Gongsun He's death naturally spread to Xinfeng very quickly.

only……

No ripples arise.

Even Liu Jin didn't feel any emotion.

Because, like other places, Xinfeng County's autumn harvest has also been greatly reduced this year.

"The average yield per mu of Yushe only costs more than two stones... Linwei Township is almost the same... Xinfeng Township and Li Township only cost one stone and seven dou..." Looking at the output of each township pavilion reported by Zhao Guo.

Zhang Yue frowned.

Corn is the staple food in the northern region today.

As a staple food, even if the output of corn falls by just a bucket, it may cause irreparable losses.

What's more, the corn production in Guanzhong is now plummeting across the country.

Xinfeng is quite good here, with seven or eight counties in the Qishanyuan area. I heard that the average yield per mu is only one stone or even one stone.

Don't think about it, a famine is imminent.

As the county magistrate of Xinfeng County, Zhang Yue first needs to be responsible for the safety of Xinfeng's food supply.

He held a roll of bamboo slips and looked at the numbers on it carefully.

This is his assessment of the losses and blows caused to Xinfeng after a whole day of calculation.

Judging from the calculation results above, the situation is not good.

This time, Xinfeng cut production by nearly one-third.

In other words, even if the people themselves do not need to pay land taxes or tuition, their food safety cannot be met.

What happens when farmers’ food security cannot be guaranteed?

The history books have already made it clear and carefully.

During the reign of Emperor Gao, "5,000 stones and rice in Guanzhong were eaten by people."

In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, the Kanto disaster was "a thousand miles of land, millions of refugees, and white bones were exposed in the wild".

It may be difficult for people in later generations to imagine such a situation. A production reduction storm can ruin thousands of families, exile or even destroy them.

But that's the truth.

The fragile self-cultivated farming economy under the small peasant economy cannot withstand the slightest wind and rain.

Just like now, although on the surface, the production cuts in Guanzhong area are only the ones that have not been affected by Guandong and northern Longyou.

but……

It is such a regional natural disaster, and it is just a production reduction.

However, it can cause a devastating blow to the entire middle and lower-class farmers.

Because, the price of grain will definitely skyrocket!

Once the food prices are high, the small peasant economy will collapse.

Why collapse?

Because farmers have very little money in their hands.

In fact, self-cultivated farmers and small and medium-sized landlords have always been short of cash.

The food produced by the people's own home is used as food rations except after paying taxes.

Now more than one-third of the available food is reduced at once.

In other words, they need to buy another third of the food to satisfy the whole family's consumption.

The prodigal businessmen will definitely not let this feast go.

So, the price of grain will immediately take a roller coaster.

If you use your butt to guess, Zhang Yue can guess that if you don’t find a way to solve this huge food shortage.

The price of grain can easily exceed 1,000!

It even soared to two thousand or three thousand.

The merchants, landlords and powerful nobles will easily complete the harvest of the entire middle and lower levels of Guanzhong.

This also became a test for Zhang Yue.

Build a well-off society and promote peace, and the big talk has been released.

But if we encounter an avalanche disaster at the beginning...

hehe……

The only thing that made Zhang Yue feel grateful was that for the time being, he didn't need to worry about the emperor.

Because now the emperor has accepted his theory of "how hard it is to prosper the country" and "natural disasters are the test of heaven."

But you must find a way to overcome this crisis!

And it's not just Xinfeng.

He must think of a way to alleviate or even eliminate the harm caused to Guanzhong by this production cut.

"Crisis, crisis..." Zhang Yue stood up with the book Jian: "It is both a danger and an opportunity!"

He knew very well that if he could pass this level smoothly.

Then, his theory is truly true and acceptable.

The Zhuxia nation is the most practical nation on earth.

Even religious beliefs emphasize practicality.

Even if the grandparents go to burn incense, they will worship when they enter the temple and burn when they burn when they meet.

Regardless of whether I have just finished worshiping the Bodhisattva, I am not very pious now that I am here to indulge in Laojun incense?

The thinking of spirituality is trustworthy, and faith is spirituality has been the mainstream since ancient times.

Similarly, the same is true for political systems and concepts.

It’s a donkey or a horse, so you have to pull it out and slip it out.

You can do it, but you can't do it less.

Two or three hundred years before Zhang Yue, Shang Jun rolled up his sleeves and told the Qin people: I can do it!

Then Shang Yang reformed and Qin State was in great power. Therefore, Shang Jun's system was carried out for more than a hundred years, allowing him to annex the six countries and unify the world!

In other words, if he can find a way to slow or eliminate the disaster.

At least in Guanzhong, he will ride the wind and go straight up to 90,000 miles.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue pushed open the door.

Outside, the officials in the county had gathered. When they saw Zhang Yue go out, everyone's eyes gathered.

"Zhang Qing..." Liu Jin was the first to speak: "Is there a countermeasure?"

Zhang Yue smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, this matter is just a tempering. I have almost any solution..."

When Liu Jin heard this, his heart fell into trouble. This time, the production cuts in Guanzhong caught everyone off guard.

Although the continuous drought in summer has made people predict the reduction in Guanzhong's harvest this year.

But it was unexpected that the production cuts so much at once, and even returned to the Warring States Period overnight.

Liu Jin heard that the Grand Minister’s Agriculture is going crazy!

Because according to the calculation results of the Grand Secretary’s Eighth, the grain shortage in Guanzhong will be more than 8 million stones before the autumn harvest next year!

When transferring grain from Guandong to Beijing, even if the Grand Secretary-General's Transportation Department was exhausted, he could not transport so much to the pass.

Not to mention, Ao Cang does not have so much food in stock at all.

Unless you go to Qilu and Wu Chu to transfer luck.

But Qilu and Wu Chu do not produce corn, they produce rice!

Not to mention transporting grain from Qilu Wu Chu to Chang'an, the high-cost one would probably make the Grand Secretary farmers hang themselves.

What's even more terrifying is that almost overnight, all grain merchants in Guanzhong began to be reluctant to sell.

In Chang'an City, grain prices change seven times a day, and some scholars and citizens can no longer afford to buy grain.

Jingzhao Yin and Zhi Jinwu, who is in charge of Chang'an City's public security, have already wanted to commit suicide.

Once the food price is high, with the population size of Chang'an City, the situation will immediately become corrupt.

People who cannot eat enough will use their own hands to create food.

Now, I heard Zhang Yue say that he has found a solution.

It was not only Liu Jin who was inexplicably the only one who felt at ease, but also felt refreshed!

"I wonder what my dear one can do?" Liu Jin looked at Zhang Yue with great sincerity and asked.

The longer he was in Xinfeng, the more suffering he had seen the people he had witnessed, the more he sympathized with the simple, loyal, sincere and diligent people.

Day after day, year after year, they sweated and tilled in the fields, but their hard work was almost zero.
Chapter completed!