Chapter 784 Grain, or Food (First Update)

Good things are grinding.

The government affairs of the imperial court gradually got on the right track, but the king of Shu, who was in Fengzhou, refused to be dispatched by Yang Yue, refused to go to Dugi Province to serve as the commander of Luoyang, and insisted on leading troops to garrison Fengzhou.

Yang Yue knows what the King of Shu means?

Lead the troops to garrison Fengzhou, if the time is ripe, lead the troops to the south, at most two days under the city of Chang'an.

However, as the commander of Luoyang, it seems that he has a lot of power and is rich in governance, so how can he lead the troops to Chang'an, and there is Tongguan and Hangu Pass to obstruct.

Which is better or worse, let Yang Yue choose, he would rather lead his troops to garrison the barren north than the rich Luoyang.

Fortunately, Yang Yue had expected that the King of Shu refused to be loyal to him, and had a special strategy to deal with the King of Shu.

Fengzhou, the area around the city was barren, and often encountered Turkic invasions, and the king of Shu was reluctant to lead his troops away, nothing more than the support of money and grain from Shu.

Therefore, Yang Yue chose to draw his salary from the bottom of the kettle and sent Yang Yan, the king of Wu, to lead many officials of the family to enter Shu strongly.

With the loyalty of King Wu, with the family's old and spicy power skills, and his tough attitude.

This group of officials went to Shu to stabilize their foothold, believing that it would be easy to uproot the power of the king of Shu in Shu and completely include Shu into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Losing the land of Shu, there is no source of money and food, and the king of Shu has no arrogant capital, and sooner or later he will surrender to him.

With this, Yang Yue specializes in solving the problems of the He family.

The He family?

Even though He Qinxin was his concubine and He Qinyu and King Zhao were husband and wife, he still didn't trust the He family.

This kind of century-old family has intricate forces, and has in-laws with many families, besides, the He family is rising in the army, and there are many capable ministers and fierce generals, and it is easy to make contributions and rise again when the time is ripe.

For hundreds of years, the He family has had the idea of rebellion from time to time.

He Hengrui helped him seize Hexi Road, he couldn't eradicate the grass and root the other party and completely resolve the hidden danger.

The only choice was to divide and conquer, and the He family was divided into three families, which migrated to Shangzhou in Guannai Province, Bozhou in Henan Province, and Qianzhou in Qianzhong Province.

These areas are relatively barren and are not within the He family's sphere of influence, so the mobilization of local officials greatly restricts the He family.

If the He family is safe and guarded, and there are cadres who come out, Chang'an can be dispatched as an official, and if the He family's thief heart does not die, only iron and blood can be eradicated.

With this, Yang Yue left He Hengrui and He Chenxuan in Chang'an as hostages, rewarded the two of them with inconsequential and dispensable official positions, and wandered on the edge of the court.

The news that Yang Yue confiscated the He family's assets and divided and disintegrated the He family came out, and many families who had close contacts with the He family were silent.

The He family used to have many beautiful scenery, and Yang Yue's accession to the throne disintegrated the power of the He family in an instant, making the He family collapse.

If there is no great opportunity, in a few decades, it will be mediocre and unable to rise.

The family that is attached to the He family is far less powerful than the He family, how dare they go against Yang Yue.

They are cautious, do their best, and be a man with their tails between their legs.

Dealing with the government and restoring the Qingming of the imperial court, so that the harem concubines are pregnant with dragons has also become Yang Yue's top priority.

As an emperor, if there is no prince, it will inevitably be criticized by the ministers.

What's more, among the five concubines, in addition to Concubine Xu Wennuo Ruyi, Concubine Hui and Yue Nujiao are pregnant, Concubine Yuwen Linxuan, Princess Shufei Zhaoyang, Concubine Lin Miaoyin, and Concubine Yelu Chunxi, who is equally important, are not yet pregnant.

Like Princess Zhaoyang, Concubine Xian Lin Miaoyin, she didn't even have sex a few times, so that the concubine was pregnant, urgent, important.

The remaining concubines, Yang Yue didn't have time to share a room with them, and he didn't have the idea of having sex with them for the time being.

In the hustle and bustle, half a month passed unconsciously.

At the beginning of December, the middle of the month is a big pilgrimage!

Hundreds of officials in Chang'an entered the court, and the ministers bowed.

After the salute, the ministers were anxious, and there were many government reports.

Hubu Shangshu Wen Renyu was the first to come out, standing in the center of the Xuanzheng Palace, bowing with Chao Wat in his arms, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Weichen has something to report!"

"Hmm!"

Yang Yue, Zhao Xuanhu, and Ye Qinghu were transported back to Yinliang from Hexi Road, and after Ran Canglan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, confiscated the He family's family assets, he was particularly concerned about the issue of money and grain in the treasury.

A penny is difficult to defeat a hero, not to mention a huge country, if it is not full of money and food, governance, and handling government affairs, it is difficult to move an inch.

Hearing the order, after taking out the fold from his arms, he reported loudly: "Your Majesty, there is a steady stream of money and grain to fill the treasury, the granary, after the counting, there are currently three million taels of gold in the treasury, 20 million taels of silver, and after the old grain is transported out of the granaries in Chang'an, the new grain transported back from Hexi Road can barely last for half a year!"

Three million taels of gold, twenty million taels of silver.

When the ministers heard this, they exclaimed.

Some old ministers in the court know very well that Yang Mingkun has succeeded to the throne for more than ten years, and the treasury money and grain often do not exceed 10 million silver, and even occasionally have to borrow money for relief.

Now that Yang Yue has succeeded to the throne, he has transported 50 million pieces of silver from all directions, doesn't it mean that the King of Qin and the He family are rich and rival the country?

Although these silvers are less than a drop in the bucket compared with the Tang Dynasty, they are the most silver-lined in the treasury for decades.

The ministers were delighted, exchanged their heads, whispered, and nodded in praise.

When Yang Yue heard this, he was also very surprised, 50 million taels of silver, the amount is indeed not small.

I couldn't help but ask: "Wen Renyu, governing Gyeonggi Province, Dugi Province, and the Northern War of Resistance, all need to spend silver, have you ever considered how much silver taels are left, throw away the expenses of the imperial court.

In addition, many people in the two places have been devastated by the war, and their families may not have surplus food.

Yang Yue knows that the treasury is full of money and food, and there are more loopholes that need to be filled by him.

He didn't even mention the issue of the soldiers' winter cotton clothes and the replacement of the ordnance of the soldiers under Zhang Shaoming's account, all of which cost silver taels.

If it is not reasonably arranged, the money and grain in the granary of the state treasury will not even last until the autumn harvest of the next year.

Wen Renyu has a heavy responsibility, and he has to use limited money and food to meet the needs of all parties.

Sensing that Yang Yue's eyes were always on him, Wen Renyu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the grain problem, Weichen has considered it, when the spring tax in the coming year is prohibited, it is forbidden to collect money and grain, and choose to collect grain at market prices.

"Good!"

"That's it, set the price and amount of grain in advance, and collect grain in the summer."

Yang Yue agrees with admiring Wen Renyu's strategy, he really hasn't thought about such a way of dealing with it.

Now, it is the best strategy to resolve the food crisis in the imperial court and reduce the spring tax of the people.

Turning his head to Wen Renyu, he reminded sharply: "Wen Renyu, within this year, you must keep grain prices stable in various places and beware of bad people."

"Wechen obeys!" Wen Renyu bowed his head, knowing how heavy the burden was on his shoulders.

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