"Your Majesty, the price of vegetables and grain in Kaifeng City has been rising recently. The rise is too fast, and the people are about to be overwhelmed. ”

Liu Jiong, who knew the affairs of Kaifeng Mansion, seized the opportunity and complained to Li Zhongyi one by one.

Liu Jiong is also a Wenchen who has followed Li Zhongyi for a long time. I think that at the beginning, when Li Zhongyi was appointed as the envoy of the Pinglu Festival, Liu Jiong was the magistrate of Mizhou.

Because Liu Jiong governed the county well, after Li Zhongyi entered Kaifeng City, he ordered him to know the affairs of Kaifeng Prefecture.

There is no way, the things in the world are nepotism, and one person is enlightened, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven!

Li Zhongyi was a little strange, so he asked Liu Jiong: "How can it rise too fast?" ”

Liu Jiong sighed and said: "Your Majesty, although the officers and soldiers of the forbidden army are on holiday every three days, the number of people who eat and drink in the city every day is no less than 15,000, which is really too much. Black-hearted stores followed suit and increased prices one after another. ”

Li Zhongyi understood that after the forbidden army followed him on the Northern Expedition, he returned to Kaifeng Mansion and began to take a holiday in batches.

But the problem is that there are at least more than 15,000 officers and soldiers who play and shop in the city every day, even if they are on holiday in batches.

The so-called scarcity is expensive, and Kaifeng has a shortage of food and vegetables, and needs to be transported by water. As a result, the forbidden officers and soldiers during the holiday did not lack money to spend, and such a large group of wealthy people participated in the consumption system of Kaifeng City, which immediately contributed to the rise in prices.

Li Zhongyi thought for a while and said: "There are only 5,000 people on holiday every day, does it have a big impact on prices?" ”

Liu Jiong said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, the money on hand of the forbidden officers and soldiers is really too much. Not to mention 5,000 people, even if it is 3,000 people, it will cause prices to fluctuate rapidly. ”

"Qingsong, I won't tell you, the army will go south to attack Tang in the near future, and if you don't have a holiday now, I'm afraid the army's heart will be unstable." Li Zhongyi has always been a confidant and a confidant of his confidants, and he has always been reasonable and reasonable.

Liu Jiong seemed very embarrassed and said: "Your Majesty, the minister heard that the supply of baggage for the forbidden army is very smooth, so it is better to do this, how many forbidden troops are on holiday every day, and they will bring corresponding food, fruits and vegetables to our government." In this way, the prices in the city will not rise too fast. ”

Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, he understood thoroughly, and dared to be that Liu Jiong was eyeing the logistics department where heavy materials were piled up.

However, what Liu Jiong said also has some truth, the officers and soldiers of the forbidden army have money in their pockets, and what they lack is not money, but spending time on holidays and playing.

So much money, pouring into Kaifeng City at once, will inevitably cause violent fluctuations in prices.

Liu Jiong's idea was that since the forbidden officers and soldiers rarely took holidays, then, on the basis of reducing the number of people on vacation, they should increase the supply of materials to the Kaifeng government to level the price level in the city.

Li Zhongyi's assessment of the state and county, the first is that the price of daily necessities must be stable and not fluctuate too much!

In fact, one of the main means for the big families or wealthy families in this era to make a fortune is to hoard and manipulate the prices of a certain place, especially the price of grain.

Li Zhongyi has long been stationed in various places after the successful establishment of the Xiaoyaojin Market. One of the responsibilities of these purchasing managers is to keep track of local prices.

As long as it is found that the local grain reserves are insufficient, the purchasing managers have the obligation to report to the superiors, and the superiors are also obliged to immediately transport the grain over to quickly level the local grain prices.

It is precisely because of this ruthless trick that as long as it is an area actually controlled by Li Zhongyi, many big or wealthy families who engage in hoarding have suffered a lot.

However, Kaifeng is the capital and the so-called Shoushan District, which now has a population of more than 500,000.

That is to say, in a mega city like Kaifeng City, and the reality that the forbidden army is on holiday on a large scale, relying only on the market power of the Xiaoyaojin Bazaar, the prices in Kaifeng City must lag behind.

Although what Liu Jiong described is true, what Liu Jiong said about the soaring prices is indeed an exaggeration.

Not to mention anything else, the price of grain and the price of vegetables, Li Yanqing and Zuo Ziguang have to submit the price report of the day to Li Zhongyi every day before dark.

No matter how busy Li Zhongyi is, he will take the time to come out and carefully read and analyze the price reports submitted by Li Yanqing and Zuo Ziguang respectively.

There is no agriculture and there is no stability, and the agriculture here refers to the price of grain and vegetables.

Liu Jiong is also selfish, he knows that Li Zhongyi attaches great importance to grain prices and vegetable prices, so he wants to grasp more grain reserves at hand.

As long as you can calmly level the price, it is a great achievement, this is an undoubted thing!

"Since you have difficulties there, then okay, I will give an order to the Logistics Department and ask them to allocate 5,000 stone of grain to your Kaifeng Mansion every day until the end of the holiday for the forbidden officers and soldiers, how about it?" Li Zhongyi obviously saw through Liu Jiong's mind and wanted to show his hand, but he deliberately didn't break it.

