Chastity Layman

In Luoyang Palace.

The emperor got up early in the morning and heard two pieces of good news. One is that the wheat waves in the north are rolling and the ears of wheat are golden, and the harvest will be ready soon. harvest of the season.

Although the rice in the south is still immature, it is also growing well this year. In the Jianghuai River Basin, which is prone to waterlogging, the rain fell evenly this year, and there was no continuous torrential rain or major floods. The summer harvest in the south will also be a bumper year.

The three yamen of Sinong Temple, the Ministry of Households and the Department of Transshipment even made reports because of this, saying that this year's summer grain harvests in both the north and the south may lead to a sharp drop in grain prices, which may hurt farmers due to low grain prices.

Li Shimin couldn't believe this conclusion, the cheapness of the grain hurts the farmers.

How cheap grain prices can hurt farmers, and since the Sui Dynasty, even if there were occasional high yields in some areas, the world was in chaos, wars continued, and even various natural disasters and plagues came one after another, so that grain prices remained at a low level. Not high enough.

The emperor is still in Luoyang because of the severe food shortage in Guanzhong and the shortage of food in Chang'an.

Now it is actually possible to make the grain cheap and hurt the peasants.

The transshipment department reported that if the imperial court did not intervene, then after this year's summer harvest, grain prices might reach the lowest price in history of three or four dollars per bucket of rice.

A bucket of rice costs three or four dollars, and just last year when the supply of rice was low, the price of rice in Luoyang, Chang'an, reached three or four hundred dollars per bucket of rice, and even the underground black market once reached five hundred dollars, and there was no market for the price.

Li Shimin remembered that during the heyday of the Sui Dynasty, the price of grain in Luoyang, Chang'an, was at its lowest, 20 cents per bucket of rice.

A hundred-fold drop in the price of rice means that the world is in abundance, and the supply of grain is seriously oversupplied.

Transshipment Sima Zhou asked and bought rice into Changping warehouse, and collected grain from the people at the price of 20 yuan per bucket of rice to avoid excessive losses for the people.

Although many ministers in the court believed that in this way, the court would have to spend huge treasury expenditures to buy grain and store it for storage, which was really not worthwhile.

However, Li Shimin still replied to Ma Zhou, asking them to wait for the summer grain to be harvested, and to buy tens of millions of shi of grain from all over the country and put it in the Changping warehouse for storage. If there is surplus grain and the imperial court still has surplus money, they can purchase some more and put them in storage for storage.

After several years of famine, Li Shimin is still willing to spend money to save more food.

After a big harvest, he still has to lose money to buy grain, but Li Shimin is happy to lose money, even if he loses 1670 yuan for a stone of rice, and 16.7 million guan for 10 million deniers, but he thinks value.

When there is no food, gold cannot be exchanged for rice.

When the emperor saw the second piece of good news, he couldn't hold back his excitement and got up, knocking down the table.

The second good news is actually composed of two news.

The Longyou Army dispatched troops and defeated Tuyuhun Khan Fuyun with 100,000 horses in Zhangshan, beheaded thousands of enemies, captured tens of thousands, and captured hundreds of thousands of cattle, horses and livestock.

The news was delayed in Chang'an for a few days, because it was too shocking, Wang Gui, who was staying at the court in Chang'an, expressed doubts and thought it was fake news, but Li Jing felt that there should be no fake news, but Wang Gui insisted on confirming it again.

Not long after that, Qin Lang once again severely damaged the main force of Tuyuhun in Mantou Mountain at the end of April and early May, captured the famous king Yifu Abao, killed more than 10,000 enemies, captured more than 100,000 troops, and captured more than 400,000 livestock. It came again.

Wang Gui still felt that this was another fake news, but Li Jing firmly believed it.

But at this time, more and more news came back to Chang'an, many of which were from the last battle of Kushan, including many details, etc., and some businessmen even brought back some of the seizures.

And after a few days, Longyou will send Tuyuhun Ketun, Sui Guanghua Princess Yang to Chang'an, and no one will doubt the result of the battle.

Li Jing and Wang Gui personally went to meet Yang Shi and some noble officials from Tuyuhun, and also asked the Longyou general who escorted them.

After confirming the good news, Wang Gui was too shocked to speak, while Li Jing stroked his beard and praised, saying that Datang had produced another peerless God of War.

The two of them no longer had the slightest doubt about the victory report of Mantou Mountain, so they dispatched horses to speed up and sent an urgent report of 800 miles to Luoyang to achieve victory.

So when Li Shimin received the victory report, it was the Kushan victory and the Mantousan victory together. In the two victories, he first defeated Fuyun, who defeated 100,000 people, then defeated Gaoning King Abao, and then defeated more than 100,000 people, and captured livestock successively. Hundreds of thousands of horses.

In all fairness, if it wasn't for the attachment of Li Jing and Wang Gui behind this good news, detailing their investigation and understanding, and saying that Princess Guanghua and many other descendants of Tuyuhun had already arrived in Chang'an, Li Shimin would definitely have liked such an astonishing record. Doubtful.

Even if it was Qin Lang who led the troops, even if this war was fought with the emperor's tacit support, it was still hard for the emperor to believe that such a good record could be achieved.

"Masters, please circulate it, and then discuss it."

In the hall, the emperor's expression was irresistibly excited and joyful, his face was flushed, if Wei Zheng knew that the emperor didn't like drinking, he would have suspected that the emperor was drunk.

The prime ministers are well-informed. Recently, some gossip came from Chang'an, saying that the Longyou Army had won a great victory.

But because the content of the biography is too exaggerated, few people really believe it.

But when Wei Zheng received the good news from Yang Shidao and looked at it twice, he was still inexplicably surprised.

When did this kind of gossip, nonsense, be presented to the imperial court in a grand manner, and circulated in the court meeting?

"Xuan Cheng, don't be in a hurry to talk, you should read it first, see whose memorial it is, and then read the appendix at the back, and then talk about it." Li Shimin saw that Wei Zheng just glanced at it and wanted to spit people, so he stopped immediately he.

Wei Zheng suppressed his temper and watched, the more he watched, the more startled he became. There was a great victory at Kushan Mountain, followed by another victory at Mantou Mountain. The difference between before and after was less than one month.

As for the results of the battle, it was really shocking.

It's just that when he saw Qin Lang's signature at the end, he was stunned for a moment, and then took a closer look. The signature was indeed Qin Lang's, but the previous memorial was not written by Qin Lang. Write it, and sign it with Qin Lang.

It shouldn't be, Qin Lang is so courageous, dare to lie about his military achievements like this?

Reason told him that this might be false, at least it couldn't be all false.

But even if this military achievement is discounted in half, it's a bit too amazing. When he read the attached table again and read the memorials of the two left-behind prime ministers, Li Jing and Wang Gui, he fell silent.

Li Jing is very low-key and cautious. Wei Zheng is not very familiar with him, and he knows that this is not a person who just talks about it. As for Wang Gui, that was his colleague when he built the East Palace, and the two had a good relationship. Wang Gui was born in the Wang family in Taiyuan, with five surnames, and has always been cautious and conscientious.