"Don't be in a hurry now, this Zhen Qian has not yet reached the point of exhaustion, if the old man didn't guess wrong, Zhen Qian should still have a way to deal with it, Fujiwara-kun don't be impatient!"

Fujiwara Brush Listening to Kibi Zhenbei's confident words, his heart is a little more settled, now is just the beginning, not at all to the most difficult time, according to the previous expectations, before the winter of October this year to the spring of the next year, this period is the most critical time for disaster relief work, lack of food and clothing coupled with the severe cold of winter, the sharp reduction of three percent of the population is a victory.

There are some things in this era that are difficult for later generations to understand, such as money and grain, later generations will think that the government collects taxes is copper money, but in fact, this is not the case at all, throughout the entire feudal society, the real subject of taxation is actually tax in kind.

How so?

For example, when a farmer farms the land, the government collects grain, some weave cloth, and the government collects cloth, and some fishermen fish, and what they collect is the fish, and the copper money they actually receive is not much. In the taxes of the Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods of the Tang Dynasty, the annual income of copper coins and gold and silver was only two or three million yuan, but the grain collected was tens of millions of stones, as well as silk and linen cloth and other physical goods, and even the salaries paid by officials were in kind: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

This kind of situation of less money and more physical goods in the country can not see much disadvantage, but in commodity trading, especially when transnational long-distance transactions, you can not pull a few carts of cloth to exchange food with others, and the other party does not necessarily need your cloth, at this time you need to be used as an intermediate medium of exchange: gold, silver and copper money.

This is why Zhen Qian still needs money in the disaster year.

Fujiwara Shuxiong said with some distress: "Zhen Qian's disaster relief plan is good, if he can follow his plan, it is not a problem for Hizen Province to survive this year's famine, not to seek a lifetime, not to plan for the overall situation, not to plan for a domain, Tang Shang wants to go to Kyoto to open a buying club, and ask Dazai Daiji to deal with it?" ”

Ji Bei Zhenbei has a bit of a headache, in addition to disaster relief, Zhen Qian's plan also has many ways to make money, and going to Kyoto to open a buying club is one of them.

Tang Shang is now willing to take out one percent of the profits to help Hizen Province tide over the current difficulties, but Kibi Shinbei is reluctant to let Tang Sho go to Kyoto, and now Fujiwara Shuo has brought up this matter again, which is equivalent to Jibi Shinbei's army.

Ji Bei Zhenbei shook his head, there is no precedent for this matter, he can't agree immediately, and he agrees with Tang Shang, so what about the merchants of Silla and Balhae, there are too many things involved, let Tang Shang go to Kyoto, so can Zhen Qian also go to Kyoto, Zhen Qian arrives in Kyoto, does the emperor have to summon Zhen Qian's .......

Ji Bei really suspected that Zhen Qian was promoting this matter.

"Far water can't quench the thirst of the near, this matter has already been played by the old man, Fujiwara-kun don't be anxious!"

Ji Bei Zhenbei Lao Chengmou said: "Zhen Qian's method of buying mountains, forests, lakes and mines is not bad, and now many high-ranking families in Hizen Country are ready to move, and they are willing to exchange grain for mining rights, Fujiwara-kun might as well think about it first!" ”

Fujiwara Shuxiong scolded Kibi for being shameless, and last time he bought more than 40 mines by himself, but those are all small mines, who is willing to sell really good mines!

Kibi Shinbei seemed to see through Fujiwara's ambition and said: "The mountains, forests, lakes and mines are all dead things before the Hizen country, and if you don't let go today, you won't contribute to the Hizen country tomorrow, in this case, you can do extraordinary things at an extraordinary time, it is better to take it out at this time to exchange for some money and grain, and there will be tax income in the future, which will benefit the country and the people, and you and the people and businessmen and gentry are all great benefits, if this policy is feasible, it will inevitably be implemented throughout the country, and then you will be the great hero ......of the Wa country." ”

Fujiwara brushed male want to cry without tears, who doesn't know that if you don't buy those mountains, forests and lakes mines in Hizen Country, it is the private property of the Fujiwara clan, and how much of the output falls into your own pocket, if you sell it to the merchant gentry, the money and grain obtained will be used for disaster relief, and the taxes received will become the taxes of Hizen Country, and it has nothing to do with yourself.

Fujiwara's heart is bleeding! I regret that I shouldn't have listened to Zhen Qian's words at the beginning, and took out a small mine to buy, but now I am lifting a stone to hit myself in the foot!

Zhen Qian has many ways to solve this locust plague, one is to raise grain from grain merchants, it is also another way for businessmen from Hizen Country to set up a buying meeting in Kyoto, and it is also one of them to completely open up the mountains, forests, lakes and mines of Hizen Country.

Fujiwara Brush Male did not dare to offend the high-ranking families of the entire Hizen Country, and proposed to Kibi Shinto to open a buying field in Kyoto, how could Kibi Shinbei allow foreigners to enter Kyoto, and naturally hoped that Fujiwara Brush Male would give up the interests in his hands, this Hizen Country is now your Fujiwara Brush Hero, you don't worry about it yourself, will others worry about it?

Having said that, the two sides reached an impasse again, Fujiwara Shuxiong just said that he was willing to think about it, wait and see, Kibi Zhenbei naturally knew that this was a push, and it was not easy to force him.

It's almost August, and the summer heat is replaced by the cool autumn breeze, which is supposed to be a harvest season, but it is all desolate in sight.

Zhen Qian left Matsuura Castle with Ito and began to inspect the entire Hizen country, and the temporarily recruited officers had been dispatched to various places to kill locusts, implement temporary disaster relief plans, and encourage the victims not to leave their homes and actively carry out self-rescue.

The decree was issued, but the already impoverished victims had the ability to save themselves, and they still flocked to Matsuura Castle in the hope that the guardians of Matsuura Castle could open a warehouse for relief, but the victims knew that there was not much food in the warehouses of Matsuura Castle, and the official documents from all over the country fell on the Fujiwara Shuo case like snowflakes, and bandits appeared in some places, robbing many local squires, and the army was also dispatched to start suppressing.

At this time, it was impossible for Zhen Qian to stay in Songpu City anymore, and he brought the relief food that had just been made to appease the local victims.

A team of two or three hundred people appeared on the official road, and the mighty traffic was in stark contrast to the victims fleeing the famine on the side of the road, and the hungry victims had a green glow in their eyes, and their eyes were staring at the cart of food, but when they saw the soldiers in full armor around the convoy, no one dared to step forward.

The day was fine, but at night, under the cover of night, driven by the temptation of food, the hungry victims hovered on the edge of life and death, and even the strongest deterrence became ridiculous at this time, and soon some of the victims forgot their fear and death, and launched a moth-throwing sneak attack on the camping of the convoy, and the result was naturally very bad.

(End of chapter)