Zhao Kuangyin was furious, not half a year, only two or three months were actually left, and there was also a Bianshui River seal, that is, if the Jianghuai autumn grain was not sent in mid-September, it could only be transported to the capital when the spring flowers bloomed next year.

Zhao Kuangyin scolded Chu Zhaofu in front of the ministers: "The country has no nine years of accumulation, you don't know how to measure, and when you see that the warehouse is exhausted, you ask for a division of troops and brigades, and lead civilian ships to feed it, which is really a good policy!" ”

The nine-year savings are not the national nine-year reserves, but the capital. The savings standard is not uniform, and each state and county must also set up some state and county reserves, but not many. However, the capital must set up a nine-year reserve, including grain, cloth, medicine, charcoal and other materials.

The more you save, the more you waste.

But this savings is very important, for example, in case of something in the country, the army is requisitioned, and it is impossible to urgently order the states and counties to prepare grain, most of them are still from the capital's grain reserves, or the enemy suddenly attacks, not only must there be sufficient grain cloth in the city, but also all the people in the suburbs must be moved to the city, and these people must also eat and drink. With food, drink, and clothing, the people can stick to the city and wait for the Quartet to come to help, so as to protect the city. Not only the Song Dynasty had, but also the Southern Tang Dynasty, in Jinling, Hongzhou still had a small amount of savings, and the Northern Han Dynasty was in Taiyuan, so the Song army besieged it for several months, and the people in the city did not worry about eating and drinking. There are also in the Southern Han Dynasty, in Xingwangfu and Guangzhou. Houshu is in Chengdu. Wu Yue in Hangzhou.

It is a strategic savings and is essential.

Zhao Kuangyin continued to scold: "What's the use of me waiting!" If there is a mistake, the sin will be thanked. ”

If there's trouble, I'll just smack you.

Fortunately, the ministers are here. The jade axe in Zhao Kuangyin's hand was not smashed down, otherwise Chu Zhaofu might not be able to survive today.

Chu Zhaofu didn't know what to do. And it can't be delayed, it's dangerous to delay one day at a time. Come and think about it. Seeing that the price of grain in the capital had skyrocketed, he couldn't sit down anymore and ran to Zhao Kuangyi's mansion.

This is a very interesting scene, Zhao Kuangyi will show the strength in his hands. Later generations often reverse this process to prove that Zhao Pu did the right thing, but in fact, Zhao Pu did a big mistake in this matter.

Who did it first, Zhao Pu did it first, including killing Yao Shu. This preceded the food crisis.

Then there is the authority, at this time, the three divisions divide the power of the prime minister, but there is no independent decision-making power, and they rely on the Zhongshu to survive, and their status is the same as Yuping's status in the Song family, Yuping can manage money, but major investments and expenditures must be agreed by Song Jiu.

How much tax to be levied, one is Zhao Kuangyin's policy of leniency for the people, and the other is the decision of Zhongshu.

Relief for disaster victims. The same is the decision of the book. It is precisely these two items that have led to the food crisis.

After the incident, the three divisions should bear the main responsibility, especially Chu Zhaofu should have given early warning as early as the end of May when the disaster situation continued. But he ate tea every day. Don't bother with government affairs, but when problems arise, the alarm starts to sound high. The time for the report was too late.

But it cannot be said that Zhongshu is not responsible. When the crisis came out, Zhongshu was the decision-making body of the three divisions. The same is to be held accountable, as Prime Minister. Zhao Pu must negotiate with Chu Zhaofu to resolve the crisis.

However, Zhao Pu did not.

The reason is very simple, Chu Zhaofu and Zhao Pu are not very harmonious, and even ignore the national crisis, sit back and watch good things happen, it is best that Zhao Kuangyin can smack Chu Zhaofu.

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi stood up at this time, he dared to take responsibility, really ignored the thoughts of his eldest brother, thought about the overall situation, thought for the country, and thought for the people, and provoked affairs that did not fall within his scope of responsibility. Then Zhao Kuangyin thought carefully about the fate of the staff of the overlord in the palace, where is the capable Li Chuyun, where is the old friend Wang Renzhen, and the remaining few people, Liu Xigu can be ignored, Lu Yuqing is good, and Zhao Xianggong is good. Li Chongju was silent. Chu Zhaofu, the only one who dared to do right, got on the fire......

Zhao Kuangyi opened the main door, and Chu Zhaofu went in and said, "Second king, save the old minister." ”

"Envoy Chu, why do you want to come to me, I can't protect myself either." Zhao Kuangyi spread his hands and said: "You still want to find Zhao Xianggong, the affairs of the three divisions are also decided by Zhongshu, and it is reasonable to find him." ”

Looking for Zhao Pu?

