Emperor Jinghe was a kind and generous emperor, so there is no doubt about this.

But no matter how kind and generous you are, you will have a bottom line.

When facing the life and death of tens of millions of disaster victims, he would not mind using thunder to kill a group of officials and taint a group of officials and make disaster relief work better.

Thousands of people cry better than tens of millions of people.

When Miao Yan heard him say such tough words, he felt relieved and bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"

Jing Hedi looked a little melancholy, but he had to ask: "Mingqi, do you think it is necessary to do this in the capital?"

Liu Mingqi shook her head without thinking: "Unless it is absolutely necessary, the court should not let them get something for nothing, otherwise they will look forward to the court's relief every time they have a big or small disaster in the future. So is it better to provide relief or not?"

Jing Hedi's face looked ugly again.

If possible, he would like to send relief to the poor all the victims and the poor in the country to make them affordable food.

But Liu Mingqi is right, people are always unsatisfied, and the money and food in the treasury are not allowed!

The boy smiled again, "Your Majesty, you have done a good job over the years, and everyone can see it. You can also try your best to help them, but you must make plans for the prince and his descendants!

You can follow your steps on weekdays, but what if they have encountered natural disasters for more than ten or decades?

At that time, the national treasury was used up and the food was empty, refugees were everywhere, and there were countless turmoil. If we catch up with the invasion of foreign enemies, what should we do if we Dakang Dynasty?"

Jing Hedi took a breath of air conditioning, his face becoming more and more ashen.

Even Miao Yan looked at Liu Mingqi in surprise, feeling that this young man didn't look like a young man at all, like an old man who has experienced thousands of years of wind and frost.

The horrible things he said were like he had experienced them in real life.

There is nothing wrong.

What the boy is talking about is the ups and downs of the thousand-year empire.

The dynasty that encountered this situation was called "Ming". The dynasty that had been vast in China for five thousand years and had the most righteous country. The only dynasty in which the emperor guarded the country, the emperor died and kept his promises was destroyed in the Little Ice Age.

Dakang Chao was not as far away as this level, but it was what Liu Mingqi, the prince of the Empire, should do.

The grain price is about to rise from 18 essays to 40 essays. Liu Mingqi understands that this is helpless.

Dakangchao attaches great importance to business, so he must respect business rules. He does not want to grab it if he wants or take it if he wants.

If you want those big grain merchants to sell grain, you must at least leave them enough profits.

Otherwise, it would be called Mingzhe. In the eyes of businessmen in other industries, Dakang Chao would lose authority and trust.

This is very fatal!

Once a court loses its integrity, it means it is already disunited from the people below.

If business collapses, it will be a devastating blow to the entire Dakang Dynasty.

The Great Kang Dynasty could not bear it at all.

So the prime ministers, ministers and ministers together with the emperor set a price of 40 cents per liter.

The sharp problem now is that the people still have so much money in their hands, but the grain has more than doubled in one go. In the past, it was enough to buy food for three months, but now it can only buy one month. What should I do if the remaining two months are left?

This is not a question of whether grain merchants will release grain, but a question of whether the people still have money to buy grain.

"In fact, the sages of all dynasties have long had experience with this situation. Isn't it just about using labor for relief?" Liu Mingqi's tone slowed down, "With the financial resources of the people today, even if the rice and wheat prices have more than doubled, there should be no problem in supporting them for one or two months.

There are two months left to fall and winter, and the rivers are dry. The Yellow River, Jinshui River, Wuzhang River, Bian River, Cai River... Can't these rivers flowing through the capital be cleared and repaired? Can't hundreds of thousands of poor people have work to do and get money home to buy grain?"

The largest river flowing through the capital is actually the Yellow River. Although it does not pass around the city, it is very close and affects the capital at any time.

The cleaning of the Yellow River happens to be the most important and troublesome thing. It consumes a lot of money every year, but it cannot be thoroughly cleared and repaired.

Because this requires too many people, the capital could not even transfer so many people to do it.

Miao Yan frowned: "Your Highness, we only carried out dredging and repairing it two years ago. Judging from the current situation of these rivers, except for the Yellow River, there is no need to consume so much manpower and material resources at all, except for the Yellow River may need."

Liu Mingqi smiled, "Mr. Miao, there is no problem in repairing and unblocking the Yellow River in which year and at which time. Such an important river must not be missed.

