In the next few days, the days of each day were repeated.

Li Shimin seemed to be back at the battlefield, and he rode his horse and chased his prey every day in jeans. This kind of horse-chasing pleasure made Li Shimin even a little obsessed with it and could not extricate himself. Compared with the numerous official documents in the court, those headache-inducing political affairs and personnel affairs, riding horses and hunting is undoubtedly more refreshing.

Hunting is a lot of harvest every day.

Wild boars, wild deer, deer, deer, deer, bear, tiger, leopard, wolf, even crocodiles, pythons, and various preys. There are really many in the mountains of Junzhou.

While chasing and hunting these wild beasts, Li Shimin felt that he had returned to the battlefield and conquered the enemies. These days, he completely left behind political affairs. Although there were memorials sent in Xiangyang that day, the left-behind Fang Du and the two servants would also be sent to Li Shimin for viewing after disposing of them.

However, Li Shimin was too lazy to see it. He only wanted to relax for a few days now.

He even learned the barbecue technique, and had excellent mastery of the heat, and even the time and amount of cumin and pepper were added very well. He got up at dawn and took the guards to the mountains to hunt in the mountains. At night, he barbecued in the camp and talked about the past battlefield with generals such as Yuchi Gong Hou Junji and other generals.

Wei Zheng and some other ministers could not stand it and advised him several times, but Li Shimin ignored him.

Later, the guards simply refused to let them meet.

Wei Zheng is a stubborn temper. If he can't see the emperor, he will annoy Li Chao.

Because Li Chao's sister Lian'er was engaged to Wei Zheng's son, he had to respectfully call Wei Zheng an uncle. He could not avoid Wei Zheng's entanglement.

Every day, marching and hunting are all difficult for Wei Zheng. He was also a man who broke through in the troubled times of the late Sui Dynasty. He went to and from the battlefield with Li Mi, Dou Jiande, Li Jiancheng and many others. He was not a problem to ride a horse.

After a busy day, he is still very energetic.

As soon as he set off the camp, Wei Zheng ran over again. Li Chao was sitting in front of the tent with a hand saw and saw a freshly cut bamboo. He was a little tired of eating barbecue every day. Li Chao was going to make some bamboo rice.

Bamboo rice is actually quite simple. Cut off a bamboo tube, make a small hole at the end, put it in an appropriate amount of rice and water, hold the hole in the Yezi Village, and then put it in the fire pile and bake it.

When the surface of the bamboo tube is burnt, the rice is cooked.

Use a knife to split the bamboo tube, and the rice is wrapped in a bamboo film. It is soft and delicious, with the fragrance of bamboo and the fragrance of rice. You can even mix the meat directly into the glutinous rice, add some salt and bake it together, and it will be even better if you bake it into fragrant glutinous rice.

Li Chao sawed off a bamboo tube, then made a hole as big as a copper coin at one end, and poured the haired glutinous rice and diced ham into it.

Wei Zheng was also very accustomed to pick up the hand saw and saw a bamboo tube, then made a hole, and then filled the wooden bowl next to him with glutinous grain and diced ham.

Wei Zheng came to pester Li Chao and ate bamboo ham and glutinous rice once, and fell in love with this kind of delicacy. Li Chao even suspected that Wei Zheng came here every day in the name of asking Li Chao to persuade the emperor to handle political affairs, but in fact he came here for free.

"It would be great if ordinary people also had the ability to hunt like the soldiers. Although the mountains are remote, there are many things. There are many birds and beasts, as well as all kinds of wild vegetables and roots. It has only been ten days since Xiangyang. I feel that I have gained weight. I eat meat every day and have to eat a meal at night. Well, I have too much weight in autumn."

Seeing Wei Zheng talking nonsense there, Li Chao didn't even ask him to talk to him.

When I didn't know Wei Zheng before, Li Chao always thought that Wei Zheng was the kind of person who was Hai Rui and Bao Gongshi. However, after being in contact for a long time, Li Chao thought that Wei Zheng was a very cunning old man. Or he could not be described as an old man. In fact, he was quite young. However, although Wei Zheng was upright, he was never pedantic and very smart guy, and he was very good at speaking and doing things.

"Ordinary people do not have the ability to hunt. When they come to this deep mountain forest, they will not only not be able to catch prey, but may also become food in the belly of beasts. They may even lose their way and be injured by poisonous insects and beasts."

The court now calls on the people to find ways to dig wild vegetables, fish and hunt. All regions have also organized young and strong people to go to the mountains to hunt, but they dare not go too deep. Ordinary people are not the soldiers of the palace. The soldiers of the palace have been specially trained, and they are not as good as their skills or equipment. They are all very good, and they have good commands. How can ordinary people have this?

Not to mention tigers and wolves, they may not be able to deal with them even when encountering a fierce wild boar.

Although the soldiers of the palace are very rewarding to hunt every day, who are these people? The harvest is actually limited if ordinary people go to the mountains to hunt. Dozens or hundreds of people can catch one or two wild boars and get a few rabbits in a day, or if they are lucky enough to shoot a few deer. That is very good.

"When will Your Majesty return to Xiangyang?" Wei Zheng blocked the bamboo tube and put it on the fire.

"In a few days, at most half a month. Your Majesty is not the absurd king who hunts and sports and ignores government affairs. But now it is really under great pressure. This time I find it difficult to come out, so I want to relax. Your Majesty has very good self-control and will go back when it is almost done. In fact, you don't have to worry, the situation in the court is still very good now."

"It's very good, there are disaster victims everywhere." Wei Zheng said bluntly.

