“Not only did I accept them, but my aunt also accepted them, and so did Aunt Gaoyang…”

Li Shimin was even angrier when he heard this. It was one thing for this grandson to be a merchant, but he had actually dragged his two daughters into it.

"I'll beat you to death, you short-sighted bastard!"

Sizi, who was playing with the red panda in the room, suddenly heard her nephew's mournful cry coming from the yard. She immediately dropped the red panda and ran out.

Although it was only a short distance of a dozen steps, by the time she reached the yard, her nephew's buttocks already bore more than a dozen red welts from the whipping.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you again?!"

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin glared fiercely at Sizi and questioned him with a gloomy face.

"Are you aware that your nephew forcibly acquired private houses?"

"I know!"

Li Shimin snorted coldly upon hearing this.

"Then my beating was not unjust!"

Si Zi watched as his father swung the willow branch and whipped his nephew a few more times before he suddenly realized what was happening.

"No, no, no, it wasn't forced. The people sold it to us voluntarily..."

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin not only did not stop, but instead beat the man even harder.

"fart!"

"You, a grandson of the emperor and a princess, send people to buy up the people's houses. Which people would dare to object?"

"Let alone ordinary people, even if you two went to take over Fang Xuanling's house, Fang Xuanling would have to give you the deed with a big smile on his face!"

Li Shimin knew all too well the character of the royal children. If they wanted something, they didn't even need to lift a finger; someone would naturally seize it through various means and give it to them.

He simply turned a blind eye to the royal family members.

As long as they don't rebel or cause trouble, he basically doesn't care even if they engage in some illegal or disorderly behavior.

After all, he had already killed two brothers; he couldn't leave the world with the impression that he was mean and ungrateful.

But Li Jue was different!

He placed high hopes on Li Jue and absolutely did not want Li Jue to be tainted by the bad habits of the royal family!

"Have I been short of food or drink for you, that you are so eager to do this, even shamelessly plundering the people's wealth!"

"Grandpa, I didn't have it! I really bought it with money, sob sob sob..."

"You still dare to argue!"

"You call it buying a house worth 100 strings of cash if you give someone 10 strings?"

"Have you forgotten that when you first arrived in the capital, you were forced to buy and sell by the Changsun family?"

"I'm hitting you for your own good, to teach you that you must not forget your roots!"

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you!

When Li Jue heard Li Er reciting his lessons, he was so angry he almost cursed.

This old man is really good at making a scene for himself, isn't he?

You just want to beat someone up, why make up so many excuses?

Under Li Shimin's constant urging, Li Jue was finally tortured into confessing.

"Grandpa, please don't hit me! Your grandson knows he was wrong, sob sob sob..."