Became a prodigy in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 296 Li Chengqian Has Become a Monster
In the court hall, civil and military officials, one counts as the other, all looked at Li Chengqian in astonishment.

Did we hear it wrong, or is this eldest prince crazy?

My darling, I almost burst from being frightened by you.

Cheng Chuli also staggered and almost fell.

Hey hey hey, fourth junior brother.Are you so straightforward?You will be scared to death like this, don't you know?

Xue Rengui slapped his forehead, so, the master and apprentice, are they going to go all the way to the dark today on the road to death?
It's not enough to speak ill of the emperor behind his back, but now he ran directly in front of the emperor, pointed at the emperor's nose and scolded the emperor.

Li Shimin stared at Li Chengqian and said angrily, "Ganer, what are you talking about?"

After being treated like this by Li Shimin, Li Chengqian was immediately cowardly, and quickly said: "This is not what I said, this is what my teacher said."

"I."

Cheng Chuli was speechless immediately, he had seen cheating fathers, but he had never seen cheating teachers.

I asked you to behave in court, is this how you behave?
Xue Rengui looked up at the sky, he really had no eyes to see this guy.

All the ministers also held back their laughter, all the old gods were waiting to see the good show.

Although Li Shimin was scolded as a fool not once or twice, Wei Zheng was scolded at least seven times a month.

But, that was Wei Zheng.Wei Zheng who dared to hate the emperor.

Can you Li Chengqian and Cheng Chuli compare with Wei Zheng?

Wei Zheng is at least older than Li Shimin, he belongs to the elders and is a great Confucian, so what he says must have weight.

What are you Li Chengqian?Is someone's son.

Let's not talk about Cheng Chuli, this one is quite special.

But just because you are special, you are Li Chengqian's teacher, you taught his son to call his father a fool.This play is definitely worth watching.

Haha ...

It's been a long time, and it's finally time for you, Cheng Chuli, to be unlucky.

With a look of disbelief, Li Shimin shifted his gaze from Li Chengqian to Cheng Chuli.

Cheng Chuli was not afraid, and stood up and said: "That's right, the emperor's words were indeed said by me. When a catastrophe strikes, opening warehouses to release grain is indeed the work of a foolish king."

"Wow... what is this kid talking about?"

All the officials laughed.

When the people are in trouble, it is wrong to open warehouses to release grain.Where does this logic come from?

Wei Zheng was the first to refuse to accept, and stood up and said: "Cheng Chuli, what are you talking nonsense here? Who told you that it is wrong to open warehouses to distribute food when the people suffer from disasters? You are talking nonsense. Are you going to let the emperor Do you see hunger and corpses strewn all over the place?"

Cheng Chuli glanced at Wei Zheng, and said: "You are defeated, you are not qualified to let me take action. Fourth Junior Brother, hate him."

"is teacher."

Li Chengqian agreed, stood up and said to Wei Zheng: "Zheng Guogong, let me tell you, when there is a famine, it is wrong to open warehouses to release grain, no matter from which angle you stand. Many, until the end, it is out of control. At that time, more people will die."

If it was before, Li Chengqian wouldn't even dare to say anything when he saw Wei Zheng, but now it's different, he has Cheng Chuli to support him, so he is not afraid of Wei Zheng at all.

My teacher's defeated general, what is there to be afraid of, what do you say is there to be afraid of?

Li Chengqian didn't talk to Wei Zheng at all, and said directly: "First of all, from the perspective of hygiene, you opened a warehouse to distribute food, so many people gathered together, what should we do if there is a plague? Are you trying to kill us all?"

Yes, everyone knows that when a large number of people gather together, it is very easy to cause plague.

Especially the disaster victims, their bodies are dirty and gather together with a lot of bacteria.As long as the days are long, there will definitely be plagues.

This is inevitable.

If the plague breaks out, it will kill a large area, one village by one, or even the entire Chang'an city.

"what?"

Wei Zheng was dumbfounded by Li Chengqian's words.

Yes, why didn't I think of the plague?
At this time, many ministers felt chills down their backs, if the plague really happened.The first thing to be afraid of is the rich and powerful people like them.

Those refugees have a low life, and they will die when they die, but if they really infect them with the plague, it will not be fun.

