Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 375 Demonstrating the Sovereign Talent
When Li Tai came to the palace, he waited in the side hall as usual, drinking Luoyang black tea and eating Nanliang cakes, returning to the palace was going home, and the servants beside him were still waiting on him.

However, Wang's servant came over and saw Li Tai, and quickly greeted him and said:

"Wei Wang, why did you eat it? Your Majesty has asked Guanglu Temple to cook a delicious meal for you!"

"Fill your stomach first!" Li Tai said calmly, took out a jade jade and handed it to the waiter Wang, "Aye, do you want to see me?"

Wang Neishi accepted Yu Jue calmly, and said with a smile,

"The sage is asking his slaves to come over to announce you, King Wei. You should hurry up and see him. The sage is very happy recently."

"Oh?" Li Tai was taken aback when he heard Wang's servant's words, but he didn't continue to ask further.

Because it is of no benefit to oneself to explore these secrets by oneself.

To be more precise, I have to follow an upright line, not a political line. Information is very important to me, but excessive pursuit of information around Li Shimin may cause unnecessary trouble.

So Li Tai just said, "Who are the ministers in the Tai Chi Hall at the moment?"

Wang's servant glanced at Li Tai unexpectedly, but he didn't mean to hide it. He said to Li Tai,

"There are Prime Minister Du Xiang, Duke Zheng, Duke Wei, and Duke Chen!"

Hearing this, Li Tai understood that Zheng Guogong was Wei Zheng, Wei Guogong Li Jing, Chen Guogong Hou Junji, and they were basically the top leaders in both military and political circles.

Li Tai didn't expect that Li Jing would also be involved. Shouldn't he continue to recuperate at home?
Li Tai took a deep breath, he didn't understand what he had done, did he need to give himself such a big battle?

Even if Wang Xuance defeated Tubo, in the final analysis, Tubo is just a small barbarian country in the southwest in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty.

Even if Wang Xuance has credit, but the credit is not so labor-intensive!
No matter how you say it, Li Tai soon came to the Tai Chi Hall. After seeing Li Shimin saluting, Li Shimin smiled and said,

"You are quite lively this year, tell me, what have you done!"

"Aye, I haven't caused any trouble this year, I've been building roads on Henan Road all the time!" Li Tai said to Li Shimin with an innocent face.

"Oh~" Li Shimin smiled when he heard Li Tai's words, "Really? How did the school soldiers get their armors!?"

"Armor for school soldiers? Isn't that the method of making fish scale armor taught by the imperial court?" Li Tai expressed his incomprehension.

"Ahem!" Li Shimin coughed a few times, but saw two soldiers of the Xuanjia Army, with a little difficulty, holding their armor almost as tall as a person and bringing it to Li Tai.

It was put down with a bang, but Li Tai looked at the ground first, but he didn't know what the ground was made of.

No potholes were smashed out. I really don't know what it was made of.

"Aye... is there anything wrong with this armor?" Li Tai scanned the hall, and soon found Fang Xuanling, then pointed to Fang Xuanling and said, "This armor has been reported to the Prime Minister. Yes, I didn't forge the armor myself!"

"Wei Wang, you never said that the 160-jin armor is iron armor!" Fang Xuanling said helplessly.

"Armor is not iron armor, what is it? Can it be stone armor, can people wear it?!"

Seeing that Fang Xuanling didn't take the blame, Li Tai felt somewhat anxious. From Li Tai's point of view, Fang Xuanling was cheating himself!
"Aye, don't listen to the house minister's slander. I wrote it clearly when I reported it to the Ministry of Education!"

Li Tai saw that Fang Xuanling wanted to throw the blame on himself, and decisively emphasized that he was absolutely innocent.

"Enough!" Li Shimin interrupted Li Tai when he heard this, and said solemnly,

"A piece of armor weighs 160 jin, and you get 640 jin of armor, a total of [-] million jin of steel.

Not to mention all kinds of miscellaneous steel weapons, which together weigh almost 700 million catties.

Where on earth do you get so much iron, is your steel city enough? ! "

"Probably five days... no, seven days' output!" Li Tai stretched out his finger, estimating the steel in his hand.

"What did you say!" Hearing this, Li Shimin was stunned, and he didn't even react a bit.

