"The five grains are the life of all the people and the treasure of the country. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

With this as the beginning, in this wheat field on the outskirts of Yecheng, Ji Ran confided to Zhao Wuxian the plan to let the Zhao family survive the disaster year.

"A person's life is only a few decades, and he must first save up to prepare for disasters, so that he can be safe, and the same is true for his family and country. In the event of a disaster, if it is not handled well, the people will freeze and starve to death, or the country will be scattered and the society will change hands. However, at the time of Xia Yu, the world suffered floods for nine consecutive years, and the people were not displaced; At the time of Shang Tang, the world had a great drought for seven years, and the people did not starve to death because of this, which was the reason why the ancient sages were able to anticipate disasters in advance and have sufficient reserves. ”

Ji Ran pointed to the bumper harvest of wheat fields and millet fields, and calculated an account for Zhao Wuxian: after this bumper harvest, Zhao's county government treasury, Yedi will have a surplus of grain for one and a half years, Hanoi for three years, and the eldest son for two years, this is because there has been no large-scale use of troops in these three places in the past few years, but Yecheng immigrants are a bit too much, and a lot of consumption is consumed. Taiyuan has only one year's savings, Dongyang is one and a half years, the barren Daijun and Hejian are only half a year, and the newly annexed Shangjun is under the rule of the fetters and is not counted.

This is what Ji Ran said before: "Those who rejuvenate teachers must first accumulate food, money, and cloth, and if they do not accumulate first, the soldiers will be hungry, and they will be vulnerable to injury if they are hungry." Zhao Wuxian's soldiers were not terracotta figurines who did not eat or drink, and every time they moved their troops, it meant that a lot of food was consumed. This is also the reason why the Zhao family has only mobilized troops on a small scale in the past three years, and has not fought a national war.

As for the Wei and Han families, who fought for many years and recruited the people several times, Zhao Wuxian estimated that Anyi and Yucheng would have to burn high incense if they could have a year's surplus grain.

However, if it is really as Chang Hong predicted, when the disaster comes, everyone will not be able to escape.

Zhao Wuxian frowned and said: "In this way, if the entire Jizhou (between the two rivers, including Shanxi) suffers a disaster, the grain of Taiyuan, Dongyang, Hejian, and Dai will be a little stretched. In this way, from today onwards, we will start to reduce the major projects that consume grain, such as digging the passes and tunnels of Taihang, which can be released later, and then the grain from Hanoi will be moved to the county treasury. ”

"This is just throttling, and for the counties, I'm afraid it's just a drop in the bucket."

Ji Ran pointed to a paddy field in the distance and said: "Zhao's grain is like the water in this paddy field, no matter how you save it, there will be times when it dries up under the sun." So in addition to that, we have to dredge and adjust, and we have to open up the source, dig up the ridges, and let the water from other places flow in. ”

"How? Please also sir. ”

"It's actually quite simple." Ji Ran said with a smile: "If the valley is cheap, it will hurt the peasants, and if the valley is expensive, it will hurt the ......."

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"There is a certain price for grain, based on Zhao's five baht money, twenty yuan and one stone are too cheap, and ninety yuan and one stone are too expensive. The high price of grain hit the merchants, so that they could not afford to hire workers, and the goods in transit rose to the price, which led to a depression in the market, and the tax revenue of the Zhao Shaofu would fall. If the price of grain is too low and hits the peasants, the peasants will have barren land, there will be famine, and the old man will not be able to complete the plan. In the event of a disaster, it will make matters worse, and may lead to the exodus of people. ”

Zhao Wuxian nodded, this is the later King Wei Hui's "Hedong disaster, Hanoi disaster...... If the people of the neighbouring countries are not less, and the people of the few are not more, why not? The origin of this question. In the case of the coexistence of many countries, the people cannot survive in this country, and they can completely cross the border to other countries to make a living. Unlike later, when there was the same government everywhere, the wandering would still be suppressed, so they could only rebel.

