"Ladies and gentlemen, guess what you called here this time?" Liu Tao summoned all the courtiers over, today is not the day of the court, and most of the trivial matters are to call a few courtiers in charge.

Temporarily convened an early dynasty, according to Liu Tao's previous style, I am afraid that something big will happen.

Of course, the courtiers who have news channels already know roughly what the matter is, mainly related to the Chang Ping position in Pingyang County.

"Chang Ping, abolished during the Yuan Emperor period, and planned to reset it during the Ming Emperor period, but in the end it was not done." Liu Tao looked at everyone, "In order to ensure the income of the people, I re-established the standing position. It was piloted in the cloud and then rolled out to the state. The previous year began to spread to Sizhou and Liangzhou, and first in Pingyang County and Jincheng County......"

Hearing this, even the most dull courtiers know that what Liu Tao said is the problem of often closing positions.

Since last year, Chang Ping in Binh Duong County has started to purchase grain locally. According to the market price, strictly speaking, it is a slightly lower price than the market price, but according to this price, the people still have a certain amount of profit by selling grain.

After all, in fact, even if there is a shortage of grain, local grain merchants will try their best to reduce the price of the purchase, and the final purchase price is at least 40% lower than the purchase price that is usually closed.

After the people paid the rent, there was not much grain left, and the price of selling it could not go up. In the end, I had to sell most of the grain, and then collect some wild vegetables to replenish it, and at the same time do some small work during the slack time, so that I could make up for a year.

The farmers who farm can't eat enough, and I'm afraid that no one will believe it, but the reality is so ironic.

On the one hand, the purpose of setting up warehouses is to allow the country to have enough food to cope with sudden food disasters.

During the period of Emperor Ling, the weather suddenly changed, and the imperial court was unable to appease the people, so that the number of displaced people increased, and finally the Yellow Turban Rebellion was formed, which in the final analysis was caused by the lack of food reserves, and the abnormal climate often led to poor harvests.

The abnormal weather during the Xiaoice River period is also a problem, it is estimated that even Emperor Yuan and Emperor Ming did not think that the climate would become very abnormal for a period of time, and this abnormality lasted for at least ten years, or even twenty or thirty years.

I only saw that the officials would make a bad deal through regular liquidation, but I did not see the national food crisis...... Of course, we can't expect the ancients to have such a long-term vision, especially the emperors who hardly went to the local area.

can't just let the emperor go to the place, it is said that Kangxi went to Jiangnan six times and wiped out the Cao family. Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River six times and hollowed out the foundation of the Qing Dynasty. What's even more speechless is that the money obtained by destroying Heshen's family has become Jiajing's internal money, and not a penny has entered the treasury.

"This year's ......" Seeing that everyone seemed to have remembered something, Liu Tao continued, "The household department sent people to Pingyang County to inspect the granary, and there is a county ...... Anyway, you should know that you all know that the granary is burning. ”

Speaking of this, he paused and looked at the courtiers below. Most of them have obviously heard of this, a few are a little surprised, and some may think that it is nothing, after all, accidental fire is also possible.

"Some people suspect that it was an accident, the fire has already burned, and there is no way to verify it in general......," Liu Tao said this, paused, about three seconds, and immediately changed his words, "Unfortunately, this time the local garrison is nearby, immediately draw water to put out the fire, and the fire has been extinguished before it reaches the maximum!" And guess what the household officials who sent there found? ”

Everyone looked at the household department, and the officials on the household department had strange expressions. The problem is that before the imperial examination system last year, there were not enough officials, otherwise they would not have gone there to check this year.

"Forget it, this matter itself has something to do with the household department, but it doesn't have much to do with it." Liu Tao sighed, "At that time, the officials of the household department saw that the grain in it was all old grain, and the number did not match, it was less than forty percent. ”

To put it simply, 40 percent of the grain harvested last year was missing, and the remaining 60 percent was replaced with old grain. Last year's grain purchase completely became a means for local grain officials to enrich their own pockets.

What made Liu Tao angry was that on the way to the follow-up investigation and interrogation, these officials forcibly purchased the grain of the local people at a very low price, which almost caused civil unrest in Pingyang County. In the end, the government stepped in and appropriately raised some of the purchase prices to keep things down.

It is estimated that he is also worried that Liu Tao has just succeeded to the throne, and there is a civil unrest under his rule at this time, so the local government and even the county guards may be unlucky.

"Your Majesty, there were too many such things when I often closed positions, so I wrote to abolish it." Wang Kuang stepped forward, after all, he had served as the Taishou of Pingyang County. Chang Ping was established during his tenure, and this accident has nothing to do with him, and he is also worried!

"That's just that the supervision is not enough, and the warehousing technology and warehousing system are the top priorities. Instead of solving this problem, these things are used to persuade people to give up setting up standing positions...... So what do I want you to do? Liu Tao said slowly.

The tone is a bit rushed, but that's the truth, one or two claim to be shepherding one side for His Majesty, and you end up shepherding like this? If you change to a sheepdog, you can do it better than you!

Perhaps Liu Tao's words were too hurtful, and many officials couldn't help but bow their heads, especially the household department.

"The Official's Book!" Liu Tao immediately looked at the minister's side, and Lu Zhi came forward.

