The place where the court discussed matters was very secret, and no outsiders could detect any disturbance.
But while everyone was discussing here, someone still knocked on the door of the hall.
There was movement at the door, and everyone was startled.
Listening to the urgent knock on the door, Li Shimin couldn't help but change his expression.
"Who is it? Don't you know we are waiting here to discuss important matters? Why are you making trouble?"
After Li Shimin spoke, a very neutral voice sounded outside the hall.
"Your Majesty, good news."
good news?
Li Shimin finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that it was his chamberlain.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
After Li Shimin spoke, the waiter's voice immediately came from outside the door.
"Your Majesty, General Zhongwu Li Ying sent someone to report that food and grass have arrived near the capital. Please ask your Majesty to send manpower to cover their secret entry into the city."
"What?"
At this moment, Li Shimin stood up from his seat and looked at Li Chengqian.
"Qian'er, didn't you say half a month? How long is this? Ten days! The food and grass will arrive in ten days. The location you mentioned is more than a thousand miles away from the capital? How is this possible?"
Although Li Shiming was shocked and his confidants knew what was going on, we also knew from Li Shimin's words that Xu Yunyan seemed to have achieved a feat.
Traveling a thousand miles in fifteen days is already a rare thing, but he actually traveled a thousand miles in ten days, not to mention escorting a huge amount of food and grass. How is this possible?
However, Li Chengqian didn't pay attention to this, and instead said to Li Shimin.
"Father, Master Li is good at creating miracles. It's not like my father doesn't know it. It's better to make arrangements in advance to let this grain and grass enter the city secretly and deliver a fatal blow to this grain merchant who dares to challenge my authority."
After Li Chengqian said this, Li Shimin couldn't help but nod to him.
"Yes, now is not the time to think about why he is marching so fast, but we should let him enter the city secretly.
Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji and you and the other three will discuss whether there is any good way to let him enter the city secretly. "
Let professional people do professional things.
Li Shimin should be the most professional, at least the general Tiance who has fought and killed enemies before, but now he has left this mental work to three civil servants and let them rack their brains here.
In Chang'an City late at night, the curfew was in progress, and the east gate of Chang'an City slowly opened.
The prince's guard led some of his troops to rush out of the city gate quickly and stood guard near the city gate, guarding against any sudden changes.
The uninformed people thought that there was an enemy invasion, but the executive said nothing here and just watched them running around and busy.
After the warning was over, a little fire flashed in the distance, and some torches were lit on the Prince's guard side, with strange symbols painted on them under the control of professionals.
Everything is smooth and smooth.
From the place where the fire first appeared, a team moved forward quickly. Watching the batch after batch of war horses walking forward with difficulty under the pull of their knights, they immediately dragged the sacks. What was in the sack was so heavy that even this powerful horse could hardly bear it.
When the team finally entered Chang'an City, Li Chengqian found no trace of his master Li Ying and asked Hu Hu, who came to deliver food.
"What's going on? Where is my master?"
Hu Daguo saw that it was His Highness the Crown Prince and saluted hurriedly.
"Your Highness, your Majesty, General Li is escorting grain and grass from the rear. He is afraid of something unexpected happening in Chang'an City, so he asked me to wait and travel at night, and use the surrounding Zhechong Mansion cavalry to escort some of the grain and grass ahead."
Li Chengqian suddenly realized. "I see. This really solves an urgent need. How many days will it take for my master to arrive?"
"Tomorrow night, I will definitely be there tomorrow night. We have always been in contact."
After Mr. Hu said this, Li Chengqian finally breathed a sigh of relief. As soon as the food and grass arrived, they could relax the amount limit and let them purchase it for a period of time. By then, no one would be looking for trouble for them.
As for the grain merchants?
hehe!
The next day, as soon as the new grain and grass arrived, Li Chengqian and the others immediately decided to sell it in unlimited quantities.
This was an unprecedented feat, which delighted those who were waiting here to buy food.
"I can finally buy unlimited amounts of food. Fortunately, I can eat more of this delicious food."
"Yes, you can eat this good food, but what will happen in the future? I'm afraid I won't be able to eat the ordinary food."
"you……"
While these people were shouting here, those who were ready to hoard food and grass and take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune looked at Li Chengqian's food and grass stall, who was selling food and grass there, and itched their teeth with hatred.
"Wait, isn't there food? Wait until you don't have food and see how you do."
These people thought that by the time they returned to their stores, the people above them had already explained everything to them clearly.
Hearing that there would be more food and grass, they couldn't help but tremble here.
"If there is still food and grass in the future, how will they make money? Doesn't this push them to the forefront?"
While these people were trembling here, not knowing how to solve these things, their master was here watching them.
"If you have the ability to burn all the food and grass that have not yet arrived, Prince Li Tang will not know these things, let alone they have no food and grass. These people can't buy food, so why don't they buy from us? ?”
