I directed the Xuanwumen Incident

Chapter 346 In a peaceful and prosperous age, selling children and selling girls?Li Shimin felt ridiculous!
"go."

Xu Fenglei waved his hand and ordered the guards beside him,
"Kill those toothmaid buyers away."

"Yes." The imperial guard responded and stepped forward with a cold expression.

"Get out! Get out of here, don't stay here!"

"Hey! Why are you pushing me, I can tell you..."

"roll!"

"... Hurry up, hurry up, people from the government are here!"

"..."

The matchmaker was a bit aggressive at first, but when she saw the other person's appearance, she shrank immediately, and was pulled away from the alley in a hurry by the man beside her.

"Don't go, don't go! Twice, the baby will be sold to you for two! Don't go..."

"Ugh!"

Seeing the toothmaid fleeing away, the middle-aged man frowned and couldn't help but sighed heavily.

The thin girl beside him silently lowered her head, trembling.

The buyers were driven away, and apart from a few indistinct weeping, the alley fell into a deathly silence.

"In Chang'an City, there is such a purgatory..."

Wei Zheng couldn't help but said,

"Your Majesty, I believe that the court should take responsibility and save them."

"Since the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population of the world has dropped sharply. The first task of the Zhenguan Dynasty is to restore the power of the people! And these children are the hope of the country!"

Li Shimin nodded heavily.

Since he took the throne, he has released thousands of court ladies from the palace, and introduced policies to encourage childbearing.

This is all to ensure the reproduction of the population, the more people, the greater the strength!

And the bad incident of selling children and selling girls is obviously a great violation of his policy of governing the country, and it will never be allowed!
"You all listen."

Li Shimin looked around and said loudly,
"The children you have sold, and how much you should quote, should be reported now."

These words are like a bomb thrown into a pool of water, causing waves to explode!
"Sir, please show mercy! This child is strong, and only five taels of silver!"

"Master, two pennies, you take her away!"

"Three taels, just three taels of silver, my baby is doing well, look..."

"..."

All of a sudden, quotations were heard one after another, and people flocked to sell their blood like merchants selling goods.

Fang Xuanling took out the handwritten notebook and began to record.

The guards stopped the crowd lest their "enthusiasm" offend the emperor.

"Can you tell me why you took this path?"

Li Shimin looked at the crowd and couldn't help saying,

"This is your blood!"

Yuchi Gong's violent temper couldn't help but said:

"Yeah! You guys are inhumane! You can't live on anymore, and you can't sell your sons and daughters! This world is not a war, so I'm thinking about what to do to get through the difficult days?"

Everyone: "..."

This question made them silent. Many people's eyes were flushed, but they couldn't shed a single tear.

The tears that should be shed have already dried up.

From the reluctance and twitching at the beginning to the inhuman peddling now, the mental journey in the middle cannot be expressed by words.

The thick gray in those eyes already told too much.

Those were pairs of hopeless, lifeless eyes...

"Yuchi, stop talking nonsense."

Xu Fenglei sighed,
"They just want to stay alive, there's nothing wrong with that."

Yuchi Gong snorted coldly and said:
"If I get to this point, I might as well kill myself! It's useless to live, it's meaningless!"

Xu Fenglei gave him a blank look.

"A person as capable as you can naturally live anywhere, but you have to know that most people in this world are ordinary people and can only rely on the land for food! The fields have no harvest, what do you tell them to do?"

he rebuked,
"They are also forced to do nothing. Either the whole family will starve to death, or the child will be exchanged for some food. If they are lucky, the child can find a good family and have enough food."

When Yuchi Gong heard this, he curled his lips and said no more.

"Of course……"

Xu Fenglei looked at Li Shimin again, shook his head and sighed,
"Often these children are bought by human teeth. The boys are slaves and the girls are prostitutes. They don't know how they died in the end."

"Your Majesty, I also agree with Wei Gong's words. The people are in distress, and the court should take action to save the people from the fire."

At this time, Fang Xuanling also opened his mouth and said:

"It's figured out, Your Majesty."

"A total of 41 children, a total of 143 taels."

Li Shimin stood with his hands behind his back.

"Forty-one children, a total of 41 taels, that is to say...one child only sells for more than three taels."

He sadly said,

"Is this the Zhenguan Dynasty? Is this the peaceful and prosperous age?"

"It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous... I thought I had such good achievements in politics and what a good emperor I was... These two bloody figures woke me up!"

Living high in the temple for a long time, I don't know the suffering of the people!

"Give them money."

Li Shimin ordered,

"Listen, you ask people to go to the bank and exchange them for copper coins that they usually use."

"Yes." Xu Fenglei responded.

The two imperial guards rushed to fetch it, and after a while, they came back with a sack of Kaiyuan Tongbao and shared the money with the common people.

"Thank you, thank you, my lord!"

"It can be considered that there is rice in the pot... woo woo... My son, my mother can't bear you..."

"When you come to the master's house in the future, you must be obedient, you must be obedient, you know..."

"..."

All the people are happy to see Qian, this is not money... this is fate!
But at the same time, I couldn't bear it in my heart, and bid farewell to my children...

"Mother... woo woo woo..."

"Dad, I don't want to leave, Dad..."

For a while, there was a group of crying in the alley.

"do not Cry!"

Li Shimin waved his hand and said,

"Children, I bought it, and I will return it to you!"

"The money given to you is to let you go home and live a good life!"

"The plague of locusts and drought will always be overcome. If there is a disaster in the future, the imperial court will reduce or exempt the tax as appropriate. Don't do such a thing like selling your sons and daughters!"

All the people: "!!!"

"Master... I, did I hear correctly? You give us the money and return the child to us?"

"Really?"

Li Shimin nodded.

"Naturally it is true, you are not joking."

He said seriously,

"This money will not only be given to you, but also to those who have sold their children, and I will help them redeem their children!"

"If any of you know who sold their children, tell them all. I will help solve it together."

Hearing this, a large crowd fell to their knees in the alley!

"O lord Qingtian! O merciful lord Qingtian!"

"I know, I know, San Niu's family sold a daughter, and she was still crying in the village yesterday..."

"I know..."

"..."

The people finally wept with joy this time, kowtowing to Li Shimin continuously.

"Listen, you can handle this kind of thing well, so you can handle it."

Li Shimin couldn't bear to be worshiped any more, so he waved his hand sideways and said,

"Dispose of it properly, and make sure there are no mistakes. I want every child to return to their own home!"

"Observe the decree! The minister will definitely get it done." Xu Fenglei cupped his hands with a serious look on his face.

　There was drought and hunger in the pass, and many people sold their children to get food and clothing; Jisi ordered the imperial government to redeem him with gold and silk, and returned it to his parents.In Gengwu, the decree was to go to the old year with rain, and now the drought and locusts will forgive the world.The imperial edict briefly said: "If the year and the valley are abundant and the world is safe, it is my wish to remove the disaster and save the world. I am willing to be generous." There is rain in the meeting place, and the people are happy. ——"Zi Zhi Tong Jian"

　　
　
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