"Next year, we will open another Enke and select talents again." Liu Tao said slowly, "Before, because of the lack of people, we had to appoint some of the original officials, and even promote them. We hope that they will contribute to the construction of a new Dahan, and as a result, they will repay my trust in them in this way? ”

After a pause, he continued: "Since there is a shortage of people, then continue to recruit people, there is never a shortage of people in the world who want to be officials, and it is really impossible to be promoted exceptionally on the side of excellent officials." However, for officials who violate the law and discipline and live up to the trust of me and the people of the world, I don't need such a guy, and I don't need it! ”

Everyone understood that the main culprit in this incident must be too dead to die, but the accomplice is estimated to be dismissed and never hired.

"For those ......who have been coerced, have to submit, and have committed meritorious deeds," Liu Tao felt that he couldn't say so deadly, "let them make up for the embezzlement, and at the same time transfer them out of the local area." For six years, promotions are not allowed! ”

"Your Majesty is merciful!" When something like this happens, Liu Tao can give such preferential treatment, which is already the best result. Lu Zhi nodded secretly, and then stepped forward to receive the order.

"Household department, do a good job in the management system of the granary, start from the transportation and storage of grain, I don't want to be wasted and lost because of the lack of these aspects, and I can avoid as much as I can." Liu Tao then looked at the household.

"Yes!" Wang Yun, as the secretary of the household department, naturally had to come forward to endorse it.

"The granary of the world is about the stability of the world. You should know that if the Changping position has been set up, then in the past ten years, the people will not be displaced due to lack of food, and they will not be chaotic because they have no food...... "Liu Tao looked at everyone, "I don't know how long this climate will last, grain reserves are the top priority, you Aiqing should pay attention to it!" ”

It's no wonder that Liu Tao is so angry, the problem of food waste has always been a matter of great concern to the state since ancient times.

However, compared with the promotion of CD-ROMs, more than 3,000 tons of grain were saved by name eating and broadcasting. The waste of grain in storage, transportation and personnel management in various places is as high as hundreds of millions of tons of grain.

How did Big Brother disintegrate, not that agriculture and light industry could not keep up, but that there were problems with storage and transportation. A large amount of food is in the process of transportation, either it cannot be transported, or it breaks down on the road.

More than 100 tons of flour are produced, and less than 10 tons are transported to the city, so can you buy it without waiting in a queue to make bread?

Aside from the transportation and warehousing problems, these are limited by technical problems, and Liu Tao admits it. However, the problems caused by personnel management cannot be tolerated.

Over there in Pingyang, the Yin soldiers borrowed grain, stole beams and changed pillars, and the fire dragon burned the warehouse, what else would not dare to dare in the future?

Liu Tao had to wonder if this yin and yang warehouse was going to come out. It's the kind of thing, a big granary, which is actually empty in the middle, or filled with something else, with a layer on top and specially placed grain on it.

Such a yin and yang warehouse, a granary actually only has 20% to 30% of the grain, and the inspectors saw that the grain in the granary was almost full, but they couldn't see that the stomach of this granary was actually empty.

Grain storage and transportation, in the final analysis, is often for emergency purposes. The concept of emergency is that unless it is urgent, or needs to be used, it may be stored like this for a year or two.

It is stored for a long time, and some of it may be replaced every three or five years, and there is no accident that it may not be checked once in more than ten years. Naturally, it gave the people below a fluke mentality.

Anyway, if you don't check the above, it is said that the grain will be replaced once every five years, then it will not be replaced, and it will be replaced again in ten years, but it will be reported and replaced once. In this way, the money naturally went into the pockets of the officials.

So now the question arises, when is it better to check once, and who is better to check.

The household department inspects the household department, it will definitely not work, there is a chain of interests between the upper and lower levels, and even a corrupt official below is promoted by a certain squire above, or even Shangshu.

"Your Majesty, if you want to supervise the officials, wouldn't it be nice to increase the manpower of the Imperial Historical Observatory?" Guo Jia stepped forward and proposed.

There are already Jinyiwei themselves, but Jinyiwei mainly monitors political prisoners. As for the style of officials, dereliction of duty, corruption, and abuse of power, it is generally the responsibility of the imperial historian. Especially the power of the wind and news, Yushi directly became a paparazzi.

Even as long as there is a suspicion, he will join you, and even for the sake of party interests, he blackmailed an official to death, and finally provoked the emperor to pull out and spank, and he was actually proud of it, thinking that this was a manifestation of 'outspoken and daring'.

So the emperor spanked them, it was a matter of the emperor's own mediocrity, and it had nothing to do with whether they were doing something wrong or not.

In short, when he heard Guo Jia's suggestion, Liu Tao's first thought was this, and then he felt a little disgusting.

The problem is that this thing is really the work of the imperial history, and even if another organization is set up, the result will not change much, so it can only be changed from the way of doing things and the system.

"In this way, the Yushitai side came up with a plan, when to inspect the granary, how to inspect, and a regulation came out inside; For warehousing, transportation and management, there may be problems, and the household department will also make rectifications; What happened in Pingyang County, I don't want it to happen again! Liu Tao weighed it and finally made a decision.

"Yes!" When the people of the household department and the imperial history platform heard this, they naturally issued orders one after another.