Of course, these things have been too long and may not all be as logical as what Li Tai thinks.
What Li Tai did was just betting on a probability.
According to someone, one-half chance can bet on your life. Although Li Tai's probability of laying out this matter is less than one-half, at least he doesn't need to spend his life in it!
As the autumn planting was completed, although Gao Ling dared not say he was idle, at least the pace of life began to slow down.
When Li Tai saw this kind of thing, he couldn't help but think in his heart, how can this be done and how can the people be idle!
When the people are idle, the gossip will grow at the least, and the raiders will be rampant.
The most important thing is how they create wealth for Gaoling after they rest, and how they consume Gaoling products.
It is definitely necessary for them to work more, and only by working can their value be reflected!
So, Li Tai immediately approached Du Chuke and felt that he should find something for the people to do.
The autumn planting was completed, but it was already completely in autumn. When Li Tai called Du Chuke, the cold wind was coming and it felt biting.
Du Chuke came braved the autumn rain and put down his straw raincoat. When he saw Li Tai, he said with a little respect:
"I have seen King Yue, and today the autumn rains are gushing, but King Yue has been waiting for a long time?"
"Shanbin, please drink a bowl of ginger tea first. There is a sensation of autumn rain and a sensation of coldness. Do not wind and cold enter your body." Li Tai said.
As he said that, he saw the waiter bringing a bowl of ginger tea. After Du Chuke drank it, he took the ginger tea cup away.
Du Chuke still felt very warm in his concern for Li Tai.
In other words, working under Li Tai has always been treated so humanely.
Although these things are relatively small, Du Chuke has more recognition of Li Tai's work.
At this moment, both sides politely talked about private matters, but soon Du Chuke got straight to the topic.
Du Chuke looked at Li Tai and said, "I don't know what the King of Yue asked me for, but to report on the dock?"
Li Tai shook his head and said, "I don't have to worry about doing things. I'll report it together until the end of the year. It's another matter for me to come to you."
When Du Chuke heard Li Tai's words, he couldn't help feeling a little warmth in his heart and bowed: "Please speak clearly by King Yue."
"The main reason is that after completing autumn planting, the people like to stay at home in winter and don't like to go out. I wonder if you have any ideas?" Li Tai couldn't help asking Du Chuke.
"That's a good thing!" Du Chuke silently complained in his heart.
However, looking at Li Tai's face, Du Chuke hurriedly said: "It's a big drop in the fields when entering the winter. People are indeed a little lazy and hateful at home. How can they be happy and healthy?"
"Yes!" Li Tai nodded when he heard Du Chuke's words, thinking that Du Chuke was still very sensible!
"What's the job in Gaoling area in winter? Can these people do it for these people!" Li Tai said to Du Chuke.
If it hadn't been with Li Tai for a long time, Du Chuke understood that Li Tai paid for the people to work.
Otherwise, if those who don’t know will hear Li Tai’s words, they will think that Li Tai is preparing for the recruitment of corvee labor in the middle of winter!
"I, Gao Ling, have a lot of work to do!" Du Chuke looked at Li Tai and said,
"First of all, the king asked to build roads within the boundary of Gaoling. Even between villages, at least a loess road with a width of two carriages was built.
Although this road has been repaired, it was delayed slightly because part of the corvee service was taken away by the county magistrate Ma to repair the canal transportation.
If you think it is appropriate, you will let these people come to build roads!"
"No!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "These people have never learned arithmetic. It is easy to ask them to move bricks and make a move.
If they are allowed to become the main body of road construction, not only are they inefficient, but more importantly, the road they built may not be qualified!"
When Du Chuke heard this, he thought for a while and said, "That's the racecourse under construction.
Because your order has begun construction, if the people are willing to help, they should be able to speed up the process."
Li Tai listened to this and thought: "You can let the people do miscellaneous work, food and accommodation."
After finishing work every day, two kilograms of grain coupons are distributed. I think some people will be happy to work."
"Isn't it a little too much?" Du Chuke heard Li Tai's words and said: "This will make the people earn 60 kilograms of grain in a month!"
Li Tai now looks at the price of grain for only five cents per bucket. Two kilograms are relatively the same as one or two cents now.
Ordinary people only get around 100 cents for a month when they work hard, but they don’t know where the complaints are.
