Da Qin: Self-destruction and time travel, I will extend my life for Qin for a thousand years

Chapter 109 Two methods
"Cui Yuan, this is a dead end, do you really have a solution?"

After Ying Zheng finished speaking, he looked directly at the young man without even moving his eyes.

You must know that this is a ruthless natural disaster, and God will not show mercy to you. Once it breaks out, millions of people will suffer.

Although Cui Yuan does have extraordinary means, how can he do anything to God?
How can man conquer heaven?
"It's not that I don't believe you, but this matter is of great importance and must be handled with caution."

"Yes."

"Cui Neishi, now is not the time to show off."

Li Si and Feng Quji agreed with Ying Zheng's words, but also questioned the young man.

"In the past, your strategies were indeed useful."

"But now there is less than a month, or even ten days, left before the natural disaster breaks out. Is it possible that you, Cui Yuan, can turn into food out of thin air?"

They don't want Cui Yuan to interfere in this matter, otherwise when his plan fails, both his personal reputation as a god and the morale of Da Qin will suffer a big blow.

After going through so many things, Cui Yuan's reputation in the eyes of the people, especially in the eyes of the people in the pass, is basically equivalent to the national destiny of Great Qin!

"It's true that I can't conjure food out of thin air." Cui Yuan nodded first, then smiled at the happy but disappointed crowd:
"But I do have a way to provide Da Qin with food that can provide disaster relief!"

"Because although there is no food in the granary in Guanzhong, it does not mean that Da Qin really has no food!"

"What do you say? The five warehouses in Guanzhong are already half empty. How can there be other food at this time?" Ying Zheng was extremely surprised.

Like the strict laws of the Qin Dynasty, there are mainly five types of granaries in the Qin Dynasty, namely Lin, Yu, Tun, Guan and Zhu.

Among them, Linheyu is the main warehouse for storing grain, Tunheguan is the warehouse for storing weapons and supplies, and Zhu is the warehouse for storing fresh water.

Just now, when Li Si and his two men reported on the situation of the All-Tian Star Platform, they had roughly explained the grain storage in Wucang. Basically, except for Tunhe Pass, there was basically no surplus grain in any other area!

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten those wealthy businessmen from six countries in Xianyang that you gathered here?"

Cui Yuan took the initiative to mention it with a smile on his face.

In the year of the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the First Emperor moved wealthy merchants from the Six Kingdoms to Guanzhong, Bashu and other places, and established counties in the old capitals of the Six Kingdoms.

As he spoke, he picked up the brush and drew a circle on the Hsinchu paper, separated from each other in the middle.

"Although the five warehouses in the pass are huge, they can store at most [-]% of the grain in the pass, and the other [-]% are all in the private warehouses of these wealthy merchants."

"Although I don't know much about the current situation outside Xianyang because I have been busy with important matters with His Majesty recently, I dare to ask Prime Minister Li and Prime Minister Feng."

"When this cold disaster started, were those wealthy businessmen already secretly hoarding grain? And it caused the price of grain in the pass to skyrocket!"

Cui Yuan said loudly, with invisible pressure in his words.

After he finished speaking, Li Si and Feng Quji were both stunned.

Their faces turned blue and red for a while, and they were speechless.

In order to avoid His Majesty's anger, they deliberately didn't talk about this matter, but they didn't expect that the young man would still pierce the window paper!

"Hoarding food?"

Ying Zheng frowned, looked at the uneasy two men with evil eyes, and asked sternly: "Do these wealthy businessmen want to deliberately drive up the price of food when they act like this?"

"Are you going to wait until the price of food reaches its highest level before selling it, so as to maximize your own interests and enrich the country?"

Although Li Si and Feng Quji didn't say anything, their changing expressions were already the best answer!

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

"These wealthy businessmen really can't move! At least not now."

Knowing that they could not hide it, the two men immediately apologized with trembling trembling, but they still resolutely prevented His Majesty from attacking these people.

Ying Zheng gritted his teeth and did not continue to dwell on this topic. He just waved his hand weakly: "Forget it."

"Why!"

This time it was Cui Yuan's turn to wonder, with countless question marks above his head!
He originally thought that His Majesty and the two prime ministers did not know that more than half of the world's food was owned by wealthy businessmen and were deliberately driving up food prices.

But now it seems that they don't understand, but deliberately ignore this point.

