Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 203 Cangzhou's Plan
Yes, Li Tai underestimated Lu Cai's ability after all.

For Lu Cai, it was very difficult for him to create a plan by himself.

But there is a plan as a comparison, or even an outline, so that Lu Cai can use it as a basis to deal with similar things, it feels handy.

Under the arrangement of Lu Cai, whether it is sudden or well-known, it can be dealt with in an orderly manner.

This matter proceeded in an orderly manner under Lu Cai's rhythm, as if it was Lu Cai's natural ability.

It's like building the Luoyang Jinkou. Although Lu Cai has never experienced it, he has Ma Zhou's experience in building the Weishui Jinkou, active Gaoling corvee workers, absolutely trustworthy school students, and cloth and grain dispatched by peacocks.

Lu Cai found that it was not too difficult to build this mouth, just proceed step by step.

And it was this kind of step-by-step advancement, the orderly arrangement of one thing, but it gave everyone a feeling that Lu Cai didn't seem to have any special abilities, but looking back, Luoyang Jinkou was built at an unimaginable speed.

The plan stated that it would take a few days, but Lu Cai could really do it for a few days, not more in one day, not less in one day.

Even if accidents happen occasionally, like someone fainting from the hot weather, or local hooligans coming over to make trouble, Lu Cai will deal with them in a down-to-earth manner.

I really didn't see any unimaginable operations by Lu Cai, but he just got things done step by step.

How should I put it... When Li Tai saw Lu Cai's reply, he was really stunned.

Although Li Tai has always known that Lu Cai is not simple, after all, Lu Cai is the only one who clearly understands the spiritual talent of awakening under his command!

At the beginning, Ma Zhou handed everything over to Lu Cai, and Lu Cai did everything in an orderly manner, and Lu Cai also completed the orders he gave Lu Cai in an orderly manner.

But even so, Li Tai was still surprised to see that Lu Cai built Luoyang Jinkou in two months, and arranged the students of Mathematical Sciences and Moke in this Luoyang Jinkou.

After all, Du Ruhui led Ma Zhou, and it was not until the end of June that the Cangzhou section of the canal that had been prepared for a long time was completed.

I have to say that Li Tai was still surprised by this talent.

In addition, Du Ruhui did not prevent students from the Agricultural Institute and Youzhou Branch from taking up positions on the waterway of Yongji Canal.

However, Tianjin orders are generally the stewards and warehouse managers on the Weihe waterway, and they are dispatched directly through administrative orders to let them take up local positions, but at least they must reach the level of Jin orders, which can be regarded as small officials from the ninth rank.

In Youzhou and Cangzhou, because Li Tai has some administrative power, he can assist them to a certain extent.

But in the later states and counties, because they were already out of Li Tai's scope of rights, they had to deal with more by themselves.

In fact, Li Tai wasn't worried either. After all, Du Ruhui was finally restricted by the lower-level management of weights and measures.

As long as they open their mouths, I can't guarantee a large number, but if the number is small, a dozen or 20 people can still be dispatched.

Taking a step back, Li Tai asked Lu Cai to leave the students who are proficient in mathematics and ink science in Luoyang to polish, which is more or less prepared for Ma Zhou with corresponding talents.

If Ma Zhou and Du Ruhui are short of people, they can also dispatch talents directly from Luoyang Jinkou.

Under such circumstances, those dispatched are regarded as talents from the imperial court, not from the Yan Palace.

Although it was more or less deceitful, there was no way to do it.

After all, the imperial court really doesn't have many talents at the grassroots level. Now that there are a group of people who can take over at any time, they will naturally make do with it.

As for the matter of the Grand Canal, after Lu Cai returned to Gaoling, Li Tai didn't care much about it.

Because Li Tai's attention was once again attracted by the students from the agricultural school who were transporting supplies.

These people are all high-quality agricultural talents who graduated from agricultural colleges. If Li Tai had anything to say, he immediately dispatched a large number of cattle from Wang Xuance to start reclaiming the land around Tianjin.

Strive to complete land reclamation before the end of autumn, and spread wheat not only in Youzhou, but at least in Tianjin first.

At this time, the dredged canal did bring Li Tai a lot of convenience. At least the cattle did not need to travel slowly by land, but could be transported to the canal and flow down the river by boat, arriving in Tianjin in one day.

Let the cattle have a good rest for a day, and these cattle and farming cattle will soon be able to start working, and the operating efficiency will directly increase.

