Cultivation of chastity

"Do you consider Huaxia as a whole country?" Wang Gui, who was thinking on the side, couldn't help thinking.

The so-called thinking about China as a whole, even Fang Xuanling has never really thought about it in this way.

Because with the emergence of the Grand Canal, Huaxia truly connected the north and the south into a real whole.

However, the Sui Dynasty had not yet enjoyed the convenience of the Grand Canal, so it was destroyed first because of the cause and effect of undertaking the Grand Canal.

It was also the first time that the Great Tang owned the Grand Canal, so even though Fang Xuanling was almost the first prime minister of the Great Tang, due to the limitations of his time, he could not judge the shocking changes brought about by the Grand Canal, let alone make up his mind to surround the Grand Canal. Go to layout.

After all, the profession of internal affairs is very experience-based and wrong. Don't look at the feudal society in China that has been repeated, but when each dynasty was established, it basically patched up the problems that occurred in the previous dynasty to build a new system.

Therefore, Fang Xuanling, as the best civil servant in the early Tang Dynasty, knew how to restore production in the riddled Tang Dynasty.

But if he wanted Datang to prosper faster, then Fang Xuanling was not as good as Li Tai.

It's not because Li Tai is so smart, but Li Tai has really seen the post-industrialized world.

So even if Li Tai's position in the world was after one billion people, at least he knew the right direction and was firm in the direction. The only thing left was to take every step firmly!

"Of course, this matter is just the foundation!" Li Tai looked around the crowd and said, "I need you to implement this matter this year. Peacock will take the lead in this matter. If anyone needs to be dispatched, just dispatch it!"

"No!" Peacock saluted Li Tai when he heard this, expressing that he knew.

"Don't agree yet, you will be the core of Luoyang's development!" Li Tai said to Peacock.

"Me?!" Peacock was stunned when he heard Li Tai's words, it was really unimaginable!
"En!" Li Tai nodded, "The so-called Caimi Oil, Salt, Ginger and Vinegar Tea Project is only the basis for the development of Luoyang.

It is to prepare for the sudden increase of Luoyang's population in the future. To be honest, this is not the real advantage of Luoyang's development.

Luoyang's location advantage is that it is not only close to Chang'an, but also can gather the resources of the entire Guanzhong through the Grand Canal.

Therefore, the development of Luoyang is the same as that of Gaoling, find out its own position, and then develop! "

"Jinkou?" Lu Cai couldn't help but speak when he heard Li Tai's words. The most important thing for the development of Gaoling is the establishment of Jinkou.

Li Tai said solemnly: "Jinkou is only to pave the way for the development of Luoyang, the most important thing is the positioning of Luoyang itself.

I position it as the economic center of the Tang Dynasty. If the wealth of the entire Tang Dynasty wants to circulate, it must go through Luoyang! "

Listening to Li Tai's words, everyone could feel the sense of pride in Li Tai's words, and more importantly, they understood the future development direction of Luoyang, which let them know clearly how to cooperate in the future.

"So when you establish the basic material supply system of Caimi oil-salt ginger-vinegar tea, at the same time I need you to contact suppliers, large and small, and tell them the news that the basic system of Caimi oil-salt ginger-vinegar tea will be established. When I get up, I will choose a square market in Luoyang to open the night market!" Li Tai said seriously to Peacock.

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"Open the night market?" When everyone present heard Li Tai's words, their expressions became serious.

"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded, "Even this square city is just a pilot project, and it is very likely that Luoyang will be built into a city that never sleeps in the future.

But I don't like to do things overnight, open up a market first, and see what problems will arise! "

"If the night market is open, will someone fish in troubled waters and commit crimes?!" Lu Cai added.

"There will definitely be!" Li Tai nodded and said, "Wei Xu, you should know how to deal with this kind of person!"

"Also ask King Yan to entrust this matter to me, so that the thieves will not disrupt the order in Luoyang!" Wei Xu promised.

"Continue to recruit veterans and appropriately increase the number of bad people. After all, Luoyang is a big city. If there are not enough bad people, it will be difficult to manage.

In addition, you can find a way to let the local people participate in your order maintenance, and reward those who are brave and maintain order.

You go make a plan and reward me for coming out! "Li Tai said.

