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Chapter 1755 Iron fist method

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    Since Zhang Fangyi was appointed, Luoyang City, which was originally full of chaos, has finally changed a bit.

    In Zhang Fangyi¡¯s view, the problem of Luoyang City can be divided into two parts, one is defense and the other is peace of mind.

    Regarding defense, there are many troops in Luoyang City. Although their organization is chaotic and their combat effectiveness is not strong, they can still be used to guard various gates and walls.

    Zhang Fangyi was good at defense, so he and Huangfu Wuyi and others detached their troops, deployed city defenses, and left another army as a backup.

    Although there is nothing new in the city defense layout designed by Zhang Fangyi, it is more reliable than before.  After two consecutive defeats, the defenders in the city had lost the courage to fight in the field. He decided not to engage in a decisive battle with Li Mi, but to use Luoyang's solid city walls to fight Li Mi bit by bit.

    Luoyang is such a big city and has so many soldiers and horses. It is actually very difficult to completely attack the city from the outside.

    So another important thing for Luoyang City is to provide peace to the people.

    There are three main reasons for the chaos in Luoyang City.  First, the small imperial court was in chaos, from top to bottom, without a mature and effective defensive formation, so it seemed to be acting in chaos.

    Second, thieves invaded the city. Coupled with the solar eclipse, the people were frightened and undercurrents surged in the city. This was ideological confusion.

    The third one is food.  There is a shortage of food in the city, and people's hearts are naturally unstable. This is material chaos.

    For Zhang Fangyi, he cannot change the first and second reasons.  Especially the second one, ideological confusion is caused by many reasons and cannot be solved in one fell swoop.

    Zhang Fangyi was ordered to face the danger, to defend against the bandits on the outside and to calm the people on the inside. He has tried his best to formulate a complete and effective strategy to defend against the enemy, in order to stabilize the situation in Luoyang.

    Since the first and second points cannot be changed in the short term, Zhang Fangyi will start with the third point to solve the food problem.

    As the saying goes: "People are like iron, food is like steel. If you don't eat one meal, you will be hungry." It is also said that "food is the first thing for people."  This shows the importance of food.  In the face of hunger, no rhetoric is as effective as food.

    But now that food support from outside Luoyang City has been cut off, it is necessary to improve the utilization rate of food through internal integration.  We can't open up resources, we can only reduce expenditures.

    The huge city of Luoyang is not really without food.  Like the food in the granaries of some wealthy families, a family may not finish it even if it lasts for a hundred years.  Those who are really short of food are the government and the people in the city who are not engaged in agricultural production.

    Zhang Fangyi¡¯s previous thought was to control food.

    But to control food, we must first have food.  There is only so much food in Luoyang City, and we must supply the army as much as possible, and we must not tamper with it easily.

    Where to start with food control? Zhang Fangyi is also a little confused.  Aristocratic families are not easy to touch, so they cannot touch the life-saving food of ordinary people.

    At this time, Zhang Fangyi¡¯s son Zhang Wenyu saw his father worried, but he said: "Why doesn¡¯t father follow the example of his uncle and collect all the food from the grain store?"

    Zhang Fangyi¡¯s eldest son, Zhang Wenyu, was just over 20 years old and was working with his father as a staff member.

    Zhang Fangyi did not relieve his worries after hearing this, and said helplessly: "I'm not your uncle, and I can't do such a big thing. One bad move will cause riots in the whole city."

    Zhang Wenxuan said: "Father is wrong. These days, the price of food remains high and the people are miserable. If my father touches those grain stores and rice stores now, he will surely win the hearts of the people in the city. If he can get the support of the King of Yue again,  If we have soldiers in our hands, we will offend the entire court, so why should we cause chaos? If anyone dares to cause chaos at this time, just punish them."

    Zhang Fangyi shook his head after listening to his son's words.  My son, who has grown up with his brother-in-law, has learned nothing else and is quite aggressive.

    Seeing that Zhang Fangyi disagreed, Zhang Wenyu said: "Father, I have offended everyone now. As long as my uncle is here, my father will be safe and sound. In this case, why worry about offending others. As long as Luoyang City is defended, my father will remain unmoved."

    "well!"

    Although Zhang Fangyi was reluctant to admit it, he had to admit that his brother-in-law was his biggest support in the court.

    Zhang Fangyi also knew that there was no other way. In this case, he was not someone who did not dare to use swords and guns.

    So Zhang Fangyi mobilized thousands of troops and suddenly launched an attack on all grain stores and rice shops in Luoyang City.  All the grain was confiscated and the store stewards were arrested.

    The leader of the team was Yang An. Since the Duanmen battle, Yang An had moved closer to Zhang Fangyi and the two sides formed an alliance.  In Yang An's view, all the bastards in the court were Zhang Fangyi.  As for Zhang Fangyi, Wang Zhibian is now staying in Huiluocang, and there are not many people Zhang Fangyi can trust in the city.

    This sudden attack resulted in a huge harvest. The amount of food seized alone amounted to millions of dan.

    Zhang FangyiHe ordered the army to transport all the seized grain to Hanjiacang for storage, and directly took the arrested shop stewards to Tianjie. They were all beheaded on charges of "hoarding, collaborating with bandits, and deliberately creating chaos in the city."  Hanging on Tianjie for a while.

    Zhang Fangyi also announced that the government would purchase the grain in the city at a price of two hundred cents per bushel of rice and provide porridge uniformly in the city. The porridge should be set up with chopsticks and not tipped over, and each bowl of porridge only cost half a cent.

    A bucket of rice is equivalent to about six kilograms or twelve kilograms in later generations.  According to the ratio of one meter to three water, one bucket of rice can make fifty kilograms of porridge, and half a kilogram bowl can hold one hundred bowls.  This translates to about fifty cents per bucket of rice.

    Calculated in this way, the government has to pay three times the price for purchasing a bucket of rice.

    But the key point is that in Luoyang City, money and cloth are piled up like mountains, and what is lacking is food. As long as it can be exchanged for food, let alone three times, five times or ten times will be fine.

    The people in the city were dubious at first about Zhang Fangyi's policy, but later they were quite shocked when they saw the thick porridge distributed in the city.  Many people have calculated this account, and countless people have begun to exchange grain for money, and then exchange money for rice porridge.

    Zhang Fangyi obtained a large amount of grain through this method.  Moreover, the rice porridge in the city is distributed uniformly by the government, which also reduces the consumption of firewood and the waste during cooking, greatly saving food.

    Zhang Fangyi's cruel methods made the dignitaries in the city seem to see Huang Mingyuan in the past, and they were quite frightened and fearful.  The stewards who were executed were basically attached to the big families.  Zhang Fangyi's actions greatly damaged the interests of these big families, so many people impeached Zhang Fangyi on various charges.  Private ethics, public ethics, even Zhang Fangyi's message about wanting to rebel came out.

    "These people exerted all their strength, and even Yang Tong's mother, Xiao Liu, had people crying.  Guo Wenyi and others even suggested that Yang Tong remove Zhang Fangyi to avoid offending the world.

    However, this time the Yue King Yang Tong withstood the pressure. He knew very well that at this moment, he needed Zhang Fangyi to be the murderous knife.

    "Maybe Zhang Fangyi can be used to exchange for the aristocratic family's understanding afterwards, but not now."

    So with the support of the Yue King Yang Tong, Zhang Fangyi implemented his policies boldly, and the undercurrent in Luoyang City became bigger and bigger.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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