Seeing Li Xuan's face that didn't look like he was threatening, the faces of these people from the aristocratic family changed slightly and they spoke quickly.
"Reporting to your Majesty, we would like to ask you to reopen the liquor auction!"
"Exactly, the liquor brewed in Dawang Manor is the best in the world, a peerless wine. We sincerely request the king to resume the auction!"
"Last time, we were all deceived by Wang Hui of the Wang family, so we thought that the king was extravagant. All of this was Wang Hui's misleading. As a prince, your life is extremely simple!"
"Your Majesty..."
A group of aristocratic families spoke kindly to each other again, but Li Xuan's heart was not disturbed at all.
The people from these aristocratic families must have been forced by the old guys behind them, so they were so flattering to him.
If next time, people from the aristocratic family can catch him, they will definitely turn into Aunt Rong and will never be soft-hearted.
It's a pity that he is not the poor man who was hit by the needle, and he will never let people from these aristocratic families take advantage of him.
"Do you want me to continue auctioning liquor?"
Li Xuan chuckled mockingly and asked in a low voice.
"Please have mercy on me, Your Majesty. The auction of such a peerless fairy wine has not started for four months. I don't know how many people who are good at wine will die of hunger!"
The stewards of the aristocratic families said quickly, with their faces filled with anticipation.
"Last time, I announced in public that I would no longer auction liquor! Now, if I start auctioning liquor again, wouldn't I be breaking my promise and going back on my word?"
Li Xuan slowly shook his head.
Hearing this, all the stewards of the aristocratic families looked happy, and the king was moved!
"I would like to inform you, Your Majesty, that last time we were misunderstood by the King, so we sincerely came to apologize to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty has already forgiven us.
In this way, Your Majesty starts the liquor auction again, it is also for the people who like wine in the world, this is Your Majesty's mercy!"
Hearing this, Li Xuan nodded slightly. Just when the faces of all the aristocratic families were full of joy, thinking that Li Xuan was going to agree, Li Xuan's expression changed and he said again.
"No, I have to agree to only have 15,000 acres of farmland. It seems so tacky!"
"I wonder if your Majesty has any other requests?"
All the people from the aristocratic families were anxious and asked quickly.
"I can auction liquor for you, but the liquor auction method needs to be changed!" Li Xuan said.
"Your majesty, please speak frankly!" A steward from an aristocratic family said quickly.
"If liquor is auctioned again, you are not allowed to use copper coins to auction it, you have to use grain!"
After Li Xuan thought for a moment, he said in a low voice under the expectant eyes of the people of the aristocratic family: "The starting price for each bottle of liquor is ten stones of grain, and the grain must be new grain!"
"Food instead of copper coins?"
Upon hearing this, all the stewards of the aristocratic families were startled, and then a trace of worry flashed in their eyes.
At any time, food is the most important material, far more than copper coins.
In the hands of their aristocratic family, the copper coins might just be a pile of scrap metal.
However, if one stone is missing in food, then one stone is really missing.
"Well, it is grain. To make a piece of liquor, I need to consume five stones of grain. Since you have begged me to start auctioning the liquor, I have to earn back all the grain used to brew liquor!"
Li Xuan looked determined.
"If you don't want to use grain to auction liquor, then please take it back. I will return these fields to you!"
With that said, Li Xuan picked up the land deed on the side and handed it to the people from the aristocratic families.
Seeing this, the faces of all the stewards of the aristocratic families changed greatly, they backed away and said with panic on their faces.
"Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible, we agree!"
"Exactly, don't worry, Your Majesty, we are willing to use grain to auction the liquor!"
After hearing this, Li Xuan's expression softened slightly and he took back the land deed in his hand.
"This matter is of your own free will... No, you are begging me to auction the liquor for you, but I am not forcing you!"
"What the king said is correct, this time we are asking the king to start the liquor auction!"
All the people from the aristocratic families took a deep breath and replied with suffocated hearts!
Shameless person!
"Very good. I hope you will remember what I said today. If you dare to use this matter to trouble me in the future, then don't blame me for being unkind!"
Li Xuan said with a chuckle again.
However, the threat in his tone made these stewards of aristocratic families extremely angry. They were indeed violent and vulgar people!
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, we will never commit the same crime again!" All the people from the aristocratic families replied again.
"So good!"
Seeing this, Li Xuan chuckled and said, "I will give you ten days to wait. In ten days, I will start auctioning liquor in the teahouse. One hundred bottles will be auctioned at a time. If someone auctions liquor but cannot get food,
Then we will disqualify anyone from the auction!"
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, we will definitely be fully prepared!"
People from various aristocratic families repeatedly pledged their support.
No matter what, the King of Jin finally agreed to auction the liquor and doubled the amount.
As for whether the elders in the family are willing to use grain to auction liquor, that has nothing to do with them!
No worries!
After leaving Lijiazhuang, all the family stewards showed genuine smiles on their faces.
Finally got over it!
From then on, even if the King of Jin begged them on his knees, they would never come to this village again!
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After the people from these aristocratic families left, Li Xuan called Li Chang to come in.
"Your Majesty, this is really 15,000 acres of farmland! Moreover, more than half of it is high-quality farmland!"
After carefully reading the stack of land deeds, Li Chang's old face was filled with surprise and regret.
"This is the apology given to me by the people from the aristocratic families for cleaning the paper last time. You and others should take a look at all these fields!"
Li Xuandan said in a loud voice.
"apologize?"
Li Chang was startled, then quickly responded, "I'll do it now, little man!"
"In addition, I promised those people from the aristocratic families to auction liquor at the teahouse in ten days, one hundred bottles at a time. This time, the auction will be conducted with grain. The starting price for a bottle of liquor is ten stones of grain. You can arrange it!"
Li Xuan said again.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Afterwards, Li Chang retreated with a shocked look on his face.
At the same time, as the stewards of the aristocratic families returned to Chang'an City, messengers rushed out of the courtyards of various aristocratic families and headed for the states of the Tang Dynasty.
In the following days, the fifteen thousand stone dried fish brought back by Li Xiaogong also began to be sold. However, what surprised Li Xiaogong was that so many dried fish were sold out by these wealthy families in less than two days.
"How many?"
In Liangyi Hall, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others looked at Li Xiaogong with disbelief.
"Return to Your Majesty, fifteen thousand shi of dried fish, in exchange for a total of 500,000 shi of grain!"
Li Xiaogong repeated it again with a happy face, "The only pity is that 20% of the five hundred thousand stones of grain is old grain!"
"Half a million stones!"
Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were all excited and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief.
As for the 20% of old grain, it was simply ignored.
"In this way, Li Jing and other soldiers far away in Turks no longer need to worry about lack of food!"
"Congratulations, Your Majesty!"
Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others also quickly congratulated Li Shimin with beaming faces.
Now that the food supply for Li Jing and his 100,000-strong army has been solved, both Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province will be able to relax a lot!
"I have one more thing to do. I want to congratulate Your Majesty!"
Li Xiaogong reported again.
"What's the matter?"
Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others all looked at Li Xiaogong expectantly again.