"Why don't you take the initiative to raid these wealthy businessmen's homes even though they own food?"

Cui Yuan wanted to continue asking, but Liu Bang, who was on the side, walked up with his forehead in hand and grabbed the young man.

"Master Cui, please stop talking."

"The reason why His Majesty dare not touch them is because doing so would affect the whole body and arouse strong resistance."

Liu Bang had no choice but to face the young man's confused gaze and continued to explain: "Just think about it, why were those wealthy businessmen willing to move to Xianyang in the first place? Apart from fear of the Qin army, was it because they wanted to survive?"

"Although there is a cold disaster now, except for us in the Imperial Study Room and the All-Star Platform, who knows that this winter will be unprecedentedly severe?"

"Especially those wealthy businessmen who are short-sighted. Their original intention is probably to take advantage of the cold winter to raise food prices and make a little money. They did not expect the outbreak of natural disasters at all."

"If His Majesty uses this as a reason to raid their homes, then the wealthy businessmen will definitely be in extreme fear and unite to resist the Qin Dynasty in order to survive."

"Although these wealthy businessmen are nothing to be afraid of and are weak, it is a year of great disaster. As long as they are determined to burn all the food, won't the people in the pass be completely hopeless?"

Liu Bang spoke in great detail, and Cui Yuan finally understood what he meant.

In the final analysis, these wealthy businessmen in Xianyang are completely different from the wealthy businessmen in future dynasties.

The future wealthy businessmen are really rich and short-sighted, their will has been completely corrupted by money, and they dare not resist at all.

But it is different now. More than ten years ago, Da Qin forced these wealthy businessmen to come to Xianyang, which already made their nerves extremely tense.

At this time, let alone confiscation of homes, I am afraid that even if there is even a slight disturbance, they will completely collapse and fight against Da Qin to the end.

However, what does this have to do with it? I still have an idea to deal with it!
"So! Mr. Cui, Your Majesty, these wealthy businessmen really cannot be touched."

"Otherwise, Xianyang will fall into civil strife." Li Si interrupted.

Cui Yuan rolled his eyes at him and said angrily: "You are right, but you did not see a key problem."

"That's it - why do you need to raid the homes of wealthy businessmen to get food? Can't the court raise funds and let them hand over the food on their own initiative?"

Take the initiative to hand over the food?

Hearing this, everyone present fell silent.

"This method is impossible to urge Neishi."

Feng Quji shook his head and said: "Those wealthy businessmen have always been profit-seeking and as timid as mice. They are definitely not willing to admit that they have hoarded food." "Even if the imperial court comes forward in person, they will just donate a few dozen kilograms and get over it. This kind of thing has happened many times in previous disaster years.”

"That's because your fundraising methods are too gentle!" Cui Yuan sneered.

"How do you say this?" Feng Quji asked doubtfully.

"It's very simple, if I am in charge of Daqin's fund-raising."

"Then I will erect an inscription in the most conspicuous place in Xianyang City, and publicly promise to erect it for 20 years."

"Each wealthy merchant family that donated food, how much they donated, the name and origin of the wealthy merchant family, and their assets are all described."

"And these news will always be reported in the monthly newspapers in Xianyang City!"

"Didn't they donate less? Then let them become the joke of the whole Xianyang and be laughed at for 20 years."

"Aren't they mentally weak? Then we will use conspiracy to make them fight among themselves! Let's see if they are willing to be trampled under the feet of other wealthy businessmen forever!"

So ruthless!
Feng Quji's heart skipped a beat!
Ying Zheng, Liu Bang, Li Si and others also looked horrified.

Cui Yuan's move is undoubtedly to let the people of Xianyang and even the entire pass poke the backs of these wealthy businessmen from the six countries!
These wealthy businessmen could be feared by Ying Zheng and even forced to relocate. Naturally, they were large families with a history of hundreds of years. Smaller families were not qualified at all.

For them, money is very important, but family reputation is even more important.

Especially after coming to Xianyang and leaving the hometown of the Six Kingdoms.

Their reputation had hit rock bottom, but they finally recovered a little over the years and were recognized by the people in the pass.

If at this time, in order to drive up food prices, they only donated a few dozen kilograms of food, they would be engraved on a stone tablet for 20 years and recorded in a monthly newspaper.

Then he will definitely be labeled as being rich and unkind. Not only will more than ten years of hard work be in vain, but even the continuation of the family will become a big problem.

