Dahan first prince

Chapter 278 The Rice Stealers Clan!

Slowed down from the reverence for the beauty of the future, Liu Ying's face was involuntarily relaxed.

So far, the government-operated grain and rice policy has laid a solid enough foundation and formed enough inertia to carry out the policy steadily.

In other words: From now on, Liu Ying doesn't need to worry much about the government-operated policy on grain and rice.

After the autumn harvest every year, whether the people want to store grain in Shaofu's granary or sell it directly to Shaofu, they only need Shaofu to do the work.

As for the interests of storing grain on behalf of the people, the Shaofu will definitely get the full support of the Xiangfu.

——The "tenth" of the storage fee for the common people to store food in the Shaofu, but half of it is from the Xiangfu treasury!

Even if it is to ensure that there will be no problems with his own half, the current prime minister Xiao He, and the next prime minister Cao Can, who is basically certain, will definitely use all their strength to escort the Shaofu to store grain on behalf of the people.

And this is exactly the reason why Liu Ying promised to give half of the benefits of grain storage on behalf of the people to the national treasury, instead of letting the small government take all.

——Behind the treasury is the Prime Minister's Mansion in charge of the treasury, to be precise, the prime minister himself;

Behind Shaofu's storage of grain on behalf of the people is the policy of "shaofu government-operated grain and rice" including grain storage on behalf of the people.

Giving up half of the benefits obtained from storing grain on behalf of the people to the treasury means that every future Han minister, and even every future prime minister's team, will naturally become a vested interest in the Shaofu's official grain and rice policy. stakeholder.

To put it bluntly, Liu Ying just tied the entire prime minister's mansion, including the prime minister, to the battle of the official grain management policy indefinitely through the method of "receipts from grain storage on behalf of the people, half of the treasury and half of the internal money". Just in the car.

But now, with enough granaries, enough policy inertia and recognition, plus the current crown prince, the future emperor Liu Ying, and every future prime minister and ministerial official as the backing, the Shaofu official The grain and rice policy is already as stable as Mount Tai!
Of course, in the future visible to the naked eye, the income of Shaofu's "grain storage on behalf of the people" will become lower and lower, and eventually disappear completely.

This is not only the inertia of history, but also the inevitability of history, and it is also the goal that Liu Ying, and even the entire Han Dynasty Central Committee, want to achieve: to enable every common people to have the ability to store food for their own families.

But when the whole of Guanzhong, and even the whole world, no one needs the Shaofu to 'store grain on behalf of the people', even without the support of the prime minister and the Xiangfu, the Shaofu can rely on the development period of the past few years to accumulate food. It is strong enough to support the government-operated policy of grain and rice.

And on that day, Shaofu, which has accumulated countless grains, coins, and all kinds of weapons and supplies, will become a solid foundation for Liu Ying to stand on the top of the clouds and hold the power of the world!

"That day..."

"It shouldn't be too far..."

Muttering this softly with reverence on her face, Liu Ying also had a strange confidence in her brows.

But it was also at this time that Yangcheng Yanyu poured a pot of cold water on Liu Ying's head with a remorseful remark.

"At home."

"There is another matter, although it is not too big, but I think it should be known to the family..."

He hesitated to say this, and when Liu Yingwen nodded with a smile, he saw Yang Chengyan struggled with himself again, and then gave Liu Ying his hands with hesitation.

"Fortunately, His Majesty's family has informed you that the Shaofu's official management of grain and grain storage on behalf of the people and other matters have not gone awry."

"However, last year, the granaries and grain markets set up by the Shaofu in various places in Guanzhong had occasional minor troubles, which is known to me..."

Hearing Yang Chengyan's words, the smile on Liu Ying's face faltered, and there was a little bit of light in her eyes when she looked at Yang Chengyan...

Killing spirit!

"The words of the Shaofu."

With a cold tone, Liu Ying straightened her body abruptly, and immediately furrowed her brows.

——Liu Ying, who has been baptized by the emperor's career in the past few years, is very clear about the "minor trouble" in Yangcheng Yankou.

"Ugh······"

"Why..."

Seeing Liu Ying's posture, Yangcheng Yanzhi complained in his heart.

But he said everything, no matter how regretful he was, Yang Chengyan could only shake his head secretly, and put the expected 'minor trouble' in front of Liu Ying.

"One of them: Last year, the Shaofu obtained grain storage warehouses from the hands of Mi Jia, a grain merchant in Guanzhong. However, there are not many officials and officials in the Shaofu, and most of them have other positions. The supervisors of each granary , Officials, there are really many vacancies.”

"Unless there is no one available, I can only take the hundred or two hundred stones that the Shaofu already has, and one person is in charge of one county, or even the warehouses of several counties."

"Only in this way, each warehouse cannot be guarded by the official who supervises the warehouse, and the rice and grain in the warehouse are more likely to be stolen..."

