Chapter 13: Unparalleled National Scholar Fang Xuanling

Li Jiancheng looked at the ministers and said, "What are the ways to solve the food danger now?"

Wei Zheng naturally knew the plans of Li Jiancheng and Chen Ying. Of course, he did not point it out, but shook his head and said: "The food shortage in Guanzhong is just the beginning. The farming season has been missed this year. Now no less than 400,000 hungry people have emerged in Guanzhong. This number will gradually increase over time!"

Li Jiancheng patted the guest and said, "Does he really want to disband half of the army?"

Wei Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "In the granary in the palace, there is not much food stored."

At this moment, Wei Ting said: "Unless Your Majesty issues an edict to force the collection of food from the aristocratic families."

Wei Zheng had no good impression of the Guanzhong clan, but as the minister of the Tang Dynasty, Wei Zheng knew that if he forced the food of the Guanzhong clan, he would inevitably push the Guanzhong clan to the opposite side.

Wei Zheng shook his head and said, "If this is the case, the court will definitely...the world is in chaos.

Chen Shuda sighed and said, "We must not only save Your Majesty's face, but also solve the shortage of food in Guanzhong. We cannot offend the Guanzhong family. How can we have such a perfect solution?"

Chen Ying stood in the hall and did not speak. He became a wooden man. Anyway, Li Jiancheng didn't ask him, and he wouldn't say it. Chen Ying wanted to see how Li Jiancheng could do it.

At this moment, Li Jiancheng heard a gust of cooing sounds from Chen Shuda's belly.

Li Jiancheng waved his hand and said, "Notify the imperial kitchen and prepare the meal!"

Not long after, the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace brought food into the table. On the small table in front of the ministers, there were two dough cakes and a green vegetable soup.

Chen Ying looked at the soup very familiar, but it was actually the kelp he got from Zhang Zhongjian. Chen Ying was a general who led troops all year round. When he really fought, as the head coach, he had no chance to drink hot soup, let alone eat.

Chen Ying also felt hungry at this time. He broke the dough and put it into the kelp soup. These kelp soups were also made of old soup stewed with mutton and had a strong taste.

Chen Ying eats with relish.

However, the other ministers were like chewing wax.

Seeing the ministers eating noodles like yellow lotus, Chen Ying was very happy.

...

Fang Xuanling came to Menxiasheng with a relaxed look on his face. At this time, the colleagues of Menxiasheng avoided Fang Xuanling and even took a detour.

Fang Xuanling walked to his own case as if no one was around. Looking at the clean case, Fang Xuanling coughed and said, "Have the imperial edict from Zhongmen Province arrived?"

A stingy official, holding the imperial edict sent by the Zhongmen Province, handed it to Fang Xuanling's case.

Several officials were whispering.

The doctor of the Menxiasheng smiled with a humble face and said, "Fang Xuanling is so brave..."

A stingy official agreed, "Who said no, he dares to come back!"

A famous official said gloatingly: "It's so crazy!"

The doctor in Menxia Province smiled coldly and said, "This madman offended His Majesty, offended Chen Linggong, and offended Feng Prime Minister. I think it's time to get out in less than two days..."

There was a voice of a husband reporting the time from outside.

The officials stood up to pack their belongings.

Fang Xuanling also slowly stood up.

An eunuch walked in quickly and asked at the people in the lobby: "Where is Fang Xuanling?" Fang Xuanling was stunned and hesitated: "I am here."

The eunuch said with a slight smile: "Your Majesty announces your visit, the housekeeper, follow our family!"

...

When Fang Xuanling arrived at Xiande Hall, Li Jiancheng looked at Fang Xuanling with a little embarrassed. He used the sound of coughing to hide his embarrassment.

Fang Xuanling stood opposite Li Jiancheng without saying anything.

Fang Xuanling said: "Your Majesty, what are your instructions?"

Li Jiancheng pondered and said, "I have considered it inappropriately when I issued an edict yesterday.

Fang Xuanling said "yes".

