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    In the afternoon, Emperor Jinghe once again invited Liu Mingqi into the palace.

    The person who came to pick up the boy was Eunuch Zhao Shou, an old acquaintance.

    Liu Mingqi was very familiar with him, but both of them were silent along the way.

    I really don¡¯t know what to say.

    Liu Mingqi also knew that it was impossible for Zhao Shou to answer his question.

    What happened to the naughty boy and the naughty boy? This sentence has been lingering in Liu Mingqi's heart, and he didn't ask until he got off the car.

    Emperor Jinghe has moved out of Yangxin Palace and returned to the Imperial Study Room to handle official duties.

    Liu Mingqi saw him for the first time in ten days.

    At first glance, the emperor seemed to be a different person.

    I used to be a little chubby and had a double chin.

    Now, his face is pale and his figure has lost weight rapidly. He seems to have lost at least twenty or thirty kilograms.

    Only a huge blow can cause people to behave like this.

    "What? We don't know each other anymore?" Emperor Jing He looked at the young man's stunned look and wanted to make a few jokes, but he seemed dry and the smile on his face was also very far-fetched.

    "No."

    Liu Mingqi quickly smiled and said, "Your Majesty, do you have anything to do with me?"

    The young man doesn¡¯t know much about psychology, but he knows that it¡¯s best not to mention the drastic changes in the palace now, as if it didn¡¯t happen, so that the emperor can stop thinking about it and slowly start a new starting point.

    Emperor Jinghe was somewhat surprised by Liu Mingqi's first sentence.

    Immediately, he nodded and signaled Zhao Shou to hand a document on the table to Liu Mingqi: "Here, you take a look first."

    The young man took it.

    When I looked up, it was a memorial written by Liu Renhuai, the governor of Jiangnan, to Emperor Jinghe.

    Having been in this world for so long, Liu Mingqi is already quite familiar with things written in classical Chinese.

    Liu Renhuai is indeed a capable minister.

    In the memorial, he mainly talked with Emperor Jinghe about the issue of grain procurement this year.

    ????????? It¡¯s God¡¯s mercy.

    Although the Yangtze River and the Yellow River were raging together for the first time in decades, completely ruining seven or eight provinces along the way, the core areas of Jiangnan - Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui, did not suffer any setbacks and still had a bumper harvest.

    Although the Yangtze River passes through Jiangsu, the grain has already been harvested when it arrived, so even though many places were flooded, at least this year's harvest was saved.

    The overall taxation of the three provinces of Jiangnan has also been released.

    The storage of grain alone has reached 35 million dan, which is 5 million dan more than last year.

    This is because the water conservancy measures implemented by Jiangnan in the past few years have achieved results this year.

    Liu Renhuai is indispensable.

    The key point is not the 35 million shi of grain, but the fact that the central and southwest regions suffered major floods this year, so Emperor Jinghe ordered Liu Renhuai to purchase grain for later use.

    After all, Jiangnan has the most grain, and there is usually a surplus of grain, so it is easiest to purchase it here.

    Liu Renhuai was previously in charge of the three southwestern provinces and the imperial minister of Shandong. He was specifically responsible for flood fighting and disaster relief, and also monitored the water transportation yamen and the northern navy.

    When the matter was almost over, the remaining aftermath work was left to Li Xiutai, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and Wu Yu, the Minister of Works. Liu Renhuai immediately rushed back to Jiangnan and began to take charge of the grain collection work.

    At first, he exchanged last year¡¯s 10 million stones of old grain for 50 million stones of bran. This was no problem and everyone gave him face.

    But when he wanted to purchase the grain from the gentry and local tycoons, he encountered great obstacles.

    Jiangnan is rich in food production, and the food supply for ordinary people is only nine cents per liter.

    Compared with previous years, there has been an increase, but compared with last year, it has dropped a lot.

    Because of two consecutive years of bumper harvests, it is impossible for grain merchants to raise grain prices locally.

    But Liu Renhuai wanted to purchase grain and restock the major warehouses of the imperial court, but they were unwilling.

    It¡¯s not that you don¡¯t want to sell, but you are willing to sell a small amount of food, but not a large amount of food.

    The price Liu Renhuai gave was not low. According to the standards of previous years, he deliberately increased it by two cents to seven cents per liter.

    This increase has exceeded 30%, which can be said to be very high.

    This is also because Liu Renhuai now has money.

    &sp;It depends on business.

    Heavy taxes on commerce gave the Kang Dynasty enough courage to have more money and food to spend, thus ensuring that more people could spend their money.

    Therefore, business is the top priority in Dakang.

    If you want to get a lot of tax revenue from business, you must be kind to others, or at least fair.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? If the merchants are overwhelmed by the unreasonable levies, and simply stop doing business, where will the tax revenue come from?

    I can¡¯t resist you, but I can always stop doing business, right?

    Therefore, when dealing with this issue, Dakang officials did not dare to mess around no matter how much they looked down on businessmen.

    The last time Miao Yan killed the steward of the big businessman Zheng Fuzhang in the capital and forced the grain merchants to submit, he also caught them using stones to pass off as grain.

    Miao Yan later wrote a document about this incident, posted it in front of various notice boards, and read it to the common people, businessmen and gentry.

    This is to show everyone that I am not killing people randomly, but there is evidence.

    In this way, businessmen in other industries will not be disappointed when they see it.

    "Otherwise they will think this way: If you can plunder grain merchants this time, will you be tea merchants next time?"  Will it be the porcelain merchant next time?

    Even a resolute and decisive person like Miao Yan has to be so careful, let alone others.

    Liu Renhuai is determined to bring order to the chaos, but the consequences of his methods are still unknown.

    The emperor was also a little worried.

    So Liu Mingqi understood that Emperor Jing He came to him and asked him what excuse he would use or how to avoid backlash.

    We can¡¯t say it will definitely work, nor does it have to be used by Liu Renhuai, but at least this is a reference.

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