Cultivation of chastity

"I've seen Duke Yongning, why are you here?"

Just when Li Tai sorted out his large and small factories in Luoyang, adjusted their layout and location, and returned to Luoyang to prepare for a big fight, he did not expect that Prince Gui of Yongning County was actually sitting in his Prince Wei's mansion.

He is leisurely drinking the oolong tea he has stored at the moment, he really treats it as his own home!

But facing Wang Gui, what can I do, I can only apologize?
After all, this is the grandfather of 66, who was old enough to run amok in ancient times.

Not to mention, he was one of the four prime ministers before Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui. In terms of qualifications, he was older than Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui.

Wang Gui stroked his slender beard and said with a smile:

"I just handed in the revised "Five Rites", and the sage appointed me as Henan Mu and Wei Wangfu to come to Luoyang to take office.

So Wei Wang, you should not be tired of the old minister! "

"How can it be!" Li Tai said upon hearing Wang Gui's words, "It's my wish to have a sage like you help me grasp the direction.

I should listen to your teaching more, why bother to say, Yongning Gong misunderstood me! "

Wang Gui didn't say much when he heard Li Tai's words, he just smiled and said,
"Don't worry, King Wei, I'm an old man who is almost ancient, and I live day by day.

Unlike you young people who are full of energy, it will not affect your administration in Luoyang, King Wei.

However, Wei Wang, the tea here is good, very good! "

"Baihe!" Li Tai said decisively, "Prepare a catty of oolong tea sent from Guangzhou for Yongning Gong, and clean up a courtyard for Wei Wangfu to live in for a long time."

After Li Tai finished speaking, he said to Wang Gui, "Duke Yongning will stay in Wei Wangfu first.

I know that the Duke of Yongning is best at distinguishing the clear from the turbid, and punishing the evil and rewarding the good. I also hope that we can join hands with the Duke of Yongning to develop Luoyang in the future. "

"Haha! King Wei is a wonderful person. Since King Wei invited you out with great kindness, then he will not be pretentious." Wang Gui said calmly.

But Bai He led Wang Gui to the room where he lived, and Li Tai looked at the direction Wang Gui was leaving, but couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, because Li Tai didn't expect that his father would actually parachute a King Wei to him. Fu down.

Wang Gui is not easy to mess with. Although his ability is also top-notch, what is really strong about him now is not his ability, but his age.

People over the age of 60 were basically regarded as long-lived people in ancient times, and this kind of people don't say they can do whatever they want, but at least if they go underground every now and then, no one can bear it.

Therefore, Li Tai wasn't afraid of someone who would hinder him, but an old man came and looked at him, even if he accidentally killed him, Li Tai felt that he would be in big trouble.

However, although there was an unprovoked guy, Li Tai didn't feel that he would definitely have a conflict with him.

After all, he is almost seventy years old, and he also wants to retire well and provide for the elderly. It would not be good to live a few more years.

In contrast, with so many people under his command, they have been out for so long, and it's time to come back.

One month is enough for them to get to know the city of Luoyang, and it will be much more convenient for them to administer.

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Therefore, after Li Tai returned to Wei Wangfu, he issued a notice to them, asking them to come to Wei Wangfu for a meeting tomorrow.

On the other hand, he came back and sorted out the next step, such as "Vientiane Shrine" and "Chang'an Luoyang Chidao Plan", Li Tai also took them out and read them, but in the end he gave them up.

Because since I really intend to develop Luoyang as the foundation, there is no doubt that the first task is to build roads.

As for the signature project "Vientiane Shrine", it is of course meaningless. Compared with it, "Chang'an to Luoyang Chidao Project" was canceled by himself.

The most important reason is that the steel produced by oneself is not enough to support such a long distance.

Li Tai picked and picked, and finally found a plan that he had thrown in a corner, blew the dust on it, and thought that was all there was to it, let's get the plan up and running first.

"My lord, it's late at night, shouldn't I go to bed?" Yan Wan asked while looking at the bright lights in Li Tai's study.

Li Tai took a look at Yan Wan, but there was a bit of surprise in his expression, and he remembered that he was married.

Li Tai said slowly, "Princess, let's go to bed first, I still have some things to deal with."

