When the spring breeze of the earth fills Chang'an, no trace of spring breeze blows into Liangyi Hall.

Since the old ghost walked out, the Liangyi Palace was frozen to death by Li Shimin's cold face.

Everyone knew that Li Shimin wanted to teach Li Chengqian a lesson, but it was a matter of opinion.

Everyone also understands that Li Chengqian is just stubborn now. No matter how capable Cheng Mingzhen is, it is impossible for him to calm the food prices within half a day.

Now I just hope that Li Shimin will deal with Li Chengqian for a while and take action lightly and keep a little father-son relationship. After all, these are somewhat related to Li Chengqian, and I really don’t want to see Li Chengqian completely rebelling against Li Shimin.

Not to mention that Li Chengqian is basically in line with the requirements of a crown prince, even if he has some minor flaws, these people are ready to recognize him. He can't rebel again.

Thinking about Li Tai's death, the East Palace is still investigating Li Tai's rebellious accomplices, and Li Chengqian is still expanding the scope of revenge. It is really shocking!

But at this moment, when the ministers in Liangyi Palace were facing the most difficult pair of kings, ministers, fathers and sons who were in the world to hurt each other, Ma Zhou, who was known for his wisdom, had no choice.

Just as Li Chengqian was sitting there and Li Shimin's face became darker and darker, the old ghost and a little eunuch walked into the Liangyi Hall, and the little neighing sat up and replied: "Your Majesty, please see you outside the Chengmin Department!"

"Come in!" Li Shimin, who had a dark face, almost shouted out.

"Abide by the order!" The little eunuch shivered in fear, hurried out to lead Cheng Mingzhen into the hall, and the hall returned to death.

The old ghost was also scared and quickened his pace and walked behind Li Chengqian, then lay down in Li Chengqian's ear and whispered: "Your Highness Cheng Min's army has stabilized the food price. Now the food price in Chang'an City is ten yuan..."

Before he finished speaking, he found something wrong. Everyone in the hall was looking at him in surprise. Although his voice was low, there was only Li Shimin's heavy breathing in the hall.

Li Shimin was shocked and concluded that this was a lie made up by Cheng Mingzhen. He was about to scold the old ghost, but he saw the tall Cheng Mingzhen strutting into Liangyi Hall with his head held high, and there was still a wind in his action.

Sitting under Li Chengqian, Gao Shilian immediately shouted: "Chengmin Department, why have you forgotten the rules for entering the hall again? You have to move forward when entering the hall!"

Cheng Mingzhen hurriedly bowed and apologized, saying, "My Cheng Mingzhen pays homage to Your Majesty. I am eager to report to Your Majesty the situation of the stable grain prices in Chang'an City. I forgot the etiquette and asked Your Majesty to forgive me."

Li Shimin snorted coldly when he heard this, "I heard that the food price in Chang'an City has been reduced to ten dollars per bull?"

"That's right!" Li Shimin didn't call him flat, and Cheng Mingzhen didn't dare to get up, but his demeanor was still neither humble nor arrogant.

Li Shimin looked at Cheng Mingzhen's eyes and became colder, and he asked lightly: "Cheng Mingzhen, do you know what the consequences of deceiving the monarch?"

"I know, but I have never deceived the king." Cheng Mingzhen said calmly.

"Didn't you deceive the emperor?" Li Shimin said, turning his head to look at Li Chengqian, who was a little excited, and said to Gao Jifu: "Gaoqing's family, go to the East City again!"

"I obey the order." Gao Jifu bowed out of Liangyi Hall.

The others in the hall looked at Cheng Mingzhen at this time, hoping that Cheng Mingzhen could tell me how he calmed the food price in such a short time.

But Li Shimin didn't speak and no one dared to ask, so Cheng Mingzhen could only kneel in the middle of the hall.

After a long time, Li Chengqian saw that Li Shimin had no intention of calling Cheng Ming to cheer up, and thought to himself that he asked, "Have you caught those who are rushing to buy grain to make the price rise?"

Cheng Mingzhen said as usual: "Go back to the prince, all the people who rush to buy food have been arrested, and the deputy commander of the Eastern Palace Siyu, Qiu Shenji, is being interrogated."

After hearing the 'hehe', Li Shimin sneered: "So you arrested all the people who bought the grain. I thought there was something good about it?" As he said that, he slapped the table and asked loudly: "Cheng Mingzhen is the method of calming the price of grain taught to you by the prince? Can you catch hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City?"

When Li Chengqian saw that Li Shimin wanted to get his fault, he laughed in his heart. Li Shimin was so arrogant that he was furious when he heard that he had nothing to do.

But the others in the hall were shocked by Li Shimin's sudden roar and lowered their heads one by one and did not dare to speak.

Cheng Mingzhen, who was kneeling in the center of the hall, still calmly said: "When you say that, the people I have captured are all sent by other grain stores in Chang'an City, not the people who bought grain and went home to eat. These people are now being held in the East Palace for trial, and you will know who is behind them later."

Li Shimin saw Cheng Mingzhen still calm at this time, and he was also confused. He didn't want Li Chengqian to tell him that he was right and wrong, so his tone was slightly eased: "How do you know that these people are not buying food and going back to eat?"

