In the past, when there were three pillars of power in the court, there was still some room for survival for people like him who didn't like intrigues or being the first.
Now that the family is the only one in the family, he doesn't even have any living space.
Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu, and Wei Zheng decided in a few words what he needed to do, what he should do, and what he had to do. He didn't even have the slightest room to resist.
Doesn’t this allow people to live?!
Don’t be such a bully!!!
Li Yuanji looked at Li Daozong, who looked more uncomfortable than eating shit. He laughed secretly in his heart, but his face calmly added another anger, "Since you think Daozong is suitable, let Daozong go. As for the adjustment If the guard goes with Daozong, then Xiaogong, Shufang and you two will discuss it with Daozong."
When Li Daozong heard this, his expression became even more ugly.
However, everyone has already decided on this matter, and since he is no match for Li Gang and others, he can only accept his fate.
Who told him that his life was miserable?
He is not as outstanding as Li Xiaogong and cannot stand alone, and he is not as useless as his other brothers. He cannot enjoy wealth and status by lying down like a pig, so he can only let others control him.
Li Yuanji felt relieved when he saw that Li Daozong seemed to accept his fate.
It is indeed appropriate for Li Daozong to do this.
Li Daozong was not only a colleague and comrade-in-arms of Xu Shizong, but also a colleague and comrade-in-arms of Yin Kaishan.
In terms of closeness, he is definitely closer to Yin Kaishan.
After all, he has been the king of the county since he was in charge of the army. The only people who can communicate with him on an equal footing are people like Yin Kaishan who have reached a certain level of official rank and title. Guys like Xu Shizong who are neither above nor below cannot communicate with him on an equal footing. .
With him cooperating with Yin Kaishan's acting, this scene will definitely be wonderful.
After all, the brains of the enemy and ourselves are our own, and the relationship is still very good, so it is natural to get twice the result with half the effort when acting.
I just don’t know if Xu Sejong, who is being played, will be so depressed that he vomits blood after knowing the truth.
As for why Li Daozong was asked to discuss with Li Xiaogong and Xie Shufang to mobilize the soldiers and horses of that guard, it was also for the sake of the subsequent war.
Later, the Tang Dynasty had to face not only the battle to suppress the rebellion in Duji Road, but also the invasion of the Turks. It was already prepared for the sudden appearance of the Turks in Chang'an City.
Li Xiaogong has been selected to lead the army in response to the Turks' invasion.
Xie Shufang is also the candidate who has been selected to guard Chang'an City.
Therefore, of all the soldiers and horses of the Twelve Guards, two of them had to pick them first, and the rest could be given to Li Daozong.
After all, the battle that Li Xiaogong and Xie Shufang will face later is the most critical. Li Daozong is there to paddle, and it doesn't matter whether the troops and horses he leads are strong or not.
The reason why Li Yuanji had to ask someone from the imperial court to lead troops to rush to Duji Road for reinforcements was also to confuse people.
These included those rebels encouraged by Yin Kaishan, several powerful clans in Hebei Province, and the Turks who would later invade the Tang Dynasty.
This was done to prevent those people encouraged by Yin Kaishan from discovering that Yin Kaishan had led them to rebel with a plan. It was also to prevent several powerful people in Hebei Province from discovering that the destruction of the Li family in Zhaozhou was deliberate. The Turks saw that the Tang Dynasty was in chaos, and had to dispatch a large army to suppress it.
As long as those people encouraged by Yin Kaishan firmly believe in Yin Kaishan, everything in Duji Road will be carried out exactly as planned.
As long as the powerful officials in Hebei Province did not discover that the destruction of the Li family in Zhaozhou was intentional, they would have no excuse to attack the imperial court.
As long as the Turks believed that the Tang Dynasty was in chaos and mobilized their elites to suppress the rebellion, the Turks would not be so cautious when invading the Tang Dynasty.
And in matters like war, once you lose caution, you can easily fall into serious trouble.
"Since the matter of mobilizing troops has been decided, let's discuss the matter of mobilizing food and fodder."
After Li Yuanji confirmed that Li Daozong would lead the troops to rush for reinforcements, he spoke again.
Li Xiaogong, Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu, and Wei Zheng almost all frowned.
For the Tang Dynasty, it was easy to mobilize troops, but it was not so easy to mobilize food and grass.
After all, the population of the Tang Dynasty was there, and only a small amount of food could be handed over every year. After all the salaries of hundreds of officials and ten thousand officials, there was not much left.
The Tang Dynasty had been fighting for many years, and there was not much food left to mobilize, and there were even some intentions of Yin eating Mao grain.
