"Dear friends, guess what is the purpose of calling everyone here this time?" Liu Tao summoned all the ministers. Today is not a day for court. Generally, small matters are just about calling several ministers in charge.

A morning court was held temporarily. According to Liu Tao's previous style of conduct, something big happened.

Of course, the ministers who have information channels already know what it is, which is mainly related to the Changping Stove in Pingyang County.

"Chang Ping's position was abolished during the Yuan Emperor's reign, and planned to reset it during the Ming Emperor's reign, but it was finally left unresolved." Liu Tao looked at everyone, "In order to ensure the income of the people, I re-established Chang Ping's position. I started to try it in Yunzhong, and then popularized Bingzhou. The year before, it began to popularize it in Sizhou and Liangzhou, and first tried it in Pingyang County and Jincheng County..."

After hearing this, even the stupid ministers knew that what Liu Tao said was the issue of often closing positions.

Starting last year, Changpingzhangkang, Pingyang County, began to purchase grain locally. According to the market price, it is strictly a slightly lower price than the market price. However, when selling grain at this price, the people still have a certain profit.

After all, in fact, even if there is a shortage of food, local grain merchants will try every means to purchase at a lower price. The final purchase price is at least 40% lower than the purchase price of the Changping Store.

After the people paid the land rent, the remaining grain was not much, and the price for sale could not be increased. In the end, they could only sell the vast majority of the grain, then collect some wild vegetables to supplement it, and at the same time, they worked in the slack farming period, so that they could make do with it for a year.

The farmer who farmed couldn't eat enough, and he was afraid that no one would believe it when he said it. But reality was so ironic.

The usual setting of warehouses is to give the country enough food to cope with sudden food disasters.

During the period of Emperor Ling, the weather suddenly changed, and the court was unable to appease the people, so that the refugees increased, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion eventually formed. In the end, there was no grain reserve, and the abnormal climate caused food to be poor.

The abnormal weather during the Little Ice Age is also a problem. I guess even Emperor Yuan and Emperor Ming never thought that the climate would become very abnormal for a period of time. This abnormality lasted for at least ten years, or even twenty or thirty years.

I only saw officials who would make trouble by ceasing the warehouses, but I didn’t see the national food crisis... Of course, I couldn’t expect that ancient people would have such a long-term vision, especially emperors who almost didn’t go to the local area.

He could not let the emperor go to the place casually. It is said that Kangxi went to Jiangnan six times and destroyed the Cao family. Qianlong went to Jiangnan six times and emptied the Qing Dynasty's foundation. What's even more speechless is that the money obtained by destroying Heshen's house was turned into Jiajing's treasury, and no penny was entered into the treasury.

"This year..." Seeing that everyone seemed to have remembered something, Liu Tao continued, "The Ministry of Revenue sent someone to Pingyang County to inspect the granary. There is a county... Anyway, you should know that you all know that the granary is burning."

I paused and looked at the ministers below. Most of them had obviously heard of this. A few were a little surprised, and some might think it was nothing. After all, an accidental fire was also possible.

"Some people also suspect that it was an accident. The fire had already started. Generally speaking, there was no way to verify it..." Liu Tao said this, paused for about three seconds, and immediately changed his subject. "Unfortunately, the local garrison was nearby this time and immediately drew water to put out the fire. The fire was extinguished before it reached its maximum. As a result, what did the officials of the Ministry of Revenue sent to find?"

Everyone looked at the Ministry of Revenue. The officials on the Ministry of Revenue looked strange. The warehousing matter was inseparable from the Ministry of Revenue. The problem was that before the imperial examination system last year, there were insufficient officials, otherwise they would not have been there to check it out this year.

"Forget it, this matter itself has something to do with the Ministry of Revenue, but it has little to do with it." Liu Tao sighed, "At that time, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue saw that the grain inside was all old, and the amount was not up to par with, and it was more than 40% less."

Simply put, 40% of the grain collected last year disappeared, while the remaining 60% were replaced with old grain. Last year, the purchase of grain was completely a means for local grain officials to fill their pockets.

What made Liu Tao angry was that on the road to subsequent investigation and interrogation, these officials used extremely low prices to force the local people's food, which almost caused civil unrest in Pingyang County. Finally, the government came forward and appropriately increased the purchase price to lower the matter.

I guess I was also worried that Liu Tao had just succeeded to the throne and there was a civil unrest under his rule, so the local government and even the county magistrates might be in trouble.

"Your Majesty, there were too many such things in Changping's position at the beginning, so he wrote a letter to abolish it." Wang Kuang stepped forward. After all, he had served as the prefect of Pingyang County. Changping's position was established during his tenure. This accident had nothing to do with him, and he was also worried!

"That's just that the supervision is not strong enough. Warehousing technology and warehousing system are the top priority. If you don't solve this problem, you will use these things to persuade you to give up setting up a regular closing position... Then what use should I use?" Liu Tao said slowly.

The tone is a bit sturdy, but it is the fact that one or two people claim to be a shepherd guard for His Majesty, but you end up like this? You can do something better than you if you change a shepherd dog!

Perhaps it was because Liu Tao's words were too hurtful, so many officials couldn't help but lower their heads, especially the Ministry of Revenue.

