Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 34 The Gradually Prosperous Gaoling

When Bai He heard Li Tai's words, he quickly replied:
"It hasn't rained for almost forty days. The weather is good. I heard that the wheat will be harvested in a few days. If it rains, it will be quite troublesome!"

"Okay, okay!" Li Tai nodded. After all, Baihe is a person in the yard who has no worries about food and clothing, so he is not sensitive to drought.

But for ordinary people, there has been no rain for more than 40 days, which is somewhat of a sign of drought.

I have been copying books in my room these days, and I also deal with library affairs when I have time. When I come back to my senses, time has passed so quickly.

Li Tai looked at his red and sore hands, wondering how Li Chengqian's five hundred copies were going.

It's a pity, if I'm not afraid that Li Shimin will give me more work if I take the initiative to hand in my homework, then I must stimulate him.

Thinking about it this way, my sore hands seem to be quite valuable after copying.

"I remember that in the third year of Zhenguan, the most important thing was to send troops to the Turks during the autumn harvest. Could there be a drought?
Hey, I also have some impressions of the locust plague in the Tang Dynasty because Li Shimin ate locusts. I really can’t remember other disasters! "

Li Tai scratched his head, he wasn't a genius with a good photographic memory, he could remember all the history books he had read at a glance.

And dealing with locust plagues is okay, a fool who thinks a lot will surely get something, but Li Tai really has nothing to do with droughts and floods.

Because this thing is a headache even in the industrial age, at most it helps rebuild after the disaster.

As for prevention in advance, it involves a large project of the entire country. Unless you are in charge of the entire country's government affairs at the prime minister level, maybe you can build some water conservancy facilities, otherwise you have nothing to do!

Bai He looked at Li Tai's hesitant look, and said, "Your Majesty, please continue to recite the list of students!"

"I won't recite it today!" Li Tai's face twitched, as if remembering something terrible, he shook his head at Bai He.

Hmm, since Li Tai created files for these students, he would recite the students' files.

Even when Li Tai wandered around the school occasionally, he would try to get acquainted with the students when he met them.

Relying on their identities as the king of Yue and the head of the mountain, these students were somewhat curious about Li Tai, and at the same time respected Li Tai quite a bit.

Therefore, whether the two sides have a chat or not, Li Tai will help them solve some common student problems, and he can also correct the impression of the students on the way.

Only in this way, they are no longer the names on the cold roster, but real people

Although I would definitely admit my mistake, who would have the heart to blame such a nine-year-old child like myself.

And Li Tai used his shameless spirit to admit his mistake and continue to admit it, which made Bai He couldn't help but roll his eyes.

After all, Bai He felt that Li Tai's behavior was too disrespectful, but if Li Tai wanted to lose face like this, as Li Tai's maid, she was also very helpless!

But Li Tai knew that anyone who came out of this academy and became an official in the future would be born into a faction with him.

They will definitely get closer to themselves, and the more I understand them, the more I can use them with confidence in the future.

So you have to memorize their files and remember their looks, it depends on who can stand out.

There are about 800 people in one session, and it only takes half a year to memorize the information of five people a day.

After all, the brain is a thing that can be used more often to be smart. I will memorize a lot in the future. I believe it will be easier to memorize the files of these people.

It's just that this kind of thing was indeed quite difficult at the beginning. Even if Li Tai gritted his teeth and moved forward, he often admitted the wrong person. However, after half a year, Li Tai still made some progress, but there were many people who remembered and then forgot. up.

"Finally finished the task, I plan to go around Gaoling!" Li Taichang sighed.

"Then I'll have someone prepare the car to drive." Bai He immediately spoke when he heard Li Tai's words.

"There's no need to prepare an ox cart, just let Lu Sima and a few people follow!" Li Tai said, "Let's take the white dragon fish this time."

"Then I'll notify Lu Sima right away!" Bai He paused after speaking, "I'll follow too."

"Okay, okay, just follow!" Li Tai didn't object when he heard Bai He's words.

Li Tai came out of the agricultural school, followed by a girl named Bai He on the left, and a brute like Lu Anshou on the right.

