In order to let the imperial court help him solve the problem of winter rations for the people of Yishui County, Li Jin wrote a letter about the miserable life of the local people, and handed it to it first, regardless of whether it was successful or not. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He has the attitude of trying it out, and whether it succeeds or not depends on luck, but this is not the development trend at all.

This year, the trouble is not only near Yishui County, but even more than Linzhou. At first, it was the bandits and robbers in Yishui County who took the lead in making trouble, and then I don't know if they discussed it or tacitly cooperated, anyway, the bandits and robbers in a large area nearby came out to burn, kill and loot.

Wherever there has been a bandit, the people have no harvest in the harvest season, so this winter, the famine is not only in Yishui County, but also in the entire southern part of Dayan Kingdom.

If this arouses public indignation, it will not be a trivial matter to expose the uprising and rebellion.

Looking at the series of consequences from the beginning to the end of this banditry, there are indeed many strange places, as if someone deliberately wanted to cause civil strife in the south of Ohiko Province.

In the Jinluan Hall in the Forbidden City of Linzhou, the ministers are now arguing about this matter.

The first to mention this matter was Su Yixuan, the head of the household department who was in charge of the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the people in the world, that is, Su Yuyang's father.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has some data, and I want to inform my colleagues."

Hubu Shangshu suddenly mentioned this matter in the court, whether the emperor colluded with him in advance so that he could mention it in the court, or whether Su Yuyang wanted to mention it himself after reporting to him Laozi, the details of which are unknown, anyway, as soon as this remark came out, everyone in the hall paid attention to him.

After the emperor nodded, Su Yixuan took out a piece of music related to the autumn harvest in Linzhou from his cuffs, coughed twice, and accurately reported the data one by one in extremely concise words.

With his brief introduction to each piece of data and re-reporting, everyone basically had a very clear concept in their minds.

A courtier who can stand in this position, even if he is a military attaché, cannot be a simple-minded person who does not know how to do simple arithmetic. According to Su Yixuan's data, after a little calculation, everyone has a bottom in their hearts. If the data is true, I am afraid that the vast majority of farmers in Linzhou this year will not live too comfortably, and many people will even starve to death.

"These data, Su Aiqing and the people of the Hanlin Academy have roughly checked it several times last night, and they should be true and credible. Even if the raw data collected may not be very accurate, it can be roughly reflected that this kind of result is very dangerous today. ”

The emperor closed his eyes, as if he was closing his eyes to recuperate, paused and said: "Look at this situation, even in ordinary years, the life of the common people is probably extremely miserable, once something happens to natural and man-made disasters, Zhong Aiqing can be imagined." Last year's floods in the Yangtze River basin and the drought in the Central Plains made the peasant households, who could only barely survive, cut off the way to survive and took the risk of riots and rebellions. ”

"Your Majesty, the old minister agrees with the emperor's point of view."

Shen Yi's father, when he took a step forward towards Shen Wannian, the left minister, bent down and said respectfully: "The farmers in the world are the most peaceful and self-guarding. If it were not for the time when life was at a loss, it would never be possible to take the risk of rebellion. The detailed data listed by Lord Su Yixuan, Lao Chen also figured it out, the root cause of **** is not actually due to natural disasters, but because the income of farmers is too low to save surplus grain. Lao Chen thought that when the problem of low income of peasant households was solved as soon as possible, only then could the country become more and more stable. ”

Immediately afterwards, many ministers seconded the proposal. This is a clear thing, if the people of the world can eat enough and will not starve and freeze, those who want to riot and rebel will not be able to incite people.

"Your Majesty, Weichen proposed that the proportion of taxes levied by the imperial court on peasant households should be reduced. Now the ratio of three out of ten should be reduced to two out of ten. In this way, the people will be more or less better off. ”

The one who said this was Liu Mengyin's father, Liu Jinyuan, the secretary of the Criminal Department of the Dynasty.