Li Tai feels that with the farming and reclamation this year and the wheat harvest next year, he doesn't need to worry about food issues in the future.

Just when Li Tai was concentrating on developing agriculture in Tianjin and even Youzhou as a whole, so that he could completely get rid of his anxiety about food, Xue Dading, the governor of Cangzhou, sent people here, hoping to use Tianjin corvee to build canals in Cangzhou.

"Has Xue Dading become the governor of Cangzhou?" Li Tai scratched his head, a little confused.

"King Yan, do you know the governor of Cangzhou?" Li Chunfeng asked curiously, looking at Li Tai's bewildered expression.

"Well, I worked together in Gaoling back then!" Li Tai nodded.

After all, I can't say that it was the Zhengguo Canal that you had no chance to build. The governor of Cangzhou participated.

How about it, are you envious or not, happy or not... Li Tai is afraid of being beaten!
"Since the king of Yan knows him, it's better to let his emissary come to talk about it!" Li Chunfeng said,
"After all, King Yan, you have the administrative power of Cangzhou, so it is only natural that Xue Cishi came to borrow someone from you."

"Okay!" Li Tai nodded, and quickly called the messenger in.

Xue Dading's envoy said, "Wang Youfang, the recorder in Cangzhou, asked the King of Yan for help under the order of Governor Xue of Cangzhou. I have a handwritten letter from Governor Xue, please read it!"

Bai He went over to take the handwritten letter from the envoy, opened it and handed it to Li Tai.

Li Tai looked at the handwriting in Xue Dading's hand, and finally understood what Xue Dading meant.

Because Xue Dading had built Zheng Guoqu with Li Tai, and had seen Zheng Guoqu's work efficiency.

When I went to the place by myself, I organized corvee labor, but in any case, I couldn't reach the efficiency of Gaoling corvee labor when Zheng Guoqu was being built.

In particular, Du Ruhui and Ma Zhou brought Tianjin corvees to work all the way, and they basically followed Du Ruhui and Ma Zhou's plan to clean up the Grand Canal, which made Xue Dading even more envious.

So, when Du Ruhui and Ma Zhou continued to go to the next state for repairs, Xue Dading sent someone to deliver a letter.

Normally, the governor of a state and county cannot communicate with each other in private.

Xue Dading couldn't even send people to the border of Youzhou, but who gave Li Tai the right to manage the internal affairs of several cities around Youzhou!

Xue Dading made a canal repair plan, and then asked someone to send it to Li Tai for revision. This is very suitable for cleaning.

Of course, the real purpose is to borrow Tianjin corvee from Li Tai, even Xue Dading expressed his opinion, as long as King Yan is willing to send this group of people to repair the canal, then the people of Cangzhou will definitely be grateful to King Yan...

Well, this guy just wants to be a white wolf with empty hands, to see if he can go whoring for nothing, and he will only lose a copy of the manuscript anyway.

Li Tai took a look at Xue Dading's entire plan. To be honest, Xue Dading's entire plan was quite detailed.

After all, everyone has experience in making water conservancy facilities, and knows how to cheat (cross out) money from Li Tai for investment.

However, Xue Dading took the initiative to submit the plan to Li Tai, which Li Tai did not expect.

I came to Datang by myself, and this is the first time in the world that I took the initiative to ask myself to invest.

Li Tai usually thinks about how to give the funds to others, and then builds this project.

Now that Li Tai took a look, there are actually people in this era who can give full play to their subjective initiative and pay more attention to infrastructure as he does.

What a talent!
Therefore, facing Xue Dading's coming to attract investment, I have to squeeze out some resources for him no matter what I say.

But the real problem is that it is easy to give him resources, how can I get back the money and food.

Not to mention Datang, even if there were no states and counties investing in states and counties in the entire history of China, it would be more difficult to operate.

If it's just corvee dispatch, it's not difficult for the entire administrative level.

But what I want is not only that, what I want is the development direction of the whole Cangzhou.

To be honest, since I came to Youzhou, I have some understanding of the districts and counties around Youzhou.

Cangzhou is located in the eastern part of the Jizhong Plain. The terrain is low and flat, with little ups and downs. There are many rivers in the territory, and it is known as "the lower part of the Nine Rivers".

There are three major water systems in the upper reaches of Cangzhou, running through the southeast and northwest, crossing vertically and horizontally, and more than 20 rivers converge into the sea at 9 places.

It can be said that regardless of the terrain, water patterns, or even the long coastline, the development of Tianjin City can be replicated in Cangzhou, and it can completely become an important granary in the north.

