"What do you mean?"

Li Mu smiled, and was not polite. He found a chair and sat down, saying, "Isn't that? I heard that the grain price in Chang'an City has risen recently. I know that Wei Gongqing is like water and bright like a mirror. His salary is small, and he also has to help his relatives. I am worried that you can't afford to eat, so I will come here to help you."

Wei Zheng was also a censor and a third-rank official. After hearing this ridicule, how could he withstand the rice bag at Li Mu and said, "I don't care if I take your things away, and I don't need your relief even if I starve to death!"

"Oh... look, look at this!" Li Mu stood up against the legs of the chair and said with a smile: "I can't do it. I don't think so. I feel sorry for your daughter... Hey, don't look at me with this kind of gaze. I have no other meaning to Wei Yingluo. She is now working in the Office of the Internal Affairs and is my subordinate. Isn't it okay for me to care about her? Could it be that she will take a leave and starve to death at home because of the rising grain prices?"

When Wei Zheng heard that Li Muzuo could not afford to eat rice, and the other food price rose, he knew his purpose. But when Li Mu spoke so sarcastically, Wei Zheng was also angry and deliberately refused to respond, saying, "You are not dismissed from your Majesty. What does the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have to do with you?"

"Ha!" Li Mu crossed his legs and said, "Old Wei, don't tell lies in front of the real person. Do you think the current Ministry of Internal Affairs is free to play with me, Li Mu? Five surnames, seven hopes, dozens of major tribes, who will rely on to revitalize their business? Without the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Li Mu, many orders will be done in vain, how many people can't get the goods back, how many people can't get back the money? The fields and shops they mortgaged to the bank must be gone, and they will all lose all their money! Without me, Ha! I'm afraid to think about it too!"

Faced with Li Mu's arrogance, both Wei Zheng and the people who eavesdropped on the woodshed next door, they all remained silent. They were arrogant and had the capital to be arrogant. This is the fact. No matter how unacceptable anyone is, they have to admit the reality.

Li Mu seemed to have opened up the conversation and kept talking: "Why did Your Majesty remove me from my post? I guess you have heard of it. We are here, and I will not hide it from you. I just pretended to pass an imperial edict. In order to punish me, Your Majesty dismissed me, but you also know in your heart that sooner or later, who can I use if I don't need it? Are you the old man who knows nothing about doing business?"

What a "fakely passed an imperial edict" and what a "unknowing old man", each sentence is more heartbreaking than another. Wei Zheng suddenly felt a little difficult to breathe and his lung tube hurt a little. He originally wanted to persuade the Shandong gentry to get along with Li Mu, but when he saw Li Mu's appearance, he suddenly felt that he was a little redundant. Let them do it, what does it have to do with him!

While talking, Wei Yingluo, who learned that Li Mu had arrived, brought two cups of tea. She mainly came over to see, but the two of them had started fighting. Because when the Shandong gentry came just now, Wei Yingluo saw it. When he entered the house, Wei Zheng was so angry that he was whispering. Li Mu looked calm and relaxed, and somehow he felt much more relaxed.

Wei Yingluo gave a gift, put down the tea, turned around and wanted to go out.

"Xiaoying, come on, take this rice, and the price of grain will rise in a few days. When you can't afford the rice, make some porridge."

Wei Yingluo turned around, looked at her father carefully, picked up the rice bag, and quietly stepped out.

The door closed again, Wei Zheng took a deep breath, suppressed his anger and said, "Li Mu, I know the purpose of your visit, so we will not go around the corner. The Shandong gentry did this, hiding it from me, I don't know, but it is indeed wrong. Now that things are at a difficult stage, there must be a solution. Your Majesty has come to you and wants you to calm the price of grain. And I have also talked to them about the Shandong gentry, as long as you bear the rise in food prices during this period..."

"Stop!" Li Mu made a pause gesture, looked at Wei Zheng squintly, and said, "What's wrong, Lao Wei. Are you trying to tell me that as long as I bear the difference in the grain price they used to push up, they will stop, and then I have to receive a favor from you? Lao Wei, are you old and confused? Don't you know me?"

Wei Zheng frowned and said, "Why don't I know you? What do you want to say, just say it!"