Full of self-blame, Yang Chengyan frowned tightly, and there was a touch of deep helplessness between his brows.

"Last spring and April to autumn harvest alone, there were no less than hundreds of cases of theft of grain stored in various warehouses in Guanzhong;"

"The Shaofu obtained tens of millions of shi from the grain merchants in Guanzhong, and even tens of thousands of shi were stolen by thieves, thieves, and even officials who supervised the warehouse, but they have not been recovered..."

When Yang Chengyan said 'tens of thousands of shi of grain were stolen', Liu Ying's furrowed brows finally relaxed a little.

——As early as when she decided to implement the policy of "shaofu government-operated grain and rice", Liu Ying had already anticipated similar incidents!
As the saying goes: where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rice, there are mice.

Even in later generations, it is difficult to completely prevent the theft of state-owned materials; even today's state treasury and Shaofu have farces of "stealing rats and cannibalism" from time to time, not to mention the granaries scattered all over Guanzhong without official supervision?

When Yang Chengyan said "the Shaofu manpower is not enough" as a foreshadowing, Liu Ying felt an extremely ominous premonition.

Fortunately, in the end, the number that came out of Yangcheng Yanzui was not 10,000+ stones, hundreds of thousands of stones, or even millions of stones.

But even so, the anger on Liu Ying's face made Yang Chengyan tremble with fear.

——You must know that last year, the lowest point of grain prices in Guanzhong was [-] yuan per stone after Shaofu entered the market!

Tens of thousands of shi grains were stolen. In terms of value alone, this is a loss of tens of millions of dollars!

According to the unspoken rule of the Han Dynasty that "a family with a property of more than [-] yuan is a middle-class family" and "above the middle class can be an official", this batch of lost grain is enough to support a hundred families, and they jumped from nothing to wealth." Middle class home'!
To put it another way: the loss of the Shaofu in the past six months is equivalent to a hundred middle-class families who can produce officials, and lost all their assets at once...

Thinking of this, Yang Chengyan lowered his head as if resigned to his fate, and waited for Liu Ying's scolding with self-blame.

In Yang Chengyan's view, such a huge loss was enough to dissipate all the political prestige he had gained from the "official grain and rice" incident, and even call for disasters.

But to Yang Chengyan's surprise, after hearing what he said, Liu Ying didn't immediately show a posture of swearing, but raised her head with a gloomy face, signaling for herself to continue.

Seeing this, Yang Chengyan had no choice but to raise his head again, and continued: "In addition to the theft of rice and grain, there were also occasional mistakes in the grain markets that the Shaofu set up in various places in Guanzhong last year."

"Last year, the officials of the grain markets in various parts of Guanzhong exercised their power, and those who raised prices privately and sold rice to the people for profit, got a dozen or so people."

"There are even those who privately lowered the price of the goods and grains with relatives and friends, and even kept the money from the goods and grains privately, and falsely reported 'stolen', 'damaged', and 'festered' to gain self-interest."

"In the past few days, I have occasionally heard that far away from Chang'an's local counties and counties, there are more cheap goods and merchants for personal gain..."

Hearing this, Liu Ying's gloomy face was replaced by a strange smile.

Undoubtedly: the skill points pointed out by the officials of the Western Han Dynasty on "using the public for personal gain" really opened Liu Ying's eyes.

Listen to what Yang Chengyan said?
Sell ​​food at a higher price by yourself, or sell it to relatives and friends at a lower price, that's all!
Even the "fire loss" invented by Chinese bureaucrats thousands of years later, appeared in the land of China before BC because of Liu Ying's launch of the official grain and rice camp!
As for selling grain to merchants at normal prices to gain profits, that's not to mention, even Liu Ying wished she could give such a person a thumbs up and shout 'smart'!
——As early as when she blamed the grain merchants for her assassination and used it to pave the way for the grain and rice official camp, Liu Ying had already made a rule: Any merchant who buys grain from the Shaofu must pay two Double the price to buy!

This has nothing to do with personal feelings, but because of hatred and hostility to businessmen, which is the political correctness of the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, it was also Liu Ying who wanted to sing "I was assassinated because of food prices" more realistically, and beat the merchant group by the way.

At that time, Liu Ying also considered: Will there be people who buy back grain at normal prices and sell it to merchants at a higher price for profit.

But in the end, Liu Ying still didn't take this possibility too seriously.

As for the reason, it is not difficult to understand.

First of all, the group that hates businessmen the most in the world today is the common people!

For the sake of money, it is somewhat impossible for the people to sell grain bought at a low price to a businessman whom they hate and despised by the world.

Furthermore, even if it is sold, it is completely acceptable to Liu Ying and the Han Dynasty.

Because since the day when Liu Bang "entered Xianyang first", the people in Guanzhong have been the most solid foundation for Liu Han Sheji!

If the people can make money from the merchants, even if the court loses a little, it is definitely a good thing.

