Qu Tutong's face was red and he was panting like an ox, pulling Li Sixing's collar and saying in disbelief: "You...how dare you? How dare you!"
Li Sixing closed his eyes in pain, gritted his teeth, and said tremblingly: "Your Highness has an order, I have to obey..."
Qu Tutong grabbed Li Sixing's collar and dragged Li Sixing into the fire scene.
"There are three hundred thousand shi of grain in there! Three hundred thousand shi of grain, if you eat sparingly, it will be enough for millions of people to survive this cold winter! You are not burning food, you are burning your life!"
Qu Tutong roared at the top of his lungs, "You burned the lives of millions of people! You are more ruthless than that Tu Baiqi! You are more evil than that cannibal Zhu Can!"
Zhu Can was one of the rebel kings who was conquered by Li Shimin. He had a fierce reputation in the Tang Dynasty and was known as the Ogre King.
Li Yuanji's notoriety was not enough in front of him.
Its ferocity has exceeded human cognition.
Qu Tutong said that Li Sixing was worse than Zhu Can, which shows how terrible Li Sixing's action of burning down the Luoyang granary was.
Li Sixing gritted his teeth and held his head away, trying not to look at the fire scene. To Qu Tutong's roar, he could only reply with the same words, "Your Highness has an order, and I have to obey..."
"Your Highness has a kind heart, how could he do such evil things?!"
Qu Tutong picked up Li Sixing in one fell swoop, brought it to his eyes, and roared to question.
After Li Yuanji left Chang'an City, Qu Tutong noticed many of his good deeds.
He did not believe that Li Yuanji would give such an order.
Li Sixing slowly opened his eyes, stared at Qu Tutong and gritted his teeth and said: "Without His Highness's order, do you think I dare to burn down the Luoyang granary?"
Qu Tutong's pupils shrank.
"You...why don't you give me some advice?"
Qu Tutong asked subconsciously, standing there as if he was under a restraining spell.
His head was filled with paste, and he could no longer tell what kind of person Li Yuanji was.
Is he the good man who was kind to the people and wanted to keep them alive even at the cost of a bad name? Or is he the evil man who is so crazy and ordered Li Sixing to burn 300,000 shi of grain?
"why why?!"
Feng Litz rushed to the Luoyang granary, fell off his horse, rolled and crawled and staggered to Li Sixing's side, dragging Li Sixing and asking questions like crazy.
When Li Sixing saw Feng Li, his anger immediately rushed to Tianling Gai.
Li Sixing roared at Feng Li with red eyes, "You still have the nerve to ask me why?! You two came here to steal food, and you came here to cheat food.
What does the food here have to do with you?!
The food here was obtained by His Highness in exchange for his official position in exchange for his notoriety. It was not taxes collected from various places, nor was it seized from thieves?
Why do you covet the food here, and what qualifications do you have to covet the food here?!
It was you who repeatedly coveted the food here and drove His Highness crazy, so His Highness ordered the food here to be burned!"
After Li Sixing said this, he couldn't bear it anymore and punched him.
Amid Li Sixing's questioning, Feng Li lost his previous momentum and lost his mind to think, allowing Li Sixing to use his fists and kicks.
"Evil thief! Why are you forcing him?! He just turned around!"
Qu Tutong roared angrily and joined the ‘battlefield’.
Qu Tutong heard Li Sixing's words very clearly, and he roughly understood the reason.
The reason why Li Yuanji frantically ordered the burning of the Luoyang granary was because he was forced by Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng.
Li Yuanji has obviously changed for the better, why are you forcing him to go back to being a bad person and an even bigger evil person?!
Qu Tutong was very cruel, dragging Feng Li and beating him to death.
The fire in the Luoyang granary, along with their fight, quickly spread throughout Luoyang and beyond, and soon spread to every corner of the Tang Dynasty.
…
Guangfu, the middle hall of the summer palace left by Dou Jiande.
Li Shimin sat on the throne of the main hall of the summer palace with Liu Heitai's buttocks still warm, and was instructing Luo Shixin to replace Wang Junlang and garrison Mingshui City.
A few days ago, he defeated Liu Heitai's generals Liu Shishan and Zhang Junli in Xuhe, killing more than 8,000 people in formation. Liu Heitao's general Li Quhuo in Mingshui City surrendered because of his majesty, and he did not kill him.
He took Mingshui City and sent Wang Junlang and 1,500 cavalry to assist Li Quhuo in garrisoning Mingshui City.
In recent days, Liu Heitai suffered heavy losses on the battlefield in northern Hebei and began to counterattack to the south, with the intention of seizing Mingshui City by force. He was afraid that the Wangjun Gallery would be useless and could not defend Mingshui City, so he planned to send Luo Shixin
Go and garrison Mingshui City.
"Shixin, when we go to Mingshui, remember to stay firmly in Mingshui. Only in this way can we attract all Liu Heitai's troops to Mingshui and gather them to annihilate them."
Li Shimin stared at Luo Shixin and solemnly warned him.
Since Liu Heitai wanted to seize Mingshui City by force, Li Shimin was going to use Mingshui City as the final battlefield, attract all Liu Heitai's troops, and annihilate them in one fell swoop.
