Li Shimin felt that Li Tai was in Chang'an and managed Gaoling in almost three years, and he successfully received the highest evaluation.
It has been so long since I was in Youzhou, and Li Tai even began to have the intention to train his personal guards. Then I think Li Tai must have freed up his hands. Not to mention Youzhou, at least Tianjin must have developed very well.
In this case, let Cen Wenben see how Li Tai managed Youzhou.
Li Shimin still attaches great importance to Li Tai's governance.
Don’t say it, it’s Li Tai’s Gao Ling alone. Although Li Tai left, the foundation laid by Li Tai is still there.
At least when paying taxes, Gaoling was the county town with the most taxes paid in Gyeonggi Province. In addition, Gaoling people have a characteristic, that is, most of them can redeem their own labor service, which shows the wealth of the local people.
If Li Tai could create such a place in Youzhou, Li Shimin felt that in the future, he would only need to dispatch materials from the local area, rather than from Chang'an and Luoyang.
So since the Thirteenth Way of Watching the Wind and patrol the world, I will send someone to Tianjin and Cangzhou to check it out. I think it will be a little rewarding.
To be honest, the court has harvested Li Tai's things, but it has not been once or twice.
Don’t say it, isn’t the canal transportation plan to operate the Wei River now and then start to develop in the Grand Canal. Now, it’s far away. At least the Yongji Canal has been completely operated with Du Ruhui’s efforts.
Now let’s look at Li Tai’s Tianjin City. At that time, I have made at least two plans, and now I have to see the gains!
At the same time, with the arrival of the eighth year of Zhenguan, all officials in the world knew that the court had sent thirteen groups of people to visit the world.
For a time, there was more or less a tide in various places. It was not said that the integrity of the country was a great deal, but at least it was a superficial work.
To be honest, if there are corrupt officials who come out to dominate the people during this period, then either he is too stupid or he is too bad.
This kind of person is caught when he is caught by the patrolman. After all, whether it is too stupid or too bad, if you hit the gun during the crackdown, you are really seeking death and your crime is unforgivable!
For Li Tai, who was in Tianjin City, he learned the news, but he didn't care too much about this kind of vigorous inspection team.
Because Li Tai felt that no matter how much this thing was, it would not be patrolling him.
Not to mention that he has no corruption or laziness, even if the tax revenue this year increases, Li Tai feels that he should have a good assessment!
Yes, although Li Tai did not make any outstanding achievements in the first and second year of coming here, starting from the third year, with the cultivation of farmland, the corn planting in the entire Youzhou was turned into wheat.
Planting, it should be a bumper harvest in May.
Not to mention, the most important thing in Tianjin is not agriculture, but commerce, and Tianjin Port is also starting to make money.
Although the most important thing is not direct commercial tax, but market rent, it is reasonable taxes and fees no matter what.
Of course, the most important thing about these rent increases is that in the past two years, there have been more and more business travel in Tianjin.
Yongji Canal was completely unblocked by Du Ruhui, and the number of ships traveled was getting more and more dense. Local governments also felt the benefits of reducing shipping costs, so in winter, the local government saw that the Grand Canal was gradually frozen.
The trend will be that corvee will be organized to drill ice on the canal, so that the ship will pass quickly.
Because if a ship is piled up in a large area, it is hard to say whether it is lucky or unfortunate for the local government.
If you can bear it, you will naturally make a fortune, but if you can't bear it, the wealthy families represented by these ship branches, and even royal relatives, will probably cause turmoil in the entire local officialdom.
It is even more serious, and it is not impossible to even cause civil unrest in the local area.
It can be said that the Yongji Canal and the land flowing through the rivers it belongs to naturally attract the gathering of northern populations.
As Du Ruhui unblocks the Yongji Canal, the lifeline running through the north and south, has seen some clues in the future.
As for the other side, Goguryeo and the Tang Dynasty opened a trading port, and specialties from Goryeo were also sent to Tianjin with ships.
The most important things are furs, medicinal materials, and gems similar to topaz. Li Tai was not surprised by these things.
