Li Yunze knew very well what would happen if Changpingcang fell into the hands of civil servants.
When he was still in this world, it might have been better. At most, he would catch and chop a batch every year.
But when he leaves this world, according to the traditional routine, the civil servants will first deceive the emperor, and if they can't deceive, they will deceive the prince. If that doesn't work, they will find a way to dissolve in water, and then find a way to be obedient in the hands of a woman in the palace. of.
As long as the emperor's eyes are out of sight, all kinds of monsters and monsters will appear and perform.
As for specific examples, there is no need to give them. Li Yunze has experienced, seen, and heard too many things.
It's not just Chang Pingcang that cannot be left in the hands of civil servants, you can't leave anything to them, otherwise they will definitely play tricks on you.
"Young Master."
Upon hearing Li Yunze's call, the young man ordered Zhang Ou to step forward and salute, "I am here."
"This matter will be handed over to the Prime Minister, the Shaofu, and the imperial censor to supervise. It must be completed as soon as possible."
Master Yan, Zhang Ou, and Zhang Tang all saluted and said, "Here."
Ji An, who retreated, winked at Gongsun Hong.
After a slight hesitation, Gongsun Hong still said, "Your Majesty, this matter is of huge scale and may cost too much money and affect other people's affairs."
This is true.
Once Changpingcang starts collecting grain, it will become the largest grain merchant in the entire Han Dynasty.
Just do a simple calculation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
At this time, all civilian fields in the entire Han Dynasty except the imperial village, including the fields granted by the emperor's relatives, and the fields granted by the kings in various places, totaled about 800 million acres.
It looks terrifying, but in fact the mu in the Han Dynasty is different from the mu in the modern world. The area is much smaller, only about two-thirds.
The upper, middle and lower fields are not counted.
Dry fields, terraced fields and paddy fields are also not counted.
Not counting the different crops grown, rice shelling, etc., all are taken as the middle value.
Based on the income of two shi per acre, the total annual output is about 1.6 billion shi.
Excluding the consumption of grain, rations, etc., almost 500 million shi of grain can be sold.
Taking an average price of two hundred yuan per stone, this is an earth-shattering one hundred billion yuan.
Taking the taxation of the Han Dynasty as an example, where can we find 100 billion yuan to buy grain?
The annual income of the imperial court of the Han Dynasty is only 5 billion yuan, which is a drop in the bucket.
Of course, the actual food output cannot be so high, because a large part of the land area needs to be planted with other crops, such as mulberry and hemp.
There is also a shifting cultivation system, and large areas of land need to be left fallow.
Excluding the land granted by honorable nobles, the land granted by the king, the grain output of the imperial villages in various places, etc., what farmers can really produce is definitely not as much as imagined.
This amount can be regarded as the maximum upper limit consideration, the kind that farmers will take out all their grains.
When it comes to actual operation, I estimate that even half of it can’t be done.
There was a lot of discussion in Qingliang Hall, how can we buy food if we don’t have money?
Ji An said again, "Why not lower the minimum purchase price? Even if it is only reduced by ten dollars, you can save hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Many people nodded in agreement and thought it made sense.
"Heh~~~"
Li Yunze couldn't help but laugh.
These words can be used to deceive emperors who grew up in deep palaces, but it's a pity that it doesn't work here in Li Yunze's case.
"Who said you have to buy them all at once?"
Li Yunze waved his hand calmly, "If Changpingcang opens the acquisition, all the wealth in the world will not be enough. Of course, statistics must be done first."
He looked at Yan Yi, "Do you know how much grain has been harvested this year from the Ministry of Revenue?"
Yan Yi hurriedly came out and saluted and responded, "Your Majesty, the autumn harvests in various counties and counties are still in progress. Currently, only the autumn harvest statistics from various places in Guanzhong have been sent over."
Dahan is huge and spans multiple dimensions.
The timing of the autumn harvest is naturally different for each person, and the distances between various places in Kanto are far away. According to the communication capabilities of this era, it is of course impossible to send the statistical results so quickly.
Yan Yi followed up and said, "The weather has been good this year and there have been no major natural disasters. According to last year's records, there should be more than last year, at least 10% more."
Seeing that Yan Yi couldn't provide specific data, Li Yunze didn't talk nonsense and simply said, "Based on the surplus grain counted by farmers, starting from next month, Jingzhao Mansion will set up Changping warehouses in various places according to the calculation." Local grain surplus statistics, purchased by month, every month
Limited quantity. "
The master nodded and nodded. This was a good idea. Why didn't he expect that the emperor would charge in person?
Jingzhao Yin Zhengzhuang was also there. After all, he was considered the best local official in the world, and he worked in Chang'an City, so he was naturally qualified to attend the court meeting.
He came out and said, "Your Majesty, time is too tight and it may be difficult to repair enough warehouses."
Seeing Li Yunze frowning again, the master's father Yan jumped out and shouted, "Don't you understand what His Majesty said?! He said that the purchase should be based on a monthly fixed quota, then the corvee will be issued, and the warehouse to store the grain for one month will be built first! He is so stupid, can he do it well?
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Anyone with eyesight can see that it's not that Zheng Zhuang doesn't understand, he's just trying to shirk his decision.
