Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 54 The Pusher of the Centennial Plan

After Li Tai greeted Empress Changsun in a daze, he left the palace.

My own suggestion to Li Shimin, to be honest, Li Tai didn't know how much Li Shimin could accept.

But Li Tai knew that if he wanted Datang to have a navy, without a strong enemy, the only thing that could drive the development of the navy was profit.

And in this era, although overseas trade seems to be very, very profitable, it must be understood that this is only the seventh century. For the newly unified Datang, the ocean-going technology of this era is still not available.

As for ocean trade, it is necessary to open up a stable and safe sea route.

This route does not point to a map and say, we are going to sail the boat here, where there is money to be made, and then a group of people will set off with you, just travel for a few days like a tourist, buy things from other places, and then come back to carry out trade.

The reality is that any profiteering industry has dangers that you cannot see, let alone ocean trade where survival is difficult to guarantee.

In ancient times, the danger of conducting ocean-going trade was unimaginably high.

Because of this journey, you need to determine the climate to avoid being swallowed by the storm, you need to know the next replenishment point of the ship, and you need to reserve enough fresh water every time.

You need to know more about medical technology. Diseases such as sepsis were also very common among ancient crew members.

Even when you go to a place where you are not familiar with, how to obtain goods instead of being hunted by the other party.

It can be said that every sea trade is a bet on one's own life.

If it's not true that they can't get along in the local area, few people will spontaneously organize sea trade and open up a sea road.

In the Zhenguan Dynasty, as long as they farmed well, they could survive, so why take such life-and-death risks to engage in ocean trade.

If we really want to develop, at least we have to wait until the land cannot meet the growth of the population. People instinctively have to look to the ocean in order to find resources for survival.

From a certain point of view, it is still a bit immature to let Datang develop shipping through ocean trade.

The most important reason is that the Silk Road on the road can successfully communicate with the Eurasian continent. Before the Silk Road on the road will be abandoned, it will be very difficult to develop the Silk Road on the Sea.

For merchants, the Silk Road was opened up all the way from the Han Dynasty, and most of the dangers were clear, and it was fine if they dared not take the risk of sending supplies to Yumen Pass.

But compared with maritime trade, there are too many uncertainties, and it is too uneasy.

Therefore, what Li Tai wanted was to pave the way for the development of the fishing industry before carrying out the so-called maritime trade.

From coastal fishing to offshore fishing, to deep-sea fishing, and even whale hunting, that would be even better.

In addition to the legend that "the big fish dies, the prince dies", the first person to shoot a whale may be scolded to death by Confucianism.

But the profits brought by hunting whales are indeed too exaggerated in this feudal era, which will stimulate the development of fisheries instead.

And even if the navy has no enemies, relying on the benefits brought by the fishing industry should be able to sustain the navy.

After all, even if you are not interested in the interests of the ocean, those dried fish can be used as food.

People depend on food, and when the industry has formed a scale, even if the emperor wants to ban the sea, it is very likely that the rations of millions or even 1000 million people will be cut off. Li Tai is very curious, what will happen then thing.

And when the fishing industry continues to develop, it is as if continuous farming slowly forms an agricultural society.

With the expansion of fishery scale, many supporting facilities can also be derived, such as marine commerce, ship escort and team building, aquaculture and so on.

Li Tai doesn't think that by building a fleet and doing a little trade, Huaxia will have the genes for sailing.

Because in Li Tai's view, Huaxia is a country with an agricultural society as the main body.

The navigation technology of the Song Dynasty was very advanced. Although the sea was banned in the Ming Dynasty, the ship technology of the Ming Dynasty was also outstanding, but why China couldn't develop a marine civilization.

In Li Tai's view, the most basic thing is that the people do not rely on the ocean for their food, and the lack of the ocean really doesn't make any sense to the people on the mainland.

Because they eat rice and wheat, and the profits brought by ocean trade are basically embezzled by the upper class of society.

As long as it does not involve the basic necessities of the people, it has little to do with the people!
Although the channels controlled by the upper class are very profitable and can bring huge profits, they are rootless as far as the whole society is concerned.

