Chapter 492

Li Hong and Yan Lingbin slowly walked down from the carriage. Although he was used to the life in the East Palace and even the Imperial Palace, he was not used to the situation where people saluted as soon as they got off the train.

Looking at several courtiers saluting to the prince, the officials behind her, who are also high-ranking officials in her eyes, are submissive. At this time, they have no voice at all. They can only follow the other officials, smile and enjoy themselves with the prince's highness talking and laughing with the other two officials.

Although he was once known as a flower queen, he was also the focus of scholars, elegant scholars and scholars, but compared with the scene in front of him, Yan Lingbin was deeply aware of the gap between power and reputation.

Originally thought that he had met the people, is the whole world, never thought that one day I can stand with these people together, and is not the identity of accompany.

Yan Lingbin, Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi nodded to each other to show that they knew each other. They followed Li Hong, listened to two important Tang officials, and explained to his Highness the prince Wu's mansion.

The front and rear courtyards of King Wu's mansion, which occupied a quarter of the square, were all in ruins. The gardens and leisure places originally built in the early years were also burned by a fire.

After circling around the palace of King Wu, Li Hong asked faintly, "has the Ministry of punishment decided? Or is it the job of the Jingzhao government? "

Although Fang Xianzhong knew that the prince's highness knew why, he had to accompany the prince to perform the play in front of many officials, so he stepped forward and said, "back to your highness, it was the jingzhaofu who arrived first on the day of the incident. It was the people of the Jingzhao mansion who found out the cause of the fire. So the Ministry of punishment and Dali temple did not start this matter."

"Well, have you found out? What the hell is going on? " Li Hong looked at Fang Xianzhong and asked.

"This Your highness, a moment later, the governor of Jingzhao mansion, Mr. Chuke, is coming. How about reporting to you? As the Minister of the Ministry of industry... "

"Well, listen to you. How are your decisions going? It's not convenient to meet in the palace. Now I've brought it to you. You can elaborate on how to rebuild the ruins. "

With the help of other officials, Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi were led to the drawing by Yan Lingbin.

They were in charge of the Imperial Palace and palace buildings, the production of precious utensils made of gold, jade, pearls and rhinoceros, as well as embroidery of gauze and satin.

Therefore, if Li Hong wanted to build a residence for Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi and a leisure palace for his father, he had to implement it through the supervision department and the Ministry of labor.

Yan Lingbin's role appeared at this time. He had stayed in the folk, and had been to the homes of many high-ranking officials and nobles. Now he is a member of the east palace. Although he has no experience in architecture, his unique vision can give Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi some advice.

Li Hong was not very interested in this matter. What he had to do was to arrange the construction of the ruins after the Spring Festival before his father came back.

In any case, they are all demolished. After a big fire, they will be more thorough, so we can simply rebuild them. In this way, I'm afraid the emperor will be happy.

After a while, Zong Chuke came to him panting for breath and said, "Your Highness, forgive me for coming late."

Li Hong frowned: "what are you busy with every day? Where have you been in the morning

"I haven't been in Chang'an these days. I've gone to the surrounding counties. Alas It's hard to say Zong Chuke shakes his head and sighs. It seems that he has encountered some problems.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Li Hong was very curious. Looking at the three women around the prison, he sat down on the shaft of the cart and asked Zong Chuke, who was full of sweat.

"Well, your highness, there is not enough food in Chang'an now. In the past two years, the grain output has decreased dramatically. Because of this, the minister has negotiated with the sinang temple for many times, but they have no way to make progress. Nowadays, the common people begin to grow cotton instead of grain. Because there is too much demand for cotton from the supervisors, the temple and the traders, the price of cotton is going up, and the people are trying to make money No, the land has been abandoned and we are waiting for cotton planting in the coming year. I went to the farmland to check these two days, but I couldn't see any green seedlings. If it goes on like this, in another two years, I'm afraid that the grain going back to luocang will be hollowed out. " Zong Chuke frowned. He thought it was a good thing to grow cotton. However, in order to make more money, the common people simply left their land in the wild after the cotton harvest and did not plan to plant crops in the next year.

However, in the face of the food shortage in Chang'an, Guanzhong and other areas, no one paid attention to it. Instead, it encouraged people to plant cotton and abandon grain, hoping to purchase more cotton in the coming year.

Li Hong sat on the shaft of the car, swinging his legs, and asked strangely, "would it not be good to plant other crops after harvesting cotton? Isn't it a long time ago? "

"Your Highness is right, but the demand is large and the price is rising. In Zhou county of Chang'an, the common people only need to plant cotton once a season and want to grow grain again, but they are stopped by the Si Nong temple. They say that they are afraid that asking the land for cotton and grain once a year will make the heaven unhappy. As the year before last, the God will be angry. When it comes to cotton harvest time, they are not fully mature, thus delaying grain production So it came out that God had deliberately punished the people and prevented them from growing grain because of their insatiable greed. ""Nonsense, that's because the continuous rain caused the cotton harvest a few days late, but it doesn't mean that we missed the planting season." Naturally, Li Hong knew that the demand for cotton was increasing year by year. When he went to Anxi, he had already advocated planting a lot of cotton. The cotton he had originally obtained from there had continued to advocate planting, which alleviated the shortage of cotton in Guanzhong.

