The courtiers listened to Wei Jiansu's suggestion, and began to muttered in their hearts that Zhao Ziliang had put Wei Ge together just now, and now Wei Ge's father, Wei Jiansu, began to stab Zhao Ziliang in the back, three million people, this is not thirty thousand! Three million people poured into the North Court almost at the same time, how much pressure would this bring to the North Court? A series of problems such as social security problems, food problems, housing problems, land problems, etc., will cause a big incident if they are not handled properly!

Xuanzong didn't have any other way now, he looked at Zhao Ziliang and asked, "Zhao Qing, what do you think?" ”

Zhao Ziliang turned his head and glanced at Wei Jiansu, turned back to Xuanzong and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, a few years ago, the migration of displaced people from all over the Central Plains to Beiting was carried out in batches, and each time there were no more than twenty or thirty thousand people, even so, every time our officials in Beiting were very busy, and several times they almost caused a catastrophe because of improper handling, but now they want to move three million people at once, I am afraid that it will crush Beiting, but not to mention how much manpower, material resources and land are needed to resettle them, Let's just say that after they move over, the problem of eating is not something that Beiting can afford now, at least until next year's summer harvest, these three million people will need to rely on the Beiting government to feed, and the food gap is too big!"

Xuanzong asked, "Is there no way to solve the food problem?" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "If the imperial court can allocate a batch of money to Beiting to buy grain from Tianzhu, Tocharo, Dashi and Fula, and ask the Anxi Protectorate to support us with 300,000 stone of grain, the problem is not too big, otherwise Beiting will definitely not be able to feed this sudden increase of three million people!" At the same time, it is also necessary to make the towns along Longyou and Hexi prepare temporary living sites for refugees and displaced people! ”

Xuanzong looked at Yang Yan, the left attendant of the household department, and asked, "Yang Qing, how much money can the household department come up with now?" ”

Yang Yan is now less than thirty years old, and he is already ranked as the left waiter of the household department, this person is still quite capable in terms of finance, but now that the taxes have not been collected, he can't change money even if he is full of ability. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When Yang Yan saw that the emperor asked, he had to stand up and salute: "Your Majesty, if the autumn tax has not been collected, the rats in the treasury will starve to death, and you really can't get a penny, and the salaries of the officials of the various yamen of the imperial court have not been paid, and there are already many officials complaining!" ”

Xuanzong couldn't help but have a headache when he heard this, so he had to give Zhao Ziliang credit: "Zhao Qing, let's do this, the imperial court will first help move these refugees and displaced people to Beiting, and you will also give an order to the officials left behind in Beiting, so that they can do a good job of resettlement, and when the autumn tax comes up, I will issue an order to allocate two million yuan to the Beiting Dadu Protectorate as soon as possible, so that they can be used to buy food from Dashi, Fula, Tocharo and Tianzhu, what do you think?" ”

Zhao Ziliang hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty's golden mouth, Wechen is naturally not worried that His Majesty will break his word, Wechen is worried that the people below will deliberately drag it and not give it, as the saying goes, 'Hades is easy to see, little ghosts are difficult', and what 'county officials are not as good as now', etc., Wechen's temper is not very good, when the time comes, some people give Wechen eye medicine, and Wechen can't help but beat people, it's not good!" ”

The ministers couldn't help but feel a chill when they heard Zhao Ziliang's words, and many old ministers remembered that Zhao Ziliang beat Li Linfu in public in the court, and at that time, Li Linfu couldn't go to the ground for half a month.

Yang Yan only felt that the person Zhao Ziliang said was referring to him, his face darkened when he heard it, and he arched his hand to Zhao Ziliang: "Marshal Zhao said this to make it clear that he does not trust the lower officials, since His Majesty has already issued an order, the lower officials dare not slack off, after the autumn tax comes up, the lower officials will allocate these two million yuan to the North Court as soon as possible, so Zhao Dashuai can rest assured, right?" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded at this time, and said to Xuanzong: "Your Majesty, since Lord Yang has made a guarantee in court, Weichen has nothing to say, this matter is so decided, after the dispersal of the dynasty, Weichen will immediately write a text, and send eight hundred li to the Beiting Dadu Protectorate, so that the left-behind officials can immediately make preparations for the resettlement of the displaced people and refugees, and strive to let the refugees and refugees live in a new house immediately after arriving in Beiting!" ”

Seeing that Zhao Ziliang agreed, Xuanzong immediately clapped his hand and said: "Since this is the case, then this matter is so decided, and the order is issued to Longyou and the official towns in Hexi to do a good job of receiving the matter, no one is allowed to slack off and perfunctory, otherwise the punishment will not be severe!" ”

"Yes!"

Xuanzong said again: "Then how to deal with the suppression of grain prices, do you have a good plan?" ”

