The Tang Dynasty Started from the Great Governor to the Emperor

　　"Father, what are you talking about? Son, didn't he see that our Zhao family was despised and wanted to teach him a lesson?"

　　Zhao Hengti said, "Now that he has just taken office, he doesn't give us Zhao's face. After that, will he still listen to us? This Jiannan Road, does our Zhao family still have majesty?"

　　"So we have to teach him a lesson and let him know how powerful he is! And there is news from the Lu family that we want to explore the bottom line of the King of Shu. If we don't do this, how can we find out his bottom line?"

　　"absurd!"

　　The old man of the Zhao family, Zhao Chengbo, slammed the teacup on the table, and the tea gurgled down and dripped all over the floor instantly.

　　Zhao Chengbo said sharply: "Zhao Hengti, are you used to living a peaceful life and treating everyone as the insatiable greedy guy Xie Tongji?"

　　"You are in Jiannan Road, haven't you heard the rumors about the King of Shu? Do you think he is someone who can easily give in?"

　　Zhao Chengbo stared at Zhao Hengti with a pair of eyes, which brought great pressure to Zhao Hengti.

　　Zhao Chengbo said: "You also asked my grandson to take the initiative to anger the King of Shu and join others to fight against the King of Shu. You... How did this old man give birth to such an incompetent guy!"

　　"The King of Shu has just assumed office, and he is trying to find a way to clean up the officialdom of Jiannan Road. At this time, you asked my grandson to trouble him. Isn't this the case that the sheep will go into the tiger's mouth and go to death by yourself?"

　　Zhao Hengti's expression changed when he heard the words.

　　He is not a fool, but he is too smooth in Jiannan Road, and he has no vigilant and resourceful mind.

　　As soon as Zhao Chengbo said it, he suddenly reacted.

　　He said, "Father, then, what should we do? Shouldn't we let Xin'er listen to the King of Shu?"

　　"Humph! Of course you have to listen! Not only do you have to listen, but you must also strictly abide by the orders of the King of Shu, otherwise my Zhao family's hard work in the Jiannan Dao officialdom will be in vain!" Zhao Chengbo snorted coldly.

　　"But... but he despised us so much, do we just forget it? Then where do I put the face of my Zhao family? What will other families think of us?" Zhao Hengti couldn't help saying.

　　"This matter...of course it can't be left alone!"

　　Zhao Chengbo lay back on the rocking chair again, he turned a few beads with his fingers, and said slowly: "To deal with a person like the King of Shu, he must not be caught in any way, so give me all your messy thoughts, or else , my Zhao family will be destroyed in your hands."

　　Zhao Hengti was about to speak, but all his words were blocked by Zhao Chengbo, which made him annoyed for a while, but he could only grit his teeth and give up.

　　"Is Yizhou also required by the previous members of Yang to grow tea this year?"

　　At this moment, Zhao Chengbo's voice suddenly rang.

　　Zhao Hengti nodded quickly and said, "That's right, three months ago, member Yang asked us what price we would use to buy those tea leaves from him! Unexpectedly, within a few days after that, he was beheaded by the king of Shu. , It's really a pity that we are missing an obedient dog."

　　"Oh! That kind of guy who is insatiable, but doesn't know how to wipe the traces, will die sooner or later!"

　　A trace of disdain flashed in Zhao Chengbo's eyes.

　　He was able to build the Zhao family into the first family of Jiannan Road, relying on that open and upright conspiracy to let people know that he did things, but there was no way to do it.

　　Therefore, he despised those greedy people who were sneaking or doing bad things for fear of being exposed.

　　Zhao Chengbo turned the beads, pondered for a moment, and then said, "So, this year, Yizhou has no more grains?"

　　Zhao Hengti didn't know what Zhao Chengbo meant, but nodded anyway.

　　"In this case, things will be much easier to handle."

　　Zhao Chengbo said: "Go, unite all the aristocratic families, let them collect grain, and tell them that unless my Zhao family allows it, all grain cannot be sold, especially to the people of Yizhou! And the grain merchants outside , are also linked, and only let them sell food to us, not to anyone else."

　　"Just like this, do it, don't do anything else, we can just wait for the autumn and winter to come."

　　After speaking, Zhao Chengbo closed his eyes again, as if to rest.

　　But Zhao Hengti was still puzzled by the second monk. He couldn't help but ask: "Dad, what are you doing... hoarding grain? Aren't we going to deal with the King of Shu? Can we deal with the King of Shu by gathering grain?"

