"Got a way?" Chongzhen took a deep breath and straightened up, his originally pale face suddenly turned red, and his expression was like a person who had fallen into a river finally grasping a life-saving straw.

Looking at the unnatural flush on his face, Su Baiyi said: "It's all the minister's fault, it frightened Your Majesty." ”

"It's okay!"

Chongzhen's whole body was full of strength as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, he got up from his seat and walked down the steps, just standing upright in front of Su Baiyi's table, "If you have a way to solve the trouble of Sichuan and Shaanxi, I am ...... and I am " thought for a while: "There is nothing wrong with the public, I will rest with the country!" ”

Su Baiyi was shocked, this kind of glory was a little untempted even if he had crossed over from the twenty-first life. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, thought about it for a while, and resisted the temptation: "This method of the minister is easy to say, but it is difficult to do. ”

"It doesn't hurt if you say it, as long as you can solve the trouble of Sichuan and Shaanxi, I will do my best."

"Yes!"

The emperor stood in front of him, Su Baiyi naturally didn't dare to sit down like this, he also stood up, and said slowly: "The minister's method can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, it is nothing more than to let the people in Sichuan and Shaanxi live, and after ten years, the natural disasters will be slightly reduced, and then the vitality of the country can be truly restored." ”

"Sir, wait a minute!"

Chongzhen saw that it really didn't look like two people standing and talking like this across a table, so he shouted outside: "Big companion, add another foreshadowing to me!" ”

Wang Chengen came over as quickly as he could, and then according to the emperor's instructions, he glanced at Su Baiyi in a little surprise and put the bedding on the other side of the table.

Chongzhen sat on the ground, stretched out his hand to let Su Baiyi sit down, and said to Wang Chengen: "You go out, I want to talk to Mr. Su." ”

"Yes!" Wang Chengen bowed his hand, then went out backwards, and closed the door tightly.

"Sir, please continue!" Chongzhen's face was excited, and he couldn't wait after taking a sip of tea.

Su Baiyi nodded lightly, it seems that whether it is the emperor or the common people, at the age of twenty, he still retains a lot of the character of his youth.

"The minister dares to ask His Majesty!"

"Hey......" Chongzhen waved his hand again generously: "You are not my courtier, today I and you are regarded as a reminiscence between friends, you can talk freely, no matter what happens, I am not to blame for the past!" ”

"Good!" Su Baiyi was not hypocritical: "The minister asked Your Majesty, it is difficult for the Sichuan and Shaanxi thieves to be cleared, and even the more they are cleared, the more they are eliminated, what is the fundamental reason?" ”

"Great drought!" Chongzhen replied without thinking.

Su Baiyi shook his head, "That's just an inducement, let's not talk about it today, we should face the crux of the problem." I think the crux of the problem is the lack of food! As long as there is food, as long as they can survive, the minister believes that the people will not be willing to be thieves! ”

Chongzhen was silent for a while, then nodded: "What Mr. said is extremely true, but what?" ”

The thieves rebelled because there was no food, but there was no way to solve it, and the court couldn't do it.

"Then give them food so that the people will not starve to death!" Su Baiyi smiled slightly.

Zhu Youzhen's face flickered.

Give food!

Such a simple truth, he had thought of it a long time ago.

Not only did I think of it, but I did it.

When Chongzhen was in the third year, Yang He, the right attendant of the military department, advocated a pacification strategy, and rushed to Shaanxi to pacify the people with 100,000 taels of internal money and 50,000 taels of silver that the vassal kings had "worked hard" to scrape together, as well as hundreds of thousands of stone grains.

Indeed, as soon as the food arrived, the thieves immediately became obedient people.

But once the food brought by Yang He was exhausted, the people were hungry and rose up again and became thieves, and the situation in Shaanxi was like fire and water.

Now that Yang He is still in the Criminal Department, Shaanxi's problems have not been solved but are even worse than before.

Therefore, when Su Baiyi advocated pacification, Chongzhen was a little shaken.

He even thought that Su Baiyi was pretending to be amazing.

"Sir may not know that the imperial court has been pacifying Shaanxi for some days, but it has not been effective!" This sentence is very light, and the attitude is not as enthusiastic as before.

Su Baiyi didn't care, and smiled: "Yang He's idea is actually good, but his method is not right. ”

"What's wrong?"

"He's not doing the right thing. The minister is a man of numbers, so he looks at the problem from the point of view of arithmetic; First of all, the total grain inventory in Guanzhong will not change, Lord Yang took the silver to Shaanxi to pacify, in fact, it is nothing more than buying the grain of the east family to the west family, and buying the grain of the south family to appease the north family, don't you know that the food gap in the whole Shaanxi is huge and the grain price is extremely expensive. ”

Chongzhen said: "Then if you let Mr. go to appease Sichuan and Shaanxi, what will you do?" ”

Su Baiyi arched his hand, took a sip of water and said: "Back to Your Majesty, if you want to contain the situation in Sichuan and Shaanxi, it is useless to rely on the two provinces of Sichuan and Shaanxi alone, and you must mobilize the strength of the whole country." At least five aspects should be started, which the minister called the five-handed method. ”

As soon as he heard that it was a big layout, Chongzhen couldn't help but feel the spirit, and asked with wide eyes: "What is the method of five hands, Mr. explained it in detail for me." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Su Baiyi said: "First, grain transportation, relying on the grain of Shaanxi and Sichuan alone cannot save the fire, we must buy a large amount of grain from the south of the Yangtze River, and then transport it to Sichuan and Shaanxi, this is the most fundamental solution!" ”

Hearing this, Chongzhen's face darkened again, and after thinking about it, he decided not to hide it, and said: "Actually, Mr. doesn't know, the imperial court has even owed Liaodong's military salary for half a year, how can he still get the silver to buy food?" Besides, Mr. may not know that to transport grain from all over the country to Sichuan and Shaanxi, it is basically to transport three and save one. ”

In a word, no money!

