Chapter 492 (1/2)

Li Hong and Yan Lingbin slowly walked down from the carriage. Although he was used to the life in the East Palace and even the Imperial Palace, he was not used to the situation where people saluted as soon as they got off the train.

Looking at several courtiers saluting to the prince, the officials behind her, who are also high-ranking officials in her eyes, are submissive. At this time, they have no voice at all. They can only follow the other officials, smile and enjoy themselves with the prince's highness talking and laughing with the other two officials.

Although he was once known as a flower queen, he was also the focus of scholars, elegant scholars and scholars, but compared with the scene in front of him, Yan Lingbin was deeply aware of the gap between power and reputation.

Originally thought that he had met the people, is the whole world, never thought that one day I can stand with these people together, and is not the identity of accompany.

Yan Lingbin, Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi nodded to each other to show that they knew each other. They followed Li Hong, listened to two important Tang officials, and explained to his Highness the prince Wu's mansion.

The front and rear courtyards of King Wu's mansion, which occupied a quarter of the square, were all in ruins. The gardens and leisure places originally built in the early years were also burned by a fire.

After circling around the palace of King Wu, Li Hong asked faintly, ”has the Ministry of punishment decided? Or is it the job of the Jingzhao government? ”

Although Fang Xianzhong knew that the prince's highness knew why, he had to accompany the prince to perform the play in front of many officials, so he stepped forward and said, ”back to your highness, it was the jingzhaofu who arrived first on the day of the incident. It was the people of the Jingzhao mansion who found out the cause of the fire. So the Ministry of punishment and Dali temple did not start this matter.”

”Well, have you found out? What the hell is going on? ” Li Hong looked at Fang Xianzhong and asked.

”This Your highness, a moment later, the governor of Jingzhao mansion, Mr. Chuke, is coming. How about reporting to you? As the Minister of the Ministry of industry... ”

”Well, listen to you. How are your decisions going? It's not convenient to meet in the palace. Now I've brought it to you. You can elaborate on how to rebuild the ruins. ”

With the help of other officials, Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi were led to the drawing by Yan Lingbin.

They were in charge of the Imperial Palace and palace buildings, the production of precious utensils made of gold, jade, pearls and rhinoceros, as well as embroidery of gauze and satin.

Therefore, if Li Hong wanted to build a residence for Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi and a leisure palace for his father, he had to implement it through the supervision department and the Ministry of labor.

Yan Lingbin's role appeared at this time. He had stayed in the folk, and had been to the homes of many high-ranking officials and nobles. Now he is a member of the east palace. Although he has no experience in architecture, his unique vision can give Zhang Lushui and Jin Rongqi some advice.

Li Hong was not very interested in this matter. What he had to do was to arrange the construction of the ruins after the Spring Festival before his father came back.

In any case, they are all demolished. After a big fire, they will be more thorough, so we can simply rebuild them. In this way, I'm afraid the emperor will be happy.

After a while, Zong Chuke came to him panting for breath and said, ”Your Highness, forgive me for coming late.”

Li Hong frowned: ”what are you busy with every day? Where have you been in the morning

”I haven't been in Chang'an these days. I've gone to the surrounding counties. Alas It's hard to say Zong Chuke shakes his head and sighs. It seems that he has encountered some problems.

”Tell me, what's the matter?” Li Hong was very curious. Looking at the three women around the prison, he sat down on the shaft of the cart and asked Zong Chuke, who was full of sweat.

”Well, your highness, there is not enough food in Chang'an now. In the past two years, the grain output has decreased dramatically. Because of this, the minister has negotiated with the sinang temple for many times, but they have no way to make progress. Nowadays, the common people begin to grow cotton instead of grain. Because there is too much demand for cotton from the supervisors, the temple and the traders, the price of cotton is going up, and the people are trying to make money No, the land has been abandoned and we are waiting for cotton planting in the coming year. I went to the farmland to check these two days, but I couldn't see any green seedlings. If it goes on like this, in another two years, I'm afraid that the grain going back to luocang will be hollowed out. ” Zong Chuke frowned. He thought it was a good thing to grow cotton. However, in order to make more money, the common people simply left their land in the wild after the cotton harvest and did not plan to plant crops in the next year.

However, in the face of the food shortage in Chang'an, Guanzhong and other areas, no one paid attention to it. Instead, it encouraged people to plant cotton and abandon grain, hoping to purchase more cotton in the coming year.