Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1223 Governor
Xuanzheng Hall.

Zhongshu Zuo Shilang Hou Mo Chenyi made a report on behalf of the Zhengshitang, "The digging of locust eggs has been carried out in several river basins. The Zhengshitang has issued a death order and ranked the digging of locust eggs to prevent locust disasters. Whoever digs locust eggs is disadvantaged , dismissed on the spot.”

Luo Cheng is very satisfied with this accountability system. Sometimes the dead orders you don't give may not be taken seriously.

"While digging locust eggs to control locusts, it is necessary to strengthen the inventory of granaries in all counties and counties. It is absolutely not allowed that the warehouses are full of grain, and when it is time to use it, it is found that the granaries are empty. Now we must check all of them. Once again, not only local self-inspections are required, but also inspection teams must be dispatched to inspect, and in areas that may be affected by disasters, increase food reserves at water and land key points."

Hou Mo and Chen Yi fully agreed with the emperor's intentions, and even offered to transfer Zaifu from the government to go down to the town in person, and send one or two Zaifu to each province to be responsible for supervision and inspection.

"I thought it was possible, so I used Zaifu to patrol the counties, and each province sent a member with the title of governor. In addition, Yushitai also sent more inspectors to go down. The governor is responsible for patrolling and appeasing, and presides over local locust prevention and disaster relief. .For local officials such as Dao Sansi envoys and prefects, if there are those who are not good in locust control and disaster prevention, they can be dismissed directly on the spot, and they will be killed first. For those who are active in locust control and disaster prevention, and handle them well, they can also be promoted directly."

Luo Cheng tapped lightly on the table with his fingers. He attached great importance to this disaster. Although it is not yet time for the locust eggs to hatch, disaster prevention must be early. As long as it is handled properly, the Disasters are minimized.

"Saint, after ten days of digging locust eggs, good news spread frequently from all over the country. Only one county in Yanshi, Henan Province, dug 14 locust eggs in ten days. Henan government dug a total of [-] locust eggs, and the entire Henan Province dug [-] locust eggs. Stones, and Shandong, Huainan, and Guanzhong also reported a lot of eggs, all about [-] stones, and several roads in Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, Hebei, Hebei, and Bahan, each with a harvest of [-] to [-] stones."

Adding up all the ways, within ten days, you can get 60 or [-] stones of locust eggs.

This number makes people both surprised and happy. The surprise is that so many locust eggs can be dug up, and the joy is also that so many locust eggs have been dug up.

"This time all the Taoists mobilized the whole people to dig locust eggs, and the effect is good, but it is not too early to be happy. At the beginning, the places where locusts lay the most dense eggs were dug, and there were a lot of eggs, but there are still many places that don't have so many eggs. , but there are also quite a few. The people have to be mobilized to continue digging locust eggs. For some wastelands, especially the wastelands by rivers, ponds, and lakes, we must burn and plow the grass to eliminate locusts as much as possible in this first round. During the operation, more locust eggs were removed."

Someone suggested, "Hundreds of thousands of locust eggs are exchanged for three millet grains. This is more than 100 million stone millet. Can the royal family cash it out? If it cannot be exchanged by then, I am afraid that this benevolent policy will make the people dissatisfied." ah."

"Don't worry about this. I have already asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to fully mobilize resources to transport food from the sea, from the Yellow River and the Yangtze River Canal, and from land and water. Large transshipment warehouses have been set up in each road. It is not a problem to exchange grain for locust eggs."

Although there is a lot of food of more than 100 million shi, the water and land transportation is relatively developed now, and it is running benignly. It has not been affected by the disaster in the slightest. Another important thing is that there has been no disaster. In the Dao, there are not many points for each Dao.

It is relatively convenient and fast to mobilize food now.

From another point of view, a stone of millet plus the cost of transportation is only more than 100 renminbi. You must know that this is the price of rice in Luoyang. In a big port like Guangling, a stone of rice is only fifty renminbi, and in Nanhai and Jiaozhi County, a stone of rice is only [-] renminbi.

