Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 178 Du Chuke's Monopoly
Just when Li Tai was thinking about how to unite the big and small families in Youzhou and ask them to spend manpower and material resources, Li Tai's letters passed through the post station and were sent to Chang'an one by one, and they were delivered at the fastest speed. Send it to Liangyi Hall.

To be honest, although the road from Youzhou to Xingyang is far away, it is connected by a waterway. Li Tai just hangs ordinary letters, and it is faster and faster to take the waterway.

Of course, if you send an urgent letter of eight hundred miles, it may be faster to travel by land, but no matter what, this is Li Tai's letter to Li Shimin's family, and this task will definitely not be delayed even if you send an ordinary letter.

It should have been a journey of nearly 20 days, but the letter was delivered for twelve days before it was delivered to the Hall of Liangyi.

Li Shimin looked at the letters that were sent to him, not only his own, but also this big pile of so-and-so!
Li Shimin looked at the letter sent to him, and murmured, "Qing Que is not polite, does he really regard me as a post station, and let me be his messenger again!"

But that being said, Li Shimin asked his servant to classify these letters, and did not send them out immediately.

The king's servant on one side didn't dare to speak, as if he wanted to laugh and then held back, his appearance was quite unbearable.

Li Shimin looked at the letter Li Tai wrote to him. In addition to reporting safety, the content of the letter proposed the direction of governing Youzhou, hoping to break the situation from the salt, and prepare to obtain stable profit channels in Youzhou before governing Youzhou.

As for the business with Goguryeo, we will wait until we develop the salt field before doing business.

For Li Tai's way of waiting until he has a stable financial source, and then governing after having such a financial source, Li Shimin felt envious and admired his own son's ability.

Even this time, Li Tai actually only has the right to make salt and sell salt to the imperial court. The rest is just Li Tai's own money to work in. Li Tai has never worried that his money will become a waste manage.

It seems that Li Tai's eyes can see through the emptiness and accurately find the gold behind the mist.

Of course, Li Tai didn't write down the specific method, but just wrote down his goals for this month and started buying fields.

As for another point in the letter, Li Tai asked Li Shimin to help forward his letter.

Some of them were for Empress Changsun, some for Changle, some for Peacock Lv Cai Du Chuke, and Wei Xu, but unfortunately there was no Ma Zhou.

This is a matter of course. After all, Ma Zhou is different from them. Ma Zhou is already an independent official.

If Li Tairuo and Ma Zhou wrote a personal relationship, at least it was evidence of the collusion between the prince and the courtiers, but for others, even Du Chuke, if it weren't for Li Tai's reason, the county magistrate would not be worthy of Du Chuke at all.

So strictly speaking, they are more like representatives of King Yan, and their positioning is completely different.

Li Tai briefly mentioned that Peacock's letter asked Peacock to send some coal industry personnel and Weaver Girls to Youzhou, and he needed to lay out his industry in Youzhou.

In the letter from Lu Cai, he hoped that Lu Cai would prepare the exchange students who will be sent to Youzhou this year. The exchange students from last year would have to study for another year before returning to Youzhou.

As for Du Chuke, Li Tai asked Du Chuke to dispatch a group of bad people with Wei Xu as the core.

At the same time, when Wei Xu came, he would find some disabled veterans along the way to see if they were willing to come to Youzhou.

It's still bad treatment for people, and I will settle them down.

Because unscrupulous people do not belong to official positions, although they assist the government in managing the people in Gaoling, they are more of a petty official, and they can't even eat what is said to be imperial food, but the food given by Li Tai.

Only Wei Xu was considered to have a name in Yanwang Mansion, but Li Tai considered that he needed him to recruit some bad people to Youzhou, so he let Wei Xu stay in Gaoling, and now he has found almost the same Wei Xu took the bad guys over.

"Bad people..." Li Shimin murmured looking at Wei Xu mentioned by Li Tai.

The servant Wang De hurriedly said aside,

"Bad people are a kind of petty officials who patrol the streets established by the king of Yan after he became the county magistrate of Gaoling for the convenience of managing the people.

Most of them are soldiers who have retired from the army due to disabilities, and the leader is Wei Xu.

Since the emergence of bad people, the atmosphere in Gaoling County has improved a lot. "

"En!" Li Shimin nodded.

To be honest, Li Shimin somewhat appreciates this kind of care for veterans and wounded soldiers.

Moreover, most of these retired wounded soldiers are disabled people, and I am not afraid that Li Tai will rebel if he summons these people.

After all, Li Tai's positioning of these bad people was very clear from the very beginning, that is to use them to frighten ordinary people.

