"Brother Xu, what do you think about this matter?"
Although there has not been a formal acceptance of fate, everyone is aware of it.
At this time, Xu Da is the top military officer in Yanjing City.
Liu Song, on the other hand, was the number one person in charge of internal affairs.
Regardless of Liu Song's current real position, it is not very high.
Don't forget, he has been presiding over the public trial these days.
The number of officials who were beheaded by his personal judgment was quite considerable.
Even those officials who had not committed any crime felt trembling in their hearts when they saw Liu Song.
Although, if you don’t do anything bad in your life, you won’t be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night.
In this era, there are quite a few officials who can keep themselves clean, and they are not really afraid of Liu Song.
But invisibly, Liu Song's reputation in Yanjing was already at its peak, and it felt like he could not be better than me.
Liu Song, Xu Da, and Zhu Han had complete control over the city of Yanjing.
"Then what else is there to say?" Xu Da said without any hesitation: "Hurry up and find a way to provide disaster relief."
Liu Song frowned and said: "The disaster relief official naturally agrees. But, what should we use to rescue?"
"The money and land expenses of the Yamen here in Yanjing are all allocated by the imperial court."
"All silver coins are re-exported. If you misappropriate them at will, I'm afraid there will be problems."
Xu Da raised his eyebrows: "Liu Song, what do you mean? Is a mere piece of silver more important than the lives of the people?"
Xu Da is a veteran of many battles, and when he gets angry, he naturally has the evil spirit of being a benevolent and iron horse.
Even Zhu Han, standing in front of Xu Da at this time, felt his heart skip a beat.
Liu Song was not afraid at all, he didn't even raise his eyelids.
"General Xu, I have never said that disaster relief cannot be provided."
"It's just that disaster relief also requires attention to methods."
"We can't save the people of Datong, but it will affect us people in Yanjing, right?"
Zhu Han was very impressed that Liu Song entered the state very quickly.
You have only been in Yanjing for a long time, and you start to think of yourself as one of us when you talk.
She really has the spirit of a parent.
Xu Da said angrily: "No matter how good the people of Yanjing are, they can at least survive."
"But the people of Datong, if the court doesn't care about them, they really won't be able to survive."
"Who is less important and who is more important? Can't you, Liu Song, tell the difference?"
Liu Song showed no sign of weakness: "I have never said that the people of Yanjing are more important than the people of Datong."
"But General Xu, the people of Yanjing are also the people of my Ming Dynasty."
"If we can't arrange things in Yanjing well, once any trouble occurs, it will also cause trouble."
"In order to avoid this situation from happening, we must handle matters on Yanjing's side before providing disaster relief."
"Lest both sides get into trouble, and both sides fail to handle it properly. Instead, the court will fall into a passive position."
After hearing Liu Song's explanation, Xu Da realized that he had not thought carefully.
I just thought about how to go to the disaster relief immediately, but I didn't consider the situation in Yanjing.
On the surface, Yanjing looks peaceful now.
However, in fact, there are also many crises.
After this public trial, nearly a hundred officials were directly killed.
Among them there are many high-ranking officials like Liu Bu Shangshu.
Thousands of people were directly implicated.
In order to reduce the number of killings, Zhu Han did not implicate the families of corrupt officials in this public trial.
As long as they are not directly involved in their affairs, the most they can do is confiscate their illegal gains.
This also resulted in the emptiness of Yanjing's officialdom, but some of the original clan forces still had a lot of influence on Yanjing.
The reason why Xu Da is here is to suppress the private thoughts of these people.
If comprehensive disaster relief begins now, the Black Cavalry Army will definitely be mobilized.
At that time, if someone with intentions takes the opportunity to cause chaos...
It will definitely cause a huge disaster.
After understanding the key here, Xu Da's old face couldn't help but blush.
"Even if what you say makes sense, there is an emergency of 100,000 in Datong right now. We have to move slower. We don't know how many people have starved to death."
Looking at Xu Da's appearance, one can tell that he has actually been persuaded by Liu Song, but he just doesn't want to admit it directly because of his own shame.
Liu Song is not targeting Xu Da either.
