Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 98 Du Ruhui stepped on the pit
"Dejian's request to crusade against pirates!" Li Jing looked at the memorial sent by Li Dejian and sighed.

Knowing son is not like father, what Li Dejian wants to do, Li Jing probably understood after reading this memorial.

Li Dejian's military training skills were taught by Li Jing. Under Li Jing's precepts and deeds, those who need talent to command large armies, Li Dejian really can't help.

However, in terms of military training and other aspects that rely on daily accumulation, Li Dejian has a good grasp.

For Li Jing, as long as Li Dejian didn't have the ability to command a large army, then he couldn't trust Li Dejian to join the army.

Especially for military training, which is a matter of gaining prestige and not offending others, I don't want him to go there.

Because this kind of person is likely to be thrown as a hole card to the position that needs him to stand at a critical moment.

Needless to say, Yu Jin in the Three Kingdoms is a very typical example.

Under such circumstances, if Li Dejian did not have the talent to become a commander of a large army, then Li Jing would rather choose to let Li Dejian go to other positions to eat and die.

The reason why Li Dejian was allowed to train the navy is largely because the command ability of the navy is not as high as that of the army.

Basically, you can command thousands of people on the battlefield and throw them into the position of naval commander, and you can command thousands of ships. At most, it is because of your interpretation and analysis of the battlefield, and the lack of understanding of the performance of each other's ships.

But compared to the army, under the current army system, the upper limit of the commander determines the upper limit of the overall army, while the lower limit of soldiers determines the lower limit of the overall army.

The lower limit of the navy is the common lower limit of soldiers and ships. As for the upper limit, unless it is the top famous general, otherwise, even if the commander is dead, other warships can take over the command task and command the entire army.

Therefore, the naval warfare model can cover up some of Li Dejian's natural shortcomings. After ten years in the navy, not to mention becoming a famous general, it should be no problem to become a mature and prudent general.

The most important thing is that the main naval opponent of the Tang Dynasty is Goguryeo. After killing Goguryeo, Li Dejian's level will not be mentioned, but bullying the small countries around the Tang Dynasty should be easily crushed by the ships of the Datang warships alone. pressure.

For any father, such a thing as father's death and son's succession is something to look forward to. If it weren't for the poor qualifications of the two sons, how could Li Jing not want them to inherit his career.

It is a good choice to develop in the navy now. Even if he really does something famous in the future, there are so many generals in the Tang Army, so don't count on him!

Li Jing approved the word "permit", and wrote a note beside it: Investigate the surrounding waterways and record the surrounding weather!
Li Jing understood that Datang would not fight Goguryeo in a short time.

But even so, it is also very important to explore the surrounding waterways and record the surrounding weather.

After all, wars that seem easy and settled are usually more than ten years of hard work behind it. In this regard, Li Jing dare not relax in the slightest.

"Although I can approve this matter, it should be reported to the sage!" Li Jing straightened his mind and left with the report.

To be honest, Li Jing was completely able to approve a local bandit suppression memorial when the Minister of War approved it, and he didn't even need to report it.

After all, this matter is too small, but it is related to his son after all, Li Jing thinks it is better to report it.

But at this time, Li Jing took the memorial to the Taiji Hall to report. Outside the Taiji Hall, Li Jing unexpectedly met an acquaintance here, "Du Shangshu, have you repaired the Weishui Water Transport?!"

Seeing Du Ruhui appearing in front of him, Li Jing couldn't help being a little dazed.

How long has it been since half a year?Du Ruhui came to report the progress of the task?
No, when did corvée build things so quickly!
"After reporting the progress of the Weishui project to the sage, then go to the Agricultural Institute to ask for more staff!" Du Ruhui said.

Because Ma Zhou and the corvee team from Gaoling were there, Du Ruhui handled these matters quite smoothly.

At least in Du Ruhui's opinion, the Weishui Project might take two years to complete, and maybe this winter, he might be able to finish the work by gritting his teeth.

But working in winter is also easy to cause problems, not to mention the question of whether one's conscience can live well, just because these people are under the King of Yue, it is impossible for him to use these corvees to death. Ty said hello.

