"Sanlang, Tai'an grain storage is in great deficit, which is seriously inconsistent with the account number."

The Tai Chi Palace North Forbidden Garden and Taicang were taken over by the soldiers of the Fushi Department at this time, and the entire Taicang Cang City was blocked.

This warehouse is only three miles away from the north wall of Taiji Palace and only six miles away from Xuanwu Gate.

The construction of Taicang here fully demonstrates the importance of this warehouse. Just looking at its size, we know that it is indeed significant. Three rows of 24 warehouses, each warehouse can store up to 8,000 stones of grain, and all of them can store 200,000 stones of grain.

Taicang is connected to Zhongwei Bridge in the north, Taiji Palace in the south, and next to Cao Canal. It has convenient transportation, far away from the residential area in the south of the city and close to the palace city.

However, there is another Taicang in the north of Yeting Palace, known as the South Taicang. Chang'an City has a layout and setting of Shuangtaicang. The grain stored in Shuangtaicang is mainly supplied to the palace, officials, imperial guards, and officials in the capital. All the officials in the capital have to be collected from Taicang.

The food in Taicang should be the most abundant, but now after the Zhenfu Department took over, the warehouse was closed and reconciled, but it was found that the problem was serious.

There are only eight of the twenty-four warehouses in North Taicang now with grain, and the South Taicang is almost empty.

In the warehouse department in charge of Taicang, the Taicang Office of the Sinong Temple, the two warehouses should have 300,000 stones of grain stored there.

"Qin Taicang Ling, what explanation do you give?"

Qin Lang asked!

Taicang supplies palace emperors, officials from the capital and imperial guards, and they all have such a big problem. The 300,000 stones of grain in the account actually have less than 100,000 stones, and there are actually a lot of old rice in the old millet.

Bei Taicang Ling had already been sweating profusely and had a pale complexion.

"I didn't expect that you were so brave that you even dared to steal the Taicang grain in the Forbidden Garden!"

The Qin surnamed was directly limp and met a ruthless man like Qin Lang. He knew that he was finished this time. No one would have thought that at this time, the emperor would hand over Taicang to the irrelevant yamen, the yamen of the fushi, to take charge of it. Otherwise, the various departments would cover each other and would never have exploded.

"Come, arrested all the officials, officials, and the original guards of Taicang in the north and south, and immediately interrogated them. I want to know how they stole the grain and where the grain went. Be sure to recover the grain."

"Duke Yiguo, please spare me, I'm just a small clarion order and has nothing to do with me."

Qin Lang looked disdainful of this guy, "It has nothing to do with you? How can it have nothing to do with you when you guard such a granary? Even if you are not greedy, you still have to lose so much food in Taicang!"

"Drag him down and immediately go and seize the homes of all Taicang officials and servants."

Holding the emperor's will, Qin Lang would never show any mercy and would not slowly tell them any evidence. Now it is obvious that such a case is definitely a case of a nest.

When an avalanche is gone, there will not be a snowflake that is innocent. Similarly, there will not be a snowflake that goes bravely to the world, and all the people who are tama are guilty.

Food is the most important thing for people.

Famine is coming, and now the first priority is to control the food in the hands of the court, otherwise this limited food will not be reasonably distributed to the people.

Some people will still waste delicacies, while others will not be able to eat them even if they are dirt.

There were many granaries in the Tang Dynasty. There were Taicang and regular warehouses in Chang'an, the capital, as well as voluntary warehouses and transshipment warehouses, and even Changping warehouses in the previous dynasty.

Since the grain in Taicang is supplied to the imperial palace and officials of the capital, it is the source of the good grain collected in the main warehouses of various prefectures and counties.

The main warehouse is the rent deposited, that is, the land rent paid by the staff from all over the country, one or two stones. This rent is paid into the main warehouse of prefectures and counties, and then transported to Chang'an or warehouses in some important states through transportation warehouses that are set up in some water and land to transport them to Chang'an or in warehouses in some important states.

For example, the Hanjia Warehouse in Luoyang can store tens of millions of stones of grain, which is a huge transit warehouse.

In addition, there are also charity warehouses in various places, which were first allowed to deposit them after harvest in order to save the famine in the years of disaster. This kind of disaster relief warehouse was originally managed by the people themselves.

During the Sui Dynasty, the court also established a permanent settlement to adjust the price of grain, buy and store the grain when the price of grain is low in the bumper year, and then sell it at a parity in the disaster year.

In addition, there are military warehouses in the army, especially in some border military warehouses, which have their own military warehouses.

Taicang is managed by the Taicang Office of the Sinong Temple, while the main warehouse is managed by the governments at all levels. The Yicang was originally managed by the people themselves. Now that the disaster is in the face of the disaster, the court has ordered the government to take over the Yicang.

At present, no matter what warehouse it is, the unified capital is taken over by the Duanfu Department. As long as the grain is involved, the Duanfu Department will be directly disposed of by the Duanfu Department.

The Duty and Funeral Department now has priority for food disposal.

The Pacification Department itself has a transcendent judicial power, so Qin Lang has great disposal rights to the rats in Taicang, and does not need to argue with the Ministry of Revenue, Sinong Temple, Dali Temple and other departments, directly seal the warehouse, check the accounts, and arrest people.

