Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 312 Wang Gui's Straightforwardness

Li Tai looked at Chu Suiliang hesitated, and said slowly:
"Guangzhou will specialize in growing black tea, that is, Luoyang black tea. In Yuhang, I plan to focus on growing green tea.

In the second Luoshui game four years later, I will let half of the chess players choose Luoyang black tea, and half of the chess players choose Yuhang green tea.

Use Luoyang black tea to match it, no matter whether you win or lose, I believe that this green tea will be more or less famous by then.

And as long as the money and food are sufficient, the graduates of Jiangnan University may not exceed those of several other schools, but at least they will not be far behind. "

When Chu Suiliang heard Li Tai's words, he was a little surprised. He didn't expect Li Tai to use Luoshui Zhiyi like this.

Li Tai smiled, took a sip from his teacup, and said, "Actually, when you plant the tea, I will buy all the tea, and then the Jiangnan Agricultural Institute will not be short of funds.

However, the development of Jiangnan Academy is ultimately the development of Jiangnan Academy itself, and it is only the cornerstone of your development, Mr. Chu.

If you develop the Jiangnan Agricultural Institute to be well-known in the world, and you can earn enough wealth for the imperial court.

Then you will naturally have an advanced stage, and when the time comes, you will be taken care of by the court. I believe that wearing red and purple is just around the corner! "

After hearing Li Tai's words, Chu Suiliang said calmly:

"The king of Wei gave up his Luoyang black tea for the Jiangnan Agricultural Institute, what a bold move!"

"Master Chu, I'm a banker. If I don't cultivate those who bet, then I'm going to play with myself!"

Li Tai looked at Chu Suiliang and said, "So, whether it's Luoyang black tea or Yuhang green tea, they are all Tang's teas for me!"

"I understand, King Wei is as beautiful as the moon, which is admirable!" Chu Suiliang understood that Li Tai was talking about tea, and it was also a school.

In Li Tai's eyes, the Agricultural Institute and the Jiangnan Institute that he established by himself can actually treat them equally.

And Chu Suiliang changed the subject when he came here, "By the way, when I came here, I saw your personal guards in the palace of Wei were fierce and aggressive, but I don't know if this is their usual training?"

Seeing that Chu Suiliang was no longer entangled, Li Tai understood that Chu Suiliang agreed to this matter.

As for the minutiae of his personal guards, Li Tai answered calmly,

"There was a war in Qinghai, and the soldiers stationed on the frontier lost a lot.

And that war department is different from other war departments. It is mostly composed of students from universities, and it is difficult for soldiers from other war departments to fill in.

So I asked my personal guard to make up the number! "

"So that's how it is!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Chu Suiliang was a little surprised, but looked at Li Tai with some doubts.

After all, Wei Wang's personal guards went from Li Tai's side to the West Sea, thousands of miles away. For the soldiers, they might not be willing to go, and for Li Tai, it would be a matter of compromising the strength of his own army, but he did not expect Li Tai to agree.

Chu Suiliang didn't like to comment on Li Tai's choice, but said to Li Tai, "Wei Wang is righteous!"

And Li Tai knew that these personal guards used to be stationed for three years, or replaced the dead to complete the corresponding military service.

My own decision is based on what Chu Suiliang said, because of the particularity of the soldiers in the academy, it is not easy to replenish them.

Students from agricultural colleges can only be supplemented every year when they graduate, and there is really no so-called reserve team at other times.

On the other hand, it was because Li Tai's personal guards had also been to Qinghai, knowing the environment there, more or less no one would be willing to go there.

But even so, Li Tai decided to recommend them to the past.

However, Li Tai first expanded the number of reserve soldiers from the original 100 to 200, but the number of official guards around him dropped to 400.

Among them, 200 people in the reserve were added to Qinghai at any time.

And it was Li Tai who took the initiative to express to Li Shimin that his personal guards could be added to the school soldiers in the frontier.

There is no way, I am in a border area like Youzhou, and there are 600 personal guards around me under the mixed dragons and snakes. Not only is it inconspicuous, but Li Shimin also allows an additional 100 people to form a reserve. Obviously Li Shimin is eager to get more people protect yourself.

But now, I am in Luoyang instead of Youzhou, and now in the core city of Datang, not in the border areas.

In this way, whether it is necessary to continue to maintain more than 500 personal guards around him is a question.

You must know that although these personal guards receive benefits from Li Tai's place, they also receive a royal salary at the same time.

