"My lord, you've released so much grain again today. Won't those unscrupulous merchants fall for it?"
Chen Da looked at the grain on the ground, feeling somewhat worried.
Li Chang'an didn't seem to mind and replied, "I understand businessmen better than you do."
"No one is immune to greed."
"The price of grain has become exorbitant. Coarse grains were bought for five coins a pound and are now being sold for five hundred coins."
"A hundredfold profit would allow them to trample on everything in this world."
"If it weren't for my unparalleled martial arts skills, my head would be rolling on the ground by now."
“As long as those two dukes admit that they sold the grain to me, they will definitely come to buy it.”
"Only after they buy up all my cheap grain can they raise the price."
Li Chang'an yawned, looked at Zhao Hu who seemed to understand but not quite, and shook his head.
"Tiger, you still have a lot to learn."
"Anyway, you should know that the one thing in this world that can never be filled is the human heart."
"Right now, we're just stalling and seeing who can't hold on any longer."
"As long as I keep acting like we don't have enough food, they will keep coming to buy it, and no one can stop them."
Heshen sat in his mansion, so angry that he smashed his teacup.
"Investigate! Investigate for me! Where did this Marquis of Anping get so much grain?"
The old servant knelt on the ground, trembling, and replied, "It was the Duke of E and the Duke of Xun. They sold it to the Marquis of Anping."
Upon hearing these two names, Heshen gritted his teeth and asked, "Why are they selling? If they don't, the price of grain will rise again today."
“The Duke of Xun said that it doesn’t matter who you sell to, and besides, the Marquis of Anping bought their grain at the original price and sold it to the common people at half price, so why not sell it?”
"They gave it to them because they wanted it."
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