Li Sixing subconsciously scratched his hands, then his ears, and said with a faint smile: "I used to have a copper stove to warm my hands, and a fur that could go around my neck. When I was walking by Heyin, I saw two children freezing.
Their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen, so I gave them the things."
Li Yuanji sighed and glared at Li Sixing fiercely.
Li Sixing's good deeds are worthy of praise, but Li Sixing's behavior is not worth promoting.
"You are the chief official sent by the government to rescue refugees. The livelihood of hundreds of thousands of refugees in Luoyang depends on you. If you fall ill, who will rescue the refugees?
Should I go? Or let Yu Wenbao go?"
Li Yuanji stared at Li Sixing and asked.
Before Li Sixing could speak, Li Yuanji said again: "I'm going to Guangfu in Hebei Province to take charge, and I can't get away at all. That killer Yu Wenbao, if you ask him to harm the refugees, he can do it for you."
Tie Tie. If you ask him to help the refugees, he can help you bring disaster to the refugees.
You are the only one in the house who can help the refugees, and only if you go, I can rest assured."
Li Sixing took a deep breath and said frankly: "I know that this move is inappropriate, but I really can't help but watch those four or five-year-old children trembling in front of me."
"Why……"
Li Yuanji sighed, let alone Li Sixing, he would not be able to bear this situation.
The mortality rate of children in the Tang Dynasty was very high. If a child of four or five years old was frozen, there was a possibility of death.
Li Sixing was not pitying them, but saving their lives.
But a copper stove and a piece of fur can only save two people, but cannot save tens of thousands of children among hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Whether those children who lack clothes to keep out the cold can survive this cold winter safely depends entirely on Li Sixing.
Therefore, Li Sixing must protect himself first before he can save more children.
Rather than risking your own safety to save a child or two.
"I'm afraid all the cold-warming clothes and equipment you brought have been given away, right?"
Li Yuanji glanced at Li Sixing and asked angrily.
Li Sixing smiled bitterly and nodded.
He was capable of both literary and military skills, and he also fought on horseback. Not only eighty but not one hundred people died under his hands.
He originally thought that his heart had become as hard as iron, but when he saw those children with bruised noses and swollen faces from the cold and trembling all over, he still couldn't bear it.
He gave one piece to this person and another piece to that person. Clothes and equipment to keep out the cold had already been given away.
Otherwise, if he had just given away a copper stove and a piece of fur to warm his hands, he would not have had sores on his hands and ears from the cold.
People often say that poverty breeds ambition, while wealth breeds conscience.
He thought that probably because he was rich, he had developed a conscience and his heart was not as hard as before.
"There are still some leathers piled up in the Luoyang Palace arsenal. You can go back and take them out, ask the merchants to see if you can change them into cloth and send them to the refugees so that they can be made into clothes to keep out the cold.
Yuan Yi, you should have seen it before. It's not difficult to do it. I'll find someone who can do it to follow you later, and you can teach it to the refugees.
Stuffing the ones with feathers with feathers and stuffing the ones without feathers with some hay can also play a role in keeping out the cold."
Li Yuanji could actually distribute the leathers from the Luoyang Palace arsenal directly to the refugees. The leather coats made from the leathers would be better at keeping out the cold.
However, the number of skins is limited and cannot take care of all refugees.
Only by selling them to merchants and converting them into more low-priced cloth can more refugees be taken care of.
Li Sixing was a little moved. He quickly stood up and saluted Li Yuanji, "Your Highness is kind and kind. I will lead the refugees in Luoyang. Thank you for your life-saving grace."
Li Yuanji not only gave the refugees food, but also gave them clothing to keep out the cold.
Coupled with the housing provided by officials from various places in Luoyang, hundreds of thousands of refugees will definitely be able to survive this cold winter.
Li Yuanji saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees.
Li Yuanji glared at Li Sixing and hummed: "What qualifications do you have to thank me on behalf of the refugees in Luoyang?"
Li Sixing smiled awkwardly, he really didn't have the qualifications.
He is not an order from Luoyang, nor an official from Hebei.
The reason why he went to rescue the refugees was because he was ordered by Li Yuanji.
"The refugees in Luoyang don't need to thank me."
Li Yuanji said something neither salty nor bland.
The refugees were the common people of the Tang Dynasty, and they supported the Li family and became the royal family of the Tang Dynasty.
As a member of the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuanji enjoyed the glory, wealth and power brought to him by the common people. Naturally, he also had to take care of the people's livelihood and care about their life and death.
"When I left the palace, I brought a lot of things to keep out the cold. You can pick out a few of them later. I gave them to you. I will take them back when the master returns to the court.
If you dare to send them out, when you return to Chang'an, I will let you be the inner commander of Wude Palace."
The Neifang Bureau of the Butokuden Hall was modeled after the Prince's Neifang Bureau in the Crown Prince's Palace. In the Neifang Bureau, there was one person, the Neifang Order, who was a eunuch from the fifth rank.
What Li Yuanji meant was that he wanted to castrate Li Sixing and make him the head eunuch of Wude Palace.
The embarrassed smile on Li Sixing's face froze. He felt that Li Yuanji was joking with him, but Li Yuanji didn't look like he was joking with him, so he was a little panicked.
