Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 82 Li Tai's Request

Yan Xuanxuan led the officials of Sinong Temple to leave quickly, while Li Tai drew a circle, leaving about [-] acres of wheat that seemed to be growing well, and the others continued to harvest wheat.

After all, wheat is a little different from other grains. It is delicious when made into wheat flour and then made into other things.

If you eat wheat directly, it will be difficult to swallow it with milk.

Now that the entire system of agricultural colleges is fully operational at this moment, the first step in making wheat flour is naturally drying the wheat.

Basically, the wheat is sun-dried on the day or the day after the rice is harvested to remove moisture for storage.

Then sieve wheat, moisten wheat, grind, and mill flour. Except for drying the wheat, which can only be solved by sunlight, for the rest of the process, Moke provides equipment, Mathematics performs measurement, Leke uses vocal music to boost morale, and Liberal Arts uses pen and ink to record the process.

Under the respective duties, this summer harvest went very smoothly, and soon it was completed in sevens and eighties, leaving only the field.

At the same time, Li Shimin was also meditating in the Tai Chi Hall. Even though the Tang Dynasty was flourishing, he was still worried.

Strictly speaking, this year is indeed a good year, especially after the defeat of the East Turks, the price of food in Chang'an, which had already exceeded [-] yuan, slowly dropped to around [-] yuan.

But Li Shimin hoped that the grain would continue to fall, but he couldn't.

One of the most important reasons is that although the Turks were resolved, the attachment of the Turkic tribes and the placement of the captured people in Youzhou dispatched a lot of food.

And Li Jing's army has now returned to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but the consumption of more than [-] unproductive grains still exists.

As long as they haven't returned, the war is not really over.

The second is that although this year is a good year, as long as the first tranche of grain has not come to the market in a year, the price will remain relatively balanced.

After all, millet is the main planting in the vast majority of northern regions, and the autumn harvest has not come, and the first tranche of grain cannot be injected into the market, so this balance will not be broken at all.

To be honest, by this time, the merchants in Datang basically knew that it was impossible to maintain high grain prices.

Whether it is Li Jing leading the Tang army back to Chang'an, or the harvest of the first autumn grain will break this balance.

But out of the instinct to safeguard their own interests, and the difficulty of riding a tiger with mutual checks and balances, these wealthy families who store grain are unwilling to open warehouses to sell grain.

Because there are rich families and even aristocratic families behind these wealthy merchants, everyone knows that the first person to sneak away will earn the most profit, but from then on, this wealthy merchant will definitely be jointly resisted by other aristocratic families.

Usually at this time, the imperial court only needs to choose one of them as an example, it is like a domino, as long as one person sells the grain, the barely maintained high grain price will soon collapse.

Of course, as the guy who stabs the knife in the back, he will be disgusted by the family, but the court will also give benefits to the political forces behind it.

For example, Li Shimin took the daughter of the power behind him as his concubine, such as Xu Yi's official position as the head of the family, and so on.

Li Shimin thought for a while, and naturally chose the eldest grandson's family who was the most caring, so why not let him be the one who stabbed the knife.

And he also made a personal favor and betrothed Changle to the eldest grandson's family. At this moment, Li Shimin had a thought in his heart.

At this time, Dai Zhou took Yan Xuansui to the Tai Chi Hall with small steps, and after being announced by Li Shimin, the two saluted Li Shimin first, and then Dai Zhou said to Li Shimin: "Saint, Zhou has a big event to announce! "

"Huh?" Seeing the two people who came, Li Shimin's heart was full of question marks.

And when Li Tai saw that Yan Xuansui had left for a week, he didn't pass any news.

As time goes by, if the wheat is left unchecked, it may be past the harvest time.

Li Tai wondered if he should say hello to Yan Xuansui and harvest the wheat from the one hundred mu field.

Unexpectedly, at this time Li Shimin brought Dai Zhou, Li Junxian, Yan Liben, and Yan Xuansui with him.

"Haha, Xuanyin, we don't seem to have come here by coincidence. You look at some wheat fields, which have been harvested clean and bare!" Li Shimin said with a little regret, "I originally wanted to let Liben draw pictures, but now It looks like there’s nothing to do.”

"When the barn is full of grains, it is a good season. Such a scene is the most beautiful scenery in the world!"

Yan Liben said beside Li Shimin, "Seeing such a plentiful harvest, how could I not be interested in painting!"

