4761 Grain three legs
Like a lightning, a thunder lit up in Prince Gong Yi's mind, and a cold smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Hmm? This is what you thought of yourself? You say, keep talking..."
Isha scratched his head, "Slaves are just a stupid idea, they are random guessing! The disaster in the court is suppressed now, but who can guarantee that this snow disaster will be the only one this year?"
"I guess, what if there is a disaster in the future? This foolish monarch turned down the food of the Chinese people and did not ask for help from other countries, which means he is already arrogant to a certain extent!"
"God can't always bless him! He has to clean up his body..."
Na Duobao clapped his hands on the side, "Oh... That's right, that's the truth, if the moon is full, you will lose! This tyrant monarch has been at the limelight for too long. He has done so many immoral things and killed so many people. God cannot always protect him!"
"The little blessing in his life is probably almost exhausted with the sin of murder. He will definitely not be able to pass this level!"
How could Prince Gong not understand the truth that both slaves understand! In fact, it is just a layer of window paper. Just now Yi? He was stunned by the anger!
Where did the food in the Qing Dynasty be? In fact, it is layered from top to bottom. The top is the official warehouse of the government, which has clear accounts, including officials eating, soldiers giving food and paying for disaster relief... The most important thing is that the hard-core crops of the bannermen all come out from here.
Then further down there are the private grain stored by the landlord class and grain merchants. This is a big big one!
When a landlord collects rent, grain is equivalent to money. Grain merchants hoard at low prices and sell at high prices. What they eat is price fluctuations caused by seasonal changes!
The last link is the food stored in the hands of the people!
The three-legged bench supports the food security issues of the empire! If any bench leg has problems, a serious famine will occur in this country!
Since ancient times, the so-called prosperous times and the end of the world in China have actually been able to know one or two by studying the data on this grain storage!
In any prosperous era, the data on grain reserves of ordinary people must be greater than those of the court and landlord grain merchants! Because land annexation was not that serious at this time, and the power of self-cultivation farmers was still very strong!
However, once this curve passes through the peak, the dynasty will naturally enter a final period, and the biggest feature of this period is land annexation.
In the grain storage data, the amount of grain stored by ordinary people in their homes will drop sharply, while the amount of grain for landlords and grain merchants will begin to increase!
In the era of feudal centralization, if the court still had power, the court would find ways to stabilize the food in its hands. If the court had enough food in its reserves, then the dynasty could be maintained.
After all, when there is a famine or war, the court can still take out food to deal with it!
In ancient China, money was not important, but food was actually the most important, because the people recognized food, and those who served in the army also recognized food!
Once there is a war, if the court cannot pay for money, it can deliver sufficient food, and the soldier will be very enthusiastic about fighting!
If the court has food in its hands, it can stabilize the political situation. The most important thing is to stabilize the army and bureaucratic system!
When will the dynasty perish? You can see clearly when the food in society is hidden in the hands of the landlord class and grain merchants!
The extremely poor people and the imperial court, the food storage at both ends began to drop sharply! The three-legged benches, both of which turned into short legs, so the gods could not save them at this time!
The dynasty changes will begin soon, and a new powerful regime will emerge, using knives and muskets to force the landlords and grain merchants to take out the food!
Re-break the balance, let the land be redistributed, and let the grain be redistributed!
This has been played like this since ancient times. For Prince Gong, you can’t be familiar with this trick anymore!
Do you still remember the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty? They desperately scolded the emperor for seizing profits with the people, but did not support the emperor's policy of increasing taxes. They allowed the northern land to be barren for thousands of miles away, and the Manchus did not give the Ming Dynasty money and food!
This is actually the landlord class. The grain merchants started to lose their weight. They had abandoned the center of the Ming Dynasty and built the bench with one leg on their own!
But unexpectedly, after entering the pass, the Manchus rushed over with the barbaric north wind, Jiading, Yangzhou... a series of massacres, this Manchus is different from the Ming emperors!
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty at least reasoned to you, but this man is just talking about the knife!
What a bullshit Donglin Party, I cut my knife to your head, and all the money and food in your family will be mine!
This is a process of the new dynasty's reshuffle. In the past, those selfish people thought they could protect their money and food. What's the end?
If you don’t pay taxes to Emperor Chongzhen, there will naturally be people holding a knife to force you to pay taxes and kill your whole family!
In the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, there was no Donglin-like group in Jiangnan who came to confront the center. Why is this?
Haha, they are not stupid. They know whoever dares to fight will die. When Yongzheng was helping officials and gentry to pay food together, who would dare to rebel in the landlord class in Jiangnan? He didn't even dare to curse!
This process is familiar to Yi?, no matter how familiar it is, it is no longer familiar to you!
Now Zaichun's response to the disaster suddenly revealed a huge hole!
The extremely poor people had no food, and the landlords and gentry took out the food to save disasters and exchanged fame. This suddenly caused two bench legs to be missing in the disaster area!
Now we can barely control the disaster, but what if the disaster expands again?
The people still did not store grain, and the landlords and grain merchants had eaten up all the food. Now everyone relies on the official warehouse in Zaichun's hands!
"Fuck! Zaichun, this silly boy, actually rejected Xiao Letian's resources. This boy is going crazy! Hahaha..."
Prince Gong smiled, laughing so happily. He finally poked through the window paper, and the negative emotions disappeared!
"Okay, okay... I'll do it again! Erha, Duobao... Come here, I'll discuss it with you two..."
"What happened next is so fun..."
Days passed day by day, and the court was immersed in the joy of successful disaster relief and was unaware of the danger coming!
Xiao Letian and others had no time to continue to take care of the Qing Dynasty. Visiting the Indian Ocean was an important diplomatic activity, and there were only the last ten days left, and all kinds of matters were busy.
Moreover, there have been telegrams from Europe that Princess Sissi has now taken a boat to sea and set off from the Mediterranean to prepare to cross the Suez Canal.
There is no turning back when the arrow is drawn, and Xiao Letian has no excuse to change his itinerary!
But at the end of February, a strange rumor suddenly appeared in the disaster area in the northern region!
Chapter completed!