After Li Yuanji frightened Li Sixing, he explained: "I will lead the army to Feixiang in Mingzhou in a while. From now on, you will be solely responsible for the relief of refugees in Luoyang.
Remember, you are the person I sent out to act according to my orders. If anyone dares to obstruct you, there is no need to give them face.
If someone bites you in the nose or face, you don't have to be polite.
I will leave five hundred cavalry at your disposal."
Li Sixing hurriedly bowed to agree, but he heard Li Yuanji solemnly remind him: "Except for the relief of refugees, the food in the Luoyang granary is only allowed in and not allowed out without my order.
Even if my father gives you an edict, you must send someone to inform me first, and then make a decision after my reply arrives."
After being stolen once by Li Shimin, Li Yuanji gained a new understanding of the moral bottom line of Li Shimin, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuan.
Li Shimin stole food in such a way that he was shameless and shameless.
Li Yuan will be even more shameless if he steals food.
Li Yuan's moral bottom line is much lower than Li Shimin's.
Otherwise, he would not have been able to use his position as prince to fool Li Shimin into being stunned.
Li Shimin was in Hebei, and Li Yuanji was about to go to Hebei. With him watching personally, Li Shimin couldn't steal the grain from under his nose.
Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng are far away in Chang'an. If they take advantage of him to go to Hebei and secretly send people to steal food, they really can't keep an eye on him.
Especially Li Yuan, if he uses the airs of an emperor to bully others, no one can resist him.
Li Sixing looked at Li Yuanji in astonishment.
How could a saint be so shameless? Stealing from his own son?
Li Yuanji could see Li Sixing's thoughts through Li Sixing's expression, but he did not explain much.
If Pei Ji heard this explanation, he would never have such a reaction. Pei Ji knew better than Li Sixing how low Li Yuan's moral bottom line was.
"Do you understand what I told you?"
Li Yuanji asked.
Li Sixing hurriedly said: "I understand."
Li Yuanji nodded, "I will leave five hundred iron cavalry and one thousand armors to guard the granary. I will strictly order them to guard the granary and kill any trespassers."
So if you meet those who have evil intentions towards the granary, it's best to keep them away.
I don’t care who is behind them.”
Li Sixing smiled bitterly and said, "It's not as serious as you said."
"hehe……"
Li Yuanji smiled sarcastically and didn't say much.
…
Li Yuanji explained the disaster relief and granary guarding matters, and led a thousand cavalry, two thousand soldiers from the Second Tongjun Army, and two thousand Shaanzhou troops to Hebei.
As soon as he arrived at Gongxian Yi, two letters, one large and one small, were delivered to him.
The big one belongs to Yuwen Shiji, and the small one belongs to Li Sixing.
Yu Wenshiji wrote a lot of colorful things in the letter, which not only looked laborious, but also lacked nutrition. It lasted three or four pages, with the sentence "Redistribute the food obtained by Pingtiao" in the middle.
Li Yuanji thought with his buttocks and knew that this was Li Shimin's stupid idea for Yu Wenshiji. Once he moved, he could no longer control the distribution of grain, so he proposed to redistribute the grain obtained by Pingtiao.
Li Sixing and Yu Wenbao, who he had left in Luoyang City, could not suppress Yuwen Shiji.
Yu Wenshiji couldn't handle him, but he could handle Li Sixing and Yu Wenbao.
Li Sixing wrote a few simple sentences in the letter. The general meaning is that as soon as he left, Feng Li, the general of the Yiwei Chariot and Cavalry under the prince's command, appeared outside Luoyang City with his people. He went straight to the granary and took the
The prince's handwriting asked for food.
He happened to meet Yu Wenbao who was delivering grain to the granary. Yu Wenbao didn't care about Feng Li's identity.
When I heard that Feng Li wanted to carry food without his permission, I immediately brought someone to have a fight with Feng Li.
Although Yu Wenbao lost, he successfully stopped Feng Li outside the granary.
"Are you testing my bottom line? Or are you testing my patience? Or do you think I, as a younger brother, should be bullied by you?"
Li Yuanji sneered.
He ordered people to get pen and ink and wrote a reply to Yu Wenshiji.
The content of the letter is very simple, 'You want to redistribute the grain, right? OK, I will give you 100%, but from now on, everyone in the Qi Palace will no longer be involved in this matter. If you want to play, you can play by yourself.
'.
After finishing the letter to Yu Wenshiji, he wrote a secret letter to Yu Wenbao, briefly explaining the situation.
Finally, he wrote a letter to Li Sixing. The letter said: "Two days from now, the sun will be the best that day. I will order the Luoyang granary that day, and no one will be able to save it."
Li Yuanji wrote the letter and sent someone to deliver it immediately.
…
Three days later.
When the sun was red, Li Sixing was ordered to burn down the Luoyang granary, which contained 300,000 shi of grain, in full view of the public.
For a time, people inside and outside Luoyang were shocked.
Yu Wenshiji stood on the top of Luoyang City, looking at the billowing smoke, and fell to the ground with a pale face.
Feng Li's face was bloodless as he rode towards the Luoyang granary, trembling as he looked at the thick smoke that covered the sky and the sun.