The most important thing is that the entire territory of Cangzhou is on the Grand Canal. Such a large granary can transport grain to most places in the north.

If Cangzhou is really irrelevant, then Li Tai said he would lend the corvee to him and he would.

But just because Cangzhou is important, Li Tai has to consider whether he wants to use this opportunity to control the development direction of Cangzhou.

After all, the current Tang Dynasty is still a feudal society dominated by farming civilization, and places like Cangzhou really have great potential.

Just like this, it is enough to build these canals in Cangzhou if it is only from the perspective of sewing.

But if we want Cangzhou to develop further, and even become Youzhou's granary, then such a plan is not comprehensive enough.

Wang Youfang looked at Li Tai suspiciously, then froze after reading the letter in his hand.

I was quite anxious about Li Tai's reply, but I was very light-hearted, and I could only wait anxiously as a recorder from Jiupin dared to say anything.

Li Tai was silent for a moment, then said to Wang Youfang, "I'll write a letter, you give it to Inspector Xue, and tell Inspector Xue that I have made arrangements for the corvee in Tianjin this year, and there are no extra corvees to be transferred out.

But if Inspector Xue is willing to wait, he is willing to lend part of the corvée for road construction in Youzhou to Inspector Xue next year. "

Upon hearing Li Tai's words, Wang Youfang immediately took the letter that Li Tai had written on the spot from Li Tai's hand respectfully, and left in a hurry to report to Governor Xue of Cangzhou.

To be honest, Li Tai didn't think that Xue Dading would think that if he hurriedly sent someone over, he would definitely lend him the corvee.

Xue Dading is more just adhering to the idea that what can be borrowed is the best, and he can't be borrowed to drag it down, so he sent someone over to try it.

In contrast, I have the idea of ​​plotting Cangzhou to some extent, but now I have not even fully developed Youzhou, but I want to develop Cangzhou, I feel somewhat like a snake swallowing an elephant.

"In any case, if you want Cangzhou to replicate the model of the entire Tianjin, and let the future development of Cangzhou develop step by step according to your own plan... this requires the approval of the imperial court!"

Li Tai thought about it for a while, and finally wrote a letter, and began to send it to Li Shimin urgently through six hundred miles.

After all, although I have the administrative power to manage Cangzhou, the right belongs to the right, and whether I can use this right still requires the approval of the court.

This first step is to promote wheat in Cangzhou. If this step cannot be carried out smoothly, then there is no need to say anything else. It is better to manage the three-acre land in Youzhou well.

Li Tai's plan for Cangzhou was the first step to formally promote wheat in the Cangzhou area, and it was soon sent to the Hall of Liangyi where Li Shimin was.

Li Shimin's eyes skipped over all the content, and Li Tai's entire plan was even more clearly seen.

To put it simply, the first step is to promote wheat planting, the second step is to promote cotton, and the third step is to rely on the ocean to develop fisheries and make Cangzhou a land of fish and rice in the north.

Since then, even if there is a famine in the northern region, grain from the Cangzhou region will be continuously transported to various parts of the north through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal for emergency relief.

Facing the development plan given by Li Tai, Li Shimin did not immediately agree to reply, but handed the plan to Fang Xuanling, saying, "Xuanling, Qingque sent a report about Cangzhou from Youzhou. The plan, come to see the details?"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Fang Xuanling frowned slightly. He hadn't heard this name for a long time. He didn't expect that the envoy from Goryeo had just left, and King Yan came to do business.

But on second thought, isn't this a matter of course with King Yan's character!

Therefore, Fang Xuanling took the proposal from Li Shimin, read it for a while, and said,
"What the King of Yan meant was to let Youzhou use the proceeds from the canal and the port for the comprehensive construction of Cangzhou.

When Cangzhou has a harvest in the future, Cangzhou will be divided into ten years, 20 years, or even 30 years to repay debts through the production of grain, cotton or seafood.

This matter needs the seal of the imperial court as a guarantee to avoid the situation of people taking money and interest in the future and not repaying the debt. "

"Xuanling, what do you think?" Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling and said.

"The imperial court's taxes and taxes come first!" Fang Xuanling said, "As long as the imperial court does not need to pay, it is always beneficial to the Tang Dynasty to let King Yan use the money and food to toss on the Hebei Road!"

Li Shimin also sighed: "Qingque has the talent of Tao Zhu, which is born out of nothing. It's great to be able to make a place rich in one place!"

(End of this chapter)