Better to live forever [Rebirth]

In the 23rd year of Zhenyuan, in the middle of July.

The dark clouds that shrouded the emperor and all the officials also dissipated with the sunny weather in the south. When the officials returned home, they heard that the female relatives said that they would go to the temple to thank the Buddha and bless the disaster. Be filial.

They have been officials for so many years, and they have never been the first offender like the past two years, and they have never lived a peaceful life.

The disaster situation in Yangguang and Guangzhou gradually stabilized, the sea disaster in Pingzhou subsided, and [-] soldiers died and came back to life.

Really happy!

Emperor Zhenyuan ordered the Ministry of Rites to cooperate with Qin Tianjian to open the altar of offering sacrifices to heaven and worship the heaven and earth ancestral temple, and then brought all the officials to worship every Sheji Temple and Houtu Niangniang Temple in Luojing City, asking the emperor and Houtu to bless the society with good health and good weather.

This great sacrifice stabilized the hearts of the people, and finally allowed Dajing to survive this catastrophe safely.

The old Hou Ye and the old lady were also included in the sacrifice. The ceremony lasted for three days, so naturally they were exhausted, but they were full of energy.

Old Hou Ye said: "Don't do this kind of thing again, please forgive me, it really broke my heart."

In fact, the most worrying thing is the Imperial Army Commander's Mansion. The state shepherd of Pingzhou is no one else, but the son-in-law of Commander Qin, and the successive defeats of Pingzhou made Mrs. Qin almost go blind from crying.For nothing else, I am afraid that one day I will see the sad news of my daughter's death in the battle report.Now that the situation in Pingzhou is finally stable, Mrs. Qin didn't care whether her daughter was made a marquis or a general because of her military exploits. After the sacrifice, she took her two daughters-in-law to live in the temple for half a month, petitioning for the Buddha to protect her daughter's life.

The old Hou Ye was also worried day and night. Although he left the battlefield and became a wealthy Hou Ye, he still cared about the battlefield and the safety of the Dajing border.

"I just don't know what's going on in Yangzhou, not to mention that this year's new grain cannot be harvested, how many people will be left without food."

The old Hou Ye sighed, he, who led the soldiers to fight, couldn't think about the important issues of people's livelihood, but he couldn't be more clear about the issue of military pay.Xianbei Mansion, Liangzhou, and Qinzhou, Yizhou, and Ningzhou in the southwest are not good places to produce grain, and [-]% of the food and salaries of the soldiers go to the treasury of the imperial court.Yangzhou is a granary, and it has its advantages and disadvantages. Soldiers in these places have to tighten their belts.

Fighting is hard work, but you must not let the soldiers have enough to eat.

Zhu Dingbei reassured: "Everyone understands this kind of thing in their hearts, and there will definitely be no shortage of food and salaries for the soldiers."

He is not talking nonsense.

It's just that the treasury was stolen and the matter of bad money was kept secret by the emperor, but he didn't know how it would end.But no matter how the emperor planned to clean up the money changers, the current mess still had to be dealt with.If there is a lack of money, the emperor can open a private treasury.But lack of food, what can the emperor do?

Zhu Dingbei planned to ask Ning Heng. The Ning family, which occupies [-]% of the world's shops, must know the doorway here.

The answer Ning Heng gave him surprised him.

"Borrow food."

Ning Heng said.

What kind of food did you borrow?Zhu Dingbei was puzzled, the world's granary was collected into the national treasury, and no one had more grain than the imperial court, so who could I ask for it?

He rolled his eyes, looked at Ning Heng and said, "Grain store? Imperial merchant?"

Ning Heng smiled, nodded affirmatively, and added: "There is also the Ning family."

Grain is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. Ordinary merchants are not qualified to buy and sell grain. Only imperial merchants appointed by the imperial court can open grain and oil shops.Now that the emperor has no rice to eat, Labula has to look for them. Whoever allows them to enjoy this honor must always be ready to contribute to the court.

Zhu Dingbei was relieved when he heard that his imperial court had already purchased grain to fill the treasury. As long as the soldiers were not treated badly, he didn't care if Emperor Zhenyuan could sleep well at night.

The schadenfreude on his face was too obvious, Ning Heng pinched his face with a smile, and when the knife flew over his eyes, he said with a serious face: "The most troublesome thing about the disaster in Yangguang area is not the lack of food supply, but the lack of food supply. It will cause food price fluctuations."

When Zhu Dingbei heard this, he quickly stopped his wandering thoughts and focused his attention.

"There is a shortage of food and the supply exceeds demand, so the price of food will naturally rise. If it is not controlled in time, the fluctuation of food prices will spread, and the price of food in the [-] Dajing prefectures will rise sharply. That is the real desperation for the people."

Ning Heng explained.

Although Zhu Dingbei is different from business affairs and people's livelihood, he has extraordinary vision. Ning Heng made him understand the seriousness of this matter with just a few words.

Zhu Dingbei asked anxiously: "As you can imagine, the emperor and the household department must have thought of it too. What are they going to do?"

Ning Heng said: "A combination of soft and hard. On the one hand, it puts pressure on the merchants and imposes heavy codes to limit the price of grain. On the other hand, the imperial court will come forward to make up for the lost silver taels of the merchants. The amount will not exceed [-]%."

The status of merchants is low, but what they can do is immeasurable.

Grain, salt, wine, oil, cloth.

Any price increase will lead to instability of people's livelihood.The first two are strictly controlled by the imperial court, but in extraordinary circumstances, it is not the imperial court that has the final say.

For example, this time the food price is about to soar, and the amount of food sold in shops has decreased, but the amount of food to be sold has not decreased. The so-called price gets, and the competition among the people will bring about a large fluctuation in food prices.

