Planetary Museum

As the old saying goes, there is no pie in the sky.

That's because no one in heaven is in charge of handing out pies.

What Wu Xiaoqing has to do now is to become the person who distributes the cakes.

Although King Elis was a lunatic, none of the ministers he appointed were crazy. Not only were they not crazy, but each of them was frightened by King Elis' madness, and they were all very effective in doing things.

Wu Xiaoqing is now standing in front of the achievements accumulated in the seven years since the Minister of Finance took office.This is the treasury of King Elis. The so-called treasury is not actually gold. King Elis was born in war. He knows very well that gold cannot save his life at a critical moment.In his treasury were huge stores of food, fodder, weapons, and armor.

When Wu Xiaoqing was on his first mission, he once went to a grain and oil store to wholesale grain, and he knew that many grain and oil stores had large grain depots.According to Shen Changwen, in the warehouse of their university cafeteria, there is more grain piled there. It is said that there are dozens of tons, which is enough to feed 10,000+ people in the entire university city for half a month.But compared to the huge warehouses he saw in front of him, the stocks in those warehouses seemed to be only at the level of "something".

Wu Xiaoqing didn't understand the unit of measurement in this era, and how much it was converted into. The search and rescue team didn't tell him—because he didn't understand either.All he knew was that he climbed to the top of the grain depot and glanced over, but didn't see the edge of the grain.

"It's a pity...a king has all the food in the world, and all of them are sick with food." Wu Xiaoqing shook his head and sighed. "It must be because he did too many bad things when he was young."

"My lord envoy? What are you talking about?" The Minister of Finance, who had been following Wu Xiaoqing, was said to be a son-in-law of the king. When he heard what Wu Xiaoqing seemed to be talking, he immediately moved over.

"I didn't tell you, I said to myself," the search and rescue team asked, "How much is the price of food now?"

The Minister of Finance said a figure, and the search and rescue team said: "This price is very good... Are you out of money?"

"It is very good, because the summer harvest season has just passed," said the Minister of Finance. "There is a lot of money, but the king ordered that a part of it be reserved for possible military expenditures."

"Oh." The search and rescue team had talked about this topic with the king before, and knew that this part of the military expenditure was reserved for guarding against the two god stick sects, fearing that they would launch a war against him, an ungodly king at any time-this is why he hoarded it in the city The biggest power of food.

"But the king just told me that you don't need to keep this money, go buy food...you can buy as much as you can. Those who don't sell to you in the end, remember the address where they store the food!"

The Minister of Finance paid attention to Wu Xiaoqing's eyes, and it seemed that there was no fluctuation.But he was keenly aware of the terrifying meaning contained in this sentence.

If you can't afford it, you might have to grab it.

"That's not enough," the search and rescue team seemed to be able to see what was going on in his mind, and explained directly, "It is to prevent them from selling to others. You must hold back all the food in the city. Within half a month, not one grain is allowed to be sold." Grain goes out of the city... When necessary, high interest can be promised to these grain merchants."

"Why do we still need so much food?" asked the Minister of Finance, "Now here, the king asked me to accumulate enough food to support the whole city for three years after the siege... Although until now, I have only The acquisition took less than two and a half years." The Minister of Finance seemed to understand that Wu Xiaoqing in front of him is now a big celebrity in front of His Majesty the Kingdom, and he was afraid that he would go back and give the King some bad reports, just like that unlucky prince-now the whole city Everyone was guessing that the reason for the king to abolish the eldest prince's right of succession was only because there might be enmity between their "land god" and the sun god.

"But these grains are used for besieging the city..." Ruo, the Minister of Finance paid attention to Wu Xiaoqing's face, and after confirming that there is nothing wrong, he hesitated to continue, "If it is only used to attract refugees, I think it is more than enough .Instead, we can take advantage of the period of grain distribution to suppress local food prices, and let them realize that we have too much food to eat. After they lower the price, we will buy again..."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is obviously a financial professional, and he talked very clearly about the issue of food prices.The reality is also that they have mastered so much grain, they could have completely controlled the grain market—but.

But that is conventional logic, it is based on the premise of sufficient time, lowering food prices, suppressing confidence, secretly buying, betting against each other, and finally crashing... The entire series of operations is based on the premise of sufficient time Next, but, they are only two months old now, and within a month they have to prepare all the food and then set off. It will take one and a half months to fight and migrate at the same time, and finally reach the safe haven in the southern mountains.

