The next day, someone asked someone to issue a notice in the name of the Yue Palace to recruit refugees to build a school.
In fact, the refugees have been entrenched in Chang'an for so long, and most of the strong people who can be used as labor have been plundered by wealthy families of all sizes.
Most of the remaining people are old, weak, sick, disabled, or family members.
The wealthy families must be the labor force immediately, rather than supporting them for nothing.
Therefore, even though some of them are strong, they cannot give up their families and are unwilling to go to wealthy families to be slaves or tenants.
In fact, even Li Tai is not accepted by everyone. For example, even if the elderly are not taken care of, as long as they do not take care of children, they will not accept them.
On the contrary, Li Tai was happy to accept some families with children.
After all, these people are able to take care of their children while escaping disasters, which is inherently a certain ethics.
On the contrary, those who really don’t have anything and are alone can’t guarantee their thoughts when they use it.
After these laborers came, Li Tai was responsible for the planning and Ma Zhou was responsible for the implementation. He began to build houses in the Gaoling area and organize manpower to cultivate them and plant winter wheat as much as possible.
The cultivated fields naturally belong to the agricultural institution, but the grain planted by these acres is 50% or 50% of them, and the agricultural institution bears their corvee service.
In the future, if they settled in an agricultural institution, the institution could rent land for them. In other words, these refugees became tenants of the agricultural institution.
Li Tai believed that he would fall into the inevitable vicious circle of land annexation in the feudal era. Instead of waiting for other aristocratic families to annex the land of peasants, it would be better to let himself merge.
If you succeed in fighting for the throne, you will find a way to solve it. If you fail, you will not be able to break out of the historical cycle anyway, then I will just take it as a monster.
For the refugees, most of the people here are old, weak, sick and disabled. They finally have someone willing to adopt him and others. The conditions are acceptable to them. After all, the food they have paid is pure.
income.
The corvee service was contracted by the agricultural institution, so to be honest, they were still very acceptable to this transaction.
The most important thing is that Li Tai is in charge of food. For those who are refugees, they have not eaten enough for too long.
They also want to survive this winter, and finally have a place to settle down, so they will naturally come over.
After eating hot meals, and occasionally eggs and chicken, these refugees felt that they were alive again.
In order to give them at least a full meal, they are willing to reclaim land for the agricultural institutions.
To be honest, the land that was reclaimed in the first year should have been planted with a batch of beans first and then a year of corn.
Slowly let the cultivated fields become mature fields before planting wheat. Otherwise, directly planting winter wheat will not only have low yields, but also prone to produce empty grains. Therefore, it is really unreasonable to arrange the wheat directly.
So normally, you basically need to lose money in the first three years of land development.
This is also the reason why many landlords are not willing to carry out cultivation. They prefer to directly acquire mature high-quality acres through their rights or wealth.
This is more efficient. After all, making money according to the rules in any era is the most powerful one after all.
But Li Tai understood that if winter wheat was not planted in autumn, then beans and corn would not be able to grow at this time.
The fields that have been reclaimed in this way will be abandoned and will be afraid of growing grass again in the first half of the year. Thanks for this!
So even if Li Tai knew that the wheat harvest would definitely be a bad harvest next winter, he could only continue to implement it, and it would be a little harvest.
As Li Tai planned plans such as reclaiming land and building new water conservancy projects, Ma Zhou, a future famous figure, began to show extraordinary scheduling capabilities, and when dealing with Li Tai's plan, it could also be effectively adjusted.
In addition to Ma Zhou's extraordinary talents, Li Tai's plan is also formulated based on existing funds, rather than drawing a circle in vain and letting Ma Zhou make a difference out of nothing.
This made Ma Zhou very comfortable to implement the plan.
The refugees built thatched houses, purchased enough food in exchange for reclaiming tools and plowing oxen... Each thing made Ma Zhou arrange it in an orderly manner. Ma Zhou even took the time to drink some wine occasionally and watched happily
A new city built little by little under your own hands.
With Ma Zhou in fully managing the agricultural institution, Li Tai did not devote too much effort to cultivate the matter.
