Chapter 74: Let Them Take the Initiative
"Smoke lock pond willow!"
Feng Zhongyao read it out very calmly.
"It's so eternal, it's really embarrassing for the world's readers!"
He himself is a scholar, and he is still respected by many readers, but Yang Zhi is absolutely thoughtless.
"I didn't write it!"
Yang Zhi has always told the truth, but no one believes it.
"Don't be modest, little brother Yang, you are good at everything, just don't be like those hermits, you have to pretend."
Yang Zhi was embarrassed, am I pretending? I'm telling the truth!
The decoration on the fifth floor was designed by Yang Zhi himself, looking at these modern furnishings, Yang Zhi smiled, this is finally a bit of a cordial feeling.
Feng Zhongyao was curious, and what he saw in his eyes could make him have a lot of questions.
He had long known that the threshold of the fifth floor of the first floor of the world was high, and if he hadn't been accompanied by Yang Zhi today, he, the Lord of the Assassin History, would not have been qualified to come up.
"Little Brother Yang, if you are willing to serve the country, I can recommend it to Your Majesty, and with your talents, you will definitely be able to surpass me a lot in the future."
Feng Zhongyao's words startled Yang Zhi, His Majesty the Emperor of the Dasheng Dynasty, what kind of character is that.
"Lao Feng, don't scare me."
Yang Zhi hurriedly said: "It's not that you don't know, I've never been a person who doesn't pay attention to the rules, I don't have to do things in a measured way, let alone being an official, I can't do things well, don't lose my head when the official is not done." ”
"Don't worry, everyone's head has fallen off, and you won't lose it!"
After Feng Zhongyao finished speaking, he found that he had talked too much, and said with a smile: "Being an official is not as complicated as you think, Your Majesty will definitely reuse talents like you." ”
Yang Zhi is noncommittal, being an official, he is a graduate student of history, and he has witnessed the lives of those officials in history, and he has never thought of being an official in his life.
"Okay, didn't you want me to give you an idea today?"
Yang Zhi didn't want to be taken into the pit by Lao Feng, so he had better divert his attention first.
"Yes, yes, this is the most important thing right now."
Feng Zhongyao said: "You have also seen, there are more and more displaced people in the city, two months ago, Songzhou only accepted the refugees who fled from Daizhou, and it was not easy to stabilize, and now the drought in the south, a large number of displaced people come to Songzhou." ”
"The imperial court asked us to solve it locally, this problem is really difficult for me."
Yang Zhi frowned, no matter how difficult it is for the imperial court, it is impossible to ignore it, otherwise there are so many refugees, if there is a riot, then Dasheng will be really dangerous.
"No, as far as I know, there has been nothing major in the imperial court in the past two years, and it won't even be impossible to solve such a drought!"
Yang Zhi is also familiar with the history of Dasheng over the years, although the emperor now wants to reverse the situation, but Dasheng's current court is Shen Ke's old disease, and it is a problem left by the previous emperors.
The scholars were in power, and eight of the ten officials in the court were from the scholars, and the key positions were all held by officials from the scholars.
However, Dasheng's treasury should be very full, so that there will not be such a drought, and there is nothing to be done.
"Little Brother Yang didn't know that at the beginning of this year, the imperial hall rebuilt the royal mausoleum, and the treasury was almost emptied."
Feng Zhongyao sighed: "Coupled with the fact that the Tatars sometimes harass the northern border towns now, the military needs are huge. ”
"Don't look at the tens of thousands of displaced people who fled to my Songzhou, but the displaced people who fled to the capital are hundreds of thousands, and the court is afraid that there is nothing they can do."
A country that has been inherited for hundreds of years, and is still the largest country in the world, has shown its weakness in the face of a drought.
Yang Zhi didn't expect that the internal and external troubles of the Dasheng Dynasty had reached such a serious time.
No wonder Lao Feng has to ask for help from someone like him who doesn't know anything, this is almost to the point of exhaustion.
He was right, there were more than 100,000 refugees who fled to Songzhou in Daizhou, and in addition to the troops who came to support them from all over the country, the grain and grass that Songzhou was responsible for allocating had already emptied the treasury.
And things are far more difficult than Yang Zhi thought.
This year's autumn harvest has begun, and although the disaster in Songzhou is not very serious, the people have not much surplus grain after paying taxes for this year's harvest.
The following winter will be difficult for the people to survive.
"Lao Feng, you are a blind eye, you have no food in the Songzhou Treasury, but other people in Songzhou have food!"
There are so many large families in Songzhou, and there is definitely a lot of grain in their homes, you know, there is a lot of land in the hands of these people, which is rented to the people to plant.
In this era, the land was in the hands of the powerful, or in the hands of large families, and the common people rarely had land.
Moreover, in this era, most of the land planted by the people from the hands of the powerful will be taken away by these powerful people.
How else to say that the landlord's surplus grain is the largest?
Now the price of grain in the city has risen sharply, which is a good thing done by these powerful people.
"Of course I know that there is grain in the city, but the identities of these people are inextricably linked with the people in the court, and it is impossible for me to force them to take out the grain!"
Feng Zhongyao has already looked for the magnates in the city, but in the eyes of these people, there is only profit, at this time, it is the time for them to make a fortune, that is, it is not good to let them sell the grain cheaply.
Yang Zhi smiled and said lightly: "Who said that you are going to persecute them, you have to let them take the initiative to take out the food, and they will take it out willingly." ”
Feng Zhongyao is really blinded now, if he really has this ability, he will not come to Yang Zhi.
"Impossible, these people are shrewd, how can they take the initiative to take out food."
Yang Zhi laughed and said: "This is to pay attention to ways and means, Lao Feng, you officials, that are two mouths, and it is not up to you to decide what you want to say." ”
Feng Zhongyao said in a low voice: "Isn't this all for Your Majesty!" ”
Come on, he is another official and a fool, a good official in this era, if you want to talk about the advantages, it is foolish loyalty, and this shortcoming is also foolish loyalty.
If you say that an emperor is bad in front of them, these people can fight with you.
The emperor's words are the golden rule, and the whole world is not the king's land.
"Come on, don't mention your majesty, I still want to live a few more years."
Yang Zhi hurriedly said: "But this time, it really depends on that high Majesty, you can ask this Majesty for instructions......"
After Yang Zhi said his thoughts, Feng Zhongyao's eyes widened, and he slapped the table and said, "Okay, okay, little brother Yang, I knew you had a way, I really found the right way to find you!" ”
"With your idea, not only the problem of Songzhou has been solved, but even the current predicament of the entire Dasheng Dynasty has been solved, if you become an official, you will definitely become a celebrity in front of Your Majesty."