Especially after Li Tai was actually assassinated in the Gaoling area, Li Tai established some armed organizations to maintain law and order. To be honest, the court also understood.

It's just that they didn't expect Li Tai to be so knowledgeable, and he was looking for disabled people.

For the country, it actually reduces the burden a lot.

After all, from the troubled times of the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the present, there are quite a few people who have been disabled due to wars.

It's just that in the old-style army, except for the generals and fellow villagers who helped them, there were actually very few people who cared about them.

More disabled soldiers were forced to return to their hometowns, and then waited to die in their hometowns.

Li Shimin sighed at this thought, and said, "Qing Que is a benevolent person after all.

Just looking at his actions at the moment, it seems that this may not be easy to develop in Youzhou, and now it needs to touch the foundation of Gaoling!
Forget it, the time is too short, so let's wait and see.

One year or two, and see if he can allocate resources from Gaoling, and he should be able to judge how his development is! "

To be honest, it is difficult for Li Shimin or the ancients to understand the principle of using money, or even all human and material resources.

So not long after Li Shimin saw Li Tai arrived in Youzhou, he began to dispatch manpower and material resources to Gaoling. Naturally, he thought that Li Tai's development in Youzhou was not good, and he needed Gaoling's strong support for Li Tai.

At this moment, Li Shimin made a decision in his heart, let go of Li Tai for a while, and just watch silently by himself.

If Li Tai's salt industry hasn't developed in a year or two, then he should find a way to support Li Tai.

After all, what Li Tai has always shown in front of Li Shimin is the kind of calm and enterprising character that is planned before moving.

Under such circumstances, since Li Tai chose the salt industry as his source of income in Youzhou, he also wanted to see what kind of ability Li Tai could show.

"Send these two documents to the Queen and Princess Changle's residence."

Li Shimin looked at the letter Li Tai sent him, and said to the servant beside him,
"As for the other copies, they will all be sent to Gaoling County Magistrate Du Chuke!"

"Of course!" Wang De replied without any hesitation when he heard Li Shimin's words.

Not long after Wang De backed away, Tang Jian quickly came over and said:

"Saint, the Wa Kingdom sent Tang envoys Mitazu and Pharmacist Hui Ri to go back to the country. Would you like to arrange people to go with them along the way, or canonize the Wa Kingdom? If you can make good friends with them, maybe you can use the Wa Kingdom to restrain Goguryeo and limit its development! "

"En!" Li Shimin nodded when he heard Tang Jian's words,
"Let Gao Biaoren, as the envoy sent to Japan, send the Japanese envoy back to the Tang Dynasty.

Recognize the Wa Kingdom as a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, allow the Wa Kingdom to pay tribute every year, and establish a good relationship between the two parties. "

"I obey!" Tang Jian saluted Li Shimin respectfully when he heard Li Shimin's words.

At this time, Tang Jian was about to withdraw, but Li Shimin said, "When you asked Gao Biaoren to go to Japan, he took the route of the Bohai Navy.

In addition, go to see King Yan's life in Youzhou, ask him to write a memorial, and hand it over through Honglu Temple! "

"Obey!" Tang Jian didn't expect Li Shimin to say this, so he couldn't help saluting but said again,
"Since the sage has mentioned King Yan, is he going to send envoys to Goguryeo to discuss trade matters?"

"The King of Yan wrote a letter, saying that he has just arrived in Youzhou and needs to be familiar with Youzhou affairs, so there is no need to worry about this matter.

After he is familiar with the affairs of Youzhou, he will naturally apply to the imperial court. Just send someone to prepare the materials of Goguryeo first! "

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Tang Jian replied to Li Shimin, "Obey."

Seeing that Tang Jian had nothing to do, Li Shimin waved his hand, and Tang Jian withdrew from the Liangyi Hall.

The letter sent by Li Tai with the help of Li Shimin naturally reached Du Chuke's hands immediately.

After Du Chuke received the letter, he immediately found Lu Cai, Wei Xu, and Peacock, and they met together.

After the four of them met, Du Chuke took out their respective letters from his hand and delivered them to several people for them to watch.

Several people took their own letters, and in the end it was Du Chuke who said,
"Let me tell you first, the King of Yan is going to build a small county like Gaoling in the Youzhou area.

Therefore, bad people are needed to suppress the rebels. I hope Wei Xu will lead some bad people to the north to help him maintain law and order. "

"It's difficult to arrange bad local people if they get married and have children, but some lonely people can be persuaded to let them be dispatched to Youzhou as the core!" Wei Xu said when he heard Du Chuke's words.

