Chapter 583 Fuyu City Duo (two in one)
Li Chengqian wanted to talk to Li Er about improving the imperial examination, but before he could speak, Li Er assigned him a task, that is, to immigrate to Northeast China next time. There must be a person with a strong enough identity to shock the various places and must supervise the immigration plan.
So Li Er decided to restore the identity of Prince Li Chengqian, which was unexpected to Li Chengqian. Why was it different from what we discussed before? Isn’t it said that fair competition is what everyone should give to whoever does it well?
In front of the sixth brother Li Yan, Li Er did not shy away at all and explained: "It is true that taking your position is the test. I hope that you brothers and others can have a fair opportunity to compete.
But you also saw that the third brother Li Ke and the fourth brother Li Tai were all implicated because of the disaster. The fifth brother was demoted to the common people. The sixth brother... You say it yourself."
Li Er ordered Li Yan, and Li Yan respectfully saluted his father and brother: "Father, elder brother, Li Yan has been naughty since childhood. Fortunately, he was given guidance from a famous teacher and was a little enlightened, but he knew that his talent and virtue were insufficient. It was already the limit to be able to do a good job in road construction in this life.
I have no intention or ability to take on this important task of the throne. Please give my father and elder brother a clear guide."
Li Er went over comfortably and patted Li Yan on the shoulder and said, "Those who know others are wise, those who know themselves are enlightened. If you have at least 20 years of sleeplessness in the practice of Shu Road, it is no easier than governing a country. Xiao Liu, it will make you suffer."
Li Yan raised his chest and said loudly: "The people in Shu have been waiting for this day for hundreds or thousands of years. They can exchange their children's twenty years for future generations. I think it is worth it!"
"Okay! I am worthy of being my son, I have a genital! I am waiting for my father to see the scenery of my son's reputation in history." Li Er encouraged loudly.
Looking back, he said to Li Chengqian again: "You see, everyone has different choices, and everyone is born with different responsibilities. In the future, your younger brothers are too young and difficult to take on the big responsibility. You, the eldest brother, should take on the responsibility for them."
Li Chengqian gave in: "But my father, it's still unfair to all brothers. This position cannot be just because I was born first, so they have the opportunity. I am the same as my sixth brother. As long as I can do things for the Tang Dynasty, I will not be greedy for power."
Li Er scolded with a stern face: "Damn it!
This is not what you want. People who don’t understand the true intentions only see the power struggle for this position. Those who truly understand the word "world" only see the responsibility and burden.
You don’t want to fight for power and profit, do you just want to escape the responsibility that belongs to our Li royal family?"
"My son, don't dare!" Li Chengqian knelt down and said.
"Since that's the case, then that's it. You are the eldest brother. Everyone has been convinced of the achievements of the past few years. If you give the position of crown prince, you will save a group of boys from worrying about causing trouble.
Lao Liu, please be a witness. All you grew up princes are convinced. In the future, those little guys will fight. That is, they are ignorant and they should be cleaned up. If it is not convenient for your elder brother to take action, remember to help."
"This... is, the child follows the order of his father!" Li Yan answered the order.
Li Chengqian realized something was wrong and asked, "Father, why is it so sudden? Did you discover something? You are upright and prosperous in spring and autumn, and you have time to watch my younger brothers grow up, why..."
His sixth sense was that his father found something, otherwise he would have always looked down on the world, so how could he explain his way out so carefully?
"Haha, life is impermanent. I have been emperor for fifteen years for my father. I don't talk about my physical reasons, but only about this destiny. There are not many people who can be emperor for more than fifteen years in history, so I have to make some arrangements as soon as possible." Li Er sighed.
"Father, don't think so, you..." Li Chengqian and Li Yan both knelt down and begged. Li Er waved his hand to stop him. After this disconnect, Li Chengqian forgot to ask. As for Li Yan, he only felt sad and had no thoughts.
"Okay, get up, you guys come to me and have something to do, who will tell me first?" Li Er pulled up his two sons and asked.
Li Chengqian talked about the difficulties encountered in Changlefang. Li Er pondered for a moment and said, "I have planned this matter for a long time, but there are too many things now and it is not the time to do it. After you get the immigration matter done, the country will be stable and you will be able to have a big stir.
Okay, there is nothing else, just move back to the East Palace, and the court meeting will announce that you will be the crown prince tomorrow."
