Chapter 81: Foolishness
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When Zhao Zhen was alive, he thought that it was pure nonsense to put his body outside for nine months, so he only allowed his son to put his body in the coffin for 27 days and bury it while the body was still fresh. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info: 6d
Since the emperor dragon controlled Bintian, the Manchu Dynasty was busy with the funeral of the old emperor, when the mountain tomb made Pang Ji from Gongxian back to hand over the decree, the government of the Great Song Dynasty returned to the calm situation of the past.
Because of the death of his parents, the little emperor hid in the palace and grieved for a long time, and he had no plans to immediately prepare to go to the court to ask questions.
Of course, after the three invitations, the emperor still has to be reserved, and he can't show a sense of urgency, so as not to make people mistakenly think that he is looking forward to his old son dying as soon as possible.
It wasn't until the empress dowager took the ring ruler handed down by the old emperor and slapped the emperor a few times that the haggard emperor would sit on the dragon chair with tears in his eyes and prepare to kill.
It is also customary to kill people, and the first thing the new emperor has to do is to kill all the condemned prisoners first, and there is no need to wait until the autumn to execute.
The death row is followed by a sign that the new emperor is a benevolent emperor, and then a general amnesty will be given to the world, as long as it is not a crime of great rebellion, it can basically be pardoned.
This is a common practice, so many people who are full of hatred in their hearts will choose to take revenge after the death of the old emperor, and then go to the government to surrender after taking revenge, as long as they sit in prison for a few months, after the new emperor amnesties the world, they can come out again to be a man.
This year, these people's ideas were wrong, after the little emperor killed the condemned prisoners in prison, he did not announce any will to amnesty the world, and the only kindness given was to further reduce the Tian Fu. At the same time, business taxes have risen a bit.
Today, the proportion of the commercial tax of the Great Song Dynasty in the national tax has exceeded the land tax, and the imperial court has not only reduced its revenue. On the contrary, there are more inputs.
The only tax in the commercial tax that has not risen, but has been lowered is the grain tax, and the household department calculated the final number of grain, and Zhao Xu forcibly set the final selling price of grain to death, according to the figure he gave. Food trafficking is largely unprofitable.
There is no profit from selling, so there is not much profit from farming, and the only benefit is to be able to eat a full belly.
Pang Ji saw the little emperor's will and knew that it was very inappropriate to do so, but the little emperor's original will could not be rejected, which was for the sake of the little emperor's prestige.
In the end, the will of the little emperor passed through the center smoothly, passed the left and right stations, and did not return the emperor's will in the matter, and the provincial governments obeyed it as one. The grain merchants all over the world complained, and a decree blocked the way of the grain merchants in the Great Song Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, the grain output of the Great Song Dynasty has never been balanced, the rice production in the south is high, the wheat production in the north is low, and now, the population in the north of the Great Song Dynasty is more than the population in the south, so we need to transport the surplus grain from the south to the north, so that we can. Only then will there be enough food for both the north and the south to eat. In particular, a large city like Tokyo does not produce grain itself, and the small prefectures around it do not produce enough grain to supply Kyoshi, which relies on canals to transport most of its grain from the south.
Therefore. There are far more people in Tokyo who eat rice than pasta. ”
Pang Ji sat on the chair and told the little emperor Zhao Xu about the relationship between grain origin and price, as well as the relationship with grain merchants. I hope that the emperor can understand that governing the world is definitely not something that can be governed by a hot head.
A few days ago, when Zhao Xu went to Yun's house in a white dragon fish suit, he passed by a grain store, and at this time, it was the time when the green and yellow were not available, and the price of grain in Tokyo skyrocketed. A woman who could not afford to buy food dragged her three young children to sit in front of the grain store and wept.
The three children cried out that they were hungry, but the men in the grain store watched the excitement with their hands folded, and did not sell food to the woman who had only five copper coins in her hand.
The eldest lady of the Yun family, who was with the little emperor, was furious, and took her younger brother to smash the grain store on the spot, and the grain store guys and the shopkeeper's mouths were beaten by the Yun family's generals and palace guards, and the reason was that the shopkeeper said that he brought wild things to the store to make trouble.
