Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 37 Planning Gaoling
After returning to Gaoling from Chang'an, Ma Zhou was already waiting in the school, and when he saw Li Tai coming back, he immediately greeted him and asked:
"I heard that the king was assassinated, how is the situation now?"

"It's been dealt with!" Li Tai calmly said,

"In addition, Aye rebuilt Gaoling County and asked me to be the county magistrate. I was allowed to appoint and remove positions below the county magistrate.

He wants to see if I can manage this Gaoling County to a high level in the past three years, so as to prove that I have the talent! "

"My lord, did you agree?!" Hearing this, Ma Zhou frowned slightly and said.

"That's natural!" Li Tai patted Ma Zhou's thigh, confidently saying,
"I'll be the county magistrate in charge of the plan, and you will be the county magistrate in charge of implementation.

With the two of us working together, this agricultural school is doing so well, what is a county! "

Li Tai is very clear about his ability, let him do specific work, then let him go, others don't know what level he is, don't he not know?
In contrast, Ma Zhou is a future celebrity. If this county can't do it, it will be a big joke!

So Li Tai said that he gave Ma Zhou unlimited trust.

Hearing that Li Tai directly gave him the post of county magistrate, Ma Zhou couldn't laugh or cry.

But I have to say that Ma Zhou was quite touched that Li Tai, as the king of Yue, could be so courteous and virtuous as a corporal.

Just as Li Tai said, Li Tai is basically responsible for the planning of Gaoling, and he is responsible for the construction bit by bit.

Seeing a barren and barren land become rich because of himself, this sense of accomplishment is also very gratifying to Ma Zhou, so facing Li Tai's invitation, Ma Zhou said: "Don't you dare?" Obedience!"

Li Tai continued: "Since Aye gave us three years to evaluate the city's construction to a high level, then we have to evaluate the resources that this place should have, and only by adjusting measures to local conditions can we achieve twice the result with half the effort!
Let's go to my study room to talk at night by candlelight, and plan the future as soon as possible! "

"No!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Ma Zhou was also very excited.

For Ma Zhou, what he likes most is talking with the monarch at night by candlelight. Only in this way can he show that he takes himself seriously.

"Bai He, you come to light the lamp, and make records at the side!" Li Tai said to Bai He,
"In addition, let the kitchen prepare supper. After all, Tianhan needs something to fill his stomach in the dark night."

When Bai He heard Li Tai's words, he was about to say something, but Li Tai dragged Ma Zhou into the study.

Bai He glanced at Lu Anshou beside him, and Lu Anshou nodded heavily facing Bai He's gaze.

This meant that he was just a bodyguard, and Li Tai didn't sleep, so he could only stand at the door.

Most importantly, if you have supper, please, definitely, don't forget me!
Li Tai dragged Ma Zhou to the room, and Bai He followed inside to hold the lamp, while grinding ink to record.

Li Tai said, "Tell me first, what advantages do you think Gaoling has?!"

Ma Zhou took out a glass of wine from nowhere, raised his head and took a sip, took a deep breath, and then said slowly:
"Gaoling District is located in the hinterland of Guanzhong, where the Jinghe River and the Weihe River meet, and along the tributaries of these two rivers, almost all parts of the Guanzhong can be reached.

If Guanzhong is compared to vegetables, then Gaoling is the heart of vegetables, which can be described as extending in all directions and reaching everywhere!

The second is that the soil here is fertile and the water veins are well developed. If it is reclaimed, it will be full of fertile fields!
The most important thing is that this place is close to Chang'an, which is the most difficult point for this place to break through, and it is also the key point for this place to break through.

After all, we have always enjoyed the convenience of being close to Chang'an! "

When Li Tai heard Ma Zhou's words, he nodded and agreed, "You are right, the most important thing is that this place is close to Chang'an!"

Li Tai naturally understands the benefits of being close to the imperial capital, but what is really important is to seize the advantage of this location.

Li Tai squinted his eyes and said, "Basically, the official assessment is based on land reclamation, increase or decrease of household registration, agricultural surplus, tax collection and other items.

As for my personal evaluation, only I, Aye, can evaluate it, and others are not qualified.

Therefore, we just have to do practical things, do everything well, and let those officials have nothing to say! "

"Where does your Majesty plan to start!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Ma Zhou said with a smile on his face.