Because when the people at the bottom are basically annexed by land, they are forced to revolt to overthrow the upper class.

It has never been heard that the fishermen who fished for survival in the sea overthrew the upper class in an uprising.

Under such circumstances, no matter how the dynasties are replaced, as long as the previous dynasties are overthrown, the subsequent dynasties will definitely not pay attention to the sea, because they value the people of Li and the land under their feet. This is normal.

In fact, later generations said that the ancient people did not pay much attention to the ocean, which is very unreasonable, because the Chinese people are down-to-earth.

Ancient times were farming societies, they could not see the treasures hidden in the ocean, all they could see was the land under their feet.

Because the land can support the people.

Therefore, the bigger the country in ancient times, the more their eyes focused on the land.

Only those small countries with barren land and scarce resources will have to turn their eyes to the ocean and discover a blue ocean that has never been explored.

And Li Tai hopes that the country will focus on the sea, and what needs to be done is not to contact a large group of nobles to do maritime trade.

Because even if it can last for one dynasty, with the advent of dynasty change, these maritime policies will definitely be buried.

What I need is to enable the people at the bottom to survive through the ocean.

Especially when the influence of the ocean can extend from the ocean to the inland, the people at the bottom will find that not only the land can feed them, but also the ocean can feed them.

Then there is no need for Li Tai to engage in ocean trade or team building.

The society will spontaneously develop corresponding functions, and the officials selected from them will make the country focus on the sea.

Of course, to promote this plan from the bottom up, what is most needed is a stable marine policy and environment to cultivate such a huge basic class.

At the same time, the problems that need to be overcome also need time to slowly settle.

Because marine technology is currently the most cutting-edge technology, especially for Datang, a navy who has been playing inland at most, there is still a long way to go.

At least the keel was only owned by ships in the Song Dynasty, and there is no historical data or shipwreck to prove that the Tang Dynasty owned the keel.

This limited the sailing distance of Tang Dynasty ships to the greatest extent.

And before this problem is solved, the ships will play in the offshore at most. If you want to sail in the ocean, you must be prepared for the ship to be destroyed.

Therefore, it takes a long time for Datang's navigation industry to settle down in terms of ship technology, personnel quality, and material preparation.

Even if you want to use military fishing boats to go fishing in the Bohai Sea now, the boats sailing in the river and the boats sailing in the ocean are two completely different boats.

It is better to let the Tang army accumulate relevant technologies now than to slap the head and let the Tang navy go out to fight against Goguryeo in the future. As a result, halfway through the impact of the typhoon, most of them lost their strength.

And one thing to note is that what Li Tai needs is not an invincible fleet, but an industrial system that can thirst for the ocean.

Now with Goguryeo as the goal, when this plan is implemented, a corresponding industrial system will naturally be generated, and even various forces in the Tang Dynasty will support this matter.

If there is no goal of Goguryeo, and the result is to focus on the development of the marine industry, it will definitely be suppressed and excluded by the existing industries.

Therefore, borrowing Li Shimin's hand to develop the navigation industry can also provide a relatively safe environment and support for this nascent industry.

Of course, Li Tai just planted a seed intentionally or unintentionally. If he can successfully become the emperor in the future, then when he develops the navigation industry at that time, it will be considered that he has a group of available talents, not all of them. All from scratch.

"The so-called empire should have a hundred-year plan, otherwise how can it be called an empire!" Li Tai smiled triumphantly.

In Li Tai's view, the so-called empire is not an intrigue and power struggle within the empire, which is really boring.

The so-called empire wants to play is to play the kind of plan that started in a hundred years.

Just like the prefecture and county system in the Qin Dynasty, after the Han took over, it continued to complete the system and continue to play, making the entire Huaxia's control over the grassroots compared with other empires absolutely unrivaled in the same generation, and it is also outstanding in modern times.

It's like the imperial examination system in the Sui Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty took over, it continued to improve the imperial examination system. Even in modern times, the talent selection system still can't break away from the imperial examination system. .