Well, Li Chengqian felt speechless. He had just moved to the official residence of the Minister of Justice. Now, he hasn't lived there for a day, so he moved to the East Palace immediately? Too many places to live there is also trouble.
Li Yan was left behind. He came to ask Li Er for help and asked someone to build a road.
Li Er thought for a moment and analyzed: "If the Ministry of Works of the Court took the lead, although there was no shortage of people, the progress of the project would inevitably be delayed. After all, the Ministry of Works not only had the task of building roads, but also had to consider hiring people, which was very troublesome.
Why did your brother-in-law tell you? He has no one under him?"
Li Yan said: "My brother-in-law's chamber of commerce is also a time when people are employed, so people cannot be distinguished.
He said, "Father, you have a lot of talents, so..."
Li Er laughed and scolded: "He deliberately rudes, "If he uses it well, he will be full of talents. If he uses it well, he will be a pile of sand, which is incomparable to his orders and prohibitions from the Chamber of Commerce.
OK, he can't give away anyone, but no matter how you say you are his disciple, let him pay for it. If it is expenses from the court, the treasury finances will not be quite rich, and you will share the credit with you..."
"Father, as long as the road can be built, the child will not make any contribution. The contribution is from the father and the court."
"You kid, I don't need my son to flatter you. Moreover, you are my son. You will leave your name in history to highlight your ancestors. It is naturally your contribution." Li Er said proudly.
"My brother-in-law said that he can contribute money to me, but he has no time to be the chief engineer of the North Line. It should be that my father, you can give me a talent who can coordinate the overall situation." Li Yan suggested.
Li Erbiao glanced at his son, "You said it lightly. How many talents can I have with such great talents? And they are all older. Who would be willing to spend the next twenty years on the deep mountains to build roads?"
Li Yan looked at his father awkwardly and didn't say anything. He knew there would be someone to choose.
"There is a man who is a disciple of the great scholar Yu Shinan, named Chu Suiliang, who is both virtuous and capable and has certain construction attainments..."
Before Li Er could finish introducing the article, Li Yan immediately shouted: "Okay, that's him!"
Li Er said in surprise: "You kid, can't it just come for him, right?"
Li Yan smiled sly and said, "Before coming, the child also carefully studied the officials in the court with good reputation. There are indeed a few candidates in his mind. I dare not even think of Chu Suiliang. I thought it was too precious, and you wouldn't be willing to let go of your father..."
"Okay, have you decided to dig my corner?" Li Er couldn't help kicking Li Yan, but his eyes were full of praise. This son finally knew that he had used his brain. Being prepared was better than being reckless and relying on me for everything.
Li Yan quickly ran away, "Thank you for your father's gift, I'm determined, I'll go find him now."
He ran out of the palace in a flash. Li Er looked at his son's back, his eyes full of relief, and he was thinking about his son's future in his heart. Finally, he said to himself, "Grow up quickly, the storm is coming."
Half a month later, Fuyu City, Northeast China received an imperial edict from the court that the food was tight and allowed the people in the Northeast to immigrate to the Central Plains.
The next day, the grain shop of the Dujia Chamber of Commerce in Fuyu City announced that the grain was tight. On the third, fourth, and until the fifth day, the grain shop was closed directly.
This is amazing. If you can’t buy food, how can you survive? Almost on the same day, Fuyu City was surrounded by the people.
The guard ordered the city gate to open, and he carried the officials from Fuyu City together in a cloth suit and walked out of the city gate together.
Following the staff of the Du Family Chamber of Commerce, led by Erhu, they launched a series of carts.
"Didn't you tell us that you will wait for the relief from the Tang Dynasty? What do you say now?" The first guy who rushed up was Aman who brought people to grab food.
Erhu stepped forward to persuade the people who were going to pester the guards and said sadly: "Everyone, the imperial court has no food to transport, so the food here is tight, and I'm afraid that life will be difficult in the future."
"Scammers, you are all liars!" Many people cursed.
The guard took out an imperial edict from his arms and raised it high. Everyone looked at the guard's solemn appearance and stopped making noise and waiting for him to speak.
"Famous people, it's not that the court does not save everyone, but the imperial court's decree to save people has been issued."
"It's all quiet, maybe there's food to come, let's hear what he says..." Many people are maintaining order.
