The court changes with the changes of the holy family. This is a dazzling pyramid. The people below always stare at the top of the face, taking the likes and dislikes of the top of the top as their likes and dislikes. The wind direction of the entire pyramid also changes with the change of the top of the top.¤,

Sun Wuji, a famous prime minister who has been famous in history, cannot avoid the common people. He will never stand side by side, nor will he make any decisions rashly. The first thing he has to look at before making any decision is Li Shimin's face. The Changsun family must maintain a high degree of consistency with the Tian family in order to truly achieve the interests of the family and the country, and to ensure that the Changsun family's big ship will not be overturned by the Tian family at any time.

The same is true today.

Li Chengqian visited the door in a low manner, and his tone and attitude had even reached a low level. Coupled with his undisputed identity as the eldest son and his uncle and nephew of the Changsun family, such a close relationship is impeccably closely linked from interests to blood. However, Changsun Wuji still did not express his opinion easily.

Because Li Shimin's attitude is unclear, Changsun Wuji's attitude cannot be clear.

This major juncture of fighting for the throne, every step of the way may determine the rise and fall of the family. Changsun Wuji cannot take this risk, even if the target of the risk is his own nephew, he cannot put the fate of the entire Changsun family on the gambling table for Li Chengqian. This is obviously very unprofitable. In the face of interests and life and death, what is the close blood relationship? Take a step back and say that even if the prince Li Chengqian is deposed, the person who takes over the position of crown prince must be the legitimate son of Empress Changsun, and is also a blood relative of the Changsun family. So, is there any difference for the Changsun family who goes up and who goes down?

So Changsun Wuji chose to burn the stove at both ends, one of which burned the prince's hot stove at one end and the other of which burned the King of Wei's cold stove at the other end. He did not offend both sides and had the best of both sides.

As for the third-ranked son, the twelve-year-old King of Jin, Li Zhi, this name flashed in Changsun Wuji's mind, and then he immediately shook his head and denied it.

The first two are almost broken, either A or B, and it is impossible for the third brother to take this position no matter how you turn.

One is that he is too young, twelve years old, and he has no ability to be a ceremonial ceremony, and is still a little kid who knows nothing. Second, he has no connections and no camp in the court. The only reliance is the emperor's favor, and the third is that he has no strengths. At this age, he cannot tell his character, his knowledge, or his behavior. He can be said to have no special skills and is so ordinary that he is not attractive at all. How can such a little kid be chosen to be the crown prince?

Changsun Wuji was completely unsatisfied with Li Zhi, and was sure that Li Zhi had no hope of participating in such a complex battle between the Eastern Palace, so, yes, Ignore it.

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Jinyang County.

"Brother Zizheng, do you think I am often ignored?"

Li Zhi opened his stupid eyes and looked at Li Su with a look of loss.

"Why did your Highness say this?"

Li Zhi sighed and said softly in a tone of pretending to be an adult: "Look, I have been here in Jinyang for a long time, right? You have been busy all these days to help the people, right? County Magistrate Sun is busy, and you are busy, even Fu Shanyan and others are busy, as if you can always find things to do, and there are always endless things to do, but as for me, my dignified prince can only sit by the tent outside the city, squat by the tent outside the city, or lie by the tent outside the city when you are tired, watching you busy...Everyone who passes by me will look at me, and then turn around and walk by if you don't see anything..."

Li Su was stunned for a moment, then smiled and stroked Li Zhi's dog head, saying, "Your Highness's body is worthless. As long as you stand outside the city and let the people receive government relief, you can see you standing there by the way, your role will be fully achieved, just like, well, like the suspension bridge at the city gate, it looks useless, but in fact... it is still very good to put it there."

These comforting words obviously made Li Zhi feel more and more depressed. He raised his head and glanced at him, then lowered his head and sighed in disappointment.

Li Su smiled, not intending to continue to comfort her.

The little brat has a fragile glass heart and naturally needs to comfort him, but he can't be too spoiled. After all, Li Su is at most his cheap brother-in-law, not his father...

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Sun Furen is indeed very busy. Since Li Su and his party came to Jinyang, they seem to have been even busier, but unlike before, he is busy and happy.

