"The grain price is gradually relaxed, this is a major policy that cannot be changed!" Li Ze looked around at the dozen governors in the house, his tone unquestionable.

As he expected, after the policy was introduced, the ones with the greatest resistance were indeed local officials. Among them, they even included his second uncle, Li Anmin, who is currently the governor of Mozhou. These people rushed back to Wuyi from Zhidi, all of whom wanted to get temporary immunity from Li Ze.

"Mozhou's grain pressure is still very high this year." Li Anmin glanced at the people in the house and spoke first: "Based on the harvesting of winter wheat this year, we still need to import hundreds of thousands of stones from outside to ensure that Mozhou needs. If grain control is relaxed, the price of grain will inevitably rise sharply, and Mozhou is still poor, which may be difficult for the people to bear."

Li Anmin just finished speaking. The Texas Agent Ren Yao Jing, who had just taken office, looked bitter and said, "Li Xiang, Dezhou's grain is not as good as other places, and it can still be self-sufficient. In our Dezhou, in addition to breeding and various workshops, most of the remaining land is planted with thin vegetables. Once the grain price rises, the entire Dezhou will be greatly affected. I am afraid that some trouble will occur. Dezhou has a major relationship. Once a chaos occurs, it will affect the overall situation. Li Xiang has to worry about this."

After listening to everyone's complaints patiently, Li Ze waved his hand and said, "What you said cannot be a reason. When we implemented grain price control, it was because we had serious food shortages. In order to crack down on Tunjijuqi, to ensure our most basic survival, and to allow us to concentrate all the forces we can concentrate, only in this way can we survive and get to this point. But now, this policy is obviously not suitable for the current situation."

"We are still short of food now!" said Li Anmin.

"Uncle second is standing in Mozhou to look at the problem." Li Ze smiled and said, "In fact, Mozhou may not be short of food."

Li Anmin's face changed slightly. Before he could react next, Li Ze continued: "Uncle Second, the food price control policy we have implemented is actually the most hurtful farmers. I believe everyone here should have a clear understanding of this? What they have done in a year can basically be able to keep a living for food and clothing, and they will not be hungry."

"This is already very good." Dai Lin, who rushed back from Lingzhou, said: "Although the imperial court implemented control over the price of grain, they were exempted from taxes and corvee. The burden on the people of Lingzhou is the lightest in the past few decades. Although the food cannot be sold at a price, they can make up for it by doing other things, and life will be better every day."

"Light taxes and taxes will give the people more opportunities to make money. It is what the court and the government should do, what they should do, and what they must do." Li Ze said firmly: "We cannot think that they should compensate them in other places just because we have collected less taxes and provided some opportunities for work, and feel that it is natural to charge their food at a low price."

Speaking of this, Li Ze glanced at the local officials present and said, "Everyone is a member of the local government. It should be clear that the efforts of farmers are not comparable to their harvest. They should have lived a better life, but because of our policies, they have made their efforts year after year."

Everyone was speechless.

"Some time ago, I talked about the way of being an official, and I believe you all have their own experiences." Li Ze continued: "It is acceptable for a person to make certain sacrifices for the overall situation in a short period of time, but after the situation is stable and improving, you don't want to compensate him and still ask him to sacrifice continuously. Is this reasonable? If it were you, what are you willing to do? Now the farmers under our rule are like this."

"The reason why nothing happened is because the people's lives are still acceptable. I know that in this regard, governments in various places have made great efforts, but in the long run, this kind of resentment will deepen step by step. In fact, there are signs now."

Many officials in the house were slightly shocked.

"You should know that if you don't know, it means that your work has not been done well." Li Ze said coldly: "The investigation of the Neiwei, the Supervision Bureau, and Yixing Society fully demonstrated that farmers have shown signs of reluctance to sell. After handing over the public grain, their grain was sold less and less, and they were collecting grain. Farmers gathered grain not to make a fortune or to take advantage of opportunities. They just simply felt that if they sold at such a price, they suffered a big loss."

Looking at Li Anmin, Li Ze smiled and said, "Second uncle, in Mozhou, I'm afraid there are a lot of food in the homes of many farmers. If this batch of stored food is spit out, so what?"

