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Earthquake relief in mountain streams is a big deal, and we should put everything under control and focus on solving such a big problem first.

The first wave of disaster relief must first solve the problem of food for the people, so Yanqin’s first thought was to expedite the emergency by eight hundred miles, order the messenger to bring his own oral order, order the local granary to open the granary, and the surrounding counties , as long as the weather is good, at least [-]% of the local granaries will be mobilized to solve the urgent needs of the victims of the mountain stream.

But according to Dugu Liu, this is different from a drought. The strong earthquake destroyed not only the houses of the common people, but also several places where the government stored grain.

Moreover, when Dugu Liu's letter was sent to Yanqin, the disaster had already occurred for several days, and basically all the food that could be borrowed had already been borrowed. place, dig all edible wild vegetables and the like to eat.

It's a pity that Shanxidu County is a plain, and there are no mountains nearby at all, at most there are some small slopes. In just a few days, the mountains of this mountain stream were bald by the victims.

He was the former imperial envoy of the Yan Qin Sect, so he naturally thought of borrowing food from him.Yanqin's decree was issued, and the food that the surrounding counties and counties could produce was very limited.

When Yan Qin's oral orders arrived, several neighboring counties who refused to borrow grain were finally willing to open their granaries and send the grain over.

Horse-drawn carts brought white rice to the mountain stream, but there were too many houses collapsed and the number of victims was too large, so the government still had to figure out how to distribute the grain.

The common people want to eat normal meals, instead of gruel that barely fills them with food and clothing, and they still have to wait for the relief food sent by the court.

Today's letter came suddenly, in order to better deal with the disaster relief, Yan Qin first took the time to review some other memorials, fearing that there are other important matters, he should deal with them first.

When he comes to court tomorrow morning, he will emphasize the catastrophe and order the courtiers to delay his time within two or three days without writing notes and sending them over.

Fortunately, there was really no major event today. He glanced at most of the excerpts and put them down in a hurry. When he saw only a memorial, his gaze stayed for a while longer.

After the emperor came to power, because he was busy with government affairs, Zhou Taifu also consciously reduced the one-on-one teaching to the little emperor. Today, he even went to the memorial, saying that he was too old to continue to serve as the Taifu.

Seeing this content, I couldn't help but feel a little bit embarrassed. Zhou Taifu can be regarded as his teacher for the third life. Most of the so-called emperor's art and the shaping of the first life's personality that he learned came from Zhou Taifu.

If it wasn't for Zhou Taifu's constant encouragement, praise, praise, and affirmation of him, in his first life, he might have found a rope and hanged himself to death before he was in his 20s.

Of course, Taifu Zhou is not perfect and has many shortcomings, but this does not affect Yan Qin's respect for him.

After reading the booklet for a while, he picked up the pen and wrote a correct word stroke by stroke.

When closing the notebook, Yan Qin raised his head to look at the regent who was only ten feet away from him. The latter was burying his head in writing on the memorial, and seemed to notice his gaze, and looked up at him again.

"His Majesty?"

Yan Qin said: "Teacher Zhou asked Gu to resign today, and Gu agreed."

"Teacher Zhou is old, and it's time to take a good rest." Yan Yuge didn't care much about Taifu Zhou. After all, Taifu Zhou was such an old man, and no matter how handsome he was when he was young, his grandson would soon be older than Yan Qin. With that old orange-peel look on his face, the little emperor despises him no matter what.

Zhou Taifu was better when he was here. There is a comparison. The little emperor thinks that he should be more pleasing to the eye, but he is already over seventy years old, so he should rest.

"Gu means that Uncle Wang doesn't need to take over for the two hours that belong to Zhou Taifu in the future. It is said that Xiaobie is better than a newlywed, so Uncle Wang must have his own private space, right?"

Yan Yuge's expression suddenly became dangerous: "Could it be that Your Majesty wants to follow the example of the man who crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and kicked the minister away after using it?"

"Uncle Wang is thinking too much."

If Yan Yuge was a bridge and the river was difficult, then the river would be drained, and he wouldn't dare to tear down the bridge.

Forget it, since the regent likes to be sloppy, let's just let it go first, anyway, the time for the two of them to confirm their relationship is not short, and when the time passes, maybe the regent will take the initiative to bring this up without him saying it.

Yan Qin wisely chose not to speak, read the last two or three books, put them aside, and went on to write about various disaster relief methods for the earthquake in Shanxidu County.