——According to the current strength and ability of the Han Dynasty to monitor officials, even if the state directly distributes money to the people, I am afraid that the money will not be distributed to the people themselves!
It is not a bad thing to allow people to have multiple ways to make profits.

But Liu Ying had calculated thousands of times, but she didn't count this intentional hole, and the bureaucrats discovered it first.

——The price of food is [-] renminbi, but merchants need to spend [-] renminbi to buy it. What does it mean?
It means that as long as someone can sell grain at a price of [-] renminbi, or even [-] renminbi per stone, the merchants will be able to grab their heads!
In Guanzhong last year, it was obvious that ordinary people were not the only ones who could buy grain from the Shaofu grain market for [-] yuan.

"Smart man..."

"At a price higher than [-] and lower than [-], provide merchants with unlimited food, and turn around, and only need to report that the food is 'bought by the people at a fair price'..."

"Business without capital, a huge profit..."

Smiling sadly, Liu Ying finally shook her head with a wry smile, and sighed again.

Anti-corruption is an eternal problem in human society.

Especially in the Han Dynasty with backward communication, not to mention eradicating corruption, I am afraid that it will take a lot of time to punish corrupt officials caught.

Liu Ying had thought about this matter clearly in her previous life.

—— Do your best and listen to the destiny.

Increase supervision as far as possible, and strive to reduce the probability of similar incidents happening.

Thinking of this, Liu Ying finally suppressed the sneer on her face, and raised her head seriously.

"In the next day's court meeting, I will ask my father to ask me: from the beginning of spring this year, all the grain markets and granaries set up by the Shaofu in Guanzhong will be sent to the imperial censor."

"In addition to sending the censor to supervise the grain market and the granary, you can also discuss with Shaofu Qing Cao to find another way to benefit."

Speaking these words in a calm tone, Liu Ying pondered for a while, and then asked again: "Where are the thieves and thieves who stole rice last year, as well as warehouse officials and city officials who exercised power?"

Seeing Yang Chengyan hurriedly cupped his hands: "Thieves and thieves who steal rice often escape, and officials and officials also flee;"

"The dozens of thieves arrested by the localities for stealing rice are all local crimes of 'stealing' and should be imprisoned in various localities."

"All officials and officials, most of them are still in Tingwei's prison, pending trial."

Hearing this, Liu Ying just nodded and stood up from her seat.

"Huanlao Shaofu personally went to the prime minister's mansion, and asked Feng Hou to write about the counties and counties in Guanzhong: Anyone who was arrested for stealing rice from the Shaofu's granary will be escorted to Tingwei's prison."

She explained with a serious face, and when Yang Chengyan bowed to accept the order, Liu Ying removed the bamboo slips in front of her, took a roll of blank bamboo slips from the side, and began to write vigorously.

After a short while, Liu Ying straightened her upper body again, and blew a few breaths on the wet handwriting on the bamboo slips, before pushing the bamboo slips in front of Yang Chengyan.

"This is the "Cang Law" drawn up by Gu."

"The Shaofu can observe it first, and then hurt the officials and officials of the Shaofu, so as to check for omissions and fill in the gaps."

"When this rhythm is completed, I will play this rhythm to invite my father and emperor, and I will enter it as the Han law."

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Yangcheng Yanzong sat up straight, but hurriedly straightened his posture again, with a solemn look on his brows.

——Liu Ying's posture clearly wants to be disciplined!
Moreover, it is a complete new law that is on par with the "Law of Hu", "Law of Thieves" and "Law of Fu" in today's Han law, and has a specific orientation to affairs!

If this matter finally comes to fruition, according to the usual practice, the four words "check for omissions and make up for vacancies" just mentioned by Liu Ying will be enough for Yang Chengyan to get a countersignature on this new law!

Co-signing a new law, although not as good as the current Prime Minister Xiao He's achievements in compiling the entire "Han Law" alone, is enough to make Yangcheng Yanxi overjoyed.

— Not to mention the Han Dynasty today, how many courtiers in the past hundreds of years and the next few hundred years can have the same achievements as Xiao He?

What's more, Yang Chengyan is only a craftsman, and he is still a 'father' who is a little restless because he is ranked in Jiuqing...
Suppressing his excitement, Yang Chengyan lowered his head, solemnly, and checked the draft of "Cang Law" on the bamboo slips.

And when the first article of this 'draft' came into view, the solemn look on Yangcheng Yan's face was replaced by a hint of courage that seemed to be absent.

"All internal funds and national treasuries, that is, the warehouses where the court has divisions, local counties and counties store grain, and the warehouses where Shaofu stores grain on behalf of the people are all called: official warehouses;"

"People who steal rice from official warehouses get tattooed..."

"Whoever steals rice from officials' warehouses will die..."

"Officials who steal official warehouse rice..."

"z······"

"Clan!!!"

(End of this chapter)