Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 11 Coal and Feed

Li Tai breathed a sigh of relief, at least his decision can be further implemented, which is enough for him.

Li Shimin watched Li Tai leave, and immediately called Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling, and briefly introduced Li Tai's business method to distribute the ducklings in his hands to those who need them. In Li Shimin's opinion, his son's performance was so wonderful, it was natural pride.

Fang Xuanling thought for a while, then said slowly, "Although King Yue is gifted and intelligent, he made the locust control plan to be carried out step by step in an orderly manner.

In particular, he took the initiative to bear the mistakes of Sinong Si, and took the opportunity to turn the enemy into a friend. His handling of things can be described as sophisticated.

Nowadays, merchants are using means to increase the number of ducks in the entire Chang'an area without increasing the burden on Si Nong Temple.

It can be said that King Yue's performance does not look like what a young man can do. There are capable people behind him! "

"It is true that there is a Qinghe lord by Qingque's side, named Ma Zhou." Li Shimin nodded, telling Li Tai how he recruited Ma Zhou, and Li Tai had already written it down in his diary.

From Li Shimin's point of view, Ma Zhou was the talent that Li Tai single-handedly recruited.

Under Li Tai's diary showing his true feelings, Ma Zhou has long been branded as Li Tai's party, wanting to bleach his identity and dance to Li Shimin, dreaming.

Li Shimin added, "Since he came, Qingque's performance has been astonishing. It is Ma Zhou who has repeatedly offered advice, so he is a capable person."

"I'm afraid that such a character will not be able to use up his talents by the side of the King of Yue." Fang Xuanling thought about it.

"Li Tai treats him as a good teacher and helpful friend, so there is no need to split them up!" Li Shimin shook his head and said, "However, if the anti-locusts are really successful this time, Ma Zhou will be allowed to join the army of the Yue Palace, and it is justifiable to assist Li Tai work."

Hearing Li Shimin's words, neither Du Ruhui nor Fang Xuanling said anything more.

In the officialdom, fate is often determined by results. If Li Tai can really contain the locust plague, no one will care about Li Tai's business methods and Li Tai's eight-year-old age.

But if Li Tai's anti-locust plan fails, then Li Tai will have to wait until he is an adult if he wants to participate in government affairs.

To some extent, Li Tai's political career has been focused on the fight against locusts.

It's just that for Li Tai, he has done everything he can to fight locusts.

The next step is just to see if this series of methods can suppress the locusts.

Doing one's best and obeying the destiny, that's all it takes to think about it.

With Li Shimin's consent, Li Tai went back to the duck farm to find Ma Zhou, and said, "Thank you sir, until the locust control is completed, this duck farm can be at my disposal. As long as the duck farm is successfully managed, I believe Aye will take advantage of the situation." Give me this duck farm."

Ma Zhou nodded. Although this plan was simple, for Li Tai it was almost equivalent to laying his foundation.

The purpose of this plan is to show Li Tai's business ability in front of Li Shimin, so that Li Shimin can further delegate power.

Whether Sinong Temple came out to build momentum, or he took the initiative to expose the forces behind these ducklings, the ultimate goal was to get Li Shimin to find Li Tai, and Li Tai also used the facts to tell Li Shimin his locust control strategy. come out.

The plan to control locusts is not important, what is important is that one's own business means can take care of everyone in every aspect.

Only in this way can Li Tai's business talents be inadvertently revealed to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin can be convinced of Li Tai through facts.

If Li Tai was an adult, then naturally he wouldn't have to go through such troubles, just ask Li Shimin.

With Li Shimin's love for Li Tai, no matter what, he will give him a chance.

But now Li Tai is only eight years old, that can only create established facts, and then speak with facts.

And Li Tai has shown his talent in management, then everything will be easy to talk about next.

After all, Li Shimin is the emperor, and it is impossible for him to be jealous of the 20 ducks. The most important thing in his eyes is not wealth, but the hearts of the people.

If Li Tai could suppress the plague of locusts with ducks, then the duck farm would become a standing facility for the prevention and control of locust plagues in the future.

Li Tai, the person who proposed to build a duck farm, and who also has the ability to operate, can successfully obtain the management right of the duck farm.

