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"Okay, let's discuss this matter first, and discuss this matter tomorrow." Li Shimin said.

Li Shimin felt a headache after the two groups of people finished talking just now. He also knew that the key step was up to him, but he was so entangled now that he could only say that no one is perfect.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter with you? Ask Your Majesty to rub it for you with a frowning face." After the minister left, Empress Changsun came over.

"The Guanyin maidservant sees you, and I feel that I have no troubles at all." Li Shimin said.

He loves the country and also loves beauties, which emperor is not romantic, and Li Shimin is the same. When he saw the Guanyin maidservant, he put down the matter of locusts and didn't worry about it.

"It would be great if I could share the troubles for Your Majesty." Empress Changsun comforted Li Shimin while helping Li Shimin hold her head.

The key to empress changsun's sweet voice is that she never takes the initiative to ask about political affairs. This is one of the reasons why Li Shimin likes him the most. However, at this age, Li Shimin is not a man who blindly indulges in gentleness. I told her about the locusts.

In fact, many times, even if Empress Changsun didn't ask, Li Shimin would tell Empress Changsun about some things. This may be a habit of choice.

Chapter 397 Li Shimin's Decision

"The people depend on food for their lives. If there are locusts that damage the food, wouldn't it be killing the people? This world belongs to His Majesty, and if such a thing happens, it will be His Majesty's who will lose it." Empress Changsun said.

"What Guanyin servant girl said is very reasonable." Li Shimin said.

At this moment, his entangled matter felt much better after the empress Changsun said so.

There is an old saying: "There is a good wife in the family, and a man will not do evil things."

Wei Zheng often bluntly remonstrated and always made Li Shimin unhappy, so Li Shimin always wanted to kill him, but he was wisely persuaded by Empress Changsun to give up the idea of ​​killing sages. A "rule of chastity".

After hearing what Empress Changsun said, Li Shimin thought it was very reasonable, so he made up his mind that his ambition was to be a capable emperor, and immediately summoned his close relatives and officials back.

The next day when he was in court, Wei Zheng stood up and said, "Your Majesty, there was a famine in the first year due to the shortage of food. It is said that there must be locusts after a long drought. I think this is related to the country and must be prevented."

After Wei Zheng finished speaking, all the ministers were whispering to each other. According to the current saying, if there is a plague of locusts, the emperor will lose his morality.

If it was without Li Shimin's consent, Wei Zheng would not do such a thing, but now that he has benefited from it, he has nothing to fear. Don't look at Wei Zheng who is famous for his direct advice but can achieve this position People are not single-minded.

There are quite a few smart people in the court. To put it bluntly, this matter has a lot to do with the emperor himself. Changsun Wuji stood up and said: "Food is the root of nature, and I think it should be prevented in advance."

After Changsun Wuji stood up to speak, and then Fang Du also seconded, the court quickly formed a one-sided trend, but a few veteran officials did not support it. In their concept, this kind of thing is the emperor's endless virtue. It is immoral to try to control the locusts in vain, but the situation in the court does not give them a chance to speak at all.

Then I heard Fang Xuanling say: "There are ancient and modern methods of controlling locusts. The locusts are afraid of people. People can drive them away during the day, and they can be burned at night. If they are prevented properly, they will be effective. I think that resisting locusts should be an achievement for state officials. .”

"Quasi-playing." Li Shimin said immediately.

The plan for controlling the locusts was quickly drawn up in the court. These were all discussed by Li Shimin and several ministers yesterday, and they came here to implement them today. After the dust settled, Li Shimin also felt a big stone in his heart. Now he hopes the best It's better not to have insect plagues. Since he took the throne, natural disasters have continued, which is not a very good sign.

In fact, although making this decision has something to do with Empress Changsun, but more "experts" were consulted. Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng finally came to the conclusion that there must be a locust plague before they were ready to give it a go. It can be seen that Li Shimin is not a vulgar emperor, and he still dared to fight and fight when he was young.

A few days later, all the government offices of the state governments received decrees on locust control. This was about their performance appraisal, so the officials were all concerned, and strictly followed the locust control strategy issued by the imperial court.

Guo Shouyi, the county magistrate of Lantian County, did not expect that the court would be able to publicize the control of locusts, so he became more concerned about this matter. It didn't take long for the gentry in Lantian County to raise chickens, ducks and geese. Purchased from Erlizhuang, Wuli Township.

After exchanging some of these livestock for money, the grain consumption in Erlizhuang immediately decreased a lot, and Yuanshan’s breeding costs also came back. After this period of grain transfer, the price of corn in Chang’an dropped a bit, from [-] Wen to [-] Wen Wuwen, and the price has remained stable since then.

People no longer feel fresh about corn. As a kind of grain, they hope to buy it cheaper. In addition, the corn reserves in Chengdu are too large. If they are not consumed, they may be thrown into their hands in the end. Prices started to move lower.

The Yuan family’s fleet collects grain at ten cents per catty, and what’s more, the corn grains are very dry after nearly six or seven months of drying. It’s very cost-effective to receive such corn at this price. In this way, Yuanjia's motorcade can make four round trips a month.

The food accumulated during this period exceeded tens of millions of catties, but the food consumed by raising pigs was also huge, and some of the pigs were already prepared to be sold during this period.

In the department store, the main meal at noon is porridge. Many businessmen like to order this as lunch at the snack bar in the mall. It is cheap and delicious.

In the department store manager's office, Yuan Shan just glanced at the porridge, and said to Lan Lan, Qin Si and the others who were eating deliciously, "Don't you feel tired of eating this every day?"

"It's strange that the young master doesn't even like to eat it. This is the way you have studied it." Lan Lan said softly.

"Eh... I feel full just watching you eat."

