After the Empress became a mother, the system gave me the Immortal Emperor's cultivation

Ye Qinglian's eyes were fixed on the countermeasures given by Chu Ning in the memorial.

In the 23rd year of Kaiyuan, six areas south of the Yangtze River in Daqian were hit by floods, which destroyed countless houses, displaced people, and caused food prices to soar several times.

The local monks were all executed for their failure to supervise properly and prevent such disasters from happening. More than 120 monks were killed.

The weather is determined by heaven, and the local monks are responsible for influencing these days to ensure that the local people have a stable harvest regardless of drought or flood. Once such a disaster occurs, it will be a serious crime and they will be executed without asking the reason.

However, nearly one million people in the Jiangnan area were affected by the disaster.

All under heaven are the king's subjects, all the people in the world are the king's subjects. Ye Qinglian had seen this memorial yesterday, but she had not yet thought of a suitable response.

Local merchants drove up grain prices, causing them to rise dozens of times in a short period of time. How could the people in the Jiangnan area, whose families had even been destroyed, afford to buy grain?

Helplessly, local governments could only release grain to relieve the disaster. However, with millions of people consuming millions of kilograms of grain a day, the grain prices in the Jiangnan treasury suddenly skyrocketed countless times in less than half a month.

It is difficult to allocate too much grain to various places. Jiangnan is a major grain-producing area, and even other food-scarce areas will be affected by the disaster.

Ye Qinglian's solution was to summon cultivators from all over the world to select a suitable location to speed up grain cultivation.

It is estimated that hundreds of millions of kilograms of grain will be needed to quell this turmoil and last until the next round of grain production. Even an immortal would find it difficult to do so. Even Ye Qinglian is ready to take action personally.

However, Chu Ning only wrote a few paragraphs in the memorial.

The government refused to reveal the grain in its warehouses or release it for disaster relief, allowing grain prices to continue to soar.

Induce local grain storage merchants to continue raising prices.

This method was applied for half a month until grain farmers from other places came to sell grain. When the right time came, the waterway was blocked and no one was allowed to pass.

In this way, grain prices can be stabilized and the stocks of other prefectures can be transferred for relief.

Ye Qinglian frowned as she read the text.

If the granaries are not allowed to be opened to release grain, what will happen if the local people all starve to death?

If food prices continue to rise, it will cause food prices to rise throughout the dynasty, leading to greater fluctuations.

What is the purpose of the subsequent countermeasures?

But just as Ye Qinglian was about to speak, she suddenly stopped.

After a hundred years of serving the emperor, he immediately saw through the subtlety of this method.

The skyrocketing grain prices in Jiangnan will inevitably attract grain merchants from other places to come, which is the profit-seeking mentality of merchants.

The local gentry will certainly accept all of it, maintain high grain prices, and wait for the right time to sell it all. This is the profit-seeking intention of the local gentry.

If the granaries are no longer opened to release grain, local gentry will have no idea how much grain is stored in their areas, and the high grain prices will remain high, continuing to attract merchants from other places to pursue profits.

When the price of grain reaches a certain level, dozens or even hundreds of times higher than the normal grain price, a trend of selling grain will emerge in Jiangnan.

But the local gentry definitely do not have enough money to buy it. How many of their family assets can be used to collect all the grain in the world?

The final iron chain Cangjiang is the final stroke of the pen.

When local grain cannot be sold and local gentry are unable to purchase it, they will sell it at a low price to recoup their investment and make a profit, and other foreign merchants will also sell it at an even lower price. In this way, the local gentry will definitely not be able to make a living and will not have more money to buy grain.

When the grain price drops, the government will release more grain, making the sky-high priced grain become worthless and start selling it off.

This method can ease food prices and solve this biggest problem.

It took Ye Qinglian a long time to come back to her senses.

Playing with many forces at the palm of his hand thousands of miles away, this method of destroying people's hearts can be called a masterpiece!

"But why do you think there will be so much food elsewhere that the wealthy in Jiangnan will be unable to afford to buy it? What if their wealth has reached a terrifying figure?"

Chu Ning came to his senses and put down the two memorials.

Ye Qinglian's eyebrows twitched.

So fast, are you kidding?

"The Daqian Dynasty has a vast territory and abundant land. Jiangnan isn't the only grain-producing region. Merchants and landlords in other areas must have food reserves. This is the consensus of the lower classes. They feel safe only when they have surplus food at home. Landlords and merchants feel this way even more."

Ye Qinglian thought for a moment after hearing this.

"I can send people from the Ye Family Holy Land and cultivators from all over the imperial court to cultivate some more food and use it for disaster relief."

