Chapter Seventy-One: Reprimanding Li Shimin
Hearing this, Li Hao chuckled and said: "This is a better solution, as long as we use our Li Jiazhuang's secret wax to seal the bamboo tube containing the exam papers and send it to Chang'an." ”
"You also know that the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and there are many places where unless you send your henchmen and ministers over, otherwise you can only use my methods."
"Don't look at the trouble of sending to Chang'an, but you have to know that the most troublesome method is often the most effective."
Hearing this, Li Shimin agreed very much, and it would definitely not work to let him send ministers over now, but if all the test papers were included in Chang'an, wouldn't there be no need to worry about someone playing favoritism.
Even if the five surnames and seven hopes know about this method, there is no way, and no one can stop it.
Li Shimin's heart was very happy after knowing the method, he breathed a long sigh of relief and then picked up the wine glass and drank it violently, he didn't know how many cows had not experienced this feeling of relaxation.
After drinking a few glasses in a row, Li Shimin asked again: "Li Hao, now that there is a solution to the internal troubles, what ......about the external troubles?"
Before Li Shimin finished speaking, Li Hao directly stopped him, he glanced at Li Shimin and said, "Old Li, do you really think that there are these problems within the Tang Dynasty?" ”
"Now the people's food is solved, but if there is a problem in Datang now, believe it or not, the people still have no food."
Li Shimin looked at Li Hao with a puzzled face, unable to understand what he meant, "Aren't those seeds you gave as amazing as you said?" ”
Li Hao waved his hand, "Naturally, there is no problem with the seeds I gave you, the problem is in the hearts of people." ”
"People are all pursuing profits, do you think about it, if this year's grain yield is high, what will be the first thing the people will think about?"
Li Shimin pondered for a moment and said, "Money? ”
Li Hao looked at Li Shimin with a teachable appearance, "Yes, money, who doesn't want to have more spare money in their hands?" ”
"Isn't the main source of income for the people of Datang rely on selling surplus grain?"
"When the time comes, these businessmen will definitely lower the price when they see the high grain yield, and as long as the price is lowered, the people will only be forced to sell a large amount of grain.
"None of this is there yet, but do you think about what will happen to this merchant if he sells a large amount of grain to another country?"
"If they are smarter and plant the grain directly, they will not need to buy and sell from Datang at all, and Datang will have a small source of income."
As soon as Li Hao said this, Li Shimin immediately understood what he meant, that is, to limit grain prices, thinking about it, it was also last year's plague and natural disasters such as heavy snow closing mountains, and the first thing these grain merchants did was not to raise prices.
Li Shimin also thought about curbing grain prices during the snow disaster, but the snow disaster has already come, and there is no possibility at all to suppress grain prices.
But now it's different, and now that the earth is rejuvenating, Li Shimin has also distributed high-yield grain seeds, or it won't be long before these seeds will become grain.
At this time, the implementation of the new policy is definitely the most appropriate time, and Li Shimin can be sure of this.
However, how to implement this policy is a difficult problem, Li Shimin asked Li Hao again: "Then how do you think it should be restricted?" ”
Even Li Hao needed to think about this question, but he soon had an answer, "There are many ways, one is to restrict the grain trade, but there will definitely be people who buy and sell this privately, you don't know." ”
"The second is to set a ceiling on grain prices, and the minimum and maximum grain prices must be clearly marked."
"Of course, there will be a lot of people who will play the side game, and they will only pay a few cents more than the lowest price, and when they sell it, they will be a few cents lower than the highest price."
"These are actually not problems, the most important thing is that you can't control it, even if you can control the price of food in Chang'an, but you can't control the price of food in other places."
"In short, it's still the same sentence, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away."
"Unless you set the price to death, you can still control the entire transaction of Datang."
"The third method is easier to implement, and that is to set up special places in various places for grain trading."
"I'm looking for someone to supervise, as long as I don't trade in the grain trading center, I will be fined, and if I have money, I will be fined, and if I don't have money, I will be fined."
"You should hand over this matter to the Ministry of Industry, they are in charge of the construction of farmland in the world, and they are familiar with this matter."
"By the way, Lao Li, how did you distribute the seeds I gave you?"
Li Hao said a series of methods, but he said the drawbacks, until the third method appeared, which made Li Shimin a lot easier, but the question he threw made Li Shimin feel that there was something wrong.
Li Shimin finally opened his mouth and said how he handled the seeds, "I handed over this matter to the officials in various places, and every household distributed seeds, and I ...... them."
Before he finished speaking, Li Hao pointed at him with a look of hatred for iron and steel, "Lao Li, you are confused!" ”
"Can you make sure that these seeds reach the people? As long as the people of one place do not get the seed, how will the people of that place survive? ”
"They don't have any ability to buy food, aren't you deliberately saddling yourself with infamy?"
"You don't understand the simple truth that the people take food as the sky?"
"Have the seeds been distributed everywhere now?"
Li Shimin was not angry when Li Hao accused him this time, but he felt a little guilty, Li Hao gave him the seed so that he could save the people of Limin, but now this matter has become so complicated.
Li Shimin is now like a student who has been reprimanded by a teacher in the school, he is like a frosted eggplant, "Now the seeds have been distributed everywhere." ”
Hearing this, Li Hao's mind was spinning, and he had to think of a countermeasure, otherwise these seeds would not reach the people, not to mention 100%, at least 30 percent.
"In this way, you let the people of the Ministry of Industry scatter and set up ministries of agriculture and commerce in various places, collect all the seeds, and if there are any that are distributed, go to the survey to see if they are in the hands of the people."
"This seed cannot be divided blindly, it must be divided according to how much fertile land each family has, otherwise it will be a waste to give too much."
"Those who have too much fertile land in their hands should wait for all the people to finish distributing it, otherwise the seeds in their hands may not be enough to distribute in terms of the number of fertile fields."
"It is important to remember that there is no rule that seeds should not be traded privately, as long as the seeds are recovered if they are traded privately."
As soon as Li Hao said this, everyone's eyes lit up, and the ministers also listened carefully, and they were all stunned when they saw him reprimand Li Shimin like this.
However, they thought about it according to what Li Hao said, and found that this is indeed the principle, as long as the seeds are not distributed in place, the people will not be far from Datang.