Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 83 Impeached Again

Yes, the ultimate goal of Li Tai's efforts to establish an agricultural school is that simple.

Let the students from agricultural colleges become foreign officials who promote crops and teach the common people how to farm.

Li Shimin heard Li Tai's heart-warming words naturally and sincerely, and thought proudly in his heart that Li Tai was really dedicated to the people.

Li Shimin said to Li Tai: "Qingque, you are ambitious and down-to-earth, you should be a role model for the royal family.

I hereby promise that if Gaoling harvests again next year and proves Gaoling's farming skills, I will help you realize the promotion of agricultural technology! "

"Thank you!" Li Tai couldn't help clenching his fists when he heard that Li Shimin finally agreed to this matter.

To be honest, for Li Tai, the idea of ​​promoting agricultural crops is naturally sincere.

At the same time, Li Tai hopes that these students who have come out of agricultural colleges will become his basic base, which is also what he hopes.

The most important thing is that if this matter becomes a reality, then agricultural colleges will be able to train technical officials in batches.

And such a distribution channel is not to say flocking to ordinary good families, but it is indeed enough to attract them.

"In this way, the layout of the agricultural college is completely completed!" Li Tai was sure that he had taken a big step forward.

And Li Shimin also asked Yan Liben to draw a "Wheat Cutting Picture" here. Yan Liben moved a few strokes and told Li Shimin that it would take a year for the whole picture, and it would be delivered just when the King of Yue created another bumper harvest.

Hearing this, Li Tai naturally expressed his gratitude to Yan Liben.

To be honest, Li Tai is more interested in legion talent than his step-by-step transformation of agricultural college students from students to technical officials. After all, Li Tai has never known about it.

No way, I didn't have this kind of thing in the education I had been exposed to since I was a child, and when I opened a government and went outside, I established the idea of ​​​​taking the farmer technical officer as my basic plan, and naturally devoted myself to internal affairs.

As for military affairs, at most, I will provide logistical support, and I have never had any direct contact with the military.

Under such circumstances, Li Tai discovered the power he had neglected for the first time.

However, although Li Tai discovered the talent of the legion, it is almost impossible to get in touch with the talent of the legion.

Not to mention that as long as the generals of the army are not brain-dead, they will basically not take the initiative to follow Li Tai.

The most typical one is Li Jing, who is completely business-like.

In fact, even the most lawless Yuchi Jingde in the Tang Dynasty kept an absolute distance from Li Tai.

It is precisely because Li Shimin became emperor by relying on Xuanwu Gate that the generals he trusted were more self-aware.

This made Li Tai want to study the talent of the legion, but there was nothing he could leverage on.

Just when Li Tai put his mind on the talent of the army, the food price in Chang'an also began to collapse.

The news of Gaoling's bumper harvest began to spread throughout Chang'an at an unimaginable speed under the deliberate promotion of Li Shimin.

Almost all the rich merchants and aristocratic families in Chang'an knew that Li Tai had really planted three stones of wheat per mu, which can be called a bumper harvest.

This turmoil made it clear to everyone that as long as the grain in Li Tai's hands enters the market, the price of grain will definitely not be able to hold back.

Before the storm came, selling grain was the only way to save ourselves, so we started selling grain immediately.

In fact, Li Tai had no intention of selling grain at all, because for Li Tai, these grains would become an important fulcrum for him to further leverage the labor force.

You must know that money in this era is directly linked to food. To a certain extent, food is currency.

So even if Li Tai had a bumper harvest, if he wanted to organize a large-scale project, he must have food to be confident.

However, these rich merchants and aristocratic families didn't know this at all. They only knew that the imperial court had new food in their hands, and Li Jing's return to the imperial court was just around the corner.

At this time, if you don't sell the grain in your hands, the grain will probably rot in your own warehouse.

Therefore, the continuous selling of grain in the entire Chang'an market can be described as astonishing.

And one after another, the prices that continued to break through the bottom line made the lowest grain prices since the establishment of Datang began to appear.

Three cents per bucket, this price is simply unprecedented for the people of Chang'an!
It can be said that since Li Shimin took over the Tang Dynasty, from the first year of Zhenguan in Guanzhong, rice buckets were worth a piece of silk, and now, the world is full of people, and rice buckets are only three or four dollars.

Whether Li Shimin's rule of Zhenguan was blown out or not, the success of Zhenguan can be seen just by looking at the price.

For the common people in the world, he is the most successful emperor who can make them full at the lowest price.

