Chapter 1071 Reform of Cao Yun

In the past few years, the development of Jinghu Lake in Liangzhejiang, plus a part of the South China Sea has been pulled to Liangzhejiang, and the rice that is so cheap that it has exceeded 10 million stones.

According to the principle of "goods are transported and the price is doubled", the loss along the way is quite amazing.

However, Su You completely overestimated the morality of the officials, and when the statistics of the three divisions came down, tens of millions of stone rice arrived in Beijing, and the loss was as high as 15 million stones!

The Song Dynasty Cao Yun method originated in the Tang Dynasty. In the twenty-second year of Kaiyuan, Pei Yaoqing built a river yin warehouse at the mouth of the Gubian River, so that the grain in the Jianghuai area could be transported and stored here, waiting for water transfer.

After that, through the Yellow River, Weishui to Chang'an, for the beginning of the general law.

In order to ensure the supply of grain and other materials in Beijing, since the fifth year of Kaibao, the four prefectures of Si, Chu, Zhen and Yang have successively set up a general warehouse on the Caoyun Road, unloading the grain of the six roads in the southeast, and then changing ships to transfer them to the Beijing Division, and the Huai salt required by the six roads can also be transported back by empty ships.

After Jiayou, the number of official ships decreased, and the officials transported more thefts.

After being changed to the Shipping Division, it had some effect in the short term, but with Xue Xiangren going to politics, the Shipping Division also embarked on the old road of Caoyun.

Zhang Fangping once changed the general method to the direct method, and the effect was remarkable, and he served as the third envoy for three years, so that the Beijing master had ten years of savings.

Then people went to politics, and Cao Zheng was abandoned again.

So Su You simply suggested to Zhao Ji that he should take a multi-pronged approach.

The first step is to reactivate Zhang Fangping and Xue Xiang's methods to improve efficiency and reduce losses.

The second step is to put the procuratorial organs into use and strengthen supervision.

The third step is to repair the water conservancy so that the Bianhe River can also be effective in spring and winter.

The fourth step is the most ruthless, directly cut off half of the roots of Caoyun! Let Caoyun make way for private commercial transport!

Grain from Jinghu is no longer sent to Bianjing, but is shipped directly to Shaanxi through another waterway.

The grain needed by Hebei is no longer transported by water, and directly from Hangzhou by sea.

These two routes were contracted by merchants, who were responsible for their own profits and losses, and at once reduced the amount of grain that the canal needed to transport to Bianjing every year by two-fifths!

Cai did have some understanding of Su You's deep scheming again, and the front desk was separated, but all the officials applauded, thinking that life was better now.

As a result, the supervision agency went deep into the prefectures and counties, and the officials were able to bear it, after all, it solved part of the redundancy problem, which is also the meaning of the question.

When these people began to play a role, the officials suddenly discovered that the cost of bribery had doubled all of a sudden!

However, the dead friends are not dead and poor, and the officials of Caocang are really a little greedy, hehehe, it turns out that they will have to pay it back sooner or later.

The many details of this inventory have left the warehouse rats with nowhere to hide.

All the granaries were checked together, so that the officials had no chance to borrow the east wall to make up the west wall.

The only way to do this was to ask the local squire for help.

But along with it were several shipping orders, and the squires were not fools, knowing that if they lent it to the officials, the grain might be taken away at any time, and they all covered the grain bags.

And now is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and the landlord's family has no surplus grain, where is the time to borrow grain?

So a strange phenomenon appeared, the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and the price of rice soared for a while.

This is the corrupt officials who have spared no expense in buying paddy to make up for the shortfall.

Sitong firm keenly seized the business opportunity.

With a season's goods as collateral, he borrowed 4 million stone of rice from Changping on Liangzhejiang Road, and collected 6 million stone from the wealthy people, all the way to the north, stabilizing grain prices along the way.

The two sides agreed that when the wind direction changed in June, they would pull 5 million single rice from the South China Sea to re-fill the regular position.

The rice in the South China Sea is ripe in March, and Lu Huiqing is now worried about the low price of rice.

Miraculously, the two Zhejiang Road Chang closed the position and agreed.

So at the same time, by the time the procuratorate was officially launched, most of the granaries had been refilled, and those that could not be filled in the end could only be imprisoned and awaited.

When the new account book was handed back to Gao Taotao, Gao Taotao sneered: "How did you give me something to eat, and how did you spit it out for me!" ”

Sitong sold a bucket of rice for 100 wen, and the Nanhai bucket rice was only 30 wen, plus the freight was less than 50 wen, and this one earned more than 5 million yuan.

