Li Longji did not directly answer whether he wanted Fang Chongyong to go to Hexi, but the next day he invited him to take a hot spring with him, and also withdrew the others.

As for Yang Yuhuan, she never showed up at all, and Fang Chongyong didn't know if she was here.

The scale of the Jiulong soup pool was much smaller than expected, and at this moment, it was snowing heavily outside, and Fang Chongyong was soaking in the hot spring expressionlessly, not feeling the chill of winter at all.

The enjoyment of the emperor is that it is like spring all year round, without the suffering of hunger and cold.

A strange thought popped up in Fang Chongyong's heart, what if this hot spring pool was too big and the emperor fainted and drowned while bathing in it?

I'm afraid that even rescue will be a trouble when the time comes.

Sure enough, it's better to be smaller.

"Your official position as the general of the school inspector Qianniu Wei Zhonglang can also be promoted by one level. I think it's good for you to be a general of the Thousand Cow Guard. ”

Li Longji touched the long beard on his chin and laughed.

Fang Chongyong looked at the other party's soft belly, loose skin, and fat on his body, which was not fat, and was covered by wearing a robe, and quickly looked away unconsciously.

He crossed his hands and saluted, "Everything is decided by the saints." ”

"Well, but can you tell me what you want to do when you go to Hexi? Buy Kunlun Nu or buy objects from the Western Regions?

Liangzhou is good, but you will get tired of staying for a few days, and it is not interesting to face the yellow sand all day long. ”

Li Longji asked suspiciously, still unable to figure out Fang Chongyong's true thoughts.

"Hui Sheng, Datang meteorology, half in Hexi. If you don't go to Hexi, it's like not being born in Datang. The saint did not have time to move to Hexi because of his busy state affairs, but I am a boy and have nothing important to do. While you are young, going to Hexi to feel the glory of the Tang Dynasty is not in vain.

It's much better than staying in Chang'an and walking horses and fighting cocks with the sons and daughters of those powerful people. ”

Fang Chongyong said with a solemn salute.

"You, you just don't want others to say that you are the son of Fang Jieshuai, what are you doing with so many polite words?"

Li Longji waved his hand triumphantly, and then sighed: "Your father is a rare good general, I heard that you are married, and your future father-in-law is also one of the best generals, so I think you are under a lot of pressure." ”

"The saint knows that everything can't be hidden from the saint."

Fang Chongyong cautiously bowed and saluted.

"Although Hexi is very chaotic, Liangzhou City is still safe. If you want a state capital to join the army, then I will give you a state capital to join the army. You just follow Cui Xiyi to see and learn more, as for your father-in-law, I also sent him to serve as a military envoy in Chishui and sit in Liangzhou City, you see how this is. ”

"Thank you, saint!"

Fang Chongyong said excitedly, he didn't expect him to plan for a long time, and there were follow-up operations, which could be done in advance!

"By the way, you need an identity, if you don't take the imperial examination, then I will give you the identity of a bang."

Li Longji laughed.

Anyway, Fang Chongyong carried the coffin for the former prince Li Ying and the others, and it is not too much to give him the identity of "Bang Lang".

Fang Chongyong thought that Fang Youde had done a lot of things in Youzhou, which made the vain and arrogant Li Longji very happy, so he was so easy to speak.

But when he returned to his residence in the Huaqing Palace, Li Longji called a heavyweight courtier here, and that person was Li Linfu, who was nicknamed "Brother Nu" by Li Longji!

Compared with the relaxed atmosphere just now, the conversation between Li Longji and Li Linfu was very heavy at this time.

In the ninth year of Kaiyuan, Shuofang Sogdian Zahu rebelled, and after the chaos, the Tang court moved the Sogdians from the six states as a whole in order to prevent future troubles, and "more than 50,000 remnants of Hu in the six states of Hequ were located in Xu, Ru, Tang, Deng, Xian, Yu and other prefectures, and the land of thousands of miles south and Shuofang was empty. ”

Now that these Hu people have begun to collude with the party and cause chaos again, Li Linfu suggested that the Hu people in Liuzhou be moved back to their hometowns and solve the problem of chaos in Liuzhou by drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle.

At the beginning, the land of Liuzhou had been relatively well developed by this group of Zahu, and the Tang court moved away this group of Turkic Sogdians, and to be honest, things were a bit disgusting. Taking back other people's fertile land and then forcibly relocating to clear the land is really not an authentic thing.

And now, after twenty years of development, the Zahu people have developed a new territory, and as a result, Tang Ting wants to move these people back!

This operation is a bit like fattening the piglets and then being recycled by the store, exchanging the old pigs for the piglets and continuing to raise them again, which is a little cheap.

Even Li Linfu felt embarrassed and came to ask Li Longji for advice.

"What do you think would be better done?"

