Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 206
With Li Tai's guarantee, Xue Dading heaved a sigh of relief. With King Yan behind him, it really makes people feel safe.

Anyone who has stayed in Chang'an in the entire Tang Dynasty knows that King Yan is a rich man.

He is rich not because he is rich, but more importantly, because he can make other people pay willingly.

So in Xue Dading's eyes, even if King Yan has no money, as long as King Yan agrees, money will always come.

Soon, Xue Dading stayed and started to make detailed arrangements and plans with Li Tai.

After Xue Dading came to Cangzhou, he personally traveled to many places in Cangzhou, big and small, so he came up with this water conservancy plan.

So at this moment, Xue Dading came forward, and he was barely able to draw a map of the Cangzhou area, and told Li Tai the regional advantages of the entire Cangzhou area in detail.

And Li Tai listened to Xue Dading's description, and asked Li Chunfeng to draw the topographic map of Cangzhou according to Xue Dading's dictation, according to the scale, instead of blindly feeling the elephant, talking about random things here, but he didn't even know the terrain.

Of course, the map made by Li Chunfeng in this way is very sloppy, and at most it is just a reference effect.

In fact, cartography was quite a skill-intensive activity in ancient times. Except for the special craftsmen in the palace, basically all craftsmen were in the army. Some people even made maps privately. They were basically treated as spies. Nine out of ten were not. Kill wrong.

But Li Chunfeng knows how to make maps because he has dealt with Li Dejian.

Not to mention a guy like Li Tai who had to practice drawing a map of the earth for the geography exam.

They fiddled with each other, and in the end they combined the strength of everyone to draw a vague picture of the entire Cangzhou area.

Just relying on the skill of this map, to be honest, almost anyone can be a dog-headed military advisor in troubled times.

After getting the map, Li Tai looked at the map and said,
"Since preparing for the long-term development of Cangzhou, it is necessary to make a comprehensive plan for the development of the entire Cangzhou step by step.

Which area to develop first, which area to develop later, and what the development project is, all of these need to be arranged one by one! "

"Then according to King Yan, Cangzhou should give priority to the development of agriculture!" Xue Dading looked at the map seriously, but pointed to the place where the water flow is the most dense, and said, "I am going to build Cangzhou's water conservancy in this area." facility."

"Wrong!" Li Tai shook his head, pointed to Cangzhou County and said, "The first thing to develop is Cangzhou City, Nanpi City and Wudi City.

These three cities are the core of Cangzhou, so to develop Cangzhou, we must seize these three cities.

Then use these three cities as the core of Cangzhou, and develop towards other areas of Cangzhou from point to area.

After you go back, start to promote wheat planting in these three cities this year, and first change the habit of farming corn.

I will send some students from agricultural colleges to you. Basically, they all have good wheat planting techniques.

You arrange them, give them enough fields, let them grow wheat locally, and then promote wheat! "

"No!" Hearing this, Xue Dading naturally nodded again and again, but said with some doubts, "Then what about repairing the canal?"

"It's still early!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "The next step is to recruit local conscripts and build a road that connects these three places and allows eight carriages to travel together. This can be regarded as a good preparation for the project. gone."

"Why is that?" Xue Dading felt a little dazed when he heard Li Tai's words, didn't he want to build water conservancy?

Li Tai explained, "The food in the Northland is mainly corn, and I plan to change the type of food planted in the Northland from corn to wheat.

In this way, the wheat was sown in late autumn and harvested in early summer, which freed up more time for these people to do corvee labor for the imperial court.

Moreover, working in winter is easy to kill people. If it is summer, as long as you don't perform corvee work under the sun, it will make the people easier.

At least find a way to let them serve corvee in the shadows, it's better than working in the fields in summer! "

Hearing this, Xue Dading thought for a while about the truth. It is a good thing for both parties, especially when he was planning to build a new water conservancy project and needed manpower. Thinking of this, Xue Dading bowed and said, "King Yan It is true!"

Li Tai glanced at Xue Dading, but continued to explain:
"The second is to repair the roads of these three places, in order to make these three places the core of the development of Cangzhou.

