Of course, everyone in the team also knows that this is a treatment that can only be enjoyed when walking in Guanzhong.
After passing Luoyang and arriving at the disaster-stricken areas in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, not to mention chickens and meat, even vegetables are a luxury!
In the past two days, news about the Yellow River bursting and the disaster in Shandong has gradually spread in Datang.
Although Xiao Lizi immediately ordered people to open the granary to provide relief to the victims, panic still spread uncontrollably throughout Datang.
Needless to say, just look at Guanzhong. In just a few days, the food prices that were just suppressed have risen sharply again! And it rose faster and more powerfully than before!
Now, even if the government uses strong orders and arrests several grain shopkeepers, it can't stop the rising grain prices at all!
Because at this time, no matter who has food, they will not easily sell it! This is not only because merchants are hoarding food, but more importantly, they are also afraid that they will go hungry again if the food is sold!
There is no food circulation in the market, which means that some people who live in the city and do not have much food stored at home have to pay ten or a hundred times higher than the original price in order to get a bite of food.
With the serious imbalance between supply and demand, it would be strange for food prices not to skyrocket!
"Actually, if people don't panic so much and spread the grains in their hands to hold on until the weather gets warmer and the canal thaws, the grain from the south will be transported to Guanzhong.
Although the south has also been affected by this cold wave, it has been a wealthy country since ancient times. Coupled with the three-crop rice seeds that have been promoted in recent years, it should not be a problem to last for two or three years..."
After eating, Xiao Han, Liu Hongji, and Old Man Hua sat cross-legged around the bonfire, and the conversation naturally turned to the house relief.
Speaking of which, during the Chinese New Year, Xiao Han used the funds raised to buy a lot of food in Jiangnan! It is a pity that the canal has not been opened, so the grain has to be piled quietly in the warehouse without playing any role. Otherwise, with the arrival of that grain, grain prices would not have risen to the incredible level it is now.
"Share everyone's food evenly?"
Hearing Xiao Han's whimsical idea, Liu Hongji's eyes nearly popped out of his head. He stared straight at Xiao Han and asked word by word: "Do you think those wealthy families are willing to use their hands?" Hand over the food in the house? If they don't hand over the food, can they expect the people who have a little surplus to hand over the food?"
"Ahem, asking them to voluntarily hand over their food is naturally unrealistic." Seeing Liu Hongji's appearance, Xiao Han couldn't help but smile bitterly and shake his head. He himself knew that this idea was absolutely impossible to realize.
In this case, let alone this life-threatening food, even if it is a vegetable or a piece of firewood, it is extremely difficult for those from aristocratic families whose primary purpose is the prosperity and decline of the family to give it to others. of!
"Humph, according to me, Your Majesty shouldn't be so indecisive! Just name them one by one and force them to borrow money! No matter who they are, they can all give me ten thousand stones of food within three days. If you can't get enough, hehe..."
Liu Hongji grinned, but there was a bit of coldness in that smile!
After all, he was born as a bandit, and his work is simple and rough! When he said something like robbing a wealthy family, it was as if he was discussing with Xiao Han whether to drink porridge or eat steamed buns tomorrow morning.
"We haven't reached that point yet..." After listening to Liu Hongji's words, Xiao Han rolled his eyes and sighed: "Besides, if His Majesty really does this, whether he can collect food or not, those officials will not Blow up the nest immediately? At that time, I am afraid that the notorious reputation of plundering people's wealth and money will be lost no matter what."
Xiao Han was right. It seems that an emperor in later generations also did this to forcefully conscript large households, but the result was not very good. Not only was the food and grass not collected, but the country was also lost.
"Eh? Since you said forceful conquest won't work, can you use other methods?" Just as Xiao Han and Liu Hongji sighed, the old man Hua who had been silent next to him suddenly said: "I heard, Your Majesty Didn’t you get a national bond a while ago and borrow money from wealthy people? Since you can borrow money, why not borrow some food? When the food from Jiangnan arrives, just return it to them? "
"Borrow food? Borrow food at this time?" Xiao Han and Liu Hongji suddenly looked at each other after hearing the old man's words.
Hey, this old man thinks of things too simply! Are you raising food just like raising money? Do you really think these two are the same thing?
money? what is that? To put it bluntly, it’s just some stiff metal! I can't eat when I'm hungry, I can't drink when I'm thirsty! Even if there is no more, people may not die!
But food is not the case!
Especially now, if they donate their own food and wait until they run out of food, if they don't get the food back, the only thing waiting for them will be starvation to death!
So, don’t look at those big businessmen spending huge sums of money before without batting an eye! If you really ask them to take out the food at home, these people will definitely fight you with red eyes and kitchen knives!
"Hey! After all, the stored grain is still not enough. I heard that the Hanjia Cang, which held a huge amount of grain in the former Sui Dynasty, has never been full in these years!"
With a heavy sigh, Liu Hongji lay down on his back and stared at the night sky above his head in silence.
For Lao Liu, it was no problem for him to carry a knife and kill people, but to ask him to think of ways to provide relief was like tying a rope to a hen's butt, which was nonsense!
"In the past few years, we paid tribute to the Turks every year, and then we started fighting every year! In the past two years, we had just gotten better, but then we encountered such a situation. Hanjiacang can still squeeze out some food to transport disaster relief, and that's it. Very good!"
Xiao Han followed Liu Hongji's example and put his arms under his head. He also lay on the ground and looked at the crescent moon in the sky.
"Hmph, just think about it here! I'm going to take a look at the herbs I brought!" Seeing Xiao Han and Liu Hongji's slumped expressions, Old Man Hua snorted, got up and headed towards the cart at the end of the team, where , there are several carts of medicinal materials he brought from Sanyuan County.
After the great disaster, there will be a great epidemic! Especially in this season when the weather is about to get warmer.
In order to prevent the epidemic from spreading, Xiao Han thought of asking Old Man Hua to find two people to help him with the disaster relief, but he did not expect that Old Man Hua would come in person.
After the old man left, the campfire immediately fell into silence. Except for the faint snoring coming from not far away, there was only the crackling sound of red firewood occasionally blown by the cold wind.
