50,000 tons of grain entered Taicang, and the price of official grain distribution in Beijing fell in response, from the two dollars of doumi that had been struggling to maintain before to 50 yuan of doumi!

It should have been lower, but this price was set by Zhu Youzhen after he directly sent the instructions to Xue Liangxiang, the president of COFCO.

"The abolition of a whip law is imminent, and the country will inevitably restore the tax in kind in the future, and at this time, your COFCO company will be the last red line of the country's grain prices, and it must play a role as a support."

What Zhu Youzhen said to Xue Liangxiang, the latter seemed to understand it, but he grasped a few key points.

First, grain prices must not follow the economic laws of the market, and grain prices must not rise when there is a shortage of grain and fall when they are rich; we must do a good job in grain reserves and rationing, and stabilize grain prices and grain supply at all times.

As long as food prices do not fluctuate, then people's hearts will not fluctuate.

The second point is that the imperial court will restore the tax in kind and abolish a whip law, and for a long time in the future, the price of grain in the Ming Dynasty will gradually stabilize, which will lead to a decline in the purchasing power of silver, because under the national policy of a whip law, grain and silver are linked, but the abolition of a whip law is equivalent to taking off this hook.

The common people no longer needed silver to meet the taxes of the imperial court, but only needed to pay the grain in full according to the output.

Then the silver circulating in the market will no longer become a sought-after commodity, and once the silver depreciates, the Ming Dynasty's already dangerous social economy will be hit by a new and severe impact.

In this case, the emperor intends to stabilize grain prices as the first element, and leave the rest alone for the time being.

Xue Liangxiang's speculation is not wrong, Zhu Youzhen really doesn't have much energy to care about the trend of the market economy in the Ming Dynasty, and he only grasps three points now.

The first thing is naturally grain prices, and COFCO's task is to stabilize grain prices for his Ming Dynasty.

Subsequently, Zhu Youzhen brought Cao Huachun and instructed the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau to be restructured according to COFCO.

"All the weaving mills belonging to the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau in North Zhili, South Zhili, Zhejiang and Fujian should be integrated and set up the Daming Central Cotton Weaving Company, following the example of COFCO, responsible for controlling the price of cloth and cotton in the Ming Dynasty, and stabilizing the clothing, food, housing and transportation."

"Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Tianjin City Shipping Division integration, the establishment of the Ming Central Port Trading Company, responsible for all overseas trade, personnel to streamline, all from the Spiegel Division, now use people, once did not belong to the East and West Factory, local officials and local gentry are not used, so that must be their own people."

Cao Huachun knelt down behind the low table, took a pen and wrote them down one by one, and then looked up at Zhu Youzhen and asked, "Your Majesty, Zhongmian and Zhonggang are also the same as COFCO, are they assigned to the household department?" ”

"Return to the household department first." Zhu Youzhen nodded: "Bi Ziyan is a loyal minister, he will not enrich his own pockets, nor is he the spokesman for the interests of Shilin Confucianism, he can be the home of our Ming Dynasty for me."

In the past, the division between my money and the state's money was too clear, and in the future, the two sets of finances will be merged, and I will and Bi Ziyan say that in the future, a certain proportion of the financial revenues of COFCO, China Cotton, and China and Hong Kong will be reserved as the financial funds of the Spiegel Division.

In the future, your Spiegel Division will only be responsible for intelligence and political security tasks, and will not care about anything else, streamline the organization but expand the staff, and remember that the more people we have, the fewer enemies we have. ”

Cao Huachun nodded, left the seat and kowtowed to Zhu Yijun: "The slaves and maids have all written it down." ”

"Go ahead, do it quickly."

"Yes."

As soon as Cao Huachun left, Wang Chengen came over with a sad face.

"Your Majesty, the imperial property and the Huangzhuang are the only income of the internal treasury, if the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau and the Municipal Shipping Division are integrated and handed over to the household department, the internal treasury will be cut off from the silver source, and without the silver source, will the group of officials in the outer court continue to be willing to use the money of the imperial court to support the Jinyi Wei and the Ming Spiegel Division as Bi Butang in the future, these two yamen are used to supervise their group of officials.

And if there is no Jinyi Wei and Spiegel Division, then I don't know how to deceive the officials of the outer court, and how to bend the law for bribes. ”

These words are sincere, and they are really from the bottom of their hearts for Zhu Youzhen, so Zhu Youzhen also nodded frequently.

"Your worries are not superfluous, I know it in my heart, so the three companies of COFCO and China Cotton China and Hong Kong are only temporarily assigned to the household department, and after two years of national stability, I will start to reintegrate from the household department.

