Yang Ming killed someone, wasn't he worried about being exposed? A little bit.
Although Yang Su had sent people back to the capital in advance and greeted them from all sides, Yang Ming was not familiar with any of the people in Dali Temple of the Ministry of Justice. Fortunately, there was Yang Wang, who was Yang Su's own clan. Will help cover.
What Yang Ming really counted on was Yang Xiong. On the first day he arrived in Luoyang, he came to see him first. He hinted to Yang Ming in his words that this matter would have nothing to do with Yang Ming anyway.
Yang Xiong is the person in charge of this case. He has said so. What else does Yang Ming have to worry about.
King Qi Yang Jian was caught with a sore leg, so he kept a very low profile in the following days and did not go to the Ministry of Punishment to pursue him again.
However, their delay in borrowing food did not stop at all. The food shortage problem in Changping was temporarily alleviated by the Cui family in Qinghe, but Yuzhou was already eating from Liyangcang.
After eating Liyangcang, which other warehouse can I eat?
The construction of Luoyang depends on the people, and the work of the people relies on food. Without food, nothing can be done.
So right now, it's not Yang Ming who's looking for trouble with Yang Jian, but Yu Wenkai, Yang Da, and the officials sent to Luoyang.
Without food supplies, their work could not begin.
"Don't complain here. It's not the King of Qin's responsibility to rent the land, and it's not the King of Qin's responsibility to borrow the food. Who should you go to?"
Faced with hundreds of officials complaining endlessly in the hall, Yang Su directly said these words.
Yang Ming was indifferent. He originally wanted to delay the fortifications, but now someone is helping to delay it, why not?
Furthermore, as long as Luoyang continues to be short of food, father Yang Guang will not be able to get started on digging the Tongji Canal.
The longest section of the Tongji Canal is from Xingyang to the Huaihe River in Xuyi. This section is mainly dug by Henan people. At the moment, the Henan people are all at the construction site in Luoyang, and food for the next month has not yet been provided.
In fact, Yang Ming is in a very good mood now. It is already the end of June, and the matter of Tongji Canal has not been raised in court yet. What does it mean?
It shows that Yang Guang also knows that Luoyang has held him back.
As long as Yang Ming can postpone it until autumn, the canal work will definitely come to a halt this year. As Gao Jiong said, digging the canal is a one-stop job. The best time is when there is abundant rain, because with more rain, the water level will rise. This increases the water potential, helps flush the canals, and saves manpower.
The flow of water cannot be determined by human power. Sometimes you have dug a canal, but the water flows away from other places, destroying the banks at least, and causing damage to towns at worst.
Therefore, work like digging canals is usually done from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, without stopping in between.
Yu Wenkai was also in trouble. Liu Quan, the Shaoqing of Weiwei Temple who was in charge of supervising the construction of the palace, and Wei Wanqing, his secretary, had already had trouble with him several times. Yang Su ordered a month ago to reduce the daily food of the people and reduce their working hours. So much so that the construction of the palace city was delayed.
The peasants don't have enough to eat. The wood that originally took fifty people to carry now has to be carried by a hundred people, and they don't have the strength.
Luoyang City, what is most important, the answer is the palace city and the inner garden.
Needless to say about the palace city, where the emperor lived, every brick, tile, stone and wood was carefully selected.
In addition, there is a royal garden to the west of the palace city called Xiyuan, which Yang Guang named Huitong Garden, which is also the Shanglin Garden in the Tang Dynasty.
Huitong Garden is the originator of royal gardens in Chinese history. The blueprints were made by Yu Wenkai a long time ago. It reaches Mang Mountain in the north and Yin Que in the south, with a total area of 400 square kilometers.
There is an artificial lake in Xiyuan, on which are built the three fairy mountains of Fangzhang, Penglai and Yingzhou. There are also sixteen courtyards in it, including Yanguang, Mingcai, Hanxiang, Chenghua, Ninghui, Lijing and Feiying. There are also palaces and pavilions such as Qushui Palace, Qushui Palace, Lengquan Palace, Qingcheng Palace, Lingbo Palace, Jicui Palace, and Xianren Palace.
The diversion canal into the garden is called Longlin Canal, and there is also an artificial sea with a radius of ten miles.
Such a huge project, but at present, Xiyuan has not even been built in prototype.
Yu Wenkai was also forced to panic, so he could only take people to the Yuzhou government office.
It is June now, and the peonies donated from all over the country are about to be shipped. As we all know, the best season for peony transplantation is August. If the peonies cannot be planted this year, half of the beauty of Xiyuan will be lost.
Luoyang peonies are the best in the world, which started from the artificial planting of Luoyang Xiyuan in the Sui Dynasty.
"Cutting the food supply was a last resort after I discussed it with the King of Qin," Yang Su said to the officials who had not left yet:
"Only in this way can the food be transported, otherwise it will be eaten all at once. How can we settle down with so many mouths?"
At this time, I saw Du Yan, a member of the Criminal Department, slapped the file in his hand on the table and grinned. He seemed to want to curse something, but in the end he didn't curse. His face turned red and he was angry. He walked away with a puff of sleeves.
He and Wei Fusi, a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, went to various places in Yuzhou on Yang Ming's order to investigate the granary matters. The situation was not optimistic.
