Zhao Hao returned to the fourth clearance, he couldn't help but sit there, and Le Yi began to go all out to recruit troops and horses to form an iron horse. Zhao Xing said that he would only be given two years, and the 50,000 iron cavalry must be reorganized and trained. Time is of the essence.

Now Zhao Xing and his group have a very clear goal, that is, to destroy Zhongshan State, eliminate Zhao's henchmen, and connect Daijun and Jinyang Handan.

And Zhao Xing hurriedly began to rush to various places to inspect and purchase autumn grain.

The reason why Zhao Xing wanted to personally grasp the issue of autumn grain procurement in such a hurry was because at the family banquet at that time, his third brother explained in detail why his ancestor Leyang led the overlord in the world at that time, the most powerful Wei army, to attack a Zhongshan country with a population of less than three million, but it took three years. The reason for this is that there is no food supply.

After three months, the conscripts of the army were conscripted, and for the rest of the time, all the expenses had to be borne by the state.

This is why when Zhao resisted the strong Qin for the eastern states, because he had eaten up the grain stored in the country, he had to borrow grain from the eastern countries, but he was rejected by those short-sighted guys, and finally lost the only barrier that could confront the Qin state.

Whether it was Le Yi's words or Zhao Xing's knowledge in later generations, he finally knew that he had made the biggest mistake that he had taken for granted, and he had to make up for it as quickly as possible.

This mistake of taking it for granted is a concept given to him by later generations, to hide wealth from the people and grain from the people.

It is understandable that storing wealth from the people is actually the laziness of the government. A truly strong country should be one in which the people are rich and the country's reserves are abundant, rather than jumping on one leg.

Zhao Xing believes that that policy is right, because that policy hides the grain in the hands of the people, at least the government will not have corruption because of this, at least the government will not precipitate a large amount of money because of the collection of grain, at least the government will not have a huge loss in order to collect these grains. At least the government - well, at least the government is very relaxed. Then, as long as there is a need for food, the government allocates money to temporarily purchase it from the people, and then there will be a huge amount of food.

However, Le Yi's personal statement made Zhao Xing suddenly break out in a cold sweat of fear, because there is a very critical problem here - that is, in the event of natural disasters and wars, when the government needs food, what if the people have food in their hands and do not sell it, or if the people have no food in their hands, then what should we do?

Don't take this event lightly, after all, this case exists, and existence has its terrible nature.

Zhao Xing remembered that it took twelve years for Zhao to destroy Zhongshan in history, and how much manpower and material resources would be consumed.

Just like a god like himself, if he wants to destroy Zhongshan, he must fight a war for at least three or five years, and mobilize at least 100,000 cavalry. According to the consumption of people and horses, it is 7 times that of ordinary infantry, that is, the food consumed every day is equal to 700,000 infantry.

700,000 people consume food every day, what a horrific number that would be. After careful calculations, Han Ce told Zhao Xing, the head of the family, that there was only a bag of wheat and millet in his kitchen, because there was no need to store grain, as long as it was early tomorrow morning, those grain merchants who were old customers would send the grain share of five hundred people up and down the entire mansion before breakfast.

Feelings, the landlord's family has no surplus food.

At that time, Zhao Xing's back was numb, so he asked Han Ce: "Then what if this grain merchant dies suddenly?" ”

As a qualified housekeeper, Han Ce certainly has a backup: "Our second grain merchant is eager to try. ”

Zhao Xing asked in a deep voice: "What should we do if the second grain merchant in our reserve suddenly runs out of goods?" “

Han Ce smiled: "Our third grain merchant will supply it to us. ”

"Then there was a sudden fire in the third grain merchant, ah, this era called away the water, what should we do."

Han Ce opened his mouth and stammered, so that he could answer the genius period Ai Ai: "It can't be so coincidental." ”

Zhao Xing covered his face, how could he pin his things on the ground?

"Hen Siming, rooster laying eggs, such things happen from time to time, so, do you still think that such a coincidence will not occur?"

did not mean to blame this loyal subordinate, but Zhao Xing blamed himself.

