The heavens start from saving Daming

Li Yunze doesn't engage in private interviews with microservices.

It's not that he's worried about his safety. In his current state, he shouldn't be worried about his safety.

Wherever you go out of Chang'an City, you bring a group of people to identify yourself, so that you can make decisions at any time.

It's like in this small village at this time, if Li Yunze conducts some private visits in a micro-service, he will have to talk a lot of nonsense.

And when he directly revealed his identity, he could directly ask the grain merchant who was pinned down on the ground, "Who is your backer?"

It is impossible to do business in Guanzhong and Chang'an, especially the grain business, which requires a huge amount of capital, without a backer.

The government's dredging, security guarantees, transportation and sales networks, etc., how can ordinary merchants do it.

There is also the principal.

In an ordinary village, like this village in front of you, there are more than a hundred households, and each household can sell at least tens of hundreds of shi of grain for sale. A family of a hundred households is worth more than ten thousand shi of grain.

Just the money to buy these grains is a huge sum of millions of dollars.

It is also necessary to organize an expensive transport team to transport these millions of catties of grain.

There are various expenses such as paying taxes along the way, protecting the manpower hired for safety, and so on.

If you want to be a food merchant, you need a high start-up capital.

Moreover, it is impossible for a grain merchant to only buy the surplus grain of one village, at least it must be the surplus grain of ten or eight villages. This kind of funds that can easily cost tens of millions or even over [-] million yuan, which merchant without a big backer can afford it?
The grain merchants who were pushed to the ground were dumbfounded, and shouted tremblingly, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Xiaomin is only collecting grain, and has never done anything against Han law~~~"

Seeing Li Yunze frowning, Jumeng at the side immediately stepped forward and pulled the grain merchant's hair, and walked towards him with a big hand, "Your Majesty will say whatever you ask, and send you to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice if you dare to croak!"

The Prison of the Ministry of Punishment is the former Tingwei Yamen. The prestige here, even the royal relatives, Xungui, will tremble with legs when they hear it.

The grain merchant was finally honest, and with his face swollen from the beating, he said his backer, "The Prince of Qinghe is not harmed."

The first Hou Ye of Qinghe Hou was named Wang Si, and he was one of the eighteen founding princes of Liu Bangding.

The fief is Qinghe, and the food town is as high as 2000 and two hundred households.

Their family is relatively low-key, from the chaotic wars of the founding of the country to the extermination of Zhulu, and then to the successive changes of the throne, they basically did not participate in it.

As for this grain business, their family started doing it many years ago, and it has always been smooth sailing. They never thought that they would meet the emperor when they came to a village to buy grain today.

This is really bad luck.

"Qinghehou."

Li Yunze nodded, expressing his understanding, and then asked, "Where are you going to send the food when you collect it?"

The grain merchant's eyes dodged, but he couldn't hide it from an old Jianghu like Jumeng, and he was directly followed by another big brother, "If your majesty dares to lie in front of you, that's not your business."

This big bidou directly woke up the grain merchant, and replied tremblingly, "Send them all to the granary on the bank of the Wei River."

"Oh."

Li Yunze asked again, "Where will I sell it later, and what is the price?"

"It's mainly sold to the Kanto region, not right now." After the release, the grain merchants just poured beans out of bamboo tubes, saying endlessly, "We have to wait until next year when there is no harvest, or when there is some kind of famine somewhere." It was only shipped and sold at a high price.

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He then added, "What's more, what's sold is old grain from last year. The grain received this year will not be sold until next year. If it's not difficult to store grain, it would be better to sell old grain from many years ago."

The faces of everyone around are angry, there is no doubt that this is a profiteer.

"What about the price?" Li Yunze asked again with a normal expression, "What is the selling price for you?"

"This." The grain merchant said after a while, "the price usually fluctuates, you have to see the selling price of the place. Usually, when there is no harvest, three hundred yuan per stone is the least. If there is a famine somewhere, sell it for seven or eight. There was also a hundred dollars and one stone.”

"What a jerk!"

"Trickster!"

"The Marquis of Qinghe dared to do such a thing!"

"Your Majesty, you must be severely punished!"

All the officials were furious, this is really too bad.

Li Yunze was noncommittal, and looked at a young man beside him with an angry expression on his face, "Li Gan, take him to Zhang Tang, and order Zhang Tang to deal with the matter of the Marquis of Qinghe."

The young Li Gan immediately saluted and said, "Here!"

When Yan Wang Liu Dingguo was sent to Chang'an City, he naturally brought the news that the thief was captured by Li Guang and his son.

Here, Li Yunze also made a decree immediately, to mention Li Gan, the youngest son of Li Guang who stayed in Chang'an City, as a Lang Guan by his side.

Li Guang and his son haven't come back yet, after they come back, the Li family will inevitably recover again.

Li Gan took the grain merchant to Chang'an City in a hurry, and Li Yunze didn't have the mood to continue patrolling.

He led the crowd straight to Shanglin Garden.

On the way to Shanglinyuan, Li Yunze had been thinking about how to solve the problem of the low price of the valley hurting the farmers.