Chu Zhaofu knelt down and said: "Second king, please help, the news of the lack of grain has come out, in just a few days, the price of grain in Jingshi has skyrocketed, and it is as fast as eighty yuan, and this grain price is the price of grain that I have never seen before." Not for the sake of the old ministers, but also for the sake of the people of the world. ”

"You get up."

"If the two kings don't agree, the old ministers won't get up, so he will let His Majesty abandon the city, so it is better to kneel and die on the second king's mansion."

"Envoy Chu, you are not kind."

"If the second king doesn't make a move, it's not kind," Chu Zhaofu knelt down on the ground and straightened his body, I just did it, can you send someone to forcibly pull me out?

Zhao Kuangyi looked at his shameless appearance, and said in a hurry: "You go back first." ”

Chu Zhaofu didn't speak.

"Chu Zhaofu."

"Yes." Chu Zhaofu said loudly.

Zhao Kuangyi wiped his sweat and said: "Don't be like this, it's okay, you're hurting me, yes, I promised you, you get up, either drink tea, or go back to calm down, and we will find a way together." ”

Sending Chu Zhaofu away, Zhao Kuangyi sat in the palace and pondered, this matter felt him so much that he would divide his authority again and again in the future, including that the two governments were not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the three divisions, so the eastern government did not know the finances of the three military divisions of the western government, the western government did not know the finances of the three administrative departments of the eastern government, and the three divisions did not know the political and military affairs of the eastern and western governments, and they were locked up in a small black room to do their own ......

After thinking about it for a long time, he brought his chief housekeeper Chen Congxin and other cronies. This person's mental arithmetic ability should be the first-class in the world, others use the abacus to calculate, he uses his fingers to calculate, and the speed is faster than the abacus used by people. Zhao Kuangyi took him as the right guest to manage his own finances with Kaifeng.

Zhao Kuangyi first asked: "Can you manage it?" ”

"For the sake of the world, the two kings are in charge, and they are in charge of the matter, and they hide their merits and fame." Cheng Yu said.

That is, this thing has been done successfully, and you must continue to pretend to be coerced, and you must continue to be low-key, and even continue to be cowardly. But first of all, Zhao Kuangyi looked at Chen Congxin.

Chen Congxin said: "Your Highness, Congxin has traveled between Chu and Si before, and he has seen the reason for the suspension of grain transportation. For fear of corruption and waste. In the past, most of the grain transported by the imperial court was distributed by the counties and counties according to the number of boatmen, and the grain from each state was distributed by each state. Therefore, every time the ship passed through a state, it had to stop and wait for the local state and county to distribute food. Although there was food on board, the boatman and the caretaker could not use it. As a result of transport delays. ”

"Song Jiu's handling strategy?"

"The second king, it's not proper, it's a levy to Taiyuan, it's mostly land, the freight is high, the speed is slow, this is Bianshui, and the freight is not so high. Even the food saved by moving and unloading once is far from making up for the loss of transportation. Therefore, the best way for the small ones to do so is to calculate the amount of grain they use back and forth, and deduct it directly from the boatman and pay it to the boatman. ”

"It's a wonderful method," Mr. Zhao said. In this way, the boat will be much faster without stopping on the road.

"Don't dare, besides, the grain and rice arrived in the capital and entered the warehouse, and there were many tourists in Hezhou. Although there are guards to maintain order, obstruction can still occur. It happened that the new bridge had just been completed, and it was ordered that people from Hezhong or Hebei and other places must enter and leave the capital through the new bridge and vacate the Nanjiao Gate. It is carried by a special person in turns day and night. Then three sports a year can be increased to four and five sports. ”

"This bridge is well repaired."

Cheng Yu, Jia Yan, Chen Congxin, and Zhang Ping all laughed, and with the bridge, they not only solved the problem of transporting grain, but also sold many houses. There is no bridge. Not many people thought about buying those luxury stores last year. It's too expensive.

From the beginning of the construction of the bridge in the first month, many people immediately thought about these 120 houses. Too expensive. Didn't sell them all, even if it was small. There are only one hundred and twenty buildings. But more than 70 were sold. It will be a huge amount of money, and at the end of this year, it will be reverted from a one-sixth dividend to a one-quarter dividend. After next summer, I can still share a lot of money.

When this money comes, it will be the nectar of a long drought, and the economy in Zhao Kuangyi's hands will become looser.

That's the future, or the food crisis first, Chen Congxin said: "The third is a ship, the third division plans to borrow civilian ships to transport grain, civilian ships not only transport private grain, but also winter charcoal, if not allowed, even if the transportation speed is increased, the time is too tight, the third division still can't do the task of transporting grain." If allowed, the charcoal needed by the capital in winter would be cut off due to the lack of boats. It is better to raise sturdy ships to transport grain and rice, and dilapidated boats to transport charcoal, so that public and private interests can be taken into account. ”

"Good idea."

This is extremely terrifying, just one of Zhao Kuangyi's staff members has such a far-reaching and comprehensive idea.