At that time, they will definitely donate hundreds or thousands of times again in order to change the inscriptions on the stone tablet.

There may even be fights and large donations to get a good spot on the stele.

In this way, the food problem may really be solved!
Ying Zheng, Li Si, and Feng Quji looked at each other, and their eyes were all shining.

Especially Ying Zheng, he can't wait to implement this method!
What about the unprecedented cold disaster?
As long as Cui Yuan is here, I still have a way to deal with it!

"Cui Yuan, I really want to thank you this time!"

"Yes! Without you, we don't know what we would do now!"

Li Si and Feng Quji saluted gratefully, feeling that their moods suddenly improved.

Liu Bang and Ma Sanlu also cast admiring glances, but Cui Yuan, who was the center of everyone's attention, didn't look much relaxed.

If this is just an ordinary super cold disaster, then it is definitely possible to deal with it this way, after all, farming can be carried out next year.

Unfortunately this is not the case!

He has not forgotten the damn title effect. In the next ten years, there will be a high probability of devastating natural disasters in Da Qin!
There is a snowstorm now, but if there is a drought next year and a locust plague the year after that, and this continues for ten years, Daqin will really not be able to survive!

Although the wealthy merchants in nearby Xianyang had a lot of food, they couldn't stand being brutally plundered like this!
"Don't get excited yet. In addition to this method, I have another way to solve the food problem."

"what!"

"You still have a way?"

"Cui Yuan, what kind of structure is inside your mind!"

Everyone was shocked again!

In their opinion, the method of erecting monuments to record merits just now was already extremely exquisite, but now Cui Yuan actually said that he still has a way to solve the food crisis in the pass!
"What can you do?" Ying Zheng asked impatiently.

At the same time, he signaled Li Si and Feng Quji to pick up paper and pen and copy carefully without missing a single word of the boy's words.

The previous method was so exquisite, and now this one is definitely not bad either.

"There is actually no need to record this method, because it is simply to open a granary to release grain, and use the grain from Aocang, the large granary in Xingyang, to provide disaster relief!"

Cui Yuan truthfully stated his thoughts, and sure enough, the next moment, neither Li Si nor Feng Quji recorded anything.

Instead, he opened his mouth and looked at himself with great confusion along with Ying Zheng.

"Cui Yuan, do you know what this Xingyang Aocang is for!? Why is so much food stored there?" Ying Zheng asked in a serious tone.

Cui Yuan nodded: "Of course I know!"

"It is a large warehouse specially built by Your Majesty in Aoshan to store warehouses and grain after you reunified China!"

"Because it was the transfer station for water transportation in the Great Qin Dynasty. It could transport Shandong's grain from the turbid currents to Xianyang and Luoyang to deal with wars that might occur at any time."

"If you know that, why do you still say that you need to open it to quell disasters!!!"

After listening to the young man's words, no matter how good Ying Zheng was, he couldn't hold back his anger at this moment!

As for what war?
Now that Da Qin is invincible, how can there be war there?

The only threats are the Huns, Dayue and Kushan in the desert to the north!

To put it bluntly, this Xingyang Aocang was prepared for Meng Tian's 30 Zhenbei Army guarding the Great Wall!

If something goes wrong and it loses food due to disaster relief and the Zhenbei Army rebels and runs out of food, then who can protect the people of Da Qin?

This is what makes Ying Zheng the most angry!
As an emperor, how could he give up the soldiers of Great Qin who sacrificed their lives and blood for Great Qin in order to save the people in the pass?

"It's enough to set up a monument to record your merits. As for opening Xingyang Aocang, Cui Yuan, please don't talk about it again!"

"I would rather risk the world's disapproval and raid the home of a wealthy businessman in Xianyang than open Aocang in Xingyang!"

Ying Zheng spoke categorically, using the sternest tone to cut off all possibilities of this matter!
"Your Majesty, don't be anxious yet."

Cui Yuan had a gentle attitude and was not afraid of Ying Zheng's anger like others: "If it were an ordinary time, opening it for disaster relief would indeed be worth the loss."

"But now is indeed the best opportunity."

"Because if Xingyang Aocang is not opened, there will probably be no chance in the future."

"Why?" Ying Zheng couldn't understand.

"Because the Huns are about to perish! It's impossible for them to see next winter again!"

(End of this chapter)