Li Jiancheng took a deep breath and said, "I am wrong, I apologize to you!"

Fang Xuanling shook his head and smiled faintly, "Your Majesty, if there is nothing else, I will leave.

The evil fire in Li Jiancheng's heart rushed towards his forehead. He stood up in anger and pointed at Fang Xuanling and shouted: "Fang Xuanling, do you know what the people in Guanzhong are like, why don't you tell me the truth about why you should use the method of refuting and refuting to make me look unfair?"

Fang Xuanling was not afraid, looked directly at Li Jiancheng's gaze and smiled coldly: "Is it important to Guanzhong's villains or His Majesty's face important?"

Li Jiancheng was stunned and couldn't speak.

Fang Xuanling said with a faint expression: "I was about to ask Your Majesty, why don't the people of Guanzhong come out of the country and beg for begging?"

Li Jiancheng said, "In this way, what kind of face does the imperial court have to face the people of the world?"

Fang Xuanling looked down and asked loudly with a stern voice: "The face of the court is more important than the lives of the people? Did the third generation of saints, Yao, Shun, Yu and Tang, do this?"

Li Jiancheng pointed at Fang Xuanling, but could not find any words.

Seeing Fang Xuanling forcing Li Jiancheng, the general of the standing hall, the Jingua Warrior appeared in the hall at the same time. As long as Li Jiancheng gave the order, they would take Fang Xuanling down.

Chen Ying smashed his mouth, slowly stood up, and reached out to signal the General of the Standing Palace and the Swordsman of the Gourd to retreat.

At this time, whether it is the General of the Standing Hall or the Jingua Warrior in the Xiande Hall, they were all Li Jiancheng's confidant and direct troops. Of course, these soldiers were all old subordinates when Chen Ying was in charge of the left and right guards of the East Palace and the left and right guards of the left and right guards.

Seeing Chen Ying's gesture, the newly appeared generals and Jingua warriors retreated one after another.

Fang Xuanling approached Li Jiancheng within ten steps and shouted coldly: "The gates of Tongguan are closed, and Guanzhong is hungry for thousands of miles. Will Your Majesty and the court have face?"

Li Jiancheng angrily slapped the imperial case and said, "Rareless!"

Chen Shuda and Feng Lun yelled: "Fang Xuanling, you are so brave!"

Li Jiancheng looked at Fang Xuanling and gritted his teeth and said, "Besides standing here and talking loudly and sarcastically, what else can you do? What problems can you solve?"

Fang Xuanling looked at Li Jiancheng coldly and said, "Of course I have a way!"

A proud look flashed in Li Jiancheng's eyes. Wei Zheng recommended Fang Xuanling to Li Jiancheng, saying that Fang Xuanling had great talents and could be called a national scholar. Chen Ying called him an unparalleled national scholar, with ambitions to the world and a strategy to help the people. Li Shimin could not use it, so he was defeated. If Your Majesty could use it, the world would be governed and Chang'an in all directions would be expected!

You should know that looking at the entire history, how many people are the ones who can be called the national sage? Guan Zhong assisted Duke Huan of Qi to achieve the first hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period, established a series of effective systems, and laid the strong national strength of Qi for centuries. Moreover, Duke Huan of Qi was not a particularly wise monarch, which further reflected Guan Zhong's ability.

Fan Li assisted King Goujian of Yue to lie on firewood and taste gall, and finally defeated the mortal enemy Wu and successfully dominated the dominance. Le Yi assisted Yan and made a small country counterattack. Successfully overturned Qi and occupied more than 70 cities to almost destroy the country. It was too cool. Lin Xiangru's kung fu and his neck were probably not comparable to him in ancient times.

Xinling Jun Wei Wuji: The four gentlemen of the Warring States Period, their personalities and achievements should be led by Xinling Jun. The army of the six countries, which was twice entangled like a mob, defeated the Qin army that had cheated.

Shang Yang, Wu Qi, Sun Bin, and Liu Bang obtained Han Xin and founded the Han Dynasty for four hundred years. Liu Bei obtained Zhuge Liang and stood up with a tripod.

