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- The next morning, it was the usual office meeting.
That is to say, the emperor sat in the Qianqing Palace to review memorials, and underneath there was a group of prime ministers who were also reviewing large and small matters, and then discussed with everyone if there were any problems.
If the six ministers have time, they will also come here to report and discuss some things.
Today, Xiong Wenqing, the governor of Gyeonggi Province, also arrived at Qianqing Palace.
He reported a piece of information to Liu Mingqi.
"Your Majesty, the news came back from the flying pigeons on the Datong front line. The beggar Jin Chenbai once again requested a large-scale support transaction. This time they need 10 million shi of food."
"Ten million stones?"
Liu Mingqi frowned and said, "Didn't I sell them five million stones last time? How many people do they have? Can they eat that much?"
Yes.
The food aid given to Qiyan before was sold to Qiyan, not given to them for free.
¡°It¡¯s just that the price is a little cheaper, only ten cents per catty of rice or wheat.
In the year when Liu Mingqi just traveled through time, the price of rice in the capital was eighteen cents per catty, and during the same period, the price of rice in Jiangnan was seven cents per catty.
But because of the floods and locust plague, the price rose to forty cents per catty in one breath, and the price in Jiangnan also rose to twenty cents per catty.
In the following years, various natural and man-made disasters continued, causing rice and wheat prices to remain high.
It is no exaggeration to say that in the past four years, most people in the disaster area have survived by relying on bran porridge.
Even last year, when there was a bumper harvest, they still had a hard time because they had to fill various loopholes.
It¡¯s June now, and the autumn harvest will be in two months.
This year, Huang Tian has blessed us with another foreseeable bumper harvest, but the price of rice and wheat in the capital is still twenty cents per catty.
Many people still eat two meals a day, one of which is bran porridge.
That¡¯s why Emperor Jinghe and his ministers were so looking forward to sweet potatoes, and that¡¯s why Sima Beicai wanted to promote sweet potato cultivation in his Pengzhou Prefecture.
It was originally expected that after this year¡¯s bumper harvest, grain prices would drop further, so that the grain in the warehouse could be sold, thus calming down the high grain prices.
But this time Qi Yan¡¯s request for help disrupted everyone¡¯s plans.
Qiyan must be saved, otherwise the Xiqiang and Shiwei will equally divide the Qiyan Plateau, allowing them to gain territory and population. After it expands, it will be a huge threat to Dakang.
Before there were mechanized troops, if you wanted to annihilate the nomads in such a large area, you could only dream.
Even if it is possible, we don¡¯t know how much manpower, material and financial resources it will cost.
Now is the era of great navigation, how could Liu Mingqi spend too much energy on them?
Having said that, if we do not have the threat of nomads and focus on developing our own economy and maritime trade, by 3000 AD, the West will only be lying on the ground and looking up at us.
Therefore, it is the best choice for Dakang to spend some money and food so that Qiyan can hold back Xiqiang and Shiwei and let them bite dogs.
But before, Jinghe Di didn¡¯t say it was free, he gave them ten cents per catty, and it was the price of delivery to Datong.
Jin Chenbai simply accepted it, and then used the cattle, horses and sheep to pay the bill.
God knows where he got the large herds of cattle, horses and sheep, and sold them to Dakang at a very low price.
Unexpectedly, only three months later, he came back again, and the demand was twice as much as before.
Ten million shi of grain, if you save a little, can feed three million people for a year.
Liu Mingqi only felt a bit of conspiracy.
Several prime ministers who were working at the scene also put down their pens.
"Ten million stones of grain account for half of the current grain stocks in Qiu County and Kao County?" Cao Yi asked Zhong Chang.
Zhong Chang supervises the household department, and he knows these things well: "Yes, the total grain storage in Qiu County and Kao County now is only 18 million shi. If 10 million shi of grain need to be mobilized, it will have to be supplemented from Hunan and Hubei. Jiangnan We can¡¯t move because the food reserves in Jiangnan are very low, so we shouldn¡¯t move too much.¡±
How else to say that Huguang is well versed in the world?
After thousands of years of development, it has a mature irrigation system. When it comes to food production, Hunan and Hubei are really not inferior to Jiangnan.
It¡¯s just that Jiangnan¡¯s economy is more developed.
Last year and this year, Hunan and Hubei did not suffer disasters, and their grain output increased significantly.?, Do you want our people" Gao Jing made a cutting gesture.
"Need not."
Liu Mingqi waved his hand and said: "Assassination is not a good thing, and I don't need to do it. When we conquer Heerda Subu, I want to see for myself who this bastard is! Look at him Is it Li Fan, that bastard?"
"yes!"
Gao Jing bowed his hands and accepted the order.
When many tribes defected to Heerda Subu, many spies from Xiuyiwei also infiltrated.
After more than a year, they found out about the mysterious Mr. Feng wearing a bamboo hat next to Jin Chenbai.
Based on various information investigations, the spies believe that this Mr. Feng must be from Dakang, and he has a huge secret.
When they spread the information last month, Gao Jing felt that this person looked a bit like Li Fan as soon as he saw the news.
But Li Fan and Mr. Feng are completely different in terms of body shape, voice, etc.
This is somewhat contradictory.
Gao Jing was unsure, so he reported it to Liu Mingqi.
It turns out that Liu Mingqi had the same judgment as him - this Mr. Feng, nine out of ten, is Li Fan!
He should immediately ask Jin Chenbai to hand over Mr. Feng, otherwise he would have to consider the consequences of Dakang's anger.
But it was obvious that Jin Chenbai ignored Liu Mingqi.
The failure to ask for Mr. Feng now only further deepened Liu Mingqi¡¯s suspicion.
"It's a pity that it is impossible to determine Mr. Feng's true identity in the short term!"
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