Chapter 158: Chaos in the court and food shortage
With the help of well-intentioned people, Lantian County's actions soon spread throughout the Gyeonggi region. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The officials naturally had a good attitude towards Lantian's actions. This thing is definitely a thankless task, no matter whether it is good or bad, it is estimated that the end will not be much better. Therefore, it is the best way to look at nature from the wall.
But the people of Gyeonggi don't think so. Such a good thing should be available in all states and counties, why is it that only Lantian is enjoying such benefits now. That's not good, let's make trouble.
So the other county orders that were still holding their arms and preparing to watch the excitement were all dumbfounded. Ya, who has the ability to follow Luo Yan to mess around. Not to mention the consequences, even if you are fat and want to join in the fun, there is no way. Lantian County dared to do this, and the court allocated a lot of benefits from the treasury.
I want to be in a small county like myself, and I can't get up to the sky, and I want to rely on the money and grain in the treasury, but I can't do it at all.
But the common people pressed it again, and they went to the county government twice in three days to make trouble. Why can people from Lantian get a loan, we can't, aren't we the people of the Tang Dynasty? For a time, the entire Gyeonggi area was completely in ruins.
Without the courage and ability to learn from Luo Yan, then these people will sprinkle all their resentment on Luo Yan. Can't you do it, okay, then we'll let you not do it.
The snowflake-like music flew into Chang'an City like this. Everyone said that he Luo Yan only cared about his own limelight, and did not care about the life and death of his colleagues. And that's just a few sour words. Some people are even more ruthless, and under the pretext that they also want to engage in land loans, they desperately put pressure on the household department. What's more, he directly began to personally attack Luo Yan.
Some people say that it is unkind and unrighteous to use a scholar and a peddler as a pawn. Some people say that he is simply competing with the people for profit, and seriously violates the conscription system set by Li Yuan in the seventh year of Wude. Some are even more ruthless, combining these things of Luo Yan with greed for personal gain, intending to make a few more money in office.
This is just a place, and when the matter reaches the court, it is the real waves.
Although at the beginning of Li Shimin's ascension, he supported a large number of high-ranking officials from poor backgrounds. But above the court, there are still a large number of spokesmen for various interest groups.
Luo Yan's set in Lantian knows how powerful the impact on the power of the gentry is. Without a large amount of land to support, the strength of the family will be greatly weakened. That's not what they want to see.
It's another pilgrimage. As soon as Li Shimin heated up the dragon bed, these people jumped out and began to attack Luo Yan.
"Your Majesty, the seven-year rent adjustment law of Wude strictly orders those who eat officials and Lu not to compete with the people for profit. The method of field loans, loan ten thousand, redeem eleven thousand. What Luo Yan is doing now, in the name of land loans, is doing the food of profit, and his crime should be exiled for thousands of miles. "The people of the Imperial Observatory should be the first to attack at this time.
originally thought that Luo Yan would be transferred out of the capital, so that he could be stable for a while, but who would have thought that it would only take so long, so he was fooling around. Some of them don't stand on the side of any interest, but they can't see that Luo Yan has to collect 10% of the interest when he redeems the land loan. These people naively think that when ordinary people borrow money, shouldn't they just go in and out as much as they want.
Luo Yan had already explained this matter to Li Shimin in the recital, so Li Shimin said indifferently: "If you don't accept this profit, the people will use the money from the field loan as capital and wantonly engage in the business of peddlers. ”
"Then it should be forbidden. The root of this scourge has been cut off once and for all. Following Li Shimin's words, these people directly stated the purpose of this time.
"Then how did I hear that in all counties of Gyeonggi, the people are making trouble at the county government, begging to let go of this opening and allow all counties to get land loans?" No matter what, this public opinion is also a very useful killing weapon in the court, of course Li Shimin wants to block this matter first, and then slowly see how Lantian achieves.
"Those civilians are short-sighted, how can they know how powerful this is. In the future, if this continues, everyone will not think about farming well, but will want to exchange land loans for money. When the land under heaven is not in the government, sooner or later it will be returned to the people again. In this way, the treasury will be wasted, and one or two of us can atone for our sins with death. Wei Zheng said with his usual sharpness and uprightness, without giving Li Shimin any face.
"It is precisely because of such concerns that it was piloted in Lantian. Moreover, Luo Yan also deliberately said in Lantian that the limit of each Ding Tian loan is only 30,000. You can do the math, and it basically won't have much impact. ”
"Even then, thirty thousand is too much. All the states and counties in the world, if everyone is like this, the treasury will not be able to bear it. His Majesty still strictly ordered Luo Yan to stop this matter as soon as possible, and he saved his life for nothing. Wei Zheng didn't back down from Li Shimin's explanation at all, he said no, it just didn't work, no matter how good your explanation was, I also objected.