Although when the Tang Dynasty conquered Luoyang, it seized from Wang Shichong a large granary left by the former Sui Dynasty. It was filled with grain. There are rumors that the grain in it was enough for the Tang Dynasty for more than ten years. But in this case, It was all Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin who came up with the idea after discussing it to deceive the people.
The former Sui Dynasty left many granaries and a lot of grain. However, during the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, they were all divided up by the rebel kings in various places, and some granaries were also destroyed by the rebel kings.
The Luoyang granary was large enough. Although Wang Shichong consumed some, he also left a lot.
But even so, after a little help with the granaries in other parts of the Tang Dynasty, they were still completely consumed.
It is a joke to say that it will last more than ten years for the Tang Dynasty.
Not to mention how much food the previous Sui Dynasty could accumulate every year, even the expenses incurred by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty in digging canals and conquering Goguryeo were enough to wipe out the wealth of the former Sui Dynasty.
Otherwise, it would not have caused widespread resentment among the people and endless rebellion against the king.
In the face of huge expenses, how much wealth could Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty accumulate even if he imposed exorbitant taxes?
Even if he accumulated a lot of wealth through violent expropriation, it was not enough to rebel against the kings, and it was not enough for the Tang Dynasty to use to provide relief to the world.
After all, in troubled times, ordinary people are being forced to serve as soldiers, or running around for refuge, and there is no way to grow food in peace.
Therefore, in troubled times, the anti-kings basically consumed the wealth of the former Sui Dynasty.
In the troubled times of the late Sui Dynasty, how many people rebelled against the king?
In the novel, it is said to be seventy-two, but in reality it is probably more.
After all, the people who wrote novels probably didn’t even know or heard of some anti-kings who couldn’t get on the stage.
So the amount of food they can consume is quite huge.
With the nobles of the aristocratic families guarding their granaries one by one and watching the clouds rise, even if the former Sui Dynasty left a large family fortune, it would not be enough to rebel against the kings.
Not to mention leaving a large number for Datang to enjoy.
If the family left behind by the former Sui Dynasty was really rich, anti-kings like Zhu Jie would not be able to eat human flesh.
In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, it was impossible to watch Hebei Road become a place with no human habitation for ten miles and no roosters for hundreds of miles.
Although the Tang Dynasty has been deliberately targeting aristocratic families since the founding of the country, the people are innocent.
The common people were also the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Shimin could say that "water can carry a boat but also capsize it." How could he sit back and watch the people die and watch Hebei Province become a place with few people inhabited?
What's more important is that after quietly giving tens of millions of money to the Turks, he still has to tighten his belt and live with his eldest grandson.
If the former Sui Dynasty had left enough food for the Tang Dynasty for more than ten years, would Li Shimin need to do this?
He doesn't want to lose face?
You know, in difficult times, food is worth more than money.
Therefore, it is purely false news that Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin released it in order to calm the people's minds.
When the Tang Dynasty conquered Liu Heita, they discussed raising food for a long time, which just confirmed this point.
In order to take on the important task of raising food, Li Shimin sent his subordinate officers to travel around, which also confirms this point.
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Now the same difficulty has fallen on Li Yuanji, and the difficulties he is about to face are far more serious than when he conquered Liu Heita, so he had to call Li Gang and others together to discuss.
Li Gang and others were well aware of Datang's predicament in terms of food and grass, so when faced with this problem, they didn't know what to say for a moment.
Because they don't have any good ideas.
"If we let various places raise funds, we should be able to raise some food."
After holding it in for a long time, Xiao Yu said such useless nonsense.
Li Yuanji, Li Gang and others didn't even look at Xiao Yu.
During a war, it was inevitable to raise food from various places.
However, various places are in the stage of recuperation and there is not much food available, so it is difficult to raise much food.
So we can’t pin our hopes on all localities.
Wei Zheng frowned and thought for a long time before saying: "How much food can the national treasury provide now?"
Chen Shuda hesitated and said: "More than 100,000 stones..."
Some of the food was confiscated from homes some time ago, otherwise there wouldn't be so much food.
Wei Zheng's brows suddenly furrowed even more tightly, "Isn't this too little? The people in Chang'an City consume more than this amount every ten days."
This is true, because the population of Chang'an City has exceeded 700,000 to 800,000, and is still increasing, and the food consumed every ten days is also a huge number.
During this period, people did not have so much non-staple food, so food consumption was very large.
This is also the reason why people in the Guanzhong area like to use big bowls.
It's not that the people don't want to eat anything else, but that there is nothing else to eat, so they can only fill their stomachs with a full bowl of noodles or other staple foods.
