Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 533 The Strategic Value of the Northeast (Continue for another update)
Li Shimin understood what Li Tai meant. To be honest, Li Shimin was much more sensitive to politics than Li Tai.

Li Tai simply thought that if he brought 20 talents back to Datang, even if Li Shimin could sleep soundly, others might not be able to sleep soundly either.

Therefore, the 20 corvee must be split up. Only in this way can I stay in Chang'an.

"You choose 1, no, [-] of them, and form them into an army to go back to Chang'an with you.

Others, whether you want to arrange to build the Liaona Canal here in Liaodong, or send them to Qinzhou to build the Chi Road, you can arrange it yourself! "

Li Shimin looked at Li Taidao, "[-] pieces of armor have been approved for you, you should be able to take them out yourself!"

"It's not a problem..." Li Tai couldn't help being a bit stunned when he heard Li Shimin's words, but he also responded.

Because Li Tai didn't quite understand what Li Shimin meant, but no matter what he said, since Li Shimin asked him to organize the army, he just organized it himself.

Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Shimin couldn't help muttering in his heart, knowing Li Tai's ability, armor was nothing to him at all.

If it weren't for Li Tai's respect for the Tang system from the bottom of his heart, with Li Tai's ability, if he didn't follow the rules, the whole Tang Dynasty might be a bit turbulent.

"Wait until the beginning of spring next year to attack Goguryeo. Only when Goguryeo is destroyed can this canal be put on the table!" Li Shimin said, "As for this winter, let's get through it first!"

"Qingque understands!" Li Tai couldn't help answering when he heard Li Shimin's words.

But Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "Put this memorial of yours here first, and you go down and choose corvee to form an army!"

"No!" Li Tai heard Li Shimin's words.

Li Shimin finally decided to let Li Tai return to Datang to carry out military reforms with Li Jing and complete the organizational restructuring of the Datang army.

And it's not enough to let him join Li Jing's sect, it also needs Li Tai to have enough military achievements and enough military strength to endorse Li Tai.

According to the current forces of Li Tai's subordinates, they are Wang Xuance, Xue Rengui, and Tian Changgeng.

But this is not enough, at least Li Tai still needs a certain prestige in the army, Li Shimin needs to slowly pave the way for Li Tai.

As for Li Shimin himself, after completing the war to conquer Goguryeo, even if he has completely completed the task of unifying China, he will make all the barbarians in his field of vision surrender.

That's all, and then you can basically lie on the credit book and wait to die.

At most, if you have time, go to Mount Tai for a walk, after all, the style of Fengchan in Mount Tai has not been pulled down by Da Counsel.

As Li Shimin, who personally created the Great Tang from the troubled times, he is really not afraid of anyone who will rebel, because anyone who dares to rebel, Li Shimin said that he can suppress the other party, even if the opponent is Li Tai.

Li Tai naturally didn't know what Li Shimin was thinking, but no matter what, since Li Shimin asked him to organize the army, he organized it himself.

The army of the Tang Dynasty was much more promising than corvee service. No matter how well you did corvée work, it was at best a technical job, and a monument was erected for you, saying that you led the construction of a certain project.

But if you are in the army, it is not impossible to kill a marquis or even a prince, or even become a servant and a general.

At least before Datang failed, the path of joining the army was more secure than any other path.

"Speaking of which, as the weather gradually gets colder, the soldiers are getting a bit tired!" Li Shiji said at this time.

"Is it because there are not enough heating supplies? The winter here is indeed a bit too cold!" Li Tai couldn't help asking.

"Wei Wang, you are being polite!" Li Shiji shook his head and said, "Whether it is cotton coats, hats or gloves, we have prepared quite enough.

The burnout I am talking about is that as the weather turns cold, if the soldiers are forced to practice, problems are likely to occur.

But if you don't practice, it is easy to cause morale to drop as the soldiers become fatigued! "

"That's it... It's a pity that there is too little time to dig the basement, but if you only use a centurion as the basis, there is no problem in building an indoor training ground... Of course, as for the problem of slack morale, do British publics play polo?! "Li Tai asked Li Shiji.

"You want to play polo indoors?" Li Shiji couldn't help being curious when he heard Li Tai's words.

