Dahan first prince

Chapter 219 The leash of the clan and princes
"Where is the Marquis of Pingyang?"

Liu Ying's sudden question caused Lu Shizhi to recover himself from the joy of "the Shaofu is about to make a fortune", and smiled lightly at Liu Ying.

"Yesterday, the Marquis of Pingyang sent someone to report that the grain and horses he led from Qi, Jing, and Chu have arrived in Suiyang, the capital of Liang."

"After five days at the latest, you will be able to go to Xingyang and get the rice from Ao Cang; when you arrive at home, you can protect your home and go east to the abundance..."

Hearing this, Liu Ying nodded indifferently, and began to calculate secretly again.

Today, Liu Ying basically solves the major problems of Shaofu's government-run grain and rice.

Liu Ying skillfully ate half of the tens of millions of shi of grain output in Guanzhong by "storing grain on behalf of the people".

As for the remaining half, Liu Ying's "suggestion" alone is difficult to get a proper solution...
Now there are more than 7000 households in Guanzhong. According to the average after-tax annual output of [-] shi per household, Guanzhong will have a total output of [-] million to [-] million shi of grain merchants every year!
Among them, the nearly 500 million shi used by the people in Guanzhong can be solved by "storing grain on behalf of the people", and it will bring [-] million shi to the Shaofu and the treasury respectively for "storage costs" on behalf of the people.

The remaining 7000 stones will all need to be purchased by the Shaofu.

This is no longer something that Liu Ying, the prince of the supervisory country, or even the current Chang'an court can handle.

According to this year, Liu Ying forcibly suppressed the grain price to 7000 renminbi a shi, and the grain price of 3000 million shi will be worth more than [-] million renminbi!

How can there be 3000 million yuan in today's Shaofu?

——Not to mention Shaofu, I am afraid that the money in the whole world, including Qin Banliang, Han Sanzhu, even the old money of the six countries, and even the sword coins of the Warring States Period, may not be able to reach 1000 million!
Therefore, in order for the Shaofu to eat the 7000 shi of grain smoothly, it is not possible to simply 'buy' it, but to circulate it.

To be more specific, this grain of 7000 million shi must be at least [-] million shi, which was booked in advance by the vassal states of the Kanto, and even the payment was paid in advance!
Only in this way can the Shaofu use this 'advance payment' to buy grain from the people and hand it over to those areas in the Kanto region that have low grain production and rely heavily on imports.

For example, Qi State, which is full of hills, is dominated by commerce; Jing State, which is full of swamps and has not yet been developed;

This is why Liu Ying asked 'Where is Cao Shen now'.

This time, Liu Ying went out of the customs under the cover of "returning to his hometown to worship his ancestors", and the grain and grass used by the army to counter the rebellion were put on the vest of "civilian grain and rice needed by the three kingdoms of Qi, Jing, and Chu".

But Liu Ying was very clear in her heart: the vests worn by this batch of military rations were not Liu Ying's nonsense, but the truth!

——The three countries of Qi, Jing, and Chu today are indeed extremely short of food in the country, even to the point where food prices are about to skyrocket!

As for the reason......

"really······"

"Governing a big country is like cooking a small dish; pulling one hair can move the whole body~"

With a stiff smile on her face, she let out a sigh of gratitude, and a little self-mockery quietly appeared on Liu Ying's face.

In the past, to be precise, since the Warring States period when "Tian Shi Dai Qi" occurred, all countries in the world have basically relied on food imports to varying degrees.

Later, Qin took Hetao in the north, Bashu in the south, and Qinzhong, which was three thousand miles away, completely evolved into the granary of the whole world. Almost every grain trade between countries was sold by Qin.

As for the buyer, there is Zhao State, which has insufficient domestic arable land and has a large population; Qi State, which has basically given up agriculture and turned to business to gain a foothold in the world; and Yan State, which is far away in the northeast corner of China in the Central Plains.

When the Han Dynasty was established, although the world was nominally owned by the Han Dynasty, the existence of vassal states with different surnames in the Kanto region also made the Han Dynasty temporarily in a period of "unification in name, but actually similar to the Warring States Period".

It's just that compared with Zhou Tianzi, who was disgraced and disrespected by the world, the majesty of Liu Bang, the emperor of Han, was naturally much higher.

But even under the political background of "the central and local governments are fighting openly and secretly", the grain trade between Guanzhong and Kanto has not been greatly affected.

The reason is that Liu Bang, as the lord of the world, could not just sit back and watch the citizens of those countries with different surnames suffer from starvation in order to eradicate vassals with different surnames.

Therefore, in the past few years, except for the area where the rebellion broke out, the other vassal states can still obtain a steady stream of Guanzhong rice grains from Hangu Pass from the grain merchants in Guanzhong to meet their domestic rigid needs.

