Changsun Wuji took the lead, and all the generals in the palace also spoke out to persuade him.
But Li Shimin didn't speak or look at them, as if he didn't hear what they said.
Seeing this, Changsun Wuji winked at the others in the hall and prepared to lead everyone away.
In Li Shimin's current situation, he probably needs some quiet time alone.
Changsun Wuji retreated to the side of the table. Just as he was about to leave, he heard Li Shimin suddenly speak, "Where is Yuanji now?"
Changsun Wuji was stunned for a moment and quickly looked at the four counselors at the end of the hall.
Xingcan, also called Xingcanjun, is an official of the royal palace, an official position from the eighth rank.
The four traveling counselors felt Changsun Wuji's gaze. One of them stepped out and bowed: "Go back to Your Highness, Your Highness King Qi has already arrived at Anyang in Xiangzhou and will arrive here soon."
Li Shimin ordered with no expression on his face, "Send someone to urge him to get here as soon as possible."
Xing Shen hurriedly said: "Here!"
Changsun Wuji and others, look at me and I will look at you.
They felt that Li Shimin probably wanted to talk to Li Yuanji, but he still could not accept Li Yuanji's burning of the Luoyang granary.
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Xiangzhou, Anyang, Anyangyi.
Li Yuanji sat on a chair in the big room of the post station, and Qu Tutong, who was sitting at the bottom, looked at me with big eyes and small eyes.
Just half an hour ago, Qu Tutong and three followers rode over from the direction of Luoyang on fast horses.
Qu Tutong was traveling day and night. He looked a lot sluggish and his eyes were bloodshot. After seeing Li Yuanji, he stumbled off his horse, rushed to Li Yuanji and asked.
"How could His Highness do this?"
Seeing Qu Tutong on the verge of madness, Li Yuanji realized that he seemed to have gone too far, but he had no regrets.
In order to prevent Qu Tutong from suffering to death, Li Yuanji had to tell Qu Tutong the truth.
The Luoyang granary nominally stores 300,000 shi of grain, but in fact, there is no 300,000 shi of grain in the Luoyang granary.
More bran and grain husks.
As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows.
After being stolen once by Li Shimin, he realized that the Luoyang granary was unsafe. In order to prevent the food from being stolen again, he privately stored the food in three places.
People in Luoyang City saw carts of grain being transported into the Luoyang Granary, but at night, the grain would be quietly transported out of the Luoyang Granary and transported to three other places where grain was stored.
The reason why the Luoyang granary was fortified with great fanfare was because of the suspicion of the enemy.
As long as everyone feels that they care about the Luoyang Granary and that the grain is still in the Luoyang Granary, then no one will pay attention to the other three places where grain is stored.
Therefore, there was not much food in the Luoyang granary, only some food that was consumed daily by the soldiers from the left, right and left armies of Prince Qi's Mansion, and the food he left for Li Sixing to help the refugees.
Most of the rest is bran, grain husks and other materials used as horse feed.
When he ordered Li Sixing to burn the granary, he privately ordered Yu Wenbao to smuggle the little grain and horse feed out of the Luoyang granary, and asked Yu Wenbao to fill the granary with broken wheat straw.
Grain sacks of grain stalks filled the granary.
So what Li Sixing burned was just some broken wheat straw and broken grain straw.
In order to make it more realistic, he also specially ordered Yu Wenbao to lead people to risk their lives to grab a few bags of grain when Li Sixing burned down the granary.
With a few bags of grain as evidence, others would not suspect anything after being stimulated.
Just to let Yu Wenbao arrange these things, he asked Li Sixing to burn down the Luoyang granary in three days.
Otherwise, there was no need for him to make Li Sixing wait three more days.
He only told Li Sixing half of the matter. He told Li Sixing that he would transport 250,000 shi of grain from the Luoyang granary and leave 50,000 shi to burn.
The reason for doing this is to enable Li Sixing to carry out his orders, and also to allow Li Sixing to express the pain of burning food with true feelings.
If Li Sixing was really asked to burn down a granary containing 300,000 stones of grain, Li Sixing would definitely not be willing to do it.
Li Sixing was not only his person, but also Li Yuan's person.
If he didn't tell Li Sixing some useful information, Li Sixing would definitely dare to disobey him on the spot.
He told Qu Tutong the truth about the burning of the granary in Luoyang, and Qu Tutong became a wooden man. He sat there and did not speak, but would look at him from time to time.
"Have you seen enough, General Qutu?"
Li Yuanji felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by Qu Tutong and couldn't help but speak.
Qu Tutong did not pretend to be mute, and said with a complicated expression: "Your Highness, please stop scaring people like this in the future. You will scare them to death."
Li Yuanji sighed: "Some people worry about the grain in my hands again and again. I have to teach them a lesson, right? Otherwise, my granary will become their granary. They can take as much grain as they want."
, just how much food to take?
Then what have I become?”
Qu Tutong hesitated for a moment and said: "But this farce of His Highness is a bit too big..."
Li Yuanji said bluntly, "If you're not big, how can you scare people?"
