The head of the Lu family, Lu Yeyun, Lu Qing's father, learned about the situation and rushed from Fan Yang to Chang'an City without stopping.
When he learned that his son Lu Qing had purchased one third of the entire Chang'an City's grain supply, he was almost sent away.
Along the way, he also heard and saw that grain from all over the country was being transported to Guanzhong.
I thought there was a shortage of food in Guanzhong, but who knew, I didn't know until I arrived in Chang'an City that there was no more food, twenty coins per stone, but no one cared about it, and the Wei River was full of grain ships from other places.
And grain trucks are all over the streets.
"Dad, the child has been cheated." Lu Qing knelt on the ground and said angrily.
Lu Yeyun sighed: "Son, I don't blame you for this. As a father, you also have a responsibility. Who would have thought that a dignified king of a country could be so stubborn."
"Li Shimin, you're very good. You cheated me, the Lu family, back then, and you cheated me, the Lu family, again today. This matter is never over, and the situation is changing. As long as I, Lu Yeyun, am still alive, the Fan Yang Lu family will never fall."
"Master, young master, Master Pu Shefang is here!"
"Dad, my uncle is here. We are saved."
Lu Yeyun had a cold face and cursed: "It's useless to save me!"
"Does he still have the nerve to come see me?"
"At first he was just a poor scholar from a poor family. Seeing that he had some talents, I kindly helped him and let him get acquainted with Li Shimin. Later, I betrothed my sister to him."
"Now he is living a good life, but he looks like a dog, but he cheated on me, the Lu family."
"From now on, I, Mrs. Lu, will treat me as if I don't have this relative, and my sister who is living in and out of things will be treated as dead."
"Cough cough cough..."
Fang Xuanling stood outside the door, listening to all the words of her uncle, and she was complaining in her heart. For the stupid things she had done, her uncle actually wanted him to take the blame?
If this were to reach Madam’s ears, wouldn’t it mean that there would be no peace again.
Your Majesty wants to mess with you, but I don’t want to mess with you. How can you wrongly accuse a good person?
"Brother, you have come to Chang'an City. Why don't you come and let me know so that I can pick you up..."
"It turns out that Xuan Ling is here... How dare I trouble Lord Fang as a commoner? Now that you are the prime minister of a country, I don't dare to reach high places."
Lu Qing bowed and said, "I've met my uncle."
Fang Xuanling smiled awkwardly, cupped his hands and said: "Brother, to be honest, even I don't know about food. I always thought that the court was short of food. I didn't expect that five days ago At the small court meeting, everyone learned that the 160,000-strong army in the northwest did not use a single grain of food and grass from the court, but used the food and grass provided by the Li family in Longxi."
Longxi Li family?
They actually provided food for the imperial army. No wonder we were defeated so miserably. Who would have thought that the Li family in Longxi quietly provided food for the army.
They only received news that the King of Shu had arrived in Longxi, and that the Li family in Longxi subsequently surrendered, but Ye Mei heard about the provision of food.
"Longxi Li family, you guys are weaklings..."
Lu Yeyun took a deep breath, turned around and cupped his hands, smiling: "Xuanling, I had a bad attitude before, and I apologize to you."
Fang Xuanling waved her hands and said with a smile: "Uncle, we are all one family, why bother speaking to two different families? I am here today just to spread the word."
"Your Majesty said that twenty coins can be used to purchase all the food from your Lu family, otherwise the second class will be left to fend for itself." ŴŴŴ.BiQuGe.Biz
"Twenty cents is too low. It's better for me to set him on fire."
"Brother, you can't do stupid things and destroy food privately. You will be exiled."
"I...I just want to say it, just say it."
"Brother-in-law, you still have a large family to feed. If you don't sell all this food, are you going to live on this food?"
"Brother, you know His Majesty's character. He will break any hard bones for you!"
"Today's Lu family only has these hoarded grains. If you don't have money, I can't help you in court."
"Xuanling, lend me a million dollars, and I will definitely make a comeback."
Fang Xuanling: "..."
Are you stupid, or am I just out of my mind? I want to lend you a million dollars?
Not to mention that I don’t have a million dollars. Even if I did, I wouldn’t be able to lend you money. Can I still be an official?
Even the wife of the family cannot lend you money.
"Uncle, Mrs. Qian is in charge. I never care about money, but the most I can get is twenty thousand yuan, no more."
"Humph, Fang Xuanling... don't forget who helped you get to know Li Shimin and let you embark on an official career."
"Lu Yeyun, I don't owe you anything, Mrs. Lu. It was you, Mrs. Lu, who helped me in the early years, but I paid it off."
"Don't you know who risked his life to save you back then? You were rebelling... You should kill the nine tribes, do you understand?"
Lu Yeyun didn't say anything. Fang Xuanling had saved their family's lives.
"The words have been spoken. As for what you do, it depends on your choice. I warn you again, the five surnames are Qiwang, the Zheng family in Xingyang has been exterminated, the Li family in Longxi has destroyed itself, and both the Cui family have taken refuge. King Shu, that means you have surrendered to the imperial court, can’t you see the current situation?”
"Today, I said these words entirely for my wife's sake."
"Farewell!"
Lu Yeyun watched Fang Xuanling leave, and then sighed, with five surnames and seven looks, now only their two families are left, but the Lu family and the Zhaojun Li family are also about to finish.
"Someone is coming..."
"Father!"
Lu Yeyun sat on the chair and sighed: "Go and contact the government. Twenty coins is just twenty coins, it is better than having the family ruined.
One day later, the Minister of Hubu came to the Taiji Hall to report that the Lu family of Fan Yang, the Li family of Zhaojun, the Yang family of Hongnong, the Yuwen family... these big families gave up their resistance and were willing to sell grain at the price of twenty coins and one stone.
All the grain brought to Guanzhong by other merchants or wealthy merchants was sold to the imperial court. Excluding the rations sold to the people, the imperial court still had 10,500,000 kilograms of grain in its hands.
If you include the grain from Luoyang, Yangzhou and other places, the grain in the hands of the imperial court is about five million catties, which is equivalent to the total grain output of the Tang Dynasty in a year.
This is excluding the food in the hands of the local gentry. Generally speaking, even if there is a famine in the Tang Dynasty, the people of the Tang Dynasty will not starve.
Compared with the early years of Zhenguan, life is really much easier.
But these grains can only prevent the people of Tang Dynasty from starving to death. There is still a long way to go to improve the quality of life.
It’s just that the total output in the world is so much, there’s nothing we can do about it.
Then, we can only expand outward, capture more resources, and gain more people. Only then will society develop and Datang will get better and better.
It seems that after taking over the Western Region, Datang can only rest and recuperate.
"Pass an order to dispatch three more guards, led by Cheng Zhijie and Yuchi Jingde, to send troops to the Western Regions from now on."
If you want to fight, you have to win quickly, not a protracted war.
He Li Shimin wanted to develop the economy.
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