As Liu Rengui set out, Li Tai put this matter aside.
Because Li Tai knew that since Liu Rengui was doing it, there would be room for detour between him and the Bohai Navy, so Li Dejian would definitely be willing to escort the ships here in Tianjin.
After all, what I want to control is not military power, but just want to control the shipbuilding industry.
The sensitivity between the two is naturally not the same. Li Tai believes that Li Dejian will still give such face.
"But when it comes to military power, do the personal soldiers of the Yan Prince's Mansion also need to practice!" Li Tai couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
As autumn came, Li Tai continued to purchase grain from all over the country, all over Youzhou, so Tianjin still had enough food.
These Youzhou families may have invested in Cangzhou or joined the grass planting plan. When Li Tai came forward to purchase grain, they would sell it to Li Tai to some more or less.
After all, although Youzhou has not been a good weather in recent years, at least there are no major problems.
These aristocratic families also saw that Li Tai asked Chang'an to transport grain every year, especially as the waterway of Yongji Canal was gradually opened under the leadership of Du Ruhui, as long as Li Tai made up his mind, Tianjin City would basically not be short of food.
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In this case, it is better to sell it to Li Tai for transactions than to pile up the grain in the warehouse.
In such a large-scale transaction, food coupons naturally began to circulate in Youzhou.
Because the main currencies of the Tang Dynasty were grain, cloth, and gold, among which gold was generally only circulated in the upper layer.
The main circulating currency is still cloth, but although Li Tai has always asked peacocks to make cloth, whether it is hemp or silkworm, the foundation of this industry is not in his own hands, and he cannot form a complete industrial chain.
It is naturally enough to only apply the subordinate forces, but if you want to be a transitional currency, it is far from enough.
In comparison, the food poured is relatively stable, because during the Zhenguan period, the price of grain in the imperial court was stable at about three or four cents per dou, but the price in the border areas was a little more expensive and reached about five cents, but it was only at this level.
Relatively stable.
For example, when I buy a large amount of corn in the autumn, I can basically collect all the grains in Youzhou in three to five.
This price is considered a very polite price when the harvest is bumper. Basically, after the aristocratic families have kept enough of the food they eat, they will be willing to sell their money to Li Tai.
Of course, there are also aristocratic families who are unwilling to sell to Li Tai and sell it to others, but in this way, Li Tai will not take him to play with him.
This family will find that the first thing that the planting plan will not be provided to him, and no one will rent it to them no matter how high the price is.
Secondly, they can't buy salt in Youzhou market. Whether it's coarse or refined salt, as long as it's salt under Li Tai, they can't buy it.
In the officialdom, those families who participated in the "Seed Plan" began to reject them. After all, everyone is not in the same circle, so how can they play happily?
And those aristocratic families who participated in the Cangzhou plan would not offend Li Tai for him.
After all, the family of "Seed Plan" has seen the harvest, and they have not seen any harvest yet!
If his family's investment was wasted due to disgust of Li Tai at this time, how unfair I would be!
Moreover, in the eyes of Youzhou family, Li Tai's purchase of their grain is not a forced purchase or sale.
Although the price is a bit low, it is not that there is no profit, but it is just that it is not very profitable, but at least it has freed up its own warehouse.
At that time, whether it is investing in animal husbandry or investing in Cangzhou, it will be a good loss, so what else can I hesitate?
Li Tai did not give the aristocratic family any food. In fact, even if the aristocratic family saved the food and did not sell it, but just farmed and ate it at home, Li Tai would not pay too much attention.
But as long as they conduct large-scale large-scale grain transactions in private, Li Tai will find out, these families will be somewhat suppressed!
These Youzhou families naturally knew that Li Tai was controlling the food price of the entire Youzhou, but the families of all sizes of Youzhou who joined forces may be able to compete with Li Tai, but now the Youzhou families are in a split.
A group of people rushed to the "Seed Plan" and waited for scalpers to be exported to Hedong area next year, waiting to collect the money.
A group of people paid for the money and grain, and were sacrificing their families and the country to build Cangzhou, which was heavily focused on Li Tai.
