Man Tanghong

Chapter 641 It Looks Like Your Highness Guessed Right

"Your Highness, isn't 30 shi grains enough?"

Master Yang howled.

He knew very well in his heart that the reason why Li Yuanji didn't take up his words and instead let him go back to rest was because Li Yuanji was not satisfied with the price he offered.

Li Yuanji saw that Yang Shidao had spoken, so he didn't hide it anymore, "Oh, 30 shi of grain, how about sending beggars? When my second brother went to the east, he gave you a little bit of benefits, so you gave it to me." My second brother has [-] shi of grain.

Now I have given you the entire family property of the Li family in Zhaozhou, but you are only willing to give me 30 shi of grain.

Do you think I'm a bully or a fool? "

Yang Shidao's face turned red all of a sudden, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You can't count the food you forcibly obtained from our clan!"

The reason why the Yang family supplied Li Shimin's army with [-] shi of grain at the beginning was because after the Yang family reached a deal with Li Shimin, Li Yuanji used the fact that he was also Yang's son-in-law, why did the Yang family give Li Shimin food but not him? With an excuse, he forcibly extorted part of the food from the Yang family.

This made Yang's supply of grain to Li Shimin's army in the Eastern Expedition exceed [-] shi.

Part of this was traded by Li Shimin, and the other part was extorted by Li Yuanji.

Now Li Yuanji said together that in Yang Shidao's view, it was a bit shameless.

Li Yuanji is not a pure Tang person. If he had to choose between food and face, he would naturally choose food without hesitation, so he pretended not to hear what Yang Shidao said, and continued: "I gave you the opportunity , since you don’t care about it or take it seriously, forget it, there’s no need to talk about it, you can go back.”

While Li Yuanji was speaking, he waved his hands indifferently.

Yang Shidao clenched his teeth even more, making a loud noise, but he did not leave, but bent slightly, hiding his face, and said in a heavy and difficult voice, "How much food do you need to be satisfied?"

Li Yuanji stretched out a finger without hesitation and said, "One million stone!"

Yang Shidao raised his head suddenly, his face full of horror.

This is life-threatening!

Although Yang's family has a great business, there is no way to produce so much food in one go.

"Your Highness, although my Yang family has ten thousand hectares of fertile land, I can't afford so much food. Even if my Yang family's wealth is emptied, I still can't get it!"

Yang Shidao said anxiously.

Li Yuanji said indifferently: "That's your Yang family's business, it has nothing to do with me."

Yang Shidao said with a cloudy expression on his face, "This matter..."

Li Yuanji interrupted without waiting for him to finish speaking: "You want to say that you can't make up your mind on this matter, and you have to go back and discuss it?"

Yang Shidao nodded subconsciously.

Li Yuanji said again: "I have asked you to discuss it once, and I only give you a chance to discuss it once, if you still want to discuss it, then there is no need to discuss it again.

Because I have no time to wait for you. "

Yang Shidao opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

Li Yuanji continued: "I won't hide it from you, Qinghe Cui and Fanyang Lu have already sent people to look for me, if you Yang don't give me an answer as soon as possible, then I can only talk to them.

I believe that they should be more decisive and generous after seeing your Yang family's fate. "

When Yang Shidao heard this, his face changed drastically, and he subconsciously asked: "Who are those in the court?"

Li Yuanji didn't hide anything, and nodded.

He didn't lie to Yang Shidao either, Qinghe Cui's people and Fan Yang's Lu's people had indeed contacted him, but they hadn't made an offer yet.

It's not that the two can't afford to make a price, but that he didn't let the two make a price.

In the matter of carve-up of the Zhaozhou Li family, he would rather take advantage of the Yang family than the Qinghe Cui family and Fan Yang Lu family.

Because these two families are already prosperous enough, Qinghe Cui's family members are all over Hebei Province, and they also have industries in various places in Hebei Province. Let them eat up Zhaozhou's Li's family business, and they will become a threat to Li's family. of a wealthy family.

This kind of aristocratic family should not exist.

Fan Yang and the Lu family also have multiple families, and the relationship is quite close. The industries involved in the family are all over the world. The family wealth can no longer be described as rich, but terrifying.

Its influence is not inferior to the Cui family, and it is called "Cuilu" together with the Qinghe Cui family and the Boling Cui family.

Letting them swallow up Zhaozhou Li's family business will also become a threat to Li's family.

So in this matter, he is more inclined to Yang's.

Of course, if the Yang family can't come up with enough price, then he can only divide the family business of the Li family in Zhaozhou into two and sell it to the Cui family of Qinghe and the Lu family of Fan Yang.

As long as they operate properly, the Qinghe Cui family and Fan Yang Lu family can't digest Zhaozhou Li's family business in a short period of time, and they won't become a threat to Li's family.

After repelling the Turks, it would not be too late to go back and deal with them.

"Can you give me another day, I will definitely give you an answer within a day."

Yang Shidao spoke quickly.

When people are doing business, they are most afraid of someone coming out to compete.

Once someone comes out to compete, it is easy for people to get confused.

There is no doubt that Yang Shidao is in a mess now.

Li Yuanji thought for a while and said: "One day is not enough, I don't have that much time anymore, I can only give you three hours, and I will reply after three hours."

When Li Yuanji said this, he waved his hand, indicating that Yang Shidao could go.

Yang Shidao hesitated for a moment, agreed decisively, and quickly left the Hall of Martial Virtue.

Not long after, members of the Yang clan in Beijing gathered at Yang Shidao's son-in-law's mansion.

At night, Yang Shidao negotiated with the clansmen and came to a conclusion, agreeing to Li Yuanji's price.

