"Sir, I think we should immediately stop the original strategy of allocating grain to major grain stores in the city for sale, and instead inform the people that the government will sell a certain amount of grain directly to the people at a flat price per household near the official warehouse in the city~ !”
In the main hall of the back office of the governor's office, facing Wang Liaoyuan's "asking for advice", Mr. Wu showed a confident look and bowed his hand to Wang Liaoyuan.
"Oh~? But there are tens of millions of people in Taiyuan City. Wouldn't it be more difficult for the people to buy food~?"
Hearing this, Wang Liaoyuan frowned.
"not necessarily!"
Mr. Wu shook his head and replied: "For the common people, there seem to be fewer places to sell food in the city, but we can set up multiple queuing places near the official warehouse to sell food to the people nearby. And this time The government centralizes the supply of food, and naturally the government can also send yamen to maintain order at the scene. It is much more efficient for people to line up to buy food than to swarm at the food store!
In addition, this time we will stipulate that each household can only buy a certain amount of food based on the number of people. In this way, it will be fair to all the people in the city, and the people will not worry about running out of food when it is their turn. Naturally, they won’t be impatient, let alone grab it~! "
It has to be said that the scribe surnamed Wu is indeed a good hand in governance. He has an idea when looking at the problem. The biggest problem with the current grain sales policy in Taiyuan City is that it is irregular. First, the queues are irregular. Second, the grain sales policy in Taiyuan City is irregular. It turns out that the distribution is not standardized. After all, the owners and clerks of the grain store only sell the grain. Who cares which household buys how much? Even if they wanted to, they couldn't, because they didn't know exactly how many people there were in each household, but the government knew because the officials in the government had the household registration books of the people in the city.
Of course, there are even more outrageous things. Some grain store owners even take advantage of the convenience to withhold part of the grain themselves as a gift!
After all, food can be regarded as "hard currency" in Taiyuan City nowadays!
Now if the government takes back the power of grain merchants to sell grain and transfers it to centralized management by the government, it will undoubtedly be more standardized and efficient!
Governor Wang obviously understood the logic behind this. Hearing this, he nodded and said, "Okay! In Mr. Wu's opinion, how much food should each household be able to buy?"
Mr. Wu thought for a while, stretched out a finger and said: "Based on the number of people in each household, one person can only buy one pound of grain per day. It seems a little less, but now Taiyuan City is in a special period, and there is a If you save a few kilograms of food, you can keep a person from going hungry for two days!
The purpose of the government's opening of grain warehouses this time is just to provide emergency relief to some people who have little or no food stored at home, so that these people will not starve to death due to the closure of the city. It is not to allow people to take the opportunity to hoard food!
Moreover, the government can say that as long as Taiyuan City is closed for one day, the official warehouse will be open to the people for one day, and the people can come and buy food in accordance with the regulations! As long as the people are not hungry, Wu believes that they will not be bewitched by those treacherous people and commit rebellion! In this way, the people of Taiyuan can be reassured~! "
Governor Wang nodded repeatedly, but after hearing the next two sentences from Mr. Wu, he couldn't help but hesitate and said:
"What Mr. Wu said is reasonable, but if we follow this approach, the food in the official warehouse may not last for three days! And when Taiyuan City will be able to return to its past, you and I are not sure!"
Mr. Wu replied: "Sir, as far as Wu knows, there are currently more than 500,000 people in Taiyuan City, and no more than 600,000 at most. According to one kilogram of grain per person, it will consume more than 5,000 shi a day. According to The remaining grain in the official warehouse can last for about four days!
Of course, as long as the government shows that there is enough food in the city, Wu believes that all the people in the city will not flock to buy food in the short term, because in fact most people have surplus food at home! In this way, the food in the official warehouse alone can last for six or seven days. By then, even if General Li has not rescued His Highness, we will have enough time to mobilize food from outside the city into the city!
Moreover, through this method, it not only stabilizes the people's sentiments, but also allows the people who have no food reserves to queue up to buy food with peace of mind, so that they will not be taken advantage of by those who are interested in gathering people to create troubles. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone! "
The meaning of Lao Wu's last words was to find something for the people to do (queuing up to buy food), so that these people would not be idle and take advantage of them because they were worried about not having food!
Hearing this, Wang Liaoyuan's brows finally relaxed. He looked at Old Wu and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Wu's plan is very good! Taiyuan City cannot be in chaos now. We must maintain stability in the city so that General Li can I will do my best to rescue His Highness! I will leave this matter to you, Mr. Wu, and make arrangements immediately!"
Old Wu cupped his hands and said, "Yes~! Thank you for your trust, sir. Wu will definitely get things done!"
After saying that, he said goodbye and turned to leave.
"Sir, if there is nothing else, then this subordinate..."
Seeing Mr. Wu leave, Capt. Feng also wanted to say goodbye and leave. After all, there were many people on the list that Wang Liaoyuan just gave him. It would take a lot of effort to catch them all.
"Wait a minute~!"
Wang Liaoyuan knew what Feng Captou meant. He stretched out his hand to interrupt the latter's words, and then said: "I have another task for you here!"
He also said just now that he plans to move forward in three directions. The first is to ask Feng Captou to secretly arrest a group of people. The second is to ask Mr. Wu to find a way to stabilize the people of Taiyuan City. The third...
"Sir, please speak!"
Feng Baotou was shaken, bowed and cupped his fists.
Wang Liaoyuan walked up to Feng Baotou and whispered: "Most of the people on the list I gave you earlier have connections with Turkic spies, but these are just what Baiqi has found so far, and they do not represent all of them. , I believe there must be others hiding in the dark. Nowadays, for the government office, in addition to stabilizing the order in the city, the most important thing is to take good care of Zhao Deyan, the leader of the Turkic spy!
Therefore, you must always pay attention to the cell. Even if there are soldiers from the Bingzhou Camp to help guard it, you must not relax your vigilance. You must prevent someone from secretly letting Zhao Deyan go, otherwise His Highness will be in danger~! "
Feng Captou said with a serious face: "Yes! I accept the order! Don't worry, sir, I will arrange some trustworthy brothers to keep an eye on Zhao Deyan twelve hours a day. In addition, if I have nothing else to do, I will personally Go to the cell and keep an eye on it, you won’t let the thieves take advantage of it~!”
"Okay~! Then go and make arrangements!"
Wang Liaoyuan nodded and said.
"Yes! Resign, villain!"
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