In September, after a large-scale autumn harvest, Du Ruhui took the opportunity to return to Chang'an. On the one hand, he reported the progress with Li Shimin, and on the other hand, he went to Gaoling to say hello to Li Tai.

Soon, Du Ruhui and Li Jing were announced in.

It's just that Li Jing's matter was just a small matter that came to report cautiously, and Li Jing left after the procedure was completed.

However, Du Ruhui made a detailed report on the entire Weishui tax payment plan, and informed that the two ports of Yuanzhou and Qinzhou had been put into use, as well as the outstanding performance of Ma Zhou and Gaoling corvee.

"Yuanzhou and Shengzhou?" Hearing these two states, Li Shimin thought thoughtfully,

"It seems that Qingque asked these two states to build ports. Are these two piers built? Even the waterways are unimpeded?"

When Du Ruhui heard Li Shimin's question, he immediately said respectfully to Li Shimin:
"I have checked in the past, and these two piers are temporarily operated by students of liberal arts and mathematics from the agricultural college.

In addition to the construction of the wharf, the King of Yue introduced boxes with unified weights and measures, and also equipped these boxes with special carriages.

Basically, these boxes are placed on the designated carriage through a lifting machine invented by Moko.

One after the other, the heavy machine did not stop until sunset.

And these goods are not directly dispersed at the dock, but will be sent to the warehouses built around the dock, and then the goods will be opened in these warehouses for further distribution.

Where these warehouses are located, there are all supporting facilities such as carriage shops, dental shops, etc. nearby, which are convenient for the people to eat, drink, live and travel.

At the same time, the wharf warehouse on the Shengzhou side of Yuanzhou, as long as it needs to board the ship, it will be placed a few days in advance.

Before the ship sails, load these goods into the ship, it can be said that this series of things are handled in an orderly manner!

Of course, the most important thing is that Dai Zhou from the Ministry of Civil Affairs has already paid for the first tax payment this month!

It has to be said that after the port is built, it will be much easier for those big families to pay taxes! "

To be honest, Li Shimin has never seen this new tax model.

After all, since ancient times, taxes have been either agricultural taxes, head taxes, or exorbitant miscellaneous taxes. People who invest in infrastructure and then collect tolls are at most city entry taxes or city tariffs.

I have never seen such storage and transportation fees for renting ships and storing goods in ports.

But seeing the income coming in, Li Shimin was very happy.

Well, Li Shimin is about to build Luoyang Palace, and he has always been troubled by where the money will come from.

But now, the money is coming!

The Tang Dynasty has killed the Eastern Turks, so why not allow myself to rest after being busy for several years!
Of course, Li Shimin still has an online IQ. He looked at Du Ruhui, but said with a serious expression:
"Since everything is going well, what problems did you encounter when you came back this time?"

"The minister had no choice but to come back after seeing King Yue's arrangements for the two piers." Du Ruhui said, "Saint, we don't have enough small officials!"

"Not enough small officials?" Li Shimin was stunned when he heard Du Ruhui's words, and he couldn't react.

And Du Ruhui said: "The two ports built by the King of Yue can operate normally because of the talents trained by the King of Yue who are specialized in arithmetic and literacy from the agricultural academy, and their existence can maintain the normal operation of these two ports.

It doesn't even take a day for the goods to enter from the port to be transported to the warehouse in Yuanzhou.

But this kind of talent is common in agricultural schools, but it is not common in court officials.

First of all, there are no small officials who have mastered both literacy and mathematics, but at least a hundred people are needed for a port to operate, so there is a big gap.

Coupled with the need for them to change the old weights and measures to new ones, this makes the number of petty officials even smaller! "

Compared with the work itself, the quality of small officials has been improved, but in fact, the change in weights and measures is the important reason for the elimination of small officials.

Because of the weights and measures in the past, although there was a unified standard, the standard was very vague.

Du Ruhui noticed this when using the old corvees for construction, and because of the vagueness of weights and measures, the corvees made mistakes in the construction time, and the efficiency was much worse than that of Gaoling's corvees.

Now with the implementation of the water transportation plan, Du Ruhui found that if there were problems with weights and measures, big troubles would often arise.

Like the pier built purely with old corvee, now let Ma Zhou send people to rework.