"Your Majesty, these people have been rushing to buy grain in the Ministry of Civil Affairs for several days. The people in the store have already recorded them. Besides, the prices of grain in Chang'an suddenly increased, and ordinary people have some food in their homes. Who would buy so much food at once?

The affordable grain store of the Ministry of Civil Affairs has sold 600 stones of grain these days. It is the number of grain sold by the Donggong Grain Store in a month. How could it be bought and eaten?"

Li Shimin believed it a little, but he was still dissatisfied and asked, "Where are those people interrogating?"

"Ask in Zuochunfang, East Palace." Cheng Mingzhen answered truthfully.

Li Shimin glanced at Li Chengqian without saying anything, turned to Zhang Chengxing, the minister of the Ministry of Justice, and said, "Zhang Qing, you are the Minister of Justice. Go and see who is behind these people?"

"Abide by the order!" Zhang Chengxing hurriedly bowed and left Liangyi Hall.

"Father, I'm also in a hurry to interrogate these people in the East Palace. After all, no one knows who is involved in the people who disrupt Chang'an City." When Li Chengqian saw Li Shimin's look at him, he knew that he thought he was messing with the rules.

"Hmph" Li Shimin just snorted coldly when he heard this. No matter how angry he was at Li Chengqian, he did not find out the important person who disrupted Chang'an City.

Li Shimin looked at Cheng Mingzhen who had been kneeling in the center of the hall, took a deep breath and said, "Cheng Qing's family is flat and he will be given a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

When the others in the hall were relieved when they saw this, they thought that His Majesty and His Royal Highness were just a battle of will, and when they encountered major national affairs, they still put the overall situation first.

Thinking of Cheng Mingzhen's calm response to Li Shimin's anger just now, he turned the danger into peace. He couldn't help but admire this person who had been an official in the local area.

"Min Cheng, once you arrested these people, the food price in Chang'an will drop immediately. Do you have other tricks?"

Ma Zhou saw Li Shimin's anger and asked, "Ma Zhou Xianglai also believed in his intelligence, but he thought about this game for a long time but couldn't figure out how Cheng Mingzhen did it."

Li Shimin was also quite interested in this. He looked at Cheng Mingzhen and said, "Tell me!"

Cheng Mingzhen said calmly: "When I returned to Your Majesty, when I found someone to fuel the price of Chang'an a few days ago, I went to the East Palace to ask His Royal Highness for advice."

When Cheng Mingzhen mentioned Li Chengqian, Li Shimin's face flashed with anger and looked at Li Chengqian without saying anything.

Cheng Mingzhen pretended not to see it and continued, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is really a clever plan. He saw the other party's purpose at a glance, and ordered his ministers to use the plan and follow them to raise the price of grain and let them buy the stored grain from the Eastern Palace.

However, their price increases in the past two days have become more and more outrageous. Early this morning, several grain stores in the East City of Chang'an paid a high price of thirty dollars per dou. On the other hand, the minister ordered people to rise to 20 dollars per dou and sold them more than one hundred stones of grain.

Then he ordered people to pull out the thousands of stones of grain in the East Palace in Shengdaofang, walked through the entire Chang'an City, and then went to the grain store opened by the East Citizens' Ministry, and announced in public that Chang'an City was not short of grain, and all the grain was sold out in ten buckets.

When ordinary people see that there is food in Chang'an City, they will naturally not be anxious. The price of food will drop accordingly."

"Hahaha, good idea, the Cheng Qing family is indeed the talent of the prime minister!" Li Shimin laughed loudly when he heard this. This time he really believed that the food price in Chang'an City had subsided.

Cheng Mingzhen hurriedly said modestly: "Your Majesty has praised you. These are all the advices from His Highness the Crown Prince."

Li Shimin's smile froze when he heard this, his face froze, as if he had a sip of drink, but found that the bottle contained urine.

After a while, he glanced at Li Chengqian, who was sitting there, and snorted angrily but didn't say anything.

Just when he was embarrassed, an eunuch came in and reported, "I will report to Your Majesty, please see Gao Jifu, the secretary of the Secretariat, outside the hall."

"Supreme him in!"

After a while, Gao Jifu walked in with a happy look on his face, bowed to the hall, and said excitedly: "See Your Majesty, Your Majesty Lord Cheng has indeed reduced the price of grain to ten dollars per dou, and many people..."

Halfway through speaking, he found that the atmosphere was wrong, so he stopped and looked at Li Shimin.

Li Shimin reluctantly said, "I understand, Gao Qing should be calm."

Just when Li Shimin was embarrassed and didn't know how to relieve it, Li Chengqian stood up and said, "The price of the father's food has dropped to ten dollars per dou, and the son has surrendered."

Li Chengqian is very anxious to go back to the East Palace. Don’t forget to go to provoke grain merchants to buy grain from the Ministry of Civil Affairs at that time. However, the person who sold it at a high price was his brother-in-law. He felt very upset when Zhang Chengxing went to the East Palace...

As he said that, he saw Li Shimin not saying a word, and took two steps back and was about to leave, but he heard Li Shimin say, "Slow down!"
Chapter completed!