Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 51 Li Tai's Preparation

Li Tai went to pay his respects to Empress Changsun.
Except for the first 15 days of the first day, when I would definitely go back to Chang'an to see the Empress Changsun, Li Tai would go to the Empress Changsun to say hello to her when he came to the palace.

Then he slept in Yue Wang's mansion for one night, and set off for Gaoling early the next morning.

Although the road from Gaoling to Chang'an has not been completely repaired, Li Tai's speed from Gaoling to Chang'an will be faster and faster as the road is repaired. It may not take an hour until the road is completely repaired.

Back in Gaoling County, Li Tai didn't hide anything, he said that the court recognized everyone's contribution, and he even gave everyone a brocade.

This thing can be used to make large coins or clothes.

For Li Tai, even though the value of silk and satin is much higher than that of linen, it is easier to reward silk and satin than linen.

After all, Peacock has a whole weaving industry chain presented by the Zheng family. Basically, as long as there are raw materials, it is not difficult for Peacock's weaving industry to weave cloth.

But for things like weaving, you can't increase your output simply by improving the process, and the most important thing is the raw material.

For example, the Zheng family's monopoly on Chang'an's cloth industry is a very important factor in the Zheng family's monopoly on raw materials.

Even if Zheng Fengchi gave up some of the raw materials to Peacock, but with the output of the weaving industry owned by Peacock, adding up all the cloth produced in a month, reaching [-] pieces of cloth is already the limit.

It's more not that Li Tai doesn't want to produce, but that there are no raw materials. This is why Li Tai wants to buy cloth from the Zheng family, because he is really out of stock.

But of course this kind of thing is temporary.

Although the price balance maintained by Gaoling has gone wrong due to the influx of refugees, otherwise, with the supply of basic materials from the peacock, the basic materials in the Gaoling area can be completely closed to a certain extent.

But now, the cloth price in the Gaoling area will remain at a relatively high level for a certain period of time.

To some extent, it can be regarded as the contradiction between the growing material needs of the people and the relationship between productivity.

However, Gaoling was close to Chang'an after all, and he could go to Chang'an to exchange for a batch of cloth when necessary, so Li Tai was not in a hurry.

Because the people's demand for cloth is not high in summer, the real peak period will generally be during the autumn and winter seasons.

At that time, down jackets could reduce the people's demand for linen to a certain extent. Anyway, after a year, the peacock industry should be able to expand again and complete the internal cycle again.

And I don't just need expenditure items. With the influx of people, the value they create makes Gaoling more prosperous.

Especially the establishment of the port, which completely revitalized the value of Gaoling's central location in the Guanzhong Plain.

Although it is naturally inferior to Chang'an in terms of political status, it is the city closest to Chang'an, and even connected to Chang'an by a tributary of the Wei River, which highlights the status of the Gaoling area.

At the same time, the Gaoling area did not adopt a curfew even at night. Instead, bad people directly patrolled in three shifts to ensure safety, which also made the Gaoling area extremely special.

Not only politicians but also businessmen came to Chang'an, and Gaoling, which had no curfew, became the first choice for these businessmen to stay overnight before going to Chang'an.

Because Li Tai's positioning of Gaoling is the distribution center of goods in Guanzhong, ships going north and south don't have to worry because the curfew does not allow ships to dock at night. When they come to the Guanzhong Plain, no matter where they go, the first choice is to go to Gaoling first. Let's talk about the region.

In this way, they can completely transport by water and use the Weihe River to reach the place they want to reach as quickly as possible.

Especially those who are planning to go to Chang'an can rest here in Gaoling, buy good gifts and so on, and then set off for Chang'an the next day.

Therefore, before the wharf was built, the Gaoling area could only rely on the situation in Chang'an to survive, but when the wharf was completed, it was the finishing touch, revitalizing the economy of the Gaoling area.

Although the current Gaoling can only be said to be vigorous, with the completion of the dock, Gaoling will naturally flourish.

These people come here, whether it is consumption or entertainment, and if they are comfortable serving these uncles, their money will naturally stay in Gaoling.

So on the whole, Li Tai must have a surplus, and the surplus is not small.

It's just that many of Gaoling's basic materials still depend on Chang'an to be stable, and Li Tai is a bit instinctively uneasy.

