Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

However, as long as you keep the food in your hands, you will definitely make a lot of money. Now, at this point in time, you are forced to sell it at the market price. It is no longer a matter of making money, but a crazy loss of money. !

"Brother Chen, you are also a businessman, don't you know that taking money from someone is like killing your parents? You have the revenge of killing your father and mother, so you don't care what the Chu King Li You did before!"

Therefore, someone shouted angrily immediately, causing the 840 Lord Chen family's brows to wrinkle even more.

"I'm not speaking for His Royal Highness Chu, but for your sake! Do you understand?" Patriarch Chen said bitterly, "Don't you still recognize it? His Royal Highness is an extremely powerful person, especially It's in business!"

"And at this time, when the order of Hemai was just issued, His Royal Highness the King of Chu must be in urgent need of a person to stand up for, so he came directly to Weizhou, wouldn't he obviously want to use you as a model? At that time, the king and Laozi will not be able to save you. !"

It can be said that no one of the patriarchs who can be the top noble family is stupid, and it can even be said that all of them are extremely smart. Obviously, Patriarch Chen figured out Li You's intention in advance.

Sure enough, after being told by the Chen family, everyone at the scene was like a tortoise, daring to speak any more.

Because of the fact that this is the case, the name of His Royal Highness the King of Chu is so loud now, who knows who does not know who is in the Tang Dynasty?

After a while, someone said weakly: "But if we don't say it, how will he know that we are here to speak unkindly to him..."

As soon as the man finished speaking, the Huang family clapped his hands abruptly: "Yes! That's it!"

Chapter 563 The means must be ruthless to be stable! (fourth more)

"What is this?"

The man was taken aback, and the others were also taken aback, all looking at the Huang family head.

Patriarch Huang said excitedly: "What you just said gave me a good reminder - since we can't resist the order clearly, then we will come in secret!"

Song Patriarch immediately asked, "What is the interpretation of this statement?"

The owner of the Huang family immediately had a confident look in his chest and smiled: "The court's order and the purchase order require us and the major grain shops to truthfully report our grain reserves and buy half of them, right?"

"Then you mean... let's report false numbers so that we can sell only a little bit of food?"

Patriarch Song knew at one point, and a pair of eyes lit up.

"Yes!" The Huang family clapped his hands and said, "Anyway, King Li You of Chu doesn't know the truth at that time, so for no reason, he can't order our entire family and grain shop in Henan Road to be checked, right?"

"Let's not talk about whether this chaotic decision can be approved by Your Majesty, and if you want to thoroughly investigate the entire Henan Road, and even the entire family and grain shops of the Tang Dynasty, how much manpower, material resources and time will it take? After the investigation is over, Maybe the great famine is over!"

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After arriving in Weizhou, Li You first went to hand over to the prefect of Weizhou.

"What? They bought all the food not long ago?"

After arriving, Li You first received this amazing news.

"Yeah," Weizhou Prefect smiled and complimented, "I guess he was afraid after hearing about His Royal Highness King Chu's reputation?"

"Excellent, His Royal Highness King Chu!"

Cheng Chumo didn't think so much, but happily congratulated Li You, but Wu Zetian felt that something was wrong.

"Did they give in so easily? If they gave in so quickly, they wouldn't have the guts to resist the order before, right?"? "

In fact, Wu Zetian was still a little lost. If this was the case, wouldn't she see nothing when she came here?

It can be said that Wu Zetian is worthy of being a student taught by Li You. Like Li You, he has a heart that loves to do things.

Li You frowned and didn't answer. Instead, he reached out to the prefect of Weizhou and said, "Show me the list and accounts."

After a while, the list and accounts were all in hand, but Li You frowned even more after reading it.

Just because of the list above, it is true that every family bought food, but the number is too small!

According to Li You's general estimate, the number they declared was just enough to pass the famine, which means that it was necessary for no one to hoard food and want to resell it, so that such a small number could be possible.

"What's wrong, His Royal Highness King Chu?"

Tang Jian and Li Daozong saw that Li You's expression was wrong, and they asked in a deep voice. Li You casually threw the list and accounts to them for a closer look, and summoned the ranking scroll in the void with his mind.

After all, Li You has no basis and no evidence, so he can't forcefully say that these noble families must have the behavior of hoarding food and want to resell it?

And Li You's personality is to be foolproof, so Li You intends to use the ranking scroll to verify it.

"Arrange the amount of grain stored in the wealthy merchants, aristocratic families, and tyrannical families of the entire Henan Road in order of magnitude."

Li You gave an order, and the ranking scroll quickly gave the corresponding results, which made Li You sneer secretly.

"Sure enough!"

When Li You was watching the list just now, he had memorized the amount of food declared by everyone. Naturally, the ranking of their declared versions also had a general impression in Li You's mind.

Although the ranking scroll cannot directly display the amount of food, as long as you look at the ranking of the amount of stored food, it is very different from the ranking of declarations in Li You's memory, and you can understand what the hell they are up to!

"Are you falsely reporting the number... It's a pity that you failed to unify beforehand, which led to the uneven number of false declarations per person, and finally revealed the truth?"

Li You smiled coldly, and Tang Jian and Li Daozong also raised their heads solemnly.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu, there is obviously a problem with the number of declarations." Tang Jian tried to organize his words, "How should I say it...because it is less than expected?"

Li Daozong said worriedly: "Although I also feel that there is something tricky in it, the reason for Master Tang is completely untenable. It can't be used as a basis to forcibly identify those noble families who made false declarations, right?"

After all, an overly subjective judgment like "...feeling too little" is hard to admit.

"So, I think we should just leave it like this? Anyway, the wealthy and powerful families in Weizhou seem to have been soft on the surface, and they were obedient and bought food, then our purpose of coming here has been achieved."

Listening to Li Daozong's suggestion, Li You shook his head.