With Li Tai's guarantee, Xue Dading breathed a sigh of relief. It was so safe to have the King of Yan behind him.
As long as the entire Tang Dynasty has been in Chang'an, they all know that King Yan is a rich man.
He is rich, but he is rich himself. More importantly, he can make others willing to pay.
So in Xue Dading's eyes, even if the King of Yan has no money, as long as the King of Yan agrees, money will always come.
Soon, Xue Dading stayed and began to make detailed arrangements and plans with Li Tai.
After Xue Dading came to Cangzhou, he personally went to many places in Cangzhou, big and small, so he proposed this water conservancy plan.
So at this moment, Xue Dading came forward and could barely draw a map of Cangzhou area and tell Li Tai in detail the regional advantages of the entire Cangzhou area.
Li Tai listened to Xue Dading's description and asked Li Chunfeng to draw a terrain map of Cangzhou according to Xue Dading's oral statement, instead of touching an elephant by himself, he was talking about everything here, but he didn't even know the terrain.
Of course, the map made by Li Chunfeng like this is very sloppy, at most it is just a reference effect.
In fact, drawing was a very technical job in ancient times. Except for the special craftsmen in the palace, basically all craftsmen were in the army, and some even made maps privately. Basically, they were handled according to spies, and nine out of ten were not.
Kill the wrong one.
But Li Chunfeng knew how to make maps because he had dealt with Li Dejian.
Not to mention guys like Li Tai who have to practice drawing the Earth map for the geography exam.
They tinkered with each other, and combined with the power of everyone, they vaguely drew the entire Cangzhou area.
With the skills of this hand map, to be honest, almost anyone can be a dog-headed military advisor in troubled times.
After having the map, Li Tai looked at the map and said,
"Because you are preparing to develop Cangzhou for a long time, you need to make a comprehensive plan for the development of Cangzhou step by step.
Which area to develop first, what area to develop, and what development projects are all needed to be arranged one by one!”
"According to the King of Yan, Cangzhou should give priority to the development of agriculture!" Xue Dading looked at the map seriously, but pointed to the place where the water flow was the most dense, and said, "I am planning to build Cangzhou's water conservancy in this area.
facility."
"Wrong!" Li Tai shook his head and pointed to Cangzhou County and said, "First of all, we must develop Cangzhou City, Nanpi City and Wudi City.
These three cities are the core of the entire Cangzhou, so to develop Cangzhou, you must seize these three cities.
Then, these three cities are the core of the entire Cangzhou and develop towards other regions of Cangzhou from a point to the surface.
After you go back, you will start promoting wheat cultivation in these three cities this year, and first change your habit of cultivating corn.
I will send some students from agricultural institutions to you, and they basically have good wheat cultivation techniques.
You arrange them, give them enough fields to grow wheat locally, and then promote wheat!”
"No!" Xue Dading naturally nodded repeatedly when he heard this, but said with some confusion, "What about building a canal?"
"It's still early!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "Next, you are going to recruit local corvee labor and build a road that connects these three places and can travel with eight horse-drawn carriages. This is to prepare for the project
Now.”
"Why is this?" Xue Dading was a little confused when he heard Li Tai's words. Didn't he want to build a new water conservancy?
Li Taize explained, "The grain in the north is mainly corn, and I plan to turn the grain cultivation species in the north from corn to wheat.
In this way, wheat was sown in late autumn and harvested in early summer, which allowed the court to free up more time for these people to carry out corvee labor.
Moreover, working in the middle of winter is easy to die. If it is summer, as long as you don’t work with the sun, it will make the people more relaxed.
At least it is better to find a way to get them to serve labor in the shadows than to work in the fields in the summer!”
When Xue Dading heard this, he thought about the truth. It was a good thing for both parties, especially when he was preparing to build a new water conservancy project, he needed manpower. When he thought of this, Xue Dading said in obedience, "King Yan."
What he said is very true!”
