Tang's dining table

The imperial decree never came, so Xue Rengui's troops could only be stationed at the border of Chang'an and Chang'an counties in Wannian.

But Tongzhou is on the edge of Chang'an. Yunchu used to call Tongzhou Pucheng. This place is on the edge of Chang'an. It once almost became Fijing County. It is less than 150 miles away from Chang'an. This distance is almost as easy for the victims as a leg lift.

Looking at the other prefectures and counties on the Weibei Dry Plateau, they are actually around Chang'an. Xue Rengui cannot send out all the soldiers and horses. If he wants to use the few poor soldiers at hand, there is no way to stop it. Victims come from all directions.

Yun Chu has been waiting. When things are completely corrupted and there is no way to deal with it, someone with an idea will naturally come out to deal with it.

This in itself is also a way of being an official, dragging small problems into medium problems, and finally into big problems, until it is no longer possible to deal with it. Only in this way will it attract the attention of the court, and finally work hard to solve it completely.

Of course, the price paid is naturally much higher than fixing the problem at the beginning, but judging from the results, it is much better than the patchwork method used to rectify small problems.

In politics, many ways of dealing with problems may seem incomprehensible, but they are the result of thousands of years of Chinese official system. They have been used from generation to generation, and there is no exception.

Xue Rengui naturally has his own way of dealing with the problem, which is to selectively and unintentionally let in some refugees, mainly the kind of victims who have no way out. Only by doing this, his little conscience will be a little calmer.

Therefore, the victims who finally arrived outside Chang'an City arrived hungry and saw huge porridge pots lined up.

Anyone can eat it, not just the victims of the disaster, but even the merchants passing by if they are hungry.

However, anyone who still has a few dollars in their pocket will not take advantage of it, mainly because the porridge here is really unpalatable.

The porridge is quite thick, but it will turn into jelly after it cools down. I don’t know how those porridge cooks like Donkey Riha made the porridge. Not to mention that it turned into a paste, and there was a lot of food mixed in. Grass seeds.

For hungry victims, grass seeds are also good food, but for those who want to take advantage, it is a disaster.

The people of Chang'an have no objection to the appearance of these porridge pots. They know that it is time to empty the grain depot in Chang'an City. The millet, millet and sorghum cooked in the porridge pots are all old grains four or five years ago, and some are older. , they don’t eat the food, so giving it to the victims to fill their bellies is considered a good use.

Therefore, the people of Chang'an are still conscientious, but not many.

Even though these victims are very thin, they are all honest farmers. After a few good meals, within five days, they will be a good hard worker.

Therefore, in the porridge shed outside Chang'an City, there were more shopkeepers coming to recruit workers than victims.

The wages in Chang'an City are constant, and the government will re-assess them every two years, either increasing or decreasing. Over the years, the shopkeepers have always complained that the wages in Chang'an City have only increased, but they have never heard of it. There is actually not one downward adjustment.

When the victims saw the unexpectedly high wages, their eyes almost popped out. Before they had time to fill their stomachs, they were taken away by the shopkeeper and told not to eat the pig food provided by the evil government. , then it is not for human consumption, and you will naturally have food to eat when you return to the workshop.

The victims came in waves, and were taken away by the shopkeepers in waves. All the strong laborers who could eat were taken away, leaving a large group of old, weak, women and children to continue to use the pig food provided by the evil government.

As long as the victims' demands are not high, it is still feasible for one strong laborer to feed a family of four. Although the victims who came to Chang'an were panicked when they came, they settled down once they had enough food to eat. .

Chang'an City never said this was disaster relief from the beginning, only that it was dealing with old grain, and the guys in charge of cooking porridge had a very bad attitude, although they didn't bully men and women, yelling, scolding, pushing, and kicking. Still emerging in endlessly.

Yun Chu, Wen Wen and a large group of people passed by the porridge pot and smelled the burnt smell coming from the porridge pot. Although it was ordered by the two of them, they still couldn't help but kick those irresponsible people. Bad people.

"Have you put enough rice?" Yun Chu, who originally wanted to show off the taste of the porridge, gave up the attempt.

"When we return to Junhou, we will have plenty of food and plenty of salt. However, there are few grass seeds. It is not cost-effective to put too much."

"Why is it not cost-effective to plant grass seeds?" A middle-aged man in Tsing Yi wearing a webbed head asked with a frown.

The bad guy who had just been kicked by Wen Geng said tremblingly: "Because grass seeds are more expensive than grain, it is not easy to harvest."

The middle-aged man with a pale face said in surprise: "Since grass seeds are more expensive than grain and difficult to harvest, why do you put grass seeds that are difficult to swallow in the porridge pot?"

The bad guy quickly said: "To tell you what the official said, this is to prevent those shameless people from getting into trouble."

The middle-aged man Li Jingxuan looked at the traveling merchants sitting in the shade of the trees and listened to their curse words. He really felt that those people were really shameless.

"So, the porridge is deliberately cooked to prevent those who don't lack food from coming here to take advantage of the victims?

It seems that when you in Chang'an provided relief to the victims, you were very considerate. "Li Jingxuan smiled and raised his thumb at Yun Chu.

Yun Chu said with a cold face: "How did the minister know that I, Chang'an, was helping the victims?"