This matter, in the final analysis, is still a commercial issue.

Buying at low prices and selling at high prices is indeed a commercial act, but the result is that it affects the income of farmers.

Li Yunze was indeed supportive of strengthening business practices, but he definitely would not support such things as buying low and selling high or even earning black-hearted money.

After wandering around Shanglin Garden for a few days, and checking the Ma Zheng here again, Li Yunze returned to Weiyang Palace.

"His Majesty."

Zhang Tang had already been waiting for a long time, when Li Yunze came back, he immediately came to see His Majesty, and reported the treatment of Qinghehou.

"Qinghehou Wang agreed to embezzle the fields, hide weapons and armor privately, sacrifice gold and gold as false officials, etc., and he should be beheaded and expelled from the nobles."

It is actually not illegal to buy and sell grain here in Dahan.

But it is very simple to find the shortcoming of a Marquis.

As an honorable man, which family doesn't have a lot of illegal things?
Encroaching on the land is inevitable, and there is no royal family who does not refuse to encroach on the land. Li Yunze has used so much effort and done so many things to force the farmers to invest in the land, in order to cut off the foundation of land annexation.

Hiding weapons and armor privately is even more common among nobles.

The nobles are all warriors, so it is a matter of course to have weapons and armor at home.

It's just that the law of the Han Dynasty stipulates that there is a limit on how many weapons and armor each noble can own.

Once it is exceeded, it is naturally a rebellious behavior.

The reason for hiding more weapons and armor is naturally for self-protection on the one hand.

On the other hand, it is for burial.

The Han Dynasty was an era when the funeral system was prevalent.

If someone in the family dies, the funeral must be of a large enough scale, and the things buried with him must be large enough and of sufficient weight.

Moreover, it was popular in the Han Dynasty to bury gold coins, as well as things that the host family liked during his lifetime.

Just like Zhang Tang, when his father died, in order to make enough funeral objects, he had to sell his family's land and buy gold utensils to be buried with him.

When the warriors were buried, there was absolutely no shortage of weapons and armor, and the more the better.

This is an important reason why many martial arts families often hide more weapons and armor in private.

In the past, as long as it wasn't too much, the emperor would turn a blind eye, and it didn't matter if no one cared.

But once you get serious, you will definitely catch one.

As for the fraudulent sacrifice of gold, there is no need to say more about this.

In the Han Dynasty, the feudal lords honored the nobles, and the gold that was offered along with the wine during the sacrifices in the ancestral temple was called the wine gold. There are strict regulations on the wine gold, and the quantity and weight are not small.

Even for nobles, this is a huge expense.

As time goes by, it becomes a habit to play tricks on this and reduce the quantity and weight.

In history, after Wei Qinghuo Qubing and others grew up and took control of the military, Emperor Wu used this excuse to get rid of a large number of nobles who had a vegetarian meal in one go.

Undoubtedly, tampering with Lingjin is also a capital offense.

Therefore, if you want to trouble the nobles, some of them are accused of crimes.

"Everything is buried in the ground, no wonder tomb robbers have to be executed." Li Yunze sighed, "I still have to change customs, why are there so many things."

He waved his hand, "Just deal with it according to the law."

"Here."

Zhang Tang saluted in response, and then said, "Your Majesty, 3000 gold, [-], [-], and food were confiscated from Wang Buhai's house."

Li Yunze was slightly moved, "So rich?"

"Your Majesty." Zhang Tang responded again, "According to what Wang Buhai said, their family started this kind of grain business of buying low and selling high in the early years, and they have accumulated a lot of money over the years."

"Hmph, I'm really full."

Li Yunze waved his hand again, "Add to the treasury."

"Here."

"Tomorrow is the morning court, and I intend to come up with an idea on the matter of grain purchase." Li Yunze told Zhang Tang, "You go and tell the Lord Father Yan and others, let them think of a way overnight, and come up with it at the morning court tomorrow."

The morning court is not held every day, usually every five days.

When there is a big day, it is called the Dachaohui, and it usually comes every few days.

The more industrious emperor, once every three days.

Zhu Hongwu seems to be the only one who goes to the morning court every day.

Zhang Tang's teeth are a little sore, who can come up with a good idea after this night's work?
But he couldn't say anything against it at this time, he could only retreat in response and go out of the palace to spread the word.

As for Li Yunze, he went to wash up first, and then went to find Wei Zifu.

Don't get me wrong, he was looking for Wei Zifu just to talk, chat, and exercise.

When the exercise was over and Li Yunze washed up again, it was already evening and dinner was ready.

"His Majesty."

A Lang official came to report, "The prime minister asks your majesty to see you."

"Let him come." Li Yunze, who was about to have dinner, signaled to the servants, "Give another case to the prime minister."

"Here."

Li Yunze knew that the father Yan would come, because no one could come up with a good solution in one night.

But the time was set so tight, the only purpose was that the emperor already had an idea, but he just needed to say it from the prime minister's mouth.

Zhu Fuyan understood, that's why he rushed over in a hurry.

And, it's just in time.