"Grandpa Huang, Sun Chen has a whole set of plans that he wants to report."

"You are the supervisor of the country. You don't need to report. You can just tell everyone to do it."

"Yes, Sun Chen obeys the order."

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Youdong turned around: "My lords, facing the upcoming large-scale locust plague, the most difficult thing for the court now is insufficient food reserves. To solve this problem, the only way to solve this problem is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. The issue of revenue will be discussed later.

Hui is talking about it, but I am talking about cutting costs first."

"Your Highness, please give me your instructions."

"Cao Sanxi."

"I'm here."

"Now all the official warehouses in our Ming Dynasty have been cancelled, and they are all under the control of your bank. Each department only has an account with you, and the things are all with you. I will make a rule here today. If there is a fire in the warehouse,

Regardless of the reason, the personnel in charge of the warehouse will be punished for corruption! This rule will take effect today."

"Yes, I understand and will resolutely implement His Highness's order."

"In addition, banks should quickly instruct each branch to set up relief points and recruitment points in advance."

"Recruiting point? Ah~, I understand."

"Very good." Nodding, Zhu Youdong faced Sun Wei and said, "General Constitution?"

"I'm here."

"Starting from this year, the salaries of all civil servants and officials across the country have increased so much. With this salary standard, officials may need to calculate their living standards, but the officials have enough money. If this is still the case in the country

It is really unjustifiable to engage in corruption at a critical moment! In the past, the country distributed relief materials, and the rules of governments at all levels charging 30% for disgorgement must be abolished! Please also ask the Metropolitan Procuratorate to gather the censors to monitor the provinces of North China

Make arrangements in advance. Once the locust plague really breaks out and relief begins, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will strictly supervise the use of relief materials! If you dare to reach out at this time, the General Constitution can send a message in advance: confiscation of property will be severely punished!

"

"I accept the order, but the scope of the disaster is so wide. I'm afraid it's not enough to rely solely on the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate."

"It doesn't matter." Zhu Youdong pointed towards the front hall: "After the palace examination, all the new scholars this year will be temporarily handed over to the Procuratorate for at least half a year. After half a year, the Jinshi who embezzled a lot of money will be found.

There are errands that have been arranged as a priority over there. Otsuka Zai, what do you think of this?"

"Your Highness, this is an excellent idea. I have always felt that it is inappropriate for new Jinshi to directly join the ministry as soon as they join the officialdom. It is just right for them to go to the bottom to see the most hard-working people of the Ming Dynasty, and I will be alert when they return to the court and serve as officials."

"Since Mr. Otsuka has agreed to this matter, it's settled. Zongxian? Are you satisfied?"

"Satisfied! I am extremely satisfied! In this way, I don't have to worry about manpower. Moreover, the new scholars are most enterprising and dare not show mercy when facing corrupt officials. Please rest assured, Your Highness, with these more than 300 new scholars, this time

It may not be possible to avoid wasting one yuan of national money, but the money and food that was embezzled during this disaster relief must be controlled within a very small range."

"Well." Zhu Youdong is not worried about Sun Wei's own ability and integrity. But if he can't stand up to most of his men who can only talk and talk but can't do anything practical, it's hard to say what effect this will have. But it doesn't matter.

By then Jinyiwei and Dongchang will all be mobilized. This time the disaster relief is not simply to feed the victims, but to try every means to prevent the occurrence of refugees - if the people spontaneously fled because they had no food, then in previous years

The census that took so much effort has been wasted, at least in North China!

In other words, the difficulty of this disaster relief is not generally greater than that of previous disaster relief.

Therefore, in addition to strengthening warehouse management, optimizing disaster relief locations, strictly investigating corruption and other cost-saving measures, we also need to open up more resources.

"After a while, Gu gave orders to Yan Siqi, Li Guozhu, and Yu Zigao, asking them to escort the ships of the Ming Dynasty Sea Trade to Korea, Luzon and Annan to purchase grain. Now that the Spaniards are entrenched in Luzon, it is not easy to deal with them.

North Korea and Annan are our vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. So we really need to buy grain. Great Situ, please prepare a budget of 10 million yuan for these three fleets. These three places are not big in size.

Being able to buy 20 million koku of food is the limit."

"Yes, I accept your order."

"In addition, in Yunnan, all the profits of the Jade Company in Mubang this year will not be distributed as dividends, and all the profits will be purchased from Myanmar to buy grain. Give Xiong Tingbi an order to complete this matter as soon as possible. The existing grain stocks in Yunnan must be transported north as soon as possible.

Otherwise, delay will not help.”

"Yes, I will go to Yunnan later to issue orders."

"Calculated in this way, there are about 35 million shi of grain, but this is only the total amount. In the specific transportation, this loss, greedy people and even burning down the granary in the wind. Moreover, some people from the Ministry of Household Affairs in Beijing

More than tens of millions of dans are needed to store food to supply the troops stationed on the nine sides. Officials in the five northern provinces and the people who are not affected by the disaster still have to eat. Therefore, at least another 10 million dans have to be prepared!"

As soon as Zhu Youdong said these words, everyone, including Wanli, was very surprised: Why, do you still want to save everyone in this disaster relief? There are so many dynasties in China, and they encounter such a disaster, and if they do well, they will give out a few million dan

What does it mean? If you don’t do well? Then you will die and your country will be destroyed. And then all the people affected by the disaster? Small disasters are okay, but how can such a big disaster be possible?

Therefore, at the beginning of this meeting, what everyone thought was that while the country has money in the past two years, it would be enough to provide about 10 million dan in food and save as many people as possible.

But judging from what Zhu Youdong meant, no one should be missing? How is this possible?

However, His Highness Taisun has done so many things over the years, and has basically achieved his original goals. So this time?

"The Guhui wrote to the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River to borrow grain from them. These guys have a lot of grain. Not only Jiangnan, Huguang, Guangdong, and Sichuan, these places also have a lot of grain. Even the gentry in the five northern provinces affected by the disaster

There is actually no shortage of food in our granary!"

"Your Highness, just borrowing it may not be very effective."

"Gu knows, so Gu is going to let Daming Bank act as a guarantee. Gu will borrow grain, and the bank will return it to them in the future, either grain or silver dollars! I will give them 10% of the annual interest!"

"Well..." Fang Congzhe, who has been the chief assistant since Li Sancai, thought about it and said: "Your Highness, based on this calculation, it is estimated that there are only three to five million stones. After all, the northern gentry also wants

Store grain to prepare for disasters. If the gentry in the south transports grain to the north to sell it at this time, the profit will be much higher than the interest given by His Highness."

"It doesn't matter, as long as they are willing to sell, I can buy it! Didn't we recently set a minimum and maximum price for grain purchases? If they dare to sell above the maximum price, I will kill their whole family!"

Threatening people with a knife again! Hey, the royal family who directly controls the military cannot afford to offend him.

Having said this, quite a few of the civil servants who attended the meeting didn't want to talk anymore - the so-called gentry, aren't they the ones who lead the gentry? I can't say, this disaster can't be like before, otherwise Tai Sun's sword will come to chop it down!

The meeting was almost over, and all the ministers stood up with mixed emotions and bowed to Wanli's ancestors and grandsons to bid farewell.

After the ministers retreated, Zhu Youdong approached Wanli and said: "Grandpa Huang, although this disaster is serious, even if we prepare millions of stones for disaster relief as usual, our Ming Dynasty will not be in danger of overthrowing the country. But since Sun.
Chapter completed!