A group of people were suppressed by Li Tai, but they were also comforted by Li Tai. At this time, they were reluctant to give up their jobs.
Therefore, these aristocratic families who are unwilling to trade grain to Li Tai in Youzhou are really unable to afford enough manpower to resist Li Tai.
The entire Youzhou family did not form a unified unity, and for Li Tai, the family could not pose a threat to him.
After all, I didn’t think about the fate of the aristocratic family, I just wanted their food.
By the way, as for why a group of people were suppressed by Li Tai, it was mainly because Li Tai successfully produced coarse salt and began to sell salt in Youzhou.
Before the salt method began in the Tang Dynasty, the price of salt was actually relatively low, almost ten cents a dou.
Because it is close to the ocean and produces salt by itself, the price of salt in Youzhou is a little lower, almost nine cents a dou.
Li Tai made coarse salt by drying the salt method and started to smash the scene directly.
Five cents a dou of coarse salt began to rampant on the market, and the entire Youzhou salt industry was forced to have no way out.
For a whole year, the Youzhou salt-making family was really steadfast and unyielding, with a lot of wisdom and tricks. Even the price war was fought until they were bankrupt. In order to maintain the family's market share, it basically took a year to go.
Slap.
However, Li Tai's salt mainly takes the path of salt drying, which is basically a dimensional reduction blow to the traditional salt cooking industry.
Moreover, the salt-boiling materials gradually changed from burning wood to burning charcoal, which was provided by Li Tai and his workers.
Not only did Li Tai not raise the coal price, but instead lowered the coal price so that they could feel at ease to fight a price war with themselves.
Then over the year, these salt-making families, large and small, realized that the salt industry in Youzhou was about to change.
Then he found Gao Jifu to give in to Li Tai, and expressed his desire to ask King Yan to give them a way out.
This is normal. After all, Li Tai and they are just competitors in business competition, not enemies of life and death.
The status of both parties is not on the same level. I ask Li Tai to give up his hands so that they can keep their main business of salt making. As a noble family, they will never care about face. Li Tai came back to his senses and started to deal with the salt industry.
To be honest, it was natural for Li Tai to kill the salt-making family in Youzhou that used the salt-making method to boil salt.
It’s just that productivity is crushing, and anyone who comes to it can kill the other party, so Li Tai didn’t put much effort into it at all.
Because no matter how old the other party has been, for the lower class, one is ten cents and nine cents and the other is five cents. What should you choose? What should you choose with your feet to vote.
Then, according to the rules between the aristocratic families, he asked Gao Jifu to come and talk about it, which was also within Li Tai's expectations.
After all, these big and small families are all aristocratic families, with land and knowledge in their hands, and some even serve in the court.
If you really can't survive, you can definitely find an official to come to Li Tai and mention it.
As the saying goes, one official is open to the official position, and it is the same in modern times.
You are alone, and it is basically unrealistic to find the way of the court. But as long as you know someone who is an official, then you can pass the other party through the other party, even if the other party is not the one you need, the other party will be able to find what you need after all.
Officials.
This principle was even more normal in the ancient officialdom.
Li Tai used Gao Jifu to gather these salt families and expressed that he wanted to rectify the salt industry in Youzhou.
From then on, all the Youzhou salt can only be purchased from yourself. The price of the purchase is ten cents, and the price of the sale is seven cents.
When everyone heard this, they were confused. They looked at Li Tai and were simply crazy.
After all, these days, people are doing business that kills people, but no one is willing to get involved in business that loses money.
Some Youzhou families even looked at Li Tai with bloodshot eyes, and they thought Li Tai was playing with them.
However, Li Tai then said that I would make a salt industry certificate in the future. The salt industry with this certificate will take the sold notes and after verification here, it will give you a subsidy. Each bucket of salt is subsidized by 5 cents. I just say this
Do you want to do business or not?
Hearing this, the salt-making family present looked at each other and calculated carefully, feeling that there was a lot of money here.
It seems that the cost is only five cents, the sale price is seven cents, and the profit is 40%. This transaction can be considered a huge profit.
After all, salt is a necessity, and as long as there are still people, you basically don’t have to worry about sales.
