The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

With this warm room, the confinement women are at least a little relieved, and it is not a solution to lie in bed and not exercise.But I was worried that I would get sick when I got old, so I had to stay in the greenhouse for a month with the mentality of "I would rather believe it".

As for breastfeeding, it is said that you can have several nurses, but as long as it is related to people, you can do it.Liu Tao also knows that he is very suspicious, but for the healthy growth of his children, he directly uses goat milk to feed them.

A piece of land is set aside to raise more than a dozen sheep, which are crowded, hot, and fed, healthy and safe.

The women also agreed with this, let alone Cai Yan who had been a school secretary in the palace, but Ren Hongchang had been a court lady, and vaguely knew some of the dirty things in the palace.

For the healthy growth of one's own children, troubles are more troublesome, and the greatness of maternal love is fully demonstrated.

So busy until September, the autumn harvest began one after another.The summer harvest is mainly aimed at the land that was sown with winter wheat last year, and the autumn harvest is the main theme.A large amount of grain began to be collected, purchased by Changping warehouses in various places according to market prices, and then put into storage.

It's just a battle about food, in fact, it's just started now...

Chapter 522

"My dear friends, guess what is the purpose of calling everyone here this time?" Liu Tao summoned all the courtiers. Today is not the day of going to court, and most of the trivial things are called over by a few courtiers in charge. just fine.

An early morning meeting was called impromptu. According to Liu Tao's previous style of conduct, it was likely that something important would happen.

Of course, the courtiers who have news channels already know roughly what is going on, and it is mainly related to Changping warehouse in Pingyang County.

"The Changping warehouse was abolished during the Yuan Emperor's time, and it was planned to be re-established during the Ming Emperor's time, but in the end it was nothing." Liu Tao looked at the crowd, "In order to ensure the income of the people, I re-established the Changping warehouse. I started a trial in the cloud before. , and then popularized and merged prefectures. The year before last, it was popularized to Sizhou and Liangzhou, and it was first tried in Pingyang County and Jincheng County..."

Hearing this, even the dullest courtiers would know that what Liu Tao said was about Chang Pingcang.

Since last year, the Changping warehouse in Pingyang County began to purchase grain locally.According to the market price, strictly speaking, it is a price slightly lower than the market price, but the people can still make a certain profit by selling grain at this price.

After all, in fact, even if there is a shortage of food, the local grain merchants will try their best to buy at a lower price, and the final purchase price is at least [-]% lower than the purchase price of the normal warehouse.

After the people paid the land rent, there was not much food left, and the selling price could not go up.In the end, we can only sell most of the grain, and then collect some wild vegetables to supplement, and at the same time do small jobs during the slack season, so that we can make do for a year.

The farmers who farmed the fields couldn't eat enough to eat. I'm afraid no one would believe it when they said it, but the reality is so ironic.

The usual setting of warehouses is, on the one hand, to allow the country to have enough food to cope with sudden food disasters.

During the period of Emperor Ling, the weather changed suddenly, and the court could not appease the people, so that the number of refugees increased, and finally the Yellow Turban Rebellion was formed. In the final analysis, there was no food reserve, and the abnormal weather often caused food harvests to fail.

The abnormal weather during the Little Ice Age was also a problem. It is estimated that even Emperor Yuan and Emperor Ming never thought that the climate would become very abnormal for a period of time. This abnormality lasted for at least ten years, or even twenty or thirty years.

I only saw that officials would do bad things through Changping warehouses, but I didn't see the national food crisis...Of course, we can't expect the ancients to have such a long-term vision, especially the emperor who seldom visited the place.

You can't let the emperor go to the place casually. It is said that Kangxi's six visits to the south of the Yangtze River wiped out the Cao family.Qianlong's six visits to the south of the Yangtze River emptied the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.What's even more speechless is that all the money obtained from the extermination of Heshen's house ransacking became Jiajing's internal funds, and only a penny went into the national treasury.

"This year..." Seeing that everyone seems to have remembered something, Liu Tao continued, "The Ministry of Household Affairs sent people to inspect the granary in Pingyang County. There is a county... Anyway, you all know that the granary is on fire."

Having said that, he paused and looked at the courtiers below.Most of them have obviously heard about it, a few are a little surprised, and some may think it's nothing, after all, accidental fire is also possible.

"Some people also suspect that it was an accident. The fire has already ignited. Generally speaking, there is no way to verify..." Liu Tao paused for about three seconds, and immediately changed the subject, "Unfortunately, the local garrison is here this time. Nearby, immediately diverted water to put out the fire, and the fire was extinguished before it reached its maximum! As a result, guess what the officials from the household department found?"

Everyone looked at the household department, and the officials at the household department looked strange.The matter of warehousing is inseparable from the Ministry of Household Affairs. The problem is that there were not enough officials before the imperial examination system last year, otherwise they would not have checked there this year.

"Forget it, the matter itself has something to do with the Ministry of Households, but not much." Liu Tao sighed, "At that time, the officials of the Ministry of Households saw that the grains inside were all old grains, and the amount was not right. Forty percent or more."

To put it simply, [-]% of the grain harvested last year was missing, while the remaining [-]% was replaced with old grain.The purchase of grain last year has completely become a means for local grain officials to fill their own pockets.

What made Liu Tao angry was that during the follow-up investigation and interrogation, these officials used extremely low prices to forcefully buy food from the local people, which almost caused civil unrest in Pingyang County.In the end, the government came forward and appropriately raised some purchase prices to keep things down.

