Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 617

A bowl of noodles and a few side dishes are enough to satisfy a person’s basic dietary needs. These special restaurants in Jiuyuan County guarantee people’s fullness without bad taste. They are not like big hotels, which will The selling points are on the environment, service, and taste.

However, comparing these two business models will make these officials and dignitaries who are used to meals in hotels feel incredible.

Li Shimin was the one who felt the most. He originally thought that something worth a few pennies would be like cold noodle noodles in Chang'an Night Market, which would not be available on the table. Now it seems that the grade of these foods can completely supply the breakfast or lunch of the ministers of the DPRK and China. However, the imperial palace also provides a meal for thousands of courtiers, and the money spent is as high as several hundred.

Salted duck eggs with red hearts, braised duck necks, braised duck legs, fish meatballs in sour soup, steamed egg dumplings with fish cakes, and rice dumplings with various fillings. The ministers who dine, whether they are southerners or northerners, are all very delicious. Nodding while eating, the satisfaction level is very high, even for the harem concubine who is used to delicacies from mountains and seas.

The eldest-sun empress, who is usually frugal, felt that the cost of the harem could be reduced by more than [-]% after learning the price of these foods, mainly because of food, but she didn't know that once this policy was implemented, those The eunuch in charge of purchasing.

However, with Li Shimin around, she would not be allowed to make the decision to reduce the cost of the harem in public. He just told her that these foods could be introduced into the daily food supply of the palace. Being rich, she no longer needs to be as frugal as she used to be. What she should do more is to spread the wealth so that everyone can take advantage of the royal family.

Sure enough, when this decision was announced, everyone nodded their heads and praised it. It was also a way to save money, but in everyone's opinion, it was a welfare policy for the empress to enrich everyone's food and drink tastes.

After the meal, everyone set off again, and soon arrived at the old town of Jiangling City. However, at this time, it was surrounded by a tall new city wall. Inside the city wall was a scene of busy construction. No such buildings have been built yet, and the only ones that can live in are old-fashioned building blocks in the old city.

Changsun Wuji explained the situation here, and at the same time led everyone to live in the Yamen of the Chief Manager's Mansion. Of course, many courtiers and entourage were arranged to stay in restaurants and inns.

"Pu Wang Shu Wang Jing Wang and others are planting rice in Jiuyuan County. It is said that it is now a critical period and they cannot leave. That is why they did not come to greet them." Entering the living room of the chief executive's mansion, Changsun Wuji played to Li Shimin alone. reports.

"It's okay. It's their honor that they can contribute to such a good thing as rice planting. I plan to go to various construction sites tomorrow, including those that have been planned as paddy fields and have not yet started construction. You arrange people to help I have counted the gifts I brought from Guanzhong, and when the time comes, I will give them to the workers and local people who come to work there."

Since the inspection is going to be carried out, Li Shimin is of course going to win the hearts of the people, especially for those people who have just entered the ruling area in the former Koguryo, Silla, Baekje and other places. What they have lived in the past is the ruled The life of taxation and exploitation can be classified into the Tang Dynasty, but the emperor brought them various benefits and rewards. By comparing the two, they can naturally distinguish between the good and the bad.

Changsun Wuji nodded and said, "Well, I have already made some arrangements here, so you can rest assured. However, giving them gifts may not have the same effect as giving them a promise."

"Promise? What promise?" Li Shimin asked in surprise.

"If you promise them that as long as they continue to complete the embankment project, they will all be able to get places to move here in the future, then they must be happier than receiving your gift."

"Really? But all of them moved here, isn't that too much?" Li Shimin looked at Changsun Wuji in surprise and asked.

But he knows that there are as many as 200 million workers in Shannan Province who have not yet returned to the north. If they come with their families, they will have a population of at least 300 million. In addition, Shannan Province and other surrounding areas may move here. The population here will reach more than 500 million households, and the population of more than 1000 million may be even larger and denser than the population in Guanzhong. Li Shimin needs to think carefully about making such a decision. Fan's.

However, Changsun Wuji shook his head with a smile and replied, "Not much, not much, not at all, you have seen it, just the Jiuyuan County and Jinan County that have been built so far, and the Zhongxiang County that will be built soon." The county has resettled 10,000+ households. In the future, this area will be able to build more than 500 pieces of paddy fields, and establish fifty or sixty counties like this. The population of one to two million households will definitely be resettled. Moreover, even if it is built here, it can still develop in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Zhengming said that if the entire plain area of ​​the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the surrounding areas of several large lakes are all built with embankments, then the entire Yangtze River Basin will be affected by floods in the future. likely to be much lower.

Moreover, the yield of crops will increase significantly, because the climate in the south is more suitable for growing commercial crops. However, he feels that it may take more than 60 years for these paddocks to be fully built, but I think that the speed can be accelerated. Completion within 30 years. "

More than three years have passed, and until now, the construction of embankments in the third county has reached the point where it is about to be completed. If it is really at the current speed, it will take about 60 or [-] years to complete the construction of [-] or [-] counties. However, since Changsun Wuji said to speed up, there must be some way he thought of himself. Now, he doesn't want to let these young people who are working locally go back.