Of course, Li Tai himself naturally knew that this was definitely beneficial to him, and the most important thing was that he did not need so many large and small salt fields.
By integrating the salt-making industry, raising the entry threshold and completing the salt industry's annexation, it is not said that private salt is completely eliminated, but at least it is enough to suppress private salt to the point where others dare to trade, they will definitely lose money.
If you have any problems with salt in the future, you can find the corresponding family by directly searching for the salt license.
Faced with the choice given by Li Tai, these aristocratic families hesitated for a moment and finally chose to surrender.
Li Tai then said that he wanted all the salt fields along the coast of Youzhou area to be acquired at a price of one floor at a high market price to complete the unity of the salt industry.
Facing Li Tai's words, the families of all sizes in Youzhou must be somewhat unwilling to accept it.
But in the end, I agreed all of them.
After all, before the salt drying method was produced, but only the salt cooking method, people attached importance to the salt fields by the sea, but they did not pay so much attention to it now. Most salt fields by the sea were undeveloped.
They naturally knew that Li Tai did this to cut off their future development in the salt field and completely control them.
But they knew better that if they did not agree, Li Tai would not get the benefits given by him, and would completely get the evil with Li Tai, the prince who had inexplicably controlled them.
More importantly, the salt drying method looks simple, but do they have the skills, do they have human resources, and have early investment?
You should know that they have been fighting a price war with Li Tai for a year, and they really couldn't hold on to it, so they asked Li Tai for peace.
Now that Li Tai has a way out, do you have to force his family into a desperate situation?
It can be said that if Li Tai rejected the suggestion that he wanted to collect Yantian, they would have to leave Youzhou!
Therefore, although these salt-making families struggled, they finally chose to sell the coastal salt fields to Li Tai.
And Li Tai successfully mastered the salt industry. After mastering the salt industry, Li Tai decisively took action from grain, purchased grain from aristocratic families in Youzhou, and completed the control of Youzhou's grain. After mastering these two things, Li Tai finally mastered them.
A sigh of relief.
"Food and salt, after two years of hard work, these two basic resources of Youzhou are in your own hands!"
Li Tai continued to think, "At the same time, the coal industry has also begun to take root in Youzhou.
Although there has not been any collision with the families of all sizes in Youzhou, honeycomb coal and silver charcoal have gradually replaced traditional firewood and started to enter thousands of households.
Mastering these three things can be considered as mastering the foundation of Youzhou. Next, I have to find a way to train my personal soldiers.
Not to mention training them to become elites on the battlefield, it is not an exaggeration to fight for themselves when needed.
Although An Shou is a good security guard, he is not a general in the end!
Now, the Youzhou generals and schools only seem to have to go to find Su Lie. I wonder if he is willing to help me train my personal soldiers!"
Perhaps because of his successful rebellion, Li Shimin did not allow the royal palace to train personal soldiers.
Of course, the royal palace has its own soldiers, but the soldiers at most regard this as work, and it is unrealistic to expect them to fight for Li Tai.
More importantly, if you serve once a year, you may not be the ones who come to serve next year.
However, Li Tai gave Li Shimin a quota of 200 personal soldiers due to assassination. Because he took the initiative to come to this bitter and cold place in Youzhou, and there were also mixed with alien dragons and snakes, the number of personal soldiers increased to 500.
People come to protect Li Tai's personal safety.
The 500-plus personal soldiers were allowed by the court, but the money and food had to be taken care of by themselves, and Li Tai had never formed it.
In Chang'an, Li Tai felt that there was no need to form a group. After all, the so-called assassination was just something he wanted to make things bigger.
As for when I first came to Youzhou, I felt that I really had no money, so I didn’t mean to form a personal soldier.
Now that I have completed my mastery of Youzhou and formulated the development of Youzhou, it takes time to settle my plan.
In other words, now that you have money and leisure, you can naturally try to train a guard who is exactly according to your wishes.
However, since he is preparing to train this personal guard, his goal must be aimed at the talent of the War Department.
The only people I know that those who can stably train the talent of the battle team are seemingly Su Lie to come into contact with.
When Li Tai thought of this, he did not hesitate at all and decisively looked for Su Lie.