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When he arrived at his destination, he realized that this was the Liu family compound he had visited the night before.

In front of the courtyard gate, Mo Bai helplessly distributed grain to the eager people in front of him, while Qing Yu stood to his side with a fierce expression.

Behind the two, squads of soldiers were constantly carrying grain out of the Liu residence.

"What are you doing?" Chen Nan shouted.

He didn't quite understand; this was the first time Mo Bai had disobeyed his orders.

He clearly remembered that last night he only asked the two men to organize the assets of the Liu family, not to distribute them on the spot.

Thinking about it this way, Chen Nan's gaze unconsciously turned to Qing Yu.

Mo Bai's Qingyu noticed Chen Nan's gaze, spread her hands, and looked bitter.

Chen Nan's outburst only slightly deterred the crowd.

The situation quickly returned to normal, and the crowd became noisy again.

"Sir, the old man arrived first, how can we give him food first?"

"Go to hell! I was here first, you old geezer, are you trying to steal my food?"

"Enough! What's all this noise about?" Chen Nan roared. "If you keep arguing like this, don't blame me for throwing all this grain into the moat."

"This king? He is the Prince of Zhennan!"

"Quickly, folks, stop arguing! With the Prince of Zhennan here, we won't have to worry about food."

"That's right, that's right. Now that the prince is here, we're sure to all get some food for the New Year."

It was only then that Chen Nan remembered that it was already November, and the Chinese New Year was just a month away.

The people rushed to buy food so that they could have some stored grain at home for the festival.

Left with no other choice, he spoke again: "Fellow villagers, this grain is only for inventory now. I will personally oversee the process at the government office in half an hour."

"We can definitely guarantee that the grain will be distributed to everyone. Let's go home now and line up in front of the government office in half an hour. There will be someone to distribute the grain to you then."

With Chen Nan's assurance, the people, who had not yet completely descended into madness, finally calmed down.

After the people were persuaded, the noisy Liu residence finally returned to peace.

Chen Nan approached Mo Bai with a dark expression: "What's going on? Didn't I ask you to take stock of the assets? How come so many people know about this?"

Mo Bai smiled wryly: "Your Highness, you have no idea how much wealth the Liu family possesses."

"Aside from silver, gold, and some collectibles, his household alone possessed 150,000 shi (a unit of dry measure) of grain,"

"You should know that the entire Wei capital's treasury only holds about 100,000 shi of grain."

"Most of the grain stored in the homes of ordinary people had been looted by powerful clans, otherwise they wouldn't be in such a hurry to collect their grain."

"I'm asking how the common people knew that the Liu family had grain? Who spread this information?" Chen Nan said angrily.

Mo Bai looked suspicious: "Didn't the prince say that?"

"Early this morning, people came to the gate of the Liu residence and lined up on their own, saying that the prince had personally ordered me to distribute food to them!"

Chen Nan was taken aback: "I said it? I was holding a court meeting early this morning, how could I possibly give such an order?"

"Besides, can just any commoner impersonate my royal decree?"

Mo Bai was also puzzled: "Your Highness, this matter really cannot be blamed on me."

"Although the man looked sincere, I know that His Highness would never send a commoner to deliver such a message."

"However, just as I was wondering, that person actually took out the prince's token. Since the other party had already taken out the token, I had no choice but to distribute the food to him first."

"A token?" Chen Nan was even more puzzled.

At this moment, Qingyu stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, I have seen the token. It is indeed a token issued by the imperial court."

"The token is genuine, and it is engraved with the three characters 'Prince of Zhennan,' which is why I believe that the other party is indeed someone sent by the Prince."

Upon hearing this, Chen Nan subconsciously touched his waist, and with a flick of his wrist, an iron token appeared before the three of them.

The token is engraved with three large characters—King Zhennan!

All three of them gasped in shock: "This..."

At this point, Mo Bai and Qing Yu realized that they had been tricked.

"This is impossible, how could this be?"

Qingyu muttered to herself, taking steps backward: "General Mo Bai has only met Wang Ling a few times, so there's a possibility he might be mistaken."

"But, but this general has followed the late emperor all his life and has seen quite a few marquis tokens. How could I possibly be mistaken!"

Qingyu quickly stepped forward, came to Chen Nan, and, ignoring his reaction, snatched the token from his hand and examined it carefully for a long time.

Chen Nan and the other man did not disturb her, as they knew what Qingyu could glean from this.

After a long while, Qingyu raised her head, her eyes wide as she met the two men's gaze: "Your Highness, is this token really real?"

Chen Nan asked in confusion, "What? Does General Qingyu suspect that my token is fake?"

Qingyu shook her head and said, "Of course not, it's just that this humble general finds it very strange."

"How could there be two identical Zhennan King's Decree in our Northern Wei? This is simply impossible."

As we all know, in any dynasty, there would never be two princes with the same name, so naturally there would never be two identical tokens.

But this strange thing happened right in front of everyone.

The most outrageous thing is that the other party also tricked them with tokens.

Chen Nan took back the token: "Let's put the token issue aside for now. How much grain have you distributed?"

Mo Bai rubbed his forehead: "Before Your Highness arrived, I had already distributed nearly 100,000 shi of grain."

"Currently, the Liu family has only 50,000 shi of grain left."

A normal person's daily food intake is about one liter, one shi is equal to ten dou, and one dou is equal to ten liters.

Chen Nan exclaimed in shock, "Only 50,000 shi of grain left? That's only enough for 1.5 million people to live on for three days?"

Qingyu interjected, "That's not the case. Your Highness has forgotten that there are 200,000 troops outside the city. The soldiers need to undergo basic training every day, and they require far more food than normal people."

"The army has only 10,000 shi of grain left, so the grain in our city still needs to be distributed to the soldiers outside the city."

"That's enough. Ten thousand shi of grain outside the city will be enough for the army for at least two days. We'll think of another way after that."

Mo Bai asked in confusion, "Your Highness, haven't we already distributed 100,000 shi of grain to the people? Why do we still need to calculate based on a base of 1.5 million?"

Chen Nan sneered: "Hmph, those people dare to engrave my token without my permission, do you really think that all the grain is being taken by the people?"

"But Your Highness, didn't you just say you were going to distribute grain at the government office?"

"What if those people come and claim it again?"

Chen Nan chuckled evilly: "That's simple. When they collect the grain, they need to bring their household registration records. We'll compare them with the records kept by the Ministry of Revenue. There's definitely no mistake about that."

However, Chen Nan did not expect that this would actually lead to an unexpected situation.