Seeing Fang Xuanling being attacked by Li Jiancheng, Li Jiancheng was very proud.

Li Jiancheng still said in a angrily voice: "Who can't speak loudly?

Fang Xuanling said solemnly: "A gentleman's words are as good as hell. Since I say there is a solution, there must be a solution. But..."

Fang Xuanling calmed down, looked at Li Jiancheng, and said provocatively: "If you want me to solve the disaster of famine in Guanzhong, your Majesty must agree to something.

Li Jiancheng said proudly: "It is impossible to talk about one thing or ten things."

Fang Xuanling shook his head and said, "It's just one thing!

Li Jiancheng was stunned and stared at Fang Xuanling and said, "From then on, the right to refute Tu Gui, the position of the Ministry of Public Security, must be recognized and guaranteed."

Li Jiancheng widened his eyes and said, "One day in the Tang Dynasty, there will be no servants, who will be punished for refuting the imperial edicts and imperial edicts."

Hearing this, Chen Ying was stunned.

Sure enough, Fang Xuanling did not disappoint him.

Fang Xuanling hoped that Li Jiancheng would not interfere with the power of the subordinates to refute the officials, in order to limit the imperial power. If the imperial edict is legally effective, it must be signed by the Secretary of the Central Committee and the Provincial Government, so that it can have real legal effect.

Now, Li Jiancheng's words of the law will be written into the daily record, and as the ancestor's law, it will never be changed.

Although there are still some missed people to be found in this way. However, the Ministry of Public Security can refute the emperor's imperial edict and will not be punished for his words. This can greatly avoid it because of the emperor's personal reasons. It is a strategy of harming the country and the people.

Unless, there are treacherous ministers in the court and jesters in the court.

However, at that time, the Tang Dynasty was about to perish and the gods could not save them.

Li Jiancheng looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "In this case, wouldn't the court be enemies of the aristocratic tribes in the world?"

Fang Xuanling said lightly: "There is nearly 30% of the population in Guanzhong. Is it necessary to distinguish which one is more important?"

Li Jiancheng pondered silently and said, "The most talked about is the rule of Wen and Jing, Huang and Lao Wuwei, light labor, and rest. They proposed to simplify the military and simplify administration, but the Turkic border was severe, and the last one was just to talk about it."

Fang Xuanling said without hesitation: "In the long run, the strategies of the two husbands are not problematic, but these methods are useless to the current difficulties. The current problem is not how the court lets go and lets the people of local counties and counties recuperate, but how to work together to help and provide disaster relief."

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "Chen Ying and Wei Zheng proposed to regain the equal-to-export law and the policy of pacifying Huai, mobilize the resources of the whole country to solve the hunger in Guanzhong. They also proposed to streamline the troops and simplify their policies, eliminate 20% of the army and officials, and use the saved food and food resources to provide disaster relief."

Fang Xuanling said: "How many people can be saved?"

Li Jiancheng shook his head and sighed, "It's not enough. If it is spread to every citizen, it will only take one month."

Fang Xuanling said: "What about a month later? Your Majesty, this year, Guanzhong is destined to be unrecovered. In other words, by next autumn, these millions of Guanzhong people will rely on the court for relief. Now there are still one and three months left before next autumn."

Li Jiancheng spread his hands and said, "Okay, the problem is here, you can take out the countermeasures!"

Fang Xuanling said lightly: "The way, actually, the two ministers and Chen and Wei Jun have both said it. I will add another one, open the four passes of Guanzhong, release the people of Guanzhong, and go out to beg for food."

Li Jiancheng immediately sat upright, glared at Fang Xuanling and said, "You..."

Fang Xuanling was free to watch Li Jiancheng and said, "However, my master's refined military and government are different from theirs."

Li Jiancheng was stunned and asked suspiciously: "How is it different?"

Fang Xuanling said: "It is true that my minister's refined military affairs and government are simple."

Li Jiancheng laughed furiously and said, "Then let me tell you, you are really smart in the military and simplifying administration."

