Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

"Are you threatening me? Chu Mo, are you really determined to go against me?"

Li Shimin's heart surged with anger.

Since the frost disaster, I haven't heard any good news.

Not only the food supplies for the disaster relief were gone, but the entire army on the front line was also wiped out due to this natural disaster, and no news has been sent back until now.

I don't even know whether the Turks have moved south again or whether the front has been lost.

Now at this critical moment, these humble businessmen don't even think about serving the country, but only think about how to take advantage of the national crisis to make a fortune. This makes Li Shimin not angry.

However, what he didn't expect was that Chu Mo and others had no idea about the war ahead, and the merchants had united simply because of Li Chengqian's tax increase policy, which made it impossible for them to maintain daily operations.

If it hadn't been made clear on the imperial list, even the merchants who had closed down their businesses would have to pay back the tax arrears from previous years. A large number of shops in Chang'an City would have closed down.

Chu Mo couldn't help but be a little puzzled when he saw that Li Shimin was getting angry after just a few words today, completely losing his previous calmness.

According to his prediction, even if the Hubu granary was destroyed, there would be several other granaries inside and outside the city.

Although the grain stored in these granaries cannot be compared with the grain warehouses of the Ministry of Revenue, if all of them are taken out, the livelihood of the people and the army can be barely maintained for a period of time. The other party should not be so anxious.

Thinking of Wang Dehai's constipated attitude before, Chu Mo's eyes suddenly lit up. Could there be something wrong that made the other party so anxious?

Thinking of this, Chu Mo rolled his eyes and said to Li Shimin: "Old Li, the so-called peace brings wealth, look at you, you just sat down and you didn't even say a word, why did you get so angry?"

With that said, he poured a cup of tea for Li Shimin and handed it over.

Li Shimin took the tea and drank it all in one gulp, then slapped the teacup in his hand on the table and growled: "Chu Mo, please give me a pleasant word, do you want to pay the business tax?"

"No payment."

Without any hesitation, Chu Mo refused directly.

"you..."

Li Shimin jumped up, pointed at Chu Mo's nose and cursed: "In your eyes, is money that important?"

"Do you know that it is because of your merchants' hoarding that the people are now displaced and starving?"

"It's because you waited without caring about the overall situation that the court has been unable to provide effective disaster relief!"

"It's also because of your short-sightedness in waiting that it is very likely that the Turks will go south again, leaving corpses scattered thousands of miles away!"

Hearing Li Shimin's curse, Chu Mo suddenly understood.

It turns out that the Turks are coming, that's why Li Er is so anxious.

"That's not right, Li Er, you said the Turks went south? But as far as I know, this frost disaster not only affected us in the Tang Dynasty, but also the disaster suffered by the Turks was not much smaller."

"Those Turks must have died a lot this year, and the frozen cattle, sheep, and horses were enough for them to survive the winter. They must have been severely weakened this time and unable to go south at all."

Uh. . .

Li Shimin was choked by Chu Mo's question.

Can he tell the other party that he insisted on sending a large army to attack the Turks, but instead of making any achievements, the entire army was wiped out by the sudden frost disaster?

Thinking of this, Li Shimin recalled that Chu Mo had repeatedly warned him before and wanted to punish him, and there were already rumors about frost disasters.

Taking a deep breath, Li Shimin looked at Chu Mo with burning eyes and asked, "You already knew about the frost disaster before, right?"

Seeing Li Shimin looking at him like this, Chu Mo blinked his eyes, nodded like a good boy and said: "Yes, Lao Li, I have warned you more than once before, but you act like you have done nothing. I’m also very helpless.”

Li Shimin only felt a sweetness in his throat and a smell of blood.

Resisting the urge to vomit blood, Li Shimin gritted his molars and asked again: "Then I ask you, if I issue an edict to sin now, will this disaster be alleviated?"

Li Zhenying looked at Li Shimin in surprise, not expecting that this iron-blooded king would speak astonishingly.

Chu Mo didn't care whether Li Shimin really wanted to sin or not.

He spread his hands and sighed: "Old Li, it is difficult to recover from the overflowing water. Natural disasters have already occurred. How to reduce the harm can only be done by manpower. No matter how much you punish yourself, it will not help. .”

After hearing Chu Mo's words, Li Shimin slumped down on his chair. After a long time, he sighed and said, "I was wrong. I wronged the country."

Glancing at Li Shimin who was blaming himself, Chu Mo curled his lips and said, "If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place."

But having said that, this old boy Li Er should have come here to beg him today, and he also wanted to trick him severely.

Seeing him like this, should he continue to wield this butcher's knife?

After just a moment of hesitation, Chu Mo became determined again.

No matter what Li Shimin's attitude towards him was before, he couldn't miss a great opportunity just because the other party was pitiful.

Thinking of this, Chu Mo chuckled, patted Li Shimin on the shoulder and said:

"Old Li, isn't it just a frost disaster? Is there any need to be so downcast?"

"You're talking lightly. It's just an abnormal frost disaster. Do you know that this frost disaster is enough to destroy the Tang Dynasty today?"

Li Shimin's originally bloodshot eyes had turned red at this moment, and the aura on his body slowly exploded.

He looked at Chu Mo like crazy and growled: "Chu Mo, if my country is not protected, then I will definitely turn you and your food to ashes before I die."

"Oh, that's okay, His Majesty the Emperor, you can go back, you are not welcome here."

Facing Li Shimin's threat, Chu Mo's eyes instantly became cold and stern.

"you!"

Li Shimin's original intention was to let Chu Mo know that he was determined to die together, so that he would be afraid and make concessions.

But I didn't expect that Chu Mo, a cutthroat person, was not threatened by him at all, which completely disturbed the script.

"Why, my Majesty the Emperor, aren't you going to kill me before you die? Shouldn't you be going back now to gather your army to encircle and suppress me?"

"Don't worry, although I, Chu Mo, am not a gentleman or an upright person, I am still willing to accept your threat."

"It's not Chu Mo, I didn't mean that, I just..."

Li Shimin didn't expect that Chu Mo would dare to accept his threat, leaving him completely at a loss as to how to continue.

While thinking about it, Li Shimin suddenly loosened his clenched fists, and the aura on his body disappeared in an instant. He glanced at Chu Mo bitterly and said: "Chu Mo, you know what I mean. Now that things have happened, are you still pretending?" Are you stupid?"