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The price of grain in Chang'an fell, and the major chambers of commerce successively issued notices to recruit people in Gyeonggi Province and Dugi Province, and in order to keep their heads, they successively began to build various rivers, city walls, and buildings in Chang'an, and provided wages and food to Changgong

At first, the people of Gyeonggi Province did not believe that the chambers of commerce offered such preferential conditions

After all, food prices soared in a short period of time, and they suffered the ugly face of Chang'an grain merchants

In the eyes of the people, it is fortunate that the chambers of commerce do not try to deceive the people, how can they be so kind to provide jobs to everyone?

Soon, the Criminal Department dealt with Wen Renhao's criminal evidence, and in order to raise the price of grain, trick the people, ignore the imperial decree and other criminal evidence, Wen Rentao and Wen Renhao went to exile in southern Xinjiang, and the miscellaneous labor in the grain store of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce was all demoted to hard labor

The Criminal Department confiscated the personal money and food of Wen Rentao and Wen Renhao's father and son

When the news came out, various chambers of commerce in Chang'an successively issued letters of guilt, admitting their own practice of raising grain prices after the Lantern Festival

Many grain merchants either sent stewards to various places to recruit people, or personally went to various places to recruit long-term workers

At the same time, in order to save their lives, the chambers of commerce handed over the profits obtained from the price hike to the imperial court, and paid a lot of money and grain by the way

At the end of February, as the weather gradually cleared up and grain merchants sold grain at low prices, people's attitudes gradually changed, and more and more people were recruited by merchants

At the beginning of March, when the swelling waters of the rivers in Chang'an receded, several chambers of commerce and officials of the Ministry of Industry who were responsible for the construction of the river were surveying the rivers, designing and planning, and taking vigorous action

In Chang'an City, the city walls destroyed by the war were also built one after another, and Gyeonggi Province was in full swing

The imperial court planned to build a hero's shrine in the south of Chang'an

For a time, there was a large construction project near Chang'an, and tens of thousands of long-term workers were summoned

The weather was fine, and Yang Yue instructed Wen Renyu to transfer grain from Taicang and Changshengfang, and dispatched officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household to actively help the people carry out spring ploughing

At the end of March, Yang Yue's long-term concern for grain and spring ploughing problems were increasingly effectively resolved

With the construction of the Heti and the city wall of the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce, Yang Yue secretly ordered the bosses of the chambers of commerce to reduce the amount of grain sold to Longyou Dao and the Turks, and took the opportunity to increase the price of grain in the two places

Lai Suyuan was called the emperor in Longyou Dao, and the power of the Tang Dynasty was gradually recovering, Yang Yue was reluctant to move troops for the time being, so he had to secretly arrange merchants to weaken his strength, and earn silver and pay it to the treasury

Moreover, Yang Yue knows that grain is the foundation of the country, and if the price of grain in Longyou Road soars, it will affect Lai Suyuan's prestige in Longyou

Even in Longyou Province, there was infighting due to the food problem, and even the army mutinied

Datang can barely be self-sufficient without the help of external forces, Longyou Dao, Turkic and Turkic, without some materials provided by Datang, can only tighten their belts and weaken their power

Before April, Yang Yue was very busy with government affairs, dealing with government affairs day and night, and in early May, after the Dragon Boat Festival, he gradually relaxed

At this time, Yang Yue was still not idle, in May, news came from the north, before Lin Kaiyue followed his deployment, secretly eradicated the Yuwen family, because the Tang Dynasty ordered Chang'an grain merchants to reduce the supply of grain to the Turks, the Turkic grain prices skyrocketed, which indirectly affected the grain prices in the Xi people, leading to an uprising among the generals within the Xi people

The Yuwen family became the target of the public in the Xi clan, and encountered resistance from the rebel generals, and the Yuwen family suffered heavy casualties and collapsed in the Xi clan

Lin Kaiyue sent troops to the Xi tribe, fought with the Khitan Ming, and took the opportunity to carve up the Xi tribe

Yang Yue learned that Yuwen Shi, Yuwen Tai, Yuwen Heng, and Yuwen Xuanjie and other descendants of the Yuwen family were killed by rebel generals during the rebellion, and he was shocked and secretly happy

The Yuwen family disappeared in the long river of history, and the Xi people were disintegrated by the Tang Dynasty and the Khitan, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty bordered the Khitan and threatened to cut off in the northeast region.

