Just as Li Tai devoted his mind to the down jacket and began to prepare to make a fortune in this winter.
Li Shimin needs to deal with many derivative government affairs brought about by the locust plague. He told Dou Jing, "This year, the Guanlong area is not in revenue, and Chang'an will probably be particularly cold in winter. Can Chang'an grain prices be maintained at around 120 yuan per stone, and will it be in the future.
There is plenty of supplements!”
Dou Jing stood up and replied respectfully: "I encountered locust plagues and droughts in Guanlong area, and this year I am not entitled to food.
However, when the rice harvest in Qiantang and Yangzhou and other places occurred, Dai Zuocheng had ordered the arrangement of ship branches to dispatch grain from Jiangnan. He has now established a warehouse in Luoyang, saving 300,000 stones, and will still be delivered in the future.
It’s just that it takes land from Luoyang to Chang’an, so it’s still on the way, but at least before winter comes, the food can definitely be delivered to Chang’an.”
"I feel relieved when you have Xuan Yin, you are the Minister of the Secretariat!" Li Shimin praised Dai Zhou.
"Thank you for your praise," Dai Zhou walked out and said, "This locust plague and drought hit hard before and after, but our court was not prepared enough. Zhou asked the saint to follow the previous dynasty and set up a charity warehouse to let officials, aristocratic families and people pay their food to prepare.
famine."
"This policy is very good, so you will temporarily take over the post of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and you will be fully responsible for this matter." Li Shimin ordered.
"Dai Zhou received the order!" Dai Zhou heard Li Shimin's words and understood that although he was a temporary replacing, as long as this matter is completed, it will only be a matter of time before the so-called temporary replacing will be converted to a regular replacing.
"Everyone, Guanlong has encountered drought and locust plague this year. Although it has been curbed, we are still ready to fight the cold!"
"Keep the teachings of the saints in mind, and we will definitely be prepared for our duties." Fang Xuanling stood up and said.
Soon, the entire hall began to discuss how to prevent cold.
Although everyone didn't say anything in their hearts, they all knew that many people would definitely die this winter.
Because this year, people encountered locust plagues and droughts, so there was not enough surplus food in their hands.
Generally, people are resistant to cold, so they naturally cannot expect any fox fur and marten or wall of fire.
The only thing they expect to survive the cold winter is the warmth brought by the food they eat.
But due to locust plague and drought, not only did their own food be consumed, but even the court could no longer take out a large amount of food to help them.
So this winter, the people outside Chang'an City will probably be particularly difficult.
Even though the imperial court built a porridge shed outside Chang'an City, after all, it was just giving alms a bowl of porridge every day.
It would be unrealistic for these people to survive the whole winter by relying solely on this bowl of porridge.
Even though Li Shimin wanted to help more people, all plans still require money and food.
Even if the imperial court wants to help the lower class people, it is impossible for it to invest unconditionally.
The Tang Dynasty, which had just experienced locust plagues and droughts, was still too thin and had insufficient money and food, so it was hard for a skillful woman to cook without rice.
At this moment, after Li Shimin retired from the court, he returned to the East Palace with a little melancholy thought, wanting to talk to Empress Changsun about his thoughts.
After all, it was exhausted physically and mentally when I came to the court. The most important thing was that there was really no good plan to prevent the arrival of winter.
In the end, we can only let these people see if they can survive this cold winter by relying on their own physique.
When I approached the palace where Empress Changsun was, I heard laughter and joy coming from the palace.
Li Shimin frowned but let go again, and then entered the room after singing.
At this time, not only Empress Changsun was present in the East Palace, but even Li Chengqian and Li Tai had already come here.
"What are you talking about? It's so happy?" Li Shimin looked at Empress Changsun with curiosity.
"Chengqian gave a beautiful birthday gift, which was a hand-written Analects of Confucius, and it also had his own annotation experience.
After Lizhi learned the Thousand Characters, she was about to learn the Book of Songs and the Analects of Confucius. Chengqian thought about Lizhi very thoughtfully."
When Empress Changsun said this, she couldn't help but chuckled again.
Li Chengqian really wanted to be a competent brother, so he carefully selected birthday gifts and then copied an analysis of the Analects of Confucius by himself.
