At the banquet, Li Sanlang didn't say anything about the fact that the crown princess didn't come, and he didn't even ask.

However, this is even more unhappiness and anger in his heart.

Li Sanlang has many sons, and his daughters-in-law are naturally countless.

It's normal for so many daughters-in-law to remember clearly, or to say that they don't care so much.

But the crown princess is different, this is the mistress of the East Palace, the mistress of the future palace, the most noble woman in the world after the queen mother and the queen.

At this time, there was neither a queen nor a queen in the palace, even if there was Concubine Wu Hui, she was just a concubine.

The crown princess, as the most noble woman in the world, did not appear in such an important family gathering at this time, so it is reasonable to ask at least one sentence.

didn't even bother to ask, and even swept his sharp gaze over Li Yunze from time to time, and the meaning inside was already obvious.

Others may not be able to perceive these things, but Li Yunze, who has been tested countless times, has an extremely keen perception and can be regarded as a penetrating fire.

It's just that he didn't care about this, not only did he laugh and chat with everyone with a calm face, but when he watched Li Yuan's disciple perform, he didn't have a heart to cheer.

Seeing his performance, Li Sanlang was slightly puzzled, 'This kid doesn't understand anything?' ’

The whole banquet was uneventful, and there was nothing special about it at all.

It's just that the undercurrent in the dark is something that only a very few people will know.

A few days after the banquet ended, Li Sanlang's retaliation followed.

"His Royal Highness the Prince."

After reading the holy decree, Gao Lishi handed the holy decree to Li Yunze with a smile, "Your Majesty attaches great importance to solving the grain shortage in Chang'an, Your Highness has to hurry up and do it." ”

"Okay."

Li Yunze, who accepted the holy decree, smiled slightly and nodded, "For the people of the world, you should work hard." ”

When Gao Lishi left, Li Yunze smiled freely, "I thought there would be some great moves, and it was still the way of wealth to turn around." ”

Li Sanlang asked Li Yunze to be responsible for promoting and practicing the law in the Guanzhong area, and he also said that you brought it up and it was the right time for you to do it.

Others may not understand and think that this is just spending money to buy things, but who wouldn't.

But in fact, this matter is very difficult, and there are many twists and turns inside.

The reason is very simple, most of the acres of land in the Guanzhong area are occupied by the emperor's relatives, eunuchs, and noble families.

Spending money to buy things from their hands doesn't need Li Sanlang to do any hints, these people will be very conscious of raising prices significantly.

Anyway, it's the money of the imperial court, and if you don't make it for nothing, you won't get it.

And in order to embarrass Li Yunze, Li Sanlang has a very clear intention of the world, and the law can only be paid at most 20% of the current price.

Ordinary people don't have much surplus food in their hands, and if they want to buy at least millions of grains, they can only buy it from the hands of those powerful families.

And these people will definitely sit on the ground and raise the price.

At that time, Li Yunze will not have enough money to do it, then Li Sanlang will be famous, and he will be in a frenzy.

Even, in order to block Li Yunze's retreat, he also very simply asked the household department to send the withdrawal documents to the East Palace.

With the holy decree and the document attached to the prime minister's seal, a huge sum of money sufficient to buy five million rice grains could be withdrawn from the household department.

Grain prices fluctuated greatly in the history of the Tang Dynasty, but the lowest price only appeared twice.

The first time in the Zhenguan period of the rice sanwen money, the second time is the Kaiyuan period is also the rice sanwen money.

It's just that it was the early years of Kaiyuan, and now it's already rising every year, and it's common to have more than ten or even twenty or thirty pieces of doumi.

Due to political considerations, the price of grain in the Guanzhong area was forcibly limited to the level of five cents for doumi.

It stands to reason that if you buy rice at this price, there will be no rice shortage or even starvation.

But the ideal is good, but the reality is very cruel.

The government ordered the grain store to only sell rice for five cents, so it's easy to do, it's okay to close the store and not sell it, right?

Or that the purchase is limited to a few hundred catties per day, and it will simply close when it is sold out.

If you want to buy rice, you can quietly go to the black market at the back door of the grain store to buy high-priced rice!

This is the fundamental reason why the Guanzhong area, which is already an important grain-producing area, actually has a grain shortage, and even starves to death.

Profiteer! Minister! Honorable! Family! Eunuchs! Imperial Princess! Relatives of the country!

It can be seen from here that the interior of Datang at this time has long been rotten.

On the surface, it is still the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, or the warehouses are full of grain, but the circulation link is grasped, and the result is that people starve to death in the prosperous era.

As soon as Li Sanlang made a move, he gave Li Yunze a heavy blow and pressed down a mountain for him.

"His Royal Highness the Prince."

Du Fu hurriedly ran over to report, "Someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion handed over the post, asking His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to come over to the mansion to talk about it." ”

"Which prime minister?"

"Li Gong."

For example, if you are in a hurry to ask for a meeting without making an appointment in advance, you usually have something important to discuss.

Li Yunze thought about it for a while, and then he understood what Li Linfu was for.

smiled, and instructed Gao Jinzhong to take the greeting post to the Niu Xianke's house, and then naturally went out to Li Linfu's house.

In the study room of Li Linfu's mansion, Li Linfu, who looked a little strange, asked aloud, "Dare to ask the prince, has there been anything that has done anything to your majesty recently?" ”

"It's not a big deal."

