Li Chao approached the emperor and said, Your Majesty, we are not short of food now. I have eight million stones of grain on my hands now. If all of them are processed into disaster relief grain, it will be enough to process 30 million stones.

Li Shimin was shocked.

"real?"

Li Chao nodded. Of course, he could not be happy about the emperor's poverty.

Eight million stones of grain and 30 million relief grain. This figure made Li Shimin excited. You should know that under the court's rent and tax regulation law, the grain of grain collected in a year was only about five million stones. Previously, Li Chao reformed the commercial tax and monopoly system, allowing the court to increase its fiscal revenue by nearly ten million a year.

However, there was no change in the aspect of the Sugu, because the court's rent and mediocre system was based on the equal land system, and only the classmates were paid for the classmate. After eliminating the officials and officials, the court's classmates were only about 2 million, and each classmate was paid for two stones of millet every year, which was only about five million stones.

Most of these imperial grains were transported to Chang'an for the palace and the use of Lumi as the official of the capital. Local officials could not enjoy the treatment of Lumi as well. They only divided the land, rented the land and then collected rent to top Lumi.

Under normal circumstances, the imperial court had a grain of millet worth about 5 million stones a year, plus some physical silk and money tax, which could maintain operation. Later, there were 10 million coins from Li Chao's coins, salt, tea, iron, customs and commercial taxes, etc., but life was better.

But as a result of the disaster, the demand for food increased greatly, and there was actually not much grain in the granary of the court.

Now Li Chao actually said that he had eight million stones of grain in his hand, so how could Li Shimin not be surprised?

The sixteen prefectures in the south of Shannan are just one of the seventeen paths in the imperial court.

"Where did you get so much food?" Li Shimin knew that Li Chao had used many tough methods before, and could plunder eight million stones, so it would not be possible to plunder just by force.

To be honest, he was really shocked when he heard the number of eight million stones.

Li Chao took his finger and calculated for the emperor, "Your Majesty, I have checked and calculated all the official warehouses and transfer warehouses of the court in the east of Shandong Province, and I have taken over all the official grains. In addition, I have also taken over the rented grains of the public fields in various places. There are also a lot of charity warehouses and social warehouses in various places, and I have also taken over them."

Li Chao said it was pretty dull, but it took a lot of effort to take over the grain at the beginning.

"In addition, I have also bought more than half of the grain from the big merchants. In addition, the follow-up donations from the big merchants, so the total grain in the hands of the Shandong East Road yamen has reached more than 8 million stones. These more than 8 million stones, including rice, wheat, millet, millet, beans, sorghum, etc., are all fine grains."

"It's time, it's good to have food, no matter what coarse grains and fine grains it has." Li Shimin patted Li Chao on the shoulder, "So, more than half of the folk food in Shannan has been in the hands of the government. You are very good at this."

There are not many students in the 16 states in Shannan, but the total number of real people is large. Li Shimin estimated that there are more than five million. But Li Chao told him that the 16 states in Shannan have a population of at least eight million.

This number sounds shocking. After all, the imperial court's household registration statistics last year showed that there were only about 3 million households in the country, with a population of more than 15 million, and the number of students was only about 2.5 million.

But in fact, the population must be larger than this, because the official statistics at the end of the Sui Dynasty were 50 million. Too many people became hidden households and fled in the late Sui Dynasty, and there were also many hidden households and fled in the Sui Dynasty.

This year, the Buddhist temples were sorted out and millions of people, hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns, and a large number of hidden households and slaves hiding under the temples.

Then there are those barbarians, etc. Li Chao quelled the barbarians last time, and he suddenly increased the number of local barbarians to the court. He all registered the households and the first time he was registered.

Li Chao said that the 16 prefectures in Shannan have a population of 8 million, so there will basically be no big mistakes.

For a population of eight million, a young and strong man consumes seven stones of grain in a year. Even if the disaster is reduced year, the eight million people will need at least 30 million stones of grain in a year.

Eight million stones of grain are still not enough.

Li Chao turned these grains into disaster relief grains, and eight million turned into 30 million, which greatly filled the gap.

"Luckily this summer is a great harvest." Li Chao said.

"Is your disaster relief grain easy to use?" Li Shimin asked. One stone of food can be turned into four or five stone of food, which always makes Li Shimin feel too magical.

Disaster relief food and disaster relief food are of course used for disaster relief.

All are expedient measures.

One stone of grain cannot be directly turned into five stone disaster relief grain. Other ingredients need to be added, such as sorghum and soybeans, and then there are locust powder, dried fish, dried meat, dried vegetables, and some wheat peel, and chaff together.

If the added sorghum, soybean, fish and dried meat are more proportional, then the disaster relief grain is still good. If the added wheat peel, chaff, leaves, grass roots, etc. are more proportional, then it will be much worse.

The effect of disaster relief food to satisfy hunger is OK. After all, it is uncomfortable for people to feel hungry, but it is actually because there is nothing in their stomach. If you stuff some grass roots and bark into it, even if it is not nutritious, as long as you can swallow it, it will last for two or three days.

