess it if he thought about it carefully, and Wei Zheng arched his hand and said: "The emperor still remembers potatoes and sweet potatoes!" ”

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart Isn't it going to take two more years for these two things to be popularized on a large scale, what are you doing now to take this matter out, but he also said along with him: "Of course I remember!" ”

Wei Zheng continued: "This is the most suitable time to implement potatoes and sweet potatoes, the people have not yet spring ploughing, if this thing can be popularized within a month, it will definitely be able to achieve the emperor's wish as soon as possible!" ”