Li Tai glanced at Xue Dading, but continued to explain:
"The second is to repair the roads of these three to make these three places the core of the development of the entire Cangzhou.
In the future, one will be responsible for grain, one will be responsible for cotton, and the other will be responsible for sea salt, so as to make the next step.
In the end, the local people in Cangzhou have never experienced the Gaoling model. They directly asked them to use the Gaoling model, and it was a big problem to get it done.
We need to give them an adaptation process, and building roads is a very good way to get started.
This is a little gain from me when I built a road in Youzhou, and the people are actually not ignorant.
Just tell them what to do, what kind of rewards will be given if they do it well, and how to punish if they do it well.
They can generally do things well, and after gaining direct benefits, they will quickly learn new corvee models.
At the same time, this is also a selection process. Some people have selected them as reserve forces for the future construction of water conservancy facilities, while others have selected them as the main force in reclaiming farmland to prepare for future projects.
In the second year, the corvee workers found that they had money to earn, so they would work harder when they worked.
At the same time, those people who have reclaimed the fields will actively participate in water conservancy construction because they need canals to irrigate wheat.
At that time, if we build new water conservancy, we will achieve twice the result with half the effort.”
To be honest, all the work is not that easy to do, not to mention how much trouble you need to encounter during the work process, it would be quite a headache if you just need the preliminary preparations.
Fortunately, this was in ancient times, and human rights were basically not needed. Not to mention that as long as you can afford food, local people were willing to help during the slack farming period, which reduced the cost to a certain extent.
"So that's it!" Xue Dading showed a sudden enlightenment when he heard Li Tai's words.
Many things Li Tai said were originally, although he had a direction, he didn’t know how to operate them. This was Xue Dading’s difficulty.
But now that Li Tai disassembled the process, Xue Dading immediately understood what he should do next.
As a figure who has been fighting for the governor from an official slave, for Xue Dading, he has never lacked the motivation at the execution level. His own ability is also violent enough. As long as the problem can be reduced to the prefecture and county level, for Xue Dading,
There is basically no problem.
At this moment, Li Tai dismantled the entire strategy of developing Cangzhou step by step into the development of Cangzhou City, Nanpi City and Wudi City, rather than a very empty talk on paper.
This said to Xue Dading that he could basically take over and be fully responsible.
Li Tai was relieved with Xue Dading's promise.
There is a reason for me to do this. The first point is that there are not enough oxen.
After all, the grass seed plan has just begun. Even if Wang Xuance leans towards plowing ox in terms of resources, it will not be able to produce plowing oxes immediately. This will inevitably be a long process, and this process will inevitably lead to the Youzhou family.
Pain and happiness.
At the same time, Li Tai's cultivation of Tianjin City has just begun.
This year I will definitely reclaim all the land around Tianjin City. Only in this way can I have the spare time to support Cangzhou next year.
Therefore, I gave Xue Dading a plan to suppress Cangzhou's demand for plowing oxen and corvee labor.
Although I knew that this was uncontrollable, for Li Tai, one year was enough to lay the foundation of Tianjin City.
After all, as long as the land near Tianjin is fully reclaimed, there will be more work to do in the second year.
Next, Li Tai, Xue Dading, and Li Chunfeng began to discuss details together.
At this time, Xue Dading and Li Chunfeng had a very wonderful cooperation, or a certain chemical reaction.
Xue Dading came from the grassroots level and was naturally very comfortable with how the grassroots level should execute orders.
However, Li Chunfeng likes calculations and likes to speak with data, as long as Xue Dading proposes how to execute it.
Then Li Chunfeng directly marked the matter with data and proposed a rough data.
After all the things you can think of are listed in detail, the three of them reorganized the above matters to form a very complete overall process.
What needs to be done in each step, and how many people, days and resources are required for each step.
Then, if you don’t go as time goes by, then take out this chart and compare it. You can see what went wrong in the link or what unexpected happens at a glance.
Xue Dading widened his eyes and looked at Li Tai's actions, which made him shocked for a moment.
