After dinner, Li Kang chatted with Tan Yunxiao for a while, and then left the Dexin Palace, not choosing to stay overnight, but he did not go to other women, but went straight to his private residence, that is, the political affairs hall.

"I haven't cultivated for a long time, and I'm a little rusty, let's spend it in the cultivation room tonight!" Li Kang withdrew his right hand that was about to push open the door of the study, and turned around and walked towards the cultivation room on the side.

Sleepless night!

The next day, Li Kang just came out of the cultivation room, and before he had time to eat morning tea, Zhao Guo, the chief of agriculture and forestry, came to ask for a meeting again.

"So early? Is there a plague of locusts? Let him in!" Li Kang sat down behind his desk, thinking in his heart what to do if it was really a plague of locusts, although there are no locusts in the new world, there are still similar pests, not impossible...

There was a sound of "kicking" footsteps outside the door, and when he heard the frequency of the footsteps, Li Kang breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, it was not an emergency, otherwise Zhao Guo's footsteps would not have been so stable.

"Zhao Qing asked to see him early in the morning, I don't know what is going on?" After Zhao Guo saluted, Li Kang asked in an unkind tone, it was strange if the tone was good, let him run early in the morning to scare people, although it was mainly Li Kang himself who scared himself, but is it reasonable for the superior to lose his temper?

"Uh..."Zhao Guo was startled, a little inexplicable, [Did you disturb the good things of the king?]

Possibly!

Thinking of this, Zhao Guo couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead, faintly regretting his impatience.

Also as a man, he knows how angry the person concerned should be after this happens, and if the next report does not satisfy the other party, then don't think about it today!

"Your Majesty, after consulting with your colleagues, you believe that the current food shortage is inevitable, and it will not be alleviated in a short time... Therefore, please implement food control!" Zhao Guo said, and then respectfully handed over the "Please Implement Food Control" that he had written last night.

After Li Kang took it, he just flipped through it casually and didn't look at it carefully. Although he has never experienced the era of bills, he has never eaten pork, he has always seen pigs running, and the rules and regulations of grain control, Li Kang has his own rules in his heart.

In fact, as early as the beginning, Li Kang thought about implementing a control policy, not only food, but also daily consumer goods, he planned to implement a controlled rationing system, but later it was still abandoned. Because of the lack of materials at that time, of course, this is also the reason why Li Kang wants to implement control... There is not even a thing as a ration certificate, the only thing that can be used is bamboo and wood chips, but these are too easy to imitate, and it is difficult to fill the desire, if you really want to use wood chips to make 'food stamps and cloth stamps', Li Kang guarantees that 100% someone will imitate them... Later, after the situation gradually improved, the matter was temporarily shelved by Li Kang.

However, the lack of suitable bills is only one of the reasons, the most important thing is that at the beginning of the extreme shortage of materials, everyone is eating a big pot of rice, there is no money, private property is far away, there is no control regulations on the surface, what is done inside is the control thing, only later the money circulated, and the outside trade routes were opened, and private enterprises began to appear, which actually ended the 'control' state.

The so-called 'from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift', people who are accustomed to free trade, suddenly back to the era of regulation, can they adapt?

Okay, even if the shogunate can enforce it, what should Suwu Town do? As a window to the outside world, a free trade zone, a treaty port, and an economically developed area, isn't it funny that you have a grain control? Believe it or not, go back to the pre-liberation period in minutes. Not to mention the fact that the work of several years is ruined, it is also extremely hurtful, the brand is rotten, and it will be difficult to re-establish it in the future.

Do we want to treat them differently and practice 'one country, two systems'?

Then who else wants to stay in the local area? All of them rushed to Suwu Town! Unless they learn to set up a rabbit and set up a pass, but this is obviously not necessary, people are a problem left over from history, and they have to do it, you are making trouble for yourself, isn't it funny?

More importantly, food control is caused by foreign development and population explosion, so how will the people who know the truth choose?

Lao Tzu desperately supported the shogunate to expand the territory, but the life was not as good as before, so why should I support the shogunate, I think it's good to be in harmony with the beautiful days now.

Then one by one they lay in the nest and did not move, who did Li Kang cry to? The common people had no enthusiasm, and if they were forced, Emperor Wu would be an example in his last years.

"Zhao Qing, is there a condition to complete your plan over there at the printing house?" Although he didn't agree with Zhao Guo's idea very much, Li Kang still showed a smile, no matter whether the idea was right or wrong, an official with ideas is always much better than a person who just eats and doesn't do anything, the kind of old fritter who holds 'do more wrong, do less and do less, don't do good' as the officialdom' creed, Li Kang hates the most!

"Printing house?" Zhao Guo was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and said, "Your Majesty did not inform the printing house. ”

"No?" Li Kang was very strange, in his opinion, bills can generally only be filled with high-quality and inexpensive things, and paper is the most suitable, cloth, metal and the like, like grain, Huaxia is also lacking, obviously not suitable for bills.

After discussion, the ministers unanimously felt that it was most appropriate to use silver as special grain money, which could be distinguished from the Huaxia currency in circulation at present, and issued a decree stipulating that for a period of time, the exchange of Huaxia currency with grain was prohibited, and only grain money was allowed to be used to buy grain. Zhao Guo said eloquently.

And Li Kang only felt that he was listening to the book of heaven.

What kind of thing? Casting grain stamps with silver? This kind of local tyrant play, can Huaxia play well?

If it weren't for his identity, Li Kang really wanted to take a hard look at Zhao Guo's handsome face...

"I need an explanation!" Li Kanghu said with a grimace.

Zhao Guo was a little speechless, [Aren't the explanations all written in the notes to you?

"The people are accustomed to free trade, and if food restrictions are suddenly imposed, the ministers are afraid that the people will not understand and will resist them, which will not be conducive to the continuation of the major policies. But if grain is linked to silver, even if it is not regulated, the common people will consciously reduce the amount of food they buy. The best part is that there is no telling how long this kind of control will last," Zhao Guo explained lightly.

Li Kang suddenly brightened, and there was a feeling of seeing the moon through the clouds.

Yes, there's also this way of operating.

For the current China, silver is not as important as food at all, and even after withdrawing from the coin function, for Huaxia, its role is infinitely reduced, and before the industrial strength is raised, it can only become the decoration of the rich family, and the artifact is forced.

Rather than this, then why not take it out and cheapen the common people?