"Wei Wang, you are not joking!" Hou Junji, who was looking at Li Tai angrily, now looked at Li Tai with bright eyes.

Hou Junji was very uncomfortable when Wang Xuance was stepping on him to assume the position.

But now hearing Li Tai's words, Hou Junji felt that if King Wei was willing to do logistics for him in the future, then this little festival would not be a problem!
Thinking about it again, this time Wang Xuance killed Tubo to keep his own horse farm, at least it would not affect his annual horse account.

For the sake of dozens or hundreds of horses every year, as long as Wang Xuance sends a few more Qinghai Congs this year, the matter will be over.

"I never joke in business!" Facing Hou Junji's questioning, Li Tai said majesticly and without fear.

Even at this moment, Li Tai's seriousness, Li Tai's talent as a monarch is clearly revealed along with Li Tai's will!

Still the same sentence, Li Tai didn't want to hide anything.

Because if I want to follow the general trend, the stronger the power in my hands, the more determined my comrades in arms will be, and at the same time, the neutral faction around me will be more shaken.

As for the princelings who clung to Li Chengqian, this was not someone Li Tai could win over.

Because of the pressure brought about by their own strength, they are shaken and even desperate, forcing them to make mistakes is what Li Tai wants.

Otherwise, as long as Li Shimin doesn't waver, he won't have any chance!
"Spiritual talent, no, monarch talent! Several people present looked at Li Tai's monarch talent and couldn't help but feel a little moved.

Even if Wei Zheng moved his mouth, he didn't intend to say anything more.

After all, this is not a complete historical Tang Dynasty, but a slightly fantasy Tang Dynasty.

So sometimes a person's aptitude can be displayed in front of everyone. For example, if you want an official position above the fourth rank, in addition to working hard and earning qualifications, then if you have spiritual talent or warrior talent, you can directly have it corresponding tickets.

Because no one would deliberately do evil to such a person who was almost destined to climb to the highest position, unless it was because of a different standpoint, or the person in power was greedy for power, otherwise as long as he showed the corresponding ability, this kind of person would be the backbone of the imperial court.

Among them, Lu Cai and Li Chunfeng were like this, and after Ma Zhou showed corresponding abilities, he was directly accepted by Du Ruhui as his political successor.

As for the talent of the monarch, what should I say, in a country with an absolute monarchy, it is a sin in itself to have this talent not the king.

However, if this person is the emperor's son, it will be slightly different.

After all, even the emperor hopes that his successor can be better than himself. A successor with the talent of a monarch is the best successor in itself.

If in a foreign race like Turkic, a prince like Li Tai has shown the talent of a monarch, and can almost be directly established as the heir.

But in Datang, it can only be said that the people in the middle were shaken even more, and Li Chengqian was even more stressed!
Li Shimin waved his hand, and Li Tai obviously felt his talent as a monarch and immediately shrank back. The flames were fluttering and trembling, as if he had seen some natural enemy.

Li Shimin said: "Isn't it just natural ability, whoever is present here doesn't have it yet, why come out to show off!"

Li Tai silently looked at the few people present, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Li Jing, and Hou Junji... well, if there are not a few of them, anyway, Li Tai didn't believe it. It doesn't seem to be that powerful.

"Can I know why Aye's talent as a monarch is so oppressive?" Li Tai asked weakly.

"If you kill the two owners of the monarch talent yourself, your monarch talent will also have this ability!"

Li Shimin smiled at Li Tai, as if he wanted to say at this moment, do you want to try it yourself?

Li Tai shrank his head resolutely, it is better not to continue talking on this topic, if we continue talking, he is afraid that his fate will be in danger!

Li Shimin shook his head and said, "Go ahead and tell me, how did you get your steel output!"

"The main research and development of blast furnace ironmaking, a blast furnace can produce about seven or eight tons of steel every day!" Li Tai looked at Li Shi and explained.

"Oh?" Fang Xuanling said with some doubts after hearing this, "Even seven or eight tons of steel per day is not enough!"

"But I didn't say that there is only one blast furnace. Basically, try to build ten and eight furnaces every month," Li Tai said.

"But this kind of technology is immature, and now basically it can only be guaranteed for about one season, and then the blast furnace will burn and landslide, so we need to continue to study the blast furnace technology.

