In April of the third year of Zhenguan, a widespread drought broke out. The people in the disaster-stricken areas had to migrate everywhere and had no food to store. The county officials provided additional relief.

Li Shimin began to hold court in Taiji Hall day and night, and sent Zhangsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others to pray for rain in famous mountains and rivers, and Zhongshu Sheren Du Zhenglun and others to comfort and console the states in the interior. He also ordered civil and military officials to submit sealed memorials, describing as much as possible the gains and losses of government affairs.

The atmosphere in the whole Chang'an was tense.

All civil and military officials knew that after the sage ascended the throne, he issued many decrees to improve people's livelihood and carried out drastic reforms in order to make the people rich as quickly as possible and fill the national treasury so that he could send troops to foreign countries.

However, natural disasters occurred one after another, and the national treasury alone would be emptied for disaster relief.

Since the beginning of the year, the imperial court has raised disaster relief funds from aristocratic families, civil and military officials three times.

Early in the morning of that day, Yuan Yuan brought her daughter, Baibai and Xiaohei into the palace.

The little boy carried a small bag on his chest, Baibai had a bamboo basket hung around his neck, Xiaohei was strong and had two bamboo baskets hung on him, and even the baby pig had a small cloth bag tied on his back.

A group of four broke into the Tai Chi Hall.

"Uncle Erlang, Yuanyuan is here with some money!!!"

The hall suddenly became quiet.

Li Shimin looked at the little boy with his friends running into the hall with a complicated expression. With the help of Zhang Ananda, they unloaded three small bamboo baskets and two bundles, one large and one small.

The bear-wolf dog squatted obediently on the side, and Yuan Yuan began to unpack the bundle with grunts.

Zhang Anan glanced at Li Shimin and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, shall I take the princess to the rear hall?"

Li Shimin raised his hand to stop him: "No need, just register here."

He looked at the ministers below:

"The Minister of Rites Lu Kuan, the Minister of Works Duan Lun, the Secretary General Yu Shinan, the Minister of the Secretariat Wei Zheng, and the Imperial Censor Xiao Yu were present to review it, and the Minister of the Secretariat Wen Yanbo personally entered it."

This was because they were dissatisfied with the aristocratic families' perfunctory attitude towards donating money, and wanted to use this incident to give them a slap in the face.

Let them see that children have a sincere heart and care about the world.

Those court officials and scholars who were supported by the people had no compassion at all.

Several people chosen by Li Shimin walked up to Yuan Yuan and saw the little boy shaking a bunch of treasures onto the ground.

Yu Shinan was good at collecting antiques and jades, and he shouted anxiously: "Stop!!!"

The seventy-year-old man seemed to be possessed by Hercules and moved the little fat boy away from the pile of treasures.

Yuan Yuan pouted and squatted beside Bai Bai.

As a result, all the treasures on the ground fell into the eyes of the ministers below.

Any one of them can be passed down from generation to generation, which shows how favored this little princess is in the palace.

Several ministers couldn't wait to start identification.

Li Shimin, the emperor, had red eyes.

Although he and the emperor intentionally indulged the child in treasure hunting, this little guy could only steal a few items each time.

I’m afraid I didn’t bring all of them this time, most of them are here.

His eyes swept through the treasures.

Wait a minute, that bronze seal doesn't look like it was made during the Han and Tang dynasties???

He walked over in two or three steps, picked it up and took a look.

This is the private seal of the King of Qin before Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms!!!

He picked up another large white jade seal, with "Seal of Zhao" engraved on the bottom in large Zhou Dynasty seal script.

The national seal of Zhao, one of the seven major powers in the Warring States Period!!!

Li Shimin felt unwell.

Didn’t the history books record that after the King of Qin conquered Zhao, he burned Handan, and after Xiang Yu conquered Qin, he “burned the Qin palaces, and the fire lasted for three months”? ? ?

Where did all this come from???

