April 9, the second year of Zhenguan.

The first batch of disaster relief supplies in the Tang Dynasty have been distributed to various prefectures and counties.

Then, the governor of Qizhou, Zheng Shanguo, was impeached by the censor.

Zheng Shanguo, the governor of Qizhou, secretly mixed silt into the grain and distributed it to the masses, resulting in a sudden increase in public grievances.

The censor believed that Zheng Shanguo was suspected of seizing personal pockets from disaster relief food, so he wrote a statement to impeach him.

Li Shimin was furious and immediately issued an edict to remove all his official positions in Zheng Shanguo and take them to the capital to question him.

April 10th.

Although the price of grain in Guanzhong remains high, no foreign grain merchants transported grain into the customs.

On the contrary, several major grain merchants in Guanzhong continued to replenish their grain warehouses, and when they only entered and did not leave, the grain storage reached an astonishing number.

This is naturally beyond the reach of Li Shimin.

If you just do a random investigation, you will know that behind these major grain merchants are the support of five surnames and seven sects.

April 11th.

On the grounds of being affected by the disaster, Jie Li Khan of the Eastern Turks advanced to ask the Tang Dynasty to support food, grass, cattle and sheep, and the number was quite large.

He also said that if he did not agree, he would personally lead 200,000 to go south to take it.

It is full of threat.

It was obvious that he saw that the Tang Dynasty was affected by the disaster and had no time to take care of himself, so he came to the Wei River Alliance again.

Li Shimin immediately ordered the detention of the envoy and imprisoned him in the Menxia Province.

Xiao Yu, Feng Deyi and others requested to send him back according to etiquette, but Li Shimin refused.

Pei Ji and others took the opportunity to persuade Li Shimin to ignore the sudden life and death of life and death on the grounds that there was insufficient food and grass, and gave up the plan to attack Liang Shidu.

However, Li Shimin's determination to destroy Liang Shidu was decided and did not adopt it.

At this point, many ministers in the court were worried that the Eastern Turks would take the opportunity to go south and rampant, and there was no food in Guanzhong, so it was difficult to deal with it.

April 12th.

Gao Shilian, the minister of the Ministry of Justice, presented a previous article.

It is some opinions on the reform of the imperial examination, among which the long list and the design of the enrollment method are particularly refreshing.

After asking, Li Shimin learned that it was written by a student named Pei Xingjian from the Hongwenguan, which belongs to the Menxia Province.

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others also appreciated him very much.

Li Shimin gave him a commendation and asked Du Ruhui to take him back to the Ministry of Personnel to study and improve.

At this point, Luo Taisui's good brother Pei Xingjian entered the sight of the core rulers of the Tang Dynasty for the first time.

However, the imperial examination reform really affected the aristocratic races. Pei Ji and others believed that the aristocratic families led by the five surnames and seven sects controlled one-third of the country's food and should not offend them at this time.

He also asked Li Shimin to give up the short-selling price war in the grain and show goodwill to him, and even lowered his attitude and asked the five surnames and seven sects to borrow grain from the court.

Although they persuaded Li Shimin with the livelihoods of the people of Guanzhong, Li Shimin refused to agree.

He also got angry on the spot and expressed his dissatisfaction with the unconstructive opinions of the ministers.

As a result, with the 640,000 stones of grain donated in the name of Duke of Shan and the grain stored in the Sinong Temple, the disaster relief period entered a weak period.

Under various rumors, the dissatisfaction of the people who have been affected for years with the court has finally reached its peak.

Some minor unrest occurred in Guanzhong.

April 13th.

Li Shimin asked grain merchants to open warehouses and issued an edict to purchase grain at the highest price on the market.

The grain price at this time had already exceeded the original price by more than twice.

However, even so, only a few grain merchants were willing to sell their grain to the court.

More grain merchants still closed their warehouses and refused to respond. Instead, they took the opportunity to quietly eat the grain circulating on the market.

As a result, the disaster relief of the court almost stagnated.

In the court, Pei Ji and others once again persuaded Li Shimin to reconcile with the five surnames and seven sects to obtain food support.

Although the situation was already quite unfavorable to him, Li Shimin still refused.

Wei Zheng violated Yan's direct advice, believing that Li Shimin was indifferent to the lives of the people and was not worthy of being a wise monarch of the generation.

So much so that after Li Shimin went to court, he spoke to Empress Changsun in anger: "One day I will kill that country bumpkin!"

If Queen Changsun had not been cleverly resolved, the monarch and his subjects would have almost broken.

On April 14th, Li Shimin suddenly issued another edict.

People in Guanzhong are strictly ordered not to bring food out of seclusion, and the edict does not have a deadline for the time being.

Grain merchants who are still hoarding food are quite dissatisfied.

But in the afternoon, they were stunned.

Nearly two million stones of grain that emerged from somewhere suddenly emerged on the market in an unreasonable manner.

For a time, the Guanzhong grain market fell into turmoil...
Chapter completed!