Among them, Qi, Jing, and Chu, the three clan vassal states, were most favored by the emperor Liu Bang.

After all, no matter how much you feel sorry for the people who can't eat enough, the Chang'an court will have a certain degree of vigilance against vassal states with different surnames, so as to strictly control strategic resources such as 'food', and it is too easy to flow into vassal states with different surnames.

But for the three kinship vassal states of Qi, Jing, and Chu, the Chang'an court responded to every request; even in some special periods, these three kinship vassal states were allowed to send a certain number of troops to the outside of the pass to meet the troops from the pass. Grain merchants and grain teams from the Middle East.

This is also the reason why Liu Ying went east to counter the rebellion this time, and put the required military rations on the vest of "Qi, Jing, and Chu requesting for food allocation", without worrying about the fact that the population will be fulfilled.

——The three kingdoms of Qi, Jing, and Chu asked for food in Guanzhong. There are precedents to follow, and it has even happened frequently in recent years.

And in the spring of this year, the price of grain in Guanzhong skyrocketed strangely. Liu Ying was also heartbroken, and came to the bottom of the pot to completely ban the grain merchants in Guanzhong. Calm.

As a result, the Kanto countries, which were unable to be self-sufficient and relied heavily on food imports from Guanzhong, suddenly became a little confused about the situation.

In the past, the grain export from Guanzhong to Kanto basically consisted of the grain merchants in Guanzhong acting as "wholesalers" and the grain merchants in Kanto countries acting as "retailers", so that they could flow into the Kanto countries.

But now, there is no longer a group of "grain merchants" in Guanzhong. As for the Shaofu that banned the grain merchants in Guanzhong, the grain merchants in the Kanto countries are really "unable to contact"...

In this way, Guanzhong’s grain exports to Kanto for many years suddenly came to a standstill this year when Liu Ying implemented the official grain and rice management policy in Guanzhong. There is a food shortage!
After discovering the food shortage in their respective countries, King Liu Fei of Qi, King Liu Jia of Jing, and King Liu Jiao of Chu sent people into the customs in a hurry.

After finding out the reason for the "stagnation of grain export trade", the three clansmen approached the emperor Liu Bang at the same time.

--His Majesty!
——The few of our people have no food to eat!

——Your Majesty, tell the prince quickly, sell us some food! ! !

As for the entreaties of the three, whether it is the emperor Liu Bang or the superintendent Liu Ying, they have intentionally or unintentionally ignored...

Liu Bang ignored it, most likely he was busy at that time, quelling the war against Chen Xi's rebellion, and didn't care about "making decisions" for the three relatives.

And Liu Ying ignores this problem, but she has ulterior motives...
"Hey······"

"Clan princes..."

With a chuckle, Liu Ying murmured, disregarding the presence of Lu Shizhi beside her, Liu Ying only smiled strangely.

At the very beginning, Liu Ying did not consider that her move to ban the grain merchants in Guanzhong and promote the government-run grain and rice in the Shaofu government would lead to a stagnation of grain trade between Guanzhong and Kanto.

But after receiving the euphemistic "reminder" in the letter from her brother Liu Fei, Liu Ying did not react immediately, but chose to wait and see.

As expected by Liu Ying, for the "begging for food" from the three kingdoms of Qi, Jing, and Chu, his father Liu Bang also had an attitude of "staying in China but not sending it, and putting it aside for the time being".

With confidence in her mind, Liu Ying reacted and wrote back a letter to her elder brother Liu Fei.

——Brother~
——Last year in Guanzhong, the grain production was not abundant~
——No, at the beginning of spring, food prices almost skyrocketed!

——Brother, in order to stabilize the grain price, I have asked the Shaofu to intervene, which has stabilized the grain price in Guanzhong.

——When the younger brother handles the matter in Guanzhong, he must find a way as soon as possible to send some food to the elder brother!

——Brother, when I was young, I was overwhelmed by the heavy burden of the prison. I was too busy to keep my feet on the ground, and I was in a dilemma in the court.

——Brother, you need to understand me a lot...
With such a reply letter from the "Prince's personal letter", the matter of Qi, Jing, and Chu's "begging for food" can be regarded as temporarily shelved.

But now, it was Xia June, and Liu Ying had delayed the export of grain to the countries in Guanzhong for three full months.

Coupled with the fact that Liu Ying is about to go to Fengpei in the territory of Chu State in person, this matter has reached the time when it can no longer be delayed...

Let's just say that now, Liu Ying is about to arrive at Hangu Pass, and he is about to leave the pass in the east.

About five days later, when Liu Ying arrived in Xingyang, if there were no accidents, Liu Ying would definitely wait for Qi Chan Cao Can's visit.

