Early the next morning, Li Chunfeng took Xue Dading and Wang Youfang to the buffet restaurant opened in the palace.
When Xue Dading saw that Li Tai was already sitting at the table waiting, he couldn't help but glance at Li Chunfeng with a bit of complaint.
However, Li Chunfeng was already familiar with this scene. He saw Li Tai salute Li Tai and said, "Your Majesty, how about breakfast?"
"Your ham slices are indispensable." Li Tai stopped his chopsticks, then looked at Li Chunfeng and said,
"Every time you come here on time, you must have measured every step!"
"The king is joking, how can I be on time? You must be on time!" Li Chunfeng said with a smile.
Li Tai didn't say much. He asked Bai He to take the paper and wipe his mouth and said, "Eat slowly! Come here after you have eaten."
Watching Li Tai and Bai He leave, Li Chunfeng took Xue Dading to the breakfast selection area and said,
"King Yan is gone, don't be so formal. Take what you like from the remaining dishes, just don't waste it!"
"So many dishes? They are all our breakfast...it's too rich!"
Xue Dading looked at the breakfast, which included xiaolongbao, small puff pastry, steamed dumplings, deep-fried soy sauce, tofu curd, soy milk, sliced meat, duck eggs... so many that he couldn't even see them.
There was even a man dressed as a chef with noodles in front of him and thick soup boiling next to him, ready to eat at any time.
"Are these all for King Yan to eat? This and this are too extravagant!"
Although Xue Dading also knew that Li Tai's life was somewhat extravagant, he never thought that it would be so extravagant.
A person actually eats so many things in the morning, I'm afraid he can't try a bite of everything.
"What are you thinking about? Take a plate and grab what you like to eat!" Li Chunfeng said,
"Unless it's a banquet, most of the meals in Prince Yan's Mansion are like this.
King Yan was the first to eat, then came the officials like me, then the servants in charge of King Yan, and finally the waiters in the cafeteria.
The meal time for each group of people is fixed, but everyone eats the same food. Basically, what King Yan eats is what the entire Prince Yan's mansion eats."
"Why is it so..." After hearing Li Chunfeng's words, Xue Dading felt that Li Tai seemed to be a little too frugal.
"After all, King Yan comes from a royal family, so he is very particular about his food. However, he is not someone who is easily extravagant and wasteful. He is also considerate of the people and servants. It is not surprising that he behaves like this!"
Li Chunfeng was used to it, so he first put several pieces of ham on his plate, and then said slowly,
"Eat whatever you like and whatever you find!"
To be honest, eating is really a problem for Li Tai.
Because I am a prince and now a prince, there are rules for how much food I eat at a time.
Often there is only a small amount of food on a large plate spread out, and it is thrown away directly after being eaten, which is really wasteful.
So Li Tai carried out reforms. He could not change his plate presentation and eating etiquette, because these were regulations.
Then change the surrounding environment of eating, how should the plate be presented, or how should the plate be presented.
According to the etiquette system, it makes no sense to force changes on your own, but in the end the entire Prince Yan Mansion has the final say.
Everyone eats at the buffet, so that the people below can also enjoy the delicious food they eat. As the scale expands, the cost will naturally drop. After all, the entire Yanwang Mansion has more than a thousand people, and the scale effect is obvious.
At the same time, I set the first eating rule, which others regarded as a matter of course.
After all, he is the King of Yan and the person in charge of the Yan King's residence.
But in fact, for Li Tai himself, what he did was to remind himself that he was now carrying the entire Prince Yan's Mansion.
Even if you get up a little late in the morning, everyone in Prince Yan's house will be hungry with you.
Because the rule set by Prince Yan’s Mansion is to take the first bite of food yourself.
This forced Li Tai to get up early. Nothing could tell him what he had to bear better than the rules he had set.
In the future, if he fails to seize the direct descendant and has no food to eat, then the whole family of Prince Yan will also have no food to eat.
Therefore, Li Tai can get up early every day.
Purely for yourself, it really takes willpower to do things against your own will.
But he was lying in bed, and the entire Yanwang Palace was starving with him. Li Tai, who still had a conscience brought by modern times, couldn't completely ignore these people as just passers-by.
