Chapter 2947

Lu Shan also found the abnormality of the little eunuch, and Zhou frowned: "what are you shaking? Is it cold in this hall? "

Ju Zhongxiu kept smiling and did not speak. He was very hard at the side.

As soon as the eunuch heard Lu Shan's words, he became more and more trembling. He could not even say his words clearly: "back Go back to the emperor, no Not cold, one A little bit It's not cold. "

"Let me ask you, what is the most profitable industry now?" Lu Shan looked at the eunuch with interest.

After getting along with each other several times, he probably knew that the little eunuch might not be professional in doing other things, but in terms of making money, he was very capable of making money.

On hearing this, the eunuch was relieved. He thought that Lu Shan called him here to settle accounts after autumn. Unexpectedly, he wanted to ask him how to make money.

But Lushan is the emperor. The emperor can take everything he eats, wears and uses from the Treasury every year. The money in the Treasury is paid by the people below. Every year, the Treasury seems to be quite adequate. Why should Lushan think of making money by himself?

Although the little eunuch was puzzled in his heart, he still knew his identity. He did not ask more questions. He replied flatly: "if you talk about making money now, it's still selling grain."

"Selling grain?" Lu Shan and Ju Zhongxiu simultaneously raised questions.

The little eunuch nodded.

"Although there are floods in the South and there is a shortage of food there, the demand for food is not very large because of the relief provided by the imperial court." Lu Shan took the lead in expressing his doubts. He had been selling grain in the south before, but he didn't make any money. Instead, he took part in a lot.

The little eunuch shook his head mysteriously: "of course, it's not to sell grain in the southern region. There are also different ways to sell grain. Where does grain come from? How and where to go. "

Lu Shan was stunned, but he didn't really think about these problems.

Ju Zhongxiu leaned forward and asked the eunuch, "where do you think our grain should come from?"

"Levy." The little eunuch answered without hesitation.

"Levy?" Ju Zhongxiu didn't agree with the eunuch's answer. "Now the common people are already burdened by corvee, and collecting food at this time is not an added insult to them and is not conducive to social stability."

The little eunuch gave Ju Zhongxiu a look and said, "of course, it's not from the people that we collect grain. We can collect grain from those rich families in the capital."

Ju Zhongxiu chuckled: "although I grew up in the southern region since I was a child, I also know something about the situation in the capital. Those rich families would like to see all the grain in the world run into their own granaries. Taking their food is like plucking the hair of an Iron Rooster. There is no possibility."

Hearing Ju Zhongxiu's words, Lu Shan also agreed and nodded.

When he went through the archives that day, he had heard that the last emperor had the idea of collecting food from the rich because of the disaster.

However, at that time, only the Zhao family, the largest household in the capital, donated 10000 stones. Other people did not take out any grain under the pretext of poor living conditions. I'm afraid that this time he would also have the same result.

The little eunuch said mysteriously, "asking for their food is like cutting their meat. Of course, we can't insist on it. We must take it wisely."

With that, the little eunuch came up with a very good way. Lu Shan listened and nodded. Even Ju Zhongxiu, such a critical person, praised the little eunuch's method.

With a solution, the rest is implementation.

Lu Shan waited quietly. He handed the task to Ju Zhongxiu and slowly waited for good news in the hall.

The next morning, the Zhao family above the imperial court suddenly burst into a pot.

"Aiqing, speak slowly." Lu Shan sighed in his heart that Zhao was over 70 years old. If he got sick because of this, it would be his fault.

Master Zhao shook his sleeves fiercely, and was very angry after the hall: "last night my Zhao family was patronized by a thief. The thief stole tens of thousands of grain from my Zhao family. Overnight, my Zhao family's granary was half empty, cough and cough."

Hearing this, Mr. Zhang also cried: "like the Zhao family, my family lost nearly half of the grain depot overnight. I don't know what this thief is for."

When they heard him speak, there were several families in the imperial court who kept talking. There were more and less food.

As soon as I heard that the granaries of so many families were stolen, many people were lamenting the skill of the thief.

It was still Mr. Zhao who first said: "I don't know who the thief is. I always sleep very light. I wake up with a little noise. Last night, I didn't know at all, and the servants in the mansion didn't notice. That half of the granary was miraculously empty."

Mr. Zhang also echoed: "yes, the thief was like a demonstration and stole a valuable jade pendant on the table in my room. But my door and window are locked. I don't know how the thief did it. If he wants to take my head..."

As soon as this was said, more than half of the people in the court stopped talking. They were all thinking. If the thief wanted to take their lives, it would be easy. In their sleep, their heads would be separated from their bodies unconsciously. It would be terrible.Lu Shan, the chief culprit, sat on it and held back his smile. His body would tremble and his stomach would colic, but he could not laugh.

These old guys can really guess what Ju Zhongxiu wants them to do with their heads on their necks? You can't eat or sell. It's bad luck to leave it at home.

One by one, it's exaggeration. It's easy to say that the granary is half empty. Can Lushan not know how much grain they have?

One by one, they are extremely rich. Now they are crying for poverty. They are half empty. They are anxious to keep up with the ants in the hot pot.

Lu Shan didn't think that was true. Ju Zhongxiu might have taken less than one tenth of their total stock.

Old things are more crafty than old ones.

Watching them raise the issue to the top of the massacre, shaking like chaff.

Ning Zihuan timely hand, way: "since we are so afraid of the grain stolen, it is better to send the grain to the Treasury."

As soon as this was said, the whole audience was in a state of uproar. Their own grain should still be placed next to them and placed in the Treasury. It would not be the country's?

Ning Zihuan said with a smile: "this is no good, that's not good. I'd like to trouble you to take good care of your own food. Now, in the upper court, you don't discuss state affairs one by one, but fight for a little food. It's really a loss of courtier's bearing."