Cultivation of chastity

In the eyes of the officials, they were dumbfounded, but in Li Tai's view, it was a matter of course.

Your own reputation can replace capital, and the industry you build can explode in production. To be honest, the reason why Youzhou has not exploded in such a strong productivity over the years is because even if so many things are exploded, no one can produce them. To consume it.

For the operation of capital, what is most feared is not the lack of investment or lack of production, but the biggest problem is the lack of consumption.

But the war completely solved the problem of consumption, especially for these soldiers who were between life and death. After they had a consumption channel during the war, their consumption ability was terrifying.

Among them, there are two types of materials that are most popular with the soldiers, one is meritorious weapons, and various supporting equipment to increase lethality or survival.

Anyway, apart from the armor, they like all kinds of meritorious weapons that can arm their whole bodies to the teeth.

However, although there is no armor, Li Tai made an extra silk lining. This kind of thing can be regarded as a marginal ball, and the most important thing is to play a similar role in preventing arrows.

Secondly, the highest consumption is snacks represented by sucrose, which Li Tai did not expect at all.

Because of things like sucrose, Li Tai tried to sell it to the army before, but in fact the promotion was not good.

But this time, after he exchanged sucrose for meritorious service, he found that this kind of thing would be exchanged for meritorious service almost every day, which surprised Li Tai.

In fact, after thinking for a while, Li Tai understood that this was a battlefield.

No matter how happy the school soldiers are when they hear about the war, they need to use war to achieve their own class leap and become rich and powerful, but when they come to the battlefield, they must face death.

And the vast majority of people face death and need something to help them calm down.

In the era before cigarettes were developed, sweetness was the best placebo in this battlefield, just as Coca-Cola was the most popular drink in World War II.

At the same time, the taste of sweetness itself is the most addictive of all flavors, but the food with the least cost after addiction.

Therefore, in the beginning, there were only occasional soldiers who ate a piece of sucrose with the intention of giving it a try, but now, as long as they have made meritorious service, they will more or less come to get some sucrose and try it.

Especially as the weather gets colder, this thing tastes more interesting.

And with the rise of the sucrose trend, even some candied dried fruits are selling well.

To be honest, at first the courtiers were quite opposed to Li Tai adding these supplies when transporting grain.

Even if the cost of shipping is actually not high, what's the point of transporting these snacks to the front line.

But Li Tai still went his own way. Looking at the consumption speed of these sweet snacks on the battlefield, Li Tai knew that he was not at a loss.

Of course, Li Tai also knew that he was able to maintain the entire wartime system now, because on the one hand, he intentionally took advantage of the trend to build Youzhou's industry, and on the other hand, the war could unscrupulously plunder the warring states.

The plunder includes people, materials, and even the land itself, which can be converted into capital after one's own operation.

But Li Tai is also very clear that as long as the time and scale of the war are prolonged, then needless to say, the credit currency created by his own credit may be in danger of inflation.

After all, it is a false proposition to use war to support war itself, at most it is to stimulate the wartime economy.

Because any war needs to consume materials, which include consumed resources, and more importantly, people themselves.

Relying on the virtual currency based on reputation, it is okay to have a little inflation, but as the country's resources continue to be consumed, but at the same time the capital cannot be filled, it is easy to finish.

That's why, Li Tai only made a two-year offensive plan.

Because the war with Goguryeo is over within two years, I can find a way to overcome whether it is the additional virtual currency or the economy that is gradually deflecting towards wartime, and even because of the stimulation of the war, I can pull Youzhou to a certain extent. .

But if Goguryeo has not been resolved for more than two years, then Li Tai is very clear that this is the Tang Dynasty, which is mainly an agricultural country. Even if the war can continue to supply supplies, the country's national strength will inevitably suffer.

Because in the process of crusade against Goguryeo, Youzhou benefited from the war, but other regions, not to mention, just lacking the participation of hundreds of thousands of people in the prime of life, the weakening of the Tang Dynasty's national strength is a matter of course .

After all, wars consume materials, even if a big country fights a small country, it needs to pay for population and materials.

