Yang Guang was completely confused by Qian Wuliang's completely ignorant words, turned to Yuzan, and asked in disbelief: "What does he mean by this?" Famine, what famine? ”

Seeing this, Yuzan hurriedly stepped forward and used his body to block between Yang Guang and Qian Wuliang, and reported to Yang Guang with a smiling face: "Mr. Qian is in a hurry, the prince is not strange." www.biquge.info Originally, Mr. Qian and I discussed that we wanted to requisition a batch of grain from the Grange in Gyeonggi to deal with the emergency, and then we could recover after the newly harvested corn was put into the warehouse in one or two days. Who knows, today the people in the Grange said back and forth that last year's drought was bad, the harvest in the field was not good, and the Grange had cut off rice and flour as early as three days ago, and hundreds of people now only rely on digging some wild vegetables in the fields every day to survive, and they are looking forward to harvesting this year's corn to wrap their stomachs. Since the Grange can't be counted on, I thought about looking for Mr. Qian to take out some money and silk, and go to the east and west cities to buy some grain, which can last for more than ten days, but Mr. Qian said that in recent days, the furnishings in the house have been replaced, and new clothes have been added for the upper and lower people, and there is a lot of money left in the treasury, and the food that can be bought is only enough for a dozen people to eat for a day. ”

Yang Guang heard Yuzan's words, and he couldn't cry or laugh, he couldn't imagine that as the prince of the imperial court and the dignified prince, now there was no food for the next day in the house, and there was a food crisis. Wouldn't this be a big joke if it were to be said?

Standing in the hall in a daze for a long time, Yang Guangcai broke free from the ridiculous but overwhelmed emotion, counted the money with his hand, and asked in a hoarse voice: "You tell me about the recent income and expenditure of the mansion one by one, why did you get to this point?" If I find out if there's a falsehood, your head won't be your own. ”

Qian Wuliang looked very calm, gently put the account book in his arms on a few cases in the palace, turned around and walked in front of Yang Guang, and said one by one with his fingers: "Lord, first talk about the money and silk stored in our treasury, before you ordered the replacement of the pavilions and pavilions in the palace, there are a total of 13,060 pieces of money in the treasury, and 77 pieces of cloth, according to the instructions of the prince, but all the furnishings in the palace are updated and replaced, a total of 13,000 and 50 pieces of money are spent, and there are 10 pieces of money left; There were a total of 267 people in the house, and according to the calculation of each person buying a new set of clothes for spring and summer, a total of 72 horses of cloth and silk were sent out of the warehouse, and there were 5 horses left; Now it is the turn of spring and summer, the grain will be exhausted, the new grain has not been harvested, Chang'an east and west two markets, the market of corn is rising day by day, today a bucket of rice has been sold to the price of 1,500 yuan, a piece of rice needs to spend 15 times, with a good silk silk to fold money five times, the existing money in the library is a total of 35 times, can be purchased corn two Hu two buckets; In addition to the original 267 people in the current house, a new Tang Guogong led a hundred Qianniuwei soldiers, and 29 women, such as Niangniang, no, the princess's attendants, a total of 396 mouths, with two liters of rice per person per day (about 1 catty) per sergeant, and 1 liter of rice per person per day for other people, the rice required by the whole house is about three and five buckets a day, and there is still a deficit of one and three buckets, reminding the prince that this is only an expense for corn, if you add others, the daily deficit is about 20 yuan. ”

Yang Guang was about to explode when he heard this, interrupted Qian Wuliang, gasped, and turned to ask Yu Zan: "Why didn't you come to report earlier?" The twenty or thirty people around the eldest sister are just that, why do the hundred sergeants brought by Li Yuan also want our government to eat for them, and the court doesn't give them food? ”

Yu Zan also felt very aggrieved, cried with a sad face, and replied: "Maybe in the future, the imperial court will bring us food and money to make up for this part of the deficit in the house." But Lord Wang, I don't know when it will be, tomorrow our house will be interrupted. A few days ago, Mr. Qian and I both reminded the prince that the expenses in the house are large now, and the money in the treasury is limited, so it can be ...... Now, the two of us have thought of all the ways we can think of, and there are still many shortfalls that cannot be made up, so I came to ask the prince to see if I can borrow some food from other princes' mansions to survive the famine for more than ten days. ”

"Wait." Yang Guang regained his composure and asked Qian Wuliang, "You just said how much money is stored in the treasury in the mansion and how much has been spent in recent days, why don't you talk about what else you have in?" ”

Qian Wuliang spread his hands helplessly, and replied: "Lord, you also know that most of the money and silk saved in our treasury were rewarded by the emperor in the past year, and the other is that the prince has actually received the rent and adjustment of the fiefdom, since the emperor ascended to the pole, he has made an order, and the prince shall not receive more than 300 households. Therefore......"

A prince of the Sui Dynasty only had two annual incomes: the reward of the emperor and empress and the entry of the fiefdom, so didn't they get a salary every month? Yang Guang was puzzled, but he didn't rashly ask Qian Wuliang this, he pondered for a while, and finally felt that it was a loss of face to borrow grain from his brothers' mansions, so he asked Yuzan in a consultative tone: "Why do you have to borrow grain?" Couldn't we explain the situation to the official office in charge of supplying the rations of the forbidden army, and ask them to advance some of the food of Qianniuwei to meet the needs of the moment? ”

Yu Zan knew that Yang Guang couldn't pull his face to borrow food from his brothers, so he had to explain patiently: "Don't hide it from the prince, Mr. Qian and I have also thought about this way to raise food, but in that case, the emperor and Niangniang will inevitably learn about it, if you send someone to the house to ask for details, Lao Er is only afraid that the prince will be disadvantaged." In fact, not only a hundred Qianniuwei went out of the palace on an errand, and the palace ** should pay for the food, even if the princess was surrounded by twenty or thirty attendants, they did not have to be raised by our house, but now the princess has just moved from the Hongsheng Palace to live in our house, and a few days ago she refused to accept the order, and the required supply has not yet been approved and paid...... Originally, for more than ten days, more than 100 grains were nothing, but there was a grain shortage in Chang'an City, and now it was a time when there was a shortage of green and yellow, so it unexpectedly fell into a deficit. Lao Er and Mr. Qian thought about it repeatedly, and felt that the only way to deal with it at the moment was to borrow food from several other princes' mansions. ”

"If you open your mouth to borrow food from others, won't this news reach the palace?"

Yu Zan heard that there was a sense of loosening in Yang Guang's words, and hurriedly persuaded while the iron was hot: "If you want to say that the prince borrowed food from other princes, Lao Er didn't dare to guarantee that the news would not reach the palace, there was only one person, if the prince was willing to open his mouth to borrow grain from him, the emperor and Niangniang would probably not know about it." ”

Yang Guang's heart moved and asked, "Who is this person?" ”