He might not be able to resist having someone investigate again. In this situation, Zhu Yunwen also wanted to control this middle-aged fat man as soon as possible, so it was naturally inconvenient to take action in Hekou County.

Because Old Sun's henchmen are all over the place in Hekou County, if the middle-aged fat man is arrested directly in the city, it will inevitably arouse Old Sun's suspicion and caution.

So only the middle-aged fat man himself managed to find his way out of the county town, into this cave, and then be taken away by two Imperial Guards, so as not to expose any clues or suspicions about Zhu Yunwen's involvement in this matter.

This is what made it impossible for Old Master Sun to investigate, leaving him even more confused.

Didn't Old Sun want to control the overall situation? Didn't he feel he was in a passive position?

Zhu Yunwen then wanted to keep him from seeing the whole picture and put him in a passive position.

The person who truly controlled the overall situation was Zhu Yunwen, and the initiative was also in his hands.

In this game of power, Old Master Sun has already exposed too many of his problems under Zhu Yunwen's scheme.

The beggars at the beginning, and later Old Sun under pressure, deliberately made the bandits scapegoats, which directly created evidence for Zhu Yunwen that should not have existed.

Now, Zhu Yunwen has enough evidence to expose Old Master Sun and has everything under control.

Old Sun was still kept in the dark.

Two more days passed, and Old Sun began to panic. He sent the letter he had written to the very discreet middle-aged fat man who was doing things for him.

However, there has been no response, and several days have passed without any reply.

This fully illustrates the seriousness of the problem, which is why Old Master Sun's face looked very grim in the hall.

The registrar from the county government office below also came to the main hall of the Sun family.

He sat down as well, looking at Old Sun's face. Noticing that Old Sun looked very worried, he spoke up:

"Old Master Sun, there's nothing unusual here at the county government office. The Crown Prince Zhu Yunwen continues to enjoy fine food and tea every day, and chats with the county magistrate from time to time. There's nothing amiss."

Old Sun sighed and said:

"Nothing unusual? Really nothing unusual? Does he really just drink tea and chat every day? I can no longer contact my most trusted subordinates."

Two days have passed, and I haven't received any reply. In these two days, you and I have also mobilized many of my henchmen, but they haven't obtained any information about me, their subordinate, in Hekou County.

He disappeared without a trace, and you're telling me that Zhu Yunwen did nothing? Yes, he did nothing, but he also did everything.

I've been forced into this predicament, a room where I can't see what's going on. It's terrifying, absolutely terrifying. I haven't even figured out what's happening, yet it seems I've already lost so much.

I didn't even know what I should do next. No wonder he's the Crown Prince; he hasn't done anything outwardly, yet he's driven me into this situation.

Upon hearing Old Sun's words, the registrar realized the situation was dire, and gritted his teeth, saying:

"Is he really that amazing? What should we do?"

Old Sun clenched his fist, then jumped to his feet and said:

"I have one last step. This trick will not only work for me, but once I succeed, gentry and landlords all over the country can use it."

Although this is meant to secure one last advantage for us, success is the only option; failure is unacceptable.

Upon hearing Elder Sun's words, the registrar also became nervous, and looked at Elder Sun, saying:

"I don't know what Old Master Sun plans to do."

Old Sun took a deep breath before speaking again:

"In the end, the sudden emergence of sweet potato and potato seeds has only damaged the grain held by us gentry and landlords."

We have so much grain that it would take a very long time to sell it all. And the money we get from selling the grain is enough to feed our descendants for generations.

This is the result of selling grain at normal prices. In special circumstances where there is a grain shortage, we can raise the price of grain. In that case, we can make more money from selling it.

Food is always a hard currency, so when we need money, we can sell some of the food we store and get enough to cover our expenses.

Normally, we don't sell all our grain at once, because it's not safe to convert all of it into money.

But things are different now. With the advent of sweet potatoes and potatoes, people will probably never lack food again.

If they don't lack food, then how are we supposed to sell all that huge amount of grain we have in our hands?

If the wealth in our hands cannot be converted into money, isn't it useless?

Therefore, before sweet potatoes and potato seeds become a staple food, I need to convert all the grain I have into money to avoid the risk of having too much grain and not being able to sell it later.

Old Sun seemed to be talking to himself as he spoke at length.

The clerk didn't hear it clearly and didn't understand what it meant.

Simply put, the grain reform allowed potato and sweet potato seeds to be planted all over the country, and the ultimate result was that people no longer had to worry about food and drink.

The large quantities of rice and flour that the local gentry and landlords controlled suddenly became worthless.

Then all their wealth would be wasted. So Old Sun's idea was that, as things stand, before the sweet potatoes and potatoes have been harvested and completely replaced grain, they should take this opportunity to sell off all the grain they had.