Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 244
Just as Li Tai expected, the news that Li Tai called everyone was delivered to Li Shimin's table almost that night.

However, Li Shimin took a look and put it aside. After all, Li Shimin didn't value the meeting itself, and half of the people inside were stuffed in by himself.

What Li Shimin really valued was what was in Li Tai's meeting. After all, Li Tai might come up with something that would catch his eyes at any time.

Generally speaking, Li Tai would ask Baihe to take the meeting minutes, and he would get a copy when the time came.

It has to be said that Li Tai's habit of taking meeting minutes is Li Shimin's favorite.

Although Li Tai's ability always surprised Li Shimin, Li Tai made Li Shimin feel at ease. No matter how you look at it, Li Tai is really sincere to him.

In contrast, Li Chengqian is different. Although Li Chengqian has been staying in the East Palace, since his foot was injured, Li Chengqian's personality has changed a little, becoming more sensitive and autistic. The contradiction is even greater.

Sometimes Li Shimin would also sigh, why Chengqian didn't have the good habit of writing a diary like Qingque, or making meeting minutes, so that he could clearly understand his psychological feelings and purpose, otherwise, he would see it even if he was the emperor through the hearts of the people. Impenetrable!

To be honest, compared to Li Chengqian's belief that his men were gathered because of his charm, Li Tai knew very well that at least half of his men came to him because of Li Shimin.

So instead of being secretive about things, it's better to be more open, so that Li Shimin can completely control himself!

In other words, no matter how noisy he is, it is actually under Li Shimin's control.

Li Tai doesn't think there is anything wrong with this, because there is no so-called absolute freedom in this world itself.

It's better for Li Shimin to draw a boundary for himself than to meet a broken head.

It is not necessary, but a question of efficiency.

On the second day, Li Tai went to the Agricultural Academy with his personal guards early in the morning, and when Li Tai brought Bai He and Lu Anshou to the conference room of the Agricultural Academy, Lu Cai, Du Chuke, Peacock, Wang Xuance, Liu Shenwei, Wang Zhenru, Wei Xu, and Ren Yaxiang are already waiting in this conference room.

As for Xue Rengui and Zu Changming guarding the door, Tian Changgeng led Li Tai's personal guards to patrol around the courtyard.

Li Tai's personal guards are divided into three parts, and Tian Changgeng is the outstanding one among the agricultural colleges.

Although there is a clear gap between the talented Xue Rengui and the illustrious Zu Changming, they are conscientious and diligent, and they are very resilient in doing things.

Li Tai promoted him, more or less because Tian Changgeng was regarded as the orthodox representative of the agricultural school, and he was an out-and-out son of a good family.

Therefore, some students from the agricultural colleges will naturally gather around him, and they can be regarded as one of the benchmark figures of the agricultural colleges around Li Tai.

Of course, among agricultural colleges, the most famous one now is Chen Kai, who writes the classics from time to time, and hangs out in Gaoling with a pen.

At this moment, everyone stood up when they saw Li Tai's arrival, and said to Li Tai, "I have seen King Yan."

Li Tai nodded, and said: "Everyone sit down, since I returned to Chang'an, it's the first time I hold a meeting with you, and Bai He will post today's topic."

Bai He nodded, and took out some blank papers, on which today's agenda had already been written:
"The first is to conquer the arrangement of Tuyuhun, the second is to integrate the entire system under the Yan Palace, and the third is to increase support for Luoyang."

"First of all, I know from Dai Guogong that I, together with my own soldiers, will have the right to deploy 3000 troops and manage a medical camp of [-], so the number of people under my direct management is [-]!" Li said. Tai looked at the crowd.

"The right to deploy two thousand troops?" Ren Yaxiang, as a soldier who is most familiar with the military, said,
"Report to King Yan, even if you count the reserve of your own soldiers, there are only six hundred. Where do the remaining soldiers come from?"

"What Dai Guogong means is that the students from the agricultural college who mastered the talents of the Ministry of War selected 500 people to try their blades on the battlefield!" Li Tai also replied with a little helplessness.

Because Li Tai knew that it was Li Shimin who actually gave the order, not Li Jing.

"Student?!" "The talent of the war department?" Both Lu Cai and Ren Yaxiang sighed in surprise.

Li Tai looked at Lu Cai's surprised expression, and said, "Chu Zhi, although I also know that students from agricultural colleges should not be used here, and they themselves don't hone their fighting skills like military soldiers, but this If there is no other way, you can choose 500 people!"