In the end, the eldest lady of the Yun family took out a piece of silver and bought all the grain in the grain store, and gave all the grain in it to the poor people who could not afford to buy food.
The eldest lady of the Yun family saw the woman holding the child and crying with joy, and asked the emperor with tears in her eyes, why would she let these black-hearted businessmen bully people?
The emperor, who saw the black-hearted face of the grain merchant, returned to the palace after being furious, and thought hard about such a solution.
"Taifu, I really can't stand those black-hearted businessmen bullying my people."
A smile appeared on Pang Ji's face, and he looked at the emperor and said with relief: "Your Majesty has the people of the world in his heart, and the old minister is extremely happy, this is a mind that a Ming monarch must have."
It's just that Your Majesty has forgotten that although the owners of the grain store are bad, they are also Your Majesty's people, and as long as they do business within the scope permitted by the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, Your Majesty should support them, not barbarize them.
At this time, it is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and it is also the time when the old and new grains are alternated, at this time, last year's grain has been eaten, and the new grain has not yet been transported to Beijing, so it is natural for the grain price to rise.
Lao Chen has checked that the increase in grain this year is not large, and the merchants did not hoard grain to deliberately raise the price, as long as the new grain arrives in Tokyo, the price will naturally fall. “
"But the woman ......"
"Your Majesty, the women and children can't eat, it is the responsibility of the government and not the responsibility of the grain merchants, the Changping under the control of Your Majesty is used at this time, and the grain for the relief of the people should come out of the Changping, not by the grain merchants, and the grain merchants have already paid taxes to the Great Song Dynasty, so his responsibility has been completed."
"So, I'm wrong?"
Pang Ji laughed and said: "Your Majesty's love for the people, what's wrong with it, and the thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace, although the grain merchants are suffering at the moment, but the people all over the world have a heart of love for the people of Your Majesty, and there is no mistake between gains and losses." ”
"But you said earlier that if I do this, the grain in the world will no longer circulate, and there will be no merchants willing to transport the grain to Jingshi."
"Adjusting the yin and yang of the world, is the duty of the prime minister, not the burden of His Majesty, the reason why there will be a disunity in the price of grain in the whole world, the culprit is the freight, Your Majesty only stipulates the price of grain, does not calculate the cost of transportation, at this time Your Majesty should make another will, stipulate the amount of freight, so that the grain merchant will have no complaints."
Zhao Zhen scratched his head and sighed: "If you do this, the price of food is still very high!" There is no change from before. ”
Pang Ji said with a smile: "Your Majesty doesn't know that the lower the price of grain, the better, and Your Majesty knows the truth that grain is cheap and hurts farmers." ”
Just when the monarch and ministers were discussing how to make up for the emperor's mistakes in a harmonious atmosphere, the eunuch came to report that Yun 6 brought the eldest daughter Yunluo and the eldest son Yunting to the palace to ask for guilt.
Zhao Xu blushed a little, and Pang Ji said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the Yun 6 clan is the most knowledgeable of women about the way of economy, if Yun Zheng didn't learn to lead troops to fight, it is very likely that he would become the number one giant merchant in my Great Song Dynasty, since the Yun 6 clan knows that her children have made mistakes in the matter of the grain store, why don't Your Majesty listen to what the Yun 6 clan will say?" ”
Zhao Xu nodded again and again.
When Pang Ji walked out of the main hall, he happened to see 6 Qingqing kneeling outside the main hall with his son and daughter, Yun Luoluo and Yun Ting were tied with ribbons, and they knelt behind their mother with their heads drooped without saying a word.
Pang Ji smiled and ordered the eunuch to help 6 light up and said, "Madam, why bother!" It is not an unforgivable fault for a child to make mistakes once in a while.
The old man was still complimenting His Majesty just now, and the children of his wife have a kind heart, which is very rare. ”
6 Light Shi Li said: "Xiangguo has won the prize, because their misdeeds have caused His Majesty to deviate when formulating national policies, how can this be a small sin."
What's more, the concubine asked someone to ask that the reason why the woman had no food was because her husband gambled the grain that Changping sold to them at a flat price.
They smashed other people's shops without asking the facts, this is a manifestation of bastards, this matter is a matter of national policy, how can it be easily let go? ”)
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