"Did you hear that?"

In the villages in Lantian County, the villagers gathered together to talk about things.

"The emperor wants to buy the grain in our hands, and the rice is six cents."

"What is enough money for something, it is better to keep it."

"That's it, don't say that you don't have food in store at home, and even if you do, you won't sell it."

With the promotion of the imperial court and the law, the news that they were ready to buy grain at a high price came out, and the attention of all parties was concentrated.

It's just that the vast majority of people scoff at the price set by the imperial court, fighting rice for six cents, and sending them for food.

For several days, the food purchasing team barely received food.

In desperation, the crown prince, who was responsible for promoting the peace law, had no choice but to enter the palace to report to the emperor, hoping to increase the price of grain purchases, otherwise there would be no one to sell grain at all.

The emperor agreed to the prince's request very intimately, and even allowed the prince to raise the price of grain to a maximum of ten cents for rice.

It's just that the emperor has taken special care and instructed that he is absolutely not allowed to give the prince additional goods, and at the same time, he must buy a full five million grains of grain.

For Li Sanlang, this is a disguised increase in difficulty for Li Yunze, and the direct difficulty is doubled.

As for Li Yunze, when he walked out of Daming Palace, there was a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, "This is the famous Li Sanlang?" That's all there is to it? ”

When the purchase price of grain was raised to 10 cents for doumi, many people in Guanzhong villages moved their minds.

Ten cents for doumi is not a small amount.

After all, at this time, the Guanzhong area is still a grain-producing area, and when the autumn harvest is approaching, seeing that the new grain is about to come down, it is also a good thing to sell the old grain at home for money.

Many villages began to produce grain, and Li Yunze's purchase finally saw income.

It's just that the big farmers who really control a lot of rice grain are scoffing at this price.

Because they have more or less heard the rumors, they know that the prince is under a lot of pressure this time, and the mere ten cents of doumi is far from reaching their psychological bottom line.

At the same time, another piece of news began to circulate in the shadows.

It is said that it was a group of people in the prince's mansion who quietly sold the grain purchased by the prince, and the price was cheap and the rice only cost eight yuan.

It's just that they don't do retail business, and they have to buy at least 10,000 stone or more before they are willing to sell it at the price of eight cents of doumi.

After investigation, the big families learned that this was actually true.

Without the slightest surprise, large households have come to buy cheap rice grains.

This is simply a business without a foundation, now buy it and sell it to the prince backhanded, and you can earn a handling fee of two pennies by doumi, and there is something easier to make money than this in the world?

However, Li Yunze knows the greed of human nature, and he knows very well that these big families will not make a move now.

Sure enough, except for a very small number of people who are making this change of money, the vast majority of the big households are frantically buying and hoarding grain, preparing to wait until Taizi Mountain is exhausted to talk to Prince Haosheng about food prices.

Not to mention anything else, at least the price had to be raised to the level of 20 wen for dou rice before they were willing to sell grain to the prince.

In the following days, there was an extremely strange scene in the Guanzhong area.

On the one hand, the people of the prince's mansion bought surplus grain from the people at the price of ten cents of rice in various places.

On the other hand, it was the big families who bought grain from the prince at the price of eight cents of rice.

The people sold all their surplus grain and happily waited for the autumn harvest.

And those big farmers who buy Wanshi grain at every turn are very puzzled, why can't they buy all the grain in the prince's mansion?

As the autumn harvest approached, the prince was already stiff in the dead duck's mouth, and refused to raise the price to buy.

And the big families who have made a lot of money are constantly raising money and vowing to buy all the prince's grain, and then double it and sell it back.

In this wave of strange operations, only a very small number of people have made a fortune in secret.

Li Linfu and Niu Xianke, Gao Lishi and Bian Lingcheng and others all made a fortune quietly and secretly, buying grain at a low price and then selling it back at a high price, making a difference between two pennies of rice.

It is precisely because of this that these people who can speak in front of Li Sanlang are all very tacit cooperation with each other and do not let Li Sanlang know the truth of the matter.

The news that Li Sanlang got has always been that large households are reluctant to sell, and it is difficult for the prince to buy grain.

In this regard, Li Sanlang often can't close his mouth happily.

As for saying that the failure of the peace method will lead to the continued starvation of people, he didn't pay attention to it at all.

As the autumn harvest approached little by little, the big households also noticed that something was wrong.

The most important first point is that they spent countless goods to buy mountains of grain, but the grain in the prince's hand is like a bottomless pit, and they can't buy it all.

When more and more large families stopped buying grain in confusion and sold grain at the price of ten cents of rice, the prince's mansion immediately released the news.

"The purchase of all the 500 Wenhu rice grains required for this peace law has been completed, and the purchase of grain is over!"

As soon as the news came out, the entire Guanzhong was boiling.

The big families are all exclaiming that this is impossible, obviously the prince has been selling grain here, and the grain they bought by these big families is piled up.

Where did the prince get the five million pieces of rice here?

However, the prime minister took the household department to personally inspect and confirmed that the prince had indeed handed over five million hui of rice grain.

Not only were the big families dumbfounded, but Li Sanlang was also full of disbelief.

"It can't be!"