"It's just that there is no horse or pole, and it's just a ball played by hands or legs." Li Tai shook his head and said,

"In the final analysis, the soldiers are too idle in winter. If so, then find something to do to make the soldiers active."

Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Shiji nodded in approval, more or less he had a direction.

Li Tai didn't mean to directly bring modern games over.

Because Li Tai believed that as long as he told Li Shiji some basic rules, then Li Shiji would be able to arrange the game well.

It can be said that the entire Tang army north of the Yalu River has rested now, and they can only rest in the face of the severe winter.

Xue Rengui was the only one with energy, and he felt that his hard-working self-adaptation had worked again.

He made his soldiers wear armor every day, and then trained by the Yalu River, and from time to time he pretended to cross the river, which made the Goguryeo army on the other side of the river very nervous, which forced the Goguryeo soldiers to send a special troop to watch.

However, Xue Rengui's soldiers have sufficient nutrition supply after training every day, professional medical battalion for nursing, and even a warehouse for frostbite medicine.

However, what the Goguryeo soldiers on the opposite side have, they have nothing.

They ate kimchi without vegetables, lived in cold wooden houses, and even the supply of charcoal fire was very unstable.

It can be said that as Xue Rengui trained normally in the wind and snow every day, it made the soldiers of Goguryeo quite uncomfortable.

Just keep an eye on it, the damage in the wind and snow is quite serious, especially those soldiers whose feet are frozen, and there is even a direct attrition.

But no matter, what if such a soldier in armor rushed over directly on the solid ice.

So as long as they continue to confront Datang on the front line of the Yalu River, they must send soldiers to watch Xue Rengui.

And after the supervised soldiers were frozen to death or frostbite, the soldiers also showed resistance.

Every day, like a lottery of life and death, the people who were drawn went to supervise, which made the morale of the entire Goguryeo barracks quite low.

Of course, there is no way around this, many things need to be solved with materials, and even the upper-level generals themselves don't have many measures to keep warm, and they all rely on their fur and righteousness to carry them over.

For the soldiers who went out to investigate, at most they could only support fur.

But other materials, especially food, even the Goguryeo generals themselves don't have much.

This is not the general's embezzlement, but the influence of Li Tai's strategy of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot in Goguryeo, coupled with Yuangai Suwen's first soldier policy, forcibly snatching the last food from the people's mouths.

Relying on the forcible maintenance of the first soldier policy and the Great Wall defense line that Goguryeo deployed in advance, this made Goguryeo qualified for the first wave of confrontation with Datang, but they had managed to squeeze out these materials.

The basis of all economies is agriculture. If there is not enough food to feed the people, all other production activities will inevitably stop.

The problem of food shortage has spread from ordinary people to various handicraft workers and to all aspects of society.

Because Yuangai Suwen controlled the military power, there was no turmoil in Goguryeo, but as the chain of transmission of lack of food continued to spread, the people of Goguryeo would eventually be unbearable.

This is also the shortage of food in Goguryeo, which led to the shortage of all other materials, because only food can not be changed just by changing it, and social conflicts can only be alleviated after next year's spring plowing and sowing of food, and then autumn harvest.

However, by the spring of next year, for the common people, it will be more or less survived.

Because although there is no food in spring, at least they can eat grass, which is enough for ordinary people.

Therefore, the logistics of Goguryeo soldiers is quite poor now, but because of Xue Rengui's actions, Goguryeo soldiers had to follow.

And looking at the armor of Xue Rengui's soldiers, which was so thick that he was desperate, and the thick clouds in the Tang army's barracks, the soldiers of Goguryeo also gave up the idea of ​​a sneak attack.

Sneak attack?No matter what kind of attack, surrender was more reliable than sneak attack in the past!
However, now the Tang army also said that Xue Rengui's soldiers are not afraid of wind and snow, and fighting in the wind and snow will not reduce their combat effectiveness.

But the other main forces more or less faced the winter wind and snow here, and obediently hid in the house to keep warm.

Because there are actually quite a lot of coal in the vicinity, at most it is a problem with the content of sulfur, but it is good to make a simple isolation device.

