However, Dean and his forbidden army, as well as the children who followed Cai Dao into Beijing, they did not understand. In order to let these children understand more truth, Cai Dao suddenly decided to let the large army stop.

He sent the children out into the fields and asked the peasants who were toiling.

For them, this may be the last lesson about life that Cai Dao will give them, because if they enter Beijing, the future of these children will be taken care of by the people arranged by Song Shenzong.

It has nothing to do with Cai Dao at all.

This may also be an experience in their lives.

Dean didn't understand why Cai Dao suddenly stopped, seeing that he was about to return to Bianliang City, why waste time staying in these rural places for a little thing?

However, when he saw that the children had just run out excitedly, but then they had come back dejectedly, he knew that something was wrong.

Only then did he understand that the reason why Cai Dao did this was not without purpose.

Dean also tried to ask a few children, and they also relayed the words of the peasants to the adult of the forbidden army, but each child relayed the words differently.

"Lieutenant Yuwu, shouldn't it be a good thing that the people have a good harvest? Why did these children come back dejected after asking? What do you ask these children to ask the farmers? In the end, Dean couldn't help it and asked Cai Dao the question in his heart.

Cai Dao heard Di An's question, but did not give a direct answer: "You really want to know, Uncle Di, you and I are just military attachés." The affairs of the people are left to those officials who are close to the people, if those sour people know, you and I will not have good fruit to eat! If you really want to know, you can also go back and ask Master Di Yongdi. "Author's Recommendation: The Empire of Shiling

Cai Dao said it very harshly, but there was nothing wrong with it. In the Great Song Dynasty, the authority of military attachés had long been weakened to the extreme. Not to mention civilian, most of the time, military attachés have to listen to civilian officials even on how to fight.

"Stop talking nonsense, are you going to say it or not?" Cai Dao's words, after Dian grew up, he had heard it countless times, but he still felt irritable.

"Since you want to know so much, I'll tell you!" After Cai Dao said this, he paused, and said loudly to Dean and the forbidden army: "Old man, seeing that the harvest is over, are you happy?"

"Children, what did the farmers say to you?"

The children told the answers they got from the farmers one by one, and the results were naturally different, and the farmers' answers were varied.

But Dean could hear it, and there was only one general meaning in their words.

Seeing that the grain harvest is about to be harvested, the grain in the field has not yet been put into their pockets, but those large and medium-sized grain merchants who buy grain have already pushed the purchase price of grain very low.

In fact, this is why these children sent by Cai Dao are small, if the forbidden army asks in the past, those farmers who are busy in the fields will either not bother with the inquiry at all, or they dare not answer this question at all, or even if they say it, it is all a lie. The military skins on their bodies are sometimes not as good as the credibility of bandits and bandits.

When the farmers saw these children so young, they thought of the children in their own family and felt empathy, and most of them spoke their hearts to the children. After the harvest, the family will no longer worry about going hungry this year. However, in life, food alone is not enough. You also have to prepare some copper coins and put them at home in case of emergency. For example, table salt, which costs money to buy, is a necessary thing in everyone's life, and other needles and threads also need copper coins.

Once someone in the family is sick, it is like half the sky has fallen, and it costs money to see a doctor and take medicine. And if you want to get enough copper money to meet your needs for a year's life, you must sell the grain in your hands cheaply.

In the harvest years, the price of grain was really cheap, and it was pressed very low by those large and medium-sized grain merchants.

Therefore, scarce things are expensive. On the contrary, it is more expensive than more.

This year's situation is the latter.

When passing through the prefectures and counties along the way, Cai Dao sent people to record the grain prices of those grain shops, and now, in the nearest county town, the price of each bucket of wheat has reached less than ten yuan. Along the way, the price of grain in each shop has been decreasing, which may be a good thing for the citizens of Bianliang City, but for the vast number of farmers in the Central Plains, it is a complete disaster.

Because those big grain merchants themselves are big landlords, their fields have already produced too much grain, and they have a good grain storage system at home, which can ensure that the surplus grain can be well preserved. They don't even need to buy food from other farmers.

"Whether it is the private sector or the government, don't they all have regular liquidation?" In the ranks of the forbidden army, the only remaining adjutant of Dean couldn't help but ask.

Cai Dao glanced at Dian, obviously he also had such a question. He could only say in his heart that these two officials were really naïve when they were so old.

"In the Han Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, and the early Tang Dynasty, Chang Ping still had some effect, but at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Chang Ping was controlled by officials and local gentry, where only the grain of the landlords was collected, and in the end, the grain in the hands of the common people could only be sold to those big grain merchants. Therefore, the money of the government has been coveted by the local gentry and most of the corrupt officials or unscrupulous officials. ”

The reason why Cai Dao didn't say anything about the situation of the Great Song Dynasty was that he didn't want to talk about the government casually. After all, no matter how high the rank of the Jilu official given to him by Song Shenzong is, he is only a military attaché. He didn't want to give someone a handle, because he knew that there must be other people's spies among these forbidden troops, so he still had to be careful when he spoke.

At this moment, everyone stopped talking. Dian's family is a big landowner, but taking care of the family property has always been done by other people, so it is normal for Di'an, the eldest grandson, to understand the Tao in it.

The team set off again, and the big guys looked at the rolling wheat waves and the golden fields, and they no longer had any joy in the mood, all of them were heavy-faced, and the children were too frightened to speak.

To paraphrase Du Mu's poem 'Hillside Sheep Tong Care Ancient':

Sorry, the people are bitter; Abundant, UU reading et people suffering.

It was not far from Bianliang City, but Cai Dao felt that the road ahead was long, and the further he went, the more uneasy his heart became. Is there a way to change this situation, Cai Dao really has it.

However, when he returned to Bianliang City this time, he had secretly decided that when Song Shenzong was still alive, he would completely calm down. Do a few things well, complete a few important researches, and don't give those political enemies, especially Zheng Xia and the officials of the Fuqing department, a chance to deal with themselves.

Cai Dao is very aware of his current situation, no matter how Song Shenzong is spoiling himself, being too young is a huge disadvantage for him. He has a lot of things he wants to do and can do, all because of such a reason, and he can't talk about it, let alone do it.

What's more, although he became a monk and entered the Tao, he couldn't get rid of the objective fact that he was Wang Anshi's grandson, so not only those people from the Fuqing family stared at him, but also the conservative ministers led by Sima Guang and those princes, nobles, and military generals who were damaged because of Wang Anshi would hide in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to find their mistakes and bite hard.

Cai Dao did not graduate from the Department of History, and he didn't know exactly what year Song Shenzong died, but he could also see that this old man was not a long-lived monarch.

In the future, the sufficient reserves of grain and treasury that his grandfather Wang Anshi had accumulated for him were either wasted in the northwest region by Song Shenzong's eagerness to destroy the Western Xia, or by those conservative ministers, who spent it comfortably while scolding Wang Anshi and the ancestors of the reformers.

Historical facts have proved that both Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi's political enemies did this.

Therefore, this time when he returned to Beijing, Cai Dao drew up a bold plan and gave this plan a name, called the 'Wealth for the People Plan'.

So what is the 'Wealth for the People Project'?