After all, in Li Tai's opinion, he needs to give money to the people so that they can spend money!
The kind of guy who hopes that the people will be free for 996, no, should be the guy who hopes that the people will be free for 007, but also wants the people to spend money, I don’t know what he is thinking in his head.
The people don’t even have money in their hands, and they don’t even have time to spend money. As a result, on the other hand, they hope that the people will spend a lot of money.
If this can be achieved, this is the legendary technique of creating something out of nothing!
However, these ordinary people are quite flocking to Li Tai's attitude towards giving food coupons to work.
At the beginning, many people still had doubts about Li Tai's issuing food coupons, especially those who do not recognize kilogram units.
After getting the food coupon, I immediately changed the food from Li Tai. I only felt relieved when I saw the food.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Tai popularized units such as kilograms, kilograms, tons, and the same ones were also popularized, including centimeters, meters, cubic meters, etc. So that the big buckets are not shown, the kind of big buckets come in and out of small buckets.
The situation.
After all, the units of weight and measure in ancient China were really too crap, and this is a unit that will become larger as you use it!
Don’t think too stupid about the people. Basically, as long as they are related to their own interests, they will quickly master the corresponding knowledge and skills.
No one would like to be deceived, but they found that this mastery of weights and measures would help further accurately pay for their own labor and taxes, and the people's adaptability was almost incredibly fast.
The court did not say much about this scene.
The main thing is the tax collection of the canal transportation system, which makes the old weights and measures no longer adapt to the new tax collection system.
Comparing the perfect supporting standards created in precise units such as kilogram tons, meters, and cubic meters.
The incompatibility caused by other old systems has been greatly affected by the implementation of the efficiency of material operation.
Because of the matching of containers and transportation vehicles designed by Li Tai, it is a headache to have different weights and measures in various places.
Therefore, the court also intends to implement the new weights and measures introduced by Gaoling in cities along the Wei River.
This is one of the reasons why these people were arranged to study in agricultural institutions for a year, because the measurement basis has changed.
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Of course, although the social changes brought about by this are far-reaching to ordinary people, they do not have direct feelings.
For them, whether it is a bucket or a kilogram, as long as the rice they exchanged is not lost, it is enough.
Even though the people did not believe in food coupons at first, they unknowingly stored a jar of rice at home, they began to choose to put the food coupons in their hands as ordinary trading currency.
After all, their family is only so big, so there is really not much storage.
In the Tang Dynasty, things like money shortage existed when the Kaiyuan Tongbao currency existed.
Gold was a representative of precious value since the Qin and Han dynasties. Coupled with the turmoil of the Five Barbarians invading China, the value of gold has always been the most stable.
So in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people were obsessed with gold and were willing to accept it as a means of large-scale payment.
However, the unit difference between copper coins and gold coins was too large, so the Tang Dynasty generally allowed physical transactions as supplements for medium-value transactions.
At the beginning, especially in Zhenguan, due to insufficient food, food was a strong currency.
But as time goes by and people enjoy a certain degree of stability, silk, which is easy to preserve and easy to cut and trade, naturally becomes a medium currency.
At the same time, even if the silk cloth itself has different fabrics such as silk, satin, etc., it was a medium currency, and later it was "used both money and silk", and even became an official explicit transaction method.
It’s like the young man in Wuling is fighting for his head in "Pipa Xing", and he can’t tell the story of a song of red silk, and the way to reward is cloth.
Food coupons are just in cloth, and they have not yet fully established their monetary status. In addition, during the Zhenguan period, the people's instinctive desire for food, so they are just an equivalent of food circulating among the people.
However, Li Tai saw that these people had accepted the food coupons, so he asked the Peacock's shopping mall to release news that it was allowed to trade in the big shopping mall. After all, the food coupons sent by Li Tai were not only one pound, five pounds.
, 10 kilograms, 50 kilograms, 100 kilograms... or even tons, for ordinary people, basically 100 kilograms is enough for them to trade and use.
In this way, Li Tai can also circulate these food coupons consciously and recycle them along the way.
When these ordinary people found out that Li Tai had sent food coupons to buy what they wanted in the mall, they naturally quickly accepted this new currency. As long as there was no situation where the grain could not be exchanged, basically
It's okay to go up.
