Datang: Integrate three times the combat power of Lv Bu at the beginning

"Old Wei, I have a meal, why do you always have an opinion!" Cheng Yaojin said while stuffing meat into his mouth.

I can't wait to find all the oil and water that I have lacked these days.

"Okay, okay..." Li Shimin said impatiently: "You two don't argue, eat quickly, we have to hurry after eating."

Suddenly, Zhao Yi made a quiet gesture, and then pointed to the adjacent table.

The three of Li Shimin immediately closed their mouths, with doubts on their faces, and listened attentively.

"Have you heard? The old farmer who sued the Zhang family in Xuzhou City for annexing the land committed suicide a few days ago..."

"Suicide? How could this be? The old man is also a ruthless person. He has sued the Zhang family for two years. He probably didn't know until his death that the prefect of Xuzhou was with the Zhang family..."

"Shhh, you don't want to die, you dare to say this casually, you don't know that the most taboo thing in Xuzhou is to talk about land annexation and prefects, and you don't know how many people lost their lives because of this..."

"What are you afraid of? His eyes and ears can still be inserted here. Besides, today's Tang Dynasty is no longer the era of these corrupt officials playing prestige. Just wait, the court will clean up these corrupt bastards sooner or later..."

After listening to the words at the next table, the three of them could feel the anger emanating from Li Shimin.

click...

The chopsticks were broken in half by Li Shimin.

Snapped!

Li Shimin slapped the broken chopsticks on the table.

"go!"

As he spoke, he walked out of the tavern without looking back.

Wei Zheng hurriedly took out the silver and threw it on the table, "Xiaoer, pay the bill..."

Immediately afterwards, he ran out of the store and followed Li Shimin.

After leaving the store, Li Shimin got on his horse.

"Zhao Yi, lead the way, take me there, where I want to go..."

At this time, even Cheng Yaojin held his breath, not daring to take a breath.

Once Li Shimin gets angry, even he is very afraid.

"Yes, Second Master..."

Zhao Yi got on his horse and galloped towards Xuzhou City.

Wei Zheng who was behind gritted his teeth, got on the horse, and followed closely behind.

Soon...

Several people rushed to Qili Pavilion, about fifty miles west of Xuzhou City.

This is a small city, and there are many villages and towns around Qiliting, and there are many fertile fields along the way.

It was spring plowing at this time, and dense figures of plowing farmers could be seen in the field.

Zhao Yi took the three of them outside a village on the eastern outskirts of Qiliting.

"Second Lord, this is Liu Village, a village with the most fertile land, but also the poorest village..."

Zhao Yi said contradictory words.

But the three of Li Shimin knew the meaning.

"Let's go, take me into the village." Li Shimin said with a gloomy face.

Zhao Yi responded: "Second Master, follow me, we will take the path into the village."

Hearing this, Li Shimin was very surprised, "Why, can't we even enter the village?"

Zhao Yi nodded helplessly, "Although I can't accept it, this is the truth."

"In the boundary of Xuzhou City, many villages have light and dark sentries, and strangers cannot enter at all. Of course, the people in the village are not allowed to come and go at will."

"They will transport the necessities of life to the village and sell them at high prices to the people."

"This is also to prevent leaks."

"Coercion, temptation, intimidation... They are willing to become tenant farmers in order to control the people, and they will do everything they can."

After hearing this, the three of Li Shimin froze in place. It was hard to imagine that such a shocking thing was hidden in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

How is this different from treating the people as slaves?

Shouldn't the people of the Tang Dynasty live and work in peace and contentment, with a prosperous life and surplus food?

"Enter the village." Li Shimin gritted his teeth.

He wanted to see what was hidden under the darkness of the prosperous age.

Passing through patches of fertile fields and a dense forest, under the leadership of Zhao Yi, several people entered the village from a path full of thorns.

Depressed, lonely, desolate...

This is Li Shimin's first impression of the village.

It's hard to imagine that a village surrounded by thousands of acres of fertile land turned out to be such a scene.

Several people walked into the village.

Li Shimin looked at several common people walking on the road.

Hollow, numb, dull...

This is Li Shimin's first impression of the people in the village.