This is the maximum tolerance limit for Gao Taotao's officials, and even so, there are still countless officials who have been investigated and prosecuted.

The biggest of them is to dig up the big hole that can't be filled in Zhenzhou, from the Zhenzhou system and shipping envoy, the shipping deputy envoy, to the judge, Cangcao, because of the huge amount of ink greed, was sent to Beijing, handed over to Dali Temple for strict investigation.

For a time, the atmosphere of officialdom was solemn, the businessmen cheered, and the people praised each other.

Although they have endured a short period of rise and fall in rice prices, they feel that this trouble is very worth it when they see the corrupt officials who show off their power on weekdays.

And the driving force behind all this, Su Youtong Shoes, is now standing on the Bianjing dock on the ground, seeing off a group of people.

It is impossible to catch them all in one go, and even in the later generations, there have been special periods of leniency within a time limit, let alone now.

After all, someone has to do things, and there are still three months before the peak season of transportation and transportation, and there is no time to implement a big change.

Therefore, for Gao Tao's operation, Su You is also happy to see it come into being and highly cooperative.

But this incident is a signal, the wind, is about to change.

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The wind is going to change, some are coming back, some are leaving.

Now the Military Aircraft Department is sorting out the archival documents collected from the Third Division, the Chinese Book, and the Privy Council.

Cai Jing was so bitter that he cried his father and called his mother, and asked Chao Buzhi every day when he would come back.

The attitude of the three departments on this matter is also different.

Hell, the people with the best attitudes turned out to be Wang Qi and Cai Qu.

The close combination of logistical preparation and clarification of Cao Yun has brought great benefits to Zhongshu, and as a bargaining chip, Cai can be said to be fully cooperative, fully possessing the ethics of a politician.

The ethics of a politician is to proceed from the interests of the group.

The three divisions also cooperated well, clarifying Cao Yun, and being able to get the words "let go of these dog officials for the time being" from Gao Taotao's mouth, Su You can also be regarded as wiping the ass of the third division.

Li Suzhi doesn't want it on the surface, but it's so refreshing in his heart.

In the three divisions, Cao Yun is the biggest problem in the management of officials.

Now the Queen Mother, Your Majesty, the three mountains of Zhongshu have been pressed down, and Li Suzhi seems to lie down and let it be ravaged, but in fact, he is secretly enjoying it.

And after the crux of the business road is dispelled, this year's commercial tax will definitely receive a soft hand, if it is said that the book received the soft benefits clarified by the officials, then the three divisions received is the real money that is bright and heavy.

Su You always looks aggrieved when he does things, and this time it is the same.

Anyway, in the grapevine, the Queen Mother scolded Su You for being bloody.

Sitong Trading has been eaten and asked for cards by officials from all walks of life for so many years, how did you endure it? If the Heavenly Family didn't take a stake, were you ready to endure it for the rest of your life?!

Are you still the prince of the Great Song Dynasty? Are you still the son-in-law of the Great Song Xungui family? Can you be a little tough when you become a Wenchen? It really disgraced us! Lost out!

Li Suzhi felt that these things were most likely acting, but the protagonist was the Queen Mother, so no one dared to say it.

And the Queen Mother really brought herself into this matter, full of emotions, profound acting skills, and completely out of her true colors.

After all, if the acting skills are worthy of the salary, it is as high as tens of millions!

The biggest resistance came from Su You's once closest partner, the privy envoy, Feng Jing.

The duties of the Privy Council were to assist the emperor in exercising control over military command, formulating strategic guidelines, dispatching troops, selecting commanders, and issuing directives to front-line commanders to carry out campaigns.

In charge of the personnel of the military attaché, the establishment of the army and other specific affairs, that is another department of the Great Song Dynasty - the Ministry of War.

The privy envoys of the Northern Song Dynasty went through a long process from "both civil and military" to "a civil minister".

Before Zhenzong, they were all martial arts and scholars, but in the Renzong Dynasty, they became twice as many Wenchen as Wuchen, and when they arrived in the Yingzong and Shenzong dynasties, there was only one Guo Kui.

This is definitely not a normal phenomenon.

Therefore, the current DPRK and the Central Committee have called the Privy Council composed of Feng Jing and civil officials the "Left Pivot", and the Military Aircraft Department composed of Su You and the military ministers as the "Right Pivot".

A large part of the functions of the two institutions themselves overlapped, but Feng Jing had to admit the existence of the Military Aircraft Department, and the reason was very simple - he couldn't figure out the new army.

But this does not mean that he does not have the dissatisfaction of the Privy Council being usurped in his heart.