Therefore, Li Tai dispatched and began to instill the guards with various ideas of defending the country, and at the same time sent the 200 people who needed training the most to Qinghai to be trained as government soldiers.

These people stayed in their jobs without pay, and went to Qinghai as a reserve. The position of their personal guards has been reserved for them. When they come back, they are still their own soldiers, but now they need to be tempered.

At the same time, the imperial court still supported Li Tai's practice of supplementing his own guards with frontier soldiers.

After all, this is tantamount to distributing Li Tai's power to the border areas. Otherwise, if Li Tai has always had more than 500 personal guards around him, and if the princelings are not worried about whether Li Tai will suddenly put all his eggs in one basket, no one can tell. .

After all, this number is not too many, but it is not too many, at least it is definitely enough to show the talent of a war department.

"Qing Que uses her personal guards to support the soldiers of Xihai County. It seems that she puts state affairs first!"

Li Shimin said it proudly, but soon his face was still frowning, and he said,

"However, Qingque expresses that he is willing to build an ironworks in Luoyang, supervised by the imperial court and managed by him, and allow this ironworks to forge armor. I don't know what you want!"

To be honest, in Li Shimin's opinion, Li Tai took the initiative to let his personal guards serve as a substitute for the government soldiers in Qinghai, which was a gesture to show his sincerity.

It is also true that Li Shimin actually does not object to Li Tai's way of privately run by the public supervisor.

At this moment, several ministers heard Li Shimin's inquiry, and Hou Junji, who was the minister of the military department, came out decisively,

"I support the construction of an iron factory in Luoyang. After all, if we can save [-]% of the cost of the armor, we can build a few more horizontal knives!"

After Hou Junji finished speaking, he looked around. He always felt that after he expressed his support, there would always be civil servants who would jump out to refute him. Hou Junji was quite puzzled as to why he was so quiet this time.

But in fact, the ministers who followed Li Shimin to discuss the construction of the ironworks more or less saw how Li Tai transformed the food stamps through the food stamps that day, and then wandered around in the hands of the soldiers. I heard he made a lot of money.

So they all believed Li Tai's words that letting him build the ironworks could save [-]% of the cost.

Moreover, the construction of an ironworks capable of forging armor in Luoyang will make it relatively more convenient for Datang to transport armor and other armaments to designated locations in the future.

To be honest, none of the ministers present would object to this matter. After all, if you can deduct something from Li Tai, why don't you deduct it yourself!

The real problem is that I need Li Tai to spend money to build this arsenal, but at the same time I need to supervise Li Tai, and I can't let Li Tai use this arsenal to secretly build armor for himself.

After all, if Li Taizhen did this kind of thing, it would be so easy to say that Li Tai was going to rebel, and it was so serious to say that when the court spent money, if such a comfortable lubricating oil disappeared, it would be thanks to Tang!

"Sage, I think we need a minister who understands King Wei's true abilities and understands the rules and regulations of the Tang Dynasty. An upright person should go and have a good talk with King Wei!"

At this time, Fang Xuanling stood up and said, "Otherwise, we will make a condition, and the king of Wei will make a condition. Luoyang and Changgan are hundreds of miles away. When we have a good deal, I'm afraid we don't know how long it will take!"

"You mean, leave this matter to Shu Jie to talk to Qing Que slowly!"

Li Shimin came to his senses, because Wang Gui was too old to work to his death by his side, so he sent him to Qing Que to be the governor of Yue Wang's mansion, so as to relax.

After all, although Li Tai can make money, he has never been a miser. In fact, Qingque's work is quite extravagant.

Just eating one noodle made his cook come up with a hundred ways to eat it, and even published a book and a biography.

So just let Wang Gui enjoy life with Li Tai, and help him keep an eye on Li Tai not to go astray.

But now it seems that Wang Gui is a good candidate after all, Li Shimin thought of this, and said to Fang Xuanling,

"Leave the court's bottom line to Shu Jie, and Shu Jie will talk to Qing Que slowly!"

"No!" Fang Xuanling was relieved to hear that Li Shimin had made such a decision. The most important thing was that the pot was thrown out.

To be honest, it's not that Fang Xuanling doesn't stick to the pot, but that Wei Wang and the crown prince are too sensitive after all.

What's more, this matter is related to armor. If Li Tai really rebelled in the future, whoever agreed to Li Tai's construction of the ironworks, I am afraid that none of them would have to run away, and they would definitely be involved.

So leave this matter to Wang Gui, the organization trusts you!
All the courtiers in the court made their decisions as quickly as possible.

