Speaking of which, the old and middle-aged people do hesitate. If drought is to be prevented, the best way is of course to prepare food in advance. As long as there is enough food, the famine will not have too severe consequences.

Moreover, according to the urinary nature of the feudal government, the shogunate may distribute relief rice to the common people at one point per year, which is 10% interest. At the grassroots level, it is considered conscientious for this number to become two or three points, and it is not uncommon for it to become four or five points.

But in the final analysis, if you have food, even if you still pay a very small amount of interest, you can survive this life, that's enough!

Even the shogunate can take this opportunity to mobilize migrant workers to renovate the water conservancy in the Kanto area on a large scale to prepare for a rainy day. But if there are no officials, don't do it well. Don't make the water conservancy project complete. In the end, the people will be driven to a dead end and the people will be rebelled.

But the crux of the problem is whether the shogunate has rice!

Chuemon took a closer look at Ooka Tadagoo, and from his face, he couldn't tell what the financial situation of the shogunate was. Feng Suga Qiyu was worried, and he didn't know whether it was because the shogunate didn't have so much rice, or because he didn't have the money to store grain and rice.

"Let me tell you, last year, Tian saw the annual tribute rice of 1.2 million shi, 360,000 taels of gold, and 15,000 guans of silver (about 240,000 taels of gold). Salaries and expenses, such as Dao's, are already stretched. If the Afrikaki and Tsukushima forts are undertaken by the Shimadzu clan, the shogunate will be unable to make ends meet at the end of the year." Ooka Tadago did not shy away from anything.

The income of the shogunate, in fact, everyone knows in their minds, the Tianling 4.5 million stones are placed there, plus other miscellaneous taxes and gold and silver mining income, it is almost like this.

"Where is Enemorokukura?" Tademon mentioned a shogunate called good governance, and at this time there was a system of righteousness on the shelf.

When the predecessor general Tokugawa family ruled the world, Shirakawa Prime Minister Matsuhira Dingxin served as the first seat of the old middle school. At that time, the Tokugawa family was determined to reform, and Matsubishi also had the ambition to save the world, so the vigorous leniency reform began.

The peasants at that time were no longer the objects of sesame sloppy and arbitrary squeeze. When they couldn't bear it anymore, they united and took up bamboo spears, sickles, hoes, and flags to fight. In the original words of Songping Dingxin: "When the notice is issued, the people will not listen to it, they will slander them, and they will overrule everything."

Social conflicts have intensified unprecedentedly. "A slight change will bring people's minds to life, and the taxation of farmers will be a little harsh, and trouble will arise. Party members have appeared everywhere for years, the daylight has subsided, and the mountain prefecture has come out. There is turmoil in Osaka, and Sado is unstable. Ise became entangled, and Echi later became arrogant, and the world was gradually showing signs of turmoil. The day that the leader of the country will be on guard is coming."

From the Ming and Yuan to the 2nd year (AD 1764-AD 1765), the Kanto Shogunate Tianling broke out the largest peasant uprising in Japan since the Shimabara Uprising. It was caused by the shogunate imposing exorbitant taxes on farmers and seizing land. More than 200,000 uprising troops besieged Edo Castle. Edo Castle lost contact with the world for several days, but in the end it was still brutally suppressed by the Shogunate.

In order to appease the people's sentiments, Matsudaira first took out 200,000 taels of gold saved by the shogunate, purchased rice, and distributed them to the people of Edo at a fair price, so that the people's sentiments gradually calmed down.

In order to prevent the hoarding of rice merchants, which once again led to market chaos, and the people could not eat enough, Songping Dingxin issued the "Order of Enclosing Rice" and set up a righteous warehouse. In various places, military rice is used as seeds and rice used to adjust the price of rice, and stored in communal warehouses, and also used to prepare for shortages, which is called the "surrounding rice (chang flat warehouse) system".

The shogunate still barely maintains the operation of this system. The previous issue of distributing old aged rice 13 years ago to the people of Edo as relief rice only appeared after the establishment of the rice warehouse. In the past, still counting on the Shogunate's relief? If you want to eat the fart, the shogunate will save face if it doesn't increase the charge in famine years.

At the moment we are mainly talking about Edo. At that time, the "Edo Town Club House" was established to store part of the municipal fees paid by the property-owned townspeople and landlords, and to purchase rice grains and deposit them in the "Gita Warehouse". Poor town people and samurai.

Therefore, the shogunate’s surrounding rice warehouse should have stored rice to save waste!

"In each warehouse, there may be five or six hundred thousand stones in the account. Actually..." Ooka Tadago was inconvenient to answer this question, and Suga Qiyu did not hide the truth from Tadaemon.

"We should take advantage of the fact that the price of rice is now flat and not yet high, and immediately allocate funds to replenish the rice warehouse, so that the rice warehouse can have a million stone savings." Chuyou Weimen made a straight shot and stopped pretending.

"How to get so much money?" Ooka Tadagu's expression remained unchanged.

"How about the 100,000 taels allocated by His Royal Highness to the Futtsu Fortress?" The Futtsu Fortress now also gave it to the Shimadzu family. The 100,000 taels of gold that Tokugawa Kayuki provided to the foreign courts should have been emptied.

"Ah this..." Ooka Tadagou and Kaisuga Qiyu did not answer.

"Is it already spending?" Tadaoemon immediately flashed this year in his mind.

"It's not an expense anymore. The shogunate has to leave some flashy money."

"Now I buy rice and hoard it, and I can sell it for two or three times the price in the event of a disaster. Not only does the book balance. The point is that the Edo people’s sentiment can also be stable. The rice is alloted, and the people violently rise, and Shangqi must be blamed."

It's the same principle. Even if you don't want to control the famines everywhere in the world, you must control the people's sentiments in the capital Edo. The popular sentiments of the people in the capital were reversed, and they were able to exert a huge influence in many feudal dynasties~lightnovelpub.net~ Even in some cases, the popular sentiment was really bad to a few points. The feudal ruler threw such a prime minister out and was beaten. Not a rare thing.

"If you say Edo..." Speaking of Edo, Ooka Tadagou finally wanted to let go.

"Even if there is no disaster this year, the rice will be rice after all. It can be sold at no cost. But in the event of a catastrophe, Baili is at your fingertips. It can save lives and enrich the shogunate, why not?"

"What Tademon said, there is indeed some truth." Kesuga Qiyu was persuaded.

"Well, I'll discuss this matter as above, whether it will be successful or not..." Ooka Tadoku also agreed.

If you have this sentence, Chuemon has another plan. Taking advantage of the approaching year of the disaster, the "floating little people" working in Edo Castle will have the opportunity to escape from the expensive Edo Castle. See if there is a way to recruit some people and send them to Hokkaido.

In the past, the Shimazuki family opened up the Ryokan Mountain, but now I have to find a way to get the Konobu Jinshan out for the shogunate. Based on the current social situation in Japan, if you invest hundreds of tons of gold into the market, the market is not enough. Gold and silver coins are just too few but too many, and the gold mine is over!