In the future, one will be in charge of grain, one in charge of cotton, and one in charge of sea salt, so that the next step can be arranged.

In the end, the local people in Cangzhou had never experienced the Gaoling model, so it was a big problem for them to use the Gaoling model directly.

We need to let them have an adaptation process, and road construction is a very good way to adapt.

This can be regarded as one of my gains from building roads in Youzhou. The people are actually not ignorant.

Just tell them what to do, what kind of rewards they will get if they do well, and how to punish them if they do not do well.

They generally do things well, and after gaining immediate benefits, they quickly learn new corvee patterns.

At the same time, this is also a selection process. Some people are selected as reserve forces for the construction of water conservancy facilities in the future, and other people are selected as the main force for reclaiming farmland to prepare for future projects.

In the second year, the corvees found that the corvees made money, so they would work harder.

At the same time, those people who have reclaimed the fields will also actively participate in the construction of water conservancy because they need canals to irrigate wheat.

At that time, if we build new water conservancy projects, it will achieve twice the result with half the effort. "

To be honest, all the work is not so easy to do, not to mention how much trouble you need to encounter during the work, the preparatory work alone is quite a headache.

But fortunately, this was in ancient times, and there was basically no need to consider human rights. As long as they could afford the food, local people were willing to help during the slack season, which reduced the cost to a certain extent.

"So that's it!" Xue Dading revealed a look of sudden realization when he heard Li Tai's words.

Originally Li Tai said a lot of things, although he has a direction, but he doesn't know how to operate, this is Xue Dading's difficulty.

But now that Li Tai disassembled the process, Xue Dading immediately understood what he should do next.

As a character who has struggled from being an official to a slave all the way to assassinate the history, for Xue Dading, he has never lacked motivation on the executive level, and his own ability is also strong enough. As long as the problem can be lowered to the state and county level, then for Xue Dading, Basically no problem.

At this moment, Li Tai is dismantling the entire strategy of developing Cangzhou from the first step into the development of Cangzhou City, Nanpi City and Wudi City step by step, instead of just talking about it on paper.

This told Xue Dading that he could basically take over and take full responsibility.

With Xue Dading's guarantee, Li Tai also breathed a sigh of relief.

Because there are reasons why I need to do this, the first point is that there are not enough cattle.

After all, the grass planting plan has just started. Even if Wang Xuance favors the cattle in terms of resources, it will not be able to make the cattle burst into production immediately. This will inevitably be a long process, and this process will inevitably make the Youzhou family Pain and happiness.

At the same time, Li Tai's reclamation of Tianjin City has only just begun.

This year, I will definitely reclaim all the land around Tianjin City, and that's the only way I will have the energy to support Cangzhou next year.

Therefore, I gave Xue Dading such a plan, which is to slightly suppress Cangzhou's demand for cattle and corvee labor.

Although I also know that this is unstoppable, but for Li Tai, one year is enough to lay the foundation of Tianjin City.

After all, as long as the land near Tianjin is fully reclaimed, there will be more work that I can do in the second year.

Next, Li Tai, Xue Dading, and Li Chunfeng began to discuss the details together.

But at this time, Xue Dading and Li Chunfeng had a wonderful cooperation, or a certain kind of chemical reaction.

Xue Dading came from the grassroots, so he is naturally familiar with how to carry out orders from the grassroots.

But Li Chunfeng likes to calculate and speak with data, as long as Xue Dading proposes how to implement it.

Then Li Chunfeng directly marked this matter with data, and put forward an approximate data.

After all the conceivable things were listed in detail, the three of them rearranged the above items to form a fairly complete overall process.

What needs to be done at each step, how many people, how many days and how many resources are needed at each step, are all listed.

At that time, if there is no progress according to the time, then take out this chart and compare it. It will be clear at a glance which link has gone wrong and what unexpected situation has occurred.

Xue Dading stared at Li Tai's operation with wide eyes, and was shocked for a moment.