This is top secret. Even the king, they only told the king about it, and did not tell the king the specific time of the eruption.People in this era have a big problem with their understanding of time. From their point of view, it seems completely acceptable to lay siege to a city for two or three years... If they hear that Wu Xiaoqing will take them with them within a month, With hundreds of thousands of people breaking through a country-they will definitely treat Wu Xiaoqing as a lunatic.

"Everything is done according to God's will." The search and rescue team obviously didn't intend to explain so much to the finance minister. It was originally planned, and everything was in the name of God.Since they can fight for God, it doesn't seem absurd to go all out to buy food for God at any cost.

"There are also specific measures for porridge distribution," the search and rescue team asked the Minister of Finance, "How much food do you plan to let people eat every day?"

The Minister of Finance took out a handful of wheat from the grain bag beside him: "It's about this much."

The search and rescue team didn't accuse him of anything. The amount he said was for normal people, that is, the amount of a meal.If you want to eat for a day, you can barely maintain your calories.Not to mention being full, it is attractive to refugees. I am afraid that a beggar who is a little bit won't even look at it.

"When we came this time, we brought a lot of sugar," the search and rescue team asked the Minister of Finance to lead them to the warehouse where the sugar was stored, and continued, "The amount of rice should be three times the amount you just had. Three spoonfuls of white sugar, wheat cakes should be eaten by everyone so that everyone can taste the sweetness." After speaking, Wu Xiaoqing asked Wu Xiaoqing to take out a spoon and give a spoonful of white sugar to the Minister of Finance to confirm the standard.

The Minister of Finance stared at the amount of white sugar with wide eyes. Ever since these truckloads of white sugar were transported into the city, he always thought that these sugars were just luxury goods specially supplied for the royal family.So much sugar, let alone eating it, even King Elis had never seen it before.But now what Wu Xiaoqing meant was to distribute all these luxuries to the common people.

He opened his mouth in surprise and said, "But in this way, the treatment of the refugees is better than that of the soldiers? In that case..."

The search and rescue team continued to respond to his statement: "I know, so the treatment of the soldiers has to be greatly improved on this basis. Let you use the money to buy food. First of all, the priority to buy is all livestock. Pigs, Sheep, cows, donkeys... Except for horses, all domestic animals will be purchased and slaughtered. Starting today, every soldier will be able to eat eggs and meat for one meal every day."

The Minister of Finance has completely lost his ability to think: "At this rate, there is not enough meat...the money is not enough to buy so many..."

"It's enough for one month. After half a month, the envoys will transport enough gold coins," said the search and rescue team. "I want you to assure me that after one month, there will be no more gold coins in the entire city of Elis." Livestock, when the time comes, all edible meat will only be seen in the army we are about to set off."

"Then what should we do in the future?" The Minister of Finance asked almost subconsciously.

"This is not something you should think about," the search and rescue team said. "God will let you know when the time comes."

At that time, whether you know it or not will not be so important, and everyone will be forced to join the team and go on the road.

The Minister of Finance was very efficient. When we talked at noon, at night, Wu Xiaoqing was at the gate of the city, where the gallows had been placed, and saw the newly erected gruel shed.

The gallows have all been removed, and the corpses that were originally used for deterrence have also been buried in the ground.What is surprising is that the clerk who was in charge of seeking medical advice at the gate of the city was not unemployed. He was still in charge of the job, but the content of the job had changed from ordering gallows for the dead to serving meals for the living. .

Wu Xiaoqing didn't look close to the past, because if he got close, there was no need to look at it at all.In their identities, as long as they get close, everyone is sure to be a good boy who keeps his head down and does things honestly.So Wu Xiaoqing just took a telescope to observe carefully on the city wall.

There must be problems, and if there are no problems, it is hell.The biggest problem itself is that no one believes that this is a place to eat for free, and no one realizes that this is the first communist canteen experiment base of this era.In the lens of the telescope, the clerk was reclined on a chair, swaying, eating a cookie leisurely, and behind him, several soldiers were also wolfing down the freshly baked cookies. hot cakes.The way they eat in embarrassment makes passers-by pass by because this may be a new dining place for soldiers—no one dares to come over and ask for food, even the most hungry beggars know how to get away from it. Soldiers with weapons should stay far away, which is almost an instinct in this era.

According to the regulations formulated by Wu Xiaoqing, someone should have told these soldiers and the clerk that they were just the staff here, not the enjoyment personnel.Maybe someone told them, maybe they didn't, but it didn't matter, it always happened whether they were told or not.

There is also always a resolution.