The sun was already hanging high in the air, and the traffic was busy returning to Luocang on several main streets, and the people gradually increased, most of them were working in Luocang, with yellow cotton cloth on their shoulders that they didn't know how many times they had wiped their sweat and how long they had been used.

Talking and laughing in twos and threes, from the gate guarded by the prison guard, after passing the routine inspection with the simple token in his hand, he entered the inner warehouse where the grain was stored.

Judging from the top of the granary and the number of people entering, there is still a lot of grain left in Huiluocang, although I don't know what kind of grain is the main food left, but looking at the guarded appearance of the prison guards so heavily guarded, and the busy scene, it still makes people feel inexplicably relieved.

The shopkeeper took Datang's unique boiled tea, and was about to add onions, ginger and garlic-like condiments to it, but was immediately stopped by Li Sujie, and the tea foam didn't care, if you add those condiments again, it will really become a tea soup.

Since he was taught to taste tea with Li Hong, Li Sujie has been disgusted by the original tea soup, especially when Li Hong told him that the tea soup tastes similar to dishwashing water, Li Sujie also tasted it secretly, smacking his lips and feeling that it does taste the same, so now he has long been used to real tea tasting, instead of drinking tea soup anymore.

The guy looked at the three of them strangely, and saw that the three of them insisted on letting go, so he had to leave in a huff, and his heart was full of contempt for the three of them, and he was stupid to death, and he couldn't drink tea.

Bai Chun is naturally the best candidate for pouring tea, Li Hong and Li Sujie looked at the people who entered the inner warehouse, and said lightly: "It seems that there is still a lot of food here, and after the famine last year, I thought there would not be much food here." ”

"These are two different things, they are dumping the old grain and selling it to the people, and then the new grain continues to be stored, and as for some high-quality grain, see, those wagons are coming to pull those high-quality grains as seeds."

"Are these seeds sold to the people or free of charge?" Li Hong asked curiously.

Li Sujie has lived a very down-to-earth life in the fiefdom over the years, and naturally knows more about these grassroots things than Li Hong, and when he heard Li Hong's words, he glared at him and said: "Naturally, I buy it with money, and the best seeds are for the noble and wealthy families, where can the people afford it?" The richer ones will choose some medium seeds at most, and the poor ones will choose the lowest ones, and after the harvest in the autumn of the next year, they will pay them back according to the rent adjustment, including those owed to the officials. ”

"How's the harvest of inferior seeds?" The corners of Li Hong's mouth pulled out a sneer, and he looked at the two old men sitting not far from their table, where they were adding green onions and ginger to the tea with relish.

Li Sujie silently calculated in his heart and said, "Hmm...... Basically, after paying off the seeds of the official family and the rent paid, the surplus grain is enough for the family to eat until the end of the year, a family of five. ”

"Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the population of my Tang people has been on the rise, and now it has recovered to the population of the peak of the former Sui Dynasty. Li Hong is a little powerless, since Datang is so rich, why don't some of the policies of the year know how to change?

At that time, the first emperor quantified, that was because of the small population, because of the years of war, each household can have five people is considered good, and in the early days of the founding of the country, many people went up the mountain and fell into the grass, and the number of people who could be counted by the government was naturally less, so according to the system at that time, the policy given to today is a policy that is beneficial to the country and the people.

But now it's different, the population base is rising steadily, every household is growing in population, and the government soldiers are not included in the calculation, and now these grains are naturally not enough for the people to fill their stomachs in the disaster year after the rent is adjusted.

"Well, that's true, but that's what the first emperor decided, who in the court would dare to veto the first emperor's decision?" Li Sujie looked at Li Hong and asked meaningfully.

"Don't look at me......."

"The three sons are invited, the old man didn't do it on purpose, but this distance is too close, the old man has been listening to the conversation of the three just now, obviously dissatisfied with this food decision?" An old man at the table next to him walked over, pointed to the distance between the two tables, and said with a smile.

Li Hong looked at a black robe, wearing a hood and a beard, his figure was not very tall, but the whole person looked very elegant and wise, standing next to Li Hong.

"Don't dare to be dissatisfied, what's the matter, does the old gentleman also think that the decision left by the former emperor seems to be out of place now?" Li Hong looked at the middle-aged man in his forties and about fifty, and motioned for him to sit down and talk.

"Then thank you Childe, why don't you talk to that friend of mine?" In Datang, there are many people in their thirties who start to call themselves old husbands.

Li Hong smiled and nodded in agreement, and the middle-aged man called another middle-aged man of the same age and demeanor with a rather dignified demeanor, so the five of them sat at the same table.

The two of them looked at Li Hong's tea, and then at their own tea, but they looked at each other in some astonishment, and did not speak.

"Dare to ask where the son is from? I guess it's not a Luoyang scholar, right? The middle-aged man who spoke at the beginning asked.

"In Xia Li Bai, this is my brother Li Su, and this is in Xia Hongyan, a person from Jingzhao." Li Hong opened his eyes and said, he also believed that with the vicious eyes of these two people, I am afraid that at a glance, he would recognize Bai Chun, the goblin, as a woman disguised as a man.

And the reaction of the two was the same, after listening to Li Hong's words, he nodded, and introduced himself: "In the next Jiejie cloth cloth Sima Lin, this is Mr. Lou, who has been a friend for many years." ”

"I've seen two gentlemen." Li Hong said with a smile.

Sima Lin, then it should also be a family, in this era, the importance of the concept of the gate valve is self-evident, even if it is a declining family, as the heir of later generations, it will be on the lips, which is a kind of respect for the ancestors.

After Sima Yang served as the general of the Eastern Expedition in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Sima family gradually declined and faded out of the court in the later period. In the pre-Sui and Tang dynasties, there was no one who could be on the stage.

And the slightly thin man next to him, known as Mr. Lou, is probably Yin Lou Shide of Henan Mansion, after Li Hong appeared here, he was able to meet unexpectedly, and Li Hong didn't know if it was a real coincidence or a fake coincidence.

"I wonder if the two gentlemen are here to buy grain?" Li Hong blinked his eyes and asked curiously.

"Haha...... There is no grain to buy here, and the granaries of the government will only sell grain in the city, who will buy grain in this wilderness? What to do if you get hijacked on the road? It's the three sons, with extraordinary bearing, grace and luxury, I don't know what happened to come to Huiluocang, which is about to be abandoned by the imperial court? Sima Lin asked casually.

"As I said just now, the task given to me by the gentleman in the Chongwen Pavilion is how much a bucket of low-grade grain seeds are, how much can be produced in a year, and whether it is enough for the people to fill their stomachs, is the purpose of our here." Li Hong glanced at Lou Shide, who had not spoken, and said.

After Li Hong finished speaking, Sima Lin also glanced at Lou Shide casually: "If you have something to leave in the middle of last year's famine, please press CTRL+D to save the current page to your favorites for future viewing!"