Cultivation of chastity

Master Yuan Ke looked at the giant Kongming lantern with unsatisfactory expressions, and he even wanted to go up and try it himself.

But Li Tai decisively pulled Master Yuan Ke back, like Yuan Jiang or even Yan Zhuangzhen had an accident, at most he would have a headache or not.

But if something happens to Master Yuan Ke, who will run away in the Hehuang Valley? Could it be that Yuan Tiangang is really going to be Li Bing!
So after watching the hot air balloon performance, Li Tai patted Yan Zhuang on the shoulder to say that he did a good job. If there are any similar experiments in the future, he will definitely continue to look for your Yan family, but I need all the craftsmen of this hot air balloon to leave.

The Yan family naturally understood this, and Yan Zhuang even gave Li Tai a list of all the craftsmen who participated in this experiment.

To be honest, the Yan family was somewhat hesitant to put all their chips on Li Tai, but it was only natural to invest heavily in Li Tai.

After all, Yan Wan has become Princess Wei, so as long as Li Tai can ascend to the position smoothly, without the Yan family taking the initiative to do anything, she will naturally get the biggest benefit.

So after handing over the matter of the hot air balloon to Li Tai, Yan Zhuang left.

As for the craftsmen who study hot air balloons, Li Tai temporarily put them in Luoyang Academy to set up an independent research group, and brought them all back when Master Yuan Ke returned to Hehuang Valley.

After all, that's where they can really play.

And Li Tai pulled Yuan Keshi, who was full of interest in hot air balloons, back to the Wei Palace.

After all, it was enough for him to see the hot air balloon with his own eyes, and let him have an idea of ​​this thing, and it would be convenient to push it in the future.

And Li Tai is quite interested in the propulsion of things like hot air balloons. The main reason is that these things eat energy.

Although natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas are definitely not affordable in this era, as long as energy is consumed, it is enough for Li Tai.

Even if the use of solid fuels such as coal itself limits its carrying capacity, there are so few real energy-consuming tools in the world now. Can you imagine that apart from steelmaking, the main function of coal is actually used for heating!
So when a hot air balloon, a special product that requires coal, appeared, Li Tai would naturally find a way to push it.

The two returned to Wei Wangfu, and Yuan Keshi finally recovered from his enthusiasm for hot air balloons.

Master Yuan Ke looked at Li Tai and said seriously: "King Wei, besides participating in the Luoshui game, Dubie asked me to ask you something about the future development direction of the Hehuang Valley when I come back this time. ?”

"What? Chuke has fully implemented the plan that was made for the Hehuang Valley?" Li Tai was a little curious when he heard this.

Even if Xue Dading in Cangzhou is still continuing to implement the plan in Cangzhou, at most he paved the way for the first step of wheat planting. For cotton planting and salt mining, Xue Dading decisively chose the latter.

After all, the latter can copy the work done in Youzhou, and the matter of cotton planting can only be put aside.

As far as the order is concerned, it is definitely no problem to start with the easy and then the difficult.

But as far as the industrial layout is concerned, his approach is likely to encroach on the land where cotton was originally grown.

As long as Haiyan is a seaside city, it can be developed. In fact, it does not give full play to the dual advantages of canals and flat land, thus affecting the development potential of Cangzhou.

However, this is a matter of 85 or [-] points in development, and it may have an impact on the development of the city when it reaches a bottleneck.

As far as the present is concerned, the development of the salt industry will definitely develop faster. After all, there is really no need to worry about the sale of things like salt!

"Wei Wang, what are you talking about, don't have to say, the construction of the terraced fields alone may take more than ten years!"

Master Yuan Ke looked at Li Tai and said, "It was Du Biejia who discovered that the tribes in Xihai moved closer to us after Tuyuhun was defeated.

Besides cattle and sheep, we don't need anything else from them.

But Du Biejia believes that since the alien races in this area have been recovered, they should be used to find a way to integrate them into our Great Tang.

Although the Grass Seed Project can change the living habits of these alien races, but if we want to truly integrate these alien races into our China, this plan is only a foreshadowing.

So I would like to ask you, is there a good way to let them quickly integrate into Datang? "

To be honest, Du Chuke was well aware of the grass seed plan.