But no one paid attention at the time.

"The second king, the reason for the skyrocketing price of rice is very simple, it used to be because the official price was cheap, and the price of rice has been suppressed, and the commercial price cannot rise. Now I heard that there is no grain in the national warehouse, and the merchants have no profit, and the merchants are hoarding the grain and not selling it, so the grain and rice are becoming more and more expensive. It has risen to 80 yuan a bucket, the second king, what is the price of Jianghuai rice? ”

"Seems to be less than twenty dollars."

"How much does it cost?"

"I understand, you mean to open up the market, let the grain merchants buy and sell by themselves, and even spread the news of the grain price in the capital to all directions, I heard that a bucket of rice can earn more than 50 wen, a stone can earn more than 400 wen, a boat, oh my God, even I want to sell grain and rice."

Several people laughed loudly.

This is a bad joke, Zhao Kuangyi does not dare to do business.

But hearing about this profit, then the grain and rice from all directions will inevitably be transported to the capital together, and the price will inevitably fall if there is more grain. This is a short time, and the court is prepared next year, and it still expects to have this opportunity? Once you can't get rid of it, you will cut the price frantically so that you can turn the grain into cash. It just doesn't go down, and it doesn't go up. Otherwise, once it rises to a few hundred dollars a bucket, the people in the capital will inevitably panic, at least those poor people can't eat because of the high cost of rice. Could it be that if they are starved to death, the imperial court will send people to relieve them at that time, so the capital will be in chaos.

With a solution, Zhao Kuangyi made up his mind. sighed: "I have to thank someone." ”

It is not that there is no grain, there is grain, there is grain in Jianghuai and Jinghu, thanks to Song Jiu, a fenced field, and a Zhancheng rice, which makes the south have bumper harvests year after year, and rice is sufficient. It is not bad rice, so Chen Congxin does not mention rice, only transportation, and the transportation keeps up, and the food crisis is solved. Therefore, Chu Zhaofu made a big mistake, and Zhao Kuangzhen was furious, and reported it two months earlier, which was enough time to solve it, but Chu Zhaofu delayed reporting until July. It's too late to think about luck, can Zhao Kuangyin not be angry?

The next day, he met with Zhao Kuangyin and told him the origin of the lack of food in the three divisions. Chu Zhaofu made a mistake, and there were other reasons for the food crisis. It is a good thing that the people are happy and the people are happy. However, the tax grain has been reduced, and in the past two years, the Yellow River has been flooded with many disasters and difficulties, and relief is required, whether it is labor relief or direct relief, and the grain is transferred from the grain storage. As a result, a food crisis has occurred.

Because he was "afraid" of Zhao Pu, he did not blame Zhongshu. Zhao Kuangyin was still furious.

Zhao Kuangyi said Chen Congxin's strategy again.

Zhao Kuangyin pondered, it is a good way, as for the national ugliness, it is not, tell the reason, the lack of food is for disaster relief, and the people will not complain. His heart was settled, his anger dissipated a little, and Zhao Kuangyi said again: "Brother Huang, this mistake is a mistake of the three divisions, and it must be redeemed by the three divisions." ”

To put it mildly, the three divisions have to be responsible for the host, if the Chinese book is inserted in it, Chu and Zhao have hatred, and the officials below are a little flattering and restrained, and it will be over. Next year, the people in the capital will be in chaos due to lack of food, and Chu Zhaofu can only obediently go to Shamen Island to accompany Feng Zhan. But because of "fear", Zhao Kuangyi said it very tactfully. Then he said: "The three divisions are still missing a capable minister. Although Chu Zhaofu was loyal to the imperial brother, his ability was limited. If the imperial brother wants to prevent a similar situation from happening in the future, please select a capable minister to serve as the deputy envoy of the third division to assist Chu Zhaofu. ”

"Who do you think is suitable?"

"This courtier doesn't know what to do."

"How is Song Jiu?"

"Not necessarily, he likes to swagger, Hezhou has nothing to do, that's a private act. Lingnan is also fine, it is the tyranny of the Southern Han Dynasty, and if it is put into the country, it may poke a hornet's nest. ”

"Not necessarily." Zhao Kuangyin smiled slightly.

Zhao Kuangyi walked out of the palace and went to the palace, but after Zhao Kuangyi made an idea on this matter, he did not go deeper. It was this kind of low-key stoicism that pulled Zhao Pu off the prime minister's throne step by step. He looked at the blue sky, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Sure enough, as he expected, he said that Song Jiu was not good, but the imperial brother thought that Song Jiu was good. Song Jiu was worried, and Zhao Kuangyi was also worried that if Song Jiu didn't come back in two or three years, Hezhou might change the dynasty. Song Jiu returned, and Hezhou was settled. Chu Zhaofu is not his person, Song Jiu is his person...... (To be continued......)