"What are you saying!" Li Mu's lips curled a smile and said, "Old Wei, I want me to bend over, but you are afraid you have made the wrong plan! No one in this world can make me bend over. Even Your Majesty has to depend on my mood! What do you think? I need you to be favored by me? Shandong gentry is a big deal, so it's worth fighting with me? Let me give them money? Are they so stupid that they are fooled by lard?"

Li Mu's voice became colder and colder, and he said, "What would they think this could threaten me? Even if the price of grain is more expensive than gold, can I, Li Mu, not afford it? But do they dare to make the price of grain so expensive? They dare not, unless they want to rebel!"

"If I guessed correctly, they are also ants on the hot pan now, right? They are worried that His Majesty will be angry and kill, wanting to reconcile with me? Haha, let me tell you, there is no way, I won't reconcile!"

"You are doing the first day of the Chinese New Year, and I will do the fifteenth. Take a step back and say that even if I take out the money, I will not give it to them. Can you raise the price? I spread the money on the street and give it to the people. Just like on the day my gambling shop opened, I stood upstairs and threw money down, and asked the people to pick up money to buy rice. Why do you do this? Because I am happy, I am happy, I am happy! I have money but no place to spend it, I just won't give it to you!"

Wei Zheng was sweating profusely when he heard this. When he saw Li Mu's gaze, it was a madman's gaze, and he didn't dare to look directly at him!

"Are you doing this, aren't the money still earned by them? Why can't you sit down and have a chat?"

"Not talk!" Li Mu said loudly: "You can earn money away. But how can you take the share? You take it away like this, it is not in accordance with the rules. If you don't follow the rules, I will deal with you again. It's natural and feel at ease. How much you take from me will have to spit it out twice."

The firewood next door was about to explode at this time. Li Mu was too arrogant! Many people were indignant, but no one dared to stand up and confront Li Mu in person.

Wei Zheng was also taken away by his momentum, but after all, he had seen strong storms and could still stabilize his airs and said, "You must do it too big? Have you ever thought that since Your Majesty asked you to deal with it, even if you want to turn this big thing into a small matter, your Majesty can't explain it if you do this!"

"You are the ones who don't know what's wrong with you!" Li Mu smiled and said, "You are overestimating yourself! I really don't understand which genius came up with such a stupid way to fight me. I control the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Works, the best technical skills of the Tang Dynasty, let alone other things, Zhenguan Plough. The importance of this thing is not to be said. I have the final say for whom to sell and how much to sell. If you raise the price of grain, I won't sell it to you. You can just raise it and survive this year. Next year, tens of acres of fertile land that have been reclaimed through Zhenguan Plough will be everywhere. As much as the grain is needed, your food will rot in the ground!"

"There is also the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and all walks of life. I will order that all orders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs exclude the transactions of Shandong gentry. Those who do business with Shandong gentry will not expect to get an order. At that time, you Shandong gentry will produce and sell your own products and play with yourself. I see how long you can hold on!"

Seeing Wei Zheng sweating profusely, Li Mu sneered and said, "Old Wei, I still have many methods. If you play with me, you will never have a chance of winning. Because the rules are set by me, I am the one who sets the rules, so how can I beat me? Unless you break out of this rule, you can have a slight chance of winning!"

Wei Zheng murmured: "Jump out, how can you jump out?"

"Rebel!" Li Mu laughed: "If you can rebel successfully, then all the rules will be decided!" Suddenly he changed his face and stared at Wei Zheng and said: "But if you dare not rebel, then be obedient. I am the peddler, you are the fish, what do I say, what do you listen to? Maybe I am in a good mood and can give you some spare materials. But if you want to play, then let's play. I want to see if the Shandong gentry has been passed down for thousands of years, can a sufficient opponent come up with a brain!"

"Old Wei, to be honest, I have been troubled by my own excellence. I am invincible, I am very lonely! You, and the cows and horses that eavesdropped next door, you miscellaneous, wine bags! Can't you do something within your ability? You have to challenge me in the field I am good at, why do you make things so difficult for yourself?"

After saying that, regardless of Wei Zheng's expression, Li Mu turned around and walked towards the door, and his voice came to the ears of Wei Zheng and the eavesdropping Shandong geniuses: "I will limit you to quell the price of grain within three days, and then each person will give out 500 trump cards and donate them to the orphans of the Sales Bureau to have a good New Year. No one can escape. After three days, if there is one that has not been done, don't blame me for being rude. I want Chang'an City, and there is no Shandong merchant doing business. If you don't believe it, you can give it a try!"

