After withdrawing from the chat group, Emperor Chongzhen thought about the affairs of North Korea, but in the final analysis, it was still a food war. Whether it is the original intention of Jianyu to enter Korea, or the reason why North Korea resisted Jianjiao, or the root cause of Lu Xiangsheng's war, food is a key word.

At present, in China, there is actually a war for food. To solve the civil unrest in the northwest, it is necessary to have enough food so that the people in the northwest can survive. The same is true in the land of Gyeonggi, where there must be food. There are also disasters in various places, in fact, they are all due to food shortages or not.

However, it is still in the Xiaoice period and will continue for more than a decade. The abnormal climate has a very big impact on the reduction of grain production. It is conceivable that there will be a constant shortage of food in the future.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but worry about the situation on the Nanyang side, how many countries could transport grain! Hehe, if you don't give food, believe it or not, I started a war for food, and I directly grabbed it first, at least I can't let the country rebel on a large scale because of the lack of food!

Thinking like this, Emperor Chongzhen naturally remembered the hard-hit area of Shaanxi. The money promised by the court to the governor of the three sides that Yang He should be allocated out.

Now there are almost 30 million taels of silver in the treasury of the household department, and Cao Huachun copied the Ma family from Suzhou, as well as the prefect and the relevant people of the county and so on, and there are almost 10 million taels.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but sigh secretly, the great salt merchant of the Ming Dynasty had even more wealth than a big smuggler like Fan Yongdou, which was really enviable!

In the existing treasury, it looks like the amount of silver will be the most in many years, but there are many places to use it! Of this, at least 30 million taels will become the share capital of China Construction Bank. This is a chicken that can lay golden eggs, the more money the better, I hope to use the bank as a financial tool to comprehensively drive the internal construction of the Ming Dynasty. However, it can only be given 30 million taels. The rest of the money must be saved.

Thinking of the word emergency, Emperor Chongzhen's head hurt again. As far as Shaanxi is concerned, the matter of disaster relief is still relatively easy, so as previously agreed, it will give money, purchase grain in the surrounding areas, use it in a centralized manner, and gather the strength of the victims to build water conservancy infrastructure.

But what about the salaries of the border army! Is it money or food? This is actually a long-standing problem.

At the very beginning, in addition to the self-sufficiency of the border army, what the imperial court issued was to fold its true colors, that is, to give food. But because of the long distance and steep road, these consumed too much, and later changed to discounted silver, that is, the silver taels were directly issued.

However, in the ninth year of Jiajing, many officials, such as Zhang Lian, the official of the household department, Wang Qiong, the chief manager, Zhang Runshen, Chen Kan and others in the matter, pointed out that in the year of the famine in Shaanxi, if you are to convert silver, there will be no silver but no food, and the officials and soldiers will not be practical, and the method of converting silver should be abolished.

Even more radical is that Emperor Chongzhen just met Mao Yuanyi a few days ago, this person is worthy of being a person with military ambitions, and he has a set of military theories. When talking about this issue that day, Mao Yuanyi radically believed that the method of exchanging silver was the culprit behind the serious shortage of military salaries in the Shaanxi border army, which caused many problems for the soldiers.

Emperor Chongzhen remembered very clearly, at that time, Mao Yuanyi played excitedly: "Today, the method of foot side storage, such as opening the tuntian, the surplus salt, urging the people's movement, and strict warehouse collection, there is still a method of folding silver." Feng Qing, the waiter of the household department in Zhengde, changed the grain and grass in Xi'an, Yansui, Qingyang and other prefectures. The husband takes three coins and one stone of grain, that is, three taels and one stone, and the silver is not edible, and the grain must be expensive to four taels or five taels, that is, not to four taels or five taels, and the dead are more than one in gold, and the one who is a figurine should be chased and poked! ”

Emperor Chongzhen did not agree with his point of view. As far as the nature of the levy is concerned, there are many inconveniences and drawbacks, such as reporting ox carts, relieving husbands, giving warehouses, and making it difficult to collect. From the perspective of historical process, it is also a historical trend to change from in-kind to monetary payment. Zhang Juzheng's whip method is undoubtedly in line with the trend of history.

But in the year of famine, Mao Yuanyi was not wrong. This is the contradiction, Emperor Chongzhen thought, and couldn't help but have a headache. In the final analysis, the productivity of Daming is underdeveloped!

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen had no intention of working, and walked out of the main hall.

"Your Majesty, it's cold outside, it's still ......," Gao Shiyue, the eunuch on duty, admonished.

Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said in the face of the cold wind: "It's okay, when he is cold, his brain will be clearer!" ”

As soon as Gao Shiyue heard this, she knew that His Majesty had encountered a problem. He hesitated, but in the end he didn't speak, but just asked his subordinates to bring a cloak and put it on the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about him, thinking about the affairs of Shaanxi, just walking, and slowly arrived at the imperial garden.

Standing by the frozen lake, looking at the royal garden under the severe cold, there is no anger at all, this ghost weather!

Emperor Chongzhen was sighing, and suddenly there was a sound of broken footsteps from a small road in the distance, and the voices of two palace maids came at the same time.

"Sister, give your hand stove to my sister, my sister's hands are almost frozen!"

"Who makes you lazy, I don't know...... Ah, you still want to grab it! You damn girl, do you think your sister can't beat you......"

was noisy, the two palace maids walked out of the path, and suddenly saw the emperor standing there, and the eunuch Gao Shiyue on the side stared at them coldly, they were frightened, and quickly knelt on the ground to plead guilty.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally wouldn't blame others for such a trivial matter, and when he was about to signal to calm down, his eyes stared at the hand stove and suddenly stopped.

"You two, who taught you, noisy and noisy, where do you think this is......" Gao Shiyue scolded loudly with a cold face.

The two palace maids lay there, their bodies trembling a little, obviously very scared.

Suddenly, Emperor Chongzhen strode forward, and his abnormal behavior made Gao Shiyue unable to react, so he had to shut up.

I saw Emperor Chongzhen step forward, pick up the hand stove, hold it in his hand and feel warm, and then look at the two palace maids, and said with a smile: "Get up, it's not a big deal!" ”

"......" Gao Shiyue was a little speechless when she heard it. The emperor said so, and he had no choice but to follow, "Don't thank you yet!" ”

When the two palace maids heard this, they hurriedly thanked and got up, but they were still very nervous and lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen smiled, stretched out his hand to return the hand stove to the older palace maid, and then said with a smile: "I don't like the palace to be too serious, as long as the palace rules are within the range, it is a good thing to be happy." Go down, and don't take the things of the day to heart. ”

Gao Shiyue was speechless when she heard it, but looking back, it seems that the emperor has changed a lot since December last year, and there is nothing strange about such a change.

He was thinking about it, but he saw Emperor Chongzhen with a smile and said to him: "Convey the cabinet assistants, and the secretary of the military department will go to the Wenhua Hall immediately!" ”