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Chapter 21 Important Officials

Chuan Erhua said! "It's very simple... I'll count the number of grains that can be quota in the center, and the price of umbrellas and umbrellas has the largest fluctuation. Then print the grain amount into food coupons, and the households will distribute affordable food to the people according to the population. In order to prevent certain behaviors of illegal officials, the county and counties will post court notices to let the people know how much food coupons they can get."

This method is still a disadvantage, because it is distributed evenly, and wealthy families and even those who participate in hoarding have obtained affordable food, and there are still households and departments that have not been able to do so, which benefits. But it is also a method, at least in some aspects, which has been maximized to the greatest extent.

Everyone was confused when they heard this. Looking at all the records in history, there has never been any of the past.

In fact, Wang Hua had already changed their concepts without realizing it. First, he allowed ships to enter the Tang Dynasty's territory from abroad, which broke the Tang Dynasty's ban on preventing the people from going abroad and foreign ships could only be parked in Guangzhou Port.

But the person who can climb to the court and be qualified to participate in the morning court, who is not a top figure, immediately thought of the benefits brought by Wang Hua's proposal.

And in terms of interests, if Wang Hua really gave so much grain to the Tang Dynasty at a price of 30 cents per bucket, he would still have a profit margin of more than ten cents, so that the court could arrange manpower and material resources to distribute grain to various prefectures and counties.

The price of more than 40 cents is still very expensive, but it is much better than the current two hundred cents. The price of more than 40 cents will make many people starve, but more than 200 cents will make many people starve to death. There is a big gap between this.

However, Song Hao stood up and said to Wang Hua: "Sir Wang. Although your method is very good, the food gap is still too big."

When everyone heard this, they were sad.

Song Zhu's words also make sense. Although the song of Sui and Tang dynasties was vigorous, it was too tragic. More than 5 million people participated in the rebel army, and the number of soldiers involved in it could reach 7 million. But what happened? From nearly 9 million households in the Sui Dynasty to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, only about 3 million households. However, after so many years of rest and rest, although it has not reached the peak of the Sui Dynasty, it has recovered more than half. The population has reached about 40 million, which does not include fugitives that cannot be investigated and those who deliberately concealed the missed households.

At least one-third of the people affected by this grain price, and now the most densely populated area of ​​the Tang Dynasty started from the Chang'an area and went to the front line of Qizhou, Luoyang, followed by the Yangrun area and then the Yizhou area.

The affected places this time started from Hezhong Prefecture to the seventeen states including Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Bianzhou, Zezhou, Xiangzhou, etc., which was the most important thing in the world. Not all places were flooded by husband water, but that was the case. The disaster victims reached at least 100,000 households, the population reached one million, and even more.

The two million stones of grain mentioned by Wang Hua sounded huge, but it was a problem to help these victims. Ordinary people were different from wealthy families. They had a greater appetite because of their lack of "oil and water" in food, and each person had four stones of rice a year, so they could only maintain a food and clothing supply. After all, the calculation was to completely control the price of grain, which would require at least 60 million stones or even more.

After Song Tae reminded, everyone watched Wang Hua without saying a word.

Wang Hua laughed, and he said to Song Lu: "Shilarious Minister Song, if you say it, who can generate so much food from other countries?"

There is no statistics, but now the Tang Dynasty may reach half of the world's population. If there is a problem with the Tang Dynasty itself, there is no such condition. If there is no preparation in advance, it will be impossible to solve the problem with all the power of the world. The Tang Dynasty should still have knowledge now. The Silk Road has not been interrupted, so that they can know about the Great Food. They even called the Eastern Roman Empire the Great Buddha Knot and the Middle East the Small Brush Knot, but no matter what they call it, or they also like some things coming from the West, but in their eyes, these countries are all barbaric countries and non-standard countries!

Occasionally, if you lose in the war, it is because you don’t have any interests and don’t want to have a national army. Therefore, what Wang Hua said is not unreasonable.

Wang Hua said this and looked at everyone. He said, "Actually, think about it again. In addition to the places that were affected by the disaster, how many places are truly affected by the cotton storm?"

