Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 389
"Although green onion cannot be the main dish, it is a very common condiment, but who can be missing if the emperor and minister serve as envoys!" Li Tai said.

In fact, with the current population of tens of millions in the Tang Dynasty, it is not realistic to say that it is unrealistic to rely on onions to create an industry of more than one million guan, but it is not true that only a few counties around Xingyang can live a good life with this onion. What a problem.

After all, Xingyang's geographical location is really superior.

As long as China's politics is still in the East-West confrontation mode centered on Chang'an and Luoyang, Xingyang will not be weakened.

Because the entire Grand Canal is to converge to Xingyang first, and then from Xingyang to Luoyang, the significance of Xingyang's geographical location is naturally conceivable.

To be honest, the status of Xingyang became lower and lower after the Tang Dynasty. The big reason is that the political ecology of China has undergone fundamental changes.

After the Song Dynasty, there was basically only a confrontation between the north and the south, and under the situation of the confrontation between the north and the south, a new Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was built. Naturally, this Xingyang has no special significance, and it can only become a place on the edge of the Yellow River. Ordinary city.

After eating, Li Tai and his party left the restaurant and went to the Agricultural Society. When they reached the door, there was the sound of reading aloud from the Agricultural Society, which read "Thousand Characters".

The Agricultural Society created by Li Tai is more or less part-time the task of enlightening poor people's families.

It is also mainly based on "Thousand Characters", but Li Tai said that it is necessary for liberal arts students to produce more story books as supporting enlightenment books for "Thousand Characters", and these story books are mostly related to agriculture.

From the types of agricultural products, changes in solar terms, more famous agronomy figures, etc., in short, you make up some positive agronomy stories for me.

As the reading was finished, the young teachers in the Agricultural Society rang the bell.

These children took out their own soil bowls and ran to the cafeteria happily. Eating is their favorite thing.

Sun San watched the children leave with a bit of relief on his face, and began to pack up his courseware.

However, soon Sun San noticed that someone had come to the Agricultural Society, which made Sun San slightly puzzled.

He looked at the leader Li Tai, as if he had some impression but couldn't remember it, but when he put his eyes on Baihe, he couldn't help but look at him a few times and said, "Miss Baihe?!"

Looking at Li Tai again, he suddenly said, "Wei...Wei..."

"Wei what Wei, it's called sacrificial wine! Sun San!" Li Tai looked at Sun San and said.

"Sacrificial wine!" Sun San heard Li Tai calling his name like this, but felt a rush of heat rushing to his brain.

Just now when he wanted to salute Li Tai, Li Tai stopped Sun San, and then said:

"Don't do these empty rituals, let's find a place to sit and follow you along the way to learn about the local situation!"

"No!" Sun San also immediately found a seat for Li Tai, and wiped it with his cuff for fear that there would be something dirty on it.

After everything was done, Li Tai was asked to sit down. As for himself, he was so trembling that he dared not sit down.

"You sit down too, we'll chat and we won't eat you!" Li Tai looked at Sun San and said.

"No!" Hearing Li Tai's order, Sun San didn't dare to delay too much, so he sat down and accompanied him carefully.

But Li Tai said, "You have been in Xingyang for at least five years, right? I remember you graduated in the eighth year of Zhenguan."

"You have a good memory, King Wei. As you said, I have been working since I was assigned to the Agricultural Institute," Sun Sandao said.

"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded, "How is Xingyang? What's good and what's bad?"

"It's all good, what's not good enough these days!" Sun San said, but he didn't mention any difficulties.

"Then let's talk about the bad parts!" Li Tai looked at Sun San and said, "Don't talk nonsense, working at the grassroots level is not difficult!"

When Sun San heard Li Tai's words, he could only smile naively and said, "There are difficulties, but there are not enough manpower!"

"I remember that every agricultural society has at least three students from agricultural colleges." Li Tai looked at Sun San and said, "Speaking of which, I only saw you when I came in today?! Where are the others?"

"It's already February, and more and more people came to rent cattle, and they all took their cattle out!" Sun San sighed.

"It seems that something happened to you, so someone must watch to rent it!" Li Tai was thoughtful.

