(Written in a hurry, there is no correction, if there is a typo, please forgive me.) ）

"Shocking!" After dinner, sitting in the elegantly decorated small study, Li Ze looked at Gongsun Changming with a heavy face, and said, "After observing the West City and the East City for a day today, the situation may be even more serious than we imagined. ”

"What did the marshal see?" Gongsun Changming asked.

"The price of food is so high that it is almost beyond the tolerance of the people." Li Ze shook his head and said: "Today I saw in the grain shop those people who came to buy grain, basically they just bought a day's rations, many people even only bought half a liter of grain at a time, if this is just a person's rations, then it's fine, but if it is a family of two or three or even more people, then in Chang'an City, there are many hungry." ”

"A bucket of rice is a hundred dollars, this price is indeed a bit high in the rising season. Moreover, last year there was no major disaster in various places, and the grain was abundant. Gongsun Changming nodded.

"What does it mean that food prices are rising compared to last year, but there is a bumper grain harvest?" Li Ze asked rhetorically.

"Aside from the economic reasons, I'm afraid that there are more political reasons, and all the festivals and towns are probably collecting grain and grass." Gongsun Changming said word by word: "In other words, everyone has realized the problem now. Once the luck is cut off, Guanzhong is afraid that there will be chaos. ”

"The rise in food prices has driven all prices up at the same time, but there are no more ways to make money." Li Zedao: "There are too many people in Chang'an City. In the afternoon, Qiao'er and Changping, Li Mi and they all bought a lot of things, and I found a few people to help carry it, Mr. Gongsun knows how much strength he has in half a day? The price is only ten wen, the price of a liter of rice, and a large number of people rush to do it, and finally lower the price and even fight with each other. ”

"That's why the last thing that hired several people?" Gongsun Changming smiled and said: "This is just a drop in the ocean, the festival marshal took care of their rations today, what about tomorrow?" ”

"They're all half-grown boys, all skinny, and it's sad to look at." Li Ze said with some compassion: "It's the time to eat a long meal, and if you are always hungry, people will be wasted." It's okay if you don't see it, but since you see it, you can manage it for a day, it's just a day. ”

"Chang'an City is still good, but I'm afraid there are even worse places than here." Gongsun Changming shook his head and said: "So Jieshuai, what you want to change all this is not to occasionally send a kind heart, but to fundamentally change all this." ”

"There is still a long way to go!" Li Ze sighed and said: "Jing Zhaoyin is in power, he doesn't do anything, along the way, I see that on the land of Guanzhong, there are quite a lot of barren fields, and the mountains, forests and rivers are basically barren, if you can organize these idlers to reclaim the wasteland, you can more or less improve the current situation, right?" ”

"Jie Shuai, this is to live with yourself." Gongsun Changming said: "On the land of Guanzhong, there is indeed a lot of wasteland, that is, Shanglinyuan and other places not far from Chang'an City, there are countless wastelands, but these lands have owners!" Not to mention anything else, the area of Shanglin Yuan belongs to the royal family. Gongzi measured the land in Chengde and other places, counted the household registration, and distributed all the hundreds of thousands of acres of land in his own land to the landless people in the form of tuntian, but in Guanzhong, this did not work. The emperor dared to do this, but he was afraid that the throne would be lost soon, and even his life would be in danger. ”

"Do these Guanlong nobles want to go to King Yama with these possessions?" Li Ze sneered: "Above the East Market, the dignitaries and nobles are all fat and big-eared, and they spend a lot of money without changing their faces, but there are many people with vegetables in the West Market, this is really the smell of Zhumen's wine and meat, and there are frozen bones on the road!" ”

"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road!" Gongsun Changming repeated, smacked for a moment, and said: "Childe's sentence is really thought-provoking, but this is the reality, there is no one who is willing to give up his own interests to fulfill others, if everyone in the world has such a mind as Childe, then how can it become like this?" ”

"Imperial court officials, speaking officials and imperial history, is it possible that there is no person who has the clear eye and dares to speak up to write to the emperor?"

"There have always been people who are not afraid of death and are not afraid of things, but these people are generally soft-spoken, and the bigwigs of the dynasty do not understand this truth, but they understand better that the body of Datang is full of holes, and it is okay if such a disease is not exposed. The only thing they could do was tinker with it to delay the aging of the body. That's why they desperately need a big win to cover up their current predicament. If you want to do all this, you must have a virtuous appearance inside, a strong army outside, and an internal and external attack to be effective, otherwise, they will act recklessly, and they will kill themselves. Gongsun Changming analyzed. That's why you're so important now! ”

"It's really hard for them." Li Ze sneered. In fact, Li Ze also knows very well in his heart that who can ascend to the throne of the imperial court is not a thoughtful and meticulous person? How can they not see the problems they see? However, the position is different, the ideas are different, and the means of doing things are even different.