However, because of the fact that insufficient coal combustion is easy to generate carbon monoxide, which can lead to poisoning and death, a team of soldiers died.

Li Tai directly popularized the superstition that these coals are plants that have been buried underground for thousands of years, and they carry extremely strong resentment. If they are not completely burned, the resentment inside will kill them.

Soon this scientific and superstitious statement was quickly accepted by the soldiers, and the number of deaths in the military camp due to carbon monoxide poisoning plummeted.

After accepting this setting, Li Tai also saw the solution of these soldiers to solve carbon monoxide poisoning by chance.

They first went to the medical camp to ask for a stack of talisman papers, and they really asked for a stack of talisman papers written by Liu Shenwei.

Because they say that Liu Shenwei is the true biography of Sun Simiao, Sun Simiao is a god, and Liu Shenwei is the true biography of a god even if he is not a god.

Liu Shenwei had no choice but to get a talisman paper seal to print the talisman paper.

And if someone is accidentally poisoned by accident, immediately drag him to an open place outside, and slap his face hard first, so that he can avoid being possessed by evil spirits, or try to wake up as much as possible.

Then take out the talisman paper from the next room, ignite it and throw it into the room to drive away evil spirits. With the sudden flash of fire in the room, some even explode, which means that the evil has been expelled.

Simple, brutal, and effective.

Every soldier showed a satisfied smile. It is just a mere evil, just as King Wei said, it really needs to be burned clean.

It was the first time that Li Tai saw such a violent way to destroy evil spirits, and Li Tai didn't know where to complain.

This kind of rescue method would kill people in modern times, oh!This is a world with aura, so it's okay.

All in all, in a world where even black gunpowder can only blow Sun Simiao's beard black, such a rough way of dealing with carbon monoxide leaks is unexpectedly useful, and the power of gunpowder has been greatly suppressed in this world.

However, this also made Li Tai think in his heart that in the future, the cities in the Northeast, where villages are gathered together, should try to find a way to create public heating facilities.

After all, such a crude solution is really not easy to promote among the common people.

And the problem of coal needed for central heating, is it a problem for the Northeast?
So in the future, we should add such an item to the infrastructure in the Northeast.

Although in terms of energy utilization, central heating has a large one-time investment and high operating costs. In addition, heating needs to be supplied throughout the day. If residents want to cool down, they have to open windows to cool down, which will waste energy to some extent.

But in this day and age, central heating is relatively cheap and much safer.

Because the flue does not go through the room, but directly passes through the ground or the wall. In this era, houses are mostly on one floor, and there is no concept of multiple floors. Therefore, the biggest problem of collective heating is that the temperature caused by different floors is different. Average, almost never occurs.

After all, they are all on the ground, so it would be a big deal to build a few more heating facilities and connect the underground pipes.

Of course, for Li Tai, the heating itself has no meaning. The biggest significance is to allow him to burn coal. This is really important to Li Tai.

Many times, if you want to achieve industrialization, it is not enough to just transform coal into a daily necessities. What is more important is to link energy with production.

But in the south of Youzhou, this kind of application is not obvious, especially as the average temperature of the whole world rises in the coming days, which will weaken the significance of coal as a fuel.

But now, in the Northeast, Li Tai sees something completely different.

Because the winter here is too long and the summer is too short, even if the average temperature of the earth is really high, I really can't believe it. People in the Northeast can still use less heating, which consolidates the importance of coal.

When the use of coal becomes common here, it is believed that the implementation of steam engines, which use coal to bring kinetic energy, will be more acceptable.

Because the land here is sparsely populated, there is a real shortage of labor!

In contrast, in places like Chang'an and Luoyang, the most indispensable thing is people, so who would study hard to improve productivity.

More research on how to exploit the demographic dividend is not as efficient as research on improving productivity.

Therefore, it makes sense for the Northeast to become the eldest son of Huaxia Industry!
"It seems that the Northeast has the strategic value of establishing an agricultural school!" Li Tai narrowed his eyes slightly, and couldn't help thinking seriously.

　Lazy cancer committed, let me rest for two more days, starting from next Monday, I will repay the debt every day, and I will pay off the four chapters owed one after another.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)