"His Royal Highness is asking you something!" the guard commander shouted.
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince"
Hearing that the person in front of him who was asking the question turned out to be His Highness the Crown Prince, the soldier pushing the corpse was startled and quickly put down the cart to salute.
"Tell me what's going on?" Li Chengqian asked with a gloomy face.
"Go back to Your Highness, these are all the people who froze to death last night."
"What? So many people froze to death in one night?"
Li Chengqian looked at the corpses on the cart. There were hundreds of people at least.
The soldier did not dare to hide, "Your Highness, this is only part of it. We started transporting the corpses in the morning and they haven't finished transporting them yet."
"Why did so many people freeze to death?"
Li Chengqian couldn't accept it. According to what the soldiers said, wouldn't at least several thousand people freeze to death in one night?
The soldier didn't know how to answer, and this kind of thing was not something he, a small soldier, had to worry about.
When Li Chengqian saw this, he knew he couldn't ask any questions, so he signaled to the guards behind him to make way and let them transport the body out first.
However, Lin Xuan still sat on the horse and did not move at all.
"Lin Xuan, what's wrong with you? Get out of the way." Li Tai shouted.
Lin Xuan pulled his horse to the side in a daze.
The corpse in front of him gave Lin Xuan a great shock, and his mind went blank.
Looking at the ferocious expressions on the corpses' faces, you can tell how much they suffered before they died.
After the corpse was removed and the door became empty, Li Chengqian got on his horse and entered the camp with his guards.
Lin Xuan followed behind blankly.
Dangdang stall~
As soon as Li Chengqian entered the camp, he heard the sound of gongs and drums, and saw a large number of victims running out of the surrounding camps, stumbling in one direction.
Because there were so many people, it quickly became a crowd.
"Don't crowd, line up."
A group of soldiers can be seen in the distance maintaining order.
"Let's go take a look!" Li Chengqian said after dismounting.
"Lin Xuan, what's wrong with you?"
Seeing that Lin Xuan didn't respond, Li Chengqian couldn't help but ask.
"Your Highness, I'm fine."
Lin Xuan came back to his senses and said with a pale face.
"Are you sick? Gu sent someone to send you to the palace to see the imperial doctor?" Li Chengqian asked with concern.
"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness, I'm fine." Lin Xuan said.
Seeing Lin Xuan's insistence, Li Chengqian said nothing.
Lin Xuan followed Li Chengqian, and the scene he just saw kept popping up in his mind.
In my previous life, I read some books that said that conditions in ancient times were difficult and living conditions were poor.
He had never had this concept in his mind after traveling through time. The pile of corpses made him see how difficult and difficult life was in ancient times.
When Li Chengqian walked to the front, he saw several large pots placed. When he looked into the pot, he saw that it was clear water. There were a few grains of rice at the bottom of the pot. The most important thing was that there was no heat at all in the pot.
"Your Majesty Wannian County Lord Bo attends His Highness the Crown Prince's visit."
Wannian County Lord Bo heard the report and quickly came out to salute.
"What is this?" Li Chengqian asked coldly.
"Go back to Your Highness, this is porridge."
"Porridge? I think it's water, right? Did you become greedy for the food allocated by the imperial court for disaster relief?" Li Chengqian asked through gritted teeth.
"Your Highness, you are unjust. This is the court's standard for disaster relief. Otherwise, how can the court get so much food if so many victims have to be fed until next autumn harvest." Wannian County Lord Bo said aggrievedly.
Li Chengqian was startled. This was his first time participating in disaster relief, and he didn't know whether what this person said was true or false.
Taking a deep breath, Li Chengqian slowly calmed down, turned to the guard commander Zhou Jie and said, "Go and find Dai Shangshu."
"I humble my position and accept my order."
"Go and make some thicker porridge for the victims. What's the use of porridge that's just like water?" Li Chengqian pointed at Wannian County Lord Bo and said.
Wannian County Lord Bo was a little embarrassed. Seeing Li Chengqian's unquestioning expression, he had no choice but to say, "Wei Chen accepts the order."
Lin Xuan saw this. Prince Li Chengqian really cared about the people. If he could be the emperor, he might be a good emperor.
Li Tai was sneering in his heart. Since he went to ask Li Shimin for help, he must have done his homework in advance.
He knew that the court was short of food, so in order to save food to last until next year, he deliberately cooked the porridge very thinly.
When Li Chengqian did this, the victims were happy, but Li Shimin was not happy.
Because if we do this, we won’t have enough food to last until next year, and there will be trouble later.
Having something to eat now is better than nothing, and better than causing trouble later.
However, he did not intend to remind Li Chengqian. In his heart, he hoped that Li Chengqian would use more food, which would make Li Shimin even more angry.
"Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness."
Many victims couldn't help but kneel down after hearing Li Chengqian's words.
Lin Xuan felt very uncomfortable when he looked at the people kneeling on the ground.
At this time, the people really didn't want much. They were satisfied if they had enough food and clothing.
By the time the people had eaten the re-cooked porridge, Dai Zhou had already arrived.
"Seeing His Highness the Crown Prince, I wonder what your Highness has to do with your ministers?" Dai Zhou asked with a puzzled look on his face.
Li Chengqian asked with a livid face: "Dai Shangshu, my father asked you to gather the victims. Is this how you settled the victims?"
When Dai Zhou came, he had already roughly guessed what Li Chengqian was looking for.
Now that he heard Li Chengqian's accountability, he was not worried, but whispered: "Your Highness, this is not the place to talk. Let's go back and talk first."
Li Chengqian was not stupid. He knew as soon as he heard that there was some hidden secret that he didn't know about. He nodded and said, "Go back to the palace."
The group of people came in a hurry, didn't stay long, and then hurried back.
After returning to the East Palace and sitting down in the main hall of the East Palace, Li Chengqian looked at Dai Zhou, "Now you can tell me why so many people froze to death and why they gave the people porridge that was like water."
"Your Highness, there is a lack of heating supplies. It is normal for people to freeze to death. As for the problem of porridge, it is true that the imperial court does not have much food. Now the road is blocked by heavy snow, and food from other places cannot be transported to Guanzhong. If we don't save some now
Yes, once there is no food, Guanzhong will be in chaos."
Dai Zhou explained the reason to Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian was silent. He usually only dealt with memorials in the palace and had no actual contact with actual matters.
"What should we do? Even if the heating problem is solved, the people will still starve to death if this continues!" Li Chengqian asked, staring at Dai Zhou.
Dai Zhou was silent, what could he do?
"Your Highness, I have a solution!" Lin Xuan stood up and said.
If possible, he really didn't want to get involved in these things, but those frozen corpses kept appearing in his mind.
He felt that he should do something for these poor people.
"What can you do?" Li Chengqian asked quickly.
Li Tai and Dai Zhou also stared at Lin Xuan, wanting to see what he could do.
"Your Highness, with coal, the people have something to keep warm. Now we just need to solve the problem of food." Lin Xuan said lightly.