"Yeah!" Sun San nodded and said, "To the King of Wei, we were born ordinary people ourselves at the beginning, and we were happy to rent cattle to the local people.

But if we didn’t send someone to watch over them, those who rented the past would not cherish the cattle at all, let the cattle work to death, and didn’t care whether the cattle could bear such a lot of work, and if the cattle slowed down, they would still use the whip smoke.

Because the cow is not theirs, as long as they finish their work, it has nothing to do with the next person.

In the busy farming season, it is normal for the cattle to be exhausted. If we are not careful, the cattle will die! "

"This is too much!" Bai He couldn't help frowning when he heard Sun San's words.

"It's not bad. People in a village rented a farm ox, and then lent it a few times before we knew it. When we found it, the farm ox was in the hands of a village tyrant.

At that time, there was a fight to get the cattle back, and it was the officers and soldiers who came, and even the Zheng family of Xingyang, who came forward to take the cattle back! "

Sun San couldn't help saying, "From now on, we don't dare to borrow casually anymore. Every time the farm cattle are rented out, someone will guard them."

"In this way, if we rent out the cattle in the future, it may be difficult for those small farmers to rent our cattle. On the contrary, those large households in the village who have contiguous fields will enjoy the cattle of our Agricultural Society first." Li Tai understood. nodded.

"King Wei..." Sun San wanted to say something when he heard Li Tai's words, but finally nodded helplessly.

Compared with small farmers and small households whose fields are fragmented, those large households with land are not only more kind to themselves and others, but also much easier to work with.

Hearing Sun San's words, Li Tai pressed his temple. To be honest, this is not to say that poor people are inherently inferior, so they don't deserve help.

It's because people definitely don't care about maintaining public goods that are not their own, so the reason for this is the case of renting farm cattle.

But for the members of the Agricultural Society, they need to be responsible for all the cattle.

Let alone dead, even if the cow is found to be thin when weighed during the Chinese New Year, at least a [-]-word self-criticism must be written.

Under such circumstances, the people of the agricultural college are forced to go to the farm with the person who leased the cattle every time, in order to ensure that their cattle will not be abused by others.

And if people are added, the originally relatively cheap farm cattle lease will naturally become more expensive.

After all, there are only three or five people in the entire Agricultural Society. In this case, it will naturally become that whoever pays the most will go there first.

This allows the big households who are not short of money to enjoy the benefits brought by the students of the agricultural college and the cattle, as for the small farmers and small households, there is no way.

Li Tai couldn't help but sighed. To be honest, many things were designed by him at the beginning for the benefit of the lower class, but with the development of things, the reality will eliminate these outdated things.

"That's it." Sun San nodded and said, "Now every time it's the beginning of the year, the schedule is full. Even for some people, we know that they need help, but we can't let go of those big households who have given money. Come down!"

"In this case, no matter how many people you have, it won't be enough!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "Next year, you will ask the local village chief to come forward and sign a contract with you.

Try to contract out most of the farm cattle at one time. As for how to divide the farm cattle after they are leased out, you don't have to worry about it.

You just need to make sure that the rented farm cattle can come back safe and sound, otherwise the rented village chief will lose money.

As for the specific allocation, you don't have to worry about it. Leave it to the village chief to solve it. If there are people who really need help, relying on your face, you should be able to help one or two occasionally, but don't think about it if there are too many. You can't manage it! "

When Li Tai said this, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless.

To be honest, I want the Agricultural Society to really take root at the grassroots level, but the reality is that I really can't do it.

It can only reach the village level. If you want to settle down to one-on-one connection with every household in the village, it is still impossible to do it out of practical considerations!

In other words, with the organizational strength of the Agricultural Society, reaching this level is already the limit. If you want to go deeper, you need a new form of organization.

Li Tai thought about it and couldn't help looking at Sun San, and said, "Aside from the lack of manpower, is there anything else?"

"Even after the opening of the elementary school, because our agronomy society gives lunch to the children who go to school, the people around will stuff their children here, and some families who can't survive will secretly stuff their children here." Sun San said.

"So, without even realizing it, our Agricultural Society has already raised four children, all of whom are girls."

