Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 291
"Do you know what father is worried about now?"

Princess Jiu nodded: "Isn't the father just worried about not being able to buy food?"

Li Yuan smiled wryly: "That's right, as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor couldn't even solve this problem. I'm really ashamed of the throne."

"Father is worrying too much. I want my son to say that it is not easy for father to get food. How many of the big families in Chang'an City are clean? As long as father finds some excuses to destroy his family , Confiscate their food property, I see if other people dare to raise the price of food."

What she said was a bit extreme. After the nine princesses finished speaking, she raised her head and glanced at Li Yuan slightly, for fear that he would disagree, but Li Yuan just frowned suddenly, pondered, and then nodded immediately: "Good idea, good idea, special period, It is only possible to use iron and blood methods. It is impossible for me to watch Qingzhou continue to be in the hands of Tuyuhun, nor can I watch my Tang army be defeated. Since those people don't think about my Tang, then don't blame me for being rude. "

Li Yuan agreed without much hesitation, Princess Jiu was deeply surprised, how could Qin Tian's method be so effective, he said that his father would agree, would he really agree?
Princess Nine's expression moved slightly, and she seemed to understand something soon.

The emperor is ruthless, but what is it to him to destroy a few big families?
The emperor only looks at the pros and cons.

After the ninth princess understood it, she naturally knew that Qin Tian came up with this idea precisely because of seeing this point, and at this moment, she finally understood why he said that this idea was not suitable for him.

Like this kind of thing that sees through the essence of the emperor, she and the nine princesses can talk about it, because their relationship is close, but a courtier like Qin Tian can't talk about it. If he talks about it, Li Yuan will be jealous.

After thinking of this, Princess Jiu didn't stay in the palace any longer, and left soon. She was worried that Li Yuan would ask who gave her advice, and if her father became suspicious at that time, Qin Tian would suffer disaster.

After the Ninth Princess left, Li Yuan immediately found his cronies, and ordered: "In Chang'an City, don't look for those aristocratic families, but for those who are not too big or small. Find out the crimes they committed as soon as possible, and then hand over to the Ministry of Punishment to ransack the house."

In fact, relatively speaking, the aristocratic family did the most illegal things, but their foundation is too strong, even Li Yuan has to be afraid, so this kind of thing can't be approached by them.

And the family with too little influence can't play the role of killing chickens and monkeys, so those who are in the middle can only wrong them.

After Li Yuan's cronies left, they searched for a lot of evidence of crimes committed by members of these families in the morning of the next day. The crimes committed by these people were not enough to rob the house, but there were quite a few murders. .

So early in the morning, when the Ministry of Punishment led people to search the house, these people had no way to refute it, and the common people watched it very enjoyablely to relieve their anger.

After all, it is impossible to say that these people have never bullied ordinary people, so the people are naturally very happy to see this situation.

One morning, the Ministry of Criminal Justice raided five houses in a row. The food and money seized from these five houses was quite a lot. The food was almost [-] shi, and the money was even more numerous.

And in one morning, this matter spread throughout Chang'an City.

For a while, many families were panicked, and even those from the aristocratic families became nervous.

"This...how can this be done, the Holy One is angry."

"When the emperor got angry, he bled for thousands of miles. I'm afraid this is just the beginning."

"Then...then what should we do?"

"The Holy Majesty did all this to raise food and grass, so we just need to lower the price of food."

There must be many smart people in the big family. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell why Li Yuan did something like this this morning, so in order to avoid the same fate, they can only satisfy Li Yuan.

In the afternoon, many families had already lowered the price of food, and the price was lower than the previous normal price.

Zhao Jing, Minister of the Household Department, was not idle here either. Taking advantage of the price reduction of these families' food, he immediately started to purchase frantically, which really took advantage of it.
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Qin Mansion, Qin Wu quickly reported the situation in Chang'an to Qin Tian.

After hearing this, Qin Tian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Before a person's power is not strong enough, there will be no good end to going against the court.

Even those aristocratic families will not end well if they offend the emperor.

Those who took the opportunity to raise prices obviously didn't realize this. They didn't know that if the imperial court wanted to punish a person, they could just find an excuse to kill him.

And this time Li Yuan's excuse is very popular, in fact, many people are very happy to see those who live better than them suffer disaster.

This is the inferiority of human beings.

Raising food and grass is definitely not a problem now, but the most important thing next is to deliver the food to Li Shimin's military camp as scheduled.

According to the current speed, if you travel day and night after departure, there will definitely be no problem, but I'm afraid that someone has bad intentions.

Qin Tian was worried.

Here in the East Palace, Li Jiancheng had already heard the news. What happened today was so sudden. He never thought that his father would attack those powerful families so quickly.

Completely caught off guard.

And after doing this, his previous plan was ruined.

"How could this be? Why would the father think of raiding the house? Isn't this the same as raising a pig and waiting for him to eat fat and slaughter it?"

Li Jiancheng smiled wryly. When he said this, even he himself admired his father a little. In fact, as the emperor, he can train a few such people at ordinary times. up.

But now is not the time to admire this.

"Mr. Song, what should we do in this situation?"

Song Gongqing was obviously also a little shocked, because he didn't expect Li Yuan to act so rudely, but Li Yuan did just that, and the effect seemed to be pretty good.

However, Song Gongqing didn't think they had no chance now.

"His Royal Highness, don't worry, the food and grass are ready, and they must be delivered to King Qin. As long as His Royal Highness is willing to sacrifice one person and order him to be responsible for escorting the food and grass, we can still achieve our goal by dragging him for four or five days on the way. .”

Four or five days is enough to cause some bad things to happen to Li Shimin's army without military supplies.

Of course, according to Li Jiancheng's method, it must not be as simple as delaying for four or five days. Whether the food can be delivered in full will become a big problem.

After hearing Song Gongqing's method, Li Jiancheng thought for a while and said, "Come here, go and announce Duanmu Liang to the East Palace."

Obviously, Li Jiancheng was preparing to sacrifice Duanmu Liang.

(End of this chapter)