Since it is possible to rent acres of land in the Yuzhou area, then it can be used to borrow grain, so after discussing with Yang Su, Yang Ming decided to increase the daily supply of three Hu cakes to five per day, and the meat was changed to one offering every seven days.

If you don't eat meat, you don't have the strength.

It has been half a month since he arrived in Luoyang, and Yang Ming has been asking Du Ruhui to follow the people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to count the casualties.

In just half a month, more than 1,600 people have died and more than 4,000 have been injured.

However, Yang Ming is still very pleased with this result, after all, the population base is there, and it is 600,000 people.

A city wall in Luoyang is more than ten miles long, and there are tens of thousands of migrant workers working in two shifts on a single city wall, day and night.

The progress of the work is still within Yu Wenkai's calculations, and in his plan, the foundation of the city wall, at most a month, must be dug up.

After another half a month, Pei Xizai had already sent a letter from there, and the food was in a hurry.

So Yang Ming urgently summoned everyone to discuss the matter.

"As expected, the exemption of slaves and maids from granting land has not been implemented in Changping County, and over there, more than 500,000 people have been requisitioned, and there is not enough food, it is certain," Yang Da said: "And the matter of borrowing grain from the Bingzhou area, to this day, the total has only borrowed 100,000 stones, and we are not enough, let alone assisting Changping." ”

Yang Su also sighed and said: "It seems that the daily rations of migrant workers need to be temporarily reduced, Heyang Cang, we have already eaten half of it, and if we eat it for another month, it will be empty." ”

For a whole month, Yuan Wendu and Li Baiyao were below, and they had already negotiated with a number of grain merchants, but it was a pity that Yuzhou Yamen only signed lease agreements with a few of them, on the grounds that the lease price had not been negotiated.

Of course, it's not appropriate.

It's already the middle of April, and after the best time to sow wheat, people are not stupid, and if you plant now, the harvest will be bad, and of course they will bargain with you.

Grain merchants everywhere are also industries under the family, and people are unwilling to spend money in vain, and you can't force others.

Yang Ming's side had already gotten the news from Dugu Su's mouth that several grain warehouses of the Dugu family had already prepared grain and were ready to lease acres of land, but on the side of the Yuzhou Yamen, they didn't contact anyone at all.

What does Yang Jun want to do?

"How long will it take for the borrowed grain to arrive in Luoyang?" Yang Ming asked.

Yu Wenkai said: "It will take more than ten days one after another, and if King Qi doesn't speed up the process, in a month, we will have to eat Liyang Cang, and the grain in Liyang Cang will be able to guarantee a month at most." ”

Liyang Cang is a big warehouse, but here in Luoyang, you can only eat one-third, and the rest has to be supplied to Jingshi, and Yang Ming can't move.

"Shida (Yang Dazi) went to the Yuzhou Mansion to urge them and ask them what the situation is?" Yang Ming had already guessed that the second child was making a stumbling block for himself, but he was not good at coming forward now, so he had to pretend to be stupid.

Yang Da nodded, got up and left.

Yu Wenkai was responsible for supervising the work, and he also confessed and went to the Luoyang construction site.

Yang Su coughed, and ordered the officials of the other ministries to go down and do their own things, and only after everyone had left did he say:

"Your Highness and King Qi, what's wrong?"

Sure enough, it was the old rivers and lakes, and he immediately grasped the key point,

Yang Ming smiled bitterly: "He is not satisfied that he is the King of Qi, and I am the King of Qin." ”

"Why didn't he say that he was pampered in Yangzhou, and His Royal Highness was charging on the battlefield?" Yang Su shook his head helplessly: "No one in the court opposes your title of King of Qin, it can be seen that the people's hearts are located, and the expectations of the people are there, and the King of Qi has just come to Luoyang, so he will break your elbow, our original plan, I am afraid that there will be problems." ”

Yang Ming nodded and said: "Changping is about to run out of grain, when the Han King rebelled, the granaries around the country were looted by Yang Liang, and now the grain reserves are not enough at all, and the Changping warehouse in Shaanxi County must be supplied to Guanzhong, and it cannot be moved. ”

"Hebei is also difficult," Yang Su sighed: "The rebellion in Hebei and Shandong has just been quelled, and the loss of granaries in various places is undoubtedly huge. ”

Nominally, Yang Ming is only in charge of repairing Luoyang, and Yuzhou has the final say, it is Yang Jin, who borrows grain from Hebei, and it is also Yang Yong, the pastor of Yuzhou, who borrows it.

Of course, Yang Ming knew that Yang Ming would not borrow it.

Yang Ming said: "At the moment, it is inconvenient for me to have a stalemate with King Qi, if I go to negotiate this matter with him, he must have prepared a reason to deal with me, so let's do it, the daily supply of food will be appropriately reduced, but the working time of migrant workers should also be shortened accordingly. ”

Yang Su was stunned and said: "In this way, the construction period will inevitably be delayed, and Yu Wenkai is only afraid that he will not be able to get by." ”

"It's not that I'm procrastinating, it's someone procrastinating," Yang Ming said with a smile: "If we continue like this, once we run out of food, you and I won't be able to explain." ”

Yang Su smiled and nodded, this time, he completely agreed with Yang Ming's decision.

If Yang Ming, the king of Qi, was not transferred to Yuzhou Mu, Yang Ming would be able to preside over the government affairs of Yuzhou and lead the overall situation.

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But right now, someone is helping Yang Ming delay, so if he can't deliver the work in the future, it's not Yang Ming's business.

