What if there is no food all of a sudden?
Zhao Chen's words were clearly joking with him, Li Shimin.
The entire Chang'an City has a population of 1.5 million.
It is the most prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty.
How could the capital of the Tang Dynasty be short of food?
Although most of the food supply in Chang'an City is controlled by the five surnames and Qi Wangs.
However, the granaries of the government's large and small are also filled with food in case of emergency needs.
Not enough food?
This is absolutely impossible!
Seeing that Old Li was so disbelief, Zhao Chen just smiled slightly and said, "Old Li, I am telling you seriously again. I will observe the celestial phenomena at night. Tomorrow night, it will rain in Chang'an City."
"This rain will last for a month."
"Haha! Zhao Chen, there is no need to make up such a lie to deceive someone. The weather is good, and it won't rain for at least half a month!" Li Shimin laughed and showed a strange look on his face.
Li Shimin doesn't believe it.
The sun shines outside, and there is no sign of rain, will the sky suddenly last for a month?
Zhao Chen himself said that he is not a disciple of a god.
This is obviously because Zhao Chen wants to cheat him of money!
Li Shimin didn't care either.
But if you give more than 10,000 yuan to Zhao Chen, how can you do it?
If you treat him so much, how can you make up for it in more than ten thousand coins?
"If you don't believe me, then forget it, but you'd better tell me about it. Remember to store grain, at least you must be able to support it until after the autumn harvest."
"By the way, when it's okay, ask the people above to check some granaries, so don't make a mistake at that time!" Zhao Chen waved his hand and said casually.
Since Old Li didn't want to, Zhao Chen didn't want to force him.
If it weren't for the fact that Old Li hadn't been so annoying these days, Zhao Chen wouldn't have told him about this.
Zhao Chen remembers that on September 19, the ninth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty, a sudden heavy rain lasted for a whole month.
This heavy rain cut off the delivery of food in various places.
The entire Chang'an City was in a crisis of food shortage.
The five surnames and Qiwang have large granaries, but they refuse to borrow food.
In the end, there was no way, Li Shimin whispered and went to ask for it personally, and the crisis was finally resolved.
However, whether the arrogant Li Er is embarrassed or not has nothing to do with him, Zhao Chen.
Old Li gave all his things to the emperor, but Li Er didn't show any sign of it.
He was so stingy.
It deserves to be embarrassed.
Anyway, this matter can be properly resolved in the end.
"I know, I will leave the money in this account with you first. You kid, don't lose money at once!"
"Old Wei, we're leaving!" Li Shimin said carelessly, shouted to Wei Zheng, got up and walked out.
"Hey, I..." Wei Zheng followed him out with a look of loss.
I didn’t get a penny this time, so I would like to invite Fang Xuanling to have a big meal?
Now, he will definitely be laughed at for the rest of his life.
Seeing the two left, Zhao Chen shook his head.
I thought to myself that Old Li had no vision at all and missed such a good opportunity to make money.
I just hope that he will not forget what he told him just now.
...
"Your Majesty, since you know what Zhao Chen said is definitely useless, why should you let him do it?"
"That's 20,000 guan of silver. Is it just for him to lose it in vain?"
On the way back, Wei Zheng still looked in a state of dismay.
His two thousand stakes were defeated by Zhao Chen before he could even take a look.
Wei Zheng’s pain in his heart!
He even wanted to go to Zhao Chen's tavern now and grab the money back.
"Isn't this money just what Zhao Chen earned, even if he lost it, it would be okay?"
"Will I still lack that much money?" Li Shimin said lightly with his hands on his back.
Wei Zheng's face was dark.
I thought to myself that you are not short of it, but I, Wei Zheng, are short of it.
Your Majesty, you haven't seen the clothes in me still have patches!
I haven't even seen any meat and fish at home.
"Wei Zheng, do you believe what Zhao Chen said?" Li Shimin stopped, turned around, and looked at Wei Zheng.
"What's the matter?"
Wei Zheng was still thinking about his money, but he didn't notice what Li Shimin said just now.
"Zhao Chen said that there will be a heavy rain in the evening, and it will last for a month!" Li Shimin said.
What Zhao Chen said before and what he did seemed to have not made any mistakes in Li Shimin's impression.
Although Li Shimin didn't believe what Zhao Chen said just now, he always seemed to have a knot.
If it was really like Zhao Chen said...
"Your Majesty, it will rain tomorrow. The Grand Historian Bureau must be very clear. It's too late today. Is it clear if the ministers will accompany you tomorrow to ask?" Wei Zheng said.
In fact, he was thinking that if the Taishi Bureau said it would not rain.
I had to convince the emperor to get the money back from Zhao Chen.
Anyway, that's his two thousand stakes!
"That's the case!" Li Shimin nodded.
...
The next morning, Zhao Chen got up and sent a letter to Cheng Chumo yesterday, asking him and Qin Huaiyu to come this morning.
As soon as the tavern door was opened, Zhao Chen saw the two of them walking towards this side.
"Zhao Chen!" When the two saw Zhao Chen, they shouted loudly and waved to Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen was worried that these two guys would not get up early in the morning, but fortunately, they were not late.
"Come for breakfast, I'll ask you and the other ones for help today." Zhao Chen greeted.
The two walked into the tavern and sat down with a stool.
"Zhao Chen, what's the matter? Just say it!"
"Brother, I will definitely do it for you beautifully!" Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu said one by one, patting their chests.
The two of them came out so early, so naturally they were caught by Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong.
I originally thought that they would have been stealing again when they went out so early.
I thought I had to clean up.
But when he saw the letter written by Zhao Chen, Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong didn't say a word.
Wave your hand and let your kids get out of here.
"I really need your help today. I want you to help you raise some money! Recruit another group of people!" Zhao Chen said.
"Collect money? Recruiting people?" Qin Huaiyu was a little surprised.
"Brother, how much do you want? I'll see if I can take it out!" Cheng Chumo asked, and after picking up the porridge, pouring it into his mouth.
Zhao Chen stood up and took several steps back.
"Zhao Chen, what are you doing?" Qin Huaiyu looked at Zhao Chen's actions strangely.
"It takes about ten thousand guan-"
"puff--"
As soon as Zhao Chen finished speaking, Cheng Chumo immediately sipped the porridge in his mouth for at least three meters away.
Qin Huaiyu, who was sitting next to him, was accidentally sprayed.
"I'm fucking--" Qin Huaiyu jumped up immediately.
"Zhao Chen, you said you want ten thousand yuan. My God, unless I take out all my old man to pay."
"Or why can I get so much money?" Cheng Chumo wiped his mouth and looked at Zhao Chen with a look of surprise.
Ten thousand coins, where can Cheng Chumo take it out?
Chapter completed!