"In the past, the Sui Dynasty collected taxes based on the rent and mediocre system. The people equalized land but had to be less taxed. The people had many people in the Central Plains, especially after more than ten years of stability in Kaihuang, the population had more people. When it came to great business, the equal land system was difficult to implement, and there was no land to be equalized. The people had a household of only 20 to 30 acres or even less. In the end, most of the output of the land they cultivated had to be paid, leaving the smallest amount."

The six major granaries of the Sui Dynasty were all large national reserve warehouses of tens of millions.

There are many other official warehouses in the local area, including social warehouses and charity warehouses. Most of the grain is collected into the hands of the government. In the hands of the people, especially ordinary people, there is not long before the surplus of food, and sometimes it is still unacceptable.

A large amount of food, except in the hands of the court, is in the hands of those big landlords. Once a famine occurs, the court's strict warehousing system stipulates that it is necessary to obtain approval from the court to open warehouses and provide relief. However, it takes a lot of time to report it at all levels. After approval from the superiors, the disaster situation below has often expanded to uncontrollable and the hungry people have begun to flow.

And those landlords have food in their hands, but the more they encounter famine in the year of disaster, the less they will be able to release the food, and even take the opportunity to raise the price of food, etc.

Therefore, the Sui Dynasty never lacked food. Even at the end of Daye, the tax system and food policies of the Sui Dynasty made it difficult for the people to store grain. When a famine arises, the food in the hands of the government and the landlords cannot reach them.

"Storing rich people and storing grain from the people and storing soldiers from the people is a national policy that was established by our dynasty at the beginning of its founding." Luo Cheng's national policies were actually learned from later generations, such as the unified grain purchase plan, the earliest unified grain rationing plan, etc. All of these were learned from later generations, all to strengthen food security.

There is grain in the official warehouse, but the people also need food in their hands.

The grain in the official warehouse needs to be dispatched and time required. If the people have food in their hands, even if they encounter disaster this year, they may save themselves as soon as possible.

"In recent years, various places have been harvesting year by year, and grain prices have become lower and lower. In Lingnan, when rice is harvested, rice is only sold for three cents, and in Qingdao and other ports, it is only sold for five cents. Luoyang is a land of capital, and the price is more expensive than other places. However, rice is only 12 or 3 cents a year, and it is no more than twenty cents at its most expensive time."

In fact, the people are also suffering. If the harvest is good, the grain will be low, and the grain will be low. If the harvest is bad, it will be even more painful.

Although the imperial court also established a regular warehouse settlement and a peace purchase system, it also established a unified grain purchase plan, which purchased a large amount of grain every year and set up a protective price. Even in a bumper year, it would not make the grain price too low and harm the grain farmers.

The imperial court and the royal family became the largest grain buyers and sellers. Without the past, those grain merchants controlled the price of grain, manipulated the price, hoarded goods, etc. The grain prices have been relatively stable in recent years. People who grow grain and buy grain do not have to face ups and downs in various grain price fluctuations, avoiding many losses.

Grain trading is a bulk trading, and the main cost is transportation. If it is a local trading, the cost is low. It is said that if you don’t sell wages for a hundred miles and don’t sell food for a thousand miles, the cost of transportation on the road is really too high.

However, if the scale is increased, the increased cost can be diluted. Luo Cheng likes to scale when doing business. Generally, small grain merchants are mostly in their own roads, counties or even counties to do business, and the volume is so large. However, Luo Cheng turns the whole world into a game of chess, coordinates and has a large structure, so he naturally has his advantages.

However, in fact, the grain transaction is too big. Although the cost can be diluted, it is not a huge profit-making transaction. After all, Luo Cheng will not do anything to manipulate grain prices and make money by making money through disasters. Compared with other royal transactions, selling grain is not as good as raising chickens and ducks. It sets up a farm next to major cities to provide local cities with consumption nearby, so trading is much easier to do than grain.

But after all, grain trading is an important thing that involves people's livelihood, and it is a strategic material involving national security. Therefore, even if Luo Chengdeng was doing it at the beginning, he still instructed the eunuchs and ministers to do it with all their might.

Fortunately, the people from the Escort Province are quite smart. After working for a few years, they now have more than 10 million stones of grain stored, and they can still bear their own profits and losses, and even make a lot of surplus and profits every year.

Hou Mo Chenyi was the governor of Henan, Fang Xuanling was the governor of Guanzhong, Du Ruhui was the governor of Shandong, Jun Liang was the governor of Hedong, and Wen Yanbo was the governor of Longyou...

Half of the prime ministers in the court were granted the title of governor, and went to patrol the local affairs to preside over locust and disaster relief. The emperor also sent more than a dozen eunuchs from the Escort Province to ask them to go to the local area to be responsible for locust hunting and other matters in various affairs of the royal family.

Military hospital.

Luo Cheng and Sun Simiao got together.

In front of the two was a bucket of locust eggs.

"Sage, do you really want to use this locust egg as medicine?"

"It's not used as medicine, it's made into health care products."

Sun Simiao originally lived in seclusion in the mountains of Zhongnan, Chang'an to study medicine and compile medical books. Later, he cured stroke for the emperor. He was left behind by the emperor and appointed him as the head of the military hospital. He also asked him to preside over the compilation of Materia Medica, sorted out the works of doctors from all generations collected from the people, and even many folk remedies.

The old man was very happy in the military hospital. With the full support of the emperor, he had a lot of doctors and medical students to help him. He wanted money and people, and the editing work was also very smooth.

Under his nominal apology, the military hospital is now expanding in scale, and now it even exceeds the number of students in the Imperial College. There are more than 12,000 students in the Imperial College, while there are more than 15,000 students in the military hospital.

"The sage, locusts are used as medicine in medical books, and the whole insect is used as medicine. The main function is to nourish Johnson & Johnson. It can cure asthma, whooping cough, and insomnia and coughing."

Luo Cheng smiled and said, "I know what you said, but you can't just feed chickens and ducks so many locust eggs, which is a waste. In fact, according to my research, the effect of these locust eggs is not worse than that of all insects, and it is even more nutritious. Steam it and dried it and grind it into powder, then add some other things and add it in, and add some sugar and other things. This will inevitably make a delicious and nutritious health care powder."

Luo Cheng had even thought about it, grind brown rice, soybeans, oats, sweet potatoes, etc. into powder, add a small amount of sugar, salt, and locust egg powder to mix it into health powder, which is actually similar to grain health powder.

You can even create several recipes, such as high-end ones that can also add hawthorn, lotus seeds, wolfberry, black sesame, red dates, walnuts, ginkgo, etc.

Of course, the most important thing is to focus on locust egg powder. For low-end products, you can even add some sorghum or chaff to grind it.

Of course, these things will indeed have some benefits, such as they are both dietary fiber and rich in protein, as well as many vitamins and minerals.

However, it is definitely not easy to get the people to accept this kind of thing.

So Luo Chengdue wanted Sun Simiao to endorse the book, saying that it was a good thing he developed with many health care effects. The name of the King of Medicine is still very famous now.

"I actually don't want to make money with this thing, I just want to turn the locust egg powder into the same food."
Chapter completed!