"Here!"
Luo Shixin solemnly agreed.
Li Shimin nodded and was about to give another instruction when he saw a cavalryman carrying a letter flag rushing into the middle hall and placing a sealed letter box in front of him.
There were not only Li Shimin and Luo Shixin in the middle hall, but also other generals.
After the cavalryman who delivered the message put down the letterbox, their eyes all fell on the letterbox.
The cavalryman who delivered the letter was carrying a letter flag that was only qualified for the Eight Hundred Miles Express. He could use the Eight Hundred Miles Express letter, so every letter was worthy of attention.
Li Shimin picked up the mailbox and opened it very skillfully.
He took out the letter paper inside and just glanced at it.
"when……"
The letterbox hit the ground, Li Shimin stared, his pupils shrunk to a point.
The expressions of all the generals and commanders in the hall changed.
You know, Li Shimin is the kind of person who can ride his horse through thousands of troops without showing the slightest fear.
Now he looked extremely shocked, obviously he had seen something extraordinary.
Changsun Wuji hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, what happened?"
Li Shimin's mind was a little empty and he ignored Changsun Wuji.
Changsun Wuji asked several more questions, but Li Shimin still ignored him.
After a long time, under the gaze of all the generals in the palace, Li Shimin picked up the letter again with trembling hands, and read it carefully again to confirm that he had read it correctly.
Li Shimin stretched out his hand to support the desk, but it was empty. He stumbled and almost fell on the desk.
Seeing this, all the generals in the palace subconsciously stood up one by one.
They had a bold guess. Could it be that the prince took advantage of Li Shimin's expedition to kill all of Li Shimin's confidants who had stayed in Chang'an City?
Otherwise, why would Li Shimin be so out of sorts?
Changsun Wuji took three steps and two steps at a time, rushed to Li Shimin's side, and held Li Shimin's arm firmly.
Li Shimin felt the power coming from Changsun Wuji's hand and came back to his senses slightly.
"No... no problem..."
Li Shimin said in a daze.
Changsun Wuji did not read the letter in Li Shimin's hand, but looked at Li Shimin and said, "What happened?"
Li Shimin picked up the letter and read it again, his eyes wandering around the generals in the hall.
After a long time, he murmured with a slightly trembling voice, "He...how dare he?"
All the generals in the hall looked at me, and I looked at you, with anxious expressions on their faces, but they were unable to ask further questions.
Changsun Wuji didn't dare to ask any more questions, and just waited quietly.
After waiting for a full stick of incense, Li Shimin finally came to his senses, looked at Changsun Wuji, and said in disbelief: "Yuanji burned down the Luoyang granary..."
Changsun Wuji's pupils shrank, his mouth opened in shock, and he was speechless.
Yu Wenshi and Li Shimin's people stayed in Luoyang City and reported to Li Shimin the situation of the Luoyang granary all the time.
Therefore, most of Li Shimin's confidants knew about the grain storage situation in Luoyang Granary.
Li Yuanji burned the Luoyang granary, which meant that Li Yuanji burned the 300,000 shi of grain stored in it.
That's 300,000 shi of grain, enough to feed millions of people.
Li Yuanji burned it as soon as he said it should be done, but there was no news about it before.
All the generals and commanders in the hall were also shocked and speechless.
No one can accept what Li Yuanji did.
In this era of constant wars and famines, food is more precious than money.
Li Yuanji destroyed 300,000 shi of food in one breath, and no one could accept it.
"Then...what should we do now?"
After a long, long time, I don't know who said something, and everyone in the hall came back to their senses.
You look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to say.
You can scold Li Yuanji, but you won't be able to speak.
Li Shimin has always been thinking about the food in Li Yuanji's hands, which is not a secret in the army.
As soon as Li Yuanji left Luoyang City, he sent people back to burn the Luoyang granary. It was probably Li Shimin who sent people to steal Li Yuanji's grain again. Li Yuanji burned the Luoyang granary in anger.
It was Li Shimin's persistent evil intentions that made Li Yuanji do such a thing, and he can't blame Li Yuanji at all.
Don't scold Li Yuanji, I feel unhappy.
Three hundred thousand shi of grain is enough to feed a million people. How could Li Yuanji do it?!
Li Yuanji is not burning food, Li Yuanji is burning the lives of millions of people!!
"This matter..."
Changsun Wuji spoke with a complicated expression, but after saying two words, he couldn't continue.
He didn't know what to say.
"If he is dissatisfied with me, you can tell me, why don't I go and bear thorns to plead guilty for him? Why does he want to harm the food? Just to gamble on that breath?"
Li Shimin couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that someone would do such a crazy thing just because of gambling.
Changsun Wuji understood Li Shimin's mood very well, and so did all the generals in the palace.
They couldn't believe it either.
But if the people in Luoyang City dare to travel eight hundred miles to send the news urgently, it must be true.
You have to believe it even if you don’t believe it.
"The matter has reached this point. Your Highness can only take a long-term approach."
Changsun Wuji sighed and said something about the wheel.
The Luoyang granary has probably been burned to ashes, so what else can be discussed in the long term?
