Following Chuntuo's guidance, after reading the bamboo slips displayed in the dozen or so wooden boxes in front of him, Chen Ping finally sat back in his seat thoughtfully.

After closing his eyes and muttering for a long time, he saw Chen Ping slowly open his eyes, and his gaze at Liu Ying was also a little dignified.

"At home."

Bowing to Liu Ying slightly, Chen Ping raised his head towards the dozen or so wooden boxes in the center of the hall.

"The policy of 'Shaofu official camp Guanzhong grain and rice' mentioned by the family is generally known to the minister."

"Ranchen, there are still a few unknowns, and I ask my family to solve my doubts on my behalf······"

After speaking, he saw Chen Ping keep getting up, let out a long sigh leisurely, and then looked at Xiao He on the opposite side.

"Dare to ask Xiao Xiang."

"——In the current treasury, in addition to the courtiers and officials, the local county officials, and the grain and grass needed by His Majesty's army in March, how much surplus grain will there be?"

"——There is less money in the house, and the matter of the grain and rice in the official camp of the Yu family may have money and grain to help?"

Hearing Chen Ping's question, Xiao He couldn't help but sigh leisurely, and shook his head with a bitter smile.

"Qu Shunhou came with His Majesty's order, and asked each other with the resources of the government and the treasury, the old man, he didn't dare to hide it from Qu Shunhou."

"The treasury of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Mo Yan's 'surplus grain' is the rice of the official Zuo and the military food of His Majesty's army, which can also be said to be stretched!"

As he spoke, Xiao He couldn't help but smile bitterly again, and looked at Chen Ping with self-deprecation.

"Did Qu Shunhou Xu forget?"

"——When His Majesty's army set out on the expedition, in order to raise the grain and grass for the army, the old man once said to His Majesty: In the first few months of the year, half of the court and local officials will be temporarily distributed."

"After His Majesty's army was launched, and since the autumn and September of last year, the first war has been fought in Handan, and it has been half a year old since now."

"Only half a year old, the old man sent grain from the treasury to lose His Majesty's army, no less than five million stones······"

Speaking of this, Xiao He couldn't help but feel a touch of deep exhaustion and sorrow on his old face.

"Last year, Guanzhong Valley was not abundant, the yield per mu in Weibei was only two and a half stones, and Weinan was slightly more than two stones; In the past year, the grain and rice obtained were only more than 19,000,000 stones. ”

"Your Majesty is benevolent, righteous, and loves the people, and lightly levies the tax on the small amount, and formulates the agricultural tax of 'one out of fifteen'; in this way, the agricultural tax in the middle of the last year will only be more than 1,200,000 stones."

"This more than 12 million stones are also local counties, and they are kept in accordance with the regulations to pay for the maintenance of straight roads and post stations."

"In the last year, Guanzhong lost agricultural taxes to the national treasury, but only eight or nine million stone ······."

After that, Xiao He finally sighed with exhaustion, looked sideways at Liu Ying again, and laughed at himself.

"The national treasury has eight or nine million stone in agricultural taxes, and the court and county officials alone need half of it."

"Your Majesty's army is half a year old, and it has consumed more than five million stone of grain; The war was not settled, and in the future, the old man also sent millions of stones of grain and rice that month for His Majesty's army, thinking that the generals would have enough military food. ”

After expressing all the pain in his heart, Xiao Hecai finally looked at Chen Ping again, and his haggard eyes were full of sorrow and helplessness.

"So that Qu Yihou knows."

"——If the old man uses the 'Banlu' standard to keep the rice before the autumn harvest of this year, the local counties and courts have officials and officials, and the current treasury is no longer able to supply the grain and grass needed by His Majesty's army!"

"For now, the old man has to temporarily move the official Zuozhi Lu, and lose His Majesty's military rations; In April, the agricultural tax of Shu land will be put into the treasury of two or three million stones, so that there will be no official support for the time being, and His Majesty's army will be ······ of food shortage."

As this quite accurate data was revealed by Xiao He, the atmosphere in the hall also fell silent inexplicably.

Liu Ying is better, knowing that the grain official camp can basically solve these problems, so her face is not too heavy.

Chen Ping frowned tightly, and his fist-clenched hand slammed lightly on the desk in front of him, his face full of worry.

"Where it has been······"

Hearing Chen Ping's slight murmur, Xiao He only smiled bitterly.

"That's it, it was still the ninth year of the Han Dynasty before the year, there was no war in Kanto, and the treasury was a little tired of grain."

"If this is not the case, I am afraid that in the first ten months of the year, the treasury will no longer be able to send grain and rice, thinking that the grain and grass of His Majesty's army will ······."

Hearing Xiao He cry again, Chen Ping's worry only deepened, and after thinking for a moment, he couldn't help but raise his head slightly.