"No!" Hearing the helplessness in Li Tai's words, Lu Cai could only agree.

However, Lu Cai thought for a while, and said, "Wouldn't it be better for King Yan to conquer Tuyuhun this time...?"

Li Tai stretched out his hand to stop what Lu Cai wanted to say, and said, "But I also want you to follow, so that people can be at ease.

But the importance of Luoyang is unquestionable. I think you will build a new Luoyang school in Luoyang relying on Luoyang port.

Of course, I will talk about this matter when I come back from Tuyuhun, but the preparatory work can be done first.

After all, Luoyang is not a frontier place, and the land available to us is limited, so we need to find a suitable place first. "

"King Yan, in fact, this matter can be entrusted to someone!" Du Chuke said calmly.

"Huh?" Li Tai looked at Du Chuke in surprise when he heard Du Chuke's words.

And Du Chuke said to himself, "A certain person has been the magistrate of Gaoling County for three years, and every time he is assessed, he is top-ranked, so he should be promoted.

It may be a bit difficult to become a Chang'an order, but it may not be impossible to compete for a Luoyang order. "

"If that's the case, who do you plan to entrust Gao Ling to?" Li Tai asked in confusion when he heard Du Chuke's words.

To be honest, Du Chuke wanted to be a Luoyang order, but there were really few people who could compete with him.

However, this has nothing to do with the assessment of the first grade in the third year of his becoming the magistrate of Gaoling County. At most, he is just qualified. The more important reason is that he is Du Ruhui's younger brother.

Luoyang is the core for Du Ruhui to build the canal. At the same time, although the Jingzhao Du family is not as top-notch as the five families and seven surnames, it is also a first-class family.

"County Chancellor Han Yuan, the son of Han Zhongliang, Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, is proficient in government affairs. He has taught in an agricultural college for two years. He is a young talent!" Du Chuke explained to Li Tai.

"Since Chu Ke thinks it's suitable for you, then you can recommend it!" Li Tai nodded, then looked at Lu Caidao,
"Since Chu Ke makes such an arrangement, I won't say anything, but are you sure you don't want to stay at Gaoling Academy?"

Lu Caidao: "The school is already stable, even if another person comes over to be the principal, there won't be too many problems.

Maybe I will be the head of the Luoyang Academy in the future, and it will be more convenient to get out now!
As for the principal of the school, I think old Mr. Sun Simiao is suitable. "

"Mr. Sun..." Li Tai was a little stunned when he heard Lu Cai's recommendation. He looked at Liu Shenwei and said, "Mr. Sun really wants to be the head of this school?"

"If it's just a name, Master shouldn't care about it!" Liu Shenwei smiled wryly.
"Master's "Thousand Gold Prescriptions" has completed the first draft, and the next step is to need a lot of people to test and check.

If you can become the head of the agricultural school, I believe it will also bring considerable convenience to "A Thousand Golden Prescriptions". "

"In that case, I'm relieved." Li Tai also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Sun Simiao was staying here and finally showed his emotion.

In any case, with such a heavyweight person in charge of the Agricultural Institute, it is much easier to handle things by himself.

"Next is the preparation of supplies!" Li Tai looked at Wang Xuance, and said, "This time the war medical camp needs one man and two donkeys, as for my personal guards, one man and two horses, and as for the temporarily recruited farm students, give them Everyone prepares a horse to store their belongings, even if they can't become knights, I will let them become mounted infantry!"

When Li Tai said this, he said to Wang Xuance, "Xuance, now I am urging you to Youzhou at the speed of [-] miles, can you prepare all these livestock and send them to Gaoling before going to Tuyuhun?"

"I'm afraid it won't work!" Wang Xuance shook his head and said, "If you are in Luoyang, there is a canal for shipping, and you can make it there day and night.

However, there is only land between Chang'an and Luoyang, and it is impossible for livestock to travel within twelve hours, so they need to allow enough rest time.

Otherwise, whether it's illness or drag, it will cause other problems, at least don't expect them to continue to travel long distances to the battlefield.

Even if you urgently notified Youzhou to send the livestock over on a large scale, it would take at least one and a half months. "

"The time given to me is a bit short!" Li Tai lamented, if he could give him an extra month, he would be able to dispatch enough horses from Youzhou to Chang'an.

At this time, the peacock said, "King Yan, you asked me to prepare the supplies for the medical camp earlier, and I have already prepared the donkey.

