"The entire system of coal has been unified, allowing production to form a large enough scale.
This reduces the cost of coal, and we also use coal to make arrangements!”
Li Tai looked at the Peacock and explained his understanding as much as possible.
To be honest, Li Tai himself also drew a lot of things, but after actually operating them, he had some insights.
When Li Tai said this, he couldn't help but look at Peacock with confusion and said, "Who is the biggest customer of coal in your opinion?"
"Is it a duck farm?" Peacock couldn't help asking when he heard Li Tai's words.
Li Tai shook his head and said, "Duck farm is indeed the first step in digesting coal.
But the reality is that the scale of duck farms is not only limited by coal, but also by food restrictions.
This is why I did not continue to expand after the scale of my duck farm reached about one million.
If you expand further, you will be snatching food from the people, which is not worth it."
"Is that the bathhouse and boiling water room?" Peacock replied again when he heard Li Tai's words.
"With the Wei River water transportation connected, boiled water houses have become popular around the streets and alleys of the entire Wei River system.
This is indeed a big coal-consuming business, and it is much more popular than the duck raising industry, but it is not the main seller!" Li Tai said.
"That's the consumption of coal balls in winter?" Peacock guessed when he heard Li Tai's words.
"In winter, coal has indeed gradually become a product that needs a basic need, which is also the reason why our coal has gradually made profits from childhood." Li Tai nodded, "but this is not stable enough. After all, the winter in the Tang Dynasty did not last long.
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"Please let the King of Yue make a clear statement!" Peacock heard Li Tai's words, but did not continue to guess.
"It's the court!" Li Tai told Peacock, "Because our coal is of good quality and produces a lot, and I have a little bit of face.
The imperial court's forging technology supervisors and other organizations such as Dushuiguan or Guanglu Temple have gradually accepted that we provide coal."
"So that's it!" Peacock understood a little, why the originally inconspicuous coal industry suddenly rose.
Because Li Tai controlled the coal industry in Guanzhong, when the imperial court needed coal, it was enough to just go to Li Tai to buy cheap and affordable coal when it needed coal.
It is convenient for the imperial court to buy and the price is cheap. Even as long as Li Shimin has the courage, it is very simple to hold people accountable if something happens.
For Li Tai, this is the most stable buyer in his own coal mine industry. After all, there is something more stable than supplying coal in the imperial court!
Others are afraid that they will not be swallowed up directly when doing this business, but Li Tai is the prince, so Li Tai can still earn this money.
After all, the whole of China must wait until the Song Dynasty to pay attention to coal.
Before this, think about the charcoal seller. Even in the mid-Tang Dynasty, the coal industry had not yet formed a scale, and the eunuchs in the palace needed to find these small households to buy and sell forcibly.
From this we can see how many people involved in this job in the early Tang Dynasty, it was completely a blue ocean.
"If I have been in Chang'an, there will be nothing wrong, but if I leave Chang'an, you will take out a part of this profit, whether it is to deliver medicine to the hospital, adopt an orphan, or even build bridges and roads,
Just spend the money.”
"Shouldn't you not reveal your wealth?" Peacock heard Li Tai's words and was a little unimaginable about Li Tai's attitude.
"You can never reveal your wealth if no one knows you.
But if I were not in Chang'an, the transaction between the coal industry and the court would sooner or later be noticed by those who are interested.
If you make money in your hands, it will be dangerous.
If you spend money and earn a reputation, at least others will really mess with you in the future. Even if I am far and far away, whether you go to Wei Zheng or Fang Xuanling, someone will eventually stand out for you.
After all, no matter what you say, Aye is ready to be a wise ruler, so reputation can save you!"
Li Tai gave instructions to the Peacock one by one, although Li Tai did not think the situation would be so bad that even the Peacock would be threatened.
But no matter what, if you can make Peacock more preparations, there will definitely be no mistake.
More importantly, Li Tai understands that money is always held in his hands and that only by letting the money flow is the real living money.