"Relax the conditions so much that you can take your family to Youzhou!" Du Chuke thought for a while, knocked on the table and said,

"The king of Yan has always thought that there are not enough people in his work. Now, even though the king of Yue has brought a lot of brocades to the north with a lot of wealth and wealth, if he wants to build a small town from scratch, the most important thing is manpower. This may not be the case. It can be bought with money!

I'm going to persuade Liu Shenwei to send a medical staff to Youzhou, and you also find a way to bring all the family members of the bad people who are willing to go north with the army! "

"This..." Wei Xu was a little dazed when he heard Du Chuke's words, but he didn't expect Du Chuke to be so decisive.

Seeing Du Chuke's eyes turned towards him, Peacock immediately replied:
"The King of Yan asked me for the Weaver Girl and the workers of the coal industry, and I will definitely send the workers and family members of the coal industry to me too!"

"En!" Du Chuke was very satisfied with Peacock's attitude, but added, "That's not enough.

King Yan wanted the power of salt and iron from the imperial court. Although King Yan is focusing on making salt now, he wants to wait until he is free to pay attention to ironware.

Peacock, although King Yan hasn't said anything yet, we have to prepare first, recruit more or less ironworkers, or even open an ironwork workshop by ourselves, and raise these blacksmiths first.

When the king of Yue greeted him, he just sent someone over there. "

"Understood, Magistrate Du!" Peacock looked serious when he heard Du Chuke's words, and promised to complete the task.

Du Chuke looked at Lu Cai, and said, "Chu Zhi, what kind of help does King Yan ask for from the Agricultural Institute?"

"It's mainly about the exchange of students. King Yan hopes to send back the exchange students from the Youzhou branch who are studying here next year!" Lu Cai said, "It seems that the number of students in Youzhou University is not large, or the quality is not high. Satisfy King Yue!"

"It seems that King Yan is short of manpower in Youzhou! Li Chunfeng has been developing for so many years, what is he developing!"

Du Chuke narrowed his eyes when he heard Lu Cai's words, reprimanded Li Chunfeng for his incompetence, but then said,

"How many people can we squeeze out to send to Youzhou this year!"

"We have a huge shortage of personnel, especially to arrange some people to go to Lingnan. This is all arranged by King Yan!"

Lu Cai said with a slightly hesitant expression, "If you want to dispatch it to King Yan, I'm afraid there will be no one there!"

"No one? How can there be no one? After all, some squeezes can be squeezed out!"

Du Chuke said decisively, "First of all, some of the students who were supposed to be dispatched to Weihejinkou can be retained.

Let them choose freely, whether they choose to fight for their lives with the king of Yue, or choose to go to Jinkou to be a manager of the warehouse.

Secondly, with the end of the Zhengbaiqu project, the imperial court felt that the price of our Gaoling corvee was too expensive, so the engineering department of repairing Luoyang Palace did not fall on us.

Therefore, the corvee service in Gaoling has been quite free recently, and Wang Zhenru was asked to transfer some college students to go north to support the King of Yue. "

"Is that okay?" Lu Cai asked in surprise when he heard Du Chuke's words.

"They are neither officials nor servants. They have no affiliation with the imperial court. It is enough to keep a part of them to help the people of Gaoling with corvee. Without King Yan here, who can really use them !"

Du Chuke calmly told the truth. When Li Tai was around, he wished they could keep working.

But Li Tai left, Zheng Guoqu's project was completed, and then they seemed to have nothing to do.

The unstoppable rhythm of the project at the beginning, with Li Tai's departure, it seems that there is not so much work left!
To be honest, this is normal.

Strictly speaking, Du Chuke was only the county magistrate of Gaoling, and most of the basic projects such as Gaoling had been completed by Gaoling corvee during Li Tai's stay.

If Li Tai was still there, he might be able to repair the internal roads in Guanzhong through communication with Li Shimin.

But now, at most, Du Chuke only needed these Gaoling corvees to maintain the local infrastructure.

In this way, there is no need for so many Gaoling corvees.

"As for the third part, it's the local Mohists. I think it's better to stay in the Chang'an area and let them come to King Yan's hands, so that they can play a greater role!"

Du Chuke put forward his own idea, but it also seemed a bit arbitrary.

However, facing Du Chuke's arbitrariness at this moment, neither Lu Cai nor Peacock objected.

Because they also knew that the more authoritarian Du Chuke was, the more he could display his abilities.

This is also the main core of the three remaining. Li Tai usually let Du Chuke take the lead, because he is the kind of person who is more authoritarian, more capable, and more determined.

(End of this chapter)