I'm probably also worried that Liu Tao has just succeeded to the throne, and if there is civil unrest under the rule at this time, then the local government and even the county guard may be in trouble.

"Your Majesty, there were too many such things in Changping warehouse back then, that's why I wrote a letter to abolish it." Wang Kuang stepped forward. After all, he had once served as the prefect of Pingyang County.Chang Pingcang was established during his tenure, and this accident has nothing to do with him, so he is also worried!

"It's just that the supervision is not strong enough. Storage technology and storage system are the most important things. Instead of solving this problem, they use these things to persuade them to give up setting up regular warehouses... Then what do I need you for?" Liu Tao Said slowly.

The tone is a bit harsh, but the fact is like this, one or two claim to be her majesty's guardian, but you are just like this?Changing a shepherd can do better than you!

Perhaps because Liu Tao's words were too hurtful, many officials couldn't help but bow their heads, especially the household department.

"Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials!" Liu Tao immediately looked towards the Ministry of Officials, and Lu Zhi stepped forward.

"Next year, we will open another Enke to select talents again." Liu Tao said slowly, "Because of the lack of people, we had to appoint some original officials, or even promote them. We hope that they will contribute to the construction of a brand new big man." Contribute a bit of strength, and they will repay my trust in them like this?"

After a pause, he continued: "Since there is a shortage of people, then continue to recruit people. There is never a shortage of people who want to be officials in the world. It is really impossible to make an exception for outstanding officials. As well as officials trusted by the people of the world, I don’t need such a guy, and neither do big men!”

Everyone understood that the main culprit in this incident must have died beyond death, but the accessory culprit would probably also be dismissed and never hired.

"For those who are coerced, have to submit, and have committed crimes and meritorious deeds..." Liu Tao felt that he could not speak so harshly, "Let them make up for the corruption and transfer them away from the local area. No promotion will be allowed within six years!"

"Your Majesty is merciful!" When something like this happened, Liu Tao's preferential treatment was already considered the best result.Lu Zhi nodded secretly, then stepped forward to receive the order.

"Ministry of Households, do a good job in the management system of the granary, starting from the transportation and storage of grain. I don't want to cause food waste and loss because of the lack of these aspects, and avoid as much as possible." Liu Tao then looked at the household. department.

"Observe the decree!" Wang Yun, as the secretary of the household department, naturally had to endorse it.

"The granary of the world is related to the stability of the world. You should know that if the Changping granary has always been established, then in the past ten years, the people will not be displaced due to lack of food, nor will they be encouraged by Zhang Jiao because of lack of food. Making trouble..." Liu Tao looked at the crowd, "I don't know how long this weather will last, food reserves are the most important thing, you should pay attention to it!"

No wonder Liu Tao is so angry. The problem of food waste has always been a matter of great concern to the country since ancient times.

However, compared to the promotion of CD-ROMs, more than 3000 tons of food have been saved by name-based eating and broadcasting.The food wasted in warehousing, transportation and personnel management in various places is as high as hundreds of millions of tons of food.

How Big Brother disintegrated was not because agriculture and light industry could not keep up, but because of problems in storage and transportation.A large amount of food is in the process of transportation, either cannot be transported, or it is broken on the way.

More than 100 tons of flour are produced, and less than ten tons are transported to the city. Do you have to wait in line to buy bread?

Leaving aside the issues of transportation and warehousing, these are limited by technical issues, so Liu Tao accepted it.However, the problems caused by personnel management cannot be tolerated.

On the other side of Pingyang, Yin soldiers borrowed food, stole beams and exchanged pillars, and fire dragons burned warehouses. What else would they not dare to do in the future?

Liu Tao wondered whether this Yin-Yang warehouse would also come out.That’s the kind, a big granary, actually empty in the middle, or filled with other things, with a layer on top to put grain on it.

In such a yin-yang warehouse, a granary actually only has 20% to 30% of the grain. The inspectors saw that the grain in the granary was almost full, but they couldn’t tell that the granary was actually empty.

In the final analysis, grain storage and transportation are often used for emergencies.The concept of emergency is that unless it is urgent or needed, it may be kept like this for a year or two.

It is stored for a long time, and some of them may be replaced every three to five years. If there is no accident, it may not be checked once in more than ten years.Naturally, it gave the people below a fluke mentality.

Anyway, the above does not check, and it is said that the food is replaced every five years, so it will not be replaced, and it will be replaced after ten years, but it has been reported to replace it once.In this way, the money naturally entered the pockets of officials.

So now the question arises, when is it better to check and who is better to check.

If the Ministry of Households checks the Ministry of Accounts, it will definitely not work. There is a chain of interests between superiors and subordinates, and even a corrupt official below is promoted by a servant or even a minister above.

"Your Majesty, if you want to supervise the officials, wouldn't it be good to increase the manpower of Yushitai?" Guo Jia stepped forward to propose.

There is already a Jinyiwei, but the Jinyiwei mainly monitors political prisoners.As for the official style, dereliction of duty, corruption and unauthorized behavior, the censor is generally responsible.Especially for the power of rumors, Yushi directly became the paparazzi.

Even if there is suspicion, I will join you, and even blackmail an official for the benefit of the party. In the end, the emperor is so anxious that he is pulled out and spanked.

So the emperor spanked them, it was a matter of the emperor's own stupidity, and it had nothing to do with whether they did something wrong.