Datang Longya

Chapter 938 Li Shimin's Persistence
In this world, the concern of parents and elders is sometimes wrong.However, as children and grandchildren, they can refuse, but they are not qualified to criticize.After all, no matter what they do, the starting point is not for themselves.

A father always thinks about his son.

That's why Di Zhixun broke the contract with the old man to find a better daughter-in-law for his son.

So although Leng Feng knew that Leng Jing was not at home all day, just like Di Renjie and Wu Mei, he was avoiding the blind date arranged by his mother, but he did not force him to stay at home.

That's why Li Shimin gave up his seat to Li Chengqian after re-ruling for a period of time, and forced him to the dragon chair.

Yes, Li Shimin decided to quit the court.

This point has caught many people by surprise. Although the emperor is getting old, he is still in good health. Even if he is in power for a few more years, it will not be a big deal. Why is he delegating power at this time?
What is even more puzzling is that although the emperor personally pushed the prince onto the dragon chair in the court hall, he did not announce his abdication.Li Chengqian, who was sitting on the dragon chair, was still the prince.

After going to court, Leng Feng went into the harem looking for Li Shimin with doubts, wanting to know the reason why he did this.

It is obviously the season when the vegetation is withered and yellow, but every day at noon still makes people sweat.

This year is another drought year. If it is the past, in such a year, it is inevitable that several state capitals will suffer from crop failure and drought.

But this year, the imperial court did not receive a letter asking for disaster relief.This is not because the local state governments are holding on, but because they have the ability to carry it through.

Among them, the document written by Zheng Cheng, the governor of Dengzhou, is the most embarrassing.Although his documents are well-organized and well-written, people who read the full text will still feel that he is embarrassing.Translating his words into ordinary Chinese, it probably means: the imperial court can rest assured that although Dengzhou was affected by the disaster, there are sufficient food reserves. It is good to allocate food within the state capital, and the people do not have to worry about hunger.In addition, if there is insufficient food reserves in a nearby state capital, there is no need to go all the way to ask the imperial court for disaster relief, just come to me directly to get it.

With the promotion of new-style agriculture and new-style taxation, the folk hoarded a large amount of grain.People no longer have to worry about turning in too much food and not having enough food for themselves.Even farmers who work under landlords don't have to worry.The fact that landlords oppressed farmers quietly disappeared in the Tang Dynasty, and even in times of disaster, landlords would still care about whether their farmers had enough food to eat.

The reason for this is because .
Food is worthless!
Years of bumper harvests have caused grain prices to fall again and again.In the war-torn era in the past, it was not impossible to compete for the world with enough food.But now, even grain merchants are rare.Powerful big businessmen have set their sights on more profitable industries.

Sitting in the gazebo, Leng Feng was full of thoughts.

A country that no longer has to worry about what to eat can be regarded as having the foundation for long-term existence.

With the development of the Tang Dynasty until now, it is considered that there is no need to worry about exposing the internal people.For a long time, even if it is still the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, it may not be impossible for Datang to continue.

The future generations will feel the shortcomings of the system and will naturally adapt to the changes, which no longer need to worry about the contemporary people.

While he was thinking wildly, he felt that someone had entered the gazebo.

Before he could tell who it was, a bowl of ice cream was placed in front of him.

Li Shimin held a large glass of cold juice in his hand, and sat across from him leisurely.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's supposed to be the season of frost, but it's as hot as summer. I wanted to visit Sizi today, but I was blocked by Jiang Yi before I could leave the city gate, alas!"

Jiang Yi is Wei Zheng's successor. This guy has the same stiff neck as Wei Zheng. Not only Li Shimin, but also Li Chengqian has been bullied by him in the past two days.

"Although the officials are annoying, they can really correct their own problems. In this weather, it is really easy to suffer from heat stroke. You should go out early tomorrow."

After taking a sip of the fruit juice, Li Shimin pointed at the ice cream: "Why don't you eat it? The royal cook in the palace somehow thinks that he uses yogurt to make ice cream. It tastes amazing!"

Leng Feng spread his hands and smiled wryly: "Without chopsticks or spoon, how do you want me to eat? Hold and lick?"

Only then did Li Shimin realize that there was no spoon, and hurriedly ordered the accompanying eunuchs to fetch it.

Taking the bowl aside, Leng Feng asked: "Tell me, what are you thinking? How did you get Cheng Qian up to replace you?"

Li Shimin put the cup on the table, and hesitated for a while before saying: "Chengqian is already over 30, and he is really wronged to continue to be the prince. I was away a while ago, and nothing happened to the court. So let him rule, It won't go wrong. Besides."

Li Shimin pointed to his temple: "Although I am still the same as before, in fact, my wind disease has always recurred recently. Daoist Sun has seen it, and he said that it is impossible for me to recover from this chronic disease. I can only try my best." rest, and avoid complicated government affairs."

This is Leng Feng. With another minister, Li Shimin will never reveal the relapse of his old illness.

Hearing what Li Shimin said, Leng Feng was helpless.Li Shimin's wind disease is actually hereditary hypertension. In this era, there are no effective antihypertensive drugs, so handing over power is indeed the best way.

At this time, the eunuch had already brought the spoon, and Leng Feng was digging to eat the ice cream while organizing his words.

Li Shimin saw that he had something to say, so he simply waited quietly.

After eating half a bowl of ice cream, Leng Feng finally made up his mind: "Since you have given power to Cheng Qian, why don't you simply abdicate and give it to Cheng Qian? You know that Cheng Qian has been the crown prince for more than 30 years, and he is very wronged. But you occupy the throne for a day, and Chengqian is the prince for a day. Your arrangement is actually useless. As for power, when you were cultivating immortals in Jiucheng Palace, the power other than military power also came to Chengqian. inside?"

"Duke Protector! Be careful!"

Li Shimin didn't turn his back on him, but the eunuchs behind Leng Feng became impatient, they all rolled up their sleeves, as if they would arrest Leng Feng as soon as the emperor ordered them.

Although he didn't turn his back on him, Li Shimin still changed his face, glanced at Leng Feng, and then shouted at those eunuchs: "Get out!"

The eunuchs didn't dare to disobey their orders, so they had to leave the pavilion.

There were only two people left in the pavilion.

Leng Feng picked up the bowl again and ate the ice cream in a leisurely manner.

After a long time, Li Shimin spoke up: "It's not that I haven't thought about it, but now is not the time. I have my own persistence. You don't have to feel wronged by Chengqian. In another year at most, I may abdicate to him. Then, what are you going to do?"

(End of this chapter)