Chang'an City has a large population, and many of the civilians farming outside the city have difficulty with food and clothing. It is undoubtedly a luxury to expect these people to provide enough food.
Many civilians go to the city to sell some vegetables, or sell the pigs, cows, chickens, and dogs they feed to the slaughterers who buy them.
In fact, most of Chang'an City's food comes from Luoyang City, which has developed water transportation, and many luxury goods are difficult for people outside the city to supply.
But whether inside Chang'an City or outside Chang'an City, this is the emperor's feet.
Although the memorials and official documents appear to be peaceful every year, it is difficult to say how true the information reported at all levels is.
The impeachment of Prime Minister Wei Wan was related to this, which involved many cases such as gangs outside Chang'an city committing crimes that resulted in the unjust death of innocent people, and the case of wantonly arresting prisoners who were buried during the funeral of Emperor Jing.
The imperial censor had no doubt that the inspection was unfavorable and he also submitted it to the court.
Shen Peigong played a major role in this, while another force came from the Empress Dowager of Anle Palace.
Deposing the prime minister cannot be done with just a few memorials, even if the new emperor intends to replace the prime minister and the imperial censor.
Only when the evidence is conclusive can something be put on the table.
Otherwise, you can remove whoever you want to remove, and few people in the world will dare to serve as officials.
It is difficult to investigate serious unjust cases outside Chang'an City, but to check the food and clothing situation of civilians outside Chang'an City, you only need to go out of the city for a walk.
In the golden autumn festival, when the millet was harvested, the new emperor disguised himself and left the city.
He was dressed in ordinary clothes, and there were two masters of the palace guards in tatters beside him. Li Guang, who was stationed at Weiyang Palace, was wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, sitting boredly under the eaves of a house a hundred meters away.
"The harvest here is indeed good. Shen Peigong missed this move!"
Li Guang looked at the fields.
The millet in the field grew extremely luxuriantly, and it was inspected by Xintei as a standard demonstration field.
The Nongzong monks came to cultivate fields outside Chang'an City. Such fields were naturally highly productive and even affected the farming standards of a large number of surrounding farmers.
There hasn't been such a bumper harvest in previous years, but this year it's really good.
Shen Peigong obviously failed to start the impeachment from this aspect.
The more sophisticated one was the accusation made by the Empress Dowager of Anle Palace. With the help of Shen Peigong to deal with Wei Wan, Anle Palace also extracted many unjust, false and wrong cases and pressed them on Wei Wan to prove the prime minister's dereliction of duty.
These cases will be tried with a large number of people, and the prisoners who should be released will be released, and the prisoners who are dead will be compensated.
But in the end, someone needs to take the blame, and someone needs to quell public anger.
Li Guang thought about it for a while and realized that after Wei Wan passed one level, there was still another level. Only if he passed the level of Anle Palace would he be considered to be in a good position.
"Shen Pei Gong is a Confucian who wants to seize power. His thoughts are obvious. Why does the Empress Dowager have to get involved? I remember that Wei Wan and the Empress Dowager seem to have a good relationship."
"It's so bad that these back-and-forth calculations in the court are so bad that I didn't see them clearly even when I was standing on the outside!"
"This is more complicated than targeting Zhu Jiuyin!"
Li Guang chewed a straw out of boredom, feeling that fighting on the frontier was still comfortable, and even facing Zhu Jiuyin was not as troublesome as facing the court situation.
"The boy has a travel-stained face, as if he has traveled a long way, but he is quite at ease!"
When Li Guang glanced at Zhang Xuezhou and others, he felt bored.
Although little monks like Zhang Xuezhou who like to run are rare, they are of little value to him at the moment, which makes it difficult for him to get involved.
"I don't know when your majesty will let me go back to the north?"
The more he thought about it, the more bored he felt. He just hoped that the new emperor would quickly stabilize the court and lead everyone in a fierce battle.
"If I can destroy the three holy places and the evil country of Luzhou in Beiju, I will be able to sacrifice this and it will be regarded as a complete merit and virtue. There will be no one in the world who can rival me. From now on, I can stabilize one side!"
People will think about themselves when they are extremely bored, and Li Guang is no exception.
Everyone has their own thoughts and has their own purpose in doing things. Li Guang is not idle, he is not a war maniac, and he has no 18th generation grudge against Zhu Jiuyin and other great demons.
But the benefits of getting rid of these guys are another matter.
"If our ancestors had worked harder back then, there would have been nothing to do with these monsters. His Majesty, Emperor Qin, really, couldn't he live a few more years hanging on his life?"
Li Guang shook his head and pursed his lips again.
The strength of his ancestors was similar to his, but his ancestors could only be regarded as fierce generals and tiger generals in the Qin Dynasty, and there were more than ten people who could compare with them.
But when it comes to his generation, he has become the only seedling of the Han Dynasty today. Even Cheng Bushi only defends cautiously and does not look like a tiger general at all.
The contrast is so stark, it is no wonder that Luzhou in the north is strong and Luzhou in the south is weak.
But in the Qin Dynasty, all the lords, Taoists, and Yuansheng could only shrink back, or declare that they did not care about the world's affairs to avoid disasters, so how could they be superior.
"He left happily and took so many people with him. He didn't even think about whether our descendants could resist it!"
Complaints are complaints. If Li Guang were to dig out Emperor Qin, Li Guang didn't have the ability.
He complained in his mind for a while, until the sound of coughing came, he quickly stood up and hung far behind the new emperor.
Only when the new emperor waved from the front did Li Guang rush over.
"If a war breaks out in Chang'an City, will the people outside the city be available?" the new emperor asked.
"You can use it as long as you're full," Li Guang replied.
"Then you've seen it all the way. Can they eat enough?" the new emperor asked.
"I can't tell whether they are full or not," Li Guang said helplessly, "I don't know how much food they have left at home!"
"oh!"
The new emperor sighed lightly, obviously extremely dissatisfied with Li Guang's answer.
"If people outside Chang'an City don't have enough to eat, the Han Dynasty will probably be starved to death all over the country." The new emperor reminded: "If you don't have enough to eat, you won't be able to fight, otherwise the situation of the death of Qin II will be repeated!"
"Then...then I think they are still full!"
Li Guang thought for a few seconds and then replied.
This made the new emperor wave his hand, no longer ask Li Guang for his opinion, and headed directly towards Chang'an City.
"This emperor's heart is like a needle in the sea. I don't know how to reply to you. Your eyes have seen it, and so have mine. Ask me something. If it's not the same after asking me, no one can be sure. Whether others can have enough to eat, we are not the mice in these people’s homes, how can we know who has enough food and who has not enough!”
Li Guang thought about it in his heart for a long time.
He looked at the new emperor who was dozens of meters away. His body swayed and people were already passing by like the wind.
"Boy, let me ask you something. Do you think the people outside the city can have enough to eat?"
Li Guang also wanted to ask other people the questions he didn't answer well.
He was too lazy to ask the officials of the court who did not come to watch, but asked someone more familiar.
(End of chapter)