"You can't just say good things, you have to paint a good scenery!" Li Shimin said to Yan Liben.

Yan Liben also said with a smile on his face: "The sage has orders, and the ministers will naturally obey them."

During the speech, Li Shimin had come to Li Tai, stretched out his hand and patted Li Tai's shoulder, and said, "Qing Que, I'm here!!"

"Aye, why are you here!" Li Tai glanced at Dai Zhou and Yan Xuansui, and suddenly realized, "It's Yan Shaoqing."

Li Shimin looked at Li Tai calmly and said, "Xuan Yin said that your wheat field has a bumper harvest, so I came to see it myself."

Whatever Li Shimin says, that is what it is.

Although Li Tai didn't think the reason Li Shimin said was so simple, but since he couldn't guess what it was, he just followed Li Shimin's meaning!

In fact, the people who came to harvest this time were not arranged by Li Tai, but the Xuanjia Army, Li Shimin's personal guard all along.

At this moment, Li Junxian gave an order, and the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army took off their armor, revealing their muscular muscles, and holding the samarium that Li Tai had prepared for them.

They mastered the use of wheat samarium at an unimaginable speed, and then they lined up in two rows staggered back and forth, like bulldozers, and began to harvest the wheat in the field.

Seeing this scene, Li Tai couldn't help but widen his eyes. Although these people were indeed from the Tang Dynasty's strongest Xuanjia Army, they were able to grasp them almost instantly with the equipment specially developed for wheat, and then immediately searched for them. to the most suitable method of use.

Is this something normal people can do?And they are harvesting, not killing!

"The talent of the Xuanjia Army is control."

Li Shimin looked at the scene in front of him, not surprised at all, and explained to Li Tai,

"Everything is in their hands, and they can grasp it quickly.

Your equipment for harvesting wheat is good, but such a simple equipment is also very easy for the Xuanjia Army to master. "

"..." Li Tai looked at the scene in front of him, but felt like he didn't know how to complain.

I always thought that I was in the ancient Tang Dynasty, but in a blink of an eye, something that cannot be explained by science appeared in front of me, which made me feel like I had changed my style of painting.

"What is the talent of the Legion?!" Li Taiqiang resisted the discomfort, but spoke to Li Shimin.

"It can be regarded as amplifying a certain legion's instinct or skill through organizational power!" Li Shimin said,
"However, because it relies on organizational strength, at least three to five hundred people are required to start, and there is no ceiling.

However, the greater the number, the harder it is for the legion talent to be revealed! "

"Relying on organizational strength, that is to say, if you leave the army, you will be gone?" Li Tai asked curiously.

"Maybe some instincts can be left, but if you don't have organizational skills, then you don't have the talent of the Legion!" Li Shimin nodded.

"Will Wu Guogong, Yi Guogong, Su Guogong and other powerful generals fight against the talented soldiers of the army?" Li Tai said.

"In the battle on the battlefield, their personal guards are all elites with legion talents. If they are just single-handedly, an elite force of three to five hundred people will naturally be able to capture them!"

Li Shimin said, "The so-called legion talent, after all, relies on organizational strength!"

After hearing this, Li Tai understood a little bit, and forced to use his own understanding to see the talent of the legion, that is, the realization of organizational power.

It was difficult to see from the surface what kind of enhanced organizational power there was, but the talent of legions appeared in this world.

It is certain that an army with legion talent is definitely better organized than an army without legion talent.

Of course, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is not possible to win or lose with strong organization.

But it is undeniable that through this straightforward display of strength, it is also a means of overwhelming others.

The top countries often pay attention to being kingly, when they can only maintain their dominance by fanning the flames and conspiracy.

There is no doubt that it has weakened.

What about pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, what about keeping a low profile, these are things that only the weak will do.

The truly strong is strong, and if they say they beat you, they will beat you for no reason, which will make you feel so desperate that only aliens can punish them in this world.

Of course, if the weak want to become the strong, the method of stealing the country and backstabbing like the Sima family must be wrong to win the country.

Even if they were able to be fierce for a while, they were destined to plant the seeds of destruction.

Only by defeating the opponent with fists can people be convinced.

It's like when the big man was the strongest, it must be when the Huns were buried, when the Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous, and when everyone called him father.

Therefore, this way of directly showing its own strength is the way of a big country.

