This is the first time that Li Qinzai has officially handed over the music as a courtier.

After all, he used to be just a salted fish that had become fine, and he wouldn't write this thing anyway, he was too familiar with Li Zhi, and writing it seemed far away, not to mention...... What can salted fish do? Can't you get the sun from the place where you hang the eaves?

Li Zhi opened the music with great interest, turned his head to the martial arts queen and said with a smile: "Jing Chu is rare to have a play, but I have to take a look at it, I'm afraid I will encounter some difficulties......

Empress Wu showed a somewhat unnatural color.

She didn't forget what Li Qinzai had asked the eunuch to bring to him before he set out to join the state.

Li Zhi wants to protect Mrs. Han, she wants to kill Mrs. Han, two completely different orders, this Li Jingchu may have experienced a lot of struggles.

Empress Wu is even more worried that if Li Qinzai's recital exposes both her and Li Zhi's intentions, Li Zhi may be angry, and as the queen openly opposes the Son of Heaven, the superficial love between husband and wife may not be maintained.

When the song was opened, Li Zhi saw the crooked words on the song at first glance, and immediately gasped.

"Is this ghostwriting from his dog?" Li Zhi subconsciously blurted out.

Empress Wu leaned over to take a look, immediately sneered, covered her mouth and said, "This word...... The concubine finally knew that Li Jingchu was also inferior. ”

Li Zhi laughed happily: "Yes, yes, from this note, I finally know that Li Jingchu is also a mortal in the flesh, otherwise I would still think that he is an omnipotent immortal." ”

After speaking, he pursed his lips in disgust: "This word...... It's really unsightly, unbearable! ”

Endured the strong discomfort, Li Zhi still watched it patiently, and after reading it, his expression suddenly fell into a daze.

Empress Wu's heart tightened, and she hurriedly glanced at Song Shu, and then looked at Li Zhi in surprise.

"Your Majesty, Li Jingchu said...... Mobilize the soldiers of the Folding Mansion? ”

Li Zhi tightened his eyebrows and said: "Jing Chu said that the soldiers will remove their armor and enter the state, open a canal to divert water and build a reservoir instead ......of local conscripts."

Empress Wu immediately grasped the key point of the song, and said softly: "What does Jing Chu mean is to replace labor with soldiers to solve the drought situation in Bingzhou?" ”

Li Zhi snorted and said slowly: "The drought in Bingzhou is more serious than I imagined, Jing Chu said that this year's harvest may be less than 30% of normal years, and the imperial court must be prepared for disaster relief, it is best to issue a decree in advance, exempt the state from taxes, and allocate disaster relief food before the autumn harvest, otherwise there will be countless displaced people who will be lost......

Empress Wu sighed and said: "But Your Majesty, the grain stored in the treasury is not enough, last year's battle with Baekje, coupled with the battle to destroy the Japanese state, has consumed almost all the grain in the treasury, and I am still waiting for the grain in various places to fill the treasury after the autumn harvest this year, but I didn't expect to encounter a drought in the north this year......

Li Zhi showed sadness and sighed: "Yes, this year's drought is not limited to one state, many states and counties in the north have reported, the grain harvest is a foregone conclusion, and the imperial treasury really can't allocate grain relief to merge the state......

Empress Wu pondered for a moment and said, "However, Li Jingchu said that it is a good idea to use the soldiers of the Zhichong Mansion to replace the forced laborers to go to the prefecture to open canals to divert water and build reservoirs...... It's kind of interesting. ”

Li Zhi hesitated: "The army is the army, if they are called to do the work of conscription......

In ancient times, the division of functions of the army was very strict, and the army could only be used for combat, and there were few precedents for using the army to dig ditches in the localities.

It's not that the ruler didn't think about it, how could he not have thought of it when there were tens of thousands of ready-made laborers there?

However, in every disaster year, the risk of local civil unrest will expand indefinitely, and it is a very dangerous thing for the army to remove its armor and enter the local disaster relief area.

Therefore, since ancient times, the imperial court has always been strict and wary of disaster areas, and no one has ever dared to use the army as labor to help the local people survive the disaster.

Whenever the army enters the disaster area, what they do is not disaster relief, but suppression and defense. When the disaster occurred, the imperial court automatically regarded the victims as enemies.

After all, he has come from a thousand years later, and he knows better than anyone the importance of the army, especially in the disaster areas where there is no hope.

The government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty may not be subordinate soldiers and have no sense of serving the people, but as long as the imperial court gives orders and the army can be perfectly executed, it will still be a great help to the people of the state.

