I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 371
"National affairs are the most important thing, Your Majesty should go back first."

Li Tian shook his head lightly and said,
"Don't worry, it's just a small matter, it doesn't matter, I'll go back and deal with it in the afternoon!"

Although he heard what he said, Zhang Qinghuan was still worried and persuaded,
"Your Majesty, you should go back as soon as possible. If the important affairs of the country are delayed because of Qing Huan, how can Qing Huan feel so bad!"

Li Tian was very relieved in his heart, he took her little hand and said,

"Qing Huan, put your heart in your stomach. I have a sense of proportion. I'm not in a hurry at this moment. After lunch, it's not too late to go back."

Li Tian insisted so much, Zhang Qinghuan had no choice but to let him do it.

It didn't take long for the food to arrive.

The cook of this small shop is worthy of being from the palace. The few side dishes are all delicious in color, flavor and taste, and Li Tian eats them to his heart's content.

Compared with the royal meals in the palace, the color of the small shop outside is actually more in line with Li Tian's appetite.

As we all know, most of the royal meals in the palace are warm food, and there are very few dishes that are stir-fried.

In fact, this is also a last resort.

Every time the emperor eats at least a dozen kinds of food.

It takes a certain amount of time to do everything, and there is still a lot of distance between the imperial dining room and the place where the emperor eats.

Even the delicious food just out of the pan, if it is not kept warm, it will be almost cold when it arrives on Li Tian's table.

In addition, Li Tian's meals are not set at a fixed time, and he can pass them on and eat at any time, so it is impossible to eat freshly cooked dishes.

Unless he is squatting in the imperial dining room, fry one and eat one.

But in such a situation, there can only be hypotheticals, no emperor would do this, and Li Tian is no exception.

After eating and drinking, Li Tian insisted on sending Zhang Qinghuan back, but this time Zhang Qinghuan didn't agree with anything.

There was no other way, so Li Tian had no choice but to ask Wang Fu to send her back, while he went directly back to the palace under the escort of Jiang Bao and others.

After returning to the palace, he went straight to the cabinet.

Yang Shiqi was on duty today, and the others were all dealing with other things and were not present.

Seeing Li Tian's sudden arrival, Yang Shiqi was about to salute. Li Tian stopped him with a wave of his hand, handed him the Beijing News, and pointed to the grain purchase information at the back and said,

"Shi Qi, what do you think about this matter?"

Yang Shiqi was still a little confused at first, and didn't quite understand what Li Tian meant.

But when he saw that the information for several days was all about the purchase of grain, his expression changed involuntarily.

His voice changed a bit and he exclaimed,
"Your Majesty, someone must be playing tricks behind the scenes, and they want to take this opportunity to hype up grain prices!"

Li Tian nodded and said,
"You're right, I think so too, but who on earth is so courageous and dares to make trouble in the capital?"

Yang Shiqi pondered for a while, then analyzed,
"There are a lot of people in the capital, and the daily food needs are huge. If you want to affect the price of food on a large scale, you have to cooperate with most of the grain merchants in the capital.

The amount of money required for this must not be a small amount. It seems that there must be people with considerable energy behind it! "

The more Li Tian thought about it, the angrier he became, and he shouted sharply,
"Pass the decree to let the king of Han and Huang Yan enter the palace immediately to have an audience."

The emperor was furious, and no one dared to take it seriously. The little eunuch who delivered the decree did not dare to stop for a moment, and rushed out of the palace screaming.

Less than half an hour.

Shangshu Xia Yuanji, Yang Rong, Huang Zhun, Huang Yan, Zhu Gaoxu and others all arrived.

The reason why Xia Yuanji was also called here was because the Ministry of Accounting was in charge of the Tianxia Granary, and if this matter was to be handled well, it needed the strong support of the Ministry of Accounting.

In the imperial study room, Li Tian was very angry with a cold face, and asked Huang Yan and Zhu Gaoxu sharply,
"How do you Dongchang and Jinyiwei do things? It has been two or three days since the price of food in the capital has skyrocketed, and no one has reported it to me.

In the end, I found out about this in the Beijing News...you say, what use is it that I want you to wait! "

Huang Yan was praised only yesterday, and now he was reprimanded by the furious Li Tian.

I just feel that the big ups and downs in life are too exciting, if you don't have a strong enough heart, you can't bear it at all.

Abandoning those messy thoughts in his heart, he quickly knelt down on the ground, not daring to refute and directly confessed,

"The old slave's supervision is not good, and I ask your majesty to come down!"

Compared with Huang Yan's attitude of accepting his fate, Zhu Gaoxu's face was in a daze. When he was summoned, he was eating. He didn't want to sit at home, and the disaster came from heaven.

He had almost given up on Jin Yiwei's errand, going once every three to five days.

He seldom participated in any major events that happened in the court, not knowing that this matter was really normal.

But seeing that Li Tian was so furious, he didn't dare to say anything more, he bowed his head and said,

"My brother was negligent, and I ask the emperor to forgive me."

In fact, sudden soaring food prices may happen every year.

Sometimes the boats transported by water encountered strong winds and waves, which delayed the delivery time, resulting in a shortage of food in the capital, and it is common for prices to increase for ten days and a half months.

Sometimes it is a large army that leads to a reduction in grain storage in the capital, and grain prices may also be affected.

Furthermore, if a natural disaster occurs somewhere, it will be difficult for the imperial court to continue to mobilize food for disaster relief, and the price of food will also be affected.

Both Dongchang and Jinyiwei are basically used to this kind of thing, and it only happened for two or three days, so it's nothing if they didn't report it.

The fundamental reason why Li Tian was furious was not because of the soaring food prices.

He didn't care much about the issue of grain prices. Except for Taicang, the reserves of the court's regular warehouses, transfer warehouses, official warehouses, righteous warehouses, and other granaries were above the horizontal line.

Whether it is opening warehouses to stabilize grain prices or issuing edicts to force major grain merchants to stabilize grain prices, it can effectively curb the situation that people cannot buy affordable grain.

What annoyed him was that it was obvious that someone was deliberately provoking trouble, but no one warned him. This was the negligence of Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

Seeing that Li Tian seemed about to lose his temper, Yang Shiqi quickly comforted him,
"Your Majesty, this is not the time to pursue anyone's responsibility. Find out who is behind the scenes, and quickly stabilize food prices so that the people will not suffer from hunger."

In fact, after Li Tian roared twice like venting, his anger was almost released.

Slumped on the dragon chair, he rubbed his slightly stinging forehead and snorted coldly,

"It only stopped for a few days, and then some people started to jump out and make trouble.

If I don't punish these daring grain merchants, if there is any shortage of food, they may make some kind of moth. "

After all, he pointed at Huang Yan and Zhu Gaoxu and said,

"You two, go and find out who is behind the scenes. If you don't find out before dark, you two don't have to come back."

(End of this chapter)