When Li Shimin heard this, he was stunned, yes, although the Northern Expedition was victorious, this battle almost wiped out the Tang Dynasty's family background.

In addition, so many victims have returned from the battlefield, and now there are people everywhere who want to eat, money and food with their mouths open......

Thinking of this, Li Shimin's old face couldn't help but panic, but fortunately, he only thought about the draft in his heart, and no one noticed it yet.

He comforted himself a little in his heart, calmed down slightly, and expelled these strange and chaotic thoughts from his mind.

After putting aside the messy thoughts in his mind, Li Shimin turned his eyes and turned his gaze to Dai Zhou: "Dai Qing's family, how much food is there in our store, and how big the gap is, you can tell me the details." ”

"The specific details have been prepared into excerpts, Your Majesty, please take a look." Dai Xuan didn't say much, he took out a fold directly from his sleeve and handed it to Li Shimin.

The previous Hubu Shangshu was the eldest grandson Wuji, but after the victory in the North Road, the eldest grandson Wuji, the grain and grass official, ended smoothly, Li Shimin transferred him to the Ministry of Officials and let him take over the Ministry of Officials, and Dai Zhou was transferred from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the post of Household Secretary.

After Li Shimin took it and read it, a pair of thick eyebrows suddenly tightened tightly, after the victory of the North Road, he knew that the next personnel placement would be a big problem.

For this reason, it took more than half a month to discuss with the courtiers before finalizing the plan. But the plan was decided, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult to implement.

Regarding the resettlement of personnel, Li Shimin chose the diversion method, and the territory of Datang is so large, it is not a big problem to accept these 100,000 displaced people.

The difficulty is how to properly settle them, and after these people are received, they have to arrange for them, fields, food, and so on.

The fields are just that, Datang is now vast and sparsely populated, and there are a lot of places that can be cultivated.

But it costs money to build a house and food to eat, and now Li Shimin is in short supply of these.

When Gaozu was proclaimed emperor in Chang'an, the wealth accumulated in Chang'an City in the Sui Dynasty was attributed to Li Tang.

Later, Li Shimin conquered Luoyang, and also brought back countless property for the country, and now he has defeated the Turks and cleared the other party's royal court, which naturally yields a lot of money.

But although the Tang Dynasty has obtained a lot of money, the capital is too large, and after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, countless titles were sealed, all of which were to give money to Tian......

In addition, the country has been fighting wars, and the investment is amazing, and now most of the officials and officials of the court are mainly cloth, silk, rice, and grain, and they rarely have the opportunity to receive money......

For this reason, as long as it involves money and food, Li Shimin is the first and the second, and the Northern Expedition, a war that lasted for half a year, really consumed too much money and grain.

Now there is no grain to be levied in the hands of ordinary people, and ordinary people have no grain in their hands, so they can only take it from the hands of large households.

Not long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were countless nobles in the family, except for a few upstarts who rose with the establishment of Li Tang, most of these families were inherited for generations or even thousands of years.

These families are intertwined and flourishing, and if the money and food in their hands are concentrated, they are afraid that they will be much more than the treasury.

It's just that these people are used to being high, and they don't have any thoughts of worrying about the court in their hearts.

They refused to take the initiative, Li Shimin naturally only had the initiative himself, at the end of last year, he had already asked Wen Yanbo and Hou Junji to go to the requisition once, and the big households in Guanzhong were almost scraped off by him.

He also sent a summons to the local government, asking all localities to collect some money and grain from the local big merchants as much as possible.

However, there was no local supervision, and the official did not want to offend the local heroes, so they did things perfunctorily, and the results were obviously far from being comparable with those in the capital.

Several months have passed since the summons, but the food that has been transferred from all parts of the country is pitiful.

This part of Guanzhong, after experiencing the fire at the end of last year, can no longer be levied. However, there are so many state capitals, counties and counties in Datang, and there are many large households with money and grain, and it is not difficult to requisition some grain, but it is just that the local officials do not want to offend people.

Li Shimin twisted his eyebrows and thought for a while, and finally decided to send the Qin messenger to supervise the collection of grain, in order to avoid the local officials from shirking, the Qin messenger he sent was a combination of civil and military matching, that is, each team of Qin was mainly civilian officials, and then equipped with a military general to assist, and with a guard.

There is only one intention, that is, without provoking a large-scale resistance, so that they must requisition the grain back regardless of the cost.

Otherwise, there are so many mouths in the court waiting to eat, if everyone has no food to enter, there will be a big incident.

After Li Shimin made this decision, he did not consult with the prime ministers, and directly promulgated the decree at the court meeting the next day.

In addition to sending six teams to oversee the grain, it was also emphasized in the holy decree that it was forbidden to collect food from the poor people who were already hungry.

Li Shimin also knew that if this decree continued, it was destined to offend many powerful people in the world, but he was not afraid, with the foundation of the Northern Expedition here, as long as he did not force the people of the world to live, no one would dare to have any dissenting intentions.

The ministers were all taken aback when they suddenly heard this holy decree from him, and some conservative ministers subconsciously wanted to stand up and stop it, after all, the emperor's simple and rude approach was likely to provoke a joint resistance from the whole world.

But when their eyes met Li Shimin, they shrank back when they slipped to their mouths, the current majesty is no longer the previous majesty, once he really makes up his mind to do something, no one can stop him.

In this way, this decree was smoothly promulgated, and suitable candidates for the imperial mission were quickly selected, and after these people were selected, the emperor was on the side to supervise, and naturally no one dared to delay, and everyone soon set off non-stop.

After all the Qin sent out of Beijing, Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji came to Li Shimin's imperial study.

"Xuan Ling, auxiliary machine, what is the matter with you coming to me?" When Li Shimin saw them, he put down the pen in his hand and spoke.

"It's not a big deal, I just want to talk to Your Majesty, in the future, for such a big event, Your Majesty will also talk to the ministers in advance, so that we can be prepared." Fang Xuanling said with a wry smile.

"This matter, I can't rub it off, if I really take it to the court to discuss, I'm afraid that there will be no results in ten days and half a month, but now there are mouths open everywhere to eat, how can I have the time to wait."

"You don't have to worry, although this method is a little rough, it can't cause any trouble, the people I sent out are all measured people, and the excess grain in the hands of those big families is also levied, instead of letting them go bankrupt and let them have no food to eat."

"By the way, you two shouldn't have come here specifically for this purpose, right? Hurry up and say everything together, don't bother. Li Shimin waved his hand.

"It's not anything else important, we came to Your Majesty to report to Your Majesty about the internal relocation of the Hu people." Fang Xuanling and Eldest Sun Wuji glanced at each other and spoke.