After standing up and turning around the house for several circles, Li Ze said: "When grain is liberalized, prices will definitely fluctuate upward in a short period of time, and even prices will rise sharply. However, after the Ministry of Revenue has unified large-scale geographic statistics and calculations and reviewed the output and other data in our jurisdiction over the past few years, it confirmed that a large amount of grain reserves will inevitably be sold to the market, so the price will quickly fall back to a reasonable level."

"If the people have food in their hands, it might be another situation." Li Anmin said with a slightly red face.

"There must be some." Li Ze said: "As a pilot project in Baohui in Yingzhou, this issue has fully demonstrated this problem. Due to the drought this year, our winter wheat production has actually decreased. However, judging from the current grain revenue in Yingzhou, it has greatly exceeded this year's output. Where did the extra grain come from? The stock in previous years."

Everyone in the room looked at each other, and they all showed a look of relief.

"The existence of public grain has actually ensured our most basic survival and the normal operation of the army and government agencies. The relaxation of grain will bring many new problems to local management, which you need to face next." Li Ze said: "But what I want to tell you here is that in the future, there will be many bulk materials to be liberalized. In the future, except for salt and iron, the court will delegate power. You must also be prepared. The government's life was very comfortable in the past, but it will not be so comfortable in the future."

"Don't be afraid that farmers have money! It's a good thing to have too much money in their hands. With money in their hands, they will build better houses, buy better livestock, make better cars, farm tools, wear better clothes, and even buy some luxury goods that they were out of reach before. With money in their hands, what we need to do is encourage them to use it. The government should give the people such a hope, that is, if you have money, you will use it, and if you use it, you will come. Our government will guarantee that you will earn more every year, today will be better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be better than today."

Li Ze waved his arms and said loudly.

"If the people have more money and dare to use it, they can buy more things, which will greatly boost the local economy and even the entire country's economy." Li Ze turned to look at the governor of Texas Yao Jing and said, "What's scary about Texas? When the people have money, you Texas can sell more things and sell them at a better price. The workshop owners earn more money, they can pay workers more wages and make workers' incomes rise steadily. Even if the food prices rise, what's the case? As long as the wages rise speed exceeds the rate of the food prices rise. This is a good cycle. As long as we enter such a good cycle, our lives will be better day by day."

Looking at the officials in the house, Li Ze said: "If you don't understand these words, you can go to the School of Political Science and Economics of Wuwei Academy to take some classes. If you feel that you don't have time, then after you go back, you can also ask your subordinates who graduated from Wuwei Academy."

Everyone in the room was a little embarrassed for a moment. They were basically still managing the local area according to their old experiences. Although they were already trying hard to accept new affairs and new ideas, it was obvious that they still could not keep up with the progress of the times.

"Everyone, I hope you don't live with satisfaction on the past merits. Being an official under my command will not work. Nothing is an exaggeration. This is my standard for considering you. If anyone consciously cannot cope, he can go back to Wuyi to support his old age. If anyone wants to go further, then study hard, otherwise you will be left behind by the times in the end."

Li Ze stood up and waved his hand: "Tomorrow, the Tang Dynasty Weekly will fully publish the food liberalization management. Now it is not limited to the official knowledge, but the whole world will know. If it were you, I should go back and arrange the corresponding matters to welcome the baptism of this storm!"

Seeing Li Ze leaving, everyone in the room looked at each other for a moment, then stood up and hurriedly left the prime minister's mansion. After giving the order, the officials bought some dry food and brought enough water. As Li Ze said, they rushed back quickly.

"Prince, will the weekly newspaper really publish this decree this time soon? Do you want to give them more time to prepare?" Zhang Xun asked.

"Some people can't give them a little breathing time, otherwise they will feel that the direction of the wind has changed again and their minds will change." Li Ze said: "It will be published tomorrow and sent to the world. They have left today. The news will not be fully dispersed in the local area before they arrive. It is also a good opportunity to see their ability to deal with the crisis."

"yes!"

"Zhang Xun, the Tang Dynasty monthly newspaper has become a weekly newspaper. Are you losing money or making money now?"
Chapter completed!