In the second year of Xianheng, Crown Prince Li Hong was ordered to supervise the country and Queen Wu Mei assisted the government.

It was a severe drought in Guanzhong and hungry people were everywhere.

Li Hong inspected Guanzhong, but found that the Tang army in Guanzhong had almost completely eaten up the food, and they all used elm bark and plump to satisfy their hunger.

It's simply horrifying.

“Where is the food?”

The grain warehouse is open.

Li Hong looked at the empty granary and saw a dark look in front of him and almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, a group of eunuchs beside me supported me.

"Your Highness! Your Highness, please take care of yourself."

The eunuch Wang Yici, who was standing beside him, said in a hurry.

He knew how weak the prince in front of him was.

I suffered from lung disease in my early years and almost lost treatment.

Later, after being treated by Sun Laoxianweng, some improvement has occurred in recent years.

But it is also weaker than ordinary people.

If they fall ill here, they are the eunuchs in the prince's mansion, they are afraid that the head of the prince will be lost.

Li Hongru is only eighteen years old this year, and she is thin and weak.

Wearing a wide prince's robe, standing among the crowd, it was like a crane standing out from the crowd.

In the distance, there were a bunch of thin bones and lonely bones, hungry and with vegetables on their faces and deep cheeks, all leaning on crutches and looking at the outer circle pitifully, looking towards the prince and the granary.

That was their only hope for life.

Even the soldiers in the palace are like this.

Not to mention the elderly, young, women and children in Guanzhong.

Already hungry.

Li Hong's eye sockets were slightly sunken, and there were dark circles left behind when he had not slept for several days.

He was tired, but his eyes were still bright.

A pair of fists was tightly clenched, and the nails were deeply embedded in the palm of the palm.

Wang Yici, who was familiar with him, knew that the prince was angry.

The prince has always looked peaceful, giving people a kind of gentlemanly and gentle as jade.

But at this moment, facing the disaster in Guanzhong and the treasury that was too empty to run away from the rats, the prince was rarely angry.

"Where did the food go?"

Li Hong's voice was still as gentle as usual.

The more normal this time, the more abnormal it is.

Wang Yici looked at the prince in fear, then at the treasury guarding official kneeling in front of the granary.

Dozens of Cuban officials knelt in a large area.

"Who can tell me where the food went?"

Li Hong raised his voice slightly.

The tone does not fluctuate.

But the hand holding the sword around the waist had turned white.

The head of the grain warehouse officer was buried lower.

Touch the ground with your head.

It was like an ostrich piercing his head into the soil, his butt was raised high and his body was trembling.

Of course he knew where the food had gone.

But he didn't dare to say it, and if he didn't say it, he would only die at most.

As I said, none of the whole family can survive.

Sweat continued to flow from the grain officer's cheeks, and a large piece of wet marks were leached on the dry and cracked loess.

Among the officials behind him, a small official suddenly raised his head and said, "Your Highness, the minister, the minor official knows where the grain is in the treasury, and asks the prince to pardon the villain for his crimes and protect the villain thoroughly. I..."

Puchi!

A bearded official beside him who was kneeling on the ground suddenly rushed up, pulled out his threshing knife, and stabbed it into the little official's heart with a fierce knife.

"Stop him!"

Li Hong screamed in dismay.

At this moment, the voice becomes sharp with anger and fear.

The prince's personal army following the prince behind him shouted loudly and rushed forward.

Hold the murderous official tightly.

The bearded cheeks rubbed against the gravel on the ground, marking bloody mouths.

But the little official who was about to speak was stained with blood, his limbs kept twitching, and blood foam was pouring in his mouth.

I can't live anymore when I see it.

The smell of sweat in the air was mixed with a strong smell of blood.

For some reason, Li Hong felt his stomach twitching.

He covered his mouth with his hands and his throat squirmed.

Almost vomited.

"check!"

The palm covered his mouth and made a vague sound.

"Search to the end!"

...

Originally, there should be enough food and grass in Chang'an grain warehouse for a year, but now it has disappeared.

The officials in charge of the treasury refused to explain where the food went, and even assassinated their colleagues in front of the prince.

The crown prince, the crown prince of the country, is now the governor.

He was faintly rejected from a kind of force and could not see how deep the water was.

In Chang'an and Guanzhong, major grain merchants have accumulated a lot of money, and grain prices have risen several times a day.

The people are suffering.

Li Hong couldn't believe it, nor could he believe it.

In my memory, the Tang Dynasty was powerful and rich.

Everything is beautiful.

The Tang Dynasty, a legendary empire that shines for thousands of years, is such a great empire.

Such a horrifying thing happened in the capital of the empire.

Mansion soldiers.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were forced to fill their hunger with tree bark.

Li Hong went to the military camp to see it.

That's like hell on earth.

Countless soldiers who were swollen and hungry were lying on the ground, dying.

Some people starved to death and turned into skeleton bones and rotted with the soil.

Countless flies and maggots surround them.

Dead silently.

No dignity.

Why?

Why did the Tang Dynasty become like this?

What went wrong!

Can anyone tell me why this is all?

For two months, the prince ran around Guanzhong.
To be continued...