There is a lot of information, how long is Cui Junsu going to talk about it?

Many officials couldn't help but pick up their cups and prepare themselves to listen to Cui Junsu's explanation for a long time.

"In the first year of Zhenguan, the grain consumed in Chang'an City was 13 million stones."

Cui Junsu talked about 13 million, but it scared many people. This increased the grain of 10 million stones, and these grains were consumed out of thin air.

Cui Junsu continued to preach while slowly laying out the information: "The second year of Zhenguan, January to June. Chang'an City consumes grain, 69 million stones. ”

Hearing this number, Li Er was taken aback, he knew the number of the first year of Zhenguan, but he didn't know the number of the second year of Zhenguan.

Many officials were stunned in their eyes.

The second year of Zhenguan was ten times the food consumption of the first year of Zhenguan, and thirty times that of the ninth year of Wude.

Cui Junsu's words changed: "This is not counting His Royal Highness the King of Qin and the workshops in Chang'an, which are consumed in industry. These are just eaten. If you count all the food consumption in Chang'an, plus the loss on the road, and the food wasted by accident, Chang'an City has more than 100 million stones of grain in the first half of the year. ”

That's a huge number, and many officials who don't care much about food consumption have surprised looks on their faces.

"This official is here to give you a detailed calculation." After Cui Junsu finished speaking, he asked a few people from the household department to help, and after getting Li Er's permission, more than a dozen people came up from the household department at once, and began to stand at the table separately, and stood for Cui Junsu to divide the haode information, and everyone also carried an abacus.

"The first factor that this consumption increases is that His Royal Highness King Qin has made the people of Chang'an accustomed to eating dry rice. I can afford to eat dry. ”

This factor is reasonable, and the difference between the consumption of food and the cooked soup alone is at least three times worse.

Of course, the people of Chang'an also do more work and exert enough strength.

"Xiu Chang'an Eight Waters, Eight Hui. His Royal Highness the King of Qin consumed a total of 11 million stones, including those eaten by the workers and those paid as wages. After the system of the Standing Army of the Twelve Guards, the amount of grain consumed was 8 million stones. Of course, these expenses are all normal expenditures, and the official is only explaining the use of the consumption. ”

Cui Junsu naturally didn't come to find trouble.

"Another consumption is meat. Pigs, chickens, horses, and cattle are raised around Chang'an City. Although it is said that there are leftovers from the sugar production of the military department's workshop. But there is no hard material, at least horses and cattle are not good. If this pig wants to grow fat, it still needs to be fed some delicious food, such as soybean cake after oil extraction, and leftovers for making vermicelli. This is the only one. The consumption of Chang'an City is not less than 10 million stones. Half! Cui Junsu specially reminded him for half a year.

Some officials from the poor began to have some slight commotion.

It's just pigs, horses, cows, chickens, and the like. The amount of food consumed was more than three times that of Wude's ninth year.

"The current population of Chang'an City, not counting the name of the Qin Palace, is 650,000. There are still more than 200,000 merchants. Yaozhou, Chang'an County, Huazhou, these three places combined, more than one million people. The population is larger, and the food eaten is also more, so dry rice is naturally consumed more than porridge and rice. ”

Cui Junsu turned the page again, and at that moment, two officials from the household department quickly turned to some details from other detailed accounts and placed them in front of Cui Junsu.

"The Brocade Chamber of Commerce consumes about three million stone of grain. Yunjin can't be made without starch, and starch is extracted from corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, so what is consumed is grain. The paper mill consumes almost one million stones, and the consumption of the hemp and cotton industries, as well as those of other businesses, is almost six million stones. ”

Mulberry trees are also planted for silk.

Consume some grain for silk, paper, these are nothing, and the officials are reasonable.

"Guys, if you have any details to ask, I will answer them here. What kind of detailed account is needed, our account department will start calculating immediately! ”

Li Yuanxing waved his hand: "This, the work report of the household department on grain, take a step back first." This king just wants you to know that the food consumption in Chang'an is huge. What is the proportion of grain production, inventory, and consumption in Chang'an now? ”

"Chang'an's granary is full, enough for the entire Chang'an to consume for half a year. But this grain storage is an official warehouse, which is used by Datang for emergency use. Chang'an has the immortal grain of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, but the total output is only seventy percent of the consumption in the first half of the year. I would like to ask Sinong Temple to talk about it, and there was an official document in Sinong Temple half a month ago, which was to predict the danger of food! ”

Cui Junsu stepped aside after speaking.

The chief officer of Sinong Temple came to power.

first gave a salute to Li Er and Li Yuanxing, and then after saluting the hundred officials, he took out a small book from his arms.

"After the autumn harvest in Chang'an City, the total grain was about 45 million stones. The summer harvest is higher than the autumn harvest, but the official expects that even if there is a good harvest next summer, it will not exceed 40 million stones. The reason is that there are more workshops built in Chang'an City, which occupy some fields. Because of the construction of roads, the fields were occupied. Because the people of Chang'an need to eat vegetables, the vegetable fields are expected to increase by 300,000 mu next year. This official thinks that handing over all the grain in Huazhou can ease the tension of Chang'an's grain next year, and Chang'an will not have enough food to eat. ”

Very straightforward, very simple report.

After the chief official of Sinong Temple retreated, Cui Junsu also stood aside.