In the entire north, only the Khitan with relatively strong strength remained, and the Turks who fought in the north

Yuwen's family was in trouble, the news was transmitted back to Chang'an, Yuwen Linxuan was sad for a while, but Yang Yue was secretly glad that he did not kill the Yuwen family in person, otherwise, he was afraid that he would be estranged from Yuwen Linxuan and the relationship between husband and wife would break down

This problem did not bother Yang Yue for long, the Xi clan collapsed, and Lin Kaiyue sent an army from the north to send back a large number of captured cattle and sheep, money and grain, and weapons secretly accumulated by the Yuwen family in the Xi clan

All this has effectively changed the number of cattle and sheep in Gyeonggi-do, and near Togi-do

At the beginning of June, there was a bumper harvest of summer grain in the south, and a steady stream of new grain was shipped to Chang'an, Gyeonggi Province, Taicang and Yicang in Dugi Province, which also caused grain prices in the two places to drop

At this time, Yang Yue secretly implemented the deployment against the Turks, and suggested that Chang'an merchants go to Taicang and Changshengfang, and sell last year's old grain at a high price without knowing it

After the restriction of sales in spring and summer, there was a shortage of grain in the Turks, and when there were merchants in the Tang Dynasty who secretly sold grain at high prices, the Turkic merchants were still impatient to solve the urgent need

Throughout July, according to Yang Yue's arrangement, through merchant sales, tens of thousands of specially treated old grain flowed into the Turkic and Khitan territories, and the Tang Dynasty exchanged a lot of silver taels to deal with the old grain, and by the way implemented Yang Yue's secret plan

The Turks got grain, the internal grain prices gradually eased, and the Khitan and the Tang Dynasty temporarily suspended their troops, and the three parties tacitly did not move, and secretly accumulated strength to prepare for the next big war

In September, there was good news in the palace, Yuwen Linxuan gave birth to a prince, and in October, in the palace, three children, two princesses, and a prince were welcomed one after another

At the end of October, a large area in the south and north had a bumper grain harvest, and taxes were paid in various places, and the treasury was gradually filled with gold and silver

After a year of hard work, although the changes in Datang are obvious to all, Yang Yue still does not dare to relax

From the first year of Zhaowu to October of the second year of Zhaowu, the north of the Tang Dynasty was quiet, and there were no waves in the ancient wells

However, in the winter, bad news came back from the north

The Khitan envoy intercepted the news of the collusion between the Turks and Lai Suyuan of Longyou, and the Turks secretly paid money and sent a small number of iron horsemen to instigate Lai Suyuan, the envoy of Longyou Jiedu, hoping that Lai Suyuan would send troops to Hexi Road in the spring of the next year to contain the Tang Dynasty and consume the strength of the Tang Dynasty

After Yang Yue learned the news, he didn't even care about sending his chamberlain to Hexi Road to remind Wei Jiyan to strengthen his vigilance

In the past six months, he has secretly made arrangements to weaken the Turkic forces, and according to his deployment, the following year will be ploughed in the spring, and at the end of autumn, the Turks will have no harvest, and a food crisis will inevitably break out internally

Even if Agus hoped to use the power of Longyou to contain the Tang Dynasty, he even instigated the power of Tuyuhun and the Tubo people

However, when the Turks fell into a food crisis, the Khitan would definitely not wait and see, and at that time, the internal problems of the Turks were enough to make Agus anxious, not to mention resisting the Khitan, how could he focus on the Tang Dynasty