Brushing his hair: "Why am I so stupid, for the sake of a country not to export pork to us, our pork prices have skyrocketed." If we are cut off from a small thing for the sake of one country, we will be a large global company that will collapse with a bang. I've been through and seen so much, how could I make such a big mistake, damn it. Then he left Han Ce with a blank face and rushed to the lobby.

Crisis things can't be done on fire, that will amplify panic and crisis. So, in the lobby, Zhao Xing, who was crooked, asked Qi Fei, "What will happen to this year's wheat harvest?" Such a demeanor and tone concealed the fear and anxiety in his heart, and he seemed to care about the people lightly.

But Xu Jie observed that Zhao Xing's fingertips were trembling, and the number of times he touched his nose was ten times in just a quarter of an hour.

Xu Jie, who knew Zhao Xing best, knew that his head of the family was very nervous, no, very nervous.

So, Xu Jie began to listen nervously to Qi Fei's return.

"This is the responsibility of the field farmer envoy, that is, Ren Tian of the Ministry of Industry, please ask Xingjun to ask Ren Tian."

When Qi Fei replied like this, he also found Zhao Xing's nervousness, because his Xingjun had never mistaken the duties of his subordinates.

Ren Tian straightened up and replied: "Because of the new iron farming tools and the large-scale use of Quyuan plows, the original wheat yield of one mu was five Hu (about two hundred and fifty catties) and now it has reached six or seven Hu, plus the area of the newly developed land in Dai County continues to expand, so this year's wheat harvest is very good, and the total amount is very high." ”

Xu Jie found that Zhao Xing was obviously relieved.

Ren Tian continued: "The peasants have a bumper harvest, but they only have wheat and no money, and the profiteers will take the opportunity to exploit the peasants." The price of wheat per hue is still around 300 yuan, and the increase in production has once again been lowered by the merchants. The phenomenon of grain cheapness hurting peasants has already appeared. After three or five more battles, the people's income did not increase, but decreased. ”

Qi Fei felt the same way: "Because we collect forty yuan in taxes from the people, we are different from other princes, we collect not grain but money. Therefore, the profiteers seized this opportunity, and when the peasants needed to pay taxes and pay the upper money, they deliberately lowered the price, so that the people had to agree to sell the grain in their hands at a low price in exchange for money to pay our cash, so that the phenomenon of cheap grain hurting the peasants appeared. ”

Zhou Tong also reported honestly: "And those profiteers, when the people are not in stock, sell them to the people at a high price, making the people miserable." Therefore, I ask the Lord to issue a law that strictly prohibits merchants. ”

Zhao Xing wondered: "Is our Pingjia policy ineffective?" ”

Qi Feijin said: "It's not that our policy is invalid, because grain trading is no longer a unified business of the country, and all of them can only be used to guide prices, and businessmen in various places have policies and countermeasures, and we really can't control them." ”

Zhou Tong once again suggested that grain should be treated as a monopoly business of the state.

Zhao Xing shook his head easily: "It's over, it's over, the people need money, if they don't sell the grain to merchants, who else can they sell it to?" It is understandable that businessmen will pursue profits, and we can't ban businessmen because of this little disadvantage, after all, the existence of businessmen still has more advantages than disadvantages. At any time, you can't blind yourself and knock out a boatload of people with one shot. ”

Then Zhao Xing sighed: "It seems that we only collect money from the people, and this policy of benefiting farmers and facilitating farmers has become a policy that harms farmers, which is very bad." ”

Xu Jie found that Zhao Xing's fingers were no longer trembling, and he no longer touched his nose frequently, which showed that his fear had disappeared, indicating that he had a solution to the fear he had just had.

So, Xu Jie habitually picked up a pen and paper, ready to record the new policy ideas that Zhao Xing was going to announce soon.

Cooperate tacitly, that's it.

"Therefore, I am ready to change our policy, and continuous adjustment will make our policy adapt to society and more people."