In fact, many times when there is a famine in the event of a catastrophe, the key is that after the local harvest is cut off, other places have no time to transfer food in, leading to famine, not that the whole country is without food.

Just like the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, many places were affected by wars and disasters, and there were famines and people eating each other. However, there were still millions of tens of millions of shi of grain in the major transfer warehouses of the imperial court. Sui was not short of grain. , but at that time many places were affected by the turmoil, the roads were not smooth, the transportation capacity was insufficient, and it was difficult to transport food to the disaster area in time.

Ten thousand shi of grain is only more than 1000 guan, one hundred thousand shi of millet is only ten thousand guan, and a million shi of grain is only a few hundred thousand guan of money.

For the emperor's internal treasury that can earn 3000 million yuan a year, this amount of money is really nothing. There are also a lot of grain in the granaries everywhere, and the grain is not in short supply.

What is needed is timely dispatch.

The biggest cost of food is not human cultivation, but long-distance transportation, and the transportation cost is higher.This is why Luo Cheng attached great importance to grain collection and storage after the founding of the country.

The land tax and grain paid by the people, plus the imperial court spends a lot of money every year to purchase the surplus grain in the hands of the common people, leaving enough rations for the common people, at the same time, the imperial court also stores the large amount of purchased grain step by step.

There are social warehouses at the township level, and righteous warehouses and county official warehouses at the county level.

There are county warehouses and transfer warehouses in the county, and at the road level, a number of large transfer and storage warehouses have been set up at key points of water and land transportation, and Changping warehouses have been set up to stabilize market grain prices and provide relief in disaster years.

There are also many important military warehouses in the border area.

In addition, national-level strategic granaries have been set up on important rivers such as the Canal, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Huaihe River, and the Han River, as well as the major coastal ports and the six capitals.

Grain reserves are transported into these warehouses every year, and the storage capacity is maintained at a high level all year round. Every year, new grain comes in, and the grain is removed from the warehouse and sold on the market.

Generally, if there are minor disasters and troubles in the local area, the local food can solve the problem.

In the event of a major disaster or major event, the grain in the transshipment warehouses set up by various counties will be used, and once it is the most urgent time, the imperial court will mobilize the grain from the national strategic reserve warehouse.

The world is peaceful, the place is stable, the water conservancy facilities are well repaired, and the river dams are firmly repaired. Then, with the current grain output of the imperial court's one billion mu of arable land, it can actually guarantee that there will be surplus every year. The surplus grain will pass through Sinong Temple and the people The overall planning and adjustment of the department, and finally entered the granaries one by one.

In addition to these official warehouses, the Royal Ministry of Internal Affairs has also set up hundreds of granaries across the country, all of which are purchased from various places by the Ministry of Internal Affairs after the imperial court’s annual grain purchase plan is completed. These grains are transported and stored in various land and water There are tens of millions of stones of grain stored in important transportation areas, which is also a great supplement.

Historically, during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, the central plains were stable, and the official warehouses of the imperial court had more than 600 million shi of grain, and the cultivated land at that time was only 5000 million mu.

With grain in hand, don't panic in my heart.

Over the past few years, the imperial court has worked hard to store grain in various places, adding tens of millions of grains every year, and Luocheng’s Royal Granary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is also quietly accumulating grain, adding millions of grains every year. Now the imperial court stores grain There are countless, and Luo Cheng also has a small grain depot with tens of millions of grains in his hands.

It was because of this confidence that he dared to say that one catty of locust eggs could be exchanged for three catties of millet. Otherwise, five or six million rock locust eggs had been dug in just ten days, and Luo Cheng would not be able to produce food soon.

Of course, the reason why Luo Cheng is more confident to survive this wave of locust plague is that the people have food in their hands.

(End of this chapter)