"So? I am not what you hope for, Your Majesty!" Li Yuan turned around and said coldly, copying the whisk he had carefully crafted on the rattan chair. When he swung the whisk, he really had a bit of fairy-like appearance. His eyes looked down at Li Shimin, and his contemptuous eyes flashed from time to time.

When he met for the first time, Li Yuan admitted that he was timid and eased the completely rigid father-son relationship, but when he gave him a date, he should give him a big stick. "One hand, one hand, the other hand, the big stick." He also understood the truth about this, Li Shimin must be beaten.

"I? Father, don't tease the child." Li Shimin smiled bitterly. He also heard about the restless father's monks becoming a monk for Taoism. However, the Li family had already invited me to the ancestral temple. At this time, entering the Taoist sect was like returning to his own home. There was no problem and no loss of points. (In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao and Li in Yayan were homophones, so Li Er was called Li Zi and was also called Lao Zi, so there was no conflict.)

After thinking about it, he continued, "Jade Coral Tree, I have already redeemed it for you. If the palace is not dispatched enough on weekdays, I will tell you that no matter how hard the father is, I cannot let his father be in short supply..."

After saying that, Li Shimin clapped his hands and Wang Zhen walked in from outside, holding something covered with a bright yellow handkerchief in his arms. Where his hands were in contact with the things, he could see the suspicion of the things in his arms. It was indeed the jasper coral tree that Li Yuan pawned a few days ago.

After putting the things on the lacquered wooden table table, Wang Zhen retreated to the door of the warm cabinet.

"Father, I have issued an imperial edict this morning to move the refugees whom I met in the East City and the other 3,000 refugees to Cuihua Mountain to resettle the fields, and divide them into Lantian, Weinan and Gaoling counties for your fief of your father." Li Shimin said.

"What a big tone." Li Yuan felt a little inflated. He sat on the rattan chair and swung the whisk to pull the rattan chair. "Before the secular world, I was also the founding emperor. I gave this world to my son who has not grown up. I divided three counties to serve as a fief for me. I can say it out loud."

"This..." Li Shimin was very scared by this, for fear that Li Yuan would use the whisk to slap him. Even if Li Yuan really slap him, he could not resist. "Father... Emperor, I said it wrong, I should not have made any decision to divide the fiefs for my father. This is my fault. I will go back and ask the Secretariat to seize the imperial edict."

Can you spit it out after swallowing it!?

When Li Yuan heard this, he was anxious. The fiefs of the three counties mean that from then on, the taxes of the three counties would not have to be handed over to the court, but were directly his Supreme Emperor.

At first glance, the taxes in only three counties were ruined, isn’t this abusing him, the emperor? Those founding ministers and other ministers also had a title of one county. One county sounds better than three counties, but that was a false title.

There were at least twenty founding counties in the early Tang Dynasty, and when Qin Shihuang divided the counties and counties in the world, there were only thirty-six counties! It was impossible to give away most of the Tang Dynasty, so at most it was a county, and most of it was a county.

The counties in the Tang Dynasty were divided into seven levels: Chi, Jin, Wang, Tight, Upper, Middle, and Lower. Among the more than 20 counties under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Prefecture, because Chang'an County and Wannian County are in Chang'an City, they are Chi County. There are two such Chi County in Luoyang, but they are one level worse than the two counties in Chang'an City, and it is Chi.

The other counties managed by Jingzhao Prefecture are called Ji County. Don’t be surprised by this. Guanzhong has been a fertile land since ancient times, otherwise Sima Qian would not have said that the four-tenth richest things in the world were in Guanzhong. In the early Tang Dynasty, which had not been vigorously developed in the south, the taxes of the three counties in Jingzhao Prefecture in the Tang Dynasty were top.

Li Yuan's face remained unchanged, and he coughed a few times and said, "Shimin, I understand your hard work. Although there are a fewer counties in the three counties, my situation is much better than those displaced refugees."

"Yes, Father, 200,000 refugees are always pressing on someone's heart. Since discussing peace with the villain Jie Li Khan, someone has not been asleep day and night, and is so worried that he can't eat..." Li Shimin took the opportunity to complain, hoping to tell Li Yuan all the bad things he had done these days to prove that his son was not easy to be the emperor.

"So..." Li Yuan frowned and said, "Although I am a person who is a foreigner, it is always my responsibility to save lives and heal the wounded. For me, the Jade Coral Tree is just an ordinary thing placed in the corner to cover the luster. Instead of letting the treasures be filthy, it is better to use it in useful places... For the people, it is life-saving food. You can entrust the county magistrate to notify the wealthy families in Chang'an to sell the Jade Coral Tree, and all the money obtained is used to help the victims."

But Li Shimin was anxious and was about to sell it as soon as he took it back. He frowned and said, "Father, this matter cannot be done, which really damages the majesty of the royal family. He had already asked Hedong and Jiangnan Road to urgently mobilize grain to Guanzhong to rescue refugees."

"Damn the majesty of the royal family? Joke! After the food from Hedong and Jiangnan Road arrived in Guanzhong, how many victims would starve to death before that?" Li Yuan was angry for the first time. Emperor Taizong of Tang, who loved the people and the bones, said that "water can carry boats, and can also overturn the boats" that the eternal emperor was like this!

The Tang Dynasty was still very fragile and poor in the ninth year of Wude. Emperor Yang of Sui suffered decades of accumulation in the Sui Dynasty, and the rise of war at the end of the Sui Dynasty led to a sharp decline in the country's population. During the Wude period, the population was only 2 million. By the 13th year of Zhenguan, the household registration was restored to 3.04 million.

However, according to statistics, during the Kaihuang period of the Sui Dynasty, there were 8.9 million households.

"Recalling the prosperous days of Kaiyuan, the small town still has thousands of families. The rice is fat and the millet is white, and the public and private warehouses are rich."

The prosperous scene described by Du Fu will have to be slowly restored after more than a hundred years. At this time, the people of the Tang Dynasty still had food and no food at home.

Li Yuan understood that this was the first collision between him and Li Shimin's ideas. Jade and coral trees were priceless. However, in the era when prices soared in the nine years of Wude, there were very few rice and grain exchanges, and only a few hundred people could be saved. But the Eternal Emperor would rather die in the part of the people under his rule than lose the royal majesty, because after all, there were very few hundred people...

But Li Yuan was different. He was just an ordinary family in his previous life and had never encountered famine. However, 1980s and 1990 years ago, many of his grandfather's brothers starved to death during the Republic of China. In the 1980s, there was a severe drought in the area, and only then did his grandparents go out to beg for food, so they barely pulled up his previous generation.

The memories of the post-90s generation are not famine, but... when mentioned that bad days, the older generation still couldn't help but cry...

"It's time to propose it." Li Yuan felt a frustrated in his heart. The 200,000 refugees may die every moment now. Even if it is said that, it's better than being stuck in his stomach.

"Shimin, the Jade Coral Tree can only save a small number of people, but... I have a way to save the 200,000 refugees!"
Chapter completed!