Li Tai breathed a sigh of relief. At least his decision could be further implemented. This was enough for him.
Li Shimin watched Li Tai leave and immediately called Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling to briefly introduce Li Tai's business methods to distribute the ducks in his hands to those in need. In Li Shimin's opinion, his son's performance was so wonderful, so naturally
pride.
Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said slowly, "Although the King of Yue was talented and intelligent, he allowed the locust control plan to be implemented step by step in an orderly manner.
In particular, he took the initiative to bear Sinong Temple's mistakes and took advantage of opportunities to turn enemies into friends. He was very sophisticated in his dealings.
Nowadays, business methods are used to increase the number of ducks in the entire Chang'an area without increasing the burden on Sinong Temple.
It can be said that the performance of the King of Yue is not that of a young man, there are capable people behind him!"
"Qingque did have a Qinghe gentleman named Ma Zhou." Li Shimin nodded and told Li Tai how he recruited Ma Zhou. Li Tai had already written it down in his diary.
In Li Shimin's opinion, Ma Zhou was the talent recruited by Li Tai.
Under Li Tai's true love diary, Ma Zhou has long been branded as a member of Li Tai's party, and he wants to change his identity and join Li Shimin in his dream.
Li Shimin added, "Since he came, Qingque's performance has been amazing. Ma Zhou has repeatedly provided suggestions. He can be said to be a capable person."
"I'm afraid that such a person will not be able to use his talents by following the King of Yue." Fang Xuanling thought deeply.
"Li Tai treats him as a good mentor and helpful friend, so there is no need to split them up!" Li Shimin shook his head and said, "However, if the fight against locusts is really successful this time, Ma Zhou can be allowed to join the army of the Yue Palace, and he can legitimately assist Li Tai.
work."
After hearing Li Shimin's words, neither Du Ruhui nor Fang Xuanling said anything more.
In official circles, fate is often determined by results. If Li Tai can really contain the locust plague, no one will care about Li Tai's business methods and Li Tai's age of only eight years old.
But if Li Tai's anti-locust plan fails, then if Li Tai wants to participate in government affairs, he will have to wait until he reaches adulthood at least.
To a certain extent, Li Tai's political career was dominated by the fight against locusts.
But for Li Tai, he has done everything he can to fight locusts.
The next step is just to see if this series of methods can suppress the locusts.
Doing your best and obeying destiny is nothing more than that.
After Li Tai got Li Shimin's consent, he returned to the duck farm to find Ma Zhou and said: "Thank you sir, this duck farm can be at my disposal until the locust control is completed. As long as the duck farm is successfully controlled, I believe Aye will take advantage of the situation."
Leave this duck farm to me."
Ma Zhou nodded. Although this plan was simple, for Li Tai, it was almost equivalent to laying his foundation.
The purpose of this plan is to show Li Tai's management ability in front of Li Shimin, so that Li Shimin can further delegate power.
Whether Sinong Temple came out to build momentum or he took the initiative to expose the forces behind these little ducks, the ultimate goal was for Li Shimin to take the initiative to find Li Tai, and Li Tai also used the facts to confront Li Shimin about his locust control strategy.
come out.
The plan to control locusts is not important. What is important is that your business methods can take care of everyone in an all-round way.
In this way, Li Tai's management talents can be revealed to Li Shimin inadvertently, and Li Shimin can trust Li Tai through facts.
If Li Tai was an adult, he wouldn't have to go to such trouble and just make a request to Li Shimin.
Given Li Shimin's great love for history, he would at least give it a chance.
But Li Tai is only eight years old now, so he can only create established facts and then let the facts speak for themselves.
And Li Tai has shown his business talents, then everything will be easy to say.
After all, Li Shimin is the emperor, so he cannot be jealous of these two hundred thousand ducks. The most important thing in his eyes is not wealth, but the people's hearts.
If Li Tai can suppress the locust plague with ducks, then the duck farm will become a standing facility to prevent and control locust plagues in the future.
Li Tai, the person who proposed the construction of the duck farm, and who also has business capabilities, can successfully obtain the management rights of the duck farm.