But did not expect, now still so short of cotton, this accord with common sense? Or is someone hoarding cotton on purpose, waiting for a high price? Or, who is hoarding too much food at home? By reducing the cultivation of grain, the temple helped to sell grain at high prices?

However, no matter which one, it is more hateful and irritating than that the superior Temple forbids the common people to grow grain. After thinking about it, he said: "at this time, unless the gods are alive, no, even if the gods are alive, they can't let the green seedlings grow in the fields. Since the loss of a season, that's all. After your Majesty's return to the court, he will put it forward on the court and talk about it later."

"Yes, your highness, it can only be so for the present." Zong Chuke wiped his forehead, shook his head and said regretfully.

"It's just that a lot of cotton is needed to be a supervisor. Why does the temple stop planting grain? For will it be a prison? " Li Hong asked curiously.

"This I don't know much about it now, but I'm afraid it's for the sake of political achievements. After all, planting grain is not as good as planting cotton. Moreover, when the Cui family of Qinghe was in the famine in Luoyang and Chang'an this year, they had a bumper harvest of grain. I thought there must be a secret in it. "

"The Cui family of Qinghe? Are you sure? " Li Hong was surprised. Although Zong Chuke had already said something very implicit, he still felt that Li Xian's shadow was indispensable.

"I don't know for sure, but 70% or so. The minister has sent someone to check the Qinghe River. In addition to the rent, it is said that the granaries of the people are overflowing, and they are worried about the food."

"This is a miracle. I can't eat enough food in Tang Dynasty?" Li Hong murmured.

He believed what Zong Chuke said, and he believed that the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday at this time in history. At this time in history, the grain supply of the Tang Dynasty was sufficient. The grain supply in luocang was full all the year round, and the grain was inexhaustible.

"When there was a disaster in the clouds, Qinghe once made a lot of money. You don't know who was cheaper. Then you went to Liaodong with your majesty. Because liyangcang released grain secretly, it was forced to go down. The high price grain bought from Qinghe quickly filled Liyang warehouse. Otherwise, grain would be a problem for you and your majesty to fight Liaodong." Zong Chuke looked around and nobody noticed. He took two steps forward and said in a low voice.

"Continue to check, it's better to find out before January day! Do not disturb others. "

"Don't worry. I've been searching secretly, so I haven't been found out. I didn't intend to tell you, but I can't help it today. Before yuan day, I'm afraid I need to open a warehouse to release grain. In several counties around, people are in a situation where they have no food and they can get high price if they want to buy food. So I went to mediate this matter."

Li Hong nodded. No wonder he didn't know that Zong Chuke was hiding deep enough: "how are you going to fold here?" Li Hong raised his head and pointed to the ruins in the distance with his chin and asked.

"The weather is dry and dry, coupled with years of disrepair, and the fire was unintentionally caused. When it was discovered, it was too late, and the minister was guilty." Zong Chuke had already thought about how to help Li Xian out of the encirclement, and said faintly.

"Well, I hope my father won't doubt this book. In fact, it's useless to doubt. What about some arsonists that night?"

"The courtiers are in secret custody and will not be found out. Moreover, they have already recorded their confessions, and they are not afraid of being betrayed." There are some people in Zong Chuke's mouth, obviously not the arsonists, but Li Xian, king of PEI. If they reconcile with the prince, the arsonists and their confessions will not appear. However, if Li Xian of Pei and the prince fall out, these arsonists and those confessions will be the iron evidence of King Pei's order to set fire.

As soon as they had finished talking, they saw Yan Lingbin leading Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi to come slowly. From the looks of the two women, we can see that they were quite satisfied with the new palace garden designed by the supervisor. In addition, Yan Lingbin added some of his own opinions to help the two people improve the details from the perspective of women, so everything still satisfied them.

Fang Xianzhong, Zong Chuke and general supervisor stood in front of Li Hong together. Li Hong looked at the three men and said, "the map will be determined as soon as possible, and it will be handed over to the Ministry of works after the first day of the people's Republic of China. Both human, material and financial resources are provided by the Ministry of work. As the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, he is also the governor of Shangshu province and the governor of Jingzhao. Therefore, he should have paid for the construction of the building to honor his father and Emperor. "

"But Your highness, the Ministry of works... " Fang Xianzhong's face turned pale. Unconsciously, he found that he had been cheated by the crown prince!

But Li Hong didn't give him an opportunity to explain. He said to Zong Chuke, "I have something to do to send them back to the palace. I want to go out to Chang'an."

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