"No!" Yan Wan heard Li Tai's words, but she couldn't help feeling a little depressed, but she still responded.

"By the way, when I came back today, I saw that the courtyard is much tidier, and even the scenery of walking through the garden is quite unique. I believe you have given up a lot of thought this month, but you have worked hard!" Li Tai said to Yan Wan. .

"Where!" Hearing Li Tai's praise, Yan Wan chuckled triumphantly and said, "As long as the king likes it!"

"Since your design skills are so superior, I will entrust you with the design of the Daoshu workshop, so that the top agricultural school in Luoyang will be located here.

I will ask Lu Cai to hand over the facilities of the agricultural school to you. You must at least design a square city that can accommodate at least [-] students and teachers, and at the same time provide them with the supporting facilities of the school. "

Li Tai looked at Yan Wan, but smiled and said, "Are you confident?"

"Twenty thousand students and teachers?!" Yan Wan couldn't help being a little surprised when she heard Li Tai's words.

"En!" Li Tai nodded and said, "Do you have the confidence to challenge?"

To be honest, normally speaking, if high-ranking officials live in Chang'an's fangshi, those people may occupy a fangshi, or even one person may occupy a fangshi.

But if all of them are civilians, then generally speaking, there are at most a thousand households living in a square city. It is not an easy task to squeeze 2 people into this square city!

"Think about it slowly!" Li Tai looked at Yan Wan, smiled and said, "If it's really impossible, then there's no other way!"

"Your Majesty, please wait a few days, Wan'er will definitely give you a satisfactory answer!" Yan Wan clenched her fists and said.

Hearing this, Li Tai smiled, and said: "Then you go back first, I'll go back to sleep after I've dealt with things here!"

Yan Wan nodded obediently when she heard Li Tai's words, and didn't bother her too much.

...

After Li Tai finished finishing his plan, the next day soon came, and Li Tai obediently invited Wang Gui to come to the meeting with him.

Regardless of emotion and reason, public or private, even if this Henan Mu and Wei Wangfu showed an attitude of not caring about things, no matter what he said, I wanted to give him face.

Otherwise, if he handled everything and didn't even call him to say hello, then Li Tai felt that Wang Gui must be calling him a small report.

Seeing that Li Tai had come to inform him of Luoyang's affairs in person early in the morning, Wang Gui smiled and agreed to participate.

Soon, Lu Anshou, Bai He, Peacock, Ren Yaxiang, Tian Changgeng, Lu Cai, Wang Zhenru, Wei Xu and Zhang Sui all came to Wei Palace one after another, while Li Tai introduced Wang Gui to everyone, and everyone Naturally, it was a respectful salute to Wang Gui.

A group of people looked at Wang Gui more or less, but Wang Gui didn't pay any attention to the arrival of the crowd, and looked drowsy, as if he would fall asleep at any time.

Li Tai said, "Everyone invites you here today to let you share your experience in Luoyang.

At the same time, I have the first step plan for Luoyang's plan, please come and fill this plan together! "

As Li Tai said, he asked Baihe to copy over ten copies of the plan, and each of them had a copy.

Even when an extra copy was delivered to Wang Gui, a look of surprise appeared on Wang Gui's face.

Seeing the plan in his hand, Wang Gui smiled at Li Tai, then looked down, not seeing the tiredness just now.

""Charcoal Rice Oil Salt Sauce Vinegar Tea"" Looking at this plan, everyone present couldn't help but look a little confused?

"Yes, the first step of Luoyang's development plan is to complete the basic daily necessities of the common people, such as charcoal, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.

I need every square city in Luoyang to settle in such a supply and marketing cooperative, so that the people at the bottom can afford these seven things! "

Li Tai said firmly, "This will be a task we need to persist in this year, next year or even longer.

Basically, if these infrastructures are not done well, no matter how many people come to Luoyang, they will eventually pass away! "

Before Wu Zhou established Luoyang as the capital, the population of Chang'an was several times that of Luoyang, and the environment in Chang'an was unbearable.

But none of the people in Chang'an want to come to Luoyang. One of the most important points is that the infrastructure and some basic living materials in Luoyang can't keep up.

Therefore, Li Tai plans to develop Luoyang into a city with a population of one million, so Luoyang's infrastructure must also keep up, and besides roads, these seven things are necessary!
"Charcoal rice salt sauce vinegar tea, these are easy to talk about. I will understand that you have already made plans, King Wei."

