Contracting again? ”

Kou Zhuan Sha wanted to cry without tears and looked at Guo Dan, who was lying on the table and drawing.

Guo Dan just smiled slightly, "Madam, it seems that your ability to accept is much worse than Your Majesty's, Your Majesty seems to have been numb to this, this time he didn't even bother to discuss the details, just said, 'That's fine', he didn't even think about whether the ministers would agree." ”

Kou Zhuansha rolled her eyes slightly, and said: "Husband, I mean that this is not the case, such as disaster relief, it is thankless, and it will breed a lot of trouble, even the imperial court and the local government are often overwhelmed by this, we are just a tooth shop, and we are not capable of handling so many affairs." ”

"I know, and I don't want to." Guo Dan said in a flat tone.

Kou Zhuisa asked, "Then why do you still agree?" ”

Guo said lightly: "Because of Your Majesty, this world belongs to Your Majesty, if those officials do not handle it well, it will hurt Your Majesty's interests in the end, and those corrupt officials will only make a lot of money, and Your Majesty's interests are my interests, I have no choice." ”

Kou Zhuan Sha said: "But the problem is, you can't handle it well. ”

"Not necessarily."

As he spoke, the pen waving in Guo Dan's hand suddenly stopped, he put the pen on the pen stand, then picked up the paper in his hand, shrugged his shoulders and said: "The reason why I don't want to do it is not because I can't do it, but because this transaction does not meet my current value." ”

As soon as the words fell, I suddenly heard Yang Fei's voice coming from the back door, "It's snowing." ”

......

The snow was falling slowly, but the court and China were arguing.

Governing the country first governs officials, everyone understands this truth, and it can even be said that in feudal society, this is the truth, but throughout the ages, few have succeeded.

The reason is very simple, this person is actually the most difficult to govern people.

At this time, Wang Xijue finally stood up, but he put the meeting place in the East Pavilion.

"Contracting the reserve warehouse to Guo Dan?"

Li Sancai looked at Wang Xijue in shock.

After all, it was the first time he felt the impact of contracting.

And on the side, Wang Jiaping and Song Qi are already used to this.

Without waiting for Wang Xijue to speak, Zhang Heming resolutely objected, "This disaster relief is related to the safety of the country, it is not a horse farm, or even a state capital can be compared, how can it be contracted to a businessman." ”

Speaking of "businessmen", Zhang Heming seemed to feel that something was wrong, and added: "Although Guo Dan is now my financial adviser to Daming, he can assist us, not use the method of contracting." ”

Wang Xijue said with a smile: "Zhang Yushi also knows that this disaster relief is related to the safety of the country and the people of the world, so we should ignore the people and the country, and argue endlessly every day." ”

Zhang Heming hurriedly said: "That's not what Xia Guan meant. ”

"But that's just the way it is." Wang Xijue said again: "This matter is already imminent, let's just say that the snow outside, no one knows, how many days will it take to fall this snow, we can't just consume it endlessly, we must make preparations with both hands." The contract to Guo Dan is just a temporary plan, and after the court discusses the results and improves the disaster relief system, the court will take back the reserve warehouse from Guo Dan. ”

Zhang Heming didn't know what to say, because now they couldn't fight for a result at all.

Li Sancai suddenly asked: "My lord, there is a little bit that the lower officials really don't understand, why do they want to contract, if Guo Dan has a way, he can bring it up, isn't this the reason why His Majesty hired him as the financial adviser of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Because the method of Daming's financial adviser is contracting."

Wang Xijue suddenly looked out the door, "But let's ask him to tell you himself." ”

After a while, I saw Guo Dan walking in from outside the door, and he saluted the old men who were seated.

Wang Xijue said: "There is Lao Guo's consultant." ”

"This is a matter of the lower part."

Guo Dan bowed slightly, and looked at the two behind him.

I saw that the two immediately hung a piece of paper on the screen in front of them.

Li Sancai and they stared.

It's all shit.

It's ugly.

Guo Dan came to the screen and smiled apologetically: "It's a little ugly, but the time is urgent, and I can't make it beautifully, so please bear with me." ”

Wang Xijue pointed out: "If it's ugly, it doesn't matter, just be useful." ”

"Thank you, Lord Haihan."

Guo Dan bowed his hand and said: "Don't hide it from you, in fact, I hesitated for a long time on the issue of whether to contract, and the reason why I proposed contracting is because I think that the reserve warehouse system of my dynasty is very perfect and sustainable compared to previous dynasties.

The so-called reserve warehouse means that when a disaster occurs, the grain is lent to the people, and when the disaster is over, when the people have a good harvest, plus the benefits are returned to the court, which is much more clever than simply getting relief.

So why the reserve warehouse has gradually become invalid, one of the biggest reasons is naturally because of the treasure banknote, but now there is no need to mention this matter. ”

This is really ironic, this Ming treasure banknote is really harmful.

During the period from Taizu to orthodoxy, the imperial court spent "money" to buy grain and stored it in the reserve warehouse, and this "money" was the Ming treasure banknote, and this alone was doomed to failure.

Anyone who knows knows that in the absence of laws and technical guarantees, this is actually plundering the people.

And now that the Daming treasure banknote has long been abolished, why bother to expose your scars again.

