Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Xiao Yu read out the outline softly, and looked at Li You in shock.

He finally knew why Li Shimin was so emotional yesterday, because Li You's method was really too extreme!

Just when the people needed food the most and were most nervous about food, completely blocked the way to buy food freely. This is no longer a simple control strategy, but the ultimate control!

"This... is really an unprecedented method, especially at such a terrible time, isn't it too messy?" Zhang Liang didn't know what to say.

"Isn't that the most effective method?" Li You asked rhetorically, "Everyone gives food stamps according to the quota, which can ensure that the food is distributed according to needs to the greatest extent, and there will be no waste."

"In this way, the people can also eat food for everyone, and prevent the hoarding of food to the greatest extent!"

All the ministers and officials froze when they heard the words. Combined with Li You's order and the purchase order, they immediately felt that His Royal Highness the King of Chu was too ruthless!

Do you think this is a ruthless move against hoarding food when you forced and bought half of the food from the world's powerful families?Wrong, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has an even more ruthless trump card after this!

Those nobles from aristocratic families thought that after buying half of the grain, the remaining half of the grain could at least be hoarded and made money according to the old method, but now Li You has cut it across the board!

Aren't you hoarding food and waiting to raise the price to sell it?That's good, now it's forbidden to buy and sell food freely, even if you hoard it, it's useless!

In this case, the best way is to quickly take and buy all the food to the court, so as to recover the losses as much as possible.

And in this way, the government's food reserves will be greatly increased again!

"This is simply a stroke of genius! Absolutely!"

Li Shimin also thought to himself that it was precisely because the temptation of this achievement was too great that yesterday, even if Li Shimin thought this method was too extreme and too chaotic, he did not immediately reject it.

"Is this method too hindering private business buying and buying..."

The civil and military officials were also silent for a while, and only some people wanted to say something unwillingly.

Li You directly interrupted: "It is true that this method will cause certain damage to the economic lifeline of Datang, but the strategy of food stamps is not carried out for a long time. Once the great famine is overcome, free trading will resume. It will be back soon!"

After all, the Tang Dynasty has a very deep background, so the recovery is very fast. Li You has this confidence, otherwise he would not dare to implement this method.

After all, Datang's economic take-off is largely due to Li You's reasons. As the person who created this business empire, how could Li You be willing to self-destruct the results?

Indeed, Li You also understands that this is the behavior of the government's excessive interference in the market, but now this 747 is a helpless move, and it is impossible to care about so much.

It's like a thirsty person in the desert encounters a bottle of Coke. No matter whether he is a Pepsi party, a Coca-Cola party, or a healthy party who doesn't drink Coke, he must drink it first!

"Now that the great drought and the great locust plague are raging across the country, what are you still hesitating about? Haven't you seen the terrible situation of this national disaster!"

Immediately after, Li You shouted again, which shook the audience.

"Now, it's not the time to have time to think about the future! If we take one step every night, countless people may be displaced or even starved to death!"

This time, no one in the Manchu Dynasty came out to speak.

Li Shimin also sighed when he saw this, knowing that Li You had made up his mind to implement this policy.

Originally, Li Shimin said that he and Li You would govern the world together, which was not a false statement. Li You's current position as regent and supervisor of the country can be said to be under one person and over ten thousand people in the true sense.

Although the prime minister is also said to be less than one person and more than ten thousand people, there are many prime ministers, and there is only one person who is the regent and supervises the country. Therefore, except for Li Shimin, no one has higher decision-making power than Li You.

That is, as long as Li Shimin does not object, Li You can forcefully promote the system of food stamps!

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Moreover, Li You, in name, was solely responsible for dealing with disaster relief. With this qualification and name, he could carry out this matter.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin said slowly: "I have said before that I will give you full power to do this, and it is also so that you can completely let go of your hands and feet, so that you can restore your position as regent and supervise the country... Then, Let go and do it!"

This has already shown Li Shimin's attitude, no one can stop Li You now!

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The strategy of food stamps was quickly promoted, and within a day, it caused an invisible storm in many places.

But for Li Tai and Shen Bihua, this is a good thing!

"The more Chu King Li You engages in these turbulent policies, the more opportunities are given to us!"

In the Yue Wang Mansion, Li Taizheng was discussing with Shen Bihua excitedly.

Shen Bihua quickly regained his composure after getting angry last time. He will not miss any chance, he is indeed a hero.

"Not to mention, this plan of King Li You of Chu is not feasible at all!" Shen Bihua sneered, "He ignored the most crucial point - that is, the court simply cannot distribute food according to the population!"

This made Li Tai curious and asked, "Why did Cult Master Shen say this?"

Shen Bihua said with a smile: "His Royal Highness King Yue didn't study it too deeply, so I don't know it very well, but the actual population of the Tang Dynasty is much larger than the population on the bright side!"

"How could there be such a thing?" Li Tai was surprised, "Do you mean those black households?"

Shen Bihua shook her head and nodded again.

"Black households are only one of them. There are also a large number of servants and slaves who have never registered with the government. Especially those big families, in order to avoid taxes, often make their family members nameless and have no status in the government. There is no record, and naturally it will not be counted into the account..."

Li Tai suddenly realized: "So that's how it is... No wonder the people in the household department are always having a headache trying to count the population. At first I thought it was because there were too many people."

"No," Shen Bihua said, "in fact, it's because the exact number cannot be counted. Except for the situations I mentioned earlier, many people in the deep mountains and forests are not counted in the household registration, not to mention sometimes. I can't even find a figure."

"Especially, the population in the household registration is mainly composed of peasant households, but this involves the interests of the landlords. Therefore, many landlords underreport their population and use this method to avoid the poll tax."

"So it is!" Li Tai became excited, "That is to say, if it is implemented according to Li You's method, then it is impossible to prepare the same amount of food to be transported to various places, and the situation will only become a mess?"

"Exactly! And when the chaos comes together, it's our chance!"