The current official system of the Zhao family is completely different from the original Jin State, but it is like the Jiuqing system of the Qin and Han dynasties, and many official positions even have the same names. Zhao Wuxian has appointed Ji Ran to be promoted from Yecheng Ling to the "Inner History of Governing Su", and his subordinate officials include Taicang, Jitian, Nongcheng, Pingzhun, and Junyi, as his name suggests, and is in charge of agriculture, which is the most important part of the economy.

There is also a "Shaofu" in the economic department, which was handed over to Ji Qiao, who is proficient in mathematics, who is in charge of industry and commerce, as well as the coinage of money and gold silks, and the income is attributed to Zhao Wuxian's private small treasury, which is also a large amount of income.

Ji Ran, as the internal history of Su Zhisu, in his position, he naturally wants to seek his own government, and the Zhao family's territory is vast, and he can also display what he has learned and understood in his life one by one.

Therefore, the price of grain should not be higher than 90 yuan, and the purchase price should not be less than 20 yuan, so that it is beneficial to both farmers and merchants. But how can this food price be regulated? Merchants have their own set of internal laws for growing grain, so prices fluctuate with market supply and demand. ”

"The minister's advice was to buy grain at the right time and sell it at the right time. In this way, regardless of the good year or the bad year, the grain price can be kept within a certain range, and both agriculture and business will benefit. Even if there is a real famine, flood and drought, food prices will not skyrocket, market prices will be stable, and people will not panic and flee to foreign countries. ”

Zhao Wuxian nodded when he heard it, but this thing always felt as if he had heard it in history class in his previous life.

After thinking about it for a while, he finally patted his head.

Isn't this the "Flat Law" in Li Kui's reform of the Wei State!

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However, after Zhao Wuxian recalled, he found that Ji Ran's focus was to make farmers and businessmen benefit both by selling grain, and it was more appropriate to call it the "Pingguang method".

The two viewpoints, which are separated by a hundred years, are the same as the overall thinking, which is translated into modern language, that is, the state uses the method of establishing a certain grain reserve and a grain price adjustment fund to intervene in the grain market throughout the country and to swallow grain in the market at the right time, so as to stabilize grain prices and protect and promote the stability and development of grain production.

So Zhao Wuxian coughed lightly and added: "Sir's words are reasonable, in my opinion, it is better to formulate a system at this opportunity, and divide the good years into upper, middle and lower grades, and the bad years are also divided into upper, middle and lower grades." The harvest year is based on the annual harvest situation, so that the government can buy surplus grain and prevent merchants from lowering grain prices; In poor harvest years, according to the extent of the poor harvest, the government will sell the purchased grain at a fair price to prevent merchants from raising prices and causing panic......"

This is the content of the "Flat Method", Zhao Wuxian is now learning and selling, which makes Ji Ran quite surprised.

If you think about it carefully, selling at a fair price is indeed more specific and operable than passively adjusting according to market price fluctuations, and it can show the iron fist of the government and show that everything is under control.

However, compared with Ji Ran's "Pingguang", this method is not so friendly to businessmen, and guards them like a thief.

As far as Ji Ran's heart is concerned, he attaches more importance to agriculture, which is why he subconsciously calls Shangjia "the end". It's not because business isn't important, it's just that when disasters are coming, and the two are trade-offs, agriculture must be the first priority. What's more, as a long-term ruler, it is his duty to do a good job in farming......

Therefore, Ji Ran promised that after going down, he would revise and supplement this law in accordance with Zhao Wuxian's suggestion, and strive to implement it after the autumn harvest, and use the savings of this year's bumper year to deal with the possible famine next year.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: It is really surprising and gratifying that this monarch's comprehension ability is so strong, because ordinary monarchs and doctors are only concerned about how much grain they can collect this year, and whether they can increase taxes and collect a little more. Either they forced their people to hunt, log, and fish to sell for income. It is rare to rely on improving agricultural technology to increase grain like Zhao Wuxian, and to rely on paper, porcelain and other handmade products with technical content to make a lot of money.