Moreover, the purpose of clearing and repairing is not to clearing and repairing it, but to give our court a open and upright reason to send the money.

There is another difficult purpose, which is to let them have something to do, rather than staying at home every day to complain. If this is used by someone who is interested, it will be very bad."

Miao Yan was silent for a moment when he heard this, bowed to the young man, and said seriously: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is indeed a gift from God. He has thought it carefully and is admired by the officials."

Jing Hedi said: "According to your idea, should I do this in the Two Lakes area?"

"That's of course!"

Liu Mingqi said: "When the locust plague is over, organize all the men who can be organized to repair the river, organize Yunmengze, strengthen the embankment, and build roads.

Women asked them to wash clothes, cook, and help carry some things; children could pick up firewood, help feed cows, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc.

In short, just one sentence, don’t let them stop, don’t let them be idle, don’t let them have time to think about what they have nothing now.

As long as we can survive until the new season of wheat and rice harvest next year, everything will no longer happen, and the two lakes will gradually return to normal, and there will be no pain and sequelae for many years."

Emperor Jing He listened very seriously, and then said to Miao Yan: "Taisheng, I will call them over in the afternoon. Mingqi's suggestion, come and give me."

"Abide by the order!"

Miao Yan said without hesitation.

Liu Mingqi shrugged.

On the surface, it seemed that Miao Yan was robbing Liu Mingqi of his credit, but in fact he took the blame and said these strategies that cost a lot of manpower and material resources, which added a lot of trouble to the court.

This is a job to offend people, but Miao Yan has never been afraid of offending people.

"But in this case, I'm afraid the transferred food is not enough." Miao Yan also pointed out the problem. "Even if it is 12 million stones of grain, it will not last long under such high-intensity labor! There are more than 17 million people in the two lakes! If the loss is added, it will be supported for two months at best."

"We still have autumn grain..." Emperor Jing He said subconsciously.

"Are autumn grain only available for the two lakes?" Miao Yan shook his head, "Northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest, we had to rely on subsidies every year for these major grain-producing provinces. The northwest drought five years ago, and then the typhoon in Fujian and the flood in Guangdong two years ago, because you tried your best to rescue the disaster, you had already exhausted most of the grain stocks and treasury silver.

Now that both lakes are suffering from disasters, the burden of Guangxi and the northwest provinces is about to fall! There are more than 15 million people here, so don’t you consider them?"

The two lakes area was affected by disasters, but it was still just the hinterland of the empire.

The northwest is different. There is a direct face to the poor, cruel, and desperate Uighurs and Western Qiang people. If chaos arose there, the entire Dakang Dynasty will be shocked.

So no matter when, we must ensure their stability.

And grain is the best stabilizing needle.

Emperor Jinghe was speechless.

He did not consider the treasury when he was providing disaster relief.

Think about it.

Even if you have money, you have to eat and drink every day if you open your mouth for millions of dollars, and also have various disaster relief costs. How big is this astronomical figure?

It is still a little more effort to support it until now, and it is already blessed by our ancestors. God has given face over the years to allow both the national treasury and the internal treasury to have food reserves!

Depressed, he saw Liu Mingqi doing nothing, and asked casually: "Mingqi, why are you a mute now? Tell me, what should I do?"

"The best way is to purchase it from the private sector, which has at least tens of millions of stones of grain in stock." The young man said directly.

"shit!"

Jing Hedi scolded, "Who doesn't know this? But where does the money come from?"

"Aren't you making things difficult for me? The money is not my own." Liu Mingqi spread her hands, "If you don't have money and want to do things that you have money, how can you get such a good thing in the world?"

Jing Hedi stopped talking.

Seeing him feeling a little uncomfortable, the boy struggled for a while, but still couldn't help it: "Your Majesty, I actually have a very bad suggestion..."

"You're not good, you still say it?" The emperor was anxious and said to him casually.

Liu Mingqi immediately shut up and thought to herself that if you don’t let me say it, that’s just right!

But Miao Yan saw the clues and bowed directly: "Your Highness the Crown Prince will tell you, maybe it will be effective?"

Seeing Emperor Jinghe looked at him, Liu Mingqi could only say, "Then I said, Your Majesty, you are not allowed to be angry, you cannot scold me, and you must not let others know that I said it."

"explain!"

"All right!"

Liu Mingqi pondered and said for a moment: "Your Majesty, do you know that one pound of rice or wheat flour can be exchanged for three pounds of bran?"
Chapter completed!