Chapter Seventy-Three: Chang'an Fu, I don't know how to count!
When in front of the emperor, everything is centered on the emperor, even if he says insensitive, shameless, and disgusting sycophants, everyone is in the same palace, and no one will laugh at this person, which is a very normal behavior of everyone who is still self-motivated and demanding.
When the emperor was not in front of him, everyone spoke very casually, and there were many people who were proud of burying and whipping the emperor.
There were more such people before, that is, they have only become fewer in the past few years, mainly because the emperor who would not be punished for his words in the past has now begun to clean up some guys who are not very respectful to him verbally.
This is the reason why Li Jingxuan always says half of his words when he speaks badly, and he always has to leave his words blank.
The way the officials talked was actually very interesting, no matter what way Li Jingxuan used to express his needs, and no matter what Yun Chu's reaction was at that time, in fact, the purpose of exchanging news had been achieved.
Don't think that Yun Chu's refutation of Li Jingxuan in person means that Yun Chu's suggestions to them will be categorically rejected.
The officials in Datang society are definitely the absolute elites in Datang society, they are not as stupid as others think, whether they agree to one thing or not, it depends on their interests.
It is very normal in officialdom that the noisy water and fire are incompatible on the surface, but the actual behavior is not bad every second, so there is that famous saying, don't look at what he says, but look at what he does.
Li Jingxuan is obviously also an old fritter in officialdom, and the emperor's will to order Chang'an City to help the victims is in his arms.
He wanted to take advantage of the victims' affairs to catch the sore feet of the officials on Yun Chu's side first, and when the time came, it would be easy to talk and not to mention, and he could also put forward some conditions that could not be mentioned before, such as giving priority to preparing residences for officials from Luoyang, opening a commercial opening, and so on.
It can be seen from this that Li Jingxuan's headache for the emperor is definitely more priority than solving the suffering of these victims.
Only the common people felt that the imperial court must give priority to solving the problem of the victims in the first place, and the vast majority of officials did not think so.
Since the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, there have always been natural disasters, and there have always been disaster victims, as long as there are officials with a little experience, they have basically dealt with the problems of the victims, and have also experienced various problems, and it is not uncommon to turn the victims into mobs and turn pacification into rebellions.
In the end, the mob was cleaned up by the government, the rebellion was cleaned up by the government soldiers, and in the end, I was surprised to find that there was never a mob in the world, let alone a rebellion...... For example, Li Yifu suppressed the Hebei mob, and Xue Rengui pacified the rebellion in Yingzhou......
Chang'an is different after all.
A mature city will never change its rhythm of life because of some small accidents.
Even if 300,000 victims came from outside the city, it would not make Chang'an, a busy city, slow down at all.
Chang'an is like a huge and well-functioning machine, after a large number of victims are swallowed by the machine, they change into clean clothes, eat a full meal, and when they come out, they become lean-looking and somewhat stupid guys.
It won't take long for these victims to fall in love with Chang'an, and never feel homesick again, after all, the memory of the bitter cold hometown leaves them with hunger and cold, there are not many good things left, which is like Chang'an, even they can secretly look at the beauty of the boss with the neckline open, and the most important thing is that there are some orchids who sell wine, and when it is hot, they wear a gauze dress, and the two points of red on their chests are obvious......
Chang'an needs to do the work, the gap is very large, mainly at this time Chang'an, even if it is rich, all the work still needs people to do, just to supply the old gods to prepare a pharmacy for themselves, a time to go 800 guys, there are mountains of medicinal materials, is needed these people to make the medicinal materials into pieces, into sections, ground into powder, steamed into soup...... Anyway, there won't be a job to eat and not work.
Not to mention places such as handmade paper workshops, the number of people needed is huge.
The official government in Chang'an City is an official government with extremely high operational efficiency, and after Yun Chu accepted Li Yifu's verification of the account books, Mi Zhushu and other officials have already resettled the people who fled to Chang'an, although there are still people coming to Chang'an one after another, which is basically nothing.
Yun Chu finished reading the disaster victim resettlement documents brought by the rice master book, and after looking at it for an hour, he kneaded the bridge of his nose and slowly looked up to the rice master book who had just come in and was boiling pots of tea: "In this way, there is no need to shut down all the brewing workshops?" ”
Mi Zhushu took a cup of tea and put it in front of Yunchu and said: "Junhou, don't you dare to stop the brewing workshop, if this is stopped, the drunkards all over the world will not go crazy, not to mention that there are more than 10,000 people in Chang'an City who make a living from winemaking. ”
Yun Chu snorted and said: "I know that you have the benefits of the brewery, but your words are not unreasonable, the tax paid by the brewing workshop in a year is indeed a large amount, and I am reluctant."
Since you have made a guarantee for the shopkeepers of those wineries, the wineries can not stop, and the winemaking can continue.
However, a city has suddenly increased by 300,000 mouths to eat, and you have to guarantee me such a huge food shortage, and besides, you can't use the grain in the regular closing warehouse. ”
Master Mi smiled and crossed his hand, shook five short and thick fingers in front of Yun Chu and said, "The words of the prince are worth five thousand guan, and his subordinates have already put these five thousand guan into the big tent."