Li Shimin was also stunned by Li Chengqian's words.

Is it really wrong to open warehouses to release grain when disaster strikes?

At this moment, Li Shimin couldn't figure it out, so why didn't I open a warehouse to release grain, and all the civil and military officials called me a fool?
What is the right way to do it?At this moment, Li Shimin doubted life a little bit.

Kong Yingda saw that her friend Wei Zheng was stunned by Li Chengqian's words, and quickly stood up and said: "Cheng Chuli, what you said is always a matter of probability. Although I also admit that what you said is possible, but Isn’t it all right now? Are we just because of a possible event, we stopped opening warehouses to release food, and watched starvation everywhere?”

Instead of targeting Li Chengqian, Kong Yingda shifted his firepower to Cheng Chuli.

Cheng Chuli gave him a blank look, and said: "You are also defeated. You are not qualified to let me take action, Fourth Junior Brother, take him."

"is teacher."

Li Chengqian agreed, and said to Kong Yingda: "Master Kong, I'm sorry. Master Kong, do you know? Opening warehouses to release grain, even if there is no plague, it will only make people die more."

"what?"

Everyone seemed to have heard a big joke.

Is this eldest prince crazy?How could more people die if they opened warehouses to release food to fill people's stomachs?

Kong Yingda said: "Prince, you are making trouble for no reason."

Li Chengqian calmly stood up straight with his hands behind his back, and said: "Today I will tell you the facts, can your so-called heavy opening of positions save people? Come on! Bring the evidence..."

Following Li Chengqian's loud cry, two people were put into the Tai Chi Hall, and each of them was holding a bowl of gruel.

Li Chengqian took a bowl from them, brought it to Kong Yingda and said, "Master Kong, these are the two bowls of porridge I asked them to make for me when we passed by the food relief site in Wannian County just now. Master Kong, come and see." What is this thing? Is there a normal grain of rice in it? It's all moldy rice bran. Can people save lives by eating this thing? Can it prevent disease? Can it prevent plague? Come on, come on , Master Confucius, take a sip and let me see?"

When Kong Yingda saw the contents in the bowl, he instinctively turned his head away.

How do you eat this stuff?A bowl of thin rice soup is fine, and it is still moldy and smelly.

At this moment, in the court hall, the faces of many ministers changed.

It's over, this is the rhythm of bad things!

How did Cui Zhi do this?
If this matter is exposed, many people will lose their heads.

The most important thing is that if this matter is exposed and the emperor finds out, it will be difficult to drain his small coffers.

Li Chengqian walked in front of the ministers holding the bowl of porridge, "Come here, one of you can try this thing."

Those ministers quickly turned their heads away one by one.Not to mention drinking, it looks disgusting.

Finally, Wang De came down and brought the bowl of porridge to Li Shimin's case.

The hearts of many ministers began to thump.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Shimin saw this bowl of food, he immediately started to complain.

"Bastard, where is Cui Zhi? I asked you to rescue the disaster. Is this how you fooled me? Someone! Arrest Cui Zhi."

It's over, and it's still exposed.

The hearts of those family ministers immediately began to sink.

Who knows, at this moment, Cheng Chuli said loudly: "Wait a minute, Your Majesty, don't rush to arrest people, good things are yet to come! Fourth Junior Brother, please continue your performance."

At this moment, not to mention Li Shimin, even the civil and military officials are all dumbfounded. Isn't this the purpose of Cheng Chuli?

Isn't he doing this here today to expose this matter, arrest people and punish them?Why did he stop?

Can't figure it out, can't figure it out.

At this moment, everyone was a little confused.

Li Chengqian stood up straight with his hands behind his back and asked: "Now, do you still think it is a good thing to open a warehouse to release grain?"

It must be a good thing to open warehouses to release grain and relieve the people!
I don't believe it, what else can you, Li Chengqian, say today.

Wei Zheng stood up again very dissatisfied and said, "Prince, I admit that among us officials, there are some people who are greedy and devoid of conscience. However, as long as we eliminate these people and change a group of officials Just manage, don't you?"

Li Chengqian asked: "Who do you replace? Zheng Guogong, can you guarantee that all these victims will survive?"

