The summer breeze was cool, and except for the officials who knew the inside story, everyone else was inspired by the huge potato production, and looked forward to feeding a large number of people, accepting countless displaced people, and the future career would be even more brilliant.

However, the old man smiled bitterly, and said to Lu Shishi again: "A good thing is a good thing, I really don't worry about eating and drinking anymore, but although this potato is good, it can't do it if there are more, the last meal is full of potatoes, and I am full of food, but I also eat people stupidly, although my mother-in-law is skillful, but it is still not good, and the children vomit when they see potatoes." ”

Speaking of which, the old farmers who invited them looked unbearable together, this is indeed a disaster.

Lu Shi hurriedly stopped the old man who was about to go off topic, and hurriedly said, "What about the income?" Normally, if the output is high, the income should be high, how much is your income, if you don't count the summer grain, how much is left after deducting the government handed over to the base area? ”

In fact, Lu Shi already knew, and he just wanted to use the old man's words to shock the brothers who didn't know the truth.

"Don't mention it." When the old man was asked about his income, his face immediately became bitter. "King Chuang, what about the income, the base is full of potatoes, who am I going to sell? A sack of potatoes is worth three or five yuan, and one acre of land is one or two hundred yuan income, so you have to wait for the homeless people to buy it, but where do the homeless people still have money? If we calculate it according to the rent collected by the government of the base area, not only will we not make money per mu of land, but we will also have to pay 3,500 yuan. So, King Chuang, now we are no better than under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, if you want to say that it is good, you are full, but it is absolutely not possible to pay rent, if you pay rent, then each of us will have to pay for bankruptcy. ”

Silence, silence.

Everyone knows that originally under the imperial court, the production of one acre of land, in a good year, is 2 stone wheat, that is to say, it is worth one tael and five dollars of silver, and the various taxes of the imperial court add up, about 3 taels of silver, plus all kinds of forced labor, that is, almost 5 taels are apportioned, and the production is not enough to pay.

And King Chuang led everyone to rebel, just to let everyone live, and the various policies introduced also wanted everyone to live better, but if it is calculated according to the current situation, it is no different from the imperial court is just fifty steps and a hundred steps.

Failure, serious failure.

After the old man spoke of his misery, the other invited old farmers also poured bitter water, and for a while, the potato became a flood beast, and its viciousness was simply indescribable.

This made everyone here fidget, and the stars were even more depressed, you said that your people also said a lot, we didn't eat before going up the mountain, followed the king to jump thousands of miles into Weinan, and tried his best to give everyone a stable world, but also with the precious sabers and guns built by the base craftsman battalion, a large number of potatoes were introduced in the south of the good thing, but as a result, everyone complained about the harvest because of the harvest, is there still a reason for this? That's what really suffocates you.

The more I thought about it, the more I held my breath, and I was about to get angry when I slammed the water bowl on the table. "That's not going to work, we've got to talk about it."

Before he opened his mouth, the first one who felt bad was the third uncle, as soon as this bastard boy spoke, he must have made these aunts and uncles unhappy, and definitely made the conference that King Chuang worked so hard to find change the taste? So, after a glance, Guo Tianxing only opened his mouth, and then lowered his head in frustration and blocked his mouth with a water bowl again.

Now the third uncle no longer regards his own nephew as a son, now, Lu Shi's kid is his godson, that is, he has to give him priority if he has hot water, which makes others unable to live, thinking of this, Guo Tianxing's heart is sour and sad.

Chen Ce also saw Tianxing's performance, and immediately smiled and patted the Great Commander's shoulder, and said lightly: "Don't worry, King Chuang must have a way." ”

Yes, this matter is not in my charge, I am in charge of the war, and the things to worry about are Lu Shi's, and Mr. will always have a way. In fact, if he had known that this would be a meeting for this issue, he would definitely have many reasons not to come, and he would have taken care of this nerve-wracking matter, so he took the water bowl and began to wander outside.

As soon as Lu Shi saw Tianxing's expression, he knew his thoughts, so he reminded: "Great Commander, it is said that you are still the leader of the base area, how do you think this matter should be resolved?" ”

After screaming a few times, Guo Tianxing responded in a daze, and at that time, he once again put the water bowl on the pier, and said confidently, "Everything is decided by King Chuang's words." ”

So everyone cut together.

In fact, Lu Shi reminded and reminded Tianxing not to hang up on his own mind, this kind of thing made him make an idea, which was more difficult than letting the sow go up the tree.

So Lu Shi said again: "Actually, I knew that this matter had not been for a long time, and I didn't expect that the matter would develop to such a serious extent, if we don't want to come up with a solution, our foundation will be shaken, and our future distribution will not be able to be carried out." ”

When Lu Shi said this, it was approved by all the officials in charge of government affairs at that time.

"After two days of thinking, I found out where the root cause is." When Lu Shi said this, he stood still, and a confident smile appeared on his face again, as long as everyone saw this smile, they immediately had a backbone in their hearts, as long as Lu Shi thought of it, there would definitely be a good solution.

