Daming: I help my wife be the empress

"According to someone's knowledge, the city of Nanjing is divided into five police stations in the southeast, northwest, and middle cities, and each police station has four teams and five police stations under its jurisdiction.

The four brigades are the military police brigade, the fire brigade, the patrol brigade, and the patrol brigade.

Among them, the military and police equipment is similar to that of the garrison army, which is dedicated to arresting and exterminating small groups of bandits who dare to confront the government head-on.

The fire alarm is like a fire soldier, specializing in fire fighting and disaster relief.Patrols are similar to Yamen catchers, who are responsible for investigating cases and chasing down criminals.

Inspectors are responsible for maintaining the daily law and order on the streets and resolving ordinary disputes among the people.In addition, it can also be used as an auxiliary personnel for patrol and even fire alarm. "

Yan Yingyuan talked eloquently.

"Then what is the police station responsible for?" Chen Bangyan asked.

Yan Yingyuan said: "The police station is a sub-branch of the police station in each street. Generally speaking, it will be equipped with a patrol team of five people, a patrol team of 25 people, and several civil servants."

After listening, Chen Bangyan couldn't help but asked again: "Why is Wu Heng so familiar with the police station?"

"Haha," Yan Yingyuan smiled and said, "It's just that a friend works in the police station and chatted with someone about it."

Chen Bangyan felt that Yan Yingyuan's identity was by no means simple, and he wanted to make friends, so he said, "I hit it off with Ju Heng, I wonder if we can sit down in a teahouse and talk a little more?"

At this time, Yan Yingyuan felt that Chen Mingyu might be busy today, and it was not suitable for him to go directly to the police station to congratulate him, so he was invited by Chen Bangyan, so he smiled and said, "Why not? I also want to chat with Brother Ling Bin more. Woolen cloth."

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The new policy has just been launched in the eight counties of Yingtianfu, and it has not yet seen any results.

As the emperor, Aimee Zhu couldn't keep an eye on the implementation of every new policy.

It is only necessary to let the responsible officials report the progress on time, and occasionally send people to inspect, or visit and spot check in person.

Having been a "leader" for so long, she already knows what she needs to grasp the most.

One is military power, and the other is money and food.

She has no shortage of money for the time being as there are property obtained from the raids of the Prince of Shu, Zuo Liangyu, and the raids on several dignitaries, eunuchs, and corrupt officials in Nanjing.

As for food, in her opinion, although food is in short supply, it is far from threatening her rule, and the problem cannot be solved in a short while.

Relying on her and Aimee to transport food from the later generations to solve the food shortage problem in the entire Ming Dynasty is impossible. After all, the two of them only carry so much food every day, and even if they try their best to transport food, they will not accumulate much.

Therefore, the food shortage problem must be solved through other channels.

The Zheng family can be regarded as a channel, but I don't know if Zheng Zhilong is interested.

Even if the Zheng family is sensible and wants to transport food from Southeast Asia and other places through the Zheng family, it may take at least two or three months.

Therefore, she still needs to try to solve part of the food shortage through other channels, and it should not be a problem to overcome this year's food crisis.

However, for the cabinet ministers and the household department, food has become an imminent but difficult to solve huge problem for the court.

Hall of Martial Arts.

Zhang Youyu, the cabinet minister and Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty Qizuo, this year Nanzhi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang all had poor spring grain harvests due to natural disasters and military disasters, so the food prices in the four provinces have risen again and again.

What is even more worrying is that it is not yet known how big the food shortage in these four provinces is. If the food shortage is too severe and they cannot obtain enough supplies from other places, there may be a situation where there is money but no food to buy. "

Hearing this, the other six cabinet ministers frowned tightly, and so did Aimee Zhu.

She asked: "Can you tell me the specific situation of the current increase in food prices?"

Zhang Youyu said: "When I was in the Taizu period of the Ming Dynasty, grain prices were the cheapest. In the 28th year of Hongwu, one tael of silver could buy two stones of rice.

However, from the reign of Yongle, the price of grain began to rise slowly. When the first emperor was in power, taking Songjiang Mansion as an example, in normal years, a stone of rice would cost one to two to one to four renminbi of silver.