The grain export matters of Qi, Jing, and Chu will inevitably be mentioned by Cao Shen.

After half a month, when Liu Ying arrived in Fengpei and met her elder brother Liu Fei, uncle Liu Jiao, and cousin Liu Jia, this question could no longer be dragged on.

"Um······"

"It's about time..."

Thinking secretly, Liu Ying's face also brought a little seriousness.

Previously, the main reason why Liu Ying delayed this matter was that she still couldn't take care of it.

——The soaring price of grain in Guanzhong, although it was fueled by the group of grain merchants, the root cause of the soaring grain price was the lack of grain production in Guanzhong last year.

If it weren't for the reduction in production, which formed a necessary condition for rising prices, it would be difficult for Guanzhong grain merchants to use the two stinky money in their hands to push the price of grain to the sky.

In addition, at that time, the emperor Liu Bang was busy in Dai and Zhao's rebellion, and the army's food and grass consumption was astonishing, and Liu Ying had a foretelling of the upcoming Huainan Wang Yingbu rebellion.

Combining all these, Liu Yingcai at that time held the idea of ​​"holding food in her hands first, in case of emergencies", and intentionally or unintentionally ignored the food shortage in the Kanto countries.

But now, the war between Dai and Zhao is basically coming to an end, Chen Xi's defeat is imminent, and the emperor Liu Bang, who was personally conquered by Yujia, has also returned to Chang'an.

The price of grain in Guanzhong has also been completely subsided, and the Shaofu has also prepared enough grain reserves for the autumn harvest in Guanzhong to meet Guanzhong's own needs.

Even on this basis, the Shaofu completed the supply of rations to Liu Yingping's rebel army alone, and there is still leftovers?
Previously, when she was 'not enough for herself', Liu Ying ignored the matter, which made sense.

Now, 'the family has had enough to eat and drink', and has prepared a surplus of food. If the remaining part is not taken care of by these poor relatives, it will be a bit unreasonable.

After all, no matter what, Liu Ying is not the emperor Liu Bang, and Liu Fei, Liu Jiao, and Liu Jia are all elders of the clan.

Next, to put down the Yingbo rebellion, Liu Ying needs the help of these three elders; after succeeding to the throne in the future, Liu Ying also needs the support of these clan princes to become her confidence to stand upright.

Thinking of this, Liu Ying nodded slowly, and immediately took out a thin wooden tube that had been prepared and sealed with mud from her bosom.

"Thank you uncle for sending someone to present this book in front of the emperor."

With only a soft command, Liu Ying got out of the chariot and watched as Lu Shizhi ran towards the rear of the team with a thin wooden tube.

"Whoo~"

"In this way, the clan princes should not be able to mess up..."

Full of embarrassment, she let out a long sigh, and Liu Ying turned around, looked at Hangu Pass not far ahead, and slowly showed a bright smile.

The content of the letter just now was actually nothing special, but Liu Ying asked Liu Bang to order the Shaofu to transport 500 million shi of grain to Ao Cang for backup.

It is now late June, and there are less than two months before the autumn harvest.

With these 500 million shi of grain, the three kingdoms of Qi, Jing, and Chu will no longer have to suffer from food shortages this year.

But what Liu Ying really wants to do is not just agreeing to the request of a few clan elders, allocating food to solve the food shortage in the Kanto...

"This year, that's it..."

"Next year, if I want to ask for food from the Shaofu, I'm afraid it won't be that simple~"

Letting out an inexplicable murmur to herself, Liu Ying stepped forward with her hands behind her back and waved to Quan Xu, the Southern Army Colonel accompanying him.

"Tell the children to hurry up and cross the river before sunset, and then find a place to stay."

After giving the order that "you must leave the customs and cross the river today", when Quan Xu obeyed, Liu Ying turned around, humming an unknown tune, and walked towards her brand new chariot.

And Liu Fei, King of Qi, Liu Jiao, King of Chu, Liu Jia, King of Jing, and even Liu Ruyi, King of Zhao, Liu Heng, King of Dai, Liu Jian, King of Yan, Liu Hui, King of Liang, Liu Chang, King of Huainan, Liu Bi, King of Wu, etc. Yes: The policy of "Grain and Rice Official Operation" originally used to stabilize and control the Guanzhong grain market will develop into a sharp weapon for the Chang'an Central Committee to control the Guandong clan vassal states in the future!
For nearly a hundred years since then, whenever some clan princes have the illusion that "I can take the place of the emperor", it is such an edict that makes these clan princes dispel their thoughts in disgrace.

——A certain king Liu x disrespected his ancestors, and his gold was not enough; he ordered the Shaofu: This year, the country's grain and rice will be halved, as a warning...
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