“Contract again?”

Kou Weisha looked at Guo Dan lying on the table and was drawing without tears.

Guo Dan just smiled slightly, "Madam, it seems that your acceptance ability is much worse than Your Majesty. Your Majesty seems to be numb to this. This time, he is too lazy to discuss the details. He just said, 'That's fine.' He didn't even consider whether the ministers would agree."

Kou Weisha rolled his eyes slightly and said, "Husband, I mean this matter. Such things as disaster relief are thankless and will cause a lot of trouble. Even the court and local governments are often overwhelmed by it. We are just a tooth and have no ability to handle so many affairs."

"I know, I don't want to do it either." Guo Dan said in a calm tone.

Kou Weisha asked, "Then why do you still agree?"

Guo Tan said: "Because Your Majesty, this world belongs to Your Majesty. If those governments do not handle it well, it will eventually hurt Your Majesty's interests. Those corrupt officials will only make a fortune, and Your Majesty's interests are my interests, and I have no choice."

Kou Weisha said: "But the problem is that you can't handle it well, either."

"That's not necessarily."

While speaking, the pen that Guo Dan waved in his hand suddenly stopped. He put the pen on the pen holder, then picked up the piece of paper in his hand, shrugged and said, "The reason I don't want to do it is not because I can't do it, but because this transaction is not in line with my current value."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard Yang Feixu's voice coming from the back door, "It's snowing."

......

The heavy snow fell slowly, but the court was still arguing endlessly.

To govern a country, govern officials first, everyone understands this principle. It can even be said that in feudal society, this is the truth, but few have achieved success throughout the ages.

The reason is very simple. This is actually the most difficult thing to cure people.

At this time, Wang Xijue finally stood up, but he placed the meeting place in Dong Pavilion.

"Contract the reserve warehouse to Guo Dan?"

Li Sancai looked at Wang Xijue in shock.

After all, it was the first time he felt the impact of contracting.

And Wang Jiaping and Song Xuan were no longer surprised by this.

Before Wang Xijue could speak, Zhang Heming firmly opposed it, "This disaster relief is related to the safety of the country. It is not comparable to a horse farm, or even a state capital. How can it be contracted to a merchant?"

Speaking of "businessmen", Zhang Heming seemed to feel something was wrong and added: "Although Guo Dan is now my financial advisor to the Ming Dynasty, he can assist us instead of using the contracting method."

Wang Xijue smiled and said, "Chief Zhang also knew that this disaster relief was related to the safety of the country and the people of the world, so we should ignore the people and the country, and argue endlessly every day."

Zhang Heming hurriedly said, "That's not what the officials mean."

"But that's the truth." Wang Xijue said again: "This matter is imminent. No one knows how many days the snow will take to fall outside. We cannot just spend it endlessly. We must make preparations. Contracting Guo Dan is just a temporary plan. After the court discusses the results and improves the disaster relief system, the court will take back the reserve warehouse from Guo Dan."

Zhang Heming didn't know what to say, because now they couldn't get a result.

Li Sancai suddenly asked, "Sir, there is a little that the official really can't understand why he has to contract. Guo Danruo has a solution, so he can raise it. Isn't this the reason why His Majesty hired him as the financial advisor of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Because the way for the Ming Dynasty's financial advisor is to contract."

Wang Xijue suddenly looked out the door, "But please tell you myself."

After a while, Guo Dan walked in from outside the door and bowed to the man sitting.

Wang Xijue said: "I'm here to consultant Guo."

"This is something that is within the next part of the matter."

Guo Dan nodded slightly and looked at the two people behind him again.

The two of them immediately hung a piece of paper on the screen directly in front of them.

Li Sancai and the others looked at each other in a slight manner.

What kind of shit is all drawn?

Too ugly.

Guo Dan came to the screen and smiled apologetically: "It's a little ugly, but time is tight, so I can't make it beautiful. Please forgive me, sir."

Wang Xijue said with some advice: "It doesn't matter if it's ugly, it's fine if it's useful."

"Thank you, sir."

Guo Dan bowed and said, "I'm not to hide it from you, in fact, I have hesitated for a long time on whether to contract. The reason why I proposed contracting is because I think that the reserve warehouse system of our dynasty is quite complete and sustainable compared to previous dynasties.

The so-called preparation warehouse means that when a disaster occurs, you borrow food to the people. When the disaster occurs, when the people are harvested, and the interests are returned to the court, this is much more wise than simply getting relief.

So why the reserve warehouse has gradually failed? The biggest reason is naturally because of Baochao, but there is no need to mention this matter now."

This is really ironic. This Daming Baochao is really harmful to Daming.

From Taizu to Zhengtong, the court spent "money" to purchase grain and stored it in a reserve warehouse, and this "money" was the treasure banknote of the Ming Dynasty. This alone would be doomed to fail.

Everyone knows that without the guarantee of laws and technology, this is actually plundering the people.

Now that the Ming Dynasty treasure banknote has been destroyed, why bother to reveal your scars?

