Xuanzheng Hall.

Hou Mo Chenyi, the left assistant minister of the Secretariat, gave a report on behalf of the Political Affairs Hall, "The digging of locust eggs has been carried out in several river basins. The Political Affairs Hall has issued a death order, ranking the digging of locust eggs to prevent locust plagues at the moment. Whoever digging of locust eggs is unfavorable, will be dismissed on the spot."

Luo Cheng is very satisfied with this accountability system. Sometimes, if you don’t give a dead order, the following may not pay attention to it.

"While digging locust eggs to treat locusts, we must also strengthen the inspection and inventory of granaries in various counties and counties. We must never allow full grain in the warehouse. As a result, when we need to use it, we find that the granaries are empty, and now we must check them all. Not only do we need to check them by local self-inspection, but also send an inspection team to inspect. In areas that may be affected, we will increase the reserve of grain in key areas where water and land are in key areas."

Hou Mo and Chen Yi fully agreed with the emperor's meaning, and even offered to recruit the prime minister from the court to take charge of the road, and each road stationed one or two prime ministers were responsible for supervision and inspection.

"I thought it was OK, so I went to the Dao County to patrol the Dao County. Each road sent one member and the rank of governor. In addition, the Censorate will also send an additional inspector. The Governor is responsible for inspection and appeasement, and preside over local locust prevention and disaster relief matters. For local officials such as the Dao Sansi and the Prefect, if there are unfavorable locust prevention and disaster prevention, they can be dismissed directly on the spot, and then decreed. Those who are proactive in locust prevention and treatment and can be properly handled can also be promoted directly."

Luo Cheng tapped his fingers gently on the table. He attached great importance to this disaster. Although it was not yet time for the locust eggs to hatch, it was necessary to prevent the disaster as soon as possible. As long as the handling was done properly, the disaster could be minimized.

"Sage, the saints have dug locust eggs for ten days, and good news has been frequent in various places. In Yanshi, Henan alone, he dug 3,000 shi of locust eggs in ten days. Henan Prefecture has dug 20,000 shi of locust eggs, and the entire Henan Road has dug 140,000 shi of locust eggs. Shandong, Huainan, and Guanzhong have also reported a lot of eggs, all of which are about 100,000 shi. Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, Hebei, Hedong Bahan Road, each with 30,000 shi harvests."

After adding up each other, in just ten days, 500,000 and 600,000 shi of locust eggs were obtained.

This number is both surprising and pleasant. What is surprising is that it can dig out so many locust eggs, and what is happy is that it has dig out so many locust eggs.

"This time, all the people mobilized the whole people to dig locust eggs, which was effective, but I can't be happy too early. At the beginning, the places where locusts lay eggs the most densely and got a lot of eggs. But there are still many places where there are not so many eggs, but there are also many. People have to mobilize the people to continue digging locust eggs. For some wild grasslands, especially those where rivers, ponds, lakes, you must burn grass and plow them. As much as possible, you can remove more locust eggs in this first round of locust killing operations."

Someone suggested, "Hundreds of thousands of stones of locust eggs, one for three grains, this requires more than one million stones of millet. Can the royal family cash out? If it cannot be exchanged at that time, I am afraid that this benevolent policy will make the people dissatisfied."

"Don't worry, I have asked the Provincial Escort to mobilize resources in full, transporting grain from sea, from the Yellow River and Yangtze River Canal, from land, and on land. Large transport warehouses have been set up in each channel, so it is no problem to exchange grain for locust eggs."

Although there is more than one million stone of grain, the water and land transportation is relatively developed now, and they are operating in a healthy manner and have not been affected by the disaster. Another important thing is that there is no disaster yet. The more than one million stone of grain is divided into more than ten paths, and each path is not much.

Nowadays, it is quite convenient and fast to mobilize food.

