Chapter 1192

Most importantly, he can also take the opportunity to persuade Daizong to use his disease carefully. However, Yang Chendong said that they only need to wait for more than two months, and the safety of Shicheng will be as solid as gold. At that time, even if Beiming sent an army, they will not be afraid. Although I don't know what all this is for, even if Yang Chendong said, Xu Youzhen can only choose to believe it.

And he only needs to delay Beiming's sending troops for two months, which is not difficult.

With Xu Youzhen's guarantee, Yiming leaves contentedly. But what people can't imagine is that the next morning, Yiming went directly to the door of Xu's house and put on a picture of me going to court with you Xu Youzhen. It's obviously afraid that he might find a reason to run away.

"Lord Yi, you don't believe me." after leaving the house and seeing Yiming's sedan chair, Xu Youzhen beat each other with an unhappy face.

"I'm sorry, I'm really a small man. I need Lord Xu's help. Please forgive me. But Lord Xu, don't worry. After today, I will make amends to Lord Xu. Look..." showed a pitiful look. Yiming looked at Xu Youzhen with sad eyes.

"Let's go," said Xu Youzhen, pretending to be difficult. But when you returned to the sedan chair, there was a little ugly on his face. On the contrary, he was a little excited.

Being able to have a good relationship with Yiming will only be more helpful for him to understand Beiming's economic strength. This time, the other party owes him a favor. In the future, it will be easier to inquire about some things and get information.

In this way, the two ministers of the current Dynasty entered the palace and attended the court meeting. After the meeting, they met with Dai Zong Zhu Qiyu in the back hall.

In the back hall, when Yiming and Xu Youzhen just knelt down, Zhu Qiyu took the lead in opening his mouth. "Yi Aiqing, you should hurry up and prepare for the amount of money transferred by the army. Before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first. Your responsibility is great."

"Emperor... Minister... Minister is guilty." his face is sad. His eyes are red when he looks carefully. The appearance of the Yiming at this moment definitely has the potential to become a movie emperor star.

"Are you guilty? What's the crime?" Zhu Qiyu felt a bad feeling when he looked at the inscription that he knelt on the ground and didn't get up.

"Emperor, it's like this. The existing grain reserves of our household department are not enough to support a large-scale war. Now we..."

Before Yiming finished, Zhu Qiyu on the Dragon chair almost jumped up. "What are you talking about? There's no grain? Where have they all gone? Didn't the harvest last year be very good? The price of grain I remember is not high. Don't you know to collect more?"

It's time to send troops. Now Yiming even tells himself that there is no food and grass. Isn't that dismantling his own platform? This made him how to store the emperor's face without getting angry.

Seeing that the emperor was really angry, Yi Ming, who knelt on his knees, quickly explained, "yes, the emperor said very well. Last year's harvest was good, and the grain price was not high, but we were not the only one who collected the grain. Many big families and businessmen were also collecting, and even their price was a little higher than the official, so most of the grain was taken away by them."

People often say that it is difficult for people to live in bad times, and it is even more difficult for people to live in good times. It's about food prices.

In bad times, grain production is low and grain prices are high. People have nothing left except to turn in grain, because they can't make any cheap money without grain to sell. On the contrary, when there is a good harvest year, the food price is particularly low, and they can't earn any money, that is, they just get together to eat. This is the sadness of the people.

It's different from those big families. They buy a lot of food when the food price is low, and then sell it when the food price is high, so as to exchange a lot of silver. It's difficult to say that they lose money.

Over time, they made money through such business, and their hearts became wild, and developed to the point of competing with the government to buy grain. With the same grain and different prices, farmers are certainly willing to sell the grain to the higher price party, which also leads to Yiming's failure to buy too much grain.

"Take it away? Take it away!" Zhu Qiyu stood up from the Dragon chair angrily, and then paced back and forth to show his anger.

As an emperor, he actually had a clear idea of the problem of grain. He even knew who was making waves and reselling. However, the power of these people is not small. Once they are united, it will involve all aspects, so that he has to be afraid. This is also the reason why he knows that someone is collecting food.

"Well, is it possible to buy some cheap food from those people?" after walking back and forth several times, Zhu Qiyu suddenly turned around and asked Yiming on his knees.