Fur is a luxury in this era. It requires a very broad market to digest these animal furs, and the entire East Asia is just the Tang Dynasty.
Li Tai ordered the medicinal materials and even began to consciously charge Korean ginseng at a high price.
Li Tai doesn't know whether these ginsengs are really better than those in the Central Plains ginseng.
However, Li Tai's subsidy for medicinal materials to a certain extent was to require the Goguryeo people to cultivate more medicinal materials and less grain.
After the medicinal materials market trades with each other for a few years, and the two parties have a meager trust, they can actively sell low-priced grain to them as soon as they want.
When he started to attack Goguryeo, he directly cut off the other party's food supply and completely destroyed Goguryeo with the huge economic system of the Tang Dynasty.
As for topaz, which is the top yellow wax stone, Li Tai really has no choice.
It is even more natural for Chinese people to play with jade, Romans to wear silk.
Especially as the country gradually stabilizes, it is possible to digest how many jades flow into China.
Not to mention, the Yalu River yellow wax stone in Dandong is almost the top yellow wax stone.
It has the color of Tianhuang, the hardness of jade, and the warmth of Hetian jade, which combines the advantages of beautiful jade.
In ancient times, it was a must-have tribute to the Central Plains in the Koryo region except ginseng. Even when the Qing Dynasty was still there, there were records of topaz offerings.
Goguryeo came to harvest the IQ tax of Chinese people. To be honest, even if you do this, you can't do anything about it.
I can only choose a few topaz to buy if I don’t go to hell, so I can give it to others in the future.
However, Goguryeo didn't come here to buy iron utensils or oxen and horses for the lower-level people to farm.
They mainly buy precious metals such as gold and silver, silk and satin, and mainly luxury and precious goods.
In addition, there was something Li Tai didn't expect that they would come to buy some stones with special shapes.
To be honest, it felt strange to take out these stones to sell them to Li Tai. Unexpectedly, the Goguryeo businessman would feel that he had picked up a treasure and took the initiative to buy these special-shaped stones back, which was simply incredible to me.
After all, the materials of these stones are not rare materials, they are just ordinary stones.
Later, Li Chunfeng told Li Tai that Goguryeo's stone craftsmanship is relatively developed and has his own stone carving art.
Some natural-shaped stones can often show incredible stone carving art in the hands of some top stone carving craftsmen.
To be honest, Li Tai couldn't understand it, but he felt that since they liked it, come to Datang to buy more.
Anyway, the Tang Dynasty may not be able to take care of other things, but there are really no stones!
For Li Tai, collecting shopping information about Goguryeo merchants is a very important thing.
Because merchants are the keenest group, when the upper class of Goguryeo intends to struggle intermittently, the things the merchants buy must be mainly practical.
When the upper class of Goguryeo planned to continue to be ruined, the things the merchants bought were inevitably luxury goods.
These things are the most difficult to hide, because if you want to develop a country, you must purchase a large number of production tools.
If you want personal pleasure, then you must buy a lot of luxury goods, and even if you want to hide it, it is difficult to hide it.
So through this window, the purchase items of Goguryeo merchants were carefully recorded.
Even if Li Tai is in Gaoling, he can clearly know the general situation in Goguryeo.
"In this way, my team building must be built faster. With a boat, I can buy and sell grain directly to Goguryeo and slowly take the grain of the Goguryeo country into my own hands." Li Tai felt a little bit in his heart.
calculation.
As Liu Rengui completed the conversation with Li Dejian, Li Dejian had sent a ship to Liu Rengui as a training ship for Youzhou Academy.
Li Tai's shipyard also started to act based on this ship.
The first is to understand this ship thoroughly. When the ship's technology is thoroughly understood and he can build the same ship himself, Li Tai will be able to study the ship that sails from ocean.
After all, the Tang Dynasty only restricted armor and crossbows and was not allowed to manufacture them without authorization, but it was not said that it could not manufacture ocean-going ships!
In short, with the establishment of a trading port in Tianjin, the entire Tianjin began to conduct gradual trade with Goguryeo.
Li Tai doesn’t need to do much now, the first thing is to keep it steady, don’t strait, and continue to develop!
