Chapter 1817

Millet, millet, rice and wheat are all grains.

Up to now, millet, millet and rice have been planted almost everywhere in Qingyun country.

Millet, millet, yellow rice, average yield.

Millet is millet, and its output is also small.

Only rice, that is rice, rice, very high yield!

In Zhengqing five years, with the help of Liu Wei, Qingyun's agricultural output has been significantly increased again, mainly in the interaction of hybrid rice.

Rice was originally a very high-yield crop. After the transformation of formula gene, the harvest could increase by 30 to 50%. Therefore, in recent ten years, Qingyun country almost fell into the stage of planting rice.

Even in the north, which is not suitable for rice reproduction, because of the birth of hybrid rice and the praise of scientific farming, the north also fell into a rice growing frenzy. It's no exaggeration to say that the staple food of Qingyun people is basically rice.

Because rice accounts for 90% of the land, the cultivation of millet and millet is becoming increasingly scarce. Of course, this is not a problem. There is no difference between rice and millet.

But now, Qingyun is short of food.

When she couldn't ask inside and had to look outside, Rong Jindong stared at the two affiliated small countries outside Qingyun West.

Qingyun country is addicted to growing rice, but there is no New Rice Formula in the surrounding small countries, so they still grow the original millet, millet and rice, while the West has not experienced drought.

At first, Rong Jindong wanted to borrow grain from Ningguo and Pingguo in the West in the name of the imperial court, but before the imperial edict was issued, it was jointly opposed by the central and foreign governments.

In this opposition, even five princes Rong Fei were involved in it. Only seven princes Rong Xu was neutral. But the neutrality of the seven princes was almost the same as that of the opposition.

This situation surprised Rong Jindong, but the reasons given by the courtiers are also reasonable.

Qingyun is a great country, but it can't feed a certain state, and even condescend to ask for food from its own country. This has never happened since ancient times. If the court really licks its face and asks for food from its own country, will Qingyun's style of being a great country be maintained in the future? Is Qingyun going to be a joke for his country?

The courtiers will never allow such a thing to happen. Even Rong Fei, who has always been supporting Rong Jindong, will not give in this time.

The opposition of the court and the field made Rong Jindong have to stop borrowing food, because if he doesn't stop, the imperial officials will hang in his Shangqing palace.

But the courtiers also gave the corresponding solution. Besides the West Sea, there were Fanshang, who traveled around the countries, and had many grain roads in his hands. Millet, rice were highly praised by the Central Plains, but Fanshang did not have much, but wheat, Fanshang had a lot of hands. Some small countries in other regions had special wheat growers.

Wheat flour is also a full food. If you can buy wheat flour from the merchants, you can save the difficulty of Dingzhou.

But Fanshang knew that the court was short of food. After contacting them from the household department, they opened their mouth directly and offered a price ten times higher than the market price.

I know it's a loss, but if saving people is like fighting a fire, I should buy it or buy it.

At first, the courtiers were not convinced, so they decided to give some color to the Fanshang.

However, they are not from Qingyun. Qingyun allows Fanshang to trade through customs, which is based on the win-win position of trade. If they suppress Fanshang, it will only make Qingyun lose faith in others first, and will also be criticized by its own country.

I don't think the courtiers with "more face than heaven" can do anything but persuade the emperor. Let's do that. We don't have money. Are not several princes able to afford to donate a lot of money.

Rong Jin came back from the next Dynasty and locked himself in Shangqing palace for five hours. When he came out, he ordered Rong Fei, the fifth prince, to take charge of the food purchase.

The matter was settled in this way, but at the same time, Rong Jindong ordered Jing Zhaoyin to put Zhong Ziyu, a recidivist in the death row, into the Forbidden Palace.

Rong Jindong only asked Zhong Ziyu a question: "do you know how to change your face?"

After receiving the affirmative reply, Rong Jindong did not rush to use Zhong Ziyu, but arranged him first.