If Li Jin was here, he would definitely wonder why all the officials of the court who had something to do with him supported his proposal, and there must be something strange in this.

Liu Jinyuan is over forty years old, white-faced and bearded, and he looks very good. The emperor glanced at him lightly, although his proposal was not necessarily very good, but at least, he was using his brains on how to increase the income of peasant households, and solving the problem of peasant households' rations was the most important step in stabilizing the people's hearts, and it was an imminent step.

Farmers have no food to survive the winter, and this is a time bomb, which may explode sooner or later. Only when the peasant households live and work in peace and contentment will Dayan's country be stable, otherwise, everything will be in vain.

However, as soon as Liu Jinyuan's proposal came out, some people immediately objected: "Lord Liu's words are wrong, most of my tax revenue comes from farmers, if it is only two out of ten, it will reduce nearly 30 million yuan of tax revenue every year, how can this be good?" ”

The person who said this was Zhou Xian, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the Dynasty, that is, Zhou Ziqing's father.

When he first learned that Zhou Ziqing wanted to **** his daughter Liu Mengyin, Liu Jinyuan was very angry, and in order to take care of the face of the two families, he endured it without having a seizure. At this time, Zhou Xian ridiculed him in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, Liu Jinyuan's white face turned red, and he immediately ridiculed him angrily.

"Lord Xu is really ignorant and fearless, now that the Holy Lord is politically enlightened, he will reduce countless corruption channels and waste, even if it is 30 million, 100 million is enough for the operation of the imperial court. What's more, instead of spending a lot of money every year to suppress the mob, it is better to return that money to the farmers, so as to reassure them. Don't you know that harsh government is fiercer than a tiger. ”

Zhou Xian, who is over fifty years old, has bright eyes and some disdainful ridicule.

"Lord Liu is really narrow-minded, Zhou still thinks that reducing the proportion of taxes is not a long-term good policy, not to mention, if the 30 million is apportioned to every farmer, but only 300 yuan, this can't even talk about curing the symptoms, so how can it cure the root cause?"

"Humph! What do you think about this matter that week, might as well talk about it......"

"Takami doesn't have it for the time being, but I just don't agree with Lord Liu's point of view."

"Humph......"

Liu Jinyuan was just about to continue to fight back, but the emperor and Huang Fuxiong couldn't stand it, and the two continued to argue, so he slapped the table.

"Enough, you two second-class members of the imperial court are arguing and arguing on this hall, like a shrew, what kind of system."

"Wechen is guilty!"

Seeing that Long Yan was furious, the two of them died down and remained silent.

After the silence in the field, the emperor cleared his throat and spoke.

"I have added some of my own ideas, and I will also help you summarize them, as for whether they can be implemented or not, whether the idea is bad or not, I will go back and discuss them one by one. If you want to stabilize the country, you must first stabilize the farmers, and I have reached an agreement with you Aiqing on this point. To increase agricultural revenues, there are several means: reducing taxes, rents, reclamation, increasing efficiency, increasing yields, and planting new varieties. But these are all things in the future, and the problem of the people of Linzhou surviving the winter will be solved first. I heard that the local grain merchants took the opportunity to raise the price of grain, and prepared to make a fortune in the country, this matter is tolerable or unbearable, and the grain merchants should be punished and the local people should be relieved. ”

"My emperor is clever!"

Just kidding, the emperor has personally made the decision, who dares to raise objections and seek death.

The next day, Gonggong Ding, accompanied by everyone behind him, went to the barracks and school, and read out the holy decree of the emperor to suppress grain prices and punish unscrupulous businessmen, and finally emphasized a sentence.

"Those who disobey orders will be killed."

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Tens of thousands of troops, under their respective commands, almost knelt down in unison, shouting and shaking the sky, almost tearing the dark clouds in the sky.

Soon after, Zhao Shuhe, the Taishou of Linzhou, received the emperor's holy decree to suppress the grain merchants, and the decree was Xu Hui, the daughter of the Zhenyuan general who was famous in the dynasty, and was also the only female general in the army, accompanied by tens of thousands of troops to suppress the rebels.