This is also the reason why the Zhao family can "use all kinds of force", and if they change to other countries, they have already had dishes for the people.

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And Zhao Wuxian's side can only feel sorry for the inevitable decrease in Shaofu's income next year, and the teacher Ji Qiao who is worried about the decline in political performance.

But this is something that cannot be helped, although I don't want to admit it, but the fact is that although Zhao's industry and commerce seem to be booming, even if Zhao Wuxian develops for another few decades, China is still a civilization based on agriculture, and any "progress" and "sprout" that deviates from the production level of the times is a castle in the air. This was the reason why the Qin State relied on the monotonous "peasant war" to sweep away the six more advanced countries on the commercial and material levels.

Because they have grasped the fundamentals and grasped the lifeblood on which this civilization depends.

Therefore, the Zhao regime, which is based on the economy of the military landlords and small peasants, must have grain prices conducive to arousing the peasants' enthusiasm for production and the development of agriculture, and must not be at the expense of the peasants' interests!

Of course, Zhao Wuxian did not hate Shang Jia like the later Qin and Jin legalists, after all, the trade rights of the entire north were in his hands. He asked Zigong to use Cao's Taoqiu to collect and distribute goods from Chu, Chen, Cai, Song, Wu, and Lu, and when the Wei Canal was completed, Puyang could also collect and distribute Jin and Lu goods, and the trade share left to Linzi and Xinzheng would become only a handful.

In addition, Yidun's official caravans controlled the trade with Daibei Hudi and Shangjun Rongdi, and Taiyuan became a metropolis in the north, occupying the majority of the cattle, horse, and leather trade. On the side of Juguo Langya, the salt drying method is also quietly replacing the boiling salt method, which is expected to break the monopoly of Wei and Qi on salt.

To put it bluntly, he Zhao is the most hateful official and businessman of this era, one foot is still stepping on the feudal era, but one foot is stepping into the ancient trust of the monarch's ****.

Therefore, Zhao Wuxian did not take the extreme line of "going to the peasants and eliminating the last", and it was the royal choice to focus on agriculture, supplemented by industry and commerce, and the coexistence and healthy development of the economy under multiple ownerships.

What's more, Ji Ran's "open source" strategy has to rely on businessmen of all sizes to realize it!

The two of them stood for a long time, and they were a little tired, so they sat on the ridge, as the secretary of the Jin Kingdom, Zhao Wuxian was not too dirty, and crossed his legs and asked down.

Ji Ran said: "Shangqing has forced the use of Zhao's five-baht coin among the princes of Lu, Wei, Ju and Si, replacing the previous miscellaneous coins and becoming the only currency of the nations. In addition, Han Wei, Song, Zhongshan, Northern Yan, Qi, Zheng and other states that had close trade contacts with the Zhao family, the five-baht coin was also extremely circulating, and it almost became the standard currency of trade. Now that the iron mines of the Jin Kingdom are all over the place, weapons and agricultural tools no longer need a large amount of copper and tin, why not mint a large number of stored copper and tin coins, and then use these coins to buy grain from Han Wei, Zhongshan, Beiyan, Qi, Zheng and other countries at a price beyond the market? ”

"This year is a bumper harvest year, and the countries and the second secretary do not pay much attention to the regulation and control of grain reserves, and the merchants in the territory are greedy for profits, so they will inevitably rush to import grain into Zhao, so that the government treasury can be self-sufficient......

Zhao Wuxian slapped his hands and smiled: "Sir's plan, but it's a bit 'insufficient and more than enough'!" ”

But he likes this method of harming others and benefiting himself. When there is no money available, flying printing standard currency to pit others, and there is no International Monetary Organization to embarrass him, it is exciting to think about it.

The catastrophe that may come next year is not only a test for the Zhao family, but perhaps, it is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

PS: This chapter has been written for a long time, and I don't know if you can understand it...... Chapter 2 in the evening (to be continued.) )