He did not say the following: There are some places where cotton is planted in the Western Regions, such as Wang Hua, who bought some land, but he did not manage it, but gave it to the family members of the Xuezi Camp to operate it. Unfortunately, there were few families going to the Western Regions, and many places continued to be deserted.

There are very few plantings in Jiangnan, mainly in the Yellow River area. However, many people in this area still planted food. Therefore, the tent cannot be calculated like the Song Mule. The real gap is only five million stones or ten million stones, which is difficult to calculate. The autumn harvest has not yet come up. But it will definitely not be a huge terrifying number of 607 million stones.

Everyone knows why this is caused. If this problem cannot be solved, the gap of 5 million stones can be reduced to a sky-high price. But it is precisely this problem that cannot be solved.

No one dared to speak.

This is not the most difficult thing. The difficulty is that cotton is planted next year, many places have grown this year, but the profit margin is still not more people will grow next year. Unless the price of grain rises to 1,000 cigars per bucket of rice, will the court raise the price of grain to this level?

After all, it is that simple that the state makes efforts and the local families with low powers benefit.

Wang Hua said again: "Your Majesty, but I have another thing to report. If there is no accident, I can continue to provide affordable food to the court through some channels next year, which may reach five million stones. But it will take a little longer, and next year will be one year."

I dare not say too much. Now Bamenchuan does not lack land, but the population is the population. I dare not plunder too many slaves. Although the people grow stronger with the moon, plundering will become easier. This year, it will be mainly done by trying to transport local people in the Tang Dynasty to Oceania, supplemented by expansion. Similarly, Oceania also has a long rainy season in summer, so it is not difficult to guarantee good weather. Although it is possible that the cultivated land will expand to three times the area next year, it is not difficult, and the harvest from two to three seasons, Wang Hua can only say a conservative five million stones.

Wang Hua said this number with purpose. Since then, the court had the courage to continue to withdraw in advance and distribute huge grain stored in Hanjia Cang. Moreover, if this news spread, it would also play a role in stabilizing the price of grain, although the effect might not be too great.

From a private perspective, although Wang Hua made less profit, he lacked many procedures. Another point is that his position in the court has also become stable because he expects his food.

After hearing what Wang Hua said, many ministers were excited. This time, the past and after, it was equivalent to having seven million stones of grain operation. Although it was a kind of "futures." It would not be delivered until next year. However, with these grains as the foundation, I felt much more at ease.

Although it took more than a year, it gave them a chance to breathe in more than a year.

Many ministers began to buzz and talk. Some proposed to continue to increase the tax on cotton planting to limit the number of cotton planting, and forcibly ordered all prefectures and counties to implement the proportion of grain and cotton planting, etc. Wang Hua did not make a sound after hearing this. This result may be worse.

This is just like his real estate market policy in his previous life. Officials from all over the country have to obtain fiscal revenue by selling land. With this premise, no matter what orders the central government has to suppress the surge in the real estate market, few local governments below cooperate with the central government.

Since the cotton tax has been increased, local officials will not take the initiative to cope with the imperial court's restrictions on cotton planting. This is also their fiscal revenue. And under the current management of this opaque system, local officials even secretly encouraged local areas to plant a large amount of cotton. In the end, in order to deceive the court, they ordered the people to forcibly collect grain. But what should they do if the local people do not have this grain? They had to buy it in neighboring counties. In the end, they led to buying grain at high prices and paying grain at low prices. The people were burdened with heavier.

Although these people are all wise people, they have never experienced such incidents, so they don’t know how to prevent them. Tragedy will happen again.

But he was looking at it coldly, and this was not his responsibilities anymore.

But he thought of the history of cotton in China. He sighed. Cotton appeared in China for a long time and had not been promoted. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang forced all of them to be planted. It was exactly the opposite of the current one.

The reason for this is that it is not planted scientifically. Just like the Gaochang people, they scattered seeds into the ground and relied on the weather to harvest. The results are very low. This is the main reason.

Another one is the backwardness of imitation weaving technology. Therefore, as soon as Huang Daopo's imitation weaving machine appeared, the Hongjiang area immediately became the richest place in the world.

