Chapter 696: Transporting Grain

The benefit of the drought to the Song Dynasty was that the Shaanxi Road Transport Department began to lure Xixia people into the Song Dynasty and continued to weaken the strength of the Xixia people.

Dong Fei's strength was also affected, and he asked Qingyi to form a ghost seal to preserve his strength and act with caution.

Guizhang withdrew from Hezhou and returned to guard Tabaicheng. Mu Zheng became a lone army again, and new military changes took place in the Hehuang area.

But the disadvantage is that Hebei is in trouble. The moisture situation in Hebei did not improve until the end of March, and the harvest was completely lost for the entire season.

Wen Yanbo reported that the soil moisture is two and a half feet below the ground. Such land cannot be cultivated. In addition, Liangzhe Road, an important grain area that water transportation depends on, also suffered from floods last year. This year, the grain transportation in the north will be serious.

Reduction, Hebei is in danger!

Along with Wen Yanbo's memorial came Shen Kuo's memorial after his visit to the two Zhejiang provinces: "The annual amount of silk offered by the two Zhejiang provinces is 980,000 yuan, and there is a lot of support from the people. Later, in the name of diverting property, the Shipping Department added

The two Zhejiang provinces have purchased 120,000 pieces of silk in advance. Please let your majesty stop it in order to increase the people's strength."

The implication is that the burden on the two Zhejiang roads has become too heavy, and it is really impossible to allocate power to support the north.

However, the Liao people took advantage of the fire to rob them. In Bingchen, the Lord of the Liao built additional forts along the Hedong Road, built bungalows, and invaded the boundaries of the three prefectures of Wei, Ying, and Shuo. He sent Lin Ya and Xiao Xi to come and beg for destruction and erect a separate boundary.

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Zhao Xu was extremely angry, but he had to give in and asked the officials in the north not to anger the Liao people. The border of the three states was waiting for the imperial court to send officials to meet with the Liao people at the border.

Although the Xiongzhou Wailuo City mentioned by the Liao people had been repaired for thirteen years and was not built, since the Liao people raised objections, the reconstruction can only be stopped now.

Zhao Xu ordered officials to inspect the Baigou Guan Posthouse. If there were any buildings, oars, arrows, windows, etc. built, he ordered them to be demolished and the garrison troops must be withdrawn.

At the same time, he sent Taichang Shaoqing Liu Chen and secretary Cheng Lu Dazhong as conference officials to enter Liao to negotiate with them.

In the letter of credence to the Liao Kingdom, the words were used like this: "If the matter is from the past, it is difficult to show favoritism; if there is an intrusion in the honest realm, why bother to correct it!"

In Guihai, Han Wei, a Hanlin scholar, entered the court, and Zhao Xu ordered him to control the Yanhe Hall.

Because the old minister of the East Palace had different political views from Wang Anshi, he would rather stick to his external appointment than accept Zhao Xu's caring appointment. In terms of character, Zhao Xu had great confidence in him and believed that he would not deceive him.

Zhao Xu asked Han Wei: "It's been a long time since it rained, and I've been working hard all night. What can I do?"

Han Wei cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty is worried about the drought in Min, and has lost food and avoided the palace. This is just a story, and it may not be enough to cope with the changes in nature. I hope your Majesty will feel sorry for yourself and issue an edict to ask for outspoken words to open up the blockages."

Zhao Xu was completely touched: "Then it's up to you to write this edict. Write it now!"

Yi Chou, the edict said: "I have been involved in the road for a long time, and I am secretly trying to achieve governance. In the midst of political failure, I have tried to balance the yin and yang. Since the winter, drought and drought have been severe, and many people have been affected by disasters in the four seas.

There was an official in charge of the imperial edict, and he damaged the regular food and avoided the main hall, hoping to block the blame and eliminate the problem. It has been going on for a long time, but he has not been able to respond.

The people are crying, their fate is about to end, they are excited in the middle of the night, and they are shaking and shaking. They will always be responsible for it, and they don't know where it will come from.

What do you mean, my acceptance cannot be based on reason? Suiting and jailing are not based on emotion? The tax collection has lost its integrity? Loyalty and advice are too much for the superiors to hear, and flattery and flattery are used to conceal their selfish interests. How can it be so good?

Will it take effect soon?

In response to the Chinese and foreign civil and military officials, and Xu Shifeng, who bluntly stated that the government failed, I will personally inspect it, examine its merits, and assist in political management. The two ministers will pay careful attention to their duties and realize my ambition!"

Sima Guang cried when he read the imperial edict. His current position is still that of the censor of Xijing. He wrote the only memorial in the past few years: "There are only six great ministers in the current dynasty: one is:

Scatter young crops money widely, making the people increasingly in debt, and the county officials have no income; the second is to avoid the service of the upper households, and collect the money from the lower households to support the wandering people; the third is to set up the city to change the division, and compete with the poor people for profits.

