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Even though Li Qi talked about business in a big way, he also had to admit that grain has always been the foundation of ancient dynasties, and no dynasty dared to despise this, which shows the importance of grain, and grain prices also directly affect prices, and even the entire economic system.

The Bureau of Commerce has won the power to regulate the currency, but if the Bureau of Commerce cannot control the price of grain, then it will not be able to carry out macroeconomic regulation and control of the national economy at all.

However, because the Song Dynasty did not inhibit land annexation, the landlords had more and more land, in other words, they could speculate on high grain prices at will, and the failure of Wang Anshi's reform before made this phenomenon even worse, especially the Qingmiao Law, which was originally a focus of reform, which was extremely beneficial to the country and the people, but due to improper law enforcement, the interest rate was too high, and the local government forced the people to borrow from the imperial court in the form of usury, and as a result, the people could not afford to pay the interest, so they could only compensate the landlord for the land. So much so that the land in the hands of the landlords has increased dramatically, which is really a good thing to do.

Even for the imperial court, it was extremely unfavorable, many bureaucrats, officials and officials protected each other, taking advantage of the imperial court's urgent need for food, shoddy, extorting the imperial court at high prices, and leading to the emptiness of the treasury.

In fact, not only Li Qi, but all those who change the law will take action on food, which is unavoidable, and this is also the key to the success of the change, but when it comes to food, then it is the inevitable profit of the ministers of the DPRK and China, but, in any case, Li Qi must do this.

Therefore, he set this as a necessary condition for his return to office, and he used this as an excuse to force conservatives like Song Moquan to take the lead in raising the issue of grain prices, so that a large part of the resistance would be reduced, and then he would be able to do it with ease.

Song Moquan was the first to stand up and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the imperial court should issue an order to strictly control the price of grain, and this momentum must be stopped. ”

"Your Majesty, this move must not be."

Huang Xinren hurriedly stood up and said: "Now is the period of China's agricultural recovery, if we forcibly limit grain prices, it will undoubtedly damage the interests of the peasants, will reduce the peasants' enthusiasm for farming, coupled with the economic construction, the micro-ministers may intensify the transfer of peasants to merchants." ”

Li Qi laughed secretly when he heard it, okay, you Song Moquan, you even played double reed for me, then let's see who can play whom.

Obviously, Song Moquan did it on purpose, but in fact, Li Qi didn't let him say this, the reason why he said this was nothing more than to give the rest of the conservatives an excuse to oppose it, and first block Li Qi's words, so as to prevent Li Qi from reaching out to food.

Song Huizong frowned and said: "Huang Aiqing is reasonable, if the imperial court forcibly lowers the grain, I am afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among the peasants." He glanced at him, then fell on Li Qi, and said, "Li Qi, as an economic envoy, this matter also has something to do with you, what do you think?" ”

Li Qi smiled: "Weichen thinks that the words of Master Song and the salt and iron envoy are very reasonable. However, Weichen thinks that the most important thing today is not the price of grain, but to increase the country's reserves of grain, in the past few years, the army has gone out every year, the granary is empty, it is time to replenish the granary, if the imperial court has enough granary this year, then Fengxiang will not have that kind of situation, and, as long as the country reserves enough grain, then the problem of grain prices will be solved. ”

Song Moquan's eyes widened when he heard this, and he secretly said badly, he fell for this kid again, it turned out that this grain price was just an introduction, it was really unguardable.

Song Huizong nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, grain reserves are the country's top priority, so I don't know what your plan is?" ”

Li Qi said: "Now that the Qingmiao Law has just been abolished, the imperial court has not come up with a complete set of agricultural laws, so that all kinds of inexplicable harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have emerged in agriculture, and Weichen is very worried, so he has recently meditated at home and finally came up with a new set of standing position system. ”

This Changping warehouse is a granary set up in ancient China to regulate grain prices and store grain for famine to supply the government and the people. The main thing is to use the law of value to adjust the grain supply and give full play to the role of stabilizing the market value of grain. When the price of grain in the market was low, the price of grain was appropriately raised and a large number of purchases were made, which not only filled the large granaries of the imperial court with grain, Taicang and Ganquancang, but also the border counties and localities were also full of warehouses. When the market grain price is high, the price should be appropriately reduced. This measure not only prevented "grain from hurting the peasants" but also prevented "grain from hurting the people," played a positive role in calming down the grain market and consolidating feudalism, and reflected the interests and aspirations of the masses of the people in a certain way.

Song Huizong sighed and said, "You can talk about it specifically." ”

"Yes!" Li Qi said: "Regarding the regular liquidation, I believe you know better than me, then I will not say more, I am a new type of regular liquidation, that is, the imperial court in accordance with certain supply conditions and price conditions, to the vast number of landlords to issue loans with grain as collateral, but this kind of loan is a kind of loan with encouraging significance, is not to add the lender's compensation. That is to say, when the grain harvest is bumper and the market grain price falls, the landlord can choose to return the grain to the imperial court, and the imperial court must not pursue the difference in price, so that the peasants will not lose money, and the grain price will not fall, and the imperial court can reserve grain very well; When the grain harvest fails, and the market grain price is higher than the price at the time of the loan, the peasants can obtain a certain profit from the grain in the market, and then return the loans and interest to the imperial court, which will not hurt the interests of the peasants, and the imperial court can also obtain profits, and can also use the grain obtained during the harvest season to carry out macroeconomic regulation and control, so as to prevent people from hoarding grain and valuing the price, killing three birds with one stone. More importantly, it encourages farmers to cultivate their land and protects their farmland from being annexed. ”

Cai Jing's eyes lit up when he heard this, but he was surprised, and said, "This-this is what you came up with?" ”

Of course I don't have the ability to do this, it's all taught in books, but at this point I can only think of it. Li Qi nodded with a smile and said, "No, I came up with it under the bottom." ”

Jiang Daoyan said: "But if the people are unable to return it, what should they do? ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "Jiang Yushi, doing business is originally a loss and a profit, who stipulates that the imperial court must make money when doing business, then this is too unfair to the people." If the imperial court does not want to lose money, it naturally has to help the peasants improve the environment and conditions, as long as the peasants make money, then the imperial court will also make money. You can't say that the court can't lose money, and the people can't afford to pay back, so you have to rob people's houses and rob their wives, which is by no means the way of business. ”

Jiang Daoyan was robbed by Li Qi this time, where is there anything to say.

