Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 138 We are on the same boat

Ever since Li Tai expressed in the court hall that if the money cannot be recovered, he would borrow from the dead family, the aristocratic family immediately became concerned about the renovation process of the Zhengbaiqu area.

If the Zheng Baiqu project fails halfway, all their money will be wasted.

If it was someone else who didn't want to die, they could either sell themselves as slaves and work as cattle or horses for the aristocratic family, or flee to the end of the world and hide in the deep mountains and old forests.

But Li Tai didn't have these two ideas at all, but planned to borrow another sum of money from the family and continue to invest in the renovation of Zheng Baiqu.

This makes these aristocratic families very uncomfortable. When the time comes, should they borrow or borrow!

You must know that this is the Zheng Baiqu Canal built for Li Shimin, so you must borrow it.

But if this whole project really turns into a bottomless pit, then the aristocratic family will also feel a headache?
Li Shimin must not be happy about the cancellation of the project, and the developed fields must be nationalized first.

If the project is replaced, hehe, the Zhengguo Canal is near Gaoling, and as long as Li Tai concentrates on making trouble, it will be useless for anyone to come.

So, let the guys who are working on this project keep a close eye on the whole project.

If anything happens, it's best to call back home as soon as possible.

Of course, King Yue has to keep an eye on him even more closely. If he acts recklessly, he must find someone to stop him.

Thinking about it, as an aristocratic family, not only can't do anything about such a project, but I also have to prevent Li Tai, who is in charge, from doing anything. Thinking about it, I always feel a little unreasonable!
Fortunately, Li Tai really just let Ma Zhou go after making a series of plans for the Zheng Baiqu area.

With the support of the Gaoling corvee and the factories that popped up suddenly in the Gaoling area, the progress of the whole project is astonishing.

It may be a bit difficult to complete this year, but it will definitely not be a problem to complete next year.

Soon the food was served, and everyone tasted it. It would be nonsense to say that the dishes in this restaurant are comparable to the imperial chef, but they taste delicious, so there are not many people in this restaurant.

"Shopkeeper, what's so interesting here in Gaoling!" Li Shimin said after taking a few mouthfuls of food, stopping his chopsticks.

"The guest officer is here to play in Gaoling!" Seeing Jin Yezi's sake, the second child immediately warmly introduced:
"If you want to go shopping, you can go to the Peacock Store. There are all kinds of things there. We have what we have in Chang'an Dongxi City, and we have it in Gaoling. We have things that are not in Chang'an Dongxi City. We also have Gaoling.

If the guest officer likes hot-blooded sports, go out of this street and go all the way north to the end. When you leave the first city of Gaoling, you can see the racetrack. One on top of the other.

In addition, the spectator should come from an aristocratic family, and he can also go to the agricultural academy. Basically, as long as he is a child of an aristocratic family, or the imperial court recognizes that he has the qualifications to enter Beijing for the exam, he can enter the agricultural academy for free! "

"It seems that there are quite a lot of places for Gao Ling to go!" Li Shimin said with a little joy.

"I think this guest officer is a gold leaf when he makes a move, I think the guest officer is a newcomer to Gaoling.

If you want to play, you can go to a nearby bank, grain farm or coal farm, and go to these places to exchange gold leaves for food stamps and charcoal stamps! "

Xiao Er said, "It is much more convenient to use food stamps and charcoal stamps at the Gaoling Fair."

"Food stamps, charcoal stamps? Don't we need Kaiyuan Tongbao here?" Fang Xuanling frowned when he heard this.

"Yes, yes!" The waiter in the shop nodded repeatedly, "However, I have seen a few people spend a lot of money. If it is a big denomination of money, they usually pay with food coupons and charcoal coupons, instead of directly using gold leaves."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but looked at each other. Obviously after the last time, they came again, and they found that Gao Ling had become a little unfamiliar to themselves and others.

Many things are not seen with my own eyes, and I really don't feel much when I just read the memorial.

The waiter in the shop saw a few people without any questions, so he withdrew and did not stay any longer. After all, he had to work. If he stayed here all the time, he would definitely be called lazy by the boss. If he deducted his salary by then, he would not All right.

"It seems that this Gaoling is full of vitality under Qingque's governance!" Li Shimin was very pleased.

To be honest, there are many things that Li Shimin can't understand, but it doesn't matter whether he understands or not. As an emperor who has come from troubled times, he can see that the people in Gaoling can live and work in peace and contentment.

Compared with other cities in Chang'an, at least the people in Gaoling had a slightly more ruddy complexion, which was not what the people should have.

Think about it when I went hunting in the deer park last year, most of the people I saw looked disheveled.

