Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 163 Three Candidates

"The whole system of coal has been unified, so that the production can form a large enough scale.

This reduces the cost of coal, and we also use coal for layout! "

Li Tai looked at the peacock, explaining his understanding as best he could.

To be honest, Li Tai himself is imitating cats and cats in many things, but after actually operating it, he has some insights.

When Li Tai said this, he couldn't help looking at the peacock with a puzzled face, and said, "In your opinion, who is the biggest customer of coal?"

"Is it a duck farm?" Peacock couldn't help asking when he heard Li Tai's words.

Li Tai shook his head and said, "The duck farm is indeed the first step in digesting coal.

But the reality is that the scale of duck farms is not limited by coal, but more by food.

This is why I didn't continue to expand after the size of my duck farm reached almost one million.

Further expansion will rob the people of food, which is not cost-effective. "

"Is that a bathhouse and a boiling water room?" Peacock heard Li Tai's words, but replied again.

"With the unification of the Weihe River water transportation, the popularity of boiled water houses around the streets and alleys of the entire Weishui system.

This is indeed a big consumer of coal, much more than the duck industry, but it is not a major seller! " Li Tai said.

"That's the consumption of briquettes in winter?" Peacock guessed again after hearing Li Tai's words.

"In winter, coal has indeed gradually become a rigidly-needed product, which is why our coal has gradually made a profit from small profits." Li Tai nodded and said, "But it is not stable enough, after all, the winter in Datang does not last long. "

"Please tell the King of Yue!" Peacock heard Li Tai's words, but did not continue to speculate.

"It's the imperial court!" Li Tai said to Peacock, "Because our coal quality is good and our output is large, and I have a little bit of face.

Forging supervisors such as Jiangzuo Dushuijian or Guanglu Temple and other organizations in the imperial court gradually accepted coal provided by us. "

"So that's how it is!" Peacock understands why the coal industry, which was originally inconspicuous, has suddenly risen.

Because Li Tai controlled the entire coal industry in Guanzhong, when the imperial court needed coal, they could just go to Li Tai to buy high-quality and cheap coal.

It is convenient and cheap for the court to buy, and even as long as Li Shimin has the courage, it is very easy to pursue responsibility for accidents.

For Li Tai, this is the most stable buyer of his coal mining industry. After all, there is something more stable than the supply of coal to the imperial court!

If other people do this business, they may not be swallowed up directly, but Li Tai is the prince, so Li Tai can still earn the money.

After all, in the whole of China, the emphasis on coal has to wait until the Song Dynasty.

Before that, think about the charcoal sellers. Even in the mid-Tang Dynasty, the coal industry had not yet formed a scale. The eunuchs in the palace had to go to these small households to buy and sell by force.

It can be seen from this that how many people intervened in this job in the early Tang Dynasty, it was completely blue ocean.

"If I stay in Chang'an all the time, nothing will happen to me, but if I leave Chang'an, you can take part of the profit, whether it's delivering medicine to the hospital, or adopting orphans, or even building bridges and paving roads. Just spend the money."

"Shouldn't the wealth be kept secret?" Peacock heard Li Tai's words, and couldn't imagine Li Tai's attitude.

"No one knows about you, so you can keep your money from being exposed.

But if I am not in Chang'an, the transaction between the coal industry and the imperial court will be noticed by interested people sooner or later.

You hold the money you have earned in your hands, but it is dangerous.

And if you spend your money and earn a reputation, at least if someone really provokes you in the future, even if I am far away from you, but whether you go to Wei Zheng or Fang Xuanling, someone will come out for you in the end.

After all, no matter what you say, Aye is going to be a wise king, so reputation can save you! "

Li Tai told the peacock one by one, although Li Tai didn't think the situation would be so bad that even the peacock would be threatened.

But no matter how you say it, it is definitely not wrong to let the peacock prepare a few more hands.

More importantly, Li Tai understands that money held in his hands is dead money, and only when the money flows is the real living money.

To be honest, because of the reasons of the times, people like to save money when they make money, or buy land like crazy.

