Chapter 264: Food That Is Never Enough
Ma Qiang sat on the main seat, watched the officials below slowly start to write, nodded, picked up a volume of documents and read it.
"Report!"
was taking the exam, there was a shout outside, and a sergeant with a small flag on his back broke in, Ma Qiang frowned and shouted, "Who is making a noise?" β
"Serve the Prime Minister! Emergency military intelligence! β
"Come on!"
"Zhu'a County battle report, military Sima Wu Ping learned that Liu Duwei was in the law, and in Zhu'a colluded with Taishan thieves to rebel, and he was beheaded by Zhao Sima who went to inspect! The Tarzan thieves who heard the news have been repulsed! β
"This little thing, mess up my examination room, come to someone, pull it down, and beat ten military sticks! Then claim the reward! Ma Qiang waved his hand and shouted, and the sergeant on the side pulled him away, Ma Qiang looked at the others with a smile and said, "It's not a big deal, everyone continue to communicate with each other, continue to communicate with each other!" β
Ma Qiang waved his hand to let everyone answer the question with peace of mind, then sat down and picked up the paperwork, and said without knowing whether it was intentional or unintentional, "Speaking of which, it is also hateful, Zhang Jiao is dead, and there are still so many remnants of the Taiping Dao who are causing chaos in my plain country." β
Obedient and listening, many people's hands trembled, and what they wrote was different from what they had said at the beginning.
An hour passed, and Ma Qiang asked people to start collecting the papers, and then asked everyone to leave, and began to read the answers written by various officials.
On the first question, no one dares to say that joy and sorrow are indispensable, but in terms of how to persuade, some are more tough, some are more tactful, and there is no eye-catching answer to the second question of the management of the halogen, and some even say that they should pray to the sky.
The answer to the third question of the field is varied, some say that the land should be cleared, some say that the population of the plain country should be reduced, and some say that the increasingly scarce land is an inevitable thing, and there is no way to solve it, anyway, there is no answer that Ma Qiang wants to see.
Ma Qiang threw things aside, and then asked people to invite Jia Xu and Duan Ying to come.
After the two came in, Ma Qiang pointed to the pile of exam papers and said, "It's all a group of mediocre people, nothing new, the social sacrifice has passed, spring ploughing is imminent, I am ready to implement new farm tools, recruit displaced people and landless people, reclaim wasteland, and then after spring ploughing, organize the people to start building water conservancy, so as to wash the brine field, what do you think?" β
Duan Ying nodded and said, "This is the right way, it is feasible, but this wasteland reclamation needs money and food, but the money is there, but the food is not enough." β
Ma Qiang couldn't help asking, "Is the inventory finished?" How much food do Liu Ping and those Zhuwu have? β
Duan Ying took out a roll of bamboo slips from his sleeve and handed it to Ma Qiang and said, "Ming Gong, after counting, Liu Ping's case confiscated a total of 1,327 taels of gold, 16,800 taels of silver, more than 13,271 taels of money, 110,000 horses of cloth, more than 6,000 horses of silk, and 16,700 acres of land."
Since the gold and silver of the Han Dynasty were not the currency in circulation, the Zhu Wu, who mainly deceived the middle and lower class people, did not have many such precious metals.
"Why are there so few fields?" Ma Qiang listened to the field, and felt that compared with the previous proportion, it was a little pitiful.
"Those who wish the witch to harvest are all money, and most of these fields belong to those merchants, otherwise they wouldn't even be able to make up 6,000 acres."
It turned out that the profession was not right.
Ma Qiang nodded, and then said, "What about the grain?" How many? β
"Not much, less than 300,000 stones, none of these merchants are grain merchants." Duan Ying knew what Ma Qiang wanted, and directly shook his head and said.
"I don't have food in my hands, I always feel uneasy in my heart, and I don't know how much food there is in Taicang."
Ma Qiang suddenly remembered that Yu Shou had been a little quiet during this time.
He remembered that Gan Shi said that Yu Shou had made a lot of money in the past few years, and there was one of the ten permanent servants behind him.
When Jia Xu and Duan Ying heard Ma Qiang talk about Taicang, they both understood Ma Qiang's thoughts, and they wanted to do something to Yu Shou.
Indeed, Taicang is the granary of the country, and it stands to reason that there should be a large amount of grain in it, and if a Taicang order can be changed to let Ma Qiang dispatch some grain from it, Ma Qiang will be much more comfortable.
Duan Ying said, "Taicang belongs to Dasi Nong, if you want to move him, as long as Ming Gong asks one person." β
"Who?"
"Jinan Prime Minister Cao Cao, he is the eldest son of Sinong Cao Song, as long as he comes forward and asks Cao Song to check the documents of Taicang in the Plains, everything will be easy."
Ma Qiang knew that Cao Cao's father was a high-ranking official, but he didn't expect it to be Si Nong, no wonder he was so rich later.
"It's okay, then wait for me to write a letter and ask Cao Cao to do me a favor, I think, he himself wants his father to help."
After speaking, Ma Qiang felt that this was too slow, and asked, "The people from my hometown are about to arrive, and when the documents from Luoyang arrive, I'm afraid the time is too slow, since we have so much money now, we can just buy some grain, by the way, Xuzhou's grain seems to be quite surplus, and you can buy some at a high price." β
Jia Xu stroked the beard and said, "Among the merchants in Xuzhou, the Mi clan of the East China Sea is respected, and the Mi clan has been operating reclamation for generations, raising nearly 10,000 servants and diners, and has assets of more than 100 million. β
Mi's? Isn't that the person who gave Liu Bei the second round of angel financing.
And Mi Zhu's younger brother is also one of the people who backstabbed Guan Yu.
This is a very important force in the future, and we should contact it as soon as possible.
- Jinan
Cao Cao looked at Ma Qiang's handwriting, laughed and said, "Ma Pingyuan is worthy of being Ma Pingyuan, it's only been a long time, and these blessings of the Plains Country have been eradicated, hurry!" Hurry! β
Cao Hong frowned and said, "Meng De, do you want to do the same?" β
"He Ma Plain can do it, why can't I? Those county officials disobeyed my decrees, and I wanted to find an opportunity to rectify them for a long time! He was right, last year's war was raging, grain prices soared, will the Taicang orders of the Plains and Jinan countries guard the Jinshan and suffer poverty? They're sure to take advantage of it! Cao Cao said, and began to take pen and ink and began to prepare to write.
"As long as my father orders and investigates, you can use this as an excuse to investigate those county orders who don't listen to my orders, Zilian, you also have to hurry up and help me grasp the military power of Jinan, since the Taishan thieves will attack the Prime Minister's Mansion in Ma Pingyuan at night, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not attack the Prime Minister's Mansion of my Jinan State."
"He dares!" Cao Hong snorted, "Meng De, don't worry, he comes one, I'll help you kill one, he comes two, I'll help you kill a pair!" β
Cao Cao smiled and said, "You are a general, how can you go into battle easily, how did you read the military book I asked you to read?" β
Speaking of the book of war, Cao Hong suddenly looked like he was going to die, where would he want to read that.
Cao Cao shook his head helplessly, his cousin, it seems that he will not be able to become a handsome talent in the future, no matter what, a general is enough for the Cao family.
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