Leaving this sentence, the person has already walked out.

Wei Zheng's face was already blue, and he was in a state of rage, and he almost turned his back. When the Shandong gentry saw Li Mu walking away, they rushed in and were filled with righteous indignation.

"Li Mu is arrogant. If we fight him, I don't believe that he can cover the sky with one hand!"

"Duke Wei, why didn't you talk just now? You should talk to him..."

Everyone was clamoring and complaining about Wei Zheng.

"Shut up!"

Wei Zheng couldn't stand the plywood's anger anymore, and shouted loudly, overshadowing everyone's voice, saying, "You are all out now. Li Mu pointed at his nose and scolded you just now. Why didn't he see a person standing up? What about your courage and your courage?"

"If you think you can withstand his revenge, what else can you say to me? Go back and prepare and continue to raise the food price!"

Everyone looked at each other and stopped talking.

"If I had known today, why should I be there?" Wei Zheng sighed and said, "He has already drawn out the Tao. You can decide what you want to do. I am old and no match for Li Mu. You don't have to look for me for some major issues in the future, who do you want to find!"

"Duke Wei..."

Wei Zheng grabbed the teacup and threw it on the ground: "Send out the guests!"

...

News spread wildly.

Soon all forces received the news, some people thought Li Mu was domineering, some people thought Shandong geniuses were cowardly and different opinions, but the only thing was the same, that was that they all began to re-examine the importance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The three words "The House of Internal Affairs" are so confusing. At the beginning, they thought it was a yamen gate that served the palace. But now it seems that this is not a "Interior Affairs" and it is simply a "God of Wealth". If you don't say anything, just say this order. Whoever gives the order will make money. People who work are too worried. All you need to do is to make things according to the requirements of the House of Internal Affairs and make them want.

You don’t have to worry about selling or spending your brain. Even when others give orders, they will give you a portion of the deposit first. Take the money first and then work. When did this good thing happen before?

Wherever you say it, you never owes money! Who wouldn’t be assured of such a customer! In private, merchants have to worry about whether the other party has the final say. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there is no such problem. As long as the Ministry of Internal Affairs is stamped with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the money is equivalent to getting it. Because the Ministry of Internal Affairs cannot break its promise, and no merchant dares to cheat the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

That's the yamen of Li Mu, the Marquis of Zhulu. Who dares to lie to him? Do you think he didn't die fast enough?

Now that the Shandong gentry incident has happened, ordinary merchants are even more afraid. Li Mu's capricious temperament has been raptured again and has become a topic of discussion on the streets and alleys.

There is an old woman who likes to pass messages. She passed Li Mu three points but not like a human being seven points, but like a ghost. She said that he laughed at someone the moment before, but killed someone the next moment, and his mood was unpredictable.

He also said that he could keep a little thin face when he saw a beauty. If he met someone who looked ugly, he would have dirty eyes and chopped it into meat sauce and feed it to the dog.

Li Mu, who was trapped in the whirlpool of public opinion, never responded to these rumors. As a big brother, he did not have the time to do it. There are many things waiting for him as the big brother to do.

For example, accompany me to see what his fiancée looks like.

Li Mu came out of Wei Zheng's house and had not yet arrived home. On the way, he met Li Siwen. Li Siwen dragged Li Mu and wanted him to help him with something. When he was engaged last time, he didn't see the appearance of Miss Qin and was always unsure. His impression of Miss Qin was still at the same time he had seen him as a child, a little fat girl with a long snot nose.

When Li Siwen thought of marrying such a thing, he felt upset. After getting married, he made such a big noise, he must marry him. He has to recognize his fate, but he will take a look first and be prepared.

So Li Siwen came to find Li Mu, wanting to go to the Qin family with him and find a way to see what the Qin family looks like.

This is a bit difficult to deal with. The Qin family is not a small family. It is the mansion of the Duke. Both families have identities and have to do things according to the rules. From the time they get engaged to get married, they cannot meet according to the rules. And today is Xiao Nian. How can I visit the door? I just said that I want to meet your unmarried girl? I really think Qin Qiong can't take the bronze mace?

"This matter..." Li Mu thought for a long time and finally made a decision: "It's easy to deal with. Let's climb over the wall and run away with a glance!"
Chapter completed!