Poor family mother and son

Chapter 455

Before the emperor moved his hand to the third report, Hu Hengqiu directly explained that the emperor was in a bad mood at the moment, so don't blame yourself.

Hu Hengqiu: "Businessmen can smell money the most. They are better informed than ordinary people. They have heard about disasters everywhere, so they pre-order food. Now is a good time for them to raise prices;
Because it is scheduled before the summer harvest and the deposit is paid, the actual grain received by the farmers and landlords after the summer harvest may not be as much as they expected;
But after the contract was signed and the taxes were paid, they would sell off the remaining grain on hand, and there was probably not much left, not to mention the tenants, who had no land of their own. "

"Bastard!" The emperor wanted to scold again.

There is nothing wrong with businessmen "moving from profit", but breaking away from the constraints of "benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom" is difficult for the ruling class to accept.

Furthermore, driven by "profit", there will inevitably be fewer and fewer cultivators and more and more merchants.

In the eyes of the emperor, a businessman must act like Chu Qing. When the country is in trouble, the businessman will stretch out his hand. If he does not stretch out his hand, at least it will not make the situation worse;

But what if Chu Qing didn't have those resources in his hands?Like salt and iron licenses?
The emperor would not think about this, because the positions were different.

The emperor held his breath, held back the swear words that were about to blurt out, and said, "Then Chu Qing wasted all his efforts in stabilizing grain prices in Yibin Mansion?"

Hu Hengqiu thought for a while, and replied: "Not all of them; the increase in food prices is certain, but the impact of Yibin Mansion will not be great;
After all, the food shortage there has been temporarily resolved. Even if the people who have not bought food can continue to exchange locusts for food, they will not starve to death.

Moreover, several counties in Chongyu Mansion with Sanshun Escort branch colonies have also started to exchange food with locusts, but they don't know if their food can be replaced. "

The emperor lowered his eyelids: "There are not many conscientious businessmen. It is rare for a child of twelve or thirteen years old to have such a heart!"

Taking advantage of the emperor not cursing at this time, Hu Hengqiu hurriedly expounded the fourth report: "Your Majesty, Chu Qing allocated a part of the grain to the Hesot tribe, which can be regarded as temporarily relieving their tribe's food crisis;
But their fourth prince has always focused on dealing with Chu Qing, to be precise, he dealt with King Zuo Xian by attacking Chu Qing;

He spoke to the King of Voss, saying that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, Daxuan has not provided any substantial economic help to the country of Voss. Even the grain trade is limited to the border market, not a transaction at the court level, and has not given Voss any benefit from the royal city;

This remark caused King Voss to doubt King Zuoxian, so he sent the fourth prince to conduct a test in the name of "requisitioning food", which really aroused King Zuoxian's dissatisfaction. According to the spies' report, the two sides almost fought;
The fourth prince did this because he believed that as long as Chuqing was defeated, the food source of the Hesuote tribe would be cut off, so King Zuo Xian had to return to the stage of being attached to the royal family to ration food, and it was very difficult for him to attack King Zuo Xian favorable;

As for King Guli of Tuhuerte, with the fourth prince and King Zuoxian in front, he has little chance of winning the kingship, so his plan is to "fight the snipe and the clam" and let him, the "fisherman", benefit , killing one is one, and which one is missing, it is a big enemy missing for him;
It's a pity that his profits are not smooth, because Zuo Xianwang's reason is very strong: their food is purchased by the people of the tribe, not from the tribe's business;
If he is recruited, he needs to replenish him with the purchase money. This alone turned the fourth prince's "recruitment" behavior into a "plunder". The two sides only fought one-on-one, and did not provoke the army to fight. The abacus was off. "

It has to be said that King Zuo Xian is also a talent, very smart.

The emperor stroked his beard and smacked his lips, feeling a little pity.

Hu Hengqiu was very good at reading facial expressions, and immediately added: "In any case, Chu Qing's goal of provoking domestic turmoil in Voss with food has been achieved;

Only the Hesot tribe near Xinlun State can buy food, and the other tribes can only watch. Virat is better. They have land suitable for farming, and the people still have some wheat to eat;
Therefore, except for the Virat tribe who remains neutral, the other two tribes are ready to launch a surprise attack on New Lunzhou, but there are also Hesot tribes who can get food. If the robbing of New Lunzhou will cause the two countries to fight, then Snatch and Sauter are the best choices;

After all, they haven't entered the harvest season yet, and the people have already started slaughtering sheep and cattle, which is also a shake to the foundation of the country for them;

Chu Qing let them covet and Sauter, which can be regarded as avoiding the crisis in New Lunzhou. However, Chu Qing mentioned in the report that the border defense of New Lunzhou should be strengthened and the control of border trade should be strengthened. "

The country of Voss is located in the north. It has only been more than a month since the spring sowing, and the grain will not be harvested until autumn. However, they have already run out of grain and have to start killing the sheep and cattle they depend on for survival.

Chu Qing is in charge of the intelligence from the country of Vos, but the secret investigation department and the army are two systems without command authority, so Chu Qing will make this suggestion.

During the National War, Chu Qing led the cadres to support Hong Liang's army, and was criticized by the top secret investigation department, so he has a long memory: only report in time, and do not interact with the army.

King Zuo Xian was a talent, and Chu Qing was also a talent. When the two talents collided, King Zuo Xian, who was at a disadvantage due to lack of food, had to jump into the pit dug by Chu Qing.

If he jumped into the pit by himself, it meant that he dragged the country of Voss and jumped into the pit together. Who would let there be a big pit lying on the road ahead.

The emperor nodded, it was the best news he had heard in a while.

Internal troubles have already formed. It has to be said that the fourth prince's incitement to the nobles of the old Eastern Lun still had an effect, and the voice of impeaching Chu Qing in the court has never stopped.

However, due to poor disaster control, the locust plague has intensified locally and has a tendency to spread, and some people are instigating and creating panic everywhere. The emperor has not had a good temper recently.

However, Chu Qing provoked their "internal troubles" in the country of Voss at the right time, tantamount to saving the emperor from "foreign troubles". Otherwise, the internal and external attacks might not be resolved by an "edict of guilt".

But now, under Chu Qing's operation of preventing and controlling locust plagues and stabilizing food prices, there is no nationwide worry. As long as the grain merchants in the six southern provinces are suppressed, the situation can be stabilized.

The information from the country of Vos gave the emperor a lot of confidence. Since there are only internal troubles and no external troubles at the moment, then he will not be afraid of the so-called foreign troubles if he solves the internal troubles in the shortest time.

In the days that followed, the emperor issued edicts one after another, and Jiangnan became "chaos".

The first edict issued was to open Changping warehouses in various places, and to send several low-level officials to petition the people as governors. With the "cooperation" of the secret investigation department, they monitored the implementation of disaster relief food and appease the victims.

The second is to give the governors from all walks of life the power of "arbitrary discretion". If there is an abnormality in the storage of grain in Changping in a certain place, the responsible officials will be investigated and dealt with on the spot. for disaster relief.

Third, order Song Tingshan, the prefect of Xinlun Prefecture, and Bai Hua, the head of the secret investigation department of Jizhou, to investigate the whole story of the "chicken and duck plague case" within ten days, and effectively control the plague. .

Several "on-the-spot" edicts, exempting the delay in communication and reporting, made Emperor Qingde extremely efficient in quelling "internal worries".

(End of this chapter)