"The treasury is like this, and the treasury is ······"

Halfway through his words, he didn't even have the main body of the question spoken, so Chen Ping happily stopped talking, sat down and shook his head and sighed.

-- No matter how poor the prime minister's treasury is, at least one of the 'agricultural taxes' will not be able to enter the treasury and be sent to the treasury every year.

Shaofu, although nominally has an oral endowment in the account, but since the day the three-baht money was born, the Shaofu internal treasury has basically been in a state of 'only out but not in'······

If it weren't for that, the mouths of millions of people every year, added up, would be tens of thousands of dollars.

Even if these tens of thousands of dollars are still a little pitiful for the central court, but no matter how you say it, this is tens of thousands of dollars per year.

After accumulating a small amount of money, saving for three or five years, holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings, the Shaofu will not be able to come up with the funds to build a Chang'an City.

Not to mention that in the past few years, instead of saving money well, Shaofu still smelted and cast copper and half taels into lead and three baht under the order of Liu Bang, the son of heaven······

Thinking of this, he saw that Chen Ping frowned and shook his head again, and finally turned sideways with a worried face, and bowed his hand to Liu Ying.

"Dare to ask the family."

"——Now the national treasury, the longitudinal officials have to temporarily release half of their strength."

"There is less money in the house, and it can be said that there is no money or rice."

"However, the family's policy of 'specializing in grain and rice' seems to need to set up nearly 70 places of grain in Guanzhong, and nearly 100 grains and grasses!?

"Where will the money and grain come from for the construction of grain and granaries?"

As he spoke, Chen Ping bowed his head again and groaned, and asked again: "And the grain market, when the city officials are needed; granaries, then storekeepers. ”

"The city officials and warehouse officials should be stationed in another armor to protect the stability of the granary."

"Where shall the salaries of these city officials and storemen come from, and the food and wages of the storemen and guards?"

Speaking of this, Chen Ping raised his hand again and pointed to the dozen or so wooden boxes in front of him.

"On the other hand, the minister seems to see the family on the book in Jian: Shaofu specializes in grain and rice, and there is almost no difference from the grain merchant Mijia in the past, all of which are purchased from the people after autumn, and in spring and summer, the grain and the people's food."

"In this case, where should the money for Shaofu's grain purchase come from?"

After expressing all the doubts in his heart, Chen Ping finally stood up from his seat and bowed to Liu Ying.

"The family plans to monopolize grain and rice to stabilize the boiling of grain prices in Guanzhong; If it can be done, it will make it possible for the community to no longer have the risk of boiling food prices and the people's sorrow all over the wilderness in the future. ”

"Such a good policy for the benefit of the country and the people, the minister should not say anything wrong; Ranchen returned to Chang'an this time, and got the order of His Majesty's 'Careful Strategy'······"

"In this number of difficulties, the minister's mission is in his body, and he really doesn't care about ······"

After speaking, Chen Ping arched his hand solemnly and bowed deeply to Liu Ying.

Hearing Chen Ping's question, Xiao He couldn't help but turn his head sideways with worry on his face, observing the change in Liu Ying's expression.

But when Liu Ying heard Chen Pingyan, he smiled again, pointed his hand at Xiao He a little weakly, and said to Chen Ping: "Fang Cai, Xiao Xiang also used this to count the difficulties and asked Yu Gu. ”

"Qu Rebellion Hou is here, it can be described as a coincidence······"

After a little ridicule, he saw Liu Ying shaking his head with a smile, and motioned for Chun Tuo to help Chen Ping up.

After Chen Ping was helped back to his seat and sat down on his knees, Liu Ying sighed slightly, and his face suddenly straightened.

"Since Xiao Xiang and Qu Shunhou both have this question, Lonely, they will answer them together."

said a word in a serious tone, and saw Liu Ying take a breath, and immediately laughed at herself.

"The policy of the grain and rice government is to know that the grain price in Guanzhong is boiling, and it comes from the grain merchant Mijiatun Grain Juqi, in order to make huge profits, and suddenly born of thought."

"At that time, Lonely only thought: Mi Jia, a grain merchant, is more afraid of power but not virtuous, greedy and not sympathetic to the suffering of the people; Therefore, the matter of grain and rice should be in the hands of the court. ”

"And the details of the franchise, I also thought at that time: but after the autumn to buy grain for the people, in the winter to store grain in the warehouse, in the spring, summer, and then sell to the people, that's it."

Speaking of this, Liu Ying shook her head with a smile again.

"Then after thinking about this strategy, I tried to say it to Shaofu, and I knew that this matter was not so easy, and it could be done."

"——Mi Jia, a grain merchant, if there is a lot of money, he can buy the grain of a county; If it is not abundant, you can also temporarily buy a township or a mile of grain. ”

"However, if the Shaofu wants to run the grain and rice in the Guanzhong, it should be after the autumn harvest, and buy all the grain and rice from the Guanzhong!"