As for the missing horses, if they can be dispatched from Youzhou, I suggest you find someone to help, maybe he can help you solve this problem. "

"Who?" Li Tai asked Peacock when he heard what Peacock said.

"Longsui Zhang, Minister of Taipusi!" Peacock said, "You have horses on hand, but it's just that you can't deploy them from Youzhou because of the urgent time. This way, you can say hello to Zhang Wansui, and use Taipusi first. The horses are in emergency!"

"This is a way to consider!" Li Tai nodded and said to Peacock, "Your idea is very good."

Peacock also showed a smile when he heard Li Tai's praise, obviously very happy with Li Tai's attitude.

"I will go to Zhang Wansui personally. Besides, the armor of my soldiers will be allocated on behalf of the guild, but the weapons need to be refined by us. In a month, the weapons of two thousand soldiers should be able to come out! "

Peacock assured Li Tai confidently, "We need the imperial court to issue a certificate for weapon refining, so we can start refining.

With the help of Immortal Sun, the coal combustion technique has become more stable, and the temperature at which it can burn is getting higher and higher.One month is more than enough. "

With the use of transparent containers like ice in winter, Sun Simiao's pursuit of transparent containers is becoming more and more urgent, because many researches have stagnated because of the lack of transparent containers.

As for Li Tai's original idea of ​​transparent glass, Sun Simiao also began to try in this direction.

Because this thing was technological in ancient times, Wang Chong's "Lunheng" mentioned a transparent utensil called Yangsui, which can condense light into fire, which is suspected to be transparent glass.

It's just that the entire Wang family of Wang Chong didn't know where they went. Maybe they died in the plague at the end of the Han Dynasty, or maybe they didn't die in the war in Wuhuluanhua. There is nothing real.

But it is undeniable that as long as the evidence of this thing is found in the books, proving that this thing is not Li Tai's nonsense, then both Sun Simiao and the artisans under Li Tai's command are willing to overcome this problem.

After all, China's scientific and technological development often relies on archaeology, and even modern times often have such surprises.

For example, in the era of the planned economy, many scientific research projects were cut off. Now that you have money, you can look back and pick them up. You will find that many research projects can barely keep up with the times. I really don’t know how the predecessors developed them. .

Because Li Tai had mastered the coal resources, Sun Simiao had enough courage to slam the flame stability or flame temperature, not to mention, let's see where the limit temperature of coal combustion is.

The research on this kind of thing is the most tricky thing. Various experimental combustion aids, kilns of various materials, and even the coal itself, some people take the coal and burn it, slowly developing towards coking coal.

Of course, it's just a direction of development, but with this direction, it's not like doing useless work after all.

Therefore, in order to study more transparent colored glaze, the efficiency of coal combustion was unintentionally improved.

However, Li Tai also asked Sun Simiao to study how to determine the temperature and accurately mark every rise or fall, instead of relying on craftsmen to work based on vague experience.

As for the measurement of temperature, Li Tai directly takes the temperature at which ice melts into water as zero degrees as the standard, the above is positive, and the below is negative.

This is easy to distinguish, but the real difficulty is why each degree has this degree, which requires Sun Simiao to find a way to find out, anyway, Li Tai really has no way.

And Sun Simiao also knew Li Tai's character, so he accepted this task, but the progress was very slow.

In fact, it is not only Sun Simiao who is researching, but the entire agricultural academy is trying to overcome this problem.

Because if the temperature can be accurately positioned, it will bring the greatest significance to agricultural production.

It's just that water is used as a reference standard at most now, because water is the most common substance that realizes the transformation of three forms at room temperature, but if you want to study the specific scale of temperature or even a thermometer based on water, you can only say keep it up.

However, although these three years of research have not succeeded in researching temperature, a standard that can be accurate to degrees, at least it is a by-product of these researches.

Great breakthroughs have been made in the standardization of coal products, the ability to control the flame temperature, and the continuous maturity of the ironmaking process.

Li Tai felt that it would not be impossible to make steel in a blast furnace, but after thinking about it, Li Tai decided to wait for the coal burning skills to improve a bit.

After all, even transparent glass can't be fired, so it's a bit ambitious to expect it to be able to make steel now.

To be honest, Li Tai is really not familiar with this aspect, but he just feels that steel is the fundamental skill of the country, after all, it is higher than the skill of refining transparent glass.

So Li Tai started climbing with the idea of ​​one difficulty after another, and solved the problem of transparent glass first.

(End of this chapter)