However, the grain bran and wheat peel are not nutritious and difficult to digest, so I temporarily deceive my stomach, which is not effective. Eating it a few more times will not only cause indigestion, constipation, intestinal intestinal intestinal affair, but also cause lack of nutrition and death.

The foods that add sugar and grass roots to disaster relief are actually to fill the hunger, and the foods inside, dried fish and locust powder, are the nutritional supplements.

The nutritional nutrition that Li Chao produces now can be barely maintained, but after eating it for a long time, it will definitely be a bit bad. There is also a major sequelae, that is, eating too much disaster relief food will easily cause constipation. A better prevention and treatment method is to increase the intake of oil and water.

Li Shimin smiled.

He knew the sequelae of disaster relief food. When he was in Chang'an Palace, he was worried about the victims, so he ate disaster relief food for half a month, and then when he squatted in the toilet every day, he had to squat for a long time. That memory was profound.

"In a special difficult period, just bear with it. So, Shannan's food is indeed enough, but the situation in Henan and Hebei is much more serious than Shannan this time. Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda wrote memorials every day, and the food is tight everywhere. Although he is also processing and manufacturing disaster relief grain, many people have no food at home and have no ability to resist disasters. They can only receive relief grain from the government, and the granary of the government's granary is in danger. Wenyuan, you have to transfer some food from you first."

Shannan himself processes grain into disaster relief grain, and barely survives by relying on locust powder, dried fish, and dried vegetables.

But Li Chao couldn't refuse Li Shimin's request.

For the emperor, the people in Shannan were his people, and the people in Henan and Hebei were also his people. He could not watch the people in Henan and Hebei starve to death.

"Your Majesty, we have always transported food to Henan and Hebei!"

"It's not enough, far from enough. The situation there is much worse than yours. You haven't starved to death, but there are already places in Henan that starve to death. Some people eat grass seeds and eat Guanyin soil. The grass seeds are the same as Guanyin soil. They can last for a few days after eating, but they are still indigestion. You may have never seen that grass seed, but I have seen it. The wild fields are growing everywhere, with bunches of bulbs, with thick stems, a little yellow leaves, and the grass seeds are very small. The hungry people in Henan cut off the grass, beat the grass seeds, rub them with their hands, and then stir-fry them in a pan. When they are hungry, they grab a handful and put them in a pot to cook. As they cook, they become clear white porridge, like flour. But this soup can be picked up and shredded, just like maltose. A little cooler, it will be as tough as beef tendon."

When Li Shimin talked about this grass seed porridge, he had a terrible look on his face.

"Do you know that after this grass seeds are cold, they cannot be chewed. You can only bite them one by one and then swallow them into your stomach. But that thing is actually indigestion, and it can be temporarily hungry. Eating it once can control three days. But after eating it, it cannot be digested and cannot be pulled out. You have to eat some wild vegetables or something to push it down. If it really doesn't work, you have to pick it out, otherwise it will swell to death."

"Many people cook this grass seed to eat, while some people are so hungry that they can't stand it. They drink porridge before they wait until the grass seeds are cold. But those who drink this way will die."

Before this grass seed porridge is solidified, it will solidify in the stomach after drinking it. At that time, it will be wrapped with grass roots, bark and other things in the stomach, and will form blockages and block the intestines, and then it will die soon. If the intestines are blocked, it will not last for a few days.

This is even more terrifying than Guanyin Earth, and Guanyin Earth will at least not be so serious.

Speaking of this, Li Shimin was silent.

People are hungry and want to eat everything, regardless of whether their leaves or grass roots and barks are found, many people die from poisonous wild vegetables and mushrooms, and many people die from consuming the indigested grass seeds Guanyin soil.

Whenever Li Shimin heard such a report, he felt very uncomfortable.

But he also knew that the Henan area in the Central Plains was a severely affected area. The war had just ended at the end of the fourth year of Wude, and Hebei had not ended the war in the fifth year of Wude, and there was a lot of ruins everywhere. The people basically had no food in their hands. After a major disaster, there was no harvest in the fields and they could only go hungry.

The court tried its best to rescue disasters, but the food was not transported in time. Now, people are starting to die every day.

"Wenyuan, you pulled out 20 million stones of disaster relief food and transported it to Henan and Hebei respectively!" Li Shimin said.

Li Chao couldn't help but remain silent. Shannan finally raised 30 million stones and now he wants to send two-thirds to his brother areas. What should the eight million people in the 16 prefectures of Shannan do?

"Shannan can still have food at least now, no one has starved to death. You can hold on for a while. During this period, you can transport food from Bashu to Jiangnan, but Henan and Hebei have already started to starve to death." Li Shimin sighed.

Li Chao had no choice but to grit his teeth and nodded, "I understand, let's arrange this."

However, Li Chao also knew that even if he was willing to pull out valuable relief grains and transport them to Henan and Hebei, it would be difficult to solve the problem immediately. Even if he could take out the two thousand stones of grain, it would be quite difficult to transport it to the disaster area.

"Your Majesty, please transfer the people in the disaster area immediately, especially the young and strong. Transfer them to Shannan to build a new capital and use labor instead of relief. This is much faster than the difficulty of transporting grain to the disaster area."
Chapter completed!