Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Originally, according to her assumptions, Chu Mo should be like the patriarchs of the Five Surnames and Qiwang, and it was impossible for him to eat the food he prepared in such a large public.

When the time comes, she can use this to preach to them, but now, Chu Mo actually doesn't play according to common sense, which is a bit beyond her expectation.

But before she could continue thinking, she saw Cui Yingying, the acting head of the Boling Cui family below, picking up a wild vegetable and saying:

"The Queen, such good wild vegetables are really rare. Nowadays, the refugees outside the city cannot find wild vegetables of such good quality. I wonder where the Queen picked them?"

After saying that, he also stuffed the wild vegetables into his mouth.

Hearing Cui Yingying's reminder, several household heads around them suddenly understood and imitated the situation, grabbing the wild vegetables on the table and stuffing them into their mouths.

They've figured it out now.

Does face matter now?

If I show disdain today, I will be caught by the queen, and any big hat will be enough for me to eat a pot.

The lessons learned from Buddhism are still fresh in my mind.

That guy Li Er relied on the assets of Buddhism to fill the national treasury, and then he had enough money to attack the Turks.

Today's event was obviously the Hongmen Banquet, and as for the target, several family heads at first thought that the Queen was targeting Chu Mo, but now it seemed that the Queen was planning to make a mess.

Thinking of the empress in front of me, before His Majesty the Emperor ascended the throne, she used endless tricks. Many of the great things Li Shimin did had her shadow.

In just a few breaths, all the family heads thought things through, and the eyes they looked at Chu Mo no longer looked like they were looking at a joke.

But there is a feeling of sympathy for each other.

Seeing that the situation he had carefully arranged was about to be broken by Chu Mo's small move.

Empress Changsun could no longer sit still, stood up immediately, and said to everyone:

"Everyone knows that the people outside the city can only use these things to satisfy their hunger, but you don't know that in our Tang Dynasty, outside Chang'an, many people want to use these things to satisfy their hunger. A luxury."

"Everyone knows that half of our territory in the Tang Dynasty was hit by a frost disaster a few days ago, and the Turks from the north invaded the border at this time. In order to protect the people of our country in the Tang Dynasty, Your Majesty did not hesitate to spend thousands of dollars to conquer the country in person."

"Now, the Tang Dynasty has reached the stage of life and death. I dare not ask for anything else. I just want to ask you to open a warehouse to sell grain. Sell the grain in your hands to the court and the people, so that they can have a chance to survive. .”

"Here, on behalf of all the people in the world, I would like to thank you all."

As she spoke, Queen Changsun bowed to everyone.

When Chu Mo saw this, he jumped up from his seat. He bowed to Empress Changsun and shouted:

"Your Majesty, you have done a great job for me. How can I be so virtuous as a young man to receive such a great gift from my Majesty?"

Several family heads on the side realized it at this time, stood up one after another, returned the gift to the Queen, and shouted in imitation: "I am ashamed to receive this gift."

They now understood that Empress Changsun was indeed forcing Chu Mo to sell grain today, and they were just along the way.

Since they can't defeat Queen Changsun now, they will definitely not suffer any loss if they follow Chu Mo.

Seeing Chu Mo move so quickly, a smile appeared on the corner of Queen Changsun's lips, and then she said loudly:

"Master Chu, you have the largest hoard of food and supplies in the entire Chang'an City. I am here to implore Master Chu to resume the market and sell the grain you have hoarded to the imperial court. The imperial court will definitely pay a high price for it."

As soon as the words came out, the people watching in the audience, led by a thoughtful person, started shouting:

"Chu Mo, you are a profiteer. You have hoarded so much food and supplies. Are you just waiting to make a fortune for the country? Now the Queen is making excuses. Why are you still unwilling to sell?"

"Yes, yes, Chu Mo, you are a profiteer. All your supplies and food were purchased with our hard-earned money."

. . . .

The waves of condemnation got louder and louder than the last, and they could not stop for a long time.

Chu Mo looked coldly at Queen Changsun opposite, with a disdainful smile on his lips.

After the voices in the audience gradually subsided, he coughed and said something to Yang Paifeng.

When everyone saw Chu Mo speak, they all stopped making noise, and they all watched intently, wanting to hear what he was going to say.

"Queen, my uncle said that because he is not feeling well, and in order to allow those present to hear his meaning clearly and not to be confused by some interested people, I will convey his words now."

After Yang Paifeng heard Chu Mo's words, he stood up and said loudly.

The sound was augmented by her inner strength, so that everyone present could basically hear it clearly.

"Mother, you keep saying that my uncle has hoarded a large amount of food and supplies. Can you prove it?"

"If I remember correctly, our shops and warehouses were confiscated by the Crown Prince and officials from the Ministry of Revenue on the day His Majesty left for the expedition, right?"

"All our properties, shops, and warehouses have been confiscated by the government for no reason. We, the master and the servant, don't even have a roof over our heads now. We still need help from others to survive three meals a day."

"Now, you want to force my uncle to show up and let him sell food and supplies?"

"Excuse me, Queen, haven't all our supplies and food been confiscated by the imperial court for no reason? Do you want to return those food and supplies to us and let us sell them to the imperial court?"

Yang Paifeng's words were heard sonorously and forcefully in the ears of the people around him.

In the crowd, some merchants who had also had their shops and warehouses confiscated in this incident began to applaud after hearing Yang Paifeng's words.

Some people who didn't know what was going on began to inquire.

When the merchants saw someone asking, they told them exactly what happened.

Soon, the story of the prince leading people to rob merchants spread quickly among the crowd like a tornado.

When the people knew the cause of the matter, they certainly did not dare to criticize His Highness the Crown Prince.

But for Chu Mo and those merchants, he felt a little more sympathetic.

Everyone on the stage didn't know the reaction of the people in the audience at this time, and thought they were discussing what Yang Paifeng just said.

Empress Changsun did not expect that the other party would clarify the matter as soon as she opened her mouth.

According to her guess, Chu Mo, as a profiteer, should put profit first in everything.

Although this time I forced him to show up.

But his ultimate goal is to do business with him.

For the sake of profit, it was impossible for him to fall out from the beginning.