In addition, in the Tang Dynasty, officials were naturally not allowed to conduct private business activities, but trading in the name of the court was allowed.
In fact, although officials in the Tang Dynasty were not legally allowed to conduct business activities, they used white gloves to conduct business in private.
It's just that Li Tai didn't want to be attacked by Li Chengqian in the future, so he didn't want to use white gloves.
And he doesn't need private enjoyment. As long as he successfully controls the locusts, Li Shimin can invest the money earned from the duck farm into his own agricultural school. In fact, for Li Tai himself, money really doesn't matter.
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"But what should we do with the money we earn from buying ducks?" Ma Zhou asked, "Not to mention making a fortune every day, but in just half a month, we have been able to purchase dozens of pieces of good money cloth!"
Li Tai said, "I got my money back from Sinong Temple, plus this, let's buy a coal mine in my name!"
If we want to hatch and support this duck farm, the most important thing is coal and feed.
We have had this cooperation with Sinong Temple, so we think the feed problem should be easy to solve, and Dou Jing and Zhao Yuankai will both buy face.
But we have nothing to do with the general being a prisoner. If we just want to rely on the face of the King of Yue to obtain coal resources in the long term, we are afraid that we will be impeached by the censor."
Li Tai pressed his temples. When he really wanted to do something, the censor was like a fly. He wanted to swat it to death, but Li Tai had to admit that the censor was really meaningful.
If he wants to compete for the crown prince position, he needs to rely on his own ability to do so, but he cannot leave too many flaws for himself, because as long as he reveals flaws, the think tank around Li Chengqian will be chasing after him.
"So we need to have our own coal mine. It doesn't have to be big, but it must be there!" Li Tai said.
Hearing Li Tai's words, Ma Zhou nodded, and took the money from Li Tai to look for suitable coal mining properties for acquisition.
In a region like China with rich coal reserves, although most of them are poor mines, in this feudal era it was not difficult to find one or two coal mines of suitable size near Chang'an.
There was even a rumor in Mazhou that Li Tai was going to buy a mine. Soon miners came to hear the news and wanted to cash out the mine in their hands, or wanted to use Li Tai's name, even if they gave Li Tai a mine for free.
Don't care at all.
In fact, these businessmen would be very happy if they could act in the name of the King of Yue in the future.
During this period, the price of food increased sharply due to the locust plague, which directly affected other daily necessities, not to mention that coal was rarely used in summer. Li Tai's technique of applying duck eggs may seem simple, but if you want to copy it,
It's not easy to get up.
The craftsmen under Li Tai are all top craftsmen from the imperial court, and they are definitely the best in terms of feeling the temperature of flames.
If others want to learn, they must at least put a lot of effort into controlling the heat, and controlling the temperature itself is not an easy task. Therefore, if others want to learn this artificial egg hatching technology, they may have to be quite willing to invest.
At least it's not something that ordinary people can learn secretly. As for those dignitaries who can learn it, they will only learn the egg hatching technique mastered by a prince if they are mentally retarded.
Although Li Tai is not a prince, don't forget how Li Shimin came to power. A powerful person from a family who has learned from past mistakes will naturally not look for trouble at this time.
Therefore, Ma Zhou's acquisition was quite smooth, and he acquired two small coal mines at a relatively low price!
For this, at least these miners were very happy, because the King of Yue bought this place, which at least meant that they could survive.
You must know that the locust plague has been raging for a year. Except for wealthy families and the imperial court, ordinary families may have eaten up to 77% of the grain they have in stock. What is left now is probably much more grain.
When Ma Zhou had settled the affairs of the mine, and finally took possession of the mine, Li Tai breathed a sigh of relief:
"It is enough for two mines to maintain normal operations now. We will expand further when there is demand in the future..."
In addition, the miners in the mine can study the forging of honeycomb briquettes, and they should be able to make a small profit in the winter."
In Ma Zhou's view, Li Tai bought the mine because he was not familiar with the general, so he bought two small mines just in case.
But Li Tai himself knew very well that if he wanted to establish an agricultural university, the financial investment required would naturally be inevitable.