Li Yunze smiled slightly: "Gong Li doesn't need to worry. ”

Li Linfu nodded, but he said, "Why don't you go to your majesty and say that you are one or two?" ”

Li Linfu, who can be called an old treacherous and cunning, saw Li Sanlang's actions, and immediately sensed that something was wrong with the situation.

The only reason why he took the initiative to help was that at this time, the whole world thought that he Li Linfu and the prince were in a group.

After all, Li Sanlang's age is old, and Li Linfu also has to think about his own future in case the emperor is gone.

So if he can, he doesn't mind helping.

"Thank you Li Gong for your kindness."

Li Yunze nodded, "It's useless." ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Linfu immediately frowned.

He didn't expect the matter to be so serious, but he really hadn't heard of the scandalous rumors between the crown prince and the emperor recently.

Don't look at him Li Linfu is treacherous and ghostly, and he is also the prime minister.

But the battle between Li Yunze and Li Sanlang around Yang Yuhuan is only known to a very few people in it, even if he, the prime minister, wants to break his head, he can't imagine that Li Sanlang, who has tens of thousands of beauties in the palace, actually wants to pick up ashes!

Li Yunze was not ambiguous at this time, and directly said to each other, "Regarding the matter of the law, Li Gong is willing to help me?" ”

Li Linfu, who looked flat, picked up the tea bowl and asked casually, "I don't know how His Highness plans to act?" ”

An old fox like him will never express his position easily, unless Li Yunze has the possibility of victory.

"Li Gong."

Li Yunze, whose eyes were slightly cold, said softly, "You and I both know what the difficulty of this matter is, and I plan to do so. And so on and so forth."

briefly revealed his plan, and Li Yunze also picked up the tea bowl, "There are still some obstacles in this matter, and I hope that Li Gong can help." ”

Li Linfu, who was slightly shocked in his eyes, looked at the prince in front of him seriously.

He didn't expect that the young prince would have such a city government ability and grasp the hearts of the people to such a degree.

This series of methods does have the possibility of success.

'Emperor Taizong's vein, do his best. ’

Li Linfu, who was emotional, did not respond directly, but responded with a smile, "His Royal Highness the Prince, if Niu Gong is willing to make a move at this time, the minister is naturally willing to help." ”

He knew very well that helping Li Yunze was tantamount to offending the emperor, and he didn't want to stand in line, so he simply pushed the bull cyclamen out as a shield.

Even if the emperor is angry, he can only take his anger out on the body of the ox cyclamen standing on the bright face.

As for himself, he is hiding in the dark to support the prince in doing things.

After all, except that neither side can be offended, and they must do their best to maintain it. He is now the prime minister of Datang, and he really wants to do things for Datang.

The food problem in Guanzhong has indeed reached the point where it must be solved.

As for the little money he made by selling grain in his house, he Li Linfu had long been out of sight.

Of course, this is also a test.

Li Linfu wanted to see what the mood of the capable prince in front of him was, whether he was willing to push the cow cyclamen into the fire pit, or whether he was soft-hearted and couldn't bear to trap people.

If he is soft-hearted, then his evaluation of Li Yunze will immediately drop by two notches.

Those who become big things are informal, and they can't even bear to drag people as shields, so this prince estimates that it won't be long before he touches it.

However, Li Yunze immediately smiled and nodded, "There is Lao Li Gong who is concerned, before he came, Gu had already sent someone to Niu Gong's Mansion to send a post." ”

Li Linfu held the tea bowl with his hand, and looked at Li Yunze who was smiling in a slightly daze.

Such a young man has such a heart and ability, which is the future of us who are courtiers

In an instant, many thoughts turned in Li Linfu's mind.

But in the end, he nodded to Li Yunze with a smile: "Congratulations, Your Highness's good news." ”

It is absolutely impossible for people like Li Linfu to give a positive answer easily, this is the so-called slippery.

But Li Yunze knew that this person would inevitably help when needed, although nominally it was Niu Xianke who was doing it.

Simple oil slippery will become a wall grass, even if the waist is tough, the wall grass will be blown off.

But at the same time, it can be smooth and can do things quietly, and it can also make both sides feel good, which is the real ability.

There is no doubt that Li Linfu, who can be at the top of the list of traitors, has this ability.

After getting Li Linfu, Li Yunze set off to visit Niu Xianke's house.

In the final analysis, he Niu Xianke took the initiative to bring it up in the court, and the letter written by Li Yunze to him was also forwarded to the emperor.

Now that this matter has caused a turmoil, he Niu Cyclamen naturally can't escape from it.

Li Yunze's attitude is very simple, if Niu Xianke is as treacherous as Li Linfu, then he has a way to clean up such treacherous people.

If Niu Xian's guest is in good character and is willing to take the initiative to stand up for Li Yunze, then even if he is temporarily unlucky, he will naturally not treat him badly after he achieves great things.

Just like Zhang Jiuling and other famous ministers who were demoted from Chang'an City, Li Yunze also planned to recall him after he took the throne.

As for saying that there will be too many prime ministers at that time, there will be no place to arrange anything, so you can set up a cabinet.

The Ming Emperor, who has been in power for so long, doesn't he know how to limit the power of the prime minister?

And the most important thing is that Li Yunze is not interested in playing this kind of confrontation with Li Sanlang endlessly.

Wait until Li Siye recruits troops and comes back, wait until Bian Lingcheng, Wang Huanxi and others are bought properly, and wait until the various layouts in the secret are complete.

At that time, he went straight to the Xuanwu Gate!

(End of chapter)