If it weren't for the fact that this life would be too sad, Su Lie wouldn't want to move his military camp. There was nothing we could do, life would be too sad.
It wasn't the court that detained Su Lie. In fact, the Tang Dynasty's military system decided that under normal circumstances, the Tang Dynasty did not raise soldiers normally, and basically all the cost of raising soldiers was diluted to ordinary people.
At the same time, the Tang Dynasty also had a recruitment system during the Zhenguan period. When Emperor Taizong of Tang conquered Goguryeo, not only did the government soldiers, but a large part of them even came from the recruitment system.
However, the recruitment system was not large during the Zhenguan period. At the same time, these people were more of generals, personal guards or other fixed-professional professional soldiers, and their main responsibilities were grassroots officers.
After all, even though the generals of the Tang Dynasty were good generals, the system of government troops determined that when they wanted to conquer the target, most of the soldiers they had were soldiers they did not know, and they were even likely to be new recruits.
If you want to organize this group of people quickly, China has only been able to do it for five thousand years, called Han Xin.
Therefore, Sima or general usually trains a group of soldiers of a small size, with no more than 3,000 people at most.
Although these people are just small soldiers at ordinary times, when they really summon various government soldiers from the people, these people will be expanded into teams and teach the government soldiers recruited by the people to quickly integrate into the army.
The people were also happy to integrate into the army quickly, because the average life expectancy of the people in ancient times might not reach 30 years old. For them, it was very worthwhile to use their lives to fight for a bright future on the battlefield.
This was also the Zhenguan period, and even in the later period of Emperor Gaozong's Wuzhou period, although the bottom of the government military system was constantly destroyed, it was somewhat of a way to make a breakthrough for the people below, so although the government military system declined, it did not perish.
However, since Li Linfu proposed to reuse Hu Generals as the governor in order to protect his prime minister's rights, which blocked the channels that could have been circulated between the army and the court.
The Hu people became the governors, and the Han commanders could no longer go to generals and ministers, which directly blocked the last breath of the military system of the government.
Because the upper limit of the military system of the palace was blocked directly, no matter how hard the soldiers struggled, they could not fight the upper level.
Simply put, this system could have been barely maintained, but due to Li Linfu's actions, this system could not be played.
Because the army did not communicate with the court, the water pipe that originally circulated in both directions was forcibly broken, leaving the upper layer of the army with a radish and a pit, and everyone was alien.
This made it difficult for the Han people to convince and accept, and it was simply a sense of honor that trampled on the people of the Tang Dynasty.
The lower level is the equal-land system that is constantly destroyed by aristocratic families, and the land that the people have allocated is constantly eroded, so this system will naturally die.
Fortunately, the court directly came up with a second new system, that is, the recruitment system.
And it was naturally not what Emperor Xuanzong of Tang could come up with this system.
In fact, this system appeared in Zhenguan, Gaozong, and Wuzhou, but under normal circumstances, this system is just a supplement to the system of the military forces.
Solve the problem that soldiers recruited by the government system cannot quickly form battles and complete organization.
The registered soldiers in Youzhou are now the prototype of a relatively basic recruitment system.
Simply put, these soldiers received unified training, received salary from the court, were considered formal staff, and were employed as professionals.
But although the court supported them, it would be unrealistic to rely on them if they could expect them well.
Even if the soldiers in Chang'an area only eat full food when eating big pot rice, if you want to eat meat, you must have a festival or a celebration. Under normal circumstances, you can just eat full.
Don't think about it anymore.
Even so, if you want to become a military soldier with the imperial editors, at least in this era, I don’t know how many people are rushing to become a military soldier.
It is not only for the sake of having enough food, but these people with formal establishments have made merits and promoted on the battlefield.
After all, work is a temporary worker, and medals are given to formal worker labor. This is almost inherited from the ancestors, and it is difficult to avoid even in the Zhenguan period.
In addition to Xue Rengui's appearance with the white horse and silver spear, he suddenly attracted Li Shimin's attention and rose to prominence.
But the reality is that few people really stand out from the army step by step. Not to mention becoming famous generals, even if they become ordinary generals, there are very few.
Of course, after all, it is precisely because of so many twists and turns that Su Lie chose to move closer to Li Tai.