From another perspective, the cost of transporting a stone of millet is only more than 100 cents. You should know that this is the price of rice in Luoyang. In Qingxu and Huainan and other grain production areas, in big ports such as Qingdao, Lushun and Guangling, a stone of rice is only 50 cents. If it is in Nanhai and Jiaozhi County, a stone of rice is only 30 cents.

In fact, many times when there is a major disaster, famine occurs. The key is that after the local area has no time to transport grain in other places, resulting in famine, rather than lack of food in the country.

Just like the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, many places suffered from wars, disasters, etc., and famine occurred, but there were still millions and tens of millions of stones of food stored in the major transport warehouses of the court. It was not that there was no food in the Sui Dynasty, but that many places were affected by the unrest, the roads were not smooth, the transportation capacity was insufficient, and it was difficult to transport food to the disaster area in time.

Ten thousand stones of grain are only more than one thousand guan, and one hundred thousand stones of grain is only ten thousand guan, and one million stones of grain is only ten thousand guan.

This is really nothing for the emperor's inner treasury, which can earn 30 million yuan a year. There is also a lot of food in the granaries everywhere, and the food is not short of food.

All you need is just timely transportation.

The biggest cost of grain is actually not to cultivate these by manpower, but to transport them from a long distance, which is even higher. This is why Luo Cheng attached great importance to grain collection and warehousing after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The land and grain paid by the people, and the imperial court has to spend a lot of money every year to purchase the excess grain in the hands of the people, leaving enough food for the people, while the imperial court also stores the large amount of grain purchased from these purchases step by step.

There is a social warehouse at the township level, and there is a Yi Warehouse and a County Warehouse at the county level.

The county has county warehouses and transshipment warehouses. At the first level, multiple large transshipment and storage warehouses are set up on key points of water and land transportation, and a regular warehouse has been set up to stabilize market grain prices and relieve disasters.

There are also many important military warehouses on the border.

In addition, national-level strategic reserve granaries have been established in important rivers such as the Canal, Yellow River, Yangtze River, Huai River, Han River, as well as coastal ports, and the Six Beijings.

These warehouses are transported into grain reserves every year and maintain a high storage capacity all year round. Every year, new grain comes in, and then removes grain and sells it to the market.

Generally, local food can be determined by small disasters.

If there is a major disaster or a war, the grain from the transfer warehouses established by various counties will be used. Once the most urgent time is reached, the court will mobilize the grain from the national strategic reserve warehouse.

The world is peaceful, the local area is stable, the water conservancy facilities are well built, and the river embankments are built. Therefore, the current grain output of the imperial court's 1 billion mu of arable land can actually ensure that there are surplus every year. The surplus grain will be coordinated and adjusted by the Siong Temple and the Civil Affairs Department, and finally entered one granary after another.

In addition to these official warehouses, the Royal Eunuchs also set up hundreds of granaries across the country. All of them were purchased by the Eunuchs from various places after the annual grain purchase plan of the imperial court was completed. These grains were transferred and stored in various important land transportation areas, and there were tens of millions of stones of grain, which was also a major supplement.

Historically, during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains were stable, and the imperial court's official warehouses had more than 96 million stones of grain, and the arable land at that time was only 850 million mu.

If you have food in your hands, you are not panicked.

In recent years, the imperial court has been trying hard to accumulate grain in various places, and the annual storage of tens of millions of stones of grain has been increased. Luo Cheng's Royal Granary of the Provincial Eunuchs is also quietly accumulating grain, adding millions of stones every year. Now the imperial court has countless grain storages, and Luo Cheng also has a small grain warehouse of tens of millions of stones of grain in his hand.

It was precisely because of this confidence that he dared to exchange one pound of locust eggs for three pounds of millet. Otherwise, five or six hundred thousand stone of locust eggs were dug in just ten days, and Luo Cheng would not be able to take out the food soon.

Of course, Luo Cheng is more confident to withstand this wave of locust plague because the people have food in their hands.
Chapter completed!