Those big businessmen and wealthy families who are quite powerful in Linzhou on weekdays, after hearing the policies issued by the imperial court and the tens of thousands of troops, they all trembled and chilled, and none of them could stand anymore.

Even Taishou Zhao Shuhe was shocked when he heard the last three words "no forgiveness", and he was still a little suspicious in his heart, this Yishui County ordered Li Jin to write to me, but the emperor gave an order, and there will be nothing greasy in it.

In any case, this holy decree will be carried out at once, and there will be no jokes.

On the same day, he punished several wealthy businessmen who resisted the decree and did not lower the price of grain.

"The big landlord Yu San did not sell grain at the price stipulated by the imperial court, and the emperor betrayed him and decided to do so. You can drag it to the entrance of the vegetable market and be executed by the executioner. ”

"The emperor spares his life, spares his life."

In the midst of a large crowd, a fat man dressed in luxurious clothes, with fine skin and tender flesh, knelt on the ground, crying and shouting. The two soldiers immediately rushed forward, grabbed him, and dragged him straight out.

That Yu San shouted desperately again: "My lord...... My lord spares my life, and I am willing to give you half of your property. ”

Xu Hui's one-eyed phoenix eyes didn't even have the interest to raise to look at him, and continued to read the next person's guilt.

"Chen Gouli, the big proprietor of the Chen family's grain store, does not sell the grain, after investigation and verification, he deceived the monarch, and the emperor sentenced him to be decided."

Chen Gouli is an old businessman, he also wants to take a step at a time, and decides not to follow people to make a fool of himself, it is better to reduce the price, but he ignored it, the price reduction is not true, and he will be punished as if he does not reduce the price.

Among businessmen, news spreads like the wind, often faster than the government. When the sentence "no forgiveness is killed" said by Zi on the Jinluan Hall today, as well as the bloody case, it quickly spread in Linzhou.

This has brought an extremely strong impact to some businessmen. In their hearts, it is even more shocking than bandits, robbers, burning, killing, looting, and enemy invasions. You must know that the vast majority of those who were beheaded were giants and seniors who could shake half the sky by stomping their feet in the Linzhou business community, and enjoyed a high reputation in the business community, but they were all cut off for violating the emperor's administrative order.

As for the landlord class, it was also frightened. Of the few people who were beheaded, eight were landlords. Even if they are unlucky, they just obediently become rich people in the countryside, and they have to move to Linzhou City. It's a good thing that I received the executive order first-hand, but I didn't take it to heart and suffered an accident.

As soon as they received the news, after receiving the notice of the price reduction policy, those who had not yet reduced the price hurriedly ran to the grain store and informed the guys to quickly reduce the price. In this matter, there is no need to wait and see, let's honestly reduce the price, anyway, it's just to reduce the price back to parity. What's more, the emperor killed people this time, just to kill his patriarch, or the big owner, and did not take the opportunity to copy a house and make some money or something.

In this way, the dozens of merchants and landlords who were killed, there are still many people who thank the emperor, and they can just take advantage of the situation to take the position, anyway, the unlucky one is just one person, or a room, and not the entire business and family collapse.

But the effect that the court wants has really been achieved, as long as the people who get the news, only the extreme goods whose brains have entered the water will still go their own way. For this small number of extremely small number of people, the local government, which has already made clear the political direction, directly detained and interrogated people in accordance with the policy, and also rushed to report directly to Linzhou.

As for the many who missed the three-day deadline, but have not been found for the time being, they went to the local parents' homes one by one, and refused to leave, no matter how much money they spent, they had to change the time and record of the price reduction.

In short, no grain merchant and landlord patriarch dared to joke about this matter, after all, the emperor Chrysostom had been opened. If the emperor doesn't take things seriously, then the emperor will definitely not take him seriously, and he deserves to be killed.

