In the autumn and July of the first year of Qianyou, Liu Chengyou Yu Chongyuan Palace, the Great Dynasty.

Since he succeeded to the throne, there have been no several Hajj pilgrimages for various reasons. However, every time the dynasty discusses national politics and current affairs, it takes a long time and is complicated.

"Your Majesty, the summer harvest in the prefectures has been completed, and the summer grain in the state capitals has been put into storage. Under the rule of the towns of the Central Plains and Hebei, it has also entered the end of the summer expedition. The three divisions made Wang Zhang come out of the ranks, reporting the "good news" to Liu Chengyou, and at the same time informing the ministers.

After these words, Liu Chengyou's facial muscles really softened a lot, and so did the ministers present. It's been almost a year, and the Han court has suffered from a lack of food, although the court has tried its best to raise grain, and even did not hesitate to sign a contract with Houshu to "lose power and humiliate the country", but it is always a drop in the bucket and cannot make ends meet. Up to now, almost all of the low-level people in Tokyo, including many petty officials and officials, are hungry.

After staying up for so long, I finally ushered in a real turnaround. Of course, autumn planting and summer harvest, last year because the country did not add to the military disaster, the scale of autumn ploughing is not large, so the summer harvest output, I think it is still unsatisfactory. Big head, you have to see the autumn harvest. However, the drought in Hebei for several months has dealt a big blow to agriculture and has spread to the Central Plains......

However, no matter how difficult it is, how can it be as difficult as last year and when Liu Chengyou first succeeded to the throne? It is a good thing to get new grain into storage.

"The edict exhorts the states to be in charge of the military and the people, and before July, complete the summer harvest and settle the summer tax!" Liu Chengyou was sitting precariously, his voice was loud, his words were clear, and the beads on his crown did not shake much when he spoke.

After a pause, he said: "Zhao Zhudao Prefecture, in the future, the summer tax will be levied from June 1, and the autumn tax will be levied from October 1, which will always be customized." ”

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Chengyou said: "In addition, the provincial capitals, two taxes in summer and autumn, keep forty percent for themselves, and the rest will lose to Tokyo!" The three divisions selected capable officials to serve as food and material envoys, and sent them to various states to supervise their affairs! ”

"Yes!" Wang Zhang responded without any hesitation.

"Your Majesty, the Qingzhou Festival made Liu Bao report that the locust plague has been eliminated, and more than 50,000 locusts have been caught in the prefectures and counties in the territory, and the fields and seedlings are harmless." Wang Zhang played, and Dou Zhengu, the servant of the door, got up to report.

Droughts are often accompanied by locust plagues, and last month, the drought in Hebei Prefecture became more severe, especially in Pinglu. Locusts sprung up, flooded, and wreaked havoc on people's land. Hearing the news, the ministers of the imperial court, the first reaction, sacrificed to the sky to ask for rain, set up an altar to pray for the "locust god", and the slightest suggestion was to prohibit the capture of Qu pigeons, because Qu pigeons eat locusts.

It was rejected by Liu Chengyou, and he directly issued an edict, telling the officials and people in Qingzhou and Hebei Daozhou to destroy my crops, and I will eat them immediately, and encourage them to exterminate locusts, and hunt and eat them. Locusts can be extremely nutritious.

The ministers hesitated, but this edict was a precedent to follow and could be examined, so it was not blocked.

Under the edict, Liu Bao, the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, reacted very quickly, quickly conveyed the imperial edict, the holy will of the Son of Heaven, and organized the generals of Jingzhou County to lead the people to extinguish locusts. In fact, before the imperial edict arrived, Liu Bao was already ready to hunt locusts. Therefore, it took a month to inspect Zi and Qing, and there was no omission, and the crops did not suffer too much from insect plagues, but got tens of thousands of "grains" in vain.

Of course, Liu Chengyou doesn't believe much in the "harmlessness of the field seedlings", how can the impact of the drought locust disaster be small. Even if the insect plague is suppressed, the drought without rain for many days is enough to reduce the autumn grain production. On the Qingzhou side, Liu Bao reacted quickly, and what about other places, this has to be a question mark.

"Demote, praise the Qingzhou generals, add Liu Baht to the empty title, the same level of the chapter, from the degree of the degree, the locust to protect the field, the merit of the transfer of rewards." Liu Chengyou still replied steadily.

"Yes."

After careful calculation, after the summer harvest, there are not many prefectures and towns in Tokyo that have spare power. The land of the two capitals is Datou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Zheng, Ru, Xu, Song, Hao, Chen, Cai, etc.