In addition, in the Tang Dynasty, officials were naturally not allowed to engage in private business activities, but trade in the name of the court was allowed.

In fact, although officials in the Tang Dynasty were not allowed to engage in business and trade activities legally, they used white gloves to conduct business and trade in private.

It's just that Li Tai doesn't want to be attacked by Li Chengqian in the future, so he doesn't want to use white gloves.

And I don't need private enjoyment, as long as I can control the locusts successfully, let Li Shimin invest the money earned from the duck farm into his own agricultural private school. In fact, to Li Tai himself, money really doesn't matter .

"However, what should we do with the money we earned from buying ducklings?" Ma Zhou said, "Not to mention the daily income, but within half a month, we can already buy dozens of good money cloth!"

Li Tai said, "I got my money back from Si Nong Temple, plus these, let's buy a coal mine in my name!

We want to incubate and support this duck farm. The most important thing is coal and feed.

We have cooperated with Sinong Temple this time, and the feed problem should be easy to solve. Both Dou Jing and Zhao Yuankai will save face.

But we have nothing to do with the general supervisor. If we only want to rely on the face of King Yue to obtain coal resources for a long time, we are afraid that we will be impeached by the censor. "

Li Tai pressed his temple, and when he really wanted to do something, Yushi was like a fly, wishing he could slap it to death, but Li Tai had to admit that Yushi really had meaning.

If I want to compete for the crown prince, I need to rely on my own ability to fight, but I can't leave too many flaws for myself, because as long as I show my flaws, the think tanks around Li Chengqian may be chasing after him.

"So we have to have our own coal mine, it doesn't need to be big, but we must have it!" Li Tai said.

Hearing Li Tai's words, Ma Zhou nodded, and took money from Li Tai to find a suitable coal mining industry for acquisition.

In China, a region rich in coal mine reserves, although most of them are poor mines, it is naturally not difficult to find one or two coal mines of suitable size near Chang'an in this feudal era.

It was even rumored in Ma Zhou that Li Tai was going to buy a mine, and soon some miners heard about it, wanting to cash in on the mine, or want to take advantage of Li Tai's brand, even if they gave Li Tai a mine for nothing. don't care.

In fact, these businessmen would be very happy if they could act in the name of King Yue in the future.

During this period of time, due to the locust plague, the price of food has soared, which directly impacted other daily necessities, not to mention that coal is used in a relatively small range in summer, and Li Tai's duck egg technique seems simple, but he wants to copy it. It's not easy getting up.

The craftsmen under Li Tai's command are all top craftsmen from the imperial court, and they are definitely the top craftsmen in terms of feeling the temperature of the flame.

If other people want to learn it, at least they have to put in a lot of effort to control the temperature, and controlling the temperature itself is not an easy task, so if other people want to learn this artificial egg hatching technology, they have to be quite willing to invest.

At least not ordinary people can learn it secretly. As for those rich and powerful who can learn it, they will steal the egg hatching technology mastered by a prince when their brains are disabled.

Although Li Tai is not the crown prince, don't forget how Li Shimin came to power. A powerful family with lessons learned from the past will naturally not look for trouble at this time.

Therefore, this acquisition by Ma Zhou went quite smoothly, and he won two small coal mines at a relatively low price!

For this, at least these miners are very happy, because King Yue's purchase of this place at least means that they can survive.

You must know that the locust plague has been raging for a year. Except for the wealthy and the imperial court, even if ordinary people have food in storage, they may have eaten seven or eighty-eight. What is left in their hands is probably much more food.

Li Tai was relieved when Ma Zhou handled the affairs of the mine in a hurry and really took the mine into his pocket:

"It is enough for the two mines to maintain normal operations now, and we will expand further when there is demand in the future...

In addition, the miners in the mine can study the forging of honeycomb coal, and they should be able to make a small profit in winter. "

From Ma Zhou's point of view, Li Tai bought the mine because he was not familiar with Jiang Zuojian, so he bought two small mines just in case.

But Li Tai himself is very clear that if he wants to establish an agricultural school, the financial investment required is naturally inevitable.

