At the end of the day, only Yu Wenyun and Fu Xiaoguan were left in the Xiuchun Pavilion of Dieyi Palace, and Concubine Shang returned to the palace with the poem, saying that she needed to take a break.

Fu Xiaoguan and Yu Wenyun were looking at each other, but they saw the father-in-law who had stood on the Chengtian Hall trotting all the way.

"Master Fu, Your Majesty has summoned you, please go to the imperial study with the old slave."

Yu Wenyun pursed his lips and glared at Father-in-law Jia, who hurriedly smiled, bowed down and said, "Her Royal Highness the Ninth Princess forgives her sins, this is really what Your Majesty meant." ”

"Humph!" Yu Wenyun looked at Fu Xiaoguan and said in a low voice: "I'll go to Shulan's place for a while, and I'll look for you later." ”

Fu Xiaoguan followed Gonggong Jia to the imperial study, and before he entered the door, there was a quarrel inside.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks it is impossible, after a thousand years, the so-called disaster relief is, of course, that the imperial court takes out money, food and materials to distribute them to the victims for free, and the problem that arises now is not that there is a problem with the disaster relief method, but that there is a problem with the people who provide disaster relief. Isn't that what His Majesty meant to inspect the Thirteen Realms this time? Investigate these corrupt officials and corrupt officials to make an example of them, and then send new officials to take office, with the experience of the previous car, Weichen thought that this kind of thing could be stopped. ”

The minister thought that what Ning Taifu said was reasonable, and the original intention of this disaster relief was to benefit the victims, so that they would not suffer from the displacement. If it was according to Fu Xiaoguan's method, wouldn't it become the imperial court selling grain to the victims? What will the victims think? What will other countries think? Didn't they think that I, the Yu Dynasty, had taken advantage of this calamity to fish and flesh the victims? ”

"Can't deny it entirely, the post-disaster treatment mentioned in this strategy is still very reasonable, especially the concentrated burning of corpses, although it is not very humane, but this can indeed effectively avoid the epidemic of plague, I still remember the 39th year of Taihe, it is also the two floods of the Yellow River, according to post-disaster statistics, more than 42,000 people died due to the flood, but the plague that broke out after the flood killed more than 123,000 people, and now I think about it, it should be that those corpses have not been dealt with in time."

“……”

Emperor Yu Yin sat on the dragon chair with a little pain in his head, and the five people under the seat, a Taifu Ning Huachun, and a household secretary Dong Kangping, all made it clear that this strategy did not work.

Originally, he was still counting on Prime Minister Yan Beixi, but this Yan Beixi was as slippery as a loach. I also know that post-disaster treatment is very important, but post-disaster treatment is not so troublesome, okay?

Fei Bang is the secretary of the military department, Yan Shidao is the privy envoy of the Privy Council, these two people are in charge of the military, and they are going to let them see the strategy of what to fight, and the discussion at the moment is about disaster relief, and these two people are probably not able to speak.

His eyes looked out, and he was overjoyed, this Fu Xiaoguan can be regarded as coming.

"The little people see the emperor!"

Fu Xiaoguan was about to bow down, but the emperor said: "Come on, come on, no need to be polite, this strategy is made by you, you can solve their doubts now." ”

The emperor threw this away and leaned on the dragon chair to watch the play.

Fu Xiaoguan hugged his fists and smiled: "Xiaomin is from the countryside, and he doesn't understand the rules of this big place. ”

After speaking, he stopped in the middle of the field and said, "If you have any doubts, just mention them, and Xiaomin will explain them to you in detail." ”

The five bigwigs sitting looked at Fu Xiaoguan again, this kid scolded Shi Chaoyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, in the Chengtian Palace, who seemed to be ignorant but was extremely delicate, and at this moment he was standing in this imperial study with a calm expression, without any restraint, this young man's heart was extremely calm.

Dong Kangping took the lead in standing up, "Let me ask you, why do you think the imperial court is providing disaster relief?" ”

Fu Xiaoguan didn't know that this person was Dong Shulan's father, but this person was handsome, a bit similar to Dong Xiude, and at the moment he was discussing the disaster relief issue under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, so the identity of this person was about to come out.

He politely saluted Dong Kang and replied: "I thought that the relief of the imperial court was for the people of Li who were affected by the disaster. ”

"Now that you know, why did this strategy reject the millennium law and replace it with food price stabilization?"

"Back to the people, the thousand-year-old law is not immutable, the small people think that if this law has lagged behind the development of society, it needs to be changed, if you blindly stick to the old ways, the development of society will stop, and then produce many drawbacks, if it breaks out in one day, it will lose people and property, and it may threaten the safety of the society."

"Do you think the approach to disaster relief that has been followed has fallen behind?" Dong Kangping frowned and asked.

"Yes, it's no longer suitable for the development of society."

Dong Kangping was silent for a moment, and then asked: "The so-called disaster relief was originally the food and materials provided by the imperial court to the victims for free. But what about the victims? Do they have the money to buy it? If you don't have money, won't you starve to death? So what will they think of the imperial court? ”

This is a key point in the problem, and Emperor Yu Yin has never understood this problem, so he sat up straight.

"Back to my lord, the small people are landlords, and I guess the adults know. But Xiaomin is a little different from the young master of the rich merchant family, Xiaomin likes farmers and often chats with them. This time, more than 30,000 refugees were received, and Xiaomin also had in-depth contact with them, so Xiaomin knew what they wanted. ”

"You adults should know the price of food in the disaster area, two days ago I chatted with Brother Qin Bingzhong, Brother Qin said that the price of food in the disaster area has risen to five times that of normal days, in fact, it is far more than that. In the two provinces of the Yellow River, especially in Xijing and Henan Provinces, the price of grain has already risen to 12 times that of normal days! Henan Province has two prefectures and 28 prefectures, one prefecture and six prefectures that have been severely affected, and the grain prices in these prefectures and six prefectures have generally risen tenfold. According to the calculation of 17 wen per pound of rice on weekdays, it has reached 170 wen per catty after the disaster! What is this concept? That means a huge profit inside! Ladies and gentlemen, I guess you will think, since rice is so expensive, then eat coarse grains, sorry, coarse grains have also increased by more than ten times! So why is that? Because the relief food of the imperial court was not all distributed to the victims. They didn't have anything to eat, so they had to buy it, and at least 30% of the food they bought was disaster relief food that belonged to the imperial court. ”

"The merchants of the world, if they have 30% of the profits, they will rush to them, if they have 50% of the profits, they will take risks, if there is 10% of the profits, they will dare to trample on all the laws, and if there are 30% of the profits, they will dare to commit any sin, let alone 10 times now!"

"The same is true for officials, they will definitely be involved, so no matter how much grain the court allocates, the final result will not change!"

Fu Xiaoguan spoke at length, and there was a sudden silence here, he felt a little thirsty, so he looked at the emperor and asked, "Your Majesty, can you give saliva to drink?" ”