In addition, there is another thing in Linzhou that people talk about. There is a woman who appeared in the business circle like a miracle and became the new owner of the Sijichun Restaurant that originally belonged to the Liu family in the background.

There are rich merchants in Linzhou and nearby, and who doesn't know the Four Seasons Spring Restaurant? However, when I inquired secretly, I couldn't find out who the woman's backstage was.

The woman's behavior is indeed strange, just seven days before the price reduction policy came down, she threw away all the 900,000 quintals of grain she had hoarded, and this is not counting, she actually negotiated with several well-known grain merchants to mortgage and borrow grain for one month at a discount of five million taels plus two million taels of cash from the Four Seasons Spring Restaurant, and after one month, 12,000 quintals for every 10,000 quintals.

However, according to the calculations of the grain merchants and the subsequent operations, after a month, the price of grain will remain flat at most, and it is absolutely impossible to fall.

How can a single month make food fall by one percent or more? Grain has skyrocketed under their speculation, and the numbers on the books have really stimulated them, and their self-confidence has swelled like never before.

After a short period of calculation and measurement, the grain merchants decided to make a bet with the woman that every 10,000 quintals would be 2,000 more in a month. What's more, even if the woman doesn't have any food, just the restaurant that is worth seven million at a discount of five million can make them a lot of money, not to mention, it is still deducted at a high price of three and a half taels of silver per load of grain.

Although they are convinced that the grain will rise, if the imperial court really allocates grain, it will be more or less affected, and as long as they discuss with the government and release the grain later, this month, or even the next two months, will be a period of stagflation, and this deal, no matter how you look at it, will be profitable.

But the woman, on the other hand, relied on a mortgage worth at least seven million taels to borrow only two million loads of grain. Then, stunned by all the grain, the woman was crazy, and in just a few days, she sold all two million quintals of grain to other grain merchants who had not stockpiled them, and only received five million taels in total.

This came and went, and she lost two million taels on her books. This made the vast majority of grain merchants shake their heads and say that she was crazy enough to do such an unreasonable thing. Another said that her backstage should be her lover, who is very rich, because he can't bring her home, so that he provokes her anger and squanders his money.

In short, there is no way to break the black and white contract that has been impartially signed by the government. As long as it takes another 20 days, they will be able to make money with their hearts, and at worst, they can also earn 400,000 quintals of grain.

However, just when they were still dreaming, the decree was suddenly issued, and this was not enough, they were consumed by profit, and they were dying, but they still tried to unite to disobey the orders of the imperial court, trying to create a situation where the law did not hold the people accountable, because they knew that this kind of thing was not the first time. At most, wait and see, if the imperial court is really determined to implement the policy. Then it's never too late to comply.

But I didn't expect that it was the current saint who personally approved the policy this time. In the news of the feedback, when the gang of grain merchants were indifferent and regarded the national policy as nothing, the saint was furious and directly cut off the heads of dozens of people.

The price reduction policy was then implemented at a world record speed. The hyped and high grain prices have also fallen, but the nightmare of the hoarding grain merchants seems to have just begun.

Immediately afterwards, a decree was issued that in order to prevent grain from falling into the hands of enemy rebels, those who traded more than 100 taels at a time had to go to the government for registration and be stamped with the official seal of the government.

For grain merchants, this is a house leak that happened to rain overnight, but if it was before the emperor did not kill anyone, there may be many people who dare to ignore this decree, but at this time, they suddenly felt in hell.

The most happy person in this series of actions of the imperial court was Su Yuyang, because everything that happened was in his prediction and planning.

And Li Jin also talked with relish after hearing this, thinking about the blue face of Zhao Shuhe, the Taishou of Linzhou, he wanted to laugh, and he kept praising Su Yuyang for being a living Zhuge .

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After reading today's chapter, you may feel a little abrupt, but in fact, this is a chapter of foreshadowing, preparing for the exciting plot later, you will wait and see. Finally, I want to say, I want to recommend a ticket, and I will be stoned to death with a ticket.