A slap by the court and a sweet date will not cure the problem.

Even if the imperial merchants are under control, there are still other merchants.They are not qualified to open grain shops, but they can circulate grain in the black market.

As the saying goes, merchants value profits. Among these merchants, the ones who had seen the most profoundly began to stockpile grain when the flood broke out in Yangzhou, looking for opportunities to seek huge profits.There is also a saying that money can turn ghosts. Businessmen pay attention to how much courage they have to eat. This huge profit is easy to get. It is not that no one risked being severely punished by the court to sell grain and rice privately at sky-high prices.

And food is related to everyone. The common people have to eat, and those ordinary merchants also have to eat.Once food prices rise, these merchants can only increase the prices they sell if they want to maintain their livelihoods.In this way, the same silver money cannot be exchanged for the same items, and the silver money becomes less valuable. Once the silver money depreciates, this is a big problem that really harms the country.

Really, one hair can move the whole body.

Zhu Dingbei thought for a while, and asked with some uncertainty: "Your Ning family also occupies a lot of grain shops, right?"

Seeing Ning Heng nodding his head, Zhu Dingbei couldn't help feeling a pain in his flesh.If the old emperor wants to stabilize the merchants, he must take the Ning family as the vanguard, and the relationship between the Ning family and the royal family is complicated, but the Ning family must do their best for the royal family in major matters related to the fundamentals of the country.

Zhu Dingbei: "Is it stable?"

Ning Heng: "Steady."

Lord Changxin Hou said that the court would win the food price war, and Zhu Dingbei believed it unconditionally.It's just that I feel a little guilty.

To fight this food price war, how many 6000 taels of gold would it take to withstand it?It can be said that life and death depend on life and wealth, and I don't know how many people will go bankrupt overnight... The excitement here is not inferior to bloody battles on the battlefield.

As expected, epidemics occurred in the counties and counties affected by the disaster. Fortunately, the doctors from the Imperial Hospital were dispatched early, and the experts of private doctors joined hands to make preparations in various places. Methodical.At the end of July, the memorial to the pacification of the epidemic was presented to heaven.

Emperor Zhenyuan was overjoyed, and commended the two princes on the spot for being a role model for the royal family by acting properly and serving the people.

Lou Ankang and the others rejoiced for this. The students of Guozixue are the closest to the current affairs among the students in the world. After the Pingzhou World War I was restored, the disaster of Yang Guang became their only topic. Worried, sometimes there are countermeasures mentioned during the conversation.Now that the disaster is certain, they feel the same, and everyone has joy on their faces.

Zhu Dingbei also heard that this year's Poetry and Book Contest was unprecedentedly lively. Not only did many students write articles praising the imperial court's achievements, His Majesty's sages, but some people also drew a picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, which was bought by Wenshu Pavilion with a lot of money and hung in the Above the lobby, it became a hot topic for a while.

After Zhu Dingbei heard this, his heart was full of slander: Tsk, these Luojing Confucians really know how to play.

Thinking about how he was fighting in northern Xinjiang back then, how could he have the leisure to write poems, paint and flatter him?

And these people, writing and painting in this prosperous and peaceful place can also be praised as having nothing in the sky and nothing on the earth.Zhu Xiaohou must say that he is definitely not jealous, he is looking down on: this group of idle, rotten grandchildren!

When the disaster situation stabilized, Pingzhou Zhoumu also went to Luojing to play together.

The reason for this is precisely the group of Krakens who were originally identified by the Pingzhou Army as the gang of pirates, but later found out to be survivors of Dajing, who helped the Pingzhou Army retrieve the [-] soldiers imprisoned by the pirates.

The governor of Pingzhou has brought these people back to shore, but how to arrange them is up to His Majesty to decide.In the memorial, he asked these people to settle in Pingzhou and at the same time enlist them in the army.Not to mention their own extremely fierce combat power, but based on their familiarity with the sea and their ability to control sea monsters, if these people join the Pingzhou Army, it will be a great blessing.

With the children of the sea here, why be afraid of pirates?

After discussing with Dong Xiang, Emperor Zhenyuan granted Teng Hui's request to play a memorial. In addition, he also issued a heavy reward for the rescue of the [-] troops by the survivors, and ignored the fact that the survivors defeated the Pingzhou Army.

At the end, the emperor also told Dong Xiang about the second son of the Dong family, Dong Minghe who had made great achievements in the first battle of Pingzhou.

"There are two sons in Aiqing's mansion, Long Zhang Feng Zi, the eldest son Conghui has made outstanding achievements in the local government, the second son is proficient in the art of war, and has repeatedly made military exploits. He is really good at both civil and military. He shares my worries and is the pillar of the country."

Emperor Zhenyuan's words were sincere, and he was obviously very satisfied with Dong Xiang's two sons.

Dong Xiangdao: "Your Majesty, you don't know something. My second son has been stubborn since he was a child. Even he joined the army this time. He actually went to Pingzhou to join the army without even saying hello to his mother without telling me. His aunt is worried. I didn't expect this kid to be hit by mistake this time. It is my Dajing's blessing that the survivors surrendered.

Hearing that he was so self-effacing, Emperor Zhenyuan laughed it off.

The second son of the Dong family.

After the Ministry of War has approved the military exploits this time, he should be a fifth-rank Zhonglang general.Dajing's youngest general, how could he not be praised by him?

If this son is worthy of great use, the candidate for the leader of his imperial army can be decided at about [-] o'clock.

The author has something to say:

[Quack, the emperor wants to choose Dong Er as the leader of the private army, what do you think?