Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 55 Li Jing's visit

Although Li Jing was the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition to the Turks in history, Li Shimin is now considering it.

In Li Shimin's view, Li Xiaogong and Li Jing can only be said to be [-]-[-], and it is possible to choose anyone.

However, the appearance of Li Tai's proposal placed a heavy bargaining chip on Li Jing.

As far as this point is concerned, Li Tai himself is not clear about the importance of his plan.

Because he knew that Li Jing was the military god of the Tang Dynasty, but he didn't know that Li Jing was also the No.1 naval army of the Tang Dynasty.

Originally, Li Shimin had to consider a candidate for the commander-in-chief for a month, and it took almost only a few days for Li Shimin to decide.

After Li Jing was settled, the deputy generals who matched him were also confirmed one after another.

Of course, although the Northern Expedition to the Turks began, the state's organizational strength was placed here, personnel needed to be convened, and materials needed to be prepared.

Even Dou Jing has to go to Youzhou to recruit corvees, dredge the river, and ensure logistics. Everything is inextricably linked.

However, Li Tai did not expect that his Gaoling County would also become a bit lively because of this.

Dou Jing was the first to come to the door, because she has always had a good relationship with Li Tai. He really couldn't figure out why Li Tai refused to recruit corvee, and even Li Shimin didn't make sense when he came forward.

Originally, Dou Jing wanted to wait for Li Tai to give her an explanation, but if she couldn't wait, she couldn't wait, so she had to come to the door by herself, because she really needed this corvee team!

And Li Tai is mainly busy with medical students. Although these people are in Li Tai's position as a logistics force, no one knows what the situation on the battlefield will be like.

So Li Tai was thinking about preparing them as well as possible, how to make them bring complete and sufficient equipment.

Especially this time Liu Shenwei must lead the team, how to communicate with Liu Shenwei and Sun Simiao, all these need to be handled by Li Tai.

In addition, all Li Tai knew was that Li Shimin wanted Li Chunfeng's corvee team with him, but he didn't know that Dou Jing wanted it.

So naturally I didn't think of what to say to Dou Jing.

At this moment, after knowing that Dou Jing, who was about to leave for Youzhou, would actually come to find him, Li Tai was also very surprised.

"Dou Si Nong? Why are you looking for Tai? Why do you have to come to the door in person?!" Li Tai hurried over, like a dog's leg.

"King Yue, I'm looking for you because of Li Chunfeng's matter, you don't know about it!" Dou Jing said with a bit of resentment.

"Chunfeng? He has offended you! Then I apologize for him, and ask Dou Sinong to let him go!" Li Tai said.

"What? I want to dispatch him and his reserves to Youzhou to protect his future!" Dou Jing said.

"Oh... I see! No wonder Aye brought up the matter of Gaoling's corvee team going north." Li Tai nodded and said,

"Sinong, sit down first, I'll get something over here, you'll understand at a glance, and wait for a while, drink a sip of tea to calm the fire."

After Li Tai said that, he got up to get an account book, and then handed this account book to Dou Jing.

Li Tai said, "Si Nong, this account book is the monthly consumption of that corvee team in Gaoling.

In terms of food, wages, and welfare, all expenditures, large and small, are all on this.

As long as you, Si Nong, can afford the money, my corvee team will take it directly. "

Dou Jing took the account book that Li Tai sent, and flipped through it, the more she looked at it, the more ugly her face became.

Dou Jing saw the daily food consumption of the corvee team marked at market prices in Li Tai's account book, the monthly wages, and the benefits of being a corvee.

These benefits include poultry meat that is not limited to ordinary meals, gloves to protect hands, hot water for bathing every day, and even mung bean soup for lunch!
Seeing that Dou Jing understands why Li Tai's corvee team is so efficient.

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man!
Under normal circumstances, the imperial court only provided food for the corvee. In terms of cost, the cost of Li Tai's corvee team was several times higher than that of the normal corvee. With this capital, I might as well recruit more people to work.

Thinking of this, Dou Jing looked at Li Tai with a slightly different look.

If in the eyes of Dou Jing, Li Tai had extraordinary ability in internal affairs, now in the eyes of Dou Jing, Li Tai is a bit like a benevolent boy who spreads money.

After all, based on the market price, the benefits and wages provided by Li Tai are really too high, anyway, I can't afford them.