The bowl is too small, so it can’t fill your stomach and you won’t be full.
When Chen Shuda heard Wei Zheng's words, he nodded with a heavy face and said, "The grain merchants do have grain in their hands, but we can't steal it openly. Besides, after the incident in the palace, the grain merchants seem to be I smelled that there was going to be a war, so I started hoarding food crazily, and the price of food also skyrocketed. Now it has skyrocketed to the point where the people can hardly afford food.
If we send people to collect grain or purchase grain, I am afraid that the price of grain will continue to rise, and various grain merchants will hoard grain even more crazily, resulting in a dilemma where the people have no food to eat, or cannot afford food.
By then the people will be busy in the city.
The current city of Chang'an can no longer withstand this kind of trouble, and it cannot afford any more big troubles.
Therefore, the food we can use in Chang'an City is only a hundred thousand dan."
Pei Ju blinked, stroked his beard, and said thoughtfully: "Didn't the summer harvest just happen, and this summer is a big harvest, so how can there be no food?"
Li Gang, Chen Shuda, and Xiao Yu looked at each other and said nothing.
Originally there was food, but something happened in the palace and many people sensed that war might be coming, so they ran out of food.
As for where the food went, everyone knows, but there is no way to say.
Part of the grain collected from the treasury was allocated to pay the officials, part of it was allocated to various yamen for construction projects, and part of it was allocated to help Li Yuan build a mausoleum. The remaining amount was only a few hundred thousand dan. .
Of course, the most fundamental reason for this situation is that this year's summer grain, Shaanxi Province, Duji Province, and the vassal kings in various places have not yet handed over the grain in full.
Otherwise, they had just had a great harvest, and the court would not have been so poor.
However, it was up to Li Yuanji to decide what to do with Shaanxi Province, Duji Province, and the vassal kings in various places who did not turn in food. It was not easy for them to discuss.
Judging from the current situation in the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuanji can only focus on comforting these people and cannot take drastic actions, otherwise they are likely to turn against Li Yuanji.
Therefore, it was hard for them to say anything if they didn't hand over the grain, and it was hard for Li Yuanji to mobilize troops and mobilize people to hold him accountable.
"You don't have to worry about the food needed by Hebei Road and Duji Road. You only need to raise the food needed by Daozong to lead his army to Duji Road, and the food needed by Xiaogong during the subsequent expedition."
When Li Gang and others were all frowning, Li Yuanji got a little help.
After the sea transportation from Luoyang to Dizhou and Dizhou to Jiaozhou was completed, although food was still a problem, it was not a bottleneck.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The worst that can happen is that Feng Zhidai should be treated favorably and Feng Ang can lead his people to rob outside Jiaozhou.
Although it is not profitable to transport grain from Jiaozhou to Dizhou, or even from Dizhou to Luoyang, and you will even lose a lot of money, as long as you can ensure that the food and grass needed by the army can be supplied in time, losing money will be a loss. .
Anyway, in the past year or so, large ships traveling by water and sea have also caught some, so they can afford to pay compensation.
Even though the army that Li Xiaogong would need to lead later was quite large, and it would have to rush to fight in Taiyuan, Yunzhou and other places, the large sea and water transport ships in Hebei Province might not be able to supply it even if they lost a huge amount of money to transport grain.
Therefore, the court still needs to raise funds.
"If this is the case, then I can think of a way."
Chen Shuda said thoughtfully.
As long as they don't need a large amount of grain immediately, they can think of a way to urge the Shaanxi Province officials and feudal princes who have been recruited to hand over the grain as soon as possible.
"Then let King Ren of the City set out with thirty thousand shi of grain, and the remaining grain will be replenished along the way. Later, the ministers will use other methods to supply the grain to various yamen along the way.
If a wealthy official presents a large amount of food and grass, I think he should be rewarded."
After Xiao Yu thought about it for a moment, he slowly spoke.
At the same time, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Pei Ju, Li Gang and others all had an idea in their hearts, that is, the transfer of officials from Shaanxi Province must be done as soon as possible.
There is no need for Li Yuanji to give orders for this kind of thing. As long as they do it directly according to the documents published in the Ministry of Personnel Report during the year-end summary.
At that time, all you need to do is give Li Yuanji a list and Li Yuanji will approve and issue it.
As for the transfer of the vassal princes, that was beyond their control. Li Yuanji had to be the dictator.
But based on their understanding of Li Yuanji, this kind of thing shouldn't take long.
After all, with the tyranny displayed by Li Yuanji, these people would never be allowed to drag the court back.
