Gongsun He's death naturally spread to Xinfeng very quickly.

It's just that......

Half-ripples didn't stir up.

Even Liu Jin didn't sigh.

Because, like other places, Xinfeng County's autumn harvest this year has also been severely reduced.

"The average yield per mu of the Yuyu Society is only more than two stones...... Linwei Township is similar...... Xinfeng Township and Li Township, only one stone and seven buckets...... "Looking at the output of the township pavilions reported by Zhao Guo.

Zhang Yue's brows tightened.

Corn is now the staple food of the northern region.

As a staple food, even a drop in corn production can cause irreparable losses.

What's more, now the corn production in the entire Guanzhong has plummeted.

Xinfeng is quite good here, there are seven or eight counties in the Qishan Plain, and I heard that the average yield per mu is only one stone, or even one stone.

Don't think about it, a famine is imminent.

As the county magistrate of Xinfeng County, Zhang Yue is first responsible for the security of Xinfeng's food supply.

He held a roll of bamboo slips and looked at the numbers on it carefully.

This is his assessment of the losses and blows brought by this production cut to Xinfeng after calculating for a whole day.

Judging by the calculations above, the situation is not good.

This time, Xinfeng reduced production by nearly one-third.

In other words, even if the people themselves do not need to pay land taxes and taxes, their food security cannot be satisfied.

What happens when farmers' food security is not guaranteed?

It has already been clearly stated in the history books, and it is carefully detailed.

When Emperor Gao, 'Guanzhong stone rice is 5,000, and people cannibalize'.

In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, the Kanto catastrophe was "thousands of miles of red land, millions of displaced people, and white bones were exposed in the wild".

It may be difficult for future generations to imagine that a single production cut could bankrupt, exile or even destroy thousands of families.

But that's just the way it is.

The fragile yeoman economy under the small-scale peasant economy cannot withstand the slightest wind and rain.

Just like now, although on the surface, only the production in the Guanzhong region has been reduced, and the Kanto and Longyou northern regions have not been affected.

But......

It's such a regional natural disaster, and it's just a reduction in production.

But it can deal a devastating blow to the entire middle and lower strata of the peasants.

Because, food prices will definitely skyrocket!

Once food prices are high, the smallholder economy collapses.

Why the crash?

Because the funds in the hands of farmers have always been very small.

In fact, cash is in short supply to yeoman farmers and small and medium-sized landowners.

In the case of 99 percent of the grain produced by the people themselves, in addition to paying taxes, they are used as rations.

The available food has now been reduced by more than a third in one fell swoop.

In other words, they need to buy an additional third of the food to feed their family.

The profiteers will not let go of this feast.

As a result, food prices immediately go on a roller coaster.

Guess with his ass, Zhang Yue can guess, if he doesn't find a way to solve this huge food gap.

The price of food can easily exceed 1,000!

It even soared to two thousand, three thousand.

Merchants, large landlords and powerful nobles will easily complete the harvest of the middle and lower classes of the entire Guanzhong.

And this has also become Zhang Yue's test.

To build a well-off and prosperous peace, the big talk has been released.

But if it starts with an avalanche of disaster......

Hehe......

The only thing that made Zhang Yue feel fortunate was that for the time being, he didn't need to worry about it on the Son of Heaven's side.

Because, now the Son of Heaven has accepted his theory of 'how difficult it is to prosper the country' and 'natural disasters are the test of heaven'.

But this crisis must be overcome by finding a way!

And it's not just Xinfeng.

He must think of a way to alleviate or even eliminate the damage caused by this production cut to Guanzhong.

"Crisis, crisis...... Zhang Yue took the book and stood up: "It's both a danger and an opportunity!" ”

He knew very well that if he could get through this hurdle smoothly.

Then, his theory can be regarded as true and acceptable.

The Zhuxia people are the most pragmatic people on this earth.

Even religious beliefs are practical.

Even if the old grandfathers and grandmothers go to incense, they will worship when they enter the temple and burn it when they meet the temple.

It doesn't matter if I just finished worshipping the Bodhisattva, and now I come to give incense to Laojun, is it not too pious?

The spirit is faith, and faith is the spirit of thinking, which has been the mainstream since ancient times.

In the same way, the same is true for the political system and ideas.

It's a donkey or a horse, and it has to be pulled out and slippery.

You can do it, you can't beep less.

Two or three hundred years before Zhang Yue, Shang Jun rolled up his sleeves and told the Qin people: I can!

Then Shang Ying changed the law, and the Qin State was governed, and the system of the Shang monarch was implemented in the Qin State for more than 100 years, so that it annexed the six countries and unified the world!

In other words, if he can find a way to slow down or avert this disaster.

At least in Guanzhong, he will ride the wind and go straight to 90,000 miles.

Thinking like this, Zhang Yue pushed open the door.

Outside, the officials in the county had already gathered, and when they saw Zhang Yue going out, everyone's eyes gathered.

"Zhang Qing ......" Liu Jin was the first to speak: "Is there a countermeasure?" ”

Zhang Yue smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, this matter is just grinding, and the minister has almost a way......"

When Liu Jin heard this, his heart fell to the ground, and the production reduction in the whole pass caught everyone off guard.

Although, the continuous drought in the summer has made people predict the reduction of this year's harvest in Guanzhong.

But it was unforeseen to reduce production so much at once, and even return to the Warring States period overnight.

Liu Jin heard that Dasi Nong was going crazy!

Because according to Dasi Nong's calculations, before the autumn harvest in Guanzhong next year, the grain gap will be more than 8 million stones!

And the transfer of grain from Kanto to Beijing, even if the Dasi Nong's Equalization Department worked day and night, all of them were exhausted, and they could not transport so much into the customs.

Not to mention, Ao Cang simply doesn't have so much grain in stock.

Unless you go to Qilu Wuchu to transfer transportation.

But Qilu Wuchu doesn't produce corn, people produce rice!

Not to mention the transportation of grain from Qilu Wuchu to Chang'an, the high cost may make Dasi Nong hang.

What's even more terrifying is that almost overnight, all the grain merchants in the entire Guanzhong began to sell it.

In Chang'an City, the price of grain changes seven times a day, and there are already people who can't afford to buy grain.

Jing Zhaoyin and Zhi Jinwu, who is in charge of the security of Chang'an City, are already thinking of suicide.

Once the price of food is high, given the size of the population of Chang'an City, I am afraid that the situation will immediately erod.

People who can't eat enough will use their own hands to create food.

Now, I heard Zhang Yue say that he had found a countermeasure.

Inexplicably, it's not just Liu Jin, almost everyone feels at ease, and their spirits are even more uplifted!

"I don't know what Aiqing can do?" Liu Jin looked at Zhang Yue with blank eyes and asked very sincerely.

The longer he stayed in Xinfeng, the more people he saw and witnessed, and the more sympathy he had for those simple, loyal, sincere, and diligent people.

Day after day, year after year, they sweat and plough the fields, and their hard work yields almost nothing.

They should no longer suffer and be tormented.