Although this can't be said to be a bad habit, for Li Tai who likes to maximize his profits, such behavior feels somewhat wasteful.

However, asking Peacock to use part of the money to do good deeds is a trivial matter for Li Tai. The real reason is that after he left, the factories opened by Zheng Baiqu would be hit.

In this case, I need to come up with some projects.

Not to mention letting them make money, but at least letting their factories survive in this market is the most important thing.

That's why Peacock was asked to spend part of the money for various charities, and the rest was fine, but projects such as bridges and roads were made to prevent these small factories from dying directly.

"Oh!" Peacock nodded repeatedly when he heard Li Tai's words.

Don't worry about what's going on, but since Li Tai told him to dare, then he should do it well, and he doesn't need to be troublesome, just record them one by one.

And Li Tai continued, "In addition to the coal industry, there are also some animal husbandry industries that you need to pay attention to.

For example, the breeding of chickens and ducks, and the breeding methods of dogs and porpoises all need you to explore. "

"No!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Peacock naturally agreed again and again.

Because of the size of the land, Li Tai raised cattle, sheep and horses, but the scale was quite small.

Wanting to expand food, Li Tai began to experiment with raising meat pigs and meat dogs after chickens and ducks.

After all, chickens, dogs and dolphins have been one of the six animals since ancient times.

Because cattle, sheep and horses need more pastures to raise, relatively speaking, it is more normal for people in the Central Plains to raise chickens, dogs and dolphins as food.

It's just that because there wasn't enough food in the past, dogs and dolphins didn't even have enough food, so how could they support them.

But in the past few years, with the harvest of large and small grains, the common people naturally have an instinctive pursuit of meat.

Of course, this kind of pursuit is not the modern way of eating every day, eating every day, getting tired of eating, and then start shouting to lose weight.

Instead, the people have been able to start raising these livestock, and at the end of the year, they can make tooth sacrifices.

After all, no matter how poor human beings are, they are the highest primate creatures in this world.

Humans evolved from a single cell all the way to the top of the food chain, naturally not to be vegetarian, but to eat everything.

Therefore, Peacock also supports Li Tai's proposal to increase the breeding of dolphins and dogs and train enough breeding workers.

Even so, the breeding scale of the two is actually not very large, that is, about [-] each.

In addition, among the batch of dogs sent to be meat dogs, the most excellent ones are generally kept as military dogs.

However, among the more than 1 meat dogs, there are only more than 100 who can really become military dogs.

Seeing this ratio made Li Tai a little dazed. He didn't know whether it was because the meat dog was too bad, or the selection conditions were too harsh.

But no matter what, he couldn't raise soldiers in private, so it wouldn't be too much to raise a military dog ​​after all.

However, these things still need to be cultivated slowly. For things like pigs, it would be fine if they were only raised on a small scale.

But to raise them on a large scale, it must involve food, and food will involve costs.

To give a simple example, ordinary people who raise pigs in their homes basically cut some wild grass for the pigs to eat.

Relatively speaking, the labor cost is evenly distributed to the daily work, which can be regarded as almost no cost.

But for large-scale farming, it is naturally impossible to adopt this method, and even if Li Tai wants to adopt this method, the labor required for this may make Li Tai feel that it is not worth it.

So, it comes back to what the pigs need to eat.

Although I don't really want to admit it, if you go to the market to buy directly, then buying grains for feeding is almost the lowest cost way.

But the reality is that if pigs are raised in this way, what price must they sell to earn back the cost.

Three catties of grain and one catty of meat, Li Tai saw that let alone ordinary people, even landlords of the common clan would not be able to eat it every day!

Therefore, if he simply wanted to raise pork by himself and eat it, Li Tai, as a prince, would have no problem eating it every day.

But if you want the whole world to eat pork, the first thing you need to do is feed.

If this problem is not resolved, it is impossible for pork prices to drop.

And when it comes to feed, Li Tai misses Li Chunfeng a little bit. After all, the grass seeding project has already been tested in the Northern Agricultural Institute, and Li Tai is not sure how far it will go.