Companion, our Ming Dynasty has reached the point of terminal illness, and it will take an earth-shaking reform to save it, but it will take time to take it slowly, and I can't count on the existing officials to carry out reforms, such reforms are doomed to failure.

In the past two years, we have taken stability as the key link, and after all the internal and external troubles have been smoothed out, I will definitely create a new Ming Dynasty, and when the time comes, all your worries will not appear, don't worry. ”

Looking at the confidence on Zhu Youzhen's face, Wang Chengen was down-to-earth, and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty is the lord of Zhongxing who God gave me the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty said so, of course the slave and maid believe it."

"Hmm."

Zhu Youzhen buried his head again to criticize the music, and his face, which had been bitter and hateful all day long, gradually eased a lot.

This note was sent by Hong Chengchou and Cao Bianjiao, asking for instructions on how to suppress the rebels in Henan.

Henan is not just Zhang Xianzhong's pseudo-Liang.

For example, Fu Zhichun!

Zhang Xianzhong guessed correctly, Fu Zhichun is indeed Jinyiwei, and he was arranged by Zhu Youzhen to go to Henan.

First, it is to drag Zhang Xianzhong's hind legs, and second, Zhu Youzhen left Fu Zhichun a position as the governor of Henan!

Wait until the time comes.

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Puyang, Hong Chengchou's military marshal's account.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, was the first to sit on the top, Cao Bianjiao from the assistant Beijing camp was the first to sit on the left, and Qu Ruzheng from Beijing was the governor of Henan who was temporarily appointed as the governor of Henan.

Qu Ruzheng is in his early thirties, very young, and he was just a small Hanlin waiter and an eight-grade petty official.

After the Gengshen national disaster, the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty was empty, and Zhu Youzhen made a self-recommended election official, and Qu Ruzheng was the self-recommended general political envoy at this time.

Zhu Youzhen gave Hong Chengchou the reply to the recital, and easily threw this Qu Ruzheng to Henan, and asked the latter to go to Henan with the reply to take office.

came with Qu Ruzheng, and there were 200,000 stone relief grain!

This is to be distributed to the common people in its entirety.

Hong Chengchou looked at the reply of the recital, and a smile appeared on his face, and he looked at Cao Bianjiao and said.

"Your Majesty's handwritten letter, in addition to the pseudo-Liang Zhang Rebellion and loyalty, the rebel army in Henan is mainly recruited, supplemented by the policy of relief to the victims, and the Henan rebel party is disintegrated and attacked."

Cao Bianjiao nodded, and it was much easier: "200,000 stone disaster relief grain, hundreds of thousands of rogues can get nearly 100 catties of food, save a little food enough to live for more than half a year, now the local gentry and landlords in Henan are dead, fleeing, and there is ownerless land everywhere, as long as the court sends the land down again, the land will be equalized, and the rebellion will be eliminated in an instant." ”

Qu Ruzheng opened his mouth and agreed: "Before this official came, Your Majesty meant exactly this, Your Majesty said that the people are hungry and thieves, and they can be killed?" Thinking that in the Yuan Dynasty, the lake was a disaster, and the court division deliberated, and was forced to take out a loan, which was to reduce the crime of 10,000 people, and hoped that the governor would be sympathetic to the people. ”

Hong Chengchou nodded again and again: "Qu Futai and rest assured, there is a holy edict from His Majesty, and there are hungry people waiting to be fed, this will be naturally saved, and will not be in vain to kill the people. ”

"So, thank you, Inspector."

Cao Bianjiao looked at Hong Chengchou and asked, "Your Majesty's approval, can it be said that this is a disaster for Puyang's Fu Zhichun Department how to deal with it?" ”

"Zhao'an." Hong Chengchou handed the warrant to Cao Bianjiao, and said: "As long as Fu Zhichun is willing to return to the imperial court, Xu Zhipuyang will be the chief soldier of Puyang, and his subordinates will be recruited to help Zhang Xianzhong." ”

Cao Bianjiao said with emotion: "The last general has looked at it in the past two days, this Fu Zhichun is different from the various departments we fought before, with strict discipline and strict military appearance, although the armament is slightly worse, but with more training over time, it can be described as elite, if it can be recruited, it can be used greatly." ”

"That handsome book is going to draft a book, send a messenger to Puyang, and see that Fu Zhichun's opinion." Hong Chengchou picked up the pen and wrote a book, his face relaxed: "I wish it was the best, otherwise, I won't blame Ben Shuai for crushing it into powder with a thunderbolt!" ”

After more than a year of counterinsurgency, Hong Chengchou has also developed a lot of murderous spirit and prestige.

Excellent generals and soldiers are trained on the battlefield!