When these people said this here, the eyes of these store owners who had lost their minds after being stimulated by Li Chengqian couldn't help but light up.
"That's right. Since we can't solve these things, why don't we make sure that this kind of situation doesn't happen again in the future?"
While these people were thinking here, they began to gather like-minded people everywhere. After the gathering, they rushed towards the team where Xu Yunyan was escorting the grain and grass.
If you do it, do it to death. As long as the food and grass are burned down, they will be the only ones with food in the entire Chang'an City. At that time, they can sell as much as they want.
At ten o'clock in the night, the east gate of Chang'an City opened again, and the same prince's guard walked out of the east gate again.
In the distance, behind the dots of firelight, a dragon in the dark consisting of carriages quickly arrived at the east gate of Chang'an City.
Under the escort of these prince guards, they quietly drove into Chang'an City. Near the camp where they were stationed last night, the Zhechong Prefecture cavalry who returned from transporting grain and grass on the first day rested here.
Some people beat their legs here, others hugged their waists there, and complained here while dealing with their own physical pain.
"What is this? I am a cavalryman! He actually led the horse for such a long distance, and his legs were almost exhausted."
Some people are complaining like this here, while other colleagues are here to feel sorry for their war horses.
"Your legs are useless, so it doesn't matter if you can mount a horse and gallop, but our horse is almost exhausted.
In order to transport this food and grass, we spared no effort to control the horses to carry the food from such a far place to Chang'an City, day and night. Our horses have never been so tired. What kind of situation might happen if they are not allowed to have a good rest? "
These people who feel sorry for the war horse are saying this here, and those who are hugging their legs and hammering their waists are also saying this viciously here. "Yeah, now I'm very angry. The majestic cavalry actually did such a thing. Although it is praised by others, it is not the case."
Just when they were suffocating their anger and had nowhere to vent their anger, someone suddenly shouted outside.
"No, someone is attacking the camp."
After hearing this sentence, the eyes of these Zhe Chongfu cavalrymen, who felt sorry for themselves that they were exhausted, but also for the exhaustion of their horses, instantly brightened up.
"I have no place to vent my worries, so you idiots just showed up at our door. You can't blame us. Brothers, go and teach them a lesson."
Just when this group of desperadoes gathered into a small team and rushed toward the military camp like a camp, they shouted loudly as they rushed.
"We must burn this food and grass no matter what. The master once told us that as long as we burn this food and grass, we will be richly rewarded. Even if we die, our family will take care of us."
Just when these desperadoes rushed towards the military camp for the illusory agreement, the cavalry in the military camp found someone to vent their anger on, and rushed out to face these young minions who rushed up.
While rushing, he shouted loudly here.
"Brothers, please follow me! This period of time has been frustrating me, and now a thief has actually come to our door to give us credit. No one wants to rob me, I will beat him ten times!"
The first man shouted to beat ten, and the others looked at him.
"Niu Er Er, you are really awesome, you still want to hit ten? Let's wait here to see if you dare to step forward and hit ten."
This Niu Lao Er was charging here vigorously, but suddenly when his companions said this, Shanshan smiled and stepped back.
"Just kidding, just kidding."
Just after Niu Laoer took a step back, the people next to him shouted as if on purpose.
"Come on, there are only so many people. If you can't grab it, you'll lose a lot."
At this moment, Niu Laoer looked at the brothers rushing forward from behind and couldn't help shouting.
"You are unreasonable, leave a few for me."
Outside the city, while the melee was going on here, in the treasury of Chang'an City, Li Shimin came to the granary under the protection of a group of forbidden troops.
Seeing one carriage after another unloading grain and grass here, I couldn't help but feel relieved.
"This is my life-saving food in Chang'an."
After Li Shimin said this with emotion, Li Chengqian, who was accompanying him, hurriedly stepped forward and spoke.
"Father, what my master does is beautiful."
As soon as Li Chengqian finished speaking, Xu Yunyan came to them and saluted directly to them.
"The general will meet His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Li Shimin turned to look at Xu Yunyan and said directly, "Get up, you did a beautiful job this time, I will definitely reward you."
When Li Shimin said this, Li Chengqian was also very happy and gave Xu Yunyan a thumbs up, but Xu Yunyan did not care about Li Shimin's kindness and instead said it to him.
"Your Majesty, it was all because of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives and traveled day and night and paid a huge price to transport this food and grass to Chang'an City. If Your Majesty wants to reward, please give more to these meritorious soldiers."
When Xu Yunyan said this, Li Shimin couldn't help but nod.
"You all deserve a reward. You made suggestions and transported so much food and grass for us, so you deserve a big reward.
Someone comes to deliver the message! "
But just when he was about to arrange for someone to deliver the edict, Li Shimin seemed to have thought of something.
"The credit cannot be clearly stated, so I will give you the title of Viscount,"
Li Shimin decided in one sentence that Li Ying and Xu Yunyan's title would be raised from baron to viscount.
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