　　Zhao Chengbo didn't even open his eyelids, and said lightly: "Use your elm head to think about it, the people of Yizhou have not grown food for three years, where do they have food to eat? Use your head to think about it, Shu The king took in another [-] victims, and these victims can't eat themselves, so where will there be food?"

　　"And the Yizhou granary is already empty. As far as I know, their food is still purchased exclusively by the King of Shu, but even if they purchase more, they can only hold on until the end of October!"

　　"At that time, they will run out of food, and the hundreds of thousands of people in Yizhou will have no food to eat, and the King of Shu will not be able to buy a grain of food, but we have a lot of food. How to do?"

　　brush!

　　Hearing Zhao Chengbo's words, Zhao Hengti's eyes glared fiercely, and the light flashed in his eyes instantly.

　　He said excitedly: "He called himself a worthy king, how could he bear to let the people starve to death, so he can only and must come to us, and when the time comes, he must do what we want him to do? We can also sell food at a high price, and we can definitely make a lot of money!"

　　Zhao Chengbo hummed noncommittally, closed his eyes and said lightly: "You are still smart this time, go do it, pay attention, unite all the noble families, otherwise our family can't swallow such a big market..."

　　……

　　PS: The number of words in this chapter is large, mainly because it cannot be broken out of the chapter, and if the chapter is broken, it is impossible to completely write the methods of the aristocratic family this time.

　　For the aristocratic family, the author Jun is actually very hesitant. He has been between writing and not writing. It is really difficult for the aristocratic family to deal with it, even more difficult than Li Chengqian and the others. Once the plot is not well controlled, it will appear procrastination or mental retardation. But in the Tang Dynasty, if the protagonist is the emperor, it is inevitable to avoid confrontation with the aristocratic family.

　　So after thinking about it, let's write a small plot, first confront the lowest-level aristocratic family once, and then pave the way for the following story.

　　Well, next, the long-planned imperial examination plot is about to begin. This is a big plot like the flood, I hope everyone likes it!

Chapter [-] The military examinations are coming, and the secret weapon of the King of Shu is coming out of Yizhou!

　　January has passed in a hurry.

　　In the blink of an eye, Li Ke has been serving as the military envoy of Jiannan Daojing for a month.

　　During this month, Li Ke, through his own means and methods, finally completely controlled the officialdom of Jiannan Dao in his own hands. dealt with.

　　Instead, it was Li Ke's cronies who had passed the civil service examination and filled those vacancies, making the entire Jiannan Dao officialdom, like Yizhou, completely under his control.

　　As for Xue Rengui, he has already rectified the frontier army. He has cleared nearly [-] people through the re-assessment, and during this time, he is also recruiting again.

　　It can be said that the entire Jiannan Road is moving in the direction Li Ke expected.

　　Of course, this month was not without incidents.

　　For example, before the civil service exam, there were two prominent families who seemed to be idiots and came directly to the Economic and Technological Office to ask Li Ke for the exam questions, saying that they had to prepare in advance.

　　He also told Li Ke that when Xie Tongji was serving as an economic envoy, every time they took an exam, they had to take the initiative to send them exam questions in advance, but Li Ke didn't do that, so they were very dissatisfied.

　　As a result, there were no surprises.

　　Li Ke sent people to directly beat these guys out of the mansion, and directly cancelled all the examination qualifications of all the children of these two families.

　　This also triggered a series of things that made Li Ke610 laugh and cry.

　　Even thinking about it now, Li Ke still admires the brain circuits of those guys. How arrogant are these guys? It's like the civil service exam in later generations is about to start, and then these people swagger to the government to get the original exam questions and answers. , the same as cheating.

　　Such a guy can become a famous family, which makes Li Ke really doubt whether it is how easy it is to get the title of a famous family, or whether they are stupidly supported by Xie Tongji, and really think that they are the first in the world, and everyone else is the first Second?

　　Thinking of those two ridiculous so-called famous families, Li Ke couldn't help thinking of the so-called first family Zhao family in Jiannan Road.

　　At that time, I directly rejected the invitation of the Zhao family. I thought that the Zhao family would also impose so-called sanctions on themselves like these two families.

　　But he waited for a month, wanting to wait for the Zhao family to jump out, and then use the Zhao family to stand up for himself.

