I became the son of Renzong

This is also the reason for making many arrangements.

"Your Highness, you can choose to ship by sea."

"The so-called not selling food for thousands of miles, the break of this practice lies in the formation of our own transportation team. It is like the imperial court raising water transportation personnel."

"Without our own shipping team, it is not worth the loss to transport grain from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Annan to Jingdong Road."

Zhao Xi said so, but it can be said in the past.

In fact, he has other thoughts.First, he wanted to avoid all traditional transportation routes, thereby confusing merchants' judgment on grain reserves.

Just like the practice of the new currency at the beginning, it is used to withdraw funds and teach merchants who do not know how to live or die.

Second, he wants to take advantage of this food crisis to push rail transportation to the fore, so that the court officials can see the prospect of rail transportation, so as to guide the money and goods buried in the country to live.

No one has a grudge against money, and the emergence of orbital capacity will inevitably guide spare money to invest in orbitals.

In this way, it will not only continue to solve the problem of the conversion of the Xiang Army and the Imperial Army, but also promote the construction of the country's transportation network, and even promote coal mining and steel smelting.

Sometimes people are mean, and if they beg others to do something, they think it is a scam.

Maybe it's inertial thinking, or maybe it's a gap in knowledge.When Zhao Xi was laying the track, no one except Liujia got involved.

In their eyes, only shipping is a mode of transportation that saves money and has amazing capacity.

Zhao Xi sometimes suspects that God really cares for him.He has been thinking about how to make rail transportation appear to the world, but this year there has been a severe drought...

I really can't thank the famine, even if I really have such a thought of being grateful for the drought in my heart.

The letters written by Lu Gong, including Su Song and others, were taken away by Wang Zhongzheng and Li Xian.

Zhao Xi still planned to do this operation in private.

If it is agreed in the court, it will take a long time to talk about it, the key is the secrecy of the court, Zhao Xi really can't believe it.

From an emperor's point of view, the court really should take the lead in this matter, but the current court may not be able to decide on specific measures when refugees from Hebei and Jingzhaofu have arrived.

The point is, Zhao Xi thinks that those merchants should be taught a lesson and get some funds back.

Chapter 248

The country is very rich, but the court is very poor.Because the imperial court enriched the scholar-bureaucrats and merchants, and it did not restrict land mergers, making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

In every disaster year, the displaced people abandon their farmland and look for food everywhere, and the landlords cooperate with the grain merchants to drive up the price of grain all the way up, so that those poor people, even if they have some savings, can still afford food. There is a stuttering food and returns to abject poverty.

But the imperial court, the imperial court of everyone, is controlled by the landlords and scholar-bureaucrats.

Zhao Xi looked through all the court decrees since the founding of the country, and compared the chronological records of the country since the founding of the country.

Unfortunately, what he saw was only mistakes, not correctness. What he saw were faces that were short-sighted for self-interest and ignored the court.

This is another catastrophic year, and he can imagine how happy those people with ulterior motives should be at this time...

Even the backbone cores of their own guard camp, it is estimated that the family is also preparing to share another gluttonous feast.

No way, he couldn't and couldn't do it alone to face the entire court, the entire shameless and greedy scholar-bureaucrat class.

From recruiting six families to make food when I was a child, to attracting a large group of people to make copper and iron mines, to attract a large group of people to make wool, coal, steel, and other things that are different from land income, just to let them turn their eyes. , Gain a little insight, don't keep staring at those bitter land.

It's just that Zhao Xi was worried that he would overestimate the IQ of those people and underestimate people's dependence on the land.So, I had to make some preparations...

Didn't disappoint him too much...

"Xi'er, you conspired in the guard camp, and your uncle's family has passed on the word that all actions will be led by the East Palace, and they will be in unison."

Empress Cao made a special trip to the East Palace to speak. She knew that in terms of keeping secrets, the Neiyuan could not compare to the East Palace.

Although she still doesn't quite know what her son is planning, and her mother's family's rumors are also so vague, but she knows that it should be kept secret.

Either the one who sent the message didn't know, or Cao Lin didn't know, so he just described the arrangements made by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Then, the Patriarch called Cao Xiang back and brought these words.

"Third Brother, Dad has also sent word that the Gao family and the East Palace are the same."

Said that it was all said and done, but they all had doubts on their faces.

"The severe drought in Jingzhao Prefecture and Hebei Province is bound to cause a sharp rise in food prices in these two places, and even a large number of refugees will flock to Kaifeng Prefecture."

"Once food prices rise, refugees will become poor, or even disorderly. I'm just taking precautions..."

"Let me tell you, let your own shops in Jingzhaofu and Hebei Road, or grain merchants, vacate all warehouses and prepare to receive grain."

"If possible, build some warehouses, preferably around the national highway..."

For those on the same front, Zhao Xi doesn't mind making arrangements for them in advance.

This time, they have to pay for the severe drought so that they will gain something in the future, let alone their own family members.

It's almost time for planting, and God still doesn't mean it's going to rain at all.

The irrigation of the bobbin cart is basically a drop in the bucket for the entire land of the Central Plains, and it does not help.

Too much land can no longer touch the river, and relying on the sky for food is the status quo of farming.

Dad has already prayed for rain three times, and God doesn't care about this so-called emperor at all.

Affected by the induction between heaven and man, Chen Gong has ordered his father to issue an edict of sin three times... all to no avail.

The court meeting to open the Changping warehouse was not once or twice, but after more than half a month of quarreling in the court, it still did not come to a conclusion.

The price of rice in Bianliang City has risen from [-] Wen to [-] Wen a Dou...

"Your Majesty, I ask the imperial court to order Bianliang money to supervise the production of coins, so as to alleviate the plight of the people who have no money to buy food..."

Who is this?Zhao Xi didn't even know how he came up with this idea.

No reason, no way to reason, arguing with such a person will lower your IQ.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince once said that when there is plenty of grain, more coins are made, and when there is less food, coins are made. What Liu Shilang said is absurd. The coinage will depreciate the new currency and push up the price of grain at the same time. Absolutely not!"

He has the same knowledge as an idiot.

"Your Majesty, I ask the court to open the Changping warehouse and sell it at the price of [-] Wen per bucket, so as to solve the current rising price of rice, and also let the people of Bianliang have no worries about food shortages and prevent panic."

Regardless of whether there are ulterior motives or not, at least the reasons are sufficient and reasonable.

Zhao Xi never considered these courtiers literally, because none of them were innocent.