"Transporting grain, without Luoyang's grain, Chang'an can't support it. You can't let the imperial brother take the hundred officials to Luoyang for dinner, so ......" Li Yuanxing turned around: "Yan Shilang of the Ministry of Industry, you are thirty years old as a four-grade waiter, which proves that you are talented enough." Your last book about the Luoyang River, come up and talk about it! ”

Yan Lide, the elder brother of Yan Liben, the saint of Tang painting, is also an outstanding talent.

"Your Highness, your subordinates are not good at words, and there is a seal for this!"

"Speak, as an important minister, if you don't know how to speak, you have to speak!" Li Er spoke, in Li Er's opinion, playing correctly is something that officials must know, you can study, write, draw, and have first-class engineering, but you can't say, how you explain the work to the officials below, how you arrange tasks, you must talk.

Li Erqiu's Yan Lide was sweating profusely.

A young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old, Langzhong of the Ministry of Water under the Ministry of Industry, made an exception and asked to speak on his behalf.

"No, he has to speak!" Li Er's face is very bad, and the officials of Datang can still be dumb.

Li Yuanxing opened his mouth to persuade: "Brother Huang, don't delay him in today's deliberations, it's good to be clear." Li Er's face softened a little: "You must practice hard when you go back, if you still can't speak next time, I will be held responsible." ”

"Thank you, thank you!" Yan Lide stepped back.

It was his younger brother who came to power, Yan Liben.

"From Yangzhou to Luokou, it takes nine days for His Royal Highness King Qin's big ship, but it takes three days to pass through Luokou, and it only takes one day to get to Chang'an after Luokou, at most two days. Ships going upstream, especially grain ships, are heavy, and ordinary ships rely on manpower to pull fiber, which takes up to nine months, and there are three problems. ”

It was very good, and Li Er nodded with satisfaction.

"In the first place, the wealthy families of Huainan and Jiangnan are responsible for renting and adjusting, but there are many evaders, so there is no necessary protection along the road. In the first year of Zhenguan, the loss of grain ships reached 20% and a half, and 6 out of 10 ships were sunk in Luokou. Therefore, the second problem is in Luokou, the water flow in Luokou is rapid, the drop is large, and there are many rocks at the bottom of the river, and there are more and more shipwrecks later, and the water conditions become extremely poor. ”

After Yan Liben finished speaking, he held the report of the Ministry of Industry in both hands: "This is the investigation of Luosali's situation!" ”

An attendant took the seal, and Yan Liben continued: "The third difficulty is that there is no special charge for river affairs, the Ministry of Industry is only in charge of the river, the household department is only in charge of loading the grain that can be transported, and the escort is in charge of entering the river. ”

"Big, bold!" Yan Lide was frightened and shouted in the back.

Li Er waved his hand: "That's it, I don't blame him this time." However, this trend cannot be long, and it is not advisable to discuss the government in vain. I don't stand in the way, but I don't want anyone to blame officials at all levels for any thing. Especially in the absence of empirical evidence, I read that you are young, and you played well in the first two days, and the next is not an example! ”

Yan Liben wanted to say it, but Yan Lide covered his mouth and ripped it down.

Li Er nodded to Li Yuanxing again, Li Yuanxing understood what Li Er meant, this kid was young and full of nonsense. In a few words, he was able to offend all the criminal department, the military department, and the household department, as well as the state and county officials. It's really young and ignorant.

"Let me say a few words about this king, originally there were a few boats on a river every day, but now there are dozens, hundreds. The sudden addition of so many ships naturally caught officials at all levels by surprise. Identify the problem, find the problem, and then solve the problem. This is the way to be an official and a politician. ”

"His Royal Highness King Qin is wise!" Many officials chanted in unison.

Yan Liben was not convinced, in his opinion, there were officials who did not fulfill their responsibilities.

"This capacity has to be solved, otherwise Chang'an City will either run out of food or salt. Of course not this year, but it's hard to guarantee that it's not next year, the year after that. As Ben Wang said, find the problem and solve it early! ”

"Your Highness is wise!" Another burst of chanting.

Li Yuanxing stretched out his hand and pressed it.

"Talking about agriculture first and talking about water, this Lu Chengqing took over as the secretary of the Ministry of Railways, although he is young, he still has some talents. At the end of the year, Chang'an to Luoyang should be able to open to traffic, and the basic facilities can be slowly rebuilt, but the railway must be opened, and the train must run. ”

Gao Jian raised his hand at this time and asked to speak, and after receiving permission, he said: "Your Highness, may I ask, what is the daily capacity of this train?" ”

"In terms of design, 300 miles per hour, of course, the real running may be slower because of too many goods. But there is no problem to go back and forth between Chang'an and Luoyang once a day. Each cart can pull 3,000 tons of goods, which is 30,000 stones. With double rails, four cars can run on the road at the same time. ”

"Your Highness, it is impossible for these cars to transport all the grain, and His Majesty calculates that transporting two million stone of grain a month should be the limit. Even if there is an improvement, it will be difficult to exceed three million stone of grain a month. ”

Li Yuanxing nodded, this is the truth.

"It's still going to be for the future."

"With railways, there is a lot of power. There is always something that solves some problems. "Gao Jian can't say that the railway is bad.

Li Yuanxing waved his hand: "This is a comprehensive and systematic problem. The railroad solves part of it first, and the king has to solve the other biggest problem. ”

The diagram on the screen has changed and it seems to be a dam! (To be continued......)

PS: Third update