If all of them were left here and constructed all year round, the speed would definitely be more than doubled, and the entire embankment project might be completed within 30 years.

However, these are just some immature ideas of his own. Datang cannot ignore the development of other regions just because he wants to develop the Shannan Road he manages. The labor force is the primary productive force. If you stay here, the chief officials in other places will be the first to agree.

The North still needs to be developed, and the Northeast needs to be developed even more. One place is good, but the other is getting worse. This is abnormal development. Unbalanced phenomena may lead to chaos.

After thinking about it again and again, Li Shimin felt that it would be better to discuss it with the ministers.

In Jiuyuan County, the pollination and hybridization of different rice species has been completed. Sun Xiangfu spends a lot of time in the rice field every day to check the growth of these rice species. The techniques he uses are all mature technologies developed by later generations of scientists. However, he still expects that in different eras, these technologies will produce some unexpected surprises. Perhaps in this era, there will be some wild rice species with extraordinary talents, which are extinct in later generations!
Of course, even if he didn't pay much attention to outside affairs during this time, the people in the village who set up a stall with the Chamber of Commerce brought back the news that the emperor arrived in Jiangling and ate his own home-cooked food, and brought them back to Shanghe Village.

If it was the time when they just arrived here, Li Tai and others might have thought that their hard life was coming to an end, but now, they are afraid that their grades are not good enough, so they follow Sun Xiangfu all day long. How to make the field I tended more perfect, this is completely a speculative mentality of cramming.

"Don't worry about it in vain, His Majesty will not come to Jiuyuan County." After a day of field patrol work, Sun Xiangfu once again picked up the eel he caught from the rice field, and slid towards the half-sized eel behind him. The kid said.

There is no way, the ecological environment is good, and there is no electric fish machine, these things reproduce very quickly. Every year, they need to be cleaned a few times like barnyard grass in a rice field.

"Why?" Behind Sun Xiangfu, more than a dozen middle-aged and half-year-olds questioned.

Without turning his head, Sun Xiangfu replied, "Because I told him not to come! It may cause a lot of trouble."

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The middle-aged and middle-aged children suddenly felt that their eyes were a little red, and they wanted to jump into the rice fields and trample all the rice they had worked so hard to plant. This was exactly the reaction that the second-year boys should have.

However, there are still one or two abnormalities. For example, Li Tai and Li Ke, after communicating with Sun Xiangfu, Li Tai has already figured out some things, so he has been able to understand rationally. The real significance of the rice incident to the people of the world is to use this incident as a bargaining chip to ask for rewards from his father Li Shimin. Li Shimin will definitely reward them, but he will definitely look down on them, because their starting point is to serve Seek profit for yourself.

Li Tai himself has done a lot of things like this in front of Li Shimin and his wife to get rewards. Now that he understands it, he is really stupid at that time. If you want to work for the welfare of the people, dare to assume the responsibility of this country, and don't care about your personal fame and fortune, then you will never be reduced to become a pawn for your father to lure those who have evil intentions.

Therefore, Li Tai was sullen throughout the whole process, and walked back to the small courtyard where he stayed without saying a word, lit a fire, killed fish, washed vegetables, and cooked noodles. Originally, each meal was five bowls of noodles, so he insisted on being cruel. , Only cook four and a half bowls. This is a decision he forced himself to make after chatting with Sun Xiangfu. He felt that if he ate half a bowl less for each meal, he would definitely be able to lose weight.

However, the fact is that after a period of time, the fat on his body has not decreased at all. Even if he has some comprehension, he is only a smarter middle school boy.

If Sun Xiangfu knew that he was doing this secretly, he would definitely give him a reliable suggestion, that is, save the change for the balance, only eat half a bowl of each meal, and save four bowls of noodles, which may have some effect.

As for Li Ke, he realized it entirely by himself. Since his biological mother was Concubine Yang, he knew that he should not have any fate with that position since he was sensible. Therefore, he was able to calm down to study and do things.

In Jiuyuan County, he felt some warmth from the people. He understood what the country should look like before it can be called "good", and he also knew how difficult it is to make the whole country look like "good".

In history, Li Ke was the only concubine who was proposed by Li Shimin to be the crown prince. That is to say, in Li Shimin's heart, Li Ke was much stronger than Li Tai and Li Zhi. However, this matter was finally stopped by Changsun Wuji. He couldn't let others shake his Changsun's position. Until Changsun Wuji framed him to death, he lived very passively. His biological mother is Yang Guang's daughter!The people standing in the hall of the Great Tang Dynasty are all ministers who started against the Sui Dynasty.

Sun Xiangfu has recently seen the signs that these two people are different from other second emperors, and feels that he may be able to train them well so that they will become Li Chengqian's right-hand men in the future.

(End of this chapter)