In any case, if the animal husbandry industry wants to develop, the grass planting plan must first succeed.

Because Li Tai's agricultural school has integrated the technology of the entire Tang Dynasty, it is almost unrealistic to expect some variation in wheat and then produce more than four stones per mu.

In the era of agricultural cultivation without artificial fertilizers, any planting method that can grow more than four stones is basically an evil way to drain the land.

If you do this, maybe the land will not be able to grow anything in the next year.

It can be said that farming is the least tricky thing in this world, and Li Tai can only slowly wait for a breakthrough in the research on planting plants in the agricultural college, and leave other functions to fate.

To be honest, in Li Tai's opinion, the most important thing for him is agriculture, energy and Gaoling itself.

As long as there is nothing wrong with these three things, then the rest of the things will be lost, and they will be able to raise them slowly when they come back.

As for the animal husbandry industry, it can barely be regarded as half of it, but if I really develop in Youzhou, then the talents cultivated here in the animal husbandry industry will naturally be able to play a role in Youzhou area immediately.So this is only half, and the peacock needs to pay attention.

Li Tai is very clear that although Gaoling is still developing at a high speed, its size determines its bottleneck.

At least Li Tai couldn't think of any way to make Gaoling develop rapidly if he continued to stay in Chang'an.

Therefore, I have to leave, because if I continue to stay in Gaoling, I may be able to become a capable minister, but I am only a capable minister.

If you can't distance yourself from Li Chengqian, how can you put enough pressure on Li Chengqian!

Li Tai explained his plans for the coal industry to Peacock in detail, and then put cotton and education in Peacock's hands one after another.

Li Tai gradually let go of this series of industries and let Peacock take care of them.

Although at the beginning, because Peacock was not familiar with these things, there were some big or small problems in management.

But Li Tai's requirements are not high. It is enough for Peacock to maintain the inertia of these industries.

So even if the peacock made a mistake, as long as it didn't cause problems for the entire industry, he would just turn a blind eye and pass it by, treating it as an experience point for the peacock.

To be honest, it would be too much to say that Peacock is such an outstanding talent, but Peacock is careful and diligent in doing things.

Even if you work every day because of your own talents, it takes a long time to think.

But I also choose to turn on the light and read at night every day, and I don’t go to bed until I finish today’s work.

Li Tai looked at Peacock's hard work, but he also wondered if he should find some people to help him.

But in fact, this kind of person is really hard to find.

After all, even though Peacock looks like a middle-aged man, but after all, he was born in a merchant family like the Zheng family, relying on the accumulated knowledge accumulated by his ears and eyes, it is really not everyone who can achieve this efficiency under such hard work.

Of course, maybe it was because she came from Zheng's family that she especially wanted to grasp her own destiny.

After all, Peacock, who has already experienced the embarrassing posture given to Li Tai as a commodity, really doesn't want to experience it again.

I don't want to dominate in this male society, but Peacock warns me that my value can never be reduced to just a casual gift from others.

Because of such obsession, the little girl who has always been only three years older than Li Tai, after having the resources Li Tai bestowed on her, she is extraordinarily desperate.

Because she was afraid that she would never have the chance to work hard again!
But this time, in Li Tai's arrangement to leave Chang'an, he became Du Chuke, the third character after Lu Cai.

This made Peacock feel for the first time that his importance to Li Tai was not because he was a woman, but because of himself.

Now Li Tai's confidantes in Chang'an, only Du Chuke, Lu Cai and Peacock really control their own property.

Among them, Du Chuke has an older brother named Du Ruhui. Although Du Ruhui is currently patrolling the canal, Li Tai believes that when he leaves, Du Ruhui should return to Chang'an. By then, only Du Chuke will be at the foot of Chang'an. .

As for Lu Cai, needless to say, relying solely on his spiritual-like talent and the means of turning the talent of the legion into military music, he honestly became the head of the agricultural school. Basically, no one in Chang'an can mess with him. .

Therefore, the only weakness among the three is the peacock, and there are many things that only the peacock can face.

(End of this chapter)