Compared with these common people, they are simply full of an indescribable numbness, but the people of Gaoling give themselves a kind of enthusiasm.

Therefore, although Li Shimin didn't know how Li Tai was in power, he could basically judge Li Tai's intentions by looking at the wealth of the local people.

Li Shimin is considered to be one of the few emperors in China who is more in favor of hiding wealth for the people, and just like this, Li Shimin approves of Li Tai's performance.

Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "Xuanling, you have to look around again!"

Fang Xuanling shook his head and said, "No need, when we were eating, I counted the convoys that passed us downstairs.

These vehicles have a meal, or go south, or go north, and there are more than 30 convoys passing by.

Obviously, the prosperity of Gaoling cannot be pretended, and the king of Yue did manage Gaoling very well. "

"Did you pass so many convoys in just one meal!?" Li Shimin was a little dazed when he heard it.

"Going north-south, usually you have to go to the pier in the south to take a boat, or go to the racetrack in the north!" Changsun Wuji said to Li Shimin, "Would Erlang go to the racecourse?"

Li Shimin just thought of agreeing, Fang Xuanling said, "Saint, don't forget that you have to go to court tomorrow.

After all, it takes half a day for Gao Ling to go back to Chang'an. If Wei Zheng finds out when he goes back late, tomorrow will not be safe! "

Hearing Fang Xuanling's words, Li Shimin originally wanted to spend a good day in Gaoling, but couldn't help but feel depressed.

For Li Shimin, after killing the East Turks, Li Shimin did not work as hard as he did in Zhenguan [-], but under the supervision of Empress Changsun and Wei Zheng, he was able to restrain his inner desires.

Facing Fang Xuanling's words at this moment, he sighed helplessly, "Okay, okay, let's go back today!"

"Don't you see the King of Yue?" Li Junxian looked at Li Shimin with some incomprehension.

They have already arrived in Gaoling, so go to the county government office to meet the king of Yue. Even if the king of Yue is not in the county government office, is it really difficult to ask someone to notify him directly?

"Come here when you are excited, and return when you are exhausted. It doesn't matter if you see the blue sparrow!" Li Shimin said calmly.

Of course, Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling, because the purpose of coming this time was to let Fang Xuanling see the situation under Li Tai's rule, let Fang Xuanling recognize Li Tai's ability, and reduce the resistance of passing through the agricultural official system.

And Fang Xuanling also understood what Li Shimin meant, and under such circumstances, Fang Xuanling had already expressed his consent, so it didn't matter whether he went to see Li Tai or not.

After all, there was that annoying guy Wei Zheng behind the two of them.

If he went back late and the gate of Chang'an was closed, he might be scolded by Wei Zheng or other censors tomorrow.

To be honest, even if Fang Xuanling was there to share the burden, Li Shimin really didn't want to be sprayed on by Wei Zheng.

Therefore, Li Shimin came to Gaoling in a hurry, and also left in a hurry, so Li Shimin took Fang Xuanling around Gaoling, confirmed that Li Tai had done a good job, and went directly back to Chang'an.

On the second day, Li Tai received a decree to allow the students who graduated from Gaoling to become agricultural officials of the outflowing Qipin, and to be assigned to designated prefectures and counties for farming guidance, mainly to educate them on the knowledge of planting wheat.

When Li Tai heard this, he didn't say much, and immediately arranged the agricultural science subjects one by one, and the Zhengbaiqu area was the top priority.

Because I need a group of talents who can communicate with the bottom, and at the same time along the Weishui River, groups of agricultural officials have also begun to slowly resettle.

However, this order was not only allowed to be carried out by the agricultural official system, but Chu Suiliang, Liu Renjing and others who had studied in the agricultural college for a year were also arranged to go to Yuhang to start the construction of a branch school in Yuhang.

Chu Suiliang, who has suffered so much, even lost his voice when he heard this order.

However, Chu Suiliang and Liu Renjing didn't know that rice was mainly grown in the south of the Yangtze River, which was not the same type of wheat as in the north.

Li Tai doesn't know what will happen if rice is planted in the same way as wheat is planted.

However, with the training on wheat, the problems on rice are at most technical problems, which I believe Chu Suiliang can overcome.

Li Tai's only hope is that Jiangnan University can accumulate enough experience in rice by scientific means.

After all, in Li Tai's view, it is more practical to study hybrid rice than to go to America to find potatoes and corn that have not been domesticated until now.

As long as I can successfully ascend the throne and become the emperor, as my basic foundation, and the direction of agriculture that I have been guiding all along is correct, then there will definitely be people in the future generations who are willing to go in and study hybrid rice.

