"Brother Xu, what do you think about this matter?"
Although there is no formal acceptance of fate, everyone is aware of it.
At this time, Xu Da is the top military officer in Yanjing City.
Liu Song, on the other hand, is the number one person in charge of internal affairs.
Regardless of Liu Song's current real position, it is not very high.
Don't forget, he has been presiding over the public trial these days.
The number of officials who were beheaded by his personal judgment was quite considerable.
Even those officials who had not committed any crime felt trembling in their hearts when they saw Liu Song.
Although, if you don’t do anything bad in your life, you won’t be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night.
In this era, there are quite a few officials who can keep themselves clean, and they are not really afraid of Liu Song.
But invisibly, Liu Song's reputation in Yanjing was already at its peak, and he felt like he could not be better than me.
Liu Song and Xu Da, both civil and military, plus Zhu Han, the money bag, have completely controlled the city of Yanjing.
"Then what else is there to say?" Xu Da said without any hesitation, "Hurry up and find a way to provide disaster relief."
Liu Song frowned and said: "The disaster relief official naturally agrees. But, what should we use to rescue?"
"The money and land expenses of the Yamen here in Yanjing are all allocated by the imperial court."
"All silver coins are re-exported. If you misappropriate them at will, I'm afraid there will be problems."
Xu Da raised his eyebrows: "Liu Song, what do you mean? Is a mere piece of silver more important than the lives of the people?"
Xu Da is a veteran of many battles, so when he gets angry, he naturally has the evil spirit of being a benevolent and iron horse.
Even Zhu Han, standing in front of Xu Da, felt frightened.
Liu Song was not afraid at all, he didn't even raise his eyelids.
"General Xu, I have never said that we cannot provide disaster relief."
"It's just that disaster relief also needs to be done in a methodological manner."
"We can't save the people of Datong, but it will affect us people in Yanjing, right?"
Zhu Han was very emotional, Liu Song got into the state very quickly.
You have only been here in Yanjing for a long time, and you start to think of yourself as one of us when you talk.
He really has the spirit of a parent.
Xu Da said angrily: "No matter how good the people of Yanjing are, they can at least survive."
"But the people of Datong, if the court doesn't care about them, they really won't be able to survive."
"You, Liu Song, can't you tell who is lighter and who is heavier?"
Liu Song showed no sign of weakness: "I have never said that the people of Yanjing are more important than the people of Datong."
"But General Xu, the people of Yanjing are also the people of my Ming Dynasty."
"If we can't arrange Yanjing's affairs well, once any trouble occurs, it will also cause trouble."
"In order to prevent this from happening, we must deal with Yanjing's affairs before providing disaster relief."
"Lest both sides get into trouble, and both sides fail to handle it well. Instead, the court will be put into a passive position."
After hearing Liu Song's explanation, Xu Da realized that he had not thought carefully.
He was just thinking about how to go to disaster relief as soon as possible, but he didn't consider the situation in Yanjing.
On the surface, Yanjing looks peaceful now.
However, in fact, there are also many crises.
After this public trial, nearly a hundred officials were directly killed.
Among them there are many masterpieces like the six books of ministers.
Thousands of people were directly implicated.
In order to reduce the number of killings, Zhu Han did not implicate the families of corrupt officials in this public trial.
As long as they are not directly involved in their affairs, the most they can do is confiscate their illegal gains.
This also led to the emptiness of Yanjing's officialdom, and some of the original clan forces had no control over it.
It can also have a lot of impact on Yanjing.
The reason Xu Da is here is to suppress the private thoughts of these people.
If comprehensive disaster relief begins now, the Black Cavalry Army will definitely be mobilized.
At that time, if someone with intentions takes the opportunity to cause chaos...
It will definitely cause a huge disaster.
After understanding the key here, Xu Da's old face couldn't help but blush.
"Even if what you say makes sense, Datong is in urgent need of 100,000 yuan. We have to move slower. We don't know how many people are starving to death."
Looking at Xu Da's appearance, you can tell that he has actually been convinced by Liu Song, but he just can't live with it and doesn't want to admit it directly.
Liu Song was not targeting Xu Da either.
After explaining the crux of the problem, he immediately clasped his fist towards Zhu Han and said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will take care of the remaining silver coins of all the yamen of the Yanjing court now."
"Except for the money necessary to maintain the operation of the Yamen, all of it will be used for disaster relief."
After thinking for a while, Liu Song said again: "Your Majesty, if possible... I would like to ask if you can first use the silver that Ying Tianfu allocated to Yanjing to build a new capital to provide disaster relief?"
Zhu Han looked at Liu Song with a smile: "Master Liu, do you think this amount of silver can be easily used?"
In response to Zhu Han's question, Liu Song just shook his head indifferently: "Building the capital is related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this money cannot be easily used for other purposes."
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Liu Song also suddenly discovered the benefits of leaving the project to those businessmen.
That is, the court hardly needs to invest manpower and material resources to manage these projects.
As long as the supervisors are left to inspect and accept according to the standards, it will be fine.
If this were the case before, these projects might have been stopped.
The imperial court purchased grain on a large scale, which also caused the price of grain to rise three times a day.
In the morning, one stone of grain cost less than one tael of silver, but by night it had risen to one tael of silver.
