After the time came to August, Yang Tinghe's footsteps have also spread all over Huai'an, Yangzhou and other places, accompanied by a Langzhong of Shaofu, named Zhu Yingxin. According to the grain purchase contract, the emperor's internal money of 200,000 taels of silver was allocated to Yang Tinghe, who went to buy the grain of the Shaofu Qingzhengyuan grain merchants, and then donated to the salt farm stove households in various places in Lianghuai.

The figure of 200,000 was not Zhu Houzhao's original plan, he was willing to spend money, but later found that he didn't need to spend as much as 780,000 taels, so he allocated the silver according to the actual situation.

At this time, the price on the market in the Jingshi territory was about 0.4 taels of silver for one stone of grain, and 200,000 taels of silver could buy about 500,000 stone of grain, equivalent to about 75 million catties of grain. This amount is enough for tens of thousands of people. An adult's daily rice consumption is about 2 catties.

So theoretically, this silver can make these stove households eat well. Maybe 100,000 taels is enough.

But in fact, the silver will always be deducted, not Yang Tinghe and Shaofu, but the small officials below, so many salt farms, so many people, Yang Tinghe can't go to give food one by one, so you still have to rely on those little officials. We can only try to watch more closely and reduce some such losses.

In addition, physical transactions are similarly limited by many circumstances.

Although after the careful management of the imperial court in the past few years, it is still possible to urgently gather 500,000 stone of grain.

But the problem is shipping!

At this time, each Cao ship can transport 400 stone of grain, and if 500,000 stone of grain is transported away at one time, 1,250 ships need to be temporarily requisitioned!

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is extremely busy every day, and it is also a major national policy to go north, of course, there is no shortage of ships, but suddenly it is said that 1,250 ships will be found, unless there is a war, and they will be requisitioned everywhere.

Even if Qing Zhengyuan, as a royal grain merchant, has developed extremely rapidly in the past two years, it is not easy.

Because no one dares to delay the luck.

In the end, it was also to overcome multiple difficulties and ship 100,000 stones first.

So they urgently contacted, dispatched, and transported grain......

The first grain finally arrived in early August.

There are more than 30 salt farms and more than 50,000 stove households...... The imperial court suddenly withdrew the Yunsi, and the salt farms everywhere inevitably became a little chaotic, and under the bottom, the surplus salt sales of the stove households suddenly tightened.

The imperial court has killed so many people, even the most daring people will be restrained.

Nowadays, it is not only difficult to sell surplus salt, but also extremely low.

Zhao Shen was looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looked forward to Yang Tinghe.

He was a squire of the criminal department, and suddenly he was sent to patrol the salt imperial history, so forget it, he happened to encounter this kind of thing, and he really looked up to him.

But after a few words with Yang Tinghe, Zhao Shen still felt that it was not optimistic,

"Nowadays, people are fluctuating in the salt farms, and I have personally come to see the life of the stove household. If you don't fry salt for a day, you will have nothing to do for a day, and if you don't sell salt for a day, you will suffer from hunger and cold. It has been nearly two months since he took office as a transfer envoy to go north to Beijing. Many stove households have effectively run out of cooking. The grain of 100,000 stones needs to be in place as soon as possible, otherwise the area of Lianghuai will not be chaotic today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow! ”

"In addition, the imperial court removed the Yun Division, what is the next statement? At the time of the chaos, rumors were everywhere, and there was no idea to come out, how to guarantee hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for this year's Lianghuai salt class? ”

Yang Tinghe didn't talk nonsense with him, "Zhao Yansi, there are too many questions, and I don't have time to answer them one by one." Yang left Beijing this time, and the holy order was to give relief to the stove households in the salt field. As you said, getting these people alive first is the most important thing right now. Yang is a Qincha, you are the salt department, and the two of us jointly signed an order to order thirty salt field ambassadors to go to Yangzhou to receive grain! ”

"Let them receive food?" Zhao Shen was skeptical.

"Only at this time can only order them!" Yang Tinghe certainly understood what he meant, "Your Salt Patrol Imperial History Office is empty, even if Yang Mou brings 30 people, they don't even know where the salt farm is!" Who can the ambassadors who don't rely on the salt works everywhere rely on? At this time, the thoughts of the court and His Majesty are to give these stove households a way to live! Everything else is put aside for now! ”

Because the reality is always so helpless, we must first solve the main contradiction.

Just like transporting grain,

500,000 stone of grain, how shocking to say.