"No!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Wei Xu agreed to do this well.

After finishing the order, Li Tai's eyes fell on Wang Zhenru again, and said, "Zhenru, you are good at building roads.

In two years, I want you to repair the roads in Luoyang and surrounding counties, which can be regarded as a warm-up for you.

After this matter is dealt with, maybe the real burden will be handed over to you soon! "

"Huh?" Wang Zhenru looked at Li Tai with a bit of curiosity when he heard Li Tai's words, and said, "Please speak bluntly, King Yan!"

"I will tell Aye to build a road from Chang'an to Luoyang. It is best to agree, but if I really disagree, then I will build other projects!" Li Tai said slowly, "However, it will take Wait until the foundation of Luoyang is established first!"

"No!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Wang Zhenru understood the importance of this matter.

If he really builds a road from Luoyang to Chang'an, then maybe he will be able to leave his name in history, but he is also full of enthusiasm.

"Okay, almost the previous tinkering, it's almost the same.

Don't worry about those who received the job or those who didn't, because the next thing is the real thing to do, as for the talent! "

Li Tai finished checking for omissions and filled in the vacancies, and pulled out another piece of paper!

"Is this just the beginning!" Even Wang Gui, who was sitting on the side, wondered if it was too scary to work under Li Tai.

This is not using people to death, it is wishing to use the dead as a living person!
Although Lu Cai and the others were full of despair, they didn't talk nonsense. One or two immediately took the documents that Bai He had reissued, and at the same time prepared a lot of paper for them to record Li Tai's affairs.

Li Taidao, "It's still the old rule. Starting from agriculture, I will draw up the outline, and you are responsible for supplementing your own details!"

They accepted their task in despair.

Obviously, there are some things that they can't escape. Li Tai's first month of rest is not for nothing. If anyone is lazy, then let's make up for their homework in the next few days.

Li Tai said, "Although Luoyang is positioned as an economical city, the land here is fertile and flat, so it is a good place to grow food.

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Therefore, it is necessary to select several counties in the surrounding area to become the bases for supplying grain, vegetables, and meat to Luoyang, so as to supply Luoyang well, so that the people of Luoyang can eat vegetables and meat from Xinxiang.

In this way, even if there is any problem with the waterway, at least with the support of these areas, Luoyang will not fall directly into a situation where there is no food available! "

"Leave it to me to deal with it!" Lu Cai said, "I will operate these, and arrange the manpower by the way."

"En!" Li Tai nodded and continued, "The second point is to find suitable locations near Luoyang, or even the entire Duji Province, to establish food processing plants and special products.

Because we can take advantage of the canal to collect raw materials from other places, process them into finished products, and trade them to all parts of China through the Grand Canal, thus revitalizing the entire canal waterway! "

Li Tai said this, but saw that everyone present was a little confused, which made Li Tai cough a few times, and continued,

"Using wheat as an example, because there are no waterwheel mills or steam engine mills in the surrounding area, the foreign wheat can be directly transported to Luoyang in its original ecological form.

Grind into fine powder in Luoyang waterwheel mill or steam engine mill, then transport it out, and even sell it to their original origin. From wheat to flour, it is regarded as a grain processing factory! "

"Do they have to work hard to send the wheat to Luoyang, grind it into flour and send it back? Isn't it good to grind it locally?" Hearing Li Tai's words, Ren Yaxiang said that I didn't understand.

"It involves the issue of cost. You think it is very laborious, but for many people it saves money!" Li Taidao,

"And this is just an example. Compared with it, it's just a concept."

"After that, there are farm tools, but the Agricultural Society and the Agricultural Institute have done a good job, so let's skip it for now.

Then there are luxury goods specially used to cheat money.

For example, colorful pottery, tea with increasing production, and other high value-added things. "

Li Tai thought about it for a while. The only pottery in the Tang Dynasty that he had heard of was Tang Sancai. As for the only other things he could appreciate, it should be the blue and white porcelain in the late Tang Dynasty. He searched for information when he listened to "Blue and White Porcelain".

But in any case, after the silk technology was stolen, the top products on the Silk Road became pottery, tea, and sugar.

Because pottery has studied flames by itself, he is very confident that he may be able to produce blue and white porcelain in advance.