Seeing that Wei Zheng's rhetoric prevailed at this time, for a while, those interest spokespersons jumped out to second. "The minister thinks that even now, this Luo Yan will also be punished. Such an atmosphere really hinders the implementation of the government. ”
Chen agreed with Wei Zuocheng's opinion. still let Luo Yan stop the matter early, and the province died in the end. ”
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Seeing that the court was suddenly lively, Li Shimin was furious. To put it mildly, it seems that you are determined not to give me face, right? At that moment, he threw the music in his hand on the table with a "snap", and said angrily: "You only think about the bad, what are your eyes glued on?" Is it not good at all? I was careful again and again, so I only let Lantian County try this matter. Now that it's just getting a little better, you're thinking about blocking it, what kind of intentions are there. You, and you, tell me, what are you waiting to do, and there is no harm in the slightest? ”
Seeing that Wei Zheng still wanted to speak, Li Shimin blocked: "Jun is well-read, can you know that there are people who choke to death and want to forbid the world's food, contradictory?" This is the source of the waste of food due to choking, and at this time, Li Shimin asked Wei Zheng this, which was to set the tone for Luo Yan's affairs in Lantian. The good outweighs the disadvantage, and if you object to it again, I'll be really angry.
Hearing Li Shimin say this, the courtiers didn't want to make a fuss about this matter all at once, so there was no opposition for the time being. However, this matter is definitely not over yet, many people are still waiting for Lantian to have an accident, and then Li Shimin will have nothing to say.
However, it is destined to disappoint these people. Lantian's affairs haven't made waves yet, but the whole Guanzhong is already making a fuss. Just a few days after this meeting, various localities suddenly discovered that the price of rice under their rule had risen to more than 60 wen per bucket.
The Ping'an rice shop in Lantian County is a fairly large grain store in the entire county. It's not about how big it is, it's about how hard it is backstage.
Standing behind the Ping'an rice shop is the largest local gentleman, He Mingde. Of course, behind the scenes, people call him He Lacking. This ancestor has been a wealthy gentleman for several generations, and in the years of war, he was lucky to come over, although he lost a lot of money, but the foundation is still there. In the past few years, through the large-scale purchase and sale of grain, by the way, he also controlled many shops in the county, and actually made the family property bigger and bigger.
Every year, He Qide buys a large amount of grain and saves it, waiting for the turn of spring and summer to make a lot of money. Therefore, the grain storage of Ping'an Rice Shop is the most in Lantian County.
On the 10th day of the first month of May, people who came to buy rice at Ping'an Rice Shop suddenly found that the price of rice had risen by eight cents overnight.
In the face of such a price increase, it is almost like slaughtering people, and among the people who come to buy rice, there is a tall man who is immediately unhappy. scolded in his mouth: "He Quede, who has bad water in his stomach, the black heart of the eighteenth generation of his ancestors has grown on him." This bucket of rice will rise by eight cents overnight, when your grandfather is a fool. ”
Scolding and scolding, he turned around and left with his shriveled pockets on his back, ready to take a look at other grain stores. At this time, if you still stay here, it is just a lack of strings in your brain.
I saw the guy in the rice shop spitting at the figure in the distance, and said very arrogantly: "Phew, a poor ghost, you want to buy it, but grandpa doesn't want to sell it yet." Today, if you can buy rice cheaper than grandpa in Lantian today, grandpa will kneel down and kowtow to you three times. ”
A large circle of people around thought that this guy was talking angrily, and laughed as he walked in front of jokes. Who would have thought that he would really be right by this person.
In a huge Lantian County, there are more than a dozen rice shops, and none of them have rice that has not risen by more than ten yuan. In the end, it is really cheaper than the rice in this safe rice shop. Knowing that the market is like this, the people have run back, and no matter how much it has risen overnight, let's buy more while it is cheaper.
However, these people are also destined to be pitted by the people of Ping An Rice Shop. It's cheap, naturally there are no good goods, and when I got it, I found out that it was all old rice. But the partial-life people still say that they are resigned, anyway, the money and goods are both good, and I don't want to come in the future.
This is not a lack of virtue, and there is really no meaning of accumulating virtue.
However, old rice is old rice, anyway, it can fill your stomach. What's more, it's a few pennies cheaper, and you can buy more rice in the future, right?
However, this situation has not improved over time. These people who grabbed the grain early were lucky, and the price of grain rose every day, and every rise was three or four cents. Originally, with Luo Yan's field loan, this life could still be passed. However, on the very day when the price of food rose to 80 wen, suddenly the world changed.
The people who got up before dawn in the early morning and waited in front of the rice shop were frightened by a sign that the rice shop man lazily hung up at the moment when the sun was rising.
"No food."
That's right, just those two words. Even those who are illiterate are familiar with these two words. The panic mood suddenly occupied the heart, this one can't do it, then look at the next one. But he couldn't walk half the street, and he was shocked on the spot by the news that other rice shops had run out of food.
For a time, in the entire Lantian County, all the rice shops ran out of grain on the same day.
ps: It's late autumn, and you book friends should pay attention to adding clothes. Solemnly remind all book friends, don't drink and drive, call home at night, three 20-year-old teenagers in the same village, drink and drive, two dead and one injured. It's normal to drink to the best of your ability, but safety is the number one priority. (To be continued.) )