Li Chengqian traveled north and south, blood stained the battlefield, he has seen the suffering people in troubled times.

But I have never seen the numb people in the prosperous age.

This is the sorrow of Datang and the incompetence of the superiors.

"Second Master, come with me..."

Zhao Yi led a few people around the village and stopped in front of a dilapidated house.

He looked around, then climbed over the courtyard wall and entered the courtyard.

moment……

The courtyard door opened, and Zhao Yi waved to the three of them, signaling them to come in.

Behind him stood a skinny man.

"Second Master, this is Liu San..."

"Liu San, call him Second Lord..."

After entering the hospital, Zhao Yi introduced.

"Second Master." Liu San forced a smile and smiled at Li Shimin.

"There's no need to be too polite, we're all our own people..."

Li Shimin smiled awkwardly.

It was the first time that he was so restrained and at a loss in front of his own people.

Li Shimin has experienced big storms, so many years, bloody storms, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the last thing he fears are villains.

But this time, I don't know why.

He felt that he was so incompetent for the first time. He had worked hard for so many years to create the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but the common people were reduced to this level.

"Prosperity? Great Tang? Prosperity?"

Countless words flashed through Li Shimin's mind.

Could it be that these are all his daydreams in Chang'an City, in the Temple of Manna?

Chapter 572

Let's go, let's go into the house and say. "

Zhao Yi led several people into the house.

After entering the house, he looked around and was devastated.

It's hard for Li Shimin to imagine that this is a place where people live.

The house is bare and the four walls describe a person's home, and he can associate it with poverty.

But for Liu San's home, Li Shimin only felt that it was ruined, and if poor was used to describe Liu San's home, it would be fine.

Bare roofs, trembling walls, an empty room with almost no furniture...

"Second Master, sit down..."

Liu San moved out the only stool at home and handed it to Li Shimin.

In his eyes, he was half restrained and half apologetic.

Liu San felt ashamed.

But Li Shimin was more humiliated than him.

This is the home of his people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Liu San said, and wiped the back of Li Shimin's stool with his sleeve.

Li Shimin grabbed his hand, "No... I'll do it myself, I don't think it's dirty."

He said, pulled the stool and sat on it.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Yi said to Liu Sand: "Three, take out the things and show the second master."

"Take it out?" Liu San looked at Zhao Yi in disbelief, his eyes trembling uncontrollably.

These words seemed to touch his taboo.

"If you don't take it out, are you going to take it into the coffin?" Zhao Yi said in a deep voice, "Don't worry, the second master is a big shot from Chang'an. If he can't handle this matter, no one in the world can handle it." Got it."

"This... well, this is alright..." Liu San was very confused.

Li Shimin could see that he took what Zhao Yi said was very important, but he trusted Zhao Yi very much.

After the words fell, Liu San walked into the back room.

moment……

He came out holding a black wooden box, carefully treating it like a treasure.

creak...

Liu San slowly opened the wooden box.

Li Shimin and the others surrounded him curiously.

There is nothing else in the wooden box, just a neat stack of papers.

There are handwritings written on it, and the handwriting is neat and delicate.

"Brother Liu, Second Master, this is all the criminal evidence I have collected about Wu Jun, the prefect of Xuzhou, since the severe drought in Xuzhou."

Trembling, Liu San took out the pile of criminal evidence and handed it to Li Shimin.

I am afraid that it will disappear.

"You wrote all these?" Li Shimin asked in disbelief.

He didn't expect that Liu San, who was so impoverished, could read and write well.

"Second Lord, Liu San is actually a scholar, but his experience is the same as mine. He was reduced to this point because he was writing pleadings for others."

"Otherwise, with his ability, it shouldn't be difficult to make a living in Xuzhou City." Zhao Yi explained to Li Shimin.

"No wonder." Li Shimin shook his head and sighed, his eyes filled with pity.

In the whole world, I don't know how many people like Zhao Yi and Liu San are reduced to the point where they can't eat enough for the common people.

Li Shimin looked down at Wu Jun's crimes.

Among them are not only those of Wu Jun, but also those of some officials in Xuzhou.

"Forcibly robbing civilian women, greedy for money, annexing land, buying and selling by force, buying and selling officials..."