When everyone woke up the next day, the maids were responsible for changing clothes and cleaning them, and prepared sobering liver-protecting decoctions and light porridge to help them nourish their spleen and stomach.
Most of these people still have something to do. If there is no special reason, they will basically come over and say goodbye after sobering up.
Forget it, the others were just talking about everything, but Wang Xuance was the only one who invited him to a banquet because he gave him a cow. But in fact, Wang Xuance and Li Tai were not very familiar with him.
So the atmosphere yesterday was not suitable to pull him in and say that now that seeing Wang Xuance wake up, Li Tai is going to ask him to do something serious.
"Xuance, how is the grass seed plan implemented this year?" Li Tai asked Wang Xuance.
Wang Xuance originally thought he had left after reporting, but he didn't expect that Li Tai would even talk to him about things.
But what he did, Wang Xuance said, "The Grass Plan is advancing in an orderly manner around the Sanggan River.
Before the heavy snow fell, enough grass was harvested to make it into green storage, and the pasture house was built with fireplace conditions.
With the coal saved this year, it will be enough to support it until the beginning of next spring, so there will never be cattle and sheep frozen to death this year!"
To be honest, Wang Xuance was quite proud of this. After all, he really implemented the "Grass Plan" little by little.
This winter has passed, and I have had complete experience and various technologies that can be improved.
When all these are done, under the implementation of the Grass Plan, this new method may really affect the grassland.
Li Tai nodded and said, "Just go smoothly, there is another thing you need to pay attention to.
The next year, with the smooth implementation of the Grass Plan, grass resources will be tilted towards plowing oxen.”
"Plowing ox?" Wang Xuance nodded when he heard this, "Please rest assured that King Yan will try his best to shepherd the scalpers!"
Li Tai carefully instructed: "After the cow is born, add a cow nose ring to the calf to accelerate the transformation from herding cattle to plowing cattle.
Because Youzhou is a border area and is naturally sparsely populated, we can only think of ways to plow oxen and other farming tools.
If you want to promote wheat on a large scale next year, the plowing ox on your hands is the top priority, nothing more than that!”
When Wang Xuance heard Li Tai's words, his expression suddenly became serious.
If the "Grass Plan" originally wanted to turn the grassland people into a great plan, then now Li Tai hopes to tilt nomadic resources towards plowing oxen, it is naturally a big deal about reality.
As long as you are a normal official, you will know the meaning of this matter.
Wang Xuance naturally understood how great changes this could bring to the entire north with this cattle.
If it weren't for Li Tai that he could not touch the military power, then Li Tai would definitely tilt the resources to the horses as soon as possible...
But now is Zhang Wansui still here? There is also a horse racing field in Gaoling, so you don’t need to worry about horses yourself.
After all, the entire Tang Dynasty was almost the highest horse in the feudal era, with a total of 700,000 war horses, and they were not counted as slow horses. This made the Song Dynasty drool, so Li Tai was not worried about the horses.
I still use the "Grass Plan" to cultivate scalpers. These scalpers may not be suitable for southern buffaloes south of the Qinling Mountains and Yellow River, but in the northern region, scalpers are the first farming species.
In this case, you can have specialties exported from other places in Youzhou.
Relying on the Grand Canal to further liberate productivity, after all, in this era when mechanical energy is not yet developed, the power of livestock is really reliable.
Wang Xuance didn't know that Li Tai had already started to layout the entire Qinling and Huaihe River after the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.
Don’t say that when a farmer is established in the future, scalpers will become part of the assets of the farmer, and the people can also borrow scalpers to cultivate the land. Naturally, the influence of the farmer at the grassroots level can further spread.
However, although Wang Xuance did not know about Li Tai's changes, the oxen from the Grass Plan alone could be provided to Youzhou area, so that more food can be plowed, which is very meaningful for officials.
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If a person’s work is beneficial to himself and the country, then there is no need for Li Tai to say anything more.
At this moment, even if Wang Xuance was burning out, he would be willing to commit suicide in this career.
Wang Xuance hurriedly left after knowing his mission, but Li Tai also knew that things like cattle and sheep were like food, and they were not something that could be done the first day and the next day.
But with the inclination of resources, especially the inclination of forage, Wang Xuance will at least focus on picking cattle to cultivate it. He doesn’t have much request, and it is somewhat of a comforting to be able to slaughter one or two thousand heads this year.
