Chapter 61 sixty

Li Shimin scolded sharply: "Wu Qing, you are so bold, do you know who you are talking to? How did the food eat the dead? The court will find out the reason. As for the fact that I have not forgotten that you are the hidden prince Humph, you have an ulterior motive in saying this! Count yourself, how many generals have I promoted from the Zuo Tunwei Army in these years? This time, all the imperial guards in the palace have gone to Beiyuan to practice, and I will leave you alone If the Zuo Tunwei Army guards Gyeonggi, would they do this if they have grudges in their hearts?" Li Shimin's words made the school lieutenants behind Wu Qing nod together, with regretful expressions on their faces.

Wu Qing panicked, waved the long knife in his hand and shouted: "Don't listen to his bewitching! Brothers, there is no way to turn back when you open the bow. Chang Sheng died in our hands. If you go back, can they spare us?" ?” As he spoke, he swung his knife and rushed forward, with several henchmen following behind. Li Shimin shouted: "Wu Qing! You are so brave! Do you want to try my Heavenly Sword?" Then, he pulled out the sword and threw it back and forth on the ground. He said loudly: "Wu Qing, I have said everything I need to say. If you insist on going your own way, I will not stop you! Now, I am announcing a decree. The first person from the Zuotun Guards to pass this sword tonight will be rewarded." Punish him, I will immediately make him a marquis if he punishes him!"

The front of the camp gate suddenly became quiet, so quiet that the sound of a needle falling could be heard, the rebels looked at each other, Wu Qing showed a trace of fear on his face, he tentatively took a step forward with the knife, and countless eyes shot at him, He stepped back involuntarily, and all the soldiers were panicked, and they also stepped back a few steps in unison!Their psychological defense collapsed in an instant, and at this time someone yelled: "Forget it, let's go back to the camp!" The mutinous soldiers retreated like a tide. Li Shimin summoned several generals who were familiar with the Zuo Tunwei Army on weekdays and arranged for them to stabilize the troops.There were not many people who really wanted to make trouble among the mutiny soldiers this time. Many people just wanted to ask the court for an explanation out of momentary righteous indignation. More people even just wanted to watch the excitement. The emperor came in person. The situation has been overwhelming, who is willing to be the first bird, and soon the battalions will calm down.In the middle of the night, more than 30,000 forbidden troops from Beiyuan were summoned back to the city and guarded various important places. Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and other important officials also rushed over one after another. Only then did Li Shimin enter Zuotun under the guard of the brigade's military guards. The big tent of the guard army.

The soldiers who took the lead in making trouble were all arrested soon. As for Wu Qing, seeing that the situation was over, he committed suicide in fear of crime. After some investigation, Li Shimin found out that the officers and soldiers of the Zuo Tunwei Army had been eating moldy rice for four days. This surprised Li Shimin, and he ordered a strict investigation of the origin of the moldy rice.Seeing that the emperor was tired all night and his body was very weak, Ma Xuanliang advised him to go back to rest earlier, and Li Shimin went back to the palace. It was already noon when he woke up, Li Shimin was thinking about the Zuo Tunwei Army, and asked Ma Xuanliang if he had found out the origin of the moldy rice.Ma Xuanliang reported back that the guard of the granary of the Zuo Tunwei Army confessed that the moldy rice was brought in by Chang Sheng, and he handed over all the good grain in the granary to Hu Cheng, the general manager of Taicang, a few days ago.Li Shimin's shock was no small matter. The matter was actually related to Taicang. The East Palace has always been in charge of the food affairs. Could it be related to the prince?If the matter involved this level, it would be really careless, he hurriedly ordered Ma Xuanliang to prepare a car, and he wanted to go to Taicang immediately.

Li Shimin's car arrived at South Dacang soon. After he personally inspected the grain in a warehouse, the fat Hu Chengcai heard the news, ran over in a panic, saluted in a hurry, and then accompanied Li Shimin to inspect the food. Opened two warehouses.What makes Li Shimin feel at ease is that there are nearly 300,000 dans of high-quality white rice stored in the warehouse. Hu Cheng smiled and said: "Your Majesty, our warehouse is full of Yangzhou rice. The terrain here is high. Although it rains continuously, it is not damp at all." Li Shimin took out a few grains of rice with his fingers, put them in his palm, and put them in his mouth. After chewing for a while, he said, "Well, not bad!"

At this moment, a cat suddenly jumped up from a corner of the granary, only to hear a scream, apparently a mouse fell into the cat's claws.Li Shimin said: "Hu Cheng, you have a lot of rats in Taicang." Hu Chengdui said with a smile on his face: "There have been rats in warehouses since ancient times. There is no cure, so we have to raise more cats. The cats in Taicang are everywhere. Chang'an is famous." Li Shimin walked out, suddenly remembered something, stopped, and told Ma Xuanliang: "Go and see, has the cat finished eating that mouse!" Then he walked to Hu Cheng's Taicang office and sat down.After a while, Ma Xuanliang brought up a small pottery bowl with a small ball of rice grains in it. Ma Xuanliang said: "Your Majesty, these are rice grains taken from the belly of that mouse." Can't help but get serious.He raised his eyes and glanced at Hu Cheng, and found that Hu Cheng was nervous, and beads of sweat kept dripping from his forehead.Suddenly, Li Shimin threw the bowl heavily on the desk, and sneered, "Hu Cheng, look carefully!" Ma Xuanliang brought the bowl in front of Hu Cheng, and Hu Cheng took the bowl.

Li Shimin said: "Since the rice in your Taicang is all good rice, why do the mice in this warehouse prefer to eat moldy old grain?!" Hu Cheng's face was pale, and the bowl fell to the ground with a "slap" and broke into several pieces. Petal, his body softened, he knelt down, kowtowed like a chicken pecking at rice, and said repeatedly: "Your Majesty, I deserve death for my crimes!" Under Chang Sheng's instigation, they conspired together to sell grain to earn the difference to build a palace for Li Shimin from beginning to end.It was only then that Li Shimin knew that his eldest son, whom he had always loved, had done such an earth-shattering event behind his back, which almost brought a catastrophe to the court.

He was so angry that he wanted to summon Li Chengqian to kill him immediately, but when Hu handed over a picture of Cuiwei Palace drawn by Li Chengqian himself, his heart suddenly softened again.He seems to have seen the scene when his son was holding the firebox to bake his sick leg, but he couldn't send out the order that came to his lips. When Hu Cheng was arrested suddenly, Li Chengqian and his confidants panicked. They sent people to inquire around, only to find out that Li Shimin had secretly been to Taicang and sent someone to raid Hu Cheng's house.Li Chengqian was struck by lightning, all the money he earned from selling grain was hidden in Hu's house, it seemed that the emperor knew everything.

The wind blew the curtains of the Eastern Palace, creating a desolate atmosphere in the palace.Li Chengqian kept muttering on the chair in desperation: "This is bad, this is bad! Alas, Hu Cheng is such an idiot, why did his father see his flaws?" He sighed for a long time, picked up his pen, and sang I wrote a few lines with tears.Heng Lian, who was not very literate, saw his strange expression, and asked, "Your Highness, what are you writing?" Li Chengqian said in despair: "I, I am asking Father on the above table to abolish my reserve position! So as not to let him Difficult."