Li Tai can be sure that this time the price of grain has dropped to three or four dollars per bucket, even to a point that needs to be remembered throughout history. It must be the real lowest price in history.

So Li Tai approached Peacock immediately, and with the help of this trend, he started stockpiling food!
Of course, this matter was originally entrusted to Ma Zhou, but now Li Tai hopes that Ma Zhou can become a relatively pure official instead of walking under his own door.

After all, to a certain extent, Ma Zhou is the representative of the agricultural college, and his height is the upper limit of the graduates from the agricultural college.

"I have seen the king!" Seeing Li Tai, the peacock naturally saluted Li Tai respectfully.

"I give you a task. I will give you all the wealth I have hoarded since last year. As long as the price of grain is lower than four dollars per bucket, you will buy it with all your strength until the money is used up!" Li Tai asked.

"Your Majesty is going to buy grain!?" Peacock frowned upon hearing Li Tai's words, "Now the price of grain is already below [-] qian per bucket. According to my opinion, it may even fall to [-] qian. Will King Yue not wait any longer?!"

Hearing what the peacock said, Li Tai shook his head at the peacock and said, "Do as I say!"

Peacock heard Li Tai's words and saw that Li Tai was so persistent, so he didn't say anything more.

Because Li Tai made preparations a year in advance, it can be said that the money handed over to Peacock is quite sufficient.

In particular, Gaoling, as the transportation center of the entire Guanzhong, wants to save food, at least in terms of transportation costs, which are the lowest.

With this large transaction, Gaoling is very busy with boats coming and going.

Of course, the news that Li Tai had successfully grown wheat worth three stones per mu was a good thing for the whole country.

But when this news reached Li Chengqian's ears, Li Chengqian inevitably had some complicated thoughts.

As a prince, he should be happy for Li Tai's success, but at the same time, as a prince, he is troubled by Li Tai's achievement.

"Prince, your mind is distracted!" As Li Chengqian's teacher, Li Gang was keenly aware of Li Chengqian's state.

"Teacher, don't be annoyed, it's just that Chengqian has a stagnation in his heart, but he doesn't know how to resolve it for a while!" Li Chengqian said.

"Isn't it the King of Yue who successfully planted three stones of grain per mu!" Li Gang said,

"The saint ordered people to spread this matter, with the intention of suppressing food prices, and the king of Yue just happened to meet it."

"Teacher, I understand what you said!" Hearing Li Gang's words, Li Chengqian said excitedly:

"But Aye and Qingque are very close, and Qingque makes a contribution today and does a good deed tomorrow, how can I not worry about it!
Now Qingque's subordinates, Ma Zhou is busy paying taxes for water transportation, Du Chuke makes Gaoling prosperous, and even Na Lucai is praised by Aye for his harvest music.

As for me, I still can only listen to the court order, and I can't even speak freely in this court! "

Obviously, although Li Chengqian did not take Li Tai's agricultural school seriously, Li Chengqian was quite sensitive as the prince.

He already clearly felt that Li Tai was releasing his influence and eroding his domain space step by step.

Out of the instinct to control power, after Li Tai devoted himself to farming two years ago, and now Li Taizhen has grown three stones of wheat per acre of land, Li Chengqian is a little flustered.

For some reason, he felt that even though he had the status of the prince, he had no confidence when facing Li Tai, who had grown three stones of grain. This was the reason for his irritability.

Li Gang heard Li Chengqian's words, but he couldn't help but fell silent.

To be honest, for Li Taizhen to plant three stones of grain, anyone who has experienced the turn of the Sui and Tang Dynasties will understand the significance of Li Tai's planting three stones of grain.

What's more important is that Li Tai still doesn't think it's luck to plant three stones of grain, but wants to prove it's technology next year.

It can be said that as long as Li Taizhen grows three stones of wheat next year, the significance of this will not only be that the northern grain corn will abdicate and make wheat the most important northern grain, but more importantly, Li Tai himself will be more famous .

Confucianism began to suppress a hundred schools of thought from the beginning of its exclusive respect for Confucianism, and now the roots of a hundred schools of thought have been dug clean by Confucianism.

At this time, there was a king of Yue. To be honest, almost all Confucian children felt a headache for Li Tai.

But what can they do? Even if the Confucian children of this era are capable of writing and martial arts, are they willing to pick up a hoe and plow the fields? !

And the Confucian disciples who are willing to farm the fields, after entering Li Tai's agricultural school, can they return to the appearance of Confucian students!