Although Xue Dading has always known Li Tai's ability, after all, he can create Gaoling's place from scratch. If Li Tai is not capable, then all the officials in the Tang Dynasty will feel ashamed of him.
.
But now, under Li Tai's subordinates and as the executor under Li Tai, he found that Li Tai made a strategic plan for you, and brought you funds before execution, and even implemented it to the final execution.
Let the people below know clearly what they are going to do at each step.
With Li Tai's step-by-step plan, he simply treats the people below as fools, but as long as he implements it step by step, it seems that if a dog has changed, he can take this step-by-step path well.
Of course, it is a bit too much to say this, but Li Tai himself knew very well that his subordinates were not as talented as Ma Zhou.
Not to mention the talent of a national scholar, even a state like Xue Dading doesn’t have talent.
I know that the project I need to do is to do it. This is something that a relatively modern worker system can do.
Even if students from agricultural institutions are now replaced by students, compared with modern engineering teams such as college students, graduate students, and doctoral students, students from agricultural institutions are not even considered as soles of their feet.
This way I think more about it, and I will have more room for work below.
However, with Xue Dading constantly supplementing what might happen at the bottom, Li Chunfeng proposed to comprehensively improve and plan specific data, and Li Tai used modern thinking methods to continuously plug in. As the sky became darker, he finally turned the whole thing.
The overall framework of the plan has been discussed at least.
Li Tai couldn't help but yelled, and said with a little difficulty:
"Okay, let's talk about it today first. We will recover our energy tomorrow and then combed it from the beginning to confirm that it is correct.
Important minister, if you and Wang Youfang first live in the Yue Palace, and you will live next door to Chunfeng.
Chunfeng, come and lead the way, and you will bring them here together tomorrow."
When Xue Dading heard this, he hesitated for a moment, and still said respectfully to Li Tai, "Thank you, King Yan!"
Li Tai waved his hand and asked Li Chunfeng to pull Xue Dading to rest first.
Li Tai's eyes fell on Bai He's body,
"Baihe, you need to work hard. Before we sort it out again tomorrow, you can sort it out first!"
"No!" Bai He nodded and replied when he heard Li Tai's words.
Bai He looked at Li Tai yawning back to his dormitory, looked at Li Tai's back as he left, muttered to look at the moon that was gradually rising above his head, silently raised his fists, cheering up, "It's time to stay up late again, Bai He, you can do it!"
”
When King Yue opened a mansion for some reason, Empress Changsun sent herself to Li Tai to take care of King Yan in order to take care of King Yan.
Later, the palace would ask himself for a diary from King Yan, and Bai He felt a little guilty about Li Tai.
Just like this, out of this guilty mentality, Bai He unconditionally executed Li Tai's orders.
Except for one thing, she didn't want to leave Li Tai's side like a peacock, but just simply hoped to take care of Li Tai.
However, this kind of guilty thought quickly disappeared completely every time he faced the task assigned by Li Tai.
After all, it is possible to go back to bed by yourself at night and let others stay and organize these documents... Is it really a thing for people to do?
Guilt? In the face of the workload of staying up late from time to time, Bai He has no guilt.
However, watching Li Tai struggle out of the quagmire of Confucianism with his own eyes, even if he became the prince who was granted a title, he still devoted himself to the people and the country, which made Bai He feel a sense of honor.
Even if you are only responsible for organizing information, you still feel inexplicably proud.
Not only because of Li Tai, but also because of the pride that a small person like himself can participate in such national events.
But even so, when the moon gradually rose to its peak, Baihe finally finished everything and said,
"I've finally done it. I'll post cucumbers when I go back..."
Li Tai got up early one morning, woke up, but saw Bai He appearing in front of Li Tai with an elegant face, and said gently,
"King Yan, what are you going to eat for breakfast today?"
"Clean porridge, duck eggs, steamed buns, and slices of meat, and asked the senior officials to eat it with Chunfeng." Li Tai said.