Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 233

Li Tai did not expect that the courtiers at the court had undergone such changes in a few years.

Counting carefully, it has been six or seven years since I founded the agricultural school, and it is normal for some people to be unable to withstand the erosion of time.

Now that I am back in Chang'an, I also want to see more of these veterans who have helped me.

Li Tai restrained his emotions a little and looked at Lu Caidao, "Chuzhi, how is the development of the agricultural college and Zheng Baiqu's experimental field?"

Lu Caidao: "Reporting to King Yan, after you left, the number of students graduating from the agricultural college has remained at around 5000 each year.

However, the most important part of it was basically invested in the Grand Canal Jinkou led by Du Xiang, and the Agricultural Society in Henan.

At the same time, the Guangzhou area also sends students there every year, and some students even died of illness in Guangzhou and could not return! "

Li Tai couldn't help feeling sad when he heard Lu Cai's words, and said, "Thank you for your contributions. If you have parents, please take good care of their parents. If you are an orphan, engrave his name in the school history of the agricultural school." middle.

But the exchange between Chang'an and Guangzhou must continue! "

Li Tai understands that going to a place like Guangzhou, it's a good thing to say, but this journey is the most uncomfortable.

Going to a place like Guangzhou in this era, even the official road has many bumps and bumps, not to mention people robbing houses along the way, just mosquito bites and unacceptable water and soil are enough to make people suffer.

Not to mention, no one knows what there is in the wilderness, maybe a big hungry cat ran out, and then there was nothing else.

"The roads to Guangzhou should also be planned as well as possible. Those who can take the waterway should take the waterway, and build more college strongholds along the way to facilitate the smooth travel of students."

Li Tai thought about it, and said to Lu Cai,

"When the shipping industry develops in the future, not to mention that shipping can sail thousands of miles on the sea, as long as we can ship along the coastline of our Datang, then Guangzhou will no longer be a place of exile for our Datang, but will be able to produce A treasure land of sugarcane!"

To be honest, sugar cane has been planted in Guangzhou in the past few years, and the yield per mu has also increased through the efforts of the students.

Because it is impossible to sell sugar cane directly, making sucrose is almost the only way to sell this product.

But even so, because of the rough roads and the distance from the center of Datang, it is really difficult to transport sugarcane out.

And building a canal or road can connect the Guangzhou area with the Yangtze River Basin, so the sugar industry can have a future.

Otherwise, it is a luxury, at most it becomes a military supply with the inclination of Datang's resources.

But it is only to this extent. If you want to develop further, the transportation restricts the overall development of Guangzhou.

"Lu Cai understood, so some people will let them find suitable places to live along the way, and form agricultural societies on the spot.

Now north of the Yangtze River, there are more or less sporadic agricultural societies! " Lu Cai replied to Li Tai.

Lu Cai said this, took a sip of tea, and continued, "As for the other point, it has been more than three years since the Zhengbai Canal was built, and after three years of care, the land has gradually recovered the fertility it should have.

So we began to prepare to reduce the planting of medicinal materials in Zhengbaiqu year by year, and prepared to find suitable places to plant medicinal materials in the Qiantang area of ​​Yuhang just like your previous plan, King Yan, and then transport these medicinal materials to Luoyang in large quantities through the Grand Canal.

Since you let us build a ferry in Luoyang, we have accumulated more and more supplies in Luoyang. "

Li Tai nodded. Although he left Chang'an, the Agricultural Academy was developing smoothly.

As for saving some of my supplies in Luoyang, that's because the distance between Chang'an and Luoyang is not that far away.

At the same time, because of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Luoyang is well connected to other places except Sichuan.

Under such circumstances, the materials are placed in Luoyang, which is relatively convenient for transshipment.

So after the ferry in Luoyang was built, Li Tai asked Lu Cai to build various warehouses in Luoyang.

As for not putting it in Chang'an but in Luoyang, another very important point is that Li Tai feels that if his supplies are put in Chang'an, he is afraid that his father will beat him to the wind every day.

After all, you are not afraid of thieves stealing, but you are afraid of thieves thinking about it!
"By the way, I asked you to study how the experiment of increasing the yield per mu is going? Can your battle song make farmers form the talent of the war department?"

To be honest, compared to other step-by-step arrangements, Li Tai paid the most attention to this.

However, this thing is experimental, and Li Tai is not too sure about it.