Knowing that Li Su brought a lot of food this time, the people of Jinyang would not be starved to death. The food Li Su brought greatly alleviated his pressure. As the magistrate of Jinyang County, what he has to do now is to go to the mountains and the countryside to mobilize the people to gather outside the city to receive government relief grain.

But the mobilization work was not done well. Due to the snow disaster, many people in the villages had been exposed early. This is something that Li Su still finds strange. Almost all the villages around Jinyang have become ghost villages, and there is no one inside. Less than 10,000 people who receive relief food outside the city have disappeared for no reason.

After waiting for three or four days, Sun Furen returned from a village outside the city and brought back two or three thousand people. These people were the fruits of his labor in the past few days.

It is really puzzling that a large county with a population of 200,000 actually fled to less than 10,000 people.

Sun Furen looked bad when he came back. He was busy among the villages these days. Gradually, he felt something was wrong. It was impossible for the people to escape so many times. After all, in this era, the idea of ​​"unable to leave their hometown" was still deeply rooted. Before he could starve to death immediately, no one would easily leave his native hometown. However, the people in Jinyang villages ran away in one breath, as if a god had changed a trick. It was really abnormal to turn people away with a wave of his hand.

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"I dare to ask Mr. Li, who is this landlord named Wei Congli? Why did he let him live in the county government?" Sun Furen asked in confusion.

After several days of running around, and the results were very little, Sun Furen was in a bad spirit, his face was also very poor, his face was covered with haggardness and fatigue, his eyes were covered with red blood, and even the most basic dress and demeanor of the officials looked messy.

Li Su sighed and said, "Thank you for your hard work in County Magistrate Sun. You have been running around these days. Your Highness and I admire you very much. However, after all, you are a parent of a county in Jinyang. At this critical moment of disaster, your body is particularly important. The livelihood of all people is all about. You must take good care of yourself."

Sun Furen sighed: "Where is my duty, I have to do it. I just want to be worthy of Your Majesty and the people... Mr. Li, thanks to you and Your Highness in the past few days, I have been in good condition to help the people. I have shared many things for my subordinates, and I am very grateful to you..."

After a pause, Sun Furen pointed to Wei Congli, who was wandering and yawning in the backyard of the county government office, and said in confusion: "But... who is this? Why did the marquis take him into the county government office to live?"

Li Su turned her head and looked at Wei Congli, with a chuckled slightly at the corner of her mouth, and said, "He... is considered a guest, well, please ask the magistrate Sun to call the servants in the mansion to entertain him well, just have food and drink, maybe..."

"Maybe something?"

Li Su smiled and said, "Maybe, this person knows the mystery of the disappearance of the people in Jinyang. He has been busy with disaster relief these days. After the villagers outside the city settle down, I will chat with him, toast or punish him, and finally have to eat the same thing."

Sun Furen was shocked, turned his head and looked at Wei Congli, then nodded: "Since it was the order of the marquis, the subordinates should obey it. There are also torture instruments in the prison of Jinyang County. If the marquis wants to torture, just take it and use it."

Li Su laughed: "Using torture instruments is a bad thing. Don't worry, I have a hundred ways to make him speak honestly, or... make him regret why he was born in this world."

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The weather finally cleared up.

When Li Su woke up early in the morning, he saw a trace of golden sunlight pouring through the pane and pouring on the ground. Li Su was shocked and turned over. He didn't care about tidying up his clothes and ran out of the door hurriedly. He looked up at the bright red and dazzling sun in the sky. After being stunned, he couldn't help laughing.

"Come, come quickly! Everyone is up, the sun is out!" Li Su shouted in the yard.

Soon, the backyard of Jinyang County Government became lively. Li Zhi rubbed his sleepy eyes and walked out of the door with a confused look on his face. Li Su stepped forward and patted his shoulder hard. Li Zhi screamed and immediately woke up.

"Your Highness, the sun is out, the rainy weather has passed, follow me out of the city!" Li Su said with joy.

Li Zhi said with a confused look on his face: "So what if it comes out of the sun?"

"With the sun, everything will have vitality, or in other words, the snow disaster has come to an end..." Li Su patiently explained: "Although the spring sowing has passed, at least we can recover something artificially. What we need to do now is to organize the villagers to return to their hometowns and dig canals to draw water and sow seeds immediately. Perhaps the harvest this year is not very good, but at least there are some meager harvests, which are much better than the grains without harvest."