To be honest, because it is the times, people who make money like to save money or buy land crazily.
Although this cannot be said to be a bad habit, for Li Tai, who likes to maximize his interests, such behavior is somewhat wasteful.
However, for Li Tai, doing good deeds is a trivial matter for Li Tai. The real reason is that after he left, the factories that were opened by Zheng Baiqu would be somewhat hit.
In this case, you need to make some projects yourself.
Not to mention letting them make money, but at least letting their factories survive in this market, this is the most important thing.
That's why Peacocks were asked to spend some of their money to carry out various charities, and it's fine to forget about other things, but projects such as building bridges and paving roads are to prevent these small factories from dying directly.
"Oh!" Peacock nodded repeatedly when he heard Li Tai's words.
Don’t worry about what’s going on, but since Li Tai made him dare, he should do it well and he doesn’t need to do much. Just record it one by one.
Li Tai continued, "Then in addition to the coal industry, there are some animal husbandry industries that you need to pay attention to next.
For example, the breeding of chickens and ducks, and the breeding methods of dogs and pigs all require you to explore."
"No!" After hearing Li Tai's words, Peacock naturally agreed repeatedly.
Because of the land size of cattle, sheep and horses, although Li Tai is raised, the scale is quite small.
To expand the food, Li Tai began to try to raise pork and meat dog after chickens and ducks.
After all, from ancient times to the present, chickens, dogs and pigs have been one of the six animals.
Because cattle, sheep and horses need more grassland to raise, it is more normal for people in the Central Plains to raise chickens, dogs and pigs as food.
But in the past, because there was not enough food, dogs and dolphins didn’t even have enough food, so how could they be raised?
But in recent years, with the bumper harvest of large and small grains, the people naturally have an instinctive pursuit of meat.
Of course, this pursuit is not modern times, eating every day, eating every day, and then I start to shout about losing weight.
Instead, the people have been able to start raising these livestock, and by the end of the year, they can have a tooth-beating ceremony.
After all, no matter how poor a creature like humans live, they are the highest primates in this world.
Humans evolved from single cells to the top of the food chain, naturally not to eat vegetarian food, but to eat everything.
Therefore, peacocks are also supported by Li Tai's proposal to increase breeding of pigs and dogs and cultivate enough breeding workers.
Even so, the scale of feeding between the two is actually not very large, which is about 10,000 each.
In addition, among the dogs sent to be meat dogs, the most excellent part of the dogs are usually kept as military dogs.
However, among the more than 10,000 meat dogs, only more than 100 can become military dogs.
Li Tai was a little stunned when he saw this ratio. I don’t know if it was because the meat dog was too bad or the selection conditions were too harsh.
But no matter what, if you can't raise a soldier in private, it's not an exaggeration to raise a military dog.
However, these things need to be cultivated slowly. Things like pigs are fine if they are raised on a small scale.
But if you want to raise it on a large scale, it will inevitably involve food, and food will involve costs.
To give a simple example, when people raise pigs in their homes, they basically cut some weeds for pigs to eat.
Relatively speaking, labor costs are spread to every day, and it can be seen as no cost.
But if you carry out large-scale breeding, it is naturally impossible to use this method. Even if Li Tai wants to use this method, the labor required will probably make Li Tai feel that it is not worth it.
So, this comes back to the feed that pigs need to eat.
Although I don’t really want to admit that if I go directly to the market, buying grain feeding is almost the lowest cost.
But the reality is that if you raise pigs in this way, what price do you have to sell to earn the cost?
Three pounds of grain and one pound of meat. Li Tai saw it and said, let alone the common people, even common landlords would not be able to eat it every day!
So, just want to raise pork by yourself and eat it. As a prince, there is no problem with Li Tai eating it every day.
But if you want people all over the world to eat pork, then the first thing you have to do is the feed problem.
If this problem is not solved, the price of pork will not drop.
When it comes to feed issues, Li Tai misses Li Chunfeng a little. After all, the grass seed plan has been started to be tested at the Northern Agricultural University. Li Tai doesn't know which step it takes.