After all, such things as scientific experiments are unreasonable. If you spend money and time, you will often be in vain.

However, the biggest difference between Li Tai and the people of this era is that Li Tai has a kind of thinking of turning military use into civilian use.

So Li Tai doesn't pursue any technology that transcends the times, such as rubbing black powder with hands now, making TNT and so on.

But Li Tai believes that the military technology of a country in any era is the pinnacle of technology in this era.

It’s not that war promotes the development of science and technology, but that war itself is the most efficient model for the competitive evolution of human organizations.

For any other organization, even if it loses, there may not be no chance of making a comeback, but only in war, there is only one life, and the loser has thousands of reasons, but only the winner, that is better than the opponent.

Therefore, basically military things are relatively more efficient, extreme, and even deadly.

It's just that what Li Tai hopes is to transform the things in the army from military use to civilian use, retaining its high-efficiency features, but making these things more popular and safer.

This made Li Tai know about the talent of the war department, and he thought about how to use it for civilian use.

However, this is collective agricultural production to some extent, and it is a collective production with more than 500 people. Except for the official military settlements, this kind of situation rarely occurs in ordinary people's farmlands.

The reason is very simple, because the land that China has been in the hands of farmers since ancient times is the kind of broken and fragmented land.

This is as big as watching the farming on the Chinese land directly through satellites, and as small as the land that everyone owns, and almost no one owns a square piece of land.

In other words, even if it is a square piece, there must be a lot of fragmented cultivated land around it.

This situation has not changed much even in modern society.

If Li Tai had not passed through Zheng Baiqu and had directly encircled a large piece of land for himself, then Li Tai would not have tried the mechanized and industrialized farming model at all.

Because this model is really not suitable for the land of the Guanzhong Plain.

Therefore, Li Tai is just conducting experiments in this area, in order to prepare for the development of the black land of Heilongjiang in the future.

Although he was more or less eating what was in the bowl and thinking about the greedy appearance in the pot, Li Tai understood that there would be no future for mechanization and industrialization to be enforced on Datang's current arable land. Only the area in Heilongjiang could satisfy him. s plan.

It is the same even in modern times. In fact, whether it is the official grain output or the ratio of people to cultivated land in a region, Heilongjiang is China's leading granary.

Especially in terms of agricultural industrialization, it is difficult for China's traditional agricultural provinces to implement mechanization due to land fragmentation.

But in the black soil area of ​​Heilongjiang, it is the pattern of American big farmers.

This allows this piece of land, which is harvested at most once a year, to produce the most grain in the country.

This is not only due to the unique black soil in the Heilongjiang area, but more importantly, the farming model that almost crushes other grain-producing lands.

Therefore, the industrial scale experiment of farming that Li Tai is studying now is actually prepared to develop the land in Heilongjiang after defeating Goguryeo.

Because at that time, even if you encourage immigration, it will definitely be difficult to immigrate to high latitude areas. Even if shipping is developed by then, many people are afraid that many people will not want to go to farm.

This made me have to prepare for a rainy day. How should I tap the potential of the black land in Heilongjiang when there are many people and little land? In this regard, I must make preparations for the future.

Of course, Goguryeo must have disappeared at that time. After all, if Goguryeo was there, it would be inconvenient to develop.

The stability of the environment is the basic condition for development and development. If you don't even have this basic condition, then don't think too much about it.

"The battle song can be successfully converted into the talent of the war department!" Lu Cai said to Li Tai immediately when he heard Li Tai's words,

"However, the battle song is only effective for the students from our agricultural college. That kind of labor group is composed of other people. Although I can feel their progress, they are still far away from the talent of the war department."

"Why is that so?" Li Tai couldn't help being a little puzzled when he heard this.

After all, what Li Tai pays attention to is popularization. If it cannot be popularized, then the effect of the battle song will be greatly reduced.

Don't look at the 5000 students who graduate from the Gaoling Agricultural College every year, but these [-] people are too few for the entire Datang.

And the Youzhou Academy in Youzhou, the Jiangnan Academy in Yuhang, and even the Agricultural Academy in Guangzhou, but in fact, Li Tai felt that it was difficult for the number of students to exceed 8000 each year.

One of the most important reasons is that the agricultural school model established by oneself requires too many resources to be invested.

Not to mention the various lands in the early stage and various experimental materials in the later stage, these are all resources.