"Now it seems that the situation is worse than we expected before. Even the grain in Taicang is so deficient. The grain in other warehouses will be much ugly than the ones on the account, and our grain will be less than expected."

Ma Zhou, who had been saved from the disciples, looked sad. He was now Li Shimin's confidential secretary and was very worried about the real situation in Taicang.

"It's better to pierce these pustules as soon as possible, so that you can have a clear idea of ​​your mind." Qin Lang said.

"Sanlang, what are your plans?" Ma Zhou asked.

"What can I do? I can only go against the current. I will take the lead in this mess first, figure out the truth, and then, how to ration it. The limited food will be supplied to the people of Chang'an to the greatest extent."

"But there is little food and a lot of people, but it's still not enough!"

Ma Zhou expressed a key problem. In the final analysis, the famine was due to insufficient food supply. To combat these hamsters and profiteers, it can only be said that it has been alleviated, but there is only so much food after all, and it will still be insufficient.

How to fill the remaining gap is the most critical point.

Qin Lang gave only two solutions. One is that the court issued an edict to give grain and awarded merits. The ranks were used to stimulate the merchants and powerful people and let them transport grain into the pass.

Then there is another way, which is to reopen the position of regular closing.

"I plan to rebuild Changping Stores and encourage merchants from all over the country to transport grain into Guanzhong and purchase it at market prices."

"Market purchase?" Ma Zhou was a little confused, "Didn't the order issued by the Pacification Department have banned Guanzhong Grain Merchants from private transactions?"

"One code is just one code."

Qin Lang did issue an order to prohibit grain merchants from trading, mainly to control all the grain in the hands of the government and avoid grain merchants hoarding and making it impossible for the people to buy it. This order is mainly aimed at grain merchants in Guanzhong.

And now the new one is aimed at the merchants outside the pass.

In this period, if you just blindly close the merchandise, that is, you prohibit merchants from raising prices, it will lead to the fact that foreign grain will not be transported into Guanzhong. Because merchants are seeking profits, who will not make money?

But if it is not controlled, then the previous command will actually be invalid, and the result will still go back to the past.

"So I want to reopen the Changping Store, and the court will take out money and silk, follow the market, and buy the grain transported from outside the pass at the market price. No matter what the price, the government encourages them to transport grain and eat the grain."

The ban on markets is to ban merchants and people from private transactions, and all COFCO transactions can only be traded with the imperial government.

Ma Zhou is a smart person and immediately tastes the key point.

The role of always closing the warehouse is to stabilize the price of grain. Now Qin Lang collects grain at a high price and then sells it to the people at a fair price. On the one hand, it will firmly control the grain in the hands of the government, and on the other hand, it will avoid the problem of the chaos in the grain prices in Guanzhong, rising steadily, and the people can't afford to buy food but can't afford it.

Merchants want to take the opportunity to make money and let them make money. At this time, it is important to save lives, so they cannot simply use administrative means to interfere in the market, otherwise merchants will not be motivated and will not be willing to transport grain into the customs.

The government opened a Changping warehouse to buy grain, but in fact the imperial court had to bear the consequences of the high-priced grain this time.

Doing so will result in a loss of real money and silver, but the people will be able to get real benefits, which will be more conducive to management in such chaos and more optimized overall distribution of food.

"Old Ma, you are a celebrity around Your Majesty now. Please explain the profound meaning of this move to me and Your Majesty. Guanzhong cannot do without the food outside the gate, but it cannot allow them to raise prices and sell grain in Guanzhong so that the people cannot afford it, so the court can only bear it. But I believe that it is not a matter of money to solve the problem, and it is also worth it."

Ma Zhou nodded, and he didn't expect that Qin Lang would propose such a way to rescue disasters that the ancients had never done.

In ancient times, there were two general practices for food control in disaster relief, either comprehensive control, such as banning bans of bribery, banning price increases, etc., or simply ignore all of them and let the grain prices rise and fall freely.

But no matter which one, it is actually a bit deficient.

"Can you control it?" Ma Zhou asked Qin Lang. Now Qin Lang is going to take a brand new path. It sounds good, but it also tests ability more.

"I can only bend my head. Chang'an City, together with more than 20 counties around it, has a population of nearly one million. I can't watch everyone go hungry, and I can't wait until the scene of everyone changing their children to eat."

After the investigation of Taicang, the Pacification Department continued to clean up other warehouses.

At the same time, the hamsters were interrogated and their homes were confiscated first. A lot of grain was also collected from them. In addition, many grain merchants and grain shops were involved, and even grain transactions were involved in underground black markets. The thunder of the chasing guards attacked and seized a lot of grain.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Lang began to send people to check the number of people from each household, the food storage situation at home, etc., and sent them food coupons.

According to the family registered population, the Zhenfu Department gives grain coupons and the number of grain coupons is provided by the age and young. With this grain coupon, you can go to the grain sales site controlled and managed by the Zhenfu Department to buy grain with tickets. You can buy food for up to seven days at a time, and the price will be maintained at the previous 200 yuan of rice, which is much lower than the price before the grain store.

"In addition to money, you also need food coupons to buy food?"

After hearing Ma Zhou's report, Li Shimin fell into deep thought.

"What do you think of this method?" he asked.
Chapter completed!