But if anyone else is given a birthday gift into a textbook and exercise, I think not only does the smile gradually disappear, but the intention of killing people will be even more.
Therefore, Li Lizhi's originally happy eyes gradually lost her focal length.
When Li Tai and Empress Changsun saw the gifts given by Li Chengqian, they couldn't help but chuckled at Li Lixing.
"Aye, both brothers bully me!" Li Lizhi came to Li Shimin decisively to complain.
"Haha." Li Shimin only laughed a few times when he heard Li Lizhi's complaint and said, "Today is your birthday, so don't see punishment. Aye's Lantian jade pendant is here, let Chengqian be let go
How about it with Qingque!”
"Yeah!" Li Lizhi took the jade pendant on Li Shimin's waist and grimaced at Li Tai and Li Chengqian: "Hmph!"
"I remember Lizhi, you haven't received a birthday gift from me yet. I don't want that!" Li Tai said with a smile.
"Uh..." After hearing Li Tai's words, a little hesitation and hesitation appeared on Li Lizhi's face.
Obviously, at this time, Li Lizhi was seriously considering which one is important, her face or Li Tai’s gift.
Li Lizhi came to her senses and asked Li Tai with a little expectation: "Brother Qingque, you won't copy a farm book for me, right!"
For Li Tai, Li Lizhi, who grew up, naturally knew that Li Tai liked to read agricultural books.
But if you give yourself another book, Li Lizhi feels that she should not celebrate her birthday in the future. Otherwise, if you give me a few more books in the future, I am afraid that it will be too big.
"Of course not!" Li Tai glanced at Bai He who was holding the box and said, "Bai He brought the gift."
When Bai He heard Li Tai's words, he put the cotton jacket in front of Li Lizhi. It was a cotton jacket made of lilac scenery.
One side is made of top silk, the other side is warm lint, touch it with your hands, cool and smooth on one side, and warm and soft on the other side.
Li Tai said: "If it gets cold, just put this cotton jacket on the outside. You may be a little bit bigger now.
But it's okay. If you grow taller in a few days, you should be almost ready to fit.
The silk inside is nothing, but I finally planted this white stack after a year."
"Oh?" Li Lizhi heard Li Tai's words and draped the cotton coat on her body, and said in surprise: "It's really warm!"
Li Shimin heard Li Lizhi's words on the side thinking, but he didn't say much to disturb the atmosphere.
The group was having fun celebrating Li Lizhi's birthday, and even Li Zhi shouted a few times.
It was over. When Li Shimin returned to the study, he called Li Tai and asked Li Tai to go to the study with him.
When Li Chengqian saw Li Shimin leaving Li Tai, he looked at Li Tai unexpectedly and went back without saying anything.
Li Tai followed Li Shimin and came to the study. Li Shimin asked Li Tai, "How many more is Bai Diezi's hand?"
"It's gone, and all the rest is made for Lizhi's cotton coats." Li Tai said truthfully.
"Is it easy to cultivate the white folding zirong? Do you eat the soil abilities?" Li Shimin asked again.
To be honest, Li Shimin could feel that the cotton cloth made of the white stack is quite warm. At least it is definitely a very good material for winter cold protection, at least it is much better than linen.
"Baidiezi is relatively not very good at territories, but it has relatively strict requirements for sunshine. Compared with Chang'an, it may be better in Longxi!" Li Tai nodded,
"However, growing cotton will occupy the farming area of the grain, so unless the court has a support policy to implement, it will not be easy to develop."
Li Tai is not telling a lie, probably in the Tang and Song dynasties that can weave crops were discovered.
But when cotton really goes from aristocratic families to ordinary people, it still has to wait until Zhu Yuanzhang promotes cotton on a large scale.
Li Shimin was a little hesitant after all, in the feudal era, unless many cash crops were supplied with royalty or military supplies, most cash crops were just side jobs that the people occasionally did, and basically had no large-scale work.
The big reason for the emergence of planting is that traffic conditions do not allow it.
Even basically, the vast majority of cash crops can be directly processed into primary processed products with a longer shelf life. Even if the cash crops are more valuable to society but have no roads, the value cannot be converted.
Therefore, many places that may not be suitable for growing grain can only be grounded in the grit.
"Is the court's policy support..." Li Shimin heard Li Tai's words with some hesitation and hesitation.
