Datang: Get a god-level selection system at the beginning

It took less than a day for the news of the locust plague in Guanzhong to spread throughout Chang'an, and every rice noodle shop became the most popular place almost overnight.

They have food in their hands and don't panic in their hearts, but most ordinary people don't have much food in their hands. Many people still remember the chaos in the world at the end of Sui Dynasty, and they don't want to experience it again.

"Open the door, open the door!"
"Why don't you sell me food, I'll pay for it."
"What a profiteer, the grain tripled overnight, can you be more black-hearted?"
Hearing this, the shop clerk rolled his eyes: "You still think it's expensive? Let me tell you, the price of grain in the next-door market has increased by five times, and there are still many people who can't get it. "
"Compared to them, our boss already has a lot of conscience, okay? Don't talk nonsense, buy it or not, or get out of the way if you don't buy it!"
"Buy, buy, buy, this is all my money, how much food do you think I can buy?"
This kind of thing happened in almost every street and alley in Chang'an, and the court seemed to be blind at this time, and didn't see it at all.

At Cui Tongjian's servant's mansion, members of the Boling Cui clan are discussing countermeasures.

"Uncle Six, I think our Cui family should work harder to make this fire burn more vigorously."
A descendant of the Cui family said: "Nowadays so many ordinary people are robbing rice and noodles, and the price of grain changes every moment. If you can hoard a large amount of grain now and sell it when the price is high, you will make a fortune." gone."
For this suggestion, many Cui family members agreed, but there were also those who opposed it: If the emperor was forced to expropriate these grains, what should we do? "
"By that time, won't we have no money or food?"
"I think the emperor dares? If that's the case, then we can simply do the opposite! Anyway, even without him, Li Shimin, our Cui family will still stand."
"I don't believe that without our family members, they can secure the throne."
"This locust plague is a timely rain for our family. We must take this opportunity to beat Li Wenbin to death."
"Never take a breath and come alive again in the blink of an eye."
"Yes, we must let that Li Wenbin die in the worst way in front of our Cui family."
The patriarch of the Cui family is still in Boling County, and the Cui family in Chang'an naturally follow the lead of Cui Tongjian, the highest official.

Looking at the fiery eyes of the clansmen, although Cui Tongjian felt that something was wrong, but at this time, he had already opened his bow and there was no turning back, even if it was a dead end, he had to go on.

"Then... let's do this, gather all of our Cui family's floating wealth in Chang'an, sell some properties that can be sold quickly, and even those that are not easy to sell will be mortgaged to those scrapers, and then Use all the money you can muster to buy food."
"Then...do you want to inform my family in Boling County to come and help?"
"No, you don't need to inform them. My family is too far away from Chang'an. Sending large amounts of money here will waste too much time and be too dangerous."
What Cui Tongjian said was reasonable and restrained, but the other clansmen knew that, in fact, he just didn't want the people in his clan to take a share of the pie and dilute the profits.

Well, anyway, the meat is rotten in the pot, so you can do whatever you want.

The Cui family acted quickly and gathered all the floating wealth together. At the same time, they also quickly sold the shops and land. They also contacted a few loan sharks, and mortgaged a large amount of cash with dozens of houses.

Although the interest rate for land scraping in that business was extremely high, even as high as [-]% per month, the Cui family didn't even bat an eyelid, and they didn't give up until all the properties in their hands were disposed of.

This time, the clansmen of the Boling Cui family in Chang'an City went bankrupt and used all their property to buy food.

Now the food price in Chang'an has risen eight times at the lowest level, and has even increased more than ten times.

If a smart person would have guessed that the imperial court would not allow food, which is related to people's livelihood, to soar, maybe one day in the future it would take action to drive down the price of food to the ground.

It's just that, after all, isn't it still there? What if the court doesn't take action?
As a result, the people in Chang'an City and some wealthy households went crazy and used all their money to buy grain.

Even if they bought more food than they could eat for more than ten years, they still had to buy it like crazy.

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"Wen Bin, are you sure nothing will happen?"
In the Hall of Xiande, Li Shimin asked Li Wenbin worriedly: "I would rather keep the powerful people than take such a risk with the hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an."
"You know, all the essence of the Tang Dynasty is in Guanzhong, in Chang'an. If something happens, it will be too late to regret."
"Father, my son once heard from my mother that when the Supreme Emperor raised troops against the Sui Dynasty in the past, he had less than [-] soldiers and horses and only tens of thousands of money, but you still tried your best to persuade the Supreme Emperor to raise troops. Why is that? "
"Hey, at that time the whole world was turned against me. I was thinking that even if I don't do it now, I will do it in the future, so why not do it sooner, maybe I can take advantage of it."
"It is for this reason that I tried my best to persuade my father to rebel."
Thinking of the past years, Li Shimin's face actually had a look of nostalgia.

"It can be said that it is precisely because of your decisive decision, father, that the present Datang has come into existence. But why are you so easily vacillating now?"
"Oh, I knew you would say that." Li Shimin pointed at Li Wenbin and smiled, "At that time, I could say that I had nothing, but now I have the entire Tang Dynasty, with tens of millions of people, and naturally It's not the same before."
"My son understands, but I hope that my father can trust my son, so that I can play freely without being restrained."
Li Wenbin didn't want to do it, so he ran over to tell him what to do, saying that this is not okay and that is not okay.

If this is the case, then he might as well bow his head to the Cui family and admit defeat as soon as possible.

"Don't worry about this, I'm not old-fashioned yet. I understand the principle of not being suspicious, but not being suspicious, so you don't have to worry about this."
"It's just that you have to make it clear what you want to do, so that I can know it in my heart."
"It's very simple, my son intends to kill someone!"
"Murder... kill the heart?"
"That's right, it's not enough to physically eliminate those clansmen, you have to step them into the mud, and they won't be able to turn over for 1000 years, lest the clans will revive in the future and become a big trouble that can't be shaken off again.