"Go."

Xu Fenglei waved his hand and instructed the guards on the side,

"Get rid of all the Java buyers."

"Yes." The Praetorian Guard answered the order and stepped forward with an indifferent expression.

"Get out! Get out of here, don't stay here! ”

"Hey! If you push the old lady to do something, the old lady can tell you......"

"Get out!"

“…… Hurry up, hurry up, it's someone from the government who is here! ”

“……”

The tooth woman was a little spicy, but when she saw the other party's appearance, she suddenly withered, and was pulled by the man next to her and left the alley in a hurry.

"Don't go, don't go! Two, two, this baby will be sold to you! Don't go......"

"Alas!"

Seeing that the tooth woman had fled and left, the middle-aged man frowned, and couldn't help but sigh heavily.

The thin girl beside him silently lowered her head, trembling.

The buyers were chased away, and the alley fell into a deathly silence, except for a few casual soft weepings.

"In Chang'an City, there is such a purgatory ......"

Wei Zheng couldn't help but say,

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the court should take responsibility and save them."

"Since the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population of the world has decreased sharply, and the first task of the Zhenguan Dynasty is to restore the people's power! And these children are the hope of the country! ”

Li Shimin nodded heavily.

Since his accession to the throne, thousands of palace maids have been released from the palace, and policies have been introduced to encourage childbearing.

This is all to ensure the reproduction of the population, the more people, the greater the strength!

And the vicious incident of trafficking children and selling daughters is obviously a great violation of his policy of governing the country and will never be tolerated!

"Listen, y'all."

Li Shimin looked around and said loudly,

"Now all the children you have sold, and how much they have quoted."

This sentence was like a bomb thrown into a pool of water, blowing up waves and waves!

"Sir, be merciful! This boy is sturdy, only five taels of silver! ”

"Master, two pieces of money, you take her!"

"Three taels, just three taels of silver, my baby is good, you see......"

“……”

Suddenly, the quotations came one after another, and people flocked to the market, selling their own blood like merchants selling goods.

Fang Xuanling took out his handbook and began to record.

The Praetorian guards stopped the crowd so that their "enthusiasm" would not collide with the emperor.

"Can you tell me why you are on this path?"

Li Shimin looked at everyone and couldn't help but say,

"This is your own blood!"

Wei Chigong's temper couldn't help but speak:

"Yes! You inhumane! I can't go on anymore, and I can't sell my sons and daughters! This world is not a war, so it's better to think about what to do and get through the difficult days? ”

Everyone: "......"

This question silenced them, and many people's eyes were already red, but they couldn't shed a single tear.

The tears that should have been shed have long since been drained.

From the reluctance and twisting at the beginning, to the current peddling as if there is no humanity, the mental journey in the middle cannot be told by mouth.

The thick gray in his eyes already told too much.

It was a pair of hopeless, lifeless eyes......

"Wei Chi, don't talk nonsense."

Xu Fenglei sighed,

"They just want to live, there's nothing wrong with that."

Wei Chigong snorted coldly and said:

"If Lao Tzu gets mixed up to this point, he might as well kill himself! It's not very interesting to be alive! ”

Xu Fenglei gave him a blank look.

"If you have the ability to do something, you can naturally live anywhere, but you must know that most people in this world are ordinary people, and they can only rely on the ground to eat! When the fields are gone, what do you tell them to do? ”

He rebuked,

"They are also forced to have no choice, either the whole family starves to death, or they exchange their children for some food, if they are lucky, the children can still find a good family and have enough to eat."

When Wei Chigong heard this, he pursed his lips and said no more.

"Of course......"

Xu Fenglei looked at Li Shimin again, shook his head and sighed,

"Often, these children are bought by people, the men are slaves, the women are prostitutes, and they don't know how they die in the end."

"Your Majesty, the minister also agrees with Duke Wei's words, the people are in trouble, and the court should take action to save the people from fire and water."

At this time, Fang Xuanling also spoke:

"It's done, Your Majesty."

"A total of 41 children, a total of 143 taels."

Li Shimin stood with his hands in his hands.

"41 children, a total of 143 taels, that is...... A child only sells for more than three taels. ”

He said gloomily,

"Is this Zhenguan Dynasty? Is this a time of peace and prosperity? ”

"Ridiculous, ridiculous...... I still think how good my political achievements are, what a good emperor I am...... These two bloody numbers can be regarded as waking me up! ”

I have lived in the temple for a long time, and I don't know the suffering of the people!

"Give them money."

Li Shimin commanded,

"Hear, you asked someone to go to the money bank and exchange them all for the copper coins they use on weekdays."

"Yes." Xu Fenglei answered the order.

The two guards hurried to fetch it, and after a while, they came back with a sack of Kaiyuan Tongbao and shared the money with the people.

"Thank you, thank you, sir!"

"It's already rice in the pot...... Whining...... Son, my mother can't bear to let you ......"

"When you go to the master's house in the future, you have to be obedient, you must be obedient, you know......"

“……”

The people were happy when they saw money, but this was not money...... It's fate!

But at the same time, I couldn't bear it, and I said goodbye to my children......

"Mother...... Woowoo woo ......"

"Dad, I don't want to go, Dad......"

For a while, there was a cry in the alley.

"Don't cry!"

Li Shimin waved his hand and said,

"Child, I bought it and I'll give it back to you!"

"The money I gave you is to let you go home and live a good life!"

"The locust plague and drought will always pass, and if there is a disaster in the future, the tax of the imperial court will be reduced or reduced as appropriate, and you should not do such a thing of selling your children and daughters again!"

The people: "!! ”

"Sir...... Me, did I hear me right? You give us the money and you give us back the children? ”

"Really?"

Li Shimin nodded.

"It's true, you don't have any jokes."

He is right,

"This money will not only be given to you, but also to those who have sold their children, and I will help them redeem their children!"

"If any of you know anyone who has sold his children, tell them all. I'll help you out. ”

Hearing this, the alley popped and fell to its knees!

"Lord Qingtian! The compassionate old man of the blue sky! ”

"I know, I know, Sanniu's family sold a daughter, and I was still crying in the village yesterday......"

"I know ...... too"

“……”

The people finally cried with joy this time, and kept kowtowing to Li Shimin.

"Listen, you can handle this kind of thing well, you can handle it."

Li Shimin couldn't bear to be worshiped anymore, and waved sideways,

"Handle it well, make sure that there are no mistakes, and I want every child to return to their own home!"

"Yes! The minister will definitely do it. Xu Fenglei arched his hand with a solemn expression.

There was a drought and hunger in the Guan, and the people sold more children to receive food and clothing; He edicted the golden silk of the imperial palace to redeem it and return it to his parents. Geng Wu, edict to go to the rain of the year, now the drought, locusts, pardon the world. The edict said: "If the year is abundant, the world is safe, and the disaster is removed, so as to save all nations, it is the wish, and I am willing to do it." "It's raining in the clubhouse, and the people are happy. ——"Information Governance Tongjian"

(End of chapter)