Wei Jiansu stood up and said: "Your Majesty, this grain is in the hands of grain merchants, of course they don't like a lot of money, and if they want the grain merchants to lower the price themselves, I'm afraid it's very rare!" Unless there is a large amount of affordable grain on the market now, where can we get it now? Doesn't Zhao Dashuai still have 800,000 stone grain in his hands? Why don't you squeeze out another 500,000 stone of grain and rush into the market to bring down the price of grain? ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Wei Jiansu's eyes with a cold glint, sneered in his heart, and came out and said: "Lord Wei, this commander will settle accounts for you, now my Beiting army has 40,000 horses, Hexi and Longyou have 10,000 each, Anxi army has 5,000, and there are more than 20,000 defeated soldiers, adding up to nearly 90,000 people, these all have to rely on Ben Shuai's counterinsurgency marshal to provide food and grass, in addition, we have also captured more than 100,000 horses from several battles, and now these people are undergoing the reorganization and training of our army, When the drill is completed, it can be officially incorporated into the combat sequence of the counterinsurgency army, so the total number of the whole army is 200,000, according to the calculation that each soldier eats at least one pound of grain per day, and 200,000 catties of grain are also needed a day, and the war horse cannot eat fodder all the time, and during the operation, it must be fed more than five catties of grain every day in order to maintain fat and strong, so as to have enough strength to fight, and now our army has 100,000 war horses, so the war horse will consume 500,000 catties of grain every day, and the whole army will consume 700,000 catties of grain every day. And the army must reserve more than five months of grain and grass to make the soldiers feel at ease, so calculated, our army must reserve nearly 700,000 stone grain and grass! Now there are 2.3 million stone grain in our military camp, of which 2 million stone were captured by our army from the rebels, and these two million stone grain are all the grain raised by the rebels in Chang'an, Weinan, Fengling, Huayin and other places, and it is impossible to seize so much grain in the future! If I take out 500,000 stone of grain now, who will bear the responsibility for the war if the war is in a state of anxiety and the army is facing a shortage of food, resulting in the soldiers having no fighting spirit, ruining the great cause of counterinsurgency, or causing a mutiny because of the lack of food? If you Wei Jiansu dare to guarantee here that this kind of thing will not happen, and today Ben Shuai will order the grain to be transferred, do you dare? ”

Zhao Ziliang's words are actually part of nonsense, there are only 10,000 heavy cavalry horses in the army are big food horses, each of which needs to be fed five catties of grain a day, and most of the other war horses are Mobei bantam horses, this kind of horse does not need to eat food at all, you can eat wild grass on the spot to maintain endurance, and the mare can also provide mare's milk for the soldiers, so that the soldiers can ensure nutrition.

Wei Jiansu's face was cloudy, and finally he laughed and said: "Why is Zhao Dashuai so angry, this official just said casually, anyway, the food is in your Zhao Dashuai's hands, if you don't want to, who can force you to fail?" ”

"Humph!" Zhao Ziliang glared at Wei Jiansu, and then turned to Xuanzong and hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, the reason why the price of grain on the market is inflated today is completely because the grain merchants deliberately coaxed it up, the conscience of these unscrupulous profiteers has been eaten by dogs, and the situation has been eroded to this point, but these people have made a fortune in the country, for this kind of unscrupulous profiteers, they must not let their greed and stupidity harm the people of Guanzhong, what do the imperial court and local government yamen eat?" At such a critical moment, the government must respond quickly, carry out administrative intervention, and adopt severe administrative measures to sanction these profiteers who deliberately raise prices and make a fortune in the country, sentencing them to three or five years in prison, and confiscating all their property and confiscation of all their belongings, so as to make an example of them, and vigorously commend those businessmen who donate money and materials to the former soldiers during such a period! Since ancient times, merchants have been regarded as inferior and lowly industries, but in fact, merchants have a very important role for the imperial court, merchants are called cheap businesses because people think they are greedy and fraudulent, in fact, this is not right, greed and fraud are the true colors of merchants, this cannot be changed, otherwise he is not a qualified businessman, and the past dynasties have not paid attention to businessmen and the necessary supervision, if you want to let businessmen play a greater role, you must pay attention to them, but at the same time you must introduce laws to supervise businessmen, To prevent businessmen from doing things that endanger the society because of greed, no matter how treacherous the businessmen are, they can't endanger the court, the government and the society, this is the bottom line! Any strategic materials, mines, and industries related to the imperial court's plans and people's livelihood must be operated by the government, and cannot be operated by businessmen privately. For example, this time the grain merchants wantonly raised the price of grain, and other businessmen raised the price, and the court and the government should promptly and severely punish them. Kill a group of people, and food prices and prices will naturally stabilize! ”

Wei Jiansu immediately objected: "Zhao Dashuai, if the imperial court does this, isn't it competing with the people?" ”

Several ministers also chimed in: "Yes, how can the imperial court do such a thing? Speaking of which, the face of the imperial court is not good-looking, right? ”

Zhao Ziliang sneered: "Compete with the people for profit? Their behavior has threatened the rule of the imperial court, and has threatened the safety of the Tang Dynasty, shouldn't such a person be killed? Hey, Master Wei, you speak for those black-hearted businessmen like this, is there anyone among those black-hearted businessmen who is attached to your protection? I'm afraid that you adults are also their umbrellas, right? It's not so much that the court and the people compete for profit, but that the court competes with you, right? Of course you're not happy, no wonder you're so vehemently opposed! I finally understood that there are not many people in this court who really think about His Majesty and the Tang Dynasty! ”

"You······ Slander, you slander! Wei Jiansu and the others shouted one after another, and turned to cry to Xuanzong: "Your Majesty, Zhao Ziliang is slandering the ministers, the ministers are loyal to Your Majesty, and I hope that Your Majesty will seek justice for us!" ”

Xuanzong Tie blushed, slapped the imperial case and said angrily: "Enough, do you guys really think that I am old and confused?" Usually you collect some money and let your family do some business to make some money, and I just turn a blind eye and forget it, but Datang has reached this point, my country is crumbling, and you guys are still trying to dig into my corners, can't I really do without you? Li Heng, the matter of punishing unscrupulous profiteers will be handed over to Jingzhao Mansion to handle, and it must be dealt with quickly and severely, if you want to bend the law for personal gain, I will remove you immediately! ”

Li Heng dared to be lazy, and immediately stood up and saluted and agreed: "Erchen obeys the order!" (To be continued.) )