Later, the innovation of imitation weaving machines in Europe actually led to the encirclement movement of sheep eating people.

This is still a gradual process. But I will launch the most advanced planting method and the second-level imitation weaving machine at once, and it would be strange if the world is not clamoring.

And due to their own influence, some people are quietly changing their ideas. For example, the Li family in Longxi launched a more efficient imitation weaving machine last year. However, because its principle is simple, it was quickly stolen by other families. This is undoubtedly another ignition on oil.

In short, this is a good thing, but everyone is not ready yet. This is the key to the problem. Of course, it is still the backwardness of all agricultural technologies. The same land raised more than one billion people in the past life, but now it only supports one-thirty of the population, which is still so difficult. It is much smaller than the Song Dynasty. The territory is much smaller, but at most it reaches more than 100 million people, and it lives more than the Tang Dynasty. This is also a problem of technical reasons. Another point is that the Tang Dynasty's perverted possessiveness of land was related to its tax method of taxing people instead of land. Many big families would rather let it be deserted than to give it to tenants to farm at a cheap price.

While everyone was discussing lively, Wang Hua had quietly sat back to his original position.

Sure enough, Chen's suggestions came up one by one. Li Xian successively adopted them and sent them to various places with an edict. For example, the tax on cotton fields was increased again. This not only restricted cotton planting, but also increased the income of the court, so it was unanimously approved by everyone.

It also controls the proportion of grain and cotton seed value, and reduces the proportion of cloth renting and increasing the proportion of grain, etc.

After Wang Hua heard these orders, his face looked gloomy and sunny.

But he didn't know whether it was good or bad, and the development of the imitation weaving industry played a major role in promoting the innovation and arrival of new technologies in the entire country. This is a good thing. It is also something that Wang Hua expected. But even he could not grasp and control any changes in the middle.

Finally, the amount of affordable food. After the ministers' disputes and consultations, they finally agreed to distribute 2.2 million stones of affordable food to the prefectures and counties in accordance with the shortage of food. In addition, 800,000 stones of aid and relief were distributed to the disaster area, with three meals of relief porridge every day to prevent more people from starving to death.

The number of people affected by the disaster has reached nearly one million, because the rainy season seems to have not ended yet, and this number is still expanding. However, some victims are slightly affected. Some victims are rich in families and do not need to help, and some victims can support themselves through other ways. Therefore, the number of victims who really need relief is lower, which depends on how many fugitives there are in each state. Otherwise, it may be reduced by half if they are abandoned.

With so much food, although they cannot eat warm food, the porridge with clear soup and low water can make them survive.

What made him depressed was that he had just calculated the accounts, and spent 30 cents and 45 cents. The 220,000 s of grain was thrown away from the transportation cost and the profits of the management office, which was just enough for the 800,000 s of capital. The court was equivalent to subsidizing some small interest abacus.

But this also shows that although most of the ministers in the court do not want to get close to him, they believe in his credibility very much. Because this is equivalent to seizing one million stones of food he will bring to the court next year. This also prevents the danger of the famine next year, otherwise the amount will be a little larger.

This can be seen from the current scene. While this group of elites from the Tang Dynasty thought of, supplemented or discussed various feasible strategies with relish, few people talked to Wang Hua. However, the basis of all these strategies was based on the fact that Wang Hua could bring back seven million stones of huge grain.

But when we were using who distributed the 800,000 stones of grain, we once again focused our eyes on Wang Hua.

On the surface, it seems like a good job. Relief of the people can bring great reputation, but it is not the case. The disaster-stricken areas were scattered this time, spread across seventeen states, hundreds of kilometers long and hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, with varying weight. Some are a large area, some are a small area. According to the current technology, there is no way to count, and there is not enough food. Therefore, if you do not do well, it will cause chaos.

Wang Hua lowered his head, but still kept silent.

Li Xian looked at Jihua and said, "Wang Qing, Wang Qing."

Wang Hua sighed and had to come out. He looked at the ministers again and said, "Everyone. I have said that I have thought about my mistakes behind closed doors and I have no ability to handle political affairs. Why are you all looking at me?"

But he said, "If Your Majesty insists on going to deal with this difficult matter, I am willing to go there. But Your Majesty will promise to give me an official position."

