Wu Yating seemed a little panicked, but she felt a little relieved after thinking that her father didn't say anything in the letter, because if there was something wrong, her father should have explained the situation to him.
Moreover, the little money gained from selling grain is worthless compared to the future glory and wealth. My father cannot be so short-sighted, so the food problem should not have much to do with my father.
At most, it was just a failure of supervision. There was such a big problem when my father was in charge of food, but he didn't discover it in advance. He must bear a certain amount of responsibility anyway.
Thinking of this, Wu Yating asked softly: "Your Majesty, is there any problem with my father?"
Li Xiang nodded: "My father-in-law is in charge of food outside the headquarters. There are so many borers under his command, but he was not discovered in time, and the supervision is not effective. I want to remove him from that position and let him go to the small grassland.
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What do you think?"
Wu Yating's father's problems were either big or small. In addition, the actions of his men were too secretive. It took soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters to personally investigate and check the granaries one by one before discovering these problems.
Ordinary people wouldn't be able to find out the problem if they went to check, because the grains will change batches every once in a while. Xiliang's grain yield is very high, and it takes a lot of time to cultivate.
So every once in a while, they only need to replenish the food deficit, and then use a little bit of money to compensate the villagers, so that they can occupy the bulk of the money with peace of mind.
And there is no need to worry about being discovered by superiors, because the food and grass have already been sold for money.
Among the major forces, food is very important. Whether it is a cultivating sect or a secular power, it is necessary to store a large amount of food and grass.
Once there is a problem with food and grass, it will affect not only some people, but the entire force.
Li Xiang also noticed this problem, so he planned to take control of the food and grass in the northwest and take it back from the northwest Yamen.
Although the grain and grass harvested by the common people are not as much as those harvested by the Xiliang headquarters themselves, if their grain and grass fall into the hands of the forces in the Central Plains.
For Xiliang, this is an enemy. Rather than letting these grains fall into the hands of those people, it is better to take these grains to Xiliang and then give money to the civilians.
He exempted these civilians from paying food taxes, but he did not ask these civilians to give food to those in the Central Plains.
No, it will take some effort to get this right back. The biggest problem is his father-in-law.
So he wanted to transfer his father-in-law to the small grassland. It happened that the small grassland needed a capable person, and the potential of the Northwest Yamen had ended here.
He also used the power of transferring his father-in-law to the small grassland to ask some people in the northwest yamen to hand over their power and not force him to take action.
There are some people in the Northwest Yamen who are really difficult for him to attack. Those people are Zhang Qingyun's cronies, and they were not seen in this turmoil.
If he rashly removes them from their positions, it will have a very bad impact on the future, so Li Xiangde wants to start from his father-in-law.
"Everything will follow your instructions, Your Majesty. Hundreds of businesses are waiting for prosperity on the grassland, and it is just right for my father to go there." Wu Yating did not refuse, and she could take advantage of this opportunity to keep her father away from this huge whirlpool in the northwest.
Food was just one of the problems that occurred when Prime Minister Li cleaned up the northwest region. She didn't know what happened in the northwest, but judging from the number of troops that Prime Minister Li had mobilized now.
There must be a big problem with the Northwest Yamen. It is a good thing that my father is staying away from the Northwest Yamen.
What made her even happier was that Li Xiang actually asked his father to stay away from the northwest, which meant that his father had nothing to do with the people involved in the grain case.
Li Xiang nodded with some relief: "It's best to have a business in a few days. Then I will hand over this business to your chamber of commerce to complete. If it is done well, each of you can earn about four hundred thousand taels."
silver."
Qian Duoduo was not interested in what he said before, but when he heard that he could earn more than four hundred thousand taels of silver, he immediately looked at Li Xiang: "Is it true?"
Her love for silver is just like her love for food.
There is no conflict between the two anyway.
"Of course it's true!" Li Xiang smiled and said to Qian Duoduo: "But you must let your subordinates pay attention. Things must not be left in the south, but can only be transported to the north."
