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Profound Pure Guard - Chapter 608

Published at 15th of November 2021 05:46:00 AM


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Governance and stewardship have a lot in common. For example, when the family is going to do big things, the food and clothing expenses of the family will certainly become relatively tight. When things are done, they will recover. If they make a profit, they will share it with the whole family.

In addition to the political stability, the growing strength of the Jingjiu Dynasty in the past 40 years was inseparable from 40 years of collecting, scraping and sucking blood from the barbarian region.

Don't think that the slave trade is just a waste of slave caravans and the common people can't benefit, but it's not true. The huge profits of the slave trade were also extracted by the Jingjiu Dynasty, which was even two to three times the general business tax. These taxes are not directly distributed to officials as welfare, but are used to offset agricultural taxes in some areas and build some public facilities, such as canals or wells, dams and so on.

Because the base is the largest, the dividends spread on the people will be less obvious. On the contrary, those high doors and red walls can enjoy more.

Now the war in the South began. Zuo Yuliang led the headquarters of the Chinese army to move forward to Wuhu and stationed it. He moved the war forward again. The first string touched was "logistics".

Logistics, to put it bluntly, is money and food. These are managed by the Ministry of household and exist in the national treasury and local official warehouses.

Before, there were serious fraud and Favoritism in Guancang. The rectification movement was led by the Jingxi action launched by xuanqingwei. The civil service group was forced to draw lots to pick up a large number of lower officials. Now it hasn't been too long, so the residual power of the rectification movement still exists and won't make Guancang ugly. Therefore, Guancang responded quickly together with the war, and not many people fell off the chain.

The grain, pan Lingshi and military pay collected can be provided at present. Ordnance and consumables are relatively difficult, but there is still a lot of inventory at ordinary times. Some of the consumed inventory and some of the output of overtime can barely keep up. At present, the Ministry of household has urgently planned hundreds of blacksmith shops to expand the production of ordnance to cope with the huge consumption in the future.

But compared with such materials as ordnance and fanlingshi, food is the most difficult to solve. Because the grain is not like the ore you dig, but needs a fixed time to grow slowly from the ground. And as long as it's human, it's not just for the army. Therefore, grain is also the most in stock, but it is also the most consumed and fastest.

Yang Yansi's prediction is actually very accurate. He has been well aware of the inventory system established by the Ministry of household for so many years. Although he does not know the specific figures, he probably has no problem judging from the current situation in the south.

Since late August, the southern frontier army has gathered more than 500000 troops. People eat horses and chew and the long supply line consumes the standing grain stocks in Tanshi and Haixia. It is conservatively estimated that the grain stocks in these two places will be exhausted by the end of November at most.

Then we need to consume the grain stored in local official warehouses. In fact, the Ministry of household is already making this preparation. Local official warehouses are transporting a steady stream of grain to Tanshi and Haixia in advance. At the same time, the official warehouse system of the whole household is changing frequently in order to most efficiently meet the needs of the front line in the next days.

At the end of October, a batch of new grain will be produced throughout the country and enter the warehousing stage, which is a very important node, because starting from this batch of grain, the Jingjiu Dynasty will officially enter a state of overall austerity, especially grain. It will no longer store a small amount of grain collected according to its previous share, and the rest will be sent to public and private grain shops, but will use wartime rules, Grain was distributed to cities in the form of rationing.

At the beginning, the common people will not feel anything, because even the ration will not be tightened to the limit at once, but will be tightened slowly by one or two points, which will last for several months before it really becomes the point where each household calculates the purchase quantity by person. Of course, if the war ahead is going well, it is also possible that the strategy of grain control will not go to this step.

Private grain traders everywhere have been hardest hit. Once the food crunch begins, they will cut off their business from the root. Even now they can't hold the grain in their hands. The Ministry of household will forcibly purchase the grain in their hands at the average market price, so that they don't lose money. Even if they are benevolent and righteous, do they still want to make money? Dream.

But the biggest grain merchant is the "tea" among the five imperial merchants.

The main revenue range of "tea" is tea and grain. Half of the tea in Jingjiu Dynasty is in their hands, and 30% of the private grain merchants are their people. Today, the tightening of grain strategy has undoubtedly had the greatest impact on "tea". Indirectly, it "Hurts" the small group of people behind "tea". There should be no waiting to die, there must be struggles or obstacles.

These problems are directly pressed on Bai Changqing, the Minister of household.

Since the war flared up in the south, the counterattack prepared by the civil servants was directly pressed to death by xuanqingwei and lost the right to speak, the whole civil service group was inevitably coerced into a "downhill road" by the general trend.

The arrogance of the army has now shown signs of turning over and stepping on the heads of civilian officials. Other places may not feel deeply, but the Ministry of household has been in direct contact with the Ministry of war, and the feeling is particularly clear.

In the past, the soldiers who came to report the Quartermaster were all careful for fear of being put on small shoes, but now they sent a small flag officer to send them, and they were tough, saying they should take as much as they want. As for the difficulty of raising money, what is the matter of the army? Does your household eat dry food? Can't you solve it?

Moreover, he really dare not delay too much. The front line is tight. If he loses the battle and loses the key place because of the problem of materials, the responsibility must be on the household department first, and Bai Changqing must be the first to lose his head.

In wartime, everything must make way for the soldiers on the front line!

This has accumulated countless troubles and troubles for Bai Changqing, the Minister of household. The pressure has never been greater since he took office.

Other chores are all right. It's a big deal to grind them several times and urge them several times. It's great to let the Yamen intimidate them and push them forward. But now facing the grain tightening strategy, it is really difficult to do!

The wind has long been heard, but it has not officially started yet. Moreover, similar strategies have been put forward in previous and barbarian wars. The difference is that the degree of tightening strategy is different every time, which is affected by the war situation. If you play well in the front, the interior will not be too tight. If you don't play well, you will only breathe.

But now, before the formal tightening, all kinds of "greetings" and "goodwill" came to Bai Changqing. Even Zuo Xiang Ye Lansheng gave him some hints, but Bai Changqing pretended to be confused.

But for how long? Do you always have to make a decision? How to choose when things come to an end?





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