Wei Zheng said unconvinced: "Prince, you are underestimating people. Although I, Wei Zheng, can't guarantee that all the victims will survive. But I can guarantee that they will all have enough to eat. I can guarantee that they will not be deprived of a grain of food." .”

"Duke Zheng is doing well."

Li Chengqian gave Wei Zheng a thumbs up and said, "Duke Zheng, do you think it's enough to feed them? If you feed them today, can you guarantee to feed them tomorrow?"

"This?"

Wei Zheng was questioned again.yes!Even Li Shimin can't guarantee that the victims will have food tomorrow, how can he guarantee that Wei Zheng?
Li Chengqian smiled and said: "Yes, you can't guarantee it, and I can't guarantee it. No one can guarantee it. Those victims also think the same way. They have eaten today, and they don't know if they will have something to eat tomorrow. We all know a bunch of starving people who can do anything.

At this time, what if you are instigated by someone with a heart?If someone ran to them and said, follow me, we rebelled, and I will take you to grab food so that you can have food every day.Otherwise, if this continues, we will starve to death sooner or later.What do you think they will do? "

"Shh..."

Li Shimin stood up with a bang, staring at Li Chengqian with both eyes.

Why did Li Shimin open a warehouse to release grain?Isn't it just to appease these victims and let them have a bite to eat so that they won't rebel?
But why are they still rebelling after I have opened a warehouse to release food?

No doubt.

Li Shimin wanted to know with his ass, as long as someone ran to incite those victims, rebellion would be a matter of minutes.

Regardless of these, Li Chengqian still stood there and continued to perform.

"Yes, no one can guarantee that these disaster victims will starve to death tomorrow. Those disaster victims know this better. In addition, they eat and drink this kind of thing, and people are dying every day. If someone runs to incite at this time , Can they not rebel? Now, do you still think it’s right to open granaries?”

Wei Zheng gritted his teeth and said, "Well, eldest prince, you are also reading sage books. Don't always talk about things that didn't happen. Anyway, even if you talk about breaking the sky today, I can't agree to give up helping the people. .”

"Are you saving them? You are harming them."

Li Chengqian's voice raised an octave: "My teacher told me a story called the Cobra Effect. Do you want to hear it?"

Li Shimin said: "Say."

Li Chengqian nodded and said: "By the way, there is such a country called A Sanguo. Oh, that's right. It is the country where Master Xuanzang went to learn Buddhist scriptures. There is a snake called cobra in that country. It is very poisonous and very poisonous. Many. They often kill people.”

"Then, their king paid people to catch snakes, and clearly marked the price, buying them at a high price, and how much they would pay for each snake caught. Guess, are there more or fewer snakes in that area in the end? Or were they caught? Absolutely caught? Oh, yes, I forgot to tell everyone, everyone in that country is a master at catching snakes."

"Pfft..."

All civil and military officials laughed.

What kind of math problem is this?Anyone who knows a little bit of arithmetic knows it.As a result, there must be fewer snakes in that area.Even got caught.

Wei Zheng chuckled and said, "Is there any need to think about it? It must be missing."

Wei Zheng originally wanted to say that he was extinct, but when he thought that the possibility of a species being extinct was very small.Therefore, he said a more conservative answer.

"Ha ha……"

Li Chengqian said: "I knew you would say that. My teacher said that, but everyone who agreed to open a warehouse to release food said so. But in fact, after a period of time, the number of cobras in that area has not decreased. , but increased by more than ten times."

"Wow, how is this possible, it's just nonsense..."

"That's right, this is simply playing the piano randomly. How could this cobra catch more and more?"

Wei Zheng was angry: "Prince, what nonsense are you talking about here? This is obviously a subtraction problem, how could there be more? And it's more than ten times as much."

Li Chengqian smiled, and asked Wei Zheng, "Duke Zheng, although I just returned to Chang'an today. But I'm sure, because you opened the warehouse to distribute food, the number of disaster victims must be more than double or even more than before. Right?"

"Ah? How did you know that?"

Wei Zheng was so shocked that he immediately opened his mouth.

Li Shimin was also so startled that he stood up directly from the dragon chair.

How long has this son been with Cheng Chuli?How did he become as monstrous as Cheng Chuli?

　[-] more broke today.This is the first update.

　　
　
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