It's like the number of 211 and 985 in each province and city is relatively limited. It's not that the country doesn't want more strong schools to appear, but that there are only so many resources in each province and city, and even the resources in the country's hands. many.

Behind every strong school, there is an extremely solid economy as an important support, otherwise a good school will not be able to support it.

At the beginning, Li Tai also believed that after Liu Rengui and Chu Suiliang learned the model of establishing their own schools, these schools could be continuously established in various lands of the Tang Dynasty.

But when Li Tai saw with his own eyes that Youzhou Agricultural University did not even have 200 graduates, Li Tai knew that his school model could only be implemented by himself, and other people didn't want to, but couldn't do it.

After all, I have supported the school model through various supporting facilities, and it is difficult for other people to support the expenses of the agricultural school with the old economic model.

This is also something that I was really sure of when I came to Youzhou and saw the Youzhou Academy created by Li Chunfeng.

Others can imitate themselves to establish agricultural colleges, but they cannot learn how to provide stable economic support for agricultural colleges.

Since ancient times, education has always been the most expensive industry. This thing is a bottomless pit. As long as you still have money, you will definitely find that there are still places worth investing in education.

"I don't know the reason yet!" Lu Cai shook his head to Li Tai, "I have also tried other classes in Feileke, and basically they can form the talent of the war department, so as to improve their efficiency in field work."

Hearing this, Li Tai nodded to Lu Cai, "Continuing to study is very important. After all, it is only the talents of the war department mastered by agricultural students. It is different from the talents of the war department that can be mastered by ordinary people all over the world."

"No!" Lu Cai nodded, King Yan's thoughts are always so grand.

It's just that Yan Wang is just an idea, but what really comes into practice is that he has to run and break his legs.

However, Lu Cai suddenly thought of something, and said to Li Tai, "King Yan, can you visit Duke Dai on this matter?"

"Li Jing?" Li Tai was a little bit surprised when he heard this, and said, "He can let you into his house?"

"Is it difficult for Mr. Dai to talk? When we harvested wheat, he met him. He felt that Mr. Dai was very talkative. He even invited me to sit at his house!"

When Lu Cai heard Li Tai's words, he felt a little dazed,

"Originally, I thought that as the right minister of the court, it's not good to bother him about these things.

But a few days ago he resigned quickly, and now he has become a loose official. If you have military questions, it shouldn't be a big deal..."

"Li Jing resigned because of a sudden illness?" Li Tai was even more surprised when he heard this.

To be honest, compared with Xue Rengui, Li Tai really doesn't know what will happen in the future, after all, he doesn't read storytelling very much.

But Li Jing, after all, he has watched a lot of TV dramas of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Jing is naturally a person who cannot be avoided.

Even if I have read some historical miscellaneous books about Li Jing himself, I know that Li Jing just resigned from Li Shimin on the front heel, and it seems that he doesn't know where the foreign races in the frontier invaded Datang.

Then when Li Jing returned home, he was afraid that the fish pond for fishing hadn't even been built yet, so he was dragged by Li Shimin to fight again, adding to his credit for destroying the country.

"Since Dai Guogong has resigned, it's okay to ask Dai Guogong a lot, Xue Rengui, Zu Changming!" Li Tai shouted decisively.

"In?!" The two door gods who were at the door immediately reacted and said to Li Tai.

"These days, you follow Lu Shanzhang first, especially when Shanzhang goes to Daiguogong's house, you are the students of the agricultural school, follow the past to listen to the military opinions of the military god, and how much you can steal is your ability!"

The two of them looked at each other somewhat in blank dismay. They really did not expect that King Yan would not go offline like this.

After all, when he was in Youzhou, the king of Yan displayed the demeanor of a superior and wise man. He laid out the entire Youzhou with his fingers, and made all the forces in Youzhou big and small for his own use.

But back to Chang'an, no, even before entering the gate of Chang'an, why did King Yan's demeanor of a wise man disappear completely, and he even said things like stealing things so openly.

"Why don't you want to?" Li Tai looked at the two and asked.

"The minister is willing." Xue Rengui replied decisively, and Zu Changming immediately realized that it was Li Jing, Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, why didn't he go if he had the opportunity to steal his teacher!
As for Peacock, Lu Cai and Du Chuke, they all looked up at the ceiling.

Obviously, he was a bit unfamiliar with the grown-up King Yan at first, but now looking at King Yan's flexible bottom line, he really is very King Yan.

(End of this chapter)