"Chang'anju, it's not easy!" Gongsun Changming said: "Today's son went to visit the eastern and western cities, and I also went to visit a friend who was a doctor in Taixue in the past. ”

"Doctor Taixue, is he so embarrassed?" Li Ze was surprised.

"Doctor Taixue, rank six grades, when the heyday, it was a noble position, but now, but it is really clear to the end, speaking of which his income is not low, a year is Lu rice will have ninety stones, if you add other professional fields, silver, miscellaneous labor folded silver, a year, there should always be an income of about three hundred yuan."

"Isn't that low?" Li Zeqi said.

"It doesn't sound low, but the problem is that the current imperial court can't send it, there are too many people who receive money from the imperial court, arrears of wages are the norm, and it is normal to owe salaries for a few years. The current imperial court wants to maintain normal operation, to maintain the stability of 200,000 Shence troops, tens of thousands of yuan from the forbidden army, to maintain the dignity of the royal family, only rely on the land of Heluo, the land of Guanzhong, lack of money, that is a normal thing, in the past, it was to raise Chang'an with the world, but now it only relies on the land of Heluo and Guanzhong, and the embarrassment can be imagined. Gongsun Changming said: "My friend can only read and teach, and has no rights in his hands. He has a large family, originally relied on his income to live, today I went to look for him, he actually cast a net in the river to catch shrimp, it is sad to see. ”

"That's the point where the dignified six-grade officials have come to this? Ordinary people can see it. Li Ze said: "I really don't know if I don't see it, I'm shocked when I see it." ”

After talking with him, I learned that now the imperial court could not come up with the money, so it came up with a new method to send them grain rolls, and use them to go to the designated grain merchants to receive grain. Even this kind of grain roll may not be able to get it smoothly. Gongsun Changming said.

"Sending payrolls? The person who came up with this idea has a very clever brain, and there is a lot to do here, right? ”

"The handsome man is clever." Gongsun Changming said with a smile. "Where are the grain merchants willing to let go of this opportunity to pluck their hair? When collecting grain rolls, it is necessary to collect 30% of the lost money, and a bucket of grain rolls can only be exchanged for seven liters of grain. ”

"Turn around, this grain merchant can take this grain roll and exchange it for ten full grains from the imperial court, and sell it at a high price outside, and here and outside, you can make a lot of money." Li Ze sneered. "If that's the case for officials, then won't the army be like that?"

"That's what I'm worried about. As expected by the marshal, the 150,000 Shence troops stationed around the capital were all the same. There is only Heluo Li Xin's 50,000 Shence army, which is paid in full. ”

"In this way, I'm afraid that the combat effectiveness of Chang'an's Shence Army is worrying." Li Ze was worried. "But the day before yesterday, it seemed that the army led by Qin Zhao was not bad."

"Jie Shuai, that is the Yuan Cong Forbidden Army, guarding the palace, it is the emperor's personal guard army that the emperor can really personally command, if even they can't guarantee it, then don't make a big mess?" Gongsun Changming said with a smile.

"It's come to this!" Li Ze sighed: "Your friend, since life is so difficult, let him come to General Qianniuwei's Mansion to do things in the future, and I will pay him a full salary." ”

"He can only teach, he is a square person, and the Qianniuwei General's Mansion in Chang'an is not suitable for him in the future, I suggested that he go to Chengde, didn't Zhang Hui agree to go? Zhang Hui was also his old boss before. ”

"From the prosperous land of Chang'an to the remote hometown of Chengde, is he willing?"

"I can't live anymore, so why don't I go?" Gongsun Changming said with a smile: "What's more, Jieshuai, you are now gaining momentum, like the sky, as soon as I said it, he agreed, and he was very happy." I didn't dare to leave Chang'an before, because I didn't know the situation outside, but now that I have friends to take refuge in, where will he refuse, I left him some silver, let him prepare, and let Tu Hu send him over when the time comes. This person is still solid in learning, especially good at the law. I think the festival commander can also be used. ”

"The Law of Youjing?" Li Ze suddenly became very interested: "Sir, don't say it, we really need such talents in Chengde, no matter what we want to do, the law must be the top priority, we can't always use military law to govern, this is too strict, and the law of the Tang Dynasty now has a lot of new situations that are not suitable for our rule, this person went to Chengde, but he can teach while revising the law to make it commensurate with our overall strategy." In the future, the disciples he taught will inevitably be outstanding in this regard, and we will have more talents available in this area. Wonderful, wonderful. ”

"The festival commander is eager to seek talent, so I dare to arrange for him to go to Chengde before he first makes it clear." Gongsun Changming said with a smile.

"Talents, naturally, the more the merrier, I will never have too much. Mr. Gongsun has many acquaintances and a wide range of heads, so he might as well dig more for me. Li Ze clapped his hands and smiled.