A few days later, it was midnight.

Tang Dynasty, Chang'an, East Palace, Prince's Mansion.

Li Jiancheng was busy writing, and his desk was covered with a large pile of written letters. When the prince of the Tang Dynasty wrote the letter, his face was full of exhaustion, and there was a deep sadness between his brows.

This cold winter, the world is cold. Although Guanlong is located in the Central Plains, the climate may not be much warmer than that of Hebei. Especially in the past few days, there have been several heavy snowfalls in succession, coupled with a cold wind blowing from the northwest, it turned out that in Guanlong

There was a big cold disaster in the Long Land.

Cold disaster!

It’s a shocking word in this era.

There are floods and droughts in the sky, and people are most afraid of cold disasters, because they can avoid floods and droughts, and they can run away with their families when the weather is really tough. However, they cannot avoid cold disasters. This kind of disaster cannot be avoided at all...

Maybe it only takes one night for countless poor people to freeze to death in their homes.

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The world often thinks that the royal family enjoys happiness, but few people know that there are also people in the royal family who live a very tired life. For example, Li Jiancheng, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, was still writing furiously in the middle of the night.

He has written hundreds of letters today.

At this time, the night was getting darker and the weather was getting colder. Since there was a stove burning in the house, the whole house was filled with unpleasant smoke. Li Jiancheng felt a little suffocated and was about to put down his pen and go outside to take a breath.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a few fluttering sounds in the sky, and saw two big black figures appearing in the night, landing almost one after the other.

At this time, Li Jiancheng had just stepped out of the threshold. His expression changed slightly. For some reason, he subconsciously sighed and murmured: "God, open your eyes. This year has been too difficult. Don't be so anxious to report disasters."

Book."

He looked straight at the two large black shadows landing.

They were two Liaodong birds of prey that were bred and domesticated for rapid transmission of messages.

But it was said that after the two falcons landed, a guard quickly ran over. They first fed the falcons with meat, and then stroked them. When the falcons gradually calmed down, they carefully removed the small bamboo tube tied from the talons.

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Two falcons and two bamboo tubes.

This bamboo tube contains messages sent by birds, which is the fastest means of communication in this era.

After the guard took down the two bamboo tubes, he turned around and ran quickly towards Li Jiancheng. He was close in a blink of an eye, but the guard's voice when reporting was a little strange.

The guard said slightly confused: "Your Highness, I have harvested two copies of the Bird's Biography. The bamboo tubes all have the word Hebei written on them. They are all Bird's Biography from Hebei."

"Are they all letters from Hebei?"

Li Jiancheng was startled for a moment, then his eyes flashed and he said anxiously: "Look at the signature, is there any difference?"

In fact, the guard had already seen the signature. Hearing this, he quickly reported again: "To report to His Majesty the Crown Prince, the signatures are indeed different. Although the two letters are both from Hebei, the signatures are different. One bamboo tube has the word "Lu" written on it.

, a bamboo tube with the word Zhao written on it..."

He hesitated for a moment, then added: "The word "Lu" probably comes from Fan Yang's Lu family, but the word "Ning" seems special to me."

Li Jiancheng pondered for a while and suddenly sighed: "The word Zhao refers to Princess Pingyang. So there is no need to guess about this biography. It must be from my sister from Hebei."

The guard was a confidant. When he heard this, he couldn't help but frowned and couldn't help but said: "In the past, when the princess sent bird messengers, the signature was always 'Li'. Why did the signature change this time?"

Li Jiancheng didn't hide it from him, and said with a slight wry smile: "She still had resentment in her heart, so she didn't want to use the character Li anymore. She signed the character 'Zhao', which was the posthumous title of that girl not long ago... Oh, the posthumous title

, posthumous title, this girl is still full of resentment."

These words involved royal insider information, so the guard did not dare to speak again. He just raised two bamboo tubes with both hands and asked softly: "May I ask, Your Highness, which letter do you want to read first? Fan Yanglu is a powerful family in the North, and the princess

His Highness is also based in the north, and both sides sent letters at the same time. They must have written about important events..."

Although he wrote about major events, Li Jiancheng blurted out without hesitation: "Read my sister's letter first."

The guard also did not hesitate, and directly took out an exquisite fire seal from his arms. After blowing it and burning it, he placed it in a bamboo tube. The fire seal was carefully baked continuously, gradually melting the fire paint sealed in the bamboo tube.

After the fire paint was baked, he no longer dared to hold the bamboo tube, but hurriedly handed it to Li Jiancheng, while he walked to one side to avoid suspicion.

Li Jiancheng glanced at him and said: "Bake out the paint on the other bamboo tube. After reading this letter, the lonely king will read that one."

The guard quickly and respectfully agreed, and once again took the fire fold to bake another bamboo tube.

Li Jiancheng hurriedly opened the bamboo tube of Li Xiuning's letter and stood at the door to read.

This bird biography is densely packed with words.

As he read each word, Li Jiancheng's brows gradually furrowed.

For some reason, his hands holding the letter seemed to tremble. After a long time, he took a long breath and said as if with emotion: "You girl, you really dare to think and do..."

This emotion was very complicated, as if it was extremely entangled, but also full of joy.

At this time, the night was cold and windy, but he did not turn around and go back to the house. Instead, he stood at the door and blew the cold wind, looking far away to the north.

He seemed to be in a daze, but also seemed to be gazing.

Suddenly I heard a flurry of footsteps at the door, and someone shouted hurriedly: "Your Highness, Your Majesty is here in person!"

