Qiming 1158

Chapter 1209 Get through this cold winter first

Facing the tragic situation of starving and dying of refugees everywhere, Ma Yongkang was shocked.

He hurriedly asked the accompanying officials, who were also confused and didn't know what was going on.

Feeling that something was wrong, he immediately rushed to Chengdu to meet Zhao Buxi.

"Dali Kingdom is willing to do business with Shu Jin?"

Zhao Buxi was very pleasantly surprised by this, and hurriedly asked, "Aren't they worried about anything else? What about the price? Did they lower the price?"

"Duan Zhengxing, the head of Dali, said that as long as it is done in private, the people on their side will keep their mouths shut, and we only need to pay a little attention on our side. Neither the Ming Kingdom nor the puppet dynasty can do anything to us, after all, the distance far, they are beyond reach."

Ma Yongkang said: "As for the price, they have not lowered the price too much, they just hope that we can reduce the price by about [-]%, because they also have to take risks. For this, I think this is not too much. It's totally acceptable."

Zhao Buxi nodded slowly.

"Indeed, it is not unacceptable to only cut the price by [-]%. As long as they need enough quantities, it will still be very profitable for the court."

Saying that, Zhao Buxi finally showed a long-lost smile on his still dull face.

"That's great, the urgency has finally been resolved, Ma Qing, you don't know how sad the imperial court is these days. In this way, the imperial court finally doesn't have to worry about running out of money, military expenses, officials' expenses, local expenses... It's finally resolved!"

Hearing this, Ma Yongkang was silent for a while, then thought of what he had seen and heard around Chengdu Mansion, and couldn't help but ask, "Does the officials know that the refugees around Chengdu Mansion have suddenly risen and cannot live in peace?"

"The refugees are suddenly unable to live in peace?"

Zhao Buxi frowned: "Is this really the case? Why? Why didn't anyone inform me about it? If it's true, then I..."

Speaking of this, Zhao Buxi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood something.

Ma Yongkang didn't say anything.

He knew very well that Zhao Bunyi was an official not long ago. Although he was separated from the masses, he should know a lot about the dirty things between officials. Like himself, he knew that the officials deceived the top and the bottom, and he might not have done it. He has been involved in such incidents, not to mention that he was also a financial official who was in charge of salt work.

How many twists and turns there are in the salt work, only those who have been engaged in it know.

"The minister returned to Chengdu all the way, and there are a large number of refugees on the official road."

Ma Yongkang sighed: "Although the imperial court is short of money, it's not enough to do this, right? Seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, and a large number of the first-class citizens are starving to death, what will they do in desperation? It's really not. The court can decide."

"No, this is not what I originally wanted to do. I did the arithmetic. If the people below really seriously implemented the imperial order, such a thing would never happen."

Zhao Budi shook his head again and again, and then said with anger: "Unless someone tries to make a profit from this, deceives and deceives, and apportions it separately on top of the tax rate prescribed by the court!"

"This kind of thing is never rare, don't the officials know about it?"

Ma Yongkang shook his head and said: "There are few officials who serve the public, and most of them are villains who seek profit for themselves. In the current situation, the Ming Dynasty is eyeing the outside world. If the story of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun reappears inside, what will the court look like, the official family. Are you really ready?"

Zhao Buxi was silent for a long time and sighed deeply.

"If you didn't bring back the good news, even if I knew about this matter, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to turn the situation around, because you brought back this good news, I have room to turn around, Ma Qing, it's all your credit. "

"It's all thanks to Your Majesty Hongfu Qitian."

Ma Yongkang said in a low voice, "So do you take your life back?"

Zhao Buxi was silent again for a long time, and his legs were sore when he arrived at Ma Yongkang Station, and Zhao Buxi didn't speak.

"It's all released, it's unnecessary to take it back, and we don't know how long the trade with Dali country will last. If something goes wrong, if you want to issue such a policy again, you will really anger the people of Shu, so... ... temporarily withdraw one or two additional subjects to ease the civil situation a little."

Ma Yongkang sighed deeply.

"But those peasants who have been in exile have lost their land, and the land has basically gone to the hands of big local families. How can those peasants survive?"

Zhao Buxi looked at Ma Yongkang.

"What do you think?"

"There is no reason to spit out the meat that is eaten. It is almost impossible for those big households to spit out the land and return it to the farmers. The only way is to order them not to continue to plunder the land, and they need to build porridge sheds and provide porridge in winter to ensure that farmers who have lost their land. I won’t die of starvation, and I’ll find a way when the imperial court is financially rich in the spring.”

Ma Yongkang thought of a solution for Zhao Bundi, which is not a solution, let's get through this cold winter first.

Zhao Buyi felt that there was really no other way at the moment, so he could only follow Ma Yongkang's advice.

Subsequently, the imperial court issued an order to abolish several taxation subjects, and then strictly prohibited the large and small officials from apportioning additional taxes on top of the taxation amount stipulated by the imperial court.

He also reprimanded some local officials for their rude actions, causing refugees to spread all over the land, seriously affecting the stability of the people, and ordered local officials to gather the refugees and make them return home.

Then, a decree was issued to restrict the tyrants of the landlords from stealing the land of the landlords, and no similar incidents should happen again. It also required the big landlords who harvested the peasants' land to build porridge sheds, and they should cook porridge before the next spring to ensure that the landless peasants would not starve to death.

Immediately after the promulgation of the policy, the imperial court dispatched censors to scatter around, strictly supervising the officials in various places, so that they would not apportion without authorization, and would also supervise the large households to see if they had built porridge sheds to protect the lives of the landless farmers.

If not, it must be severely punished.

After this order was promulgated, Zhao Buyi felt that the situation should be under control, so he felt relieved. After that, the Chengdu court resumed the work and production of the Chengdu Jinyuan, which was controlled by the court, and restarted the weaving of Shu brocade, preparing to make a large sum of money. Money to ease the predicament of the court.

Zhao Buyi believes that after these orders are promulgated, the continued deterioration of the refugee situation can be curbed to a considerable extent, and the situation can be stabilized. It is a very difficult thing to let the bloodthirsty wolves stop.

After finally having the opportunity to devour the flesh and blood of the people, how could these bloodthirsty fanatics stop so easily?

Anyway, the court is in Chengdu, and the emperor is in the palace, and they will not personally supervise them to handle these things. Is it still up to them to do it or not?

As for letting the big households build porridge sheds to serve porridge to the landless peasants, it's basically quite funny. How to operate it is entirely up to the big households to have the final say. drill.

Zhao Bunyi completely underestimated the greed of the bureaucrats and the treacherousness of the big households. He was still immersed in the imagination of the imperial court having sufficient finances and being able to do many things after the crisis.

He didn't know what he was going to face, and he didn't know that the Chengdu court's limited restoration of Shu brocade trade information soon spread to Zhongdu and placed it in front of Su Yonglin's desk.

(End of this chapter)