After explaining the crux of the problem, he immediately clasped his fist towards Zhu Han and said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will take care of the remaining silver coins of all the yamen of the Yanjing court."
"Except for the money necessary to maintain the operation of the Yamen, all of it will be used for disaster relief."
Liu Song thought for a while and then said: "Your Majesty, if possible... I would like to ask if you can first use the silver that Ying Tianfu has allocated to Yanjing to build a new capital for disaster relief?"
Zhu Han looked at Liu Song with a smile: "Master Liu, do you think this amount of silver can be easily used?"
In response to Zhu Han's question, Liu Song just shook his head indifferently: "Building the capital is related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this money cannot be easily used for other purposes."
"However, the people in the disaster-stricken areas are also the foundation of our Ming Dynasty."
"If you can't keep your people fed and clothed, you can get help at the critical moment."
"Then, what's the point of building the capital of Ming Dynasty no matter how magnificent it is?"
"Very good!" Zhu Han nodded approvingly: "Just do as Mr. Liu said. I have approved your use of this money, and you can use it as much as you want, and you don't have to pay it back afterwards."
Zhu Han waved his hand and said generously.
What he lacks most now is money.
Iwami Silver Mountain is a real silver mountain. Just dig with a pickaxe and you can dig out a lot of silver.
Anyway, in the short term, they don't have to worry about not having enough money.
Zhu Han just lamented that Liu Song was worthy of being someone that even Zhu Yuanzhang dared to scold, and he dared to say anything.
Isn't this guy afraid that he, the King of England, will deal with him afterwards?
You know, the construction of Yanjing was a very important political achievement for Zhu Han.
At least in the eyes of others, this is definitely the case.
Otherwise, Zhu Han wouldn't be so concerned.
Not only did he come to Yanjing to supervise the work in person, but he also held a bidding meeting and a public review meeting.
Now that things have finally stabilized, Liu Song could actually propose using the money used to build the capital because of matters elsewhere?
This is like the chairman of a company in later generations who managed to swindle millions from various places in order to invest in a big project.
But the manager of the company told the chairman that a certain department of the company could not pay wages for some reasons.
Let’s take out the money from this big project first and pay wages to the employees.
As long as the chairman does not fire the manager on the spot, it can be considered that he is related to the chairman.
But Liu Song didn't consider this at all.
Whether or not Zhu Han's idea was true was never within his scope of consideration.
The only thing he was thinking about was how to do a good job in disaster relief.
Before Xinducheng was completed.
Zhu Han, Xu Da, and Liu Song are the only people in Yanjing who can make the decision.
After their goals are agreed upon.
The entire Yanjing moved quickly.
At this time, Liu Song also suddenly discovered the benefits of leaving the project to those businessmen.
That is, the imperial court hardly needs to invest manpower and material resources to manage these projects.
As long as the supervisors are left to inspect and accept according to the standards, that will be enough.
If this had been the case before, these projects might have been stopped.
The imperial court purchased grain on a large scale, which also caused the price of grain to rise three times a day.
In the morning, one stone of grain cost less than one tael of silver, but by night it had risen to one tael of silver.
Although the news of the severe drought in Datong has not yet spread completely.
However, many businessmen with sensitive noses have smelled something different from the court's actions.
Liu's Grain Store, the big shopkeeper Liu Ping'an is keeping accounts.
A young man in luxurious clothes next to him asked somewhat but somewhat: "Third Uncle, is it really okay for us to raise prices now? The imperial court is buying grain on a large scale? Why don't we just lower the price so that we can also process a batch of old grain?" ?”
Liu Pingan glared at Liu Ye with a smile: "What do you know?"
"It's because the imperial court collects grain on a large scale that this situation is not right."
Liu Ye was puzzled: "Third uncle, it's just harvesting grain. The imperial court collects grain every year. What's wrong with this?"
"Stupid!" Liu Pingan was not angry. His nephew was good at everything, but he was a little too honest.
But there's nothing wrong with that.
Things like experience can be taught slowly, and it will come back as time goes by.
But temper and character cannot be changed easily.
Honest people will feel more at ease when using it.
"Think about it carefully, when does the imperial court usually collect grain?"
