Han Shizu

Chapter 1761 New Questions

Time flies by, and before you know it, the 22nd year of Kaibao Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and it is another festive season. Lanterns and ribbons have been hung all over the city of Tokyo, and the city is full of joy.

After the storm, there was calm. With the suppression of the northwest rebellion, the big man seemed to have survived a catastrophe, and gradually settled down, and his life went on as usual.However, only those who were in the midst of it could understand that compared with the past, the livelihood of the scholars and civilians has undergone profound changes.

The most obvious thing is naturally the gradually rising prices. Although the initial food price turmoil was brought under control under the suppression of the imperial court, it fluctuated from time to time, fluctuating around [-] Wen.

In order to have room for adjustment, the imperial court did not fix the price of grain as in the past, and set a guide price.This has also led to the fact that in the past few months, the government has released grain to the market several times, which has also suppressed grain prices.

Raising grain prices to benefit farmers is a policy that the court must implement in order to alleviate agricultural conflicts, dispel farmers' grievances, and encourage production.However, if the price of food in the city rises too much, causing it to get out of control, the court is not happy to see it.

Therefore, how to control the speed, the imperial court also took a lot of thought. In the past half a year or so, it has been paying attention to it all the time, and if it goes too far, it will immediately intervene.

That is to say, the imperial court had accumulated a lot in the past and had enough resources for deployment, which ensured a smooth transition period.However, for the citizens of Tokyo, the increase in the cost of living is significant.

This price increase is not only caused by food, but also a series of living prices such as salt tea, sugar and wine, sauce and vinegar, meat, vegetables, etc., all of which have followed. This kind of imperial capital makes people realize what "living in a big place is not easy".

Of course, as an imperial capital, Tokyo still needs to maintain its basic decency. The society must be stable and the market must be prosperous. At that time, it was not so unacceptable.

What's more, the standard of living in the imperial capital is already higher, there are more opportunities and more money to be made, and this maintains a basic balance.But the cities outside the capital are another situation.

The price of rice in Tokyo and Luoyang is 35 Wen, while in other cities it rises to [-], [-], and [-] Wen. And the smaller the city, the more difficult the transportation, the poorer the product, the higher the price.The court is not ignorant of these situations, but it is almost impossible to achieve complete control.

Speaking of which, in the past, in order to support the city, the peasants were squeezed too hard and sucked too much blood. Now, in order to set things right and ease the contradictions, new problems have arisen.

In and around the city of Tokyo alone, the resident population has reached one million. In the past, Emperor Liu was also immersed in this kind of magnificence, but behind the prosperity, there was also a crisis brewing. With such a large population, the daily consumption of The supplies are massive, and the price involved is obviously not light.

And there is not only one Tokyo city in the world, but also Luoyang, Taiyuan, Youzhou, Daming, Jiangning, Hangzhou, Chengdu and other large and small cities, and the essence of these places is the same as Tokyo.

In the final analysis, the cities of Dahan are still consumer cities. In order to supply these cities, what they absorb is naturally the blood and sweat of farmers all over the world.Without a strong guarantee of productivity and sufficient material supply, all prosperity is just an illusion.

In the past few decades, during the process of the world from splitting to unification, drastic changes have also taken place on the social level. Commerce has become increasingly prosperous, and urban handicrafts have developed unprecedentedly. However, this is also based on abundant material production.

Developing productivity and improving material supply are also the most basic things.However, it is precisely on this fundamental issue that a crisis is encountered. No matter how prosperous the business is, the Dahan is still an agricultural country in essence. More than [-]% of the people in the world are farmers. install.

From the emperor to the bureaucrats, they often only see the prosperity of the city, but they always ignore the poverty of the peasants, and they are also used to asking them for money. Of course, it is more appropriate to use squeeze.

In the past few years, the reason why the townspeople have been able to live so well is also based on the court's efforts to provide sufficient low-cost materials.

Previously, the imperial court made up its mind to push up prices because it finally discovered the problem and felt the pressure to support so many urban residents. Through this method, the farmers were benevolent and the currency value problems caused by the large-scale copper coin production in the past were alleviated. The idea of ​​driving people away is inside.