Li Jiancheng was shocked and quickly raised his feet to greet him. Unexpectedly, before he could take a few steps, his father's figure came into view. He quickly bowed and saluted and said respectfully: "Father, why are you here? Ye Leng

It's windy and cold, so you should rest."

But Li Yuan waved his hand towards him and said, "I have something on my mind and I can't sleep, so I just came to see you. I know you won't be able to sleep at this hour."

Li Jiancheng bowed again and said: "My son, I still have some letters to write."

Li Yuan glanced at him and suddenly asked: "Is this a letter of help written to the aristocratic family?"

This was a scary question, but Li Jiancheng did not hesitate, nodded and admitted softly: "Yes!"

Then he explained aloud, with a bitter look on his face: "There was a heavy snowfall in Guanlong and a sudden cold disaster. Many people died of cold and hunger. However, the court could not come up with a good way to provide disaster relief. The ministers just fought for it every day.

Go ahead and make a quarrel, but the people can’t wait for the outcome of the quarrel, so..."

"So you wrote to those aristocratic families, hoping that they would help you again?" Li Yuan suddenly spoke and said what Li Jiancheng was about to explain.

Li Jiancheng still did not hesitate and nodded again and said: "Yes! The reason why I wrote the letter is precisely for this purpose. The ministers quarreled in the court to take advantage of the cold weather to compete for benefits. They couldn't argue with each other, and they didn't do anything.

I care about the civil disaster, but I can’t care less about it, and I have to raise food.”

Li Yuan let out a long sigh, and suddenly said as if he was feeling guilty: "Boss, I've suffered so much for you!"

The founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty slowly stretched out his hand and directly grasped Li Jiancheng's palm in his hand, and said: "Ever since our Li family started the army, you have been constantly running for food and supplies, smiling at people and saying good things to them.

In those battles during the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, our Li family fought against the rebel kings of the world for several years. Although the battles continued year after year, we never ran out of food and grass. The world only saw your brother and sister sweeping the world and establishing illustrious military exploits that attracted everyone's attention.

, but who can think deeply and carefully, who can know the silent sacrifice you have made behind your brothers and sisters."

Li Jiancheng looked calm and said softly: "What do outsiders think of me? What does it have to do with me? Everything I do is for the future of our Li family. It is enough that my second brother knows and my third sister understands these things.

"

Li Yuan glanced at him and suddenly nodded heavily.

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty stretched out his hand and pulled his eldest son to walk. The father and son seemed to be walking in the snow in the yard to enjoy the scenery. Li Yuan said with emotion: "When the Li family started the army, they were weak. Eighteen people in the world rebelled against the king. We

We can't even rank in the rankings. If we are strong and we are weak, we will inevitably struggle to survive. Therefore, my father first went to the Turks to surrender, and then asked you to marry the wife of a noble family as a marriage alliance, and then asked your second brother to continue to make friends with Shandong wealthy families.

The three of us managed to achieve success through hard work, but your sister started from scratch and managed to conquer a lot of land with her hard work. Thinking back to this day, being a father still feels like a dream..."

Li Jiancheng smiled and said sincerely: "That girl Xiuning has really made great achievements."

Li Yuan suddenly spoke and asked: "Then do you understand now why my father came here late at night?"

This was obviously a stupid question, but Li Jiancheng nodded directly without hesitation and said: "I understand that my father should also have received the letter from the third sister."

"good!"

Li Yuan nodded solemnly, his face suddenly became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "During the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the aristocratic family took the opportunity to occupy the land, collect the wealth of the world, and become fat by drinking the blood and marrow of the people. We are father and son. Needless to say foreign words, if our Li family didn't

If we can win the world, then as a top wealthy family, we must also plunder the people and enrich ourselves. This is the way for a family to gain a foothold, and it has been like this for thousands of years... But..."

Li Yuan suddenly stopped talking.

On the contrary, Li Jiancheng spoke immediately and said softly: "But our family has conquered the world now. From now on, it is no longer a family but a royal family."

After transforming from a wealthy family to a royal family, the past things of plundering and enriching the people must no longer be done. Not only cannot it be done, but it must also be reversed. The emperor protects the world and needs to shepherd the people. This is the burden of conquering the world, and it is also the burden of being a person.

Royal responsibility.

Li Yuan was very pleased and reached out to pat Li Jiancheng's shoulder. Suddenly the emperor sighed softly and said with some guilt again: "Boss, I have suffered so much for you!"

He said this once just now.

Li Jiancheng smiled and suddenly said: "My son is the eldest son in the family, how can there be any suffering? In order to compete in the world, our Li family must get help and support from the aristocratic family, but how can it be easy to get the benefits of the aristocratic family? Once

It will be like a tarsal chrysalis for a lifetime, so marriage cannot be done by the second child, nor can it be done by the third sister. Only I, the eldest brother, should be responsible for it. Father, you don’t need to be sentimental.

Let's continue according to the plan..."

These words have deep implications.

Li Yuan stared straight at the eldest son. After a long time, he suddenly burst into tears and said: "Boss, boss!"

The dignified founding emperor actually shed tears in front of his son. Li Jiancheng suddenly panicked and reached out to comfort his old father.

But Li Yuan stretched out his hand to push him away, and said with choked sobs: "Our family's plan is indeed a pain for you, asking you to hook up with the old Guanlong family, and letting your second brother support the emerging Shandong giants. There are thousands of people in the world."
To be continued...