No matter what, if the animal husbandry industry wants to develop, the grass planting plan must be successful first.
Because Li Tai's agricultural institution integrates the entire Tang Dynasty's technology, it is almost unrealistic to expect some mutations in wheat and produce four stones per mu.
In the era when there are no artificial fertilizers, any planting method that can grow more than four stones is basically a path to drain the right place.
If you do this, you might not be able to plant anything in the land the next year.
It can be said that the world is the most unscrupulous thing about farming. Li Tai can only wait slowly for the agricultural institutions to make breakthroughs in the research on plant cultivation, and other functions are left to fate.
To be honest, in Li Tai's opinion, the things he attaches most importance to are agriculture, energy and Gaoling itself.
As long as these three things are not a problem, even if the rest are lost, they will be able to slowly raise them when they come back.
As for animal husbandry, it can be considered half, but if you really develop in Youzhou, the talents cultivated by animal husbandry here will naturally play a role in the Youzhou area immediately. So this is only half, and Peacock needs to pay attention.
Li Tai knew very well that although Gaoling is still developing rapidly, its size determines its bottleneck.
At least Li Tai couldn't think of any other way to make Gao Ling develop rapidly if he continued to stay in Chang'an.
Therefore, I have to leave because I continue to stay in Gaoling, and I may be able to become a capable minister, but I am just a capable minister.
If I can't distance myself from Li Chengqian, how can I put enough pressure on Li Chengqian?
Li Tai explained his plan for the coal industry and peacock in detail, and then put cotton and education into peacocks one after another.
Li Tai gradually let go of this series of industries and let Peacock manage these.
Although at the beginning, Peacock was not familiar with these things, it had problems of big or small management.
But Li Tai's requirements are not high, and it is enough to keep Peacocks maintaining their inertia based on the inertia that these industries themselves have.
So even if the peacock makes a mistake, as long as it does not cause problems in the entire industry, it will turn a blind eye and treat it as a way to give the peacock experience value.
To be honest, if you say that Peacock is such an outstanding talent, it will not be enough, but Peacock is serious and hardworking when doing things.
Even if you work every day, it takes a long time to think about it even because of your own talents.
But I also choose to read at night every day, and I don’t go to bed until I finish my work today.
Li Tai looked at Peacock's hard work, but he also lamented whether he should have found some people to help him.
But in fact, it is really hard to find such people.
After all, although Peacock is a middle-aged man, he was born into a merchant family like the Zheng family. With the knowledge accumulated by his experience, Peacock is really not able to achieve this efficiency with such serious efforts.
Of course, perhaps because she came out of the Zheng family, she particularly wanted to seize her destiny.
After all, the peacock, who had already passed by once, really doesn't want to experience it again.
I don’t want to dominate anything in this male society, but Peacock warns myself that my value can never fall into something that can only become a gift from others.
Because of such obsession, the little girl who has always been only three years older than Li Tai, worked extremely hard after she had the resources given to her by Li Tai.
Because she was afraid that she would never have the chance to fight again!
This time, Li Tai was preparing to leave Chang'an and became the third corner after Du Chuke and Lu Cai.
This made Peacock feel for the first time that she was important to Li Tai not because she was a woman, but because of herself.
Now Li Tai’s confidant in Chang'an, only Du Chuke, Lu Cai and Peacock are the ones who really control their own industries.
Among them, Du Chuke has an old man named Du Ruhui. Although Du Ruhui is patrolling the canal now, Li Tai believes that when he leaves, Du Ruhui should return to Chang'an. At that time, only Du Chuke will be attracted by the feet of Chang'an.
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As for Lu Cai, it goes without saying that relying solely on his own spiritual talent and the means of turning the legion talent into military music, he became the chief of the agricultural institution honestly. Basically, no one in Chang'an could mess with him.
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Therefore, the only weakness among the three is the peacock, and there are many things that only peacock can face.