For the vast majority of civilians living in cities and towns, the cost of living has risen and their livelihoods are difficult. If they cannot stay, returning to the countryside has become a way out.

Under the court's efforts, the vigorous price breakthrough is basically a success, but the time is still short, and the specific effect remains to be tested.

However, some problems have already emerged.As far as the current situation is concerned, the goal of expelling people has not been achieved. Taking Tokyo as an example, the increase in living costs has brought difficulties in the livelihood of most civilians. However, there are very few people who have fled the capital because of this. .

For people who have stayed in the city for a long time, it is obviously not so easy to get them back to the countryside and dig food from the ground.Regardless, it is an indisputable fact that in cities, there are more opportunities and more money to be made.

As for the increase in prices, it is only a decline in living standards, and the prosperity of the city is not comparable to that of the rural areas. This gap can also allow many people to endure poverty in the city.

And the patience of the Han people has always been amazing, not only the farmers, but also the scholars, merchants and handicraftsmen in the cities.

However, the pressure of life will inevitably cause problems. In the past few months, the security situation in various cities has dropped significantly, and criminal activities have increased significantly. Even in Tokyo City, there have been frequent vicious cases. , were all in a rush.

At the same time, the problem of the slums that Prince Liu Yang noticed during his previous inspections has not been alleviated, but has intensified.Liu Jichang, the prefect of Kaifeng, spent some efforts on rectification, but the effect was very weak. Moreover, with the frequent occurrence of public security problems, his energy was also diverted.

In the past few months, the Kaifeng government received more impeachments and criticisms, and Liu Jichang was once under great pressure.Fortunately, the Kaifeng government's "New Deal for Huinong" initiated and implemented by him was finally carried out.

This is very consistent with the "three rural" issues that the imperial court is currently focusing on. Funds allocated by Kaifeng Prefecture, coupled with the active donations of "celebrities and sages" in Tokyo, have raised nearly 300 million yuan to donate to the counties under Kaifeng Prefecture. The peasants are subsidized for agriculture, and at the same time, roads, canals, bridges, and reservoirs are built, and a group of urban laborers are temporarily diverted.

With this achievement as a foundation, there will be more people in the court who give Liu Jichang a platform. From the prince to the big bosses in the Zhengshitang, they are all very satisfied with the performance of Kaifeng Mansion. In addition, Liu Jichang's identity is there. The seat of the governor of Kaifeng is fairly stable.

Historically, it was not easy to be the chief official of the Shoushan District, but Liu Jichang felt that he was the most difficult to be the governor of Kaifeng, and he encountered the most problems.The contradictions accumulated over decades of development seem to have slowly erupted under his tenure.

It is taboo to overcorrect everything, but in the handling of facts, it is often overcorrected, because only when it is overcorrected can the effect be significant.After the imperial court began to attach importance to agricultural production, cared about farmers' issues, shifted the focus of governance to the development of agricultural production, and eased the contradiction between supply and demand between cities and farmers, a voice inevitably rose in the imperial court.

There are many officials who have played one after another, hoping that the imperial court can suppress commercial trade and let the imperial court return to the right path of "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business".For this kind of behavior of giving up food because of choking and wanting to reverse the course of history, the center will naturally suppress it.

The principle of life without business has been fully verified in the past few decades, and the large sum of money from business taxes is enough to strengthen the will of the officials in the DPRK and China.

Emphasis on agriculture is fundamental, but it is also necessary to promote business, which is also a basic national policy.However, the murmurs inside and outside came from the not-so-good situation in all aspects, which also kept the court in constant turmoil.

For this reason, in July, Zhao Wang Liu Fang returned to the court with his meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion, and made a summary of Yulin's suppression of the rebellion. In this way, we can unify our thoughts and strengthen the basic national policy of paying equal attention to agriculture and commerce.

Governing the country is like this, with constant contradictions and problems, often pressing the gourd and floating the gourd.With a huge empire, there are even more problems, but no matter what, the overall situation is still under control, and the basic rule of the empire is still stable.

(End of this chapter)