If the local or grain-producing area encounters small or medium-sized disasters and reduces production, the price of one stone of rice can rise to about two taels of silver.

However, if many provinces are hit by disasters, grain production will generally decrease, causing a major famine, and grain prices will rise even more violently.

For example, in the 15th year of Chongzhen, the price of rice in Songjiang Prefecture rose to three, two or six coins per stone. "

Having said that, Zhang Youyu paused.

He glanced at Aimee Zhu, probably because he was afraid that Aimee Zhu would not understand the full meaning of this example, and then said: "Although the people in Songjiang Mansion grow many kinds of mulberries, they also have a lot of fertile land, and it is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, enjoying the benefits of river and sea shipping.

Therefore, the food price in Songjiang Prefecture is generally ranked in the middle compared to the food prices in various parts of Daming.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen, the price of grain in Songjiang Prefecture has increased by more than three times, so it can be seen that the price of food in other food-deficient places must have risen even more..."

Aunt Zhu was a little anxious when she heard that, so she asked directly, "How much is the price of grain in Nanjing now?"

Zhang Youyu hesitated for a while, and said, "Today, the price of a stone of rice has risen to four taels of money."

"what?!"

After all, Auntie Zhu was young and didn't have enough energy to nourish her energy, she couldn't help standing up in shock when she heard this.

Immediately, she couldn't help but looked around at several cabinet ministers, and said angrily: "The price of grain in Nanjing has exceeded three times the normal price, why didn't anyone tell me?!"

Aimee Zhu couldn't help blaming Ma Shiying and other Nanjing ministers at this time, and even a little bit of blaming Hong Niangzi for her direct descendants.

Hong Niangzi entered Nanjing in late April. During the period when she took control of Nanjing, the imperial guards were also responsible for helping the refugees outside the city. It is impossible that they did not know about the soaring food prices.

How come no one told her?

Don't you all think that this is a trivial matter, not worth telling her?

Zhang Youyu faced Zhu Yuxi's anger directly, bowed his head in fright, and explained: "Your Majesty, I have been in charge of the household department for less than half a month, and everything is complicated, and it is only recently that I have noticed the problem of grain prices.

In addition, the price of grain in Nanjing did not suddenly rise to such a high level. As far as I know, since the price of grain rose sharply in the 15th year of Chongzhen, the price of rice in various parts of Nanzhili has never dropped below two taels of a stone. "

At this time, Ma Shiying stood up and bowed, and explained, "Your Majesty, in the past few years, there have been successive years of disasters and wars in the north, and it has become commonplace for crops to fail or even fail.

In the past two years, Huguang and Sichuan, the grain-producing areas that my Ming Dynasty relied on the most, also suffered major military disasters one after another.

As for Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong, there are also various natural disasters and wars.

Under such circumstances, food prices in various places have not been able to come down. It has become common to have more than two taels per stone of rice, and it is not uncommon for food prices to exceed three taels when there is a food shortage.

As for the increase to more than four taels, it was only raised some time ago... It is true that the subject did not wait to check, and please forgive me, Your Majesty! "

Auntie Zhu was so angry that she didn't want to speak.

Ma Shiying said that she was asking her to forgive her, but what she said earlier was all about shirking responsibility.

On the other hand, Hao Guangming was not very angry-probably because Auntie Zhu has the mentality of being the master, while he has the mentality of playing games.

At the same time, as an outsider, he can see this matter more clearly.

So he said through the Bluetooth headset: "Don't be angry, anger can't solve the problem.

What Zhang Youyu and Ma Shiying said is not false. The price of food on your side may indeed have skyrocketed for several years.

Of course, if the price of rice rises to more than [-] taels per stone, it is considered a "new high". It is not surprising that prices have skyrocketed again.

However, the person most responsible should be Wang Duo, the former Minister of the Household Department, but he has already been beheaded by you. "

After hearing Hao Guangming's words and thinking of Wang Duo who had been beheaded, Auntie Zhu's anger did calm down a bit.

However, the main reason for her calming down her anger was Hao Guangming's first sentence: It's useless for her to be angry at this point, what needs to be done is to solve the problem.

So, how to stabilize food prices in various places as soon as possible?
Even if the "one stone, two taels that have become the norm" cannot be suppressed, we should try to bring down the price of food, right?