It’s not that Li Shimin cannot see the potential of a financial crop like cotton, but because Li Shimin, who has just experienced locust plague and drought, attaches more importance to food security. If possible, Li Shimin hopes that the entire Chang'an can be planted with food.
So, at most, Li Shimin just searched a city with a lot of Rizhao in Longxi to conduct small experiments.
However, it is impossible for Li Shimin to carry out large-scale sowing or even provide policy support.
Li Tai didn't expect him to say that Li Shimin would plant cotton on a large scale. After all, although Li Shimin cared about the people, he did not understand what the people really needed.
So for cotton, in Li Shimin's view, this was just the emergence of a new textile material, but he really couldn't see what it meant to the people of the entire Tang Dynasty.
"Aye has something to worry about. I wonder if he can tell Qingque!" Li Tai said to Li Shimin.
"Winter is approaching, and the people in the city have just experienced locust plagues and droughts. The remaining food in their hands is probably exhausted. If the snow is cold this winter, the people will probably find it difficult to survive this cold winter." Li Shimin did not hide it and said directly to Li Tai.
Li Tai said: "If Aye can give me some coal mines and mines and lend me some food, I think I can give these people some things to do. If you say that you can save them all, it may be difficult, but if you only save them,
Part of it, I think it's very likely to do it."
"What do you want so many coal mines to do?!" Li Shimin couldn't help but frown when he heard Li Tai's words.
"Let them go to mining!" Li Tai said: "I think this is the most fair to let them trade their labor for food!"
"I'm afraid I can't give you food!" Li Shimin shook his head and said, "The food in Chang'an City is a little tight."
"Can I buy food directly from the court?" Li Tai said, "I just use the thousand acres of land you gave me as collateral. I want to buy a large amount of food from the court at one time to avoid the cause of my purchase of food on the market.
panic."
"You also know that I rewarded these thousand acres of land!"
When Li Shimin heard Li Tai's words, his mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but rub the dog's head angrily on Li Tai's head.
This proposal is really too damn!
Anyway, for Li Tai, these thousand acres of land are not around the agricultural institution, so they are relatively enclaves.
So it would be better to cash out a large amount of grain for Li Shimin first. If you can use this grain and really find enough labor at one time, what is the only thousand acres of fertile land? It is important to truly become a capable official in front of Li Shimin
of.
However, Li Shimin came to his senses and said seriously to Li Tai, "Qingque, how sure are you?"
"Do your best, at least there will be no one who will freeze to death in Chang'an this year!" Li Tai said seriously.
"Then you have a thousand acres of land, there is really no more!" Li Shimin looked at Li Tai and said,
"But when the food from Luoyang is delivered to Chang'an, the first piece of food will be delivered to you!"
"Aye, then I'll go back and start this matter!" Li Tai said seriously and promised Li Shimin.
"Qing Bird..." Li Shimin watched Li Tai leave, but he felt a little relieved and sighed in his heart.
Although Qingque is only eight years old, it can be seen from the control of locust plague that he has a very good management talent.
This kind of ability seems to be born with invincible commander, just like he is born with an invincible commander.
Of course, no matter how magical the prodigy is, the Chinese people are actually not surprised.
Because no matter how prodigy is, he can win the twelve-year-old Gan Luo, who was celebrating the 18-year-old Huo Qubing, he has never lacked child prodigy to encounter strange creatures in this magical land.
What's more, Li Shimin realized that he was a young hero, and it should be normal for his descendants to produce one or two strange ones.
Of course, compared to Li Tai, who had already started to take the initiative to fight for power at the age of eight and had just changed his new teacher, he solemnly asked his new teacher Li Gang: "Sister Li, can I ask you any questions?"
"Please say something for the prince!" Li Gang said respectfully to Li Chengqian.
"Silang has been quite close to his father recently... but it made me feel a little bored, as if Silang has intervened in my territory!" Li Chengqian said, "I feel that this is wrong, but I can't help but feel like this."
thinking.”
Li Gang was silent for a while and said, "The King of Yue can do things and accomplish things, but he governs with virtue. It is like the North Chen, where all the stars share it. Even if the King of Yue is talented, he is just the other stars surrounding the North Chen star.
”
When Li Chengqian heard Li Gang's words, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Thank you, Master Li, to solve the problem."