The old year has passed and the new year has arrived. This is the first time Li Tai celebrates the New Year in Youzhou.
Starting the second day of the New Year, I went to the homes of officials to pay New Year's greetings. For example, Du Xiang, Gao Jifu, Ma Zhou, and other people under my command tried to complete the visit before the fifteenth day, and even gave New Year's gifts to Chang'an early.
The parents sent it there.
What I sent to Li Shimin was the coarse salt from Tianjin, and what I gave to Empress Changsun was the jade Buddha Guanyin with a piece of water jade.
Although Li Tai is not interested in Buddhism, Empress Changsun likes it.
Others have gifts, and even Li Zhi has prepared a set of four treasures for the little kid who is just four years old. I believe that he will be very grateful to him when he is in elementary school.
However, such happy days will not last too long.
"The head of the family, I have been away for two days. Even Anqing has passed. Haven't you arrived yet?"
A woman was timid when she pulled the child and held her backpack with one hand, both of whom were confused about the future and fearful about the future.
"It's right ahead, the main road has been built to Yongnu County, and we continue to walk along this main road.
I remember there was a camp in front of Yongnu, where I was serving labor service.
When we get there, as long as we are willing to work, we will have something to eat!"
The middle-aged man carried a large package on his hands, which could even be considered as his entire family, but he still came to Tianjin.
After taking the middle-aged man and his family for a turn, he saw the entrance of the camp, but the scene in front of him was stunned.
At this moment, many people gathered at the entrance of the camp, more or less all of whom were family members, including a few corvee labor whom they knew.
He didn't expect that after a New Year, there would be so much corvee service, and he would bring his family and family to the scene like himself.
At this time, a scholar stood up and said, "Don't worry, everyone, the King of Yan already knows what you are here.
As long as you are willing to serve the King of Yan to perform Tianjin corvee, the King of Yan will accept all of you.
You first register your household registration and wait for the King of Yan to bring you ox, carriage, horses and other things to come, and send you to Tianjin City!"
"Zhang Jinling, can't we continue working here? Are we going to Tianjin City?" someone asked.
Zhang Jinling said: "The roads north of Yongnu have been almost repaired, and now they are mainly repairing the roads from Tianjin City to Yongnu.
What work do you have here? It’s the right thing to go to Tianjin quickly. Otherwise, if you snatch the job for someone else, don’t blame me!”
"Zhang Jinling, are you going to die?" The corvee service present was shocked when he heard this. It was so fatal!
"Don't worry, following the King of Yan is the most inseparable thing to live!"
Being able to become a Jinling basically comes from an agricultural institution. I know Li Tai’s habits and quickly said,
"This road is built, and the canal is still waiting to be dredged! The canal is dredged, and Tianjin City is still going to be built!
It’s just that it’s too late. Maybe the person in front of you has become a manager, but you can only do corvee!”
Hearing this, the corvee service present quickly began to sign up, fearing that he would be a little slower and suffer a great loss.
As the New Year passed, some people took their families back to their places of labor service and requested to continue to carry out labor service.
Originally, Li Tai's corvee model wanted to spread again in Youzhou, especially in an ancient environment with blocked traffic.
But last year's corvee service helped Li Tai a lot, allowing the people of Youzhou to see a different world.
They found that doing corvee service for the King of Yan could not only make a living, but also make a fortune!
In this case, if the people with land at home feel a little envious of the corvee service, they are just envious.
After all, land is the most belonging. As long as they have no choice, they will not give up the land. But it is also the idea of doing odd jobs when the farming season is slack, and they have nothing to do to make some money.
But those tenants who have no land and work for the landlords will make a good calculation after returning in winter.
I think it would be almost impossible to eat well if I give the landlord a year to work, let alone dried bacon and fish!
Although everyone can’t get a lot of dried fish or bacon, the people will naturally feel Li Tai’s intention to the people.
Especially during the Chinese New Year, they transport them to their county towns and let them eat fish with their families during the Chinese New Year. For many people, what else do they need to be an official to do this?
Therefore, the corvee labor service that left last year went back to discuss with their families and took advantage of the winter to calculate carefully. They felt that it would be better to come out and follow the King of Yan than to be a tenant for those landlords.
