After King Li Shimin of Qin ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he arranged for people to come to Shandong, hoping that the Kong family would go and serve in Chang'an City.
But how Li Shimin became emperor, no one in the world doesn't know.
Although it is said that the Kong family only studies academics and does not participate in court affairs.
But the matter of killing brother and brother and imprisoning his father is not in line with many of their Confucian concepts.
In addition, after Li Shimin ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, his attitude towards Confucianism made everyone feel aloof.
To say that we attach great importance to it is not to say that we attach great importance to it.
If he didn't take them seriously, he would still treat them as guests for his own benefit.
Just like those disciples of the Kong family who were arranged to go to Chang'an before.
Although they are not their main clan, they still represent the attitude of the Kong family.
In addition to Confucianism, masters of legalist and military strategists were also quite active in Chang'an City and were deeply favored by the emperor.
It's just that this time they didn't go to Chang'an to meet the emperor.
They went to Chang'an City mainly because they wanted to meet someone.
In fact, as early as this spring, they wanted to go and see it in person.
The Kong family members in Chang'an City completed the excerpts of the Three Character Classic and other books, and sent people to Shandong to their Kong family.
Everyone has great respect for talented people.
Originally thinking about the beginning of spring, I went to Chang'an City.
But once this matter got busy, it was never finished, so it was delayed for a long time.
It wasn't until this summer that I thought about going to Chang'an City to visit this great master.
Just after they walked out of the city, within a few dozen miles, they met tens of thousands of people on the official road.
These people gathered together and approached their city.
After opening the curtain and looking at the people rushing towards the city, everyone felt very unhappy.
It is only the common people who will suffer from the great disaster.
As they were walking, they saw a common man falling to the side with a plop, right in front of their carriage.
repeatedly.
The man driving the cart in front immediately dismounted the horse.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"Master, there is a victim in front of our carriage who looks like he has fainted from hunger."
"We have food on the carriage. We will get food and water and give them to these victims."
"It's Master."
Several students stepped forward, helped the victim who had fallen on the ground, fetched water, and poured some water into his mouth.
Seeing the dry look on his mouth, you knew he must have not eaten for a long time.
After drinking water, my whole body is full of vitality.
Then he put food into his mouth, and his whole body came back to life with full blood.
The desire for food makes him motivated, picks up something, and eats it hungrily.
"Slow down, slow down and don't choke."
Seeing these carriages delivering food, the victims gathered around them.
"My lord, my lord, please sir, please give us some food.
Yes, sir, please give us some food, please give us some food, we haven't eaten for 5 days and 5 nights."
No, the imperial decree has already spread throughout the country.
All states, prefectures and counties are required to open warehouses to release grain.
Even if there are disaster victims, they are aware of it, but they are not going to go without food for days and nights, right? What's the point of this?
"Tell me, what is going on and what's the reason?"
As they spoke, everyone told them what happened to them intermittently.
They were also local people in Shandong, and they originally dug deep wells in accordance with His Majesty's orders.
There has been a severe drought this year, and all the shallow wells have dried up. There are still some deep wells left, and everyone thought they could make a living.
Who would have thought that the drought this year would be so severe that even the deep wells have dried up.
As a last resort, with no water or food at all, they could only move closer to the county seat.
However, after arriving at the county seat, we found that there were also a particularly large number of disaster victims in that county seat.
And the several deep wells in the county are gradually drying up.
They can only eat one meal a day, which is gruel. They don't have enough to eat. It's hot in summer and they are very dehydrated.
As a last resort, everyone had no choice but to leave the county town and run towards a larger city, hoping to survive.
After hearing what these people said, the faces of the Kong family became very ugly.
How can this be?
If they were short of water, it would be understandable that everyone could not drink water and had to flee.
How is it possible that there is no food to eat? Hasn’t the Holy One already opened warehouses to stock up on food?
Could it be that some officials were corrupt and violated the law and took the food for themselves?
If that were the case, I would have to go there in person and take a good look.
Thinking of this, I originally wanted to go to Chang'an City, but then I changed my direction and went to the county town they mentioned. I wanted to find out for myself.
Drive, drive, drive.
Time flies and flies by!
There are only two days left until the Emperor's birthday banquet.
The Supreme Emperor has always adhered to the principle of conducting various festivals in a not-so-big way.
If it were a previous emperor, he would have started preparing for a birthday or other festival months in advance.
And he, Li Yuan, only arrived two days in advance.
The palace purchased a large amount of wine. Due to the purchase of the palace by the court, the delivery of wine to the homes of the clan members could only be delayed for a few days.
Although everyone was very unhappy in their hearts, they just dared to be angry and dared not speak out.
After all, this is the birthday banquet of the Supreme Emperor, so there is no need to have any conflicts with the royal family over this matter.
The entire court also began to dress up in meditation.
Daming Palace, both inside and outside the palace, have big longevity signs posted on them.
All the relatives of the emperor also rushed back from other places in advance to prepare for the birthday banquet of the Supreme Emperor.
Zhaojiazhuang.
Since he has agreed to Lao Li, Zhao Mu must handle the matter properly.
After everyone's hard work throughout the night, a three-layer cake with a diameter of one meter and arranged from large to small was completed.
This height is more than half a person tall. If this cake is arranged to Chang'an City, it is arranged to his Li Mansion.
When he, Lao Li, pushes this thing up, it will definitely blind everyone's eyes.
Because the birthday banquet would be held at noon, Li Er had already arrived at Zhaojiazhuang and waited all night in the afternoon of the previous day.
Until the next morning, when I saw the cake in front of me, I couldn't help but curse.
"Let me tell you, dear brother, isn't this cake too big?"
Li Er stepped forward and couldn't help but measure it with his hands. The cake was half a person tall. At this size, it was bigger than what they ate that day.
Li Er couldn't help but was stunned.
"My dear brother, this cake is too big."
My thoughts at the time were just to be a little bigger than that day, after all, this food is a fresh thing to eat.
Seeing today's preparations, I gave him a thumbs up.
"I say, dear brother, what you did is so spot on." This chapter has been completed!