Like a bolt of lightning, a thunderbolt lit up in Prince Gong Yixin's mind, and a cold smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Huh? Did you think of this yourself? Just say, keep talking..."
Isiha scratched his head, "This slave just has a stupid idea and made random guesses! It seems that the disaster in the court has been suppressed at the moment, but who can guarantee that there will be just this snow disaster this year?"
"I want you to guess, what if there is another disaster in the future? This foolish king has pushed away the Chinese people's food and did not ask for help from other countries, which shows that he has reached a certain level of arrogance!"
"God can't always bless him! He also has to deal with him..."
Na Duobao clapped his hands aside, "Oh...yes, that's the truth. When the moon is full, it will lose money! This foolish king has been in the limelight for too long. He has done so many immoral things and killed so many people. Oh my God." You can’t always protect him!”
"The little blessing in his life has probably been consumed by the sin of murder. He will definitely not be able to pass this test!"
The truth that both servants understand, how could Prince Gong not understand it! In fact, it was just a layer of window paper. Yixin was so angry just now!
Where was the food of the Qing Dynasty? In fact, they are layered from top to bottom. The top is the official warehouse of the government, which has clear accounts. Officials eat, soldiers are paid, disaster relief is provided... The most important thing is that the bannermen's hard-core crops are all from Come out here.
Then further down is the private grain storage in the hands of the landlord class and grain merchants. This is a very big end!
The landlord collects rent, and grain is equivalent to money. The grain merchant hoards it at a low price and sells it at a high price. What he eats is the price fluctuation caused by seasonal changes!
And the last link is the food stored in the hands of the people!
The three-legged bench supports the empire’s food security problem! If there is a problem with any of the bench legs, there will be a serious famine in this country!
Since ancient China’s agricultural society, the so-called prosperous times and the last days can actually be understood by studying the data on grain storage!
In a prosperous age, the amount of grain stored by ordinary people must be greater than that of the imperial court and landlord grain merchants! Because land annexation was not that serious at this time, the power of homesteaders was still very strong!
But once this curve passes its peak, the dynasty will naturally enter a final stage. The biggest feature of this period is land annexation.
In the grain storage data, the amount of grain stored in the homes of ordinary farmers will decrease sharply, while the amount of grain stored in the homes of landlords and grain merchants has begun to increase!
In the era of feudal centralization, if the court's centralized power was still there, then the court would find ways to stabilize the grain reserves in its hands. If the court's grain reserves were still large enough, then the dynasty would be able to sustain itself.
After all, if there is a famine or war, the court can still come up with food to deal with it!
In ancient China, money was not important, but food was actually the most important, because the people valued food, and the soldiers also valued food!
Once there is a war, if the court cannot distribute money, it can distribute sufficient food, and the soldiers' enthusiasm for fighting is also very high!
If the court has food in its hands, it can stabilize the political situation. The most important thing is to stabilize the army and the bureaucracy!
When will the dynasty fall? You can see clearly from this data that a large amount of food in society is hidden in the hands of the landlord class and grain merchants!
The food reserves of the extremely poor people and the imperial court began to decrease sharply! Two of the three-legged bench have become short legs, so even the gods can’t save it at this time!
The change of dynasty will begin soon, and a new strong regime will emerge, using knives and muskets to force the landowners and grain merchants to provide food!
Break the balance again, let the land be redistributed, and let the food be redistributed!
This has been done since ancient times. This set of tricks is very familiar to Prince Gong!
Do you still remember the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty? They desperately scolded the emperor for profiting from the people, but they did not support the emperor's policy of increasing taxes. They allowed the north to be desolate and allowed the Manchus to enter the customs without giving any money or food to the Ming Dynasty!
This is actually the landlord class. The grain merchants have begun to lose their bigness. They have abandoned the Ming Dynasty center and made the bench with one leg bigger!
But I didn't expect that after the Manchus entered the pass, they rushed over with the savage north wind, Jiading, Yangzhou... a series of massacres, this Manchu was different from the Ming Dynasty emperor!
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is still trying to reason with you, but the Manchus are talking about knives!
What a bullshit Donglin Party, if I cut your head with my knife, all the money and food in your family will be mine!
This is a process of reshuffling the cards of the new dynasty. Those selfish people in the past thought they could protect their own money and food, but what happened in the end?
If you don't pay taxes to Emperor Chongzhen, of course the Manchus will force you to pay taxes with knives and kill your whole family!
In the more than two hundred years of the Qing Dynasty, there has never been a group like the Donglin Party in Jiangnan to confront the Central Committee. Why is this?
Haha, they are not stupid, they know that whoever dares to resist will die. When Yongzheng established a system where officials and gentry were all paid, who among the landlord class in Jiangnan would dare to rebel? I don’t even dare to curse!
This process is very familiar to Yi Xin!
But now Zaichun's response to the disaster suddenly revealed a huge hole!
The extremely poor people had no food, and the landlords and gentry took out the food to provide disaster relief in exchange for fame. This suddenly made the disaster area lose two legs!
The disaster can barely be controlled now, but what if the disaster expands again?
The people still had no food in store, but the landlords and grain merchants had already eaten up all the food in their hands. Now everyone relied on the official treasury in Zaichun's hands!
"Fuck! This stupid boy Zai Chun actually refused Xiao Letian's resources. This boy is going crazy! Hahaha..."
Prince Gong smiled so happily that he finally broke the window paper, and his negative emotions suddenly disappeared!
"Okay, okay... I have another idea! Erha, Duobao... come here, I will discuss it with you two..."
"What happens next is so fun..."
As the days passed, the court was immersed in the joy of successful disaster relief and was unaware of the danger coming!
And Xiao Letian and the others have no time to continue to deal with the Qing Dynasty's affairs. The visit to the Indian Ocean is an important diplomatic activity. There are only the last ten days left, and they are very busy with various matters.
Moreover, a telegram has been sent from Europe. Princess Sissi has already taken a boat to sea, starting from the Mediterranean and preparing to cross the Suez Canal.
Xiao Letian has no excuse to change his itinerary!
But at the end of February, a strange rumor suddenly appeared in the disaster-stricken area in the north!
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