"Your Majesty, why don't you go and ask the Duke of E?"

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin suddenly remembered that Yuchi Jingde had already sold the linen produced by his family to the grasslands.

However, the people of the grasslands were poor, and they had nothing of value except for cattle and sheep.

Could it be that Yuchi Jingde traded hemp cloth for sheep on the grassland?

Thinking of this, Li Shimin made another note of Yuchi Jingde in his mind, and then squeezed into the crowd to chat with the people.

"Fellow villagers, why are you buying so much dried meat when it's not a holiday?"

"It's cheap!"

"Didn't you see that meat is several coins cheaper today than usual?"

"My eldest grandson is so hungry for meat that he's almost crying. I'll take advantage of the cheap price today to buy more. After rendering the lard, the leftover cracklings can be used to cook dishes."

Li Shimin smiled without saying anything upon hearing this, and then started chatting with a commoner who was haggling with the shopkeeper.

"Fellow villager, are you also from Chang'an County?"

"no!"

"I'm from Wannian County. I heard that mutton is cheap in the West Market today, so I came all this way to buy some."

"Is mutton very expensive in your West Market?"

The old man sneered after hearing Li Shimin's words.

"expensive?"

"Expensive my foot! They don't sell them where I'm from!"

"We're not afraid you'll laugh at us, but not only the old and young come to buy meat, but even the high-ranking officials and nobles living in Wannian County come to buy meat!"

"Look at those horse-drawn carts over there being loaded with goods, those belong to Chu Suiliang!"

"They are indeed from an official family; they buy things with such extravagance. I wonder how many people are in their family, that they would buy a whole one at once!"

Upon hearing this, Yuchi Jingde finally found a pretext and immediately jumped in front of Chu Suiliang to mock him.

"Chu Suiliang, you only talk about meat, not profit, is that it?"