The scene full of eyes continued to impact Kong Ming's eyeballs at this moment, and he also had a deep guilt in his heart, when the first emperor implemented the direct hundred baht policy, he knew, and the consequences of this policy were even more fatal, but he did not stop it, and other superiors would not stop it, if it wasn't for someone to get in the way this time, there would be no problem with the currency issue within twenty years.

First cast a small amount of money, prepare enough funds, use 20 years to completely sweep the universe, complete the unification of the Central Plains, and then restore the five-baht money system, this is the idea of the courtiers in Shu at that time, and Kong Ming is also among them, because of this, after Liu Ba proposed the straight hundred baht policy, there was no resistance at all, and he promoted it in the entire Shu in a few days, and the ancestor Liu Bei also plumped up the treasury in only one month, and the national strength was greatly improved.

The world makes people, Yiling fights, all efforts are almost in vain, the first emperor is even more dead, and even this potential disaster has been picked out in advance, this year's Shu Kingdom is really stormy, which makes Kong Ming feel a little tired.

Looking at the false scenes around him, Kong Ming's steps became heavier and heavier, and the burden of more than ten years now felt heavy for the first time, so heavy that he couldn't straighten his waist.

"Shop! Store! Just sell some rice! ”

A low and abrupt voice appeared in Kong Ming's ears, and with the voice, he saw that it was an old man, who was being shelved out of the rice shop by two sturdy young men at this time, looking straight into the store, full of anticipation, and finally begging even more.

Sighing heavily, Kong Ming immediately walked up.

Kong Ming governed Shuzhong for many years, but also often visited the field, the people, the field have left its figure, some people say that it knows everything, know-it-all, his explanation of this is just that he took away a lot of roads than others, saw a lot of things, every battle, than personally go to survey the terrain, and then practice more, the so-called proficient Qimen Dunjia, Yin and Yang Five Elements, but everyone to spread falsehood.

It is precisely because Kong Ming mostly walks among the people, not to mention the entire Shuzhong, at least no one in Chengdu City knows his Prime Minister Zhuge Kongming.

Seeing Kong Ming coming, one of the two sturdy young men holding the old man hurriedly signaled to the other, and then put the old man down, and hurriedly knelt on the ground in fear.

"The grass people have seen the Prime Minister!"

Hearing that the two of them called the prime minister, the old man was startled at first, and then turned his head hopefully, a white figure appeared in his field of vision, his eyes were raised lightly, and Lao Zhang saw the face of the person who came, it was Shu Xiang Zhuge Liang!

Ignoring the dust on his clothes, the old man dragged his extremely inconvenient body towards Kong Ming, and when he came to him, he also bowed to him very respectfully.

Lao Zhang's legs and feet were a little inflexible, and he swayed from side to side when he walked, as if he was about to fall down at any time, so Kong Ming didn't dare to hold it up, so he hurriedly stepped forward to help him, and kept patting his old man's wrinkled hands, comforting: "Don't be like this, what are the difficulties, but please tell me, a certain will be your master!" ”

"Prime Minister, the rice jar in the old man's house has bottomed out, and he has to come to buy rice to eat, but who knows that the rice shop will not sell it to the old man!" The old man cried a little choked.

Hearing this, the faces of the two sturdy young men suddenly changed, but fortunately, one of them, who seemed to be more clever, explained stubbornly: "Prime Minister, the little one has something to say!" ”

"You say!" Kong Ming said indifferently.

"Prime Minister, it's not that we don't sell rice to Lao Zhang, it's really that my shopkeeper stipulates that copper coins are not allowed in all transactions, and gold and silver coins must be used! And we have tried our best to keep the price of rice down, and now we are selling rice that is only twice the price of the previous one, which is already low in Chengdu, and the profit is already insignificant! ”

"Even if it's the lowest price in Chengdu! Only gold and silver are accepted, where can gold and silver be used to buy rice! I also hope that the prime minister will call the shots of the old decay! ”

Afraid that the prime minister would blame him, the young man explained again: "Prime minister, now the price of copper coins has fallen again and again, and it has fallen by half in three days. I hope the prime minister will see clearly! ”

Although Kong Ming had a guess when he saw this scene just now, he was just as worried when he heard it with his own ears, yes, how much gold and silver are in the hands of ordinary people, gold and silver are luxury goods after all, once only gold and silver are accepted, the people can't buy what they need at all, and the pitiful turnover is just the children of everyone who has gold and silver to buy and sell.

At this time, Kong Ming was also a little embarrassed, he couldn't force the rice shop to sell rice to his father-in-law! Although this is possible, but it is a loss to the rice shop, but if he does not do this, he can't bear to see the old man begging for rice in a lonely way, if he pays for rice for the old man, he can help the old man, but he can't help others.

There are 100,000 people in Chengdu, and at least 70,000 or 80,000 of them can't buy rice like Lao Zhang, can they save it by paying for it? It's obviously unrealistic, after all, Kong Ming is an official and incorruptible, and he doesn't have much money in his hand, just enough to meet food and clothing!

I was worried for a long time, and I didn't know how much I sighed, as time passed, the old man seemed to have become a little lost, and there was no longer hope in his eyes, and the two middle-aged people didn't make any statement, waiting for Kong Ming's decision.

"Wei Gong!" Finally, Kong Ming turned to Yang Yi and called.

Yang Yi stepped forward: "What does the prime minister command?" ”

"How is the progress of the regular liquidation that Your Majesty wants to create?"

"Back to the prime minister, hundreds of people have made efforts, and Lord Dong Yun has personally supervised it, at present, two in the south of the city have been completed, and all four in the east of the city have been completed!"

Hearing this, Kong Ming couldn't help but nodded, with a little relief in his tone: "Xiu Zhao is still relatively safe, if only there were more such people in Shuzhong!" ”

"Is there any grain in the warehouse?"

"The granary in the south of the city has just been built, and there is no time to store grain, and the east of the city has begun to transport grain into the warehouse the day before yesterday, and now there should be millions of stones!"

"Million stones...... It is better to use the grain of this granary to help the people, after all, the original intention of His Majesty to build the granary is to turn around the market and help the people when necessary! ”

Hearing this, Yang Yi did not respond immediately, but said with some concerns: "Prime Minister, then it is appropriate to ask Your Majesty!" Otherwise, the prime minister and His Majesty are afraid that there will be a misunderstanding! ”

After thinking about it, Kong Ming also seemed to feel that it was really inappropriate for him to do this rashly, so he immediately walked to the old man's side and comforted him again: "Don't worry, old man, today or tomorrow, grain will be released from the imperial court!" At that time, everyone will have food to buy. ”

"Is this true? Prime Minister, don't coax the old man! The old man was still a little skeptical, if Kong Ming said so at the beginning, he wouldn't be so suspicious, but he was very embarrassed to see Kong Ming before, and he couldn't help worrying, after all, he was old and had experienced a lot of things, so he would inevitably think about it more!