There are tens of thousands of ready-made laborers, so why not use them? Datang is now invincible in the world, and the lords of neighboring countries tremble all day long, praying to God and Buddha and praying that the Datang army will not invade, who dares to take the initiative to invade Datang territory?

Since no one dared to invade, the standing army of the Tang Dynasty was in a state of idleness, and tens of thousands of soldiers near the state, what a good labor, why not use it?

Li Zhi groaned, in terms of eloquence and strategy, Li Zhi was still slightly inferior to his father Li Shimin, and his courage was not as good.

Glancing at Empress Wu, Empress Wu also hesitated.

After a long time, Empress Wu said softly: "Your Majesty, Jing Chu's proposal, you might as well give it a try, before the autumn harvest, when the disaster is not serious, if Jing Chu's method can be used, there are also precedents for Datang's future disaster relief that can be used for reference, in general, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages." ”

Li Zhi thought for a while, nodded and said: "Yes, you can give it a try, there is the Ningshuo Governor's Mansion in the north of Bingzhou, with more than 30,000 soldiers, and I will grant Jing Chu the right to transfer troops, and he can be allowed to dispatch on the spot." ”

Empress Wu added: "Your Majesty has not forgotten to allocate money and grain, whether it is to open a canal to divert water, or to provide relief to the victims, a large amount of money and grain is needed. ”

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, then showed a heroic shortness of breath, and said with a wry smile: "The treasury has some surplus money, but the grain is ...... Not really. ”

Empress Wu smiled and said: "Then allocate some silver money to Jing Chu and let him figure out his own way, although there is no grain in the treasury, there is still it among the people, but it is concentrated in the hands of a few powerful landlords, and it depends on whether Jing Chu has the ability to exchange food for relief to the victims." ”

Li Zhi smiled and said: "What the queen said is very true, I will make an order......"

After pondering for a moment, Li Zhi suddenly smiled evilly: "I will prepare a few more Wei tablet scripts, and give them to Jing Chu along with the holy decree, the writing is so ugly, I can finally disgust him once." ”

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and the state city.

Li Qinzai was still dressed as a rich and noble son, and he was wandering around the city with a few subordinates.

There are more than 30 grain shops in the city, and Li Qinzai has been going back and forth between these grain shops in the past few days.

Interestingly, with the catastrophe imminent, more than 30 grain stores were all closed, and a notice was posted outside the store, saying that the grain had been sold out.

The people in the city were not peasant households, they had no land to plant, and the grain stores could not buy food, so the people could only find the government.

This is also the reason why Li Qinzai wandered around the grain shops in the city.

The grain shop was closed, the shopkeeper was missing, and more than 30 grain shops seemed to have been discussed, and not a single person in charge could be found.

After a few days of patient searching, Li Qinzai finally lost his patience.

This is not to take the assassin history as a cadre, is it really a new assassin with a good temper?

Wang Shifu stood beside Li Qinzai, and seeing that Li Qinzai's expression was already a little calm, Wang Shifu was still expressionless and couldn't see joy or anger.

He was pulled out by Li Qinzai, Li Qinzai said what to observe the people's feelings, and then the assassin history of the state city and the No. 1 and No. 2 people walked side by side for a long time.

Standing at the door of a grain store, Li Qinzai pointed to the closed door, and suddenly smiled: "Don't drive the king, more than 30 grain shops in the city are closed, have you ever seen it before?" ”

Wang Shifu said indifferently: "Xia Guan has never seen it, but Xia Guan knows the reason." ”

"What is the reason?"

"After the autumn harvest, the grain hoarded by these grain merchants can be sold at sky-high prices, and now it is not yet the time for the disaster to break out, so they naturally do not want to sell it."

Li Qinzai blinked: "Can the Assassin Mansion manage it?" ”

"It can be managed, but it is easy to cause a backlash from grain merchants, and the consequences may be more serious."

"What will happen to you?"

Wang Shifu thought for a while and said: "If the Assassin Mansion intervenes, it may be able to survive the temporary hardship and the grain can be sold to the people, but most of the grain merchants are unwilling and will quickly transfer the grain to other states and counties." ”

"This year's drought is not only in one state, but also in the whole north, and the grain in the hands of grain merchants is not worried about selling at all. If the grain merchants take away the grain of the state, when the disaster breaks out, the people of the state will not be able to buy it even if they have money, after all, the merchants are profit-seeking, and they will not care whether the people live or die. ”

Li Qinzai's expression became cold: "In this way, I, the assassin, still have to carefully coax those grain merchants?" Is it okay to knock them down? ”

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