Li Zhi understood, and his sleepy expression gradually shone brightly, like the sunshine that was clear after the snow, and his spirit became bright.

Turning his head, Li Su ordered to call Sun County Magistrate, but listened to the report from the troops that Sun County Magistrate left the city and went to the countryside before dawn.

Li Su was silent for a moment, shook his head and smiled bitterly. This county magistrate... was so competent. In contrast, his marquis was like a lazy green leaf, setting off the red flower of County Magistrate Sun.

He glanced at Li Zhi, who looked stupid and ignorant next to him, and Li Su curled his lips in disgust.

Well, this guy is another green leaf...

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On the way out of the city, the imperial guards opened the road ahead, and Li Su and Li Zhi walked. While walking, they discussed the spring sowing of the dead sheep and repaired the sheep.

"But, the people have all fled. There are only less than ten thousand people left in the tents outside the city in Jinyang. Who will sow seeds in such a big place in Jinyang?" Li Zhi asked in confusion.

Li Su said: "The most important thing at the moment is to compete with God for spring, and it cannot be delayed for a moment. Therefore, the people outside the city should let them go home immediately and tell them that the government will not stop providing relief. There will be a special person to send grain to all villages and villages. Those who have left the fields at home due to escape will not be sown. We mobilize all forces to sow seeds first, such as mobilizing the people to sow seeds for a paid sowing, or even using our imperial guards and Bingzhou soldiers to help the people sow seeds. As long as the seeds are sown, there is no hurry. Those people who have fled their hometowns, whether they really fled or hid, finding them back is what we need to do next, and distinguish the primary and secondary."

Li Zhi nodded and then sighed, "I don't know where those people have gone. Do they all think that if they go to Chang'an, they will definitely have a way out? They are all with their families. The family has several mouths, and they have to eat and drink every day. How much food is stored enough for them to eat to Chang'an?"

Li Su was silent for a moment and said, "It may not necessarily all escape to Chang'an. Jinyang has a population of 200,000. If all of them escape to Chang'an, think about it, there are nearly 200,000 people in Jinyang alone under Chang'an City. Your Majesty and the court officials should not be anxious? Chang'an should have had an order. There is no news in Chang'an now, which means that there are not many people who escaped, at least not many people who escaped to Chang'an..."

"Brother Zizheng, does that Wei Congliguo really know what the inside story?"

"Maybe we know, maybe we don't know, I just feel suspicious. Now we are like headless flies in Jinyang, with no clue in everything. Any suspicious thing is a hope for us to open up a breakthrough. We would rather catch the wrong one than let go."

Li Zhi said with a bitter face: "I always feel that Jinyang is so evil, and any strange thing can happen..."

Li Su sighed: "Why did the 80-year-old woman die on the streets, why did hundreds of sows scream in the middle of the night, why did the imperial guards repeatedly moan, why did the close-fitting calves frequently stolen? Behind all this is the twist of human nature or the decay of morality..."

The more Li Zhi heard it, the more shocked he became, his eyes widened in horror, his hands unconsciously covered his lower body, and his face was pale and trembling, "So many things happened in Jinyang? He also stole my... calves..."

Li Su glanced at him lightly: "...No, you are nervous, I'm just an example of a strange thing that might happen."

Li Zhi: “…………”

The two of them were talking but their steps were not slow. When they were still more than a hundred feet away from the city gate, they suddenly heard an abnormal noise outside the city.

Li Su paused, grabbed Li Zhi, stared at the city gate, and suddenly looked solemn.

The noise became louder and louder, and then a shrill scream suddenly came.

The guards in front of the two looked solemn, and they reacted quickly to form a circular formation, surrounding Li Su and Li Zhi tightly in the middle, and pointing their swords at the city gate.

Li Su's expression was gloomy, and an ominous premonition flashed through his heart.

Outside the city gate is the tent area built by local governments and imperial guards for the refugees. These days, they have been isolated according to Li Su's zoning law. People's meals and accommodations are here. If any accidents happen to the hearts of people who have been gradually appeased, it is likely to lead to a collective mutiny among nearly ten thousand refugees. Small storms will turn into storms and out of control.

"Come here, investigate it immediately!" Li Su ordered coldly.

Fang Laowu led several troops to rush towards the city gate.
Chapter completed!