This time it was Li Shimin's turn to sigh, but although they pronounced the same word, they had completely different feelings.
"well……"
"I, your father-in-law, am ashamed. I have failed to live up to your filial piety!"
Upon hearing this, Li Jue blinked and asked.
"Grandpa, are you in trouble?"
Li Shimin said with a sheepish look on his face.
"well!"
"I've been tricked by the Minister of Revenue!"
"How did they scam you?"
"A house that could have sold for four million strings of cash was sold for only three hundred thousand strings of cash by that scoundrel Yang Shidao!"
Li Jue showed no surprise upon hearing this, and simply nodded calmly.
"It's alright, much better than my grandson expected."
Li Shimin was surprised to hear this, and then asked with a puzzled look.
"What do you mean? Do you think over 300,000 strings of cash is a lot?"
“Grandpa, 300,000 strings of cash is not much, but for the officials under your command, they can save you 300,000 strings of cash. You should be secretly happy!”
"If this happened more than a thousand years from now, not only would you not get a single penny, but you would also owe them hundreds of thousands of strings of cash!"
Li Shimin frowned upon hearing this.
"What kind of logic is this?"
"It's clearly my house, but they sold it off for a pittance, and now I have to owe them money?"
Li Jue was just making a casual remark, after all, this wasn't a thousand years in the future, but the Tang Dynasty at its zenith.
"Grandpa, let's not dwell on this. Tell me what you'd like to do."
Upon hearing this, Li Shimin spread his hands in frustration.
"What can I do?"
"That bastard Yang Shidao not only sold off the houses you worked so hard to build at a bargain price, but also lent five hundred of them to officials in the capital!"
"As the saying goes, the law does not punish the masses. Even I cannot punish hundreds of officials at the same time!"
"If I punish them, then there will be no one to handle the affairs of the Tang Dynasty, and the entire Tang Dynasty will be paralyzed!"
"Even if I'm unwilling now, I can only swallow this bitter pill!"
Li Jue, hearing Li Shimin's words and sensing the resentment in Li Shimin's heart, tentatively asked a question.
"Grandpa, if your grandson can get the house back and resell it at the original high price, how do you plan to reward me?"
"you?"
"Are you really that capable?"
Li Jue smiled modestly.
"You can give it a try!"
Upon hearing this, Li Shimin immediately made an exorbitant demand, offering Li Jue an irresistible temptation.
"If you can truly accomplish this, I will appoint you as the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty!"
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