Chapter 894: Three Birds with One Stone
"How can it be!"
Ao Huang was furious.
"Is it not okay to do good for the people?"
"If the temple examination can spend money to buy things for the people to improve their grades, then the temple examination is to compare who is behind the background, who has a higher family status, and who is rich. Even if it is my Fang Clan's library, merit will not be included in the palace examination!" Fang Yun said.
Ao Huang nodded helplessly and said, "I forgot." Your human race attaches the most importance to etiquette, and there are some rules that cannot be broken. So what should we do? We can't bring it in through normal channels, we can't sell the grain we get from drinking Jiangbei, and we can't give it to the people, and every thing we have calculated by the Zuo Xiang Party is that Zuo Xiang is a treacherous and cunning man, and compared with him, we are all too tender. ”
Fang Yun said: "In this incident, there are many shadows of high-ranking officials, but Liu Shan may have just allowed them to do so, and did not enter in person. As far as I can tell, he hasn't officially made a move yet. ”
"What do you mean by that?"
"This incident, at most, has brought my farming and people's livelihood to the third level, and for Liu Shan, it is not worth the end in person. Unless ......"
"Unless anything. ”
"Let Liu Shan go, it's very simple, he thought of a way to force me out of the palace test and lose the qualification of the palace test jinshi!"
"Impossible, unless he can wipe out Ning'an County from the Shengyuan Continent, no force can force you out of the temple test! However, the top priority is how to deal with the price of grain. It is now a green and yellow March, and the people of Ning'an County have never been short of grain, and they do not have the habit of storing a large amount of grain, and if it continues, I am afraid that it will cause a riot! Once there are strict consequences, those grain merchants will naturally be punished, but it is only a fine, and you will have to pay the price that the two departments of agriculture and people's livelihood cannot be promoted to the second class. ”
Fang Yun said: "The key is not the evaluation of these two subjects, if someone really dies because of this, and I don't dare to buy food and give it to the people for free, then." I'm afraid I'll have a new nickname, Murder County Commander Fang Zhenguo!"
"It's so poisonous!" Ao Huang hated it.
Fang Yundao: "Geng Ge hates me to the core, and he is a henchman of Liushan, even if I go to the Transshipment Division, it will be useless, so I put my hope on the side of the Beimang Army." The Beimang army is stationed in Ning'an County, and in addition to the county government, only the Beimang army can open a warehouse and release grain. General Ding is a masterpiece of a generation, as long as I sincerely persuade him. He may abandon his factional views and save the people. ”
"This hope is very small, after all, General Ding cannot disobey General Yingyang's orders. ”
"Something is better than nothing. ”
Fang Yun said, his brows moved, he opened the curtains, looked out through the gap, and listened.
"Go buy grain! The price of grain has risen again! It's frighteningly expensive!"
"When I heard about the new grain prices, I hurried to my house two blocks away to pick up a bag of rice and ran back to the grain store. The price of rice has risen by a full two percent, and it is only two streets!"
"It's hateful, it's already three times the price of ordinary grain! It's still rising!"
"What is the county order doing? Yet, don't you open a position to settle the price of grain?"
"Who knows, maybe he's in league with those profiteers!"
"Fart! Fang County is short of money, hundreds of millions of taels of silver are used to build a library. How much can Ning'an County make by selling grain?"
"You people are really ignorant! The Terrans have long had a plan to calm down. In a bumper harvest year, if the price of grain is too low, the government buys grain at a normal price, which is called 'Pingliang'; If the price of grain is too high, the official uniform will sell the grain in stock at the normal price. The name is 'Pingguang'. So, you don't have to worry! There is a lot of grain in the granary of Ning'an County, and even if the granary of Ning'an County runs out of food, the Eagle Yang Army will not see us starve to death. ”
"It's ......"
"Huh, those private soldiers...... It seems to be Fang Xusheng's car, right?"
"It's so fast, get out of the way, I'm afraid I'm going to deal with something big. ”
"Does it have something to do with food prices?"
Fang Yun's heart was heavy and he didn't say a word.
Ao Huang said in a low voice: "It seems that the group of bastards of the Left Prime Minister's Party, after determining that you are unable to calm the price of grain and reduce the rating, will use the stock of grain of the Eagle Yang Army to calm the price of grain and gain a good reputation." ”
Fang Yundao: "The grain they used to calm the price of grain is probably the grain that was transported from the county grain depot last night!"
"These bastards, don't we have a solution?" Ao Huang hated.
"If General Ding gives up helping, there is nothing I can do!" Fang Yun finished speaking, and passed a message to Ding Haosheng, the general of the Northern Mang Army.
However, General Ding was slow to reply.
Fang Yun's heart sank to the bottom, but he still rushed to the camp of the Beimang army.
A quarter of an hour later, Ding Haosheng replied to the message.
"The old man went to Yuyang Pass yesterday, not in Ning'an County, although he has the heart to save the people, but he can't help it, and he hopes that Fang Xusheng will forgive me. ”
In the biography, "Fang Xusheng" is used instead of "Fang County Order", which shows that Ding Haosheng did not do it on purpose, but he was in the army, and it was difficult to disobey the military order.
"That's it...... Turn around and go to the county literary center, where I still give lectures. Fang Yundao.
"We ...... Do you want to use strong means to arrest the people of the grain store like the owner of the workshop?"
"The owners of the workshops I arrested were either people who had a workshop in the county or had been a homeowner in a county-owned workshop before. Grain stores are private things, and how they set their prices is not influenced by the government. In other words, the government has the ability to influence pricing, but that can only be done through a cabinet decision. ”
"Then what should we do?" Ao Huang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
"Although the price of food is high, no one will die of hunger for at least three to five days, and I use this time to think about what to do. It's just ......" Fang Yun's expression was extremely strict.
"Just what?" Ao Huang asked curiously.
Fang Yundao: "It's just that March 19 is the day when the Medical Dao Literature Conference is held, so it can't be so coincidental...... I understand! It was after the date of the meeting was set that they suddenly raised the price of grain, causing a disturbance among the people, and making many medical scholars disgusted and even disgusted. If it is chaotic to the extreme, I will even lead to the cancellation of the medical Taoist text, and then incite the medical family to attack my medical ethics! Once the medical hall and the hall of rites judge that my medical ethics are problematic, then no matter how good the medical articles I wrote in the palace examination, in the end they will only be of the second grade, and they will not be able to get the first grade. ”
"This ...... They kill three birds with one stone. ”
"Compared to this time, the way the officials of Ning'an County harmed me before was simply ridiculous!" Fang Yun said.
"Alas...... What the hell should I do, what should I do......"
"This matter is urgent, and it must be considered in the long run. After Fang Yun finished speaking, he closed his eyes and recuperated, but in fact, he was trying his best to think about how to solve the danger of food prices this time.
Ao Huang carefully observed Fang Yun and found that although he was calm, he had a slight look of exhaustion, which showed that this situation was very unusual, and it was definitely the biggest difficulty encountered in the palace examination.
"Alas......" Ao Huang sighed, "the lecture has been decided, and I can't help but go." If you go, if someone asks about the price of food, then ...... Alas......"
Fang Yun remained silent.
The carriage stopped at the side gate of the county literary institute, and Fang Yun got off the car and walked slowly towards the temple square. (To be continued......)