"Is it food?" Wu Yating thought for a moment and asked. The only thing Xiliang can make money now is food. After the war, other materials began to become scarce.
As for those items from the Western world, they have long been divided, and now the only thing that can still make a lot of money is food.
"Yes, it's grain. Fortunately, it was discovered early. Those borers did not transport the grain to the south in time. If it had been a little later, they would have transported all the grain away!" Li Xiang squinted his eyes and sneered: "They are not.
Do you want to transport grain to the south? I won't let them go south, so you two told your men to transport the grain to the north and sell it to the Northern Army."
"Don't look at the Northern Army. They are still in a confrontation with the other side of the grassland. The money they can mobilize is no less than the money the imperial court can mobilize."
"Then we need the help of the navy!" Wu Yating thought for a while: "It's not all smooth sailing on the Tongtian River now. Water pirates from all over the country are watching the route. If we transport some ordinary items, those water thieves will not come out.
Robbery, but if we let them know that we are transporting food, they will not care which force the food comes from, they will all come and rob!"
"When the time comes, ask Li Shui to send a navy to help you escort the food, but you have to tell your men that this batch of food and grass can only fall into the hands of the Northern Army. If the Northern Army doesn't buy it, then give it to me.
Burn this food!"
"Hmm!" Wu Yating didn't know why Li Xiang had to sell these grains to the Northern Army, but since Li Xiang had already targeted them, he could only sell them to the Northern Army.
Even if there is a loss at that time, it will at most be a loss of some transportation costs. Anyway, they did not buy these grains with money.
"Next, let's stay peacefully in Xiliang City!" Li Xiang picked up his chopsticks and ate the food: "The three of us haven't been together like this for a long time."
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"Li Xiang!!" In the palace of the chaotic world, the emperor looked at the information with a ferocious face.
The huge network of relationships he had just built with so much hard work and expense in Xiliang was easily uprooted by Li Xiang.
Those fine works in the northwest land can no longer return to the Central Plains land. Their heads were cut off and hung on the gate of Tongtianhe City. Anyone who passes through Tongtianhe City can see the heads hanging above.
There are also identity tags hanging under some of the heads, indicating that they belong to a certain force.
Although the identity plates on the court's side are not marked as belonging to a certain force, anyone who has seen the battle flag of Daqian can recognize who it is from the patterns on the picture!
If he had only lost these fine works, he would not be so angry. What made him feel most speechless was that he had spent countless dollars to buy one of those grains, but was actually cut off by Li Xiang.
Li Xiang not only deducted the silver paper he took over, but also deducted the grain purchased by his men.
Now a fleet has been sent to escort a large amount of grain and grass to the north, and news has been released that this batch of grain and grass will only be sold to the Northern Army.
The Northern Army has also had a hard time in the past few years. The late emperor gave them very free rights. They have the right to recruit soldiers and horses locally. Local tax revenue does not belong to the court, but to their hands.
In other words, their economy has become independent, and all their food, grass, weapons and equipment are prepared by themselves, so some people say that Li Zhen, the monarch of the Northern Army, is already the uncrowned king of the northern part of the Daqian Dynasty.
He who controls the Northern Army is unrivaled in the northern land, and no one can compete with him!
What is most interesting to those people is that the son of Li Zhen, the leader of the Northern Army, is now Li Xiang, the king of Xiliang. If these two fathers and sons were together, they would already occupy a large area of the country.
Li Zhen's control of the army, his training of the army, and his strategies on the battlefield, and his decades of military career.
He has become a world-famous commander-in-chief, and Li Xiang is also a world-famous commander-in-chief, but Li Xiang is more famous for his powerful combat effectiveness.
Some people even gave Li Xiang'an the title of the best general in the world. No one objected to this title because Li Xiang'an was the only strong man in the world who could transform from a general to a grand master.
He is also the only strong man who can truly kill another great master.
There is no need to prove his strength.