The guards arranged by Lu Anshou dragged Li Tai not far behind. Basically, if there really was an assassin Lu Anshou went up to block the knife, the guards behind him would soon come to Li Tai's side.

As for a small county like Gaoling, it was originally abolished by Li Shimin in the first year of Zhenguan.

After all, the siphon effect of Chang'an City, before Chang'an City is full of people, it is basically devastating to attract talents from the surrounding small counties.

However, as long as Chang'an is overcrowded, the surrounding small counties will soon take the initiative to absorb talents who have never been able to stay in Chang'an.

It's just that it's the third year of Zhenguan. In the first few years of Zhenguan, because of successive years of disasters, Li Shimin asked the people to make a living by themselves, so the counties around Chang'an, not to mention that there are no chickens for thousands of miles, but there are indeed few people.

This is also the reason why Li Tai organized manpower to carry out reclamation, and it seemed that no family had disputes with Li Tai.

Because although Chang'an was often hit by disasters in recent years, except for Li Tai's diligent cultivation, no one else was interested.

The aristocratic family can directly embezzle the mature acres in the hands of the common people after the disaster. As for the acres reclaimed by Li Tai, they don't know if there is a stone per acre of the grain planted in the first wave. They are crazy and will take a fancy to these fields.

Even if you want to start, you have to wait until the field can produce more than two stones.

It's just that these lands are under the name of Li Tai's agricultural school. Unless Li Tai loses power completely, whoever makes plans for these lands will be in trouble with Li Tai. In theory, no one in this world is so stupid.

Now that Li Tai's agricultural school has settled in Gaoling, to be honest, Li Shimin wants to restore the county seat of Gaoling.

One of the most important reasons is that more and more people gathered here in Gaoling.

Li Tai collected refugees here and built houses, and even re-edited them into the book, so as to grasp the information of the people here.

Then Li Tai established an agricultural school here in Gaoling. The number of students and teachers in the agricultural school alone was close to 2000, and counting the refugees back then, it was more or less a small county with 5000 to [-] people.

Li Shimin didn't seem to see it either, but let Li Tai manage it here.

Li Tai used the method of stalking Chang'an's traffic. For example, Chang'an has a night ban, but Gaoling does not.

And except that the area where the school is located is surrounded by walls and is under closed management, Gaoling itself does not have a city wall.

Of course, these residents themselves will build fences to prevent some wild wolves from coming to the village.

If that's the only way, then it's nothing but a small county developed by relying on schools.

But as Peacock built a super-large shopping plaza on the site marked by Li Tai, things began to look a little different.

Still the same sentence, because it relies on Chang'an, the distance between here and Chang'an is only twenty or thirty miles, and a normal person can walk within a day.

So many things that can be found in the East and West Market in Chang'an, Peacock asked them to send them here.

The most important thing is that the super-large shopping plaza here in Gaoling is open for [-] hours and only closes at midnight, so it is very crowded at night, and even a small-scale market will be formed.

Of course, the main problem of not being able to operate 24 hours is because of the lighting.

Although there are such things as candles, they are made of fat, and there is black smoke and smell when they burn, so we still need to find ways to improve them.

Even this kind of candles are tributes, so the cheaper means of lighting are torches and burning fires.

Therefore, although Li Tai thought that the city of Gaoling could accept guests from Chang'an 24 hours a day, in reality, it was still a matter of cost, at least until Mo Ke could spare his hands to study candles.

Even so, relying on the increasing traffic brought by this increasingly rich large shopping mall, the local people began to instinctively rent out their houses, earning a little income occasionally.

Of course, the most important thing is that the land surrounding this large shopping plaza began to increase in price crazily as winter turned to spring.

Naturally, the land price here is not as good as Chang'an, but if Chang'an is counted as the second ring, then Li Tai's Gaoling is now considered the third ring area, especially since the supporting facilities here are quite complete and there are plenty of business opportunities.

The businessmen who were staring at Chang'an soon sensed the smell and came here, but they couldn't buy land, so they could only rent houses.

As for these lands, they must be in Li Tai's hands. After all, there are still many places to ask for money for my future agricultural school. In the future, I may only be able to barely live on these rents, which is better than my life here. Difficult!
"However, we only took advantage of the third ring road of Chang'an's traffic. If the house price wants to exceed that in Chang'an City, we have to wait until the library is opened to scholars. At that time, Gaoling will have its own unique attraction.

