When Li Shimin heard the word "fuck", the flames in his heart started to burn again. He held back his strength before suppressing his anger.

When Chen Shangjia asked him why, he frowned and said, "Why?"

"You don't think about it. Now that prices are rising so much, are you willing to sell goods? It's time to do this, what's the use of letting those trading officers stare at them? The more they keep their eyes on them, the less they dare to buy or sell."

He paused and continued, "Think about it carefully, everyone dares not do business, and they don't want to sell silk. There are always people who have to buy silk on the market. The fewer people sell, the more people buy it. Should the price rise?"

When Li Shimin heard this, he was enlightened and said that it turned out to be like this... Dai Zhou was fortunately the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but he didn't even expect this.

Chen Shangjia was still talking nonstop: "In the past, everyone was willing to do business in the East City, and they did not have to buy and sell for forced business. The cost of transactions was not much. However, after such trouble in the East City, even if the sellers had to come here, everyone was worried that this transaction would have become a matter of being arrested in the yamen. With such a big risk, if it was just a small profit, who would still be willing to sell goods? Therefore, the price... has risen again, why? Isn't it because the cost has become higher? You can calculate it yourself. After all, after being tossed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the silk that had originally increased to 60 yuan was not enough for seventy yuan, but I could still buy it?"

"I said something unpleasant. There are treacherous officials in the court. I don't know who the emperor was evil. He actually made such a foolish move. Three provinces and six ministries, after a while, in order to stabilize prices, he actually created a mayor of the East City and the West City. Isn't this a mess? Now everyone is complaining. Don't look at the low prices in the East City and the West City, but in fact, in fact... no one is doing business there. The original store was just staying there to pretend to deal with the government. We had no choice but to come here to do business!"

"It's a good thing that Dai Zhou was praised for being honest and honest, self-controlled, and decisive. I think the emperor was blind, but he believed in his evil spirit."

When the other merchants heard this, they all agreed and said, "You wait. If you continue to struggle like this, prices will rise!"

"If the government knew that there was another market here and sent a trading officer, everyone had to choose another place to trade. Next time, I don't know what the price will be like."

"I have planned to stock up on a batch of goods anyway. As long as Mr. Dai is still in office and needs to stabilize prices, I will not worry. The more he is, the more the goods I have in my hands will rise. Haha... I also lose this Mr. Dai. Otherwise, I will not be able to make a fortune."

Li Shimin: “…”

If it weren't for this trip, Li Shimin would have been beaten to death, and he would have been anxious to get angry. The strategy formulated by the three provinces and the iron fist of the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs Dai Zhou would have made these merchants who were hoarding goods make a fortune.

Everyone was talking lively, but Li Shimin stopped talking anymore and sat there withered. No one wanted to pay attention. He took a few sips of tea and waited late at night before he returned to the vegetarian room.

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"What's going on?"

Fang Xuanling is very anxious now. He was paying for the time being, but someone came to Fang's house to report that His Majesty had not returned all night.

It was already midnight now, and His Majesty suddenly disappeared. This was a huge matter.

Fang Xuanling did not dare to neglect and quickly found someone to discuss it.

He sent someone to Erpigou, and heard that Chen Zhengtai was nowhere to be seen, and the prince was not there in the East Palace.

This scared Fang Xuanling.

After thinking about it, Your Majesty should have gone to the market, but the question is, why have you been in the market but you haven't returned yet?

He was very worried about His Majesty's safety, so he hurriedly searched for Dai Zhou.

Dai Zhou was also shocked, but said to Fang Xuanling: "Mr. Fang, your Majesty is an extraordinary monarch. Don't worry, no one dares to hurt Your Majesty's life. The most urgent thing is where Your Majesty has gone. Since Your Majesty has not returned all night, there must be his reason. I will call the mayor and the transaction chief of East and West City to ask."

So he quickly summoned someone. It was a coincidence that Liu Yan, the transaction chief of Dongshi, had really seen suspicious people.

Liu Yan was summoned to the Ministry of Civil Affairs in fear, but saw Fang Xuanling sitting on one side with a pale face.

Dai Zhou looked at him and said, "You mean, there is a suspicious person, what does he look like?"

Liu Yan quickly gestured and described it, and then talked about the few followers beside him.

Fang Xuanling sighed and said, "It seems that this is indeed His Majesty. What did he say to you?"

When Liu Yan heard that the person he saw during the day was His Majesty, his face suddenly became tragic, and he was immediately scared, so he recalled wildly whether he had said something wrong.

He thought about it and then stuttered: "It was almost noon at that time. Xiaguan and his people were patrolling the East City. When they saw someone coming out of a silk shop, Xiaguan was wondering if someone was doing a transaction? How dare the Xiaguan leave his post without permission. So he went forward to interrogate. The man claimed that his surname was Li and named Erlang, and said that Silk Thirty-Nine Words. He asked Xiaguan again, the responsibility of the transaction chief and the prices of the East City were all told."