It's just that Ma Zhou thinks that agricultural colleges are the same as ordinary liberal arts colleges, and a duck farm can easily support them.

But Li Tai is very clear that this is far from enough. To support such a school, what he needs is not a duck farm, but an industrial chain from raw materials to terminal sales.

Because Li Tai believed that his goals were limited, he took ducks as the core and first built an industrial chain belonging to ducks.

Upstream energy and feed, then edible duck eggs and duck meat, and further duck feathers can be used to make bow and arrow feathers, as well as down jackets that can keep heat, and even duck bones can be recycled and ground into powder to make fertilizer and herbs.

As long as the scale and industrial chain are completed, this industrial chain that allows oneself to eat from upstream to downstream should be more than enough to support an agricultural university, and the funds earned can be further invested in infrastructure and scientific research.

Therefore, these two mines are trivial matters in Ma Zhou's eyes, but in Li Tai's eyes they are a supplement to his foundation.

Because he comes from modern times, Li Tai's thinking is different from that of people in this era. Li Tai pays attention to the two industries of energy and food, because these two industries are the foundation of the entire society.

Food is easy to talk about, but people in this era are completely unaware of the emphasis on energy.

Since he was a child, he had aspired to be a farmer, and he wanted to complete the grain monopoly step by step in the future. Li Tai felt that there was still hope.

In the energy industry, although the ancient people did not pay much attention to the energy industry such as coal, the main function of ancient coal was to forge metals, and under the background of salt and iron control, even a prince would definitely not be able to touch the metallurgical industry.

So if you want to find a legal industry that can use coal, you can only hatch eggs and boil water.

Li Tai chose poultry to break the situation. Naturally, he has his own thinking in it. Although the locust plague allows him to take advantage of the sheep, but more importantly, this industry, at least in ancient times, is one of the few industries that can combine the two industries of food and energy. .

Because there are only three basic industries in the world: one is food, one is energy, and the other is raw materials.

These three industries can be said to be the most basic industries in the social division of labor. Even if you achieve a monopoly in any other industry, it is more of an increase in wealth than an increase in social productivity. It has nothing to do with the nature of the growth of these three industries Different.

Even if there are real timetravelers, even those with unimaginably high abilities, and are the favored ones of heaven, as long as I die, the system I built by myself will be like a sand sculpture without the support of these three industries, and it will be easily washed away by the waves of time!

Because no matter what you do, you will be subject to these three conditions in turn, and history will continue to be revised according to these three conditions.

For example, the upper limit of the population based on wheat is about 5000 million, and it will reach 6000 million if it is exhausted. This is a population restriction that travelers cannot change.After surpassing, basically the dynasty reached its peak, and then went downhill indomitably.

For another example, you have worked hard to establish an advanced system, but if the energy utilization rate cannot keep up, the productivity cannot keep up.

Look at what happened to Wang Mang who wanted to establish advanced production relations under backward productivity.

As for things like raw materials, Li Tai felt that it was better to wait until he became the emperor.After all, there are a lot of alchemists who want to cultivate immortals these days. If you want to study the pill of immortality, you are afraid that all kinds of immortals will appear in the mountain nest.

When they came out, I confiscated and researched all of them, except for the pills of immortality.

At that time, a wave of chemical research results from Wei, Jinxuan to Tang Dynasty may be handed over to a talented person for deduction, and the periodic table of metals can be deduced. Therefore, with the materials we have now, I am sorry for myself who has not established an industrial system. Enough toss.

Therefore, in Li Tai's plan, this coal mine is really important, but if he wants to bring out the advantages of energy, Li Tai knows that there is definitely a long way to go.

Because the people who enter the coal mines now are the people who are numb to the future. If they are not really unable to survive, who would want to beg for food in the mines? For Li Tai, this group of people wants to change their three views. Almost impossible.

So even if Li Tai changed the foreman for them and treated them better, it was only touching him.

It's better to oppress them further and use their milk of the old age to feed the people of the new age.

Therefore, Li Tai did not intervene in the management of the mine, but ordered the craftsmen of the manager to study briquettes, while Li Tai himself continued to focus on the great business of raising ducks.

And it was almost July, and in the wild fields, densely packed locusts began to come again!
(End of this chapter)