In the past, the Sui family levied taxes according to the rent and Yong, the people had less land, but the taxes could not be less, the Central Plains had many people and the land was narrow, especially after experiencing more than ten years of stability in the emperor, the people multiplied more, and when it came to the great cause, the uniform land system was difficult to implement, and there was no land to be equalized. The people have a household of twenty or thirty acres of land or even less, and most of the land they cultivate has to be handed over in the end, leaving little left. ”

The six granaries of the Sui Dynasty are all tens of millions of national reserve warehouses.

There are also many official warehouses such as Shecang Yicang in the locality, and most of the grain is levied in the hands of the government, and in the hands of the people, especially the ordinary people, there is no surplus of grain for a long time, and sometimes it is still green.

A large amount of grain, in addition to the hands of the imperial court, is in the hands of those big landlords. In the event of a famine, the strict warehousing system of the imperial court stipulates that it must be approved by the imperial court before the warehouse can be opened, but it takes a lot of time to report it layer by layer, and when it is approved by the above, often the disaster situation below has expanded to uncontrollable, and the hungry people have begun to move.

As for those landlords, what they have in their hands is grain, but the more they encounter a famine in a disaster year, the more they will not release the grain, and even take the opportunity to raise the price of grain, and so on.

Therefore, the Sui Dynasty actually never lacked food, even in the last years of the great cause, but the Sui Dynasty's tax system and food policy made it difficult for the people to store grain in their hands, and in the event of a famine, the grain in the hands of the government and landlords could not reach them.

"Hiding wealth from the people, storing grain from the people, and hiding soldiers from the people, this is a national policy set by me at the beginning of the founding of the country." Luo Cheng's national policies were actually learned by later generations, such as the unified grain purchase plan, such as the unified grain distribution plan at the earliest, etc., all of which were learned from later generations and were all designed to strengthen food security.

There is grain in the storehouses, but the people must also have food in their hands.

Compared with the grain in the official warehouse, it has to be dispatched, and it takes time, and if the people have food in their hands, even if they encounter a disaster this year, they may save themselves as soon as possible.

"In recent years, there have been bumper harvests year after year, and grain prices are getting lower and lower, in Lingnan, when the rice harvest is harvested, the bucket rice is only sold for three yuan, and in Qingdao and other seaports, it is only sold for five yuan, Luoyang is the land of Gyeonggi, the price is more expensive than other places, but the rice is only 123 yuan a bucket all year round, and the most expensive time is not more than 20 yuan."

In fact, the people are also bitter, and the harvest is cheap, and the grain is cheap, and the grain is cheap and hurts the farmers. If there is a disaster and a poor harvest, it will be even more miserable.

Although the imperial court also set up a standing position, set up a system of peace, and also set up a unified grain purchase plan, it would purchase a large amount of grain every year, and set up a protective price, even if it was a good year, it would not let the price of grain be too low and hurt the grain farmers.

The imperial court and the royal family have become the largest grain buyers and sellers, without the grain merchants in the past to control grain prices, manipulate prices, hoard, etc., grain prices have been relatively stable in recent years, and the people who grow grain and buy grain do not have to face ups and downs of various grain price fluctuations, and are protected from many losses.

Grain trading is a bulk sale, and the main cost is transportation, and if it is a local sale, then the cost is low. It is said that a hundred miles do not sell salaries, thousands of miles do not sell money, and the cost of road transportation is too high.

However, if the scale comes up, you can dilute the increased cost, Luo Cheng does business, he likes to engage in scale, the general small grain merchants, most of them are doing business in this county or even this county, the amount is so large, but Luo Cheng is doing food business, is to turn the whole world into a game of chess, unified scheduling, large pattern, naturally has his advantages.

But in fact, the grain trade is too big, although the cost can be diluted, but it is really not a profiteering business, after all, Luo Cheng will not do anything to manipulate food prices, take advantage of disasters to make a fortune, compared to other royal transactions, this selling grain is not as good as raising chickens and ducks to make money, set up farms on the edge of major cities, and supply local cities for consumption nearby, that business can be much better than food.

But after all, grain trading is an important thing related to people's livelihood, and this is a strategic material related to national security, so even if Luo Cheng was losing money at the beginning, he still instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs to do it with all his might.

Fortunately, the people in the province are still quite shrewd, and after a few years, they now have more than 10 million stone of grain in stock, and they can still pay for their own profits and losses, and even have a lot of savings and profits every year.

Hou Mo Chen Yi was the governor of Henan, Fang Xuanling was the governor of Guanzhong, Du Ruhui was the governor of Shandong, Yu Liang was the governor of Hedong, and Wen Yanbo was the governor of Longyou·······

Half of the Zaifu of the Imperial Court was given the title of governor, and he went out to patrol the local provinces to preside over locust extermination and disaster relief matters, and the emperor also sent more than a dozen eunuchs from the Inner Service Province to let them go to the local area to take charge of the royal locust hunting and other matters in various provinces.

Military hospital.

Luo Cheng and Sun Simiao got together.

In front of the two of them was a bucket of locust eggs.

"Sage, do you really want to use this locust egg as medicine?"

"It's not medicine, it's made into health care products."

Sun Simiao originally lived in seclusion in the Zhongnan Mountain of Chang'an to study medicine and write medical books, and later cured a stroke for the emperor, and was left by the emperor to appoint him as the director of the military hospital, and also asked him to preside over the compilation of the compendium of materia medica, and sort out the works of the doctors of the past dynasties collected from the people, and even many folk remedies.

The old man was very happy to do his job in the military hospital, with the full support of the emperor, and a large number of doctors and medical students under his command to help, asking for money, money, and people, and the compilation work was also very smooth.

Under his nominal auspices, the military hospital is now expanding day by day, and now it even exceeds the size of Guozijian's students. There are more than 12,000 students in the Guozijian, and there are now more than 15,000 students in various departments in the military hospital.

"Sage, locusts are used as medicine in medical books, and whole worms are used as medicine, and their function is to nourish Johnson. It can treat children's asthma, whooping cough, insomnia, cough and shortness of breath. ”

Luo Cheng said with a smile, "I know what you said, but so many locust eggs can't just feed chickens and ducks, it's too wasteful." In fact, according to my research, the effect of this locust egg is no worse than that of the whole worm, and it is even more nutritious. Steam, dry, grind it into powder, and then add some other things to add it, and add some sugar and the like, which will definitely make a delicious and nutritious health care powder. ”

Luo Cheng has even thought about it, grinding brown rice, soybeans, oats, yams, etc. into powder and mixing them together, adding a small amount of sugar and salt, and then adding locust egg powder, mixed into a health powder, which is actually similar to five grains health powder.

You can even make several recipes, such as hawthorn, lotus seeds, wolfberry, black sesame seeds, red dates, walnuts, ginkgo biloba and so on.

Of course, the most important thing is to use locust egg powder, and low-grade ones can even add some sorghum or grain bran to grind into the flour.

Of course, there will be some benefits to eating these things, such as dietary fiber, rich in protein, and many vitamins and minerals.

However, it is certainly not easy to get the people to accept this kind of thing.

Therefore, Luo Chengcheng wanted Sun Simiao to endorse it, saying that it was a good thing he had researched with many kinds of health care effects, and the name of the king of medicine was still very loud.

"I don't really want to make money with this thing, I just want to turn this locust egg powder into a food."

Luo Cheng believes that if everyone accepts this kind of locust egg powder, there will definitely be no more obstacles to eating locust powder in the future, maybe they will get used to eating in the future, and they will catch locusts to eat all kinds of food, and if they get used to eating in the future, locusts can still become a disaster?

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