Li Tai said calmly: "With the existence of agricultural colleges, I don't need to worry about reclaiming land.

As for the harvest, although this year's wheat harvest is not good, the land is much more mature after a year of reclamation.

After a year of experimentation in the experimental field, starting from this year, all the superior seed methods in the experimental field can be fully integrated and carried out in an all-round way.

As long as there are no natural disasters in the coming year, I believe that our harvest may be able to rush to more than two stones, and there will be more in the future.

With the students from the Agricultural Institute here, even if we rely on the sky to eat, we can at least get the most delicious bite! "

Hearing Li Tai's words, Ma Zhou couldn't help laughing bitterly.

To be honest, the so-called winter wheat harvest this year is actually not much different from the acres reclaimed by ordinary people.

So Ma Zhou really isn't as confident as Li Tai!
But no matter how you say it, compared to other people who are purely based on experience in planting, Li Tai's agricultural school has at least developed the habit of experimenting with diaries. At least the experimental data seems to be relatively reassuring.

In fact, Li Tai knew very well that the Tang Dynasty was already the peak of the feudal era.

In this era, the ancient traditional agriculture has basically been finalized, such as manure composting, water conservancy construction, and various farming techniques, it is not that Li Tai, a layman in farming, can greatly increase the yield by relying on a certain technique.

Therefore, what Li Tai needs to do is not to invent and create some unnatural farming methods, but to sort out all these scattered farming techniques that are regarded as unique skills by their own farmers, and fully utilize these techniques to form a system.

This is the first goal of establishing an agricultural school, which is to sort out all the farming techniques in the past and digest them into a system.

This is why Li Tai is willing to be the county magistrate of Gaoling, because he needs time to digest his past farming techniques.

Only on the basis of past accumulation can I continue to try to promote the scale and specialization of farming, and bring different productivity to the world. Otherwise, the foundation is not solid enough, and it will be very troublesome to implement new technologies in the future.

But Ma Zhou has never seen the productivity that comes from the integration of resources, or technology integration.

Therefore, there is no difference between the wheat planted in this year's plowing field and other newly cultivated wheat.

But in fact, in Li Tai's first year, he was just conducting large-scale and diverse experiments.

When the soil becomes more fertile in the second year, coupled with the integration of the technology accumulated in the first year, Li Tai believes that his harvest next year will be absolutely astonishing.

"After all, next year will be a year of great abundance that is rarely recorded in history, and the era when grain prices will drop to three cents per bucket!"

Li Tai thought in his heart, no matter what, he had to wait for next year's weather.

At that time, the food will go from one stone per acre to two stones, and then it will be said that the students of the agricultural school are highly skilled, and who can refute it!
"All in all, with the students from the agricultural school here, I'm not worried about farming!" Li Tai said seriously.

"Then the next question is population!" Seeing that Li Tai was not worried, Ma Zhou didn't say much.

The big deal is that when I work, I work a little harder to persuade farmers and mulberry, so that the people can work hard to cultivate the fields.

Li Tai said seriously: "Well, if you want the local people to give birth with peace of mind, you must at least make them feel safe and worry-free!
Of course, we also need to encourage, but this matter needs to be carried out step by step, and it will take a long time to bear fruit.

In contrast, I think we can take advantage of those floating population! "

"Floating population?!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Ma Zhou frowned.

"En!" Li Tai nodded, "The first thing to do about population is to edit our current population into the register.

I don't want to know the households, but I want to know everyone in Gaoling County accurately! "

"Although we don't have a noble family in Gaoling for the time being, if it takes a long time, it will be difficult to do it!" Ma Zhou frowned.

"It's okay, let the students from the Agricultural Institute replace the officials every year, and conduct a census of the entire Gaoling County every year!"

Li Tai simply said, "Especially let students from other places do it, supervised by local students, and the results will be counted as credits.

If something goes wrong, the local students who reported it will get credits, so at least there are definitely enough people. "

"This looks like it's simulating the clearing of acres!" Ma Zhou immediately realized Li Tai's words.

To be honest, Ma Zhou has never seen this kind of usage of directly using students.

Ma Zhou felt that Li Tai was well prepared to conduct a comprehensive census with students from agricultural colleges in only one county!
"Just measuring the acres!" Li Tai looked at Ma Zhou's radiant look, and knew that he couldn't continue to pretend to be confused.

