Xuanzheng Palace.

Hou Mo Chenyi, the left attendant of the Chinese book, made a report on behalf of the political affairs hall, "The excavation of locust eggs has been carried out in several rivers and valleys, and the political affairs hall has issued a death order, and the digging of locust eggs to prevent locust plague is ranked in the first place at present. ”

Luo Cheng is very satisfied with this accountability, sometimes if you don't give a death order, the following may not pay attention to it.

"While digging up locust eggs to cure locusts, we must also strengthen the inventory of the granaries of various counties and counties, and we must never allow the accounts to be full of grain, and when the time comes to use them, we find that the granaries are empty, and now we must take all of them into an inventory, not only do the localities conduct self-inspections, but also send inspection teams to inspect them, and increase grain reserves in areas that may be affected by disasters and in places where water and land are at stake."

Hou Mo Chen Yi completely agreed with the emperor's intentions, and even took the initiative to send Zaifu from the palace to personally sit in the town, and each province sent one or two Zaifu to be responsible for supervision and inspection.

"I thought it was okay, so I went out to patrol the county with Zaifu, and each province sent a member to add the rank of governor, and the imperial history platform also sent an additional inspector to the imperial history. The governor is responsible for patrolling and pacifying, and presiding over local locust prevention and disaster relief matters. For local officials such as the three envoys of the province and the Taishou, if there is a disadvantage to the control of locusts and disaster prevention, they can be directly dismissed on the spot, and they can be cut down first and then played. Those who are active in locust control and disaster prevention and have a proper treatment can also be directly promoted. ”

Luo Cheng's fingers tapped lightly on the table, he attached great importance to this disaster, although it was not yet the time for the locust eggs to hatch, but the disaster prevention had to be done as soon as possible, as long as it was handled properly, the disaster could be minimized.

"Sage, digging locust eggs for ten days, good news from all over the country, only Henan Yanshi County, ten days to dig locust eggs 3,000 stones, Henan Province dug a total of 20,000 locust eggs, the entire Henan Road dug locust eggs 140,000 stones, and Shandong, Huainan, Guanzhong also reported a lot of eggs, all around 100,000 stones, Hexi Longyou Shuo, Hebei Hedong Bahan Road, also have 350,000 stone harvest."

When the various paths are added together, in just ten days, there will be five or six hundred thousand stones of locust eggs.

This number is both surprising and delightful, surprised that so many locust eggs can be dug up, and happy that so many locust eggs have been dug up.

"This time all the provinces mobilized the whole people to dig locust eggs, the effect is good, but it is not too early to be happy, at the beginning of digging are the most dense places where locusts lay eggs, and there are many eggs, but there are still many places, although there are not so many eggs, but there are also a lot, we must mobilize the people, continue to dig locust eggs, for some barren grasslands, especially the barren grasslands by rivers, ponds, and lakes, we must burn grass, plough and plough, as much as possible in this first round of locust extermination operations, get rid of more locust eggs."

Someone proposed, "Hundreds of thousands of stone locust eggs, one for three corn grains, this is more than one million stone millet, can the royal family cash out?" If it can't be exchanged at that time, I'm afraid that this benevolent government will make the people dissatisfied. ”

"This rest assured, I have long asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to fully mobilize resources to transport grain from the sea, from the Yellow River and the Yangtze River Canal, by land, by land and water, and large transshipment warehouses have been set up in each province, so it is not a problem to exchange grain for locust eggs."

Although there are more than one million stone grains, but now the water and land transportation is relatively developed, are in benign operation, and have not been affected by the slightest disaster, and one more important thing is that there has not been a disaster now, and the more than one million stone grains are divided into more than ten roads, and each one is not much.

Nowadays, it is still relatively convenient and fast to mobilize food.

From another point of view, a stone of millet plus the cost of transportation, it is only more than 100 yuan, you must know that this is the price of rice in Luoyang, and in Qingxu Huainan and other grain-producing areas, in Qingdao, Lushun, Guangling and other large ports, a stone of rice is only 50 yuan, if it is in Nanhai and Jiaozhi County, a stone of rice is only 30 yuan.

In fact, in many cases, when there is a famine in a major disaster, the key is that after the local harvest is lost, other places do not have time to transport grain in, resulting in famine, not that there is no food in the whole country.

Just like the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, many places were affected by wars, disasters, etc., there was famine and cannibalism, but in the major transshipment warehouses of the imperial court, there were still millions of stones of grain stored, Sui was not without grain, but at that time many places were affected by turmoil, the roads were not smooth, the transportation capacity was insufficient, and it was difficult to transport grain to the disaster area in time.

10,000 stone grain is only more than 1,000 yuan, 100,000 stone millet is only 10,000 yuan, and 1 million stone millet is only 100,000 yuan.

This is really nothing for the emperor's inner treasury, who can now earn 30 million yuan a year, and there is also a lot of grain in the granaries of various places, and there is no shortage of food.

All that is needed is timely transportation.

In fact, the biggest cost of grain is not manpower to cultivate it, but to transport it over long distances, and the cost of transportation is even higher. This is also the reason why after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Luo Cheng attached great importance to grain collection and storage.

The grain paid by the people, coupled with the fact that the imperial court has to spend a lot of money every year to purchase the surplus grain in the hands of the people, while leaving enough rations for the people, the imperial court also stores a large amount of grain purchased by the imperial court.

At the township level, there are community warehouses, and at the county level, there are righteous warehouses and county official warehouses.

The county has a county warehouse and a transshipment warehouse, and the provincial level is a number of large transshipment and storage warehouses at the key points of water and land transportation, and a standing closing position is set up to stabilize market grain prices and relieve disaster years.

There are also many important military warehouses in the border areas.

In addition, in the canal, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, the Han River and other important rivers, as well as the coastal port, as well as Liujing, all set up a state-level strategic reserve granary.

These warehouses are transported into the grain reserve every year, and the storage capacity is maintained at a high level all year round, and every year new grain comes in, and the grain is removed and then sold out of the warehouse and sold to the market.

In general, if there is a small disaster in the local area, the local food can solve it.

In the event of a major disaster or a major war, the grain in the transshipment warehouses set up by each county will be used, and once it is the most urgent, the imperial court will mobilize the grain in the national strategic reserve warehouse.

The world is peaceful, the place is stable, the water conservancy facilities are repaired, and the river dams are repaired, so with the grain output of one billion mu of cultivated land in the imperial court, it can actually ensure that there is a surplus every year.

In addition to these official warehouses, the royal inner chamber also set up hundreds of granaries across the country, all of which were purchased from all over the country after the completion of the imperial court's annual grain purchase plan.

Historically, during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains was stable, and the grain stored in the official warehouses of the imperial court reached more than 96 million stones, and the cultivated land at that time was only 850 million mu.

There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart.

In the past few years, the imperial court has worked hard to accumulate grain in various places, storing and increasing tens of millions of stone grain every year, and Luo Cheng's royal granary of the inner province is also quietly accumulating grain, adding millions of stone every year.

It is precisely because of this confidence that he dares to say that one catty of locust eggs is exchanged for three catties of millet, otherwise, five or six hundred thousand stone locust eggs have been dug up in just ten days, and Luo Cheng will not be able to get food soon.

Of course, Luo Cheng is more confident to withstand this wave of locust plague, and the root of it is that the people have food in their hands.

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