　　But I didn't expect that during this month, the Zhao family was very quiet, and even the officials of the Zhao family could not wait to treat themselves as ancestors, which made him unable to find a chance even if he wanted to show his power.

　　Just feel a little depressed.

　　Is it so hard to kill a chicken to warn a monkey?

　　"Mr. Chu."

　　Thinking of this, Li Ke raised his head and looked at Chu Suiliang, and said, "The Zhao family has not taken any action against this king recently?"

　　When Chu Suiliang heard the words, there was a hint of solemnity on his face, and he said, "Your Highness, the lower official is about to tell His Highness about this."

　　"In this month, the Zhao family, Zhang family, Wang family and other famous families have all started to stock up food. Originally, the lower officials didn't care. After all, these big families often stock up grain to deal with various natural disasters."

　　"But just yesterday, the next official discovered the abnormality."

　　Chu Suiliang stood up, his face a little ugly, and said: "Yesterday was our day to buy grain, and Xiguan sent someone to the grain merchant to buy enough grain as usual, but the grain merchant told the people of Xiaguan. , all the food has been purchased, not a grain of food is left.”

　　"Although Xiaguan felt a little strange that the grain was sold too fast, but he didn't think much about it, so he asked them to find other grain merchants, but the result... But it was completely beyond Xiaguan's expectations."

　　"All the grain merchants... have no grain?" Li Ke suddenly caught Chu Suiliang's words, frowned slightly, and said, "And those grains have been hoarded by these aristocratic families, so on the market... we can't buy them at all. to food?"

　　When Chu Suiliang heard the words, he couldn't help being surprised. He raised his head and looked at Li Ke, and said in surprise, "Your Highness also knows about this?"

　　Li Ke shook his head, but said with a sneer: "This king didn't know about it in advance, but from your description, if this king can't guess what happened, then this king has been arrested for so many years. The bones and dregs you swallowed are gone?"

　　"No wonder the Zhao family and other noble families are so quiet, so it's the abacus?" Li Ke said with a cold face, "This is really a good idea!"

　　"The people take food as their heaven. If there is no food, there will be chaos! They are simply trying to draw wages from the bottom of the pot!"

　　When Chu Suiliang heard Li Ke's words, he knew that Li Ke had understood the means of the aristocratic clan, and he couldn't help but said worriedly: "Your Highness, what shall we do next? The control is too strict, we can't get a grain of grain from them and the grain merchants at all, if this continues, I am afraid that in half a month, our [-] people in Yizhou will starve to death!"

　　Chu Suiliang was really worried. He knew that it was terrifying for the people to have no food, but that was the biggest cause of riots!

　　The King of Shu managed to establish such a solid rear defense, but if the disaster broke out due to lack of food, then all the previous efforts would be in vain!

　　It's just that Chu Suiliang was very worried, but Li Ke raised his brows when he heard the words. Not only did he not have any worry, but his corners rose, and a very confident smile appeared on his face.

　　He said with a half-smile: "Mr. Chu don't have to worry, all this is under the control of this king!"

　　"If they used other methods to put pressure on this king, it might really give me a headache, but they really chose to start with food..."

　　Li Ke sneered: "It's really blinding their eyes! This time, the king asked them to steal chickens without losing the rice, and lose the army after losing the wife! Food... What this king lacks the most is really food!"

　　"Is there no shortage of food? Your Highness, our grain storage can only last for half a month, how can there be no shortage?" Chu Suiliang was very puzzled.

　　But Li Ke just smiled and shook his head, and said, "Mr. Chu, don't you believe what this king said? You can rest assured, this king promises you that this time I will definitely let them kneel and beg. us!"

　　"Gathering grain? Oh! This king will help you to add more fire, let you collect as much food as possible, and then... this king will let you all the food in your hands!"

　　Li Ke was full of confidence.

　　It's already late September, and it's almost October.

　　And October is the time for the autumn harvest.

　　You can also harvest the seeds you bought from the system store.

　　At that time, let alone food shortage?The granaries in Yizhou are not enough to store, so do you still need to buy food?

　　What a big joke!

　　So Li Ke really wanted to applaud when he heard the aristocratic clan's plan to collect grain.

　　This is really their own death!

　　He sneered and said, "Mr. Chu, do something for this king, go outside to spread the news, and say that this king wants to receive grain at three times the market price, the more the better!"

　　"Receiving grain?" Chu Suiliang was completely confused and said, "But Your Highness, you don't mean that we are not short of grain, but why?"