Huang Xinren said with a smile: "Although this method is often closed, it is similar to Wang Anshi's Qingmiao method at the beginning, however, the original Qingmiao method has become a tool for many people to collect money. The key lies in this loan, many local officials have forcibly let the people borrow from the government, and arbitrarily raise the interest rate, plus many officials in order to invite merit, in addition to a variety of blackmail, the people are miserable, undoubtedly empty talk, but not much, this is also the fundamental reason for the cessation of the Qingmiao Law. ”

Li Qi said: "Lord Huang is really a masterpiece, but at the beginning, he could only blame Wang An Shixian for his own improper implementation, and he thought too simply, which caused that kind of situation, and this is his own fault." ”

Cai You said lightly: "In this way, it seems that the economic envoy has a way to prevent this from happening?" ”

Li Qi smiled: "All man-made situations can be stopped, is there no such situation in various places now?" I don't think so, it's about the improvement of the system, and the very closing method.

Therefore, improving the system is the guarantee for the feasibility of changing the law. The imperial court can hand over this errand to the four departments, check and balance each other, first by the imperial court zhongyāng institutions such as the three divisions, the Bureau of Commerce, the province and other departments according to the situation of each place to set the local interest, the setting of this interest is also one of the reasons for the failure of Wang Anshixian's phase change method, because the situation is different in various places, the interest naturally cannot be the same, you can't use the benefits of the Yangtze River surrounding areas to set the interest in Shaanxi, that is clearly the pit people, and the farmers can also compensate with grain, There is no need to compensate for the price difference, which can also be a good way to eliminate this phenomenon. Once the interest is set, it will be authorized by the emperor and distributed to various places.

The local government will publicize it on its behalf, but our Commerce Bureau will review and lend money and set up a farming plan, and the money and grain will not be in the hands of the government, and then the final income and expenditure and statistics will be carried out by the three divisions. The Ministry of Criminal Justice may specifically use this legislation to inform the people, so as to play a supervisory role.

In this way, the local government has no money to deal with, and when they publicize it, they will never be stupid enough to falsely report the interest, and our Commerce Bureau can also supervise whether someone forces them to come when the people come to take loans. However, after the government informed the people of the interest, it also restrained the Commerce Bureau from falsely reporting the interest. When the Bureau of Commerce reports the people's loans to the three divisions, the three divisions can preliminarily calculate how much they can recover in the year when they approve the money, so as to restrict the commerce bureau from using the public for personal gain. Conversely, the records of the Commerce Bureau can also supervise the three divisions. In addition, after the Ministry of Criminal Justice enacted the law, it will also be possible to set up a supervision department to be responsible for examining the agricultural sector. Of course, this is only a preliminary structure, and the specific plan must be discussed in depth, and it must be refined into many departments, so as to achieve mutual checks and balances in all aspects, and never allow any department to monopolize the right to grain, so as to build a huge agricultural management organization and promote the development of agriculture in the Song Dynasty. ”

Cai Jingdao: "Your Majesty, the old minister very much agrees with this move of the economic envoy, this law is undoubtedly more perfect, the previous green seedling method and the regular closing of positions, and it is very feasible." Now the imperial court is determined to revive the south of the Yangtze River, and there are thieves in the past, the people there are suffering deeply, and the farmland is wasted. ”

Zhao Huan also stood up and said, "Erchen seconded it." ”

Li Bangyan and others also stood up.

Li Qi saw that most of the people were unmoved, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this law benefits the country and the people, but only harms the rich people who lend usury, I believe that only they will disapprove of this law, because this law can well prevent them from harming the people." ”

When Song Huizong heard this, he almost laughed, nodded and said, "Aiqing is reasonable. ”

Wechen agreed.

"The minister seconded the proposal."

When the other ministers heard this, they had to do it, and if they didn't stand up at this time, it would become a usury, and they quickly stood up and agreed. Because Li Qi did not let the Commerce Bureau monopolize the power, they are not unacceptable.

Li Qi hit the railway while it was hot: "Your Majesty, the country's grain reserves are related to the country's great plan, and it is urgent to do our best to issue a decree to encourage agricultural production." Not only that, but the imperial court also had to encourage grain imports, exempt them from grain import taxes, and give some preferential treatment to foreign merchants who brought grain to our country, and also encourage our Great Song merchants to go to neighboring countries to plunder, oh no, import grain from their countries, even in a way, to fill our country's reserves. In addition, private businessmen must be strictly prohibited from exporting grain to foreign countries, and they must be severely punished as a sign of warning. The two-pronged approach of commerce and agriculture is to revitalize the agriculture of the Great Song Dynasty in the shortest possible time. ”

Song Huizong nodded frequently when he heard this, and said, "Yes, yes, it should be so." Cough. Since all of you Aiqing agree with Li Qi's set of Zhongchang liquidation method, then okay, Li Qi, you hurry up to write a charter and submit it. ”

"Wechen obeys."

Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

(The back is menacing, foodies work hard, see if there is a monthly pass, vote for the little chef.) (To be continued.) )