At this time, Li Tai could put his mind on more other places, such as making money!
Now that he is just starting out, Li Tai discovered that the money is really not spent!
And my own agricultural institution wants to carry out various agricultural experiments and promote agricultural achievements, so it is really impossible to have no money.
So after Ma Zhou took over the reclamation matter, Li Tai began to think about how to make money.
The first step is to let several duck and poultry shops under your name start taking over the slaughtering business.
I don’t want money either, I just want to keep the internal organs and feathers of chickens and ducks. It’s enough to keep them for myself, which is considered the cost of slaughtering.
Of course, despite Li Tai's arrangements, there are actually not many people who really come to the duck poultry shop for the initiative.
After all, now the small peasant economy is mainly based on it, and it is not difficult for individuals to massacre ducks and birds.
But in order to save trouble, many people are willing to take the ducks and birds they have raised these days to slaughter.
Therefore, a lot of poultry viscera and feathers have been collected, so these viscera are naturally supplementing nutrition for the people to cultivate.
In contrast, after the duck feathers are collected, they are classified according to their size, then degreased with wood ash or alkaline ore, then used a multi-layer steamer to remove the flavor, and then dried and re-collected... It is considered that there are preliminary materials.
To be honest, there are still many things that can be done by duck down. Among them, Li Tai thinks that winter is coming, and he may be able to make some money by selling down jackets. After all, down jackets are considered the warmest clothes when worn outside.
Of course, the long and large feathers should be picked out and prepared to make quills for them in the future.
After all, it is an institution of learning, and at least it has to teach students how to read and arithmetic. If you use all the things like pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Li Tai said that it is too expensive and he really can't afford it.
So it is better to just put sand trays and quill pens on them. One can be reused, and the other can be done through labor without spending money. This is the most important thing.
As for chalk, Li Tai really couldn't get it for a while.
Because this thing requires gypsum, but Li Tai's current industry does not match gypsum at all, so he will use a sand tray and a quill to teach.
Of course, when the quill pen is developed in the future, someone should be willing to buy it!
Li Tai couldn't guarantee it, but for Li Tai, he was really short of money and red eyes, so in addition to the quill pen and down jacket, his eyes were fixed on the coal mine.
After Li Tai acquired the coal mine, he began to ask the people below to study the fire kang. For this reason, he even dispatched some craftsmen from Jiangzuofu, who was good at making ground fire.
The last time I cooperated with the Jiangzuo Mansion was quite pleasant, so after Li Tai asked Li Shimin for instructions, a craftsman from the Zhenguan Office soon came over, and his name was Mo Gong, but he was from the ninth rank Zhenguan Office order, so it was generally
Call him Mo Ling.
"Mo Ling." Li Tai looked at the man whose fingers were dark and whose nails were almost falling off and said, "Are my kang design completed?"
"Compared to letting the flame form an insulation layer in the wall to isolate the cold. If you just keep the bed warm, it will be safer and more cost-effective under the same firewood! The idea of King Yue is quite wonderful!"
Mo Gong couldn't help but gesture, as if he had thought of something exquisite, and he was dancing.
Although there is no fire kang in this era, many related technologies have been quite perfect, and at most they are just a matter of thinking.
In the Northern Wei Dynasty, people usually bake under the ground, set up flue ducts, and equipped smoke exhaust facilities to keep the flue underground, thereby burning the ground, but it is not easy to expel the air from the flue.
So generally speaking, this craftsman is called a craftsman in the ground fire, and they are used by Li Tai's manual hatching.
"Mo Ling, remember to leave a hole to wipe the dust during design, otherwise this thing will burn for a winter. If you use it next year, you will be afraid that it will not be warm!" Li Tai told Mo Gong.
Mo Gong recorded Li Tai's request one by one, and then Mo Gong proposed the materials needed to build such a house.
Li Tai was not polite, so he directly waved his pen and established a brick factory and tile yard on the spot. Although there was no cement bonding material, there were still things like Sanhedi in this dynasty.
Of course, Mo Ling also proposed a high-grade adhesive such as glutinous rice mortar. Li Tai looked at the ingredients list and found that there was glutinous rice in it, so he could only give up this kind of thing because he really had no money.