“In addition, there are many reasons.”

Guo Dan glanced at him and said, "I won't go into details one by one. I believe everyone knows it, and I have mentioned it before. Today, I mainly analyze it from the perspective of operations."

As he said that, he pointed to the paper and said, "The court, the reserve warehouse, the people, this is the entire reserve warehouse system, and the activation mechanism is a natural disaster. The first drawback is the reserve warehouse system, which makes the court face the people directly. It is precisely because of this that the entire system is in a dilemma."

Li Sancai asked, "How do you say this?"

Guo Tan smiled and said, "I have read some records about the reserve warehouse and found that many of the lent out of the reserve warehouse were not returned, which led to the reserve warehouse being ineffective. Over time, only rats and rat shit remained in the reserve warehouse.

In this case, the court will inevitably fall into a dilemma. Is it forcing the people to return the food? But wasn’t the original intention of the court to save the people? Now that the people’s families are forced to be destroyed, why should they save them at the beginning?”

Li Sancai said: "This is just a few."

“Unfortunately, this is the majority.”

Guo Tan smiled and said, "Of course, there must be some tricks in this. For example, some people use the names of the people to obtain grain from the reserve warehouse, which has turned into bad debts. But the problem is that the court cannot force the people to pay back the money."

Zhang Heming said sarcastically: "The court cannot force the people to destroy their families, and you businessmen often do this."

Guo Tan smiled and said, "Businessmen rarely do this, because most merchants don't know how to borrow at all. What they are really willing to borrow is the landlords. The way the merchants do is to first determine whether the other party has the ability to return it, and then decide whether to borrow or not."

Li Sancai said: "If you do this, can it still be called disaster relief? This is taking advantage of the situation to rob, but this person's life is at stake."

Guo Dan said: "This is the problem. It is natural to borrow money to repay money, but it is also natural to the court to help the people. There is a fundamental contradiction between the two and it will inevitably not work, which will also lead to the failure of people inside and outside the court."

Li Sancai frowned.

He also agreed with Guo Dan's statement.

Some people just refuse to repay, and those kind-hearted officials will naturally not bully the people because of this. After all, it is not easy for the people. In fact, it is reasonable for the people not to repay. After all, the food is paid by them. The reason why I pay taxes is because you will also help me.

But at the same time, some officials often use this to increase interest privately to blackmail the people and seek personal gain.

With the efforts of both parties, a lot of money was left in the reserve warehouse.

Wang Xijue asked: "If contracted by merchants, will these problems not exist?"

"It will inevitably exist, and it is impossible for every account to be recovered."

Guo Dan nodded and said, "But Mr. Li is right. This person's life is at stake. You can't watch everyone starve to death. This involves the second issue I want to say. According to the records of the reserve warehouse, when the weather is good, a large amount of grain will become moldy, resulting in huge losses in the reserve warehouse. This is enough to show that the only income of the reserve warehouse system is to lend money through natural disasters and then collect interest. However, once the bad debt increases, the reserve warehouse will inevitably not be maintained.

I have mentioned more than once that you should not put eggs in a basket. The government did not reasonably use the grain stored in the reserve warehouse, but just put it there. But in fact, so much grain could have been made through trading. Once the source of profit is no longer the only one, then you can take out a part of the profit to provide relief to the people who cannot repay them. At the same time, you can ensure that the reserve warehouse can operate well."

Li Sancai nodded and said, "What you said makes sense, then you can help the court find a solution, why do you have to contract it?"

Guo Dan laughed and said, "Because this is unfair to local officials."

Li Sancai asked, "How do you say this?"

"I can't guarantee that I will make money if I make money when doing business."

Guo Dan said: "If I just help the court find a way, then if I pay, will I have to take the money to pay for it myself or the court to pay it. If this leads to adverse disaster relief, will the officials be responsible or will I be responsible?

I mentioned at the beginning that I can help the court find a solution. This is my responsibility, but I will never bear any responsibility, because the executors are not me, and the benefits they earn are not mine. Why should I bear this responsibility? Then the local government will definitely not bear any responsibility, because they just do what I say.

If no responsibility is held accountable, who would take this matter to heart?

If I contract it, it would be simple and clear. My responsibility is to provide disaster relief. On this basis, the profit and loss of the reserve warehouse are all my own, and the responsibility of the court is to supervise me. Of course, if the court can find ways to improve the disaster relief system, it will definitely be the best result."

Wang Jiaping nodded and said, "I think Guo Dan's statement makes sense. The court has no good solution yet. You can contract out first. When the court improves the disaster relief system and then get it back, the people of the world will benefit from it."

Li Sancai felt a little unwilling because their faction wanted to use this to rectify the administration. Unfortunately, they could not see any hope at the moment, and the cabinet used the people as a reason.

This made them unable to refuse because they had previously said for the sake of the people.

As a temporary solution, they have a hard time refusing.

But in Wang Xijue's view, this may become permanent temporarily.
Chapter completed!