It may seem stupid, but the stronger the strength on the stage, the stronger the cohesion of people's hearts.

Not to mention, look at the Xuanjia army holding the wheat samarium brush to harvest the wheat now, pushing the two columns vertically and horizontally all the way horizontally, without any mess.

Li Tai had no doubts that if the Xuanjia Army held Tang Dao in their hands, what would be harvested would not be wheat but human heads.

Seeing such an elite team beside Li Shimin, Li Tai couldn't help but wonder what kind of mentality Li Chengqian used to commit rebellion? !

Li Tai just followed Li Shimin obediently in such a silent manner. I have to say that seeing the discipline and organization displayed by Li Junxian with the Xuanjia Army, Li Tai saw the tip of the ancient elite iceberg for the first time. .

Although wheat samarium was the most efficient device for threshing wheat before the invention of the wheat harvester, an ordinary adult man can only harvest four or five acres of wheat a day with this wheat samarium.

But now watching these soldiers pushing all the way, even within an hour, the wheat on these fields was beaten to pieces, and now they have turned around to pick ears of wheat!
Li Shimin looked at the performance of his Xuanjia Army with satisfaction, and soon asked Dai Zhou to carry the container for weighing.

One hundred mu of land was weighed one by one. Li Shimin didn't say much, but waited patiently for Dai Zhou's results.

After running with Yan Xuansui, Dai Zhou personally recorded and counted the data, and then said to Li Shimin,
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the [-]-acre field of wheat has at least two stones and eight buckets per mu, and at most three stones per mu. It is indeed a bumper harvest!"

"Good harvest, good harvest!" Li Shimin's mouth showed a satisfied smile.

Although Li Lizhi will definitely marry the eldest grandson's family, Li Shimin will not sell his daughter cheaply if he can get a better price.

Now that the news of the bumper wheat harvest in Gaoling was enough to impact the already crumbling grain market, Li Shimin naturally didn't want to sell Li Lizhi.

Li Shimin said to Li Tai, "Qingque, your agricultural school is really amazing, the wheat can grow three stones, what a bumper harvest!"

Li Tai shook his head when he heard Li Shimin's words:

"Aye, thank you, this year's receipt of three stones of wheat is not so much due to Qingque,
It would be better to say that Aye hibernated for three years, destroyed the Eastern Turks, and earned the fortune of the Tang Dynasty, so that this year's weather will be smooth, and Gaoling will have such a bumper harvest.

I think it's not just Gaoling, but my Tang Dynasty will definitely have a good harvest this year! "

The ministers brought by Li Shimin paid attention to Li Taixing at this moment, and it was the first time that they found that the King of Yue had the potential to be a courtier!

Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Shimin unconsciously showed a somewhat smug smile.

After all, no matter whether I finally decided to conquer the Eastern Turks or chose Li Jing as the commander, no matter how I say it, I have at least three points of the credit for the defeat of the Eastern Turks this time.

So for Li Tai's praise, Li Shimin accepted all of them humbly!

At this moment, Li Shimin said: "You have done a great job this time, Qingque, but if you have any requirements, Aye will fulfill you!"

Hearing Li Shimin's promise of such words, the faces of the officials present couldn't help but change.

Dai Zhou was about to speak, but Li Tai said one step ahead of him:

"Aye, it is indeed a coincidence that this year's wheat can grow three stones.

If it is possible, can you wait until next year, when my Gaoling can grow such grain, and then reward me? "

"Oh!" Li Shimin was slightly teased when he heard Li Tai's words: "If the harvest is not as good as this year, there will be no rewards!"

Dai Zhou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Li Shimin's words, and looked at Li Tai with puzzlement and a little admiration.

After all, this is the reward that the sage himself said, and Li Tai didn't seem to be moved at all.

Nonsense, what Li Tai wants is not what Li Shimin can give directly through his own promises. Even if he asks for it, what's the point if he can't give it.

Li Tai faced Li Shimin and said, "Aye, what I want is that the people in the world can have enough food and clothing.

This is the first time that Gaoling has planted three stones of grain, whether it is a coincidence or skill, this is not a certainty.

If the grain grown in Gaoling next year can still reach Sanshi, then can Aye grant the qualifications of agricultural officials to the students who spread agronomy.

Let them go deep into the fields to teach the people to grow wheat, so that the people all over the world can also harvest a little more food to survive! "

(End of this chapter)