After all, with Ma Zhou's intelligence, even though he didn't think about the real purpose of these students due to historical limitations, as long as he calms down and thinks about this kind of thing for a while, I believe Ma Zhou will immediately understand Li Tai's real purpose of training agricultural students.

So, Li Tai said to Ma Zhou, "I remember what I said all the time.

The students of agricultural colleges are cultivated to become spokesmen for the poor peasants, and when opportunities are found for them to become local agricultural officials.

From a small point of view, it is to spread the agricultural knowledge learned from agricultural colleges and increase the yield per mu.

But the real purpose is to hope that they can cooperate with the imperial court and strengthen the imperial court's control over the grassroots! "

Hearing this, Ma Zhou looked at Li Tai in shock, Ma Zhou stood up suddenly and bowed to Li Tai:

"Ma Zhou is willing to do his best to help the king complete this plan!"

Li Tai glanced at Baihe who was constantly taking notes, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Ma Zhou up, "What are you doing formally like this!"

Li Tai shook his head and said, "This is just an idea, and it will take ten or twenty years, or even longer, to realize this idea.

No one even knows whether it is really useful or not, so let's carry it out like this first.Let's talk about this plan in the future! "

Ma Zhou said solemnly, "Although such a plan is extremely difficult, it is an upright way.

Even if the aristocratic family knows the usefulness of this agricultural student, as long as their fields want to increase production, then they must accept the student.

And wherever these students go, they will become the eyes and ears of the court, helping the court see the people below. "

Li Tai didn't worry about this question, but continued to say:
"After the census is completed, we can find a way to absorb the population into our county.

If you are a refugee, you need to work for Gaoling, build bridges and pave roads for the county town, and be allowed to join after contributing your labor.

The other is the candidates who failed the exam. As long as they are willing to settle down in Gaoling, we will let them settle down and help them solve their housing and job problems. After all, there will always be a shortage of teachers in agricultural colleges! "

"Then it's taxation and corvée!" Ma Zhou couldn't help pressing his temples,
"We don't need to worry too much this year, not to mention that the county seat was built last year with the hard work of adults, and it is customary to exempt the field tax for the first year.

Of course, because no good things could be grown in the first year of reclamation, the imperial court would not eat this life-saving grain.

But taxes can be exempted, but corvees may not be exempted. When the farming is slack this year, maybe the imperial court will ask people to serve as corvees!

Regardless of whether the imperial court distributes corvees or not, I think adults must be prepared. "

"Corvé..." Li Tai heard Ma Zhou's thoughts, thought for a while, and said,

"Here's what I'm thinking, can you figure out how many people we need in corvée.

I plan to directly organize a group of people to be responsible for the county corvee.

And other people who don't want to serve as corvee, as long as they pay a sum of money or a piece of silk, they can be replaced by corvee. "

"Your Majesty, don't worry, Zuyong has existed since the Northern Wei Dynasty, and we have followed this system since the founding of the Tang Dynasty!"

Ma Zhou smiled and said, "It's normal for Your Majesty to not understand this matter. Your Majesty can think of this method just by thinking about it. It's really a talent!"

Li Tai knew that Zuyong modulation in the Tang Dynasty was quite famous, but he really didn't expect this thing to exist in the Northern Wei Dynasty. He thought that it was not really developed until Li Longji's time.

But Li Tai also calmly said, "Since that's the case, then I won't say anything more, but the service team needs to include people who know how to calculate!"

"The people who serve in the army only need coolies, why do they need to add talents who are counting!" Ma Zhou was puzzled when he heard Li Tai's words.

"Because only by calculating the total amount of the project, calculating how much to do every day, and how long it will take to complete, the remaining time belongs to these people. Only in this way can the enthusiasm of the people be mobilized.

Otherwise, let them serve in a muddleheaded manner, isn't it just letting them dawdle! "

Li Tai shook his head, he was used to the modern rhythm of [-] and [-]. In ancient times, the rhythm of a monk hitting the clock for a day really made Li Tai look down on him.

How could such a rhythm make Huaxia become an infrastructure madman again!

I still plan to create miracles in the future, I am afraid that I will be called a faint king if I really rely on corvees!

(End of this chapter)