Li Shimin is an emperor, and not a foolish monarch. As an excellent emperor, he always focuses on interests and will not be affected by emotions.

Yan Fei's words were full of offense. Although it was a very ordinary conversation in Yan Fei's own opinion. However, for an emperor, this was definitely an unquestionable offense. If someone with a bad temper, he would definitely call the Imperial Army directly.

However, Li Shimin knew very well the importance of Yan Fei in conquering Goguryeo, and even more understand the importance of conquering Goguryeo to himself.

In Li Shimin's view, once he destroyed Goguryeo, which was unable to be defeated by the former Sui Qing, after killing Jie Li and severely attacking the Eastern Turks, his prestige in the country would be enough to sweep away all opposition. He could truly free up his hands to transform the country according to his ideals.

This is Li Shimin's ideal. He wants to prove to himself that he can do better than his cousin, his father, and his elder brother.

This ideal was Li Shimin's highest pursuit, and in his opinion, it was even more important than the throne.

In order to realize this ideal, Li Shimin would do anything. At this time, Yan Fei was able to help him realize his ideal, so he naturally wanted to look towards Yan Fei. Even if Yan Fei offended him verbally, at least Li Er could tolerate it at this moment.

The banquet ended in a bad mood, after all, even the host was beaten down and there was nothing else to have for a party. Those who could attend the party were short of the food and drinks of Hou Junji. After the emperor was gone, they naturally would not stay too much. Soon, many civil and military officials who came to the banquet all scattered and left the people in the Hou Mansion to clean up the mess.

In this era of extremely advocating force, the head of the family encountered such a thing as being deprived of face. It was common for the generals of the family to gather their guards to wear armor, hold swords and guns, and ride war horses to fight against their enemies in the street.

The Five Barbarians invaded the Central Plains for many years, and the Hu Feng was in great success and had a profound impact on all aspects. For example, drinking tea and mutton oil, gradually promoting Hu tables and stools, etc. It is common for two gangs to directly pull the generals to fight for various reasons. For hundreds of years, countless prominent families have suffered from family destruction because of this method.

However, this time, the Marquis' Mansion closed the door tightly after the guests left, and there was no sign of the family generals taking their personal guards out to fight. Because the emperor left with extremely strict orders before leaving, they were not allowed to cause trouble.

This is Li Shimin doing their good, because he knew very well that even if the guards of Hou Junji were together, they would not be Yan Fei's opponents. At that time, they would definitely be poked if they could not take revenge. If Yan Fei did not hold back, they would probably be killed completely.

After this conflict, Li Shimin was unwilling to continue staying in Luoyang City for more time, and soon began to urge the army to start crossing the river and heading north.

At this time, the Yellow River iron bridge was still missing, and it was not the time when the river surface was frozen in winter. If you want to cross the river, you have to rely on ferries. The number of ferries and time required by hundreds of thousands of troops to cross the river are amazing.

Fortunately, not far from Luoyang City is the famous Mengjin Ferry. Hou Junji had received an imperial decree before, and he had gathered a large number of ships here to quickly send the army across the river.

After crossing the Yellow River, the entire army officially entered a combat state. The northward journey was carried out according to the standards of field marching. The front, back, left and right plus central army swept across Hebei like a huge torrent of steel and flesh and blood, and rushed to Youzhou.

"Don't Your Majesty care about these people?" Yan Fei turned his head to Li Shimin, who was watching the image sent back from the drone, and asked, "This is too exaggerated."

The army set out to fight, with cities closed doors and villages closed doors. On the road of hundreds of thousands of troops, no wild beast dared to stay, let alone humans. Therefore, Yan Fei did not see the local people along the way.

However, today Li Shimin took the initiative to find Yan Fei and asked him to test Qianliyan first. After all, he will soon leave Hebei and enter Youzhou. Before arriving at the battlefield, he must ensure that this extremely important treasure can be used at any time.

After that, the drone flew far away, and then it sent back an image of a group of women and elderly and children farming in the fields in the distant village. The drone hovered for a long time and found several villages, all of which were like this.

Yan Fei recalled the historical records of Li Shimin destroyed Dou Jiande and killed countless people when he pacified Liu Heita. In Hebei, every family was mourning and every household was white. The men here were almost killed and injured, and at this moment, only women and elderly and children were left working in the fields.

Li Shimin's face looked a little ugly, but it was not for his killing and damage on the battlefield when he defeated Dou Jiande or Liu Heita. But because of his old man Li Yuan.

When the two armies fight each other, they try their best to kill all the people on the other side. On the battlefield, either you die or I die. No matter how many people you kill, you will not feel guilty. Because if you don’t kill the enemy, you will die. In this regard, Li Shimin will not feel guilty at all.

He was angry that after he pacified Hebei, the local officials sent by Li Yuan completely regarded this place as an enemy-occupied area and frantically plundered and exploited, which directly led to the misfortune of the people and Liu Heita's rebellion against the Tang Dynasty. The most common men in Hebei were the ones that were killed or injured by Liu Heita later. The young and strong man was almost dead. The reason was that the local officials sent by Li Yuan caused civil unrest.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Shimin began to vigorously purge Li Yuan's power as soon as he came to power. In addition to the emperor and his ministers, the useless officials he saw when he was the King of Qin had long been unbearable to Li Shimin.

