There is a small ventilation opening in the main hall of the Yue Palace in Tianjin City.
But when the door was opened, the cold air suddenly rushed out of the exhaust port and began to wash the entire room along the room door.
Wang Zhenru walked in at this moment and saw Li Tai, Ma Zhou, Li Chunfeng, Lu Anshou, and even Wang Xuance all had a seat.
There was a bronze tripod with charcoal fire on his table, and there were various ingredients in the bronze tripod.
Only when a prince, Li Tai, gave a banquet, can you have the opportunity to experience what the bell and ditches are.
"Close, close, sit there, sit there, sit there, be prepared for you long ago!"
Li Tai looked at Wang Zhenru's arrival and pointed at the position,
"Bai He, let Ding Jie bring the prepared ingredients and let Zhenru try this beef bone hotpot!"
"Beef bone?" Wang Xuance was a little stunned when he heard this. After all, beef tastes delicious, but it is too illegal.
"Don't worry, I've reported it! It's not a plowing ox, but a herding cattle," said Li Tai.
"It was running and somehow it fell and its legs fell lame.
In order to prevent it from continuing to survive in pain, I could only eat it, right! Xuan Ce!"
"Yes!" Wang Xuance, who was on the side, picked up a large piece of beef, put it in his bowl, nodded repeatedly,
"I saw the beef walking peacefully, so the meat was very delicious. Come and eat it quickly, it would be a waste if you don't eat it."
"Give me one too!" What else could Wang Zhenru say, naturally he would just eat one or two bites first.
Wang Zhenru looked at the various slices of meat, meatballs made with fish, and vegetables made with local igloo technology, and sighed, "I didn't expect that this winter can even eat green vegetables.
.”
To be honest, it was no longer uncommon to grow vegetables in greenhouses in winter during the Tang Dynasty.
It’s just that this thing has cost issues, and in people’s concepts, plants grown in this way are somewhat contrary to nature.
Even a high-ranking official asked the people to do coolies to grow off-season vegetables and offered them to Li Shimin to flatter him. Unexpectedly, Li Shimin was particularly disgusted and gave up his position as an official and said who would dare to do so.
Li Tai naturally knew that Li Shimin opposed the arbitrary use of the people for corvee in the middle of winter, rather than opposing eating green vegetables in winter.
After all, there are several gardens in the royal family that use hot spring water to grow green vegetables, and then provide the palace with green food to enjoy in winter.
Li Tai slightly sorted out the off-season planting technology of this era and soon discovered that during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the technology of greenhouse vegetable planting also developed.
The ancients dug a cellar under the soil and then burned firewood in the cellar, so that the temperature of the cellar could reach the ground. People used this method to grow off-season vegetables. The technology was even very mature, but the cost was a bit high.
However, the labor required is too much and it is not suitable for popularization, so Li Tai adapts to the local conditions to develop new technologies.
After all, this is to dig a cellar and burn heating, and it is not a project that is made in a short period of time.
What's more, this kind of thing cannot be covered on a large scale, so you can only plant such a small piece, at most you can enjoy it as a prince.
So what's the point of this off-season planting that cannot be popular among civilians? It's better to go and eat hot spring dishes by your side.
So, Li Tai went to the greenhouse planting technique. After all, he had never seen growing vegetables and had never eaten green vegetables!
The first step is to direct people to build huge wooden frames. After it snows in winter, they pour water on these wooden frames, and they pour it once every hour.
When the ice and snow, especially the ice and snow on the roof were thick, the wood was removed.
The most important thing is to remove the concealed wood on the roof, leaving behind several reinforced bracket structures, because if it snows in the future, you will have to rely on these pillars as support to sweep the snow, or directly splash water to melt the ice and snow.
It's right.
During this process, I am lucky, there will be no problems with any problems. However, if I am not lucky, there will be some cracks. Then continue to splash water and freeze. Such a light-transmitting roof will be almost made.
The surrounding wooden frames can be filled with dried reeds, sorghum stems, horse manure and wood ash. In order to keep the vegetable field warm, it can basically be made with a simple greenhouse for a winter.
By the way, one thing you should remember is that it is best to dig a cave that can be entered and exited instead of building a door that can be opened directly, because the principle of this thing is to keep warm in the igloo, so it is best to try not to open the door.
Simply put, the ice is stronger and can achieve the effect of being airtight, and the cold wind cannot be blown into the outdoors.
At the same time, ice is a bad conductor of heat, because heat cannot be transmitted through ice, which can insulate heat.
