No matter how bad it is, Sichuan can deploy it, after all, there is more food in the country of abundance. ”

"Hmm~ pass the decree and let the four political envoys cooperate with Wu Yin to relieve the disaster."

"Yes~"

The matter of this grain was decided, and Xia Yuanji quietly retreated to the queue of civil officials and pretended to be dead.

After Zhu Di finished the decree of grain transfer, he looked at Xia Yuanji again:

"Xia Yuanji, where's the money? How can people rebuild their homes if they have food but no money? ”

Xia Yuanji's face became even more bitter, but he still stood up helplessly and said:

But this silver needs to be paid by civil and military officials at the end of the year, the ancestral tomb will be built next year, the construction of the important town on the nine sides next year, the combing of the Yellow River next year, the combing of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, the repair of the official roads for the land, and ......"

"Stop! Tell us, how much can you allocate to the three wingbacks? ”

Zhu Di also heard it, but this is the infrastructure of a country, not counting the money and food needs of his preparation for the Northern Expedition.

The Ming Dynasty was really poor, especially at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when the ruined Yuan Dynasty was established, it was even more short of money every year.

Xia Yuanji stretched out four fingers with a misty face, and withdrew another one, before he said distressedly:

"Three hundred thousand taels, no more."

Zhu Di was silent for a while when he heard this, there were only 100,000 taels of 300,000 three wingguards per point, plus the loss of transportation, how much was left of the three wingbacks.

Seeing that Zhu Di was silent, Xia Yuanji hurriedly gave his deputy: Yang Jing, the right attendant of the household department, a look.

Yang Jing was a little helpless, but he still walked out and said:

"Your Majesty, Weichen suggested giving the three guards the Ming treasure money to reduce the fire consumption of transportation."

"Treasure money? No, after the catastrophe, not only did the people need gold, silver, and copper money to trade, but those merchants also recognized silver, not treasure money. ”

Zhu Di shook his head and objected, he also knew the disadvantages of the Daming treasure banknote, and now the purchasing power of the Daming treasure banknote is less than eighty.

Giving treasure money to the people after the disaster is a bit of a trick.

"Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that it is more appropriate to give treasure money, if you escort the silver money to the three border guards, even the nearest Xi'an Mansion will take at least two months, and then it will be too late for the people to recover.

It is better to be sent over by the post station in an expedited and rapid relay, and you can reach the border guard in ten days at most, which can really solve this urgent need. ”

Xia Yuanji hurriedly took Yang Jing's words and didn't let it land.

It was only on his side that he appeased Zhu Di, but his servant Li Wenyu came out to make trouble.

"Your Majesty, I maintain that Xi'an Mansion should give less money and grain, as far as Weichen knows, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, His Royal Highness King Liang just returned millions of cattle and sheep from the Northern Yuan.

With these cattle and sheep as the base, His Royal Highness King Liang should be able to solve the food problem; In addition, His Royal Highness King Liang's snowflake salt has made a lot of profits, no less than one million taels of silver, and there should be no worries about silver money. ”

Xia Yuanji really wants to kick this Li Wenyu to death, do you know what you are talking about?

That's King Liang, Your Majesty's own son, are you going to give Your Majesty eye medicine?

It's just that he didn't expect Li Wenyu to finish speaking.

"His Royal Highness King Liang is a genius, he also invented the big plow, which can improve the efficiency of cultivated land several times, and has been sold in Shaanxi and Shanxi, and has also harvested a lot of silver for His Royal Highness King Liang.

When this natural disaster and national disaster are in calamity, His Royal Highness King Liang should also come out to contribute to the country. ”

"And isn't this the original intention of Your Majesty to divide the kings and manage the fiefs?"

Hearing this, not only Zhu Di was silent, but even Zhu Gaochi, who wanted to come out to refute, lowered his head and pondered.

Yes, Zhu Di divided the kings, that is, he wanted the kings to manage the fiefdoms, develop the fiefs, and even expand the territory.

Now it's time for them to make a difference.

Moreover, Zhu Gaochi maybe, maybe he is really rich, and after thinking about it, Zhu Gaochi also stood up.

"Father, the son thinks that Li Shilang's words may work.

Although the fourth brother has just gone to Xi'an, the fourth brother has some income from making salt and utensils, and now the Shen family is also supporting the development of the fourth brother, and it may be more convenient for them to transfer materials by businessmen. ”

Xia Yuanji heard that Zhu Gaochi also stood up to pit his younger brother, and hurriedly echoed: "The minister also thinks it is feasible, if His Royal Highness King Liang has spare strength, he can also ask him to support Liangzhou Wei and Xining Wei." ”

"Hmm~"

Zhu Di felt that there was something wrong, but after thinking about it for a while, he still didn't think of anything wrong, and looking at the folds and family letters sent by Zhu Gaoxuan, everything was good.

So what to do?

"Xia Yuanji, Liangzhou Wei and Xining Wei gave 150,000 treasure bills, and Xi'an Mansion gave 100,000 treasure bills.

King Liang is rich because of King Liang, and we can't take too much advantage of him. ”

"Yes!"

Xia Yuanji bowed in surprise.

It is much more convenient to take out 400,000 treasure banknotes than to spend 100,000 silver directly from the treasury!

However, Zhu Di added:

"If you want food, you can also transfer some to Xi'an Mansion in the past, Xi'an Mansion has greatly delayed agricultural work because of the plague, and the food must be insufficient, and the millions of cattle and sheep in Lao Ba are millions of sheep; Cattle are used to domesticate cattle and are not easily slaughtered. ”

"Yes, Wechen will deploy it as soon as possible."

Xia Yuanji nodded approvingly, if Daming says that the place is the most difficult this year, Xi'an Mansion will definitely rank first.

Moreover, in the fiefdom of King Liang, there are more than 50,000 exiled prisoners, and the more than 50,000 are the most important to eat.

Thinking about it, Xia Yuanji suddenly had a cold war.

'His Royal Highness King Liang won't kill people for food because he has no food, right? ’

"No, you have to talk to the people in the Criminal Department and let them investigate secretly!" ’

"Your Highness, it will be easy for Lantian to survive this winter, but it will be difficult in the spring of next year."

Zhu Gaoxuan was sad about the casualty report sent by the Xi'an government, when Li Yuan came in again to report bad news to him.

"How much grain do we still have, and is there no food in the Shen family's shop?"

"The Shen family's shop has no food, and the remaining dozens of stones are people's own rations.

More than 300 stone of grain in the palace are in the barracks, and it is a bit laborious for the 1,200 soldiers of the palace to eat this grain until the spring of next year. ”

"Where's the jerky? Didn't this king make a lot of jerky with more than 30,000 stones, and the sheep that died because of the snow? Aren't there more than 100,000 of them? ”

Zhu Gaoxuan remembered that after he came to Lantian and his first focus was to engage in grain, he did not hesitate to give profits to the Shen family, and let the Shen family sell snowflake salt in exchange for all kinds of grain and forage, as well as cattle and sheep.

It can be said that most of this year's Lantian finances and all of Zhu Gaoxuan's income have been used to buy grain.

"Your Highness, didn't you say before that you asked Sheng Chong to send the jerky to help Xi'an Mansion? Now there are only 10,000 stone left.

There are more than 170,000 dead sheep, but after skinning and removing the bones, there are at most 20,000 stone mutton, and the sheep in winter are relatively thin. ”

"Well, I did."

Zhu Gaoxuan nodded and did not deny that he had a clear goal when he left the sheep to breed before, eating meat was only secondary, and the focus was on wool and goat milk.