Although Xue Dading has always known Li Tai's ability, after all, he was able to create the place of Gaoling from scratch, if Li Tai was incapable, then all the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty would feel ashamed of themselves .

But now under Li Tai's hands, as the executor of Li Tai's subordinates, I find that Li Tai has made a plan for you strategically, brought you funds before execution, and even implemented it in the final execution. Let the people below clearly know what they are going to do every step of the way.

Based on Li Tai's step-by-step planning, he basically regarded the people below as fools, but as long as he followed through step by step, it seemed that a different dog could walk the road well step by step.

Of course, it's a bit too much to say that, but Li Tai himself knows very well that his subordinates are really not as talented as Ma Zhou.

Not to mention the talents of the state scholars, even Xue Dading, a state-level talent like Xue Dading, does not have it himself.

I know that I need to do engineering, which requires a relatively modern worker system to be able to do it.

Even if there are students from agricultural colleges as substitutes, compared with modern engineering teams such as college students, graduate students, and doctoral students, the students from agricultural colleges can't even count as the soles of their feet.

In this way, if you think a little more about yourself, you will have more leeway in the work below.

However, with Xue Dading constantly supplementing what might happen at the bottom, Li Chunfeng put forward specific data for comprehensive improvement and planning, and Li Tai used modern thinking methods to continuously plug in and connect. Almost when the sky was getting darker, he finally put the whole Discussions on the plan have been going on, at least the overall framework has been discussed.

Li Tai couldn't help but let out a big breath, and said with a little bit of trouble:
"Okay, let's stop here today, let's refresh our minds tomorrow and make sure it's correct.

Minister, you and Wang Youfang should live in Yuewang Mansion first, and Chunfeng next door to you.

Come and lead the way, Chunfeng, and you will bring them here tomorrow. "

When Xue Dading heard this, he hesitated for a moment, and said respectfully to Li Tai, "Thank you King Yan!"

Li Tai waved his hand and asked Li Chunfeng to take Xue Dading to rest first.

Li Tai's eyes fell on Bai He and said,
"Baihe, I need you to work hard. Before we sort out again tomorrow, you should tidy it up first!"

"No!" Bai He heard Li Tai's words and nodded in reply.

Bai He watched Li Tai go back to his dormitory with a yawn, looked at the back of Li Tai leaving, muttered to see the moon rising above his head, silently raised his fist, and cheered up, "I'm going to stay up late again, Bai He, you can do it! "

When King Yue opened the mansion for some reason, Empress Changsun sent herself to Li Tai to take care of King Yan in order to take care of King Yan.

Later, the palace will ask him to ask the king of Yan for the diary, and Bai He feels somewhat guilty towards Li Tai in his mind.

Just like this, out of this guilty conscience, Bai He carried out Li Tai's orders unconditionally.

Except for one thing, she didn't want to leave Li Tai's side like the peacock, she just wanted to take care of Li Tai.

However, this kind of guilty thought quickly disappeared completely every time he faced the tasks assigned by Li Tai.

After all, being able to go back to sleep at night and let others stay and sort out these documents... is it really human?
guilt?Facing the workload of staying up all night from time to time, Bai He has no guilt.

However, seeing Li Tai struggled out of the Confucian quagmire with his own eyes, even if he became a prince who was granted the title, he still served the people and the country wholeheartedly, but it made Baihe feel a sense of honor.

I can personally participate in it, even if I am only responsible for sorting out the materials, I still have an inexplicable sense of pride.

Not only because of Li Tai, but also because of the pride that such a small person like himself can actually participate in such a major national event.

But even so, when the moon gradually rose to its peak, Baihe finally finished everything, and said,

"It's finally done, I'm going to post cucumbers when I go back..."

Li Tai got up early in the morning, and when he woke up, he saw Bai He appeared in front of Li Tai with a graceful face, and said gently,

"Yan Wang, what are you going to have for breakfast today?"

"Clear porridge, duck eggs, steamed buns, plus sliced ​​meat, ask the ministers to eat with Chunfeng." Li Tai said.

"promise!"

(End of this chapter)