But I really thought that as soon as the emperor shouted in the Forbidden City, tens of thousands of people would eat the next day.

Zhao Shen naturally knew the severity, and after thinking about it a little, he also knew that to accomplish this, he could indeed only rely on the salt officials of these salt farms.

"Good! This made Zhao write. ”

Yang Tinghe's figure was upright, and he arched his hand and said: "Zhao Yansi is righteous." ”

"It is the court that is righteous, it is Your Majesty. In the final analysis, these grains belong to the emperor. ”

There are not many polite words, and it is not the time to say them.

Yang Tinghe suggested again: "Just now, when the salt division said that there was a big chaos, rumors were spreading. Therefore, it is best to make a big splash in the matter of giving relief to stove households. Although Qincha's name is big, but something like this happened to the Yun Division, and now everyone is still concerned about the Salt Division. ”

"Zhao understands that in the name of the Salt Division, he sent officials to Zhang Bang in the Lianghuai region to tell the facts of the imperial court's relief, at least to stabilize the hearts of tens of thousands of people, and also stabilize the hearts of salt merchants."

Zhao Shen is still very good.

This is Yang Tinghe's feeling.

In fact, the officials promoted by the emperor later were all more flexible and capable, and people who were too pedantic and rigid were really not suitable to work under Zhu Houzhao, and he himself was uncomfortable, and the emperor was equally uncomfortable.

After talking more and more, the strangeness in Yang Tinghe's heart gradually disappeared, especially at this time, the general situation was quite tense, and the problem was more pragmatic at present, so he discussed several ways in a row.

In the end, the main thing is to stabilize the overall situation, relieve the people, and restore confidence.

Regarding this renewed confidence, Zhao Shen is particularly admired.

Yang Tinghe said: "The imperial court has arrested many salt merchants, but His Majesty has never allowed salt merchants to do business, and now that so many people have died, the private salt merchants are not only worried about the salt affairs in the Lianghuai region, but also the salt industry of other transportation divisions will also be affected." This is contrary to His Majesty's wishes. If Zhao Yansi wants to do things better, he will eventually put the Lianghuai salt industry on the right track, and the connotation of the right track is to revive the confidence of businessmen. ”

In this way, Zhao Shen suddenly realized. He was originally able to investigate the case, but for this kind of actual government affairs, he still fell behind Yang Tinghe.

So he also humbly asked, "Fortunately, Your Majesty sent Yang Jiefu, otherwise it will be a big delay in the future!" ”

"You're welcome. Salt Division, if the ones just now are okay, why don't you dispose of them as soon as possible? ”

"Good!"

In this way, the Imperial History of Salt Inspection actually grasped the operation and control of the salt industry in Lianghuai, and within ten days, various official opinions were frequently issued, such as the allocation of grain, the disposal of surplus salt, and the production of salt farms...... Even if faith is not fully restored, at least it must be restored by decree.

Yang Tinghe's words are good, salt is the same as grain, a little more, there is no harm in all!

These are Zhao Shen's jobs. And Yang Tinghe's identity as a messenger has another convenience, that is, he can contact the magistrates of various prefectures, prefectures, and counties.

He wanted to buy grain on the spot to make up for the remaining 400,000 stones, but he really couldn't do it, so he went to Yingtianfu and Suzhou Mansion to buy grain, not necessarily to Jingshi, right.

Yang Tinghe's series of responses and disposals opened Zhao Shen's eyes.

After many days of hard work, the two of them had to be free, and Zhao Shen couldn't help but praise,

"I have heard that His Majesty favored Yang Jiefu very much when he was still in the East Palace, and when I saw it this time, he was really a famous person."

Yang Tinghe is not too arrogant, when it comes to holy grace in the Jingshi, he is worse than several people.

"That wasn't the case at the beginning. Actually, that's what Your Majesty meant. In the past few years, the atmosphere in the court has changed, and practice has gradually come first. This is not a sudden appearance in the first year of Zhengde, but the result of His Majesty's layout for several years. His Majesty often said that without the training of local government affairs, the ability of an official is in doubt. ”

Zhao Shen entered Beijing not very early, and Yang Tinghe's words can be regarded as a solution for him. Only then did he realize that the emperor had been preparing for this for a long time, and the emperor's wise appearance also appeared in his mind, and his heart trembled even more.

"The Holy Son of Heaven is in the court, and the Ming Dynasty is fortunate!"

(End of chapter)