"He didn't make random quotations to fool me, did he?" Dou Jingteng raised this doubt, but looking at the price, it was really the market price!
Facing this iron-clad fact, Dou Jing found helplessly that she really couldn't afford Li Tai's corvee team.

Li Tai knew very well that he did not make false accounts.

After all, this account book is sold according to the market price. It is really strange that people in this era can find the problem.

To put it simply, the benefits I give are real, the wages I pay are real, and even the duck legs that the corvee eats are real, but the market price is different from the actual cost of these things after all.

After all, these are his own industries, especially the cost of the two most basic industries, coal and grain, which Li Tai has reduced to the extreme.

In this way, the real cost of other derivative industries is naturally much less than what ordinary people want.

But even so, Li Tai can only operate in this way in the Gaoling area. If he goes to Youzhou to follow this standard, without supporting measures, the money and food consumed may explode directly, and Li Tai will really become a money-spreading boy to make up for it. This is a pit.

Li Tai saw that Dou Jing began to bend forward with a consciousness that had completely lost the will to fight, and couldn't help saying:

"Although the corvee team cannot be loaned out, if Dou Sinong needs Li Chunfeng's arithmetic power to assist him, I believe Chunfeng is still willing to serve the country. He only needs a transfer order from Sinong."

"Then thank you King Yue for your help." Dou Jing heard Li Tai's words, but also accepted Li Tai's kindness.

I feel that although the corvee team can't get it, it can be regarded as my help to get a Li Chunfeng.

After all, Li Chunfeng dispatched the entire corvee team, so he has some corvee experience!
As for Li Tai, although he didn't know that Dou Jing's main purpose of going north to repair the Sanggan River was to deal with the logistics supplies of the Turks in the Northern Expedition.

But asking Li Chunfeng to help is at least doing practical things. In fact, he is still very supportive of such things that benefit the country and the people.

After all, it is impossible for me to hold all the talents in my hands, and it is my job to let them have a stage for development.

Everyone has their own destiny, and everyone has to be responsible for themselves.

Forcibly suppressing the growth of the other party with one's own will, and using the name of being good for the other party, will itself wear down the bond between the two parties.

The same is true for Li Chunfeng. He was originally a general official, which shows that Li Chunfeng wanted to be an official.

Although he went around and didn't succeed in getting into the Taishi Bureau to eat and die, but now he is in charge of corvee, which also makes his mathematical ability come into play.

Therefore, Li Chunfeng is also willing to do this kind of new water conservancy work, and letting him work with Dou Jing may not be a way out.

Just when the two discussed this matter to a great extent, someone reported, "Li Jing, Minister of the Ministry of War, begged to see the King of Yue!"

"Since that's the case, I'll go back to Sinong Temple to write the transfer order first!" Dou Sinong said with a flash of surprise in his eyes.

"Si Nong Dou, please! On Li Chunfeng's behalf, I will ask Sinong Dou to take good care of him in the future!" Li Tai replied to Sinong Dou.

After Dou Si Nong left, he and Li Jing met at the door, the two complimented each other, and Li Jing came to Yue Wang's mansion calmly.

Normally speaking, Li Jing is a cautious person. Under normal circumstances, Li Jing would never come to a prince's residence like Li Tai.

Even if Li Tai took the initiative to find Li Jing, Li Jing would only open the door for Li Tai after asking Li Shimin for instructions.

However, Li Shimin officially announced that Li Jing would be the commander-in-chief of the Turkic Northern Expedition, and the edict had been issued to three provinces and six ministries, and the entire country began to mobilize for the Northern Expedition Turkic.

At the same time, Li Jing was kept privately by Li Shimin, and he handed over the fishing boat plan written by Li Tai to Li Jing, and asked Li Jing to handle this matter, and he could discuss with Li Tai if he had any doubts.

As for Li Jing, as the god of war, it was only because of the limitation of his vision that he did not think of the idea of ​​building a port here in Jinkou.

After all, I didn't think of using the Sanggan River to connect Youzhou and Shuozhou, so the place of Jinkou would naturally not be remembered.

But after formulating this logistics plan, the role of Najinkou is like in Go. After jumping a move, it made a small point. It strengthened the logistics support during the Northern Expedition to Turks, and at the same time laid the groundwork for dealing with Goguryeo in the future.

More importantly, this plan to serve the military was implemented in the context of internal affairs.

In this way, no matter whether it is Turks or Goguryeo, they will not pay too much attention to it. After all, such methods are more moisturizing and silent.