It's delicious, but you can't eat it every day. After eating for half a month, you will get tired of eating anything, Yuan Shan murmured in his heart, but seeing that these girls didn't have any disgusting expressions, he immediately gave up the idea of ​​questioning .

"Corn is a coarse grain, but I think boiled corn tastes better." Yuan Shan said, even though he said so, he still only ate box lunch, which consisted of rice and some stir-fried vegetables.

The business of cooking corn is good. Now those who bought Hubing at the early stalls will now cook a large pot of corn to sell. The price is very cheap and they can still fill them up. Chang’an City has any food stalls, and the business in Dongxi Market is exceptional. good.

After lunch, Yuan Shan took Lan Lan to the fertilizer workshop. This year's spring plowing was about to start, and he also wanted to know about the fertilizer reserves of the fertilizer workshop. Compared with last year, the workshop occupied a larger area. Some are wasteland and no one manages them. In fact, it is very risky for them to do so. After all, this land is illegally occupied.

After checking, I found out that this year's fertilizer reserves are much more than last year, but it is impossible to cover all of Lantian County, but it is not easy to have the current scale. The workers in the fertilizer workshop mainly come from The workshop in Lanhe Village has brought a lot of benefits to the village, and their living conditions are now much better than last year.

Afterwards, Yuan Shan went to Lantian County, and the direct center is still buzzing with people, and more and more people are looking for jobs. If this is not resolved, Guo Shouyi may have to go to Yuanjia Manor to look for him every day. Today just passed by. have a look.

Passing by the entrance of the job agency center was overcrowded, Yuan Shan finally decided to turn around and go to the yamen. If he had caused more riots in the past, there are not so many jobs for these people now.

"Yuan Shilang, you're here. I'm almost dying of worry these days. Those people are wandering around the job agency center every day. I really don't know what to do." Guo Shouyi said.

"Magistrate Guo sweated profusely last year, mainly because the water conservancy works were not satisfactory. It would be better to apply for funds from the imperial court to build water conservancy projects, open canals, divert water and build water trucks. Although the wages cannot be paid to the people, at least two meals can be guaranteed. Well, wouldn't this temporarily solve the problem of excess labor?" Yuan Shan said.

Chapter 398

In the Xiande Hall of the East Palace, Li Shimin held a setback in his hand and muttered, "It's Guo Shouyi again, first the locusts, and now they want the imperial court to allocate funds to build waterwheels."

Putting the twists and turns on the table and thinking about it, because Guo Shouyi's twists and turns mentioned the adaptation to solve the surplus labor force. In fact, Guo Shouyi's expression of silver is not much, but it is relatively speaking. Big, thousands of people have to eat every day, but generally speaking, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. It only costs a little money, but the treasury is not that rich.

I just bought a batch of grain recently, and most of it was used to arm his Tang border defense and build carriages, so the imperial court's expenses are still under pressure. In addition to the drought last year, the imperial court has already made up a lot. How can there be so much money after the silver money.

Suddenly Li Shimin thought that Yuan Shan was an expert at making money, and if he was approached, there would be a way to enrich the national treasury.

So he immediately sent someone to find Yuan Shan. Yuan Shan hadn't entered the palace for a long time. He wondered why Li Shimin suddenly thought of him. Unexpectedly, it was because of the idea he gave Guo Shouyi. If he knew it was If he cheated himself, he wouldn't give Guo Shouyi any advice if he killed him.

"My minister pays homage to His Majesty." Yuan Shan bowed respectfully and saluted.

After bowing down to say hello, Li Shimin said to Yuan Shan: "Master Yuan, why do you always neglect your duties in the Ministry of War? You are the only one who made you look like an official of the Tang Dynasty. Tell me how I will punish you."

Yuan Shan didn't expect to be criticized for coming here today, but he hasn't reported to the Ministry of War for a long time, so he really doesn't have the awareness of this aspect, so now he can only keep silent and listen to what Li Shimin found out.

Hearing that Li Shimin didn't speak for a long time, Yuan Shan thought for a while and said: "I am willing to accept the punishment, so I will resign and go home."

Yuan Shan didn't play cards according to the common sense. He thought that it would be interesting to be a minister without even a salary, but he thought that there were still things to deal with, so he said: "Before resigning, I hope that Your Majesty Keep the promise and return General Du Fuwei's innocence, I thank Your Majesty once again."

The emperor's words were all things Jinkou Yuyan promised. If he returned, it would be very shameful. Yuan Shan thought that no one could justify not rehabilitating his father-in-law after such a long time.

Li Shimin suddenly thought that there was such a thing, turned around and asked Ma He, and then said to Yuan Shan: "I have already investigated the matter of General Du Fuwei, and I will return his innocence in a few days, but you, as the court, Officials do not do business all day long. Do you know that someone has asked you to be transferred to Lingnan as an official? I regret your talent and do not want you to suffer in the south. You still want to resign and go home. Is it such a trifling matter for the imperial court to appoint and dismiss officials? .”

Yuan Shan was shocked when he heard that someone was stalking him and wanted to put him in Lingnan to be an official. He began to think that he didn't seem to have offended anyone. How could anyone target him? Li Shimin's decision on whether to go to Lingnan As for the matter of words, even if he is unwilling to be an official, if you don't go to this feudal system, you will be disobedient and disrespectful. This crime can be serious, and it is light to be imprisoned and beheaded.

"I don't want to be an official and you let me be an official. Isn't there a tacit understanding in the first place, but now this posture is to go back on what you said." Yuan Shanxin said.

"Now there is an opportunity, as long as you can use your money-making ability to help me fill up the treasury, I will suppress people's participation in your business." Li Shimin said.

"Xiao Lizi is still ruthless, you want me to make money for the court, what's so difficult about it." Yuan Shan said thoughtfully.