"I said it all? What did he say?" Dai Zhou stared at the transaction chief Liu Yan.

Liu Yan recalled, and said carefully: "I was very happy to see him, as if he was quite lustful. When I said goodbye to him, I took many steps and vaguely heard him scolding the two boys beside him. So the official subconsciously turned around. As expected, he saw that he was very excited to scold the two boys, but he couldn't hear clearly what it was."

Hearing this, Dai Zhou felt relieved.

Sure enough... Your Majesty saw it as if it was true. It seemed that there was no mistake in this East City. Your Majesty must be very pleased to see the East City and West City.

Dai Zhou then asked again: "Where has he been since then?"

"I don't know."

Dai Zhou looked at Fang Xuanling: "Your Majesty is rarely out of the palace, and it's a private visit. Maybe... I just wanted to walk around and see, this is under the feet of the emperor, and there will be no mistakes. Your Majesty saw the performance of the Ministry of Civil Affairs with his own eyes, and the prices in this market remained unchanged. I was afraid that this thought would be considered a loss."

Fang Xuanling also felt that it made sense after hearing Dai Zhou's words. He had heard of His Majesty's character and was very brave. He had thousands of people at the beginning, so he dared to lead the way and storm the 100,000 troops.

After that, he became the emperor and the Turks attacked, and he rode alone to meet the Turkic Khan and swear to the other side that His Majesty is a great man and there are many guards around him. I think nothing will happen!

He sighed bitterly: "No matter what, Your Majesty is a thousand gold, so it shouldn't be like this. But... since there is nothing wrong, you can let go."

Dai Zhou then said, "Your Majesty checked the East City in person today. It seems that Your Majesty must be very pleased. If what Liu Yan said was reliable, then he should be very happy at this moment. So the official was thinking, since that is the case, the second minister of the East City and the transaction chief, to calm prices this time, can be said to be very hardworking and making great contributions. Why not give a good reward to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China? When Your Majesty returns to the palace, he will hear about this matter and think that the Secretariat and the Ministry of Civil Affairs will do their business."

Fang Xuanling thought, took a sip of tea, and then slowly said: "What you said is not unreasonable. The rising prices are because of Your Majesty's heart. Now the Ministry of Civil Affairs is worried about this. Since prices have been stabilized, it is worthy of praise. I will continue to explain it tomorrow morning."

After hearing this, Liu Yan was very grateful and repeatedly claimed to thank him.

He gave Dai Zhou a particularly gratifying look. Everyone followed Shangshu Dai to do things. Although Shangshu Dai was strict in governing officials and strictly in official affairs, as long as you were willing to work hard, Shangshu Dai was very willing to show his merits to everyone.

Liu Yan said in a state of emotion: "The officials must be loyal to their duties and will never let the price rise in the East and West markets rise again."

"Go, go." Dai Zhou was relieved. He could have a good night's sleep tonight.

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But that night, Li Shimin couldn't sleep.

In this cold vegetarian room, he and Yi sat on the windowsill without moving. He looked at one place, but could not see the focus, as if he had been thinking for a long time.

When Zhang Qian came in to report the vegetarian meal the next morning, Li Shimin got up, but said to Chen Zhengtai and Li Chengqian who had already been waiting for him here: "We won't eat in the temple. Since we are here, then... let's go to the street to eat."

After saying that, he took everyone out of the temple.

Although it was still early in the morning, the street was already bustling, and there were many peddlers and vendors along the way.

Li Shimin stopped, walked to a pancake stall, looked at the hot sorghum steamed cakes, and said, "How many steamed cakes are there?"

"Eight cents a fee." The peddler said with a smile.

Li Shimin was shocked: "Even if this ordinary commoner is not sure that he can earn eight cents in one day, why is it so expensive?"

The peddler's face pulled down and he said unhappily: "What's the point? Now it's the price. Is it willing to give me less oil, salt, rice and flour for my pancake? In my eyes, there are still less."

Chen Zhengtai was speechless. He always had a perception that every time Li Shimin bargained with others and then had a quarrel, he should have to spend money.

He tried hard to find a lot of copper coins, grabbed a handful of them, and put them on the stall: "Come twenty, okay, don't talk too much, let's talk too much, I'll break your stall."

When the peddler saw the money, he stopped talking and quickly wrapped the steamed cakes with lotus leaves and delivered them to Li Shimin.

At this moment... when I saw Li Shimin carrying steamed cakes, I didn't know where... a group of barefoot children suddenly rushed out and swarmed in front of Li Shimin. They opened their eyes wide and raised their heads, looking at the steamed cakes in Li Shimin's hand, swallowing saliva.
Chapter completed!