The heat generated in the room cannot be transmitted to the outside of the house through ice cubes. At the same time, the igloo has no windows, which can reduce air convection.
Next, just remember to burn snow and splash water outside the igloo every day on snowy days. Basically, the greenhouse can maintain until early spring and the earth warms up.
In addition, this kind of ice and snow greenhouse is more advanced. It can invite top ice sculpture craftsmen to polish the ice and snow on the roof after demolishing the roof boards, thereby giving the entire roof a certain degree of light concentration and enhancing the intensity of sunlight.
Of course, Li Chunfeng can help record the data such as light knowledge, light angle, and concentration and astigmatism involved, so that it will be easier to manufacture next year and can directly make ice abrasives on the roof!
In short, in Youzhou, you can use it in colder places. In some areas where winter time is too short and there is even no sun in winter, don’t count on this technology.
Li Tai took a bite of cabbage and concluded, "Study hard and prove the truth, and you will not be afraid of traveling all over the world!"
When Li Chunfeng heard Li Tai's words, he agreed, "This Dharma of attaining enlightenment can indeed explain all kinds of scenes!"
Wang Zhenru took a bite of vegetables, another bite of beef, then another bite of fish balls, and then another sip of the characteristic spirit wine. It seemed like a little fire spread from the stomach to the throat. It was really a delicious food on earth.
"By the way, Zhenru! How did those corvee workers arrange it?" Li Tai asked Wang Zhenru.
Wang Zhenru quickly put down the wine and meat in his hand and said seriously:
"All corvee labor that decided to go back for the New Year has been arranged to send them to designated counties and counties through horse-drawn carriages.
And they all changed their food, clothes, bacon and dried salted fish. Normally, they should be able to have a good year."
Li Tai nodded. I have to say that Wang Zhenru's execution ability is still very good, and this is done quite appropriately.
Of course, with my current control over Youzhou and the various avenues in Youzhou, I can only do this to this extent.
If you want to send this famous corvee to their homes, you can only say that unless they have a good life and their family is near the necessary road, they will basically have to go back with their legs in the end.
After all, it would be great that transportation in this era could reach the prefectures and counties directly.
"What about those who are willing to stay? What are you going to arrange?" Li Tai said to Wang Zhenru and Taoism again.
"Some of the corvee labor that were homeless or planned to stay here forever gathered them all together and placed them in the Wuqing village between Yongnu County and our Tianjin City, which is not far from our Tianjin City.
However, there were not many people who stayed in the end, about two thousand people, and they would all be placed in the Wuqing village in the future!”
Wang Zhenru quickly answered to Li Tai.
"Hmm?" Li Tai looked at Wang Zhenru unexpectedly when he heard Wang Zhenru's words.
Wang Zhenru explained, "This year, the road along the canal from Youzhou to Tianjin small town was built from Youzhou to us, and now it has been built to Yongnu.
The rest is only the part of Yongnu coming to our Tianjin. They also started working in Wuqing, which is one of them!"
"Oh? Are there any other reasons?" Li Tai smiled when he heard Wang Zhenru's words.
“Secondly, these people gather together to facilitate heating together.
Otherwise, the price will be too high whether it is transporting coal and grain to designated locations or giving them a small number of people to use!"
"Well, centralized heating can indeed further reduce costs!" Li Tai nodded and said,
"You did a good job in this matter and have a good rest during this period.
When this year has passed, you want to rest again, but you may have to wait until the New Year next year!”
"No, king!" Wang Zhenru couldn't help but scream when he heard Li Tai's words, and grabbed a piece of beef to suppress his shock.
"It's not my problem!" Li Tai shook his head, "but after the canal has ice melted, Binwang is afraid that he will treat you as a cow and horse. He should force you to take the canal in Youzhou in one year next year.
Completely clear.”
Ma Zhou just took out the wine glass and made a cheering gesture to Wang Zhenru with a smile.
What can Wang Zhenru do? He can only raise his glass and drink this glass of wine.
After drinking, Ma Zhou said slowly: "Master, this is wrong.
It took almost half a year to handle the matter in Youzhou.
After all, the Grand Canal needs to clear the Yongji Canal before winter comes as much as possible and arrange Tianjin management.
If it is the Huaihe River line, if you are lucky and don’t freeze, you won’t have to wait for next winter!”
When Li Tai heard Ma Zhou's words, he shook his head and said, "You, it's better to be slower, it's meaningless to do this!"
"Please give me advice!" Ma Zhou looked at Li Tai with some surprise and said in confusion.
"If Chu Suiliang's Jiangnan Academy wants to train students completely according to the situation of the agricultural university, it will be difficult to cultivate talents of sufficient scale in just a few years.