One of the most important reasons is that the weights and measures of this wharf are not uniform.

It doesn't matter if it was in the past, but now under the uniform standard box, everything from boats, to horse-drawn carriages, to transporting equipment has a uniform standard, and the most important thing is that the imperial court collects taxes based on this box.

If this standard is not uniform, then any link is stuck, and it will take a lot of effort to proceed to the next link!

The slowdown in efficiency has made most businesses prefer to take a boat to the next station to unload rather than unload here.

After seeing this, Du Ruhui could only ask Ma Zhou to send corvees to rebuild the place.

Of course, those who should pay pay, as long as they pay, the effect of Gaoling corvee will naturally be leveraged.

After going through this series of events, Du Ruhui discovered that the efficiency of the students from the Agricultural Institute is really high!

If these students are simply thrown into the big dye vat of society, even Li Tai cannot guarantee that these students will be any better.

After all, it is easy to learn bad and difficult to learn good, as is the case in this society.

But through the wharves in Yuanzhou, Shengzhou, and Gaoling, the standards were formulated, and then all students from their own agricultural colleges formed an efficient work model that prioritized numbers and tried to modularize the process. Other old models are naturally inferior no more.

If you want to change the bureaucratic system, it is almost impossible to shake it, and Li Tai has no such idea.

But in the water transportation model that Li Tai made the rules, almost everyone was on the same starting line.

Efficiency is the most important thing after all, so the high-quality talents of the agricultural college naturally stand out.

"Do you mean that you want to recruit a large number of students from agricultural colleges to fill these canals?"

Li Shimin couldn't help becoming silent when he heard Du Ruhui's words, and Li Shimin naturally knew what it meant.

Du Ruhui looked at Li Shimin, but said cautiously:
"It's just that the exiled foreign officials at the grassroots level mainly rely on their salaries, and at most they add strength lessons. The imperial court should be able to afford the money!

Over the years, these students have become ninth-rank petty officials who are not allowed to face the Holy Order after more than ten years.

Even if all the members of the official position are from agricultural colleges, the mere Jiupinjin Order is nothing if the imperial court orders it. "

Du Ruhui naturally understood Li Shimin's concerns about this, but Du Ruhui still chose to support Li Tai.

After all, I have already taken over this matter. It is impossible for me to dredge the river and build the port, but no one will come to work in the end.

Of course, if they are all old petty officials, then there is no objection to using them. It doesn't matter if everyone is doing foreign work.

But who made Gaoling, Yuanzhou and Shengzhou, the ports invested by Li Tai himself, not only started to work, but also worked very well.

But the old-style management can't keep up with the Gaoling model that has been rolled up. What can Du Ruhui do? With this benchmark, I can do a little bit worse, but I can't come to the universe between fingers. This gap makes me not even half a point Choose.

Even if Du Ruhui is wholeheartedly for the country and society of the Tang Dynasty, he is worried that this incident will fuel Li Tai's ambition to aim at the throne.

But I can't give up eating because of choking, and I don't need anyone from the agricultural school.

After that, I am afraid that I will take the blame for some ports in Weishui River being inferior to those in Gaoling.

No matter which nerves I use to think, it is impossible for me to choose this path.

Therefore, this matter must be discussed with Li Tai, and if discussed with Li Tai, it must be reported to Li Shimin.

That's why Du Ruhui came to Li Shimin immediately after finding out that there was a shortage of people.

Because Du Ruhui knew where there was someone, and he also knew that he could get someone from Li Tai if he stepped forward.

But if he really went to seek someone from Li Tai, then he would be on Li Tai's boat.

If Li Tai'an couldn't bear to fight for the throne in the future, then he would say that he and Li Tai were innocent... Then no one in the court would believe his words.

To be honest, Du Ruhui didn't expect that he was working hard on water transportation, so why would he suddenly be blamed for it?

If he hadn't relied on his own decision to judge the most correct path at the first time, Du Ruhui felt that after the water transportation of his Weihe River was repaired, he would have boarded Li Tai's boat inexplicably!

"Who on earth came up with the trick? It's so bad that it's a conspiracy!" Du Ruhui couldn't help muttering vehemently.

(End of this chapter)