"Secretary of the Ministry of Personnel!" Liu Tao then looked at the Ministry of Personnel, and Lu Zhi came forward.

"Next year, another Enke game will be held to select talents again." Liu Tao said slowly, "Because of shortage of people, we had to appoint some of the original officials and even promote them. We hope that they will contribute a little to the construction of a brand new Han Dynasty, and in the end they will repay my trust in them?"

He paused and continued, "Since there is a shortage of people, then continue to recruit people. There is never a shortage of people in the world who want to be officials. It is really impossible to be promoted to excellent officials. However, for officials who violate the law and discipline, let me down and the people of the world trust, I don't need such a guy, nor does the Han Dynasty need it!"

Everyone understood that the main culprit of this incident must have died so much that he could not die again, but the accomplice would probably be dismissed and would never be hired.

"For those who have to surrender and commit crimes and have committed meritorious service..." Liu Tao felt that he could not speak so hard, "Let them make up for the embezzled parts and transfer them from the local area at the same time. Within six years, promotion will not be allowed!"

"Your Majesty is kind!" It is the best result for Liu Tao to give such preferential treatment. Lu Zhi nodded secretly and then stepped forward to receive the order.

"Ministry of Revenue, do a good job in the management system of granaries and start from the transportation and warehousing of grain. I do not want food waste and loss due to these shortcomings, so as to avoid as much as possible." Liu Tao then looked at the Ministry of Revenue.

"Abide by the order!" As the Minister of Revenue, Wang Yun naturally had to come forward to endorse the letter.

"The granary in the world is related to the stability of the world. You should know that if Changping warehouses have been established, then in the past ten years, the people will not be displaced due to food shortage, nor will they be disturbed by Zhang Jiaogu because they have no food..." Liu Tao looked at everyone, "I don't know how long this climate will last. Food reserves are the top priority. My dear friends should pay attention!"

It’s not that Liu Tao is so angry. The issue of food waste has been a concern for the country since ancient times.

However, compared to the promotion of CD-ROM and food broadcasting, more than 3,000 tons of grain saved. The waste of food in warehousing, transportation and personnel management in various places is as high as hundreds of millions of tons of grain.

How did the big brother disintegrate? It was not that agriculture and light industry could not keep up, but that the warehousing and transportation were exported. A large amount of food was either unable to be transported or broken on the road during transportation.

More than 100 tons of flour are produced, and less than ten tons are transported to the city. You can’t queue up to buy bread?

Not to mention the transportation and warehousing issues, Liu Tao recognized these limitations due to technical issues. However, the problems caused by personnel management cannot be tolerated.

In Pingyang, Yin soldiers borrowed food, replaced pillars, and fire dragons burned the warehouse. What else would you dare not to do in the future?

Liu Tao even wondered whether the Yin-Yang Warehouse was also coming out. It was the kind of large granary, which was actually empty in the middle, or was filled with something else, and added a layer on it, and put grain on it specifically.

In such a Yin-Yang warehouse, a granary actually has only 20% to 30% of the grain. When inspecting people saw that the grain in the granary was almost full, they could not see that the granary was empty.

After all, grain storage and transportation are often for emergency response. The concept of emergency response is that unless it is urgent or needs to be used, it may be stored like this for one or two years.

It is stored for a long time, and some may be replaced every three to five years, but no surprises may not be inspected once every ten years. Naturally, it gives the people below a lucky mentality.

Anyway, if the above does not check, it is said that if the food is replaced once every five years, then it will not be replaced. It will be replaced again after ten years, but it will be reported to replace it once. In this way, the money will naturally enter the pockets of the officials.

So now the problem comes up. When is it better to check it once, and who will check it better?

The Ministry of Revenue inspects the Ministry of Revenue, which is definitely not possible. There is a chain of interest between superiors and subordinates, and even a corrupt official below is promoted by a minister above or even a minister.

"Your Majesty, if you want to supervise officials, wouldn't it be better to increase the staff of the Censorate?" Guo Jia stepped forward and suggested.

There are already Jinyiwei, but Jinyiwei mainly monitors political prisoners. As for the style of officials, dereliction of duty, corruption and abuse of power, the censor is generally responsible for the censor. Especially for the power of news and reporting, the censor becomes a paparazzi directly.

Even if you have suspicion, you will participate in you. For the sake of the interests of the party, you will even criticize an official to death. In the end, the emperor will pull him out and spank him. He is even proud of it, thinking that this is a manifestation of "talking out loud and admonishing".

So the emperor slapped them on the butt, which was the emperor's own stupidity and had nothing to do with whether they had done something wrong.

In short, when he heard Guo Jia's suggestion, Liu Tao was the first thing he thought of, and then he felt a little disgusting.

The problem is that this thing is really the job of the censor. Even if another institution is set up, there will be no change in the result, so we can only change the way of doing things and systems.

"In this way, the Censorate has issued a plan, when will the granary be inspected, how will it be inspected, and a regulations are issued within it; the Ministry of Revenue may have problems in warehousing, transportation and management, so I will also make rectifications; I don't want the matter in Pingyang County to appear again!" Liu Tao weighed the pros and cons, and finally made a decision.

"Abide by the order!" When people from the Ministry of Revenue and the Censorate heard this, they naturally issued a list of orders to receive orders.
Chapter completed!