He and Gao Gong have been in charge of the Great Sui Center for more than 20 years, and there will naturally be many informants in the palace, and Li Zixiong's son can know about the matter of the crown prince Yang Zhao, can he not know?

His own son Yang Xuanting has now been passed on to his younger brother Yang Yue, Yang Yue is also the Duke of Ancheng County, and Yang Xuanting, as the heir, entered the office from Yang Yue, and became the deputy head of the left guard of the East Palace of the crown prince Yang Zhao.

Thirst is not an incurable disease, but the prince is now an excessive drinker, so I am afraid that it is not curable.

But Yang Su didn't plan to tell Yang Ming about this matter, he was afraid that after telling Yang Ming, Yang Ming would fight now, which was not good.

He wants to stabilize Yang Ming, help Yang Ming lay a solid foundation, and clean up Yang Ming in the future.

And now, there is a great opportunity.

As a pastor in Yuzhou, you can't guarantee the food supply in Luoyang, so that the construction period is delayed, and this crime has nothing to do with Yang Ming.

"Grain, I still want to borrow, Yang Jian won't borrow it, I can only borrow it in my private name," Yang Ming asked: "Yue Gong thinks, who should I ask to borrow?" ”

There is no grain in Hebei's official warehouse, but the family has it, and the reserves are huge, and the gate valves entrenched in various parts of the Great Sui are equivalent to small local regimes, and they can do what the state and county officials can't do.

Yang Su replied with a smile: "In the Yuzhou region, the King of Qi dares not to break it, so His Royal Highness can rest assured, as for Changping, he needs to borrow grain from Hebei, and in the Hebei area, the first Qinghe Cui clan is recommended, and His Royal Highness can only borrow it in person, and the letter is not sincere." ”

Qinghe Cui's family is not very good in the Great Sui, most of them rely on the family women to marry into Guanzhong, so as to maintain the relationship with the imperial court, there are not many men into the office, after all, their family, mainly serving the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, the four surnamed Gaomen of the year, is King Lu Cui Zheng, but the Great Sui royal family does not trust them very much.

And during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Qinghe Cui clan planted a big heel, because of the "prison of national history" incident, several large branches in the family were wiped out of the nine clans, heavy losses, more than 100 years have passed, still in the recovery stage.

On the contrary, it is the Boling Cui clan, which is quite open at the moment.

However, the Qinghe Cui clan, which has always been known as the Confucian orthodoxy of the north, has extremely large family power, has many marriages with the Hebei clan, and almost actually manipulates the local government.

Now the leader of the Cui family, called Cui Fuli, during the opening of the emperor, he did the history of the general affairs of the province under the door, and now he is the grandson of Cui Yanzhen, the prince of Qinghe County, and Cui Yanzhen is the grandfather of the Holy Queen Dugu Jialuo.

Cui Yanzhen's Qinghe County Duke was posthumously sealed after the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, and the posthumous seal is also called chased, which is different from the actual seal, because at the same time, there was also a Qinghe County Duke, who was none other than Yang Su.

And Yang Su was named the Duke of Yue Guo because of his great merit, and Yang Jian gave the title of Duke of Qinghe County to his fourth son Yang Xuan.

"I have a suitable candidate here, and I can go to Qinghe County with His Highness to make an introduction," Yang Su said with a smile.

Yang Ming knew who he was talking about, and said with a smile: "I heard that Xuan Zong's wife is from the Qinghe Cui clan?" ”

Yang Sudao: "When Cui Yu (Biao) was the waiter in the house, he married his daughter to the second son of the old man, Xuan Zong, but Cui Yu is dead, and his eldest son Cui Shiji is now in Luoyang, and he is currently a member of the military department, so he can accompany His Royal Highness to Qinghe County." ”

Qinghe County is in Xingtai, Hebei, thousands of miles away from Luoyang, how much time does it take to come and go?

Yang Ming was reluctant to go so far, but he had to borrow food.

"Is there any way, I don't go to Qinghe, and I can still borrow grain?" Yang Ming asked.

Yang Su smiled and shook his head: "There is no way, His Royal Highness has the main concubine, the side concubine, and the concubine, and the marriage has been broken all the way, but there is no marriage, how can it be possible to let the family borrow food happily?" ”

Yang Ming thought about it, but he couldn't leave Luoyang easily, and the food in Changping County was already in an emergency, once the food ran out, it was not a joke.

"There is another way," Yang Su said with a meaningful smile.

Yang Ming asked: "Yue Gong don't behave well, say it quickly." ”

"Doesn't Your Highness still have a son?" After Yang Su finished speaking, he couldn't help laughing, and he also felt that this method was unreliable.

Yang Ming also smiled: "The son is still in infancy, and now I am talking about marriage, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right?" Besides, I may not be able to do the marriage of my son. ”

Suddenly, Yang Ming reacted and said with a sly smile: "Xuan Zong and the Cui family, aren't they in-laws?" Let Xuan Zong borrow it, right? I'll take care of it, what does Yue Gong think? ”

Yang Su was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Your Highness only thinks about borrowing, have you ever thought about how to pay it back?" ”

Yang Ming suddenly looked depressed, he really didn't have the ability to pay it back, he couldn't take the grain from Yuzhou to pay it back, right? Besides, he doesn't count.

"Alas......" Yang Ming sighed: "That's it, Yue Gong is more familiar with the Cui family, you recommend a few people, I will consider it here, and ensure that they are promoted to the office, which should be a bargaining chip in exchange for food." ”

Since you can't borrow it, then sell your official position, and you can exchange it for as much food as you want.

Yang Su was shocked, and hurriedly nodded: "This move is feasible." ”