"Emperor." with a bitter gourd face, Yi Ming said: "it is impossible to collect grain at a fair price. There should be no problem with some silver. After all, they are the ministers of Beiming, and they should also contribute to Beiming."

"Well, how much silver should I add?" hearing this, Zhu Qiyu's face showed a trace of expectation.

"This..." did not answer immediately, but made a good deal in his heart. Yiming raised his head and stretched out a palm.

"Increase the price by 10%?" when Zhu Qiyu saw that he just stretched out a hand, the expression on his face was much easier.

"No, it's a 50% increase." Yi Ming opened his hand while saying this, and so far it has changed from one to five.

"What? They are trying to make the country rich. They are trying to force me." Zhu Qiyu quit immediately when he heard that he wanted to increase 50%. In this way, the money that could have been 30000 kg of grain can only buy 20000 kg. The price difference is too high.

He cursed these profiteers and big families in his heart, but Zhu Qiyu had no better way to them. Who let the existence of these people represent the interests of too many people? Without the support of these people, whether his throne is still stable or not depends on two things.

Unable to cut these people, Zhu Qiyu had to lower his tone and asked, "is there any other way?"

"No." his head shook like a wave drum. Yiming kept shaking his head. If he really had any better way, he wouldn't use it here to scold.

"No, what do you eat as a minister of household?" finally, the thunder rage imagined by Yiming appeared. At this moment, while pressing his head low, he winked at Xu Youzhen, who came with him. At this time, he saw the role of the alliance.

Xu Youzhen has been waiting for an opportunity. Some things don't let Zhu Qiyu understand clearly. His words are really hard to say. Seeing that the time had come, if he couldn't get Yiming well later, he would be punished. It might not be beneficial for him to carry out his work when he came up with another Minister of the Ministry of household. Finally, he slowly looked up and said with a wat board in his hand: "calm down, Emperor. I have a way to solve the food problem."

Zhu Qiyu, who was really angry, even wanted to accuse Yiming. Xu Youzhen's words immediately extinguished his anger. "Xu Aiqing, do you think you have a way?"

"Yes, although the minister's solution can't solve the urgent problem immediately, it only needs to wait for more than a month. When this year's grain comes down, the problem will be solved." Xu Youzhen raised her head and said with a righteous face.

"Wait more than a month?" Zhu Qiyu repeated after listening.

"Yes, it's just more than a month. We can't delay the army's advance. Saving this time can save us a lot of money. We can make money. At that time, we can compete with them at the same price. I believe the people will support the government more. When it comes to money, I have another idea to report to the emperor." Taking silver as an example, Xu Youzhen talked about another topic she came to today.

Speaking of silver, Zhu Qiyu was obviously nervous. The more time the emperor spent, the more he knew the benefits of silver. He really couldn't do anything without silver. He even thought that if he didn't have silver, someone would listen to him.

"Xu Aiqing said, I'm listening."

"It's the emperor. Since I was in charge of the criminal department, I found that the prison was often insufficient. This is because there are too many people who don't obey self-discipline. Of course, there are also some people who are excited to do wrong. They have said more than once that they want to make a clean break, but they suffer from no chance. For this reason, many people found me, and even some people want to redeem their mistakes with money Come on, we can give those who have always performed well a chance to correct, and at the same time, we can alleviate the dilemma of insufficient cells. I think again and again that such a major minister has no power to decide, so I asked the emperor for instructions, and the wise emperor for instructions. "

"Take money to redeem people? Won't this be a problem?" Zhu Qiyu quickly grasped the key of the matter.

"No. not all crimes can be redeemed with silver. Only when the crime is not serious and I really want to be a new man will I be allowed. The Ministry of criminal affairs will send someone to carefully verify some specific details. By the way, there was a family of children surnamed Chen who performed well in ordinary times and was preparing to be admitted as a scholar. They accidentally hurt them because of drinking too much once Others were still slightly injured. Our local constable then arrived and was finally sentenced to prison in March. The crime is not heavy, and the time is not very long, but the problem is that this will delay his access to fame and even his future life. The Chen family found me for this matter. They are willing to compensate the beaten people and want to redeem them. Oh, they are going to take 5000 yuan Two silver coins to redeem people... "