Because training is very expensive, even if it is just a small number of soldiers, Su Lie also understood that it is inevitable to train these soldiers from Youzhou into elite soldiers.
And the court will definitely not give this amount of money, because the court's annual expenses are stipulated.
Even if I apply for it, I am afraid that I will not give myself half a piece except for a scolding.
But Li Tai said that he was really rich, not only rich, but also supplies!
Su Lie witnessed Li Tai renovating Zhengguoqu and even ate chicken legs and duck soup in Zhengguoqu for several months.
So even if you still have to chew coarse rice in the military camp now, Su Lie believes that as long as Li Tai is given time, the soldiers under his command can still eat meat. For Su Lie, this is enough!
As Su Lie and Youzhou Prefecture troops were stationed near the small village in Tianjin, Li Tai breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, in Youzhou, with such an armed force around you, the sense of security is naturally much higher.
As Li Tai returns, Li Chunfeng appears in front of Li Tai with rich dark circles.
"Chunfeng, how many days have you not been sleeping?" Li Tai couldn't help but look at Li Chunfeng's dark circles with dark eyes on his face.
"It's only two days!" Li Chunfeng looked calm and then handed a copy of the artwork to Li Tai, saying:
"King Yan, come and take a look at this! These days, I personally went to the mudflats, measured the ups and downs, and designed these salt fields. Let's take a look first!"
Li Tai took the design drawings given to him by Li Chunfeng and said curiously:
"Is the first piece of salt field so big? It almost occupied half of the tidal flat I bought."
"The most important thing about the first salt field is the initial precipitation of impurities, and it doesn't make much sense to separate small salt fields.
If you need to directly treat impurities in seawater in the future, you can also directly deal with them in this salt field at one time."
Li Chunfeng explained to Li Tai, "And many gates have been opened for each salt field, put the initially processed sea water into the needed salt field, and then subdivided it.
After all, King Yan, you have studied the method of salt drying according to the laws of the sun and the laws of water.
But as we become familiar with and explore the laws of salt, we will definitely improve efficiency in the future, and some methods can be directly carried out in the large salt fields.
If the amount is not easy to control, you can send water to Xiaoyantian through the gate and slowly deal with it!"
Li Tai knows this method at most when it comes to salting salt, but through theory to practice, the people below need to try it slowly.
Anyway, I can’t accept failure. Don’t say that the steam engine I just want hasn’t been transformed into a value worth such investment yet!
"Since you have left this matter to you, you are fully responsible. I believe you can do it and you can try any method.
But we need to leave room for correction because we are still exploring slowly.
Experience and other things were originally tried out through experiments again and again!" Li Tai told Li Chunfeng.
When Li Chunfeng heard Li Tai's words, he didn't say anything more, but just said to Li Tai:
"Chunfeng plans to concentrate manpower to build this large salt field first, and then sit down one by one, build an industry, and put the salt pond into use."
"You go!" Li Tai said, "If you need manpower and material resources, go to Baihe to get it. I will give it to you with all my rights!"
"Chunfeng will fulfill his mission!" Li Chunfeng said incredibly moved when he heard Li Tai's words.
With the emergence of this planning map, Li Chunfeng also began to dispatch personnel and began to carry out large-scale field reorganization activities.
Gao Jifu from Youzhou also sent people here one after another, either ordinary tenants or Youzhou's rangers.
The ordinary tenants were fine, but Li Tai was just giving food and money to pay for the house, so he quickly made these ordinary tenants choose to stay.
After all, working in the landlord's house does not have such benefits, but Rangers have some complaints.
However, with Li Chunfeng in charge, nothing major happened. Later, Su Lie and Youzhou Prefecture soldiers were stationed in a small village in Tianjin, and they could hear the sound of them doing exercises every now and then. These Youzhou Rangers did not cause trouble anymore.
Although Li Tai has not yet provided a cattle and sheep industry, he can still buy some mutton from near Youzhou every week to go to the military camp to improve the food for Su Lie's troops.
This made these people feel very good about Li Tai, and they also tried a lot to protect the Tianjin village.
However, Su Lie knew that these were just a small amount of money to Li Tailai, and he was looking forward to eating meat every day. At that time, he could train his men's soldiers to death and directly train them into elites.