"There are many other reasons for this."

Guo Dan swept his eyes and said: "I won't repeat them one by one, I believe that all adults also know it, and I have mentioned it before, I mainly analyze it from the perspective of operation today." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the piece of paper and said, "The imperial court, the reserve warehouse, and the people, this is the entire reserve warehouse system, and the activation mechanism is a natural disaster." The first drawback is the reserve warehouse system, which makes the court directly face the people. It is precisely because of this that the whole system is in a dilemma. ”

Li Sancai asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Guo smiled lightly: "I have read some records about the reserve warehouse, and found that a lot of the grain lent out has not been returned, resulting in the reserve warehouse not making ends meet, and over time, only rats and rat feces are left in the preparation warehouse."

In this case, the imperial court will inevitably fall into a dilemma, is it forcing the people to return the grain? But wasn't the original intention of the imperial court to help the people? Now that the people's families are being destroyed, why did they save it in the first place? ”

Li Sancai said: "This is just a few. ”

"Unfortunately, that's the majority."

Guo smiled lightly: "Of course, there must be some tricks in this, for example, some people pretend to use the name of the people to seek the grain in the reserve warehouse, which leads to a bad account, but the problem is that the court can't force the people to pay back." ”

Zhang Heming sarcastically said: "The imperial court really can't force the people to ruin their families, and you businessmen often do this. ”

Guo smiled lightly: "Merchants rarely do this, because most businessmen don't borrow at all, and those who are really willing to borrow are those landlords." The merchant's approach is to first judge whether the other party has the ability to return it, and then decide whether to borrow or not. ”

Li Sancai said: "If you do this, can it still be called disaster relief, this is taking advantage of the fire to rob, but this person's life is at stake." ”

Guo Dan said: "This is the problem, borrowing money to repay money is justified, but it is also justified for the court to help the people, there is a fundamental contradiction between the two, and it will inevitably not work, which will also lead to immortality inside and outside the court." ”

Li Sancai frowned.

He also agreed with Guo Dan's statement.

Some people just refuse to pay it back, and those kind-hearted officials will naturally not oppress the people because of this, after all, it is not easy for the people, in fact, if the people do not pay it back, it can be justified, after all, this grain is what they paid, and the reason why I pay taxes is because you will also help me.

At the same time, however, some officials often take advantage of this to increase interest rates privately, in order to extort the people and seek personal gains.

With the efforts of both sides, the reserve warehouse has been left with a lot of bad debts.

Wang Xijue asked, "If you contract with a businessman, won't these problems exist?" ”

"There will inevitably be an existence, and it is impossible for every account to be recovered."

Guo Dan nodded and said: "But Li Shilang is right, this person's life is at stake, and he can't watch everyone starve to death, which involves the second question I want to talk about, according to the records of the reserve warehouse, when the wind and rain are good, a large amount of grain becomes moldy, resulting in a huge loss of the reserve warehouse, which is enough to show that the only income of the reserve warehouse system is to lend money through natural disasters, and then collect interest, but once the bad debts increase, the reserve warehouse will inevitably not be maintained."

I've mentioned more than once that don't put your eggs in one basket. The government did not make reasonable use of the grain stored in the reserve warehouse, but in fact, so much grain could have been bought and sold to make a profit, once the source of profit is no longer the only one, then a part of the profit can be used to help the people who cannot afford to repay. At the same time, it ensures that the reserve warehouse can be operated well. ”

Li Sancai nodded and said, "You have a point, then you can help the imperial court find a way, why do you have to contract it." ”

Guo Dan laughed and said, "Because this is unfair to local officials." ”

Li Sancai asked, "How do you say this?" ”

"There are profits and losses in trading, and I can't guarantee that I will make money."

Guo Dan said: "If it's just me helping the court find a way, then if I lose, do I have to take the money myself, or the court will pay for it, if it leads to disaster relief, the officials are responsible, or I am responsible."

I mentioned at the beginning that I can help the court find a way, this is my responsibility, but I will never bear any responsibility, because the executor is not me, and the profits do not belong to me, so why should I bear this responsibility, then the local government will definitely not bear any responsibility, because they just do what I say.

If they are not held accountable, who will take this matter to heart?

If it is up to me to contract, it will be simple and clear, my responsibility is disaster relief, and on this basis, the profit and loss of the reserve warehouse are all mine, and the responsibility of the imperial court is to supervise me. Of course, if the imperial court can find a way to improve the disaster relief system, it will definitely be the best outcome. ”

Wang Jiaping nodded and said: "I think what Guo Dan said is very reasonable, at present, the imperial court does not have a very good way, you can contract it out first, wait until the imperial court improves the disaster relief system, and then take it back, and the people of the world will benefit from it." ”

Li Sancai was a little reluctant in his heart, because their faction hoped to use this to rectify the rule of officials, but unfortunately they couldn't see any hope at present, and the cabinet used the people as a reason.

This made it impossible for them to refuse, because they had kept saying that it was for the people.

As a temporary solution, it was difficult for them to refuse.

But in Wang Xijue's view, this may become permanent for the time being.

At this moment, a guard suddenly appeared in front of the door, hugged his fists and said, "Lord Qiyu, Xing'anbo accidentally fell on the way here." ”