Chapter 63: Can't I just go and apologize for him?

After a long, long time, no one knew who said something, and everyone in the hall came to their senses.

Qu Tutong roared and joined the "battlefield".

After Li Yuanji left Chang'an City, Qu Tutong saw many of his good deeds.

The letter tube fell to the ground, Li Shimin widened his eyes, and his pupils shrank into a dot.

But if the people in Luoyang City dared to send the message urgently over 800 miles, then it must be true.

…

The cavalryman who was delivering the letter was carrying a letter flag that was only eligible for express delivery of 800 miles. Every letter that could be delivered at the 800-mile express rate was worthy of attention.

I won't feel happy if I don't scold Li Yuanji.

It was because Li Shimin had evil intentions time and again that Li Yuanji did such a thing. Li Yuanji cannot be blamed.

"Now that things have come to this, Your Highness can only take a long-term view."

Seeing this, all the officers in the hall stood up subconsciously one by one.

The Luoyang granary has probably been burned to the ground, so there is nothing to consider in the long run.

Qu Tutong heard Li Sixing's words very clearly, and he roughly understood the reasons.

“No…no problem…”

“Yes!”

Changsun Wuji's pupils shrank, and he opened his mouth in shock, unable to speak.

After waiting for a whole stick of incense, Li Shimin finally came to his senses. He looked at Zhangsun Wuji and said in disbelief, "Yuanji burned the granary in Luoyang..."

No one could accept Li Yuanji's destruction of 300,000 dan of grain in one go.

The fire in the Luoyang granary, along with their fight, quickly spread throughout Luoyang and beyond, and soon spread to every corner of the Tang Dynasty.

Changsun Wuji didn't dare to ask any more questions and just waited quietly.

It was you who coveted the food here again and again, driving His Highness crazy, so His Highness ordered the food here to be burned!"

"Shi Xin, when we go to Mingshui, remember to stay there firmly. This way, we can attract all of Liu Heita's troops to Mingshui and annihilate them."

"This matter..."

His head was filled with paste and he could no longer tell what kind of person Li Yuanji was.

Li Shimin nodded and was about to give another instruction when he saw a cavalryman with a letter flag on his back rush into the central hall and place a sealed letter tube in front of him.

No one could accept what Li Yuanji had done.

Qu Tutong shouted angrily subconsciously, but he stood there as if he was under a spell.

Otherwise, why would Li Shimin lose his composure like this?

You know, Li Shimin is the kind of person who can ride his horse through the midst of thousands of troops without showing any fear.
"Why don't you try to persuade him?"

Changsun Wuji spoke with a complicated expression, but after saying two words, he could not continue.

He took out the letter inside and took a look at it.

Li Sixing slowly opened his eyes, stared at Qu Tutong and gritted his teeth and said, "Without your Highness's order, do you think I dare to burn the Luoyang granary?"

Li Yuanji burned down the Luoyang granary, which meant that Li Yuanji burned the 300,000 shi of grain stored in it.

After a long while, he murmured with a slightly trembling mouth, "How dare he...how dare he?"

Li Shimin couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that someone would do such a cruel thing just for a bet.

After the cavalryman who delivered the letter put down the mailbox, their eyes all fell on the mailbox.

Qu Tutong was very cruel and beat Feng Li to death.

Therefore, most of Li Shimin's confidants knew the grain storage situation in the Luoyang granary.

They couldn't believe it either.

The food here was obtained by Your Highness in exchange for his official position in the mansion despite his bad reputation. It was not collected from taxes in various places, nor was it seized from bandits.

"Evil thieves! Why are you pushing him?! He just turned around!"

You have to believe it even if you don't want to.

Luo Shixin agreed solemnly.

Changsun Wuji sighed and said something repetitive.
"So...what should we do now?"

Qu Tutong's pupil shrank.

Qu Tutong roared at the top of his lungs, "You have burned millions of lives! You are more cruel than the butcher Bai Qi! You are more evil than the human flesh eater Zhu Can!"

As soon as Li Yuanji left Luoyang City, he sent people back to burn the Luoyang granary. It was most likely that Li Shimin sent people to steal Li Yuanji's food. Li Yuanji burned the Luoyang granary in anger.

Yuwen Shiji stayed in Luoyang City as Li Shimin's man, reporting the situation of Luoyang granary to Li Shimin at all times.

Not only Li Shimin and Luo Shixin were in the central hall, but other generals and officers were also there.

Li Shimin picked up the letter, looked at it again, and his eyes lingered over the generals and officers in the hall.

Li Sixing roared at Feng Li with red eyes, "You still have the nerve to ask me why? You guys came here one by one to steal food and cheat for food.

Since Liu Heita wanted to seize Mingshui City by force, Li Shimin prepared to use Mingshui City as the final battlefield to attract all of Liu Heita's troops and annihilate him in one fell swoop.

Zhu Can was one of the rebel kings conquered by Li Shimin. He was notorious in the Tang Dynasty and was known as the cannibal king.

Is he the kind-hearted man who was so kind to the people that he was willing to bear them alive, or is he the cruel and wicked man who ordered Li Sixing to burn 300,000 shi of grain?