So some people thought that if the two father and son were together, they would take down the area between them, so that the two father and son's territories would be connected to one place.
By then, half of the Daqian Dynasty will be in the hands of their father and son, and no one will be their opponent!
It is precisely for this reason that it is now difficult for the Northern Army to obtain food from other places. Their northern land has just been hit by a locust plague, and large areas have no harvest, and they still need subsidies from the army.
People in other areas did not provide them with food, which resulted in Beijing's food reserves becoming less and less. They appealed to the imperial court for help, but the imperial court ignored them.
This fleet, which came down from Xiliang and gradually headed north, had a large amount of food in their ranks. Although this batch of food was compared with the huge army of the Northern Army, it could feed the entire army for about five days at most.
But for the Northern Army, this was a life-saving straw, which could last for five more days and allow them to collect food calmly.
Some people in the Northern Army could also see the origin of these grains and grasses. They had seen the cleanup in Xiliang, and they knew which force these grains and grasses originally belonged to.
But now they don't care about that anymore. They want to eat, but if the court doesn't give it to them, shouldn't they be allowed to eat other people's food?
Even if the court misunderstood them, they would not hesitate. Maybe Xiliang had this idea.
"Your Majesty, please don't speak in anger!" the eunuch beside the emperor said anxiously.
The emperor took a few deep breaths, suppressed the anger in his heart, put the information aside, and then said to the eunuch: "Let people prepare 50,000 shi of grain and transport it to the Northern Army. By the way, tell them, because
The grain harvest in the subordinate areas has been reduced, so we really can’t help them much, let them find their own solutions!”
The emperor also wanted to take back the military power of the Northern Army, but reason told him that this was impossible. Let's not talk about whether Li Zhen was willing to hand over the military power. Let's just say that the Northern Army had so many mouths to talk about, plus the number of people under the Northern Army's command.
That piece of land.
Due to the locust plague, the northern region is now scorched and there is basically no harvest. There are so many people waiting for food with their mouths open. How can he feed those people?
Want him to use the granaries in the city?
That's simply impossible. The granaries in the imperial capital should only be opened as a last resort. Those are his last trump cards.
It will only be opened when there is a desperate situation of life and death, otherwise all the food and grass will have to be left inside.
"By the way, I sent someone to ask Xiliang. I want to buy a batch of grain. I wonder if there is any grain available for sale in Xiliang?" After the emperor calmed down, his whole person changed a lot.
"Yes!" The eunuch retreated respectfully, and the emperor's originally calm face turned ferocious again. With a wave of his hand, a black shadow appeared on the side.
"How is the fighting situation in the mountainous area? Can the Xiliang headquarters army be eaten up? How long will it take for the battle to end?"
The emperor has been paying attention to the Xiliang cleanup in the past few days, and has not paid attention to the fighting situation in the chaotic world, so he called the black shadow over to ask if the fighting over there was over.
"Return, Your Majesty." The shadow was completely hidden in the darkness. No one could see through the darkness and look at the look on his face: "The fighting situation in the mountainous area is not ideal now. The reinforcements from Xiliang were already there four days ago.
Rush to the battlefield.
The main camp of the coalition forces was surrounded by them, and several other armies have sent reinforcements to rescue them."
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Several big question marks appeared on the emperor's forehead, and he looked at the black shadow blankly: "What did you say? The coalition forces were counter-surrounded. Their number was many times the number of Xiliang troops there. How could they still be counter-surrounded?
Are all the top experts on the coalition side sleeping?"
"The Xiliang reinforcements came too suddenly, and everyone had no time to react, so they were surrounded." Black Shadow answered truthfully: "All armies have sent reinforcements to support, and there are no battle reports yet."
The emperor closed his eyes and accepted the fact, sighed and said: "If any news comes to me immediately, I really can't do anything.
Go down."
"yes!"
The black shadow disappeared into the darkness again, and the emperor was the only one left in the empty hall.
The emperor crossed his legs, closed his eyes, and a stream of pure internal energy circulated in his body...