Most of the grain in Yuzhou is concentrated in a few large warehouses, and there are not many grain warehouses in the remaining states and counties. Although he also dealt with several corrupt county magistrates during this period, the results of the house raids were not satisfactory, so he was very Understand the urgency of Yuzhou's food shortage.
How much money could the county magistrate have? All his money was given as tribute to the superiors, but Du Yan did not dare to check it.
Therefore, the little food he and Wei Fusi brought back was not enough to fill the gap between their teeth.
Next, officials one after another left the meeting angrily. When they left the Superintendent's Office, they found that many people were heading towards the Yuzhou Government Office, so they simply formed a small temporary group and went together.
Yuzhou government office,
Yang Xian slammed the table and angrily said:
"You are coming to complain about me one by one? Who is licking your face and going to borrow food from below? It's me! Who is dealing with the land renting matter day and night? It's me! At present, transportation has been launched in various places in Yuzhou and is ready to be sent to Who borrowed the food in Luoyang? It was me!"
"Has the food supply been cut off? Do the migrant workers at the Luoyang construction site have no food to eat? Or do you have no food to eat?"
Yang Jian was furious and said: "I am not starving anyone, but you come to me. Is it possible that whoever does the most will suffer the greater injustice?"
At this time, Prince Palace Chief Shi Liu Jianzhi also stood up and said to Yu Wenkai and others:
"His Royal Highness the King of Qi is in charge of food supply, but not the distribution of food. Our supply has never been interrupted. Cutting rations is not an order of His Highness the King of Qi. You really have the wrong person."
Yu Wenkai did not dare to get angry at Yang Jian, but he dared to vent his anger on Liu Jianzhi. He said with a gloomy face:
"Liyangcang won't be able to eat much longer. Where is your food? Why didn't I see it? What? You have to wait until Liyangcang has bottomed out before you can take out the food?"
"What is Shangshu saying? Is it possible that we have food and refuse to take it out?" Liu Jianzhi said: "It also takes time to transport food. We can't fly to Luoyang. His Highness the King of Qi has been thinking hard and urging him every day. So far, nothing has happened. If you dare to cut off Luoyang's expenses, it would be better for you to complain about us."
Yu Wenkai was furious: "Building Luoyang is a national policy, and the construction period is also set by His Majesty. The current food can no longer last for half a month, but the food you borrowed is still on the way? Once the food runs out and a civil uprising is triggered, what can you bear? Do you take this responsibility?"
Liu Jianzhi said directly: "The food supply will never be interrupted. I can understand the anger in Shangshu's heart, but why can't you understand King Qi's difficulties?"
"Don't use King Qi to pressure me," Yu Wenkai said angrily: "The construction of the palace has been delayed. If I don't see food in another ten days, you can go back to the capital with your head high to apologize."
After that, Yu Wenkai shook his head and walked away angrily without even looking at Yang Jian.
"Dog stuff!"
I don't know who in the crowd cursed, but Yang Jian, who was on the throne, suddenly changed his expression and said angrily: "Which traitor is making such nonsense, I will bring it out to you."
Suddenly, dozens of guards rushed in with swords drawn, and the mansion suddenly became a mess.
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"What should we do if King Qi's food has not been delivered in another half month?" Yang Su asked.
Yang Ming put his hands behind his hands and paced back and forth in the hall. Hearing this, he frowned and said:
"Let's recruit some from the local aristocratic families and try to last until the autumn harvest."
The main grain produced in Yuzhou is wheat, and wheat is not harvested in autumn, but in mid-July and early summer, which is only half a month away.
However, the ancients called the season when wheat matures as Maiqiu, not Maixia, because Cai Yong of the Eastern Han Dynasty explained it in "Yue Ling Zhang Ju": "Every grain is called spring when it is first born, and autumn when it is mature, so wheat is called Mengxia in autumn." "
Therefore, the wheat autumn season mentioned by the ancients is actually the early summer season.
It takes time to harvest wheat, time to dry, and time to collect taxes. Therefore, Yuzhou's annual land tax is completed between October and November at the end of the year.
Wheat in Sui Dynasty is annual. It is basically sown from September to December of the same year and matures from June to August of the following year.
After harvesting, wheat contains a lot of moisture, so it must be dried repeatedly for about three or four days. Natural air drying will cause the wheat to become moldy and rotten.
But having said that, drying depends on luck. Drying can only be done on sunny days. Once it encounters continuous rainy days, the time spent on drying this step will be extended.
"We can also urge the people below to collect this year's food as early as possible," Yang Su said with a solemn expression.
Yang Ming spread his hands and said: "I am not the Yuzhou Mu, and it is not my responsibility to collect taxes."
"Alas..." Yang Su sighed, shook his head, and said nothing more.
At this time, a guard came to report outside the door, saying that it was Du Yan, a member of the Ministry of Justice, who had insulted the King of Qi and was now hung on the beam of the government office by the King of Qi and was beaten.
Yang Ming and Yang Su looked at each other and were stunned at the same time.
What is this thing called? You were able to hold it back with me just now, but why couldn't you hold it back in front of King Qi?
Yang Ming raised his forehead and smiled bitterly, and said: "Excuse me, Mr. Yue, to go and bring this person back. Don't get beaten to death."
Yang Su nodded and got up.