But in fact, it can be seen from Li Tai rewarding everyone with silk and satin, Li Tai is not short of money.

Li Tai saw that everyone had accepted the cloth, and said with a smile, "Thanks to all of you for the safe and stable refugees this time, it is precisely because of this that we have the prosperity and development of our Gaoling County today."

"Everything is due to Yue Wang, you have a good plan, I just waited for it!" Ma Zhou stood up and licked.

"It's everyone's hard work, everyone's hard work!" Li Tai couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed when he heard Ma Zhou's praise.

However, Li Tai's expression turned serious, and he said to everyone, "Today, I'm looking for everyone, and I have something I want to discuss with everyone."

"Please speak, Your Majesty!" When everyone heard Li Tai's words, their expressions changed, and all of them suppressed their smiles.

Li Tai looked at everyone, but said seriously:

"Because what happened next is my inference, so I'm not going to say why.

But even so, I still hope that you can help me! "

To be honest, no matter whether there will be a crusade against the Turks in the future, or whether there will be a bumper harvest next year, Li Tai knows that this kind of thing is not something that he can just open his mouth now.

After all, even if he is Li Shimin's son, he can't explain why he can judge that this year will send troops to attack the Turks, let alone why these years have been disasters every year, and why you can have a bumper harvest next year.

Even if I knew it from birth, I didn't intend to be a fairy!
Because prophets can use their prophetic advantages to invest, but they cannot always rely on their own prophetic advantages to speculate.

Li Tai himself is sure of how he will develop step by step, and what he will develop into in the end.

If you continue to rely on historical insights to speculate, even if you stand on the right side every time.

But as time goes by, as you continue to be correct, your influence on the whole world is getting bigger and bigger, but you have never really relied on your own ability to make accurate judgments, and your mentality and ability have not followed each victory. growing up.

As long as it fails once, it will inevitably be backlashed by history.

This kind of backlash brings not only a price to pay for yourself, but also those followers who have always believed that you can create miracles, I am afraid that they will also be wiped out.

At this moment, everyone looked at each other, and everyone really chose to believe in Li Tai's decision, because Li Tai's decision has not been missed all along.

Li Tai said:

"The success of solving the refugee problem this time brought us honor and at the same time gave us a chance to make up for our background.

But please don't forget that for us, the school is the foundation, and the development of Gaoling is just our sideline.

King Bin, Chu Ke, Kong Que, the three of you continue to sit in Gaoling.

Nearly [-] disaster victims have been accepted. Although everything is still normal now, it will take time to truly absorb this group of people.

Thinking about the next two years, you need to work together to complete the transformation from ordinary people to good families. "

"I'll wait for it!" Hearing Li Tai's words, the three of them clasped their fists together to express their respect for Li Tai.

Li Tai continued: "Prince Bin, Peacock, the two of you have mastered most of the property in my Yue Palace.

I have a request this year, which is to temporarily stop expansion and investment until June and July next year.

In May and June of next year, I need a large sum of money, so prepare as much as you can. "

To be honest, if it is something in his own Gaoling County, or even something in his own industrial chain, Li Tai can easily handle it.

But when Li Tai really needs to spend a large sum of money to go out for business, Li Tai is actually quite poor.

But Li Tai knows very well that next year's grain price will be unimaginably low, not to mention the Zhenguan dynasty, even if it has been unimaginably low throughout human history.

If he doesn't take advantage of next year's opportunity to hoard a sum of food, Li Tai feels that he will regret it for the rest of his life.

To be honest, it's not that Li Tai doesn't want to play tricks, but it's still the same sentence, he wants to compete for the crown prince in the future.

Seeing that the price of food is low, no one will say anything if you hoard it a little, but if you really want to play flowers, but because you don’t understand the people’s conditions, you will miss it, it would be too wronged, so it’s better to stop.

As for Li Tai, who has already started to burn sand to make some glass, he is still trying.

I don't ask for transparent glass to be fired all at once, and colorful ones are fine, anyway, it is used to cheat money, so I don't mind.

It's just that the progress of this thing is really slow. Fortunately, I have enough coal resources to try it slowly.

