Chastity Layman

  Chapter 592 Good news keeps coming

  In Luoyang Palace.

The emperor got up early in the morning and heard two pieces of good news. One is that the wheat waves in the north are rolling and the ears of wheat are golden, and the harvest will be ready soon. harvest of the season.

  Although the rice in the south is not yet mature, it is also growing well this year. In the Jianghuai River Basin, which is prone to waterlogging, the rain fell evenly this year. There was no continuous torrential rain or major floods. The summer harvest in the south will also be a bumper year.

  Sinong Temple, the Ministry of Households, and the Department of Transshipment even made a statement because of this, saying that this year's summer grain harvests in both the north and the south may lead to a sharp drop in grain prices, which may hurt farmers due to low grain prices.

  Li Shimin couldn't believe this conclusion, because cheap grain hurts farmers.

How cheap grain prices can hurt farmers, and since the Sui Dynasty, even if there were occasional high yields in some areas, the world was in chaos, wars continued, and even various natural disasters and plagues came one after another, so that grain prices remained at a low level. Not high enough.

  The emperor is still in Luoyang because of the severe food shortage in Guanzhong and insufficient food in Chang'an.

   Now it is possible to make the grain cheap and hurt the farmers.

  Transshipment Department reported that if the imperial court did not intervene, then after this year's summer harvest, grain prices might reach the lowest price in history of three or four dollars per bucket of rice.

  A bucket of rice costs three or four dollars, and just last year when the supply of rice was low, the price of rice in Luoyang, Chang’an, reached three or four hundred dollars per bucket of rice, and even the underground black market once reached five hundred dollars, and there was no market for the price.

  Li Shimin remembers that during the heyday of the Sui Dynasty, the price of grain in Chang’an and Luoyang was at its cheapest, twenty cents per bucket of rice.

  The price of rice has dropped a hundred times, which means that the world is full of abundance, and the supply of grain is seriously oversupplied.

  Transfer Sima Zhou's request and buy rice into Changping warehouse, and collect grain from the people at the price of 20 yuan per bucket of rice to avoid excessive losses for the people.

  Although many ministers in the court think that in this way, the court will have to spend a huge amount of treasury expenditure to buy grain and store it for storage, which is really not worthwhile.

  However, Li Shimin still replied to Ma Zhou, asking them to wait for the summer grain to be harvested, and to buy tens of millions of shi of grain in various provinces across the country and store it in Changping. If there is surplus grain and the imperial court still has surplus money, they can purchase some more and put them in storage for storage.

   Several years of famine in a row made Li Shimin still willing to spend more money to store more food.

After a big harvest, he still has to lose money to buy grain, but Li Shimin is happy to lose money, even if he loses 1670 yuan for a stone of rice, and 16.7 million guan for 10 million deniers, but he thinks value.

  When there is no food, gold cannot be exchanged for rice.

  When the emperor saw the second piece of good news, he was so shocked that he couldn't hold back his excitement and got up, knocking down the table.

   The second good news is actually composed of two news.

  Longyou Army dispatched troops and defeated Tuyuhun Khan Fuyun with 100,000 horses in Zhangshan, beheaded thousands of enemies, captured tens of thousands, and captured hundreds of thousands of cattle, horses and livestock.

  The news was delayed in Chang'an for a few days, because it was too shocking, Wang Gui, who was staying at the court in Chang'an, expressed doubts, thinking it was fake news, and then Li Jing felt that there should be no fake news, but Wang Gui insisted on confirming again.

Not long after that, Qin Lang once again severely damaged the main force of Tuyuhun in Mantou Mountain at the end of April and early May, captured the famous king Yifu Abao, killed more than 10,000 enemies, captured more than 100,000 troops, and captured more than 400,000 livestock. It came again.

  Wang Gui still felt that this was another fake news, but Li Jing firmly believed it.

  At this time, more and more news came back to Chang'an, many of which were from the last battle of Kushan, including many details, etc., and some businessmen even brought back some of the seizures.

  Following a few days later, Longyou will send Tuyuhun Ketun, Sui Guanghua Princess Yang to Chang'an, and no one will doubt the result of the battle.

  Li Jing and Wang Gui personally went to meet Yang, and some Tuyuhun aristocratic officials, and also asked the Longyou general who escorted them.

  After confirming the good news, Wang Gui was too shocked to speak, while Li Jing stroked his beard and praised, saying that Datang had produced another peerless God of War.

  The two of them no longer had the slightest doubt about the victory report of Mantou Mountain, so they dispatched horses to speed up their efforts and sent an urgent report of 800 miles to Luoyang to achieve victory.

So when Li Shimin received the victory report, it was the Kushan victory and the Mantousan victory together. In the two victories, he first defeated Fuyun, who defeated 100,000 people, then defeated Gaoning King Abao, and then defeated more than 100,000 people, and captured livestock successively. Hundreds of thousands of horses.

In all fairness, if it weren't for the attachment of Li Jing and Wang Gui behind the good news, detailing their investigation and understanding, and saying that Princess Guanghua and many other descendants of Tuyuhun had already arrived in Chang'an, Li Shimin would definitely have liked such an astonishing record. Doubtful.

  Even if it was Qin Lang who led the army, even if this war was fought with the emperor's tacit support, it was hard for the emperor to believe that such a good record could be achieved.

   "Everyone, please circulate it, and then discuss it."

  In the hall, the emperor's expression was irresistibly excited and joyful, his face was flushed, if Wei Zheng knew that the emperor didn't like drinking, he would have suspected that the emperor was drunk.

  The prime ministers are well-informed. Recently, there have been gossip from Chang'an, saying that the Longyou Army has won a great victory.

  But because the content of the biography is too exaggerated, few people really believe it.

  But when Wei Zheng received the good news from Yang Shidao and looked at it twice, he was still inexplicably surprised.

  When did this kind of gossip, nonsense, be presented to the imperial court in a grand manner, and circulated in the court meeting?

"Xuan Cheng, don't be in a hurry to talk, you should read it first, see whose memorial it is, and then read the appendix at the back, and then talk about it." Li Shimin saw that Wei Zheng just took a few glances and wanted to spit people, so he stopped immediately he.

  Wei Zheng suppressed his temper and watched. The more he watched, the more surprised he was. There was a great victory in Kushan, followed by another victory in Mantou Mountain. The difference between before and after was less than one month.

  As for the results of the battle, it was really shocking.

It's just that when he saw Qin Lang's signature at the end, he was stunned for a moment, and took a closer look. The signature was indeed Qin Lang's, but the previous memorial was not written by Qin Lang. It must have been written by some military record office. Write it, and sign it with Qin Lang.

   It shouldn't be, Qin Lang is so courageous, dare to lie about his military achievements like this?

   Reason told him that this might be false, at least not all of it.

   But even if this military achievement is doubled, it is a bit too amazing. When he read the attached table again and read the memorials of the two left-behind prime ministers, Li Jing and Wang Gui, he fell silent.

   Li Jing is very low-key and cautious. Wei Zheng is not very familiar with him, and he knows that this person is not a person who talks freely. As for Wang Gui, that was his colleague when he built the East Palace, and the two had a good relationship. Wang Gui was born in the Wang family in Taiyuan, with five surnames, and has always been cautious and conscientious.

  (end of this chapter)