After all, if he hesitated for a while, what should Li Shimin do if he asked himself to meet Li Tai?

Fang Xuanling could see the danger inside, but none of the extremely human ministers could see it!
There is only Wang Gui, what are you doing so well, the well-behaved Minister of Rites said that he would resign when he was old.

As a result, Li Daozong did it for the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and he was sent by Li Shimin to Li Tai to be the head of Wei Wangfu Shi to relax.

Those present don't care whether you want to invest in advance or if you really want to quit.

Who told you that you are now the head of the history of Yongzhou Mujia Wei Wangfu, if you don't let you solve this matter, then let someone solve it!
Therefore, the decree that should have been in the three provinces and six ministries of the imperial court theoretically should have wandered around for several times, was sent to Wang Gui by the soldiers at an expedited speed of [-] miles in just one day!
After receiving this order, Wang Gui looked at the purpose of the edict, and for some reason, Wang Gui only felt that Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Wen Yanbo, etc. were vaguely floating on it. malicious.

Sure enough, those who can be the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty don't have a good thing, they just know how to bully an old comrade who is about to retire.

However, the appointment and removal have all come down, what can I do, I will discuss it with King Wei.

Thinking of this, Wang Gui moved his body and walked towards the study of Prince Wei's mansion.

To be honest, Wang Gui has been living in Wei Wang's mansion these days, and his life is still very good.

In the morning and at noon, the meals are free to pick up, and in the evening, there is also a large table of delicious food.

Because I am the head of Wei Wang's mansion, I can eat what King Wei can eat, and I can eat what King Wei can't eat.

So during this period of time, I have been living a happy life, but now this happy life is coming to an end.

After all, this matter has been discussed, and the person in charge of the final supervision is afraid that it will fall on him in the end.

Wang Gui thought of this, but felt that he was a hard worker after all!
Soon, Wang Gui came to the study, and Li Tai lay down inside to read books related to cloth. Seeing Wang Gui coming to him, he immediately got up and went out to invite Wang Gui in.

After all, let’s not say anything else, just Wang Gui is 67 years old, and I should be respectful to him, that’s what I should do.

"Chang Shi, you came to look for Qing Que, but what's the matter?" Li Tai looked at Wang Gui's arrival and couldn't help asking in doubt.

"You want to build an ironworks forging armor, and the court has approved it! This is a condition!"

As Wang Gui said, he sent the memorial to Li Tai's desk, and motioned Li Tai to take a look.

Li Tai was not polite, but picked up this memorial, after reading it, Li Tai put it down, and said in doubt,
"This is the bottom line?"

"It's the bottom line!" Wang Gui nodded and said to Li Tai, "King Wei will not let the old man suffer!"

"The imperial court agrees with the mode I proposed as a governor, but I need [-] yuan to purchase armor technology." Li Tai smiled and said, "The imperial court is so short of money?"

"That's not true, I just found a reason to sell it to you just because you are rich.

After all, the courtiers in the court also know that if you can really reduce the cost of casting by two levels, it will be of great help to my army from the Tang Dynasty.

Now those few people in the court are not famous ministers in the world, why don't they know the priorities, at most they want me to take the blame."

Wang Gui looked at Li Taidao, "But you are too rich, and since the court this year, the plague has been rampant first, and then there are disturbances at the border, and even Jiannan Road is not peaceful...

So there is no reason for the imperial court to dislike having too much money in their hands, and then you just ran into it, King Wei! "

"Then you, tell me that...but why?" Li Tai looked at Wang Gui and said, "Chang Shi, you are too frank."

"Because you are not a person who likes to go around in circles, King Wei!" Wang Gui smiled and said,
"Also, King Wei, your real purpose is not just to cast armor to the ironworks!
The old minister still has some confidence in my own eyes! "

"Spiritual talent?" Li Tai looked at Wang Gui in front of him, but asked with some suspicion and some tentativeness.

"At this age, it doesn't matter if you have spiritual talent or not!" Wang Gui smiled calmly, and then continued,

"It's just a pity that the old minister's eyes can't see through what King Wei wants to do. I don't know if King Wei can solve the confusion!"

"One hundred thousand!" Li Tai looked at Wang Gui and said, "I'm just trying to do what I want to do, so please continue to read!"

"The old minister will wait and see!" Wang Gui smiled calmly, but agreed. Obviously, Wang Gui is still very satisfied with Li Tai's offer, magnificent!

　Or change the price, I feel that the original price is too high.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)