First, in the middle of summer, it doesn’t matter if the victims have no houses to live in temporarily, but so many houses have been destroyed, they must be rebuilt after the disaster, and the regent’s team escorted the first batch of food and grass.The next thing to be sent over is real money for post-disaster reconstruction.

He roughly calculated the number in his mind, and found that the number was too huge.

His grandpa was fond of wars, causing the national treasury to run out of money every year. The first emperor liked extravagant things. When Yan Qin first took the throne, the treasury barely kept a balance.A few days ago, Yan Qin looked through the account books of the Ministry of Households and found that the year the first emperor died, he still owed some money.

There hasn't been much fighting in the past two years, and the treasury has gradually filled up. Previously, when he ascended the throne and married a concubine, he spent a lot of money. In the past year and a half, relying on the regent's hard work, he finally made up for it. He settled the bill, If this year's taxes are collected, the treasury should have a surplus of 500 million taels. The problem is that it is only midsummer, and the biggest tax has not yet been collected, and the treasury has no money at all.

Yan Qin glanced at the regent: "Uncle Wang..."

Hearing Yan Qin's tone, Yan Yuge had an intuition that something was wrong: "Your Majesty has something to say."

"Gufang only calculated the national treasury, and I'm afraid there is still some shortage of silver taels for this disaster relief."

"Some are missing, how much are you missing?"

Yan Qin stretched out his finger and compared four fingers.

"4000 taels or 4 taels?"

"No, it's 40 taels."

Shanxi is a land of prosperity. According to Dugu Liu Xinshang, the earthquake affected more than [-] people and thousands of houses collapsed.

The victims repaired their houses by themselves, saving labor and taking ready-made materials. First, they built the basic dwellings before they could consider building them in a luxurious way.According to Dayan's relief standard, it costs ten taels of silver to repair a house, and 50 taels to rebuild it.

These thousands of rooms add up to almost two to three million silver.This is just a house, and the local people have to be given silver taels to buy food until the people can grow enough food for the new season.

Of course, after suffering such a severe disaster, he must have fully reduced or exempted Shanxi's taxes this year.

But that's it, if you want to complete the post-disaster reconstruction, you have to allocate about 40 taels of silver, but now the treasury can take out only 2 taels.

40 cash is not a small amount for an emperor like him.He also thought about using his own private treasury. The problem is that the expenses in the palace are huge, and most of the priceless things are branded with the royal brand.

He can't say, send some silk and satin to sell, sell these things, convert them into cash and send them to the people.

If there is a small amount missing, you can make up for it by making up casually. The big deal is that Yan Qin will take the lead in becoming a vegetarian, let the concubine be more frugal, save a little money, and she can make it through.

But 40 taels is really not a small amount. Besides, it is midsummer now, and every moment costs money.The commercial taxes collected every month are still used to pay the salaries of civil and military officials.

If he empties out his private treasury now, what if something else happens again?

Yan Yuge pondered for a moment: "40 taels of cash is indeed not a small amount." The main reason is that cash relief cannot be used for disaster relief, but cash has to be used, but if so much is withdrawn from the bank all at once, it may still affect the situation. Economic problems in Kyoto.

Is that right? Even rich people like the King Regent said that it was not a small amount. Yan Qin looked at the King Regent expectantly: "Uncle Wang..."

Seeing the little emperor's eyes, the regent was almost impulsive, but it didn't work, his money had to be kept as a dowry, so he couldn't just empty out his family all at once.

"Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year Sovereign, and he has been very frugal since he took the throne. You are still growing, and you can't even eat meat for the sake of the victims."

In fact, it's not that serious, but the meaning of the regent is that he doesn't want him, the emperor, to spend money. It's fine if Yanqin's private treasury is full. The problem is that the former emperor died too early, and he doesn't know his father's little gold Where is the treasury? I have been the emperor for more than a year, and I am really poor.

Yan Yuge went on to say: "Although the first emperor rewarded his ministers with many things, the real gold and silver are not too many." Yes, but selling is absolutely impossible.

Yan Qin did not believe what the regent said.

"But if you want to donate about ten thousand taels, it's okay. There are so many civil and military officials, if you gather them together, you will have it."

If he is a clean and honest minister, his family will not be rich with his salary, and the regent cleaned up the court before, and Xiao Yuan's affairs replaced another group of people. Most of them are poor.

Everyone advertises that they are clean and honest, and they dare not spend too much if they have money.

"Then how do we do it?"

The regent glanced at the palace servants waiting outside the imperial study: "I will discuss this method with His Majesty in the evening."