Li Jingxuan pointed to the victims who were trying to eat porridge and said: "Isn't it here?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "In the capital city, stability is the top priority. If we want to provide relief to the victims, we must have an order from the imperial court before we can do it. So far, the Chang'an Remaining Mansion has not received your majesty's order. This is the first time to provide relief to the victims." Where do we start talking about it?”

Li Jingxuan cupped his hands towards Yunchu and said: "Understand, don't say it, don't say it. Our officials should think of all the people. What the kings and nobles do, everyone admires."

Yun Chu said puzzledly: "As an official, the minister always has the people in mind? If so, Yun Mou admires it. It's a pity that Yun Mou and the minister minister were officials in the same dynasty, but they didn't have the ambition of the minister's glory and glory. Yun Mou just dedicated his loyalty to For the sake of Your Majesty, although all the people are as important as Mount Tai, in Yun Mou's heart they are not as important as His Majesty's."

After saying these words, Li Jingxuan looked very embarrassed, but Yun Chu felt sick and sick in his heart. There was nothing he could do about it. The above words were what his colleagues in Luoyang said every day. Since he was talking to the officials from Luoyang again, Once in a while, it’s always best to be like the light.

In order to cover up his desire to vomit, Yunchu raised his foot and kicked the bad guys on the buttocks, scolding them for making the porridge so disgusting.

Li Jingxuan knew that Yun Chu was scolding him in a roundabout way, so he was not angry and smiled and invited Yun Chu to go back to Wannian County to discuss the matter.

The porridge pot in Chang'an County has been open for six days. Talents like Li Jingxuan came to Chang'an slowly. It's ridiculous to say that they actually walked 800 miles from Luoyang to Chang'an for a full twenty-three days.

When they arrived in Chang'an, before they could rest and wash up, they asked Yun Chu to take them to the porridge shed for a walk.

Based on this move, Yunchu already knew clearly that this guy came to Chang'an just to make trouble.

Speaking of the biggest difference between Chang'an and Luoyang, it is actually a huge difference in management.

Over the past ten years, Chang'an has formed its own pragmatic strategy. This is not the case in Luoyang. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the style of free talk was prevalent. Everyone had something to say, and what everyone said was reasonable, but it was just talk. , in brothels and tile houses, people often talk loudly at banquets, and their words are not shocking.

Therefore, Luoyang has become a place where scholars want to go, and they all hope to gain a place in Luoyang through their unique words.

Somehow, in the recent period, Chang'an has become a place where copper smells, and Luoyang has become a city where ink smells.

The twenty-four golden bulls have become the basis for Luoyang people to joke about Chang'an. It is said that there are twenty-four golden bulls in Chang'an, and there are twenty-four great fortunes in Luoyang. fragrant.

Yunchu didn't want to be acquainted with the poor people in Luoyang, and even Yunwen's request that he come up with another great article that would make Luoyang's paper expensive, Yunchu didn't agree.

Luoyang kept provoking, but Chang'an was silent and never accepted the move. This made the officials of the Luoyang clan who wanted the emperor and the queen to return to Chang'an for temporary residence were extremely dissatisfied.

After returning to Wannian County Government Office, the two of them sat down. Yun Chu served Li Jingxuan tea and saw Li Jingxuan looking around.

Yun Chu understood immediately, leaving only Wen Wen and invited everyone present out.

When there were only three people left in the room, Li Jingxuan coughed and said, "I wonder how the Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace are being built?"

Yun Chu turned to look at Wen Wen next to him, then looked at Li Jingxuan and said: "The minister is not a supervisor of the Young Mansion, nor is he the Ministry of Works, nor is he an internal historian. Why would he ask about the construction of Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace?"

Li Jingxuan cupped his hands in the direction of Luoyang and said, "The emperor has lived in the divine capital of Luoyang for a long time and misses his hometown of Chang'an."

He said with a gentle smile: "I wonder if it is the emperor who is homesick or the opinions of your colleagues? Even if the emperor returns to Chang'an, hundreds of officials will still accompany him, whether the emperor is discussing things with the officials in the Zichen Hall of the Daming Palace or in the Taiji Hall. What is indispensable for everything is the officials, not the temple."

Li Jingxuan said: "The emperor has been living in Luoyang for a long time, and his anger is getting worse. If you can return to Chang'an to live, your majesty may feel calm. In this way, it will be beneficial to our country, the Tang Dynasty, and even more beneficial to the people of the world."

Yun Chu sneered and said: "So you are tired of His Majesty, Li Jingxuan, you are so brave."

Li Jingxuan sighed and said: "Yu Chu, please don't be angry. Listen to what I have to say. His Majesty's wind disease is getting worse and his temper is getting more and more irritable. We are thinking that Sun Shenxian has been living in Chang'an for a long time. If Your Majesty returns to Chang'an, he will change his residence. Maybe it will..."

Halfway through the words, Li Jingxuan said again: "Yuchu's foundation is His Majesty the Crown Prince. If His Majesty returns to Chang'an, His Majesty the Crown Prince will definitely follow His Majesty back to Chang'an..."

Wen Wen saw that Li Jingxuan only spoke half of the words twice, so she smiled and said: "Whether His Majesty is going back to Chang'an or not? Your Majesty is waiting for you and not us. So, how can you guys kidnap Your Majesty to go back to Chang'an?"