However, there was a little disturbance in the middle, that is, the Yang family included more than 7 shi of grain that Su Dingfang and others robbed.

Li Yuanji objected to this.

"I asked you Yang to give me an answer within three to five days, but you made me wait for half a month. Isn't there a price to pay?"

In the Hall of Martial Virtue, the lights had already been turned on, and Li Yuanji sat where the lights were flickering, staring at the tired Yang Shidao and questioning him.

Yang Shidao opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say another word.

At this point, there is no need to worry too much about this matter. Li Yuanji is simply lying on Yang's back to suck blood. As long as Yang still cares about Li's family business in Zhaozhou, he can only do whatever he wants Li Yuanji slaughtered.

The grain of 100 million shi has been given, and it is hard to say anything more about 7 shi, just as a bonus.

In the end, the two parties agreed that the 100 million shi of grain would be delivered in ten installments, four of which would be shipped to the granary in Luoyang to fill the emptiness of the granary in Luoyang, and six to Chang'an to fill the emptiness of the granary in Chang'an.

On the second day after agreeing on the delivery method, Yang Shidao took the servants in his house to escort the [-] shi of grain to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for delivery.

Li Yuanji suddenly felt that he seemed to be missing.

Because according to secret reports from various spies in Chang'an City, Yang Shidao didn't spend much time raising these grains at all. He just moved the granary in the mansion with his people and the granary in the Princess Mansion to get it all together.

It is said that there is still surplus grain in the granaries of his mansion and the princess mansion.

However, the granaries of Yang's other clansmen in Beijing have not been moved, nor has the grain in the grain shop Yang opened in Beijing.

Yang's grain storage in Hongnong's several places did not move.

Li Yuanji's desire to kill pigs became even stronger.

Because he clearly felt that it was not that there was no food in the Tang Dynasty, and it was not that the Tang Dynasty did not have enough food to supply to the people, but that the dignitaries and wealthy families had collected most of the food on the market and stored it in In my own granary, I would rather watch the grain moldy in the granary than take it out for sale.

This caused a dilemma that the imperial court did not have enough food and grass to supply the army, nor did they have enough food and grass to relieve the common people, even though this year was a bumper harvest year.

This is the same reason that rich people bury their money in the ground and are unwilling to circulate it in the market, causing a money shortage in the country.

Although these grains and money are earned by others and they can dispose of them at will, but if the money and grain earned by occupying a considerable amount of the country's resources are not used to supply the country, it is not good for the country.

After a long time, there will be a shortage of food and money.

Food is okay, there are new ones every year, but there is only so much money, if you hoard some, there will be less on the market, and if you hoard more, there will be less circulation on the market.

If the country can find new mine veins and make more money, it's okay.

If you can't find it, there will be a money shortage.

There will be major turmoil in the country's economy.

Therefore, from the perspective of those in power, these people are all pigs and should be killed.

What those in power need to protect is never the interests of a certain person or a group of people, but the interests of the vast majority of people.

As long as the interests of the vast majority of people can be safeguarded well, the position under the ass of those in power will be as stable as Mount Tai.

At least, there won't be too many people against you in the country, and there won't be too much disturbance.

As for the outside of the country, that is another problem.

Li Yuanji has a lot of ways to break the dilemma of dignitaries and rich families monopolizing money and food. Whether it is developing Yunnan copper, issuing Jiaozi, or transporting grain from south to north, and vigorously promoting rice planting, this problem can be solved.

However, now is not the time to solve this problem.

What needs to be resolved most now is the incident committed by the Turks.

September 25.

The [-] Turkic troops approached Yanmen Pass, Chitang Pass and Shiling Pass were also in emergency. The inside of the Tang Dynasty was shocked three times a day, and the people in Taiyuan, Duji Province, and Hebei Province were panicked.

But in Chang'an City, there was a peaceful and peaceful scene. Except that the price of food was a little higher, and Yang Concubine sent some food to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, there was not much change.

Li Xiaogong, who inspected from Yangtuo Temple in Chitang Pass to Yanmen Pass, looked at the Turkic army stretching for several miles outside the pass, not only did not panic, but subconsciously frowned.

Li Shiji was wearing a mountain-patterned armor with a long sword on his waist, standing beside Li Xiaogong, he also frowned and said: "It seems that Your Highness guessed right..."

Li Xiaogong stared at the Turkic army outside the pass, solemnly nodded his head and said: "There seem to be a lot of Turkic people, but there are actually less than 3 people who can control the strings, and the rest are mostly servants and slaves. They want to attack you and me." It is impossible to guard the Yanmen Pass.

Even if we attack Weize Pass guarded by He Fanren, Kan Leng and Niu Xiu, our teeth will be broken.

Not to mention going to Chitang Pass and Shiling Pass to attack Huang Junhan and the others. "

Li Shiji said in a deep voice: "So all the soldiers and horses here are suspicious soldiers, the purpose is to attract a large number of soldiers and horses from our Tang Dynasty, and make the interior empty, so that they can take advantage of it?"

Li Xiaogong nodded and said: "It should be so, but it cannot be ruled out that Xieli is confusing us."

Li Shiji looked at Li Xiaogong and said: "Then what should we do now, should we continue to send people to investigate the news, or send people back to report the news, or do both?"

Li Xiaogong thought for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Let's do both."

Li Shiji didn't seem surprised by Li Xiaogong's choice, nodded his head, and said: "Then if it is found that the Turkic army here is a suspect, and the real Turkic army has gone to Chang'an, how should we deal with it?"

Li Xiaogong was stunned for a moment, then looked at Li Shiji in astonishment and said: "What else can we do, naturally swallow them up, since Jieli dares to use them to fool us, then don't blame us for killing them!"

(End of this chapter)