In many cases, knowing is not knowing, and it is true knowledge!

When Liu Jiong heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, the military was indeed a rich landlord.

As soon as Li Zhongyi made a move, he was 5,000 stone grain, hehe, if he had food in his hand, he would be sure in his heart!

Liu Jiong left happily, but Li Zhongyi's mood was difficult to calm down for a long time.

It's easy to talk about the laws of economics at length, but in fact, if you are not in power, where is the hardship and hardship?

For example, Li Zhongyi has already noticed that the forbidden army is on holiday, and it is not allowed to have too many people on vacation at one time.

However, the forbidden army on holiday still broke the fragile supply system of Kaifeng City, prompting a considerable increase in prices.

Among them, the biggest problem is actually the sharp contradiction between the governance needs of a quasi-modern government and the inadequate Confucianism.

To put it bluntly, that is, the essential contradiction between small-scale peasant thought and industrial thought for governing the country!

Today's Wenchen group has not been completely tamed by Li Zhongyi, and the real power of most government agencies is still in the hands of Confucian disciples.

However, there are some things that cannot be rushed, after all, the economic foundation is still the same as that of a small peasant society, and the process of industrialization is not even a bud.

In the late Qing Dynasty, if the Qing court had not suddenly abolished the imperial examination in a hurry for quick success, I am afraid that it would have lasted for some time!

The abolition of the imperial examination seems to be in line with the logic of political correctness. In fact, it is tantamount to completely blocking the future of hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of Confucian scholars across the country.

With so many Confucian scholars, there is nothing to eat or anything to do, and their noisy energy can be described as amazing!

Just when Li Zhongyi was standing in front of the window with his hands in his hands and fell into contemplation, Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty sent someone to Kaifeng and brought rich gifts.

Li Zhongyi pinched the list of gifts and couldn't help but smile happily, it was indeed an unusually rich gift.

The money is one million, the grain is 500,000 stones, and what is even more surprising is that there are three peerless beauties in the list, and they are exactly the same triplets.

"Li Yanqing, tell me, what are Li Yu's plans?" Li Zhongyi looked at Li Yanqing, the secretary of the police temple, with a smile.

Li Yanqing bowed his waist and said: "Your Majesty, the Southern Tang Dynasty must have stationed a lot of fine works in Kaifeng City. The general movement of our forbidden army must have been noticed by the meticulous workers and quickly transmitted back to Hongzhou. ”

Li Zhongyi nodded and said with a smile: "Li Yu knew that I liked women, so he did what I liked, and he actually found the triplet sisters, and it was difficult for him to take a lot of painstry." ”

Li Yanqing didn't dare to answer this, so he had to pretend to be stupid, no matter how lustful Li Zhongyi was, it was all a disease of widowhood, and his subordinates dared to talk too much?

"Now that the news has been revealed, it is possible to slow down and send troops again. However, the fine work lurking in Kaifeng City in the Southern Tang Dynasty must be tried by all means. Li Zhongyi believed in Li Yanqing's ability, but he also knew the difficulty of this matter.

After all, Li Jiajun's use of the password was no longer a secret to Nantang.

There are indeed capable people on the Southern Tang side, and in the recent past, they have been found to have used letters with passwords in the small crimes of the Southern Tang Dynasty cracked by the Tiqi Division.

"If you go back to the emperor, do you think that in order to prevent the detailed work of various countries, can the matter of coding each household be carried out in advance throughout the country?" Li Yanqing felt a lot of pressure, after all, he was the chief official in charge of public security throughout the country, and his responsibility was very heavy.

In today's Kaifeng City, although the real power of each neighborhood has been attributed to the transferred Jiezheng and Lizheng. However, there has always been a serious lag in the management of the floating population.

For example, Zhang San was actually a fine work sent by the Southern Tang Dynasty, and after he arrived in Kaifeng, he lied that he was a businessman from Yangzhou, which is difficult to verify.

Li Zhongyi once mentioned that Li Yanqing can completely set up a number of departments to manage household registration and population files in the vicinity across the country.

In fact, this is the necessity of setting up a road-level police agency.

The country was divided into a number of administrative regions at the "road" level, and the police temple also established a branch, that is, the road level police department. Then, each prefecture and county summarized the changes in the registered population to the road police office.

Every day, the Road Police Department will summarize the situation of population flow to the police temple in Kaifeng by means of urgent delivery. At the same time, the police temple in Kaifeng can also be reversed and flow to Kaifeng or the population of various places.

Among them, the road guidance system in various places will play a vital role in control.

The Qiang Han Dynasty did not prohibit the migration of population, however, the flow of population, that is, where it came from and where it went, needed to be documented.

In this case, as long as there is a population movement, it is possible to verify the true details of each floating population within half a month.

Li Yanqing clearly wanted to expand his power, but Li Zhongyi knew his thoughts, but he didn't say it.

After all, the grid of public security management is actually a new concept proposed by Li Zhongyi, and Li Yanqing is just an executor.

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