At this moment, when Li Chunfeng and Xue Dading had finished their breakfast and came to yesterday's meeting hall, Li Tai took out the copywriting that he and Bai He had just re-created and said,
"Minister, please see if these plans are implemented at the grassroots level and the people can carry them out.
Chunfeng, look at the data, be lenient in your expectations, and see if there are any big problems with this data under our plan."
The two of them didn't say much, and immediately took the white crane's plan to re-copy it.
Although Bai He's handwriting is certainly more impressive than others, no one has the time to appreciate Bai He's amazing regular script.
Both of them used their own abilities to mark the handwriting with a pen, transcribed the problematic part, and then further dissected it, writing more detailed information and calculating the data more carefully.
After they couldn't find any problems, they handed an almost brand-new plan to Li Tai.
Although there are no changes in the general direction, the little bits of filling in the content have added a lot of preparation to the plan.
Faced with this plan, Li Tai asked Bai He to make four final copies. One copy would definitely be sent to Youzhou Governor, one copy would be sent to Cangzhou, one copy would be kept in Prince Yan's palace, and the last copy would naturally be submitted to the imperial court.
Send it over.
In this plan, Li Tai has already written down all the money matters.
To put it simply, Youzhou will invest in Cangzhou. The investment is divided into three parts, one is the Youzhou government, the other is the Yan Palace, and the other is the families who are interested in Youzhou.
The imperial court, as the supervisor of the entire plan, proved the validity of this contract.
Because the entire project is too large, Cangzhou will pay the future income in installments over twenty years, with a little interest.
At the same time, because there are no suitable material manufacturers in Cangzhou, the manufacturers in Youzhou are responsible for the materials for various infrastructures. The manufacturers in Youzhou make settlements directly with Prince Yan's Mansion.
Prince Yan's Mansion will contract all the materials for the entire project at a price two levels lower than the market price, which is really a loss to my grandma's family.
Seeing Li Tai's generous donation, Xue Dading couldn't help but be moved to tears. He had never seen a prince who was so dedicated to the country and the people.
Li Tai asked Xue Dading to take the entire plan back first and build the preliminary projects first.
By next year, Youzhou will begin assisting Cangzhou in the entire project.
Of course, the most important time was when the Tianjin corvee needed to free up his hands and go over to Cangzhou to help.
As for now, when Xue Dading left, he took away about two hundred students who had just come to Youzhou from Gaoling and headed to Cangzhou, at least to get the initial layout started.
And they had just left. Not long after, the entire Youzhou family, large and small, knew to some extent that when the governor of Cangzhou left, he took away a plan from Li Tai, a plan with a lot of profits.
As for how they knew so clearly, it must have been someone in Prince Yan's palace who got drunk and went out to gossip. Everyone knew that Prince Yan did not drink, and the leak of this news had nothing to do with Prince Yan.
This made the local aristocratic families smell a little money and food, and one by one they began to send people to Tianjin City.
It's just that they stayed in Tianjin City, and they were somewhat hesitant. They wanted to ask Prince Yan's Mansion if they had any chance of participating, but they were afraid that their presumptuous visit would leave a bad impression on Li Tai.
Impression, resulting in loss of points.
To be honest, the emotions of the Youzhou family toward Li Tai are somewhat complicated, but they are more positive.
Because Li Tai came to Youzhou and brought a completely different way of playing from the past.
Normally, any official who comes to the local area needs to rely on the local aristocratic families to develop, and in the process of development, the aristocratic families share the profits.
But Li Tai was completely different. When he first came here, he played his own games, and the Youzhou family just looked on with cold eyes. Even when Li Tai built a city in Tianjin, or borrowed food from the Youzhou family, there was only some communication.
Even the relationship between the Youzhou Family and Li Tai is not really considered. Rather than saying that they have a relationship, it is more appropriate to say that they have a transaction.
But all of this, during this year's corvee, problems arose in various aristocratic families in Youzhou. Li Tai chose to help instead of suppressing the aristocratic families, which truly showed his position.
To be honest, it is really difficult to describe things like stance in words.
Listening to his words and watching his actions means that only by looking at a person's stance and how he behaves can you determine whether he is one of our own.
No matter whether this person is going to be a sixth man or a spy, as long as his actions are consistent with his class behavior, then it doesn't matter whether this person has any problems. For the entire class, maintaining class consistency is important.