"Today, Shaofu sells cheap grain in the south of Chang'an, and the price of rice is 2,000 yuan; Grain is 10,000,000 stones, and bento is 20 million yuan! ”

As she spoke, Liu Ying's face was even more playful, and her smile was even more helpless.

"Twenty Million ······"

"Hey ······"

"Today's young mansion is full of money, but the money is two or thirty thousand; The agricultural tax collected by the national treasury at the age of one year is not more than 10 million stone of grain and rice. ”

"If you want to have enough money to buy grain and ten thousand stones, I am afraid that you need to pay the income of the government for a thousand years, or the national treasury, and all the agricultural taxes you received at the age of ten ······"

With a helpless face, Liu Ying couldn't help but sigh.

As the saying goes: everything is difficult at the beginning.

This sentence is undoubtedly the most appropriate when placed in business matters.

Shaofu's government-run grain, to put it bluntly, is to end up in the official capacity of Shaofu and set up a state-owned enterprise like 'Zhisu Duwei'.

And this state-owned enterprise needs to replace all the original grain merchants in Guanzhong to achieve a monopoly on the grain market in Guanzhong!

This is precisely the biggest difficulty and obstacle to the 'grain and rice monopoly'.

——Monopoly is a need to spend money~

Even if Liu Ying uses official coercive means to forcibly clear the Guanzhong grain market, if Shaofu wants to seamlessly achieve the big plate of 'Guanzhong grain market', it will also require a huge amount of start-up capital.

And in this start-up capital, the 'purchase' alone requires what Liu Ying just mentioned: 20 million yuan······

"Whew~"

With a hard gasp of breath, Liu Ying finally pulled her emotions out of the previous depressed and suffocating state.

When he looked at Chen Ping and Xiao He again, Liu Ying's eyes were already quietly filled with undoubted confidence.

"Therefore, if you want Shaofu to monopolize the grain in Guanzhong, you can't buy grain for the people with money after the autumn!"

Dropping this absurd sentence without changing his face, Liu Ying leaned his upper body back slightly with self-satisfaction, and his eyes switched back and forth between Xiao He and Chen Ping.

Looking at the strange faces of the two of them in a moment, Liu Ying couldn't help but smile.

"Hey!"

"It's really a shame to be a traverser, and you don't even understand the operation mode of the bank?"

secretly slandered, Liu Ying did not sell Guan Zi anymore, but put all the grand plans in his heart in front of the stunned Chen Ping and Xiao He.

"I think that in the past, although grain merchants said 'grain', they bought it in the autumn, stored it in the east, and sold it in spring and summer, but they only temporarily stored grain on behalf of farmers."

"Gu has also found out that the reason why the peasant households sell the grain they have obtained at a low price after the autumn and buy it back at a high price in the spring and summer of the following year, but the peasant households are poor and weak, and they have no money to build a granary and store the rice and grain obtained from self-cultivation."

"Now I want to make the Shaofu government run grain and rice, but I want to replace it with Shaofu and take the grain merchant Mijia in the past; What Shaofu is doing is still storing grain on behalf of the people. ”

"Even if it is 'storing grain on behalf of the people', how can you buy it and sell it?"

Hearing that Liu Ying's words seemed absurd, but in fact they were reasonable, Chen Ping and Xiao He's faces all showed shock.

- Storing grain on behalf of the people?

Chen Ping and Xiao He lived together for more than a hundred years, how could they ever hear the term 'storing grain on behalf of the people'?

But if you think about it carefully, isn't it what Liu Ying said?

The people could not save their own grain, so they could only sell it to grain merchants first, and when it was time to eat, they would use the money they had earned from selling grain to buy grain and eat it at home.

In this process, businessmen naturally relied on their dominant position to unscrupulously control the rise and fall of grain prices.

During the autumn harvest, when they wanted to buy peasants' grain, the merchants naturally frantically lowered prices; In the spring and summer, when the grain was to be sold to the peasants, the price was raised frantically.

In this way, the grain sold by the farmers was eventually eaten back into their stomachs.

However, after such a purchase and sale, the grain was taken over by the merchants, and then stored in the warehouse for half a year, half of the grain sold by the peasants became the merchants' ······

"Hmmm······"

After pondering for a long time, barely digesting the concept of 'storing grain on behalf of the people', Xiao He looked at Chen Ping with a slightly hesitant gaze.

"What does Qu Shunhou think?"

was pondering, and when he heard that he was smiling and asked coldly, Chen Ping was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly collected the expression on his face.

"Grain storage ······ on behalf of the people"

"Hmmm······"

After pondering for a long time, he saw Chen Ping also look at Xiao He with a little hesitation.

"It's a little novel, but when you look at it, it's true."

"——In the past, what the grain merchant Mi Jia did, in general, was indeed as the family said, but it was just 'storing grain on behalf of the people'······"

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