Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Chapter 426: Sand and soil exchange for food

When Chu Xiang received the news from outside the city, he sneered, took out the carrier pigeon and released the news.

Later, he asked people to go out of the city to appease the refugees outside the city, and asked them to stay where they were. Once the army passed, they could collect money and call it a day.

Yes, these refugees outside the city were all arranged by Chu Xiang according to Chu Xin's orders.

As Chu Xin's base camp, Luoyang would naturally not be able to gather so many refugees.

The reason why it cost so much to put on such a scene was mainly because he didn't want Li Shimin to enter Luoyang City.

Now in the entire Luoyang City, the official governor is Qu Tutong, but the actual person in charge is Chu Xin. Even Chu Xiang was sent there by Chu Xin.

Qu Tutong had been seriously ill for a long time, and he was just barely able to breathe at this time.

Chu Xin used Qu Tutong to control the entire Luoyang City. If Li Shimin or others moved in at this time, it would not be difficult to see something fishy from some details.

In order to prevent interested people from noticing her layout, Chu Xin had no choice but to recruit a large number of people from the surrounding areas to dress up the refugees.

After all, these people had indeed been refugees a few months ago, and now they were pretending to be refugees to make up the numbers. If you didn't look carefully, you still wouldn't be able to spot them.

When Li Chengqian received the order from Li Shimin, he was completely confused.

He didn't expect that his father would ask him to go to Chu Mo for food.

He had offended Chu Mo completely and completely, and now notices wanting him were plastered all over Chang'an City.

Let alone buying food from him now, Li Chengqian estimated that if he appeared in front of Chu Mo, the other party might stab him a few times and then torture him severely.

After much deliberation, Li Chengqian finally had no choice but to take Li Shimin's secret order and go to a side room.

Looking at the young monk in front of him, Li Chengqian didn't say much nonsense, directly handed him the secret edict in his hand, and then asked:

"My father's meaning is very clear. Now you also know the situation. Chu Mo and I are no longer on good terms. This idea was yours. Shouldn't you give me a satisfactory explanation?"

The young monk bowed to Li Chengqian, said with a sigh of relief:

"Your Majesty, don't be anxious. Right now, His Majesty the Emperor is most worried about the lack of food and fodder. If we can get all the food and fodder His Majesty needs, this situation will be solved."

"Gathering together food and grass? Hahahaha, that's nice to say. Chu Mo's grandson is like a mouse now. He doesn't know where he is hiding. Where do you want me to get food? Could it be that I want to kill you monks for meat?"

Li Chengqian laughed angrily and glared at the young monk fiercely, as if if the other party didn't give him a satisfactory explanation, he would really make his blood splatter today.

"Amitabha, it's just food and grass. Your Highness, you are in trouble."

"Okay, haha, okay, it's just grain and grass, that's all right, little monk, you go and get it for me now. If you can't get the grain and grass my father needs within three days, then I will cook you directly and divide it. Eat it.”

With that said, Li Chengqian threw away his sleeves angrily.

Seeing Li Chengqian leaving, the young monk smiled contemptuously, then picked up the pen and paper beside him and started writing.

Not long after, a homing pigeon flew out of the little monk's window.

Unfortunately, before the carrier pigeon could fly out of the Prince's Mansion, it was caught by a jade hand, and then the carrier pigeon and the man disappeared into the night.

In the next two days, Li Chengqian would come to the young monk's room every day, first urging him to find a way to get food and grass as soon as possible, then roaring, and finally almost begging him for help.

The young monk was calm and confident from beginning to end. He just asked Li Chengqian to wait for the news.

Sure enough, on the night of the third day, the young monk asked someone to bring a message to Li Chengqian, saying that the food had been transported outside the city and asked him to send someone to take it over.

After hearing the news, Li Chengqian didn't care that there was still a curfew, and immediately led the guards of the Prince's Mansion to open the city gate and let the convoys transporting grain and grass directly into the city.

The handover of grain and grass went very smoothly. Both parties paid and delivered the goods. Li Chengqian bought the grain at [-]% higher than the current market price.

For Li Chengqian, who has made a lot of money, he doesn't even care about this small amount of money.

Since the night was dark and Li Chengqian was eager to bring the food back to the city, he only roughly checked a few bags of food. After confirming that there was no problem, he directly ordered the food to be brought back to the city.

As soon as the food and grass were brought back to the city, Li Chengqian immediately sent someone to tell Li Shimin the good news and agreed on a time to deliver the food.

After arranging all this, Li Chengqian finally let go of his hanging heart.

And because he had solved a major event, he was in a happy mood and specially arranged a banquet to reward all the generals and guards in the mansion. Everyone was very drunk.

Early the next morning, Li Chengqian struggled to get up from the arms of his two concubines and went directly to prepare for the transportation of grain and grass.

This was the first thing his father asked him to do since he left Beijing and took charge of the country. He must do it himself.

The process of transporting grain and grass went very smoothly. Li Chengqian felt extremely excited as he watched the carts of grain and grass being transported out of the Prince's Mansion.

However, when he thought that Chu Mo was still at large, he couldn't calm down.

Then he said to the guard on the side: "It's been a few days, how have the officials in the Ministry of Personnel been doing? There has been no news about Chu Mo for so long? Please help me tell them, if they can't be caught again, then They just stop doing it."

The guards took the order and immediately galloped towards the officials.

Seeing that the people under him were doing things so smoothly, Li Chengqian nodded with satisfaction. Just as he was about to turn around and go back home, he saw a rocket flying from nowhere and landing directly on the grain truck.

Suddenly there was a sound all around: the sound of putting out a fire.

At this time, Li Chengqian was also frightened by the arrow, and he was deeply afraid that there would be more than one rocket. He hurriedly commanded the guards in the mansion to search for the assassin and find Dongxie to put out the fire.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that the rocket inserted in the grain bag only burned at the arrowhead for a while and then automatically extinguished, while the contents of the bag showed no sign of catching fire.

Wait until the guard comes forward and pulls out the arrow.

What came out of the bag was not the food that people imagined, but handfuls of dust.

Seeing the dust slowly flowing out, everyone was stunned and looked back at Li Chengqian in disbelief.

They knew that this batch of food was obtained with great difficulty by His Highness the Crown Prince at a huge cost.

The key is that this batch of food is to be sent to the front line to supply His Majesty the Emperor's army.

If it were all soil. . . .

No one dared to think further and looked at Li Chengqian in shock.

At this time, Li Chengqian was also shocked by the sand flowing out of the bag.