But it actually consumes official property; the fourth is that China is not under control but invades the barbarians, and gains little and loses much; the fifth is that the group practices Baojia, and teaches weapons to tire the peasants; the sixth is that people who insist on going their own way, believe in arrogance and cunning, know good things and it is not easy. If

Other trivial matters such as rice and salt are not worthy of His Majesty's advice."

Compared with the historical memorials, the article of reckless development of water conservancy was cancelled, the article of knowing good things and not changing them was added, and severe criticism was made of the new law.

Teng Fu, who knew Qingzhou, spoke even more fiercely: "Your Majesty is aware of the harm the new laws will bring to the people. However, if the new laws implemented since the second year of Xining are inconvenient, those who are inconvenienced will be dismissed. Then the people will be harmonious and God's will will be solved."

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The trend in the court immediately became tense.

Su You's letter is more realistic: "A boat of thousands of stones cannot be stopped in a hurry, and a balance of ten thousand junctures cannot be carried out. The new method has been implemented for five years, and the key points are gradually gained at the top, and its actions are gradually learned at the bottom."

Once it is abandoned and stretched, the mast will tilt and fall apart, the mast will split apart, and it is inevitable that it will capsize.

Bianstone medicine has the effect of slowing down emergencies, and affairs have the power of slowing things down. Floods and droughts are urgent matters today. In fact, they are just disaster relief, food relief, peace of mind, and prevention of bandits.

On all roads in Shaanxi, although the drought is severe, the harvest has not been lost. We are strong and the enemy is weak. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The commander-in-chief and ministers should recruit the border surnames to surrender, and attack and destroy the unconquered ministers.

Since Xining, Shaanxi has been reducing the amount of millet supplied to the imperial court. So far, we have not heard of any requests from the Transportation Department to open warehouses, but we have just told the officials to keep it quiet.

Although there is no rain in the counties of Kaifeng in July, the winter wheat will be ripe due to the benefits of canals and rivers.

The Xiang army has cut off 200,000 troops, and the capital has no heavy losses. Please order Sinong Temple and the Third Division to recheck Changping in the middle of the capital and Guanghui Mihu.

The grain production line in eastern Zhejiang was stopped, Huaiyang salt was introduced to Beijing, an officialdom was established, and merchants sent grain directly to Beijing and entered Yunzhou, Hebei Province, where they became famous.

There are eight hundred miles of water in Yunzhou, which is enough to meet the needs of the port; the name of the Xinhe River is so powerful that it can transport thousands of miles in one day.

If things are forewarned, they will be successful; if they are not forewarned, they will be ruined. This is a time when everyone is united and working together to deal with the difficult times. It is not a day to discuss and criticize, or to quote scriptures and debate difficulties!"

Only then did Wang Anshi realize that there was no point in arguing with the opposition. The only way to calm down the situation was to cut off their roots!

Immediately summoned Lu Huiqing and Zeng Bu to carry out relief work. Su You had great reputation among merchants, so he might not be reliable in water transportation, so he personally asked Su You to organize the merchants.

At the end of March, the imperial edict issued an order of 1.32 million hu of rice from Changping Cang and 1.9 million hu of rice from Sansimi. After "arduous" negotiations between Su You and the merchants, they reduced the selling price by 20%, and the merchants sold the goods.

After giving the money to Yanyin, he organized them to transport grain to Hebei.

Su You also asked his younger sister to persuade the Royal Charity Fund to contribute 300,000 yuan for disaster relief, and also promised merchants that for every shipment of grain transferred, they would obtain the independent sales rights of fifty pieces of glazed wares from the Royal Liulic Square.

The enthusiasm of the merchants immediately increased. Dong Feiyuan organized hundreds of grain ships from Jianghan with 40,000 shi of grain - serving the Emperor and Song Dynasty without any hesitation. I, Dong Fei, organized my own sales and took charge of my own profits and losses, without any trouble from the court -

Just remember not to forget the five thousand pieces of glassware!

It is not that there is no food in Hebei. The drought that lasted for more than half a year is not enough to empty out the grain storage in Hebei. However, the people who still have food in storage are all big landowners. I am afraid that these people regard this drought as a way to make a fortune.

Chance.

The various warehouse envoys are also waiting for the court to give them the opportunity to make up for the shortfall.

To prevent these people from making a fortune, the only way is to rely on the state to take action to protect the fundamentals and give up the idea of ​​letting these people make it difficult for the country to make a fortune.

This is the tragedy of the Song Dynasty, its execution ability fell to scum.

Su You had not paid much attention to the drought before. There was no such news in the imperial newspaper, and Wen Yanbo didn't even bother to report it now.

It was not until he received a letter from Teng Fu in February that Su You was shocked to learn about the drought in Yunzhou.

There are eight hundred miles of water in Yunzhou, and drought can occur in Yunzhou, so the situation in Hebei and Shandong will not be as serious as usual.

However, his official position is Kaifeng Fuyin, and he does not have enough influence on Zhao Xu. Moreover, he had a gentleman's agreement with Wang Anshi before. If he went beyond him and reported to Zhao Xu, he would be burdened with a huge political stigma of "untrustworthiness".

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Chapter completed!