Li Longji asked disappreciatively. He doesn't want to care about this kind of thing at all, as long as Li Linfu's method is okay, then handle it accordingly.

"In those days in Hexi, Niu Xianke mostly dealt with the Sogdians, and was a trustworthy person. You can send Niu Cyclamen to the land of Liuzhou to appease Zahu, so that you can solve the problem without spending a single soldier. ”

Li Linfu's face was not red, and his heart was not beating, so he put the cow cyclamen to death.

The point is that all this is in line with the rules and regulations of the imperial court, and the position of the secretary of the Niu Xian Kegong Department can be started with the addition of a "Fu Fu Envoy", and there is no need for much troublesome procedures.

You are the minister of the imperial court, the six books of Shangshu. What's wrong with letting you go to appease the Hu people, is it not worthy of you, or does you not want to go?

There are two official words, not to mention that Niu Xianke is just an "honest man" without a backstage, even if he is as slippery as Zheng Shuqing, he can't escape such a dispatch.

It is naturally a great achievement to appease the miscellaneous beards to settle down in the frontier, but who said that those miscellaneous beards can't see that the envoy of the imperial court is unpleasant and chop them off with a knife?

It can only be said that Li Linfu's method of rectifying people is too clever and unguardable. He doesn't need to be red-faced, and he doesn't need to go into slander to kill a high-ranking court official.

"Then send the Ox Cyclamen. However, Brother Nu, I feel that I can't make King Shou the crown prince. ”

Li Longji suddenly changed the topic and said with a solemn face.

"Shou Wang is benevolent and loving, it is the first choice of the prince, please think twice."

Li Linfu saluted with a calm face, unable to see what he was thinking.

"That's it, we'll talk about it later. As you told me last time, Wang Zhonghei had too close a relationship with King Zhong, so it was inconvenient for him to be the general of the left army of the Longwu Army. I've thought about it for the past two days, and I think you have a point.

So I transferred him out of Chang'an to serve in the Chishui Army, what do you think? ”

Li Longji asked lightly while dialing the warm spring water with the palm of his hand.

"Wechen has no objection, this move is very good."

Li Linfu smiled and saluted.

"Fang Youde wrote a letter and suggested that Wu Zhiyi be the general of the left army of the Longwu Army, what do you think?"

Li Longji asked again.

"Weichen thinks that Li Shizhi, the middle of the imperial history, can take over the post of Wu Zhiyi Pinglu Jiedu."

"Well, I think so too, then you will be responsible for drafting the edict."

After dealing with government affairs, Li Longji waved his hand a little tiredly, Li Linfu got dressed and left the soup pool, and returned to Chang'an in a carriage without a moment's delay.

Inadvertently, he has driven Huangfu Weiming, Wang Zhonghe, Niu Xianke, and Li Shizhi out of Chang'an. The rest is to use the matter of Luoyang Hanjiacang, and slowly cut the meat with a blunt knife.

At present, most of the centers in Chang'an are his people, and Li Longji also acquiesces to people from all walks of life on business outside the country and does not interfere with Li Linfu's governance.

Repair the canal between Chang'an and Luoyang, reform the existing legal provisions, delete the outdated, gradually reduce the proportion of rent in taxes, and slowly increase household taxes to make up the difference.

Li Linfu was thinking about one "earth-shattering" event after another.

The household registration of the tenant is getting more and more vacation year by year, and the number of escapes is increasing year by year. The more they fled, the more rent adjustments were added to those who did not flee, and then the more households fled, and anyway, the account books were all fake, and the local officials had no choice. Not every place is a commercial port like Kuizhou, and it is easy to make up the difference with commercial taxes.

The country's use is also getting bigger and bigger year by year, and the proportion of government soldiers is getting smaller and smaller, and the account book of the military department no longer uses government soldiers to mark the provenance of non-commissioned soldiers. Reunification is the words "Long March athletes" and "unity."

Even the Longwu Army is not a composition of government soldiers.

The military expenditure for recruiting troops is at least 10 million guan a year, accounting for the bulk of the central expenditure, far exceeding the 2 million guan in the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

Li Linfu thought about one troublesome thing after another, and it seemed that none of them were easy to solve.

"The saint's stall is too big."

In the carriage, Li Linfu couldn't help but sigh.

……

In Luoyang City, goose feathers and heavy snow also fell one by one.

At this moment, Zheng Shuqing was standing in front of this magnificent granary, and his heart was complicated. I don't know who to have a seizure with.

Because Zheng Shuqing found that he seemed to have been cheated by Li Longji or Li Linfu, but there was no way to save the situation.

Fortunately, it's winter, not the season to harvest grain, and there is still time to figure out a way. If he can't think of a good way in the early summer of next year, then he, the household servant, will really be the end!

Hanjiacang is the first granary of Datang, and at its peak, half of Datang's national reserve grain was stored.

