The backyard of the Shangzhou Yamen has been given up by the governor as the place for Prince Chengqian and Prime Minister Li Chao.

Without outsiders, Li Chengqian returned to his old appearance. He wandered around and looked around. For him, everything seemed to be fresh after leaving the capital. He could always be surprised when he saw all kinds of things.

Li Chao likes the prince's surprise appearance very much. There are many things that are very ordinary to Li Chao, but the prince can always keep it surprised.

Surprise is good, surprise can make people maintain an open mind rather than numbness.

"Teacher, I did a good job today?" Cheng Qian asked.

"It's okay. If you can take the initiative to propose the rank of the ancestors of the grain merchants today, instead of asking me to remind you, then you will be really good."

"Teacher, do you think it will be effective if we buy horse bones with a fortune?"

"It will definitely work." Li Chao replied affirmatively, "Of course, it may take one or two steps to really take effect. Prince, you just gave me a favor, so I will establish my authority next."

One sings the red face and the other sings the white face. It is both showing kindness and establishing authority. It is always a combination of kindness and power, so that those big grain merchants can truly take out the grain.

"I really want to kill someone?"

"How to warn the monkey if you don't kill a few chickens? Your Highness, don't think that this is cruelty and unkind, and killing depends on the purpose. If you kill people casually for no reason, of course it is cruelty or bloodthirsty or unkind, but if you kill people to save people, it is a different matter. If we cannot prepare before ******* this time, then many people will really die, many people, hundreds of thousands of people, so it is a matter of killing two or three people to make rich and unkind people in order to reduce 100,000 people."

"What's more, we don't kill people indiscriminately. We want to kill people to establish authority, and we also find people with bad deeds and local disasters to kill. This will not only establish authority but also make the people applaud. Eliminating local disasters is considered to kill two birds with one stone!"

Cheng Qian didn't understand what he heard, but he still heard the general meaning clearly.

"Understood."

Li Chao suspended his time in Shangzhou and did not rush to Dengzhou.

Shangzhou is very close to Dengzhou, and the two states are adjacent. However, because a major disaster year is coming, all the original arrangements have been disrupted. In the past, Li Chao planned to build a new capital in five years, but there was a plan. But now, the construction of the capital is only secondary, mainly disaster prevention. Everything depends on disaster prevention and relief. Even building a capital has become a labor-for-relief method to resettle refugees.

Now Li Shimin doesn’t care whether Hanjing is built in five or five years. Li Shimin only cares whether he can defend against the once-in-a-thirty-year ******.

Li Chao has entered Shangzhou now and has just entered Shannan. His shot must be fired.

If you can't open the door to Shangzhou and can't raise food, it will only be even more difficult next time. In any case, Shangzhou's shot must be launched.

Li Chao sat in the county government, but he was not in a hurry.

Everything has to be taken slowly.

The daughter of a wealthy person has expressed his attitude and the orders he should have issued. Now, it depends on the performance of the landlords of Shangzhou, such as the big family and landlords.

After Du Li and other grain merchants in Xinfeng Guild Hall actively sold grain to the government, they played a lot of roles.

For a time, many people came to sell grain to the yamen, actively declared the amount of grain stored, and had a positive attitude.

This house has a few hundred stones and that house has a few hundred stones. In a day, I have collected more than one hundred thousand stones.

The governor danced happily and came to seek credit from time to time, but Li Chao just smiled slightly and was not too excited.

Although Shangzhou is a state with little arable land, with eight mountains, one river and one branch of land, it is also so large. Moreover, because it is close to Guanzhong, a large amount of grain has been concentrated here for transportation. There are many grain transport granaries here, and there are absolutely a lot of grain.

Yesterday, a Xinfeng Guild Hall took out 180,000 stones of grain. Today, there are so many landlords and merchants in Shangzhou that they have only taken out 100,000 stones, which is not as good as a guild hall.

Li Chao didn't have to look at the specific account book, and he also knew that this was far less than half of Shangzhou's excess grain. Not to mention half, he estimated that one third and one fifth were far less than one third.

However, this result was also expected by Li Chao.

Who would be afraid of just being kind but not being powerful?

Those who came to sell grain were probably only a small part, and even this small part of the people did not sell the excess to the government according to the rules, and they would definitely have tricks.

"Governor Liu, you will send out yamen officials to inform them everywhere, so that all the villages will go to the countryside to announce. The prime minister and His Highness the Crown Prince will stay in Shangzhou for a few more days. I hope everyone can unite and sell half of the excess grain stored in truth according to the court's regulations. The court will not forget everyone's performance this time. The commendation meeting for commendation will also be reduced and exempted from tax exemptions. But if you think the court is easy to cheat and deceive, and do not buy according to orders or conceal the less-reported report, the consequences will be very serious. Don't say that you are not prepared!"

The governor heard these murderous words and felt a little sweaty on his forehead.

He is an old bureaucrat, and he is considered a very good official when he becomes the governor of the state. In terms of age, he can be more likely to be Li Chao's father. He has been in the officialdom for decades, but when he stands in front of this young minister, he always feels nervous.

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree.

Although Li Chao was young, he was the chief minister of Xuanwu Sect. Who doesn’t know the truth about Xuanwu Sect is that the current Gong Ren deposed the prince and placed the emperor under house arrest, and then seized the throne. The prime minister of Xuanwu Sect’s prime minister is the chief conspiracy of Gong Ren. How could such a person be ordinary?

What's more, he once defeated Tuyuhun in Longyou and destroyed the last rebel king in the Central Plains in a battle in Shuofang.

"Please rest assured, I will step up my supervision."

"Leave the account book for selling grain."

When it was time to take action, Li Chao would never be vague. When he left Beijing, he knew that it would not be so smooth. At that time, someone would inevitably test the knife with his neck.

When he came, Li Chao brought many special accounts in the Li family's industry, with the purpose of specializing in accounting and reconciliation. Li Chao and Ke Qing, the top assassin.

Ke Qing is not only able to assassinate, but also a good at inquiring about news. The killer team he trained with was followed by Li Chao this time.

A Shangzhou is so big, and there are only so many wealthy families. It is actually not a secret matter for who has much land and which family has much grain storage.

As long as Ke Qing took his team out for two days, Li Chao could clearly understand the property status of these wealthy people in Shangzhou, let alone large items such as grain. This is not gold and silver jewelry, but it is worth hundreds of stones, which is more than 100,000 kilograms. Where can I hide it?

What's more, there are only a few hundred or thousands of stones.

Now Li Chao gives these Shangzhou tyrants a seven-day ultimatum. Within seven days, it is their last chance, and it is also the time when Ke Qing and others collect a precise data sheet for Shangzhou tyrants to collect a certain amount of grain storage information for Shangzhou tyrants.

Seven days later, Li Chao would compare the tables from Ke Qing newspaper and compare the food handed over by the local tyrants in Shangzhou one by one.

Whoever paid the food truthfully, whoever paid less, whoever did not, will know clearly then.
Chapter completed!