"It is true that many people who were affected by the disaster, but how many people died? The relief efforts of the court and the effects of the disaster relief are unprecedented, right? Even when the Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty was known as a prosperous era, it seems that they have not achieved the current relief efforts, right? Now, at least everyone still has food to eat. Although they are not full, at least they still have houses and food to eat, so they don't have to be displaced and worry about being afraid."

Wei Zheng nodded, "This is indeed the disaster is very serious this time, but the court has truly achieved the ultimate goal and saved countless victims. Speaking of which, Wen Yuan has made great contributions."

"Farages often occur, but they are not terrible. What is terrible is that after the famine, local officials refused to report the disaster situation in time, or even concealed it, which led to the court's inability to grasp the real situation in the disaster area in time and make wrong judgments. The second is the court's disposal. This time, the court promptly transferred grain into the disaster area, and vigorously controlled the supply of grain. In addition, grain processing as a relief grain, limited food can allow more people to have food to eat. After several measures of immigration and labor-for-relief, it can be said that the outbreak of famine caused by the disaster has greatly reduced."

Wei Zheng smiled, "Do you know, now those big families secretly call you Li Yanwang, and some even call you Li Bapi."

"Of course I know this, but I don't care."

Many of the disaster relief strategies led by Li Chao violated the interests of local big investors, but Li Chao didn't care. If you want to do something practical, you should not be afraid of your hands.

He did harm the interests of some wealthy families, but in fact he didn't violate much. From the overall perspective, what Li Chao did was in exchange for stability. A stability actually has great benefits for everyone.

"I admire you very much when doing things for the people." Wei Zheng said seriously, "However, the court and the court bought so much food this time, now it's mostly made white slips. After the disaster is over, why will the court pay back?"

"As long as the disaster can be overcome smoothly, are those things still a matter?"

It is indeed a matter of owe the big investors, but Li Chao doesn't care much about it.

The court can give these people some land on the border, or give them tax exemptions, etc. In short, this is not a big problem.

After breaking a few dead branches and throwing them into the fire, Wei Zheng said to Li Chao, "This time the imperial court used your method to search out tens of millions of people, which is really shocking."

If Buddhist temples were cleaned up and rectified, the population of the Tang Dynasty would more than double within a year.

"The Sui Dynasty lasted for more than ten years, and the number of people who died in war was not too large. At the time of Daye, the population of the world was nearly 50 million, which was still the official number of people, and most of them were not registered. It turned out that the number of people in the court was only 15 million, so how could the population in the world be lost in more than ten years? It was just because of the war, most of them became hidden households and escaped. Even if they increased by about 10 million now, the population of the Tang Dynasty was only 30 million, and the population was still 20 million different from the time of Daye. If the hidden households were added, they were only half of the population in the Daye period."

This time, a lot of people were indeed cleared out, but Li Chao estimated that there were still many people who had not yet produced it.

Conservatively estimated that at least 10 or 20 million people still have not been cleared.

Those aristocratic families, all the population of any family was cleared out, but only some were released. Even some powerful families did not let go of anyone at all this time.

Some even took the opportunity to add some people.

But even so, in less than a year, the imperial court added more than 10 million new people to naturalize, and the registered population doubled.

"How to resettle so many people after the disaster? Let them return home?"

"Of course it is impossible. After finally clearing it out, how could it be possible to let them return to the control of the big households? The court will distribute these people to them, give them land, and make them the ministers of the court, and become the cornerstone of the Tang Dynasty's power."

"How can there be so many places in the world to divide?" Wei Zheng asked, "Even if it is Shuofang and Longyou, there is no place to divide, right?"

"There are also Hetao and Hexi, and many immigrants can be relocated and reclaimed for land development."

"And Daibei."

Wei Zheng shook his head, "These places are not fertile places, and they can't accommodate many people."

Li Chao smiled and said that it was not enough to immigrate to the north, but he never thought of moving more than 10 million people to the northern border. In addition to the north, there is also the south. Not to mention developing Lingnan now, at least we can develop Shandong, at least we can develop Shandong, south and south.

It was just Hunan and Hubei, but later generations became a large granary to replace Susong, Jiangnan.

Huguang is familiar with everything, and the world is full!

Li Chao persuaded Li Shimin to move the capital to Dengzhou, but he came to develop Shannan.

The three roads in the east of Shandong, Jiangnan West of Jiangnan, and Qianzhong Road are equivalent to most of the later generations of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and Sichuan. They are only the Jianghan Plain in the Yangtze River and Han River Basin. They are very amazing when they are developed.

Many places have not been developed yet, and they are still the main ones of the local barbarians. As long as the imperial court immigrated, they can still make great achievements as long as they immigrate, divide the land and lead the development.

When Wei Zheng heard about Jiang Han, he became more and more impressed. Li Chao's heart was really big.

"By the way, I plan to wait for the New Year to let Shuyu marry Ling Mei." Wei Zheng said suddenly.

Li Chao was a little caught off guard, "It's too early. My sister is only thirteen this year."

"Thirteen, it's not too young anymore. Tian Kui must have arrived and can pass the door."

Tiankui, you Mr. Wei, you don’t know how to mention this, Tiankui, that’s the girls’ aunt. You are Lian’er’s future father-in-law, and I am her elder brother. Did you and I bring Lian’er’s aunt to me? Is this appropriate?

Wei Zheng was stared at by Li Chao, and he felt a little confused. Did he say something wrong?

There is a standard for whether girls can get married in this era, that is, whether Tiankui comes or not. Having Tiankui means that they can have children, which naturally means that they are mature and of course they can get married.
Chapter completed!