When Cai Jing took office, he immediately went to the granary to borrow grain on behalf of the WFP.

The director of the granary was unhappy when he saw that there were four or five prosecutors accompanying Cai Jing. Now in the financial department, when seeing people from the prosecutor's office, it was like seeing the god of plague, so he said to Cai Jing: "Director Cai is afraid that we will make things difficult for you."

, and even brought people from the Procuratorate to help."

Cai Jing was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "Misunderstanding, what a misunderstanding! I just happened to meet them."

"It's not just a coincidence."

A young inspector came over and said, "We are here under orders. Firstly, we are here to find out the situation in the granary in the capital. Secondly, we are also supervising the WFP."

Upon hearing this, the principal snorted, turned around and left.

Cai Jing smiled softly and thought to himself, you are quite lucky. When you meet your mentor, you just send a few students here. If Prosecutor General Su is here, he will be enough for you to drink!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Fei is also stepping up efforts to exercise the authority of the Procuratorate, which is to conduct comprehensive supervision of warehouses and tax coins. In the future, this will become a routine practice.

The Procuratorate is more than just an official office that files lawsuits.

...

Rendian.

In a private room, three middle-aged men were seen standing in front of the window sill, looking at a grain shop across the street. In front of the grain shop, a brand-new sign slowly rose up, with two words written on the white cloth -

--WFP.

As long as this kind of trick is used, it means that it is cooperating with the WFP, and only these grain shops only accept tax coins to purchase grain.

After watching for a while, the three middle-aged men returned to the wine table and sat down.

These people are Liu Ping, Chen Xiang, the famous big landowners in the capital, and Cao Huai, the big grain merchant...

"It seems that the WFP wants to support these small grain merchants to deal with us." Chen Xiang couldn't help but said with worry.

Liu Ping said disdainfully: "These small grain merchants only have so much grain at home, let alone twenty or thirty. Even if they were put together, they wouldn't be able to release much grain. The main thing is grain from the WFP."

Cao Huai said: "Do you think we can find a way to buy all these grains?"

"Someone has thought of this a long time ago."

Liu Ping shook his head and sighed, "But for the time being, there is still no way, because the court stipulates that purchases can only be made with tax coins, and the tax coins have not been distributed yet. Even if they are distributed, they will mostly be distributed to the people.

It cannot reach our hands."

Chen Xiang suddenly said: "Don't underestimate these small grain merchants. They are closely related to the small owners. If all the small owners unite, they should not be underestimated."

Liu Ping said: "Don't worry, what the court is doing is also very detrimental to the small owners. Originally, this was a good opportunity for them to make a fortune. Now, it's not worth selling the grain, and it's not worth not selling it. They may think that

They hate us even more. They will not release the food easily until it is necessary. Now most of the owners support us."

Chen Xiang said: "But after half a year, we will have to pay warehouse tax. We are not afraid, but those small owners may not be able to sustain it."

"If we really wait until then, we will lose."

Liu Ping said: "The advantage now is on our side. The court's food is used for the royal family, soldiers, horses, and officials, and it also has to deal with emergencies. In any case, the court is determined not to release all the food. I doubt that the court will release all the food.

It’s just to scare people.”

Cao Huai nodded and said: "This is true. In fact, it is beneficial to us to drag it out. We will lose, that is, we will get some food. But if there is a slight disturbance in the court, then everything may be lost. At present, in Gyeonggi,

There is a drought in Hebei and Huainan, and we don’t know how long it will last. The chances of the court making mistakes are greater than ours."

Liu Ping said: "There are also senior officials in the DPRK who are all on our side. It's just that it's not convenient for them to speak out at the moment. As long as we resist it."

Chen Xiang suddenly said: "Otherwise, let's secretly transport the food out first. This way, it will be safer."

Cao Huai sighed: "Now that the Royal Police have taken over the dock, it is very difficult to transport food out."

"Even if you are lucky, there may be tricks on the other side."

Liu Ping said: "It's not like you haven't seen the methods of the Taxation Department before. If we are caught, it will be the same as last time. With the handle in their hands, we can only kneel down and beg for mercy. Maybe we can only kneel down and beg for mercy.

They are just waiting to do stupid things, so at this critical moment, we must not do anything illegal. Oh, and don’t think about turning grain into wine, the tax department will definitely keep an eye on it, because the bill stipulates that this

Extra wine will be taxed at 300%."

The last time they fought for tax exemption, they lost because they broke the law first, and their lives were lost if they fought. So they were very cautious and determined not to break the law.

...

Due to Zhao Xu's aggressiveness, the powerful, landlords, and some of the scholar-bureaucrats are gradually uniting the front. They will definitely not give in easily. They are all old foxes who have lived for decades. How could they allow you, a little emperor, to sit on our side?

Pee on the head.