It was indeed a giant granary with great power in all directions, at least it was, even ten or even five years ago, but now it is mostly empty.

When Zheng Shuqing came, Li Linfu said that it was enough to check the inventory of the grain depot, and he didn't have to worry about the rest. As a result, after those officials were investigated, the task of transporting grain to Hanjiacang fell to him, the household servant and transfer envoy!

Originally, the management of Hanjiacang was mutually restrictive, mainly in Sinong Temple, by the prison guard, supervised by the Imperial Historical Observatory, the officials of the warehouse were only responsible for inspection, correspondence, planning, recording, cellar and other matters, by the Si Nongqing final inspection office, it was not Zheng Shuqing's turn to ask.

But now the former Si Nongqing Huangfu Weiming has been transferred to Longyou to serve in the military and lead the war against Tubo.

A lead is missing.

In addition, the transfer made this official position newly established not long ago, and it was to unify the operations of different departments. So this pot was given to Zheng Shuqing.

If it's an ordinary granary, you can find a way to fool around. But Hanjiacang is different, it is too big and too important to be taken lightly.

Hanjiacang is located in Luoyang City, the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty, and is a small city with a city gate, named "Hanjiacheng".

Its warehouse city is rectangular and surrounded by high walls. Among them, the north and south city walls are 615 meters long, the east and west walls are 725 meters long, the wall width is 15~17 meters, the wall height is 1~6.5 meters, and the area of Cangcheng is about 430,000 square meters, and the reserves are amazing!

Even if there are only two or three percent of the maximum reserves, the grain reserves are a terrifying astronomical figure.

Before Pei Yaoqing diverted the Tongji Canal, the transshipment center of the North and South Canal was Hanjiacang in Luoyang. All the grain and grass from Jianghuai and Jiangnan must be stored in Hanjiacang first, and then transferred to Chang'an by land.

Between Chang'an and Luoyang, Datang opened a separate "gallop road", which was specifically responsible for transporting grain to Guanzhong.

However, the situation of Han Jiacang is not as simple as ordinary people think. The main reason for the shortage of grain in the warehouses this time was not official malfeasance.

There is no granary in the world that will not collapse for a hundred years, and those are all delusional imaginations of people who do not know the inside story.

In fact, the granary has a very critical and hidden data that prevents it from standing alone. It is precisely because of this that it has led to today's situation in Hanjiacang.

This key data is that all grain has a shelf life, and this shelf life is not long compared to the life span of the dynasty.

Hanjiacang is an underground granary, which was built according to the highest standards when it was first established, and the shelf life of stored grain is also long, but it is also "a dry land, millet can be stored for 9 years, and rice can be stored for 5 years; In the land of tide temperature, millet is stored for 5 years, and rice is stored for 3 years".

The system of the granary is to bring forth the new, and if the luck does not go to Luoyang, then the Hanjiacang will inevitably be empty, just such a simple and straightforward truth.

If the grain is not transported, the expiration date is approaching, and it can only be sold in Luoyang on the spot. The granary is only responsible for the storage of grain, and the government disaster relief and the organization that collects and buys grain has other people.

It seems that everyone is responsible, and it seems that no one has done anything wrong, and in the end it becomes a bad debt.

In front of Zheng Shuqing, Han Jiacang supervised the imperial history and the history of the cang, and he didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere. As soon as the messenger folded a letter, they would be doomed in no time.

"Is there anything you can teach me?"

Zheng Shuqing looked at the two who didn't dare to look up and sighed and asked.

"Zheng Shilang, Pei Xianggong changed the Caoyun channel back then, and the rules of Hanjiacang's operation have not changed from before. Now that the grain has gone to the Heyin warehouse on the other side of Biankou, we can't do anything about it. ”

The white-haired prison warehouse Yushi sighed and said.

Everyone knows that Biankou has become a new place for transshipment, and there are piles of grain. But no one refused to come forward, and proposed to give up Hanjiacang, which had been in operation for a hundred years, and give up this giant national strategic reserve warehouse.

Li Linfu asked Zheng Shuqing to find a way to "return blood" to Hanjiacang within a few years, at least fill half of the granary.

Moreover, while doing this, it was necessary to continuously transport grain to the "exclusive grain depot" outside Chang'an City to supply Hexi's military supplies.

What the hell is this!

Zheng Shuqing has no clue at all, and he can't conjure up food!

"This official has already written a memo to the sage, and when the time comes, I won't be able to complete the decree of the imperial court, but I will drag you to finish it together.

At most, I can't dismiss the official, and the lack of food in Hanjiacang was found out by the official, so I have no responsibility. But what will happen to you in the end, go back and think about it yourself. ”

Zheng Shuqing flicked his cuffs, turned around and left to get into the ox cart.

Do you want to use the method of harmony?

He pondered those routine methods in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he would die a miserable death in the end.