"These children can't be raised locally!" Li Taisi thought, "Send them to Luoyang, it's not convenient for you to foster them here."

Sun San couldn't help being stunned when he heard Li Tai's words, and wanted to refuse, but looking at Li Tai's eyes, he knew that he couldn't refuse.

"Some of these children may not be able to raise them, but some of them are just people who simply see the agricultural society to support them, so they deliberately leave the girls in the agricultural society.

When the girl grows up, she will come and want to go back, claiming that she is her own, and then go to recognize her relatives, and then sell the local brothel!

This kind of thing is seen a lot in Chang'an. " Li Tai said involuntarily.

"No, there can't be such an inhuman mother!" Sun San couldn't help opening his mouth when he heard Li Tai's words, but he couldn't believe it.

Because the people Li Tai talked about simply exceeded his imagination of evil human nature.

"It's not that this kind of thing never happened in Chang'an, but I also opened that brothel!" Li Tai sighed.

"..." The corners of Sun Sanmian's mouth twitched, and he almost forgot that this master is the richest owner of Datang.

To be honest, although Li Tai opened a brothel, he didn't send the orphans he cultivated to the brothel, but let them go to the hospital to become female doctors or weaver girls who were sent away by peacocks.

It's just that in this era, brothels often become the final destination of little girls. For those girls who end up in brothels, Li Tai at most gives them a chance to choose.

"That's why the Agricultural Society's attitude towards orphans is adopting off-site adoption.

As for whether they want to find their relatives, then wait until they grow up and make their own decisions! "

Li Taidao, "I know this is a bit unreasonable, but we don't need to let their biological parents hurt them twice, this is the best protection we can give them."

To be honest, Li Tai didn't discriminate against these orphans too much.

On the contrary, although these people are sensitive, they are also strong. In particular, Peacock's weaving industry is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more skilled female workers are needed. They don't have to worry about losing their jobs when they grow up.

After all, such things as female workers are actually not easy to recruit.

Because the composition of the economy in the feudal era was small-scale peasant economy in the final analysis, and the small-scale peasant economy was that the family composed of men farming and women weaving became the smallest economic unit.

My own textile factory with female workers as the theme is actually competing with such families for productivity.

Li Tai knew that according to the capitalist approach, it would be correct to force these small farmers and economists to go bankrupt and then let them go to work.

But I carefully maintain the scale of the textile factory. Even if I slowly cultivate all kinds of orphans, I don't want to force these families to break up, which will cause unnecessary turmoil in the society.

Because as long as they enter industrialization or pursue interests, these women will inevitably spend a lot of time on work.

Then their time to take care of the family is naturally short. If they have any goals to pursue, it is natural to use people as mines, and they will be scrapped if they are scrapped.

But as long as the current Datang is developing normally, it can be the number one in the world. What I need is not to complete the industrialization of Datang society in my lifetime, but to release the productivity of Datang, and to find ways to expand the influence of Datang and complete the industrialization of Datang. Tang's enfeoffment system.

Even if the Tang Dynasty is destroyed in the future, the Han culture should not be trapped in East Asia, not to mention dominating the world, but at least there is no problem in becoming the dominance of Asia. This is my goal.

Therefore, Li Tai didn't mean to force these Weaver Girls, but just kept improving the knowledge and skills of these female workers, trying to find ways to increase their productivity, so that they have the opportunity to choose their future.

"You fill in their information in detail. After sending it to Luoyang, Peacock will deal with these matters!" Li Tai waved his hand and said, "If you have no problem, I have a problem. Do you know this thing?"

As Li Tai spoke, he took out the dried persimmon wrapped in paper and asked.

"Persimmon?" Sun San looked at the persimmon with some surprise,

"There are a lot of these things here in Xingyang, does the king also like to eat them? I'll go get them right away!"

"No need, we've had enough!" Li Tai shook his head and said,

"Maybe in the future, a team of researchers will be sent to study persimmons, and you will assist them at that time.

I will allocate funds to you when I return to Luoyang, and you will be ready then! "

"Okay, please rest assured, Your Majesty. Sun San must have settled this matter." Sun San nodded repeatedly.

(End of this chapter)