Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 207 Public opinion attack
Du Sanlang was lucky enough to survive the first two days. From the third day, his body temperature began to drop, and his spirit gradually improved. At this time, Sun Simiao, who had been inoculated with cowpox, also began to recover.

"Li Daochang, we have proved that cowpox has a protective effect against smallpox. Now we should pass the news to His Majesty so that more cows can be infected with smallpox so that people can be vaccinated." After Sun Xiangfu finished organizing the people in the disaster area , before discussing with Li Chunfeng.

"Well, if that's the case, the poor will stay and take care of this matter, and you should report to His Majesty as soon as possible!"

The two assigned tasks, and Sun Xiangfu didn't say much. He set off immediately, and when he arrived at the sentry post set up by Dugumou, he took off his clothes and burned them, and bathed in the tub prepared by Dugumou. Put saltpeter in the water and freeze it into ice, so I can rest assured.

"General Dugu, after those sergeants recover, they can enter the hardest-hit area to eliminate the source of the disease according to the method I explained earlier."

Three or four days later, Dugu Mou has returned to normal. As Sun Xiangfu came out of the disaster area safely, he has also confirmed that cowpox can fight against smallpox.

"That's it, I trouble you to collect enough cowpox as soon as possible, so that the sergeant of a certain subordinate can wipe out this plague area as soon as possible."

After changing his clothes, Sun Xiangfu repeatedly told Dugumou how to eliminate the source of the disease, and he didn't stay any longer, so he rode his horse towards Xingfu Village with the Ouchi guards who sent him here.

Along the way, Sun Xiangfu thought a lot, and the tragic scenes of the disaster area kept reappearing in his mind. However, if he slayed demons and demons as Sun Simiao said, he still couldn't do it with his current ability, but if he didn't Ordering something, he thought it was too cheap for those crazy guys, so an idea was born in Sun Xiangfu's mind.

Xingfu Village is now a big cattle farm. Anyway, there is no rain in the sky, and there is no way to grow any crops in the field. All the cattle gathered by Li Shimin are tied to the fields of Xingfu Village.

"I didn't expect that the people of our Tang Dynasty would rely on these cattle to survive and prosper. I would like to add another level to the crime of killing cattle. What do you think?"

Killing cattle was already a crime in the Tang Dynasty, but the punishment was not serious, and there were many sidelines to play. After Sun Xiangfu brought back the news that smallpox was under control, the entire court was relieved, and he entered the busy process of getting rid of the smallpox. In the work of pox, Li Shimin finally has the mind to punish the illegal and amend the law.

At this juncture, no one objected to this law of protecting the savior, so soon, a new law against the killing of cattle was enacted. Severe punishment.

Taking advantage of this harmonious atmosphere, Li Shimin announced a series of appointments and dismissals of officials. First of all, almost all the middle and low-level officials of the water transportation department were dismissed. They are also forcefully liquidated.

Of course, Li Shimin has a very good grasp of this speed. After all, the drought and locust plagues in Guanzhong have not passed, and there are two ambitious guys, Jieli and Tuli, on the border of the Tang Dynasty. It is not good for Li Shimin to make something big at this time. The action made the interior unstable, so he saved face for several top aristocratic families, but he didn't know that someone had already acted privately in order to teach those aristocratic families a lesson.

At night, the cabin where Sun Xiangfu and Li Chunfeng studied cowpox was brightly lit. Sun Xiangfu was actually very tired after a day of acne removal work, but he still had to work overtime. He grabbed a quill pen in his hand and wrote quickly. He said, the big paper on the table was densely packed with words, and around the table, seven or eight craftsmen who carved mud prints were waiting for him to finish the manuscript.

That's right, Sun Xiangfu thought of a way to use public opinion to attack the family's reputation, and when it comes to public opinion, before the advent of the Internet age, newspapers were the first to be recommended.

Today, Sun Xiangfu's article was written very implicitly, with the headline "Who is hoarding?"

He had to first point the spearhead at the low-status businessmen, so that the newspapers that came out suddenly opened up the situation. You must know that most of the scholars who could read and write in this period came from aristocratic families, and they fired at them as soon as they came up. If so, it is estimated that this newspaper will not be able to promote it.

The content of the whole article is not complicated. It just analyzes the harm that the behavior of hoarding and hoarding brings to the people. Right now, when the Guanzhong catastrophe occurs, it will endanger the people and affect the whole country. The words are very straightforward. Just read People in the newspaper read the original text, and ordinary people who have never read books can understand it. It is precisely because of the frankness that only craftsmen and farmers in Xingfu Village who have learned basic literacy can understand it. Therefore, that night, The printing workshop began to get busy.

Newspapers don’t need to be exquisite, as long as the content comes out. The next day, Sun Xiangfu still looked very busy and took people to get the cowpox. Thousands of printed newspapers were organized by the guard Zhang Ke. The people in the village began to spread to the surrounding counties, of course, the main place of spread was Chang'an.

Li Shimin and the court ministers who were temporarily working in Xingfu Village only found out about the newspaper in the afternoon. Of course, it doesn't mean that Li Shimin didn't know about Sun Xiangfu's actions, but he didn't know what kind of consequences Sun Xiangfu made. .

Just this afternoon, Chang'an, the main trading market of this million-dollar metropolis, went on strike. This is more influential than the fact that the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets will not open in later generations. After all, it is the time for Hu merchants from the Western Regions to come to Chang'an to hold a trade fair. , is a big day when businessmen across the country concentrate on trading and exchanging goods, and the reason for the strike is precisely because of Sun Xiangfu's article criticizing businessmen.