The soldiers of the palace naturally discovered that since their general came to this small village in Tianjin, they had a straight smile from time to time, but looking at the sheep sent by the small village in Tianjin every week, they had some understanding.
However, Li Taike didn't have the intention to pay attention to these soldiers from Su Dingfang because he was all his attention on the salt field.
After all, this thing is a method I chose to break the situation, and whether it can produce coarse salt is crucial to me.
To be honest, the ancient salt industry was a very consuming industry. Haven’t you seen that the salt industry in ancient times could have rebelled accounted for a large part, and the area where sea salt has an advantage over land salt is the consumption of human resources.
Due to the ancient productivity, land salt such as salt lakes can also be used to dig salt fields according to the salt drying method to create ridge fields, introduce brine in the salt fields into the ridge fields, and evaporate it with the sun and wind, thereby increasing the production of fields.
area.
Even after making coarse salt, it is subjected to secondary treatment, distillation at high temperature or blending with brine, which can crystallize pure white fine salt, which is at least convenient for secondary treatment than the sea salt produced in the ocean.
a lot of.
Even now Li Tai knows that there are various metal ions in sea salt, which is very troublesome to deal with. Basically, he can only use the halogen method to slowly wash it, which can only reduce the content, but cannot be completely removed.
But Li Tai understood even more that if he wanted to completely master the salt industry, he wanted to completely overthrow the salt jars of ordinary people so that the people could not only eat salt, but also afford fine salt. Then he could only rely on sea salt, at least he could not rely on land salt now
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The first is production, as long as the coastline reaches, it can basically be used as a salt site.
Of course, as the best salt production location, you must be carefully selected, but at least it is much less difficult to mine than the salt lakes and salt wells in the inland.
The second is the transportation of salt, because the cost of water is much lower than that of land transportation.
In a relatively closed inland lake, short-distance landing transportation can still be solved, but long-distance still depends on the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou that runs through the north and south.
Sea salt is basically produced in this entire water system and can be transported to all parts of China from south to north through the canal. This advantage is almost crushing for mineral salt.
To be honest, if the second point is, some salt ponds in inland areas can still compete for the surrounding markets, but after the third point, even if salt in inland areas is not protected, it will be difficult to survive.
That is, sea salt uses changes in the moon's gravity to cause tidal phenomena. Tides cause the sea level to rise and fall periodically, and the huge energy generated by the rise and fall of sea water and the flow of tides.
Tidal energy for short.
Using the rise and fall of tides, seawater is sent into the salt fields, saving artificial power to the greatest extent.
The ocean is almost endless for the people of the times. At least without more advanced productivity conditions, the sea water brought by tidal energy will far exceed that of artificially guided brine, which will liberate human productivity to the greatest extent.
Of course, Li Tai also understood the disadvantages of sea salt, that is, the metal content in sea salt is higher than that of land salt, and the quality produced is worse than that of land salt.
However, under the condition of meeting the premise of salt consumption for the people across the country, if you want to completely overturn the salt jar, then in this era, the ocean is the only choice.
After all, the production process of sea salt can be continuously improved, and the larger the production cost of sea salt, the more advantage it is than land salt.
So Li Tai would choose Youzhou, and even chose Haiyan to break the situation.
Because your purpose is not just to make money by yourself, but more importantly, to prepare for the future overturning of the country's salt prices.
Therefore, Li Tai still attaches great importance to Li Chunfeng's salt drying project.
However, Li Tai also knew that drying salt is like growing crops, and it is not something that can produce fruit today and tomorrow.
Even if you have completely built the entire salt field and want to ship the salt, it will take at least four to five months.
Not to mention that the salt field is still under construction, no one knows how much repairs will be needed in the whole process. When the real first batch of salt is shipped, I am afraid it will be until the end of this year!
"Tsk tsk, this project takes time so much. I'm afraid there's a need to wait until the first batch of salt is shipped. Should I visit the local families in Youzhou and find a way to get them to pay some money and food!" Li Tai's eyes couldn't help but bring them a look with him.
Some yin qi.
It’s nothing, because there is no stable channel for money in Youzhou, Li Tai is very panicked and always wants to find something to do to make money quickly!