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"Absurd!!Absurd!!This is simply absurd!! Chairman! Ignore it, we ignore it!"

Xiao Yuan, who has always been elegant and easy-going, has no demeanor that Nanchang City’s butler should have at this moment. His expression was extremely ferocious, because now, Jingzhao area, or Jingzhao Mansion, actually hopes to buy grain from Hunan.

The Beijing-Han Railway, also known as the earliest "Beijing-Han Board Track and Western Line", actually built some grain stations openly to wait for food from the south.

What made Xiao Yuan lose his composure was that the reserve grain in Jingzhao area was actually empty and did not exist at all.

According to the old example of "Changping Warehouse", the two largest counties in Jingzhao area, one Chang'an County and the other Wannian County, basically reserve 100 million jin of grain for a long time.

One hundred million jin of grain is the bottom line, but in fact it will only be more.

Because Chang'an is still one of the most developed cities in the world, and it is also one of the capitals of the empire, and it is a cultural symbol of the entire empire.

At the same time, various trade starting points to the west are here. Almost all long-distance transportation start stations are Chang'an City. No logistics industry will bypass Chang'an City, just like in the South China Sea, where someone can bypass the southern capital Guangzhou.

But this time, the land of Guanzhong, which was originally thought to be safe and stable, actually had a shortage of food.

The crops for spring plowing cannot be taken out, so a large area of ​​thunder broke out.

More than a dozen counties are waiting for the adjustment of grain in Chengdu, as well as the grain in Taiyuan, the northern capital. If only half a year is relieved, the 303rd year of Zhenguan will pass.

Summer and autumn grains are harvested in two batches, and with the foundation of the Guanzhong Plain, it is very stable.

But the global chain reaction has never affected one province or one state.

In the thirteen prefectures of Japan Province, the "Donghai Xuanzhengyuan" transferred several eastern coastal provinces including Korea Road, Liaodong Province, Shandong Province, Jiangdong Province, and other eastern coastal provinces. The food that can be adjusted is actually almost the same.

In addition, there are voices within each province and their own interests, so in order to "disaster relief", it is not only the South China Sea region that is carrying out dirty activities.

There are many local politicians like Lan Caishi who have accumulated expectations. Bribery and corruption are already a daily routine. The mineral deposits in the Japanese province that originally needed to pay taxes are now almost unimpeded by transport ships brought to Jeju.

The profit generated by a steel plant is even if it only produces crude steel or ordinary steel bars. With the strength of Shandong Province, the market for civil engineering alone is enough to make a joke.

Therefore, in the case of exchange of interests, Shandong, a large grain producer, was also squeezed dry, which led to a widespread shortage of food.

If the court was informed from the beginning, then under the unified ration, it would be possible to overcome the difficulties.

However, it was raining all night long, and Zhang Jun was assassinated, causing the internal contraction of Hebei Province. The power of "Hanhai Gong" has a great influence in Hebei, and it also made Shandong's "allies" choose to wait and see together.

Qian Liu can't handle the chaos in the central government, so why should they give this old man face?

Just his 80-year-old braised egg head?!

Similar situations are not as light as those in Guanzhong, Hebei and Shandong. During the period of severe drought in the Jianghuai River, there was actually no big problem within the scope of the original "Guan Nei Road".

However, after the beginning of winter, the Yellow River flood washed away several important dams in Hetao Province. It is no longer important whether there are any problems. What is important is that it directly leads to interruption of contact between regions and regions.

Therefore, under the normal court system, Chang'an and Taiyuan, as capitals, need to play a role, and grain allocation began soon.

Taiyuan is still fine, but the problem lies with Chang'an. This forced the grain to be borrowed, and the reserve grain was empty again. The big farmers who borrowed grain in Chang'an, Xijing, made the big deal directly.

The two Cheng families fought each other and started a war in Bazhou, which was just a part of this matter and a small problem.

What is really crazy is that Chengdu cannot produce food. Two hundred and ninety-five years after Zhenguan, because the matter of splitting Jiannan Road was basically stable, the middle and lower-level bureaucrats in Chengdu were investing in the split Jiannan Road area.

Especially in the southern part of Jiannan Road.

The gold mines in the distance are unknown, but the gold mines in front of you are happy.

The final series of reactions, like dominoes, actually caught Wang Jiao's eye.

There is no other reason, and it can be said that it is natural.

Because the "princes" in the places where food can be mobilized on a large scale, in addition to Wang Jiao, even if they are Wang Jiao's "ally" Feng Fu, it still depends on Wang Jiao's expression.

The cassava flour from the south is not delicious and can resist hunger.

The current rule model of the empire is to build provinces around central cities. There are a large number of handicraftsmen, workers, and small bourgeoisie in developed cities. On the fertile land, there are various large farmers who are like castles and large manors everywhere. Then, there are very dense but complex small farmers around the land that is slightly less convenient but can still be irrigated.

In the old era, military officers often became big landlords, and were everywhere in one generation. The local military officers in the Tang army sequence, or the old-school "domestic soldiers", mostly became tenants or even serfs.

This model relies very much on the authority of the empire. When authority gradually declines, even when authority is challenged, or changes significantly, the collapse of a local area is almost as fast as the eyelids blink.

The Guanzhong region is so fertile and developed, with an amazing metal smelting industry and the largest equipment industrial cluster in the inland region of the empire. However, without food, it is impossible to support millions of urban populations.

This is not a parasite for the population of agricultural empires. They themselves create value and exist as part of the market.

