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Chapter 54 Life of Disaster Victims

"His Royal Highness is asking you something!" The guard commander shouted loudly.

"See His Royal Highness"

The person who heard the question in front of him turned out to be His Royal Highness, the soldier pushing the corpse was startled, and quickly put down the cart to salute.

"Tell me what's going on?" Li Chengqian asked sullenly.

"Return to His Royal Highness, these are the people who froze to death last night."

"What? Frozen so many people to death in one night?"

Li Chengqian looked at the corpses on the cart, at least there were hundreds of them.

The soldiers didn't dare to hide, "His Royal Highness, this is only part of the body. The body was transported in the morning, and it hasn't been finished yet."

"How could so many people freeze to death?"

Li Chengqian couldn't accept it. According to what the soldiers said, wouldn't at least thousands of people freeze to death in one night?
The soldier didn't know how to answer, and this kind of thing was not something that a soldier like him should worry about.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian knew that there was nothing he could ask, so Huihui motioned for the guards behind to make way for them to take the corpse out first.

However, Lin Xuan still sat on the horse, not moving at all.

"Lin Xuan, what's wrong with you? Get out of the way." Li Tai called out.

Lin Xuan pulled the horse in a daze and moved aside.

The corpse in front of him gave Lin Xuan a great shock, and his mind went blank.

Judging by the ferocious expressions on the faces of the corpses, one can tell how much they suffered before they died.

After the corpse was transported away and the door was vacant, Li Chengqian got on his horse and entered the camp with his guards.

Lin Xuan followed behind blankly.

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As soon as Li Chengqian entered the camp, he heard the sound of gongs and drums, and saw a large number of victims running out of the surrounding camps, stumbling towards one direction.

Because there were too many people, it quickly crowded into a group.

"Don't squeeze, line up."

A group of soldiers can be seen in the distance maintaining order.

"Let's go and have a look!" Li Chengqian said after getting off his horse.

"Lin Xuan, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing that Lin Xuan didn't respond, Li Chengqian couldn't help asking.

"Your Highness, I'm fine."

Lin Xuan came back to his senses and said with a pale face.

"Aren't you sick? Gu sent someone to take you to see the imperial physician in the palace?" Li Chengqian asked with concern.

"Thank you for your concern, I'm fine." Lin Xuan said.

Seeing Lin Xuan's insistence, Li Chengqian didn't say anything.

Lin Xuan followed behind Li Chengqian, and the scene he had just seen kept replaying in his mind.

In my previous life, I read some books that said that the conditions in ancient times were difficult and the living conditions were poor.

After he traveled, he never had this concept in his mind. The pile of corpses showed him the hardships and difficulties of life in ancient times.

When Li Chengqian walked to the front, he saw several large pots. Looking into the pots, it was like clear water, with a few grains of rice on the bottom of the pots. The most important thing was that there was not even any heat in the pots.

"Chen Wannian County Lord Bo joined His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Wannian county boss Bo heard someone report and hurried out to salute.

"What is this?" Li Chengqian asked coldly.

"Back to His Royal Highness, this is porridge."

"Porridge? I think it's water, right? Are you greedy for the food allocated by the imperial court?" Li Chengqian asked through gritted teeth.

"His Royal Highness is wronged. This is the court's standard for disaster relief. Otherwise, there are so many victims, and they will have to be raised until next year's autumn harvest. How can the court get so much food?" Wannian county boss Bo said aggrievedly.

Li Chengqian was startled, this was his first time participating in disaster relief, and he didn't know if what this person said was true or not.

Taking a deep breath, Li Chengqian calmed down slowly, turned his head and said to Zhou Jie, the commander of the guards, "Go and find Dai Shangshu."

"Impossible to take orders."

"Go and make some thick porridge again for the victims. What's the use of this watery porridge?" Li Chengqian pointed at Bo, the owner of Wannian County.

Wannian county boss Bo was a little embarrassed, seeing Li Chengqian's unquestionable expression, he had no choice but to say, "This humble minister takes orders."

Seeing this, Lin Xuan realized that Li Chengqian, the crown prince, really cared about the common people. If he could be the emperor, he might be a good emperor.

Li Tai sneered in his heart, since he went to Li Shimin to ask for his order, he must have done his homework in advance.

He knew that the court was short of food, so in order to save food to last until next year, he deliberately cooked the porridge very thin.

When Li Chengqian did this, the victims were happy, but Li Shimin was not happy.

Because of this, the food is not enough to last until next year, so there will be troubles later.

It's better to have something to eat now than nothing, and it's better than trouble later on.

However, he didn't intend to remind Li Chengqian, he still hoped that Li Chengqian would use up more food, so that Li Shimin would be even more angry.

"Thank you, Your Highness, Your Highness, your benevolence."

After hearing Li Chengqian's words, many victims couldn't help but knelt down.

Looking at the people kneeling on the ground, Lin Xuan felt very uncomfortable.

At this time, the common people really didn't want much. They were satisfied with enough food and clothing.

When the people ate the re-cooked porridge, Dai Zhou had already arrived.

"See Your Highness the Crown Prince, what is your Highness looking for?" Dai Zhou asked suspiciously.

Li Chengqian asked with a livid face: "Dai Shangshu, the emperor asked you to gather the victims. Is this how you arrange the victims?"

When Dai Zhou came, he had roughly guessed what Li Chengqian was looking for him for.

Hearing Li Chengqian's accountability now, he was not worried, but said in a low voice: "Your Highness, this is not a place to talk, let's go back first."

Li Chengqian was not stupid, he knew there was something hidden in it that he didn't know as soon as he heard it, so he nodded and said, "Go back to the palace."

A group of people came in a hurry, didn't stay long, and rushed back.

Back in the East Palace, after sitting down in the main hall of the East Palace, Li Chengqian looked at Dai Zhou, "Now we can talk about why so many people froze to death, and why they gave the common people that porridge that was like water."

"Your Highness, there is a lack of heating supplies. It is normal for people to freeze to death. As for the porridge problem, the imperial court really does not have much food. Now that the road is blocked by heavy snow, food from other places cannot be transported to Guanzhong. If you don't save some money now Use, once the food is cut off, Guanzhong will be in chaos."

Dai Zhou explained the reason to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian was silent, he usually only dealt with the memorials in the palace, and had no actual contact with real things at all.

"Then what should we do? Even if the heating problem is solved, the people will still starve to death!" Li Chengqian stared at Dai Zhou and asked.

Dai Zhou was silent, what could he do?
"Your Highness, I have a solution!" Lin Xuan stood up and said.

If he could, he really didn't want to get involved with these things, but those frozen corpses kept appearing in his mind.

He felt that he should do something for these poor people.

"What can you do?" Li Chengqian hurriedly asked.

Li Tai and Dai Zhou also stared at Lin Xuan, wanting to see what he could do.

"Your Highness, with coal, the common people have something to keep warm, and now they only need to solve the problem of food." Lin Xuan said lightly.

(End of this chapter)