"Thank you, Your Majesty! However, the prohibition should not be proposed by Weichen, otherwise it will be easy to show the stuffing. Merton bowed down and said, the Mo family has huge interests in liquor, and if he proposes a ban on alcohol, I am afraid it is doubtful.

"Don't worry! This is easy to do, but the other is not easy. Li Shimin looked at Morton with bad intentions.

Merton's heart suddenly burst into shape, and he asked cautiously, "What Your Majesty said is true?" ”

Li Shimin sneered: "The prohibition of alcohol proposed by your kid is indeed good, but I am used to drinking the relief of thousands of sorrows in Mojia Village, what should I do if I run out of alcohol in the future?" I have heard that there are many wine cellars in Mojia Village............ where wine is stored. ”

Merton couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Your Majesty can rest assured, your Majesty will take the wine by the way, it is enough for Your Majesty." ”

Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction, and walked towards the mother and daughter of Empress Changsun with a kind face, Princess Changle looked at such a harmonious relationship between Weng and son-in-law, and couldn't help but feel a piece of warmth in her heart, and suddenly felt that the world was worth it.

However, before Princess Changle was happy, the next day of the court meeting, the entire court immediately changed.

"Your Majesty, the price of grain in Guanzhong has risen sharply recently, which is not beneficial to the country!" In the court, a royal historian was heartbroken.

"Food prices have skyrocketed? Has Dasi Nong ever found out why? Li Shimin looked at Su Lingnon, the big Si Nong on the side, and asked.

Su Lingnong reluctantly said: "Your Majesty, the rain in Datang this year is not good, and there has been a reduction in grain production in many places, which has caused the price of grain to rise. ”

Li Shimin pretended to say: "It shouldn't be! Now that Datang has a drought-fighting method, pesticides, even if the output is reduced, there will be more grain than before, how can there be a sharp rise in food prices. ”

Fang Xuanling arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, although the drought resistance method is good, but only a small part of the field can be taken care of, so as not to let the grain grains not be harvested, most of the fields still have to rely on the sky to eat, in addition, now the artificial incubation technology is popular, the number of chickens, ducks and geese in Datang has increased greatly, these all need to be fed with grain, every year Datang has a small half of the grain consumed in feeding poultry, so, although the grain production has increased, but the need for grain has also increased, so that the price of grain in Datang has increased instead of falling. ”

A civil official thought for a moment and said, "In that case, why not restrict the raising of poultry and stabilize the price of grain!" ”

"No!" As soon as this proposal came out, it immediately found opposition from many officials.

Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly: "The people have finally lived a good life, if the imperial court restricts the raising of poultry, wouldn't it be a monstrous grievance?" ”

After tasting the taste of meat, no one wants to go back to the days of clear soup and oligo-noodles, the demand for meat by the people of Datang is simply endless, coupled with the prevalence of fat in Datang, the daily consumption of meat has reached an astonishing amount, and the food consumed is naturally an astronomical amount.

At the same time, the imperial physician ordered to say: "Eating meat is a good medicine for night blindness, and now I have the prevalence of artificial poultry breeding in Datang, and it is no longer a luxury for people to eat meat, and the folk night blindness has almost disappeared. ”

The officials of the court were suddenly embarrassed, if they really restricted the raising of poultry, I am afraid that they would immediately be abused by the world, let alone eating meat or treating night blindness.

Yu Zhining snorted coldly and said: "Gentlemen, you only see that raising poultry consumes grain, but you don't know that there is another place that consumes a lot of grain every year, but it is not beneficial to the country. ”

"Yu Aiqing, please speak." Li Shimin heard Yu Zhining go up the road, and immediately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey road.

Yu Zhining suddenly was like a cockfight, and said proudly: "Your Majesty, if you want to say that you want to consume food, winemaking can be said to be in the first place, and the folk have the saying that there are three catties of grain and one catty of wine, especially after Mojia Village created a high degree of liquor, the grain consumed in winemaking is even more amazing. ”

"Prohibition!" The hundred officials couldn't help but exclaim, among the court, there are not a few people who are greedy for cups, and Li Shimin is a master of the wine country, if a ban on alcohol is issued, wouldn't he even be able to drink, will Li Shimin agree?

"No, wine has been handed down for thousands of years, so how can it be said that it is forbidden." Cheng Yanjin was the first to jump out and object.

"And now doctors need to use alcohol to disinfect, if wine is banned, then what will doctors do?" Imperial Physician Ling retorted.

Yu Zhining thought for a while and said: "Weichen believes that the doctor's wine can be pardoned, but it cannot be sold in the world. ”

Weichen seconded. Immediately, many ministers agreed that since the raising of poultry could not be restricted, there was only another large consumer of grain, the wine-making industry.

Li Shimin seemed to hesitate for a moment and said: "Okay, since this is the case, I will risk the condemnation of the world and issue this ban on alcohol, and after a month, I will prohibit the use of grain to make wine in the Tang Dynasty, and once it is found, it will be severely punished." ”

"Your Majesty is wise!" Yu Zhining couldn't help but be happy in his heart, he and Mo Jiazi had been fighting for many years, and this time he finally made Mo Jiazi suffer heavy losses, everyone knew that high liquor was a huge profit, and Mo Jiazi's Xie Qianchou was even sold for a bottle of consistent money, which was simply a money grab, this time he finally broke off Mojiacun's arm.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, the news of the prohibition soon spread to the people, and almost Chang'an City was in an uproar.

"Prohibition!"

The people of Chang'an couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and no one thought that the imperial court would suddenly issue a ban on alcohol.

Some clever people immediately turned around and ran to the liquor store without hesitation, and without hesitation used all the money in their pockets to buy wine.

Other people followed suit, and soon, Chang'an City set off a storm of wine grabbing, and for a while, the price of liquor in Chang'an City rose in response, and more businessmen saw business opportunities and went directly to the winery to pick up wine.

"Prohibition!"

When the people of Zhangjiazhuang heard this, it was like a catastrophe, Zhangjiazhuang has always made a living by making wine, and now the imperial court has issued a ban on alcohol, isn't that not cutting off his livelihood?

All of a sudden, the villagers of Zhangjia Village were crying and at a loss.

"What are you crying about? Isn't there still a month left? This month's time, you have to make all the wine, and make a lot of money first. The head of Zhangjiacun shouted.

A group of villagers came back to their senses, the ban on alcohol, the price of spirits rose sharply, and now is a good time to make money, not to lament, immediately wipe away tears, all the villagers of the Zhangjia family went into battle, and strive to make more wine in the only one month.

Not only Zhangjia Village, almost all wineries made the same decision, including the winemaking workshops in Mojia Village, and even spread to all parts of the Tang Dynasty.

All of a sudden, all the wineries consumed as much grain as possible to make wine, but the price of grain did not rise but fell, and it fell sharply.

The effect of the prohibition was immediate, and the Datang food price crisis was lifted.