Sometimes it’s good to slow down a little and do the work in the north more meticulously!”
Li Tai said calmly to Ma Zhou, "If you have time, you can send someone to inquire about the number of students at Jiangnan Branch!"
"Oh?" Ma Zhou was a little stunned when he heard Li Tai's words, because he saw that the Agricultural College in Gaoling now has almost 2,000 talents available every year.
Although these two thousand people were divided up by various people, there may be less than five hundred people who have actually implemented the "Cache Transport Plan".
But it is not an exaggeration to have 500 people in Youzhou Branch and Jiangnan Branch.
In fact, it is difficult for Jiangnan Branch to train 200 people to be minor officials.
Because if the students they recruit are rich, their goal must be to become officials. Who will be interested in agricultural officials or Jinkou’s Tianjin management officials?
If you don’t have money, you have to subsidize yourself. Imagine that Li Chunfeng only trained more than 200 trainees in a year for cooperation with the Navy.
Even if Chu Suiliang is a big family in Yuhang, it still needs money to open this institution well.
Anyway, Li Tai didn't know how much money Chu Suiliang was willing to spend, but I thought it would be impossible to be uncontrollable.
To be honest, think about why Du Ruhui came to Youzhou in the middle of winter, and even agreed to build the road first and then the canal.
To a certain extent, Du Ruhui also hopes to give Jiangnan Academy more time and let Jiangnan Academy cultivate some talents.
The same goes for that. Even if Li Tai proposed the "Cast Transport Plan", it is impossible for the entire canal to come out of the agricultural institution. Then, then this canal will be completely controlled by Li Tai.
Now because Li Tai was named King of Yan and the Governor of Youzhou, the Youzhou Branch must have a close relationship with Li Tai.
In this case, Jiangnan Academy naturally needs to work harder and cultivate talents as soon as possible.
This is also one of the reasons why Du Ruhui is not in a hurry at all. After all, he really needs to help Jiangnan Branch in this matter!
"However, if Du Xiang asks you for help, he will find a way to block it.
I also have my own plan next year. After I build this canal, I will start to implement my plan.
After all, after half a year of preparation, I think I can start to implement it!" Li Tai told Ma Zhou.
"Master, what are the plans for next year?" Ma Zhou was a little curious when he heard Li Tai's words.
Li Tai said: "There are mainly two items, one is to promote wheat cultivation.
After all, the grain in Youzhou is still mainly corn. This year, students from agricultural institutions have tried to plant a wave in Youzhou to see the harvest. If possible, they will implement this as the staple food!"
"Indeed, if you plant wheat, you can get more labor service for several months, especially in summer and autumn, which will not be as cold as winter." Ma Zhou nodded in agreement, "This is indeed a big deal!"
"As for the other thing, it is necessary to build a road that is enough for eight carriages to travel with each county in Youzhou. This will naturally be hard work for the True Confucianism!" Li Tai glanced at the True Confucianism.
"Master, will I have my arrangements next year?"
Li Chunfeng was a little anxious when he heard that Li Tai had arranged his plans for next year, but he seemed to have nothing to do with him.
"You, of course, you should quickly study the process of coarse salt to fine salt, and then go to my side to check for the missing.
Otherwise, if something happens, there will be no one around me who can really discuss it!"
Li Chunfeng first looked at Bai He who was sitting next to Li Tai and stuttering beef. Then he looked at the two guys Wei Xu and Lu Anshou who were enthusiastic about drinking.
Obviously, compared to Li Tai's thought tank when he was in Chang'an, Li Tai was even considered a luxury think tank. After coming to Youzhou, Li Tai really lacked a figure like a leader.
As for Ma Zhou, after being pushed to the front by Li Tai and becoming a real Tang official, Ma Zhou could become an important support for Li Tai, but Ma Zhou could not come to the Yan Palace to discuss matters all the time.
Ma Zhou took the initiative to salute Li Chunfeng and said, "Brother Chunfeng, King Yan wants to ask you to take care of him!"
"You must not do this. We are the same people, so we can help each other!" Li Chunfeng picked up the wine glass and answered solemnly.
"Cai!" Li Tai raised the cup containing honey water in his hand and said, "Today we will not be drunk and will not return!"
In the end, except Bai He and Li Tai, Ma Zhou, Li Chunfeng, Wang Zhenru, Wang Xuance, Lu Anshou and Wei Xu, they were drunk one after another. Finally, Li Tai ordered Bai He to send them all to the room to rest and wait for everything to wake up tomorrow.