With the sufficient purchasing power, for the people, they will naturally have more success in their work!
"Well..." Li Tai thought for a moment and said seriously to Du Chuke:
"The people earn two kilograms of food coupons a day, but they are still a little less, so they are not active in their work.
Workers cannot sacrifice their lives to work, how can they be faster?
You think of a way to turn that horse farm into piecework to work, so that the people can earn more and let them work harder!"
"Chu Ke understands!" Du Chu Ke couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead when he heard Li Tai's words.
I have to say that if I hadn't known Li Tai and knew Li Tai's character, most people would have thought Li Tai would have taken his life into consideration after hearing Li Tai's words.
Although Du Chuke also obeyed Li Tai's words very much, he still said to Li Tai:
"King of Yue, if you let the people work in winter, you need to keep warm food for the people, otherwise if you do too much, you will be in danger!"
"That's right, this is indeed important!" Li Tai nodded and said:
"I will make clothes and gloves for winter, and also open a bathhouse near the horse farm to transport boiling water. At least we must avoid non-working staff loss in winter!"
"If King Yue has such thoughts, I won't say much!" Du Chuke breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then I will go back and list a charter immediately and recruit people to the racecourse to assist in the work."
"Just go!" Li Tai nodded when he heard Du Chuke's words, "Then I won't leave much Shanbin!"
After the two discussed the matter, Li Tai sent Du Chuke out of the door. The rain stopped and it was time for Du Chuke to go to work.
Before Du Chuke left, Baihe came over and knocked on the door and said, "King, the Peacock is back!"
"Oh?" Li Tai said in a daze when he heard this, "I'll come back now, let her come in."
Strictly speaking, Peacock and Du Chuke are not in the same system, because Peacock serves the Prince of Yue, while Du Chuke serves Gaoling County.
So gradually, Li Tai handed over many commercial matters to Peacock to take care of.
To a certain extent, Peacock became Li Tai's white glove and was the person who was openly responsible for making money for the Yue Palace.
"I've seen the king." When Peacock saw Li Tai, she couldn't help but salute respectfully.
"What's the situation?" Li Tai looked at the peacock and asked straight to the point, "How is the harvest of the white mat?"
"On average, about 150 kilograms per acre!" Peacock said excitedly, "This is only the first year, I think there will be more in the future!"
"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded and said, "Don't take out this cotton cloth this year."
"Uh?" Peacock was stunned when he heard Li Tai's words and said, "Master, why is this?"
"The first is because I agreed to the Zheng family's down jackets and planned to sell them for another year. If the cotton cloth appears, it will definitely compete for the market."
Li Tai said calmly: "As for the second point, it is because this year's preliminary experiment on white mats, the area of planting is not enough.
As a novel winter cloth on the market, it is also necessary to consider whether the output can keep up with the market needs.
So I would rather stock up on cloth for another year than throw these cotton cloths on the market now and attract others to spy on it.
As for the third point, it is because we are not mature in cotton cloth technology.
What is the effect of making clothes in winter? Will there be problems like hair loss like down jackets?
So, we don’t need to worry, just experiment first!”
"The Peacock knows!" When Peacock heard Li Tai's words, he saluted Li Tai and expressed his understanding.
And Li Tai smiled calmly and said:
"However, although it is not sold to the public, some of the cotton jackets can be used for people in the Yue Palace.
After all, what is this new material like? You can only know if you pass it through it yourself.
In addition, weaving is a woman's skill. You need to find a way to recruit enough female workers to be weaving girls next year. It is best to initially complete the cotton fabric production in Qinzhou (Tianshui).
Of course, there is really nothing to do, so build a site in Chang'an and process it into cotton cloth in Chang'an after the initial treatment of the cotton.
And by the completion of this step, I think it is necessary to establish a weaving school for women. You also need to find a way to prepare corresponding teaching talents. I don’t understand this, so I can only leave it to you.”
"We also need to establish a girls' institution?" Peacock was a little dazed when she heard Li Tai's plan.
"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded calmly, not thinking that he was saying anything shocking, and said calmly:
"It is normal for men to farm and weave women. Since there is an agricultural institution, it is normal to establish a women's weaving institution.
If you want to become a sacrificial sacrificial tribute at that time, you may be famous in history and become the first female teacher!”