The weather in Chang'an City was gloomy, as if it was going to rain.

After retiring from the dynasty, Cheng Yanjin looked a little sullen, and no one paid attention to him along the way.

Li Ji walked side by side with him and said with a smile: "Lu Guogong seems to be very unhappy, who made you angry?" ”

Although Li Ji is a military general, he looks like a literati and has an extraordinary temperament.

Cheng Yanjin glared at him and said, "Who else can there be besides you." ”

Li Ji was stunned for a moment and said, "This is a bit wronged, when did I make you angry?" ”

"Why did you want me to help you in the main hall just now?"

"I'm not looking at our relationship in Wagangzhai, I want you to earn some credit, if this thing is done well, the saint will definitely be happy in his heart, can we lose our credit?"

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, otherwise I can do this alone, so why pull you again?"

Chen Yanjin thought about it, and it was indeed like this, and he couldn't help but smile suddenly.

"It turns out that you haven't forgotten our affection, it seems that I Lao Cheng is wrong to blame you, go, I'll invite you all to drink."

Li Ji waved his hand and said, "There's no need to drink, the matter explained by the saint is very urgent, and there is no delay, you just have to wait for my news in the house, and we will go together when the time comes." ”

As soon as he heard that he didn't drink, Cheng Yanjin felt a little bored, and then strode away alone.

Looking at the back of Cheng Biting Jin leaving, a shallow smile appeared on the corner of Li Ji's mouth.

When they go to buy grain, those merchants are afraid that they will raise the price at that time, after all, they are not stupid, and it is strange that someone wants so much grain at once, and they don't understand what is going on.

And in the face of such a merchant, he has to be in the presence of a demon king like Cheng Biting Jin, and he will play tricks.

Those merchants are facing such a big and three rough demon king, who dares to open their mouths?

Sometimes, the wicked have their own uses.

After getting Cheng Biting Jin, Li Ji made some arrangements.

Chang'an City has two counties under its jurisdiction, Chang'an County and Wannian County are not very far from Chang'an City, and it is not difficult to investigate the grain store in these two counties that has hoarded a lot of grain.

The arrangements made by Li Ji after the end of the day were already in the evening of the same day.

The next day, Li Ji and Cheng Biting Jin, disguised themselves as wealthy businessmen, and rushed to Wannian County.

"I said, military advisor, why did you go to Wannian County first?"

On the way, Cheng Yanjin was a little puzzled, it stands to reason that Chang'an County is closer to Chang'an City, and it is faster to go to Chang'an County.

Li Ji smiled lightly and said, "According to the news sent by my people, there is a big family in Wannian County, if you can buy his grain and grass, you can solve the urgent need first." ”

Hearing this, Cheng bit his lips and said, "What big family can there be in a county?" ”

"Deposit 30,000 stones, do you say it is a big household?"

"Thirty thousand stones? So much? ”

Cheng Yanjin was a little shocked, the largest grain merchant in Chang'an City, usually has about 20,000 or 30,000 stone of grain, this season, the grain merchant in Chang'an City is only 10,000 stone at most, a small Wannian County, there are merchants who store 30,000 stones, that is indeed a big household.

Li Ji nodded and said, "If this business is completed, we don't have to be so nervous, but at this time, this person is really bold if he dares to save 30,000 stones." ”

Cheng bit his lips and pouted, but did not refute, in his opinion, this person is either courageous, or he is a stupid person who doesn't understand anything, and he is purely lucky to meet them.

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Qin Ji grain shop.

Today's Qinji grain shop can be said to be stacked with grain and grass everywhere.

The guys and shopkeepers here, Qin Tai, were worried one by one when they saw these grains and grasses.

Seeing that it is going to rain in a few days, this grain has to be spoiled if I don't want to deal with it.

But with so much food, it is easy to deal with there, and their owner, Cui Shaoqing, is not allowed to deal with it.

They feel that their owner is a fool.

And when they secretly scolded Cui Shaoqing like this, Cui Shaoqing was busy in the kitchen.

It's been a while since he came to Datang, but he can't get used to a lot of Datang's meals, one is that the cooking method is a little less, and then there is the lack of seasonings, for example, this salt, they usually eat coarse salt, coarse salt tastes weird, not as good as fine salt.

So during this time, in addition to being in charge of the grain store, he also asked the blacksmith shop to build an iron pot for him, and then used the knowledge he knew to refine a small bag of fine salt.

Now that the iron pot is ready, he can't help but want to cook some of his favorite meals to eat.

He was busy in the kitchen of the grain store alone, and it didn't take long for him to make a few side dishes, as well as a pasta, oily noodles.

These meals were ready and served on the table, and before he could put down his chopsticks, several people walked in outside the door, the two people in the lead were about forty years old, one was rough-looking, and the other was relatively handsome.

After they came in, the handsome middle-aged man glanced around, and then asked Cui Shaoqing, "I don't know if the owner of the grain store is here?" ”

Cui Shaoqing put down his chopsticks and said, "Below is the owner of this grain shop, how many people are?" ”

Hearing that Cui Shaoqing was the owner of the grain store, Li Ji and Cheng Yanjin couldn't help but be stunned, they thought that the boss who could have such courage should be not young, but they didn't expect that the owner of this store was just a teenager who looked like he had just come of age.

They don't care about that, though.

Li Jidao: "In Xia Xu Maogong, this is my brother Cheng Zhijie, our two brothers, who are here to buy food. ”

Although Li Ji and the others were purchasing grain, in order to avoid causing chaos in the market, they did not use the name of the imperial court, and this name did not use the name they usually use, but their trade name or something.

Their name is not known to ordinary people except those who are close to them, so they feel that it is okay for them to say this.

It's just that as soon as they finished saying this, Cui Shaoqing almost couldn't stand on his feet, perhaps, other ordinary people don't know these two names, but he, Cui Shaoqing, is very familiar.

One is the British Duke Li Ji of the Tang Dynasty, and the other is the Duke of the Tang Dynasty Lu Guo Cheng biting gold.

These two people came to him to purchase grain, what does that mean, it shows that his speculation is right, in the first year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, the situation in the Tang Dynasty was very unfavorable, and there was a shortage of food.

And they also have to give the Turks money and food, so that the supply of food must be in short supply.

I'm going to get rich.

"It turned out that I was buying food, yes, yes, the two of you must not have had lunch yet, why don't you finish lunch, let's talk about it in detail?"