People in Zongwu: Starting with the Yin Gui Sect

Chapter 359

"My dear Bi, tell me your specific ideas!"

Wu Yu still decided to adopt Bi Ziyan's suggestion. Since the other party said so, he must have personally investigated the market and was certain about it.

Sure enough, after hearing that Wu Yu accepted his opinion, Bi Ziyan immediately said: "Your Majesty, although the price increase of grain is indeed related to the supply and demand in the market, it is not the main reason.

I have sent people to investigate in various provinces in the south. Although a lot of grain has been harvested less due to natural disasters, it is definitely not to the point where there is no grain to sell.

The key is that those unscrupulous merchants have begun to hoard grain and wait for the price of grain to rise after seeing the bad situation in the past two years. These people have also linked together and set up something called a chamber of commerce in various places to sell all at a unified price.

Even their internal staff have secretly discussed that unless the court can withdraw the previous tax increase decree, they will never sell it even if it rots."

"Oh, even if it rots, it will not be sold? Good, very good!"

After hearing Bi Ziyan's words, Wu Yu finally understood where the problem came from. It is obviously only the early stage of the Little Ice Age. Even if the grain harvest is poor, it is impossible to be so poor. If it is only in the north, it will be fine. The key is still in the south.

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

Hearing Wu Yu's laughter, the ministers understood that their Majesty was on the verge of exploding.

Seeing this, Xue Qianyue stood up again and said, "Your Majesty, calm down. I think..."

"Shut up!"

Hearing that this idiot was going to talk nonsense again, Wu Yu interrupted him directly, and then said to Bi Ziyan, "My dear Bi, this matter will be handed over to your Ministry of Revenue. All merchants who dare to maliciously hoard grain during this period will have their property confiscated, and all the males of their families will be sent to Liaodong as coolies, and the women will be sent to the Jiaofangsi. As for manpower, I will let people cooperate with you."

After saying this, Wu Yu looked at Xue Qianyue meaningfully: "So many people don't object, but Xue my dear opposes. Is it possible that your family has some connection with those illegal merchants?"

When Wu Yu thought that this guy dared to oppose him one after another, he had to wonder whether this guy had a hole in his brain, or was he colluding with those illegal merchants as he thought.

But no matter which one it is, I can't let him go. A mere third-rank official, a scum whose name is not even left, dares to oppose me again and again. Does he really think I dare not kill him?

"Come here, take Xue Qianyue, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, and investigate his connection with those bad vendors. If there is no connection, it's fine. If there is, deal with him together with those illegal vendors!"

"Your Majesty, I am innocent, I am innocent..."

Hearing that the emperor was going to take him down just because he refuted a few words, Xue Qianyue immediately knelt down and kowtowed crazily.

It is true that his butt is not clean, but it is not just him. Looking at the whole court, there are few clean ones. If you really want to investigate, you must find one.

Wu Yu naturally knows this, but those people know the times and will not oppose me many times on one thing. Only Xue Qianyue, this idiot, confronts me again and again, as if he is so capable. Who else can I take if not you?

"Okay, that's all about the grain price. Does Bi Aiqing have anything else to say?"

Seeing that Bi Ziyan still stood there and didn't return to the queue after Xue Qianyue was taken away by the Han general, Wu Yu knew that he had something else to say.

Bi Ziyan cleared his throat and continued, "Your Majesty, in addition to the grain price, more than 200,000 northern disaster victims have poured into the capital, so I hope Your Majesty can order the resettlement of these disaster victims."

Hearing Bi Ziyan talk about this, Wu Yu nodded. He had already ordered someone to do this.

Not only did he arrange for people to distribute a lot of food and clothing to the disaster victims, but he also asked Xu Guangqi and Bi Maokang, as well as Zhu Ting and Tie Zhi to recruit a lot of young and strong disaster victims to enter these three departments for production.

Anyone who is willing to enter these three departments will not only have food to eat, but can also get a monthly salary of eight cents of silver. Although it is a bit low, it is much better than being starved to death.

As for those who were unqualified, they were asked to do some manual work.

As for those who didn't want to do anything, Wu Yu didn't bother to care about them and let them starve to death. Anyway, if they wanted to eat, they had to work. Anyway, the court would not support them for nothing.

He didn't expect that there would be so many people, and according to Bi Ziyan's opinion, I'm afraid that in the next few months, these disaster victims will continue to pour into Beijing.

After thinking about it, Wu Yu finally decided to send the remainingThe people under him were arranged to dig coal in the West Mountain. As the saying goes, as long as you are willing to work, you will have food to eat.

With sweet potatoes, he may not be able to support millions of people, but hundreds of thousands of people are not a problem.

"Don't worry, my dear Bi, I have already made arrangements for this matter!"

"Then I will have nothing to worry about!"

Hearing that his majesty had already made arrangements, Bi Ziyan also consciously retreated.

"Which other minister has something to report?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Chengzong stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I, the Minister of War, have something to report!"

"Approved!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, according to the news from the Ministry of War, since the rebellion led by Wang Er was suppressed last year, someone in Shaanxi has started a rebellion again.

The leader of the rebels is Li Zicheng, who calls himself the King of Chuang. The rebel army led by him, the Dashun Army, has conquered more than a dozen counties since the rebellion started a month ago. Now the number of troops has exceeded 20,000. If it continues to be left alone, it will inevitably have a huge impact on the situation in Shaanxi. Please order troops to quell the rebellion immediately."

"Oh, has it started?"

Hearing Li Zicheng's name, Wu Yu's heart moved, which meant that Qianqian had begun to support Li Zicheng's uprising according to his wishes.

What surprised him even more was that this army was also called the "Dashun Army", and Brother Li himself had established himself as the King of Chuang before Gao Yingxiang.

But even though he knew it, it was impossible for him to send troops to quell the rebellion. Not to mention that Brother Li was his man, there was no way he could get rid of him so quickly. He still had to wait for Brother Li to help him kill more of the gentry, landlords, and princes of the royal family.

But since Sun Chengzong had proposed it, it would be unreasonable for him to do nothing. However, the choice of this person to quell the rebellion became a headache for him.

After all, this was a war that was bound to fail. If the losses were too great, it would be too unfair to those soldiers who fought so hard.

As he thought about it, a person's name suddenly appeared in his mind - Wu Sangui!