Now he looks extremely shocked, obviously he has seen something extraordinary.

In these times of constant war and famine, food is more precious than money.

Changsun Wuji took two steps at a time, rushed to Li Shimin, and held Li Shimin's arm firmly.

After a long time, under the gaze of all the officers in the hall, Li Shimin picked up the letter again with trembling hands, read it carefully again, and made sure that he had not read it wrong.

They had a bold guess: could it be that the prince took advantage of Li Shimin's expedition to eliminate all of Li Shimin's confidants who were left in Chang'an City?

Li Shimin reached out to hold the table, but missed it. He staggered and almost fell on it.

That's 300,000 shi of grain, enough to feed millions of people.

In recent days, Liu Heita suffered a great loss on the battlefield in northern Hebei and began to counterattack to the south, intending to seize Mingshui City. He was afraid that Wang Junlang was useless and could not defend Mingshui City, so he prepared to send Luo Shixin to garrison Mingshui City.

Li Yuanji's bad reputation was nothing compared to him.

When Li Sixing saw Feng Li, anger immediately surged to his head.

Li Yuanji has obviously become a good person, why do we have to force him to go back to being a villain, and a bigger villain?!

Li Sixing closed his eyes in pain, clenched his teeth, and trembled as he said, "Your Highness has ordered me to do so, I have no choice but to obey..."

Feng Li rode his horse to the Luoyang granary, fell off the horse, and staggered to Li Sixing, grabbing Li Sixing and asking him frantically.

Guangfu, the central hall of the summer palace left by Dou Jiande.

The officers and soldiers in the hall were so shocked that they were speechless.

The officers in the hall looked at each other anxiously, but they had no way of asking any further questions.

Li Shimin said absentmindedly.

"why why?!"

It was no secret in the army that Li Shimin had always been concerned about the food in Li Yuanji's hands.

Li Shimin picked up the letter box and opened it very skillfully.

Three hundred thousand dan of grain was enough to feed a million people. How could Li Yuanji have the heart to do that? !

A few days ago, he defeated Liu Heita's generals Liu Shishan and Zhang Junli at Xuhe, killing more than 8,000 people in battle. Li Quhuo, a general under Liu Heita in Mingshui City, led his people to surrender due to his majesty. He then captured Mingshui City without bloodshed and sent Wang Junlang with 1,500 cavalry to assist Li Quhuo in garrisoning Mingshui City.

Li Yuanji said to burn it and he did it, and no news of it leaked out before that.
Li Shimin was sitting on the throne in the main hall of the Summer Palace, where Liu Heita's butt was not even warm yet, and was ordering Luo Shixin to replace Wang Junlang and garrison Mingshui City.

Having said this, Li Sixing couldn't bear it any longer and punched him.
I want to curse Li Yuanji, but I can’t open my mouth.

What does the food here have to do with you? !

Qu Tutong said that Li Sixing was even worse than Zhu Can, which shows how terrifying Li Sixing's act of burning down the granary in Luoyang was.

Changsun Wuji asked several more questions, but Li Shimin still ignored him.

Qu Tutong's face flushed red, and he grabbed Li Sixing's collar, panting and saying in disbelief: "You...how dare you? How dare you!"

He didn't know what to say.

The expressions of all the officers and soldiers in the hall changed.

You look at me, I look at you, and we don’t know what to say.

"Your Highness is kind-hearted , how could he do such a wicked thing?!"

Qu Tutong grabbed Li Sixing's collar and dragged him into the fire.

Li Shimin stared at Luo Shixin and gave him a serious instruction.

The reason why Li Yuanji was so cruel as to order the burning of the Luoyang granary was that he was forced to do so by Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng.

Li Sixing gritted his teeth, turned his head away, and tried not to look at the fire. In response to Qu Tutong's roar, he could only use the same words, "Your Highness has ordered, I have to obey..."

Qu Tutong picked up Li Sixing and brought him in front of him, roaring and questioning him.

Changsun Wuji understood Li Shimin's feelings very well, and the generals and officers in the hall could also understand it.

"If he is not happy with me, he can tell me. Can't I just take the blame for him? Why would he destroy the grain? Just for a chance?"

Li Yuanji was not burning food, he was burning the lives of millions of people!!

Li Shimin felt the power coming from Changsun Wuji's hand and came back to his senses.

"There are 300,000 dan of grain in there! 300,000 dan of grain, if you eat it sparingly, it is enough for millions of people to survive this cold winter! You are not burning grain, you are burning lives!"

Li Shimin's mind was a little empty, and he ignored Changsun Wuji.

His cruelty has exceeded people's cognition.

Why do you covet the grain here, and what qualifications do you have to covet the grain here? !

Feng Li no longer had the momentum just now in Li Sixing's questioning, and his brain lost its thinking, allowing Li Sixing to beat him.

He didn't believe that Li Yuanji would give such an order.

"When..."

Changsun Wuji hurriedly asked, "Your Highness, what happened?"

Changsun Wuji did not look at the letter in Li Shimin's hand, but looked at Li Shimin and said, "What happened?"