If you are lucky, you should be able to produce results in 60 to 200 years, and if you are not lucky, it will definitely work in [-] years.

Under such circumstances, instead of going to the Americas to find potatoes that have not even been domesticated, it is better to rely on hybrid rice to break the upper limit of China's population.

Even if hybrid rice was invented, the food produced by hybrid rice in the late Tang Dynasty might still be able to survive for a while.

After all, in the feudal era, there was nothing that a bowl of grain couldn’t solve.

In fact, the earlier the hybrid rice plan is started, the higher the probability of finding suitable wild rice.

After all, after 1000 years of reproduction, no one knows how many descendants a rice plant has reproduced, covering how many lands in China.

Think about Yuan Lao running all over China in search of such a wild rice plant, and finally found one in Hainan, you know how rare this thing is, even if Yuan Lao didn't find it, would he still go abroad in the future? !

Therefore, hybrid rice must be a scientific research project that requires the endorsement of a huge country!
I want to squat at home and research this kind of thing, save it, even the resurrection of Shennong can't do it.

Therefore, when Chu Suiliang left with some disciples from the agricultural school, Li Tai sent him off very warmly.

After all, his sickle was already hungry and thirsty, so he waited for Chu Suiliang's leeks to grow and harvest them by himself.

Hmm, the students he cultivated have to be harvested by himself, and his planting background has to be harvested by himself. As for Chu Suiliang himself, if he can, he will also harvest him.

Chu Suiliang rode a horse to Yuhang, and was about to gallop his horse and sing wildly, reciting a poem, celebrating that he had finally ascended to the sky from the troubled dragon and escaped from the sea of ​​suffering.

For the Chu family, he is the prefect of Qiantang, and with the support of the imperial court at the moment, Jiangnan Academy must be able to handle it smoothly.

At this moment, Chu Suiliang couldn't wait to show his skills.

At this time, for some reason, Chu Suiliang felt a shiver. It was obviously June, but he didn't know where the wind came from.

Chu Suiliang looked around suspiciously, the sun was hot and the sky was clear, where did the wind come from?

I must be overthinking myself.

Just as Chu Suiliang headed to Jiangnan full of ambition, Li Tai also started to get busy.

Because with the harvest of wheat, the whole Gaoling naturally entered the slack period because it mainly planted wheat.

He asked a group of people to start planting Lu beans to increase the fertility of the soil so that they could plant wheat again in autumn, and for the rest, Li Tai had to arrange for them to work as farmers in the factories he built by himself. work.

Because the system implemented in Gaoling is that those who don’t want to do corvee, they can pay a sum of money themselves, and let Gaoling corvee replace them to serve corvee, which is rent-yong modulation, but in this case, they will be free.

But now, the factory is only a day or even half a day away from them. Food and lodging are included, and the wages are still paid once a week.

For the vast majority of farmers who have finished their farm work, they are still happy to work. Who doesn't want to make more money for a small amount of money.

How these factories came about was naturally the money Li Tai took from the aristocratic clan in the early stage, and it was basically spent on it.

At the same time, why did the people of Gaoling only take such a short time to go to these factories.

That's because before the Zhengbaiqu was built, the Gaoling corvees were building roads in Gaoling, even reaching the level of connecting the village.

Horse carts and ox carts can be pulled to some seemingly remote Gaoling villages.

At this moment, as farmers enter the slack season, under Li Tai's intentional arrangement, many factories even encourage people to be recruited. As long as they are recruited to work here, each person will get a ten-jin food coupon.

After all, if Li Tai needs to exploit them, he must first get them into the habit of spending... No, it's the habit of working.

So in the first year, there must be rewards for pulling people's heads. They are arranged in the factory to undertake all kinds of materials Zheng Baiqu needs for work, such as standard wooden piles, special glutinous rice flour, square granite... more than they need. dry work.

And Li Tai also gave them a day off every five days, if they rushed back, they would definitely not be able to catch up with the next day's shift.

But here in Gaoling, you have everything you need to buy and eat. As long as you spend the food coupons or charcoal coupons earned by the old laborers, you can immediately feel that Gaoling belongs to you, and even the world belongs to you.

As for Li Tai, at this time he ran to Honglu Temple and yelled at Tang Jian:

"Zheng Baiqu's labor force is insufficient, where did the East Turkic labor force go, and there is no reason for people to wait for materials in this world.

Tang Honglu, we are on the same boat, you can't hurt me! "

Tang Jian looked at the angry Li Tai, and realized for the first time that he really had no confidence in facing the King of Yue!

(End of this chapter)