After all, Zhong Ziyu is a recidivist. He doesn't want to do things with prisoners until he's nine dead.

The first sign of the drought in Dingzhou was last year. Around the Spring Festival this year, the drought was very dangerous. At the beginning of this year, the imperial court allocated relief funds to buy rice in the south of the Yangtze River. Around March, there was no rice in the south of the Yangtze River. They bought food with merchants. Now, Dingzhou is full of starving people. Every family dies every day.

The reason is that at first they thought that the drought in Dingzhou would be relieved by April and may of this year, but in fact, the drought continued this year without any relief at all.

Dingzhou has no income for a year, and it needs the court to continue to help.

At the same time, Fanshang, who also found this situation, suddenly proposed that wheat prices should rise five times again.

In fact, Fanshang didn't give much wheat flour. Maybe they did search all the food that zhouyu could buy, including Pingguo and Ningguo, but they couldn't solve the Drought Crisis in Dingzhou. Even if they spent five times more, they could only buy enough food for the victims to eat a baby fist sized bun every day.Now the only place where there is food is the neighboring countries.

However, the court officials objected too seriously. They wanted to buy food in the name of the court, and the imperial officials wanted to hang.

Unable to bear it, Rong Jindong decides to do it first and then. He doesn't intend to do it as a matter of the court. He arranges his own people to contact his country.

At the same time, he also used Zhong Ziyu, just because he didn't trust him enough, he only asked Zhong Ziyu to help the producer to use the mask for his relatives.

But it's not stupid to belong to the country. Now who doesn't know that Qingyun country is short of food. The Fanshang are willing to buy food from the country at a high price, and resell Qingyun to earn the difference. You look like our country's people, but as soon as you listen to your accent and look at your clothes, you know that you are the spy of Qingyun country. Come to me to buy food. I can let you buy it cheaply?

So the country began to hang up and sell them. The merchants bought a stone of grain for ten liang of silver. You spy Qingyun, I'm sorry. If you want thirty liang of silver, you can buy it if you have money.

In fact, if you use the authority of the host country to borrow grain from your own country, the cost price is less than one stone or two, but now it's 30 times more expensive.

Later, helpless, Rong Jindong transferred Zhong Ziyu to Pingguo.

Zhong Ziyu is very ambitious. With his superb technique of changing appearance, his tongue is full of lotus flowers, and his face is exquisite. Now he has deceived the high officials of Pingguo and Ningguo. They are willing to supply them with grain for a long time at the price of 3201 stone.

It's much cheaper than before. It's a normal price.

Now Zhong Ziyu has returned to Qingyun country with his envoys. But when the drought happened in Kyoto, the envoys suddenly realized that they had been cheated. Did they find them to buy food brothers, not Qingyun grain merchants, not rely on natural disasters to borrow money from the victims, but the people in Qingyun court?

Now, Zhong Ziyu has been doubted by the envoys. Therefore, Rong Jindong decided to take a drastic step to consolidate the envoys' trust in Zhong Ziyu and complete the grain trade as soon as possible. However, this plan may have life worries. Therefore, Rong Jindong asked for Li's help. In fact, if Liu Wei was in Beijing, Rong Jindong would find his master. Uncle Wang did not agree to purchase grain with his country, Uncle Sanwang should be as neutral as Uncle Qiwang, but master is a man of nature and will surely understand his decision!

It's a pity that master is not in Beijing. Rong Jindong can't help but ask Xiao Li who happens to return to Beijing.

Xiaoli is willing to help, which is actually within the expectation of Rong Jindong. Because Xiaoli's idea of spleen is deeply rooted in the master's true biography. But if we want to implement the plan without fail, Xiaoli proposes to see zhongziyu. But at this time, we need to let zhongziyu leave the envoy's sight. We can hardly carry out the plan for two months, and we will fall short.

Rong Jindong is in great difficulty.

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