The angry Li Sanlang ordered Gao Lishi and others to strictly inspect the household department to see if it was the household department that gave the prince extra money to buy grain.

But the result of the strict investigation was that the household department did not give a penny more.

Li Sanlang didn't believe it, he didn't believe that Li Yunze could complete the peace method in this environment, and ordered Gao Lishi and others to investigate clearly.

However, the big families here directly found Li Sanlang.

The reason is simple, the autumn harvest has begun.

This year's wind and rain in Guanzhong can be regarded as smooth, and the output forecast for the autumn harvest is not low, which means that grain prices will inevitably fall.

And these big households have a huge amount of grain in their hands, and they can't sell it at all at this time, especially the grain purchased from Li Yunze at the price of eight cents a bucket, which makes many big households smash their wealth into it.

In jargon, it's smashed in the hand.

Where are these big families who can endure losses, of course, at this time, they have to find the emperor to come forward to recover their losses.

There were only two demands from them, one was to ask the prince to buy the rice grain in their hands at a price of at least ten cents for a bucket of rice.

There is also the implementation of the peace law, which is not allowed by the government to release grain.

From the perspective of a normal person, these demands are simply wishful thinking, completely contrary to conscience and morality.

From Li Sanlang's point of view, those who came to intercede were all relatives of the emperor, ministers, eunuchs, and lords.

These are the cornerstones of his domination of the Tang Dynasty, and he can't do things that have harmed the interests of so many people.

However, just when Li Sanlang was thinking about how to make Li Yunze take the blame, Li Yunze directly threw the pot over here.

Rumors began to circulate inside and outside Chang'an City, saying that His Majesty advocated and ordered the prince to buy grain, and the government would directly sell the grain at the price of five cents of rice!

As soon as the news came out, there was a burst of joy in Chang'an City, and many people ran to the front of Daming Palace to shout long live, and even the prisoners of Guozijian jointly wrote a letter praising Li Sanlang as Yao Shunyu soup, and Ming Jun was reincarnated!

After the fermentation of public opinion, Li Sanlang was directly forced into a corner.

On the one hand, the interests of the powerful were damaged, forcing him to help recover the losses.

On the other hand, there is persecution from the people, and the news has spread, if he repents, it will be too damaging to his reputation.

When he was in a dilemma, Bian Lingcheng took the initiative to send a plan, "Your Majesty, you can order the prince to do this." The reputation belongs to His Majesty, and it is the crown prince who disobeys His Majesty's orders to collude with grain merchants. ”

Li Sanlang's eyes immediately lit up, and he nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, you go and announce the decree." ”

Excited Bian Lingcheng ran to the East Palace, and then came back.

"Your Majesty, it's not good, the prince is sick."

"Sick? Sick at this time?! ”

"Yes." Bian Lingcheng said with some trepidation: "The imperial doctor said that it was caused by overwork, and he had to stay in bed to recuperate." ”

"Heh~~~"

Li Sanlang laughed angrily, this bastard is playing this hand with me?!

The angry Li Sanlang called Li Linfu and Niu Xianke over again.

It's a pity that these two prime ministers are slippery loaches, where are they willing to carry such a terrible black pot for the emperor?

If you really carry it down, you can't say that tomorrow your house will be burned down by the angry people.

After a busy circle, in the end, Li Sanlang could only carry everything by himself.

It is impossible to directly ask the imperial court to pay for it, and it is impossible to buy the grain bought by the big farmers at a high price.

Not to mention that the courtiers disagreed, Li Sanlang himself refused.

In this case, it can only be a bitter suffering.

Li Sanlang refused to order the grain to be sold directly by the imperial court, and acquiesced in the grain merchants selling grain at high prices on the black market.

It also forbade the people in the villages outside the city to transport grain to the city for sale.

As soon as the news came out, there was another uproar in Chang'an City.

Although Li Saburo did it very secretively, he tried his best to put himself aside.

It's a pity that under the guidance and encouragement of well-intentioned people, all the truths have been revealed to the world.

Although Datang is an agricultural society, there are quite a few people in the city.

For example, here in Chang'an City, the population of the city at this time is close to two million.

Most of these people do not have their own acres of land and can only work to support their families.

But at this time, it was obviously a bumper harvest, and it was obvious that the imperial court had a lot of grain, but they just couldn't buy it!

The anxious grain stores didn't even do the surface work, and directly sold grain at a high price openly, and the price kept rising.

A family surnamed Wang in Chang'an City, the male protagonist makes money by working outside, and when he goes out this morning, the price of grain is still 30 Wen for Doumi, but when he goes home for a busy day to buy grain, the price has already increased to 35 Wen for Doumi.

The male protagonist, who couldn't afford to buy food for a few pennies, thought of the hungry children at home waiting to be fed, and went directly to Yong'an Canal in a fit of anger.

As soon as this incident came out, the entire Chang'an City was boiling.

At the time of this monstrous garden, His Royal Highness the Prince, who was sick in bed, forced his sick body to come out, and led the people of the East Palace to open porridge fields in various parts of the city to release food and relief for the people.

For a while, the diametrically opposed attitudes of the emperor and the crown prince towards the people made countless people sigh.

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