The king behind the empress

Chapter 242 Flow is not as good as open source

Dozens of large and small grain merchants, except for a few who were unresponsive or too lazy to sell their grain to Mo Zizai in advance, the rest of the grain merchants all gave their grain to Mo Zizai for free. And it's not just a free gift. In order for Mo Zizai to accept the free food, these grain merchants also asked someone to spend a lot of money.

It is no exaggeration to say that when these grain merchants came, their carts were full of goods, and when they returned, they did not even have a carriage left. If most of them had connections in the capital, I am afraid that these people would have to Begging all the way back to his hometown.

"You have to find some stimulation for yourself."

Mo Zizai glanced at all kinds of gold and silver treasures piled up in the palace, shook his head slightly, and then asked Jia Fu to classify these things, and just put the treasures in his palace, saving trouble, as for gold and silver There is no shortage of these things in his house, so he might as well bring them to the inner warehouse of the palace, so that they will be convenient for him to use at that time.

To be honest, looking at these gold and silver, Mo Zizai felt a little joy in his heart. After all, although he ransacked the house quickly to get the money, but in such a huge country, money is also spent quickly.

After removing the accelerator and eating it, he had a total of more than 3000 million taels in his hand before, but Tang Weiyi took away more than 1000 million taels with a wave of his hand, and directly allocated it to Shi Zhipei who was doing disaster relief, plus other miscellaneous things that needed to be spent In terms of money, he spent more than 3000 million taels and now only a little over 1000 million taels are left.

That's all, it was the reserve silver that Tang Weiyi left for him in order to prevent any emergencies. Otherwise, let alone more than 1000 million taels, he would not leave even one tael.

"What kind of reserve silver do you want?"

Thinking of the reserve silver, Mo Zizai was quite disapproving. In his opinion, most of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were active reserve silver.

Of course, having said that, Mo Zizai also knows that the wool in the capital is almost exhausted. Although those ministers still have a lot of money, they can't collect any more in a short time. After all, the current ministers are much more honest. If you don't have a suitable reason, just because the other party doesn't wear a hat and copy it, then there is really no one to work in the court.

"There are more than 1000 million taels left in my hand, and the ones sent by these merchants are only 200 million taels. There is also Qian Shaoyuan, who should be able to get Qian Min a wave of wool. It is estimated that it is only 100 taels at most. After all He killed Qian Shaoyuan, if there are too many, he will definitely not come out."

Mo Zizai counted with his fingers for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly, "Oh, 400 million taels is not enough at all, this amount is not even enough for a fucking meal."

Mo Zizai complained angrily, let alone other things, just talking about his accelerator, it needs 7 million taels to upgrade to V5000, not to mention that the imperial court is in urgent need of taels, so the money he copied It looks like a lot, but in fact there is more.

And if you want to make money, there are generally only two options, that is, saving money or increasing revenue.

"Throttling is definitely not possible. If the emperor has no money, he might as well be a traitor, not to mention that I still expect Goldfinger to upgrade to V7, so throttling definitely won't work."

After thinking about it for a while, Mo Zizai turned his attention to the map of Dazhou, "Since saving money is not enough, the only way is to increase income."

Dazhou is not short of money, let alone gold and silver, but the money is not in the hands of ordinary people or the court, so if you want to make money, you can only use the ideas of those who have money.

Mo Zizai stood in front of the map and pondered for a while, then reached out and drew a circle on the land of the three counties, "Let's start with the three counties, I hope Shi Zhipei can surprise me."

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When Mo Zizai was talking about Shi Zhipei, Shi Zhipei was not doing well in Nanjun now.

Nanjun is also called Nanzhou County. It is located on a plain with fertile land. It is not a problem to feed the millions of people in Nanzhou County on weekdays. However, the three consecutive years of severe drought directly destroyed this food-rich county.

The first two years were fine, because of the family property left by Mo Congyi, the empress not only reduced and exempted all taxes in the three counties, but also took out grain from Jingcang and Changping granaries in the three counties for disaster relief, so the people lived in poverty , but relying on the relief from the imperial court, he can barely survive.

But in the third year, it was no longer possible. The relief food reserves of the imperial court were exhausted, and there was no longer any way to provide relief. Those victims who relied on the imperial court's relief suddenly lost their way of life.

It is worth mentioning that even when the national treasury was empty and foreign enemies invaded, the empress only imposed additional taxes on certain wealthy areas, and the taxes in other areas remained unchanged.

It's not that she doesn't want to raise taxes, but because she knows very well that no matter who she targets to increase taxes, in the end the taxes will still be passed on to ordinary people.

But now there are different degrees of disasters in various places in Dazhou. Although it is far less serious than the three counties, the harvest of ordinary people has also been greatly reduced. If these people bear high taxes, I am afraid that their lives will be worse. The people of the three counties are not as good.

It is easy to defend against foreign enemies, but it is difficult to clear the interior.

Tang Weiyi knew very well at the beginning of her ascension to the throne that even if the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms could break through the eastern border, with the national power of the Great Zhou, they could still fight back if the aristocratic family did not dare to restrain them.

But if the people in the territory are forced to turn against each other, the situation in Da Zhou will immediately get out of hand.

Shi Zhipei had just rushed over from Bingzhou County. Although he was still riding in a carriage, compared to the previous days in the court, he was much darker and haggard now. It was obvious that these days were not easy.

"Master Shi, Nanjun County City is coming soon."

Liu Hong, the admiral of the East Factory who was in charge of protecting Shi Zhipei, came to Shi Zhipei's carriage and reported in a low voice.

"Has it arrived yet?"

Shi Zhipei opened the curtain and got out of the carriage. After he opened the curtain, the first thing he saw was the endless victims.

The faces of these victims were numb, and their eyes did not fluctuate at all. After seeing Shi Zhipei's team, these people just tilted their heads slightly, and then looked back, as if this slight shaking of their heads would consume what they had left. Much strength.

As for begging close to the carriage, none of the refugees thought about it at all. The experience of so many corpses lying on the side of the road told them that what they got by surrounding the carriage was often not food, but a knife.

Although they didn't know if Shi Zhipei's convoy would kill people, the refugees who could stay near the county town were all people who hadn't reached the end of their lives, so although some people would be a little moved, no one gave any thought.

It was not the first time that Shi Zhipei saw the victims, but every time he saw him, his heart felt as heavy as a boulder, and he even had difficulty breathing.

What made him feel the most uncomfortable was not the disaster victims in front of him, but because although he came to relieve the disaster, he still couldn't save all the victims.

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