As the wheat of the Agricultural Institute reaches three stones per mu, Li Gang feels that those hundreds of schools that have been knocked down by Confucianism have an opportunity to rise at this moment. Even Li Gang feels a bit of instinctive fear at this moment!

Now Li Tai has only grown three stones of wheat per mu.

If Li Tai can go one step further and further increase the output, then Li Tai's position will be further consolidated.

Even if Li Chengqian becomes the emperor in the future, facing such a prince, if he is killed, he will definitely be blacklisted in history.

Li Gang took a deep breath and said to Li Chengqian:

"Your Highness is not like the sage advised, and is willing to assist Wei Xuancheng in studying the "Sui Shu".

This matter will help the prince to learn from the experience of the previous dynasty, and I believe the sage will never refuse!

As far as the prince is concerned, he can also take advantage of the opportunity of co-editing the "Sui Shu" to make more contacts with celebrities in the court for future preparation. "

"Thank you, Teacher, for your guidance!" Li Chengqian thanked Li Gang after hearing Li Gang's words.

To be honest, the crown prince is not like a prince like Li Tai, and it is completely fine to throw him out as a county magistrate.

If the prince is thrown out to be the county magistrate, the first thing people think about is whether the prince will be deposed!

There is not much room for the prince to really display his talents, what is more important is to do things, as long as he does it, it is likely to cause discussions.

After all, you may not be able to see the good of anything on the spot, but if it is so bad that it concerns your own interests, someone will definitely shout.

On the contrary, book repairing, relatively speaking, not only enhances talent and learning, but also is relatively noble, and will not cause trouble.

Not to mention that the compilation is still the history books of the previous dynasty. For a person like Li Shimin who often introspects, he pays more attention to Sui books.

So Li Gang asked Li Chengqian to revise Sui Shu, to a certain extent, it was a multiplicity of actions.

It's just that Li Tai's presence still made Li Gang feel a bit tight in his chest.

This king of Yue only does practical things, and now he directly grows wheat worth three stones per mu. If it continues, it will definitely become a serious problem for the prince!

"Cough cough cough!" Thinking of this, Li Gang coughed a few times, and he could feel that his body was getting worse day by day.

He knew that he might not see the day when Li Chengqian could ascend the throne.

But in any case, I must pave Li Chengqian's path to the throne and make Li Chengqian the future emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

On the second day, Li Gang still hadn't asked Li Chengqian to revise the "Book of Sui".

But Li Tai is more concerned about Li Tai's censor than Li Shimin, and Li Tai has already participated in the play.

As for the reason, Gaoling bought grain at a high price, raised the price of grain, and deliberately caused complaints among the people!

That's right, the food that had fallen to three Wen, returned to Si Wen per bucket under Li Tai's order.

After all, with Li Tai coming out to maintain the market price, those aristocratic merchants would choose to wait and see, instead of selling all the food with all their heart and soul.

And when they stopped for a while, the food was naturally maintained at about four coins per bucket.

In short, as long as there is less than four Wen of grain sold, the peacock will come forward to buy grain and make a good grain reserve.

But people in this era have really experienced too few peaceful days. They were naturally extremely annoyed when they saw that Li Tai, as the prince, let the peacock harvest grain to stabilize the price instead of letting the grain continue to fall.

If it was just a small amount of grain purchased for savings, then naturally there would be nothing to say, but now Li Tai almost covered the whole of Chang'an's grain without limit, which had to attract the attention of the imperial censor.

From their point of view, Li Tai wanted to hoard a large amount of grain, and then make a fortune before the autumn harvest.

Therefore, as soon as Li Shimin came to court this day, a bunch of censors impeached Li Tailai because of this incident.

Li Shimin didn't say much, he just asked people to tell Li Tai to come to Chang'an.

Because Li Shimin knew that Li Tai was not the kind of person who would do anything wrong, at least Li Tai had fulfilled his promise step by step since he left the palace.

Li Tai suddenly became as mercenary as a wealthy businessman of a family, Li Shimin would not believe it.

In contrast, Li Gang proposed to let the prince cooperate with Wei Zheng to revise the "Book of Sui", and Li Shimin naturally agreed after thinking about it.

After all, Li Shimin has always paid attention to taking history as a mirror. Now let Li Chengqian follow Wei Zheng's "Revision Book" and follow the loyal and upright ministers. No matter what you say, it can play a very good educational role for the prince.

(End of this chapter)