Thousands of newspapers, hundreds of newspaper readers, one morning, let the common people's cognition reach a unity, the merchant hoarding is a behavior that harms the common people, especially when there is a severe drought in Guanzhong, when the common people have nothing to eat, Those merchants hoarding food should be killed.

In the city of Chang'an, the people who could not afford to buy grain spontaneously gathered at the door of the grain merchant's shop to besiege them. Not only did they not buy grain, but they also forbade others to buy grain. The reason is arguing with the Yacha. You must know that there are tens of thousands of people involved in the siege, and the city bureaus in the eastern and western cities dare not arrest people without authorization. Even if they arrest them, Chang'an does not have such a large prison cell, so the news is very fast. Those who were beaten were reported to Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, I think it's okay to make a fuss. The millet wheat in Chang'an has already been sold at a price of three guan more than one stone. The people are all eating tofu to satisfy their hunger. The pressure on the Food Supervisor is too great."

Before the drought broke out, the Food Supervision Department supplied tofu to the entire Guanzhong, and sold about 2 shi a day. Now, in Chang'an alone, the tofu sold every day is as high as 300 shi, which is 70 shi. Ten thousand catties, that is to say, the people in Chang'an eat an average of more than two catties of tofu every day, plus the sales in other places in Guanzhong, the daily consumption of soybeans for bean curd by the Food Supervisor is more than 1000 shi. One month is [-] million shi. Even if the consumption does not increase significantly in the future, the Food Supervisor will consume almost [-] million shi of soybeans until next year's autumn harvest.

without increasing, is this possible?In the middle of winter, in order to fight against the cold, everyone's food intake will increase, and at that time, the people's food reserves will all be eaten up, and a double increase is inevitable.

But in Huainan, which is rich in soybeans, Sun Xiangfu bought all the soybeans in reserve last year to make salted fish bean paste. The soybeans harvested this year, not to mention providing Chang'an with 1000 million shi soybeans, even 500 million shi would be difficult. After all, with the salty Fish bean paste began to sell well all over the country, and this year the bean paste workshop in Yangzhou will also acquire some.

The reason why those grain merchants dared to raise prices like this was naturally because they saw that the supply of soybeans from the Food Supervision Department would be insufficient, and sooner or later they would not be able to hold back. But who are these grain merchants behind?Aristocratic families also.

Xiao Yu's suggestion directly became Li Shimin's attitude towards this matter, but he did not allow the east and west cities to continue to be closed. At dusk, he drove back to the palace. The city maintains order. After all, ensuring the transactions of Hu merchants from the Western Regions in Datang is a major matter related to the country's annual tax revenue.

However, when the sun rose the next day, the second newspaper, written anonymously by Sun Xiangfu, was distributed all over the streets and alleys, and the number of printed sheets was directly several times that of yesterday.

The newspaper's headline was 'Is Datang Short of Food? '

The content of the newspaper is even more simple and clear, presenting the facts, taking the data, how many acres of land in the Tang Dynasty?How many people?What is the minimum output in the field?How much can the people eat and use at most?All of these questions have detailed data.

Finally, draw a conclusion.

Not only should Datang not be short of grain, but there should be more than 200 million shi of surplus grain, because more than [-] million households in Datang planted hundreds of millions of acres of land last year, and the output of these fields should be enough for Datang’s small population For more than three years, just like the soybeans in Yangzhou, a state can have a surplus of several million shi soybeans. This is the real data, and where do these surplus grains go?

In the second half of the newspaper, there was an explanation, which analyzed who owns the fields of the Tang Dynasty, and most of the harvests grown by the people are in their hands, and they are the owners behind the shops that sell grain.

This newspaper is like a bomb, blasting the entire court and the people, especially the few named in the newspaper, the Taiyuan Wang family, with hundreds of thousands of fields, what about the food they produce?The Cui family of Qinghe, the Cui family of Boling, the Lu family of Fanyang, and the Zheng family of Yingyang, the fields of those families are not much less than those of the Wang family in Taiyuan. What about the output?

In the court hall, facing Li Shimin's questioning eyes and those officials from non-family families, the officials of these families all bowed their heads and remained silent. Li Shimin pleaded guilty and said that he would immediately go to the Xin clan and ask them to transfer grain to Guanzhong to donate to the imperial court for disaster relief. Of course, they didn't say how much they would transport or donate. Thinking about it, it was estimated to be tens of thousands of stones.

If they thought that this was the end of the matter, they were very wrong. On the third day, the damn newspaper was published on the market again. The alley has been paved. This time, it is not so gentle to accuse the family of hoarding food and disregarding the lives of the people.

The newspaper's headline directly read, "Why did the family mess up the country? It's because of the interests!"

The whole article also tells the story of the great chaos in the country in a straightforward way, and the fact that Cui Wang, Zheng Lu and other aristocratic families will benefit from this is precisely because they want to gain benefits, and they actively provoke the country's chaos.It contains some things about the pre-Sui Dynasty that Sun Xiangfu extracted from Tang Fengyi's mouth, and some things after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and even the Lingnan incident that happened only in the past one or two years, the initial cause of the outbreak of the Guanzhong plague incident, etc. .All things have names and surnames, and the story is so three-dimensional that everyone knows it can't be fake.

Seeing this, if everyone doesn't know that Sun Xiangfu is doing things behind the scenes, it will be in vain. In fact, they started to investigate yesterday, but they don't think that anyone can play with it For myself, it's a big deal to give up some money to avoid this public opinion storm.

But the content published today really blew them up. Of course, without them launching a counterattack, Li Shimin had already pretended to order a ban. The result of shame, but Datang can't afford this result now.

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