The main purpose of this plan is to change the living habits of the alien race, so that they will change from living by water and grass to planting grass on the spot.

But this can't change the relationship between the foreign race and the foreign race, and the Tang Dynasty's relationship with the Tang Dynasty. At most, when the Tang Dynasty wants to send troops to fight the foreign race, there is no need to worry that the foreign race will run away.

This is not enough, if there is no chance, it's fine, but now Du Chuke really saw such a good opportunity.

The hearts of these foreign races on the border are towards Datang, and Datang itself maintains dual military and economic suppression, and in addition, it will need to fight against Tubo in the future.

Du Chuke hopes to build a stable rear, so that these alien races will be happy even if they are cannon fodder.

So I want to ask Li Tai if there is any way to stabilize the minds of these alien races and work hard for Datang!

It would be even better if the lives of these alien races can be sold and then integrated into Datang.

"What do you think I am? How could the world have such a way to sell people and pay them back!"

Li Tai complained in his heart, raised his head and said to Bai He, "Is the peacock in the chamber of commerce?"

"King Wei is looking for her for something? I'll send someone to inform her!" Bai He replied after hearing Li Tai's words.

Li Tai nodded, and then said, "Let her bring the records of the department of textiles, especially the materials of wool textiles. Tell her that the opportunity for the development of cotton textiles has come!"

"No!" Bai He nodded upon hearing Li Tai's words, and then went out to send someone to find Peacock.

Li Tai looked at Yuan Keshi and said earnestly, "You know that I'm not good at conspiracies and tricks, things that calculate people's hearts!"

Master Yuan Ke couldn't help but sweat when he heard Li Tai's words, "Is this what I should know? Wei Wang said so for sure!"

Li Tai continued, "The original grass planting plan was only a preliminary foreshadowing.

When alien races start to gather, social division of labor will naturally arise. Let them gather without giving them things to do, and there will naturally be problems.

So when the grass seed plan was proposed, I had plans for the follow-up, but I didn't expect it to be implemented so soon. "

After hearing Li Tai's words, Master Yuan Ke finally heaved a sigh of relief, but soon Master Yuan Ke came back to his senses, looked at Li Tai and said with admiration:
"The king of Wei has a far-sighted vision, which is definitely beyond the reach of ordinary people!"

"It's not that amazing!" Li Tai waved his hand,

"Since you want to educate the alien race, you can't convince the alien race with empty words, you must start with basic necessities of life in a down-to-earth manner.

If the grass seed project starts with food and housing, then woolen textiles are just a supplement to their clothing.

Only in this way can they smoothly integrate into my Great Tang! "

"I don't know, can King Wei talk about this plan in detail, so I can tell Du farewell when I feel better?" Yuan Ke said.

"To put it simply, Chuke needs to choose a town in Xihai to build a distribution center for livestock products, especially woolen textiles."

Li Tai explained in detail, "The main task of this distribution center is to collect the wool and animal skins of the nomads.

Through processing and production, these things are made into clothes, which are not only sold to local people, but also sent to Datang for sale. "

In Li Tai's view, if you want to change a nation, it's far away, at least in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

For example, working hard with technology, living in a dilapidated building, wearing street stalls, and riding electric cars, you can't expect such people to spend money to consume and support the country's economic system again.

So the transformation of aliens is the same.

Even if I gather alien races through the seed project, it is not for the development of a new civilization to gather them.

And my purpose is to hope that they can become Datang's raw material collection points, and hope that they understand what it means to dedicate their lives to Datang, and to be a new Datang person who is honored to work for Datang.

And if I want to exploit them, or if I want to exploit them, it is impossible to exploit an individual, so it is better to just catch them and throw them into Datang to be a slave, and more or less can create a little bit of Lilan.

When they came together, and the need for food and housing was removed, the textile industry came into play.

Guide them to herd more cattle and sheep, which are less threatening to the Tang Dynasty in the military, and let the Central Plains know through wool textile technology that there are actually benefits to the nomads, and the benefits are quite rich.

In the impression of most people, the nomads are mostly five big and three thick, tall and muscular, and they seem to be full of wildness.

In contrast, the Central Plains people are well-educated, thin and weak, and there are no three, five or six people who may not be able to deal with a foreigner.

