"Master, what are we buying so much food for?"
When Wang Zhong heard that Li Zexuan wanted to buy food, and it seemed that he wanted to buy a lot of food, he was immediately confused.
Li Zexuan waved his hand and said, "Uncle Wang, you don't need to ask any more questions. You will naturally know the reason when the time comes~!"
Wang Zhong was still a little worried and said: "Master, if we buy so much food, will the government notice it and attract a punishment from the Holy Emperor?"
You must know that in ancient times, the government strictly prohibited ordinary people from hoarding important materials such as grain. It was still somewhat taboo for people like Li Zexuan to buy grain like this.
"Uncle Wang, don't worry, His Majesty won't blame you~!"
Li Er probably hopes that he will buy more grain for disaster relief next year, and maybe Lao Li is doing the same thing as him now.
Wang Zhong had nothing to say now. He responded, turned around and went out to make arrangements.
Now that Li Zexuan has established the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce, many things have become much easier to handle. This is the power of the alliance.
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Li Zexuan's guess was correct. Li Er was also thinking about taking advantage of the sharp drop in food prices to buy grain on a large scale.
"Xiao Aiqing, do you know about the recent sharp drop in food prices in Chang'an~?"
In Ganlu Hall, after the morning court, Li Er called Xiao Yu alone and asked.
Xiao Yu seemed to have realized something. He frowned and said, "Your Majesty, I have heard about this matter. According to my opinion, the fluctuation of food prices in Chang'an City is mainly caused by the excessive food brought back by the fleet from the south. Yes, but this is only a temporary impact. After this extra batch of food is digested by merchants from all over the country, the food price in Chang'an City will definitely return to normal~!"
Li Er smiled inexplicably. He stood up, put his hands behind his back, and said to Xiao Yu: "Xiao Aiqing's words are reasonable, but in order to stabilize the price of food as soon as possible, I want to allocate a batch of money to purchase these extra supplies in Chang'an City. What do you think, my beloved, of approving grain?"
Xiao Yu's brows jumped. Sure enough, Li Er was plotting against the treasury again. As the steward of the Tang Dynasty, he was in charge of the entire country's money bag. He usually took one penny and spent it as two penny. As soon as he heard that Li Er wanted to withdraw money, Xiao Yu subconsciously felt pain in his body.
"How much money does Your Majesty intend to withdraw?"
Xiao Yu said helplessly.
"This sea trade has brought huge profits to the imperial court. There should be a lot of surplus money in the treasury now. I want to spend 50,000 yuan to purchase grain and stabilize grain prices~! Xiao Aiqing must arrange this as soon as possible~!"
Li Er calculated in his mind and opened his mouth to give instructions.
Don't underestimate the 50,000 guan. Based on the current grain price of two cents per bucket of rice, 50,000 guan can buy more than two million shi of grain. A month ago, Datang's treasury could not allocate so much money.
"Old minister accepts the order~!"
Xiao Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. A month ago, the treasury really couldn't come up with so much money, but now, 50,000 yuan can only be said to be a small thing.
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"Where's Cheng Qian~?"
In the afternoon, after Li Er finished handling his official duties, he breathed a sigh of relief. He looked around and suddenly asked Zhao Song.
"Back to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness should still be in the academy at the moment!"
Zhao Song bowed and replied.
"In the academy? What is he doing in the academy~?"
One month ago, Li Chengqian was stationed at Yanhuang Academy in the name of supervisor, sharing the joys and sorrows with the academy students and conducting military training together. But now that the one-month period has passed, it stands to reason that Li Chengqian should return to the palace and continue to be his crown prince. , do what you should do as a prince. But it had been several days since the military training at Yanhuang Academy was on vacation, and Li Er still rarely saw Li Chengqian, so he asked.
After serving Li Er for so many years, Zhao Song still roughly understands what Li Er is thinking at this moment.
He hesitated for a moment and replied: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should be playing Cuju in the academy with His Highness the King of Wei, His Highness the King of Han and others at the moment!"
"Cuju~?"
Li Er was even more confused. In his eyes, Li Chengqian had always been diligent and studious. How could he forget his official duties just because he was just having fun? He stood up and said, "Let me go and have a look. These guys are on vacation." You didn’t even go back to the palace, but you actually played Cuju in the academy, it’s really outrageous!”
Zhao Song quickly said: "Your Majesty, the Cuju they are playing is not the kind you have seen before. It is a new ball made by Yong'an Marquis. It is very elastic. I heard that they don't care about this." Planting a ball is called football!”
"Football~? Then I have to go and see it~!"
Hearing that it was Li Zexuan's new thing, Li Er's interest became even more intense. He was wearing ordinary clothes now, so he didn't need to change them deliberately, so he took Zhao Song out of the palace directly.
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"Come on~! Cut off his ball~! Wow, it's really broken, His Highness the King of Han is too fast~!"
"What a ball~! Even though His Highness the King of Han is young, he kicks the ball so hard! He can beat two of them!"
"Not good~! Cheng Chumo is catching up with me. I'm afraid I won't be able to take His Highness out~!"
Yanhuang Academy, on the playground.
Although it is already a holiday, there are still many students gathered here, for no other reason than that you can see Li Chengqian, Li Ke, and Cheng Chumo playing football here.
Compared with the last time, the current court is undoubtedly more formal. The side lines, bottom line, center line, and center circle have been drawn on the lawn. And to this day, there is no one in the entire academy who does not know about the new thing football. They were looking forward to the batch of footballs that Li Zexuan had promised to come to the academy as soon as possible. Until then, they could only watch Li Chengqian and the others play for fun, while waiting for one of them to get tired from playing, and maybe they could go up and play for a while. ?
"Paulin, catch the ball~!"
He saw a silent shot in the middle of the field, a feint, and expertly cut off the football at Li Ke's feet, and then without stopping, a flying pass was passed directly to Yuchi Baolin behind!
By the way, this is the advantage of having long legs!
In a ball game where internal strength cannot be used, in addition to personal physical fitness, the most critical thing is long legs, which is a natural advantage.
Yuchi Baolin's reaction was not as strong as Cheng Chumo's. He had just caught the football at his feet and was already trapped in a tight siege.
"Paulin, hurry, pass it to me~!"
Outside the crowd, Tiedan'er shouted anxiously.
He went home for the holidays, but Hanjiazhuang was only a few hundred steps away from Yanhuang Academy, so he came right away.
The football was played in full swing on the court, and the spectators outside the court watched with gusto and cheered loudly from time to time. No one noticed that at this moment, a handsome middle-aged man, accompanied by a lean old man, came to the sidelines, and then He stared at the group of young people playing football on the field.
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