The Empire relies heavily on these "cornerstones" in both the basic investment and the consumer market.

However, the reason why the "cornerstone" is to be buried in the soil and then step on ten thousand feet.

Xiao Yuan's anger was understandable. His high-intensity work in Nanchang City deeply felt the difficulty.

Survival is not easy.

It is precisely because of this that he felt particularly sad that the "People's Party" is really not simple, and he is also honored for joining this organization.

It is not about being proud of it, but about being proud of participating in it, and being justified and rightful.

Therefore, when Chang'an sent a telegram and even sent some relevant people to Changsha and made such a ridiculous request, Xiao Yuanqi became angry.

He could feel that among the top bureaucrats in Xijing, the people of Guanzhong were probably not as good as the dog they raised at home.

"On behalf of the emperor's herder..."

The people of Nanchang who followed Xiao Yuan to work suddenly felt sad, and they could also feel that indescribable despair.

Anyone, as long as they are not those oligarchs and giants who are at the top, may be abandoned.

To be honest, the local low-level bureaucrats in Nanchang who returned to their old careers had no good feelings for the "Working Party", Wang Jiao, Guo Wei, and Xiao Yuan.

Of course, they were still very happy and satisfied with it. If Chairman Feng, the boss of Lingnan Province, had a higher bid, there would be no need to be too much. Just a little more, so they could sell the situation on Wang Jiao without any pressure.

It is difficult to resist temptation. In order to resist, in addition to personal self-discipline, there are also constraints on the entire environment and atmosphere. Generally speaking, only absurdity from the other party, not once or twice, or absurd behaviors that cannot be counted can make them realize that what if they have received the temptation?

Maybe, I will be sold next time and nothing will be left.

They will definitely be sold because they are not the top, they are just hawks and dogs in the court, imperial minions, just bureaucrats at the bottom, just "small officials" mentioned by the upper class, and "outside officials" that are not in the eyes of the nobles.

In other words, in the "Working Party", their ability release is only a lack of many official routines. Because of the working atmosphere, they have no time to fiddle with the various techniques and arts of being a secretary, or to serve the leaders...

Too busy.

Because it is busy, it is efficient.

So I felt resentful and finally calmed down completely.

In the conference hall, there were also two Cheng families who used force in Bazhou, which evolved from conflict to battle, or even placed overseas, which might be an encounter.

Because long spears, short cannons, plate armor explosives, even rocket launchers, landmines, and all you can use are used.

There are several famous classics that originally had strange stones placed, and those strange stones were also smashed.

In this battle between the two Cheng families, there were three "Eagle-billed Cliffs" that also caused traffic paralysis in the two counties.

Because I started setting up checkpoints privately, I didn’t have any vouchers and guarantees, so I didn’t think of passing by.

There is no reason for doing this, because you can take the opportunity to collect money.

Both sides relied on the small forces of the Cheng family and directly made a fortune.

Even in such an environment, there was no more look at Chang'an City, as if this was the matter of the Luoyang Central Government.

In sporadic newspapers, grain loans from the "Three Sichuan Land" gradually began to be mentioned. After taking out food, the Chengdu Plain, the new Tianfu Country, might have to be short of food.

This panic cannot be suppressed at all. A series of developments are the surge in grain prices.

At the most exaggerated time, the grain price actually increased in the early years of Zhenguan.

At that time, copper coins and silk used were physical currency.

Although it is limited by underdeveloped transportation, it still has comparison value. In addition, Hunan and Jiangxi are already very experienced.

So I have basically guessed that there are even bigger problems in Jingzhao area.

"Chairman, the situation in Chang'an is probably even more serious than expected."

Guo Wei rarely speaks. After all, he is a martial artist and he will rob the grain.

However, Guo Wei was trained in Chang'an, so some news is relatively easy to understand after he became famous.

"Although Jingzhao Prefecture has a status of less than two hundred years ago, it is still Xijing after all. The city scale may be worse than that of Guangzhou, the Nandu, but the industrial scale may be higher."

Wang Jiao’s understanding of Chang'an in Xijing actually comes from Liu Che. Liu Che told him that in the research on power sources, Chang'an in Xijing has a power institute. It was originally part of Longqing Palace University, but later it was split out and became an independent college.

At the same time, in terms of ferrous metallurgy and processing technology, Xijing Chang'an is also a first-class level except Wuhan, and there are more than 20 military-industrial enterprises, even the airships in Hainan Province are also produced in Chang'an.

In addition, there are twelve production lines of steam locomotives, such as two-wheeled steam locomotives, three-wheeled steam locomotives, four-wheeled steam locomotives, Chang'an County and Wannian County.

This is not all kinds of supporting factories. In total, just one factory may have more than 30,000 employees, involving all upstream and downstream industries.

In addition to the already developed agriculture, agricultural and sideline products, wool spinning, medicinal material planting, medicinal material processing, pharmaceutical industry...

The number of employed labor force in the urban population is conservatively estimated to be more than 600,000.

In terms of urban strength, Xijing Chang'an is definitely ranked third. If Luoyang does not have the bonus effect of the administrative center, it is impossible to compare.

However, the stronger it is, the more dangerous it is at this time.

Wang Jiao thought of the various things that happened to the French Revolution in the history of the previous world, and also thought of the various famines before Tsarist Russia turned aside. In this way, there was always an incredible sense of déjà vu.

"This is a thunder everywhere."
Chapter completed!