Therefore, the so-called one-hundred-year plan must be the kind of plan that uses time as the driving force, takes the Central Plains as the basic disk, and requires the execution power of the empire to implement.

And those who first proposed these plans are basically the most amazing and talented people in China.

Perhaps because of historical limitations, they cannot see through what they propose will develop into.

But at that time, they were definitely the people with the farthest vision and the highest ability at the time. Their greatness even surpassed the so-called princes and generals, and they were the real wise men of that era.

Of course, Li Tai is not such a person. A normal college student with a basic ideology and morality of [-]% can reach Li Tai's level of vision.

As for whether it can be done, it depends on the opportunity.

There is still a chance to be reincarnated as an ordinary person, but if reincarnated as Yang Guang's son, it may be a real tragedy.

Because he needs to face the strongest commander of the era - Li Shimin.

And Li Tai returned to Gaoling to continue to live a stable life, waiting patiently until Li Shimin announced that he would send troops to crusade against the Turks.

After all, if the news is not announced, it is not good for him to take the initiative. After all, Yang Xiu is smart enough, but in the end he made himself smart!
But in fact, just as Li Tai left, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were called to the Tai Chi Hall by Li Shimin.

For Li Shimin, Li Tai's idea of ​​fishing was something he had never thought of before, to solve military problems from the perspective of people's livelihood.

If you want to implement this plan, you will naturally need Fang Mou and Duan to make a reference judgment.

"I've met a saint." Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui said to Li Shimin when they arrived.

"Xuanling, Keming, you are here!" Seeing Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui coming, Li Shimin asked them to take a seat first, and then waved his hand to ask the servant to hand over the fishing plan written by Li Tai to Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui. Du Ruhui and the two watched.

Li Shimin said, "I got a policy theory by chance, you can see if this policy theory can be operated!"

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui looked at it, picked up the policy one after another, and read it.

After Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui watched it one after another, their eyes were piercing. For both parties, this strategy was not so much a wonderful plan as it was more important to open their horizons and let their eyes open. No longer stick to the mainland, but can focus on the ocean.

Fang Xuanling said, "Set up a port in Jinkou, and transfer military ships to fishing boats to increase food by fishing.

And raise fish at the estuary of the river or other suitable places to form a fishing field similar to fishery planting, so that the fishery can be stabilized, and then in the form of dried fish, it is crucial to transport along the Grand Canal when necessary relief food.

It has to be said that this is quite a grand plan, a big plan that will take at least ten years to realize! "

Du Ruhui nodded approvingly: "This plan can be said to be a solution to double symptoms with one son.

One is that we have suffered disasters year after year, and this plan can reduce our logistical pressure on the Turks.

And when the Turkic problem is solved, it can also play a miraculous effect when dealing with Goguryeo! "

To be honest, even until now, no one thinks that the Turks can be determined by a single battle.

At most, they thought that if Datang had the upper hand to achieve ten years of peace, then the crusade against the Turks would be worthwhile.

"Sage, can you tell me which great sage gave this plan? Although it takes a long time to implement and has many variables, but the vision is far-sighted, and the long time has made this plan have higher execution and adjustment!" Fang Xuanling said.

"It was made by Qingque!" Li Shimin smiled proudly and said,
"I originally wanted to second the corvee team, but his corvee team was too expensive, so I asked him to come up with an idea to reduce the corvee.

Then Qingque came up with such a plan.

Although the goal is Goguryeo, the use of the first half of his plan on the Turks can also reduce the pressure on food. "

"King Yue has indeed proposed an excellent plan!" Fang Xuanling nodded,
"At least in terms of resource allocation, we can further integrate the power of the country to deal with the Turks.

Every point of logistics we add to the rear is an extra point of strength on the front line. "

Du Ruhui nodded in agreement, but said firmly:
"However, if you want to perfectly integrate this plan into the crusade against the Turks, then only the Minister of the Ministry of War has to do it.

After all, he is the No.1 navy in my Tang Dynasty! "

"That's right, it's only the pharmacists who are attacking the Turks this time!" Li Shimin also nodded.

(End of this chapter)