Although the news of the severe drought in Datong has not yet fully spread.
However, many businessmen with sensitive noses have smelled something different from the court's actions.
At Liu's Grain Store, Liu Ping'an, the big shopkeeper, is keeping accounts.
A young man in luxurious clothes next to him asked somewhat but somewhat: "Third uncle, is it really okay for us to raise prices now? The imperial court is buying grain on a large scale? Why don't we just lower the price a little, so that we can also process a batch of old grain?" ?」
Liu Pingan glared at Liu Ye with a smile: "What do you know?"
"It's because the imperial court collects grain on a large scale that this situation is wrong."
Liu Ye was puzzled: "Third uncle, it's just about collecting grain. The imperial court collects grain every year. What's wrong with this?"
"Stupid!" Liu Pingan was not angry either. My nephew is good at everything, but he is a little too honest.
But there's nothing wrong with that.
Things like experience can be taught slowly, and it will come back as time goes by.
But temper and character cannot be changed easily.
Honest people will feel more at ease when using it.
"Think about it carefully, when does the imperial court usually collect grain?"
Liu Ye frowned and thought: "Usually after the autumn harvest, it is used to replenish official warehouses, or to send out armies or something, right?"
Liu Pingan nodded: "That's the problem."
"It's not the autumn harvest season now, and we haven't heard that the imperial court has mobilized any troops in the north. Why does the imperial court suddenly want to harvest grain?"
"Um..." Liu Ye hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "Third uncle, do you mean that some places have been hit by disasters and the imperial court is purchasing grain to prepare for disaster relief?"
Liu Ping'an looked relieved, his nephew was finally not stupid.
Although no news has come out yet.
However, the imperial court's purchase of grain could not be hidden from anyone at all.
Sometimes it is not that difficult to analyze the court's purpose through its actions.
Liu Ye felt a little uncomfortable when he heard this: "Third uncle, aren't we..."
Finally, he still had some sense and didn't say the words "taking advantage of others" to his face.
Liu Ping'an naturally understands his nephew's thoughts, which is nothing surprising.
Young people always have an inexplicable sense of justice.
I think that when he first took over the business, he was similar to Liu Ye.
I also feel that some businesses are not very benevolent, and I feel some resistance from the bottom of my heart.
But as long as you do it for a long time, you will gradually get used to it.
It's not a hassle.
"Uncle understands that you think it's not good to make money from people in the disaster area."
"But if we don't make this money, others will."
"We are businessmen, and most of the time we just think about making money or not. But sometimes, we have to be careful not to offend the public."
"If everyone raises their prices, only ours won't. Others may not say anything."
"But in my heart, we will be severely recorded."
"From now on, overtly or covertly, they will definitely target us."
Liu Ye was immediately unconvinced: "But Third Uncle, don't we all do business based on our own abilities? We don't want to make money and sell at a low price, so what does it have to do with them?"
Liu Pingan sighed helplessly: "If it were that simple, that would be great.
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"Think about it, kid, our prices are cheap, and the imperial court purchased some from us. But when we got there, we found that they had increased the price."
"So, are the people in the court willing to take advantage of this, or are they going to lower the price?"
"I could have earned two more denarii, but now I have earned one denarius less..."
"They will not blame the court for this debt, they will only blame us."
"Because we didn't increase the price, which caused them to be suppressed by the court, do you think they feel comfortable?"
Liu Ye understood the truth, but he just felt uncomfortable and said angrily: "Why are these people so unreasonable?"
Liu Ping'an smiled bitterly and shook his head: "In the business world, is there any truth to be said?"
Then Liu Ye thought of something again and asked nervously: "But Third Uncle, if we suddenly increase the price, what should we do if the court pursues us?"
Liu Ping'an smiled slightly and said: "Let's pursue the case. If the court really makes an announcement asking me to stabilize the price of food, we can just lower the price."
"Remember, our Liu family will never be the one who stands out."
"When others raise prices, we will follow suit."
"But remember, when we raise prices, we are definitely not the one with the fastest price increase, and we are definitely not the one with the highest price."
"In short, it's just neither high nor low, nor successful. In this case, even if the court pursues the case, it will only be done by those tall people, and it has nothing to do with us."
Liu Ping'an was eloquently giving lessons to his nephew.
Suddenly a servant knocked on the door.
"Come in." Liu Ping'an stopped with some unfinished thoughts.
When the servant came in, he looked a little panicked.
"Grandpa, I'm sorry, someone from Jinyiwei has invited me."
"What?" After hearing the servant's words, Liu Ping'an's legs softened and he almost fell to the ground.
Fortunately, his nephew Liu Ye was nearby and supported him in time.
Liu Ping'an was a little dumbfounded. He held Liu Ye's hand tightly, swallowed and asked with difficulty: "What are the people from Jin Yiwei here... coming for?"
On the Yanjing side, Jinyiwei is now equally famous as a fierce one.
After all, the evidence of the corrupt officials whose heads were beheaded not long ago was collected by Jin Yiwei.
Ordinary people are not afraid, but businessmen are extremely afraid of Jin Yiwei.
It is really difficult for businessmen in this era to dare to say that they are completely clean.
