After seven years of fiefdom, Li Shimin asked me to return and become the crown prince.

"Is your prince really that good?"

Li Shimin was somewhat puzzled. Is Li Kuan really so popular here?

He could see that when this man talked about his prince, his eyes were shining and he was talking freely, but when he thought about the past, his expression began to dim.

Li Shimin's heart began to beat.

"You are from other places and don’t know the situation in Lingnan!" The man sighed, as if recalling some bad memories:

"Lingnan was a miserable place seven years ago. People were living in poverty and people starved to death every year!"

"The famine was severe, many newborns could not be fed, and there was no cure for diseases such as malaria. In addition, the chieftains in the south often plundered the people in Lingnan. The people could not survive, so they went up the mountain to become bandits!"

"So Lingnan is getting more and more chaotic!"

Li Shimin's expression was serious when he heard this.

It was the first time he heard the words in Li Kuan's letter. He didn't expect that it was really like this seven years ago.

""Your Majesty, I said the same thing to this man when I came here more than ten years ago!" Cheng Yaojin whispered in Li Shimin's ear.

Taking a deep breath, Li Shimin continued to ask:"But I see that the people in Lingnan are living a prosperous life now. There are many children playing in the streets, and the people are smiling. They don't look like they have suffered."

The man raised his head and said proudly:"It's all brought to us by my prince!"

"Your prince? But I see your prince enjoying himself in the palace, with maids serving him and delicacies. He doesn't look like he's working hard!"Li Shimin was puzzled.

How could such a cynical boy be admired by so many people?

"It’s not what you think!!" The man shook his head decisively:"The prince was only eight years old when he came to Lingnan that year, and he encountered a locust plague. The people had no harvest, were displaced, and there were starving people everywhere on the road!"

"When the prince saw this, he couldn't bear to see the people suffer, so he donated all the food he brought with him to us, and also sold all his things to other regions to buy food.

However, when other regions learned that Lingnan had suffered a disaster, they tried their best to increase the price of food, and we could only buy the cheapest rice with bran!

" When the man said this, his eyes turned red:"I was one of the people who received relief.

The rice with bran was hard to eat and swallow.

I couldn't eat it for several days because I was hungry.

But during those days, the prince ate and slept with us.

At that time, even the place where we slept was leaking!

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"After solving the problem of food, he took us to dig wells and reclaim wasteland before the season was over, and planted some edible things. Finally, we survived the most difficult year!"

When he spoke, the man was already crying.

He was able to have such a good life now, all thanks to the prince.

Hearing these words, Li Shimin was shocked and silent.

Li Kuan seemed to be only eight years old at that time, and he could do such a thing?

If it were him, Li Shimin, he would probably not be able to do it.

Liu Renyuan and Cheng Yaojin were also shocked. Is the King of Chu so great?

Li Shimin's originally dead heart suddenly loosened.

Putting the people first, thinking about the people in your heart, the people will support you. Isn't this the way to govern the country?

"Then he asked you to build roads? And build cities, and you have no complaints?" Li Shimin was still unwilling to give up. He didn't believe that Li Kuan had no shortcomings:"Wouldn't it be too wasteful for him to do this? It would waste a lot of people's energy!"

"Building city roads? Wasteful?"The man laughed and said,"The prince gave us houses for building the city, and the prince gave us labor fees for building the roads! Why shouldn't we do it!"

"What? Pay you labor fees? Where did he get so much money?"Li Shimin was surprised.

In such a small Lingnan, where else could Li Kuan get money except exploiting the people ?

"hehe...You still don’t know the situation in Lingnan, do you?" The man laughed:

"Under the leadership of the prince, Lingnan planted the rice that the prince personally improved. Even if each acre is not good land, it can produce three stones. Not to mention that the prince also improved two crops of rice. After the first harvest this year, I got as much as three and a half stones. Now Lingnan’s granary has been expanded several times!"

"Our prince said that even if there is a locust plague or drought, the people in Lingnan will not lack food for three to five years, and they can eat for ten years if they are very careful!!"

Hiss~~

These words made Li Shimin and the others take a deep breath.

Is this Li Kuan a hamster? How good is he at hoarding food? No wonder he dares to build city roads unscrupulously. He has a rich family background.

And now that the Chamber of Commerce has been established, the money of the Prince of Chu's Mansion will be rolling in.

Li Shimin suddenly felt that he, as an emperor, could not enjoy as well as Prince of Chu Li Kuan, and he was not restricted by the five surnames and seven nobles.

Li Kuan was too free, and he was supported by the people.

Li Shimin envied him when he thought of this.

Looking at Li Shimin's shocked expression, the man continued to add:"Not only that, in the years of disasters and plagues, the prince personally prepared medicine for malaria patients. After preparing the medicine, he would personally test the medicine, and finally developed a prescription for treating malaria!"

"Lingnan has saved countless lives with its prescriptions!"

"There is this thing?"

Li Shimin was shocked again

"Just a few months ago, the prince was still researching rice cultivation, and some things needed to be done by Wangyue himself, and no one else could do it!!"

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