Only then did Ren smile happily and stretch out his hand to Gao Yue, meaning that he would ask him for a steamed Hu.

Gao Yue handed over, Ren took a few bites, and when he was finished, he frowned and said, "It's so light."

Hey, aunt, I think it’s light and just right. Could it be that the people of your Cui family, including A Ni, are all salt tigers?

At this time, the new chef An Lao Huer, who was serving beside him, explained: "Madam, people in Chang'an City have been eating lightly recently - salt is expensive..."

When Gao Yue heard this, he instinctively smelled the breath of changes in the situation.

Salt, like rice and grain, is the foundation of the survival of the people in the world. The price fluctuations often represent the huge changes in the current situation.

Emperor Li Shi used troops in several directions, and the three-fold "food food out of boundary" policy implemented by the original edict, the military expenditure expanded at an astonishing speed. Although the implementation of the two tax laws caused the treasury revenue to increase, it could not resist such consumption.

So after Yang Yan's death, Zhao Zan, Du You, and Taichang Ph.D. Wei Dubin, Jixian Academy's bachelor Chen Jing, and Pei Yanling jointly wrote a letter to Prime Minister Lu Qi, saying that the national treasury only had several months of military expenses left, and requested to collect "salt money" and "salt money" in addition to collecting "Changping money", "salt money" and "salt money" and "salt money" in addition to collecting "Changping money".

At this time, the emperor was slapping Heshuo, and the news of the successful blooming of Shannan East Road and Ziqing. Lu Qi did not dare to say to him, "I'm sorry, your majesty, the money is almost spent", so he agreed to the request of these people and ordered the Jingzhao Prefecture and the transfer envoys from all over the southeast to be responsible for the matter.

Among them, Jingzhao Prefecture went to get "cash and collect money" and "small and wheat to store money", while the southeastern transport envoy and the governor were responsible for adding "salt money".

The former is similar to a robber - the so-called burger is a cabinet shop and a quality shop. The people can save money in it (but it is called a burger money, that is, rent, which is exactly the opposite of getting interest now). They can also send the goods to pawn. When it is redeemed, in addition to paying back the mother's money, they also have to pay the child money to the quality shop. Therefore, the cabinet shops in various parts of Chang'an City are actually equivalent to where to save money and earn interest. As for the better understanding of millet and wheat, Chang'an people will dig out cellars from each company to store grain in order to prepare for the famine. Now Jingzhao Mansion sends people to directly seal the merchant's cabinet shop and residents' cellars in the name of the branch office, and then after statistics, they all "borrow" one quarter of it, called "borrow merchants" and "borrow rice".

As for adding salt money, Liu Yan originally set up a patrol when he was in charge of the salt administration. The salt farm controlled the salt production in the southeast, and then sold it to the salt merchants at the meter. Each dou of salt was sold for 110 cents. One hundred cents was the government's salt profit, and ten cents were the "salt cost" for salt production. For the salt merchant, he bought a dou of salt from the meter, and the purchase cost was 110 cents. Adding to his sales cost, he sold for about 300 cents per dou of salt, which would make a profit of 100 cents.

But now the court urgently needs military expenses, so it began to increase the price. Li Shi gave Zhao Zan, Du You, Chen Shaoyou, Han Huan and others instructions that the price of each dou of salt should be increased by 100 yuan to be used as military expenses!

In this way, when you get to the salt merchants, each dou of salt cannot be sold for only 300 cents as before, but will be added to 600 cents and 900 cents. Many big salt merchants even began to hoard goods and raise the price of salt. In the past, three dou of grain could be exchanged for one dou of salt, but now in some areas, one stone or even more, no one dou of salt is exchanged for, and the people are suffering.

All of this was the bad consequences caused by Yang Yan's previous change in Liu Yan's salt administration: the patrols in various places were abolished, and the court lost effective control of the salt farms and salt merchants!