The reason is also very simple. Changpingcang is under the control of the Shaofu, and the local government can't get in. On the contrary, it has the ability to take responsibility, so naturally it has no motivation to work.
Zhang Ou, the Shaofu's order here, also immediately said, "The Shaofu should set up a Changping Order to urge everyone in the country to build Changpingcang. If someone slows down the work, he will shirk."
Having said this, Zhang Ou looked at Zhang Tang, the censor doctor, "I hope the censor doctor can help me."
"It's natural."
Zhang Tang chuckled, "This is a matter under the supervision of the emperor. Anyone who dares to do anything about this matter should use Han law."
There are plenty of ways to shirk the arrangement between Master Fuyan and Zhang Ou and make small moves.
After all, they are all human beings. If they want to find trouble and get rid of the blame, there are many ways.
But when Zhang Tang spoke, things were different.
This is a cool official. Once he gets serious about doing something, he won't ask for reasons or evidence. All he wants is a list!
Or a list of the whole family!
Therefore, cool officials are really useful sometimes.
Seeing that the hawks and dogs finally figured it out and started to come forward, Li Yunze also nodded with satisfaction.
He added, "When collecting grain from Chang Pingcang in various places, you must find out who is selling the grain. Only accept grain from local farmers, and never accept grain from second-tier merchants."
"If someone is greedy and colludes with internal and external parties. Whether it is people from the local government, people from the Shaofu, or the inspection censor at the Yushitai."
Having said this, Li Yunze looked at Zhang Tang, "Can it be handled? Or should we let Zhidu come?"
Zhang Tang, who looked serious, saluted respectfully, "My lord, I will personally supervise this!"
"Um."
When Li Yunze was engaged in tax exemption, he converted the income from the fiefdoms and fiefdoms of the distinguished royal relatives into specific income, which was transferred to the Shaofu's statistics and distributed by the Shaofu.
The nominal food estate is still there, but the income has actually been transferred to the hands of the Shaofu.
Most of the food income was converted into property by Li Yunze in order to prevent too much food from falling into the hands of nobles.
This is also to curb the rise of second-hand dealers.
“While harvesting grain, we also have to sell grain.”
Li Yunze moved on to the next topic, "The prime minister sets the price for selling grain. The purpose is not to make money, but to stabilize prices. It can be slightly higher than the purchase price, and the profit earned cannot exceed the cost of construction and maintenance at most."
Master Yan naturally had no choice but to say, "Here."
Han Dynasty is an agricultural country, so there is naturally no talk of urbanization.
But in fact, the size of the Han Dynasty is here. Even if it is an agricultural country, the overall urban population in various places is still a huge number.
There is no need to consider honoring royal relatives, court officials, etc. Their salaries are paid with the grain harvested by the imperial village, which is enough to feed the whole family.
There is no need to worry about military rations. The army's food supply is still mainly based on the food produced by Huangzhuang.
However, there are millions of people living in cities and towns in various places, and these people still have to buy food.
These people are the main customers of Chang Pingcang in various places.
Of course, when there is a shortage of food, local farmers will buy food even if they have no choice. After all, there is never enough food.
Because the population of the Han Dynasty has been growing continuously, individuals have to consume food.
The matter of Changpingcang is finally settled.
After that, it was the Prime Minister who supervised the work of the Shaofu, and the Yushi doctor supervised it.
As for the issue of start-up capital, Li Yunze opened the warehouse without hesitation.
The wealth saved by Emperor Wen and Jing's diligence and thrift could be put to use.
The money that had been saved year by year, even piled up until the money string was rotten, began to be transported away by the carload.
It is much better to use this money to activate the economic operation than the Emperor Wu used to build countless palaces in history.
The income of the imperial court was actually increasing.
Especially after the official operation of Yantie, there was a substantial increase. This is also the source of Li Yunze's confidence in exempting the land tax.
More importantly, the imperial court had the power to mint coins. The mint had been moved from Zhongshan State to Shanglinyuan and was working hard to mint new coins every day.
Moreover, the Han society at this time was still short of money, and had not yet reached the stage of saturation and overproduction, leading to rising prices.
But there is also a problem here, that is, the Han Dynasty is short of copper, which leads to a gradual shortage of raw materials for coinage.
Naturally, Li Yunze would not cast iron coins to fool the people, he would definitely use copper coins.
But the lack of copper ore is an important problem.
Although I don't plan to borrow too much power from the modern world in this life, there is no problem in getting the mineral distribution data.
Speaking of copper mines, especially copper mines that are easy to mine and refine, they are naturally concentrated in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Guangxi and Guangxi and other places.
It's just these places.
Li Yunze rubbed his chin, looked at the map of the Han Dynasty and muttered to himself, "We are going to fight again."
Large-scale copper mines that meet the mining and smelting standards of this era are mostly concentrated in Mitsukoshi, as well as in the Dian and Yelang Kingdoms.
These places may nominally submit to the big man, but in fact they still live their own small lives.
There is nothing much to say, naturally the army will drive over.
It just so happened that Wei Qing and the others were coming back, and it was time to consider things in the south.
(End of chapter)
