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Chapter 500 Divorce counts ([-]rd watch for votes)
"Haha... sit down quickly, gentlemen." Li Shimin did not hide his joy.

Although the locust plague and drought in Guanzhong are very worrying, but one good thing after another recently, it is hard for him not to be happy.

After everyone sat down, Li Shimin said: "The news just came from the border, Jieli ordered Tuli to attack Xue Yantuo and Huihe tribes."

"Oh? When did it happen?" Li Jing, who was a privy envoy, immediately asked.

"The second day of July." Li Shimin said.

"Today is July [-]th, which is nine days ago. It is only two days since Tuli obeyed or rebelled." Li Jing said: "The sage can order the border guards to be ready and act accordingly."

"It's too conservative. I think we should send a commander to Shuozhou, Lingzhou, and give him the right to make decisions on the fly." Yue Shan got up and said.

"In this way, a war is likely to start. Now I have a catastrophe in Guanzhong, and there is not enough food in the warehouse. I may not be able to support a big battle." Fang Xuanling got up and said.

"Don't worry about the food issue. Champa and other places can squeeze out a million stones of rice, which is enough to support a big battle." Yue Shan said:

"And we have reached an agreement with King Zhancheng. They will temporarily reclaim hundreds of hectares of fertile land to plant rice and provide food and grass for our Datang. In the case of Zhancheng, at the time of autumn harvest, they can provide our Datang with at least 200 million shi Rice."

"There is also the Lingnan area. A total of one million mu of fertile land has been reclaimed in the past two years. More than half of them can be good paddy fields with a little improvement. When the locust plague was discovered, the sage had already ordered improvement. The rice seedlings have probably been planted by now. gone."

"So you don't have to worry about the issue of food and grass. The sage said that even if there is no grain in Guanzhong for three years, it will not make a single person starve. It is not a lie."

Everyone was overjoyed, this is really another village.Although there is no such poem yet, everyone has this feeling in their hearts.

"I just don't know how much to buy rice from there, and whether the court's money can support such a large-scale purchase of rice." Chen Shuda asked cautiously.

"Don't worry, the imperial court has enough money to spend. Besides, it didn't take much cash to buy rice from Champa and other places. A glazed vessel can be exchanged for dozens or hundreds of shi of rice. The 70 shi of rice only used a hundred pieces It's just glass."

Mentioning this matter, Yue Shan was so proud that he couldn't help but say a few more words: "The monarchs and leaders in Champa and other places exchanged rice for colored glaze, and now they force the local people to grow rice. Sooner or later, it will arouse local people's resentment."

"At that time, my Tang Dynasty will send troops south on the grounds of recovering the old places of the Qin and Han Dynasties, and then these rich lands will be my Tang Dynasty..."

"Ahem..." Seeing that he was getting more and more excited as he spoke, Li Shimin couldn't help but coughed a few times to interrupt his words.

It's good to talk about this kind of calculation of other countries in private, don't bring it to the public. Fortunately, all the core officials present are present, so there will be no rumors.

"Uh... where did we talk just now? The food problem, right? Well, don't worry about the food problem, it's enough." Yue Shan felt ashamed, wishing he could find a crack in the ground and burrow down.

Everyone else smiled, they were still young.But no one despises him because of this, saying that he should not use conspiracy to calculate other countries.

The fertile land that produces three crops of rice a year should belong to my Tang Dynasty.What's more, it was originally my hometown in the Qin and Han Dynasties, but it was just invaded by a group of barbarians, and it is only right and proper to take it back.

Now that the food problem was resolved, everyone no longer opposed expanding the scale of the war, and soon discussed a strategy.

They sent Li Ji and Chai Shao to Bingzhou and Jinhe to sit in town respectively, and acted accordingly to deal heavy blows to the Turks.

After the order was confirmed, Li Ji made a request to send Wanqi to the expedition. Li Shimin agreed after thinking about it.

Although Yueshan could get food from the south, after all, a catastrophe happened and the war ended as soon as possible. It was necessary to mobilize such ace troops as Wanqi.

And Wanqi's current task is to guard the warehouse and arrest suspects, etc., which is completely overqualified. For this kind of work, just transfer an army to it.

The monarch and his ministers talked about the progress of the nest grain case by the way. A total of one million stones was found to be in short supply, and more than [-] people have been implicated. It can be said that there is basically no one clean up and down the storage warehouse.

This situation is too shocking, Li Shimin issued a death order, and must be thoroughly investigated to the end, and one will not be tolerated.

Although some people think that this kind of killing is too heavy, but when they think of the dangerous situation faced by the imperial court during the locust plague, if it weren't for Yueshan who almost collapsed and changed his mind, it is time to kill a group of people.

The topic naturally shifted to disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction.With sufficient food, everyone is more optimistic.

However, this group of people are the founding fathers and elites with real skills, and soon someone discovered a fatal loophole.

"Most people don't have much cash in their hands. Even if the food is only sold for five cents per bucket of rice, I'm afraid they can't afford it." It was the former prince Xiao Yu who spoke.

"That's right, the common people eat from the ground. They also use the grain produced in the ground for food, clothing and housing. They don't have any cash in their hands. Now that there is no harvest in Guanzhong, it is difficult for the common people to afford grain," Fang Xuanling said in a tone. Heavy Road.

Hearing that the smiles on everyone's faces gradually disappeared, the situation is not as optimistic as imagined.

"Unless..." Fang Xuanling said hesitantly.

"Unless what?" Li Shimin asked.

"Unless you open a warehouse to release grain," Fang Xuanling said.

Open warehouses to release grain?Everyone was silent again. To put it bluntly, it was to give food to the people for nothing. This method is usually used in disaster relief.

Is it just that the current situation in Guanzhong has deteriorated to this extent?The court’s food is also bought from other places at a relatively high cost, and it is delivered free of charge. Can the finances support it?

The decision-making power returned to Li Shimin's hands again, but he was still a little undecided.After all, Yue Shan told him everything he knew. Could the grain bought from outside support him to open a warehouse to distribute grain?

So he turned his gaze to Yue Shan.

"Why are you so obsessed with opening warehouses to release grain? Wouldn't it be better to use work instead?" Yue Shan said confidently.

"Relief with work? What is relief with work?" Fang Xuanling asked immediately.

"Qi Hunger Yanzi helped the people because of the battle in the road bed. Everyone must have heard of this allusion. There was a famine in Qi, and the King of Qi wanted to build a palace. Yanzi had an idea and hired people at a high price to build the palace. Finally, the palace was repaired. , the people also survived the famine year.”

Yue Shan smiled and said, "I call this method Relief from Work."

"Okay, a good way. Qing Shuihou is indeed worthy of being a great master of literature. He is so knowledgeable and knowledgeable. I admire him. Now that I am facing a famine in Guanzhong of the Tang Dynasty, I should adopt this method." Xiao Yu praised.

"It is indeed a good method, and this method can be used as a template, and we can follow this example to deal with disasters in the future." Others also agreed.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Yue Shan finally showed his fox tail.

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