Su Baiyi naturally knew that the imperial court had no money.

And what the emperor said is also the truth, transporting three and saving one, that is, basically after three catties of grain are transported to Shaanxi, in addition to the food of the workers on the road, there will be at most one catty left.

How many displaced people are there in Shaanxi, at least two or three million people, if a year's ration depends entirely on transportation, the cost is indeed not something that the imperial court can afford.

But Su Baiyi said with a smile: "It's okay, Your Majesty, if the minister comes to do this, he will not reach out to the court to ask for silver, and the minister will try his best to persuade those rich businessmen and wealthy families in our Ming Dynasty to let them raise funds, and then go to buy grain, and then transport it to Shaanxi and Sichuan to help the victims!" ”

"Impossible!" The Emperor shook his head, "How can they ask for their silver?" ”

If he could, he would have wanted it a long time ago as an emperor.

Su Baiyi said: "Your Majesty doesn't have to worry, and listen to the minister's words." The second hand is called cash-for-work. We provide free food to the people in Sichuan and Shaanxi, but we can't be so idle, and they are easy to make trouble. Therefore, the minister planned to build a road from Xi'an to the east to the sea, so that these people could have something to do! ”

"Build roads?" Chongzhen frowned: "What are you doing to build roads?" ”

"Circle silver!" Su Baiyi said with a smile: "Your Majesty naturally knows that the silver of those rich families is not good, and people are not fools, why should they give us the silver?" Therefore, let's draw a cake, and we must draw a super large pie to lure the rich to come and obediently give us the silver for food. This road is a cake, as long as you are willing to pay money, when you can make money after the road is built, you can take them to share dividends! ”

"Road, can you make money?" Chongzhen's brain is a little insufficient.

"Naturally!" Su Baiyi took another sip of water and smiled faintly: "Because the minister has a way to build a high-speed passage from Xi'an to the sea, once this road is repaired, it will only take two days and two nights to travel from Xi'an to the East China Sea." There is another advantage of this road, if it is to transport grain, you can transport nine out of ten! ”

Ten catties of grain are transported to Shaanxi, and nine catties can be saved? It only takes two days and two nights to get from the East China Sea to Xi'an?

"Is there such a way in the world?" Chongzhen, who said on the phone, began to doubt life.

He even wondered, is he stunned and dreaming in the middle of the night?

He also pinched his thigh hard, until the feeling of pain came, and he knew that it was not in a dream.

"Naturally, there is, this is also the knowledge that I have only figured out from the truth of heaven and earth not long ago, and the minister dares to guarantee that once this road is completed, from Xi'an to the sea, it will only be two days away at most. At that time, if the merchants want to transport goods, and the people want to travel far away, as long as they use our cars, regardless of carrying goods and people, they will need to pay silver taels, and it is not difficult for Your Majesty to imagine how high the profit is! ”

Goo!

Chongzhen swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

How big the profit is, before Su Baiyi asked, he had already begun to calculate in his heart.

Local specialties, tea, grain, cloth, medicinal materials, ores, manned!

From Nanzhili to Shaanxi, this road traverses the east and west of the Ming Dynasty, and you can imagine how busy the business can be after the completion of the repair.

Usually transporting grain is three and one is stored, but now it is transported ten and nine is not a little and a half star.

If this road can really be built, wouldn't Daming's tax revenue break through the sky?

"The minister conservatively estimates that after this road is completed, he will be able to earn at least two or three million taels of silver every year!"

Painting cakes, painting cakes, while Su Baiyi is painting cakes for the world's wealthy businessmen, why is he not painting cakes for Emperor Chongzhen.

But it's not a lie to the emperor, once the construction of the Dalonghai Railway is completed, as a unique business in this world, how much is it to earn three million taels of silver a year?

Not much, naturally!

This is only the early planning, if it is in the later stage, it should be more than that.

"Of course!" Su Baiyi looked at the emperor who had been poisoned deeply, and smiled: "If you want to build this road, Your Majesty still needs to give me forty percent of the profits Su Baiyi, and Bai Yi will take these forty percent of the profits to persuade the rich merchants of the Ming Dynasty so that they can obediently pay the money, otherwise it will be empty talk!" ”

"Then build this highway...... How much silver is needed for the road? Chongzhen gritted his teeth: If the silver needed is not much, it is a big deal for me to squeeze it out myself.

Three million taels of silver a year, forty percent of it was given to those rich businessmen, and he was very distressed.