When everyone present heard Li Tai's words, their expressions became serious.

To be honest, what they have seen all along is that Li Tai spends money like water, even if nearly [-] people have been converted from refugees to good citizens, they have never been short of money.

Now that they heard that Li Tai was short of money, they had to be cautious, because it was not a small matter.

The two replied to Li Tai with serious expressions, "Of course"*2
With this sentence, they decided to cut off many unnecessary projects and spend enough money next year.

But Li Tai's eyes fell on Lu Cai, Liu Shenwei and Li Chunfeng at this time, Li Tai said:
"Lu Cai, you have done a good job as the chief of the agricultural department during this time, and you will be the chief of the agricultural department in the future.

Leke's plan to increase food production through music failed, and since then Leke has focused on strengthening the organization, boosting morale, soothing people's hearts, and uniting and cooperating. "

"No!" Lu Cai nodded, expressing his understanding.

Li Tai's original plan to increase plant production through music cannot be said to have failed.

It can only be said that those who listened to music did not increase their grain production significantly, but the input and output were somewhat disproportionate.

So after a year of testing, the project was eliminated.

But even so, the role of music in strengthening organization and command in labor is becoming more and more obvious.

Especially since these people are farmers and not the army, it is really not easy to obey orders on a large scale.

But adding some commands that require large-scale collaboration to the music, let these people know how to collaborate after hearing the music.

In this way, the efficiency of work can be improved invisibly.

"In addition, with the help of the people coming this time, I want you to recruit students again and let the refugees send their children to the school!"

"Recruitment?!" Hearing Li Tai's words, Lu Cai was taken aback.

"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded and said, "In addition, if there are orphans among them, try to assign them to the medical department of Shenwei!"

"Medical?" Lu Cai said, "Aren't you going to teach liberal arts and mathematics first?"

"This group of students is quite special, and priority is given to medical training." Li Tai looked at Liu Shenwei at this point and said:

"With a year of experience, I think the old god should have initially divided the medical training system I wanted at the beginning."

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Master has already established the framework of the system, limited trauma treatment and bone setting massage, and originally planned to try and popularize it among medical students this year!" Liu Shenwei seriously replied to Li Tai.

Li Tai said to Liu Shenwei seriously:
"In the past few months, the medical department has worked harder, so that the students should master these medical skills first.

You won't have too much time, let them learn as much as they can! "

"No!" Liu Shenwei clasped his fists and said when he heard Li Tai's words.

"In short, apart from these few things that need to be adjusted, other things are still going on as planned.

We managed to eat this wave of refugees, but we also need time to digest.

So in the next few years, you all need to work together with me to make Gaoling County a top-notch evaluation. "

"We will work together with Your Majesty to develop Gaoling County to the top county!" Everyone immediately promised Li Tai.

Li Tai waved his hand, and everyone left one after another. When it was time for Ma Zhou, Li Tai called Ma Zhou to stop.

"What's the matter with King Yue keeping me?" Ma Zhou asked doubtfully looking at Li Tai who had left him behind.

"It's like this, Aye promised me that because of your outstanding performance in this disaster relief, I plan to transfer you to the central government after Gao Ling's term expires. So I won't reward you this time, and wait until Gao Ling evaluates it. Praise!"

Li Tai said happily to Ma Zhou, "So the policy towards Gaoling will focus on stability in the future, and don't act too hastily!"

Hearing this, Ma Zhou couldn't help clenching his fists, and saluted Li Tai, "Thank you, King, for your support, Zhou will never forget it!"

To be honest, Ma Zhou did not expect that he had only been with Li Tai for a few years, first to deal with the locusts, then to deal with the cold disaster, then to establish a school, and then to take charge of Gaoling, and finally he successfully entered the center with his visible meritorious deeds. !
Ma Zhou is now at the sixth rank, and at the very least, he is transferred to the center from the fifth rank.

And for most people, this level is basically the end of their life.

But for Ma Zhou's age, it's just the beginning!

Li Tai said happily:

"You deserve it all. With your talent by my side, you can only manage Gaoling, a place as big as a palm.

But when you are by Aye's side, you can do your best and show your talents, and your vision will be the entire Tang Dynasty. "

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

(End of this chapter)