Among these prefectures and counties, Liangjing and Zhengzhou are the core, and Zhengzhou has also been affected by the original military break. The rest, Ru, Song, and Hao Chuzhi, Xuzhou was tossed by Liu Xin, and the south of Chen Cai's land was restricted.

Others, the hunger in Xuzhou has been relieved a little, Yanzhou is acceptable, and Yunzhou is still difficult to be self-sufficient under the governance of the imperial prince Murong Yanchao.

As for the towns of Hebei, the land of Weibo has not recovered from the war of last year, and the rest have suffered from drought, so the three towns of Chengde, Henghai and Pinglu are slightly better.

In addition, in Heyang and Hedong, the military and government are stable, and there is a surplus of production. However, last year, more than half of the population in Hedong migrated south to the Central Plains with Liu Zhiyuan, and the potential was almost reduced, and it was difficult to provide abundant food.

Guanzhong is automatically ignored, and as for the rest, they are either in the border, or the imperial court is not well controlled, or the imperial court needs to feed back.

In short, for the Han Dynasty, after the summer harvest, although the grain shortage can be solved, it is still not optimistic. If the drought continues on this day, the trouble will be even greater. Recently, because of the drought, Liu Chengyou is depressed.

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Historical Observatory has heard that there are many people in the world who kill people with false words, and the local prefectures, counties, and feudal towns are tortured and killed, and the court does not investigate the facts, but follows their requests, and there are even those who do not play and kill people who are killed in vain, resulting in countless officials and people in the world who have died in vain. Under the sky, there are many complaints, please Your Majesty to send an edict to rectify it, so as to eliminate the people's grievances and show the saint and benevolence. "It's Cheng Bian Wei in the imperial history.

Bian Wei's words fell, and the face of the "Prime Minister" Yang Wei, who was sitting in the forefront, was a little unsightly, because of the local or torture and killing, he agreed to all of them on the grounds that at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the law was profound.

Liu Chengyou also glanced at Yang Wei, raised his anger, and directly said about the rectification measures: "From now on, Fanzhou Town will be tortured and killed, and Dali and the Criminal Department will be verified and then dealt with." In the provincial capitals, all cases involving murder must be reported to the higher authorities and reviewed, and no murder is allowed. In addition, the Han criminal system has been reorganized to speed up the progress! ”

"Your Majesty is wise!"

"Yes!"

"Your Majesty, Hengzhou and Cangzhou newspapers, since the summer of this year, the north has been hungry, and the households have fled south, Hengzhou has sheltered 3,741 Yan people, and Cangzhou has sheltered 4,360 people." Zaichen Li Tao reported.

"With Zhang Yanwei and Wang Jing, according to the precedent, make good arrangements!"

"Yes."

"Your Majesty, Huazhou Guo Congyi reported that the fish pond broke and it has been resolved, the fields and acres are damaged, and there are no casualties."

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"Your Majesty, after nearly half a year of rectification and eradication by the imperial court and local generals, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the thieves who have caused trouble in the local area have been basically eliminated. Up to now, it can be said that the big Han bandits have been eliminated! "As a minister, it is impossible for Yang Wei not to speak, and as soon as he speaks, it is good news.

"Your Majesty is wise and hardworking, the military is political, the people are attached, and the world is governed!" Su Yuqi followed and patted the sycophants.

The forbidden army was sent to the local area to suppress it, and the effect was remarkable. If not, it will be left to the local authorities to do their own thing, and there will be delays. Moreover, it is gratifying that the bandits are peaceful, but if good governance is not implemented, the people will be restored to thieves, and I am afraid that it will only be a matter of time.

"Please Your Majesty collect the forbidden army and return it to the court, and reward those who have made meritorious contributions to the thieves!" Yang Wei had a rigid face and asked. The somewhat reserved expression made Liu Chengyou feel quite strange in his heart.

"Accurate!" Liu Chengyou's expression remained unchanged, and he responded calmly.

Just like in the past, a court meeting lasted for nearly three hours. Everything is complicated, and it seems that all the important military and political affairs in the world are concentrated on this day to solve. Of course, there are urgent matters, and there are also briefings that have been dealt with long ago.

What is really important is not suitable for discussion with courtiers at a court meeting. The dynasty dispersed, and the ministers and privymen were very knowledgeable, and they went to the Guangzheng Hall with a tacit understanding, obviously, there were still affairs to discuss.

For example, the situation in Youzhou, and Li Shouzhen's movement in the river.