This is simply a great shame and humiliation.

It's just that they don't dare to speak out at the moment, so they can only compete with the emperor secretly.

After all, the court's plate is too big, and there are too many places to use food. If there is a slight disturbance, everything may be lost. But compared to now, even if they lose, they will lose a lot of food.

They are still very confident, after all, gentlemen and gentlemen are one body.

.....

As far as the imperial court was concerned, the bill had been promulgated and the grain was already being transported. Now it was the Ministry of Industry's turn to perform.

Zeng Gong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, has not been seen in recent days. He has been running around in various places and has been scolding Wang Anshi in his heart. It is true that every time he gets promoted, he will encounter difficult things.

In fact, until now, the Ministry of Industry does not have a complete plan, because these projects are not to be done casually, and money must be spent wisely. The imperial court is not wealthy.

However, due to the court's regulations, tax coins must be used to buy food, and there was not enough time for them to make perfect preparations. Many people were waiting for the court's relief plan.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Therefore, Zeng Gong could only start some projects first, including the construction of the Public Security Bureau and the river channel that had been in disrepair.

As soon as the project was finalized, the people who were desperate for food rushed forward. As long as they were given money, we would do it no matter how hard or tiring it was. Besides, the wages were quite high.

Now that we have already entered a period of drought, if it were not for the low tax revenue last year, the people would have been complaining.

Moreover, this time, it was also the first time that the soldiers participated in the fortifications in the name of the construction group, but this time they were more relaxed, mainly guiding and managing, and all the people working were civilians.

...

Today, Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongzhu met in the suburbs. On the one hand, they could relax and on the other hand, they could inspect the disaster situation. The two elders slowly walked forward along the river that was about to dry up.

"Uncle Hui, what's going on in your family?"

Wen Yanbo asked with a smile.

Lu Gongzhu shook his head and said: "Mostly I don't want to. Everyone has the habit of storing food. If there is no food around, they will feel uneasy."

The Lu family is definitely a famous family in the court, and their food is inexhaustible!

"That's not the case either."

Wen Yanbo said: "Look at Junshi, one time at the end of the year, I saw his servants running to buy food in a hurry."

Lu Gongzhu hurriedly said: "There are a few people in the government and the public who can reach the level of Jun Shi and Xianggong Zhao."

Having said this, he sighed again, "To be honest with Mr. Wen, I actually think that this warehouse tax is not excessive. Isn't it just converting grain into money? If everyone puts grain in the grain shop, it will be available at any time.

You can go buy it, isn’t that different?”

Wen Yanbo laughed and said: "Where do you think those big landowners got their fields? If they didn't rely on natural disasters to annex the land with a small amount of grain, how could they annex the land if they handed over the grain to grain merchants?

In addition, they don’t believe in the imperial court in their hearts, so they will definitely fight to the end.”

Lu Gongzhu asked: "I wonder what Duke Wen thinks?"

Wen Yanbo said: "The concerns of the officials are not wrong, but they shouldn't be too radical. They always want to get it done once and for all, but it can't be so easy. The key is that the right time, place and people are not on the official side. If

If the drought lasts longer, they will definitely try their best to blame the officials for the drought, and then they will be attacked from both sides, and the officials will feel uncomfortable."

Lu Gong said: "Then what should we do?"

Wen Yanbo pondered for a while and said: "Try not to offend both sides and deal with it well. If something happens, we can stand up and mediate the dispute so that the country will not lose control."

Lu Gongzhu nodded slightly, and suddenly heard the sound of banging coming from the opposite side. He turned his head and saw that there were twenty or thirty people opposite, who were very busy.

Wen Yanbo couldn't help but ask: "What are they doing?"

"It seems to be building a police station."

“A police station is also going to be built here?”

Wen Yanbo suddenly asked: "By the way! How many police stations are they going to build? Our political hall has not yet received a report from the Ministry of Works."

Lu Gong wrote: "The main reason is that the people are waiting for food to save their lives, and the Ministry of Industry has not yet determined the final plan, so it did not report it to the Political Affairs Hall first, but I heard from Zigu that it is estimated that a thousand police stations will be built in the entire Gyeonggi area.

, Hebei is about the same, Huainan and other places have a little less, but there are still six or seven hundred."

"How...how much?"

Wen Yanbo looked at Mr. Lu in shock.

Lu Gongzhu nodded, "Anyway, this is the order he received. This time the public security organs and the government will be completely separated."

This is a purely physical separation. At this time, most of the offices of the Public Security Bureau and the Procuratorate have been transformed from some previous offices or even shared.

However, the public security system is very different from before, and it is also very inconvenient to use.

Now I am taking this opportunity to re-establish a whole set, which is tailor-made for the public security organs and law enforcement agencies.

Wen Yanbo said: "But we don't need so many police stations."
To be continued...