Qu Tutong said with a grimace: "That's not to scare people, that's to scare them to death. Feng Li, the prince's subordinate, was almost beaten to death by us, and Yu Wenshiji was so frightened that he almost jumped from the gate building of Luoyang City.
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Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
Feng Li was almost beaten to death because of Thaksin.
But Yuwen Shiji almost jumped from the city gate tower, but he didn't believe it.
If Yuwen Shiji was really that strong-willed, he wouldn't be able to become Li Tang's son-in-law.
"You still need to keep this matter a secret from me, and you must not reveal it to my second brother."
Li Yuanji warned.
Qu Tutong looked hesitant.
He was Li Shimin's man. Seeing Li Shimin worried, he could not help Li Shimin relieve his worries, which was against his duty as a minister.
Li Yuanji stared at Qu Tutong and said earnestly: "Are the people you saw along the way from Weizhou to Hebei worse than the refugees who fled to Luoyang?"
Qu Tutong nodded without hesitation.
The refugees who escaped from Hebei were already in dire straits, and those who did not escape would only be even worse.
Li Shimin had already collected the food and grass needed by the army early, and got a wave of autumn wind from Li Yuanji, so after entering Hebei, he distributed a lot of food to help the people in Hebei.
Under this situation, the people in Hebei looked worse than the refugees who escaped, which shows how miserable the people in Hebei are.
Changing food to eat is no longer a sentence in a book. People can be seen freezing to death or starving to death on the roadside or in the streets from time to time.
Most of the people who are still alive have indifferent faces, and the whites of their eyes are all when they look at people.
The eyes do not move or blink, so the whites of the eyes stand out.
"Since you know the tragedy in Hebei, you should understand the importance of that food to the people of Hebei."
Li Yuanji said solemnly.
Qu Tutong pondered and said: "What does this have to do with not telling His Highness the King of Qin? Once you scare him, His Highness the King of Qin may no longer dare to worry about the food in your hands."
Li Yuanji glanced at Qu Tutong and said, "While resisting the Turks, Li Yi led the army to conquer Ding, Luan, Lian and other four states. Does the imperial court want to reward him?"
There is a famine in Youzhou under Li Yi's rule. If the court wants to reward Li Yi, what is the most appropriate thing?"
Qu Tutong opened his eyes slightly.
There is no doubt that it must be food.
What Li Yi needs most now is food.
You give him gold, silver, jewels, beauties and titles, but you don't give him food to make him happy.
"My second brother has allocated 30,000 shi of grain and prepared it for Li Yi. If he knew that the grain in my hand was not destroyed, he would definitely scrape out some more and give it to Li Yi."
Li Yuanji said seriously.
Giving Li Yi food can make Li Yi feel at ease.
Once Li Yi feels at ease, he can help Li Shimin expand his results.
In the face of military affairs, civil affairs must give way.
Therefore, if there is excess food, it must be provided to Li Yi first.
Li Shimin was frightened by him, and he might not ask for food directly from him anymore, but Li Shimin could report it to Li Yuan. After Li Yuan's decree came down, he had to give it even if he didn't.
But if the grain is given to Li Yi, what will the people of Hebei do?
Li Yi still has some grain in hand, which can still support him. The people in Hebei don't have half a grain of grain in their hands. If they don't provide relief, a large number of people will die immediately.
Qu Tutong thought for a moment and understood the relationship. He could only let out a long sigh and said, "I understand, I will keep it secret."
Li Yuanji nodded with satisfaction and asked: "You came to Anyang, what about Luoyang's defense?"
Qu Tutong immediately said: "I have handed over the defense of Luoyang to Yuwen Shiji."
Qu Tutong is the well-deserved second-in-command under Li Shimin. In the absence of Li Shimin, he is the leader in the Qin Palace.
He temporarily handed over the defense of Luoyang to Yuwen Shiji, who could only take over.
As for whether Yuwen Shiji can defend Luoyang, there is no need to worry.
Yuwen Shiji was also proficient in military affairs, and he was more than capable of guarding Luoyang.
"If you do this, you will inevitably be scolded by my second brother."
Li Yuanji smiled and sighed.
Yuwen Shiji was not a good person in Li Shimin's heart. Qu Tutong entrusted such an important place in Luoyang to Yuwen Shiji, and Li Shimin would definitely have to scold him.
Qu Tutong glanced at Li Yuanji and didn't know what to say.
The reason why he did this was not because of Li Yuanji.
"Then you accompany me to the front of the formation for a walk."
Li Yuanji smiled and invited.
Qu Tutong did not refuse.
Since Luoyang's defense has been handed over, he doesn't mind taking a walk in front of the formation.
He is older and has fewer opportunities to go to the battlefield.
Take a walk if you can.
Otherwise, if you want to leave in the future, you won’t be able to leave.
Li Yuanji ordered people to arrange for Qu Tutong to have a good meal and then arrange for Qu Tutong to sleep.
Early the next morning, the two men rushed to Mingzhou with the followers of Prince Qi's Mansion.
With Qu Tutong around, Li Yuanji became the hands-off shopkeeper.
Qu Tutong will clearly arrange the marching route and so on, so he doesn't need to worry about it anymore.
When we arrived at Ye County, the people sent by Li Shimin arrived.