At this time, Lu Cai said, "But what about oil? Can we have a large amount of oil to stabilize prices?"

Because Li Tai built the industry from the very beginning, it is not difficult for Li Tai to obtain charcoal fire, grain, salt and tea. Basically, if you can make wine, you can make vinegar, so the real difficulty for Li Tai to implement this policy lies in the oil.

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"Well, first of all, I have found peanuts and asked the Agricultural College to realize large-scale planting. This thing is very good at producing oil. After completing the large-scale production, the oil will be stable from then on!" Li Tai looked at everyone and said.

To be honest, Li Tai never thought that he could get peanuts.

Li Tai has always believed that this thing will not spread from America to China until the Ming Dynasty.

But unexpectedly, when Master Yuan Ke came back, the seeds in the south that he brought back contained this kind of peanut seeds, so he tried to plant them in the farmer's school. planted.

So Li Tai's words are not all speculation, but somewhat certain.

Of course, what Li Tai didn’t know was that in 1958 at the Qianshanyang primitive society site in Wuxing, Zhejiang, carbonized peanut seeds were unearthed, and the age of the stove pit was determined to be 4700±100 years ago.

In 1961, carbonized peanut seeds were unearthed again in the primitive society ruins in the Shanbei area of ​​Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province.

In addition, Guangxi, Yunnan, Jiangxi and other places have also reported wild plants with very similar shapes to peanuts.

Especially in 2007, it was confirmed by experts from the Xi'an Cultural Protection Center that peanuts had already appeared in the crops unearthed from the burial pits of the Hanyang Mausoleum 2100 years ago.

So peanuts are a local product of China, but they are all grown in the southern region, and the fruit is in the soil. Maybe some locals eat them as snacks occasionally, but there is really no one who can take this kind of thing to extract oil. .

Therefore, Li Tai was quite surprised to see it. Fortunately, the Agricultural Institute has had a hobby of collecting strange seeds since its establishment.

After all, for Chinese people, even if the planted things cannot be imported, they can still be used as medicine, and it would be good to plant them first and try them out. Since Li Tai has seen it in his previous life, he can directly use it to study its development. direction.

Hearing Li Tai's words, everyone present looked at each other, thinking that there should be nothing wrong with Wei Wang's judgment in agriculture, but they have never seen the yield that can be achieved by peanut oil extraction. It's not easy to draw conclusions directly.

It was Lu Cai who continued, "But the matter of planting peanuts is far from quenching thirst. What good supplements can King Wei have?"

"Raise pigs!" Li Tai put forward his suggestion seriously.

"Ah?" Everyone couldn't help being stunned when they heard Li Tai's words. They didn't expect Li Tai to make such a suggestion.

But Li Tai said, "We need to provide Luoyang with stable meat, so in addition to opening the poultry industry around Luoyang, I will also increase the livestock industry such as pigs, so that pork can be supplied to Luoyang.

If the common people need oil and water, they can get some fat to boil oil! "

"But Wei Wang, you once said that the upper limit of the breeding industry is determined by their feed. We have so much feed for them to eat!"

After all, Lu Cai has a solid foundation, but he quickly grasped the flaws in it.

"If it's Chang'an, I really have no choice!" Li Tai said with a calm smile,
"But Luoyang is from Youzhou in the north and Yuhang in the south. I don't want others to transport some grain to buy and sell. I just keep harvesting bran for pigs to eat. I believe that as far as Youzhou in the north and Hangzhou in the south, there are people who are willing to do it. This is the business!"

"Buy bran from Youzhou or Yuhang to feed the livestock in Luoyang!?" Everyone heard Li Tai's words, and they were a little deafened. To be honest, this kind of operation has never been done before, even if they have never thought about it!

Even Wang Gui, who had been listening by the side, his eyes lit up, and he began to think seriously.

And Li Tai continued, "We are not in Chang'an anymore, we are now in Luoyang. Since ancient times, the cost of land transportation is twenty times that of water transportation, so many things that seem unbelievable in Chang'an can be realized in Luoyang.

Because the Grand Canal connects the north and the south of China, we have to consider the layout of China as a whole! "