But the reality is that the Han people are taller than the surrounding aliens, and even stronger than the aliens in terms of strength.

The reason is also very simple. It is really difficult to compare the life of nomads with a hungry and full meal with the abundance of supplies brought by stable harvests of farming peoples.

It's just that when the nomads came out to rob the farming peoples, they basically robbed the farming peoples with the awareness that they would die if they couldn't get them.

However, the upper strata of the farming nation are often corrupted due to the monopoly of rich materials, which makes the overall organizational strength low.

In the case of no generation difference in weapons, not to mention whether they can fight every time, even if they can fight, the farming civilization will suffer serious losses. This gives people an illusion that the nomads are really strong.

In fact, the nomads will die if they don’t rob, and the farming people will change places to farm at a big deal. How can the combat effectiveness be the same!

It's just that it's different when the nomads show their value, because people are profit-seeking after all.

The emergence of woolen textiles is enough to make the nomads around the Tang Dynasty change from being tough and rude to singing and dancing.

Because although there were coins such as Kaiyuan Tongbao in the Tang Dynasty, the mainstream of transactions was barter.

The mainstream currency is grain at the lowest level, cloth and satin at the middle level, and gold at the highest level.

The rest include silver, salt, steel, etc. They can be exchanged for things, but they are not currency, at least not in the current Zhenguan Dynasty.

So looking at it from a different perspective, wool spinning attracts wool from other races. After weaving it into cloth, the woolen cloth produced is not just cloth. In essence, it is money, and making woolen cloth is money. print money.

And the attitude of any class in this world towards capital is basically the same, even wealthy families and even royal families are the same.

When Lilan reaches 50%, capital will take risks; for 100% Lilan, capital will dare to trample on all laws in the world; with 300% Lilan, capital will dare to commit any crime, even risking hanging.

Li Tai, who has the technology, is naturally not afraid, but the Hu people who have mastered the raw materials don't know.

As long as they promote this matter by themselves, and the surrounding aristocratic families will react, they will immediately understand that the alien races around Datang, especially the Hu people, are their pocketbooks, and the surrounding aristocratic families will do nothing to these Hu people. clear.

But Li Tai believes that things like capital can always magnify people's desires and make people their slaves.

Li Tai knew that the Eastern Turks and Tuyuhun were wiped out by the Tang Dynasty, and the surrounding alien races had no masters.

Under such circumstances, if the Great Tang family discovered the benefits, they might encourage Li Shimin's Northern Expedition one by one to break the legs of all these alien races, so that they could fish well.

After all, the family doesn't want to break the bones, but the bone marrow sucking will definitely continue.

But even so, since Qinghai has developed to this extent, Li Tai has no intention of suppressing it.

After all, the current Datang is still too strong to suppress the surrounding alien races.

There is no need to increase the difficulty for myself. Assimilation of this kind of thing, if it starts earlier, it will end one day earlier in the future.

As for the actions of these great Tang families, especially those on the border, Li Tai was quite curious to be honest.

After all, I stand a bit too high, so high that the surrounding aristocratic families, when I am not directly confronting them, they either choose to avoid their edge and do not directly collide with me, or act as if nothing happened. rotten.

All in all, they are determined not to join the team between themselves and the prince, and they will always only follow the winner.

Although this will definitely not get the best quality resources, it will allow them to pass on without risk.

For the aristocratic families, how many aristocratic families in the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties were directly destroyed in this bloody storm.

They have already learned to let their family find a way to survive, and that is to always be on the same team as the winner.

"Establish a distribution center for woolen textiles?" Yuan Keshi understood what Li Tai said, which is to rely on a key technology to establish a key industry, then drive a town, and finally cover the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

To be honest, it was not the first time for Li Tai to operate this way. Whether it was Gaoling or Tianjin, they all did this kind of operation, and they all revitalized the entire economy from point to point.

It’s just that the king of Wei kept saying that he was not good at conspiracies and tricks, and things that calculated people’s hearts, but once this plan came out, why did he feel that those foreigners in Qinghai would not be willing to contribute wool to the king of Wei, and at the same time be grateful to the king of Wei? !
Master Yuan Ke kept silent about Wei Wang's operation, and he just thought about what to do.