Chapter 572: I, Li Chao, Resigned
In the south of Chang'an City, there are abandoned yards. There are some shanty towns scattered there, and next to them are vegetable fields.
"Is this your home?"
Li Xiuning looked at the low shed and said incredible.
"Yes, we have lived here for more than a year." Xu En's eldest daughter replied.
Li Chao was not very surprised.
Although Chang'an was large, it was not easy to live. Emperor Wen of Sui abandoned Chang'an City in Han Dynasty to build a new Daxing City, and then changed it to Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. This capital only had a history of decades.
It was not until about ten years ago that the outer walls of Chang'an City were all completed. But until today, the 109 yards of Chang'an City are still not fully occupied.
The design idea of Chang'an City is to accommodate a population of one million. Each yard can accommodate no less than two thousand households and more than ten thousand people.
But in fact, many houses only live in a few hundred households, and some even transformed into Buddhist temples. The south of the city has always been a remote place, and many houses do not even have a population of hundreds. The southernmost houses have not even a person guarding the house at night, and they are completely empty houses. This place has long been reduced to vegetable fields and grain fields. If it weren't for the walls outside, it would be no different from outside the city.
At night, it was pitch black.
"A kind-hearted person gave us this shed to see the vegetable field. I will come back here to stay in the evening and help him see the vegetable field. He doesn't charge me money, and he will also give me some vegetables." Xu En sighed. If the kind-hearted person hadn't taken in, their family would have starved to death long ago.
"Pack up your stuff and follow us."
“Where to go?”
"Go to a place that can help your wife treat her illness, let your children wear clean clothes and have a full meal, and have a warm and safe home."
At this time, Li Xiuning said directly, "The person in front of you is the prime minister of the current dynasty, Duke Zhao Li Sanlang."
Xu Eng's mouth widened unexpectedly.
"I have seen Li Xiangguo from afar. He is a dashing and romantic man." Xu Zeng's eyes were a little wary. It is somewhat doubtful whether this person is kind-hearted.
"I'm really Li Chao."
"Thank you for your kindness to save me just now, but please don't pretend to be Li's Prime Minister. Duke Li is a good person." Xu En retreated twice, protecting his daughters behind him.
Li Chao had no choice but tore off his beard and wiped his face clean with a cloth.
"Look at it again, do I look a little like Li Chao now?"
"It's a bit like it. I just saw it from a distance." Xu En replied.
"What's a bit like? I'm Li Chao. I'll take you to Bashang now. When you get there, you can always believe it. People from Bashang will never admit their mistakes, right?"
Bringing people back to Bashang is the best solution.
Giving money, food and clothing is not enough, so you have to give them work and life.
Xu En felt that all this was the same as dreams.
"Why did that white-faced young man leave?"
"He has something else at home."
When the people of Li Town saw Li Chao coming home alone and brought back several beggars, they couldn't help but watch curiously.
"Butler, send your family to take a shower first. Remember to give them soap and shampoo, wash their hair well, throw away the clothes, burn them, and prepare new clothes for them."
"Yes, Prime Minister." The housekeeper replied with a smile.
"You go to bathe and change clothes first. I will send someone to invite the doctor to come. Your wife will just check and ask for a consultation later."
Xu En entered the Li family and saw the servants in the prime minister's country's respectful look towards Li Chao, he completely believed in Li Chao's identity.
"Thank you, Prime Minister. I want to accompany my wife to wait for the doctor here first."
"Don't rush to take a shower and change your clothes, and take it step by step."
"Thank you, Prime Minister."
For a poor man, especially for someone like Xu En, although he had ideals and ambitions, the meaning of life now has only become the simplest thing to live.
Living is life.
No more ideals or ambitions. The greatest ideal and ambition is to live, let your wife live, and let your children live.
Xu Enk took his wife to kneel down for Li Chao.
This is a man with iron sturdyness. Life did not knock him down, and the difficulties did not make him bend his knees, but at this moment, he knelt down to Li Chao.
Li Chao helped him up.
"You don't have to kneel down, you don't have to be grateful to me. As the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty court, I was also the Jingzhao Yin Yin, and I once served as the Minister of War. I made a veteran, a disabled veteran live such a difficult life. This is my dereliction of duty as the Minister of War. I made a disabled citizen, helpless, bullied by local gangsters, and unable to get rescue from the government. This is my dereliction of duty as the Jingzhao Yin Yin."
"I have made a veteran who has been through life and death for the world and bleeds, and left a disabled veteran without any support. This is my serious dereliction of duty as prime minister."
"Today, I should apologize to you, not thank you. I just did what I should have done long ago. Brother Xu, I hope it's not too late today, I hope you can forgive me!"
Xu En was surprised. He never expected that the prime minister would say such a thing.
"The Prime Minister, I'll kill the younger ones."
When the servants asked them to take their husbands to bathe, Li Chao called the butler.
"Xu En was also a son of a general, and he also learned martial arts and literature. The most rare thing is that he was a strong man. From now on, he would keep him at home and be the head of a servant team, and let him lead the servant team."
First, a disabled person who had a hand and broke one leg, was the head of the Li family in Bashang. This decision was surprising.
But Li Chao's words made no one objected to him. Everyone should respect such a tough guy.
"Those two children, arrange to go to the kitchen to learn cooking, follow Qiu Yue and Dongqing to learn, let them recover slowly, and let them learn to calculate literacy, and spend money on pen, ink, paper, etc. at home."
"Create a doctor to Xu En's wife and use whatever medicine you want."
After Li Chao arranged these things, Yu Zhining came to Bashang in person.
"Dayin, I'm dereliction of duty at work." Yu Zhining apologized to Li Chao on his own initiative.
"This is not your own problem, I have a problem. I have never discovered and solved this problem since I was the beginning. I shouldn't have it." Li Chao said.
"I have already told the general of the Central Army of the Left and Right Yi Mansion, the street envoy, and the patrol envoy, to mobilize everyone, and to launch a net-pull operation in Chang'an, capturing all the lonely rats in the city."
Li Chao just asked lightly after hearing this, "What are you going to do if you catch someone?"
"Master, how do you deal with these people?"
"It's very simple. There are people everywhere, people who farm for the country, people who fight for the country, people who guard the border, and people who build roads and bridges. People who dig minerals are short of people everywhere." Li Chao said to Zhining.
Chapter completed!