At the level of capitalists, especially at the level of capitalists such as military-industrial complexes, the more wars are fought, the more money they make.

But at the national level, war is consuming national heritage.

A soldier who can participate in the war must be at least 16 years old from birth to being able to hold a gun to go to war, even by the standards of the Tang Dynasty.

But people who took 16 years to count as a labor force disappeared in just a moment on the battlefield, and they disappeared permanently. Isn't this heartbreaking to the country.

After all, if a person works hard, how much value can be created for the country, this is no better than war!
Therefore, unless it is a war that concerns the safety of the country or the nation and needs to be fought regardless of the cost, most protracted wars will be fought, except for a very small number of people in the country who can benefit. Not a good thing.

However, Li Tai's layout in Youzhou, the promulgation of corresponding systems, and even using his own reputation to intervene in it to replace capital for turnover, are all to prolong the crisis brought about by the war, so that he can deal with this matter in the future .

As for the prosperity of Youzhou in the process of handling it, it was actually worthless to Li Tai.

It's just that with the help of the prior layout, as well as the Grand Canal and Chang'an Luoyang, it absorbs the nutrition of Datang like a blood vessel.

The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty made Youzhou prosperous, but after a long time, others don't know, but Fang Xuanling who sits in the center of the town will immediately find out that the other counties in the Tang Dynasty have begun to decline, but only Youzhou will appear to be particularly prosperous .

After all, war cannot create wealth, nor can pure distribution from the top create wealth.

This kind of development of a state with the power of a country is nothing more than Li Tai's convenience in order to make the crusade against Goguryeo smoother.

Most Tang officials didn't understand the reason behind this, and even Du Ruhui couldn't see why when he watched Li Tai's operations.

Of course, if Fang Xuanling was around, he should be able to understand it by simulating Li Tai's brain.

Therefore, Li Dejian naturally doesn't understand this. For him, the development of Youzhou is better, isn't it a good thing!
It is also much easier for him to obtain supply resources from Youzhou, so Li Dejian naturally found his old acquaintance Li Chunfeng.

Ever since Cen Wenwen vomited dozens of bloods in Youzhou, he was lucky, because Li Tai had promoted seeing a doctor once a year, and Sun Simiao had prescribed medicine for him. It is a direct sudden death in history.

So during this period of time, Cen Wenwen retreated from the first line to the second line, and took care of the general direction, but the specific project was handed over to Li Chunfeng, and because Li Chunfeng was originally the governor of Youzhou, he was handy in handling things.

Now that Li Dejian came up, Li Chunfeng naturally made arrangements for Li Dejian very tacitly.

Li Dejian was not polite, and revealed to Li Chunfeng Su Lie's plan to launch a counterattack in winter.

Because many winter supplies need to be prepared by Li Chunfeng, and he can't hide it even if he wants to.

In fact, spies in ancient times were rarely as rampant as spies in modern times. One of the important reasons is that even if you get any information, you can't send it out.

Even if something like flying pigeons to pass a letter requires raising a group of pigeons, if one of them can reach the goal in the end, it is God's blessing.

There is no way, things like pigeons are flying in the sky and then they are taken away by eagles. Some hunters may even be shot to death if they are idle, or the pigeons are not trained enough, and the estrus period is coming. mail delivered...

These series of things have a very high probability of happening. If the spy only releases one pigeon, it is easy to say, just cover it up, but if you release a group of pigeons, you will be blind when you are a city!
Not to mention, if a pigeon wants to fly from Datang to Goguryeo, it needs to cross the Bohai Sea. What kind of pigeon has this ability.

All in all, there are only two kinds of spies that were really popular in ancient times, one is death, for example, a man named Guo Xiu, who surrendered to the Shu Han found an opportunity to assassinate Fei Yi.

The other is the representative who directly chooses his own interests in the opposing court, the most typical of which is called Qin Hui.

He is the representative of Jin Guo's interests on the bright side in order to ensure that the Southern Song Dynasty will not have any policies that are not good for him. Of course, what is even more disgusting is that Zhao Gou actually agreed.