"It would be better to use the money to suppress local food prices instead of disaster relief."

Ye Qinglian frowned: "But if we don't provide disaster relief, how will we account for the casualties of the local people? They are all my people."

Chu Ning smiled.

"Which is more important, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians or tens of thousands of civilians? You must be aware of this, right?"

"There have always been deaths in every dynasty, and even more in years of great disaster. If you had other ways to perfectly solve the problem of deaths, then this memorial wouldn't have appeared on your desk asking you to come up with a solution."

Ye Qinglian was silent for a moment, speechless.

Just because what Chu Ning said was the truth.

Even in the Immortal Dynasty, the number of people who practice cultivation is only a small part.

There are billions of people in the Daqian Dynasty, but only tens of thousands of monks in the official genealogy, and most of them are not at a high level. Faced with such a big trouble, what they can do is extremely limited.

Chu Ning's method was the best Ye Qinglian had ever seen. If it was combined with her method, the effect would be even better.

"In that case, let's follow this arrangement."

She put the red pen aside to show her approval.

Now, it is indeed the only feasible solution.

Even for a cultivator, using the natural treasures, it would be a considerable achievement to produce tens of millions of grains in half a month.

That still requires a significant investment of national strength...

But compared with the hundreds of millions of kilograms of grain, it is still far behind.

Ye Qinglian thought this method was feasible, and it all depended on the subsequent process.

Chu Ning turned his gaze to the memorials in front of him.

At this moment, his eyes revealed a look of pride that looked down upon the world.

It feels so good, so good!

This memorial is much more comfortable to handle!

He has become the epitome of all emperors in Chinese history!

Cricket memorials are nothing!

He even wanted to usurp the throne, kill the traitors and unify the world, and then start planning to expand the territory!

No, no, he is just dealing with a memorial, don’t think too much about it.

But every emperor yearns for great unification, the kind that would unify the entire continent!

I'm affected by this kind of sight!

Forget it, let’s finish dealing with the memorial quickly, otherwise I will have to shout out the eight words "Received the Mandate from Heaven, May You Live Long and Prosper" later.

Ye Qinglian, who was standing aside, continued to pick up other memorials.

This one is about frontier military affairs.

This is the court’s gift to those who practice cultivation.

This...

The key point is that every opinion sorted out is extremely complicated, and Ye Qinglian can't even find any fault with it!

dog man!

You just want to usurp the throne and plot against the country, but I have discovered it!

But now I have put you in this position, so you must do your job well for me. The world belongs to me as well as you!

After all, he is the emperor!

Although she was a little dissatisfied, how could an ordinary person, who was not as old as herself, not as skilled as herself, and had never been an emperor, control people's hearts and understand military and political affairs better than her?

This guy, a natural born emperor?

Ye Qinglian snorted coldly.

He piled all the remaining memorials in front of Chu Ning, plus the fifty copies sent by the cabinet later.

"If you can finish this before noon, I won't have any government affairs to deal with today."

Chu Ning was slightly stunned when he heard this.

The powerful spiritual sense instantly enveloped all memorials!

The Immortal Emperor's cultivation is used for this!

Never mind noon!

If I can't finish it in half an hour, I will be doing a disservice to my cultivation!

Then, Chu Ning opened the memorial and started writing. If he disagreed with something, he would do it!

Ye Qinglian was almost confused.

no......

Have you read the memorial? Just write it!

Even if you plan to do something while I have no government affairs to deal with in the afternoon, there is no need to do this. Isn't this nonsense?

But every memorial he received had more detailed opinions than hers, and his methods of handling problems were more sophisticated than hers!

In less than half an hour, Chu Ning put down his pen and stood up, immediately looking at Ye Qinglian who was dumbfounded beside him.

"Read it again. Nothing should happen after you finish reading it."

"Why don't we go walk around the palace? It seems we haven't been walking and chatting together alone."

Less than a hundred memorials...

I need to adjust my mood quickly, otherwise I will really shout out something outrageous!

"I'm going to go out and get some air first..."

Ye Qinglian, with a look of surprise on her face, looked at Chu Ning's back and hurriedly opened the memorial.

Each one can be used directly!

This guy seemed to be even more exaggerated than she thought!

"Xiaobing, send these to the cabinet and ask for their opinion."

The girl walked in quickly and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Your Majesty, you processed the memorials very quickly today..."

Ye Qinglian paused and nodded slightly.

"Send it first..."

After Xiaobing left, Ye Qinglian looked at the figure pacing outside Mingde Hall and felt that she had gotten into trouble.

This man seems more suitable to be the emperor than her...