Liu Ye frowned and thought: "Usually after the autumn harvest, it is used to replenish official warehouses, or to send out armies or something, right?"
Liu Ping'an nodded: "That's the problem."
"It's not the autumn harvest season now, and we haven't heard that the imperial court has mobilized any troops in the north. Why does the imperial court suddenly want to harvest grain?"
"Um..." Liu Ye hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "Third uncle, do you mean that some places have been hit by disasters and the imperial court is purchasing grain to prepare for disaster relief?"
Liu Ping'an looked relieved, his nephew was finally not stupid.
Although no news has come out yet.
However, the imperial court's purchase of grain could not be hidden from anyone at all.
Sometimes it is not that difficult to analyze the purpose of the court through its actions.
Liu Ye felt a little uncomfortable when he heard this: "Third uncle, aren't we..."
Finally, he still had some sense and didn't say the words "taking advantage of others" to his face.
Liu Ping'an naturally understood what his nephew was thinking, and there was nothing surprising about it.
Young people always have an inexplicable sense of justice.
I think when he first took over the business, he was similar to Liu Ye.
I also feel that some businesses are not very benevolent, and I feel some resistance from the bottom of my heart.
But as long as you do it for a long time, you will gradually get used to it.
It's not a troublesome matter.
"Uncle understands that you think it's not good to make money from people in the disaster area."
"But if we don't make this money, others will."
"We are businessmen. Most of the time we just think about making money. But sometimes, we have to be careful not to offend the public."
"If everyone raises their prices, only ours won't. Others may not say anything."
"But in my heart, we will be severely recorded."
"In the future, overt and covert actions will definitely be directed at us."
Liu Ye was immediately unconvinced: "But Third Uncle, don't we all do business based on our own abilities? We don't want to make money and sell at a low price, so what does it have to do with them?"
Liu Pingan sighed helplessly: "If it were that simple, that would be great."
"Think about it, kid, our prices are cheap, and the imperial court purchased some from us. But when we went to them, we found that they had increased the price."
"So, are the people in the imperial court willing to take advantage of this, or are they trying to lower the price?"
"I could have earned two more silver coins, but now I have earned one less silver coin..."
"They will not blame the court for this debt, they will only blame us."
"Because we didn't increase the price, which caused them to be suppressed by the court, do you think they feel comfortable?"
Liu Ye understood the truth, but he just felt uncomfortable and said angrily: "Why are these people so unreasonable?"
Liu Ping'an smiled bitterly and shook his head: "In the business world, is there any truth to be said?"
Then Liu Ye thought of something again and asked nervously: "But Third Uncle, if we suddenly increase the price, what will we do if the court pursues us?"
Liu Ping'an smiled slightly and said: "Let's pursue it. If the court really makes an announcement and asks me to stabilize the price of food, we can just lower the price."
"Remember, our Liu family will never be the one who stands out."
"When others raise prices, we will follow suit."
"But remember, when we raise prices, we are definitely not the one with the fastest price increase, and we are definitely not the one with the highest price."
"In short, if it's neither high nor low, it won't be successful. In this case, even if the court pursues the case, it will only be done by those tall men, and it has nothing to do with us."
Liu Ping'an was eloquently giving lessons to his nephew.
Suddenly a servant knocked on the door.
"Come in." Liu Ping'an stopped with some unfinished thoughts.
When the servant came in, he looked a little panicked.
"Grandpa, I'm sorry, someone from Jinyiwei has invited me."
"What?" After hearing the servant's words, Liu Ping'an's legs softened and he almost fell to the ground.
Fortunately, his nephew Liu Ye was nearby and helped him in time.
Liu Ping'an was a little dumbfounded. He held Liu Ye's hand tightly, swallowed and asked with difficulty: "What are the people from Jin Yiwei here... coming for?"
Here in Yanjing, Jin Yiwei is now equally famous as a fierce one.
After all, the evidence of the corrupt officials whose heads were beheaded not long ago was collected by Jin Yiwei.
Ordinary people are not afraid, but businessmen are extremely afraid of Jin Yiwei.
It is really difficult for businessmen in this era to dare to say that they are completely clean.