Chang'an, a capital that mainly focuses on political functions, does not produce salt itself, so the people took the lead in taste of the "expensive" Hedong Pond salt. In addition, the robbery of the cupboard and grain cellar was even worse. Many civilians and even the original wealthy families could only "eat lightly" to survive.

"Fortunately, Gao Lang took a step forward and spent or moved all the money hidden in the mansion, otherwise the loss would be great." After hearing An Lao Hu'er's explanation, Ren suddenly realized.

The money spent was given to Lu Qi for his uncle and father-in-law Cui Kuan to move to the office. Lu Qi was very smart. He was afraid of repeating Yang Yan's mistakes, so he did not stock up on his home, but instead sent it to various prefectures and counties to ask for land and ask for help. In addition, Cui Kuan no longer served as the official position of Shu Du Yin, nor did he return to Beijing. The court urgently appointed Cao Wanggao as the new Jingnan Jiedushi, responsible for the southern front against Liang Chongyi, while Cui Kuan filled the gap of Cao Wanggao's Hunan Observer under Lu Qi's operation. After Zhang Yanshang from Shu successfully led Cui Kuan away, he finally integrated the power of the Jiedushi and Shu Du Yin, and then began to plan to seize the troops in the West Mountain.

Now Cui Kuan's family is leaving the capital of Shu, going down the Yangtze River, and heading to Tanzhou, the capital of Hunan.

On the way, Yunhe was unwell in the boat and was ill, and he even wrote to his brother-in-law and sister to complain.

And now, Gao Yue is leaving the capital.

However, before leaving the capital, he also submitted a memorial to the court, what are he doing?

He begged General Hun Yu to lend him two people, namely the Marquis of Yu Guo Xiaofeng, Gao Gu, and Gao Yue, who said that these two people had been in the border for a long time (in fact, Guo Xiaofeng had been together for a year, so he would be a big shot). He was familiar with the city building regulations and asked me to bring them to Fengtianying City, which would be beneficial.

Hun Yu was a loyal and honest man. When the emperor asked him about his opinion, he said it was okay. Anyway, these two people were idle in the capital with me, so why not follow Gao Wailang to Fengtian City.

So the court added Guo Xiaofeng, Gao Gu's deputy lieutenant Wusan official rank, and ordered him to follow Gao Yue to camp to build Fengtiancheng.

Two thousand Shence Imperial Army were sent to build a city, and the commander was also considered a relative of Gao Yue, a Shence Army's other general Gao Chongwen.

But Gao Yue was not satisfied, so he submitted another memorial to the Emperor. He made a calculation for Li Shi, saying that in the past, I built five forts and one city in Jingzhou, all of which were rammed earth structures. On rainy days, a large amount of straw mat must be laid on the top of the city to prevent the rain from being damaged and washed away. Even so, there will be a collapse after the rain, so I can only use manpower and material resources to repair it (even Baili City, which uses Sanhedi soil, is no exception); in winter, frost, snow and frost will accumulate, and soldiers must dig ice by themselves. In this way, the annual cost of repair and maintenance will be a considerable expense.

Therefore, I would like to cover bricks on the rammed earth wall of Fengtian Old City. Although the expenses on the surface need to increase, it can be done once and for all, so as to avoid laying straw mats on it.

Not only that, Gao Yue also asked for something. He said that the soldiers who built the city had rammed earth, but were not accustomed to burning bricks. His Majesty's generals had no less than 5,000 craftsmen in the prison, all of whom were good craftsmen recruited from various prefectures and counties. The palaces of the East and West Capital, the gates of the Zhongshu, the Da Nei, the Xingqing Palace, the imperial guards' buildings, platforms, pavilions, pavilions, houses, and stables were internal works, while the Taimiao, the suburbs, the city gates, bridges, the nine temples, and the three palaces of the four provinces, the mountain tombs of the Old Emperor were external works. Please select a hundred experienced people from the outside craftsmen, who are proficient in smelting, burning pottery, burning bricks, building structures, and zi craftsmen (carpenters) gathered in Fengtian City to teach soldiers to repair the camp.
Chapter completed!