"I have no choice." Li Shimin also looked helpless, "I can't make a bunch of men for them, right?"

"Your Majesty's people are tens of millions, why don't you immigrate some?"

"There are shortages of people everywhere in the Tang Dynasty, and the countryside is difficult to leave. The expenses on the migration road are not mentioned. After arriving at the place, the houses, seeds, farm tools, livestock, and water conservancy will cost money. The Tang Dynasty now does not have that much money to migrate on a large scale."

"Is it just watching?"

“Tax exemption.”

"Just because these elderly women and children cannot get much land, even if they are exempt from tax, they will probably not be enough to fill their stomachs. As the emperor, can they just watch their people starve to death?"

"Then you lend me some food to them for relief. As long as you can survive for a year or two, everything will be fine until the child grows up."

Looking at the children in ragged clothes, dressed in rag strips and rag strips, their faces were covered with pale and yellow dishes, and they were all thin like bean sprouts and had to work in the field. Yan Fei was helpless, so he could only sigh and nod and respond.

Yan Fei is definitely not a saint, nor is he the Emperor of Morality. His principle is that he cannot see it or know it. If he doesn't know it, he will naturally not care about it. Otherwise, he would not have been to Youzhou all the way north and he discovered this.

Since you have seen it, you can provide some help within your ability. This seems to be a normal thing in Yan Fei. In addition to being a natural bad guy, as long as you are a person, you will feel compassion. When you lack abilities, you will put them away. Maybe you can do things that are capable enough and easy to do.

For example, in the situation in Hebei, simply giving money is not to help but harm them. So Yan Fei went to the modern world to buy a batch of metal farm tools, and gave it to Li Shimin some of the food originally planned as military rations, so he asked him to distribute it to farmers in Hebei who were short of young and strong labor.

It was just a few dozen gold-silicon nanmu, and Yan Fei wouldn't see it at all. But when Li Shimin saw these farm tools, his eyes were pounding.

Although they are just hoes, sickles, ploughs, shovels, iron rakes, axes, etc. produced by small machining factories. In the modern world, they are too lazy to take a look at each other, but in Li Shimin's eyes, this is an important object that is comparable to military and national affairs.

The quality of these agricultural tools is excellent, such as the axe that can even split the bright light armor. Sharp sickles can also cut thick armor. As for hoes, shovels and so on, they are all sharp and unparalleled. They are better than many military weapons. As for the reason, in addition to machining, the most important thing is of course the material gap between steel.

In ancient China, when charcoal and coal were used to smelter iron on a large scale, excessive carbon and impurities caused the metal quality to be very poor, which was completely incomparable to high-quality metals in the modern world. Even the ground steel produced in the modern world was extremely rare when used here.

In the Tang Dynasty, which had just been quelled for a few years, many places were still working with primitive and simple wooden farm tools. Just like Yan Fei saw from the drone screen before. Because of the lack of strategic resources such as iron tools, farmers who had no money to buy iron farm tools could only use wood.

"Your Majesty, these things must be used for special funds." Yan Fei saw Li Shimin's expression. "These are all for farmers in Hebei. If they are misappropriated, I will not agree."

A hint of dissatisfaction flashed across Li Shimin's face. He did have the idea of ​​transporting these outstanding farm tools to his base camp Guanzhong for use by the people of Guanzhong. Then he casually took a batch of other farm tools to fool him. After all, Guanzhong was the base camp of the Li family, and Hebei was still a severely affected area that opposed the Tang Dynasty a few years ago.

Li Shimin didn't say anything, and Wei Zheng, who was standing beside him, put down a hoe in his hand and found Yan Fei. "Zihou, since you have such a useful thing, why don't you take it out early for the people to use it? Do you know that if the people of the Tang Dynasty used these agricultural tools, how many people could starve to death with less food?!"

Yan Fei looked at Wei Zheng with an idiot's eyes, "Sir, I suspect you entered the court through the back door, because your IQ is worrying."

"First of all, I am not a native of the Tang Dynasty. Whether the people of the Tang Dynasty can use easy-to-use farm tools has nothing to do with me, that is your job, not mine. Secondly, I would like to emphasize that these things belong to me. I will give them to whom I am willing to give them, and I will not give them to whom I don't want to give them. I am a time and space merchant. Do you want me to popularize these farm tools for free to the Tang Dynasty? Why? Do you want to take advantage of me? Dreaming. In the end, I am not the emperor. How many people in the Tang Dynasty starve to death because they can't use good farm tools is the emperor's business, and it has nothing to do with me."

Yan Fei's words are absolutely ruthless in this era and there is no way to escape. If you change someone, you will be a businessman in time and space or plane. You will directly encircle and rob.

But the problem now is that the local natives know very clearly that they can't beat them. Not only can they not beat them, but they also seek others. In this case, they don't know what to react except silence.
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