On this night, they still had some results, and everyone came up with some ideas, although these ideas could not completely solve the problem, but some of them were still meritorious. For example, Guo Youzhi proposed that the troops on the battlefield in three directions should step up their march and collect (plunder) more grain from the enemy and send it back to the Central Plains, so as to alleviate the grain shortage in the Central Plains.www.biquge.info

However, even Liu Hou can imagine that this method can not play a big role, and it can only be regarded as better than nothing. The reason is very simple, the armies of the three directions have been doing this kind of thing, they have been plundering the materials of those foreign races and transporting them back to the Central Plains, among which food is the material they pay the most attention to.

They've been doing this as hard as they can, and now they can't squeeze much potential out of it, so it's certain that this method won't have much effect in the end.

There is another reason, in the two battlefields of the north and the west, most of the grain collected is meat, and most of the Han people are not used to eating too much meat, so they can only use meat as a non-staple food, and it is impossible to use it as a staple food.

Moreover, those who are able to eat meat are in the minority after all. Although it is said that after those people eat meat, the consumption of food will definitely decrease, but meat is still not as good as food.

The best hope for this idea was pinned on the army in the South. The focus is to urge Gao Ding to occupy more grain-producing areas, so that he can plunder enough grain and send it back to the Central Plains.

Ma Liang proposed a seemingly feasible method, that is, to "borrow grain" from those large households. Ma Liang's theory is based on the fact that in fact, there is no real shortage of grain in the world, but most of the grain has been hoarded by those large households.

It is only the ordinary people who lack food, but the big families are hoarding and driving up the price of grain. Therefore, as long as we find a way to get the grain out of the hands of these big households, we can stabilize the price of grain in the market.

Liu Hou did not fully agree with his theory, because after decades of wars among the princes, the landlord's family had no surplus grain! You know, in the eyes of those warlords, those big families are fat pork.

Over the years, warlords have been fighting each other, and the most important resource for them, besides soldiers, is food. Soldiers can take the form of catching strong men to force them back, and everyone knows that the most convenient way to get food is to find those big households to "borrow".

It can be said that the trick of finding a big household to "borrow grain" is what those princes have long been left over. Back then, if his father Liu Bei hadn't been a big businessman, he would have the capital to make a fortune.

Back then, Mi Zhu scattered all his family wealth to raise military funds for Liu Bei, which shows how ruthlessly and thoroughly this big family was "borrowed" grain by Liu Bei. As for whether he voluntarily "lent" grain to Liu Bei's Liu Hou, it is unknown.

However, Liu Bei did not treat him badly, made him a high-ranking official, and reused him. Now that the Han Dynasty has unified the world, his "investment" back then has finally received an excess return.

The world has been in turmoil for decades, and the "heroes" of the days have sung and I have appeared, and the big families who have been "borrowed" grain are not only the Mi family. The grain that has been "borrowed" for so many years is estimated that those so-called large households do not have much grain in stock.

Therefore, if you use this trick again, it is estimated that the effect will not be too good. However, after listening to what Ma Liang said, Liu Hou remembered the problem of unfair distribution, and then remembered the supply system implemented by the Republic in later times in difficult times.

This is a good way to solve the unfair distribution and tide over the difficulties together. In times of hardship in the republic, the means of subsistence were supplied according to the grades. At that time, you had to have a food stamp to buy grain, you needed a meat stamp to buy meat, and you had to use a cloth stamp to buy cloth.

When the total amount of social goods is insufficient, the advantage of this is obvious, the materials are evenly distributed to the hands of individuals, ensuring the basic living needs of all people, and at the same time limiting the amount of living materials consumed by each person to a certain extent to avoid waste.

For example, if there are 10 people but only 8 portions of food, if you are in an environment where there is an unfair distribution, for example, if everyone grabs food according to the size of their force, they can eat as much as they can, and in such an environment, it is very likely that some people will eat very much, and even some of the food they have grabbed will not be eaten and thrown away. But those who are weaker in force are miserable, and they are likely to starve to death because they can't get food. Even if no one wastes food, everyone grabs enough to eat and stops, and the final result is that the first 8 people are full, and the two people with the weakest force value are starved to death.

If someone wastes food, there are more than two people who starve to death. But if it's a loving environment, and everyone distributes the food equally, then everyone can't eat enough, but everyone can eat 80% full, and the end result is that no one will starve to death, at most everyone will be malnourished. Therefore, it is undeniable that egalitarianism and supply system can indeed play a positive role when social resources are scarce.

Bu Qiu also put forward an idea, that is, to organize the hundreds of thousands of captured Dongwu sailors, and let them enter Yunmengze and nearby river nets to catch fish and shrimp, and pick water chestnuts, lotus seeds, lotus roots and other aquatic plants for food. In the same way, he can only produce non-staple food, not staple food, but it is undeniable that a person eats too much non-staple food, which takes up part of the stomach capacity, and the intake of staple food will be reduced accordingly, and the variety of food is rich, which can make the people's nutrition more balanced and conducive to everyone's health.

So his idea still has a certain effect. There are many similar ideas, such as organizing people to hunt, pick wild vegetables, wild fruits, and so on. However, in fact, these things do not need to be organized by the government at all, and the people will naturally do it spontaneously when they are hungry.

Several cabinet ministers went back to rest for the morning, and in the afternoon, they returned to the cabinet to continue meeting to discuss solutions. This time, Liu Hou was directly involved in the meeting. He explained the concept of the supply system, and asked the ministers for their opinions. However, to his disappointment, all the cabinet ministers unanimously felt that the supply system would be difficult to implement.

The premise of the supply mechanism is to first concentrate social resources and then distribute them in a unified manner, to put it bluntly, it is necessary to first collect all the grain in society as the basis for egalitarian distribution. In this era, privatization is deeply rooted in everyone's heart, and telling them about communism now is tantamount to playing the harp to a cow.

In particular, everyone present, except for Guo You, has a huge family behind them, and they all represent the interests of the family. Even Guo Youzhi was originally born poor, but he has also been an official by Liu Hou's side for many years, and the originally ordinary family has gradually become rich.

The big family of this era is also synonymous with the big landlords, and talking about egalitarianism and communism with the big landlords is not a tiger skin? So it is not surprising that these people vetoed this dangerous idea in the first place. Liu Hou also knew that it was really inappropriate to talk about these things now, and as an emperor, it could be said that he was the largest landlord and the largest privileged class in the whole world, and from the perspective of his own and his family's interests, it was most suitable to continue to maintain the existing ruling system.