After all, those who have no constant property have no perseverance, and the tenants who are the least loyal in the feudal era are the tenants.
So they are the smartest group of people.
Their shrewdness is for them to survive in this era, even if it is just a year or two more.
Therefore, every part of their survival resources is calculated and calculated.
Especially in the eyes of the vast majority of people who have worked in corvee, Li Tai is responsible for food and accommodation.
Isn’t it pure profit to get food from Li Tai in this way?
The landlords did not treat them so well, because the food they had worked hard to grow would be better for the landlords to exploit seven layers of the food.
When he thought of this, the people who had no wealth in his hands came to Tianjing with their families.
These people migrated one or two, and at most they were just treated as a joke by the local people.
But with the number of people, the local county town quickly discovered something, but if you want to stop it, you find that you can't control it at all.
The same goes for the saying, the imperial court does not go to the countryside, and these ordinary tenants follow their instinctive departure, so it is difficult for the county town to manage.
After all, most of the tenants basically live in corners of the county town, and some are not even in the county town, but in the valleys, so how do the county town manage it?
But population loss is not a trivial matter for county officials.
After all, there is an assessment of the number of people involved in the official assessment. For example, why Li Tai's Gao Ling was directly given a top student, one of the reasons is the surge in population.
Not to mention that as the population goes, the labor force will decrease, which will definitely affect spring plowing!
Officials in these county towns found that their official positions were shaken and immediately mobilized local tribes to retain the tenants.
These powerful local landlords were unhappy at first, but when these officials were concerned about their official positions, they were quite agile and hurriedly said,
"It's just the first month now, so you don't mind the departure of these tenant farmers.
But it's March, there are not enough tenant farmers, so who can help you farm!"
Hearing this, these local tyrants and families immediately reacted and knew the importance of this matter.
They don't even need to remind you that as a large number of people gather towards Tianjin,
The Lu family, Wei family, and Zu family came to Gao Jifu one by one, and asked Gao Jifu to come up with a solution.
To be honest, Gao Jifu was also shocked about this matter.
Because I have only had a stable New Year, and I didn’t expect that the first thing I did in the New Year was to deal with this bad thing.
The most important thing is that this matter has nothing to do with you!
Gao Jifu himself went to serve corvee labor, and he knew clearly the attitude of these people towards Li Tai's corvee labor.
The treatment is simply the life of the people in their dreams. Compared with each other, it can be said that the people's choice is natural.
The reason why Gao Jifu didn't want to deal with this matter was that although these people had population loss at the county level, for Gao Jifu, this group of people did not disappear, but went to Tianjin City.
Tianjin City belongs to Youzhou, and these people still belong to Youzhou, which really has no effect on themselves.
Even after these tenants re-compile their household registration, some people whom landlords secretly conceal their reports will appear on the household registration, which is not the population that will be too large!
Therefore, at Youzhou level, Gao Jifu was happy to see this.
"Dear colleagues." Gao Jifu looked at the people around him and spoke first,
"These lost people are mainly tenants who have no property and no land. They all followed the newly built road last year to the place in Tianjin.
Along the way, due to the construction of a camp where corvee workers lived last year, Wei Xu and other bad people were even arranged to inspect it.
So as long as you walk on this road and get to the camp of corvee labor, you will basically be considered as entering the pocket of the King of Yan.
Do you want me to compete with King Yan?!"
"Gao Changshi, even if King Yan is a first-class prince, he cannot, nor can he..."
The subordinate bureaucrats couldn't help but open their mouths, but they wanted to say, "Do you want to recruit refugees and recruit tenants?"
But who treats tenants as human beings these days?
If it weren't for the tenants going to Tianjin City to do corvee this time, they would have almost spontaneously spread, resulting in the loss of a large number of tenants. Who would have taken a tenant in mind if it were the case.
After all, every tenant sold his ancestral land early and could only sell his labor force to the landlord's house to plow the fields.
But everyone knows that the landlord's family has corvee service and let the tenants take over, and the landlord's family has to pay taxes to collect the tenants first, so the tenants are nothing.
If it weren’t for the large-scale escape of tenants, which led to insufficient labor in spring, who would take the tenants seriously!
But now the New Year is over, and spring plowing is coming soon!