Then, with the Mo Gong, the refugees themselves participated and began to build houses with kangs.
Although the first room was the slowest to be built, at the back, a row of flat and orderly rooms began to be arranged in an orderly manner, making the originally deserted land begin to appear in people. These refugees really lived in these houses built by themselves.
inside.
Li Tai asked Ma Zhou to register these people one by one, and these people were considered civilians.
These houses built by themselves are considered their property.
It can be said that when they heard this news, these people were simply incredible. Some people cried with their three or four-year-old children, some knelt down and kowtowed to the registered officials, and some people were full of faces.
Numbness, but if they approached, they were already in tears.
It can be said that they really own their own house. They are no longer the wandering people under the city walls. Even if it is just such a small house, it is their first property here.
However, Li Tai also spoke, "If they sell the house here, they will no longer be from Gaoling."
Everyone was both panic and excited when they heard Li Tai's words.
Li Tai knew that they had a house here, so their minds should be more at ease, but this was far from enough.
Because of the house, this is at most a registered civilian, and what Li Tai really hopes is that they can become good families.
Of course, there is still a difference between civilians and good families, and the biggest difference is on the land.
In feudal society, if you want to be a good family, except that you do not break the law or have moral problems, the biggest difference is whether your family has arable land.
At this point, it is like modern society. If you want to take root in a city, the best way is to own a house of your own.
Once you own a house, you will find that the attitude of locals towards you will change greatly.
At least I rarely continue to look at you from the perspective of people from other places. Basically, you can integrate into this city by running in and running in.
Because if you own a house, you will be really rooted in this city.
For this city, you are no longer a traveler who can work when there is labor, and when there is no labor, you become a passerby.
At the same time, the surrounding local neighbors will be willing to communicate with you, such as neighborhood committees, announcements, benefits of the streets, and even if you have time, you may take the initiative to ask you to drink and play mahjong, or even single people will enthusiastically introduce the girl.
One of the most realistic points is that you own a house in this city, which shows that you have a bond with this city.
Before, who knew that you might disappear in a few years? In such a cold society, why bother to devote your feelings to someone who is likely to disappear at any time?
In the Tang Dynasty, unless it was a house in a city or a house outside was basically valuable, and what was really valuable was the land that could be cultivated.
When you reclaim the land in the local area, people around you will take the initiative to attract you to the local society.
Because owning land, even if it only has one acre, it means that you have truly established a foundation in this place.
However, Li Tai did not mean to give the land near Gaoling to these people.
It’s not that Li Tai is reluctant to let it go, but that these people really can’t hold on.
Gaoling is located at the intersection of the Wei River and Jing River. The land here is fertile and water conservancy is convenient.
If it weren't for this locust plague, it would have caused a major disaster here, which would not only stop the pace of land reclamation, but also resulted in a lot of desolation in the original reclaimed fields. It would be no longer the turn of Li Tai to establish an agricultural school in Gaoling.
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It would be fine if the land here has not been reclaimed, as long as it has been reclaimed, it is basically considered fertile land.
The powerful people don’t like to cultivate the fields themselves because it is too time-consuming and labor-intensive. It takes three years to cultivate the mature fields. If you have this time, you won’t do anything bad.
But these fields were cultivated by the people's hard work, and the powerful began to use various means to obtain these fields.
There is no need to use any means. As long as you wait for a disaster year, most people will find it difficult to support it. Then they have to sell the more than ten acres of land that they have worked hard to reclaim in their lifetime to the powerful at an extremely low price.
Li Tai came to his senses and looked at the workers under Mo Gong becoming more and more skillful, showing a satisfied smile.
Of course, Li Tai did not expect them to make money now, and just planned to train a team of workers who made kangs first.
This year, we will spread the effects and reputation first. Seeing the effects, we will be able to promote them next year.
And I am also waiting for the coal mine industry to research honeycomb coal. When combined with the kang, it may have a wonderful effect. For example, when repairing the kang, you will be given supporting honeycomb coal, and the sales of honeycomb coal may be opened.