It's just that Ma Zhou thought that agricultural universities were like ordinary liberal arts universities and could easily be supported by a duck farm.
But Li Tai knew very well that this was not enough. If he wanted to support such an institution, what he needed was not a duck farm, but an industrial chain from raw materials to terminal sales.
Because Li Tai believed that his goals were limited, he took duck as the core and first built an industrial chain belonging to ducks.
Upstream energy and feed, then edible duck eggs and duck meat, and then duck feathers can be made into bow and arrow feathers, as well as down jackets for thermal insulation. Finally, even duck bones can be recycled and ground into powder to be used as fertilizer and
medicinal materials.
As long as the scale and industrial chain are completed, this industrial chain that allows one to eat from upstream to downstream should be more than enough to support an agricultural university, and the funds earned can be further invested in infrastructure and scientific research.
Therefore, these two mines are a trivial matter in Ma Zhou's eyes, but in Li Tai's eyes, they are an improvement to his foundation.
Because he comes from modern times, Li Tai's thinking is different from that of people of this era. What Li Tai values is the two industries of energy and food because these two industries are the foundation of the entire society. This is what people of this era think of.
Completely unaware.
Li Tai has been determined to be a farmer since he was a child. In the future, if he wants to complete the grain monopoly step by step, Li Tai feels that there is still hope.
In the energy industry, although ancient people did not attach great importance to the energy industry such as coal, the main function of coal in ancient times was for metal forging. Under the background of salt and iron control, even if I was a prince, I would definitely not be able to touch the metallurgical industry.
So if you want to find a legal industry that can use coal, the only businesses are egg hatching and water boiling.
Li Tai naturally had his own thoughts in choosing poultry to break the situation. Although the locust plague allowed him to steal the sheep, more importantly, this industry, at least in ancient times, was one of the few industries that could combine the two industries of food and energy.
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Because there are only three basic industries in the world: food, energy, and raw materials.
These three industries can be said to be the most basic industries in the social division of labor. Even if you achieve a monopoly in any other industry, it will only increase wealth rather than improve social productivity.
Not the same.
Even if there is a real time traveler, even one with unbelievably high abilities, and one who is favored by heaven, as long as he dies, the system he built without the support of these three industries will be like a sand sculpture, easily washed away by the waves of time!
Because no matter what you do, you will be subject to these three conditions in turn, and history will be constantly revised based on these three conditions.
For example, the upper limit of the population of wheat-based people is about 50 million, and it will reach 60 million if it is exhausted. This is a population restriction that the time traveler cannot change. After exceeding it, the dynasty will basically reach its peak, and then it will continue to decline.
Slope.
For another example, you have worked hard to establish an advanced system, but if the energy utilization rate cannot keep up, the productivity cannot keep up.
Let’s see what happens when Wang Mang tries to establish advanced production relations under backward productivity.
As for raw materials, Li Tai feels that he should wait until he becomes the emperor. After all, there are a lot of alchemists who want to cultivate immortality these days. If he says that he wants to study the elixir of immortality, he is afraid that all the gods in Shanwozi will do it.
Come out.
When they showed up, he confiscated and studied all the elixirs in their hands except the elixir of immortality.
At that time, a wave of chemical research results from Wei, Jin metaphysics to Tang Dynasty may be handed over to an expert to deduce, and the periodic table of metals can be deduced. Therefore, with the materials we have now, I will not be able to establish an industrial system for myself.
Enough torment.
Therefore, in Li Tai's plan, this coal mine is really important, but if he wants to give full play to the advantages of energy, Li Tai knows that there is definitely a long way to go.
Because the people who are digging into coal mines now are people who are numb to the future. If they really can't survive, who would be willing to go to the mines to beg for food? And for Li Tai, this group of people wants to change their outlook on life.
It's almost impossible.
So even if Li Tai changed their foreman and gave them better treatment, it would only impress him.
It is better to oppress them further and use their milk from the old era to nourish the people of the new era.
Therefore, Li Tai did not intervene in the management of the mine, but ordered the manager's craftsmen to study briquettes, while Li Tai himself continued to focus on the duck raising business.
And it was almost July, and locusts began to come in dense numbers again in the fields!