If it’s not his treasure, then it could be from the private collection of the retired emperor???

It was well preserved and there was no news at all. It seemed that his Aye was even more secretive than he thought!!!

Li Shimin handed the two seals to Yu Shinan, the oldest one. Several old men gathered in a circle and were very excited after confirming that they were not fakes.

His Majesty the Emperor returned to the seat and sat down with mixed feelings.

He felt that he and the retired emperor had resolved their misunderstandings, but it seemed that the retired emperor had never truly opened his heart to him.

Yuan Yuan, who was squatting nearby, got tired and sat down on the ground.

The baby pig beside her also sat down like her mother, but it couldn't sit steadily and fell sideways.

Baozhu was unwilling to give up, so he sat down again and turned over again.

Finally, he cried and curled up in his mother's arms.

Yuan Yuan was also very worried.

Her baby daughter has recently been trying to learn how to eat meat with her hands and how to walk on two feet like her.

The good mother was so happy at first, and patiently taught her daughter how to drink soup with a spoon, grab meat with her hands, and walk on her hind legs, but she couldn't learn any of them!!!

When Yuan Yuan was a child, she didn’t like drinking nutrient solution, and her father taught her how to eat and chew meat.

But as a mother, she was unable to teach her daughter.

She felt frustrated.

While everyone else was busy, Yuan Yuan quietly told Uncle Erlang about this matter.

Li Shimin never expected to hear such shocking secrets in his lifetime.

He stroked his beard and said, "Why not release the precious pig and let it learn to hunt outside before coming back?"

"Wasn't it the same for Da Huang and the others before?"

Mastiffs are fierce by nature. If they are sent to the northern grasslands, they should be able to develop their wild nature, right?

If you let the child continue to be raised, the puppies will grow up to be monsters.

Yuan Yuan scratched his chin and his eyes lit up.

Without waiting for the hall to finish recording, she ran away with the bear-wolf dog.

Yu Shinan and his companions felt their hearts bleed as they watched these treasures being registered.

If this were to fall into the hands of the common people, its final fate would be to become a burial object of a noble family and never see the light of day again.

What a pity.

But nowadays, natural disasters occur frequently, and almost all the national funds accumulated in the past two years have been lost.

If all the people are gone, what's the point of guarding these dead things?

At this time, Yuchi Jingde in front spoke:

"Your Majesty, my eldest son is marrying the Wang family of Taiyuan, and the betrothal gift alone cost 800,000 strings of cash. Now my second son is marrying the Zheng family of Xingyang, and the expense is another million strings of cash."

"I have figured it out. I don't need to marry a daughter of an aristocratic family to improve my reputation, and the Yuchi family doesn't need to raise their status by marrying into a clan. I will use all of the one million strings of gift money I have prepared for the disaster-stricken people!!!"

"Please return these treasures to my brother!"

Originally, Yuchi Baoqi was going to marry the young lady from Zheng family in Xingyang this year, but the Zheng family members were arrogant and kept raising the price, which made Yuchi Jingde almost die of anger.

As his son said, it doesn’t matter if this marriage fails!

He just couldn't believe it. His son Yuchi Jingde couldn't get a wife? !

It would be better to donate all the money and leave these treasures to his brother.

Others may not know, but how could he not know? Those were the betrothal gifts that his younger brother had saved up for Da Huang and the others!!!

As a brother, how could he make his sworn brother sad?

Li Shimin looked at Yuchi Jingde with approval.

The officials of Zheng family in Xingyang were trembling in fear below.

Soon, a civil servant of Zheng family spoke up:

"Your Majesty, the Zheng family of Xingyang is willing to donate 2 million strings of cash."

"I believe that God will bless the Tang Dynasty. The natural disaster will soon pass. It is not Princess Yongchang's turn to empty her private treasury to bear the national crisis."

"Your Majesty, please return the princess's beloved things to her."

Other big families and court officials responded one after another.

The amount donated this time is more than all the previous donations combined.

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