As for tea, Yuan Keshi's layout in Guangzhou was to create tea gardens and sugar cane.

As for the method of making sucrose from sugarcane, it is already available and quite mature, but the method of producing sucrose from sucrose to white sugar or even rock sugar is still being explored, but at least tea can be used as the flagship product of Luoyang City.

Because it is mainly oolong tea, or we can name it Luoyang black tea first, and get a brand to support it first.

When the tea money is earning seventy-seven eighty-eight, or even earning others' envy, come out with a tea tax, so that those who want to enter this circle have nothing to say but hate it, and then come up with other things, after all Make money, not shabby.

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"Peacock, you can make preparations for this matter first!" Li Tai said to Peacock.

"No!" Peacock nodded upon hearing Li Tai's words, indicating that he understood.

"The next step is cash crops. I'm looking for a state or a county along the entire canal, and let them make some special food such as oil, medicinal materials, or fruits, and use the advantages of the canal to let them transport things. go out!"

"Wouldn't the fruit be spoiled?" Lu Cai pointed out the problem, "If the fruit cannot be sold quickly, for the common people, it is very likely that their year's cultivation will be in vain!"

Since ancient times, food for the peasants has always been a big problem. If this happens, Lu Cai feels that there may be riots in that county. This is something Lu Cai must do his best to avoid.

"Use the canning method!" Li Tai thought thoughtfully, "I remember that in "Qi Min Yao Shu" I read, it was written, "One layer of fish, one layer of rice, the hand is pressed tightly, the lotus leaf is closed, and the mud The canning method of sealing orders to leak air.

But we can go one step further. All the food put into the earthen jar is first boiled in hot water to drive away evil spirits, and then the mouth of the bottle is sealed with water-sealing paper similar to lotus leaves and stored. The deadline can be further extended! "

Li Tai naturally knows that what he is talking about is the Apel sterilization method invented by France, but since Huaxia already has the corresponding mature technology, he naturally wants to implement the principle of borrowing, so let's use this technology to try it first anyway. Try again.

"I will ask Mo Ling to try the method you mentioned, King Yan!" Lu Cai said earnestly, "As long as this method can keep the fruit from deteriorating within a month, then I don't care about your plan to implement cash crops. be opposed to!"

To be honest, why were there few mentions of economic crops in ancient times, or that the ancients were not smart enough to know how to use the special products of their respective regions? In fact, it is still a matter of transportation speed.

If the shelf life of the fruit can be extended to one month, basically the whole country can eat it. If it can be extended for three months, it can be eaten almost all over the country.

Not to mention that what Li Tai planned was to build cities around the canal, basically the shelf life was one month, so this kind of canned fruit could definitely be sent from Yuhang to Youzhou all the way, and the exchange of goods would naturally be enriched.

"Then what must be built in Luoyang is a bridge across the falling water..." Li Tai said in a deep voice.

"There are bridges in Luoyang, right? Why build bridges?" Hearing Li Tai's words, everyone was stunned.

"Because I'm waiting for a man named Li Chun to come over, and I want him to find a way to build the Yellow River Bridge in the future. But before that, let him build the bridge on Luoshui to practice his skills!" Li Taiyi said as a matter of course .

"Who is this person?" Hearing Li Tai's words, the faces of everyone present were a bit dazed, and they had no impression at all!
"To some extent, he is one of the best people in this era!" Li Tai said with a smile.

But at this time, Zu Changming surrounded Li Chun's house in Li County with eyes on his eyes, saying,
"Li Chun is here in Li County. I am Wei Wang's personal guard chief Youzhou Zu Changming. Wei Wang specially invited craftsman Li Chun to Luoyang to listen to it!"

"Cough, cough, cough!" An old man with white hair and white beard, who was supported by a middle-aged man, walked out of the house, and said in a trembling voice, "Li... Li Chun accepts the order."

"You are Li Chun?" Zu Changming looked at the white-haired old man in astonishment, and added, "Artisan Li Chun!"

"Xiaomin is...exactly!" The old man nodded his head with difficulty.

"Forget it, I'll buy you a car and go to Chang'an." Zu Changming pressed his temple, thinking in his heart, old man, you can go to the road of Biexi, even if you die, I will die in Luoyang!