Rong Li's Postscript 5
Millet, millet, rice, and wheat are all grains. nv students
Since the development of Qingyun Kingdom, millet, millet, and rice have been planted almost everywhere.
Millet is millet, yellow rice, and the output is average.
Millet is millet, and the output is also small.
Only rice, that is, rice, rice, has a very high yield!
In the fifth year of Zhengqing, with the help of Liu Wei, Qingyun Country's agricultural output has once again been significantly increased. This increase is mainly due to the increase in the interaction of hybrid rice.
Rice is originally a crop with a very high yield. After modifying the genetic formula, the harvest can be increased by 30% to 50%. Therefore, in the past ten years, Qingyun Kingdom has almost fallen into a situation where rice cultivation has become a magic.
Even in the north where rice is not suitable for reproduction, due to the birth of hybrid rice and the promotion of scientific farming, the north has also fallen into a rice-growing frenzy. It is not an exaggeration to say that the staple food of the people of Qingyun Kingdom is basically rice.
And because rice occupies 90% of the land, the planting of millet and millet is becoming less and less. Of course, this is not a problem. They are all food. There is no difference between eating rice and eating yellow rice or millet.
But now, Qingyun Country is short of food.
When he had no choice but to look outside, Rong Jindong set his sights on the two small affiliated countries outside Qingyunxi.
Qingyun country is addicted to rice cultivation, but the surrounding small countries do not have new rice recipes, so they still plant the original millet, millet, and rice, and the west has not experienced drought.
In the beginning, Rong Jindong wanted to use the name of the imperial court to borrow food from Ningguo and Pingguo in the west, but before the edict was issued, it was opposed by the imperial court.
In this opposition, even the Fifth Prince Rong Fei was involved in it, and only the Seventh Prince Rong Su held a neutral attitude, but the Seventh Prince's neutrality was almost the same as opposition.
This situation surprised Rong Jindong, but the reasons given by the courtiers were also justified.
Qingyun is a big country, but it can’t feed a certain state, and even condescends to ask for food from the subordinate country. This has never happened in the past and present. , can Qingyun's demeanor of a great country be maintained? Is Qingyun going to become a subject of ridicule by the subordinate country
The courtiers would never allow such a thing to happen, even Rong Fei who always supported Rong Jindong, refused to give in this time.
The opposition from the government and the opposition forced Rong Jindong to stop his idea of borrowing food, because if he didn't stop, Yu Shi would hang himself in the Palace of Shangqing.
But the courtiers also gave a corresponding solution. Outside the West Sea, there were Fan merchants who traveled around the world and had a lot of food routes in their hands. Because of the central plains’ respect for millet, millet, and rice, Fan merchants didn’t have much, but wheat, Fan merchants have a lot of them, and some small countries in foreign regions have special wheat growers.
Wheat noodles are also a good thing to eat. If you can buy wheat noodles from Fanshang, Dingzhou's difficulties can also be rescued.
However, Fanshang knew that the imperial court was short of food. After the Ministry of Household Affairs contacted them, they opened their mouths and offered a price ten times higher than the market price.
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Knowing that it is a disadvantage, but saving the people is like putting out a fire, so you should buy it or buy it.
At first the courtiers were still unconvinced, and decided to give Fan Shang some flair.
But they are not from Qingyun country. Qingyun country allows fan merchants to clear customs and trade, which is based on the standpoint of win-win trade. If they rashly suppress fan merchants, it will only make Qingyun country lose its trust first, and it will also be criticized by the subordinate country.
The courtiers who feel that "the face is bigger than the sky" have no choice but to persuade the emperor, let's do it, we are not short of money, isn't it true that several princes have sponsored and donated a large amount of money, and it is still affordable.
Rong Jin came back from the east court and locked himself in Shangqing Palace for five full hours. After he came out, he ordered the fifth prince, Rong Fei, to personally take charge of the grain purchase.
The matter was originally settled like this, but at the same time, Rong Jindong ordered Jing Zhaoyin to bring Zhong Ziyu, a repeat offender in death row, into the Forbidden Palace.
Rong Jindong only asked Zhong Ziyu one question: "Do you know how to disguise?"