Li Chunfeng nodded repeatedly when he heard the needed supplies reported by Li Dejian.

These materials are actually not very difficult to operate, not to mention that the king of Wei has quite a lot of reserves here, even if the materials and talents of the entire Tang Dynasty are pouring in to Youzhou, the materials needed by Li Dejian can also be met. It will be dispatched soon.

"However, the matching equipment you need for the talent of the white plague..." Li Chunfeng thought,
"There is such a thing, after all, dog sledding is something that we in Youzhou were the first to make.

It's just that the mold needs to be re-opened, unlike other materials that can be dispatched to you immediately, and it will take a month to build them. "

"A month? If it's a month, I'm afraid that the Bohai Sea will enter the freezing period!" Li Dejian couldn't help frowning.

"Whatever you want, it's up to you to judge the matter on the battlefield, and I can't give you any advice!" Li Chunfeng said again when he came here,
"However, if that kind of all-steel siege weapon is produced in a month, should I give you a set!"

"All steel siege weapons?!" Li Dejian was stunned when he heard this, but said, "What is this?!"

"The king of Wei asked us to research special siege weapons that can only be used by adaptive soldiers who don't wear armor.

I remember that Tian Changgeng has been with you all the way, especially his legion talent, which seems to be able to reduce gravity to a certain extent, maybe he can use it even wearing armor! "

Li Chunfeng recommended, "All in all, it is a siege weapon!"

To be honest, I just changed the siege weapons from wooden to standardized steel production, because there are ready-made templates, now I just change the material, open a mold, and study how to disassemble it into individual parts... …

For the current Youzhou, it is really not difficult to build it.

The real difficulty of this thing is how to add a steam engine to these things later, and how to improve the efficiency of the steam engine.

"Why do I always feel that there are problems everywhere!" Li Dejian complained in his heart, but said, "This thing is very heavy and big, can I really send it there?"

"It can be disassembled. It shouldn't be difficult for Xuefu soldiers to put it together according to the instructions!"

Li Chunfeng replied, "Of course this thing is still in production, and I'm afraid it will take a month to wait for it to be used."

"Wait, what about the King of Wei? Didn't the King of Wei order you to do this? If you give this thing, will the King of Wei agree?" Li Dejian couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

"The king of Wei probably won't need it this year!" Li Chunfeng shook his head and said, "We will definitely rest for a while after taking Anshi City.

One is that the Koguryo Peninsula is about to enter severe cold weather, which is not conducive to the continued advancement of the exhibition.

As for another point, for the soldiers, they have been fighting for half a year and need to be repaired! "

To be honest, the purpose of Datang is indeed to hope that the two-year war will destroy Goguryeo.

But this year's first strategy is to completely occupy the entire Great Wall defense line. Although the next road is not a flat road, it can basically drive straight in along the West Korean Gulf. For Goguryeo, it has lost its national defense barrier. up.

Li Chunfeng couldn't help thinking, "Although this kind of thing was proposed by King Wei, is it really necessary for King Wei to try it?
It is not the same as the success of other people's attempts, but it is the credit of King Wei.

Now finally there is a guy who seems to be suitable as a test product. If he misses it, he will not be responsible to King Wei. "

"Is the King of Wei not available?" Li Dejian was slightly moved when he heard this.

This was specially ordered by King Wei to study it, so it must be a good thing. Li Dejian made a judgment so simply.

At this moment, in Anshicheng's camp.

"Keming, Keming?" Li Shimin called Du Ruhui a few times, and Du Ruhui was still immersed in the report on how Li Tai made Youzhou prosperous.

Du Ruhui came back to his senses, and quickly saluted Li Shimin, expressing that he was distracted just now.

Li Shimin looked at Du Ruhui's dazed look, and said to Du Ruhui, "Why is Keming thinking about it?"

When Du Ruhui heard Li Shimin's words, he said with emotion, "I just feel that during the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, if King Wei was there, it would be much easier to unify the world."

"Hehe, he is good at logistics, but fighting a war is not just about logistics!" Li Shimin said as he took out a piece of information and handed it to Du Ruhui, "Goguryeo's military aid is here!"

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