Of course, there is also a blast furnace that can produce three parties, which can produce 21 tons of steel per day, and it has been in production for almost half a year, and I hope it can last for a year!"

Li Tai explained as much as possible, "Originally, I planned to have a blast furnace to survive stably for a year before telling the court. Now that Aye asked, I just need to explain clearly."

"This blast furnace is the tall chimney buildings you built in the steel city?" Li Shimin asked.

"En!" Li Tai nodded and said, "Aye, have you sent someone to Luoyang's Steel City?"

"Cough cough, in order to deal with the sewage during that time, didn't you invite various people from three mountains and five mountains to deal with it? I thought you were going to make friends with demons, so I paid a little attention!"

Li Shimin coughed a few times, he couldn't let Li Tai know that he asked Baihe to send him a diary every month.

If you say it, do you still have face?

Fang Xuanling was thoughtful, and said: "If so, you still have a lot of iron in your hands, King Wei!"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help looking at Li Tai. Although it is not illegal to hide ironware privately, the ironware stored in your hands is probably higher than the output of the entire Tang Dynasty. How can this be? It's all a problem!
"Not many!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "The bulk of the ironware is basically on various agricultural tools.

Like hoes and sickles, they were basically put in the Agricultural Society first, and then leased to the local people.

After the common people know how to use it, as long as the common people pay an additional tax every year, then the hoe or other agricultural tools will be lent to him for farming for three years. After three years, the hoe will belong to the common people. "

"Isn't that just buying people's hearts!" Wei Zheng frowned when he heard Li Tai's words.

Li Tai looked at Wei Zheng and said, "No way, the common people can't afford it, more precisely, the poor peasants can't afford it.

A steel hoe cost at least two hangs on the market. Although the wooden handle can be made by the common people themselves, that piece of hoe is worth the price!
If you don't sell half and give half away, these people would rather use wood or even stone plows! "

Wei Zheng was a little speechless when he heard Li Tai's words. After all, he had experienced wars and was a bandit.

But Li Tai continued, "So the training armor worn by the academy soldiers can only be regarded as a fraction.

The most important part of steel consumption is farm tools. At least the current production of steel can't keep up with the farm tools needed by the people across the country.

It is not easy to increase the output of the crops themselves, but the best way to increase the harvest is to let the people have more convenient tools to cultivate more fields, and this must have enough steel to smash down! "

"If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. The army is the same, and the people are also the same. It is a matter of reputation for King Wei to put the people first!" Du Ruhui stood up and laughed.

Li Shimin originally wanted to beat and beat Li Tai, but seeing that Li Tai had awakened the talent of a monarch, he clearly knew that Li Tai had found his own way of governing.

It is impossible for this kind of person to easily divert their own will because of other people's words, especially the monarch's talent, as if they have decided on their own ideas to help the world and the people, and then naturally awaken the monarch's talent.

And as his actions carried out his will, his talent as a monarch naturally became stronger.

Li Tai has obviously found his talent as a monarch.

More importantly, it can be seen from Li Tai's actions that whether Li Tai is a benevolent king does not know, but at least he will not violate his own political ideas. To a certain extent, it can be regarded as the continuation and expansion of his own political ideas.

So at this moment, Li Shimin can't really blame Li Tai for this kind of behavior.

After all, up to now, apart from Li Tai not being his eldest son, everyone else is his satisfied heir!

"Then can you get one in Chang'an for the thing you mentioned?!" Li Shimin asked Li Tai at this moment.

"Eh... If Aye doesn't mind that this thing may collapse after a season, then it can be built near Chang'an, but Chang'an City is fine, and it's best to build it in the lower reaches of the suburban river!" Li Tai said thoughtfully.

"Is this thing affecting the water quality?" Wei Zheng reacted when he heard Li Tai's words.

"Well, if the stream goes straight into the water without treatment, it can wreak havoc on the water quality.

If the common people drink it, they will definitely get sick in large numbers. Chang'an is the most benevolent place, and this kind of thing must not happen! "

Li Tai explained to Wei Zheng, "So the establishment of a steel city requires a supporting processing system for it.

This will inevitably occupy a very large area, so it is impossible to build in Chang'an City, it is best to choose the downstream of the river! "

"That's why!" Wei Zheng nodded and said with a serious expression, "It's a blessing for the country that King Wei is so considerate of the people."

(End of this chapter)