To be honest, if he is not the specific executor of this plan, if someone else implements this plan, Li Jing can't guarantee that he can see the specific effect of this step.

So Li Jing felt that it was necessary for him to talk to King Yue.

Therefore, after obtaining Li Shimin's permission, Li Jing visited Li Tai and asked to see him.

But Li Tai was a little bit surprised when he saw Li Jing's visit, and hurried over to greet Li Jing.

After all, Li Jing was considered the most cautious person in the entire Zhenguan period, and he probably didn't have any chance to get in touch with him.

Unexpectedly, this time Li Jing would take the initiative to find him, Li Tai made a definite judgment while enduring his excitement, that is absolutely what Li Shimin told Li Jing, otherwise Li Jing would never come here with his character.

The biggest possibility is the Tianjin Yugang plan that he proposed to Li Shimin, and Li Shimin is likely to hand it over to Li Jing for implementation.

Li Tai thought of this, so he naturally invited Li Jing to the inner room, and after letting Bai He serve tea, he said,

"What is Li Shangshu's coming to my Yue Palace this time, please tell me frankly, and I will definitely help you with everything I can do."

"This time I came to look for the King of Yue, because the King of Yue advised the sage to set up a fishing ground in Jinkou and then carry out fishing!"

Li Jing looked like he was doing business, and said:

"This plan was proposed by the King of Yue, although it has already been clearly stated that the relationship is serious.

But I want to implement it, but I have a lot of ideas, so I want to ask the king of Yue, where does the king think it is better to start! "

"I see!" Li Taisi thought, "I think it's better to start with the soldiers who left the navy for various reasons."

"Oh?" Li Jing heard Li Tai's words, and stretched out his hand to signal, hoping that Li Tai could continue talking.

Li Tai was not polite, but he also expressed his opinion to Li Jing:
"This is what I think, first of all, if you use the thinking of a river navy to train a sea navy, you will definitely suffer a loss.

Therefore, someone needs to slowly accumulate experience, instead of directly changing our Datang's Jianghe navy to become a sea navy.

There will definitely be pains in this. If we need to face Goguryeo directly, then we will change jobs by force.

But since we're just laying the groundwork, there's no need to rush.

Soldiers who quit the navy for various reasons must have various problems.

Rather than let them have nothing to do in this society, or let them be despised because they have lost their labor force.

It's better to call them back together and put them into the team.

One is that they have discipline and can do orders and prohibitions, and the other is that they are best at ships and can adapt to ships at sea as quickly as possible.

As for the third, I think ships sailing in the ocean also need time to develop the most suitable type. "

Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Jing was puzzled and said, "The king of Yue thinks that the current ships are not suitable for sea navigation."

"Rivers are different from oceans. No one can imagine the boundlessness of oceans without seeing them with their own eyes.

So the ships that are most suitable for sailing on the sea must be different from those on the rivers.

And if it is a different ship, where does the wood come from, where does the steel come from, where does the canvas come from...

Everything needs to be re-floor-planned.

Therefore, it takes time for this kind of thing to settle and form materials that can be obtained nearby, instead of forcing the state to deploy to solve the problem.

For example, the country's main timber is now cut from the Qinling area, and there is even a tendency to cut it to Shu. If we want to build ships, we can't really cut down the timber in Shu and send it to Youzhou for construction. The cost It's just too high.

Conversely, if you want to build a ship in Shu and then go down the river to Youzhou, the width of the Yangtze River and the canal itself will determine the size of the ship.

I don't think this kind of boat born from the river and sea can be the most suitable boat for the ocean. "

"The words of the king of Yue made Jing feel enlightened." Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Jing said, "So Li Jing knows how to carry out this plan, thank you King for clarifying the confusion."

"Li Shangshu is being polite!" Li Tai said, "Since this matter was brought up by Tai, Tai naturally hopes to do a good job in this matter!"

"Jing thanked King Yue for his understanding of justice!"

Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Jing opened his mouth to ask Li Tai about the Turkic strategy.

Because Li Tai's strategic vision can be seen from the establishment of Jinkou Fishing Ground, it is really good.

But in the end Li Jing refrained from asking. After all, as a minister in charge of military power, he was too close to Li Tai, which was not a good thing.

Thinking of this, Li Jing got up and said:

"If King Yue has nothing else to say, then Jing will leave first!"

(End of this chapter)