Lu Shi looked at everyone's trusting gaze and said slowly, "I discussed it with Zheng Hongda and Brother Zheng. Zheng Hongda humbly bowed, but sat down again without saying a word, waiting for Lu Shi's next words.

"There are only two reasons for this." Lu Shi raised his finger and said slowly: "First, there is not enough capital circulation in the base area. In other words, the reason for the lack of circulating currency in the base market is that we are still in a closed state, and we have not become a general environment for complementing and intercommunicating with the market of the whole country, and we have not formed any other industries except for military industry and iron and steel. ”

Speaking of industry, Lu Shi remembered that this word had not yet appeared in Daming, and everyone might not understand it, so he turned his mouth and said: "It is a handicraft workshop, everything has to be outside, and the only thing we can take out is a saber and a gun, and for the sake of insurance, all of it was handed over to Brother Zheng's agent, and the money earned was replaced with potatoes and corn seeds, so that all the handicraft products and materials we need need to be purchased in large quantities outside, and they need real money, which causes a large outflow of gold, silver and copper coins we have seized. I call this a trade deficit, and after a long period of deficit, there will be a shortage of money, and this must be resolved, and it must be resolved quickly. ”

When it comes to the trade deficit, even Zheng Hongda, who travels between the north and the south, doesn't understand it very well, but when the word money shortage is mentioned, people such as Mr. Chen Celi and Zheng Hao immediately understand.

As the first auxiliary minister (he is positioned like this) Chen Ce stroked his beard and frowned: "This is the truth, as far as I know, there was a period of time in the Great Song Dynasty, because the copper coins minted by the imperial court were not enough to be issued, and as a result, there was a shortage of money in the market, forcing everyone to barter, and there was no choice but to issue Jiaozi and replace money with paper." When he said this, he couldn't help but glance at each other with Mr. Li, his eyes full of worry.

Mr. Li hurriedly took over the topic and asked tentatively: "Isn't King Chuang going to issue Jiaozi, it's no different from Baitiao, that thing was okay at the beginning, but in the end, the defeat was indiscriminate, and there was no value guarantee at all, and as a result, Jiaozi died in the Great Song Dynasty, and it also triggered a strike by Jiangnan handicraftsmen, and almost caused a riot." ”

Zheng Hao also said worriedly: "The Tartars of the Yuan Dynasty also issued this kind of thing, but his purpose was to plunder the wealth of the Han people, and as a result, the Han people could only barter, so it didn't work at all." When he said this, he showed a position, that is, the literati and political officials were worried that Lu Shi would go to extremes and indiscriminately distribute his friends in order to solve the problem of money shortage, causing another incident that harmed the peasants and harmed the peasants.

Those old men don't know what to do with the people, what to boycott, but from the words of several government officials, they vaguely know that what King Chuang wants to implement in and out of his words may be a measure that is not good for the people, although everyone will support what King Chuang does, but if he really did something in Shanghai Zhangjiang, everyone is not comfortable, right? But in my heart, I am very glad that there are these good officials who are dedicated to the people under King Chuang, who dare to speak up for the people in front of King Chuang, and at the same time, they are even more glad that they have a good King Chuang, who can hold meetings to admonish, in their hearts, those who admonish are good emperors, of course King Chuang is a good emperor, and he will never disobey everyone's opinions.

So they all looked at King Chuang anxiously, waiting for King Chuang to give an explanation.

When Lu Shi saw it, it seemed that this conference was going off topic again, so he hurriedly opened his mouth and pulled it back, "I will never let you run a Jiaozi without a foundation." ”

Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and their expressions became relaxed again. Only Guo Tianxing looked left and right with a confused face, hoping that someone would explain it to him. But seeing that everyone didn't speak, he was relieved to think about it, in fact, he wanted to listen, but it was purely out of curiosity, since it was not under his control, so he continued to wander outside the object, thinking about his plan to increase his troops.

With food, potatoes, and countless rabbits, and most importantly, with the influx of countless homeless, it was time to increase the troops. But how much will this increase be made? Ten thousand, twenty thousand? Or are there thousands of troops? The garrison should also be strengthened, or the territory is bigger, and it can't be done without a garrison, it seems that Cao Meng's kid should also bring it up, or let him mention it, or I will mention it, the third uncle promises that he is unwilling, and the third uncle is becoming more and more like a miser.

Lu Shi didn't know what Tianxing was thinking, so he continued according to his original train of thought: "There is another reason for this potato crisis, that is, the added value of output is too low. ”

Seeing that everyone doesn't understand another new term, I have to explain it again, "The so-called added value is to reprocess the originally worthless things and make them valuable, such as processing wheat into steamed buns and selling them, which is better than directly selling wheat accounting." It wasn't until everyone suddenly realized that they continued, "For example, the potatoes that are not stored can be reused and sold to other places as valuable things in exchange for the copper, gold, and silver that are urgently needed in the base areas, which not only solves the problem of the disaster of potatoes in the base areas, but also solves the problem of the foreign trade deficit in the base areas, and also solves the problem of money shortage. ”

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of all the people present began to glow.