But when that time really comes, then Aye should come to ask.

I directly gave him these floor coverings, I don’t know if I can directly make myself the county magistrate of Gaoling..."

Li Tai stroked his chin, thinking thoughtfully, "Forget it, wait a minute! Wait until Aye asks."

"Big... Shiro!" Bai He looked at Li Tai and stroked his chin, looking like a little adult, but said,

"Would you like to go to Peacock's shopping mall together? I heard from Peacock that there is everything there!"

"If you don't take a car, it's a bit far from the school to that shopping mall, at least ten miles away!" Lu Anshou frowned.

As the Sima of the Yue Palace, Lu Anshou really didn't want Li Tai to go so far away.

Hearing Lu Anshou's words, even Bai He sighed and said,
"King Yue, why don't you let Peacock build this shopping mall closer, so that it will be convenient for us to go back and forth!"

"The mall is too close to the school, it's easy to get wild!" Li Tai shrugged.

The real reason is that Li Tai hopes that the area of ​​Gaoling can develop under his leadership.

So from the beginning, with the intention of planning Gaoling District, the mall was built farther away from the school, so that the radiated area should not overlap with the school as much as possible, and the influence of the mall can be maximized.

"Let's rent a carriage!" Lu Anshou suggested, "Although it is not as stable as a bullock cart, it is much faster."

Generally speaking, an ox cart is much more stable than a horse cart. If you have not yet reached the age of learning how to ride a horse, then basically the ox cart is the first choice for dignitaries to go out. When you reach the age of riding a horse, basically anyone who is not lame will choose horse riding!

However, cattle are too expensive, and ordinary civilians do not have the ability to ride cattle.

Generally speaking, if they go out on a bull ride, they are basically family members of senior officials of the fourth rank or above.

Therefore, for ordinary people, the development of carriages has naturally become their first choice.

The imperial court also encouraged this point, so the general carriage industry would be subsidized by the imperial court or enjoy reduced corvee treatment.

"Okay!" Li Tai nodded and said to Lu Anshou, "I will arrange it for you."

Soon, Lu Anshou found a nearby carriage house, paid a deposit, and rented a carriage.

Li Tai looked at this horse-drawn carriage shop and understood that there could be horse-drawn carriages near the school, which meant that the businessman had already heard of the business opportunities between the school and the shopping mall.

In addition, it also shows that the teachers of my school should also often go to the big shopping mall opened by Peacock.

Li Tai looked at the driver who was stably supporting the car, and said,

"My lord, you have driven so steadily on this road, have you walked it many times? Are there many people coming and going in and out of the school?"

"It's not bad, about five or six times a day!" said the young coachman,
"The owner said that those aristocratic families have taken the initiative to come here to send books, and they will definitely send their children to study here in the future.

Now the Agricultural College is strictly controlled and students are not allowed to come in and out, but when those aristocratic princes come over, they will definitely be able to come in and out freely.

At that time, if I want to buy this land as a carriage dealer, I'm afraid I won't have a chance, so I spent a lot of money here! "

"Oh!" Li Tai said to the coachman thoughtfully when he heard the young coachman's words, "Your boss is really bold, and you are not afraid of throwing all the money in your hands?"

"Who made him the owner!" the coachman said with some admiration.

"However, it's luck. These days are sunny, and we can run five or six times a day. We can still save a lot of work. This work is not hard."

"Why, don't you guys stop running on rainy days?" Li Tai asked after hearing what the coachman said.

"That's right, it's just that the ground is muddy on rainy days, and it's quite troublesome to wash the car after running!" the driver said helplessly.

And Li Tai nodded understandingly when he heard this. After all, as long as it is a job, everyone likes a job that costs less and is closer to home.

If it was a rainy day, it would mean that the driver had an extra procedure for getting off work, and no one would like it if it was changed.

"However, this road really needs to be constructed in an imaginary way, so that the distance from Chang'an to Gaoling can be shortened!"

Li Tai looked at the land and made a silent note in his heart.

(End of this chapter)