Fang Xuanling sighed and said, "It's not OK to not reduce it. Your Majesty, there are more than 4 million people in Guanzhong, military and civilians. According to each of the three kilograms of grain per day, these four million people will survive until the autumn harvest next year. On average, each person needs at least fourteen stones and four dou of grain, which can survive the difficulties. Four million people will need 57.6 million stones of grain."

Li Jiancheng was silent. He suddenly remembered why Chen Ying proposed that he had food in his hands and was just one step outside the pass, so why did he still need to migrate the people in Guanzhong out?

Because it requires huge transportation power.

There are no less than 100,000 vehicles available in Guanzhong, but there are only about 30,000 four-wheeled carriages, of which more than 70% are two-wheeled carriages.

There are a lot of 100,000 carriages, but the transportation capacity is really limited, because all 100,000 carriages can barely transport millions of stones of grain.

More than 50 million stones of grain were said to be Li Jiancheng, and even Chen Ying did not.

It is better to migrate the people out of Guanzhong by letting these four million mouths sit and eat and wait for death in Guanzhong.

Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying and said, "Chen Ying, how many people do you think the Western Regions can accept?"

Chen Ying said without hesitation: "The Western Regions have no less than 50 million cultivated land. Even if all four million people in Guanzhong are moved out of the Western Regions, there is no pressure. However, the people in Guanzhong naturally cannot migrate all of them!"

Chen Ying walked to Li Jiancheng's case and picked up a pen from the imperial case.

Li Jiancheng subconsciously added water to Chen Ying to grind ink.

Chen Ying drew out the area map of the inner road of the pass on the huge map: "Yuanzhou and Qingzhou also encountered drought, but they could barely reduce the harvest by half so that there would be no grain. The people and the official warehouse can ensure equality. I plan to set up a grain station every 50 miles along Yuanqing Road to store 30,000 stones of grain. With the grain reserves in Lingzhou, Fengzhou and Yanzhou, they should be able to help them and support them to Lingzhou!"

Li Jiancheng nodded.

It takes about five days for Lingzhou to transport grain to Yuanzhou. If one car is a car, about seven dou of grain will be consumed in five days. The closer it is to Lingzhou, the smaller the loss will be.

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, you can move out 30,000 households to Lingzhou first."

Li Jiancheng nodded.

With 30,000 households and 120,000 people, it can save more than one million stones of grain for Guanzhong.

Wei Zheng stepped forward and pointed to the map and said, "Your Majesty, you can not only move the population to Lingzhou, but also move westward to Hedong and Henan Prefecture to migrate the population!"

Li Jiancheng nodded.

After the rampage of Wang Shichong and Zhu Jie, Henan Prefecture, which originally had a population of more than five million during the Daye period, was left with less than one million people.

Of course, Henan Prefecture was not the Henan Province in later generations. In later generations, Henan Province had a population of over 100 million, but at this time, another three to five million people could actually be fully supported.

The most important thing is that due to Sanmenxia, ​​large-scale fleets cannot cross, so they do not have the foundation for water freight.

At this time, if you want to pass through Sanmenxia, ​​it is almost the same as the chance of an accident in the space shuttle in later generations, but it is different in Luoyang. Rice and grain from Hebei or Jianghuai can be transported to Luoyang through the Grand Canal.

If there were four million hungry people in Luoyang, it would be really not a problem for the Tang Dynasty court.

Four million people can eat more than 50 million stones of grain a year and two months, and even if the supply is cut by half, it will take more than 20 million stones.

More than 20 million stones are very troublesome for vehicles, but for water transportation, it is simple and not worth mentioning.

Especially the Yellow River channel, it can fully navigate the largest 30,000-stone ship in this era. One can transport 30,000 stones of grain and more than 20,000 stones of grain, but only a few thousand large ships.

Speaking of the issue of the people migrating outward, Li Jiancheng looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "Then you can talk about your elite military and simplified administration now!"

Fang Xuanling nodded and said, "Yes!"
Chapter completed!