Everyone was stunned and there was nothing they could do. If they had no desires, they would let go of their hands.

"What official position?" Li Xian also laughed.

"Your Majesty will give me the ambassador of the Strategy of the Seventeen Prefectures to transfer the field to the field and the inspector of the Seventeen Prefectures to the Seventeen Prefectures to the Seventeen Prefectures to the Seventeen Prefectures to the Seventeen Prefectures to the Seventeen Prefectures to the Seventeen Prefectures to the Seventeen Prefectures to the Seventeen Prefectures to the Seven

Such a long name made everyone blinded.

The politicians who were in charge of border security and military established in the early Tang Dynasty, needless to say, the pacifiers had to paint for the king. This was an official position in inspecting wars or disaster-stricken areas. The nature of the inspectors and the pacifiers was similar. Inspections and relief of disaster victims were only one to comfort and the other to inspect. As for the nature of the ambassadors and the governors, there were also slight differences, one to focus on civil affairs and the other to focus on military affairs.

In fact, the Seventeen Prefectures mainly distribute disaster food and appease the victims, which has nothing to do with military affairs. In addition, Li Chongjun and Li Guer were still a little disagreement. Wang Hua proposed to let the Crown Prince Li Chongjun serve as the purpose of avoiding suspicion. Wang Hua wanted more rights and properly handle the people in the disaster area, but because of the vast territory and the core of the Tang Dynasty, and the use of military forces in the spring Wang Hua, the ministers must be afraid. Therefore, Li Chongjun held this position as a constraint and supervision of Wang Hua. Therefore, Wang Hua lacked the two words "buying fields" and "buying fields" in his position. But everyone did not understand, what is this "buying fields and transfers"?

Li Xian asked this question.

Wang Hua replied: "Your Majesty, the Transport Authority is in charge of the transportation cashiers of goods, finance, grain and other transportation in the region. The Land Authority is in charge of the responsibilities of military farming and land arrangements."

After hearing this, everyone suddenly realized that Wang Hua wanted to make a big move, not only distributing disaster food.

But everyone looked at each other. If they agreed to the position of Wang Hua, they had the right to arrange for the handling of officials below the governor, which was a departure from the initial discussion on distributing disaster food. At this time, Wei Yuanzhong suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the old minister agrees."

With Wei Yuanzhong's comment, Song Luo and others followed the comment. The group of people didn't speak loudly, but they were all from the main stream of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Li Xian also passed.

But if he had served this official position, he would immediately handle all the affairs. He would not waste his skills in chopping wood without using the skills of sharpening his knife. Wang Hua immediately summoned some accompanying officials to discuss all the details.

There was only one person, and Li Chongjun was shocked when he heard about the appointment.

He came to Wang's house and asked Wang Hua: "Sir Wang, why do you want to find me?"

The main reason in my heart was suspicious, and the painting of the King of War was not good for him.

Wang Hua replied seriously: "I have said two sentences like this: It is not the same as others. Public is public and private is private. Don't doubt the prince. You and I will work together to do this well, which will also be helpful to your future."

Li Chongjun said nothing after hearing this. After a long time, he left suspiciously.

Wang Hua looked at his back and saw a ray of light in his eyes.

But the next day, Wang Hua asked to go to Shangyang Palace and meet Wu Zetian. This time, I don’t know how many months I will return to Luoyang.

Li Xian didn't stop him either.

When Wang Hua met Queen Wu Zetian, he said nothing and continued to tell stories, until a group of girls fighting chrysanthemums. This poem is also one of the famous poems in "Dream of Red Mansions". Wang Hua mostly remembers it.

But at this time, "Dream of Red Mansions" has entered the 38th chapter, which is still very early to end. But it was getting late, and Wang Hua had to get up and leave. He was thinking in his heart, and he didn't know if he would have the chance to finish this article to the old lady in the future.

When Wang Hua left, he knelt down respectfully.

Lao Wu said, "Go."

Wang Huacai stood up and left Shangyang Palace.

Busy, on the ninth day of the seventh month, Wang Hua set out, the first stop was the most affected place

Bianzhou.
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