The guards recited the imperial edict, but not many of these people read, and they couldn't understand the imperial edicts with a little elegant wording. Most of them were confused, and a few of them had only a slight understanding of it.
Erhu stood up and explained: "The imperial edict said something. The food in the Tang Dynasty was tight. Although it could support us, if we transported grain from a long distance and had too much loss on the road, the food would be insufficient."
"What are you afraid of? The Central Plains lacks manpower, let's transport grain..." a man shouted.
Erhu really wanted to cover his eyes, and the guard reminded him: "You used to transport grain, just like sending people there to transport grain. It costs a lot of people to eat and chew on the road. You can't just eat or drink all the way, right?"
"We will bear hunger, and we will drive a sheep to serve as food..." Before we finished speaking, the old man around us was hit on the head with a stick. Idiot, isn't this equivalent to changing the sheep you used as food for food? What kind of food relief is needed instead?
"General, do the court have any good countermeasures? You can't watch us starve to death, right? Remember you once said that we are all people in the Tang Dynasty and should be treated equally!"
The guard waved his hand and pressed the people, "Silent, the court's countermeasure is that you all move to the Central Plains, and provide food, drink and life along the way. When you arrive at the hinterland of grain produced in the Central Plains, you will naturally turn into danger.
In this way, the consumption of transporting grain is saved and everyone can survive."
What??? Let us all leave our hometown and all go to the Central Plains? How can this be done? We have been on the grassland for generations...
Yes, we have three breeding sheep in our family...
The crowd immediately became excited.
As expected, the guard general and Erhu looked at each other. Both of them stood so motionless, just looking at the people opposite him and discussing it.
After a long time, I might be tired or wanted something else. Gradually, the voices in the crowd became weaker and everyone looked at the guard.
The guard general said in a deep voice: "I know you are reluctant to leave your hometown, but there is no way to do it. Staying behind will starve to death. When the people are gone, what is the meaning of the hometown?
If you escape to the Central Plains, you can still survive. If you survive, you will be able to return to your hometown one day. If you lose people, you will lose nothing!"
The words of the guards made the scene quiet. At first, the people in the front row became silent when they heard it. Later, the news spread to the back row, and everyone was silent, as quiet as death.
Make a choice between life and death and homeland. Maybe many people say it is easy to choose. Can't you see clearly at a glance?
Those who say this must be bystanders!
When it really falls on your head, even a calm person has to think about it and choose.
After a while, someone finally couldn't help but yelled: "Who would starve to death if he could survive? We only have a family of three, and we would just run away from the famine! Anyway, we were driving the flock everywhere before."
With a bang, the field boiled again, as if a bowl of water was poured into a boiling oil pan, breaking through the psychological defenses of many people in an instant.
At this time, no matter how old or young, they all have a desire to escape, but they all have one common characteristic, that is, they are concerned, and basically they all take their family and don’t want the whole family to starve to death.
This scene is almost the same as the ministers in the Political Consultative Hall had expected. As long as they were concerned, they would survive and die.
On the other hand, the Hu people did not have much peace and relocation complex was also a factor. Unlike the people in the Central Plains, where their ancestors lived here, and the sacrifices of graves, the Hu people were different. They bury the deceased people in different ways, and they were indeed used to living with grass.
Someone asked at the guard general: "We are all Hu people. We fled to the Central Plains and will not be discriminated against, right? What if they all control the food and refuse to give it? Can you guarantee that we will not starve to death in a foreign land?"
This question brought the third silence of the crowd. The guard signaled to Erhu. Erhu waved his hand and the subordinates around him lifted the carts one by one.
Wow...
A scream sounded in the crowd, and everyone's eyes were straightened. It turned out to be a car of money? So much money? What are you going to do?
Erhu walked to the middle and pressed the crowd of people, saying aloud: "These money is all for everyone to be fed."
What??? They were all sent to us? Really?
Everyone exclaimed again, as if they could not believe their ears.
"Wake up, there are so many of us, don't look at the amount of money, but it's not too much to share it with each person." Organic pointed out.
Erhu continued: "Although everyone is fleeing famine, they are not begging for food. The court invested money to everyone. The food and drink along the way did not increase the price. You can use the money they gave to everyone to go all the way to the Central Plains.
Don’t be afraid of not having food or drink. Those who have food want to use the endless food to make money from everyone.”
Chapter completed!