As for the grain shortage, the lower officials have ordered the grain merchants to make up for it, although the Weibei drought is severe, and there is no harvest of grains, but Hexi has a smooth wind and rain this year, and the grain is ripe, and the grain merchants are still worried about the fall in grain prices, but now they don't have to worry, they only need to increase the transportation capacity to make up for it.
Prince, should we make this food gap an official deal? In this way, come in at a low price, go out at a high price, inside and out, and you can get 5,000 yuan. ”
Yun Chu looked at the rice master who was a little roe deer-headed and rat-eyed and said: "Don't compete with the people, this is a practice that we have always followed in Chang'an, only in this way will the merchants think about making the trade bigger, and when the time comes, whatever we want, the merchants can supply it." ”
Master Mi nodded with some regret.
Yun Chu looked up at the master of the rice book and said: "Look at your little interest, as an official in Chang'an, don't treat money as money, just rely on your customary share of the master book, and when you are promoted to become an official in other places, you will never be short of money."
The money can be taken clearly, what do you want to pickle? What does money do, what is not bad character. ”
Master Mi was ashamed again and again, but he still approached Yun Chu and whispered: "The prince doesn't value money, the lower official thinks that Li Shilang is a person who likes money, just look at the way his eyes shine when he checks the accounts, the lower official thinks he may take the initiative to ask us for filial piety, how much does the prince think is appropriate?" ”
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "When the time comes, prepare more Chang'an souvenirs, one is not enough for two, and no more than three."
Those who came from Luoyang were poor, and they could understand it when they saw money, but as for money, there was no one. ”
Master Mi Gu Dong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Don't give a penny? ”
Yun Chu snorted coldly and said: "If you have money, it is also for relatives and friends, not for white-eyed wolves, your clan uncle has contributed a lot this time, and you can get five hundred yuan to quietly send it to Luoyang Mansion."
If we give Li Jingxuan and them money, there will be a bastard who will take the money we gave to His Majesty and accuse the official of bribery. ”
"How can they be so vile and shameless?"
Yun Chu shrugged his shoulders and said, "You used to be in contact with money, but now, hmph, the time has changed, and anyone can come out." ”
Master Mi left in a hurry, he didn't understand, but he couldn't understand in front of Yun Chu, a person who could decide his fate, not so much to ask for advice, but actually to test whether his own officials understood the tricks, so as not to be pitted by the group of imperial historians brought by Li Jingxuan.
Now that Shangguan knew, Master Mi also retired satisfied.
The time for the relief of the victims is very short, only half a month, which means that the government only takes care of half a month of free food, and after half a month, those who work will have wages and can support their families.
Of course, the government will continue to take care of the food of the families who have no one to work in the disaster until they find a way to make a living.
In the end, the old ones were sent to Fushouyuan, and the small ones were sent to the orphanage, and the problem of the victims was basically over.
Li Jingxuan's audit of Chang'an continues, the accounts have been verified, and now it is time to check the various warehouses to see if the physical objects match the account books.
In fact, there is no need to check, Li Jingxuan knows this point, he has been a waiter in Xitai for many years, and there are countless state capitals that have been checked, whether there is a problem in the middle, he can basically make it clear at a glance.
Now, Li Jingxuan is standing on Suzaku Street, looking at the twenty-four bronze bulls on both sides of the street in a daze with the rising sun on his back.
"At that time, there was too much money in Chang'an City, and the squire also knew that if there was more money, the price would be expensive, which was not good for the people, and it was not good for the court.
Li Jingxuan turned his head to look at Yun Chu with difficulty and said: "Datang is actually very short of copper, and the copper material obtained by the Household Minting Division from Tongshan every year has never exceeded 300,000 catties, and the fire consumption is two points.
Why didn't the prince send these copper coins to Luoyang at that time, and then disperse them from the household to the places where there is a shortage of money, so that the problem of high prices can also be solved. ”
Yun Chu didn't answer, and the Chang'an officials who followed Yun Chu looked at Li Jingxuan angrily.
Gently said: "It's useless, even if the squire can disperse the money to all parts of the Tang Dynasty, because the money has to be spent, it will eventually come to Chang'an."
Instead of all kinds of unknown wear and tear in the middle, it is better to cast it directly into a bronze ox and stand here, and it is good to look at it every day. ”
Li Jingxuan sighed, patted the extremely gorgeous bronze bull in front of him with his hand, and sighed with emotion.
He is also a rare smart person, how can he not know the reason why Bai Yunchu would cast such twenty-four bronze bulls, in addition to stabilizing prices and preventing the occurrence of hoarding and strange incidents in Chang'an City, the most important thing is that he can completely turn Chang'an's accounts into an inexplicable account.
But if there is anything unclear in the accounts, Yun Chu only needs to point to the copper bull to explain all the problems that cannot be explained.
After all, the copper bull is copper and money, and the big and unclear accounts are all very small accounts in front of the twenty-four bronze bulls, and they can be closed at any time.
At least for now, Li Jingxuan doesn't know how to count the wealth owned by the Chang'an government!