As for Li Tai, no matter what Li Tai wanted to do, during the spring plowing, Li Tai did not take advantage of the situation to suppress the Youzhou family. Instead, he helped the Youzhou family solve the spring plowing problem, which made the Youzhou family more or less accept Li Tai.
Moreover, Li Tai pointed out a way to make money, and the Youzhou family who joined the "Grass Planting Project" got closer to the Yue Prince's Palace.
For those Youzhou aristocratic families who did not join the grass seeding plan, the Eight Immortals crossed the sea and finally got enough labor to cultivate their own fields. They did not hate Li Tai very much, but were more jealous of those Youzhou aristocratic families who repaid Li Tai's favor.
Therefore, although Li Tai did not interfere in the affairs of the Youzhou family, nor did he do anything to suppress the Youzhou family, the Youzhou family has somewhat recognized Li Tai's existence.
What's more important is that the few aristocratic families who followed Li Tai have made money and have a better future. For the aristocratic families, this is real.
Therefore, the aristocratic families would like to take advantage of this opportunity to get in touch with Li Tai. After all, no one will be in trouble with their interests these days!
However, the reason why the aristocratic family didn't get in touch with Li Tai directly was that the aristocratic family immediately found Gao Jifu, with whom they were getting closer and closer, and asked Gao Jifu to go to Prince Yan's Mansion to inquire about the information and see if there was any benefit.
Therefore, Gao Jifu soon came by boat to visit Li Tai.
It can only be said that after the Grand Canal was dredged, it only took a few days from Cangzhou to Youzhou. When Gao Jifu received the news and came to Li Tai, the speed was even faster.
Anyway, Gao Jifu also understood that as long as Li Tai didn't do anything bad, he could just turn a blind eye.
As for when his eye will open, doesn't King Yan have a project at this time?
In any case, King Yan is still in the territory of Youzhou. It is not too much to take credit for any achievements he has made.
Therefore, when Gao Jifu came to Prince Yue's Mansion, Li Tai also entertained him with tea and water, and said to Gao Jifu,
"It has been raining heavily in Youzhou in recent days. I heard that Gao Changshi went to inspect the water conservancy in Youzhou. How can he find time to come to Tianjin?"
Although the relationship between Li Tai and Gao Jifu has gradually eased, and they are even better at doing some necessary favors, if Gao Jifu really comes to visit, it is still somewhat important.
Gao Jifu looked at Li Tai with a wry smile on his face and said, "I was also inspecting water conservancy, but everyone in the Youzhou family came to visit me and asked if there was any big event in the near future.
And I, the governor of You, don’t know anything about this important matter, so I can only come and ask you, King Yan.
I just don’t know if Prince Yan is willing to clear up my confusion!”
"What did Gao Changshi say? What did he say to clear up the confusion? It's just a deal about Youzhou in the next twenty years. If the Youzhou government is interested, just put it in. If not, forget it.
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As he spoke, Li Tai took out the plan he had prepared for the Youzhou government and said,
"If Gao Changshi is interested, the Youzhou government will also be able to make a fortune in the future.
Of course, if Gao Changshi is willing to come forward and select a few reliable Youzhou families to join, he will naturally be able to make a few profits.
Of course, I will not cooperate with the Youzhou Family, but if we all make money together, there will be nothing wrong!"
"This money is mainly provided by the Youzhou family? Doesn't the government need to pay?" Gao Jifu looked at the plan and asked in confusion.
Li Tai said calmly: "No need! It is enough to provide a certain degree of political convenience within Youzhou.
For example, organizing people to perform corvee service, such as building a road directly to Youzhou, in the future the corvee work will have to cross state lines, and the government will still need to make adjustments, etc. These are the things that the Youzhou government will need to do in the future."
"But how can the Youzhou family afford so much money and food?" Gao Jifu asked doubtfully.
"You just give this condition to the Youzhou Family! If they are not interested, then I will take their shares."
Li Tai put his hand on the plan, looked at Gao Jifu seriously, and said,
"Anyway, show these conditions to the Youzhou Family. Those who are willing to participate can join in, and those who are unwilling can forget it."
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I stayed up late watching Dota games and got up a little late...