After getting an affirmative answer, Rong Jindong was not in a hurry to use Zhong Ziyu, but just arranged for him first.
After all, Zhong Ziyu was a repeat offender, and Rong Jindong didn't want to use criminals to do things until he was close to death.
The drought in Dingzhou first appeared last year. Around the Chinese New Year this year, the drought has become very severe. At the beginning of this year, the imperial court allocated relief funds to Jiangnan to buy rice. Around March, Jiangnan ran out of rice. They bought grain with Fanshang. But now, Dingzhou is full of starvation, every household is dying every day.
The reason is that at first they thought that the drought in Dingzhou would be eased by April and May this year, but in fact, the drought this year
Carried on, no relief at all.
Dingzhou had no harvest for a year, and the imperial court had to continue to help.
At the same time, Fanshang, who also discovered this situation, suddenly proposed that the price of wheat should rise five times again.
In fact, Fanshang did not provide much wheat noodles. Perhaps they did search all the grains that Zhouyu could buy, including Pingguo and Ningguo, but these could not solve the severe drought crisis in Dingzhou at all. Double the price, the food bought is only enough for the victims to eat one more rough steamed bun the size of a baby's fist every day.
The only place where there is still food now is the neighboring countries.
However, the courtiers objected too seriously, and wanted to buy grain in the name of the court, and the censor had to hang himself again.
Unbearable, Rong Jindong decided to kill first and then play. He didn't intend to treat the purchase of grain as the court's business. He arranged his own people to contact the subordinate countries.
At the same time, he also activated Zhong Ziyu, but because he didn't trust him enough, he only asked Zhong Ziyu to help make a human skin mask for use by his cronies.
But the subordinate country is not stupid. No one knows that Qingyun country is short of food. Fan merchants are willing to buy food from the subordinate country at a high price, and then resell Qingyun to make a difference. You people who look like our country, but when you hear the accent, you feel You can tell by his clothes that he is a spy from the Qingyun Kingdom. He came to me to buy food, and I can let you buy it cheaply
So, the subordinate countries began to hang up and sell them. Fan merchants bought them a stone of grain and asked for ten taels of silver. You Qingyun spies, sorry, you want thirty taels of silver.
In fact, if the authority of the main country is used to forcibly borrow grain from the vassal country to buy grain, the cost price would be less than one stone and one tael, but now, it is a full thirty times more expensive.
After that, Rong Jindong had no choice but to transfer Zhong Ziyu to Pingguo.
Zhong Ziyu is very competitive, relying on his superb disguise technique, with a brilliant tongue and a slick face, he has now deceived the high officials of the Pingguo and Ningwang princes, and they are willing to supply them with food for a long time at the price of three taels and one stone.
Compared with before, this is much cheaper, and it belongs to the normal price.
Now Zhong Ziyu has returned to Qingyun Kingdom with his envoys, but the rumors about the drought in the capital have suddenly made the envoys of the subordinate countries realize that they have been fooled. Could it be that the big brothers who are looking for them to buy grain are not Qingyun grain merchants, nor are they relying on natural disasters? Borrowing money from disaster victims, but people from the Qingyun court
Now, Zhong Ziyu has been suspected by the envoys, therefore, Rong Jindong decided to draw out the bottom line and set up a plan to consolidate the trust of the envoys in Zhong Ziyu and complete the grain transaction as soon as possible, but this plan may be life-threatening, so Rong Jindong decided Please come to Rong Li for help. In fact, if Liu Wei is in Beijing, Rong Jindong will find his master. Uncle Wu Wang does not approve of buying grain with the subordinate country. Uncle Third Wang should be the same as Uncle Seven in that he will hold a neutral opinion, but Master has a temperament People in the middle will definitely understand his decision!
It's a pity that Master is not in Beijing, Rong Jindong has no choice but to ask Xiao Li who just returned to Beijing for help.
Xiao Li is willing to help, this is actually within Rong Jindong's expectations, because Xiao Li's temper and thoughts are well-informed by Master, but if the plan is to be implemented without fail, Xiao Li proposes to see Zhong Ziyu, but at this time Zhong Ziyu must let Zhong Ziyu Rushing out of the envoy's sight, it is very likely that the two-month plan will come to naught.
Rong Jindong was very embarrassed.
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