Then, Li Tai approached Wang Xuance and said to Wang Xuance, "How many oxen can be released this year?"
"It can be 20,000!" Wang Xuance replied to Li Tai.
"Lu, Wei, Zu and other Youzhou families have borrowed oxen from me for spring plowing, and these have been distributed.
If you need to plow the ox in spring, I can also let some of the ox used for consumption hang on the beef rings.
Although it is a little bit unattractive, it can also be used as a ox!"
"Continue to find ways to increase production!" Li Tai nodded, "I won't compete with these people for spring plowing oxen.
But in the autumn, the demand for plowing oxen will increase further, and I need you to find a way to increase the yield of plowing oxen.”
"Wheat has begun to be grown in Youzhou and Cangzhou, and now the plowing ox should be enough!" Wang Xuance was puzzled.
"Don't forget that there was a flood in the entire Henan area last year, flooding a lot of people. We also collected a lot of people from the Henan area.
Therefore, it is inevitable that Henan’s land lacks manpower. Henan’s demand for plowing oxen is far beyond your imagination!”
"I understand!" Wang Xuance looked serious. Hearing Li Tai's words, he understood his important responsibilities.
However, Wang Xuance asked Li Tai again, "But is wheat cultivated in Henan? Can you wait until autumn?"
"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded and replied, "After the flood last year, a large number of students from agricultural institutions established agricultural society locally, and the main professors were wheat cultivation.
So after the bumper harvest in May this year, we will continue to teach farming techniques locally.
In order to ensure the local people's farming in autumn, I will allocate a certain number of oxen to the agricultural society to help the people plow the fields!"
"Help the people plow the fields?" Wang Xuance was a little surprised when he heard this, but sighed, "The King of Yan is kind."
"Yes!" Li Tai nodded, "I just hope that the agricultural society can take root at the grassroots level and speak for the people."
"But can this be done?" Wang Xuance was a little confused when he heard Li Tai's words.
"It's up to man to do it slowly!" Li Tai shrugged,
"It is necessary to allow the agricultural society to have a certain degree of capital, otherwise it will not be possible to help the lower class people.
And plowing ox is the best medium to help the people. I believe that no people with acre of land will refuse to plowing oxes."
"But if you use it for free for the people, you will be afraid that there will be a fight against Mien and a grudge against Mien!" Wang Xuance frowned.
"So, these oxen are mainly rented, and I didn't say that they would give them to the people for free!" Li Tai said calmly.
Hearing Li Tai's words, Wang Xuance nodded and said nothing more, just said,
"I know my heavy responsibility, and I will definitely provide enough oxen before autumn comes!"
Li Tai said, "Then please!"
Li Tai did not follow Wang Xuance to raise the issue of furthering the Agricultural Society.
First, how to ensure that the plowing ox can be used by the people at the bottom, rather than being directly dumped by the rich households with money, first for themselves, and then for ordinary people.
Second, if the students of the agricultural society use this ox as a strange thing to exploit the people, and thus use their power for personal gain.
These things are all problems for Li Tai.
But now I don’t even have a simple inspection agency, and I just hope that the idea of speaking out for the lower-level people they learn in school can make them resist for a while.
But Li Tai knew very well that if he could withstand sugar-coated shells by relying solely on ideological awareness, the world would have long entered a communist society, and more importantly, he needed to find ways to prevent the problem from happening.
But now the agricultural society has just been established and developed, and it needs them to grow wildly locally.
How many years do you need to wait? When the agricultural society grows wildly to a certain extent, a comprehensive rectification campaign will be launched to clean up the degenerate elements in the team to kill the chicken and scare the monkeys. It is best to choose someone who is seriously guilty of corruption and directly implicate the whole family.
Finally, we will follow the trend and issue corresponding systems to make the entire agricultural society standardized.
After all, if I take action to rectify the agricultural society now, it feels like I am an unknown person.
Sometimes, even if you know that it will happen, you can only watch it happen, so that you can work with the flow.
In this way, we can have a kind of harmony between the world and the world, and the right time, place and people, otherwise it would be like going against the trend, and doing things would only result with twice the effort.